Category: government

Indiana – the First State to Rescind Common Core Education Standards

~ Pharmer

Those who purport to know what’s best for us have quietly changed the standards of education in the United States. Movement against this change has gathered steam, and is beginning to influence election results.

Propelled by money from the Gates Foundation, new standards and assessments were produced by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers.  All of the states except Texas, Alaska, Virginia and Nebraska accepted the new standards because billions of dollars in federal grants had been tied to the programs.   Indiana’s board of education also quietly adopted the standards.  This is the reason that the state’s superintendent of public schools, Tony Bennett was replaced by relatively unknown democrat Glenda Ritz.  The upset caused the rest of Indiana politicians to become much more friendly to the idea of repealing Common Core.

There are claims from the Common Core proponents that this program does not interfere with educational choice.  The problem is that schools feel compelled to adopt the fluff textbooks and teaching methods because they are scored on their students success with the standardized tests developed by the Common core committees.

If you find that you’re unable to help your kids with the “why do you think this  answer  [in math]  is right?” questions that they get, instead of more problem solving types of homework….. your kid is being victimized by Common Core. Functional scientists realize the most significant limitation of their discipline: Science is not equipped to answer WHY.   So you can imagine what useless things the Common Core concept  can do with a biology or chemistry text.  Your friendly Pharmer has seen the stuff.   Much of the kids’ time  is spent learning how to B.S. on the tests, and write things specifically to satisfy the standards, rather than what is actually correct or  useful for performing in the real world.

Kids with brains to spare can deal with the extra effort of rote learning some garbage which is only intended to satisfy standardized tests, in addition to what they really need to know in order to function, create and invent.  The real damage done by Common Core is to the kids who can’t learn as fast, and only have sufficient  time for the approved material.

The Common Core concept is a large, untested method of teaching. It is better adapted for the propagation of dogma than for conveying useful math and science skills.  It had been decided by the elites that the entire population of the United States is suitable guinea pig for their new idea.  Fortunately, the Indiana legislature, and Governor Mike Pence have decided that Indiana students will not have to be part of the experiment.

If you would like to read more on how Indiana became the first state to rescind the implementation of Common Core standards,  check THIS.  Hint:  we were spared through the efforts of parents.

Pharmer wishes success for your state in removing this  garbage from your life.

How is a REAL Medical Clinic Regulated Compared to an Abortion Facility

~ Pharmer ~ 3 Comments

Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie runs a radiology clinic in Miami, and has written a piece explaining how a REAL medical clinic is regulated by the government.    Please click HERE, to read what she has to say about her clinic’s regulatory burden vs. that of abortion clinics.

Those who run legitimate medical facilities deal with endless inspections which assure compliance with state and federal regulations.  They have to maintain compliance with HIPAA, and satisfy massive lists of criteria with respect to facilities, certifications of personnel, and record keeping, to be able to serve medicare and medicaid patients.

On the other hand, those who run abortion clinics do not have to comply with the same sets of standards.  It appears, from the way that many facilities are run, that inspections are few and far between.   It seems that our abortophilic governmental bodies are giving them a free pass to operate in a substandard manner.

Your friendly Pharmer has seen medical records  from abortion clinics.  By comparison to patient records from  real health care facilities, the information has been  scant and incomplete.

There is a reason that the ambulances are wearing a path from abortion clinics to the hospitals.  In general, they have a much  lower standard of care.  It is amazing that women in the United States are satisfied with this.

May 1st is Blog about Pigford Day

~ Pharmer

Breitbart.com is asking everyone to blog about the Pigford fraudulent waste of tax payer dollars to buy voters for the democrats today, May 1st.   It’s a good way to allow the world to know one of the more dishonest mechanisms by which the U.S. got itself so deeply into debt.

Your friendly Pharmer already Blogged about Pigford on April 26th, and will leave further details up to the experts.  You can check that article out  HERE, and please pass it on.

It’s fun to push things, that the media has been keeping under wraps, out to be viewed by the public.

Breitbart Celebrates -The Leftie Media Catching Up in the Pigford USDA Fraud story.

~ Pharmer ~ 1 Comment

In 2010, Andrew Breitbart got into a fight with the NAACP, charging them with their very own racism.  He published a video showing an NAACP audience  which had cheered a statement in a speech by Shirley Sherrod  mentioning an initial desire  to refuse to help a white farmer in her capacity as USDA Director of Rural Development in Georgia.  Not withstanding Breitbart’s accompanying  statement that Ms. Sherrod  actually decided that she would render aid to that farmer, the lefties attempted to spin his message against the NAACP attitudes as an attack on Shirley Sherrod. An apparent basis for their spin  is the leftist assumption that their constituency cannot read, and could only take in  the video clip.   This fight grew into a firestorm, and eventually  led to Breitbart’s  investigation into a class action lawsuit of discrimination against Black farmers, from which Sherrod  and her husband had benefited to the tune of $13 million, prior to her being hired by the USDA.

This was the Pigford v. Glickman decision, which morphed into the most bloated civil rights settlement in history.

While an expected 2000 Black farmers who had been thought to suffer discrimination from the USDA’s loan grant policies, the number of applicants for payouts ballooned to 16,000.    In  2008,  Senator Obama sponsored legislation was passed, which  allowed another 70,000 people to qualify for settlements stemming from this original USDA decision.  This latter law allowed Ms. Sherrod the larger $13 million windfall from the government.

