Education in the Spotlight and some linky-love

Gateway Pundit:  After Nationalizing Health Care & Student Loans – Obama Continues Attack on Private Sector In Weekly Address

My observation: 

Listen carefully to what Obama said in this address:

In his weekly address on radio and Internet, Obama called education and health care “two of the most important pillars of a strong America.” He thanked Congress for passing the measures, calling them “real and major reform.

This should have huge red flags waving wildly in front of your face.  If these are truly the pillars of a strong America, then why have they been federalized?  As we witness Obama ramping up his rhetoric with in-your-face insults, taunts, and ridicule, I have to ask, "what is it that makes this man act in such a bold and obnoxious manner?  Does he perhaps have some insight that we are not yet privy to?"   

From American Thinker:

Welcome to the Machine: Cultural Marxism in Education

The education machine that keeps churning out newbies conditioned in mind-blunting nonjudgmentalism has laid the groundwork for a left wing takeover.

What reduced American education to its current state? read the rest

Protein Wisdom gets personal with The Lie of the Liberal Arts Education
 I venture to say Jeff Goldstein's old professor will think twice before tangling with him again. H/T to Memeorandum

Also from Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft wonders, "It’s almost as if Obama and democrats actually want the economy to collapse?"   Ya think? 
Read:  Another Crushing Blow to the Economy: Obamacare Will Cost US Corporations Billions  


Political Junkie Mom gets it.  Read:  It’s intentional, Peggy.


NiceDeb brought up a valid point concerning the source of the video I just posted (inforwars.com) as having no credibility because they were 9/11 truthers.  While I was well aware they posted material that questioned the events of 9/11, as always, I think long and hard before dismissing information because of the source.  It is our jobs as citizens to vet material, study, and come to our own conclusions.  Deb is quite correct to express her caution.  It is something we all must do. However, I still urge you to watch the video and do your own research.

Deb also posted information about the Kansas City Tea Party that is planned for April 15th.  If you live in or around Kansas, or are even flying in (I wish I could), everything you need to know is posted.  We thank her!

TPM Tea Partiers To Hold 'Conservative Woodstock' Event In Harry Reid's Hometown
another H/T to Memeorandum

Our very own Stacy McCain is in Searchlight, NV to attend this rally.  Waiting for updates at The Other McCain.  Check back there often.

Since we're talking about tea parties, I thank  my buddy Mark for leading me to this fine article Tea Party protesters are extraordinary, not ordinary by Dr. Sanity. 


How about another peek at our future?

Mcnorman's Weblog: Running Out Of Other People’s Money: Hospital wards to shut in secret NHS cuts

More on this from The BlogProf:  Single-Payer Hell: British NHS to secretly close units, urge sick to email doctors rather than visit, replace medical professionals with less qualified assistants, deny patient care to save cost


The Other McCain:    Smitty provided us with a two minute video summing up our future. He likens it to a "mugging."  I'd have to agree. Some Say That Sufficient Falsehood Can Enable Truth


Dr. Zero brings us our much needed pep-talk for the day: 

A Word to the Weary

[...]My own vision of the future includes peril, but not doom. We’re in a bad place right now, but we can turn things around. read the rest

Our quote for the day:

I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.  Deuteronomy 32:24

On of the commentors on American Thinker referred to the current administration as "those that glide through the dust."  Perfect!  And we thank him.

Palm Sunday

Tomorrow is Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week culminating with Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Holy Saturday Easter vigil liturgy. Tomorrow I will be attending an early Mass and processing with palm branches, recreating and remembering the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.  I will pray for you and for our country, and ask you to do the same.  See you on Monday...

"In every human life, in yours and in mine, the palms and the passion are intermingled. We accept the first with gratitude and the second with faith and look forward to that moment when, having given back all that we were given, we enter into the unutterable joy of eternal life." Father John Speekman, Palm Sunday Homily

Painting byZdzislaw Piotr Jasinski
"Palm Sunday", 1891, oil on canvas