Lamar In His Own Words on Education

I saw Lamar Alexander's "No National School Board" ad again last night.  Every time I hear/see it, I crack up.  Lamar is using a phantom issue to deceive voters about his real views on education.  It's just like his "I'm against ObamaCare because I voted against it" shtick.  True he voted against funding it, but he voted for cloture which is what allowed it to be passed by a simple majority of Democrats.  What is in the water in DC anyway?  But I digress.  This article is about education and Lamar.

Obama and the Democrats aren't trying to form a National School Board, Lamar.  Are they trying to take over education?  Yes.  See Common Core.  But that doesn't mean that Democrats are trying to form a National School Board as their strategy.  They are too smart for that.  They use more devious ways in which to do so.  Again, see Common Core.

What Lamar isn't touting is his ideas in 1989 for cradle to college education ~starting at 3 months;~ year around school from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.



Where have you heard these ideas before?




Just in case you don't know who this is, it is Obama's current of Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.  And yes, Arne Duncan is a proponent of Common Core.

What is Lamar Alexander's stance on Common Core?  With his misleading ad, he's implying that he's against Common Core.

How about we look at what he does.  It is no secret that Tennessee governor, Bill Haslam is a big supporter of Common Core.  It's an understatement to say that Jeb Bush is a supporter of Common Core.  So who is it that Lamar is palling around with in March 2014?  Why  Jeb Bush and Governor Haslam, of course.

Good Try Lamar!  The good news is that we do have a choice for US Senate.  Joe Carr actually has a record for fighting against Common Core.

Join me in voting for Tennessee.  Vote for Joe Carr in the Republican Primary for US Senate.  

  

Thanks Lamar!

I just want to take this opportunity to Thank Lamar for voting for Amnesty thus encouraging the influx of illegal ~which is another word for criminal~ minors into Tennessee and our country.  Tennessee has received 760 ~that we know of~ so far.  All without even our governor knowing about it.

Just to show my appreciation, I will be voting for Joe Carr, not you in the Republican Primary.

Update:

Lamar is feeling the heat for his amnesty vote.  He is now trying to talk tough on the 760 illegals kids that the feds have dumped in Tennessee without our knowledge.  

Too little; too late, Lamar.  Your vote for Amnesty showed your true colors.  Tennessee voters will not be fooled.  

P.S.  Maybe if you would have stood with Tennessee voters and Ted Cruz before this week, you wouldn't be in such trouble.  

Your Kids' New Classmates . . .

Schools here in Memphis get started next week, August 4th.  There will be lots of changes.  After Memphis City Schools surrendered their charter in 2010 to force consolidation with the Shelby County Schools, the subject of education has been a sore spot here in Memphis.  There has been a lot of angst, confusion and name-calling going on.  The parents of the municipalities didn't take kindly to a forced takeover by the failed MCS, so they responded by creating school districts of their own.  Next week will be the kickoff for the new schools.  I wish them well.  The parents in the municipalities showed what can happen when citizens get involved with self-governance.  Kudos to them.

So all will be hunky dory right?  Not so fast.  The municipal schools will still be dealing with Common Core, but that is a subject for another post.  No, what I am referring to are all of the illegal "unaccompanied" minors that will be joining our kids in school.

From The Daily Caller:  ~h/t Education News~

American kids and teenagers will be sharing their already-crowded classrooms with tens of thousands of ill-educated Central American migrants this fall, because President Obama is distributing perhaps 100,000 Central American migrants across the country.

The arrival of the American students’ new classmates was highlighted July 25 when Obama’s agencies announced he had already distributed 30,340 foreign youths and children by July 7.

Virginia received 2,234 foreign students and Maryland got 2,205, according to the announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services. Texas got 4,280 foreign students, North Carolina got 1,191, and New Jersey got 1,504, said the government statement.  ~My note: Tennessee got 760~

 Those numbers may double by October, however.

More than 50,000 Central American children and youths have crossed the border since October with the aid of smugglers, usually working under a contract with their parents. More that 90 percent say they are teenagers, and more than 95 percent are being released by Obama to their U.S.-based parents or relatives, many of whom are illegal immigrants.

Another 50,000 Central Americans have crossed in so-called “family units,” of at least one parent and child. A few of those are being repatriated, some are being held in government facilities, but many have been bussed or flown to cities where they want to live, despite widespread protests from worried Americans.

