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Don't follow the RINO Mob, stand up for Akin and the unborn, after all, Obama will never legitimately apply his "rape is rape" to Bill Clinton

It has been a while since I have copied and pasted WND or Rush Limbaugh. Today I can do both with one stroke. An opportunity has arisen to show how RINOs are willing to throw conservatives under the bus instead of holding Democrats accountable for their own unapologetic womanizing past:

While many top Republicans are urging Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri to exit the race for the U.S. Senate after controversial remarks about rape, the six-term GOP House member is getting some support from the nation’s best-known conservative, Rush Limbaugh.

“When everybody seems to be uttering, voicing, doing the same thing, that’s when I put on the brakes and say, ‘Do I want to join this mob?’” Limbaugh said on his radio show this afternoon, referring to the Republican calls for Akin to quit.

Akin sparked a firestorm with comments Sunday saying pregnancy could be prevented in the case of “legitimate rape” because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

“That’s just absurd. It’s not intelligent,” Limbaugh said. “On the one hand, here we have a guy in glorious ineptitude attempting to defend every conceived life. … On the other hand we got a political party (the Democratic Party) who’s gonna have a former president actually accused of rape introduce and keynote Barack Obama. And that’s fine. This is why I am hesitant to join the mob that says throw this guy out. We have a circular firing squad.”

Limbaugh was referring to former President Bill Clinton who is slated to play a starring role at the upcoming Democratic convention.

“Their keynote speaker was accused of rape, and they love the guy. He was held in contempt of court. He was disbarred for several years. He has had numerous extramarital affairs. You talk about somebody who has less than a respectful view of women? And this is the keynote at the Democrat National Convention. And the Democrats love the guy.”

Limbaugh suggested what Akin was trying to say was something very simple.

“I don’t think abortion should even happen in rape. That’s what he was trying to say. Let’s just strip away all the other stuff,” Limbaugh explained. “There are a group of pro-lifers who profoundly believe that, and they talk to each other, and they try to come up with ways of persuading other people to agree with them on this. Because their view is, it’s not the baby’s fault.”

While admitting Akin’s remark was “stupid,” Limbaugh noted, “How about the economic policies running this country? They are stupid! They are indefensible, and they are stupid. The economic policies led by this administration, they are indefensible and they are stupid, and they are causing real damage and real harm to real people.”

Romney to turn Ryan into a pro-abortion RINO

First we have the Romney campaign rejecting Ryan's budget:

In his solo first interview since tapping Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney on Wednesday attempted to create daylight between his plan for Medicare and his running mate's controversial budget proposal, telling CBS News that Ryan had joined his campaign - not vice versa.

"Congressman Ryan has joined my campaign, and his campaign is my campaign now," the presumptive Republican presidential candidate told "CBS This Morning." "We're on exactly the same page."

Then the Romney campaign turns Ryan from pro-life to pro-abortion:

Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's strong views on abortion took a back seat to his new boss's view in a Romney-Ryan campaign response to a Missouri Senate candidate's controversial remarks about rape and abortion.

The statement on behalf of Ryan and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney said the pair would "not oppose abortion in instances of rape."

Rep. Todd Akin suggested to St. Louis station KTVI on Sunday that if a "legitimate rape" occurs, "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." Even if a pregnancy did result, Akin said, "The punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child." He later said he has empathy for rape victims and acknowledged that rapes can cause pregnancy.

"Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akin's statement, and a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape," the campaign said in a brief statement released on Sunday evening by Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul.

Pro-life and pro-family groups who are currently supporting Romney need to understand that Romney's conservative rhetoric is not real. Look at what they are doing to their poster boy for the conservative base...converting him into a fellow pro-abortion RINO. 

Based on Troy Jones' logic, votes for HB1234 was "deriliction of duty"

Troy Jones said this:

Any legislator who supports a bill that costs money without knowing the cost should be accused of deriliction of duty.

Funding for HB1234 was taken out in order to avoid a two thirds vote requirement.

Noem goes behind closed doors with green energy special interests as she sides with Obama on corporate welfare for wind energy as part of the Global Green New Deal

Yesterday this caught my attention:

Rep. Kristi Noem will be in Mitchell today to discuss production tax credits for the wind power industry.

South Dakota’s lone member of the House will host a roundtable discussion on wind and tour Mitchell Technical Institute. The roundtable is set for 2 p.m. at the MTI Campus Center, room 146, 1800 E. Spruce St.

MTI began a wind turbine technology program in the fall of 2009. The upcoming semester is expected to have 42 first-year and 29 secondyear students enrolled.

