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Public Schools: Overpaid Teachers and Uneducated Students by Mychal Massie

End of summer is upon us and with same comes the Erebusic Satanic ritual notably called return to public school. Public schools since the early 1970s have served to prepare public school teachers for comfortable retirements and prepare the students relegated to them to lowered expectations and conformity to social Marxism.

If more money were the cure to the educational malaise, public schools would be graduating entire classes of Einstiens and Socrates. But instead they are promoting students grade-to-grade who cannot make change unless the cash register tells them the correct amount and who are by definition illiterate in geography, literature, and factual history.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, Public School Expenditures (Last Updated 2015) from 2000-01 to 2011-12, expenditures per student in public elementary and secondary schools increased by 11 percent, after adjusting for inflation. This amount peaked in 2010-11 at $11,332. (nces.ed.gov) The total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. amounted to $621 billion in 2011-12.

Spending more money hasn't improved student's ability to speak, read, comprehend, and do math, on a legitimate level consistent with their grade.

Public school children can tell you where to get an abortion and how much it will cost. They can tell you were to get birth control and condoms. They can tell you what actor or singer is sleeping with whom and they can recite the words of rap songs and have a candid (though less than illuminating) discussion about Dancing With the Stars and/or Star Search.

But those are not marketable skills consistent with earning a living wage, which explains why liberals are pushing for $15 minimum wage to flip hamburgers and toss French fries.

Most public school children born in 1990 graduated from public school in 2008 believing Muslims are our friends and it was America's fault that Muslims murdered over 3,000 Americans in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Children graduating from college in 2012 believe America is an evil colonialist empire oppressing poor people around the world.

Children in public schools are being taught that phrases like "baa, baa black sheep" are racist and insensitive. They're being taught that words such as "Master's Degree, postmasters, and master suites," are racist and insensitive, and bespeak of white privilege. (See: Ten Things You Didn't Know Where Racist; John Leo; National Review; 8/20/2015)

Your child going off to college is a proud moment until the child returns home an anarchist condemning the traditions that made America great.

The overwhelming majority of public school teachers I have met fall into two categories: 1) those who boast about the job they do and how they would do more but the system won't let them; 2) those who blame parents for a child's poor performance. The latter omits, of course, that the input of parents is not welcome today.

David Horowitz, the editor of FrontPage Magazine and founder of The Freedom Center has spent the better part of his adult life addressing the threat Marxists and their ideology pose to college aged minds. He points out that the Marxists of the 1960s did not go away – they went into higher education.

For the privilege of a lifelong debt of college loans and a high likelihood of a degree that proves worthless, young people are graduating thoroughly converted to secular humanism, hatred for America, ignorant of factual history, and ashamed of being white.

If black, they graduate wearing victimology on their sleeves and with a hatred for whites that cannot be overstated.

Public school children are learning the equivalent of nothing when compared to the knowledge those of us graduating pre-1970 were expected to know. Children are however being taught that pernicious debauchery is normal and natural. They are taught that not excepting homosexuality and not admitting that being white is too enjoy privilege denied persons of color is amoral and bigoted.

Public school students will not be taught the truth of Benghazi and they will have their grades lowered if they do not conform to their teacher's cultural Marxism.

Students will be able to bring their babies to the school daycare center but they will be expelled if they bow heads and openly give God thanks for their meals. Children will be tutored in how to deceive and lie to their parents but they will not be permitted to carry a Bible to their classes.

They will conclude a school year without knowing who their state representatives are and in most instances unable to identify five generals from World War II; not knowing significant historical landmarks in their areas of domicile; not being able to name the first ten presidents, and not being able to name the state capitols of ten states.

And before the teachers reading this decide to be offended by the truth, munch on this factoid. A National Geographic Test in 2002 found that 11 percent of graduates aged 18 to 24 couldn't locate the U.S. on a map. And more students knew the island featured in the last season's "Survivor" than could find Israel.

And we wonder why young people are growing up without morals, without an appreciation and love for America, no sense of patriotism, angry, and filled with despair.

