Monday, January 27, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
LBJ's War on Poverty versus the GOP's (Grossed Out Party) war on education, especially public education in favor of poverty
GOP leaders ignore evidence of War on Poverty’s improvements for students « Education Votes
The chief economist of the NEA said that the proposals found in this article have a common factor - the assumptions are not based on evidence, i.e., '“not evidence based.”'
America have some staunch proponents of states rights or rather states' sovereignty: "House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) trotted out a worn and unproven solution: private school vouchers. House Budget Committee Chairman and former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI) singled out public education as a central element in the perpetuation of poverty. Ryan’s recommendation: more education and housing vouchers, and greater community involvement. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), a Tea Party stalwart, proposed that federal anti-poverty funds be given to states — or in Washington-speak, block grants — to distribute as they best see fit.
Why block grants? It is the next thing to autonomy - after the government doles out the money. According to the head economist of the NEA, “Block grants would turn back the clock to when governors and state legislators, many of whom are prone to less evidence-based and politicized approaches, spent taxpayer money less effectively, less efficiently and particularly with less accountability.” That is what would make them most happy and feel triumphant to a high degree.
Richard Sims, chief economist of the NEA, goes on to provide more evidence-based issues the Republicans would rather not be reminded of, or that they aim to try hard to defeat if the voters throw in the towel and say, "go ahead, ruin my life." I understand that there are some people who already feel that life is ruined - they have their reasons but this is not one of them. If Americans really do want America to be a third world country, all we have to do is strip Americans of the power of education, or to restrict education to a select few, and as a nation, we will have arrived at some point in the Book of Revelation.
The chief economist of the NEA said that the proposals found in this article have a common factor - the assumptions are not based on evidence, i.e., '“not evidence based.”'
America have some staunch proponents of states rights or rather states' sovereignty: "House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) trotted out a worn and unproven solution: private school vouchers. House Budget Committee Chairman and former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI) singled out public education as a central element in the perpetuation of poverty. Ryan’s recommendation: more education and housing vouchers, and greater community involvement. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), a Tea Party stalwart, proposed that federal anti-poverty funds be given to states — or in Washington-speak, block grants — to distribute as they best see fit.
Why block grants? It is the next thing to autonomy - after the government doles out the money. According to the head economist of the NEA, “Block grants would turn back the clock to when governors and state legislators, many of whom are prone to less evidence-based and politicized approaches, spent taxpayer money less effectively, less efficiently and particularly with less accountability.” That is what would make them most happy and feel triumphant to a high degree.
Richard Sims, chief economist of the NEA, goes on to provide more evidence-based issues the Republicans would rather not be reminded of, or that they aim to try hard to defeat if the voters throw in the towel and say, "go ahead, ruin my life." I understand that there are some people who already feel that life is ruined - they have their reasons but this is not one of them. If Americans really do want America to be a third world country, all we have to do is strip Americans of the power of education, or to restrict education to a select few, and as a nation, we will have arrived at some point in the Book of Revelation.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
A family denied to end a mother's suffering and in that act, end the child's suffering
Attorneys: Brain-dead woman's fetus 'abnormal' - KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather & Sports
What a tragic case this is. The dead woman speaks; her husband speaks; her whole family speaks. However, the arrogance of the state and so-called pro-life advocates, are very sadistic it is being proved by their actions and sentiments. Get this: if fetuses have feelings and can feel pain and suffering, what is the difference in, say, aborting a child for whatever reason a woman or couple might have for deciding to abort a fetus. Who is the sadist? If "pro-lifers" care so much for "life," why make a fetus suffer trying to have one's way over the karmic domain of another person or persons.
This is an abuse of authority, common sense, mercy, and compassion. These opponents of this family do not care about compassion. If they did, they would allow this family to be responsible for their own way of rendering the last rites to their family member. Furthermore, if a woman is carrying a baby, and that woman dies, in a sense that fetus dies because there is no way a fetus can truly exist without the healthy nutrients coming in from the mother to the fetus via the feeding tube: the umbilical cord or the cord of life, I say. It can only feed on what the woman can excrete - dead matter or refuse, even if fed from a tube attached by a foreign entity (hospital).
