No Means No, But So Does Yes

It’s fun, isn’t it when Europeans come down on the same side as American conservatives, granted it doesn’t happen all that much but, it didn’t happen in the past hardly ever. And when it’s a young, female European it’s even more fun.

But, in truth, is there anybody left that thinks the rules are the rules and shouldn’t be rewritten just for them. Apparently that what this college believes. Good for them. From Enza Ferrari:

Christian College Expels Lesbian, Bills Her $6,000 to Recoup Loans Because She Didn’t Finish Semester.

What I like most about this article are the comments:

1. I guess she should have followed the rules. Lady Gaga or somebody will pay her debt no doubt. She will get a degree from some other school and be done with it.

2. There is no one so blind as those who will not see.

In a liar’s universe, there is no truth.
Professing to change her behavior to meet the school’s minimum requirements and then taking, and living with a same sex spouse in an out of state union is deceitful.

How can anyone purportedly intelligent enough to earn a scholarship not be intelligent enough to understand a few simple rules?… Oh yeah, that’s right, she has the Nobel Peace Prize winner Barak Hussein Obama Jr., the worst ever president of the United States, for an example of how to live an honest life.

Never trust the MSM.

3. Hmm lets see, she applied to a conservative school likely under affirmative action rules due to title IV requirements. She more than likely used her race to advance her qualifications over other more qualified, Asian, Native American, Eskimo, and White Competitors. Then while she was reciving her free education she proceeded to violate the schools code of conduct, and more than likely was promoting homosexuality on campus, through the internet and social circles. Imagine if a White Male was given grants and scholarships to a traditionally black college, and then promoted the KKK in the local community, it would be no less vile and offensive. Liberals only like morals so long as they are working in their benefit.

4. Everyone here gets it. This is a homosexual version of Sandra “Professional Student” Fluke. These people get in there specifically to disrupt and discredit an organization, then get them to bend to some agenda. Ms. Powell and her “spouse” are prime examples. Then, on cue, the trolls (in this case, atheists} come out and start smearing “so called Christians” with stuff like “if God existed, he/she would not be so intolerant”. Really? Read the Bible sometime. God is VERY intolerant of rebellion against His will. He is long suffering, but has limits.

5. gee if the 35,000people had only given/sent her 1.00 dollar each..then the poor disinfranchised woman would have her bill paid..but seeing she is laying the professional victim card…she didn’t stop and consider that..did she ?

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Then there is this, from the realm of ‘higher’ education.

When classes end for the summer, staff who have been officebound for the grueling 28 weeks that constitute an academic year are allowed out into the blinding sunshine of summer. While some repair to the beach or the mountains, others take advantage of the subsidized opportunity conferences provide to visit a new city or resort for a professional development experience.

And so it was for the several hundred members of the American College Health Association who descended on Boston last month to gather at the Boston Marriott Copley Place to discuss such pressing topics as enhancing college student sleep, eliminating waiting lists, and, of course, meeting the needs of students with autism spectrum disorders in a college setting.

There were also the inevitable workshops about the willy-nilly sex in which college students engage. This year’s exciting twist on the perennially crowd-pleasing topic broaches the hitherto unexplored realm collegiate sexuality where not only does “no” mean “no,” but so too do “yes,” “by all means,” “ok,” and “let’s go to it.”  We have entered the land of low self-esteem, and something must be done before one more chick afflicted with this terrible malady cheerfully suggests to her boyfriend that they get it on. Because you see, she isn’t really in the mood: it’s her low esteem making that booty call.

You think I’m making this stuff up? Well, I’m not. See: Beyond Rape Preventionby reporter Allie Grasgreen in June 5′s Inside Higher Ed.

Continue reading I Said “Yes” and I Meant “Yes,” but Dean Boyd Told Me It’s Not What I Meant. I’m Confused

So there you have it. A reasonable candidate for the end of western civilization. What these two so-called women? No. they’re as inconsequential as they sound, they’ll go on through life mooching off the productive, if we let them. The danger is that some people can’t see the absurdity of their world.

No is no, but so is yes? Stop the world, this is my stop.

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Happy Birthday Neo!

Well here’s a surprise for Neo when he logs in.

Yes, folks, it is a special person’s birthday today, and whilst he’d never tell you and he’d want no fuss, I think as friends we’d just want to tip our hates to the man from Nebraska and to say, in an understated, Jimmy Stewart sort of way, ‘Happy Birthday Pilgrim’.

