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More Obama Indoctrination going on in schools

More Obama Indoctrination going on in schools

More Obama Indoctrination going on in schools

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMxOPvIohcM

 

Letter From Secretary Arne Duncan to School Principals
August 26, 2009    
http://mommylife.net/archives/2009/09/obama_to_addres.html

		Classroom Activities Grades preK-6  PDF (64K) | MS Word (32K) Grades 7-12  PDF (108K) | MS Word (80K)

Please note that the time of this speech has changed to 12:00 noon eastern standard time.

Dear Principal:

We have received notice from the U.S. Department of Education that President Obama will deliver an address to students on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 12:00 noon. The address will be broadcast live on the White House website, www.whitehouse.gov . According to the press release, “The President will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best education possible so they can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens.”

This is vitally important. I will be expecting a reply from each addressee on this email. Regarding President Obama’s address to the nation’s students…

I trust you will continue with your PLANNED lessons and activities on Tuesday, September 8th. I have an expectation that each and every day’s lesson plans are part of the overall curriculum required to complete the school year. Otherwise the school year would be shortened. I also trust my children’s lunch period will not be disrupted by airing the speech in the cafeteria.

The planned address by President Obama would disrupt this schedule, interfering with the education of my children. I have examined the menu of activities published by the U.S. Department of education and find it totally inappropriate to compel students to listen to the speech and participate in these activities. The President does not have the academic credentials to teach any Elementary or High School lesson. In fact, his academic performance is a mystery since he has never released his grades from High School or College. He has never released his graded writings or thesis papers that led to the conference of his degrees. He is unqualified to speak to the subject of setting academic goals since he has never stated how he set academic goals and plans, and how he achieved them (and how his grades reflected those goals).

It is also no small thing that President Obama has admitted to using illegal drugs including marijuana in his youth. This well known fact can provide these impressionable teens the rationale that they too could engage in these destructive activities and still achieve their academic goals.

If you insist on using the taxpayer funded facility to require students to listen to a partisan political speech and directed activities (the “Menu of Classroom Activities” is political), then you have quite a dilemma on your hands. Parents like me, will not consent to our children participating in this activity because of the concerns stated above. You must set up a separate facility within the school for these children and provide appropriate academic activities to keep them engaged (I am also requesting you publically release the lesson plan for these activities). The other side of this coin is that these children will be separated from their peers and some division will naturally occur where there wasn’t any before. Some of the activities specify that the children create posters and such that will be posted in the classroom or hallways, since my children will not participate in that activity they will be unduly subject to political peer pressure.

If you insist that all students at school that day must participate in the President’s lecture and activities, it will be necessary to keep my children home. Therein lies another dilemma for you. My children will not be sick and therefore it could be a classified as an unexcused absence. Will such an absence be held against my child in ANY way? That is a question that must be answered.

I believe a fine alternative for parents who wish to participate in this event is for them to keep THEIR children at home and watch the speech and do the specified activities with their child. That way no parent will be denied the academic exercises that they choose for their child. I choose the academic exercises in each subject area that are part of the curricula defined for this academic year.

As I mentioned; I expect (as a tax paying parent entrusting the education and care of my children to this school district) that each addressee will respond to this email. I have seen the talking points that have been released by the National Education Association, and hope you will not resort to such “canned” statements.

I will release this as an open letter to the media, but I will not release the names of the addressees. I ask that you extend the same courtesy to my family by not releasing my name or the names of my children. I would consider such a release a violation of ethics and privacy.

Submitted with all due respect and appreciation for the fine work that the ________ County School system provides for our children and community…

Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?

What do you think the President wants us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?

Teachers could encourage students to participate in the Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video contest.

Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students

Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country....It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.

Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.

Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals.

Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays.

I want to know what “goals” this document is speaking of. What do you want to bet it is going to be some veiled way to organize “children” as his drone army that wants everything he asks them to support.

I’m going to keep my kid out of school during this exercise and instruct the teacher that my son is not allowed to write anything that is to be redistributed or displayed.

"... permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency."

http://www.politechbot.com/docs/rockefeller.revised.cybersecurity.draft.082709.pdf

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s773/show

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

"The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license. "

• Also see: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s773/news_blogs
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/us/politics/23security.html

Call for White House Control of Security
New York Times, The (NY) - Thursday, April 23, 2009
Author: JOHN MARKOFF Thom Shanker contributed reporting from Washington.

