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Mumpower Compares Asheville Schoolteachers to Nazis
Posted by: | CommentsA local school put on a 26 minute show months ago in which they celebrate the accomplishments of America’s finest. A clip was posted to YouTube resulting in hysterical responses from anti-Obama radicals. City Councilman Carl Mumpower jumped into the fray, comparing schoolteachers to Nazis.
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FoxCarolina reports “Jan Blunt with the Buncombe County School district said that the program included skits and music about people like George Washington, Clara Bartan and Amelia Earhart. The program also included a chant about then newly-elected President Barack Obama.
During that skit, the children talk about the importance of education and making America better. They also chant things like “change has come” and “yes we can.”
Blunt said that many of those parents, who she said gave a standing ovation at the end of the program, are now upset that their kids have been put on YouTube. She said that they feel their kids were not being indoctrinated.
“It’s unfortunate, I think, when these children, who are very patriotic and love America, want to succeed and are trying to encourage themselves to do well, are being made to be political pawn for someone else’s agenda,” Blunt said. “They did not have an agenda. The teachers didn’t have an agenda. They were celebrating an accomplishment, which is the first African-American president of our country.”
However, Asheville City Councilman Carl Mumpower, compares the chants to the programming of children in Nazi Germany.
“That event was about chanting campaign slogans,” Mumpower said. “There is a difference, a big difference. That is ritual behavior and that’s how you plug things into kids’ heads. I’ll come right out and say it. That’s exactly how the Hitler youth were programed prior to World War II.”
Blunt said that some of the parents of the students seen in the video are fearing for the safety of their children. She said that some of the teachers and parents have received hundreds of threatening e-mails and phone calls from people who call the program indoctrination.
The Citizen-Times reported “Some callers issued death threats, accusing the school of brainwashing students, schools spokeswoman Jan Blunt said.”
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The public servants at a local Buncombe County school received death threats after his comments to the press.
Local parents fear for the safety of their children due to the video being posted online.
Only time will tell….
What is Wrong with This Picture?
Posted by: | CommentsNewsmax columnist John L. Perry is calling for a military coup in America in his new column titled: Obama Risks a Domestic Military ‘Intervention’
“…Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared responsibility?
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.
Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.
Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don’t shrug and say, “We can always worry about that later.”
Read the entire article…
The hysterical nature of the far right-wing Republicans is truly frightening.
Thank you, Bill
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For those of you disheartened by the ugly, racist, irrational tone of the present debate on Health Care, and the continued right-wing hissy fit over the election of Barack Obama, this is worth watching
Documenting teh Crazy
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Crooksandliars.com has an excellent post up, regarding the 9/12 idiocy in Washington, D.C. Right-wing websites actually used Obama inauguration pictures to bolster their claim that 2 million people took part in the march; apparently, it was more like 60-70 thousand, but thanks for playing…
Stephanie Taylor was there to document teh crazy for us. Thank you, Stephanie!
Again, my question: where were all these angry people when George Bush took us into two wars, increased the size of the federal government (i.e. Dept of Homeland Security) and doubled the national debt in eight years? Mmmmm? That’s what I thought. These protests are the stuff of fear-mongering, bed-wetting, sore losers.
Wow…
Happy 4th of July, Hooligans
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I do understand people’s anger at government waste of tax-payer monies, but I have to say I find the advent of these Tea Party Protests a little suspect.
Where were most (I know some of you were protesting for a long time) of these people during the last 8 years, and more accurately the last 40 years? Why protest now? Why not then?
Certainly, some conservatives have been speaking up, the Washington Times reported in 2008, “President Bush has nearly doubled the national debt during his eight years in the White House. As he prepares to return to Texas next month, Mr. Bush is on track to add $5 trillion to the $5.73 trillion national debt he inherited when he took office.”
Additionally, I really don’t understand the whole taxes are the devil argument. My great grandparents paid taxes, my grandparents paid taxes, my parents paid taxes, and I pay taxes. I consider it an investment in this great land of ours, and I am grateful for the multitude of services that are provided through this continued investment by our citizens. I can’t imagine what our country would be like if our forefathers hadn’t made the commitment to invest in our nation.
I hope everyone, everyone, had a wonderful 4th of July. I spent it in Sewanee, Tenn. watching a small town parade, after a lovely picnic under giant oaks.
