Untied Against Homeskooled Kidz

What idiot thinks that excluding home schooled children is a good idea? See:

Both California and Tennessee have done their best to shut down the home school movement in the past year. First California made it illegal to home school children unless the person teaching the child could show grade level certification. Then Tennessee’s Board of Education ruled that diplomas from home school affiliated organizations were invalid to show proof of high school graduation.

Now, Subway has gotten involved. The sandwich restaurant chain is holding a competition called “Every Sandwich Tells a Story.” Children can win prizes for their schools. But, the rules state, “Contest is open only to legal residents of the Untied States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.” [Emphasis added]

Read the rest at HumanEvents.com

Doesn't this show just how afraid government sponsored schools (public schools, for those readers in Rio Linda) are of home schooling? Like virtually every government agency, they are deathly afraid of compitition. Only in public schools do they strive to achieve the lowest possible level of achievement (think, "outcome based education"). I guess they know that there isn't a Spelling Bee win in sight until home schooling is eliminated.

This is just my guess, but, I suspect that home schooling yields more conservatives than liberals. Of course, the liberals won't stand for that...

-Bob

You Can't Appease Everybody

From www.humanevents.com:

After decades of comparing Nixon to Hitler, Reagan to Hitler and Bush to Hitler, liberals have finally decided it is wrong to make comparisons to Hitler. But the only leader to whom they have applied their newfound rule of thumb is: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

While Ahmadinejad has not done anything as starkly evil as cut the capital gains tax, he does deny the Holocaust, call for the destruction of Israel, deny the existence of gays in Iran and refuses to abandon his nuclear program despite protests from the United Nations. That's the only world leader we're not allowed to compare to Hitler.

Read the rest...

-Bob

Kudos to Congressman Green

From www.humanevents.com:

I also want to take the time to congratulate a principled Democratic Representative who had the courage to break with his party leadership last week on the issue of domestic energy production.

Congressman Gene Green (D-TX) told CNBC, "We also need more exploration. But we really need to get more oil to the market, particularly from our own country. The best signal we can send to OPEC and anywhere else in the world is maybe not filing a lawsuit against them but actually saying 'we are going to start producing in our own country.'"

All Americans who are concerned about out-of-control prices and our vulnerability to energy blackmail by foreign dictators should appreciate and acknowledge Congressman Green's stand. The only question left is the one posed to Green by the CNBC anchor: "Can you convince the other wings of your party to think like you do?"

Good job Mr Green!

-Bob

Oppose the 1.2 Trillion Dollar "Carbon Tax"

From americansolutions.com:

Next week, the Senate is set to begin debate on a bill that will raise the price of gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and aviation fuel. (view this Heritage Foundation state-by-state breakdown to find out how much Warner Lieberman will cost you).

It's the Warner-Lieberman global warming bill, and its supporters are as misguided and out-of-touch with the American people as the supporters of last spring's immigration amnesty bill - and we all remember how that turned out.

There are two things you can do now to fight back.

First, call or email your Senator and tell him or her to vote "no" on Warner-Lieberman - "no" on raising the cost of driving to work, heating your home, and feeding your family.

Second, visit americansolutions.com/drillnow and sign our "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" petition. The petition is simple but powerful. It says:

We, therefore, the undersigned citizens of the United States, petition the U.S. Congress to act immediately to lower gasoline prices by authorizing the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries.

And with your help, as the Senate begins to debate Warner-Lieberman, American Solutions will present the names of 100,000 of their constituents who will hold them accountable if they fail to allow America the freedom to use its own energy resources instead of relying on foreign dictators.

Americans truly have a choice - a choice between the Pay More, Send More Money to Foreign Dictators and Cripple America Left and the Produce More, Enjoy More, Pay Less, Strengthen American Center-Right Majority. Make your choice by visiting americansolutions.com/drillnow.

For more on the problems caused by this legislation, watch this video: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1452232326/bctid1556133674

Can I count on you to do your part to lower gas prices (and taxes)?