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To Be Continued… – Sunday Thought for the Day by Mychal Massie

The following was written for September 6, 2015, "Our Daily Bread" by Dave McCasland.
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Growing up in the 1950s, I often attended the Saturday matinee at a local movie theater. Along with cartoons and a feature film, there was an adventure serial that always ended with the hero or heroine facing an impossible situation. There seemed to be no way out, but each episode concluded with the words "To Be Continued . . . "

The apostle Paul was no stranger to life-threatening situations. He was imprisoned, beaten, stoned, and shipwrecked as he sought to take the good news of Jesus Christ to people. He knew that someday he would die, but he never considered that to be the end of the story. Paul wrote to the followers of Jesus in Corinth, "When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: 'Death has been swallowed up in victory' " (1 Cor. 15:54). The passion of Paul's life was telling others that Jesus our Savior gave His life on the cross so that through faith in Him we can receive forgiveness for all our sins and have eternal life.

We are not like the movie hero who always escapes certain death. The day will come when our earthly lives will end either by death or Christ's return. But by God's grace and mercy, the story of your life and mine is "to be continued."

Father, we praise You for Your gift of eternal life and say with Paul, "Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. 15:57).

In life and death, Christ is our hope.

INSIGHT:
Paul wrote chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians in response to those in the church at Corinth who denied that Jesus rose bodily from the dead. This chapter is divided into two sections. In verses 1-34, Paul discusses the reasons to believe that Jesus did in fact walk out of His tomb. In verses 35-57, Paul talks about the need for and the nature of our resurrected bodies. These verses lead to Paul's concluding point in verse 58. While waiting for our resurrection, "give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain." J.R. Hudberg

READ: 1 Corinthians 15:50-58
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.             http://mychal-massie.com/premium/to-be-continued-sunday-thought-for-the-day-2/

Raynard Jackson: ‘Shaking Down’ The Republican Tree by Mychal Massie

I have always been one to believe that anything I could dream, I could achieve as long as my goals and objectives were in line with God's will and His plan for me.
I am a Christian, an unapologetic conservative, and I am a strict Constructionist, (i.e., I believe in a close and narrow reading and interpretation of the Constitution). If the aforementioned qualities most closely identify me with the Republican Party so be it; I am still first and foremost a Christian and a strict constructionist conservative.

You will notice that I didn't describe myself as a color nor did I describe myself as a member of a race-based group, nor did I insist on a special seat at "the table" because of my skin color.

Which brings me to Raynard Jackson of Raynard Jackson and Associates LLC internationally recognized political consulting, government affairs, and PR firm based in Washington, DC.

In an August 31, 2015 published column titled "The Illusion of Inclusion in the Republican Party," Jackson opines what he views as a "total lack of engagement with the black community" by the Republican Party. He attacks the Republican Party (to which he presumably also belongs) as ignoring black people who "are begging Republicans to give them a reason to vote for them."

Jackson believes the Republican Party "has failed to even acknowledge the existence of the black community." His rhetoric is the equivalent of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson when they are trying to shakedown a company.

This brings me to my opinion of that's what Jackson deserves for reducing himself to a color. The following may seem to be harsh language, but it is truth and it needs to be said. Jackson, despite all of the photos of him with politicians, athletes, television personalities, etc., which anyone who has made the right size donation also has, is upset because he wants to be a "color-player" and it's not happening.

The "color-player" game goes like this. A person of a particular ethnic persuasion, usually a black person, is given a bundle of money under the guise that they can corral and deliver a considerable number of votes from that ethnic grouping. Tangential to that, said individual also in theory and perhaps in reality, controls that block of votes. The person controlling that block of votes is a de facto power broker in the "color-player" league, if you will, because they can make ethnic candidates believe they have the means to secure them campaign support.

Now Jackson is outraged that the money spent attending banquets, campaign events, and making donations, hasn't paid off as he envisioned. Borrowing from Dr. Martin Luther King's comment, that in America, "the church is still the most segregated major institution in America." Jackson says: "the most segregated major institution in America is the Republican Party. Republicans often confuse diversity and inclusion with having a black on staff." He continues: "Blacks are nowhere to be found when policies and direction of the party or a presidential campaign is concerned."

Interesting he would feel that way; as a self-proclaimed Republican, Jackson should admit that the very fact Republicans had blacks on staff and in key power positions under Presidents Reagan, G.W.H. Bush, and G.W. Bush is far more inclusive than blacks under the Obama administration, but I digress albeit sarcasm is intended.

