As If Suicide Vests Weren't Bad Enough ...

Accused Bomber Abdulmutallab's Underwear, Explosive Packet and Detonator

Exclusive: Photos of the Northwest Airlines Bomb

By RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS
Dec. 28, 2009

A singed pair of underwear with a packet of powder sewn into the crotch, seen in government photos obtained exclusively by ABC News, is all that remains of al Qaeda's attempt to down an American passenger plane over Detroit. [More]

Barack Obama's "briefing" this morning was woefully inadequate, monumentally embarrassing and hopelessly devoid of credibility .

Obama vows to use power to thwart terrorists

Philip Elliot, Associated Press Writer

HONOLULU President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to use "every element of our national power" to keep Americans safe and said the failed Christmas Day plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner was "a serious reminder" of the need to continually adapt security measures against changing terrorist threats.

But even as Obama spoke, word came that a State Department warning had failed to trigger an effort to revoke the alleged attacker's visa. And officials in Yemen confirmed that the would-be bomber had been living in that country, where terrorist elements quickly sought to take credit for his actions.

Remember Barack Obama's vows of government transparency? Or the vow that he wouldn't sign a health care "reform" bill that added "one dime" to the deficit?

Obama’s vows are worth NOTHING. If anything, they will embolden underwear bombers. They know Obama is all talk.

Later in the AP piece we read,

The White House said Obama’s low-key response was carefully calibrated.

Don't these "mainstream" media types tire of carrying the water for this corrupt and dangerously ineffective administration? Actually, the president's "low-key response" was another indication that Obama does not take terrorism seriously. He is bothered by the fact that his vacation is being disrupted by something he deems insignificant and unworthy of his divine attention.

Tennis games with Michelle, golf outings and gourmet dinners is what he is focused on right now, not underwear bombers or the security of the American people.

Janet Napolitano is a Threat to National Security and MUST be FIRED ... IMMEDIATELY!

Official Bungling Led to Plane Attack


Examiner Editorial December 28, 2009

Nearly 300 passengers and crew members of Northwest Airlines flight 253 came within a heartbeat of being incinerated on Christmas Day because 23-year-old Nigerian Jihadist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab somehow smuggled explosives past sophisticated anti-terrorist security measures in Europe. That the passengers and crew members survived is because of Jasper Schuringa, a brave man from Amsterdam who prevented Abdulmutallab from detonating a bomb sewn into his underwear. The device was made of pentaerythritol tetranitrate, an explosive that has been around since before World War I. Three more factors in this near-tragedy deserve particular attention:

First, President Obama should demand the resignation of Secretary Janet Napolitano and fire her if she refuses to resign. It is clear from her comment that "the system worked" that Napolitano lacks the first clue about what is required to ensure safe commercial airline travel in an era defined by the war on terrorism. The system failed because an individual with known terrorist links successfully smuggled explosives on board a loaded commercial jet bound for the U.S. He did so by defeating screening measures in Amsterdam that mirror those used elsewhere in Europe and across the U.S. [More]

Obama will not fire Napolitano. That would be an admission that his choice for Homeland Security Secretary was yet another one of his miserable failures as president. She may be pressured to resign in order to take the focus away from Obama's own failure but he is not man enough to do it himself directly.

This is really offensive:

Security System Failed, Napolitano Acknowledges

By ERIC LIPTON and SCOTT SHANE
Published: December 28, 2009

WASHINGTON — The secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, said Monday that the thwarted bombing of a Detroit -bound airliner represented a failure of the nation’s aviation security system, not the success she and other administration officials had portrayed in comments over the weekend.

Ms. Napolitano said Monday on NBC’S “Today” that her remark the day before — “the system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days” — had been taken out of context. “Our system did not work in this instance,” she said. “No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way.”

As criticism mounted that security lapses had led to a brush with disaster on the Christmas holiday, President Obama ordered a review on Sunday of the two major planks of the aviation security system — watch lists and detection equipment at airport checkpoints. Some members of Congress urgently questioned why, more than eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks, security measures could not keep makeshift bombs off airliners.

