My Experience With #CommonCore...

Common Core Woes

Kristen C Snow-White

I was raised in a liberal household, Union workers for the theater going back several generations. But politics were never discussed and I didn't vote until 1992 when I was in my early 30's. Prior to that I was a simple, naive, red (unbeknownst to me) girl, living in a purple-ish state. However my daughter, Lauren, was born in 1996 and for the most part, she was raised by me, her single Conservative-Republican mom!

I thought we were "safe" from the encroaching fingers of CA Common Core. It's supposed to kick-in 2014-2015 school year and my daughter will be a Senior, hardly enough time to learn new, complicated ways to do addition and subtraction.

We weren't so lucky. Let’s go back, briefly, to the summer of 2013. My 16-year-old daughter had just finished her sophomore year and was going to take US History-11 over the summer so she could free up a block for an AP Psych class. It had been many years since I had studied history, and it was 2013 we had lived a lot of it, so I thought we might have fun.

That thought was very short lived.

My daughter had a packet of questions she had to complete each week so I began reading aloud to her and she would follow along writing her answers. This went on for about five minutes when I read: “The United States of America is a Democracy…” I nutted up! “Oh no, no, no--we are a Republic! Here’s the difference and here’s why!” I began.

“No mom, we’re a democracy”, my daughter said. “That’s what they taught us, that’s what we are.”

I had two choices and I didn't like either of them. Keep the peace and just walk away, or grab my laptop, Google Democracy v Republic and print it out so she could read for herself, in black and white. I chose the latter. Epic fail.

Lauren would have no part of what does she called my “political drivel”. But I mom’d up, shook it off and she finished the remaining 6-7 weeks relatively unscathed. That is, until the last day of class. She had worked on her project, one of those, fold-out boards you get at the craft store, over the weekend at her fathers'. When she got home, she locked herself in her bedroom to finish it up with a glue stick and pink ribbon and wouldn't let me see her "Masterpiece" until the next morning.

 

At 6:30 am in July, it was already hotter than you-know-what in the middle of summer, she proudly emerged from her room with her final project:  A TIMELINE -Titled- FEMINISM THROUGH the AGES. Okay feminism, not my thing, but it looked finished and presentable. I took a picture of it, for posterity and immediately I felt an unsettling wave wash over me. This feminism thing, odd, but she's a kid. Then I realized on the second take that in my kitchen, staring at me with empty eyes and a stoic face was, not one but two, pictures of Margaret Sanger (the eugenicist and founder of Planned Parenthood).

I ceased to breathe. It took me a few minutes to get my bearings back. Somehow, some way, over the course of the summer, my 16 year old precious baby girl had been brainwashed into believing that Margaret Sanger had made positive steps in the history of feminism and therefore she deserved two pictures on my daughter’s Final Timeline-project. To say the least, I was mortified and livid.

So here we are nine months later. The book, titled The Americans: Reconstruction Through the 21st Century took the better part of the school year to get a copy of . Everything about that class now felt "Common Core" starting with her insistence that our Nation is a Democracy, NOT a Republic. I felt like I needed to see this book again, read it, and find out what was said that could have warranted this woman's likeness on my daughter's History Final.

I do not like this Common Core, it can leave through the backdoor!

I do not like revisionist History, it’s been played-out, the end’s not a mystery!

(You know it’s bad when I go all Dr. Seuss!) 

This mom has a couple of things: A laptop, the book online ($5 for a 1 year membership) a pen and a phone. I will read this book line by line, it will be easy to highlight suspect text and Google what really happened. I'm going to take a lot of notes.I will bring any and all discrepancies, between their "Revisionist" history and "Real" history to the attention of the appropriate people. I will write a letter to the Editor of the local paper. I will take my findings and go to a TEA Party meeting. I will go to a PTA meeting at the school and board meetings at City Hall. If I have to drag my laptop around town with colored stickies and notes hanging out, I’m okay with that.

