Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Education Policy?
... I posted this on the HuffingtonPost.Com site regarding the article: "How Will Republican Wins Affect Federal Education Policy?" You can read the article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/03/how-will-republican-wins-_n_778496.html
The part of this issue that is not being addressed is the demands of the DE regarding testing. Please look at what is going to be tested in 2011-it's appalling. If at best the testing only tests a small portion of what should be really taught in school - music, creativity, patterning, physical education, art, dance to name only a few. What the tests test in the fourth grade is read and math, that’s it. The whole experience of learning is more than those two subjects, lots more, yet the DE only test math and reading, it like testing for how pure water is by testing only for gas and oil. There is no reason to rely on these very limited areas for understanding how kids are getting along in school. I have no idea who creates these tests - I can bet it's probably some corporate hacks that have a big contract that has been greased by the political process, made simple by the politicians that passed the education bills that benefited these 'educators'. But that's just speculation on my part, but I wouldn't put it pass the political jerks that use every issue they can get their hands on to advance their own personal slant on the world. End of rant.
The part of this issue that is not being addressed is the demands of the DE regarding testing. Please look at what is going to be tested in 2011-it's appalling. If at best the testing only tests a small portion of what should be really taught in school - music, creativity, patterning, physical education, art, dance to name only a few. What the tests test in the fourth grade is read and math, that’s it. The whole experience of learning is more than those two subjects, lots more, yet the DE only test math and reading, it like testing for how pure water is by testing only for gas and oil. There is no reason to rely on these very limited areas for understanding how kids are getting along in school. I have no idea who creates these tests - I can bet it's probably some corporate hacks that have a big contract that has been greased by the political process, made simple by the politicians that passed the education bills that benefited these 'educators'. But that's just speculation on my part, but I wouldn't put it pass the political jerks that use every issue they can get their hands on to advance their own personal slant on the world. End of rant.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Article: Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, degrowth and ecosocialism
Article: Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, degrowth and ecosocialism
To enter this dialogue with respect, we need an introduction to this movement, which some call the “Pachakuti”, a term taken from the Quechua “pacha”, meaning time and space or the world, and “kuti”, meaning upheaval or revolution.
In its efforts to exert some political influence on solutions to the current world financial and climate crises the nascent international ecosocialist movement should direct some attention to a synthesis of the western ecosocialist discourse with the growing Latin American indigenous discourse that is making exciting progress, albeit in fits and starts, toward an international charter for the protection of the planet, Mother Earth, and all forms of life on it.
To enter this dialogue with respect, we need an introduction to this movement, which some call the “Pachakuti”, a term taken from the Quechua “pacha”, meaning time and space or the world, and “kuti”, meaning upheaval or revolution.
In its efforts to exert some political influence on solutions to the current world financial and climate crises the nascent international ecosocialist movement should direct some attention to a synthesis of the western ecosocialist discourse with the growing Latin American indigenous discourse that is making exciting progress, albeit in fits and starts, toward an international charter for the protection of the planet, Mother Earth, and all forms of life on it.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Stop Using Credit Cards Today - Why?
When this economy that we are all under, that is driven by the two percent that rule us, the middle class and the working class suffer when the wrong switches and levers are pulled that benefit those two percenters. The banks and 'investment bankers' that turned houses into short term profits for themselves and then had to have the 'government' - taxpayers, you and me pay them to stay in business, it left the middle and working class with fewer jobs and the real prospect of starvation.
That's because the sweat of hardworking people are nothing but wage laborers and our work has become another way to make profits from - and can be discarded at the whim of the corporate oligarchy that has developed in the U.S. and the world.
We have no say regarding how our economy is used and manipulated, the people that do, you and I don't see, because it happens in rooms with no numbers, in buildings that have no names by people who pull those switches and levers, the very people that got us into this mess in the first place.
They are the ones that pay the politicians and media mines to make sure you and I have no chance, no chance at all. It's the media that is the lap dog of these two percenters. It's not a 'liberal' media; it's a corporate media that wins big when the political campaign season comes around and who pays this corporate media, the multi-national banks, oil, pharmaceuticals, and mega mega corporations. It's all about profits for the billionaires and starvation for the working people of this country.
... and most of us buy this corrupt system. How stupid is that? Really stupid.
So for a start, here's one idea. Start paying for things that you buy - in cash. That effects banks in a big way, stop using credit cards as much as possible. By doing that simple act you and I can begin to transform this stupid system over night.
If you can’t do that, write more checks, just stay away from credit cards.
That's because the sweat of hardworking people are nothing but wage laborers and our work has become another way to make profits from - and can be discarded at the whim of the corporate oligarchy that has developed in the U.S. and the world.
We have no say regarding how our economy is used and manipulated, the people that do, you and I don't see, because it happens in rooms with no numbers, in buildings that have no names by people who pull those switches and levers, the very people that got us into this mess in the first place.
They are the ones that pay the politicians and media mines to make sure you and I have no chance, no chance at all. It's the media that is the lap dog of these two percenters. It's not a 'liberal' media; it's a corporate media that wins big when the political campaign season comes around and who pays this corporate media, the multi-national banks, oil, pharmaceuticals, and mega mega corporations. It's all about profits for the billionaires and starvation for the working people of this country.
