Welcome to Mondays Never Ending Parade of Stupid:
City manager's shaky status revealed in bus-fare session
So it looks like the city council thinks the best way to avoid any critics over their inability to make good decisions is to pass the buck and blame someone else. City Manager Mike Hein works for the city council. The city council has no one to blame but themselves if they are have a problem with Mike Hein. The really sad part is that all of this controversy is coming from the Bus Fare hike and not the lack of funding for our TPD. If I could venture a guess, this is how the city council addresses the public frustration over lack of TPD officer funds. They use a mini controversy to call out Mike Hein on everything else. Without having to address the TPD funding and therefore make those fringe groups who do support the council but not our police. While I don't believe Mike Hein is doing a good job, it's unfair to scapegoat him when the city council is ultimately responsible. It's finger pointing plain and simple.
Obama says Republicans will use race to stoke fear
I don't want to be petty, seriously I don't. However Barack Obama is making it very hard. Maybe that's the issue, maybe I should be petty, maybe we should all be petty. Maybe my frustration in not wanting to be petty about what Obama does is exactly why I should be petty. Above is the latest Obama campaign seal and the seal of the POTUS. I would be just as bothered if McCain had taken the Presidential Seal and made it suit his campaign. But McCain would never have done this. Why? Because he knows it would be a huge negative and a means for him to be attacked. Yet Obama does this and for the most part no one is bothered. I am bothered. I am bothered by the arrogance Barack has. It's as if Hillary has possessed him and now he believes that he has already won. Now he is saying that the GOP is going to play the race card. Has the GOP played the race card? No they haven't, but guess who just did play the race card? Barack Obama just did, but that's OK because he is the black guy and is allowed to play the race card if it benefits him. In the same speech he said that the GOP would also attack his feisty wife. Maybe if his wife would quit making stupid comments and stopped campaigning for him then she wouldn't be subject to criticism. All of these things are simply a distraction from the fact that Obama has abandoned his "Hope and Change", has started to flip flop on his commitments and his inexperience is beginning to show. This man is no better than Hillary, he has a voting record that is in fact more liberal than other Senators who are admitted Socialists. This is change that the country cannot afford. We all need to start looking past how wonderful it is that a black man has a chance to win the White House and start treating this guy just like everyone else. I can't believe I actually miss John Edwards... But I still don't miss Hillary.
TUSD kids expanding ethnic studies
cartoon by -Arnie Bermuedez Tucson Citizen: Now they have even gone so far as to make Tom Horne into a caricature, he deserves more respect than this.
How did these people ever get jobs? They are simply being arrogant and ignorant in the face of a program that is harmful to our kids and our community. Michael A. Chihak, welcome to the Never Ending Parade of Stupid! DING DING! These writers at the paper continue to bring out these shallow arguments in editorials slamming the very people and the few people in this entire situation who care about the education of the kids. Raza/Chicano studies teach our kids that there is some vast conspiracy to keep Mexicans down. People are tired of the system being abused like this! It's almost as if they simply put these editorials out just to drive their comments up or get me to talk about them. Read the article - this China argument has nothing to do with ethnic studies. It's not as if China is going to be teaching the kids to come back and hate America. Yet that is the view put forward by the Raza/Chicano Studies. How many different times do we have to lay out why the programs are dangerous, anti-American, a threat to our community and a waste of taxpayer dollars!
Every single article, editorial and opinion that has been written in the recent weeks in support of the Ethnic Studies has failed to do something. They have failed to address what is actually being taught in the classroom. Because therein lies the harsh reality. Therein is the reason why the Ethnic Studies needs to be abolished. Not one article, editorial and opinion from any of our local papers has bothered to question or answer these points about the Raza Chicano studies and what they teach:
-The basic theme of the curriculum was that Mexican-Americans were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle and upper-class whites.
-In this narrative, whites are able to maintain their influence only if minorities are held down. Thus, social, political and economic events in America must be understood through this lens.
-This biased and sole paradigm justified teaching that our community police officers are an extension of the white power structure and that they are the strongmen used "to keep minorities in their ghettos."
-It justified teaching that the Southwestern United States was taken from Mexicans because of the insatiable greed of the Yankee who acquired his values from the corrupted ethos of Western civilization.
-It was taught that the Southwest is "Atzlan," the ancient homeland of the Aztecs, and still rightfully belongs to their descendants - to all people of indigenous Mexican heritage.
The papers and their staff won't address these concerns because they refuse to admit that this is really what is being taught. Or the writers are just his bad at their job has have just bought the arguments that the program is justified because the kids get good grades and think. Have a good GPA should never be an excuse to justify a program that promotes hate and anti-American values at the tax payers expense.
-Stop the program and the waste of your tax dollars to fund the teaching of anti-American propaganda and hate!
Guest opinion: Raza studies gives rise to racial hostility
This started with former TUSD Teacher John Ward bravely stepping forward and exposing the truth behind the Raza Chicano Studies funded inside TUSD on your Tax dollars
TUSD's Raza unit survives under fire
Then came this article which confirms what John Ward was saying about the Ethnic Study programs. Even the programs own director admits the program is divisive.
-Put a stop to the racism in TUSDs Ethnic Studies by supporting R- Rep. Russell Pearce and Senate Bill 1108. This bill seeks to ban teaching in public schools that would “denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization.” Go to www.azleg.gov and email the legistlators to support the bill. Tell them your tired of your tax dollars funding this hate in our public schools.
For more information on SB 1108 these fine local students were kind enough to read the bill and videorecord it for us. Wasn't that nice of them.
Keep up the Pressure!
TUSD Governing Board Phone - (520) 225-6070
FAX - (520) 798-8767
Email TUSD Governing Board
Arizona Superintendant of Schools Tom Horne 602-542-5393
CONTACT LOCAL MEDIA ASK THEM TO INVESTIGATE
EMAIL KGUN 9
EMAIL KVOA
EMAIL FOX11AZ
News 13 Hotline Phone: (520) 744-6397
Andrew's random video for Monday: I think I found a real parade of stupid, and of course it comes from San Francisco. Watch this and realize that this is what some people want our city to become...
And in honor of George Carlin passing today, here's one of his classic bits. I loved George Carlin when I was younger... his last few HBO specials weren't nearly as good as his early stuff, but you can't deny that he was a groundbreaking comedian - the kind of social critic you just don't see anymore in comedy. RIP George Carlin.