Jackson represents the mindset that I find deplorable. His complaint is that blacks running as Republicans cannot get the funding, support, blah-blah they believe is needed to make a successful run. I ask you, is that any different than Pat Tommey not getting support when he was challenging the late Arlen Specter? Is that any different than Christine O'Donnell, and dozens of Tea Party candidates who did not get support from the GOP/RNC? Is that any different than Mitch McConnell threatening to blacklist any fundraising company that raised campaign money for Tea Party candidates and then blacklisting the Jamestown Group to prove the point?

Contrary to Jackson's viewpoint the estrangement and exogamy between blacks and Republicans is well known and it has to do with blacks' contempt for all things Republican. If Jackson's mnemonic engine were firing on all cylinders he would acknowledge same.

That notwithstanding, what I find most reprehensible pursuant to Jackson's argument is the idea that skin color trumps reality.

Neither blacks nor anyone else for that manner deserve special dispensation based on skin color. Was the color of their skin a factor when the Karl Rove – Reince Priebus establishment cartel saw to it that Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle, and Meg Whitman didn't win?

It is time to end race-based assignations and the prostitution of skin color. It is time for people like Jackson to stop being colors and be Americans. Being an American takes away the "it's because I'm black" argument.

It is also time to confront those like Jackson who were themselves smart enough to find a way to succeed but believe other blacks are not smart enough to understand a clear straightforward message that doesn't include hyphenations, race-based grievances, victimology, and "because I'm black," ad nauseum.

As for Republicans, the Party has lost it way and vision under the Erebusic influence of Karl Rove and Reince Priebus. It is no longer the Party of Reagan and it darn sure isn't the Party of Lincoln pursuant to values and statesmanship.

With that thought in mind, I say why would anyone want to be part of pit of elapidae vipers like them? It is time to extricate the Party from Rove-Priebus and their cabal of establishment henchmen. Barring that it is time to seriously consider a third party with enough support to force the Republican Party out of business or at least into remission.

I condemn the Democrat Party with all of my being, and at this point I see little if any difference between Republicans and them.

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Life is fundamental

Has anyone else grown weary of the much too often quoted phrase "Black Lives Matter"?

Why should black lives matter more than white lives or yellow or olive-skinned lives?

And why are we suddenly relegated to simply being "lives"?

We are all people--human beings--and as such we all have distinctive personalities and characteristics that define us as individuals.

According to our venerated Declaration of Independence, we are all created equal. Yet there is a certain element abounding within the boundaries of our own country that strives to make one group more important than another.

It defies every concept upon which the very foundation of our nation was created.

All lives matter regardless of color of skin, level of education and occupation.

Targeting an individual because of a difference in appearance or personality or job or even in regard to the clothes or uniform worn is wrong.

Pure and Simple.

It is not for us to arbitrarily take away a life.

Life is a fundamental, God given right.

We cannot walk upon the streets or enter stores or theaters or shopping malls or gas stations and decide, off the top of our heads, to kill someone because we don't like the look of another person.

If these thoughts or actions were allowed to become reality, what kind of world would we have to live in?

It's time we stopped glorifying one type of people above another and give all people a healthy respect of their lives.

We are not here to get in each other's way.

We are here to strive and grow and to continue to regenerate ourselves on through the next and next generation.

Stirring up racial tensions is not helping us to achieve any of these requirements.

It's creating a sensation for violence and hindering the essential well being of all people.

