"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The Triumph of Evil
Edmund Burke said,
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Monday, March 1, 2010
Showdown: Fact Check on ObamaCare - Patriotic Resistance
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FACT CHECK- Obama’s Bill Authorizes Taxpayer-Funded AbortionFACT CHECK-Deficit Reduction
FACT CHECK-What the American People Think
FACT CHECK-Medicare CutsFACT CHECK-Americans "Aren't Always that Interested in Procedures"
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FACT CHECK- Pres Vs. Pres On CBOFox Poll: 78% Say Gov. Spending is Out of Control
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FACT CHECK-159 Ways the Senate Bill Is a Gov. Takeover of Health CareFACT CHECK- CBO on Premiums
FACT CHECK- Obama’s Bill Authorizes Taxpayer-Funded AbortionFACT CHECK-Deficit Reduction
FACT CHECK-What the American People Think
FACT CHECK-Medicare CutsFACT CHECK-Americans "Aren't Always that Interested in Procedures"
FACT CHECK-Dems on Circumventing Senate Rules
FACT CHECK- Pres Vs. Pres On CBOFox Poll: 78% Say Gov. Spending is Out of Control
But we let them vote!
Report Finds College Students Fail Basic Civics Test
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Written by Joe Wolverton, II
'Report Finds College Students Fail Basic Civics Test';
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it” is one of the most oft-quoted aphorisms of Edmund Burke, an 18th-century Irish-born member of the British Parliament and fearless friend of liberty. Judging from the results of a recent survey conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), most of the 14,000 college students who participated sadly will be repeating history.
Considering that most of the 14,000 students who completed the exam (7,000 seniors and 7,000 freshmen) scored an F on the portion of the test covering basic American history and institutions, not only will they be repeating history, but with test scores like that, they’ll be repeating history class, as well.
ISI, a conservative non-profit educational organization, has recently published the results of this sweeping survey in a 32-page report entitled “The Shaping of the American Mind: The Diverging Influences of the College Degree and Civic Learning on American Beliefs.” Sit down before you read this report because the data will knock you off your feet.
In 2007, ISI administered a 60-question test to 14,000 students at 50 colleges nationwide. The questions were designed to measure the students’ aptitude in four areas: basic American history, government, foreign affairs, and economics. In a companion study, in 2008 ISI administered a shorter exam (33 questions) to a random sample of 2,508 Americans without a college degree in order to have a standard level against which the impact of a college education on a threshold level of familiarity with basic American institutions could be determined.
Here are a few frightening figures certain to keep you up at night:
71% of Americans failed the civics knowledge test;
51% of Americans could not name the three branches of government;
The average score for college seniors on the civics knowledge test was 54.2% (an “F” by any standard);
The average student’s test score improved only 3.8 points from freshman to senior year;
Freshmen at Cornell, Yale, Princeton, and Duke scored better than seniors on the civics knowledge test.
79% of elected officials that took the civics knowledge quiz did not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits the government from establishing a religion.
30% of office holders did not know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
27% of politicians could not name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
43% did not know the purpose of the Electoral College.
39% of lawmakers believe the power of declaring war belongs to the president.
The average score for college professors who took the civics knowledge quiz was 55%.
So, while our nation’s most elite colleges are not imbuing our children with a knowledge of our history and our government, the study makes it clear that those universities are becoming round the clock factories churning out poorly instructed liberals with little civic knowledge and even less faith and less devotion to principles of liberty than those Americans who didn’t go to college.
It’s not just ignorance of the founding and the structure of government that is being fostered at these so-called institutions of higher learning. The classrooms are becoming hothouses of left-wing opinions, as well. For example, according to the findings published by ISI, college graduates are more likely than non-graduates to favor legalizing same-sex marriage and abortion on demand. By contrast, college graduates are less likely to believe that the Bible is the word of God and that hard work and perseverance can make the American Dream come true.
Similarly, the study’s findings revealed that regardless of one’s formal education, one’s knowledge of basic American civics determined one’s faith in America and trust in the tenets of liberty upon which it was established. This shift is evident in the fact that non-college graduates who scored higher of the civics knowledge quiz than college graduates were less likely to believe that “America’s founding documents are obsolete.” Furthermore, the learned, though not college educated respondents are correspondingly less likely to agree that “the Ten Commandments are irrelevant” to the world today.
This research is, according to the organization’s website, the fourth such study conducted by ISI in an attempt to scientifically measure the impact of a college education on civic knowledge and citizenship. Unremarkably, the results have not changed much over the years and once the numbers are crunched it is irrefutable that having a college education does almost nothing to buttress one’s overall knowledge of the fundamental history and composition of American government.