-Bob

Every adult to carry "Carbon Ration Card"

From the "Governments' going too far department" (as reported by grassfire.org):

The Daily Mail is reporting that Britain's Environmental Audit Committee is pushing the idea that "every adult should be forced to use a 'carbon ration card' when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy."

Climate Alarmism in England has gotten so bad that the British face the prospects of having to punch their "carbon card" every time they fill up or fly a plane!

The next thing to expect is that our Democratic-controlled Congress will jump on this bandwagon and push for a "Carbon Ration Card" here in the US as well. As we well know, the Democrats would hate to miss out on a bad idea that has been forced on people in other countries (they hate to be "left behind"). Of course, there will be an additional "tax" associated with so that "well meaning" Democrats can buy additional "Carbon Rations" (think "Carbon Credits"). Given Al Gore's house, he would be the first in line to get additional "Carbon Rations"...

-Bob

Help me stop the California anti-marriage ruling

I just signed a petition supporting an emergency suspension of California's outrageous court ruling that sanctioned homosexual marriage. Same-sex marriage licenses will be issued by June 15 at the latest. We have very little time to stop this ruling. Please go here to sign:

http://www.libertyaction.org/290/petition.asp?PID=16584472&NID=1

The expansion of "Marriage" by the government is very a "slippery slope" sort of issue. At some point, all of these "special cases" will invalidate the original concepts, ruining it for everyone.

Think about it this way:

Shouldn't single people, that have no desire for a "partner" receive the same government benefits? Aren't single people being discriminated against?

We don't need bigger government. If anything, government needs to be smaller. How about we eliminate government sponsored marriage all together? Wouldn't that simplify things?

-Bob

Float in a German Parade

This one comes to us from my wife's friend Betsy:

A float in a German parade.... SO, you think the world isn't watching the fiasco in the USA?

Obviously, the rest of the world can see what Hillary and B. Hussein Obama are up to. Can you?

-Bob

Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less - Sign the petition today!

From http://www.americansolutions.com/:

A Real Change Campaign to Lower Your Gas Prices:
Sign the petition today. Urge Congress to act to lower your gasoline prices. Stop the pain at the pump!

Watch the video:

I've signed the petition. Have you?

-Bob

One Down, Two to Go

Ann Coulter puts it so well:

"Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, lost an election that should have been his in a walk. In fact, he was the first incumbent president or vice president in 100 years to lose an election in peacetime with a good economy. Mind you, that was before we even knew that Gore was a deranged conspiracy theorist who believes the Earth is in serious peril from cow flatulence." ...

Read the rest here: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26418

-Bob

Unstoppable Solar Cycles

This is a "must see" video about "climate change". It clearly shows that there are factors at play that are much, much stronger than man in effecting climate change.

The chart showing the relationship between temperature and CO2 is also very interesting. Over the span off 600,000 years, temperature change has always led CO2 change by about 600 years.

I have to wonder what Al Gore thinks of this Video. Obviously, since it flies in the face of his agenda, he would likely pass it off as being false.

The scientists put it best: "Science is about being skeptical. There is a quest to always verify what we know."

What's most important here? Keep politics out out science. I want to see real science applied to this "issue". I'm not at all interested in the false "science" of those groups that are pushing for the "science" to fit their agenda.

Obviously man has an effect on the environment. But, it appears that many appear to think that we are far more powerful than we actually are...

-Bob

Change

I just saw a piece about Obama on the Fox Report. I didn't hear the audio, so I don't know the context, but, there was a bunch of people holding banners saying "Change".

What came to mind, you ask?

All I could think was "how fitting!" The democrats are famous for taking our dollars and giving us nothing but change (if anything at all). At least Obama is up front about it. I just can't figure out why everyone appeared to be so happy about it.

As far a I am concerned, I just want to keep my dollars...

-Bob

Happy Earth Day Al Gore!

I guess I'm a little slow, tonight I figured out how Al Gore is going to save the planet! He's intends to do it by killing off all of the humans (except of course, himself and his buddies). It appears the the agenda that he is pushing to "save the environment" is doing far more harm than good.

