Saturday, October 1, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Good Morning--and Shana Tova--Pond People!
(Ribbet!)
Hi, we seem to be having a bit of trouble up here... (and not with just our monorail...) Bear with me as I look for a solution to your posting/commenting problems--and have a lovely weekend!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Goodnight, Pond People!
'Time for bed? Yeah, right (snicker)...
I'm just waiting until he falls asleep,
so I can jazz his nose...'
Good Morning, friends!
I'm up early with a shooting pain up my leg (no, this tingle has nothing to do with Obama!) We've recovered from having Obama here over the weekend--and we had a football game at the stadium, too--so our traffic in town was a real mess!
We had that little batch of warm days and, since it's cool outside again and we're back to rain, I guess summer is over. It doesn't even think of snowing a dab until either side of Christmas, so we'll have a lovely--if cloudy--fall.
Prayers for dear Magdalene and Jen--who else is on our list? You all have a nice day!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
I can't even begin to explain it--READ UP!
Open Government Partnership and United Nations Agenda 21
Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
Under the noble mantra of saving the earth, the United Nations wants to change the way we live, eat, learn, communicate, move by controlling the economy, the environment, our health, and private property in the name of social equity (social justice). The ultimate goal is to have a one-world government under the aegis of the United Nations, controlled by a handful of individuals (and surprise, surprise: Kenya has a piece of it.)
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40686
Under the noble mantra of saving the earth, the United Nations wants to change the way we live, eat, learn, communicate, move by controlling the economy, the environment, our health, and private property in the name of social equity (social justice). The ultimate goal is to have a one-world government under the aegis of the United Nations, controlled by a handful of individuals (and surprise, surprise: Kenya has a piece of it.)
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40686
Think anybody's on our side?
By Howard Kurtz
First, Ailes dialed back the Tea Party talk. Now he’s turning the GOP race into a political X-Factor—and steering the election agenda one more time.
First, Ailes dialed back the Tea Party talk. Now he’s turning the GOP race into a political X-Factor—and steering the election agenda one more time.
It was part political spectacle, part American Idol, part YouTube extravaganza, a pure Roger Ailes production—and the latest sign that the Fox News chairman is quietly repositioning America’s dominant cable-news channel.
Hours before last week’s presidential debate in Orlando, Ailes’s anchors sat in a cavernous back room, hunched over laptops, and plotted how to trap the candidates. Chris Wallace said he would aim squarely at Rick Perry’s weakness: “How do you feel about being criticized by some of your rivals as being too soft on illegal immigration? Then I go to Rick Santorum: is Perry too soft?” “That’s going to get some fireworks going,” said managing editor Bill Sammon, grinning.
When showtime arrived, producer Marty Ryan choreographed the action from a crowded trailer outside the convention hall: he called for a two-shot when Wallace invited Mitt Romney to criticize Perry’s immigration stance, so the audience could watch both men’s agitated expressions. But Ryan barked, “Let’s just be on Perry,” as the Texas governor demanded to know whether Santorum had ever been to the Mexican border, capturing the moment. Afterward, Ailes phoned a top lieutenant: “Tell the team we’ve been kicking ass in these debates.”
Ailes has always been a master showman—he even gave advice on triple-checking the audio—and Fox’s partnership with Google produced striking videos, graphics, and a backstage smoothie bar. But the real eye-opener was the sight of his anchors grilling the Republican contenders, which pleases the White House but cuts sharply against the network’s conservative image—and risks alienating its most rabid right-wing fans.
More than 40 years after helping to elect Richard Nixon, Ailes is more in demand than ever as the man to see for Republicans with designs on the White House. Perry stopped by his midtown Manhattan office a few months back, Newsweek has learned, when he was still weighing whether to make a run, and confided that he was worried about being able to raise the big bucks. “Money will find you if people believe in your message,” Ailes assured him. Afterward, Ailes concluded that Perry had a look that “if he tells people he’s gonna kick their ass, he might actually do it, which is useful for a president.”
He calls it a “course correction,” quietly adopted at Fox over the last year. Glenn Beck’s inflammatory rhetoric—his ranting about Obama being a racist—“became a bit of a branding issue for us” before the hot-button host left in July, Ailes says. So too did Sarah Palin’s being widely promoted as the GOP’s potential savior—in large measure through her lucrative platform at Fox. Privately, Fox executives say the entire network took a hard right turn after Obama’s election, but, as the Tea Party’s popularity fades, is edging back toward the mainstream.
While Fox reporters ply their trade under Ailes’s much-mocked “fair and balanced” banner, the opinion arm of the operation has been told to lower the temperature. After the Gabrielle Giffords shooting triggered a debate about feverish rhetoric, Ailes ordered his troops to tone things down. It was, in his view, a chance to boost profits by grabbing a more moderate audience...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/25/roger-ailes-repositions-fox-news.html
Monday, September 26, 2011
EAGLES UP!
Watch Our Eagle!
' 'Challenger' is his name (in honor of the lost space shuttle crew) and he is cared for by the non-profit American Eagle Foundation (AEF).