I’m not okay with Common Core coming in and putting a politically correct spin on history! Our kids deserve the truth. It hasn't always been pretty and I’m sure some people of decades past wish they had done things differently. But I won’t have my daughter feeling “guilty” for the rest of her life because someone decided that the history of our great nation, this exceptional place we live in called America, needed to be revised so that our American ancestors didn't appear to do anything awful or reconcile their differences with the people they may have wronged.

The only way to change history is to understand what really happened. Then you can build on the parts that worked and not repeat past mistakes.

What a Twisted Web They Weave...

This is such a TWISTY-WEB I don't even know where to start! Net entirely true, it started back in 2012 with a noxious, vile hash tag (h/t or #) on Twitter: #TPFA. The Tea Party Fire Ants are not at ALL related to Tea Party Patriots or TeaParty.org or any other LEGIT arm (or leg) of the TEA PARTY, in general. The ONLY communications between #TPFA and another #TeaParty is @teaparty_net which by all appearances is a "Sock" account for #TPFA. 

Before He Was a Dead Commie...

Before Twitter handle @FrankMDavisJr was a Dead Commie he was +Proe Graphique.

Been doing a little RESEARCH and what I found is INTERESTING, to say the least. Jr here professes to be a Conservative and while working closely with his MOUTH PIECE, Twitter handle @Kathy_Amidon (2, 3 & 4) they use the HASH TAG #TPFA to "Swarm" a/k/a "SPAM" members of Congress with delusional "fliers" consisting of BOLD colored backgrounds, BIG FONTS, drop-shadows and/or pictures of Holocaust victims, depending on which daily bug is up their proverbial ass.

The "Blog" they rant on is called: Benghazi-Truth. Unfortunately the name of the blog and the content couldn't BE more opposite. It is nothing more than incoherent ramblings and Twitter screen-shots mixed in with a lot of self-promoting back-pats. It appears they both "blog" since there are two different and unique styles (term used loosely) of writing (term used loosely-er). Going back to 2011 it seems that when it comes to blatant self-promotion, NOTHING has changed!

Here is one example from an 8 Sept 2011 article by Bernard Goldberg titled "Hypocrisy!"

Poor Max commented (note the WHEN!):

Max • 3 years ago

Boy this is interesting. Could it be that Mr. Goldberg wishes to avoid a circus like the Clinton impeachment mess. Even though that SOB should've been strung up by the Sisterhood for unleashing his attack dogs on that starry-eyed intern, and but for a blue dress he would've gotten away clean, they still gave him a pass.

An entire YEAR passes and in jumps Jr under the name "Proe Graphique" to RANT & RAVE about an entirely different subject:

Proe Graphique  Max • 2 years ago

Max,

Mr. Goldberg has placed himself very well to follow up or be called out for not following up: he mocked the birther issue with poisonous sarcasm voluntarily and he still writes about the "lamestream media" and hypocrisy while walking away from what has developed into what should be the biggest political story since Watergate and quite possibly ever.

Your post suggests a defeatism in the face of adversity when it comes to reporting what's right, making a difference and the resultant consequences. Does that mean we should only report the stupid little stories as contests we are sure to win, or do we tackle the big ones, also, regardless of the odds because in so doing we're doing what's right? If you choose the former over the latter, then we'll agree to disagree on a fundamental world-view.

For people just coming to this conversational party, read the thread immediately below this post. Obama's birth certificate has essentially be proven a fake and no one needs to see the original to know a deception of a tall order has been committed: the forgery is self-described as such by the operational history of its own creation embedded in the layers of the document. This is fact, not speculation. Ask Joseph Newcomer whose analysis of the Killian documents got Dan Rather fired from CBS News. He agrees.

Go here to listen to a radio blog interview with Newcomer, Zebest (huge graphics name and lifelong Democrat!) and others in the second hour. They tear the birth certificate to shreds, but suddenly Mr. I-Am-The-Media's-Watchdog Goldberg no longer has a journalistic interest:

http://obamafake.blogspot.com/...

Here's the next comment & I'll leave you to decide if you want to read the rest:

Chester A. Arthur  rider237 • 2 years ago

"?? are you guys going to hijack every comment section with this stuff?"

Yeah...why not? Bernie threw the first stone.