As said on http://palousitics.blogspot.com/2008/04/happy-earth-day-al-gore.html, "the rush to replace fossil fuels threatens global famine." Further on, we find that rain forests (the haven of the "greenie") are continuing to disappear, this time to grow crops to produce more ethanol (and even more greenhouse gases).

Given that he is driven by emotion and bad "science", he can't possible understand why all his "good" is doing more harm...

Happy Earth Day Al Gore!

-Bob

TIME disgraces war heroes for global warming

Here's an update on Al Gore's Carbon Tax from Grassfire.org:

From the Desk of:
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance

4/18/2008

We knew Time Magazine had already sold out to the radical Al Gore Global Warming hysteria...

But the latest cover goes even further by picturing a fallen tree in the arms of the Iwo Jima Marines and equating the "War on Global Warming" with America's struggle to save the world from fascism.

This is a disgrace to those Marines and every American who has worn the uniform to defend our nation!

Go here to see the outrageous cover:

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=6122&PID=16196735

+ + "Going Green" the new red, white and blue?

Time says the "war" on global warming is a "similarly momentous challenge" to our World Wars, the Great Depression, putting a man on the moon, the intercontinental railroad and beating polio!

Time concludes by saying "going green" is the new red, white and blue -- the height of patriotism.

+ + $1.2 Trillion Al Gore Tax coming before summer!

Al Gore and the radical Climate Alarmists are using unfounded science and the willing spin of the media elites to push a massive, $1.2 Trillion Global Warming Tax. We have less than two months to stop the new tax. But the fact is, as this TIME article shows, the entire political, entertainment and media establishments are lining up to push this oppressive new Carbon Tax down our throats.

Will you please sign the petition by going here?

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=6122&PID=16196735

We already have 23,038 signers. I want to reach 100,000 in the next week and work with our key contacts on Capitol Hill to release this news to the media.

But I need your help.

Please see Time's outrageous cover. Read our backgrounder. Sign the petition. And please alert your friends.


Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org

Please do your part to oppose this tax!

-Bob

Help stop Al Gore's $1.2 trillion carbon tax

Hi!

Congress is moving quickly to pass a $1.2 trillion Global Warming Tax that is based on unfounded science and could cripple our economy. A vote is expected before summer.

I just signed a petition and am asking you to join me.
Please go here:

http://www.grassfire.org/106/petition.asp?PID=16196735&NID=1

-Bob

ISRA ALERT: FEAR AND LOATHING IN NAPERVILLE

LCAV attempts to persuade the public...

Organizers of a Naperville gun control rally were treated to a healthy dose of unintended consequences Monday night when firearm owners packed the rally by a better than ten to one ratio. Billed by organizers as an “educational forum,” the rally was actually nothing more than an airing of well-worn lies and dubious public opinion polls aimed at supporting gun control legislation now pending in the state capitol. During a Q&A session, attendees soundly rebuked the organizers for their divisive perpetuation of half-truths about the role of firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens.

Held at the Naperville campus of Northern Illinois University, the gun control rally was sponsored by the Illinois chapter of California-based gun control group, Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV). Moderating the forum was gun control movement veteran Steve Young. Young is the former Illinois chapter organizer of the now-defunct Bell Campaign. Young also served as the Illinois chapter head of the now-defunct Million Mom March. Of the approximately 175 attendees, all but a handful were gun rights supporters.

“It was gratifying to see such a large turnout by law-abiding gun owners,” said ISRA Executive Director, Richard Pearson. “It was probably the first time that many of them have come face to face with the people who want to take their guns away. This was an opportunity for them to hear first hand the deception and outright lies that are the underpinnings of the gun control movement. For nearly an hour, gun owners in the audience sat through presentations that assailed their sensibilities. When it came time for attendees to speak out, gun owners made it clear that they were not buying the gun control song and dance. I actually think the event organizers thought they’d win some converts last night. I’m sure they’re sorely disappointed this morning.”