The production tax credit for wind energy was first established in 1992 to encourage investment in renewable wind energy, and South Dakota has benefitted. South Dakota became the first state in the U.S. to generate more than 20 percent of its electricity from wind.

On this issue, Noem, a freshman Republican, agrees with President Obama, who favors extending the tax credit.

Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has called for ending it.

Both South Dakota senators, Democrat Tim Johnson and Republican John Thune, also want to see the tax credit extended. The PTC for wind energy is scheduled to expire Dec. 31.

I decided to attend the event. I showed up about 10 minutes late and found the Daily Republic assistant editor Tom Lawrence and his photographer in the hall with the door shut. I asked if this was a closed meeting. About ten minutes later the door opened and the press was told they could now come in. Aparently MTI was told they wanted a few minutes together off the record. From the start, their desire to have the taxpayers support their business lost my support, since they wanted certain things to be deep secret from us. Instead they used us a political pawns:

“This hesitation is creating such a speculation and slowing things down,” said Jesse Elliott, senior engineer for Broadwind Energy of Howard.

“We need to find a way to develop wind as part of an energy solution,” Elliott said. “It’s critical that decisions on this get made soon — and now we have to wait on things like the election. Because of families and jobs, it’s all critical. We’re walking on glass, so to speak. There is so much at risk.”

The PTC for wind energy was first established in 1992 to encourage investment in renewable wind energy. The credit provides a production tax break for wind energy of 2.1 cents per kilowatt hour.

Families and jobs. WE here this all the time from those who say they can't make it in a free market, so they need taxpayers to fund their inefficiencies. GIve me a tax credit and I too can create jobs with it. The difference is that I will spend on what my family wanters, not what we are forced to buy by the force of government intervening in the marketplace.

Keep in mind that the PTC was stared 20 years ago and last renewed 4 years ago as you read this:

Elliott and others at the meeting urged Noem to push to make the PTC permanent, as it is for other forms of energy. If not that, at least a long-term credit to allow companies to plan would help, she was told. The current tax credit was for four years and was passed as part of the federal stimulus package in 2008.

“It has to be a 10- or 20-year plan so we can operate under a 10- or 20-year plan,” said Steve Sershen of South Dakota Wind Partners.

Without such assurances, companies will retreat, Noem was told.

“We have no plans to do any construction in the United States,” said Jason Utton, the director of governmental affairs for NextEra Energy Resources.

What the paper did not tell its readers is that more than once the idea of moving their business to Europe was brought up if they did not get their way. This issue is about how these guys can make the most money and not about saving jobs and families. A serious look at the economics of wind energy tells us that the production tax credit is not important to survival of wind energy. Instead it is the cost of competitive sources of energy.

There was also discussion about how wind could make America energy independent. I remember both of my grandparents had a windmill on their farms. Today instead of having a windmill on every farm that would truly be consdidered energy independnet, we see wind farms that represent the socialization and the collectivism of the old idea of wind energy. This approach makes us dependent of a "grid" that the wind farms are attached to.

I say it is pass time that the wind energy industry is told to make it on their own. If they can't then jobs will go to those energy sources that are more cost effective and which makes common sense. Unfortunately our freshman congresswoman has chosen to follow the lead of the United Nation's Agenda 21 Global Green New Deal:

Energy is the key to economic development, and renewable energy is the key to a future without dangerous climate change. But renewable energy is too expensive today, especially for the world’s poor, many of whom have no access to modern energy at all.

Although the price of renewable energy is falling, it will not fall fast enough anywhere, on its own, to help the world win the race against time with dangerous climate change.

Public policies can help produce the necessary decline in the global price of renewable energy and make it universally affordable in one to two decades.

The key mechanism is a rapid increase in installed capacity. A “big push” in both public and private investment to scale up renewable energy will lead to rapid cost reduction, technology improvement, and learning by doing. Investment and cost reduction will generate a “virtuous cycle” of additional investment, economic growth, employment generation, energy security, geopolitical stability, international cooperation and emission reductions.

This “big push” cannot be implemented by any country alone. In the first decade‐and‐a‐half, it will require globally funded guarantees, or price supports (e.g., through a global “feed‐in tariffs” program), to subsidize investment.

After that, the “virtuous cycle” will take over and make further price supports or international transfers unnecessary, as renewable energy becomes the default option for new energy investment worldwide.

Price supports will be complemented by a global renewable energy extension program: research, technical, and policy support designed toaccelerate the process.

This strategy is called the Global Green New Deal, and the time to adopt it is now.

