Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Early Intervention Health Initiative files for 2012 Ballot

This was just filed with the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office. Supporters of this ballot initiative would like to see it appear on the 2012 November ballot:

ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION HEALTH INITIATIVE, proposes an alcohol tax of 25 cents on a gallon of spirituous liquor, and one dollar each on a gallon of beer and wine, the equivalent of less than ten cents per drink. Proceeds will fund prevention and early intervention services for any entity that affiliates with a community based prevention coalition. The initiative establishes an eighteen member commission which sets policy. Only the thirteen members, including three tribal representatives are voting members. The non voting members are directors or deputy directors of the Arizona’s governmental departments.

Should this pass it would require the taxpayers of Arizona to create another new tax on a “sin” and get the State of Arizona involved and investing in keeping yet another source of revenue.

One would think that the solution to alcohol and substance abuse prevention would be parents, family, friends, neighbors and the faith-based community and perhaps an ounce of discipline.

A Letter from Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin

Many people have asked me whether I believe there is a real chance for bi-partisanship, political civility and statesmanship to prevail in our current political climate. They are surprised when I say yes! The majority of legislation passed in every session at the capital is very much a product of bipartisan cooperation. Though said bills may be characterized as non controversial or “simple” they are numerous and have a real impact on people’s lives.

In times past, bipartisanship was only possible when bountiful state budgets provided ample capital with which to negotiate. This used to serve as the basis for bipartisan statesmanship and “compromise”. Regardless of what it is presently called what is obvious is that the elements of the art of statesmanship and compromise have now changed which must now be accomplished without the use of once seemingly limitless budgets.

It is an irrefutable fact that we no longer have discretionary funds. Those funds have been exhausted and we now find ourselves in debt. We could continue to borrow in order to support our operational costs but at some point we must recognize that such practices will cease to be an option.

Despite our circumstances I believe cooperation in our capital is still possible. In the last three years, we addressed the structural deficit through permanent spending reductions and through tough negotiations to only temporarily raise revenues. With these solutions behind us, it is now time to engage in meaningful policymaking. This will require us to put aside partisan bickering in order to concentrate on what is right and necessary for the good of all Arizona’s citizens.

We do also need to examine the hearts and minds of Arizonans to learn about their desires which with this state will move forward. Some desire their state government to secure everyone’s chances to their pursuit of happiness, individual competition as well as charitable opportunity. Others desire the redistribution of private wealth and increased dependency on the public funds of the state. It is time for the people to decide which philosophy will provide them with the best future.

Despite these conflicting ideological differences, I foresee what can hold us together is not unlike what cements the bonds between the men and women of our military. Our armed forces are comprised of Republicans and Democrats alike. They fight as one to defend our nation’s freedom. This serves as a great example of how people whom ascribe to extremely differing philosophies can still fight for a common cause.

Therefore, if we collectively hold a soft, unproductive economy and an insurmountable debt as our common enemy I propose we find the common ground with which to defeat it. If Democrats can’t agree to cut without raising taxes and Republicans won’t vote for increased taxes then let’s cap the budget where it is and dedicate future revenue increases and spending savings to service our debt and emergency contingencies.

So if bipartisanship is to be known as the act of people being intellectually engaged and ready to fight then surely there is room in the legislature for it. No good will be accomplished and our economic woes will never be resolved if the representatives of the people temper their passions and beliefs while trying to combat our common enemy.

We cannot allow for those whom seek to promote infighting in the pursuit of partisan advancement. The people of Arizona sent us 90 leaders to move Arizona forward. I am proud to honor and serve with this talented and resourceful group of public servants. I expect that in our 100th year of statehood we will live up to our obligation to provide for the common good, the security of the American Dream and to authentically come together to fight our common enemies. This is my New Year’s wish for my beloved Arizona.

Friday Night Movie Presentation : AGENDA Grinding America Down

Movie Presentation: AGENDA: Grinding America Down

 Date: Friday, January 13, 2012
Location:  Goldwater Institute Auditorium
Address: 500 E. Coronado Road, Phoenix,  AZ

Showtime: 6:00 pm (doors open at 5:30)

Cost:  $10.00 per person

Popcorn and beverages will be served

Idaho legislator Curtis Bowers has produced a fascinating film uncovering the people and groups that have successfully targeted America’s morality and freedom in their effort to grind America down. Mr. Bowers looks at the subversion of America, the systematic “grinding down” of American culture and values over several decades – a process nearing its climax today. AGENDA is the most powerful expose of the communist, socialist, progressive attempt to take over the United States of America.

Dr. David A. Noebel, who is featured in this award winning documentary film, will be in attendance and available for questions from the audience. Dr. Noebel recently retired and moved to Prescott after serving 50 years as the founder and head of The Summit Ministries. He remains as President of the organization founded by Dr. Fred C. Schwarz (CACC), and continues to publish The Schwarz Report on a monthly basis, www.schwarzreport.org. His Book, “You Can Still Trust the Communists to be Communists” will be available for purchase.

Payment can be made by mail, on our website, or at the door

Please contact Honey Marques for additional information and to RSVP if you are planning on paying at the door.  honey@arizonamainstreamproject.org  / 480-659-4232.  