“The LCAV claims to have not only broad, but active support for their gun control policies,” continued Pearson. “Yet, despite plenty of publicity, they were not able to generate much in the way of support for last night’s forum. Everywhere I looked, I saw IGOLD hats and NRA hats and ISRA sweatshirts. Our people packed the forum just like our people are lighting up the general assembly’s phone lines to express opposition to gun control bills now under consideration.”

“Probably the biggest blow to the LCAV’s credibility came when Young rolled out polling data that supposedly shows that better than 80% of Illinois gun owners support LCAV gun control policies,” said Pearson. “After the snickers died down, I asked gun-owning members of the audience who support LCAV gun control policy to please stand. Not a single person stood.”

“If the state’s gun owners support gun control as strongly as claimed by the LCAV, then why aren’t gun owners marching on Springfield to demand passage of gun control laws?” asked Pearson. “If 75-plus percent of gun owners want so-called ‘assault weapons’ banned, then why are they buying them up like hotcakes? If Illinois gun owners are as ‘anti-gun’ as the LCAV polling data suggests, then why do they even own guns in the first place? It just doesn’t make sense. But, then again, the ‘facts’ presented by the gun control movement rarely make much sense.”

Thanks to all of you who came out to protect freedom in Naperville on Monday night!

Remember, gun control is a disease - YOU are the cure.

-Bob

ISRA Urgent Alert: MASSIVE GUN GRAB ON THE MOVE IN THE HOUSE

Here's the latest from the ISRA. Please act now!

As many of you may already know, HB 4357, the 2008 version of the Daley “assault weapons ban” will probably be voted on this week in the Illinois House. This bill would ban most, if not all of the guns you own. Banned guns would include most semiautomatic rifles, pistols and shotguns. If this bill passes, you would be forced to suffer the indignity of registering with the State Police just like a sex offender. If you choose to preserve your dignity, then you would have to move either yourself or your guns out of state. A second bill, HB758 would ban private sales of firearms. That means that you would have to find an FFL to complete private sales from your collection. Both bills are clear infringements on your 2nd Amendment rights. Only you can protect your rights. You must take action, NOW!

Here’s what you must do to preserve your rights:

1. Call your legislator and POLITELY tell him or her that you oppose HB4357, and HB758.

2. If you do not know who your legislator is, or how to reach them, visit the following link and follow the instructions: http://www.capwiz.com/nra/state/main/?state=IL&view=myofficials

3. Pass this alert along to all your gun owning friends. Also, please post this alert to any and all Internet bulletin boards to which you belong.

It appears that the People's Republic of Chicago Criminal Empowerment Program is at it again. Please do all that you can to prevent this from happening!

-Bob

Texas Survey

This one also come courtesy of my friend Hank:

The latest telephone poll taken by the Texas Governor's office asked whether people who live in Texas think illegal immigration is a serious problem:

29% of respondents answered: "Yes, it is a serious problem."

71% of respondents answered: "No, esto no es un problema serio."

What do you think?

-Bob

This should clear the air for some folks......

This one came from my friend Hank:

The Difference?

John McCain and Hillary Clinton were walking down the
street and came to a homeless person. The Republican, John McCain, gave
him his business card and told him to come to his office for a job. He
then took $20 out of his pocket and gave it to the homeless person.

Hillary was impressed, so when they came to another homeless person, she
stepped forward to help. She gave him directions to the welfare office,
then reached into McCain's pocket and got out another $20. She kept $15
for administrative costs and gave the homeless person $5.

Now, do you understand the difference?