... and most of us buy this corrupt system. How stupid is that? Really stupid.
So for a start, here's one idea. Start paying for things that you buy - in cash. That effects banks in a big way, stop using credit cards as much as possible. By doing that simple act you and I can begin to transform this stupid system over night.
If you can’t do that, write more checks, just stay away from credit cards.
The Working Class Needs to Wake Up
It's time for us 'socialist liberals' to get back on the streets and take down these job killing trade pacts that the middle and right wing politicians keep getting passed. The Wall Street and multi-national merchants of crap have been shafting the middle class and the working class and I must not forget the really big boys - 'dirty oil'.
Look I'm old enough to see this country divided by what happened in the south in the sixties, getting people with a skin color other than white a place at the dinner was a big deal – because of that white southern’s decided to vote for what every came along that coded things like 'get rid of the education department of the federal government' and the likes of what Rand Paul said to get elected in of course another southern state. He’s the prime example of trash talking dinner deniers who how resides in the Senate of all places, racism is not dead in this country by a long shot as Paul proves the point. The south is still a race bating election winning place of no hope - it's going to take a hundred years to get those white, racists mad men out, if every. Another one now resides in the Senate; raise the confederate flag high and tall over Rand Paul's state.
And so the saga goes on and on.
I have no idea how to convince a white guy with a high school education that when he votes for Republican 'fiscal conservatives' he's voting against his own interests - other to tell him he's in the spot he's end not because of us 'liberals' but because of the right wing radicals that call themselves fiscal conservatives.
So as a white man that grew up in a working class family and reside in that class today, it's time for us to tell my people, they got screwed by the people they keep electing. Wise up and get your butt in gear and demand that the government trade pacts all get scrapped so we white dudes who know how to build things, make things have a chance to do just that, because we don’t have that chance now.
It's not about black, white, brown, yellow or pink - it's about jobs and the corporate politicians that get their marching orders from people like WalMart, Exxion, Shell, BP, that's right multi-national monsters like that that now run this country and wipe out working class jobs by the millions here in this country, to go to hell.
So it's really time to take back this country and our streets, the time is ... NOW.
Look I'm old enough to see this country divided by what happened in the south in the sixties, getting people with a skin color other than white a place at the dinner was a big deal – because of that white southern’s decided to vote for what every came along that coded things like 'get rid of the education department of the federal government' and the likes of what Rand Paul said to get elected in of course another southern state. He’s the prime example of trash talking dinner deniers who how resides in the Senate of all places, racism is not dead in this country by a long shot as Paul proves the point. The south is still a race bating election winning place of no hope - it's going to take a hundred years to get those white, racists mad men out, if every. Another one now resides in the Senate; raise the confederate flag high and tall over Rand Paul's state.
And so the saga goes on and on.
I have no idea how to convince a white guy with a high school education that when he votes for Republican 'fiscal conservatives' he's voting against his own interests - other to tell him he's in the spot he's end not because of us 'liberals' but because of the right wing radicals that call themselves fiscal conservatives.
So as a white man that grew up in a working class family and reside in that class today, it's time for us to tell my people, they got screwed by the people they keep electing. Wise up and get your butt in gear and demand that the government trade pacts all get scrapped so we white dudes who know how to build things, make things have a chance to do just that, because we don’t have that chance now.
It's not about black, white, brown, yellow or pink - it's about jobs and the corporate politicians that get their marching orders from people like WalMart, Exxion, Shell, BP, that's right multi-national monsters like that that now run this country and wipe out working class jobs by the millions here in this country, to go to hell.
So it's really time to take back this country and our streets, the time is ... NOW.
Big 5 Corporate Owned Supreme Court Judges
Not even Harry Potter has encountered a more diabolical plot. Five corporate-friendly judges on the Supreme Court opened the floodgates for corporate spending in our elections with the Citizens United decision, undoing years of established law. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a “non-profit” corporation funded by some of the richest corporations here and abroad, has spent more than tens of millions of dollars funding inaccurate attack ads to persuade voters to elect right-wing extremist corporate-funded candidates, and the final tally of all their spending and the front groups they stealthily support is not even in yet. That’s why we call them the “Chamber of Secrets.”
... posted from Move to Amend - End corporate rule, legalize democarcy
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Path of Sanity
There are many people of like concerns that are traveling on a path of sanity. Their individual concerns all add up to the making of a path of sanity. Each person or group know that there needs to be solutions to these concerns but what they might be are not foreshadowed for many reasons. I have many issues of concern and as I travel along this path I look forward and I see people that are farther along the path than I, look back some who are just getting started, but we are all on this path to sanity.
I think we need a spokes person, one who could speak to a larger crowed and tell them about our path. We need a person that we look up to, respect and would voice our needs, hopes that would foreshadow what our individual stories are in a compelling way.
I think that person is Van Jones and I think we should ask him to take on the task of telling others about our Path of Sanity.
I think we need a spokes person, one who could speak to a larger crowed and tell them about our path. We need a person that we look up to, respect and would voice our needs, hopes that would foreshadow what our individual stories are in a compelling way.
I think that person is Van Jones and I think we should ask him to take on the task of telling others about our Path of Sanity.
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