The Kids: Brain VS Brawn
Nobody Reports
Scientists all over the world have been frantically trying to figure out how to make humans smarter. But once in a while mother nature blurbs kids out with more brains than even our smartest people…putting a hold on brain transformation a few more years.
That’s four-year- old Heidi Hankins, of England…who recently joined Mensa. Hankins has scored an IQ of 159 – just one point beneath the estimated IQ of Albert Einstein, father of the Theory of Relativity, and comparable to the estimated IQ of Stephen Hawking, one of the most noted physicists of the modern age. But it wasn’t Heidi’s bright idea to join Mensa. Her father, Matthew Hankins, 46, a lecturer at the University of Southampton, came up with that one.
“We always thought Heidi was pretty bright because she was reading early. I happen to specialize in measuring I.Q.s in children, and I was curious about her and the results were off the scale.”
Well. of course they were, DAD! (no bias here)
Nobody Wonders: What good all that IQ will do her, when she is one day, all grown up, and happens to run into this young man? Sure, he’s just a couple of years her junior. But, for all of Heidi’s great IQ, I am willing to bet, that it won’t be the IQ that will dominate..it will be the hormones rushing through her body. That bright IQ of hers will melt into puddles if he evens comes near her and shows just how strong one human can get from doing pull-ups for 22 years straight. He could have the brains of a democrat in heat, and she won’t care.
After all…ask any man with a high IQ what happens when a pretty girl goes by.
If you are like me, you can only imagine what this kid is going to become. They should have a MENSA for superhuman boys. Nobody Thinks this father was pumping testosterones into his son’s milk bottles, and just like Heidi’s dad…was going for the records.
Enjoy!
And notice, the kids not dumb. He knows he needs to get up on the chair, but he can’t budge it. A few more pushups, and dad will have to put the Kiddie program on the ceiliing.
The University of Chicago–Exploding Excretments
Nobody Cares
Sandra Fluke has done her job. So well in fact, that here we find another young student out to get some changes done…and very important changes they are too! The toilets are exploding at the University of Chicago..yes, the school that mentored that hotbed of leaders that have graced it halls, and which have included: Saul Alinsky, David Axelrod, Carol Moseley Braun, David Brooks, Jon Corzine, Ramsey Clark, Ed Ashner, Paul Wolfowitz, Ahmaed Chalabi (Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq), David Rockefeller, and Indiana Jones–is falling apart.
And no one seems to care ! Exploding excrement, elevators that try to kill you, heating vents that burn and maine…and yet WHERE is our ‘President’ on this? After all, this IS Obama’s old school. This is where he met Michelle, who went on to be employed at the university, starting out at about $300, 000 a year. Surely they would want to help out their old alma mater?
Don’t they CARE about this poor girl? After all…if your hand falls on the heater at night, your medical bills alone will break you, and you won’t be able to afford contraceptives.
The cost of one semester at the University of Chicago is around $12,633, and that doesn’t include gas….so you would think that the university professors could take a cut in pay and fix the toilets, wouldn’t you?
Nobody Thinks—.there is more to this than meets the eye. It could be, the very halls themselves have decided to take revenge for the great evil that they have sent out into the world. If I was a university, and I knew the damage that had been done in my house, I certainly wouldn’t want to continue the trend.
I might explode a few toilets too.
Education: There’s a Better Way….Find it.
Nobody’s Opinion
Not many candidates are talking about our very poor educational system. They all give lip service to it, but the fact is, it’s an overgrown behemoth bureaucracy of cancerous stagnation, that decade by decade, does nothing but leave too many forever in “service” jobs. 
If you watched this video you cannot but conclude that: maybe that’s the plan.
As the film suggest: the problems of our education or lack of thereof, has not been a big concern of our government. It’s NEVER been on the top of any party’s agenda: the subject is dropped once the President gets in office. The reason: unions and the money they supply.
George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” was noble in thought, it’s just that the schools had already left everyone behind so badly, nobody could catch up.
Higher education may be no better off. Both the so-called best online colleges and the so-called best traditional colleges are still not serving students well. Thirty percent of college and university students drop out after their first year. Half of all students never graduate.