More migrants are expected to cross before winter sets in, and next’s year’s inflow is expected to be much larger than this year’s flood, unless the federal government sharply changes its immigration enforcement policies.

Roughly 30,000 Central Americans children and youths arrived from 2012 to September 2013. Most of them are enrolled in U.S. schools, including some who are believed to be over 18.

Not only are these kids not literate in English ~how can they be expected to be?~ they aren't even literate in Spanish.


Another concern that we as parents should have is all the infectious diseases that these kids are bringing with them.  There's tuberculosis, scabies, chicken pox, pneumonia, H1N1 just to name some of them.  I have a daughter whose immune system is compromised because she is on anti-rejection drugs for her transplant.

Chicken pox is the least of my worries as a parent.  Without getting into the whole vaccine debate, ~even if vaccines are as effective as claimed~ it is a fact that vaccines don't give 100% protection.  Here is the link for the vaccines that are required by Shelby County Schools for school registration?   Vaccines for TB, scabies and H1N1 are not on the list.

How about all the MS-13 gang members that are coming across?  Did you know that the vast majority ~84%~ of these "children" are teens?

Even if you believe that the compassionate thing to do is educate these youth, what is it going to do to our schools already stretched budgets?

From  the Boston Herald:

“We certainly don’t want to communicate that our city is not a welcoming place, especially for young children, but we have to be concerned about our finances and our ability to serve all of our citizens,” said New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell. “If the point comes where we feel as though our resources are getting too strained, we’re going to look to the state and federal government for assistance because that is only fair.”

With our own school, municipal and personal budgets tight, is it really "fair" to our kids to take resources from them to give to illegal entrants?  Schools have security systems to keep out threats to our children.  Now we are being forced to "welcome" them in?

It's Bush's Fault . . .

Except that it's not.  How many times have we heard Obama and the Democrats blame Bush for _______ ?  Just fill in the blank.  The economy, the Obama phones, Fast and Furious ~I'll talk about this in another post~  the FSA spying on us, the VA scandal and the list goes on.  Anytime that Obama gets questioned about something that is bad, he blames Bush.  And here we are again.  Obama and the Democrats are trying to blame Bush for not being able to deport these "unaccompanied" minors flooding across our southern border.

The Democrats are blaming a law signed by Bush in 2008 as the reason that they can't just send these kids back home.  "We want to send them back, but our hands are tied by the law," they squeal.  "We are just following the law."  First of all, they forget to mention ~and they know they will get away with it with their base~ that the Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress in 2008.  Secondly, since when are Obama and the Democrats worried about the rule of law?  What law that they dislike are they upholding?  Remember when Obama's Justice Dept refused to uphold DOMA ~The Defense of Marriage Act~?  Or how about the voting intimidation case by the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia from 2008?  Or current immigration laws?  How many times has ObamaCare been delayed or changed by executive order?  So why all of a sudden this penchant for the rule of law?

Come to find out, Obama is once again using his partisan minions to subvert the rule of law.

From the Daily Caller:

Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson admitted at a Tuesday press conference that nearly all the roughly 50,000 Central American youths who have crossed the Texas border since October are accompanied by smugglers hired by the youth’s parents or families.

“It is our observation and our experience that almost all of of them are smuggled,” he said. ”Nobody is freelancing,” he added.

“The families are paying as much as $10,000,” he said.

The act was originally designed to aid the small number of youths who are forcibly imported and abandoned in the United States by criminal groups, such as prostitution rings, said Jon Feere, the legal analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies.

The administration is improperly applying the law to the smuggled immigrants, which only helps the young people win residency and helps the smugglers win more customers, Feere told TheDC.

White House officials “are hoping no one reads through what the 2008 law requires, and they’re happy to act as if their hands are bound by the 2008 law,” he said.

Federal immigration law excludes children with parents or guardians in the U.S. from being classified as “unaccompanied alien children,” and so excludes them from the 2008 law, said Feere.

So how many of these "unaccompanied alien children" are being reunited with their illegal parent already here?

From CNS News:

According to Kenneth Wolfe, deputy director for the Office of Public Affairs at ACF, told CNSNews.com that in 2014 (through the month of June),  96 percent of the 45,157 children -- or 43,341 of them -- who were transferred from the custody of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to the ORR have been placed with sponsors inside the United States, including with family members.

“Over half of the sponsors are parents of the child,” Wolfe said, citing the percentage of children with this placement status at 55 percent.