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Rep. David Schweikert Remembers Tucson Shooting Tragedy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2012
CONTACT: Rachel Semmel

Scottsdale, Ariz. – Congressman David Schweikert (R-AZ) made the following statement in remembrance of the one year anniversary of the Tucson tragedy:

“A year ago today, an assault on our democracy and those participating in it, left our Arizona community with deep wounds. 

“But Arizonans have turned our sense of grief into a sense of resolve. We will continue the work of our democracy, moving forward with the memory of those we lost and gratitude for those who are still with us. 

“Joyce and I are grateful for the progress Rep. Giffords has made thus far. Though still with heavy hearts, we join hands in continued prayers for healing for the families of those we lost and we urge all Arizonans and Americans to do the same.” 

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Bill Whittle: A Voter’s Guide to Republicans

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Arizonan Exceptionalism: A Conservative Voice in the Wilderness

By Kelly Townsend

Arizona continues to be a shining star in the midst of liberal darkness that shrouds our country. As we hear reports of inequality regarding the treatment of the Tea Party vs. the treatment of the Occupy protesters in Richmond and other locations, I wish to give thanks the leaders of our great State for their support and fair treatment of our groups over the last two and a half years.

Kelly Townsend

Not once have we received resistance to our events, been unduly denied permits or access to public areas, nor harassed in any manner. On the contrary, the City of Phoenix has provided police protection for our members and has provided freedom of expression of our first and second amendment rights. We have always felt free to express our message, even when it is alongside the violent opposition.

Indeed, Arizona has been a beacon for those wishing to lift their voices in protest, not only for the Conservative voice, but also for the law-breaking entitlement groups who hate our State and our country. When a group of illegal immigration proponents threw a large American flag on the State Capitol grounds, placed a toilet seat on it and instructed their children to stomp their dirty shoes over it in defiance of our laws, the Arizona Capitol police protected their 1st amendment rights as well.

Yes, here in Arizona you can wave your Mexican flag on the porch of the Capitol and declare that it is truly Mexico, not the United States, and get away with it. As abhorrent as that seems, it is the nature of Arizona to uphold the law and the rights of her people, even when it hurts. We applaud our great State, and offer her example to those officials in other parts of our great country who have forgotten what it means to respect the protection of the Constitution.

Kelly Townsend is Co-Founder of the Greater Phoenix Tea Party.

 

Seminar on Sharia Law: What We Need To Know, presented by Al Fadi

INVITES YOU TO ATTEND

Sharia Law:  What We Need To Know

PRESENTED BY AL FADI

Date: Saturday, December 3, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Location: The Scottsdale Bible Church  Room E-210
Address: 7601 E. Shea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ

Al Fadi is a former Wahabbi Muslim from Saudi Arabia.  He is the researcher, editor, writer, and translator for numerous ministries, including “Answering Islam” and runs an outreach center called; the Center for Islamic Research & Awareness. The center focus is to bring awareness regarding Islam, to build bridges with Muslims, and to provide expert input on issues related to Sharia Law and Democracy.

Al is the editor, co-author and contributor of “The Qur’an Dilemma” (both English & Arabic versions) – a critical analysis book of the Qur’an. He is also the director of TheQuran.com Group (www.theQuran.com) which desires to assist both Muslims and non-Muslims who seek to learn more about the main source of Islamic teachings, the Qur’an, to research it, to critically analyze it, and to better comprehend its contents without the traditional religious and cultural barriers designed to indoctrinate and encapsulate the minds of many truth seekers.

Al has a Masters in Engineering and is currently working on completing his M.Div. in Biblical Communications. He is an invited teacher/lecturer on Islam and related Islamic study topics. He is an invited guest speaker and trainer at numerous churches and mission agencies on the topic of Islam & Evangelism to Muslims. As a former devout Muslim, he is an expert on the teaching and challenges of Islam. In addition, Al is an invited guest/expert on numerous Arabic evangelical Satellite TV and Radio shows on the topics of Islam and the Middle East.

Refreshments will be served

Cost: $10 per person

Go to www.arizonamainstreamproject.org to make payment by credit card.  If making payment at the door, please RSVP to Susan Leeper at 480-998-5022 or susan@arizonamainstreamproject.org

 

Veterans Day. Observing Valor, Sacrifice, and Diligence: A Celebration of Purpose

There are two very distinctive cultures which observe the end of World War I: those who celebrate Armistice Day and those who celebrate Veteran’s Day.

Veterans Day as observed in the United States is related to Armistice Day in Europe. Today on November 11, the date of the signing of the cease fire in 1918, signed at 5 am but in effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day, is recalled by the French as a remembrance of loss and the wanton destruction of war.

Igniting across the global, spread transcontinentally through the colonial holdings of the warring nations, World War I  was fought most brutally on French and Belgium soil, with battlefield casualties of a magnitude that human beings are almost incapable of comprehending. At the First Battle of the Marne in 1914, the French incurred 250,000 losses, with German losses estimated at the same magnitude, or close to 500,000 men at arms consumed during one major engagement, and that was only the beginning. (1)

It was the “War to End All Wars,” a stunning loss of 1.4 million French soldiers alone, 10.5% of the French male population, with overall combat-related deaths and crippling injury exceeding ten million.  Americans, with victory achieved, but appalled at the squalor and horror of the trenches and observing the scenes of years of destruction, brushed the dust and grime off their uniforms and went home, muttering “another European War.”

