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Where I give you my slightly quirky opinion, and you can give me yours, as long as you're man or woman enough to be civil and control your language.
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About Me
- Joe
- I was born in Miami, Florida, the son of an Air Force officer, traveled the world, was saved at age 17, and have served the Lord since. That's me on the left and my lovely wife, Bonnie...the pretty one...on the right.
There Are But A Few Rules To Follow
1. Absolutely no foul language (including the use of asterisks). If you are not man or woman enough to control your language, you are not welcome here...go somewhere else.
2. I am not looking for strings of commenters arguing with each other, so confine your comments to the topic at hand and address your comments to me, unless you can be exceptionally gracious and polite.
3. Since this is my blog, I am the sole arbiter of what can be placed on this blog. My decisions are final and without recourse. All anonymous comments, unsigned, will be deleted, as will ad hominem attacks against me or others.
4. Within the scope of those rules, you may feel free to have fun here (I sure will). Sarcasm, wit, half-wit, nit-wit, parody, satire, puns (especially puns), etc. are encouraged.
FOUR PRINCIPLES THAT DEFINE TRUE CONSERVATISM:
1. Respect for The Constitution
2. Respect for Life
3. The Smallest Possible Government
4. Individual Responsibility
This blog is about my philosophy of government, which is a very conservative philosophy.
You are not required to agree with me (although you would be better off if you did).
I am biased toward conservatism, and make no apologies for that.
Freedom means not being controlled by the government, that being the very reason we declared our independence from Great Britain.
2. I am not looking for strings of commenters arguing with each other, so confine your comments to the topic at hand and address your comments to me, unless you can be exceptionally gracious and polite.
3. Since this is my blog, I am the sole arbiter of what can be placed on this blog. My decisions are final and without recourse. All anonymous comments, unsigned, will be deleted, as will ad hominem attacks against me or others.
4. Within the scope of those rules, you may feel free to have fun here (I sure will). Sarcasm, wit, half-wit, nit-wit, parody, satire, puns (especially puns), etc. are encouraged.
FOUR PRINCIPLES THAT DEFINE TRUE CONSERVATISM:
1. Respect for The Constitution
2. Respect for Life
3. The Smallest Possible Government
4. Individual Responsibility
This blog is about my philosophy of government, which is a very conservative philosophy.
You are not required to agree with me (although you would be better off if you did).
I am biased toward conservatism, and make no apologies for that.
Freedom means not being controlled by the government, that being the very reason we declared our independence from Great Britain.
Government's job is not to provide things for people, but to provide the opportunity for people to persue the things they want via the vehicles of freedom and responsibility.
Some of My Favorite Bloggers
NATIONAL BLOGS & STUFF
- American Spectator
- American Thinker
- Big Government (Breitbart)
- Big Journalism
- Breitbart TV
- CNS News
- Cato Institute
- Contact Your Congressperson
- Contact your Senator
- Daily Caller
- Darwin's God
- Drudge Report
- Everything About Congress!
- Fox Nation
- Gateway Pundit
- Heritage Foundation
- Hot Air
- Insta Pundit
- Joe's Jottings (My Other Blog)
- Kingdom FM Christian Radio
- Mark Levin
- Michelle Malkin
- News Max
- NewsBusters
- On Racism & Republicans
- Politico
- Real Clear Politics
- Right Scoop, The
- Rush Limbaugh
- Sean Hannity
- WINK News Radio
- Wall Builders (A Web Site)
- Weekly Standard
- What's Happening in Congress
SPECIAL STUDIES
BHO-THE CONSUMATE AMATEUR
WHY I CALL HIM "PRESIDENT BO"
I call him "President" out of respect for the office. I call him "BO" (as in Body Odor) because his agenda stinks.
I also refer to him as our "Acting President."
I also refer to him as our "Acting President."
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6 comments:
That's cute. But the Common Core was developed by the states, not the fed.
XO: The fed, even now, is trying to dictate the terms and conditions of Common core.
It is true that the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), led the development of the Common Core State Standards.
But trust me, As soon as all states have developed their applications of Common Core, the feds will snatch it from them and will "unify" it and it will become a full-fledged federal program, complete with the bureaucracy to back it up within the Department of Education. It will become a requirement of the federal government.
The federal government has already initiated a "stimulus" package for states that adopt Common Core. That package makes money available to states that adopt Common Core. Imagine that...federal bribery. To what end?
The Director of the Department of Education, Arne Duncan, has already announced that $350,000,000 of that package will be used to create the kinds of tests that "unify" Common Core. What do you imagine "unify" to mean as it related to federal involvement?
Surely it could not possibly mean that the door has been opened to let the fed in to have an increasing level of control over the States' implementation of Common Core...do you think?
Joe - Even if your paranoid fantasy is true, how is your alternative a better idea?
Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi or Kansas - We know there is a Common Core that all of the other states agreed to that has now become a Federal Standard. But we want our students to be stupider than everyone else. We want our our children to be ignorant, backwoods, religious idiots who are unable to discern facts from dogma.
You would be totally OK with that, wouldn't you?
XO: "But we want our students to be stupider than everyone else..."
Among the developed nations, we have done a good job of getting them there. That happened when we abandoned proper learning techniques and substituted progressive methods.
Example:
“Write a number sentence with a blank for the missing number. Explain how the number sentence shows the problem.”
"Carry out the addition 26 + 39 = 65, put 65 = 26 + □, and then find that □ = 39."
Give me an ever lovin' blue eyed break!
I'm surprised that Teabags are so upset about Common Core.
Its focus is heavy standardized testing which is a big Teabag wish list item.
Nothing that has come out of the administration has acted to delay education privatization. What's up with the criticism, Joe?
Joe - Where on earth are you pulling that math problem from?
Link to the source please.
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