So let me get this straight.  The regime is admitting that over half of these kids are being reunited with their parents who are already here illegally.  If the parents were here legally, why would they have to pay a smuggler to get them here?   I would submit that most of the others are with some sort of family member here illegally.

How is the Dept of Health and Human Services finding these family members so easily?  I thought the whole reason for immigration reform was so that the illegals could come out of the shadows.  Sure doesn't sound like they are in the shadows to me.  Things that make one go hmmmmmm.

How about when these family members come to pick up their kids, they take the whole family to dinner and then put them on a bus back to their home country?  If they are so important and good for our country, why not let them do their thing in their country of origin?

Update:

Not always a fan of Ann Coulter with her opinions, but her research is top notch.  Also I don't agree with anyone 100% of the time ~not even myself~  haha.  In her article The "Trafficking" Law at the Border -- The Real Loophole is Obama, she sites the law and definition with a link to the law.  It's Section 235.  I went to the actual law ~ and found where it sites the definition for unaccompanied alien children.  It took me awhile, but I found it.  I found the original source and definition for Unaccompanied Alien Children.  It's on page 71 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

(2) the term ‘‘unaccompanied alien child’’ means a child
who—
(A) has no lawful immigration status in the United
States;
(B) has not attained 18 years of age; and
(C) with respect to whom—
(i) there is no parent or legal guardian in the
United States; or
(ii) no parent or legal guardian in the United
States is available to provide care and physical custody.

As a side note.  Wading through these laws that Congress passes is a nightmare.  No wonder citizens just throw up their hands.  The Constitution wasn't written in such a manner.  Another reason that we need to get back to the simplicity of the Founders.

The "good" Doc is up to His old Tricks Again

What is the saying about teaching an old dog new tricks?  Perennial spoiler candidate Doc Flinn is up to his old tricks.  I was lucky to be in the 8th Congressional District in 2010 when Flinn was running in the Republican Primary for Congress.  There were three candidates in that race ~which ended up being the most expensive primary that election:~ Stephen Fincher, Ronald Kirkland and George Flinn.  I would sometimes get two or three mailers from each candidate in a day.  Stephen Fincher won the primary and went on to beat the Democrat for Congress.  In 2012, the "good" doc ran in the 9th Congressional District ~after redistricting~ and defeated Charlotte Bergmann in the Republican Primary and then later went down to a smashing defeat to Democrat Steve Cohen.  I discovered fraud with Flinn's Primary Petition, but that didn't phase the Establishment Shelby County GOP.  They were lured by the "good" doc's money.  Even with the "good" doc's money, he still got a lower percentage of the vote than Ms. Bergmann did in 2010.

Now we are in 2014 and guess what; the "good" doc is at it again.  This time his "prize" is the US Senate.  The problem is; he's not in it to win it.  He's in it to spoil it for his buddy Lamar Alexander.

From the Tennessean:

"Flinn’s involvement increases the chances that anti-incumbent voting could be split in a race that has a total of eight candidates. But Flinn says he does not mind being cast as a spoiler.

"'I think we’re going to spoil this whole election,' he said."

Like in 2012 when he entered the race at the last minute, the "good" doc also entered the 2014 race at the last minute.

When Beat Lamar had their first meeting in Memphis in June 2013, the "good" doc was there and taking pics.  Here is a pic of him at that event.  He then had a meeting with Lamar Alexander right before pulling the petition to run for the Senate.

Fast forward to this week.  Talk show host, Laura Ingraham came to Nashville to help Joe Carr.   Here is the link to the actual Facebook event.  Here is the link to the fake Facebook event for the "good" doc.

Here is a picture of the actual event with Laura Ingraham and Joe Carr.

Here is the logo for the real Beat Lamar group and here is their website:

Here is the logo for the "sponsor" of the fake Flinn event and the website for the fake group.

What is it that they say about imitation being the highest form of flattery?  What does it mean that Lamar is feeling the heat from Joe Carr and is needing to get help from his buddy the "good" doc?   

Don't be fooled by the "good" doc.  Vote for Joe Carr who actually does have a record of being against amnesty and ObamaCare.  It's time to tell the "good" doc and his buddy, Lamar, that we are tired of you.  Your money might buy you influence with the ruling class, but We the People aren't buying what you are selling anymore.

Update:

Lamar must really be feeling the heat.  The latest mailer that I received from the "good" doc is attacking Joe Carr.  I wonder what Lamar has promised the "good" doc?