French schoolbooks teach the horror of the war, and focus on the massive mortality amongst the generation of men who fought it. They detail to each new generation of children the suffering and the severe hardships of the populations which fled their homes and towns, running to be clear of the bombardments and combat. The lingering spiritual toll has been a cynical dismissal of purpose: the Europeans and especially the French ask if there is anything worth fighting for to justify loss of human life.

That Europe, especially France, Belgium and Britain, was shell-shocked by this war cannot be understated in order to understand the mindset behind how they have conducted their national defense and foreign policy since. This cynicism was the base on which appeasement was embraced over standing firm for principles, and its folly was soon exposed.

But Armistice wasn’t peace. It was more promise than delivery, more hope than reality, as fighting and battlefield dying continued after the famous 11th hour declaration of secession of hostilities.

 “There followed in early 1919 the Paris Peace Conference of victorious nations and the resulting Treaty of Versailles. Germany was stripped of territories and ordered to pay huge war reparations. Its military forces were restricted and it was forced to admit full guilt for the war. An international League of Nations was established to resolve future conflicts. The exultant Allied leaders went home, satisfied that they had achieved a great diplomatic triumph. But had they?
When the fighting stopped, not one Allied soldier on the Western front stood on one square foot of German territory. The four years of fighting on the Western Front had occurred solely in Belgium and France (Holland was neutral in the First World War). Germany had surrendered while her troops were still occupying foreign territory. To most Germans, this seemed incredible.

A nondescript German corporal, recovering from poison gas wounds, was enraged. Civilians back home had obviously betrayed the country. That corporal’s name was Adolf Hitler. More would be heard from him in coming years.” (2)

Recovering from his wounds on the other side of the border in France, a young American officer, one of a handful of survivors of a deadly engagement, and hating the man-eating trenches and the death they represented, took back a different lesson as he stood on the abandoned battlefields, and sternly surveyed the desolate scene. When he was asked why he was still surveying the French countryside as everyone was packing to leave, he replied, with an uncanny sense of unfinished business,  “The next war is going to be right here and I am going to be in it.”

General George Patton summed up the national character which formed him: “America loves a winner. America will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise a coward; Americans play to win.”

The cultures of these two wounded veterans of World War I, the War to End All Wars, met square-on at that great battlefield of Europe, two decades later.

 Hitler was in reach of being the most powerful emperor ever to have breathed the air of Europe, but led by clear-eyed men of purpose like Patton, derided by Hitler as “soft, weak, lazy and fat,” Americans surged across North Africa, poured ashore in Italy and charged through the countryside of the beaten and capitulated French, relieved the cornered and isolated British and shattered the seemingly unstoppable war machines of the socialist Hitler, the fascist Mussolini, then crushed them all and then turned their grim resolve to the imperialistic Tojo, who stood astride the battered and conquered nations of Asia, his juggernaut poised to overwhelm Australia.  

After Hitler demanded he needed Czechsolvakia and Austria, the Europeans  gave up  entire nations in exchange  for signed documents of peace,  and got war anyway.  Emboldened by that example, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor,  expecting the same response, that the United States would also sign for peace.    Americans didn’t need President Roosevelt to tell them it was war, they already knew it and they knew what had to be done.   Imperial Japan had made a mortal mistake, thinking Americans were just like Europeans, lacking in a vision of eternal truths of right and wrong, good and evil.  The sleeping tiger had been awakened.   One nation infused with  sense of greater purpose, that this was evil and men were called to fight it, freely left security,  headed knowingly into danger and halted the onslaught.

American soldiers, farm boys, cabbies, waiters, sons of carpenters and bankers, brick layers and doctors, were the ones who threw open the gates of the smoke-shrouded death camps, and beheld a vision of hell, then set their jaws and gritted their teeth and showed the world the proof of the cruelty and depravity of the fascist state, and marched the people through so they could not claim they “didn’t know.”

In this case, the pen was not mightier than the sword.  And when the pens finally came out, the American sword made sure the aggreements would be honored.

In contrast to the anguished sorrow of an empty loss and faith in signatures on a paper that didn’t translate on the battlefield, our Veterans Day observances for the sacrifices of our fighting men are grave and solemn, but still retain a sense of a greater purpose to life than simply surviving. Our memorials and remembrances retain a pride, placing the sacrifices of every fallen soldier and veteran who carried his wounds through his life into the framework of a greater and eternal purpose.

America transported her soldiers to foreign lands, the best we had – the prime of our young men – to stand beside our allies, upended a brutal stalemate and ended two wars. War is everything the pacifists proclaim, even worse as they have not seen with their own eyes what soldiers have seen, but it is no peace to capitulate to evil. That’s just surrender; a bended knee to evil is the path to desolation, despair and destruction.

Was it worth it in human costs for Americans to leave their homes and fight on foreign fields?

