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Crossposted from Stop The ACLU:

In case you haven’t heard, a group of dissenters from the ACLU are rebelling and calling for a change in the current leadership of the main organization. The summary of things this new group is fed up with is hypocrisy and the ACLU is full of it. Purging the ACLU of its hypocrisy is bound to be a goliath task.

Where do we even begin with the ACLU’s hypocrisy? How about its odd stance on the Second Amendment? They have decided that the term “the people” that is contained in the Second Amendment does not apply to “the people” as it does in all of the other rights contained in the Bill of Rights. They defend even the most radical in free speech for individuals, but somehow have adopted the opposite position on the Second Amendment. Surely it couldn’t be that the Second Amendment doesn’t fall within the boundaries of their liberal agenda! Could it? Continue reading “Stop the ACLU”

…though some might not see it that way.

h.t. The Pirate’s Cove by way of Rightlinx via MsUnderestimated

Up on the rooftops (click, click click) at TMH’s Bacon Bits and Stuck On Stupid (who has the companion graphic of the day for the video above), and down through the chimney at Basil’s Blog and The Conservative Cat.

13 things that tell you you’re living in The Land of the Enstupiated and the Home of the Sheeple:

1. Schools are pressured (by remote educrats) to “mainstream” kids who are mentally and/or physically incapable of learning to so much as tie their own shoes.

2. Those same schools are required to have 100% (ALL students) “at ‘proficient level'” in core subjects by X date.

3. Time and resources that might otherwise be used to actually, well, teach the core subjects to kids who are able to, well, actually learn the core subjects is spent instead teaching the uneducable how to use a pencil without causing severe bodily harm to themselves and others. RESULTING IN

4. Frustrating the trainable but uneducable children AND

5. Cheating the educable (though perhaps just barely, after a few years of “prisons for kids”) children of an education AND

6. Placing pressure on teachers (especially the growing number who are seriously subliterate and don’t even know it) who have been asked to do the impossible (bring ALL children to “proficient levels” in core subjects… that have been dumbed down already) THEREBY

7. Increasing school administrators’ call for more teachers, more funding (and thus, more power to screw up teaching and learning for teachers and, well, potential learners) AND

8. Increasing remote educrats’ turf/funding/ability to meddle and further bring schools to ruination BY MEANS OF

9. An outcry for “Somebody to do something” DIRECTED AT

10. The Feddle Gummint, which in its wisdom runs what is arguably the best model in the country for how to make stupid people by means of an “education system” (the Washington D.C. public schools) WHICH IN TURN

11. Commissions a study WHICH

12. Discovers—alas and alack!—that children aren’t even learning to read and comprehend simple English (producing adults who cannot understand a bus schedule, directions for taking prescription meds or a newspaper editorial, even though they are college graduates!) AND SO

13. Buries those facts in bureaucratese and proclaims that the Emperor’s New Clothes are just jim-dandy and everyone ought to be wearing them!

(Yeh, yeh, I know: not exactly a pretty picture for an inaugural T-13, but what do you expect from a curmudgeon before his third cuppa joe in the ayem, anyway?)

See a few experienced T-13ers’ entries at Thirsday Thirteen.

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Now, on to the Fair Tax blogburst. Today’s blogburst features a few letters to editors and editorials from several newspapers around the country, collected by Terry, of The Right Track.

Folks, because “repetition aids learning” I’ll say it again: your grandchildren will either bless or curse your memory depending on how you decide to jump on this issue. Choose well.

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by TD of The Right Track

A quick and dirty search through Google News for articles, news, and editorials revealed no less than 14 pieces written in the last month regarding the FairTax. Fully 1/3 of those were editorials agreeing with the need for the FairTax.

A sampling:

From the Denver Daily News, an editorial titled “FairTax, not flat tax, needed to fix nation’s taxation woes“:

Dear editor,

The IRS needs to be eliminated and replaced with the FairTax, not the flat tax, as suggested by columnist Aaron Harber in Monday’s Denver Daily News.

The flat tax changes absolutely nothing — the IRS, tax code, regulations, 16th Amendment, corporate taxation and payroll taxes (the way Social Security is funded) stay exactly the same under the flat tax.

At best, the flat tax is temporary, the wrong direction to move towards simplification.

Continue reading “Fair Tax/OTA”

wouldn’t it be a nice lil diversion from the normal press of almost unremitting bad news generated by political loons if the feds, instead of spending billions of dollars harrassing ordinary citizens, would spend a few billions searching the world for a pin whose head was small enough to contain the Clintoons’ moral precepts (and leave room for the contents of the intelligence expressed on the Demoncrappic Underpants)?

It’d be quite a thing to watch: nightly updates on the exploits of intrepid adventurers in the nanoworld.

