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SD48 Community Service Event AND Fund Raiser-Feed My Starving Children
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012. 7:00-9:00 pm.
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The Anoka County Fair is over. THANK YOU to all those SD 48 people who volunteered to work there and to our SD 48 representatives who showed up. Some people worked multiple shifts! Jim Bendtsen, Nancy Bendtsen, Eric Olson, Debra Musgrove, Harry Niska, Jen Niska, Roland Willis, Rep. Tom Hackbarth, Sen. Mike Jungbauer, Ed Fiore, Don Huizinga, Robert Diede, Tom Heideman, Suzanne Erkel, Donna and Chuck Thibodeau, Matt Stevens, Joe Field and Jeremy Mess. Your commitment is greatly appreciated!!
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These are the people who have volunteered for each of the committees so far. Of course, we want and need more people willing and able to help out. Things are changed by people who do the work. Wishing for better candidates and election results without people being willing to help produces nothing.
Chair: Aaron Rasmus
Pat Haley
Jeri Bates
Chair: Robert Eidem
Jim Bendtsen
Chair: Matt Stevens
Tony Crego
Harry Niska
Co-Chair: Nancy Bendtsen
Co-Chair: Trish Bates
Don Huizenga |
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The Top 100 donors to political parties ranked by dollars spent. Also shows which parties they donate to.
The democrats are afraid someone besides the unions would be able to donate to campaigns and spend money on political ads.
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A |
Katherine Kersten: At U, future teachers may be reeducated
They must denounce exclusionary biases and embrace the vision. (Or else.)
By KATHERINE KERSTEN, Star Tribune
Do you believe in the American dream -- the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits? If so, that belief may soon bar you from getting a license to teach in Minnesota public schools -- at least if you plan to get your teaching degree at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus.
In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of "the American Dream" in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. Instead, teacher candidates must embrace -- and be prepared to teach our state's kids -- the task force's own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.
The task group is part of the Teacher Education Redesign Initiative, a multiyear project to change the way future teachers are trained at the U's flagship campus. The initiative is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers' lack of "cultural competence" contributes to the poor academic performance of the state's minority students. Last spring, it charged the task group with coming up with recommendations to change this. In January, planners will review the recommendations and decide how to proceed.
The report advocates making race, class and gender politics the "overarching framework" for all teaching courses at the U. It calls for evaluating future teachers in both coursework and practice teaching based on their willingness to fall into ideological lockstep.
The first step toward "cultural competence," says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize -- and confess -- their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the reeducation camps of China's Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi.
The task group recommends, for example, that prospective teachers be required to prepare an "autoethnography" report. They must describe their own prejudices and stereotypes, question their "cultural" motives for wishing to become teachers, and take a "cultural intelligence" assessment designed to ferret out their latent racism, classism and other "isms." They "earn points" for "demonstrating the ability to be self-critical."
The task group opens its report with a model for officially approved confessional statements: "As an Anglo teacher, I struggle to quiet voices from my own farm family, echoing as always from some unstated standard. ... How can we untangle our own deeply entrenched assumptions?"
The goal of these exercises, in the task group's words, is to ensure that "future teachers will be able to discuss their own histories and current thinking drawing on notions of white privilege, hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and internalized oppression."
Future teachers must also recognize and denounce the fundamental injustices at the heart of American society, says the task group. From a historical perspective, they must "understand that ... many groups are typically not included" within America's "celebrated cultural identity," and that "such exclusion is frequently a result of dissimilarities in power and influence." In particular, aspiring teachers must be able "to explain how institutional racism works in schools."
After indoctrination of this kind, who wouldn't conclude that the American Dream of equality for all is a cruel hoax? But just to make sure, the task force recommends requiring "our future teachers" to "articulate a sophisticated and nuanced critical analysis" of this view of the American promise. In the process, they must incorporate the "myth of meritocracy in the United States," the "history of demands for assimilation to white, middle-class, Christian meanings and values, [and] history of white racism, with special focus on current colorblind ideology."
What if some aspiring teachers resist this effort at thought control and object to parroting back an ideological line as a condition of future employment? The task group has Orwellian plans for such rebels: The U, it says, must "develop clear steps and procedures for working with non-performing students, including a remediation plan."