No one can image without a shudder of horror what Europe and the world would be like today had Hitler and his counterpart Tojo triumphed.  And heeding the mistake made in 1919 of leaving too soon, Americans in 1945 stayed to provide security, stability, food, shelter and helped a devastated Europe and Asia develop democratic governance, holding firm for decades until the last of the empires collapsed, the Soviet Union.  

Yes, it was worth it.  By the Word of God, not a soul who should be saved is lost. There is a purpose; good is worth fighting for.  Peace is a curious thing. It has to be fought for and protected.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.

Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

 - General George S. Patton, Jr

As we remember those who served before you, for all our men and women in uniform today who worked hard while people slept, who took on challenges and accepted discipline and risk, deployed far from our life of ease, thank you and God bless you for your service to our nation. 

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 1) http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/ww1/11-11-11.htm
2) http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Armistice+left+unfinished/5684793/story.html#ixzz1dOVk1AQw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF5PBuPCd0A&feature=related

Inadequate Peace:
http://www.greatwar.nl/versailles/versail-summary.html  http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/treatyofversailles/p/overtofvers.htm  

http://www.military-quotes.com/Patton.htm

 

2nd Annual Patriot Dinner Banquet with Bill Whittle, Tammy Bruce, Krista Branch, and Shane Krauser: Please Join Us!!

The Scottsdale Plaza Resort
7200 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, Arizona
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Business/Cocktail Attire

Silent Auction/Cocktails/VIP Reception 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Dinner and Evening Program 6:30 – 9:00 pm

For more information about the banquet, our featured speakers , and to purchase tickets: http://arizonamainstreamproject.org/#q=Events

VIP TICKETS

Premier seating, access to VIP Reception and photo opportunity, signed copy of Bill Whittle’s “What We Believe” DVD, signed copy of Tammy Bruce’s “The New Thought Police,” and signed copy of Krista Branch’s latest CD

$150 (Before Sept. 30th)     $175 (After Sept. 30th)

RESERVED TICKETS

$75 (Before Sept. 30th)     $100 (After Sept. 30th)

STUDENT TICKETS  ~ $50

TABLE SPONSORSHIPS

Complimentary advertisement in event program for businesses, organizations, or campaigns with table purchases made by Oct. 8. Full 5 x 7 ad given for VIP table purchase, and a 1/2 page ad given for a reserved table purchase.

Washington VIP Table (10 guests)

Premier seating, access to VIP Reception and photo opportunity, signed copy of Bill Whittle’s “What We Believe” DVD, signed copy of Tammy Bruce’s book “The New Thought Police,” and signed copy of Krista Branch’s latest CD

$1200 (Before Sept. 30th)     $1500 (After Sept. 30th)

 Jefferson Reserved Table (10 guests)

Reserved seating for dinner and evening program

$600 (Before Sept. 30th)     $750 (After Sept. 30th)

 Madison Table (10 students) ~ $500

Sponsorships for speakers are available:  Call Honey Marques, Executive Director, by phone at 808-283-3661 or by email at honey@arizonamainstreamproject.org or more information and to make contribution.

 

Kirk Adams releases new video: Constitution USA

Kirk Adams and his supporters recently attended the largest Constitution Week celebration in the entire country – which is located right in the heart of his prospect district. Kirk had a great time interacting with voters and answering their questions. To learn more about the campaign go to: www.kirkadams2012.com.

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To the Heart of Darkness: Taxpayer-subsidized Failed Education for children of Foreign National illegals is no genuine kindness but another education establishment phony guilt trip

Ill-advised Governor Perry missed the broad side of the education system behemoth with his off target argument that financially stressed taxpayers have some peculiar higher moral duty to subsidize the education of children of foreign nationals residing here illegally… while their own children have been grossly short-changed by not receiving a credible basic education out of the very same education establishment.

What “morality” is using children of foreigners residing here illegally as an excuse to hand more money over to failed schools which produce wide swaths of students of legal citizens who can’t read or write, and routinely graduate high schools with no working grasp of Arithmetic, Algebra I or Algebra II or Geometry, considered the minimum of a solid high school education, that could get them a job as a … competent floor tile installer … and they don’t even have the linguistic skills to follow written instructions to mix the mortar correctly? 

Does that seem insignificant?  A tile floor layer works in cement.  A mistake in the geometry calculations of the design as it fits in the area – and every job is different – can cost thousands of dollars to correct, a mistake in materials caculations that results in over-ordering a color lot or under-ordering can cost thousands more dollars.   Two mistakes like that can completely ruin a tile installion business, shoddy workmanship is not tolerated by customers.  In the TIMSS international testing comparisons, it was discovered American students could not answer even one geometry question correctly while their age-mate students from dozens of other countries answered most of the geometry questions easily.

The subject population of the claimed moral dilemma, students from Hispanic, usually Mexican citizens illegally in the USA, typically speaks a household/social/poor grammar/slangy dialect of Spanish and the overwhelming majority of them have practically non-existent reading, writing and spelling competencies in their maternal language.

In contrast, their Mexican, Central American, South American and European Hispanic peers are drilled daily in expression in grammar, literature and expository skills, along with rigorous math, science, history and foreign language, preparing them for higher study in university and to meet rigorous competency exams or competently prepared to enter the skilled trades workforce.