"we know your position."

I'm not sure Bernie knows yet. Why is he hiding under that rock?

"at this point you are probably not doing your cause much good."

I disagree.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

-Edmund Burke

Bernie is letting evil triumph.

The back-and-forth continues. I didn't read the remaining 5 or 6 posts from "Proe," now Jr, but this is what he does. He HIJACKS threads about issues that are important to people and perverts them into something else, something about HIM and his OBSESSION. That's what he's done with the #Benghazi massacre, something that I personally take VERY seriously and he's using people who support the #TeaParty to do his bidding. Don't get caught up in his ugly web of deceit. Dude's talking some serious crap on a select few really GOOD PEOPLE that he once trusted and who once trusted him. Please don't be his next target... 

Is the "Do-Nothing" Congress Part of "The Plan?"...

With all of these "Issues" is it any WONDER Congress is in a state of stagnation?

Here are 24 Scandals/Issues (via WhiteHouseDossier) most of which have been and/or still are being investigated by the House and/or Senate. Where is the TIME for the day-to-day duties of our elected officials? Could this be part of "The Plan?" Could all this be designed to pre-occupy Congress and distract the American people while giving the LameStreamMedia SHILLS fodder to defend on a DAILY Basis, whilst Barry works his EVIL BLACK MAGICK behind closed doors?

Note: I call the Usurper Barry. I ALWAYS have and ALWAYS will call him Barry, it's much shorter than a/k/a bArackHUSSEINoBama and there are ALOGRITHMS that search for his name in Blogs, Headlines, on Facebook, Twitter, et al #Fact!

Read on. You decide:

1. IRS targets Obama’s enemies: The IRS targeted conservative and pro-Israel groups prior to the 2012 election. Questions are being raised about why this occurred, who ordered it, whether there was any White House involvement and whether there was an initial effort to hide who knew about the targeting and when. This is ON & ON & ON-GOING! It's HUGE (see below and download the book) To beat Barry, we have to know his "Game Plan!" Alinsky was a Communist sympathizer with a couple of exception, but the 13-Rules are being followed to the LETTER.

   

   IRS Targets the TEA Party to read a .pdf version of Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" Click ☭

