Today the WI State Senate will vote on Senate Bill 89 - making 5 year-old kindergarten mandatory. The Assembly version already passed in the Assembly. Contact your WI State Senator and tell him/her to oppose this bill!
This bill is anti-parents rights and anti-school choice. Your child could write, read and be a sonnet composing prodigy. But if they haven’t attended 5-K they can be denied admittance to first grade. THIS IS A LEAD INTO MANDATORY 4-K!
SB89
AB119 (companion bill the passed the Assembly)
While the bill purports to make these programs optional, history shows us that there will be subsequent pressure to make them mandatory, universal, and funded with taxpayer dollars. Many education experts have concluded that beginning a child’s formal education too early may actually result in burnout and poor scholastic performance later. Lowering the compulsory attendance age erodes the authority of parents who are in the best position to determine when their child’s formal education should begin. Another significant impact of expanding the compulsory attendance age would be an inevitable tax increase to pay for more classroom space and teachers to accommodate the additional students compelled to attend public schools. When California raised the age of compulsory attendance, unwilling students were so disruptive that new schools had to be built just to handle them and their behavior problems, all at the expense of the taxpayer. - HSLDA
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WEAC SUPPORTS THE BILL
Compulsory Attendance Age Legislation
Boots and Sabers
Clinton's Hostile Preschool Takeover
Hillary Clinton Indoctrination
Reason Foundation
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me by David Horowitz
Lest we forget, an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical:” (Pause there for second. Now continue): “from all our legends, mythology, and history(and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
So Alinsky begins by telling readers what a radical is. He is not a reformer of the system but its would-be destroyer. This is something that in my experience conservatives have a very hard time understanding. Conservatives are altogether too decent, too civilized to match up adequately, at least in the initital stages of the battle, with their adversaries. They are too prone to give them the benefit of the doubt. They assume that radicals can’t really want to destroy a society that is democratic and liberal and has brought wealth and prosperity to so many. Oh yes they can. That is in fact the essence of what it means to be a radical — to be willing to destroy the values, structures and institutions that sustain the society we live in. Marx himself famously cited Alinsky’s first rebel (using another of his names — Mephistopheles): “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”
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So Alinsky begins by telling readers what a radical is. He is not a reformer of the system but its would-be destroyer. This is something that in my experience conservatives have a very hard time understanding. Conservatives are altogether too decent, too civilized to match up adequately, at least in the initital stages of the battle, with their adversaries. They are too prone to give them the benefit of the doubt. They assume that radicals can’t really want to destroy a society that is democratic and liberal and has brought wealth and prosperity to so many. Oh yes they can. That is in fact the essence of what it means to be a radical — to be willing to destroy the values, structures and institutions that sustain the society we live in. Marx himself famously cited Alinsky’s first rebel (using another of his names — Mephistopheles): “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”
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Government Takeover Preview?
Dems’ Government Takeover Of Student Loans Looks A Lot Like Obama’s Government-Run Health Care Experiment.
Recently Passed “Education Reform” Bill From House Dems Will Cut Private Lenders Out Of Federal Higher Education Financing Programs. “House approval of an education-financing bill Thursday marks a first step toward sweeping changes in U.S. higher education that would cut out private lenders and leave the government as sole provider of student loans under federal programs … [T]he measure would eliminate private lenders from originating government-backed loans …” (Corey Boles and Robert Tomsho, “Bill Upends System For College Loans,” The Wall Street Journal,9/18/09)
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Recently Passed “Education Reform” Bill From House Dems Will Cut Private Lenders Out Of Federal Higher Education Financing Programs. “House approval of an education-financing bill Thursday marks a first step toward sweeping changes in U.S. higher education that would cut out private lenders and leave the government as sole provider of student loans under federal programs … [T]he measure would eliminate private lenders from originating government-backed loans …” (Corey Boles and Robert Tomsho, “Bill Upends System For College Loans,” The Wall Street Journal,9/18/09)
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America’s Food Under Attack
By Carolyn Carey
Can anyone be against food safety? Of course not. That is like being against clean air or clean water, or saving bald eagles. Congress seems to be of the opinion, however, that those producing food in America, the safest food producing nation in the world, needs to be placed under even stricter controls. A search of pending "Food Safety" bills in Congress this session alone results in a total of 45 bills and resolutions with 24 bills filed in the House and 17 in the Senate. Each come with specific dangers to the free enterprise system and should be a focus of concern for not only food producers, but Americans in general. This article takes a close look at one of them, HR 875, the Food Safety and Modernization Act, to illustrate the need to closely examine the language of each of the pending bills to learn the dangers and myths.
