Does anyone doubt that most teachers are dumb?  With apologies to my friends who are high school teachers, I have to say that as far as the majority goes, I have not met a more lemming-like group of people.  I spent a couple days with them at the National Council for the Social Studies and observed them being instructed by a Democrat senator on how to be indoctrinators.

Read it here at Pajamas Media

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/using-children-to-lobby-for-d-c-statehood/

Here’s Cathy’s article http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/09/a_rand_revival_100227.html

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123217

They were singing a different tune a year ago, when Republicans practically begged to be included in negotiations for the stimulus bill, which was posted on the Internet only for speed readers at midnight—breaking one of a long list of campaign promises.

Obama’s rationale? “I won”

The “We won” line was recited by Nancy Pelosi and then by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and I can’t even remember who all else.

How stupid does Obama think the American people are?

What does he have up his sleeve as he lies and lies?  He kept referring to the “crisis” and presented himself as averting another Great Depression.  This is not a man to be chastened by failures.  This is a man on a power trip who will do anything to maintain that power.  The rhetoric and lies are not working that well any more.  He’s trying, though, while at the same time giving jihadists all kinds of opportunities to attack.  When the lies won’t work, he’ll have a crisis big enough to declare martial law.  If the State of Union speech demonstrated anything, it was that Obama cares about one thing: power.

Nearly 50 children’s  books published so far.  No, nothing about Chicago-style cronyism.  Nothing to compare the corruption to the original founders’ vision or Constitutional principles.  How many schools carry these books?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2009/12/a_bounty_of_obama_kid_lit.html

Bill Ayers is questioned about being “disinvited” to give a speech last year.  He blames the “barbarians” with the “pitchforks.”  They objected to this unrepentant bomb-throwing co-founder of the terrorist group, Weatherman, being on campus, and spell the end of “academic freedom” (according to Ayers). It was not “anything I did,” but ”right-wing ideologues,” who “created demons” (Jeremiah Wright among them).  The “essence of a democracy” is that we talk to strangers–even those we disagree with–says Ayers.  Students are cheated when he cannot speak to them, he claims.

But students do not pay everyone speaking fees, about $7,500 for campus visits, as they do for Ayers (according to his agency Evil Twin).

We “should recognize that in a wild, diverse democracy like this,” “I’m in the mainstream,” says Ayers.  As evidence, Ayers claims his positions on wanting “peace in Iraq now” and on gay rights.

This interview is as logical as his “scholarly” writing, which I’ve analyzed in detail in my reports, which can be accessed on my main web page www.marygrabar.com

Watch the video here http://www.stp.georgiasouthern.edu/

Cornel West speaks on race at Emory.  Ho hum.  “George W. Bush is a racist.”  Yawn.  “We’ve come a long ways (witness my speaking fees), but we’ve got a long ways to go (otherwise no one would have reason to book me as a speaker).”  (Just doing a little deconstruction for the folks out there.)

 No wonder the kids find school boring—and why I find most of my tenured colleagues to be so tedious.  I wonder when Cornel West last went to a local Republican meeting, Baptist church service, or a  Cajun Dance—or patrolled with police officers.  Maybe if he left his ivory tower he’d see that the real world does not live up to his theories of racism and oppression.

Yes, coming to the Decatur Library through the Georgia Center for the Book (a federal program).

I have no problem with Outwrite Book Store hosting a “Queer Literary Festival.”  But imagine another group, like the heterosexual writers of America, trying to book a room at the library that DeKalb County taxpayers’ support.  How fast can you say ACLU, LAMBDA, etc., lawsuit?

Many homosexual writers have contributed to our rich heritage of letters, but their sexual orientation was only incidental.  The writing was primary.

But this event seems to be focused less on writing and literature than on using writing to promote a gay agenda.

Read about the line-up here: http://www.atlqueerlitfest.blogspot.com/

When Flannery O’Connor’s correspondent and friend Betty Hester “came out” to her, O’Connor wrote back that that fact did not in any way diminish their friendship or her estimation of her.  O’Connor, of course, was a devout Catholic who attended mass every day.

But, sadly, the entire “Queer Literary” event marks the general degradation of literature and its relegation to a tool for groups with grievances.

This is another way the Georgia Center for the Book and the DeKalb Public Library is diminishing books and literature, and bringing us closer to being an illiterate society.

He analyzes  the coverage as “made-for-television drama series,” as he contextualizes the event into the tradition of avant-garde art.

He notes,

“By mainstream American standards, the 9/11 attack was evil. . . . However, from the perspective of performance studies, the attack on the World Trade Center was a performance: planned, rehearsed, staged, and intended both to wound the United States materially and to affect and infect the imagination.  The destruction of two iconic buildings, and the murder of so many people in one fell swoop, was intended to deliver a very specific message about the boldness of the jihad and the vulnerability of the United States.

A performance, surely, but art?  I believe that the attack can be understood as the actualization of key ideas and impulses driving the avant-garde.  Thierry de Duve writes. . . . “

Well, you get the picture.  The “perspective of performance studies” is evil too.  As for me, I’ll keep my ”mainstream American standards,” Professor Schechner.