-Bob

ISRA Alert - Anti Gun Rally in Naperville

Here is the latest from the ISRA

ISRA Alert: YOUR HELP URGENTLY NEEDED – CALIFORNIA GUN CONTROL GROUP TO HOLD ANTI-GUN RALLY IN NAPERVILLE

The San Francisco-based “Legal Community Against Gun Violence” (LCAV) will be holding a gun control rally in Naperville on Monday, April 14, 2008. The LCAV plays a crucial supporting role in Chicago Mayor Daley’s attempts to take your guns away from you. California lawyers write the actual legislation designed to ban and confiscate your guns, tax your ammunition, ration your ammo purchases and register you like a sex offender. It’s time for Illinois gun owners to tell these Californians, “MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!” Here is what you need to do: 1. Gather up all your firearm owning friends and assemble at the Naperville Campus of NIU, 1120 East Diehl Road, Room 101C, Naperville, IL. The campus is on the south side of Diehl Road, approximately 1/8 mile west of Naper Boulevard. Plan on arriving no later than 6:45 PM. 2. If you still have your iGOLD t-shirts or hats, wear them. If you have NRA or ISRA hats, wear them. DO NOT bring signs or other items that might get you kicked out before this thing gets under way. 3. Be advised that you will be in close proximity to people that hate your guts because you own guns. They will attempt to insult you and provoke you. Stand your ground, challenge their every assertion. Freedom is at stake here. 4. Please distribute this alert to all your gun owning friends and post it to every Internet bulletin board to which you belong. STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS IN HONOR OF CHARLTON HESTON’S MEMORY!

-Bob

San Francisco a Sanctuary city?

As reported by Grassfire today:

Dear Robert,

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is launching an $83,000
outreach campaign designed to attract illegal aliens.

      Using television, radio, posters and brochures
      in five different languages, Newsom says, "We're
      going to spend resources, time and energy to do
      PSA's, to do campaign outreach into community clinics,
      into public schools, into our police stations to
      let people know what a sanctuary city is all about...

Newsom says illegal aliens answering his call need not fear
deportation. "We are doing the right thing," he said.

Robert, this arrogant thumbing of the nose by SF City
officials to the established laws of our land and the blatant
disrespect for those citizens who will be required to foot
the bill for these illegals is reprehensible, and demands
a strong reaction!

That's why I'm asking ALL members of our Grassfire team to take
a few minutes to contact Mayor Gavin Newsom and City Supervisor
Tom Ammiano.

++Action Item--Contact SF City Leadership

           Mayor Gavin Newsom
           phone: 415-554-6141
           Email: gavin.newsom@sfgov.org

           Tom Ammiano, City Supervisor
           phone: 415-554-5144
           Email: tom.ammiano@sfgov.org

Please contact both of these city leaders and express your
outrage over their public outreach effort welcoming illegal aliens.

Let them know that their plan is a "ringing dinner bell" that
will attract even more illegals--increasing the burden for
those living in San Francisco legally!

Urge them to do the right thing by enforcing our laws.

My e-mail to the Mayor of San Francisco:

Mayor Gavin Newsom,

I read today that you are undertaking an effort to turn San Francisco into a "Sanctuary City" for illegal aliens.

It's sad to learn that yet another government official is ignoring the rule of law in support of illegal aliens. I have to wonder "what's in it for you"? Given the exceptionally high costs involved, and the strain on law enforcement that this causes, you would have to be getting something in return.

I'm glad to hear that you have gone public with this. That way the law abiding citizens of you city can "get out" before their property values drop so low that they can't afford to leave. I'm sure that they will, given that they will have no interest in funding your illegal activities. The most "well to do" citizens (the ones that pay the highest taxes!) will be the first to go, as they typically have the most liquidity. As time continues, more and more tax payers will leave for other cities that follow the rule of law. Eventually, San Francisco will suffer the same fate as Detroit, MI, and be only a skeleton of what it once was. In the end, only the criminals will remain, of course, that includes the members of government that thought this was the "right thing".

My final question to you: Should this be a country in which every person learns to work, every person learns to save, every person learns to have a better future, and, by the way, is therefore responsible for working, saving, and creating a better future? Or is this a country where you shouldn't have to do all those things because it's too hard, and someone should take care of you? In which case, the question becomes: who's the someone, and why do you think they'll stay here?

Regards,

-Bob

Let your voice be heard!

-Bob