The White House press office said early Monday that President Obama would make a statement within hours from the Kaneoho Marine Base in Hawaii, according to The Associated Press.

The family of the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said Mondaythat they had been trying to locate him for weeks and had sought help from Nigerian and American officials. They said they would cooperate with an investigation.

His father, a prominent Nigerian banker and former government official, phoned the American Embassy in Abuja in October with a warning that his son had developed radical views, had disappeared and might have traveled to Yemen, American officials said, but the young man’s visa to enter the United States, which was good until June 2010, was not revoked.

Instead, the officials said Sunday, embassy officials marked his file for a full investigation should he reapply for a visa. And when the information was passed on to Washington, his name was added to 550,000 others with possible terrorist connections — but not to the no-fly list. That meant no flags were raised when he used cash to buy a ticket to the United States and boarded a plane, checking no bags.

So, Abdulmutallab boards a U.S.-bound airplane after paying CASH for the ticket and checking NO bags and "no flags were raised?" That spells "SYSTEM FAILURE" to me and anyone with a minimum of good judgment.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is a danger to the security of America. When she said just yesterday that the system had not failed, it was nothing but propaganda that flew so batantly in the face of reality that she was forced to lie about what she had said the day before. This is more than simply "backtracking." Secretary Napolitano's previous assertion that she was "taken out of context" when she said that the system had not failed is plain pathological. And the American "mainstream" media will let the Homeland "Security" Secretary get away with it.

Nuff said!

Capitol Hill: The Best Little Whorehouse in Washington, D.C.

Capitol Hill's Top "Earners":

Mary Landrieu (D-LA): reportedly got $300 million in extra funding for Louisiana in exchange for her vote for Obamacare. When reporters first asked her whether she had voted with the Democratic leadership in exchange for $100 million dollars, she was eager to set the record straight: “It’s not $100 million, it’s $300 million, and I’m proud of it and will keep fighting for it." Landrieu is obviously beyond anything slightly resembling shame.

Christopher Dodd (D-CT): managed to extort $100 million in taxpayer money for hospitals in his home state, particularly the University of Connecticut.

Ben Nelson (D-NE): got the federal government to use money from taxpayers of every other state in the nation to pick up Nebraska's Medicaid tab in perpetuity in exchange for his vote to cut off debate on the Democrat's abominable socialist health care "reform."

Fortunately, many are not taking this abuse of power lying down. Individuals and even some states are considering legal action based on the unconstitutionality of the "deals" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has cut with his corrupt Democrat colleagues.

Harry Reid's "Bribes" to Senators Landrieu, Nelson for Their Healthcare Votes Are Unconstitutional

Senate Candidate Bill Parson Cites Article IV Sections 1 & 2 as Prohibiting Reid’s Payola Ploy

MOAPA, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Retired Marine and former energy industry Project Manager Bill Parson, a Constitutional Conservative candidate for the Republican nomination to remove Harry Reid from the U.S. Senate in 2010, has denounced Harry Reid’s “purchase” of the votes of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) as unconstitutional under Article IV, Sections 1 and 2 of the United States Constitution.

“By granting citizens of those two states special taxpayer-funded rights unavailable in Nevada and 47 other states, the Senate has violated the Constitution and broken faith with the American people.”

“Setting aside the question of blatant public bribery – using taxpayer funds – it is clear that the “deal” that bought Senator Ben Nelson’s vote, and the earlier deal that bought Senator Mary Landrieu’s vote, are unequivocally unconstitutional,” Parson said from his home in Moapa, Nevada. Article IV Section 1 states that the: ‘Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.’ Constitutional scholars report that this clause is routinely applied to both the laws of the states being honored by other states, as well as to Federal laws that are expected to be applied equally in all states.

“However,” Parson pointed out, “the more specific constitutional prohibition against these one-state bribes – which give the citizens of one state privileges and tax-funded benefits unavailable to other states, Article IV Section 2 – reads: ‘The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.’ This provision clearly states that benefits such as those bargained away in the middle of the night to buy Senator Nelson’s decisive 60^th cloture vote, the one that broke the filibuster and paved the way to a power-grab that will take over one-sixth of the entire U.S. economy, was unconstitutional as well as potentially illegal. [More]

7 State Attorneys General Probing Nebraska's Health Care

(Columbia, SC) -- Seven Republican state attorneys general are thinking of suing over U.S. Senator Ben Nelson's health care politicking to benefit his home state.

