Analyst's note: Absolutely must read and carefully ponder. This article provides more valid insight than any I've read in some time when it comes to solving the problems that most of us know now plague our nation. It is based on related principles identified by both John Adams and also George Washington:
John Adams in a speech to the military in 1798 warned his fellow countrymen stating,
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
George Washington, General of the Revolutionary Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, First President of the United States of America, Father of our nation,
"Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society."
Also see Rotten to the Core for an example underway in the "progressive - new world order" to destroy and take control over America .
[....] Not incidentally, as a dangerous companion program to Common Core, the American Library Association is now teaching librarians how to push Islam. As part of a National Endowment for the Humanities program funded by $150 million of our taxpayer dollars, 25 books and a DVD are being provided to 800 public libraries - is your library included? - but no books on Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.
The good news is that all over the country more and more people are becoming aware of the totalitarian nature of the Common Core curriculum and fighting back. Malkin lists grassroots parents groups and Tea Party groups in Massachusetts, Georgia, Utah, Texas, Indiana, Alabama, Florida, Ohio, South Carolina, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and nearly a dozen other states that are now educating themselves and their state legislatures about "the centralized education racket."
In addition, the Indiana state senate passed legislation to halt Common Core implementation and similar legislation is moving through the Alabama state legislature. And a few weeks ago, Governor Rick Scott of Florida held an education summit for education, business and political leaders on Common Core.
"The primary objection is that it is taking the control of our children's education away from the parents, teachers, and local, even state, departments of education."
For instance, she adds, "on a nationwide scale, every teacher in every second grade class will be doing the same assignment on the same day of the same week. Teachers are no longer responsible for lesson plans. They are given the specific assignments and are teaching them to their students. If a student does not understand he or she will be out of luck, because tomorrow it is on to the next assignment. There is no opportunity to help the students who do not ‘get it.' They will become frustrated and begin to have behavior problems and hate school. Many parents are already experiencing these problems with their children." [....]
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When was the last time you cleaned out your fridge? If you were cleaning out the refrigerator and found a Tupperware container with that 3-Bean Dip you made for the Stanley Cup Finals, tucked away behind the Country Crock, would you pull it out and transfer it to a Ziploc bag for further preservation? Would you pop the lid off the moldy and putrescent remains of your award-winning chip dip and put a couple layers of fresh saran wrap on it? Would you toss it in the microwave and heat it up, like nothing was amiss? Of course you wouldn't! You would grab a clothes-pin for your nose, open the garbage can, and shovel the spoiled mess into the bin of no return. Then you'd likely empty half a container of dish soap into the Tupperware, let it soak for 4 days, and pay some brave neighborhood kid to try and take your garbage bag from your waste bin to a dumpster without passing out from the stench.
Why? Because the food is spoiled and we understand that food does not unspoil. There is no special, top-shelf Mrs. Dash which can be added to spoiled food in order to remove the mold and make it safe for consumption again. So why do we think it functions any differently with social rot? All around us we see the rancid fruit produced by decades of moral decay in our society and we pretend that we can unspoil it. The foundations of our culture decompose before our eyes. In our school classrooms, halls of legislature, court chambers, studios of our entertainment, pages of our literature, and the sanctuaries of some churches, rancid putrefaction swallows the last vestiges of righteousness and honor.
In his excellent book, How to Stay Christian in College, J. Budziszewski says the following: "The only way to get a bad thing is to take a good thing and spoil it. For example, darkness isn't made up from nothing; you get it by blocking the light. Disease isn't made up from nothing; you get it by ruining health. Notice that this doesn't work the other way around-you can't get light by blocking darkness or health by ruining disease. So God created only good things, but some of them have been spoiled."