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Can anyone be against food safety? Of course not. That is like being against clean air or clean water, or saving bald eagles. Congress seems to be of the opinion, however, that those producing food in America, the safest food producing nation in the world, needs to be placed under even stricter controls. A search of pending "Food Safety" bills in Congress this session alone results in a total of 45 bills and resolutions with 24 bills filed in the House and 17 in the Senate. Each come with specific dangers to the free enterprise system and should be a focus of concern for not only food producers, but Americans in general. This article takes a close look at one of them, HR 875, the Food Safety and Modernization Act, to illustrate the need to closely examine the language of each of the pending bills to learn the dangers and myths.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Socialist Indoctrination of our Kids
Received this email from a Student!
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An Intro to Socialism -1121 Humanities
From: International Socialist Organization [mailto:madisoniso@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:55 PM
Subject: Thursday: An Intro to Socialism -1121 Humanities
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SOCIALISM - What It Is and Why We Need It
Thursday, September 10
Two times/locations as part of a national tour, featuring a presentation followed by full audience discussion about socialism -- and its relevance for changing the world today. All are welcome.
12:30 pm * MATC Truax(3550 Anderson St.) in the Student Lounge (Rm. 142C)
7:30 pm * UW CampusRoom 1121 in the Humanities Building (455 N. Park St.)Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization http://socialistworker.org/ The socialist alternative
The word "socialism" has returned to the mainstream of American political debate. Yet, there are widespread misconceptions about what socialism is--and what it isn't. Republicans fret that the US is fast becoming a "socialist country" -- with government spending on bank bailouts and Barack Obama's proposed health care reform. But the genuine tradition of socialism is "socialism from below," which means something more than state intervention in the economy. Socialism is really about the struggle to oppose discrimination in all its forms and to put the needs of working people before corporate profits. Come to this meeting to discuss the idea of socialism -- and socialist strategies for changing the world.
About the International Socialist Organization
The ISO is a socialist activist organization with branches around the United States. In the tradition of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, we believe capitalism needs to be replaced by workers' power – the democratic control over the entire economy of the people whose work actually runs it. We publish our own newspaper, Socialist Worker, which tells the stories rarely included in the mainstream press -- whether reporting the reality of life amid U.S. bombs in Baghdad and Bagram, or reports from activists all over the world on what we're doing to fight back. We distribute Socialist Worker around the country through a grassroots network of activists and radicals. Here in Madison, we're helping to organize buses to the National Equality March (for LGBT civil rights) in October, fighting against Wisconsin's budget cuts and for real health care that would include everyone, and leading a campaign to defend free speech rights on State Street. Other recent activities include initiating an abortion clinic defense; hosting discussions on capitalism's economic and environmental crises; bringing exonerated death row inmates to campus to tell their stories; organizing a defense campaign for an immigrant student facing deportation; and much more. We proudly co-sponsor the annual Socialism conference: http://socialismconference.org/ and this fall we'll be organizing a Midwest Socialist Conference in Chicago, on November 14-15. Come to our meetings (Thursdays at 7:30 on the UW campus) or contact us to learn more about our ideas or to get involved in any of our activities.http://socialistworker.org/ http://internationalsocialist.org/ MadisonISO@gmail.com 608.358.6822
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An Intro to Socialism -1121 Humanities
From: International Socialist Organization [mailto:madisoniso@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:55 PM
Subject: Thursday: An Intro to Socialism -1121 Humanities
You're getting this one-time email via a program for UW student clubs to advertise events. You have not been added to any listserv. If you'd like to receive our announcements regularly, please email MadisonISO@gmail.com to let us know.
SOCIALISM - What It Is and Why We Need It
Thursday, September 10
Two times/locations as part of a national tour, featuring a presentation followed by full audience discussion about socialism -- and its relevance for changing the world today. All are welcome.