The Nebraska Democrat wrangled a deal in exchange for his vote to overhaul the nation's health care system.

The Democrats need all 60 votes to break a GOP filibuster, and Nelson held out for both stronger anti-abortion language and some cash for Nebraska.

A provision in the Senate version of the bill calls for the federal government to reimburse the Cornhusker state 100-percent of its Medicaid costs.

Other states get only 91-percent. [More]

Health Care "Reform": Brought to You by the Democrat Party of Nonsense, Corruption, Sleaze and Payola

Rep. Ben Nelson (D-NE): King of Sleaze and Abortion Sellout

Healthcare Pork: Senate Bill Laden with Favors, Pet Projects for Democrats

Read the Senate’s mammoth health care bill closely and what you’ll find is a special interest bonanza rewarding thousands of Democratic pet projects across the nation and punishing industries and areas that didn’t have the clout to purchase pork. Among the winners: states like Nebraska, Massachusetts, Vermont and Louisiana, whose Democratic senators secured hundreds of millions of dollars for Medicaid expansion.

Nebraska, Louisiana, Vermont and Massachusetts. These states are getting more federal help with Medicaid than other states. In the case of Nebraska — represented by Sen. Ben Nelson, who's providing the critical 60th vote for the legislation to pass — the federal government is picking up 100 percent of the tab of a planned expansion of the program, in perpetuity. Vermont and Massachusetts get temporary increases in the federal share of their Medicaid tabs. In Louisiana, moderate Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu negotiated $100 million for 2011 before announcing her support for the legislation.

Buying votes is Obama’s Chicago Way. Corruption is the name of the game. Nelson got Barack to pay Nebraska’s Medicare tab. Did Franken also get some kind of payola for shutting down Lieberman or did he do it for free?

Also, didn’t Obama say that people making $250,000 or less were not going to get hosed? Rep. Joe Wilson was right: Obama lies.

Ironically, the socialists are not happy themselves. They don’t think that whatever abomination behind which they have lined up (remember, Harry Reid and George Soros are not done writing the actual language behind closed doors) goes far enough down the totalitarian path.

Rochester Health Care Rally

About 70 Tea Party Patriots showed up outside of Congressman Tim Walz's Rochester office over the lunch hour today to show their displeasure for his vote for Nancy Pelosi's death care bill. The MoveOn.org "crowd" of eight out-of-towners that showed up a little earlier apparently could not bear the crisp, windy weather and sought refuge within the confines of the Walz/Klobuchar office.

A MoveOn.org demonstrator shows her support for death care in the warmth of
Congressman Tim Walz's office.

Obama's Lizard People

"V" Aims At Obamamania

By Glenn Garvin

McClatchy/Tribune News

Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy."

So, does that sound like anyone you know? Oh, wait -- did I mention the leader is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who's come here to eat us?

Welcome to ABC's "V," the most fascinating and bound to be the most controversial new show of the fall television season. Nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity, it's also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the president's supporters and delight his detractors.

"We're all so quick to jump on the bandwagon," observes one character. "A ride on the bandwagon, it sounds like fun. But before we get on, let us at least make sure it is sturdy."

Great show. The similarities between it and the seductive Obama administration are uncanny. Watch it. 8/7 Central on ABC. Here's the first episode.

Barack Obama's "My Pet Goat" Moment

The "shoutout" was apparently more important than acknowledging and commenting on the Ft. Hood massacre in a somber, confident, comforting and reassuring manner.

Give them Hell, Michele!

Death Care Lunacy

It's back to the 60s with this crowd. All this extremism because Sen. Joe Lieberman threatened to filibuster the Obama/Pelosi death care bill.

Whore!