I’d like to say thank you to Neo for this blog and the range of stuff he covers (how does one guy know all this?), for his generosity to the rest of us, and for his friendship. He’s just there when you need him – and you can’t actually want more in a friend. No fuss, no bother – indeed if there ever was a guy who is really ‘no drama’ you don’t need to look beyond our host here.

Knowing he wouldn’t mention it, and fearing that he might feel a bit like ‘another year older’ sort of thing, I thought I’d get in early and say thank you to my dearest friend – and give the rest of you the chance to make him blush (for a change).

And yes, folks, it’s five o’clock somewhere – so lets head for Margaritaville

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-18086000/alan_jackson_its_five_o_clock_somewhere_official_music_vide/

Jack Hoffman with a 69 yard touchdown in the 2013 Nebraska Spring Game – YouTube

There’s not much to add here except that Jack suffers from brain cancer and has pretty much been adopted by the Nebraska football team. Around here we are inclined to saying Boiler Up but this time I’m comfortable with

Go Big Red

 

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Mountain Man vs statist, petty bureaucrats, and the UN

Do you own your property? Can you do what you want on it, within reason? Think so? Keep reading.

Eustace Conway. Dangerous American. Homegrown extremist.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Conway, 51 years old, is best known as “The Last American Man,” the title character of a 2002 biography and National Book Award finalist by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of “Eat, Pray, Love.” He has lived in the wilderness since the early 1980s.

He traps, shoots and grows much of his own food, makes pants out of buckskin and stitches his own wounds. He bathes in the cold creek that rolls through his 1,000-acre Turtle Island preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. And he teaches others how to live off the land.

Last fall, a team of health, construction and fire officials showed up for an unannounced inspection of the preserve, acting on an anonymous tip. Escorted by two sheriffs’ deputies, they executed what Mr. Conway describes as a “SWAT-team raid”—peering into outhouses, stomping around log cabins, and climbing hand-hewn ladders.

Their findings are compiled in a 78-page report with a bullet-point list of violations. Mr. Conway’s sawdust urinal and outhouses? Unpermitted, according to the officials. The wood he used to erect two dozen buildings? Built with lumber that isn’t “grade-marked,” meaning it doesn’t specify the mill where it was produced.

The open-air kitchen, with its crates of potatoes and stacks of pots? “Not protected from insects and animals,” according to the report. “It is, in fact, outdoors.”

[...]

Fred Reed has captured the new dynamic completely:

Nobody in America, ever again, is going to be left alone. Not ever.

A man living off the land on his own property is no longer tolerable to the state. Harden yourselves. God have mercy on us all.

Read the entire article Mountain Man vs statist, petty bureaucrats, emphasis mine.

Down in Tulsa, they’ve got some stuff figured out, and they want to tell you about it. From Maggie’s Notebook

WOW! So proud of my fellow Tulsans in the 9.12 Project for offering this important symposium. There are two sides to what I think of as Agenda 21 – two separate entities, joined at the hip: Agenda 21 and ICLEI ”International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives.” In July 2011, Tulsa showed up as a “Local Government for Sustainability USA.” At that time, we were the only city listed under ‘Oklahoma,’ however, this article dated October 2011 is a “welcome” to Oklahoma City as ICLEI’s 600th member. Today, the site shows no Oklahoma membership. Today I’ve found a separate city membership page, and the State of Oklahoma continues to shows no participation – but friends, it once took root, and due to citizen participation, has apparently been uprooted.

9.12 Project is holding a symposium to learn about the devastating and corrupt effects of Agenda 21 and their tentacles.

Understanding Agenda 21 – A Symposium

Date: April 5th and 6th, 2013

Location: Tulsa Marriott Southern Hills - 1902 E. 71st Street

Contact Information: Elaine Leone, Naomi Koehn

Just a few days ago the Oklahoma State House passed legislation to ban Agenda 21 in the state:

Continue reading Tulsa 9.12 Project Hosts Agenda 21 Symposium, Many many links to Agenda 21 information there.

Go, if it’s at all possible for you.

Here is a bit more on Agenda 21, from The Brenner Brief

This article is the fifth in a multi-part series designed to inform readers of the impending danger of United Nations (UN)Agenda 21. To view prior installments, click here.

Agenda 21, also known as “sustainable development,” is the action plan to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all information, all energy, and all human beings in the world.  Thisplan was birthed at the 1992 United Nations Rio Earth Summit, officially known as theUnited Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). President George HW Bush signed the US was onto this plan by along with 178 other world leaders.