Today in History

Today is Wednesday, September 2, the 245th day of 2015. There are 120 days left in the year.
September 2, 1945
Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.
1666
the Great Fire of London broke out.
1789
the United States Treasury Department was established.
1864
during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman's forces occupied Atlanta.
1901
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair.
1924
the Rudolf Friml operetta "Rose Marie" opened on Broadway.
1935
a Labor Day hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming more than 400 lives.
1945
Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic. (Ho died on this date in 1969.)
1963
Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers. "The CBS Evening News" with Walter Cronkite was lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes, becoming network television's first half-hour nightly newscast.
1969
in what some regard as the birth of the Internet, two connected computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, passed test data through a 15-foot cable.
1972
Dave Wottle of the United States won the men's 800-meter race at the Munich Summer Olympics.
1986
a judge in Los Angeles sentenced Cathy Evelyn Smith to three years in prison for involuntary manslaughter for her role in the 1982 drug overdose death of comedian John Belushi. (Smith served 18 months.)
1998
a Swissair MD-11 jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people aboard.
Ten years ago:
A National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled into New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina. Scorched by criticism about sluggish federal help, President George W. Bush toured the Gulf Coast and met with state and local officials, including New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; at one point, Bush praised FEMA Director Michael Brown, telling him, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." During a live TV benefit concert, rapper Kanye West went off-script to sharply criticize President Bush, saying he "doesn't care about black people." The Labor Department reported the August unemployment rate was 4.9 percent, a four-year low. Machinists at Boeing Co. went on a nearly month-long strike. Actor Bob Denver, 70, died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Five years ago:
Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged in a first round of renewed peace talks in Washington to keep meeting at regular intervals. Seattle Storm forward Lauren Jackson was selected the WNBA's most valuable player for the third time in her career.
One year ago:
Islamic State group extremists released a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff, and warned President Barack Obama against further U.S. airstrikes on the group. Apple said that hackers had obtained nude photos of actress Jennifer Lawrence and other female celebrities by pilfering images from individual accounts rather than through a broader attack on the company's services.
Today's Birthdays:
Dancer-actress Marge Champion is 96. Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson, R-Wyo., is 84. Actor-comedian Chuck McCann is 81. Former United States Olympic Committee Chairman Peter Ueberroth is 78. Actor Derek Fowlds (TV: "Yes, Minister"; "Yes, Prime Minister") is 78. Singer Jimmy Clanton is 77. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sam Gooden (The Impressions) is 76. Rhythm-and-blues singer Rosalind Ashford (Martha & the Vandellas) is 72. Singer Joe Simon is 72. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw is 67. Basketball Hall of Famer Nate Archibald is 67. Actor Mark Harmon is 64. Former Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., is 64. International Tennis Hall of Famer Jimmy Connors is 63. Actress Linda Purl is 60. Rock musician Jerry Augustyniak (10,000 Maniacs) is 57. Country musician Paul Deakin (The Mavericks) is 56. Pro Football Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson is 55. Actor Keanu Reeves is 51. International Boxing Hall of Famer Lennox Lewis is 50. Actress Salma Hayek is 49. Actor Tuc Watkins is 49. Actress Kristen Cloke is 47. Actress Cynthia Watros is 47. Rhythm-and-blues singer K-Ci is 46. Actor-comedian Katt Williams is 42. Actor Michael Lombardi is 41. Actress Tiffany Hines is 38. Rock musician Sam Rivers (Limp Bizkit) is 38. Actor Jonathan Kite is 36. Actress Allison Miller is 30. Rock musician Spencer Smith is 28. Electronic music DJ/producer Zedd is 26.
Thought for Today:
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." — Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (1901-1978).                                   http://.http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HISTORY?SITE=APttp:/...

Turn It Off – Sunday Thought For The Day by Mychal Massie

The following was written for August 23, 2015, "Our Daily Bread" by Cindy Hess Kasper.
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When our kids were young, we took a trip to northern Wisconsin to visit my grandparents. They didn't get very good reception on their television, but TV wasn't much of a priority with them. After I had seen our son Scott fiddling with the TV set for a while, he asked with frustration, "What do you do if you can get only one channel and you don't like what's on that one?"

"Try turning it off, " I said with a smile. Not exactly the advice he was hoping for. It's even more difficult to do now, especially when there are so many devices that entertain, inform, and distract us.

Sometimes we do need to just turn it all off and rest our minds for a little while; we simply need to "unplug." Jesus often drew aside for a time—especially when He wanted to take time to pray (Matt. 14:13). He encouraged the disciples to step away as well—even for a brief time (Mark 6:31). That kind of solitude and time for reflection is beneficial for each of us. In those moments we are able to draw near to God.

Follow the example and wisdom of Christ. Get away by yourself and "rest a while." It will be good for your body, mind, and spirit.

Lord, help me to seek those things which are from above. I want to turn off all that distracts me and draw near to You.