2. Benghazi: This is actually three scandals in one:
   • The failure of administration to protect the Benghazi mission;
   • The changes made to the talking points in order to suggest the attack was motivated by an anti-Muslim video; and
   • The refusal of the White House to say what [Barry] did the night of the attack. IMHO, THIS should be #1. Here are just a COUPLE Links: WaPo NatSec, Timeline (albeit incomplete!), and SO many more! I do know this: Barry LIED and BRAVE Americans' DIED #PatriotsDontForget #JusticeForBenghazi4 #ItDoesMatter #StopHillaryIn2016
3. Watching the AP: The Justice Department performed a massive cull of Associated Press reporters’ phone records as part of a leak investigation. This was BIG when it happened 13 May 2013... Was it ever resolved? Did Barry'n Errc get what they needed then call a truce & pinkie-swear not to do it again? I dunno! If anyone DOES know, I'd LOVE to hear about it! 
4. Rosengate: The Justice Department suggested that Fox News reporter James Rosen is a criminal for reporting about classified information and subsequently monitored his phones and emails. Just a WEEK after the AP-crap, THIS happens... Distraction? 'Ya THINK! I get a TON of Links dated 20 May 2013, the WaPo wrote THIS article which reads, in part: According to the DOJ, “Saying that there is probable cause to believe that someone has committed a crime and charging the person with that crime are two different things.” After that... NOTHING! I don't believe he was ever charged, if he was or if you know the "REST of the STORY" please lemme know!
5. Potential Holder perjury I: Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress he had never been associated with “potential prosecution” of a journalist for perjury when in fact he signed the affidavit that termed Rosen a potential criminal. #SMH
6. The ATF “Fast and Furious” scheme: Allowed weapons from the U.S. to “walk” across the border into the hands of Mexican drug dealers. The ATF lost track of hundreds of firearms, many of which were used in crimes, including the December 2010 killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Maybe when Errc is no longer the AG we will learn the truth & he can be prosecuted as a civilian... Hey, a girl can dream...
7. Potential Holder Perjury II: Holder told Congress in May 2011 that he had just recently heard about the Fast and Furious gun walking scheme when there is evidence he may have known much earlier. Again: #SMH
8. Sebelius demands payment: HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius solicited donations from companies HHS might regulate. The money would be used to help her sign up uninsured Americans for ObamaCare. I knew about this
9. The Pigford scandal: An Agriculture Department effort that started as an attempt to compensate black farmers who had been discriminated against by the agency but evolved into a gravy train delivering several billion dollars in cash to thousands of additional minority and female farmers who probably didn’t face discrimination.
10. GSA gone wild: The General Services Administration in 2010 held an $823,000 training conference in Las Vegas, featuring a clown and a mind readers. Resulted in the resignation of the GSA administrator.
11. Veterans Affairs in Disney World: The agency wasted more than $6 million on two conferences in Orlando. An assistant secretary was fired.
12. Sebelius violates the Hatch Act: A U.S. special counsel determined that Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made “extemporaneous partisan remarks” during a speech in her official capacity last year. During the remarks, Sebelius called for the election of the Democratic candidate for governor of North Carolina.
13. Solyndra: Republicans charged the Obama administration funded and promoted its poster boy for green energy despite warning signs the company was headed for bankruptcy. The administration also allegedly pressed Solyndra to delay layoff announcements until after the 2010 midterm elections.
14. AKA Lisa Jackson: Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used the name “Richard Windsor” when corresponding by email with other government officials, drawing charges she was trying to evade scrutiny.
15. The New Black Panthers: The Justice Department was accused of using a racial double standard in failing to pursue a voter intimidation case against Black Panthers who appeared to be menacing voters at a polling place in 2008 in Philadelphia.
16. Waging war all by myself: Obama may have violated the Constitution and both the letter and the spirit of the War Powers Resolution by attacking Libya without Congressional approval.
17. Biden bullies the press: Vice President Biden’s office has repeatedly interfered with coverage, including forcing a reporter to wait in a closet, making a reporter delete photos, and editing pool reports.
18. AKPD not A-OK: The administration paid millions to the former firm of then-White House adviser David Axelrod, AKPD Message and Media, to promote passage of Obamacare. Some questioned whether the firm was hired to help pay Axelrod $2 million AKPD owed him.
19. Sestak, we’ll take care of you: Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel used Bill Clinton as an intermediary to probe whether former Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) would accept a prominent, unpaid White House advisory position in exchange for dropping out of the 2010 primary against former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.).
20. I’ll pass my own laws: Obama has repeatedly been accused of making end runs around Congress by deciding which laws to enforce, including the decision not to deport illegal immigrants who may have been allowed to stay in the United States had Congress passed the “Dream Act.”
21. The hacking of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer: It’s not clear who hacked the CBS reporter’s computer as she investigated the Benghazi scandal, but the Obama administration and its allies had both the motive and the means to do it.
22. An American Political Prisoner: The sudden decision to arrest Nakoula Basseley Nakoula on unrelated charges after protests in the Arab world over his anti-Muslim video is an extraordinarily suspicious coincidence. “We’re going to go out and we’re going to prosecute the person that made that video,” Hillary Clinton allegedly told the father of one of the ex-SEALs killed in Banghazi [sic].
23. Get rid of inconvenient IGs: Corporation for National and Community Service Inspector General Gerald Walpin was fired in 2009 as he fought wasteful spending and investigated a friend of Obama’s, Sacramento Mayor and former NBA player Kevin Johnson. The White House says Walpin was incompetent.
24. Influence peddling: An investigation is underway of Alejandro Mayorkas, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who has been nominated by [Barry] for the number two post at the Department of Homeland Security. Mayorkas may have used his position to unfairly obtain U.S. visas for foreign investors in company run by Hillary Clinton’s brother, Anthony Rodman.  ★★Mayorkas has since been confirmed. The Senate Dems used their new & improved ANTI-Filibuster "rule" to push the Cuban through.