He's a 'human-socialized' bird accidentally raised by the people who rescued him--after being blown from a wild Louisiana nest in a storm, as a baby in the late 1980's. Declared 'non-releasable' by federal and state wildlife authorities, he was trained by the AEF to perform educational free-flight demonstrations at high profile public events.
He's the first Bald Eagle in U.S. history that learned to free-fly into stadiums, arenas, and ballrooms during the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner. This celebrity eagle has appeared at numerous major sporting events like the World Series, Pro-Bowl, All-Star game, BCS National Championship, Fiesta Bowl, Men's Final Four, etc.
This eagle named 'Challenger' has also flown before 4 U.S. Presidents--God Bless America!
He's a 'human-socialized' bird accidentally raised by the people who rescued him--after being blown from a wild Louisiana nest in a storm, as a baby in the late 1980's. Declared 'non-releasable' by federal and state wildlife authorities, he was trained by the AEF to perform educational free-flight demonstrations at high profile public events.
He's the first Bald Eagle in U.S. history that learned to free-fly into stadiums, arenas, and ballrooms during the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner. This celebrity eagle has appeared at numerous major sporting events like the World Series, Pro-Bowl, All-Star game, BCS National Championship, Fiesta Bowl, Men's Final Four, etc.
This eagle named 'Challenger' has also flown before 4 U.S. Presidents--God Bless America!
What absolute hogwash!
Dress Witches in Pink and Avoid White Paper to Prevent Racism in Nuseries, Expert SaysBy Julie Henry
Teachers should censor the toy box to replace witches' black hats with a pink ones and dress fairies in darker shades, according to a consultant who has issued advice to local authorities.
From the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz to Meg, the good witch from the Meg and Mog children's books, witches have always dressed in black. But their traditional attire has now come in for criticism from equality experts who claim it could send a negative message to toddlers in nursery and lead to racism.
Instead, teachers should censor the toy box and replace the pointy black hat with a pink one, while dressing fairies, generally resplendent in pale pastels, in darker shades. Another staple of the classroom - white paper - has also been questioned by Anne O'Connor, an early years consultant who advises local authorities on equality and diversity.
Children should be provided with paper other than white to drawn on and paints and crayons should come in "the full range of flesh tones", reflecting the diversity of the human race, according to the former teacher. Finally, staff should be prepared to be economical with the truth when asked by pupils what their favourite colour is and, in the interests of good race relations, answer "black" or "brown".
The measures, outlined in a series of guides in Nursery World magazine, are aimed at avoiding racial bias in toddlers as young as two. According to the guides, very young children may begin to express negative and discriminatory views about skin colour and appearance that nursery staff must help them "unlearn". If children develop positive associations with dark colours, the greater the likelihood that the attitude will be generalised to people, it says.
The advice is based on an “anti-bias” approach to education which developed in the United States as part of multiculturalism. It challenges prejudices such as racism, sexism and ageism through the whole curriculum and teaches children about tolerance and respect and to critically analyse what they are taught and think.
Ms O'Connor, who has worked with Newham and Tower Hamlets councils and recently devised equality material for Lancashire council's childcare service, said the approach, based on an "anti-bias" model of education, developed children's empathy and helped early years teachers to explore their own conditioning and possible prejudices.
The advice is based on an “anti-bias” approach to education which developed in the United States as part of multiculturalism. It challenges prejudices such as racism, sexism and ageism through the whole curriculum and teaches children about tolerance and respect and to critically analyse what they are taught and think.
Ms O'Connor, who has worked with Newham and Tower Hamlets councils and recently devised equality material for Lancashire council's childcare service, said the approach, based on an "anti-bias" model of education, developed children's empathy and helped early years teachers to explore their own conditioning and possible prejudices.
"This is an incredibly complex subject that can easily become simplified and inaccurately portrayed," she said. "There is a tendency in education to say 'here are normal people and here are different people and we have to be kind to those different people', whether it's race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or faith.
"People who are feeling defensive can say 'well there's nothing wrong with white paper', but in reality there could be if you don't see yourself reflected in the things around you. “As an early years teacher, the minute you start thinking, 'well actually, if I give everyone green paper, what happens’, you have a teaching potential...
(Ribbet!)
I know this came out yesterday, but everyone needs to see where this lunacy has gone. Who knew?
Okay, YOU tell me what the Wizard-of-Words said...
What Did Obama Stop Himself From Saying?
By Thomas Lifson
Frankly, I hate to jump to conclusions when they involve something as ugly as anti-Semitism. So I cannot fault Obama for what he almost said in his address to the Congressional Black Caucus, but caught himself after the first syllable escaped his lips. Perhaps he had some other word than "Jew" in mind, but I just can't come up with what that word would be. Junior executive?
The president was in his full drop-the-g talkin' mode, and seemed to be verging on preacher-style oration. Clearly he had his mojo goin', and the words were flowin'.Watch this 44 second video clip and see what you think. Perhaps readers can come up with plausible extra syllables that the president caught himself almost saying:
Sunday, September 25, 2011
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