Dec 31 2009
Archive for December, 2009
Dec 21 2009
Murray, Cantwell Vote to Shut Down Discussion on New Health Bill
Washington State Democrat Senators Murray and Cantwell voted, at 1:30 am Saturday night, to shut down discussion of the Reid Amendment to the Health Care Bill before anyone has had time to even read it. Just hours after it was submitted, the virtually new health care bill was clotured to not allow any discussion of the bill. Democrats are bypassing the legislative process that tweaks and allows Senators to point out and correct any major flaws in new bills.
Senators are trying to shove this massive health care plan down the throats of Americans quickly, while they are busy with holiday festivities. This unpopular bill, which has only a 34% approval rating by the American public, is odious to Americans who see it as a take over of their health care. They are correct in this assumption, for this bill allows the government to view people’s personal bank accounts and to make transfers from them to pay for individuals health care, as the government deems people are able. It forces everyone to have health insurance, or pay a hefty fine. Many people, approximately 18 million, either self-insure or insure by other means.
Call your senator NOW and every day untill Christmas Day. Do not let them believe they can sneak it past the American public. Call now!!!
1-800-828-0498 (A toll free number that will eventually put you through to the Capital Switchboard after you listen to a little commercial FOR healthcare first. Ignore the message….call lots!!!!)
Dec 10 2009
Draft Koster for Congress
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/koster/
John Koster is a Snohomish County Commissioner, and is well known in conservative Republican circles for his dependable support of common sense solutions to difficult public questions. He had a terrific record as a State Legislator for a number of years. Always had a Washington Conservative Union legislative rating of 96 or 97 (out of 100).
He lost a very close race to Rick Larsen in 2000 for the 2nd Congressional District. The political climate in 2010 is going to be a very different one than it was in 2000. The Republicans, the TEA Party folks, and 912 Folks, and others are coming together into a loosely organized, but very powerful, coalition of pro-American, pro-free enterprise, pro-traditional American values, and just plain save-America forces. John Koster would be the perfect candidate for Congress to draw upon this tremendous well of support.
Please, everyone, go on-line and sign this petition.
BOB EBERLE, Chairman
Skagit Co. Republican Party
Dec 01 2009
U of Minnesota Teaching Plan “America-an Oppressive Hellhole”
Re-education of “people with the ‘wrong’ beliefs and values – those who either do not have sufficient ‘cultural competence’ or those who the college judges will not be able to be converted to the ‘correct’ beliefs and values even after remedial re-education” appears to be in the plans for the University of Minnesota. World Net Daily reports:
“Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten said the developing Minnesota plan would require teachers to ‘embrace – and be prepared to teach our state’s kids – the task force’s own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.’”
She said the plan from the university’s Teacher Education Redesign Initiative – a multiyear project to change the way future teachers are trained – “is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers’ lack of ‘cultural competence’ contributes to the poor academic performance of the state’s minority students.”
“The first step toward ‘cultural competence,’ says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize – and confess – their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the re-education camps of China’s Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi,” she said.
“What if some aspiring teachers resist this effort at thought control and object to parroting back an ideological line as a condition of future employment?” she posed. “The task group has Orwellian plans for such rebels: The U, it says, must ‘develop clear steps and procedures for working with nonperforming students, including a remediation plan.’”
The plan asks: “How can we be sure that teaching supervisors are themselves developed and equipped in cultural competence outcomes in order to supervise beginning teachers around issues of race, class, culture, and gender?”
Read the rest of the article at World Net Daily: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117313