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Turning down the volume of life allows you to listen carefully to God.

INSIGHT:
Mark 6 is a pivotal chapter in this gospel account. It begins with the people of Jesus' hometown of Nazareth rejecting Him (vv. 1-6). This experience is compounded by the death of John the Baptist (vv. 14-29)—a person Jesus loved and honored (Matt. 11:1-11; 14:1-13). These moments of difficulty, however, did not impede Jesus' continuing work. The chapter concludes with two of His most notable miracles: His feeding of the multitude (vv. 30-44) and His walking on water (vv. 45-56). Great heartache and power combine to make this chapter so strategic in Mark's gospel. Bill Crowder

READ: Mark 6:30-32
30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.

31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.              http://mychal-massie.com/premium/turn-it-off-sunday-thought-for-the-day/

Elitists v. Patriots by Roseann Salanitri

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The root causes of our approaching national demise may be many but most could have been averted had any branch of government honored their oaths of office to preserve and protect our Constitution. While classrooms across America teach that the Constitution is archaic and no longer adequate for a modern people, its preamble sets the stage for an equality between "We the People" and those in government that was unique when it was first penned and remains unique to this very day. The concept of those that govern do so by the consent of the governed that is expressed in our Constitution was first set forth in our Declaration of Independence. It states: "Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." This principle of equality is also set forth in the New Testament (Romans 2:11 and Acts 10:34) that tell us God is not a respecter of persons. It is this very principle of establishing true equality among our citizens that was designed to curtail the emergence of a ruling class in our Constitutional Republic. And – it is this principle of equality that is under assault and has unleashed a pandemic of elitists' attitudes cloaked in anesthetizing speeches that sound good to the ear but mean nothing when analyzed by the brain.

If it can be argued that America has undergone a soft coup de tat that empowered a ruling class of global cabalists, it can also be argued that the popularity of the GOPs non-establishment presidential candidates represents the beginnings of a soft counter-coup. Whether or not this soft counter-coup will prevail rests upon the ability of We the People to resist the propaganda that will most certainly bombard the airwaves over the 2016 election cycle. And the people's resistance will in turn rest on their ability to stay informed of the facts and not be swayed by some of the most effective spinmeisters the world has ever known. Once again, there are several Bible verses that tell us we are to be informed, and not being informed will result in our demise (Hosea 4:6; Job 36:12; Prov. 5:23 and 10:21). This ability to separate fact from the fictional spin will be especially challenged by the $100,000,000 Jeb Bush has raised to date, the deep pockets of the Clinton Foundation, and wealthy, power-crazed men like George Soros. In this war between the establishment cabalists and the patriots, the battle strategies will not be designed around tanks or nuclear warheads. They will be cloaked in political speak and cunning phrases that can fool even the most ardent constitutionalist – if possible.

But how does America decode the disingenuous speak of the career politician from the true American patriot? They look for the facts and identify the double standards.

For example, politicians who hold the citizenry to one standard but exempt themselves from the same standard, i.e.:

The swift investigation and sentencing of General Petraeus for compromising classified information with his biographer and girlfriend, resulting in a $100,000 fine, two years of probation, and forcing the General to retire. Compare this to Hillary Clinton's email scandals, currently revealing over 300 security issues in just a small sampling of her recovered emails. Perhaps General Petraeus should have considered running for the presidency instead of resigning.

On the subject of emails, elite NY firefighter and U.S. Marine Corp. Forces Reserve Major Jason Brezler is facing a less than honorable discharge for emailing a single classified report in a desperate effort to save the lives of three marines who were in danger. Brezler is being prosecuted (or should I say persecuted?) for breaking security protocol by sending classified information over an insecure line. Once again, compare this to the situation with Hillary Clinton, who conducted all national security communications over an insecure line.

Of course there is Attorney General Eric Holder's refusal to produce documents requested during a congressional investigation regarding the "Fast and Furious" scandal and claiming "executive privilege", which is the administration's way of saying they are above the law. Can you imagine what would happen to you if you so defied a congressional investigation?