A Spanish exchange student in Arizona this past year was aghast that her Hispanic classmates couldn’t write their own names correctly.  Not a one of them was in the senior-year-level pre-calculus and physics classes – which was a level of academics that was norm for sophomores in Spain.  So, the Hispanic students in a very well-funded US public school were graduating categorically unfit for any higher level work in ANY language, on three continents.

That particular school, recently constructed at great taxpayer cost with all the best features, has an academic success rate that is exemplified by one recent class: Of over 100 students graduated, about 20% went on to university, of those 20% only ONE succeeded in graduating university. ONE college graduate out of over a hundred. There are a lot of idle graduates sitting around, back at home, in that town, most of them “White” or that is to say, “Anglo, ” and “Legal.”

What’s the difference from the Anglophones in US schools? Students with English as their mother tongue overwhelmingly struggle with the same profile.  Many typically speak a household/social/poor grammar slang and a disastrous number of them have practically nonexistent writing and spelling competencies in their maternal language of English.

Our schools do not train in the skills globally understood as needed to keep learning throughout life: literacy, rhetoric, organized and logical writing, basic note-taking, adept in a level of mathematics required for college acceptance or quality in any of the technical trades. On these two pillars, language and math , are ALL other fields of study and work established.  Yet, the schools from Pre-K to PhD demand every year more money and year after year fail to deliver a solid education while consistently delivering a plummeting rate of return on the investment in a diploma.  Education costs continue to skyrocket – totally divorced from all other national economic activity.

Twelve years of US education and our graduating classes are heading not to college or work, but to home confused and discouraged, unable to get through the job market door because they can’t read or write or do simple arithmetic, despite school transcripts that imply they can. They had years to learn a foreign language to enable them to compete for entry-level positions at multi-national companies, but the schools didn’t train them. Years of sitting at desks to learn math, but the “facilitators” didn’t show them how to do it. Years to practice solid reading and writing skills at increasingly challenging levels they didn’t do so now they can’t read a basic document and explain what it means.

So what “morality” is it to dump a cynical guilt-trip on taxpayers to pay for students who, despite what Governor Perry and numerous other politicians have been led to believe by the smooth-talking education “experts,” will end up on the street with debt they can’t pay anyway, such is the degraded state of our education delivery system?

There will not be much room on our crowded streets of uneducated youth – badly educated children of legal citizens have nowhere to go, too. The only sure thing will be that non-performing schools will have received again transfusions of massive sums of money, business as usual, which doesn’t include skills development to students of any age, color or ethnicity.

Recall the movie that chronicled the real-life experience of Jaime Escalante in “Stand and Deliver?” Escalante inadvertently exposed the lie that the public school was pushing, that their fail rate was the Hispanic students’ faults. The school wasn’t doing the job and when Escalante proved he could teach the rigorous AP Calculus successfully to the “poor” the “broken-home” the “English as a Second Language” students, the union-dominated public school dumped him, depriving the deprived students of their ticket out of the barrio. So where did this rainbows and sparkles fantasy come from that our public schools are doing ANYONE, legal or illegal, a real service?

Handing over more money taken from taxpayers to this un-performing and gluttonous system is not the answer to the problem, nor is berating taxpayers who for years expressed their concerns that easy entry, arbitrary and politically-guided immigration enforcement would create a plethora of associated problems for years. It’s a dishonest guilt trip to a dead end existence in national and personal bankruptcy. 

What greedy universities aren’t advertising is that it isn’t just about allowing for in-state tuition rates, it includes allowing children of foreigners residing illegally in this country access to the government-controlled monopoly on student loans, which are paid directly to the universities.  Instead of cutting expenses, public universities are pressuring politicians to widen the loan eligibilities so those same universities can haul in more money, with no accountability for non-performance.   The public university doesn’t care whether a student drops out or has a useless degree.  They have the money, the student has the debt.  Not their problem.

A true kindness would be to close our schools and start over with traditional skills-focus and real teachers, not empty-brained “facilitators” who only know one math calculation: their pension.  They promise the world, but it’s nothing more than snake oil elixir as they work a thousand ways to guilt, guilt more money. A true kindness would be to restore integrity to the immigration enforcement structure, not dangle incentives to encourage even more people to sneak in illegally.

The current atmosphere encourages illegality while discouraging legal applications,  uses children as political props to enable university administrators to maintain their six-figure salaries, swish offices, VIP sports seating,  and stately university housing.  We are all constantly harangued to accept solutions to problems that were never identified properly in the first place. This nation – every one of the fifty states – literally cannot afford anymore to carry on in this way. There will be no “kindness” after a collapse.

So, who are these Education 419 Scammers to call struggling taxpayers “heartless?” Just like the Nigerian fraudsters, they set up a nice looking edifice, cooed the right words, intoned with the right airs about “global schools” and took our money by the billions for years, and as they say in Third World countries, they “ate it.”

They let down the students in their care, White, Black, Hispanic, color no barrier to being left behind. On what moral ground do such hypocrites stand to call the people who’ve paid for this in good faith for years, “heartless?” Why do these same people ignore our Apache, Navajo, Hopi and Inuit People, to name only a few of the scores of Native American tribal families across this nation which have been under-served by any solid education system? Why is foreign-citizen “Hispanic” celebrated at the expense of American“Apache?” At “the expense of” is correct; taxpayer money directed to the education of illegals – that would be correctly to “foreigners”- rather than to Native American People?  Does this not highlight the contorted priorities of this political argument?