It's official: Rybak in governor's race

By RACHEL E. STASSEN-BERGER, Star Tribune

Last update: November 5, 2009 - 7:59 PM

Two days after cruising to reelection victory in Minneapolis, Mayor R.T. Rybak filed paperwork with the state to run for governor.

The mayor announced the move to close friends and supporters via e-mail Thursday afternoon.

"Lots of people are discouraged by our state government's failure to take action and find solutions to today's tough challenges. ... I know that there's a better way," he told supporters.

The filing was long expected. Rybak has made no secret of his ambitions and has attended candidate forums, traveled out state for months and even picked up a labor endorsement for the statewide run from Teamsters Local 120.

But the timing is a bit surprising. On election night, he told reporters his gubernatorial decision was weeks or months away.

So, Rybak lied to the media. He ran for reelection with no intentions of completing his term of office. What do they expect from a Democrat?

Fort Hood Attack: the Signs Were There

Please note that this video was broadcast before it was known that Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had not been killed in the attack.

Fort Hood Gunman Who Killed 12, Wounded 30 Survived Gun Battle
Shooter Identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, Hospitalized, Family Issues Statement Expressing Shock
By EMILY FRIEDMAN, RICHARD ESPOSITO, ETHAN NELSON and DESIREE ADIB

Nov. 5, 2009 —

Twelve people have been killed and 30 wounded in a shooting spree at a Texas military post in a murderous rampage that officials believe was carried out by an Army psychiatrist who was about to be deployed to Iraq.

The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, told Fox News that military sources informed her that the gunman was about to be deployed to Iraq. Sources tell ABC News that this would have been his first deployment.

The shooter was initially reported to have been killed, but Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone told a late night news conference that the suspect was wounded and in custody. Cone would not say what Hasan's medical condition was, but said the suspect was not in danger of dying.

Hasan is not talking to authorities, said Cone.

Two other soldiers were taken into custody, but were later released.

Hasan's cousin, Nader Hasan, issued a statement late Thursday.

"We are shocked and saddened by the terrible events at Fort Hood today. We send the families of the victims our most heartfelt sympathies," the statement read. "Nidal was an American citizen. He was Born in Arlington, Virginia and raised here in America...Our family loves America. We are proud of our country, and saddened by today's tragedy."

Hasan allegedly opened fire and killed 12 people on the post before he was shot several times. Among the wounded was a female police officer who exchanged gunfire with Hasan.

Cone called the attack "a terrible tragedy, stunning." He said the community was "absolutely devastated."

I wonder how long it's going to take for terrorism apologists in America to justify Hasan's despicable actions. Tic Toc.

When It Rains, It Pours

"I am absolutely confident that we are going to get health care done by the end of this year, and Nancy Pelosi is just as confident."

-- Barack Obama, October 27, 2009

Top Dems: Obama Won't Get Health Care Bill in 2009

By JONATHAN KARL

Today, 5:31 PM EST

Senior Congressional Democrats say reform before end of year is highly unlikely.

Senior Congressional Democrats told ABC News today it is highly unlikely that a health care reform bill will be completed this year, just a week after President Barack Obama declared he was "absolutely confident" he'll be able to sign one by then.

"Getting this done by the by the end of the year is a no-go," a senior Democratic leadership aide told ABC News. Two other key Congressional Democrats also told ABC News the same thing.

This may come as an unwelcome surprise for the White House, where officials from the president on down have repeatedly said the health care bill would be signed into law by the end of the year.

"I am absolutely confident that we are going to get health care done by the end of this year, and Nancy Pelosi is just as confident," Obama said Oct. 27 at a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi may still be confident -- and her spokesman Brendan Daly said today, "We are going to get our part done" -- but the reason for the delay can be found in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has yet to release the bill he eventually plans to bring to the Senate floor. Reid is still waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to come up with an estimated cost of several possible variations of his bill before deciding which one to introduce in the Senate.

That cost estimate, Democrats tell ABC News, is not expected until next week.

Asked directly by ABC News, "Will you pass health care reform this year?" Reid pointedly did not answer "yes."

Instead, he replied, "We are not going to be bound by any timetables," adding, "We are going to do this as quickly as we can."