The push for implementation of Agenda 21 in the US was provided by Executive Orders (EO). In 1993 President Clinton signed EO 12852, which established the President’s Council on Sustainable Development. In 2011 President Obama signed EO 13575, which established the White House Rural Council.

Clinton’s EO created the “President’s Council on Sustainable Development” expressly for the purpose of implementing the recommendations in Agenda 21 throughout federal, state, and local governments. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies offered challenge grants to state and local government to promote the implementation of the recommendations in Agenda 21. The federal government gave more than $5 million to the American Planning Association to produce the “Growing Smart: Legislative Guidebook,” which provides model legislation for states that, when adopted, requires counties and cities to adopt recommendations found in Agenda 21.

Obama’s EO established the White House Rural Council with 25 executive branch departments including Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, National Drug Control, Environmental Quality, Labor, Commerce, Interior, EPA, Housing, Health, Education to name just a few. The order covers 16 percent of the American population who lives in rural counties because they “supply our food, fiber, and energy, safeguard our natural resources, and are essential in the development of science and innovation.”

Continue reading Agenda 21: How it’s impacting life in America, and still more links.

Still think you own your property?

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» LB512 and Common Core — A Potential Threat to Local Control of Schools

There is something very wrong with the Common Core standards.

1. If I read correctly, they reduce the standards at a time when our standards for our kids need to be rising
2. Standards have no reason to be promulgated from Washington, I’m not sure they should come even from Lincoln but setting standard for every school in the United States borders on the ridiculous. It also destroys any chance of competitive schools arising which is where improvement always comes from.

Linda, over at Grassroots in Nebraska posted today about a bill in our legislature which would allow the State Board of Education to adopt these standards. She also has some videos which you should watch about them. Here’s Linda

Just a quick post today to call your attention to a bill in the Unicameral that’s not attracting much attention, but should.  WHEN THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING CONCERNING THIS BILL ON FEBRUARY 25TH, NO ONE SPOKE IN OPPOSITION.

LB512 was introduced by Senator Jim Scheer (Dist. 19), who’s a new face in the chamber this session.  He formerly served on the state Board of Education and was inspired to introduce LB512 as a result of his experience there.

LB512 would explicitly give the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education the power to adopt Common Core educational standards and the assessment measures developed in connection with those standards and impose them upon schools across the State of Nebraska.

I can see you now in my mind’s eye:  [YAWN . . . uh . . . So what?]  I understand.  That was my first response as well.  But, read on.

What is Common Core?  Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is a set of benchmarks defining what students should learn at particular grade levels and, to some degree, determining how that information should be taught.  Since 2009, these standards

• have been the project of some D.C. nonprofit corporate and federal government bureaucrats;
• are being financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a bunch of educational testing and publishing companies, among others; and
• states have been pressured by the U.S. Department of Education to adopt these standards, sight unseen in many cases, in order to receive big money grants in the context of the “Race to the Top” competition — financed by $4.35 billion in stimulus funds awarded to the U.S. Department of Education to spend as it sees fit — AND in order to receive waivers from the same federal education authorities of No Child Left Behind requirements that these states’ schools cannot meet.

Here’s the first video in a short series that answers many of the questions you may have about Common Core that I can’t address in a single article.  Besides, it’s very likely I could not do so good a job as you’ll see if you watch the entire video series, something that would take all of half an hour or so.  If you can’t spare 30 minutes, at least watch this first one for a good start at understanding this very important issue.  [Subsequent videos in the series will play automatically once the first is finished, or you can go to the link provided for the entire series, above, and watch them there.]

Continue reading » LB512 and Common Core — A Potential Threat to Local Control of Schools, and watch the videos.

In addition, Michelle Malkin has been doing great work on this. Here is a piece of her current article

 

(This is the fourth installment of a continuing series on nationalized academic standards known as the “Common Core.”)

While many Americans worry about government drones in the sky spying on our private lives, Washington meddlers are already on the ground and in our schools gathering intimate data on children and families.

Say goodbye to your children’s privacy. Say hello to an unprecedented nationwide student tracking system, whose data will apparently be sold by government officials to the highest bidders. It’s yet another encroachment of centralized education bureaucrats on local control and parental rights under the banner of “Common Core.”

As theAmerican Principles Project, a conservative education think tank,reportedlast year, Common Core’s technological project is “merely one part of a much broader plan by the federal government to track individuals from birth through their participation in the workforce.” The 2009 porkulus package included a “State Fiscal Stabilization Fund” to bribe states into constructing “longitudinal data systems (LDS) to collect data on public-school students.”

