Tuesday 26 January 2010

PUBLIC SCHOOLS-NEVER WRONG

I really feel sorry for public school teachers, at least the good ones, and all the students (K-12). Public schools (the system) have been wrong so many times that it is useless to listen to all their "new" research statistics. They discover a new and exciting study every year. They even discover a new "fix" every year! It is just annual drivel, as the students ability and performance just keep stagnating,at best,or going down, at worst. Oh, the administration has excuses for continued poor performance, but have you noticed how they always blame somebody or something else.

They NEVER take responsibility for their own failures and misjudgments. They are always getting "bailed out". They know, according to the government of which they are a part, that they are just "too big to fail"! So the albatross just keeps lumbering along destroying young lives, the schools just keep getting worse, and U.S. students keep creeping down in international performance. How sad for the little ones. Oh, well, maybe our students can win at Wii or Halo or Madden against the Taliban!

Sunday 10 January 2010

Homeschool to Unschool

This article is a must read to arm yourselves against skeptical friends and nosey neighbors! It is about a Louisiana girl currently pursuing her PHD at LSU! Published on A Day In the Life of Unschooling newsletter, it provides inspiration to those questioning whether homeschooling is really the right path for my child. Laurie's mother has written a book called "The Unprocessed Child". Quite a telling title. Her is the excerpt of the article:

Laurie Chancey spent her childhood immersing herself in topics of her own choosing. She was never forced to learn something simply because tradition and/or society said it was necessary. No one was looking over her shoulder to make sure she was learning the “proper” subjects.

Having never seen a textbook or taken a test, never used workbooks or any type of teaching techniques, Laurie scored in the top 10% of the state of Louisiana on her college entrance exam. She enrolled in college when she was eighteen, and graduated summa cum laude three and a half years later. Laurie is a bright adult, but her IQ is not why she did so well. She spent her life learning to learn and it’s something that now comes easily to her.

Wednesday 6 January 2010

First Amendment Rights Denied?

Executive Order invites INTERPOL into the U.S. – without oversight!
Obama Is Not The Antichrist But He's Acting Like It.
By Eric Barger

Updated January 6, 2010

Revelation 13 succinctly spells out that someday in the future a person will head a system that will control the world politically, economically and religiously. At the beginning of his seven year reign, the Antichrist will first endear himself to the unsuspecting and gullible masses who are more than ready to crown him king of the world. Then, through a series of circumstances and controls “for the good of the earth,” the Man of Sin and his lieutenants will begin to systematically eliminate anyone who resists his “benevolent” rule. Eventually, claiming that he is indeed “god,” he will ruthlessly command the complete devotion of the peoples of the world. Before those dark days can unfold however, there will be an extended period of conditioning and preparation. Prophetically speaking, this is surely where we are in time.

A piece in that conditioning and preparation puzzle happens to be one of the most ominous items to cross my radar in many years. It was a little noticed recent amendment made by Barak Obama to a longstanding Presidential Executive Order (#12425) issued in 1983 by President Reagan. 1

In essence, what Obama decreed on December 17 gave INTERPOL agents the right and ability to operate as an untouchable police force with unquestioned and unrestrained authority inside the United States. INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, can now operate with full diplomatic immunity outside the confines of the U.S. Constitution to investigate, interrogate, and theoretically arrest anyone they see fit without the cooperation of the FBI or any state or local law enforcement. Our courts and judges would also be without recourse to stop them from simply doing as they want with ANY U.S. citizen. If you are concerned about so-called “hate crimes” legislation, then just imagine a politically correct international police force with known ties to Muslim countries operating unabated in our land. Could it be that while they go about rounding up suspected terrorists, arms dealers, and murderous thugs, they might also be used to clamp down on anyone exercising the once honored but now dissipating right of free speech? It’s no secret that the current leadership of our nation despises opposition and appears poised to try most anything to squelch it. Antichrist will conceivably begin his regime in like fashion, marginalizing and intimidating all who would publically stand against tyrannical powers, or expose moral evils, or who would dare perpetrate the greatest atrocity – that being to proclaim that Jesus is the only true Savior.

Equally disturbing is the fact that E.O. 12425 seems to allow for the sealing of documents and the transfer of such arrested prisoners to foreign countries to be tried in foreign courts under foreign or international law. (Perhaps Obama has his favorite “war criminals” former Vice President Dick Cheney and President G.W. Bush in mind?) As the Constitution indicates, I have always believed that the main task of the federal government of the United States was to protect the citizenry. It would appear Obama is bent on something completely different. Where is the U.S. Constitution on this subject and what can be done about this obvious breech of the Constitution by Obama? Are there men and women in Congress who will stand up and stop this madness? We really need to pray.

I understand that many will just relegate my thoughts to the loony bin of conspiracy theories. However, I am not the only person who is concerned. Former U.S. Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is asking why as well. On the January 4 edition of “The O’Reilly Factor,” on the Fox News Channel, Gingrich said:

“The President recently signed, very quietly, an executive order that basically releases INTERPOL from all American constraints. Freedom of Information Acts don’t apply. All the constraints that you, as an American citizen, could use against an American police force based on a recent Obama-signed Executive Order, give INTERPOL, which has relationships with Syria, with Libya, with Iran…it gives them all sorts of extra legality in the United States in a way that has never ever before been offered to Interpol, and I’m very curious why the President is doing this.”

An editorial in the Washington Examiner stated: “this new directive from Obama may be the most destructive blow ever struck against American constitutional civil liberties.” 2

For complete article go the Eric Barger's Take A Stand ministry site.
http://www.ericbarger.com