The delay is causing some frustration among Reid's fellow Democrats, but Reid said of his colleagues, "They want us to do this the right way, not the fast way."

After Reid made his comments, his spokesman said the goal remains getting a health care bill passed by the end of the year.

"Our goals remain unchanged," Reid spokesman Jim Manley said. "We want to get health insurance reform done this year, and we have unprecedented momentum to achieve that."

To paraphrase Reid himself, "Socialized health care is lost."

First Blood

Virginia's Governor-elect Bob McDonnell

New Jersey's Governor-elect Chris Christie

GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ

By Liz Sidoti, AP National Political Writer

WASHINGTON – Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year.

Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in the Virginia governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled triumph for a party looking to rebuild after being booted from power in national elections in 2006 and 2008.

Elsewhere on Tuesday, Maine voted on whether to affirm a state law that would allow same-sex couples to wed. If supporters prevail, it would mark the first time that the electorate in any state endorsed gay marriage.

And voters chose a congressmen in the GOP-held vacant 23rd Congressional District seat in New York, where Democrat Bill Owens led in the early vote count over conservative Doug Hoffman. That race highlighted fissures in the Republican Party and illustrated hurdles the GOP could face in capitalizing on any voter discontent with Obama and Democrats next fall.[More]

What a miserable day for Obama. What a great day for America! It' s only the beginning of sorrows for him and the Democrat Party of Socialism, though.

Al Gore: Global Warming for Fun and Profit

Gore’s Dual Role in Spotlight: Advocate and Investor

By JOHN M. BRODER

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Mr. Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions of so-called smart meters in homes and businesses.

Mr. Gore and his partners decided to back the company, and in gratitude Silver Spring retained him and John Doerr, another Kleiner Perkins partner, as unpaid corporate advisers.

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts. Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr. Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.

Silver Spring Networks is a foot soldier in the global green energy revolution Mr. Gore hopes to lead. Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy as Mr. Gore and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes.

Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming skeptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire,” profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.

Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, asserted at a hearing this year that Mr. Gore stood to benefit personally from the energy and climate policies he was urging Congress to adopt.

Mr. Gore says that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is.

“Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?” Mr. Gore said. “I am proud of it. I am proud of it.”

In an e-mail message this week, he said his investment activities were consistent with his public advocacy over decades.

“I have advocated policies to promote renewable energy and accelerate reductions in global warming pollution for decades, including all of the time I was in public service,” Mr. Gore wrote. “As a private citizen, I have continued to advocate the same policies. Even though the vast majority of my business career has been in areas that do not involve renewable energy or global warming pollution reductions, I absolutely believe in investing in ways that are consistent with my values and beliefs. I encourage others to invest in the same way.”

Mr. Gore has invested a significant portion of the tens of millions of dollars he has earned since leaving government in 2001 in a broad array of environmentally friendly energy and technology business ventures, like carbon trading markets, solar cells and waterless urinals.[More]

Al Gore is a bloated hypocrite who profits from the blatant lies and unfounded fears he instills in people who don't know any better.

Pelosi Health Care Nightmare: The Crown Jewel of Socialism. Stop it NOW!

The Democrat Party's Gangster Government

Constitution Day

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. "

Obama Worship: "For the Whole World"

This picture was taken last night at the Apache Mall stop light on 16th Street SW. Please don't tell me that these people don't literally worship Barack Obama.

Never Forget

Grab them while they are hot: http://www.cafepress.com/

Implosion

“I see two endings. One is we find areas we can agree upon and begin to do things incrementally taking more of an insurance approach, not a government approach. The other is that [the health care bill] implodes.”

-- U.S. Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE)

Liberals have so lost control of the health care reform debate that they have started eating their own. There seems to be more disagreement within the Democratic Party regarding their multiple versions of health care "reform" than opposition from the outside.

Right On, (Big) Brother!

Big Brother Alert: Sorry, But Obama's Planned Address to Nation's Schoolchildren is Creepy
by D.K. Jamaal

Obama’s initial educational push will be what he thinks he does best – a speech, likely read from a Teleprompter.