Now, back to our regular programming. (Oh, BTW, one small light in the darkness: the House passed the Public Expression Of Religion Act: 244 to 173, today. On to the Senate, where poltroons, buffons and those who are bent on modeling Evil Incarnate can have a chance to pull its teeth… *sigh*)

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Is Hillary next?

Now, that’s a catfight I’d pay to see…

Condi responds to Clinton’s lies in the Chris Wallace interview.

Although it’s possible the Hillarybeast will make some response, I doubt it’d have much effect. In fact, if the Hillarybeast wanted to significantly increase her chances for a white House bid, she’d divorce Bill, blame Whitewater on him (with conveniently “found” documents… probably found in a travel case) and talk about all the times she told Bill (over and over, hectoring, nagging and throwing of plates) to “‘Get that goat-loving Osama’ but he just wouldn’t listen. Too busy chasing skirt.”

*heh*

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by Toni at Bear Creek Ledger

All of these stories were found in the last couple days posted to Lucianne.

‘Border Baby’ boom strains S. Texas – There’s a picture with the story of an illegal alien who’s given birth to her fourth child on American soil at American taxpayer expense who thinks it’s owed to her!

Of course the real story is how ‘anchor babies’ are breaking the backs of South Texas hospitals. Continue reading “Guard the Borders”

No, I’m not going to link it, but I just love it when a guy brags about being “self-employed as a software developer” and “web site designer”… and the page those boasts are on doesn’t load/display properly in two different browsers.

Oh, yeh. Mac user. (Apologies to both of my readers who aren’t typical Mac users… :-))

Still having a hoot with the al-Qaeda>Saudi>Al Jizeera>Fwench news chain of “credible sources” in the “OBL is dead (again)” story. No sane person can write great material like that.

Oh, and for more “gotta-love-’em idiocy” take Congress (please!). One “word” (for those who can’t count): Arlen Specter. How better to sum it up than this comment by one of the great minds of the 20th Century?

(BTW, ya know there are three kinds of people in the world, dontcha? Those who can count and those who can’t.)

Well, enough for a drive-by. Just remember: if you need a laugh or three, there’s plenty of stupidity to ridicule in the news, on the web—even here at twc. ;-)—and just driving down the road. After all, as Woody reminds us, at least 42% of Americans are complete morons. (Really, Woody? Ya think it’s that low? :-))

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UPDATE: N.B.—I inadvertently (got inna hurry paging through mky SPAM moderation queue, ya know) deleted a TB from Bernie at Planck’s Constant. That’s a no-no in my book, so here’s the link and lede:

Muslim Humor-Muslim Jokes

I have taken it upon myself to supply the world with more Muslim jokes. It goes without saying that Muslims are perhaps the least humorous folk on Earth; whereas Jews have learned to laugh at themselves, even turning that laughter into a business: Vaudeville.

There ya go, Bernie. I’ll be more careful in the future.

Amid alla the brouhaha about the information from France, via Al- jizeera, from Saudi Arabia saying its source is Al Qaeda (damned liars reliable sources one and all *cough-spit*), let’s keep our eye on the ball in the GWOT—Truth and Justice and Iraq, in particular: Mensa Barbie offers a lil timely aid in that effort.

About that GWOT, Clinton’s apologia for his eight years’ inaction, balancing civil rights and national security, etc., STACLU comments on “Learning From The Past”.

A heartwarming link (with typical commentary) from Conservative Cat. Makes me wanna do a happy dance. *heh*

Planck’s Constant shares with us his grief over the report of bin Laden’s reported death. I agree, Bernie, though I feel perhaps your “grief” may not be quite deep enough; the proper treatment of OBL’s burial would involve a bit more, I think… *heh*

Suggested “bedmate’ for OBL’s final resting place

Daffyd (Big Lizards) notes the award of the laurel wreath to the Champion of Terrorist Rights, today. Indeed.

Blue Star Chronicles reminds us of who the real heroes are in the GWOT (Hint: they’re not found among Political Poltroons, Mass Media Podpeople, Loony Left Moonbats or Academia But Fruitcakes).

On a slight *a-hem* change of pace, Woody’s News and Viewsd has a couple of “see ’em to believe ’em” posts. OK, one is simply a graphic that strikes a resonant chord in me, the other’s a video that’s worth a lil break time.

Even further along the curve away from the GWOT (or is it, really?), Angel’s weekend open trackbacks post has some good thoughts, calming pics. Head on over to Woman Honor Thyself for a lil time of quiet contemplation of the splendor of creation.

Alexandra’s Rosh Hashanah post at All things Beautiful is one of the weekend’s “must reads” IMO.

And finally, head on over to Basil’s Blog to test your knowledge of Ramadan.

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