These systems will aggregatemassive amounts of personal data— health-care histories, income information, religious affiliations, voting status and even blood types and homework completion. The data will be available to a wide variety of public agencies. And despite federal student-privacy protections guaranteed by theFamily Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the Obama administration is paving the way for private entities to buy their way into thedata boondoggle. Even more alarming, the U.S. Department of Education is encouraging a radical push from aggregate-level data-gathering toinvasive individual student-level data collection.

 

 

Continue reading Rotten to the Core.

Note that Michelle’s article is the fourth of a series and she links to many, many other article, it’s very good stuff.

It’s time to end this silly boondoggle,

It wouldn’t hurt to kill the federal department of education either.

 

(This is the fourth installment of a continuing series on nationalized academic standards known as the “Common Core.”)

While many Americans worry about government drones in the sky spying on our private lives, Washington meddlers are already on the ground and in our schools gathering intimate data on children and families.

Say goodbye to your children’s privacy. Say hello to an unprecedented nationwide student tracking system, whose data will apparently be sold by government officials to the highest bidders. It’s yet another encroachment of centralized education bureaucrats on local control and parental rights under the banner of “Common Core.”

As the American Principles Project, a conservative education think tank, reported last year, Common Core’s technological project is “merely one part of a much broader plan by the federal government to track individuals from birth through their participation in the workforce.” The 2009 porkulus package included a “State Fiscal Stabilization Fund” to bribe states into constructing “longitudinal data systems (LDS) to collect data on public-school students.”

These systems will aggregate massive amounts of personal data — health-care histories, income information, religious affiliations, voting status and even blood types and homework completion. The data will be available to a wide variety of public agencies. And despite federal student-privacy protections guaranteed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the Obama administration is paving the way for private entities to buy their way into the data boondoggle. Even more alarming, the U.S. Department of Education is encouraging a radical push from aggregate-level data-gathering to invasive individual student-level data collection.

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So God Made A Farmer – What About the Modern Farm? | chrischinn

Like so many others I was moved by Dodge Truck (Ram) tribute to the American Farmer during the Super Bowl. Part of it is that I was raised listening to Paul Harvey, nearly every morning and noon, with “The Rest of the Story” in the afternoon. In the Midwest of my youth if you were within earshot of a radio, the world stopped for those five minutes. Still another thing I miss, that decent man telling us what was going on, sometimes from his farm.

I’m not a big football fan but I do love spending time with my husband.  My husband watches one football game a year on TV, and that’s the Super Bowl.  Many of my friends tell me how lucky I am that Kevin doesn’t watch more sports on TV.  I think I’m lucky because my sweet farmer fell in love with me!  I am like a lot of other people, I watch the Super Bowl for the half time show and the commercials.  This year though, I wanted to watch the game because the Ravens had Michael Oher playing for them.  The movie the ‘Blind Side’ was based on his life.  Michael was adopted by the Tuohy family in Tennessee and they helped Michael grow in many ways, mostly just by loving him and giving him a place to call home.  (I love that movie because it reminds me there is still a lot of good in the world today!)  I wanted to watch the game last night so I could see Michael achieve something many men only dream about, playing in the Super Bowl.

Imagine my surprise though when during the fourth quarter of the game, a commercial came on with Paul Harvey’s voice reciting part of a speech he made to the FFA called ‘So God Made a Farmer.”  Ram Trucks (Dodge) was paying tribute to the farmers in our country.  I couldn’t believe my eyes or ears.  I have seen a similar tribute and it always brings tears to my eyes.  Last night was no exception.   I had poor cell phone reception last night so I couldn’t access my internet but I saw this morning that Twitter and Facebook were buzzing with positive comments about the commercial.  I wasn’t the only one who liked the commercial!  THANK YOU Ram trucks for the great tribute to farmers!

Continue reading So God Made A Farmer – What About the Modern Farm? | chrischinn.

This is from one of our UNL extension agents, with some information I didn’t know about the video. Here is her blog as well.

Great comments from Chris Chinn regarding the Paul Harvey Poem “So God Made A Farmer” and how it applies to the Modern Farm!!!  I am a football fan, though, and can relate to everyone who got a little tear in their eye after watching this commercial.  Please share the YouTube video as for every view, Dodge will make a donation, up to $1 million, for the Future Farmers of America (FFA)!

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