Teacher merit pay and Common Core Standards are part of the NCLB waivers that will continue to increase the cost of education without improving student achievement

Recently South Dakota's Secretary of Education Melody Schopp wrote an Op-Ed in the Mitchell Daily Republic that began with this:

Monday, this newspaper ran a column regarding the new accountability system for South Dakota schools. I am writing today to offer a more in-depth description of the system and to explain why this change is so important.

States across the country have been leading the discussion around accountability for some time now. When the federal government announced that it would allow states to seek waivers from certain provisions of No Child Left Behind, it provided a window of opportunity to begin the transformation to a more meaningful system of accountability.

The column Schopp referred to was written by Bob Mercer, who writes about the South Dakota DOE's plans regarding the NCLB waiver:

Schools come up for accreditation every five years. DOE leadership wants to start conducting “desk reviews” rather than sending evaluators into the field to actually visit schools.

DOE officials cite lack of money and personnel.

A few days ago the state Board of Education endorsed this change in practice. A board member asked a good question: Is a school's “climate” considered in the accreditation process?

The answer was no. That seemed to settle the matter, until a few hours later.

DOE officials began explaining to the board the waiver allowing South Dakota to stop complying with the federal No Child Left Behind system.

School climate is one of the five performance indicators in DOE's proposed 100-point system for rating schools rather than solely relying on results of NCLB's student tests.

This gets confusing.

Right now we don't have enough resources at the state Department of Education to perform site visits to schools every five years for accreditation.

Yet we are planning a new system that rates schools annually, and school climate represents 20 percent of the rating.

Here are two sentences about it from the 187-page waiver document:

“This indicator is designed to address school climate issues such as bullying and violence and other problems that create conditions that negatively impact learning.

It would include a comprehensive assessment of the major spheres of school life such as safety, relationships, teaching and learning, and healthy environment.”

This gets more confusing, however.

Mary Stadick Smith, the number two person in the state department behind Education Secretary Melody Schopp, told the state board that school climate might be dropped from the 100-point rating system.

I don't find this confusing at all. The federal government has been putting into place for decades an education system that is centrally planned and designed to control behavior. Bullying is a code word to be applied to those who do not go along with the latest New Age craze...promotion of homosexual behavior. And now they are deceptively using "school climate" when referring to the method in which they will be controlling behavior. And this system of behavior control is very expensive and is the true source of the cost problems facing education. Schopp's response admits that "school climate" is a "key" item:

First and foremost, the new system will consider multiple indicators of performance. The new accountability model is centered on a 100-point School Performance Index. The SPI consists of five key indicators — each of which accounts for a certain number of the total points. By using multiple measures of performance, we broaden the scope of our view and provide a better overall picture of how schools are performing.

The index will be phased in over the next several years, to allow time to fully study and find appropriate measurements for several of the indicators.

The five key indicators vary depending on whether the school is an elementary/middle school or a high school. They are as follows:

1) Student Achievement

2) Academic Growth OR High School Completion

3) Attendance OR College and Career Readiness

4) Teacher and Principal Effectiveness

5) School Climate

Note that the first three have been around for a while and that points four and five are now being added to increase the amount of control by the central planners. In other words, this is not a new plan...it is an expanded one.

This is how Schopp describes the enormous costs that it will take to implement this increase of central control:

The fourth and fifth indicators require significant attention and work. That work is being done by dedicated educators across the state who are part of work groups addressing teacher and principal effectiveness and school climate.

Based on these multiple indicators, the state will identify schools that are the most in need of attention. Targeted support and interventions will be aimed at those schools to assist them in raising student achievement levels within their buildings.

Significant change takes time. The approval of South Dakota’s waiver by the U.S. Department of Education was just a first step.

It will take "significant attention and work", in other words money, to set up the system that will track and then intervene on those who are not following the system of behavior control or in their words "school climate".

Mercer goes into how HB1234 plays into this scheme:

While they scramble to come up how to make a post-NCLB plan actually work, they have to wait until after the November general election to see whether they should comply with a new smorgasbord of state laws.

The South Dakota Education Association gathered enough signatures from registered voters to force a statewide vote this fall on House Bill 1234.

That sprawling piece of legislation came from the Daugaard administration and received much tinkering from members of the Legislature.

It received final approval by a single vote in the state House of Representatives. It attempts to make many, many dozens of changes affecting our public schools.

In some cases the department is proceeding with the work to comply with HB 1234, even though the legislation is in suspension until voters decide its fate.