The huge numbers of people benefiting from the original Pigford and Glickman payout by the USDA  massively exceeded the total number of Black Farmers in the United States.  Breitbart had uncovered one more government boondoggle paying out billions of dollars to more than double the total 40,000 black farmers in the U.S.  He published a series of articles explaining the government fraud, which was ignored by the mainstream media, except FOX.

Now that the    New York Times has finally caught up to this web of government fraud, and payment of agricultural settlement money to people who were never farmers, Breitbart.com is celebrating today that the lamestream media has finally noticed.  One problem with their own article is the suggestion in the headline, that the story in the New York TImes “Vindicates ” Breitbart. Wrong!………. The headline should indicate instead that the New York Times is finally catching up with Breitbart.
The erroneous idea that the NYT  is the news of record is something which needs to be corrected.
The “Gray Lady” has been exhibiting signs of dementia for years.

Hacker Leaks Benghazi Emails

~ Pharmer

The hacker, Guccifer, who broke into email accounts of various people associated with government, has begun to share the goodies with the rest of the world.  We have news of the sharing but will have to wait for such media as Pravda,  Moscow Times, or St. Petersburg Times to let us know what is actually in the emails from Sidney Blumenthal to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Clinton is at this time is making waves by coming out of the closet on gay marriage, perhaps to distract us from the fact that her compatriot’s  email account is not very secure.

It’s worth a look at the Smoking Gun to see just how a Guccifer decided to handle the digital booty obtained from illegal email snooping.   What did former Clinton aide and Hillary’s confidante, Sidney Blumenthal have to say about the Benghazi consulate attack?  Enquiring minds want to know.

Obama Care Application at Least as Bad as Your Tax Forms

~ Pharmer ~ 1 Comment

According to the AP, (which usually shills for Obama),  the part one of the application for Obamacare is an excessively complex, 21 step, 15 page long process for a three person family.   This constitutes only the financial part of the process.  Later there is also the onerous job of picking the health care plan.

This form is mandated, and it will be interesting to see how well the semi-literate members of the population are able to comply.

About 10 years ago, Pharmer obtained  prior understanding  of this kind of burden,  from  a German citizen  who had  refused to fill out his government health care paperwork.  He said that because of this, he had no health care coverage.

Those who are unable to navigate the new Obamacare system should expect to similarly find themselves out in the cold with respect to “healthcare for all”. 

 

Obama Administration is Committed to Making His Sequester as Painful As Possible

~ Pharmer

The Sequester is not really a cut in spending at all, but a reduction in the projected increase.  The spending in 2013 will still be larger than 2012.  However Obama promised a lot of pain to be associated with the sequester, and it would appear that federal officials are being ordered to make this happen.

And example comes from an internal email exchange by an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service official, Charles Brown.  He asked if he could spread whatever cuts might affect his region to make them as painless as possible.  The answer was that he was not to do anything to lessen the impact on fish inspections,  so that the effects  would be as dire as Obama warned Congress they would be.  Cuts in his area are to eliminate aid to prevent wildlife damage  to the aquaculture industry in 24 states.

In other words,  we have direct evidence that Obama is going to make  HIS sequester painful, and blame the whole idea on the Republicans.

Obama also has threatened that he  has an ability to target cuts, eliminating meat inspectors, for example, so as to reduce the available food supply.  He might not remember that his supporters will be punished most of all, as this cut would  affect the inner city “food deserts” more than the most rural areas.   (Pharmer recalls to mind  the increasingly severe cuts in DRUG supply which the nation has been experienced during Obama’s tenure.)

Since this APHIS email  came to light, the  USDA is walking back the implications of the report, saying that they will try to mitigate the effects of the sequester as much as possible.

The Washington Times also noted that the White house was facing questions on the 50 million dollar order for new TSA uniforms that it made just before the sequestration took effect.

Obama is also closing the White house to tours, and blaming this on the sequester.  Perhaps he fears blowback from  his obviously vengeful attitude towards Americans.   Inside the beltway, people are asking why Obama can’t keep the White house open, noting that President Lincoln was able to do so throughout the time of the Civil War.

Barrie Obama is no Abe Lincoln.

Bob Woodward: Obama is Lying About the Sequester

~ Pharmer

Bob Woodward, leftie journalist of the Washington Post, in a “random act of Journalism”, has revealed the detailsabout the origin of the ‘sequester‘, which Obama is currently blaming on the Republicans.

Jack Lew and Obama cooked up the ‘sequester‘.  It’s automatically triggered reduction in projected spending, which was to prevent Obama from having to negotiate the issue during the campaign.

Says Woodward: “The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.”

Do click on the paragraph above.    You will find out that  Bob Woodward is still a good leftie reporter, working for the Washington Post.  Hecouldn’t dance to the media tune, because Obama’s lie contradicted what he had already written in his own book.
Woodward still thinks that Obama is right to insist on more taxes and, most particularly taxing the rich, but he’s not going along with the lie that the Republicans invented the ‘sequester’.

By the way, the sequester is puny, not enough reduction in spending, and will not cause the projected disasters because very little money is involved, as a percentage of total spending. Since the sequester is Obama’s idea, it does contain disproportionate reductions in projected military expenditures, when compared to government dependency programs.