Let's not forget that Congress is not bound by the Security and Exchange Commission's regulations and laws regarding insider trading. Martha Stewart certainly wasn't able to claim an exemption for something far more trivial

While on the subject of Congress, consider ObamaCare – a health care debacle that was seriously opposed by the American people and passed by congress without so much as these elitists having the decency to even bother reading it. Then, after it is passed, what do they do? They exempt themselves and their staffs from living under the same laws they have pressed upon us.

What about all the second amendment infringements that state legislators and governors have passed, arguing that guns are the fault of the rise in violent crimes around the country? How many of these legislators pack heat to protect their families and themselves but deny us the same protection?

Or what about the re-election of John Boehner as Speaker of the House after a reported 60% of Republican voters urged their representatives to vote against Boehner? With the exception of 25 congressmen who listened to the wishes of their constituents, it is reasonable to ask if the other members of the House of Representatives really "derive their just powers from the consent of the governed?

Of course I could probably fill a library with books written to document the unfulfilled campaign promises by elected politicians – like the revocation of ObamaCare and the securing of our borders. But I could fill even more libraries with books documenting the unconstitutional decisions rendered by our judges. In my home state of New Jersey alone, decisions that boldly proclaim that the judges understand that their decision is unconstitutional but will rule adversely anyway are mind-boggling.

The list of double-standards could go on and on but most reading this will already be aware of many additional items that qualify. The point is that America has enabled the emergence of these elitists. However, there is good news. America seems to be waking up. The double-talk of Jeb Bush regarding his stance on Common Core didn't score him any polling points with the public. Although his answer was well-rehearsed and well-crafted, its disingenuousness did not escape the eyes of the now alert public. The identifiable pattern continues with the full-of- himself Governor Chris Christie, who in the past has redefined sin, explains away NJ's troubles as resting on the shoulders of a Democratic legislature, and defends his record of violating the Fourth Amendment, as he sees fit of course. This behavior is to be expected from the ruling class elitists whose actions prove that they believe they are above the law and the public is too stupid to look beyond their talking points. (Many thanks to Donald Trump for restoring the word "stupid" to our vernacular.)

The so-called phenomenon of Donald Trump, Dr. Carson, and Carly Fiorina may not be a phenomenon at all. It may just be the longed-for evidence that the sleeping giant once known as the silent majority is no longer swallowing the sweet-talking lies of career politicians. But the battle for the heart and soul of America is far from over. And if my analysis is correct, we can expect a smear campaign launched against all of the would-be citizen representatives – the likes of which we have never seen before. In this case, skeletons will not just emerge from the candidates' closets, they will be conjured up and paid for by the once all-powerful ruling class. So my advice, America: don't fall for it. It's time to rally the troops and circle the wagons. The elitist cabal will not go down without a fight. Are you up to the challenge?

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Do Our Voices Count? by Mychal Massie

Quoting journalist Lewis Lapham, Attorney John W. Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute, wrote: "The shaping of the will of Congress and the choosing of the American president has become a privilege reserved to the country's equestrian classes, a.k.a. the 20 [percent] of the population that holds 93 [percent] of the wealth, the happy few who run the corporations and the banks, own and operate the news and entertainment media, compose the laws and govern the universities, control the philanthropic foundations, the policy institutes..." (Don't Be Fooled by the Political Game: The Illusion of Freedom in America; 8/10/15)

Whitehead went on to say: "Being a citizen in the American corporate state is much like playing against a stacked deck – you're always going to lose."
Some may view Whitehead's treatise as an attack on the America we love. I however view his argument as frighteningly accurate. And nowhere is it more transpicuous than in the election process, specifically the current presidential election process.

It's not an accident that it costs north of a billion dollars for a candidate to mount a run for president. That fact alone limits public participation and marginalizes the input of We the People. Specific to that point how many have felt that their voices do not matter? How many feel that regardless of the number of phone calls and emails to those who promised that if elected they would serve you – that attending to the interests of We the People is furthest thing from their minds?

Our founding fathers never intended for the president to be approachable only to those who can pay $500,000 to have dinners with them; or that a donation of $100,000 will get you a night's stay in the Lincoln Bedroom. How many of you can afford to attend a $35,000 per plate dinner? How many small business owners can afford to by a table for a minimum of $20,000 at Capitol Hill political events?