I knew about a LOT of these, but there are quite a few that I'd never heard of... 

To the Monumentally Stupid...

This piece "Mark Murray Is a Flamboyantly Stupid Person," by The Mav and vakruta's comment[1] leave me without adequate words to express my deepest appreciation and monumental respect...

To Mark Murry (@mmurraypolitics) I would say this:  You are the lowest form of humanoid. I won't even compare you to barnacles & pond scum, that would be desrespectful to them. You need to get down on your knees and ask God for some serious forgiveness. Then you need to visit the VA and do some serious apologizing followed by humble thanks...

I don't begrudge you your 1st Amendment Right to 'Free Speech' but you cross the line when you compare the 'struggles-of-Barry' to that of the WARRIORS who PROTECT your RIGHT to SPEAK STUPID... 

Profoundly. Monumentally. Flamboyantly.

Stupid.

[1] The first Comment following "Mark Murray Is a Flamboyantly Stupid Person," by "The Mav"

[★]Yes, I said MONUMENTALLY, SERIOUS & PROFOUND repeatedly. That's how I roll...

FIRE @SpeakerBoehner...

Fire John Boehner! ☜(ˆ▽ˆ)

There's this GREAT movement on Twitter @WashingtonDCTeaParty and if I believed in coincidences, I'd be all, "WOW! What a coincidence that I find them TODAY of all days after writing that little diddy!" Well, I don't buy in to the COINCIDENCE-thing so when I started reading about the campaign to "Fire John Boehner" I was like, "Where do I sign up?" 

Here is the Link to get you started:

1. START HERE!
2. From there it's Step-by-Step EASY!

Dude seriously needs to get OUT of DC politics and spend more time with his family...

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Remember the Gov't shutdown? ALL non-essential employees were furloughed, unless they worked at the Congressional Gym or cooked for Barry & the WookieMooch... This is a GREAT reminder of the "AmericanSpirit!" You can bleed us 'til we're broke Talk AT us like we're inferior Add a Regulation here and another tax there... BUT! At the end of the day we can still look in the mirror... Can you? This if from the "Fire John Boehner" Facebook Page ~

This is somewhat long, but it's worth the read. Please share if you agree.

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Because of the government shutdown, our national monuments in Washington, D.C. are not being maintained. American hallmarks such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pool are not being taken care of, and over the past few days, they have grown unkempt. Lawns haven't been mowed, trash hasn't been cleaned up, and weeds haven't been pulled. Sadly, the most powerful nation in the world can't even seem to take care of its own back yard.

Chris Cox set out to change that. The 45 year old man from South Carolina bought an old lawnmower and a leaf blower a few days ago and has since devoted his time to maintaining America's most cherished monuments. He's taken it upon himself to do a lot of the little things that add up to make a big difference -- mowing our monuments' lawns, clearing out trash, moving fallen tree branches out of the way, and more.

When asked why he's doing this, Cox simply says, "The [Lincoln Memorial] serves as a moral compass, not only for our country but for the world. And over my dead body are we going to find trash pouring out of these trash cans. At the end of the day, we are the stewards of these buildings that are memorials."

Chris is stepping up to make up for the dysfunction of our Congress. He represents the best of the American spirit, and deserves our gratitude. Thank you Chris!

Yes Chris, THANK YOU!

Dear @SpeakerBoehner...

John Boehner, your teary blue eyes so bright
It seems you have strayed from the path that is right.

I was overjoyed and happy when Nan gave you the gavel
But day after day our Founders' visions unravel.

While Barry sits at his desk usurping your power
What do YOU do with YOUR day, play golf and then shower?

Barry's Anti-American, divisive and mean
Do you sit in the chamber and doodle and dream?

This can't go on, our Country is FAILING!
While RINOs and lefties play games and go SAILING!

I do not LIKE this not one little bit!
So I'll write a new rhymn and throw a verbal fit...

It's all HERE for you and your friends in the Senate
Read it, heed it and DO SOMETHING DAMMIT!

kcSnowWhite2014©

(Feel free to share, but give credit where credit is due,

I would most certainly do the same thing for you!)