Obama is planning to address the all of the nation’s students on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

I’m sorry, but the notion of a national address to schoolchildren creeps me out.

Maybe I’m paranoid, but it sparks within me thoughts of Big Brother’s looming head on a massive television screen, indoctrinating the hapless drones spread out before him.

The companion “Menu of Classroom Activities” released to pre-kindergarten through sixth graders by the Education Department in advance of what they are billing as “President Obama’s Address to Students Across America” does nothing to assuage my paranoia.

Before the speech, students are instructed to read books about Barack Obama. Teachers are asked to ask students “Why do you think he wants to speak to you?” referring to the President.

During the speech, students should think about the following “What is the President asking me to do?” and “What specific job is he asking me to do?” among other things.

After the speech, the questions that students should ponder include “Are we able to do what President Obama asks up to do?”

I’m sorry, but I don’t want the President of the United States asking or telling the kids of the United States to do anything. This isn’t 1950s China. [More]

"We Are China"

The post title above was the response of a good friend who lived in China as a missionary for a number of years when I sent him this link to a post from docstoc.com. Read it and weep for our country. It is a "PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama's Address to Students Across America." There's also a Grades 7-12 version available here.

Both documents contain guided activities and questions to precede accompany and follow a taped address that will be broadcast to children across American on Tuesday, September 8, the first day of school for most children in the country.

At first I thought it was some kind of hoax. Surely in America a president would not take advantage of a captive audience of impressionable children to push his community organizing agenda, regardless of how "benign" it is. The last time I checked, the oath of office did not specify indocrination of young children as one of the duties of the President of the United States of America.

So, I called the office of Rochester School District Superintendent Romain Dallemand's office to find out what was really happening and the degree to which our district was going to participate in this "event." I received confirmation from Sheila that, yes, Obama's address would be available for viewing but that there was not directive from the district that the it be shown. That would strictly be an individual school building's decision.

I made a copy of the "menu" and asked one of the teachers at Washington Elementary, where my kids go to school, if she had heard anything about Tuesday's "presidential" address. She did not but informed me that there is going to be a staff meeting tomorrow and that it may come up then. I had confirmation that it will when I talked to Mr. Scripture, the new principal. He confirmed that he was going to mention it to staff tomorrow and that teachers were free to show it or not. It is going to be broadcast at noon Central Time, when most of the kids will be at either lunch or recess, but it could be streamed later as it becomes available on the Internet.

I informed him that if that is the case, I will pull my children out of school rather than have them exposed to socialist propaganda aided and abetted by their teachers in the form of a thinking guide. Here is a sample of the activities and questions that are supposed to take place during the speech:

• As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:

What is the President trying to tell me?

What is the President asking me to do?

What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?

• Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people? ...

Welcome to AmeriKa! The very idea that elementary school teachers are supposed to follow a pre-ordained guide to direct students in the proper way to understand and apply the Supreme Leader's speech is repulsive to me. If you are so inclined, ask your children's teachers about this and keep them at home if the school is participating in this blatant brainwashing of young minds.

My question is, why is there a script to guide the way kids think and understand Obama's speech, whatever he says? Does this seem creepy and totalitarian to anyone else?

I am currently reading "1984" and have come to realize that it is no longer fiction. Indoctrination and groupthink are here in our schools and directed at our children.

This is scarily un-American. Do people understand the implications of having children indocrinated in school? Where is the critical thinking, the debate, the rebuttal? My children will NOT be exposed to Barack Obama's mind control mambo jambo. His ideas and educational philosophy are anathema to the founding of America. My children and yours deserve better than to be brainwashed by our president's socialist drivel.

Rochester Tea Party Patriots Health Care Freedom Recess Rally, August 28, 2009

Tea Party Patriots Gather in Front of the Walz/Klobuchar Offices

Uncle Sam, along with the Congressional Budget Office (CB) says "NO" to the budget-busting ObamaCare

The mainstream media coddle the lone ObamaCare supporter across the street.

Radical!

Strength in numbers

Cindy Maves (middle), President of the Rochester Tea Party Patriots