In contrast, what a formal education at one of America’s university does so effectively, however, is engender doubt in the American way of life, incubate irreverence for the pillars of liberty upon which the nation was built, and perhaps most disturbingly, sap the faith in God and the institutions of religious worship.
The various interesting findings of the study, including the questions asked and the results, as well as the scientific analysis thereof, can be found here.
And, if you’re brave, test your own knowledge of America’s history, government, foreign policy, and economics by taking the quiz posted online here. Good luck! And remember, eyes on your own paper. Judging by the results of this study, many of you college graduates might be tempted to cheat!
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Young people have been taken in by a big city con man and will pay for it for the rest of their lives:
Stupid is as stupid does - IMPORTANT!
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2008/12/stupid-is-as-stupid-does-important.html
Uninformed voted Obama - Informed voted McCain - Poll...Who Elected Obama?http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2008/12/uninformed-voted-obama-informed-voted.html
Who elected Obama?http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/01/who-elected-obama.html
Written by Joe Wolverton, II
'Report Finds College Students Fail Basic Civics Test';
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it” is one of the most oft-quoted aphorisms of Edmund Burke, an 18th-century Irish-born member of the British Parliament and fearless friend of liberty. Judging from the results of a recent survey conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), most of the 14,000 college students who participated sadly will be repeating history.
Considering that most of the 14,000 students who completed the exam (7,000 seniors and 7,000 freshmen) scored an F on the portion of the test covering basic American history and institutions, not only will they be repeating history, but with test scores like that, they’ll be repeating history class, as well.
ISI, a conservative non-profit educational organization, has recently published the results of this sweeping survey in a 32-page report entitled “The Shaping of the American Mind: The Diverging Influences of the College Degree and Civic Learning on American Beliefs.” Sit down before you read this report because the data will knock you off your feet.
In 2007, ISI administered a 60-question test to 14,000 students at 50 colleges nationwide. The questions were designed to measure the students’ aptitude in four areas: basic American history, government, foreign affairs, and economics. In a companion study, in 2008 ISI administered a shorter exam (33 questions) to a random sample of 2,508 Americans without a college degree in order to have a standard level against which the impact of a college education on a threshold level of familiarity with basic American institutions could be determined.
Here are a few frightening figures certain to keep you up at night:
71% of Americans failed the civics knowledge test;
51% of Americans could not name the three branches of government;
The average score for college seniors on the civics knowledge test was 54.2% (an “F” by any standard);
The average student’s test score improved only 3.8 points from freshman to senior year;
Freshmen at Cornell, Yale, Princeton, and Duke scored better than seniors on the civics knowledge test.
79% of elected officials that took the civics knowledge quiz did not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits the government from establishing a religion.
30% of office holders did not know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
27% of politicians could not name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
43% did not know the purpose of the Electoral College.
39% of lawmakers believe the power of declaring war belongs to the president.
The average score for college professors who took the civics knowledge quiz was 55%.
So, while our nation’s most elite colleges are not imbuing our children with a knowledge of our history and our government, the study makes it clear that those universities are becoming round the clock factories churning out poorly instructed liberals with little civic knowledge and even less faith and less devotion to principles of liberty than those Americans who didn’t go to college.
It’s not just ignorance of the founding and the structure of government that is being fostered at these so-called institutions of higher learning. The classrooms are becoming hothouses of left-wing opinions, as well. For example, according to the findings published by ISI, college graduates are more likely than non-graduates to favor legalizing same-sex marriage and abortion on demand. By contrast, college graduates are less likely to believe that the Bible is the word of God and that hard work and perseverance can make the American Dream come true.
Similarly, the study’s findings revealed that regardless of one’s formal education, one’s knowledge of basic American civics determined one’s faith in America and trust in the tenets of liberty upon which it was established. This shift is evident in the fact that non-college graduates who scored higher of the civics knowledge quiz than college graduates were less likely to believe that “America’s founding documents are obsolete.” Furthermore, the learned, though not college educated respondents are correspondingly less likely to agree that “the Ten Commandments are irrelevant” to the world today.
This research is, according to the organization’s website, the fourth such study conducted by ISI in an attempt to scientifically measure the impact of a college education on civic knowledge and citizenship. Unremarkably, the results have not changed much over the years and once the numbers are crunched it is irrefutable that having a college education does almost nothing to buttress one’s overall knowledge of the fundamental history and composition of American government.