Sure, it is nice to think oneself a player because for a $2,000 donation candidates acknowledge you, but acknowledging someone and doing the bidding of We the People are not remotely synonymous.

The selection of candidates suitable to the establishment of both either Party is a closed process with only the illusion that we play a part. The GOP/RNC routinely destroy candidates We the People want in favor of their "pets." Recall what the Republican Party did to Republican Congressman Allen West. Recall what Karl Rove and the RNC minions did to Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, and are now attempting to do to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

If We the People had a say in what is taking place – they would involve us in the process start to finish. As it is, we the People are expected to send money and vote as we are told.

We are barraged with the damnable campaign heterodoxy that a Conservative cannot win the Presidency – only a moderate can because Conservatives are too divisive and the country needs someone who can form a consensus.

And of course as fortune (for the party elites) would have it the candidate(s) able to bring about consensus just happen to be the one they are promoting.

This too is a lie; regardless of the drivel those like Frank Luntz pedal, consensus is the prolegomenon that precedes our being shortchanged yet again. Well spoke the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she said: "Consensus [is] the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner [of] I stand for consensus?"

"Consensus" succinctly stated means the establishment gets what they want and We the People get shafted.

Whitehead argued that there is today little to no difference between the Republican Party and Democrat Party.

Only blind ideologues and/or those unaware of how inside the beltway machinations work would disagree.

Unlike Whitehead however, I contend that we are not helpless, but that we are craven and easily led. As a collective We the People have lost our ability to discern outright lies from the mellifluous lips of elapids more subtle than the one who visited Eve in the Garden.

Until We the People understand we cannot fear losing if we want to win, the establishment will rule. Losing in the short run to secure our future in the long run is a not defeat. Even if the boogieman of the day wins, it is better to have that happen than to hold our noses and allow Rove, et al to force candidates upon us.

I would also remind everyone that money doesn't outspend votes. Which means, the enemy can spend whatever they want, but if we vote en masse for our candidate, their money buys them defeat.

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Debate Wasn’t First Time Megyn Kelly Maliciously Attacked by Mychal Massie

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In the aftermath of the harsh rebukes Kelly has received, she is now trying to convince people she was just doing her "yob." And she is telling us same in such a way as to solicit sympathy. Well, she'll get no sympathy from me but she will get my disdain because I've witnessed Kelly play this game before. I've witnessed her disrespect people before and then when she is criticized for it, she cried "oh poor little me."

Her despicable portrayal of a debate moderator should be a required 100 level college course pursuant to how debate moderators should not behave.

Kelly's kind doesn't grasp the contempt that We the People have for her pathetically biased attempt to hatchet Donald Trump. Her defense was: "I will continue doing my job without fear or favor." She went on to say that she wouldn't apologize for asking "tough but fair" questions and that she is moving on from the debate.

Therein lies the craven wretchedness of her kind. They do their best to smear and embarrass but when they are caught and/or challenged they feign hurt and hide behind the very thing that they least embody, i.e., professionalism.

If Kelly had asked "tough but fair" questions she wouldn't have been assailed en masse by those viewing the faux debate. Rather, it is precisely because she was ugly and unfair that the cacophony of public condemnation of both she and FoxNews has been so demonstrable.

That said, Kelly was at least partially truthful. She did do her "job," and she did it "without fear" but it sure wasn't done without "favor." As I wrote in my piece "What Trump Could Have Asked Megyn Kelly" (mychal-massie.com; 8/10/15) and in my other piece "FoxNews: Unfair and Unbalanced" (mychal-massie.com; 8/11/15) Kelly and her FoxNews counterparts were doing exactly as she and they had been instructed. They had been instructed to take out Trump and it was with that anticipation that Rupert Murdoch, the principle owner of FoxNews was quick to acknowledge, "mission accomplished" immediately after the debate.

As I wrote in my aforementioned articles, Kelly herself had boasted just hours before the debate that she was going o make history because one of the presidential candidates would have their ambitions crushed as a result of the debate and be forced to withdraw. Was that her function as debate moderator? I think not.

