Obama’s Reign of Error: How America Lost Its Way and Is Losing the War Against Jihad (Part 2)
“….My teachers taught Sean O’Casey, John Millington Synge, and William Butler Yeats. Faulkner, too, and D.H. Lawrence, and Joseph Conrad; and both the Greek and Elizabethan tragedians, as well as Joyce and Chekhov. And now the English teachers themselves, what do they read? They read Harry Potter, they read “young adult literature.” Find me a public school teacher who goes home and reads Faulkner these days. Thanks to the tyranny of the teachers’ unions and the dogmas of the Left, our first line of defense in the 21st [century] – education – has fallen apart. And, by the way, do you know who or where the first universal education for a nation’s youth was established? Who ensured that all citizens must be taught to read and write? It was Frederick the Great…’
Is it any wonder that leftards want to give 16 year-olds the vote?
A genuine existential threat – and it’s not climate change
I think it’s time to stop worrying about climate change and focus on something that is genuinely an existential threat to Western democracies.
While climate change is not making its presence felt in any significant way, the soldiers of Allah are marching across the face of the planet, in Africa, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and plenty more, murdering and butchering everything and everyone that stands in their way.
http://australianclimatemadness.com/2014/08/09/a-genuine-existential-threat-and-its-not-climate-change/
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The United States National Security Agency has built a massive information sharing system intended to allow intelligence community analysts from across the US government access hundreds of billions of records detailing the lives of people the world over.
http://rt.com/usa/182724-icreach-nsa-snowden-search/
Welcome back KG . The Gantt Guy + Darin did a great job
. I nearly didn’t miss you. 
HE’S BAA-CK
Guess what’s new in Washington state
Mary Jane sodas 
Cool, heh? Yes, indeed 
No need to smoke pot, just buy a can of sweet soda at the local 7/11 and pretty soon the world looks…pretty weird. 
But then again, weird we know well in America since The Magic Negro came to power.
I guess weird is the new normal in the Banana Republic of America.
I remember in the early seventies as a young bloke the Munich atrocities against the
Israeli Olympic team took place. An old lady told me then we were living
in evil times. Well things have accelerated since that time. Seems like they are only
going to get worse. At the moment the planet is a chaotic place. It is about time
a REAL world leader stood up. I wish Ralph Peters would make his way into
politics, he makes more sense than anybody out there at the moment.
In K-12 education, you only have a certain amount of time. You can either teach or you can indoctrinate, but you cannot do both. The NEA and the left have opted for indoctrination. An indoctrinated child is one which will vote for leftists causes. Contrastingly, an educated child is far less likely to be ruled by emotion and emotional arguments. As such, we have seen changes in Western culture, customs, and beliefs that can not be easily reversed or corrected and I believe that this was the intent. One does not need to worry about political enemies if political changes can not be reversed because the electorate is no longer capable of those changes.
The left calls this victory, I call it tyranny. But what is tyranny? Chains do not make a people slaves, but lock up their will and intellect and you have created a serf class or proletariat as the left likes to call them. Such a people are little better than dumb animals and if history is any indication, this is largely why the left feels no remorse in killing them en masse for political reasons. From the Solovetsky Islands to Red China and beyond, the leftist cause has worked such people to death, executed them, and tortured them.
The true intelligentsia will be of no use to the leftist machine of tyranny and abuse. All that is required is obedience and the ability to follow the orders of the state. We have seen men crushed under the wheels of uncaring behemoths driven by the brainless fanatics of the left ever since the Jacobins. They have not changed nor will they change. How much education do you need to do that?
Education is only vital when a man must rely upon himself. Jefferson once said that public education was so that a man could judge for himself what would secure or endanger his freedom. Is it really any wonder that the left chose indoctrination instead of education? If it is any consolation, Hitler chose it as well and we all know where that ended.