Still, despite the odds, there are some who do not let our poor educational system get in their way.
There was a small piece tonight on Sixty Minutes about an autistic boy savant named Jake, who was going to graduate from college at age 14. He excels in higher mathematics. He had an unbelievable memory, which helped, but it was his passion and his love of numbers that is driving him to be probably the next Einstein.
Not all of us are born with “supercharged” memories in our brains. As Thomas Edison once said, “We have to learn how to think.” 
“I am frequently asked about our system of education. I say that we have none. Our system is a relic of past ages. It consists of parrot-like repetitions. It is a dull study of twenty-six hieroglyphs.”
“Groups of hieroglyphs. That is what the young of this present day study. Here is an object. I place it in the hands of a child. I tell him to look at it. If we begin before we have hardened and dried his mind he studies the object with kindling enthusiasm. The mind of the child is naturally active. Why should we make him take his impressions of things through the ear when he may be able to see?”
(Later he claims that’s why he invented motion pictures…to teach.)
“The folds of the brain grow deeper through observation; they grow fallow from disuse. If we educate too abruptly–if we cram the mind with facts memorized for themselves alone, what comes? Pure atrophy.”
“The trouble with our educating as generally followed is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mould. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and lays more stress on memory than observation.”
He goes on to say what happens to our kids from not being challenged but rather…bored to death:
Bad teaching promotes: “A flagging interest, which leads quickly to the habit of listening without hearing, of looking without regard to the existence or non-existence of interest. At present, most young leave their schools only partially educated, and rapidly forget a large part of that which they have been taught. They fail to learn because the methods of teaching are wrong. They forget because the methods of instruction have made them actually dislike knowledge. “
Now, remember, this was back in Edison’s day.
He goes on:
“Universities fail: Careful thought convinces me that this is because the men who run them never have been out in the great world of struggle. Professors usually are men untried in any sort of competition comparable with that which their students eventually must face. Speaking generally, such men cannot impart the right ideas to the boys, for they themselves are ignorant.”
Nobody Thinks this is one of the very reason we have failed in America: Too many of our teachers know nothing about the everyday world, or even how to use the subject they are teaching in the real world.
Not many algebra teachers can tell you HOW to use algebra, or why—or even who uses it and when. I know, I’ve asked almost every algebra teacher I ever knew, and they had no clue.
Too many of our leaders come from some of these many ignorant teachers, most of them from Harvard, who Henry Adams trashed with delightful abandon in “The Education of Henry Adams.” (You can imagine how I loved that.) 
For instance: Daddy Bush, a Harvard alumni, while President, had never been in a grocery store. He was shocked, when he visited one, at the price of bread, and how the items were scanned by the cashier.
It’s hard to believe, how removed from ordinary life some of these people are.
Can you imagine what Edison would think of the schools system we have now? Where kids are not only not being taught how to think, they are being stuffed with meaningless crap like: recycling, diversity, global warming, sex, gender issues, and the trashing of our own history?
All you have to do is watch Jay Leno’s boardwalk to see all the college graduates who don’t even know how many moons the earth has.
“The main objection that I have against a college graduate is that he objects to work, especially if it is dirty. He does not want a job with much work to it, and when he does get a position, he expects to be appointed foreman at the end of the sixth week. Most of the men working for me have never gone to college. Those college graduate that I have usually show a lack of imagination. They scarcely have any suggestions to make in their daily routine which might lead to improvement in their various departments. “
And so, we are ruled by those Harvard constitutional lawyers who “scarcely have any suggestions to make their daily routine which might lead to improvement in their various departments.”
Nobody Thinks…that’s also the point: the daily routine of our leaders can’t get much better, and that’s why “we the people” need to think: Do I leave my child’s education to the public school system?
Or is there a better way?
“There is always a way to do it better..find it.”…Tom Edison.
Nobody Needs More Hetty Greens
Nobody Wins
Most everyone will agree… our education system is…abysmal. While there are many public schools, in areas where the lawyers, doctors, and fairly well-off people live that do a fairly good job, for most of America, the story is very different.