The NCLB waiver for example contains numerous references to a teacher performance-pay system contained in HB 1234. It's unclear what happens to the waiver if 1234 is defeated.

So the teacher merit pay is part of the NCLB waiver requirements. Maryland has the same requirements as reported in February:

To receive a waiver, states have also had to adopt the common core standards, commit to giving new assessments developed to go with those standards, and create a new teacher and principal evaluation system.

Note that the "new teacher and principle evaluation system" is point 4 of Schopp's key indicators to be required by the NCLB waiver. What she did not mention was the role of the Common Core Standards. It is through standards that the central planners detail the behaviors they want adopted. Through deception we are lead to believe the standards are about academic performance. Now we are finding studies that show Common Core Standards will not increase student achievement, and may indeed reverse student achievement gains made in Massachusetts. Tests designed to test academic performance will remain flat, while other tests will reflect on how well the system is changing behaviors. What will increase will be the costs to administrate the increased controls by the central planners of...the New World Order, the cost to collect the data, and cost to implement the "interventions". 

The politically correct change agents don't like it when we bring the truth, that the real aim is social engineering. Here is how they react to the exposure of their Plan:

Right-wing activists went deep into conspiracy theory territory Thursday morning during a Senate education hearing, as lawmakers discussed a Republican measure which would block implementation of voluntary national education standards in South Carolina.

Sen. Mike Fair’s one-sentence bill would mandate that Common Core standards may not be “imposed” on South Carolina, which is a bit of a misnomer given that the program is completely voluntary. The State Board of Education voted to adopt Common Core back in 2010, joining 45 other states who use the standards to determine what kind of reading and math skills should be taught in order for students to be prepared for college and the workplace.

“Teachers want to know that what they’re teaching is the same in other states, especially when student performance is being compared,” said former South Carolina School Board Association President Cindy Smith, who spoke against Fair’s bill on Thursday.

But supporters of Fair’s bill quickly turned the policy discussion into political theatre. Former Bush education official Bill Evans opened the hearing by calling Common Core standards “the Obamacare of education,” drawing audible gasps from the teachers who had packed into the standing-room-only crowd to support the standards.

If the teachers were surprised by such blatant politicization of public education, they were in for an even ruder awakening from other supporters of Fair’s measure. ”Civics is turning our kids into little political activists,” education activist Jane Robbins said about Common Core standards. “Science is all about ‘oh, global warming, and this is how to fix it!’”

Robbins also accused the federal government of using Common Core to create “massive student databases” of demographic information that can be used to automatically assign people to careers, like in Brave New World. “It’s a progressive utopian vision that has been out there for decades,” Robbins added.

Seriously. She said that. In the eyes of Common Core opponents, this voluntary coordination of state education standards is actually a nefarious plot by the New World Order to subjugate the masses into a socialist paradise where we can’t even choose our own jobs.

And while some Republicans in South Carolina are opposing "The Plan", South Dakota's Republican governor is leading the cause to implement "The Plan" as he laid it out in Januray:

I attended Governor Daugaard's budget presentation this morning in Mitchell. His goal was to promote two initiatives. One was a Workfarce Initiative and the other was in education, as the Secretary of Education was present. He actually admitted that the two were to be connected at the hip.

He started out with the South Dakota Workforce Initiative, Not sure how you get the "WINS" Initiative out of that, but he mentioned the importance of South Dakota being a part of a "global high-tech economy". The WINS web site also mentions that goal:

That's why we've launched South Dakota Wins, a workforce development program that brings together government, education and business leaders to capitalize on South Dakota's tremendous potential. The components of this program will help South Dakota develop and attract a stronger, more educated workforce, positioning us well to compete in an ever changing a dynamic global economy.

Clearly this is the "Planned Global Economy" of the New World Order as stated here. And also note the combination of "government, education and business leaders". Education is now about providing human resources to the monopoly capitalists. And for those of us who are critical thinkers, we know that planned economies are not the most efficient, and they lead us to a tyrannical situation. Daugaard proved it with statistics. From 1971 to 2011, the numbers of students in K-12 decreased 28.5% as the number of teachers increased 10%, while support and administrative headcount jumped 65%. The result has been the doubling of the cost per student while academic results remained flat.

This will help explain why the plutocrats want this plan.

Clearly his plan is an age-old "Plan" that will continue to add costs to the education system, profits to corporations, while keeping academic results flat at best. And the reason why Bob Mercer finds this all this confusing is because the implementation requires deception. No way would people with common sense (Biblical discernment) agree to "The Plan". Now we should know the real reason why the central planners don't want kids reading the Bible in school.