Pull The Plug...

...and the bathtub will inevitably drain and a void is then created in the tub.  Such is the case with the lack of good education.  The plug was pulled and not long after - about 3 years for the effect to take hold - America's standing as holding the highest educational standard in the world was taken away.  This removal process has been ongoing since. 

There are many theories pushed forward as the possible cause yet they all miss the mark, imho.  Illegal immigration is but a symptom of the malady as is political correctness.  Some would point to the teachers unions and their push for more while doing less - an activity not uncommon to all union efforts.  Urbanization is yet another scapegoat for the continuing downward spiral of our Nation's education standard.

NONE touch the root cause.

Here's the article that sparked this edition:  http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty848.htm

Herein lies the core of the issue: 

"In two landmark decisions, Engel v. Vitale (1962) and Abington School District v. Schempp (1963), the US Supreme Court established what is now the current prohibition on state-sponsored prayer in schools. While the Engel decision held that the promulgation of an official state-school prayer stood in violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause (thus overruling the New York Courts’ decisions), Abington held that Bible readings and other (state) school-sponsored religious activities were prohibited.^[5] Following these two cases came the Court's decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), a ruling that established the Lemon test for religious activities within schools. The Lemon test states that in order to be constitutional under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment any practice sponsored within state run schools (or other public, state sponsored activities) must adhere to the following three criteria:^[6]

1. Have a secular purpose;
2. Must neither advance nor inhibit religion; and
3. Must not result in an excessive entanglement between government and religion."(Wikipedia)

This what God has to say about it:  Job 8:8 and following

8 ¶  "For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
9  (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10  Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11  Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12  Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
13  So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
14  Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
15  He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure."

Result:  America's youth is withering because the father's wrongly decided to eliminate God from the primary source of education.  This is NOT an endorsement of statist schools, merely the exposure of the cause of the fallen standard of those who are processed through it. 

Unless and until this eviction of God changes, America will continue to drop in all standards, not just education, untill there will be nothing left that remotely resembles the once great Nation of educated free men. 

Can you hear that "sucking sound"?  The tub is almost empty.....

Is It About Respect of Views?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PWsKJiyesVU

She's been around longer than our Constitution is useful.

She has more experience.

She is educated beyond Constitutional usefulness.

She is gracious enough to allow the American People "enough" weapons.

She wants Senator Cruz's respect.

She and those with her are enemies of our nation and Constitution.

One Perspective

There are those that claim that our Constitution is "out-dated" and should be "revisited" = rewritten with a collectivist bent.  The Second Amendement was good in the day of ball and musket but has outlived it's application since society has (de)evolved to an alleged "higher state". 

If that clouded, ignorant and stupid thinking be somehow actual fact then the First Amendement was only good so long as the Gutenberg Printing Press was in operation.  Radio, Television, Internet, etc, etc, etc.....

that dog won't hunt(and it's owner just shot hissef induh foot)

Too Little Too Late ??

There seems to be a glimmer of hope, a life-spark if you will, in the extreme northeast.

"Another Maine town considers mandatory gun ownership" - Byron, Maine

This is a good move but has the situation gotten too far out of hand overall..?  Or will it simply not matter as the usurper and fellow-cronies continue their progressive march to total marxism in America..? 

My hat is off to these folks in any event - they've made a stand.

the rest of the short article:  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/08/another-maine-town-considers-mandatory-gun-ownership/?test=latestnews

He's Right - 100%

I envy some people for their ability of expression.

Here's the heart of the "armed American" issue:

"I understand and accept the responsibility of liberty. To be free, one must be willing to fight for it…not just on civic level (letter writing, voting, jury duty, etc…), but all the way up to the use of physical force. In my opinion, it is the right, responsibility and duty of every able free person, to own, train with, and be willing to use, arms. Real arms – not your great uncle’s duck gun – but weapons of war. It is far past time for us to take control of the debate. We need to stop making excuses for why we own guns, and we need to stop apologizing for our personal liberty. We are not subjects. We are not serfs.

We are not slaves.