We are so far behind in science and math compared to other countries, it a no- brainer that Mitt Romney and Bill Gates want to import more brains from other countries. The main thing that has separated the haves from the have- not’s is knowledge. And there is one bit of important knowledge that the rich know that the poor are never taught:How to play the stock market.
Who is Heddy Green? (1834-1916) She played with the big boys, back when Jay Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D. Rockefeller went around the country snatching up natural resources, fixing prices, cheating the government, and trying to destroy one another. This was also before the Sixteenth Amendment was passed giving the federal government the right to tax individuals and corporations. (Now, the rich just put all their money in off-shore banks.)
Hetty was every bit as good at the game, she took no prisoners, and she became a very ric multimillionaire, by playing the stock market.
And HOW did a woman back in the Victorian era accomplish this feat?
From The Rich and How They Got That Way
Hetty father and her grandfather made their money in the whale business. As a girl , Hetty sat on their laps while they read the business news and stock market report to her. Later when their eyesight began to fail, she did the same for them. Since Quakers traditionally regarded women as men’s equals. Once when Hetty went to New York for the winter social season, her father gave her $1,200 to buy clothes. She invested $1,000 of the allowance in bonds instead. All through her life she held high society in utter contempt.
When he died, he left his estate of about $6 million to his daughter. Her father had left his bequest in a trust to be administered by two male executors. Hetty’s income from her various holdings amounted to roughly $1000 a day. yet she wore the same dress every day. She bought railroad stocks and bonds. In one year in London, she made more than $1.25 million on her investments.
So, is it any wonder why the lowly working man is angry? With the right investments, a man or woman needs never lift a finger to survive. And today, we have even bigger robber barons—
“Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.” The robber barons prevailed partly because they were good gamblers but also because they had no ethical scruples, and no person or agency was powerful enough to stop them. By 1900, America had the highest per capita standard of living in the world. It was the heroic age of American capitalism.
They destroyed one another by manipulating stock prices with the blind enthusiasm of barbarians. The act of a corner was to acquire the entire stock of a commodity in order to resell it at a higher price, a perfect corner obliterated the bears who had sold stock short in anticipation of buying it back cheaper at a later date.
Sound familiar?
So…the reason that we are in this terrible mess, is because a lot of very rich people, saw a way to get very rich on the stock market, and they crashed fortunes, nations, and futures with no remorse.
The little nobodies had no clue, because they were not taught in his schools, how bonds, stocks, derivatives, and even capitalism works.
Nobody Wins, when a nation is kept ignorant by design, of how stock markets work. That gives the cream at the top the advantage.
A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange just as he is killed in war by people whom he never sees.
American have not only been robbed of our money, we have been robbed of our future.
It’s about time, we educate ourselves.
Hannon Talks to the American People
Nobody’s Opinion
Some years ago, I was writing to various companies trying to get a “licensee” for my patented product. In every “inventor’s ” book I read, they all warned of the same thing to the lone guy trying to approach a big company. They warned that all the big companies have the “not invented here” syndrome. This basically means they spend millions of dollars every year to pay people to think up ideas, and so, if some outsider comes along, they will have to sign an agreement that says in long pages of lawyer gobbledygook, “We will look at your idea but we might have the exact same thing being developed at our company (which of course, they don’t have to prove to YOU.) therefore, anything you show us can be ours. And you will…get nothing.”
In other words, you give them permission to steal your idea by showing it to them. You see, if you work for Monsanto, and think up an invention that pulls all pollution out of the air, at almost no cost, that invention belongs to Monsanto. Even if you thought it up in your own time, and on your own dime.
These books always warned you to get at least a “patent pending” before you show your idea to any big company, and when my patents were pending, everyone talked to me. What they didn’t tell you is that if you actually GET the patent, nobody will call you at all. In fact, they won’t touch you with a Joe Biden handshake.
What does this have to do with Daniel Hannan’s great presentation on America?