While public schools and public universities blithely raise tuition and fees, American taxpayers, strained and drained by the Democrats’ debt-ballooning policies resulting in rising joblessness, rising foreclosures, rising cost of living expenses, dropping home values and collapsing retirement portfolios, promised their electrical utility rates will necessarily rise, and lectured that they aren’t patriotic if they don’t hand over even more money to these over-spenders, have a problem.

The heartless schools took our money and left ALL the kids at the curb, uneducated, stolen out of their future achievements because they wasted their years with “facilitators” instead of teachers. Instead of being guided to enlightenment by our education establishment, year by year we all have been led further up river deeper and deeper into a heart of darkness.

wanumba, a Sonoran Alliance contributor, currently residing in Africa, with an MBA in International Business Management from Thunderbird School of International Management, has put children through both the American and French Overseas National Education systems, public, private, and military: 18 different schools, 3 universities, in eight countries on four continents.

Eggs & Exceptionalism with JD Hayworth

 

A Discussion of the Past, Present and Future Greatness of America

Please join us as we will be treated to a discussion with six-term former Congressman, J.D. Hayworth. He will discuss his observations, as only he can, of American Exceptionalism, it’s past historic value, its significance in our present state of affairs and what it will mean to the future of our nation. You can pay in advance at LatinoGOP.org or at the door the day of the event. We will see you there!

DATE: Saturday, September 24, 2011
TIME: 9:00 AM
WHERE: Camelback Golf Club
ADDRESS: 7847 North Mockingbird Land, Scottsdale, AZ 85253 (map)
COST: $25
RSVP NOW

 

More Silence from the Baja-Arizona Center for Civility in Public Discourse

Some light hearted  frivolity from the (union)  folks lurking in the background of the  Pearce recall effort.

Speaker’s Suggestion that Protesters Start Urinating on GOP Lawmakers Draws Applause, Laughter at Fighting Bob Fest

MacIver News Service | September 18, 2011

[Madison, Wisc…] Thousands of liberal political activists, gathered here Saturday for an annual conference, cheered and laughed as a speaker recounted the recent assault of a GOP lawmaker.

The crowd attending the Fighting Bob Fest also rejoiced at the suggestion that protesters, instead of dumping beer over the heads of Republicans, should urinate on them.

“This is Wisconsin, this is the place where you had some guy pour a beer on the head of a Republican State Senator?” said Fest speaker Greg Palast as the crowd erupted with cheers. “No, no, no, that’s all wrong. You can’t do that. That’s just wrong. I’m from New York. If you’re going to pour beer on a Republican, you have to drink it first.”

In audio of Palast’s speech posted online, the crowd can then be heard breaking out in loud and sustained cheers and laughter.

Madison Police on Friday cited Miles Kristan, commonly referred to as ‘Pink Dress Guy’ with disorderly conduct for an incident that occurred Wednesday evening. According to police reports, Kristan dumped a beer over State Representative Robin Vos (R-Rochester) and two of his colleagues GOP Reps Scott Suder (Abbotsford) and John Nygren (Marinette) at the Inn on the Park hotel bar and restaurant.

The incident has brought to a head concerns by conservatives in Madison that law enforcement there have not taken threats to public safety seriously. Many on the Left, however, have openly mocked the incident as humorous and minimal, although most of this has come in the form of facebook and twitter postings and none in such a public fashion as Palast, an author and freelance journalist, brazenly did on Saturday.

Hear the clip, which was posted on the liberal Democurmudgeon

Fighting Bob Fest is an annual gathering featuring progressive speakers, networking opportunities, and folk-style entertainment, according to organizers. Named after Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, the event attracts thousands and had previously been held at the Sauk County fairgrounds but was moved to the Dane County Coliseum this year.

The line up of speakers included Democratic Congresswoman and US Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin of Madison, Mike McCabe of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, John Nichols of the Capital Times and The Nation Magazine, former Congressman David Obey, US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Matt Rothchild of the Progressive magazine. According to press accounts attendees included Vos’ colleague State Representative Mark Pocan.

Ironically, earlier this year Pocan joined Vos in a call for more civility in Madison.

Pocan has not issued a statement regarding the assault on Vos, nor Palast’s comments that protesters should instead urinate on their political foes. As of press time neither has any of the speakers mentioned above.

The inciting comments and crowd reaction come one day after State Representative Steve Nass (R-Whitewater)  said he believed Madison law enforcement leaders are partially to blame for the escalation of disorderly and dangerous conduct by protesters in the Capitol city.

Nass believes that Madison Police Chief Noble Wray, Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs and Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne have been more interested in cooperating with protesters than enforcing the law.

“The problem is not with rank-and-file police officers. They have had enough, as well. Frankly, the problem rests squarely with the top law enforcement leaders that have let their partisan views interfere with the conduct of their offices,” Nass said.

Indeed, the beer incident of Wednesday night was not a spontaneous occurrence.