12:30 pm * MATC Truax(3550 Anderson St.) in the Student Lounge (Rm. 142C)
7:30 pm * UW CampusRoom 1121 in the Humanities Building (455 N. Park St.)Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization http://socialistworker.org/ The socialist alternative
The word "socialism" has returned to the mainstream of American political debate. Yet, there are widespread misconceptions about what socialism is--and what it isn't. Republicans fret that the US is fast becoming a "socialist country" -- with government spending on bank bailouts and Barack Obama's proposed health care reform. But the genuine tradition of socialism is "socialism from below," which means something more than state intervention in the economy. Socialism is really about the struggle to oppose discrimination in all its forms and to put the needs of working people before corporate profits. Come to this meeting to discuss the idea of socialism -- and socialist strategies for changing the world.
About the International Socialist Organization
The ISO is a socialist activist organization with branches around the United States. In the tradition of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, we believe capitalism needs to be replaced by workers' power – the democratic control over the entire economy of the people whose work actually runs it. We publish our own newspaper, Socialist Worker, which tells the stories rarely included in the mainstream press -- whether reporting the reality of life amid U.S. bombs in Baghdad and Bagram, or reports from activists all over the world on what we're doing to fight back. We distribute Socialist Worker around the country through a grassroots network of activists and radicals. Here in Madison, we're helping to organize buses to the National Equality March (for LGBT civil rights) in October, fighting against Wisconsin's budget cuts and for real health care that would include everyone, and leading a campaign to defend free speech rights on State Street. Other recent activities include initiating an abortion clinic defense; hosting discussions on capitalism's economic and environmental crises; bringing exonerated death row inmates to campus to tell their stories; organizing a defense campaign for an immigrant student facing deportation; and much more. We proudly co-sponsor the annual Socialism conference: http://socialismconference.org/ and this fall we'll be organizing a Midwest Socialist Conference in Chicago, on November 14-15. Come to our meetings (Thursdays at 7:30 on the UW campus) or contact us to learn more about our ideas or to get involved in any of our activities.http://socialistworker.org/ http://internationalsocialist.org/ MadisonISO@gmail.com 608.358.6822
Windfarms..
..We might as well use hamsters on treadmills
But the ‘Man-made Climate Change’ fanatics are applauded and praised, even as they force us to abandon perfectly sensible electric lights, and instead subject ourselves to strange, flickering substitutes, simultaneously worse and more costly than the ones they replace.
There is worse to come. The same people wish to compel us to rely for our power on windmills, million upon million of them, as if we had never discovered more efficient and reliable ways of generating electricity.
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But the ‘Man-made Climate Change’ fanatics are applauded and praised, even as they force us to abandon perfectly sensible electric lights, and instead subject ourselves to strange, flickering substitutes, simultaneously worse and more costly than the ones they replace.
There is worse to come. The same people wish to compel us to rely for our power on windmills, million upon million of them, as if we had never discovered more efficient and reliable ways of generating electricity.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Communist Party USA
Top Communist Assesses Obama-Pleasing So Far, But More Effort Required. Jarvis Tyner, executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA and big time Obamaphile has just issued this assessment of the Obama presidency.
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Two Thousand Schoolgirls Injured From Vaccine
A support group says it has received dozens of calls from parents who believe their daughters have been damaged by the vaccine.
The parents of one teenage girl given the jab last autumn believe it was to blame for repeated seizures which have left her with brain damage and psychosis.
Campaigners and families said the new figures showed the vaccination should not have been introduced via a mass programme.
More than one million girls have already been given the jab, which is offered to all as they enter their teens.
Until 2011 it will also be administered to older girls, so that all female teens below the age of 18 will be covered by the programme.
Ministers say that ultimately the scheme will save 700 lives a year, while drug safety experts insist the number of suspected reactions are outweighed by the benefits from the jab.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
What the....
And people actually wonder...what has happend to this Nation?!
Boycott MSN and NBC.
MSNBC Airs Ad for Adultery Website: 'Life is Short. Have an Affair'
Boycott MSN and NBC.
MSNBC Airs Ad for Adultery Website: 'Life is Short. Have an Affair'
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Girl Scouts and Homeland Security
The United States wants to enlist its 3.4 million Girl Scouts in the effort to combat hurricanes, pandemics, terror attacks and other disasters.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a campaign Tuesday to entice the blue, brown and green-clad multitudes to be even more prepared, with the promise of a new patch if they pitch in.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a campaign Tuesday to entice the blue, brown and green-clad multitudes to be even more prepared, with the promise of a new patch if they pitch in.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
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