It's that time of year again

Time to give the ol' blog a little extra "umph" with that great Christmas cheer!

Member FDIC

I went to the bank the other day and saw that little "member FDIC" plaque on the wall with it's typical little "all accounts guaranteed up to $100,000," or whatever that wording is exactly. And next to it it said "backed by the full faith and credit of the federal government." And I didn't find that at all comforting.

Two of a kind

Dear Washington/ We are America

We’re people with dreams and hope,
Plans and lives and love,
Aspiring to find a way to the top,
As from the bottom we start.

Faith comes first, then family,
Work, and finally fun.
A proud breed of optimist unity,
One nation under God.

Fierce love for that flag unites us,
Freedom is our cause,
We’ll fight against all who oppose us,
Abroad or here at home.

We live in the land you rule over,
In its cities and its towns,
We’re the ones you work for,
It’s our pockets you rob.

We’ll labor for what we want, thank you,
For what we need and use.
Reward us only for what we do,
Not for what we don’t.

Don’t give us handouts ‘cuz we’re poor,
Or old or white or black.
We’re all the same from shore to shore,
Poor, rich, or middle-class.

We need no government heathcare,
Stimulus, or programs.
We’d like to plan our own welfare,
Not depend on yours.

Our lives aren’t yours to play with,
To plan and run and ruin.
The good you do is but a myth,
So stop before you kill us.

Just another shot

The new green is the old red.

-Mark Levin

Food for thought and annoyance

I'm writing a paper for Patrick Henry on the founding fathers and I struck upon a question that I can't really answer, but desperately needs one!
It is generally well known that what is taught in public schools under the title "American History" is a watered down, godless version of our founding. There's no question that God is being taken out of history, most notably the framing of the constitution. The Question is, Why?
I understand that it's not politically correct to force God on poor little school children, etc, thanks to dear Thomas Jefferson and his great wall of separation between church and state that has become more sacred to recent generations that the constitution itself and definitely the bible. But really, why is God being taking out of history? Why can't the founding fathers be presented as narrowminded, aristocratic, religious nuts that didn't understand the world, and just happened (with no thanks to them or their God) upon a form of government that made our nations great?
Why instead are the founders beliefs being mutilated, while their general "rightness" kept intact?
This is the question that I am attempting to answer, and it's not going so well. I have my speculations, but it would be great of all of you faithful readers out there would try and help me out. Even if you have absolutely no clue, please throw an idea out there for my sanity's sake...

Warm Fuzzys

I had my itunes playing while sitting at my computer working on that load of school that refuses to ever get finished. Song after song played, and then-quite suddenly-there was a different sound. One that reached back to my childhood and pulled out my favorite blanket, and my pillow and curled me up on the couch, sitting in a house I haven't been in for years, looking out a window that isn't mine anymore, watching snowflakes fall. Oh! And the hot chocolate I was sipping, and the warmth and happiness I felt!

I was nine again, and listening to Chronicles of Narnia.

More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation

Associated Press
By LIBBY QUAID, AP Education Writer-27 September 2009

WASHINGTON – Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.

Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.

"Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom."

The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go...

So began an article outlining Obama's latest and greatest take-over scheme.

You know what that screams at me? The Government wants control of the minds of the next generation. Having the minds of children is the most important step a government can take in controlling it's people. If you'll remember who Nazi Germany, or Fascist Italy targeted, it was the young people. The Government knows the power and necessity of controlling children's minds, and they will take steps toward that in the name of better education. It's tragic.