There are now at least three camps involved in the decision that the president will make about control of cybersecurity, Mr. Lewis said: traditional national security policy analysts who are not focused on the cyberthreat; intelligence and military agencies that are seeking to consolidate power and influence over cyberpolicy; and an influential group that has said stricter cybersecurity regulations could damage innovative Internet industries associated with Silicon Valley.

“We didn’t expect the Googles of the world coming in and saying, this makes us nervous,” he said.

Several former government executives said they saw the early influence of the Obama administration on Ms. Hathaway ‘s speech.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=44916

Cyber -security czar quits after administration’s delays in finding successor
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA) - Tuesday, August 4, 2009
For several months, the Obama administration’s promise to make cyber -security a national priority has felt like a New Year’s resolution to start going to the gym: you really mean to start, but you just never get to it.

And as a result of that, now the country’s top cyber -security seat is going to start getting dusty. The Obama administration cyber -security czar Melissa E. Hathaway announced on Monday she will resign, apparently fed up of waiting for the president to name her successor.

“I wasn’t willing to continue to wait any longer because I’m not empowered right now to continue to drive the change,” Hathaway told The Washington Post.

Hathaway was the top aide on cyber -security under the Bush administration and was asked to remain in the post to lead a 60-day review of cyber -security policies after Obama was elected.

But Hathaway had been spinning her wheels ever since, The Wall Street Journal reported. She apparently became ostracized after suggesting regulating some private-sector entities’ networks and, well, the Bush administration’s former aide probably wasn’t the most popular girl in the new school.

Some Surprised By 'Clunker' Tax   Excerpted from: http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=0,89084

4% of Israeli Jews: Obama pro-Israel

"We ultimately had 400 rooms reserved,” said Middleton, noting that there were various entities within the Presidential entourage - security, press, admin staff, culinary staff - and their arrangements were “somewhat coordinated and somewhat uncoordinated.”

 

President Obama with Barb Starz, Dax Schieffer and Brian Stumpf of Big Sky Resort. Photo courtesy of Big Sky Resort

NewWest.net spoke with Big Sky Resort general manager Taylor Middleton for an article published Sunday:

Like many others I watched the "town hall" meeting in Portsmouth NH with the supposedly randomly selected audience.

The second person "randomly" selected to ask a question was a young girl called Julia Hall from Malden MA (asks question at 29 mins 25 secs into the video).

 

Julia read the following question off a piece of paper: "As I was walking in I saw a lot of signs outside saying mean things about reforming healthcare. How do kids know what is true and why do people want a new system that can help more of us".

This randomly asked question gave Obama the perfect opportunity to dismiss talk about "death panels that will pull the plug on Grandma" and to blame Republicans for everything. Over on the town hall comments thread at AR15.com a user by the name of AtomicPunk09 discovered someone on facebook who might possibly be Julia's mother and had a photo of her with Obama:

Kathleen Manning Hall

Another "coincidence" is that Julia said she lives in Malden MA and Kathleen Manning Hall's campaign contributions list the occupation "Legal Asst, Looney and Grossman LLP" and a home address in Malden MA:

Looks like she donated $636 to Obama in 2008.

But wait, there's more:

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Back to Kathleen's Facebook Page, here are some of her Facebook friends that had unique names so I googled to see if they were Democratic insiders:

 

Kathleen Manning Hall was in DC for the inauguration and attended the Eastern Ball:

Here are Kathleen and Dorothy at the inauguration ball:

Another photo of Kathleen Manning Hall:



Next to Kathleen Manning Hall is Martha Coakley, Democrat Attorney General of MA. The photo is from the website of New England Women for Change:

Martha Coakley, (Democrat) Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts http://www.marthacoakley.com/

Adam Parkhomenko, former aide to Hillary Clinton, Democrat running for VA House of Delegates (who has the support of the Brady Campaign, President Clinton and Wes Clark) http://voteadam.com/

Addisu Demissie, National Political Director of Organizing for America and former Ohio Get out The Vote director of Obama for America http://www.theroot.com/views/roots-talented-ten-addisu-demissie

Adrienne Elrod, Chief of Staff to Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0609/Seen_celebrating_Adrienne_Elrods_birthday_last_night.html

Alan Rosenblatt, Associate Director for Online Advocacy at the Center for American Progress (and HuffPost blogger) http://www.americanprogress.org/aboutus/staff/RosenblattAlan.html

Alayna Van Tassel, Budget and Policy Director for MA Senator Pat Jehlen http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alayna-van-tassel/5/8ba/b80

I could go on and on and check out every one of her Facebook frends but I think the point is clear - the cute question about "mean signs" was read from a pre-written note by the daughter of a Democrat political insider who is know to and has been photographed with President Obama.