While Daniel does not touch the subject of “patents” and inventions, he does lay out what happens when you get government taking care of free markets. He points out the way to wealth for countries is competition between them all, not financial markets controlled by unelected dweebs with good intentions. It’s also why when the big banks buy up all the little banks, and the big multinationals put the little businesses out of work, there is less competition. For example: McDonalds got out of Obamacare…how’s that going to work for you?
This Daniel Hannan speech was meant for all Americans. If you can find the time, it’s a great lesson for us all. Sorry I post him so much…I just think he is saying, more than anyone in America, what we all should be hearing from our leaders over here in the states.
As he basically says, America is the last hope. We MUST not give up on what the founders gave us.
Enjoy
(The speech is so good, it will feel more like ten minutes, really. )
Nobody Remembers: Penn State, Columbine, Ft. Hood…and Michael Jackson.
Nobody Wins
There’s something about a football coach being labeled a pedophile that’s just creepy. We all saw the interview that Bob Costas did with the Penn State Coach, Jerry Sandusky. He admitted he love being around the kids, taking showers with them, and sometimes he touched their legs.
Who does that sound like? YEP…Michael Jackson. The man who loved the children of the world so much he had pajama parties where they all came and slept in his bed. He told the press that he just never had a childhood, and everything he did was for ‘the children’.
Yeah, right. After he was brought up on sexual molestation charges,(How many years had he been doing this stuff?) he left the country, (lived with a Saudi Prince for a while..mmm) then quickly adopted three white kids whom I’m sure Michael— being crafty and smart, knew would clear his name someday.
Michael had his fame and money to shut kids up. Even Liz Taylor said he was one of the smartest men she had ever met. Michael had a good game face. 
The coach evidently had a good game face too and a close-knit group of university buddies, who stood by and said nothing. They were elites.
We’d be absolutely naive to think both of them were innocent of molesting kids.
Here’s what Joseph Farah says about the subject;
Now that being accused of homophobia is considered an offense, while practicing homosexuality is considered a virtue, should it really surprise anyone that such behavior would go unreported or unchallenged for so long?
In an age when government schools are actually teaching children how to perform homosexual acts and that there is nothing wrong with them, it would seem that an environment conducive for predators of children is being created under the watchful eye of the state and the media.
BUT…Nobody Thinks there’s a bigger problem here: There is something that these two cases have in common with two other cases: People are looking the other way when they see a crime. People know, they might be the ones prosecuted, and to protect themselves, they do nothing. When you have a country ruled by MEN, not laws, that’s what happens.
For instance, when I reported my Muslims neighbors maybe making bombs in their back yard at night, the FBI was nice, but my mayor was unbelievable rude. He suggested I MOVE. I still wonder if someday this band of men that I saw meeting every night for months will not some set off some kind of attack…planned right here in the middle of America.
And I did everything I could to warn them.
Before the Columbine attacks the police knew a year in advance that one boy, Eric Harris was especially dangerous. A family who he had been threatening with death, on his “death” website (in which he also put his plans of demolishing the whole school and HOW he was going to do it) had this family so scared they went to the police dozens of times…warning them. The police filed a report after finding a pipe bomb near the house. Eric was a clear psychopath. It was all over his website. 
BUT…the police did nothing. Didn’t even do a search at his home (he bragged about making bombs online) or tell his parents. The people were pretty much told to go home and shut up.
Later, after the event the police hide the files in a cover up.
Then there was Nidal Malik Hasan, who fired into US soldiers at Fort Hood killing 13 and wounding 29. The army knew for two whole years that this guy was about to explode.
“They did not act in part because they valued the rare diversity of having a Muslim psychiatrist” military investigators wrote in previously undisclosed reports.
David Brooks, a writer, says this as to why people do nothing when confronted with crimes:
Some people simply can’t process the horrors in front of them. Some people suffer from what the psychologist call Normalcy Bias. When they find themselves in some unsettling circumstance, they shut down and pretend everything is normal.
David would therefore forgive the boys at Columbine, and Nidal Hasan because he would say they are missing something in their cognitive thinking, and anybody witnessing crimes could be excused from…being too sensitive.
