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...

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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...

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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