Combine that with the first question being from a Democrat State Representative, then a couple of easy Medicare "give me more handouts" questions, then a few more pro-Obamacare questions, and by then end even Obama is begging for a question from someone opposed to his plan.

8/12/09 Updates:

Kathleen Manning Hall was a Page at the Democratic National Convention.

Kathleen Manning Hall was a Sponsor of Women for Deval Patrick (Dem Governor of MA)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7808134/Women-for-Deval

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The First person President Obama picked to ask a question was Peter Schmidt:

Representative Peter B. Schmidt (NH)

Current Office: State House Current District: Strafford 4 Party: Democratic

http://www.votesmart.org/summary.php?can_id=42754

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Direct link to video of Julia's question

Notice how the mother isn't looking at Obama or her daughter during the question - she is looking directly at the piece of paper in the girl's hand to make sure she reads it correctly.

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Photo of the mother celebrating President Obama's inauguration:

inauguration

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Thread about this at FreeRepublic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2313757/posts

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Kathleen Manning Hall admits to being the mother but claims her daughter came up with the idea of asking a question:

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/malden/2009/08/a_girl_from_malden_asked.html

A girl from Malden asked President Obama a question at Tuesday's town hall meeting in New Hampshire about the signs outside "saying mean things" about his health care proposal.

Eleven-year-old Julia Hall asked: "How do kids know what is true, and why do people want a new system that can -- that help more of us?''

The question opened the door for the president to respond to what he called an "underlying fear'' among the public "that people somehow won't get the care they need.''

The girl later told the Globe that picking the president's brain was "incredible."

"It was like a once in a lifetime experience," she said.

Julia's mother was an early Obama supporter in Massachusetts during the presidential election, so she had previously met First Lady Michelle Obama, the Obama daughters Sasha and Malia, and Vice President Joe Biden.

"This was my first time meeting Barack Obama, and he's a very nice man," Julia said. "I'm glad I voted for him."

She said Obama won a mock presidential election at the Cheverus School in 2008. And on Tuesday, he approached her after the town meeting.

"He said 'great question,'" Julia said. "I shook his hand and got his picture."

Kathleen Manning Hall, Julia's mother, was shocked when her daughter said she wanted to ask a question. They wrote it down beforehand, and Julia didn't miss a beat when Obama called on her.

"It was surreal," said Manning Hall, a coordinator of Massachusetts Women for Obama during the election.

She said Julia was moved by a woman's testimonial on Tuesday before the president spoke. The woman described her ordeal battling liver disease without health insurance.

"Julia talked about it the whole way home," said Manning Hall, adding that they often discuss politics. "We talk a lot about human rights and having compassion for people."

Julia also enjoys soccer and playing guitar, especially songs by Taylor Swift, her favorite artist.

"She entertained my whole family on Christmas Day," Manning Hall said. "She's a wonderful child. She's a very sensitive, smart girl and I'm hoping she becomes more interested in politics and helping people."

She may get her wish. Julia said she'd like to run for office someday, maybe even for president.

"It would be awesome if I could work in politics," she said.

Responding to Julia -- an honors student entering grade 6 at the Cheverus School -- Obama said:

 Jake Tapper and Rachel Martin of ABC News reported today that Obama had a "Senior Moment" today by claiming that AARP has endorsed his plans;

"President Obama today suggested that the health care reform legislation for which he's pushing has been endorsed by the American Association of Retired Person.

"We have the AARP on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors," the president said.

At another point he said: "Well, first of all, another myth that we've been hearing about is this notion that somehow we're going to be cutting your Medicare benefits.  We are not.  AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare, okay?"

 

The problem?

The AARP hasn't endorsed any plan yet.

While I will agree AARP, to my knowledge, hasn't gone on live television or radio to 'officially' endorse any plan, they sure have come close to it.  Tapper and Martin failed once again to point out 'all' the details about AARP.

I'd like to point out an article from the Quad-City Times of Iowa, that shows AARP does indeed support President Obama and the Democratic Party's health care plans -- by merely acting against the opponents of it.  Running nationwide television ads to counter the lies about their plan -- sure seems awfully close to an endorsement if I ever saw one.