Nobody Thinks David really enjoys psychoanalyzing himself on paper. We are being programmed, in our movies, our educational system, and our politically correct laws, not to talk against gays, Muslim, Superstars, politicians…unless of course you are in the Tea Party…then Ms Maxine Waters wants you to go to hell.
But to see a child being molested and not do anything? Mr. Farah is right.
Or is this all about looking out for Number One? 
The faculty at the University, protected their own, so as to keep the money rolling in. Michael Jackson was a black man. You’re a racist if you even attack their most beloved star. Our Congressmen and Presidents commit crimes, and nobody does a thing. They are exempt for any law. “Some are more equal than others.”
Nobody Wins when a society becomes so programmed to fear repercussions from the ‘state’ that they will look the other way at injustices. We saw it happen in Germany, and in a small creepy way, it’s happening right here in America.
When they came for the Jews, I said nothing…
Rich Dad, Poor Cardinal Squirrel
Nobody Knows—
That I went to a “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” seminar with my friend Pattie, and the rich guy who wrote the book, (Robert Kiyusaki) decided that showing up for just thirty people was waste of his time. So he sent another fellow to convince the whole crowd that…JUST TODAY, we could purchase an educational three-day program that cost $998 dollars for ONLY…$199! Before the end of the hour he said we could even bring a friend for free!
That was his first mistake. Also, about half way through he was getting very noticeably madder and LOUDER, because many of us were kind of …smirking.
He went on for a whole ninety minutes trying to tell us that we could take a “hard loan” off the internet (no credit needed) and go out, find some property cheap,fix it up…and sell it! That is how rich people get rich!
Well, I’m sure.
It’s also how Fannie and Freddie got their big name. He made it sound like people are just out there WAITING in line to buy your house. Or rent your house. What he failed to mention is sometimes, when they default they have a whole YEAR before you can kick them out…espescially if they are in the well protected class of color..ful.
The REAL rich guy, who now gets rich off of selling people three-day training programs, is doing a book tour with Donald Trump.
Oh, you were not really allowed to ask questions. So, if you have ever been to one of these things, let me say this: you have NEVER been to one as absurd as this one…and so to honor the really squirrely day we had, it seems all was not lost. 
St. Louis has adopted the “squirrel” to be the Cardinal Mascot for the National League Baseball Playoffs, because some squirrel ran across the field recently and everyone fell in love with him.
And that’s what that salesman needed to pitch his big educational program. Next time I suggest: he let a few live squirrels, run around the room. Poor guy. My friend and I couldn’t figure out, why, if this guy had made so much money off of this program, why was he so obviously upset when no one was buying?
I mean, what was he doing there? He had five restaurants to run.
I mean, how squirrely to you have to be to think that one minute the program is $1,000, and the next second..$200? And then…$100.00
We decided that if we wanted to learn about real estate we go to the local community college and take a $35 dollar course.
Not that we want to, because we don’t. And that’s why that guy hated us all. Right now, I need a squirrel hug….and a World Series Ticket.
And as my husband always says: “People in hell want ice water.”
Who’s Got the Most Inebriated Drunks? Britain or the USA?
Nobody’s Perfect
Today, after I saw these pictures, I decided that we really need to discuss who can get drunk with more audacity: The kids in the United States, or the kids in Great Britain?
This is really going to be a close call, because you see, despite the pictures that you see of these fine young women who passed out on the streets in Cardiff, England..I think the real reason they fall down is —-those shoes.
American women are much more sensible. When they get drunk, they take OFF their shoes before they fall over. And they also have the common courtesy to not wear underwear. Usually, they don’t stay in the street when they can’t stand up. NO…in America, they go to McDonalds and I-Hop to pass out. They welcome drunks there with open arms, because drunks are usually not paying attention.
Waitress: “Uh…here’s your bill.”
Drunk: “I ordered two hundred dollars worth of food?”
Waitress: “Yep.”
Drunk: “Oh nooooo…here’s my card.”
Yes, they love them.
Does England have a 24-hour breakfast restaurant to go and vomit in? NO…the poor drunk people in England have to sit among the trash to vomit and sober up. American kids vomit in their cars!
