"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

It is long past the time for all the idiots and ignoramuses’ in this Country to  cease and desist “cherry-picking” short phrases out of our Constitution and offering them up as the sole entirety of said Amendment. It is also past the time that all the rest of the idiots and ignoramuses’ in this Country stop blindly nodding their tiny little pea-brain heads in acceptance of such abortion.

 

Every time the Second Amendment of our Constitution is brought up in conversation of any sort, the “cherry-picking” comes out; “the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”. That’s it? That’s all they have to offer up in explanation of why they prefer to keep a virtual arsenal of weapons in their houses and on their person?

First, of all, the Articles and Amendments that make up the U.S. Constitution were crafted in the late 1700’s. Our Country was still a Colony of the British Empire, and was in the throes of building a government and a new Nation. At best, our Founding Fathers needed to come up with a way to ensure our borders were defended; “being necessary to the security of a free State,”.  We had the British and the Spanish coming at us from the East, and Native Americans coming at us from the North and West. Couched in that light, the basic interpretation of the Second Amendment draws the intent toward a “National Guard” –“A well regulated Militia,” ; in lieu of a formal standing Army, which was not a possibility at the time. When, in the twenty first century, you are trying to make sense out of this document and how it may apply to modern-day life, paying attention to the original intent and environment of the document is paramount.

 

Please, folks, stop listening to all the little nit-picking, nattering nabobs of negativism, and start using that thing resting on top of your shoulders, i.e. your friggin’ brain (also, referred to as the mass between your ears)! You are making those of us who have half a brain look really stupid, and that’s not nice, so quit it out!

The Dumbing of America….

             ........................The journey continues!

                                                        Remember this face.

You will soon learn to 

appreciate that this is 

a face only a mother 

could love.

The “Center for Media & Democracy” (CMD) has taken up the cause of exposing the wonderful folks who are bringing us to the end of Public Education. I recall the days when “Charter Schools” were all the rage, and listening to the call that this was going to be the saving grace for our Nation’s education system. Well, looks like they are finally getting their cake and eating it, too. The CMD has launched a project called “OutsourcingAmericaExposed.org”. They’ve come up with an initial accounting of twelve corporations that have made serious inroads on the take-over of our Public Schools. It is not lost that, coincidently, our State and Federal prison system is being taken over in a similar fashion. (More on the Prison System later.)

 

As the caption, above, reads, this fellow runs a little “consulting” firm called K12, Inc. No, the company has nothing to do with mountains in Nepal. They have everything to do with little Johnny’s kindergarten through twelfth grade education. The corporate classroom is where our children and grandchildren are headed to be educated exactly how the owners of this Country see fit. Only one small glitch so far. They haven’t been experiencing much success. With only ¼ of their schools making the grade ^[1], they are struggling to meet even the least strenuous State criteria. What they do extremely well is get paid. The gentleman pictured above took in a cool $19 million for 2013 (according to their 10-k report). The same report boasts of $848.2 million in gross income for 2013 with $730.8 million coming from their “managed public schools”. ^[1] You may ask, “Where the Hell do they get this kind of money?” The answer isn’t going to surprise you, but it sure as Hell better concern you. This money comes from diverted educational funds allocated by the U.S. Congress. Yup! Your tax dollars are funding this supposedly capitalistic venture in educating our youth.

According to a release by the Center for Media and Democracy, there are twelve major players, so far, making “phatt” money off the spoils of Federal taxation. When was the last time you ran

into a teacher who was making $19 million, and whose company investors were the likes of Mike Milken and Wall St. investment firms? ^[1] ………………………I didn’t think so!

The only advice I can render is, “Hold on to your wallets. They’re coming for every last penny they think they can bleed from you.” I do sincerely hope that the citizens of this Nation wake up and react to the corporate take-over of virtually every institution we hold near and dear.

[1]                                                                                          CMD Exposes America’s “Highest Paid Government Workers”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT: Friday Thorn, friday_thorn@prwatch.org

- Hint: They aren’t your local teachers, nurses and social workers

- New initiative will expose the CEOs who take over public services

and divert millions of tax dollars out of communities and into their pockets.

CenterForMediaAnd Democracy.org

http://www.prwatch.org/cmd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Media_and_Democracy