Jimmy Kimmel and the State of the Union

Kind of under the weather today, so this is my post:

We saw this last night on Hannity, and I wanted to share it with you guys.
On the Jimmy Kimmel show this week he went to the streets of LA to ask every day Americans questions on the Presidents State of the Union. Only it was before the speech was made. So there is no possible way they could have known what was said during it.

See the ignorance of some of our population, no wonder he was voted in twice...

CLICK HERE TO WATCH:

State of the Union Questions....

Are You All Warm and Fuzzy?

Last night was the State of the Union Address.  Senior and I listened even though I can not stand the sound of POTUS's voice.  It is just kind of fun to watch expressions on the audience, and listen to the lies he tells.  Senior and I took part in the online political poll with Bing.  I kept hitting that "Strongly Disagree" button like I was a contestant on Jeopardy.

Instead of mentioning the  millions that are unemployed..he talked about the few who do have jobs. And how fantabulous it is that people are getting back to work.
He showcased a lady who has been on unemployment that wrote him a letter.. well my thought is if she is unemployed , and struggling to make ends meet, then how the heck did she afford to travel to Washington D. C ?
And then Senior said " We paid for it"     "DUH" !

Next was how spectacular Obama Care is.. No mention of the folks who have lost insurance because of it. The camera went to the face of Kathleen Sebelius..did you see how she rolled her eyes and shook her head?
Then he decided once again to trample on the Constitution, and warn of using executive powers to invoke his will on the people. That is when I got a good glimpse of John Boehners face, he looked like a man who just ate the worlds hottest pepper... 

Did you also hear the race card dropped?  " We must do more for the young black men of this country" or something like that..... 

BO  Painted the picture of  a Rockwellian Society...every thing is just warm and fuzzy. Don't you feel all better now?

Common Core

 

If you do not have a school aged child then perhaps you have not heard of it. Basically Common Core is a new government education initiative to be rolled out in 45 states starting this year. More then half are all ready teaching the standards with Alabama leading the way.

What it was created to do was bring diverse curricula to all school aged children. When the stimulus was hatched in 2008-09, the school districts were offered stimulus money to help them through the recession. If they took the money they had to commit to teaching CC. Now if a district does not teach CC, they will not be eligible for federal educational funding.
What is the worse part about CC ? Is that it is even being forced on home schooled kids..If home schooled students are not taught CC and cannot pass CC testing, they will not graduate.

As our oldest progresses through the 3rd grade, Senior and I are starting to see signs of CC. He never brings home a  book, only work sheets. He is currently working on 100 math problems to solve in 5 min. The class can not progress to the next level until every one has passed the current level they are on. So for instance:  Student A who flies through the questions and passes, he can not advance until every one else as passed as well, thus holding Student A back.
So now, because not every one has passed in our sons class, they are actually falling behind. Currently they should be doing multiplication problems, but the entire class is still stuck on subtraction.
Michelle Malkin had a typical 3rd grade CC math problem posted on twitchy today, and please note that there are no shaded areas :

The good news about CC is that support is sinking. The NY teachers union, a group composed of more then 600,000 educators has withdrawn support for it and have shown no confidence in this initiative.
 Texas, Minnesota, Alaska, Virginia, Nebraska  are charging forward and telling the federal government to stay out of the their classrooms, Four opted completly out, and MN  opted out of the english portion. South Carolina's governor; Nicki Haley is supporting state legislative action to block it as well. Florida has adopted the legislative but is opting out of the testing phases.




resources:
http://twitchy.com/2014/01/27/good-luck-solving-this-3rd-grade-common-core-math-problem/
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-04-28/common-core-education/54583192/1
http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/11/unlike_alabama_these_five_stat.html

Pet Preps and Other Pics

Some times we get laxed when thinking about our four legged family members If a natural or man made disaster should occur. Ideally if we needed to bug out I would love to take the dogs with us for extra security, or God Forbid we needed them for a food source. So, Senior and I decided to start being a little more diligent in prepping for them as well. We purchased some 5 gallon buckets and gamma lids. Then stocked up on 55# bags of food :

 

              We tried to get a pic of the doggies facing the camera, but no one wanted to cooperate...

------------------------------------------------------------------

Now on to other stuff. Last Thursday NASA launched the ATLAS communications rocket, We use to go outside and watch the Space Shuttle launches all the time, and have missed the activity since ole "you know who" had the program shut down...

So we take what we can get.  We are approx. 100 + miles from the Cape, so the initial pic looked like a little red dot , then I did some photo editing and this is the end result...thought it came out pretty cool:

 

Last evening high clouds rolled in to make for some nice sunset shots:

 

 

Almost looks like the woods are on fire:

 

The New Task Force

For the record, I am not a person in favor of rape. And I am not supporting rape by writing this post. I do believe there are women out there who are legitimate victims, and then there are those who abuse term, and cry wolf.

 

 Yesterday the President assigned yet another task force to deal with rape on college campuses. Once again here is another problem created by progressives and they just want to solve it with yet another progressive program.

POTUS said in his speech that 1 and 5 women on campuses get sexually assaulted. I would like to know what his definition of that is. And how does he actually know how many numbers and where did he get his stats from?  If it is wide enough to attain those numbers then how many men can equally say that they have been assaulted by women?

It is in this writer’s view that the administration has no business sticking its nose into issues on college campuses. That should be left up to State and Local authorities. I feel this is just another campaign, and its sole purpose is to take the heat off of the other more important issues that is plaguing his term in office. And since he has done such a stellar job with health care will this be run the same way?