It’s another public service we are good at.
Having said that: I know, soccer matches in England are notorious for drunken rivals pouring out of the games and vandalizing whatever gets in their way, but the American men, do NOT wander around…and fight..oh no.They are much smarter. They find the nearest toilet, or table, and sit or “lay” till morning. If they are in a bar, they just pass out on the floor.
If a man passes out in a bar in America their friends will be very careful to step over them on the way to the dance floor…so as not to disturb their slumber. We are…after all, a compassionate people.
Americans are very smart: We have drinking festivals, just like the Germans. Mardi Gras is the place to go to get smashed. There are so many people in the street that it’s impossible to pass out. The person next to you will hold you up just because—he can’t move either. You could not fall down if you tried.
And drunk women in America, will not only take off their big high heeled shoes, they will take off their tops…just ask them!
The real reason that Americans have such an advantage over the Brits is that when it comes to getting drunk, we have got it down to a real actual college course: “Drink till you Drop” 101. This course has been passed by every freshman since the boys at Harvard starting getting drunk and going naked. At Harvard, Drinking has been evolved into a very fine art.
Over the years fraternities have perfected: “Get In the Bathtub” fruit punch, the “Knock her out” fruit punch, the “Alpha Pi Me” fruit punch” and the “Final Exam” fruit punch” The last being the most popular so that when you flunk your exams you have a good excuse.
Most college grads in America know how to pour every alcohol beverage ever made into a bathtub and comatose at least 50 people at once. The recipe to Purple Passion has been more guarded than the formula to Coca Cola.
Let the Chinese beat us in math. WE have drinking games! Our young people do “shots” games, and many try to pass out from the sheer fun of having someone pour vodka down their throats. American parents actually give beer parties and “watch” their kids pour beer down their throats till they pass out. It’s the least they can do for the little darlings.
Yes, American parents are keeping the high school drunks off the streets until they go to college, where they will have safe dorm rooms to pass out in. Love goes a long way.
But…there is one thing that even this Nobody has no way of measuring properly. Who urinates in the street more after a sporting event: The USA or England?
That’s another lovely side effect of drinking: alcohol usually exits when you least expect it to.
I don’t mean to brag, but every night across America, at sports stadium in every city, the men come out, and piss wherever they can find a spot. Most of the time, on someone else’s car. There is no way that England can beat the drunk Americans in using the ground as their public toilet.
OR…can they?
Having said that: We MUST give the British credit for one thing: How to get drunk and go rousing the storefronts.
Yes, now we have the American black teenagers doing the “flash mobs” going into local mini marts and stealing whatever they want. and most of these people are …
Dare I say it? Sober.
Pathetic. We will lose our edge if we keep this sober business up.
But, have faith— Americans are trying very hard to make soccer matches popular her in the states. And if that happens, the Brits might as well move here, because they will never beat us at getting sloppily drunk and falling over at the nearest sidewalk.
(Nobody Does NOT make this pitiful stuff up, but she certainly can make fun of it. Be glad I didn’t write a serious piece about this…You might have to go have a drink.)— (thanks to amfortas)
Nobody’s Perfect, but four more years of Obama, and I expect more of the same.
Nobody’s Perfect, No. 2: Bernice King VS Michelle Bachmann
Nobody’s Perfect
Let me say right off: The reason I posted Michelle’s big blooper on “Elvis’s birthday” (when it was actually the day he died) was because, I have wasted too much time searching for the “mistake” that Bernice King made at the MLK memorial ceremony. She said that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence, which was equally as amazing.
So, let’s compare: Michelle is running for the Presidency. Should she know Elvis’s birthday? Some people might say that Elvis was just as important to America as Martin Luther King. My neighbor for one. Is Elvis’s birthday going to effect her dicisions in the White House? Probably not. The only person insulted by this really idiotic mistake would be Elvis fans.
And then, we have Bernice King, who reads right through her speech at the memorial for her father and says that Abraham Lincoln signed The Declaration of Independence.