And what if students' ideological purity is tainted once they begin to do practice teaching in the public schools? The task group frames the danger this way: "How can we be sure that teaching supervisors are themselves developed and equipped in cultural competence outcomes in order to supervise beginning teachers around issues of race, class, culture, and gender?"
Its answer? "Requir[e] training/workshop for all supervisors. Perhaps a training session disguised as a thank you/recognition ceremony/reception at the beginning of the year?"
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The Inquisition of Global Warming
A Commentary by Debra J. Saunders
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
This just in from the Times of London: After the leak of highly embarrassing e-mail messages from the University of East Anglia's influential Climatic Research Unit, CRU has been forced to admit that it dumped "the original raw" climate data used to bolster the case for human-caused global warming, while retaining only the "value-added" -- read: massaged -- data.
In short, the CRU dumped the scientific data, but archived information that supports its conclusions. "It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years," wrote Times environment editor Jonathan Leake.
Of course, global warming skeptics see Climategate as vindication. For years, global warming activists have maintained that they alone could claim the mantle of dispassionate science, while skeptics were venal, nutty or both.
The publication of these e-mails puts an end to that happy conceit, as they reveal a small cabal of scientists obsessed with obliterating dissenting scholarship and destroying the reputations of any who stood in their way.
For years, I've read global warming activists cite the work of UC San Diego science historian Naomi Oreskes, who looked at 928 abstracts of peer-reviewed articles from 1993 and 2003 and found, "Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position" in favor of man-made global warming.
No surprise, her unbelievable claim was wrong. In a leaked e-mail, CRU Director Phil Jones complained of a 2003 peer-reviewed article that departed from global warming orthodoxy. Jones went so far as to boast, "I will be e-mailing the journal (Climate Research) to tell them I'm having nothing to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor," who approved printing the piece.
In 2004, Jones said he would keep two troublesome papers out of a U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report "somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"
In another e-mail, Pennsylvania State University environmental sciences Professor Michael Mann proposed considering a boycott of Climate Research. But that's nothing compared with Benjamin D. Santer, a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who, the Washington Post reported, said he was tempted to beat up skeptic Pat Michaels.
Polls show that Americans are cooling on the notion of man-made global warming. I must credit the bully mentality of activists, whose claims often defy common sense -- and at times, simple decency.
The defying-common-sense part: They claim that no credible scientist departs from the IPCC orthodoxy. Counter with some names -- Richard Lindzen, Fred Singer, William Gray, John Christy, Don Easterbrook, Piers Corbyn, Roy Spencer, Pat Michaels, James O'Brien -- and they impugn their scientific credentials.
If they have to redefine peer review, they'll do that, too. And then they ask you to trust them on the dumped CRU data. After all, they're scientists.
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Lord Christopher Monckton is one of the most respected climate researchers in the world and spoke at Bethel College in October. He brought enough evidence to prove to all but the completely deranged that "global warming" and "climate change" are not real, but just words the left uses to try to scare people into giving up their money and freedom. Everyone who values TRUTH needs to watch HIS PRESENTATION ON YOUTUBE.
More Global Warming/Climate Change links to document the lies of "scientists", spread by the fraud Gore.
http://www.nocapandtrade.com/climategate/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/25/climategate-hide-the-decline-codified/
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/understanding_climategates_hid.html
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Just want to say that I am proud to be an American, thanks to all of you who have called your representative and made your feelings known. The only thing that politicians will listen to is the people who pull the lever on election day. Most of them are career politicians and don't know what they would do, to make a living, if they were thrown out on their ear. I talked to many people, at the two County Fairs that we attended, who believed that their voice didn't matter. I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that your voice and your letters do make a difference, so please do not stop making noise. If you disagree with the current Health Care Proposal, or the Cap-N-Trade bill, then let Franken and Klobuchar know it. If they are allowed to pass these two bills, our economy and life as we have known it will be completely destroyed, with very little chance to change it back. So if you don't want your children and grandchildren to be broke, with no chance of living the American dream in their lifetime, then you had better make sure your voice is heard! I do not want to hear any complaining or arguments from anyone who does not become active and work to keep these bills from becoming reality. God Bless those who would help save this Country! |
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From St. Paul Legal Ledger's Captiol Report
By Steve Perry, Special to Capitol Report
July 13, 2009
When it comes to top-dollar Minnesota political contributions, the so-called Legacy Amendment was the big winner in 2008.
