Last week, in Teachers were warned, I touched on the fact that teachers were warned that the results of the assessment of students would affect them; that if students did not demonstrate the wanted behaviors, as determined by the behaviorally oriented assessment, the teachers would suffer the consequences which could come in several forms, including mentoring, further education, decrease in salary, and probation; that if enough students failed the assessment teachers and/or administrators could be fired.  This has now happened to teachers at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island and to a principal in Longview, Washington.

That, which we offer herein, may be regional in its intent – but the sentiment is one of nationwide importance. Use your imagination, and apply it locally. (Ed.)

Politicians, bureaucrats, & the rest of the government establishment—are you arrogant, ignorant, stupid, opportunists, or just buffoons?

A case can be made for all of the above.

The responsibility for all the above rests with foolish voters not paying attention and purposely academically challenged, compliments of the government school system, formerly known as public schools, the one that teaches our kids to cheat, i.e. grade inflation instigated by administrators instructing the teachers to ease up on course work, in addition to a boatload of citizen naïveté.

The whole of the U.S. is in Intensive Care, no evidence to support recovery from its economic depression—no, not recession.

Peter Boyle played the title character, Joe in the 1970 movie. Joe Curran was a profanity spewing racist blue collar worker, angry at the world for its perceived injustice.

Dennis Patrick, who made a career out of playing oily types, portrayed Bill Compton, a wealthy businessman who was trying to bring his wayward daughter, Melissa, played by Susan Sarandon, home. He confronted her drug dealing boy friend, Frank Russo, played by Patrick McDermott and they got into a fight. Patrick slammed him repeatedly against a wall, finally killing him in, what is for me, one of the best murder scenes in movie history. You empathize with Compton.

We have all heard of the battered woman syndrome  or the battered child syndrome. It is also called *Domestic Abuse* or *Domestic Violence*. This is not limited to just females, males are subjected to domestic violence also but they are either silent about it or just leave at some point.

The same psychological patterns that take place in Domestic violence are present in the elections that take place in America.  The first steps to ending the abuse or violence is to first ACKNOWLEDGE it is happening.  “Denial” of the ABUSE is what keeps it happening.

On February 22, Senator Harry Reid stood on the senate floor, telling fellow legislators and the American people that we needed to pass the new jobs bill because “Men, when they’re out of work, tend to become abusive.” Of course he added for the benefit of his female constituents that “Women aren’t abusive most of the time.”

The subtext here is clear. We don’t need to create jobs because American men are suffering from unemployment and are finding it tough to provide security for their families. We need jobs so those abusers-waiting-to-happen don’t take out their frustrations on their wives by beating the crap out of them.

ObamaCare, Socialized Medicine, Marxism, Communism, it’s the SAME!

Well, the BIG Push is on to ram ObamaCare through the Congress and down the throats of the American people.

Obama is jetting around the country holding pep rallies to try to gin up support for the “Bill from Hell” — Socialized Medicine. You should know these rallies include ONLY Obama supporters and ObamaCare supporters. The wild enthusiasm is staged for your benefit to, hopefully, give you the impression that ObamaCare is supported by the majority of Americans. The truth is – it is NOT.