What this cruelty is doing is making this family feed their little unborn relative in the death chamber - the womb of the mother - the tomb of the dead. The fetus is withering away in that tomb by the minute, because the mother is decomposing by the minute. It doesn't matter how fast or slow that decomposition is, it is still decomposition, which refuse is the fetus's food of death and not life. Shame on them for this cruelty in more ways than one, and may God have mercy on all of them when reaping time comes - Karma and its scythe never forgets. Even in all of that mercy comes with it, so why not be merciful so that mercy can be found when the time comes, because "when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death" (James 1:15 NKJV). May the family find peace in this struggle against the sin (presumption) of small-minded people, especially the educated ones.
What a tragic case this is. The dead woman speaks; her husband speaks; her whole family speaks. However, the arrogance of the state and so-called pro-life advocates, are very sadistic it is being proved by their actions and sentiments. Get this: if fetuses have feelings and can feel pain and suffering, what is the difference in, say, aborting a child for whatever reason a woman or couple might have for deciding to abort a fetus. Who is the sadist? If "pro-lifers" care so much for "life," why make a fetus suffer trying to have one's way over the karmic domain of another person or persons.
This is an abuse of authority, common sense, mercy, and compassion. These opponents of this family do not care about compassion. If they did, they would allow this family to be responsible for their own way of rendering the last rites to their family member. Furthermore, if a woman is carrying a baby, and that woman dies, in a sense that fetus dies because there is no way a fetus can truly exist without the healthy nutrients coming in from the mother to the fetus via the feeding tube: the umbilical cord or the cord of life, I say. It can only feed on what the woman can excrete - dead matter or refuse, even if fed from a tube attached by a foreign entity (hospital).
What this cruelty is doing is making this family feed their little unborn relative in the death chamber - the womb of the mother - the tomb of the dead. The fetus is withering away in that tomb by the minute, because the mother is decomposing by the minute. It doesn't matter how fast or slow that decomposition is, it is still decomposition, which refuse is the fetus's food of death and not life. Shame on them for this cruelty in more ways than one, and may God have mercy on all of them when reaping time comes - Karma and its scythe never forgets. Even in all of that mercy comes with it, so why not be merciful so that mercy can be found when the time comes, because "when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death" (James 1:15 NKJV). May the family find peace in this struggle against the sin (presumption) of small-minded people, especially the educated ones.
Monday, January 20, 2014
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Being a black kid in a Wisconsin school district
Daily Kos: Wisconsin School District Suspends Black Teenagers for Celebrating While Black
"It's a sad indictment of the reality faced by young black kids in America and especially in American schools."
Notice the contrast in the article. What is right for white kids to do is wrong for blacks to do the same thing - unless they are on the same team that the whites are on. Among blacks kids the three-pointer sign becomes the sign of gang banging. The community in this town is 95% white, whose citizens helped moved the incident past a positive act to one of suspicious activity among three black boys. "Jesus wept" as Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that is still in the weeping stage.
America is a country slow to learn wisdom, tolerance, understanding, and common decency among Americans. Of course America does not like to be told that she is not wise, tolerant, understanding, and that she lacks much common decency, but that is only a sign of immaturity on the part of a child that, for example, grew up too fast left to itself. Positively, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen (yet). It is life-sustaining to look beyond faults to needs that the wise pray earnestly for.
"It's a sad indictment of the reality faced by young black kids in America and especially in American schools."
Notice the contrast in the article. What is right for white kids to do is wrong for blacks to do the same thing - unless they are on the same team that the whites are on. Among blacks kids the three-pointer sign becomes the sign of gang banging. The community in this town is 95% white, whose citizens helped moved the incident past a positive act to one of suspicious activity among three black boys. "Jesus wept" as Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that is still in the weeping stage.
America is a country slow to learn wisdom, tolerance, understanding, and common decency among Americans. Of course America does not like to be told that she is not wise, tolerant, understanding, and that she lacks much common decency, but that is only a sign of immaturity on the part of a child that, for example, grew up too fast left to itself. Positively, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen (yet). It is life-sustaining to look beyond faults to needs that the wise pray earnestly for.
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