And a Capitol Report/PIM analysis of political contribution data in 2008 from the state Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board (CFB) shows that the successful ballot initiative to help pay for environmental and arts programs could actually be called the Dayton/Rockefeller Amendment.
In general, our analysis revealed a fundamental difference between how the state GOP and the state DFL parties get money from Minnesotans: The GOP gets most from individuals, while the DFL gets most of its dough from interest groups.
According to the CFB data, most of the largest donations ($25,000 and over) made by Minnesota citizens in 2008 went to Vote Yes Minnesota (VYM), a group formed to promote passage of the “Legacy Amendment,” which raised the state sales by a fraction of 1 percent to provide dedicated funding for the environment and the arts for 25 years. In all, VYM received a total of $1.82 million in these mega-buck contributions for the year.
That sum amounted to 46 percent of the $3.97 million in total receipts amassed by the group.
In all, VYM collected 15 of the 27 donations of $25,000 or more made by Minnesotans to state political organizations last year. They also garnered the single largest political gift given by a private Minnesota citizen for 2008: $1 million from local philanthropist and Rockefeller heir Alida Messinger.
With only one exception, the other 12 contributions on the list went to units of the state’s Republican and DFL parties. By far the largest of these was Primera Technology CEO Robert Cummins’ $275,000 gift to the House Republican Campaign Committee (HRCC). According to CFB data, this single contribution constituted 24 percent of the $1.15 million taken in by HRCC in 2008.
A hard-right social conservative, Cummins has donated more than $1.6 million to Republican Party units, campaigns and causes since 1998, the first year recorded in Minnesota’s campaign finance database. That includes $525,000 in donations to House Republicans since 2006 – about 15 percent of the $3.44 million collected by HRCC in those years – and $535,000 to the Republican Party of Minnesota since 1998.
The list results underscore several points regarding the dynamics of big-time political giving in 2008.
The outsized role of major contributions. The 27 donations on this list represent just two-tenths of 1 percent of the nearly 14,000 political contributions of more than $100 given by private individuals in 2008. But as a matter of dollars, their $2.49 million sum is equal to 30.2 percent of the $8.24 million given by Minnesota citizens during the year.
The Dayton/ Rockefeller Amendment? Most of the money that Vote Yes Minnesota got from Minnesotans who gave $25,000 or more in support of the Legacy Amendment came from the Dayton and/or Rockefeller families. In fact, seven of the 15 VYM high-end donations – and $1.5 million of the $1.8 million the group got in donations of $25,000 or more – came either from a Dayton or from the $1 million gift from Alida Messinger, who at one time was married to former Minnesota Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton.
Other local eminences who gave big to the environment/arts-funding amendment: real estate/development titan Ralph Burnet and his wife, Peggy, and Twins Sports CEO Jim Pohlad.
Different funding strokes for DFL, Republicans. In the House-only election cycle of 2008, $25k-and-over contributions from individual donors constituted 28 percent of House Republican Campaign Committee receipts and 16 percent of the Republican Party of Minnesota’s total intake (35 percent if intra-party transfers are excluded).
Besides Cummins, these GOP party units’ largest single-gift benefactors were former Target CEO Robert Ulrich, who gave $70,000 to the state party and $25,000 to House Republicans, and Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, who gave $30,000 to the state party and $25,000 to HRCC.
By contrast, $25k-and-over gifts from individuals made up only 5 percent of DFL House Caucus receipts and one-tenth of 1 percent of the DFL State Central Committee’s bottom line (one-half of 1 percent if intra-party transfers are excluded).
The principal donors to DFL Party units are political action committees. In 2008, for example, nine of the 10 biggest contributions to the DFL House Caucus came from PACs (the other being a transfer from the state party): five from labor groups, three from the state’s Indian tribal PACs, and one from the state’s largest teachers’ union.
The largest individual donation to the caucus, $56,500 from local investor and publisher Vance Opperman, came in at No. 6 on our Capitol Report/PIM list, but it was just the 11th-largest contribution to House DFLers.
http://www.legal-ledger.com/item.cfm?recID=11994
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