Excuse me? Did Popeye sign The Constitution? Did Jesse Jackson tour with the the Dave Clark Five? Was it the white people who sold their fellow countrymen to slavery? Did Obama say the United States has 57 states?
Oh..well,—yes he did…and he went to HARVARD.
Was Daddy King so busy marching for civil rights that he forgot to teach his kids anything? One thing King’s children DO know how to do is milk the taxpayers. The Kings have been making big money off their daddy’s name for years, and this memorial was no exception.
What bothered me the most was her comparing Lincoln “sitting down” and MLK “standing up.” (See video here) What was she saying? The blacks will rule everyone in the future. Hang in there. Someday, Martin Luther King will write the NEW Declaration of Black Independence, where diversity is mandated to mean that every black will get hired before every white, as is their American right, and I suppose that it will be said by future KINGS that Abraham Lincoln signed that too.
Nobody is bothered by this: John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, the ONLY founders who refused to own slaves, and fought every single day for the blacks to be free against the Democrats in the Congress, still have no memorial. Without JQA, the subject of slavery would have never been discussed. Think how history would have been effected.
The Adams’ have only a mere few quotes on the side of the Smithsonian, which by the way, Bernice King should be thankful about because it was JQA who dreamed of the Smithsonian and held the money donated for the Smithsonian from Congress to be used, only for that purpose.
Imagine if JQA had been President, in modern times, Social Security would never have been touched. If not for him, the mall wouldn’t even had existed for future blacks to go visit their memorial. You can bet that if MS King doesn’t know that Lincoln did not sign the Declaration of Independence, she had no clue who John Quincy Adams was. But…she might know Elvis’s birthday…what do you think?
So,—What gal gets the most Kudo’s for making statements of ignorance harmful to the nation?
Nobody Thinks— you already know.
One last Nobody remark: Many are forgiving both these women for just being “nervous.” Michelle, I think, has apologised.— Has Bernice?
When Johnnie Can’t Write His Name..No Problem. He’ll Just Flash the Chip in his Hand
Nobody’s Opinion
“My name is Kathleen, not Catherine,” she said to me.
It was the last day of the adult swimming at the local pool, and I was just now getting to know the old gal with the pretty silver hair, who would swim to the end of the pool and do her knee exercises. I knew that she was recovering from two knee surgeries, but that’s about all I knew of her…that was about to change.
“I was a teacher..a strict teacher.” she said as we were drying off getting ready to leave for the year.
“What did you teach?” I asked, as I sat down on the blue-netted lounge to get my feet.
“Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, for over thirty years.”
And then she just blurted it out…”Did you know they are not going to teach cursive anymore? The kids do not even have to write anything anymore. All they have to do is fill in the dot.” She was appalled. A kid that couldn’t write, or even be asked to write, might as well be labeled ignorant for life. It was as if all her life’s work had just been thrown into the trash can.
As she sat down on the lounge next to me, she went on to tell me about some of the things that were going on at our local schools. The teachers were having sex in the bathrooms., and then bragging about it.
Not the kids, the teachers.
Kathleen spoke about how proud she was of the job she did when she taught. She told me of one teacher who hated her, and she could never figure out why. Then one day, the teacher told her…
“You always got all the presents.” she said.
You see, Kathleen insisted on respect from her students, They had to say “yes sir, and yes ma’am” and her students therefore actually learned, and they loved her for it. She would never put the kid’s name on the board when they were bad, but when they were good. Every once in a while, she would have them all write (in cursive) an essay to tell her if she had ever been unfair, and when, and to not sign their names.
My god, I thought…what a human being.
She told me how a student had told her to look on FACEBOOK, and to notice, how she was everybody’s favorite teacher. I noticed a few tears forming in her eyes as she spoke about reading their comments.
So, the “mean, strict” teacher at Christmas time, much to all the other teacher’s surprise, was swamped with presents. So many that the room was filled up with them.
As she laid back on the lounge chair, she continued to tell me how corrupt the school administrators were, and I told her my own sad story about my son, who was actually kicked out of high school for being sick. He went ahead and got a GED Scholarship, but I have never forgiven the people at the school that did it to him.