I trust this finds you well…
Behind the Irony Curtain
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I couldn’t help but post this tidbit.
Apparently, Liberty University has booted the Democratic Party club from its campus.
Ray Reed of The News and Advance is reporting “Liberty University has revoked its recognition of the campus Democratic Party club, saying “we are unable to lend support to a club whose parent organization stands against the moral principles held by” the university.
“It kind of happened out of nowhere,” said Brian Diaz, president of LU’s student Democratic Party organization, which LU formally recognized in October.
Diaz said he was notified of the school’s decision May 15 in an e-mail from Mark Hine, vice president of student affairs.
According to the e-mail, the club must stop using the university’s name, holding meetings on campus, or advertising events. Violators could incur one or more reprimands under the school’s Liberty Way conduct code, and anyone who accumulates 30 reprimands is subject to expulsion.
Hine said late Thursday that the university could not sanction an official club that supported Democratic candidates.”
Read the rest of the article.
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Word is that campus officials are considering changing the name of their university to something other than Liberty to more accurately reflect the views and beliefs of the school.
May I suggest Liberty? University.
Israel’s War on Palestinian Children Continues
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The Associated Press reports “Tiny bodies lying side by side wrapped in white burial shrouds. The cherubic face of a dead preschooler sticking up from the rubble of her home. A man cradling a wounded boy in a chaotic emergency room after Israel shelled a U.N. school…
…As many as 257 children have been killed and 1,080 wounded — about a third of the total casualties since Dec. 27, according to U.N. figures released Thursday…”
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The AFP reports “On Tuesday, 43 people were killed when an Israeli strike hit an UNRWA school serving as an emergency shelter.” and “The United Nations on Friday cited witnesses saying Israeli forces moved about 110 Palestinians into a house, told them to stay inside, and later shelled it repeatedly, killing about 30 people.”
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The Foreign Policy Journal reports “The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has suspended operations in Gaza since coming under attack by Israeli military forces on Friday.
The statement said, “On numerous occasions in recent days, humanitarian convoys have come under Israeli fire even though their safe passage through clearly designated routes at specifically agreed times, had been confirmed by the Israeli liaison office.”
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Shame on the Government of Israel!
Israel Rings in New Year by Killing 42 Children since Last Saturday
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CNN reports “Palestinian medical sources said 400 people have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli raids began Saturday, with 42 children, 13 women and two medical workers among the dead. In addition, 2,000 have been wounded, 216 critically, they said.”
Robert Fisk writes in The Independent UK “How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.
That is why Gaza exists: because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it – Askalaan in Arabic – were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and ended up on the beaches of Gaza. They – or their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren – are among the one and a half million Palestinian refugees crammed into the cesspool of Gaza, 80 per cent of whose families once lived in what is now Israel. This, historically, is the real story: most of the people of Gaza don’t come from Gaza.
But watching the news shows, you’d think that history began yesterday, that a bunch of bearded anti-Semitic Islamist lunatics suddenly popped up in the slums of Gaza – a rubbish dump of destitute people of no origin – and began firing missiles into peace-loving, democratic Israel, only to meet with the righteous vengeance of the Israeli air force. The fact that the five sisters killed in Jabalya camp had grandparents who came from the very land whose more recent owners have now bombed them to death simply does not appear in the story.”
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Yes, rockets shot into Israel have hurt and killed people, but this is overkill and will only make things worse. I mean really, how many children do you have to kill to make your point?
Get Your War On – Thanksgiving Edition
Posted by: | CommentsShe’s Crafty! Vance Craft Explosion
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The Vance Holiday Craft Explosion will be held Sunday, November 23rd from noon-5pm in the gym at Vance Elementary. The event will be right off the lower parking lot on Clinton Avenue, but there is plenty of parking all around.
There will be a great collection of vendors including:
Crankypants Knits
Quilt Baby
Cozy Blue
Faerie Made Soap
Roly Poly Crafts
Slaphappy!
Dogwood Digs
Spotted Dog Farm
Amy Tepper
Jeribella
Folksy Fleece Critters
and more!
There will also be a yummilicious bake sale and silent auction.
Get a jump on your holiday shopping and support Vance Elementary and local artists at the same time! What could be finer?
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Ya’ll head on down, and fella bloggers, could you help spread the word about this?
Thank you!