While POTUS is worried about this, where is his concern and task force on the amount of assaults in the military?

 Mr. President if you really want to address the issue and  stop rape on campuses, then allow students at their discretion to unrestricted open carry. Then you would be solving two problems:

1. Reducing the number of rapes
2. Ridding the world of true dirt bags.

I say true dirt bags, because so many of these assaults turn out to be a mad girlfriend trying to get back at her boyfriend.

If you really want to reduce the number of assaults, then students need to start focusing on more moral issues, and less of the partying ( as much of these cases seem to happen after a drunken night out) If that were to happen then their education might lead to something more then a useless degree in sociology, where they will end up having to live in the basement of mom and dads house until they are 38.

 

-JUGM

 

For Fellow Star Wars Fans

After I think about it, that is kind of gross...ewwwwwww

Gun Control

A Retired Master Chief friend of ours posted this on his facebook. I just had to share it: 

 It has already started at Cabala’s Sporting Goods Store. There was a bit of confusion at their store this weekend. When I was ready to pay for my purchase of some ammo, the cashier said, "Strip down, facing me."
Making a mental note to complain to the NRA about these gun control whackos running amok, I did just as she had instructed.
When the hysterical shrieking and alarms finally subsided, I found out that she was referring to how I should place my credit card in the card-reader.
I have been asked to shop elsewhere in the future. They need to make their instructions to us seniors a little clearer!

-JUGM

Pensions and Stuff

Believe it or not, I am still here. This morning Senior asked me If I had looked at his blog post from last night. I said "No, I really haven't been on blogger on almost two weeks" which he then said "yea I know"
So now this is me, checking in on blogger and doing a post. I breezed through some of the blogs I followed and left a comment or two.
That darn bronchitis was kicking my butt as well as Seniors, then the boys started with it. Then ND brought home a stomach bug. Thankfully it was short lived, but not before making the rounds through all four of us.

And while all that was going on, My brother decided to become ( actually he all ready was one) a complete and vicious SOB. Senior said something to him he did not like, and took it personally. Then all "you know what" ensued. Now we are not speaking. He is back living out in Washington state with his Raleigh party girl and her teenage son, which BTW did NOT make it in to the Army.. 
That is the same kid that my  brother picked up in a walmart parking lot, the one he was trying to help out...yep!  no Army for him. So, my brother and his train wreck life are way the heck out there,  As far as I am concerned family or not, he can stay there.  *SIGH*

Now there is my parents, my dad is worried about his pension. The man worked 35 years as a firefighter and retired gracefully. Now the city wants to play with pension reform. That money is owed to my dad, and every one else who has retired from a career.
Plus, look at the recent vote by the federal government in reference to  veterans  pension and disability...  *sigh*   really does get me worked up, because these folks signed a contract when they enlisted and to me if pensions are taken away then the government is in breach of those contracts. 
That is just my thought on the entire situation.
Can't we all agree that there are other programs that can be cut? ie: EBT cards, or SNAP ?
The other day I ran in a gas station while Senior waited. A young girl was in front of me..she purchased gas for her car, cigarettes, and lotto tickets..and do you know how she paid for it? with her EBT card. Then, she gets in her car, which was a brand spanking new GMC Acadia. 
"GRRRRRRR" I thought. So much abuse of the system. And you can tell when a person is paying with that card, because the cashier goes to a special register for it.

Okay now my pension rant is over... I hope Senior will be happy I posted something..

-JUGM

Cold Weather Humor

This is for my friends who are dealing with all the extreme sub zero temperatures especially Rob who, like me was watching the Star Wars marathon yesterday, not only was I watching it, but my entire living room  was turned in to a base for the empire.

And one more for you :

Sun Cycles and Weather

Saw this report the other day which opened up a discussion between Senior and I about all the extreme cold weather, and the fact that any and all global warming theories have been shattered.
Did you know the sun shifts polarity every 11 years ? And 2013 meant the end of the most recent solar cycle and polarity shift. This shift has sent a tidal wave of ripples through out our solar system.

READ ABOUT IT HERE

Solar cycle 24 ended and with that started the cold weather extremities, even some of the worlds most noted scientists are starting to back track on the global warming issue and some are even saying that we could be headed towards a lengthy period of global cooling:

READ ABOUT IT HERE

Another fact is in 2007 scientist predicted the arctic ice sheet would disappear by 2013, well not only did it NOT disappear, it actually grew.

So are solar cycles and the and global temperatures related? I am not exactly sure, but It does make for a good argument and it would seem logical at least to me, that if the moon affects our tides, then why wouldn't the sun's cycles affect our weather.

-JUGM

Saturday...

Happy 2014 every one! 

The cough that NW gave me for Christmas turned into Bronchitis over New Years. We came home a day early from the estate so I could get in to my doctor.  Like I just told Pioneer Preppy...This stuff sucks.

Between coughing I am working my way around the blogs this morning..Up at the estate we do not have internet service, and trying to post and comment from a smart phone is not easy.
I played with my new camera up there this past week. Because of this crud words are short, so enjoy some of the pics I took :

This was a drive by pic on the way up. It turned out to be one of my favorites.

 

 

 

I have color filter on my camera and I was playing with it

This is a shot from our yard and across the neighbors pasture. Do you see the gate?  If you look at the tire swing pic you can see how big the pasture is. The gate is on the other side by that tree line.

Then I played with the zoom lens and had it out at the full 42x:



I took tons and there are more to come...  -JUGM