The MacIver News Service discovered a video, posted online, of Kristan and another protester harassing Representatives Vos and Suder just last week. In the video, which is apparently shot by Kristan and can be seen here, the representatives leave the Capitol and head over to check into the Inn on the Park. This video corroborates allegations that these two individuals have repeatedly harassed Vos, Suder and others.

“I am somebody and you will listen to me,” the agitator screams at one point in the six-and-a-half-minute video. Earlier, he warns that he was giving Vos “five business days to respond.”

The beer was dumped on Vos and the others five days after the video was posted.

Many conservatives share Nass’ concern that Madison authorities, while not mocking the incident as publicly as Palast, appear to be supportive of Kristan’s antics. Nass warns this casual attitude toward unrest could reach a boiling point.

In this exclusive video interview with the MacIver News Service, Nass said, “[I]f Madison law enforcement authorities don’t begin to crack down on the repeated and escalating harassment of lawmakers and staff “somebody is seriously going to get hurt…or killed.”

Tea Party Zombies Must Die! – More Leftist Hypocrisy

Speaking of blood-dripping violence, the shoot-the-zombie-in-the-head, Tea Party-hater type, there’s a new video game out marketed under the name of “Tea Party Zombies Must Die.”

The game is described as:

DON’T GET TEA-BAGGED! The Tea Party zombies are walking the streets of America. Grab your weapons and bash their rotten brains to bits! Destroy zombie Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, the Koch Brothers, and many more!

Keep in mind that the creator of the game, Jason Oda, disclaims his latest creation as “just a personal project.” We’re wondering when he’ll release the Obama Zombies Must Die version or maybe the Democratic Congressman Zombies Must Die version.

Zombies or not, the reality of the situation is that liberal Democrats don’t play by the same rules for society. Imagine if a conservative gaming company created a game that allowed the killing of the President of the United States. Image the outrage.

There is no reasoning with folks that live in an alter-universe where killing high profile conservative leaders is a game or joke. Yes, it is free expression protected under the Constitution and conservatives should defend it with every ounce of energy. But Wow! Is it ever in bad taste and dripping with hypocrisy.

(h/t to Tom Jenney, Stephen Gutowski and MRCTV.)

Mexican-American “Raza” Expert Panel Discussion Open to the Public: Event will be Streaming LIVE!

FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE

A Panel Discussion: The Mexican-American “Raza” Controversial Ethnic Studies Program in the Tucson Unified School District

Phoenix, AZ – On Saturday, September 10, 2011, Arizona Mainstream Project (AMP) will bring to the public a panel discussion on the controversial Mexican-American or “Raza” ethnic studies program being taught in the Tucson United School District (TUSD). Speaking on this panel will be Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, Andy LaFevre (Public Relations Director for AZ State Superintendent John Huppenthal), Loretta Hunnicutt (founder TU4SD), John Ward (former ethnic studies teacher), Lisa Ruth (educator/activist), Rey Torres (President of Arizona Latino Republican Association), and Gabriela Saucedo Mercer (activist/CD 7 candidate). KFYI Talk Host Terry Gilberg will be moderating this panel discussion.

The panel will not only discuss events leading up to Superintendent John Huppenthal’s recent report that found TUSD in violation of A.R.S. 15-112, but will also discuss the real objectives of this controversial curriculum taught in the Tucson Unified School District; these include the overthrow of our government, ethnic resentment, and the redefining of “la familia.” The TUSD Mexican-American Ethnic Studies program is widely seen as a “militant” model to be spread throughout the country.

Each panel member will share their personal experience and direct involvement with uncovering the facts of this issue and how it has negatively impacted the Tucson community and how it affects all of America. You will gain an understanding of its history, the current legal battles, and needed citizen activism to stop this anti-American agenda.

This event will be held at the Phoenix Airport Marriott Hotel located at 1101 North 44th Street in Phoenix, Arizona, from 2 pm- 5 pm, MST.  Cost to attend is $15.00 per person. This panel discussion will be STREAMED LIVE from AMP’s website. Click on the “View Live Stream Now” button on our homepage www.ArizonaMainstreamProject.org and follow the instructions.

Go to www.ArizonaMainstreamProject.org for more information about this event and to purchase a ticket, or contact Honey Marques, Executive Director, at 808-283-3661 or email honey@arizonamainstreamproject.org.

Any press who plans to attend and cover this story, please contact Honey Marques to discuss arrangements and set up at 808-283-3661.

Arizona Mainstream Project is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit charitable grassroots organization whose mission is to attract, educate, and mobilize the people of Arizona around America’s founding principles and leadership. AMP believes in the principles of a constitutionally limited government, free markets, fiscal responsibility, and individual liberty to promote the common good and prosperity for the people of Arizona.

Violence is in the Eye of the Beholder

Statement released by Democrat and House Minority Leader, Chad Campbell:

“First, the actions of the Pima County Republicans are shocking, disrespectful and in poor taste at best. To raffle off the same brand of gun used to assault Congresswoman Giffords and kill and injure several others, including a 9-year-old girl, is unconscionable. 

“Arizona is still healing from these wounds. If any good could have come out of this horrific event, it would be civility in our state or employing sensitivity when needed, not reopening the wounds or making light of them. 