Some will never understand that, and so be it. However, there are millions who have never considered such things, and they never will if we continue to pretend that our guns have any other use than to force the expiration of tyranny."

Take time to read the whole article:

http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=5931

 

PC Insanity - Part II

Feelings v Good Sense

This is another tentacle of the monster we're up against. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RgXsCnrYZGY

She's being violated twice over.  Some in that faux hearing would have her and everyone else completely stripped of their God-given right to self protection. 

She should be given first shot at his firing squad.  The (dis)honorable anti-gunner sympathizers should be forced to watch it and clean up after.

PC Insanity

I have but one response to this madness:

"Zero Tolerance: High School Student Suspended For Disarming School Bus Gunman"

"With a nationwide effort now underway to disarm America’s gun owners because of the dangers firearms purportedly pose to the general public, namely our schoolchildren, the following report from Cypress Lake, Florida highlights how our government sponsored systems of justice have devolved into outright madness."

complete article:  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/zero-tolerance-high-school-student-suspended-for-disarming-school-bus-gunman_03042013

My response: 

Isaiah 5:20  "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"

If this kind of thing persists, the woe will not be far behind.

A Thief by Any Other Name...

When is theft not theft?  And when is one who commits theft not a thief?

Seems like silly ranting, I know but bear with me.  All men have been endued with certain inalienable rights by our Creator.  The Founding Documents, upon which this Nation bases it's government, outline - NOT PROVIDE NOR ALLOW - those inalienable rights.  Any and all violations of and damage done to these documents and what they delineate is blatant theft.  Specifically, theft of our rights and liberties as expressed. 

The violations and damages come in many forms but the means du jour is through restriction by legislation.This "legislation" or rule-setting exists at every level of our society from national edicts to little Sally's lemonade stand.  That thought in itself is an oxymoran but yet it is precisely the situation that is flourishing today.  This perpetual law-giving steals from each of us every day.  The biggest right being acquired by theft is basic control of one's own life. The right to do as one sees fit - pursue one's own happiness.  As tptb make advances in their legislating, we lose even by threat of force if deemed necessary to make their point. 

Scripture tells us not once, twice nor even three times but four repetitions to leave "landmarks" alone that have been established:

Deuteronomy 19:14  "Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.";
27:17  "Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen."
Proverbs 22:28  "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.";
23:10  "Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:"(this last phrase was in reference to taking from those who had no one to go their part nor fight for their rights and/or possessions).

The landmark referred to was traditionally a stone marker set at the convergence of property of different owners.  This held significance for a number of reasons for the Jewish people after their arrival in the Promised land.  The basic premise was ownership - the land within any given set of landmarks belonged not only to that particular individual but to his posterity as well.(Inheritance Tax..??!! thievery)  They were more than markers, they were boundaries which were to be observed and respected despite any issues which may arise.  Even if any portion of land was sold, at Jubilee it would return to the family who originally owned it. There was a guaranteed, God-given right to that property.

We have a very similar set of "landmarks" in this nation and while they have served us well, there have been and there remains a number who would not just move them but remove and/or destroy them altogether.  In doing so they make claim to all that we each as individuals once held as or own.  These landmarks are the principles set forth in our Founding Documents and tptb are stealing more of our expressed freedoms and liberties daily.  They are resetting the boundaries which our fathers set at our founding.  This is the usurper's "fundamental transformation of America".  He and those of his thinking are thieves.  They are deceivers.  They are intrinsically evil.

Here is one such instance.  Seeking to exercise one's faith by one's own conscience was a primary motivator in taking the chance to strike out for "the New World". 

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/college-shuts-down-dorm-room-bible-study.html

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/florida-college-says-christian-group-cant-have-christian-leaders.html

"Separation of church and state", you bleat?  You obviously have no knowledge of the actual origin and circumstance of that currently misused concept.  This nation was founded by men of Faith who were not all Deists, as the thieving fellow-usurpers want to claim. This ignorant assumption is more evidense of their evil nature and yours if you choose to hold to it. 

Bear in mind: no person "of faith" is perfect(that being without sin, fault or problems), but merely forgiven by the One Who has the power to forgive sins.