Kathleen told me it was the saddest story she had ever heard.
During my own fight with the school system , the corruption I saw at every turn sickened me. The United States School system is rigged, only to benefit the teachers, the principals, and the unions. It’s all about the money. And what’s so sad, is that so many of the teachers don’t even know much about anything, and yet, due to George Bush, the kids have to pass the standardized tests. Or else, they don’t get federal funds.
If that’s not a reason to take the schools back to the local level, I don’t know what is.
But, it’s too entrenched. The system is like a huge, poisonous blob of gangrene suffocating the whole country. And it, makes money for the liberals that control it, and continue to perpetuate it.
Last month, 178 teachers and principals at 44 Atlanta public schools were found to be responsible for, or directly involved in, cheating on the state’s standardized test, according to a report issued by the Georgia governor’s office following an extensive investigation.
This teaching scandal was blamed on the bonuses that everyone would get if all the kids passed the tests. The “bleeding heart” excuse for cheating was: What if you have a bunch of “poor” kids who can’t pass the test, and you are a teacher who is a single mom with kids to raise, and you NEED that bonus?
You must cheat. The poor kids can’t compete with the rich kids. It’s not the teacher’s fault.
Baloney.
If Booker T. Washington, a slave that swept floors for reading lessons, can learn how to read and write, then there is no reason that “poor’ kids can’t learn. There are “poor” schools in New York City that are exceeding due to the old fashioned “strict” policies put back in place.
Just last week. Mitt Romney told us all what he thinks of America’s hope by answering one questions: What did he think of immigrations?
He said that we should persuade all the foreigners who studied and got degrees at our universities to stay in our country. Mitt knows that our own American children will not have the skills to fill the higher level position. And if they do, the job will still go the foreigners as we have seen, because they are cheaper. Bill Gates feels the same way.
American kids are being abandoned, and not just the poor black ones. The dumbing down has been an ongoing liberal process for most of my lifetime.
And what does that tell you?
Do they want to keep our kids stupid?
Well, so far it’s working out for them —-just fine.
Nobody Knows: Agenda 21
Nobody Knows
Anyone who has read me for some time, knows that I happen to think there is an elite group of various powerful men and women, who have taken upon themselves to “save the planet.” Well, it’s nothing new in history, but it’s even more dangerous now in this time, due to our technology, which happens to be all in their hands. I have thought this for years, because it seems to be the only thing that makes sense.
People make mistakes, but when you see who benefits the ‘mistakes’ it starts to form a pattern.
So, I’m keeping this short. This video shows a bit of what many have been planning, and if you logically consider all the events in the world, and how they seem to all point to one direction, you will start to watch for it.
Black has become white. The Tea Party people are dangerous? There are black riots everywhere, and no one is talking about them? My own local Police chief told me to move becasue I was worried about my Muslim neighbors meetings?
Our own government opened the flootgates to the little farmers this spring. And more and more people want us to be like “China.” I hear it all the time on the radio.
And as you can see from this video (on Doug Powers site) they are going full force with the little ones.
I’m going to stop talking, because, it’s just so damn…insane. But, if you have the time, the video is worth it.
(thanks to amfortas)
The Evolution of Education (What Evolution?)
Nobody Reports
“From grammar the boys progressed to studying works of classical and neo-classical literature. They might read anthologies of Latin sayings and Aesop’s Fables, followed by the fairly easy plays of Terence and Plautus. They might even act scenes from Latin plays. As they progressed they would improve their command of language by translating from Latin into English and back, by imitating approved models of style, and by studying manuals of composition, the ancient rules of rhetoric, and modern rules of letter writing. Putting their training into practice they would compose formal epistles, orations, and declamations. Their efforts at composition would be stimulated too by their reading of the most admired authors. Works that Shakespeare wrote throughout his career show the abiding influence of Virgil’s Aeneid and of Ovid’s Metamorphoses Certainly he developed a taste for books both classical and modern; his plays show that he continued to read seriously and imaginably for the whole of his working life. “
Reading, writing, and arithmetic are old rhymes in a old book.
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
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