In contrast, what a formal education at one of America’s university does so effectively, however, is engender doubt in the American way of life, incubate irreverence for the pillars of liberty upon which the nation was built, and perhaps most disturbingly, sap the faith in God and the institutions of religious worship.
The various interesting findings of the study, including the questions asked and the results, as well as the scientific analysis thereof, can be found here.
And, if you’re brave, test your own knowledge of America’s history, government, foreign policy, and economics by taking the quiz posted online here. Good luck! And remember, eyes on your own paper. Judging by the results of this study, many of you college graduates might be tempted to cheat!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Young people have been taken in by a big city con man and will pay for it for the rest of their lives:
Stupid is as stupid does - IMPORTANT!
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2008/12/stupid-is-as-stupid-does-important.html
Uninformed voted Obama - Informed voted McCain - Poll...Who Elected Obama?http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2008/12/uninformed-voted-obama-informed-voted.html
Who elected Obama?http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/01/who-elected-obama.html
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Olympic Shocker! - AKA Obama Wins Gold.
The International Olympic Committee stunned the world this morning when they awarded U.S. President Barack Obama a gold medal for Men's Skiing, even though he's never skied. An IOC spokesman said, "Barack Obama is going downhill faster than anyone this year."
Winning Against Obots and Astroturfers
Below are three videos that will be a big help. Listen up! This guy talks fast. Also see the links at the bottom.
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Obots are obsessed AKA Obama supporters who robot-like keep posting the same propaganda over and over and they can not pass the Turing Test.
Astroturfers are fake grass roots activists who hide their programmed agendas and organized political affiliations.
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The other side uses ridicule, name calling, personal attacks and changing the subject.
The truth is on your side. Use facts and logic. That won't have an effect on them but the lurkers and other posters will know who has the best position
PART #1
PART#2
PART #3
How to Stop Obot Spammers in their Tracks!
Post these articles when you detect one of AKA Obama’s agents.
Exposing Obama’s PSYOPS Agents and Tactics http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/05/exposing-obamas-psyops-agents-and.html
Cass Sunstein – The Red General - and Saul Alinsky his Ideological Father http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2010/01/cass-sunstein-red-general-and-saul.html
Also see: Obots, meet the beast which sired you!http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2010/01/obots-meet-beast-which-sired-you.html
Outing Obama’s Internet Brownshirts ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, LET’S SHINE A LIGHT ON OBAMA POLITICAL OPERATIVES!
http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/01/26/outing-obamas-internet-brownshirts/
No matter what the say in response make it clear that you know they haven’t read the articles or they would know that their objection has been exposed and debunked already.
Only do that twice. Then make it clear that you are not on the forum to debate them but to expose their sleezy tactics.
If they respond again post this comment; ”Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference”.
Then post: “Click the link below for the punch line and my final comment:”
http://images7.cafepress.com/product/278928847v114_350x350_Front.jpg
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Letter To The Editor
EDITOR:
It is difficult for Americans to conceive and almost impossible for them to accept that they have elected a Marxist as president, but they have.
There is nothing in Obama's history or the “change” that he is attempting to effect that indicates otherwise. Nothing.
He is counting on the public's political naivete, support because he is black, unquestioned backing from the mainstream media, academia, and indoctrinated, progressive ideology to subvert our Constitutional Republic.
It is so obvious that Pravda has marveled at our stupidity (Vladislav Mishin, Pravda June 1, 2009). If we do not understand the threat and react as educated, loyal Americans we will lose our liberty. It is that simple.
Dick Witzig
http://www.recordcourier.com/article/20100226/OPINION/100229867/1020&ParentProfile=1052
It is difficult for Americans to conceive and almost impossible for them to accept that they have elected a Marxist as president, but they have.
There is nothing in Obama's history or the “change” that he is attempting to effect that indicates otherwise. Nothing.
He is counting on the public's political naivete, support because he is black, unquestioned backing from the mainstream media, academia, and indoctrinated, progressive ideology to subvert our Constitutional Republic.
It is so obvious that Pravda has marveled at our stupidity (Vladislav Mishin, Pravda June 1, 2009). If we do not understand the threat and react as educated, loyal Americans we will lose our liberty. It is that simple.
Dick Witzig
http://www.recordcourier.com/article/20100226/OPINION/100229867/1020&ParentProfile=1052
IMPORTANT REMINDER! - Know your limits.
For all those who are puffed up with their own importance and for all those who despair because they feel unimportant; here is a reminder of reality!
"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5)
"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5)
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