But Kelly has a history of whining and attempting to hide behind the "just doing my job" line after her unprofessional behavior. As I previously wrote she tried: "To laugh off the heat she was taking for comments she made about Santa being white and Jesus being white. Her ignorance notwithstanding pursuant to Jesus who was a Jew, she tried to play it off that she has single-handedly caused a firestorm over the issue of Santa's skin color." (Megyn Kelly's Phony Boo-Hoo Moment; 12/19/13)

In that instance Kelly claimed the primary causal factors for the public outcry was that FoxNews has a big target on its back. The real problem is that FoxNews is comprised of so-called journalists like her. I could write a novella pursuant to my thoughts on the azimuth between Kelly's over-inflated self-importance and reality, but I'm of the opinion that people have already discerned that about her.

Kelly tried to hide behind a pathetic attempt at pretending to not support Jehmu Greene, the crown princess of Negro racists. But Kelly and FoxNews gave Greene a complete pass when she spewed her racist epithets at Tucker Carlson on live television because Carlson was besting her in debate. FoxNews not only gave Greene a pass but they increased her number of appearances on Fox programming. (See: Is Jehmu Greene Worth It To Megyn Kelly and FoxNews; 7/19/12)

Now, once again after Kelly has behaved poorly she attempts to blanket herself in a shroud of self-accredited importance by claiming she is a target born out of disdain because she and Fox are such big players.

I would like to ask the egotistical Kelly if FoxNews and if she specifically were the victims of having a target on their/her back when she was ridiculed for lashing out at Tea Party icon Joe the Plumber, after she fallaciously attacked him for an article he did not write.

From her television perch she railed that Joe was a racist and more for writing an article titled "America Needs A White Republican President." But as I pointed out above, Joe did not write the article he simply posted it on his website. Talk show host and author Kevin Jackson wrote the article. And even more importantly Kevin Jackson is black. Does anyone remember Kelly apologizing to Joe for making a national spectacle out of him?

Of course not, after all according to her she was just doing her "yob man." And she expects to be taken as a competent and serious journalist?

The truth is that Kelly is a nobody from nowhere who has prostituted her looks and sleazy behavior into a seven-figure salary. But she doesn't have the class or character to understand how a person in her position should behave.

Kelly doesn't deserve sympathy – she deserves our harshest condemnation because she has repeatedly proven herself unworthy of our trust or respect.

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LIBERALS’ VERSION OF THE 23RD PSALM

Christians facing adversity have long derived comfort and reassurance from the words of the 23rd Psalm found in the Old Testament. But how would these hallowed words read if they had been written by a contemporary American liberal instead of King David? I suggest that if written by a contemporary American liberal—the kind who will vote for Hillary Clinton even if she is in jail where she belongs on election day—the 23rd Psalm would read as follows:

The government is my keeper, I shall not want.

It makes me lie down in a field of handouts.

It leads me beside fellow dependents.

It restores my benefits.

It leads me in the path of entitlements for its name's sake.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of work,

I will fear no job for the government is with me;

Its handouts and entitlements comfort me.

It prepares a table before me in the presence of working taxpayers;

It anoints my checkbook with subsidies;

My pockets overflow.

Surely income redistribution shall follow me all the days of my life,

And I will be shackled by government dependence forever.

This version of King David's best-known Psalm summarizes succinctly what the eventual Republican candidate for president will face in running against Hillary Clinton. Even those government dependent individuals who will have to cross their fingers behind their backs to vote for Hillary Clinton will still do so because she is the candidate most likely to maintain their access to the federal treasury. So many Americans now derive their sustenance from government handouts that the Democratic nominee for president—any Democrat—begins the race with almost half of the electorate in his or her corner.

If a Republican candidate—any one of them—is going to defeat Hillary Clinton, that individual is going to have to energize as no Republican candidate has before the half of the electorate that is paying for the government entitlements of the other half. This will not be accomplished by continuing the same old wishy-washy, don't-hurt-anyone's-feelings tactics favored by the mainstream Republican Party. Rather, it will require a candidate who is willing to step up to the plate and hurt some feelings that need to be hurt if America is going to survive. This is why Donald Trump now leads the pack among Republican candidates. Some may not like what he has to say, but a lot of Americans admire him for saying it. Those who make their living by actually working in America are tired of weak-willed politicians who tiptoe around the feelings of those who don't work and don't intend to.                                               http://patriotupdate.com/liberals-version-of-the-23rd-psalm/