There is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for a statistic like this to be true in ANY developed and “modern” country. This makes me just hang my head in shame for the future of my country at the hands of the droves of IDIOTS our education system is pumping out.

This latest idiot count comes from Dallas Independent School District in Texas… where SEVENTY-FIVE percent of the graduating class of 2008 CANNOT read above an 8th Grade level. Yes, GRADUATING students folks. Apparently, a functioning adult in US society today doesn’t need to know how to read and comprehend beyond “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” (and why bother there… just go rent the DVD… less attention span needed).

Seriously people… we’re lowering and lowering the bar and passing ignorant children off as “functioning” adults. It WILL catch up to us and when it does, the majority of you will be scratching your heads wondering WHY so many idiots are driving this country into the ground.

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Three Eighth-Graders were suspended last week for not standing during the morning Pledge of Allegiance in a small school in Minnesota. The students simply did not feel the need to pledge their allegiance and simply chose to sit it out.

Mel Olson, the district’s community education director issued the following statement referring to the district policy which requires one stand during the pledge and if he stood by that policy:

“These three students didn’t, and they got caught… being a veteran and a United States of America citizen, absolutely.”

Mr. Olson… can you please point to me where it is required that all citizens pledge allegiance to their country? Also of note is that the STATE which helps keep your school running, has a law on the books allowing for students and teachers to opt out should the so choose. Seems to me like you don’t have much of a leg to stand on there Mr. Olson.

The principal of the school has decided that “rewording” the rule in the school policy would be a “good idea”… understatement of the year.

Compulsory Allegiance to your country is not something I will EVER support. Our nation was founded by dissent and protest and the belief that man has a right to his opinions. Let the kids sit out… who are they hurting? Your fragile ego?

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Obama handed Hillary her ass on a golden platter last night, Pundits the world over have all but called the DNC race a done deal, Super Delegates are suddenly “too busy” to meet with Sen. Clinton and people close to her in the party have even said “It’s over babe!”… yet Clinton REFUSES to end the deal, even going so far as to lend herself an additional $6.4 Million to “keep up the momentum”.

Clue phone, Hillary… if you’re so in debt that you have to lend yourself millions to keep on going, and no one wants to meet with you about the election, you’ve lost. Huckabee saw the red flags… maybe you need to borrow his glasses.

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Government loves money, there’s no joking about that one… and when someone else besides them is raking it in, they get REALLY jealous and start up the “windfall” noise machine to validate the draining of corporate profits “for the people”.

With gas edging $4 a gallon in the US, the topic of the month of May for Presidential Primary season is how to stick it to the man, to make it “fair” for Joe Schmoe on the street. Here is where they play word games. “Fair” is political speech for “it’s time to play Robin Hood!”

Hillary Clinton and John McCain share a plan (while Clinton rides right over it with her added bonus plan of a profit tax) that would repeal the federal 18.4 cent/gallon tax on gasoline which is somehow supposed to save the average American citizen a TON of money. Here’s the thing… they don’t ever GIVE money back or stop taking it, it’s all smoke and mirrors. They may stop collecting one specific tax, but behind the curtain they’ll raise other taxes on similar commodities by a few cents here and there until they’re back where they started… leaving us in EXACTLY the same situation. The only difference being, the dumb masses will be smiling all the way to the voting booth feeling that something was accomplished. Not to mention artificially dropping prices on fuel will only INCREASE demand on the same supply, thus making the issue worse than it already is.

Here’s where Clinton leave McCain’s house and crosses over to hold hands with Sen. Obama… the Windfall Profits Tax. Somewhere in the history of the United States is suddenly became the job of the federal government to tell people and businesses when they hit the wall and were making “too much money”.

Congress is waving the caution flag at the oil industry warning them that heavy taxation on “excessive profits” is on its way (which is funny due to the fact that they’re already raking in 35% from corporate income taxes). Congress seems to think that heavily taxing something will bring in MORE and cheaper fuel for the Americans when nothing could be further from that reality. Carter enacted a windfall profits tax on “Big Oil” in 1980 and the net result from his brilliance was a two fold decrease in domestic oil production from 3% to 6% and a doubled increase in imported oil from OPEC from 8% to 16%. Genius, pure genius!

We have plenty of oil to tap here in the US to begin our process of weening ourself from OPEC and other foreign sources as well as to begin to find ACTUALLY sustainable (not just renewable) fuel sources, problem being that MOST Americans scream bloody murder when you tell them you’re planting an oil rig 200 miles off shore near their beach condo in Florida, or that you’re planning on using a region of Alaska and might upset the migratory patterns of a moose (or alter the habitat of some blind ferret with 8 legs).

Stealing profits from a corporation and then expecting them to invest more of what they now lack, is completely backwards.

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Speaking out against Obama’s albatross Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his continued racist tirades against white people and the federal government, Sen. Hillary Clinton issued the following half ass comment:

“You know, I spoke out against Don Imus, saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that. I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving.”

I’m sorry Hillary, Imus and Wright are in no way even CLOSE to being comparable on this. Don Imus’ comment, while tactless was FAR less damaging than the venom being spewed by people like Jeremiah Wright. Imus was raked over the coals for making a comment about a handful of basketball players, fired for his remarks and wagged in front of the world as an example of what happens when you speak ill of ANYONE who isn’t white.

Jeremiah Write is an ego maniacal racist who is getting a free pass for his comments based solely on the color of his skin. He stood in front of the NAACP and proceeded to mock “white folk” for the way he thinks they talk, clap, walk, sing, look and even how our marching bands sound. His comments were followed by ruckus laughter from the crowd watching his racist ramblings only egging him on for more. The BASIS for his speech was accurate in that we are ALL equals and we need to stop seeing people who are different, as those who are deficient… he seems to lack the ability to practice what he preaches. Had Wright been of Anglo decent, ten seconds into his speech, he would have had his mic pulled, and had been escorted off the stage, followed by a forced public apology, billions of accusations of racism and “hate speech” and would have immediately become unemployable.

Wright lampooned the Boston accents of the late President John Kennedy, and Sen. Ted Kennedy and added that ‘no one would tell a Kennedy that they speak bad English… just Black children.’ Well Rev. Wright… I hold everyone accountable for bad grammar and speech patterns. If a child approaches me and says “I don’t have no paper!” they WILL be corrected, and it has ZERO to do with their skin color or nationality.

People are ALL different, but Wright draws a HARD line in the sand between whites and blacks specifically. If you feel we all need to get along, why draw a line in the sand…

If you want us all as equals, eliminate the divisive policies like Affirmative Action, stop self segregating yourselves by hosting award shows for “black” artists, and hosting TV channels for “black entertainment”. The race pimps will march on God himself to “end” segregation, but will turn right back around and build the wall back up… NOT because they truly give a crap about their fellow man… but because FIXING the problem puts them out of a job and their ego’s cannot handle it.

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