“I am gun owner myself, a supporter of the Second Amendment and I also believe in common sense. Their raffle is not common sense; it is sick, and the Pima County GOP should call off the raffle in respect for the Arizonans who died and were injured in the Tucson shooting. It’s time for all of us to check ourselves in mutual respect for one another so we can all work together to make our state stronger.”

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UPDATE: The White House made this official statement regarding yesterday’s speech by Teamster President, Jimmy Hoffa:

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Civil War in the Democratic Party, Obama losing his base

It seems that the Republican Party isn’t an exclusive club when it comes to inter-party warfare. 

I wish to thank Donna Gratehouse, an Arizona Liberal Diva and US Navy veteran for introducing me to the internecine warfare now raging within the Democratic Party.  Without her assistance I would never have gotten as far as I have in understanding the true soul of a Progressive and why they are so angry.

The following piece was written in frustration and has since been adopted by hundreds of thousands of Leftist Progressives across the country who have resonated with Mr. Cory’s angst.  I have taken the license of re-posting Mr. Cory’s thoughts as a means of assisting conservatives, Tea Party members, and Republicans to understand the soul of a liberal. 

And I dedicate this piece to Klute, who’s constant deconstructions of logic have served as delicate entertainment to many of us familiar with these pages, and to all, who hold the doctrinal faith that big government is god. 

 

I Am Angry

By John Cory, Reader Supported News

06 March 2010

am angry.

I’m tired of pundits and know-nothing media gasbags. I’m tired of snarky “inside politics” programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of “birthers” and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I’m really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate of limp noodles with having a spine.

I’m going to vomit if I hear the word “bipartisanship” one more time.

It was “bipartisanship” that gave us this activist conservative Supreme Court. A Supreme Court that says money is free speech and corporations are persons except when real people try to hold them accountable for their greed and poisonous ways.

“Bipartisanship” gave us the Patriot Act and FISA and illegal wiretaps and two wars and “free speech zones” and “no fly” lists. God bless bipartisan America.

I get nauseated every time the Senate explains how it takes a super majority to do anything for the American people. Tell you what Senate Bozos, if it takes 60 votes to pass legislation then it should take 60% of the popular vote to get you elected.

When some Tea Party crank says, “I want my country back,” I respond, “No madam, you want your country backward.”

When a deficit-mongering politician says, “How do we pay for this?” Why not ask, “What did you Republicans do with the surplus we Democrats left you?”

When a compassionate conservative says, “Healthcare reform is socialism,” why not answer, “No, sir it is the moral and American way to care for people.”

Yes, I can hear it now: “You are naïve and simplistic. These are complicated matters and require sophisticated solutions. Democrats are a big tent and strive for balance. But Republicans block our path at every turn. We are thinking and considering new ways to work in harmony with everyone.”

Bite me.

The only thing you get with “harmony” is a Barbershop Quartet.

Democrats stop being Republican Lite. Stop whining about that mean GOP and their nasty messaging. Grow a pair, get a message, get a bumper sticker and hang it out there. Get some strong vivid talking points.

G-O-P = Greed Over People.

Greed Kills – jobs, people and the economy.

Terrorism is Viagra for Republicans: The more fear – the more excited they get.

When a soldier dies for America, who dares ask if they were gay or straight?

Don’t act so shocked, Democratic Party. Have you looked around lately?

You’re losing the young vote that showed up to elect Obama. You’re losing those old enough to remember real Democrats. Why? Because you don’t talk to them any more than you talk to me. You talk at me. You talk around me. You talk down to me. You talk about me. You don’t talk with me. And you don’t inspire and you don’t champion and without that you are nothing more than an arbitrator of compromise and abdication.

You are facing a bully. Deal with it!

Republicans want the country backwards. They champion superstition over science because it entrenches ignorance and bigotry and captures the easily frightened.

Republicans treat the Constitution the way they treat the Bible, with selective interpretation and selective application to others while exempting themselves from judgment and accountability.

Republicans preach the gospel of fear because fear is darkness and darkness covers their theft of civil liberties and Constitutional principles.

For thirty years the Republican Party has claimed the mantle of law and order but now quake in dread of the American judicial system when putting terrorists on trial. How criminal is that?

Torture is illegal. Period. John Wayne and Jack Bauer were not our Founding Fathers – only in the make-believe world of Republican drugstore-patriots.

DADT needs to be repealed. Now. It is unconscionable, immoral, and disgusting.

Empathy, compassion and equality are not pejoratives. They are American values proven again and again throughout our history.

Republicans believe that bake-sales and cookies for chemotherapy best determine the value of life and healthcare because life is a pre-existing condition and the “free market” should not have to take on such a high risk – after all, no one gets out alive, so why should the corporation be left holding the bag? Unless of course the price is right.

Republicans believe that government should keep its hands off healthcare but should put its hands inside a woman’s body.

Republicans believe in small government – small enough to hold the “right” people and small enough to be owned and operated by the “right” people. And who are the “right” people? Them. Not you.

Democratic Party, DNC, DLCC, DSCC or whatever your acronym – I have only one question for you: Really?

You can’t win against these guys? You can’t get your message out against these guys? You can’t give America leadership against these guys?

Really?