Sunday, August 31, 2014

Memory?



Test your memories. Do you remember the year’s when the Phillies won the World Series, when Harry Kalas passed away, the terrorists killed Americans in Benghazi, Brian Terry was murdered with guns from fast and furious? When were we promised that the ACA would save us monies?  When did this President say; “- I’m pledging to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term. “
The emirates as well other oil producing nations of the world are suspected of financing support of terror groups. Here in the United States we developed sources of crude oil. Our President and Senate Leader refuse the approval of the pipe line that would open our markets to the world. Inaction allows the economies of the Mid-east as well as Russia’s to flourish. Obama will not restrain the non-elected EPA from driving up our home energy costs. The EPA is fostering unemployment in coal mining areas. Our President dithers about what to do concerning the threats of the savage hoards released in Syria, and Iraq.
The grid lock in our nation continues to exist from our President and Senate not allowing votes to resolve our problems. Every citizen of New Jersey and the United States must understand, the problems not resolved, existed and date un-resolved from the advent of Barack Obama and Harry Reid. A strong vote clearing of Congress, will force our president to remember his quotes. Force Obama to fix the things he has promised since 2008, the year the Phillies won the World Series.

Jerry Keer

Al Gore, Where Are you?

  • Seven years after former US Vice-President Al Gore's warning, Arctic ice cap has expanded for second year in row
  • An area twice the size of Alaska - America's biggest state - was open water two years ago and is now covered in ice
  • These satellite images taken from University of Illinois's Cryosphere project show ice has become more concentrated

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Common Core Needs a Cure!Jacks country - I told you so -- and now support from Gov. Jindl's office in LA--and this is why they only allow a 15% addition by the teachers - they can't test, monitor or control the students and teachers to fit in their "one size fits all" shoe PARCC issued a press release to announce they are going to reduce the number of passages and items on the ELA/Literacy section of their test. This follows the initial review done by several of “PARCC state experts.” The outline the changes, but the most interesting part of the press release is the statement made by their CEO Laura Slover. “High quality assessments go hand-in-hand with high quality instruction based, on high quality standards,” said Laura Slover, the Chief Executive Officer of the PARCC nonprofit. “You cannot have one without the other. The PARCC states see quality assessments as a partof instruction, not a break from instruction.” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s office, whose executive order to remove Louisiana from PARCC was recently blocked by a district court judge, released a statement of their own responding to this news. “The proponents of Common Core and PARCC continue to insist that tests and standards are not about curriculum, but that’s a ruse. Teachers already know that what is tested at the end of the year is what is taught in classrooms throughout the year. PARCC may not mandate one textbook or one pacing guide, but the CEO of the federally funded PARCC has admitted one thing: PARCC controls instruction and instruction is curriculum,” his office stated. Aug 25, 2014 PARCC CEO ADMITS GOAL OF TEST TO CONTROL CURRICULUM BATON ROUGE - On Friday, the federally funded Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) issued a press release where the Chief Executive Officer of PARCC Laura Slover revealed the true goals of the federally funded PARCC assessment - to control curriculum. Chief Executive Officer of PARCC Laura Slover said, “High quality assessments go hand-in-hand with high quality instruction based, on high quality standards. You cannot have one without the other. The PARCC states see quality assessments as a part of instruction, not a break from instruction.” The proponents of Common Core and PARCC continue to insist that tests and standards are not about curriculum, but that’s a ruse. Teachers already know that what is tested at the end of the year is what is taught in classrooms throughout the year. PARCC may not mandate one textbook or one pacing guide, but the CEO of the federally funded PARCC has admitted one thing: PARCC controls instruction and instruction is curriculum.

Jacks country - I told you so -- and now support from Gov. Jindl's office in LA--and this is why they only allow a 15% addition by the teachers - they can't test, monitor or control the students and teachers to fit in their "one size fits all" shoe

PARCC (Partenership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) issued a press release to announce they are going to reduce the number of passages and items on the ELA/Literacy section of their test.  This follows the initial review done by several of “PARCC state experts.”  The outline the changes, but the most interesting part of the press release is the statement made by their CEO Laura Slover.
“High quality assessments go hand-in-hand with high quality instruction based, on high quality standards,” said Laura Slover, the Chief Executive Officer of the PARCC nonprofit. “You cannot have one without the other. The PARCC states see quality assessments as a partof instruction, not a break from instruction.”
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s office, whose executive order to remove Louisiana from PARCC was recently blocked by a district court judge, released a statement of their own responding to this news.
“The proponents of Common Core and PARCC continue to insist that tests and standards are not about curriculum, but that’s a ruse. Teachers already know that what is tested at the end of the year is what is taught in classrooms throughout the year. PARCC may not mandate one textbook or one pacing guide, but the CEO of the federally funded PARCC has admitted one thing: PARCC controls instruction and instruction is curriculum,” his office stated.

Aug 25, 2014
PARCC CEO ADMITS GOAL OF TEST TO CONTROL CURRICULUM
BATON ROUGE - On Friday, the federally funded Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) issued a press release where the Chief Executive Officer of PARCC Laura Slover revealed the true goals of the federally funded PARCC assessment - to control curriculum.
 
Chief Executive Officer of PARCC Laura Slover said, “High quality assessments go hand-in-hand with high quality instruction based, on high quality standards. You cannot have one without the other. The PARCC states see quality assessments as a part of instruction, not a break from instruction.”
 
The proponents of Common Core and PARCC continue to insist that tests and standards are not about curriculum, but that’s a ruse. Teachers already know that what is tested at the end of the year is what is taught in classrooms throughout the year. PARCC may not mandate one textbook or one pacing guide, but the CEO of the federally funded PARCC has admitted one thing: PARCC controls instruction and instruction is curriculum.

Look up Common Core and fight to control it's spread.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

In Obama's words , my letter to Courier

Dear Editor,
Per Obama: - “The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. We will be vigilant and we will be relentless. When people harm Americans, anywhere, we do what's necessary to see that justice is done. And we act against ISIL, standing alongside others.
The people of Iraq, who with our support are taking the fight to ISIL, must continue coming together to expel these terrorists from their communities. The people of Syria, whose story Jim Foley told, do not deserve to live under the shadow of a tyrant or terrorists. They have our support in their pursuit of a future rooted in dignity.
From governments and peoples across the Middle East there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer, so that it does not spread. There has to be a clear rejection of these kind of nihilistic ideologies. One thing we can all agree on is that a group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century.”
Does anyone need more reason to vote out the Senators, and Representatives that support this man? FORE!
Gerald Keer

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Think about IT!



Questions to conservative thinkers.
Has our Federal government become a Mega Corporation? Look at our highways. They started as States building roads to open new lands and connect existing municipalities. The obvious benefits were business, immigration from other states, as well as improved transportation. The automobile came and the US highway system came with monies supported by the Federal and State fuel taxes. The Interstate system came based on the models of State Turnpikes and lessens of World War II as well as the AUTOBAHN. Today we have states crying for highway dollars; for roads and bridges to maintain as well as new sections to eliminate traffic overloads (best of intentions). I wonder if all of the reconstructions cause increased problems. 
After this example look at National Education Policy, Obama Care and the shortened work hours, and Communication radio television telephone with allof the taxes or fees to provide other functions -maybe we all should receive OBAMA PHONES, EPA, and Power Industry Regulation (RGGI), Mortgages. Residential electric energy has jumped about 25 %.
What is next the internet?
All sources of taxation. What should be the domain of the Federal or State controls, or their function?