Rally to stop Common Core Sept 17

This poster was sent to me via Twitter. I copied it and pasted it here. This is a link to a Facebook page about the rally. There are many reasons to dislike the nationwide educational concept of Common Core. I have written three blog pages that list reasons to home-school your child.  Common Core is one of these reasons.

Here are clickable links to these essays, all on my "I have to say this" blog:

Reasons to Home-School your Child

More Reasons to Home-School your Child

Videos of Reasons to Home-School your Child (19 YouTube videos)

Note:  I have already begun writing a fourth essay about bag public school policies and teachers.  One news article is included about a satanic group that wants to distribute literature inside a Florida public school.

This essay will be published on my "I have to say this" blog when there are a lot of news articles that are quoted and linked on it.

A description of what's in the first essay

Reasons to Home-School your Child

Opposition to prayer in a public school

The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations opposes permission slips for Bible Study during school time.


Muslim Prayer in a Public School

The same Michigan chapter of the same Council on American-Islamic Relations now demands that Muslim students in an American public school be granted time away from their classes in order to pray.  Two news articles are quoted and linked.


The Pledge of Allegiance is taught in Arabic in a Colorado high school
An article is quoted.


Students in Texas were told to recite the Mexican National Anthem

An article is quoted from The Blaze.  There is also an update to this story, and also from the Blaze, dated two years later.


A school district in Southern California hired a company to spy on students

The company was specifically hired to read what the students posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.


A teenager was suspended and arrested for wearing a t-shirt with "N.R.A." on it

A Breitbart article is quoted and seven other news sources are linked.


Sex between grade-school teachers and students

There are links to 12 news stories about teachers being convicted for these crimes, plus links to 19 news stories about other teachers who were accused of these crimes.  There is also a link to a news story about a teacher who was accused of having sex with at least five students at the same time.


Public School Overreaction to Toy Guns and Imaginary Guns

Students who played with toy guns or who made their hands into gun shapes and said "Bang" were suspended.  Two news stories are quoted and four others are linked.


The Wrong Reaction from a School to a Real Gun

A student who was riding a school bus saw another student carrying a gun.  He and a friend disarmed the gun-carrying student and were suspended.


Condoms Given Away in Public Schools

Four news stories are linked.


Inaccurate Textbooks

A high school class that offered Advanced Placement credit towards college credits used a textbook that inaccurately summarized the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  As I stated in the essay, no summary is necessary because the second amendment is only one sentence.

... and yet, the summary was inaccurate.  It stated that people who wanted to own a firearm had to be in a state militia.  This statement has been explicitly denied by the U.S. Supreme Court.


Inappropriate reading material

Literature approved by the Common Core educational standards for first graders taught them how to write like a political activist.  One paragraph of an article written by Michelle Malkin is quoted and linked.

Also, a book that is approved by the Common Core educational standards includes explicitly graphic written descriptions of rape, incest, and pedophaelia.  One paragraph of a blog post is quoted and linked, but I cautioned the readers of my essay that the whole blog post quotes some of those explicitly graphic written descriptions of rape, incest, and pedophaelia.


The Middle School Teacher in Connecticut

He encouraged his students to be workers instead of thinkers.  I quote and link an article in Breitbart.


One Piece of Good News

Some of the buildings that are used by the New York City School System are owned by the Catholic Church, which, in accordance with their first-amendment religious beliefs, is refusing to allow those buildings to be used for teaching sex education.  A news article is linked.


Indoctrination disguised as a grammar lesson

A third-grade English textbook taught students how to use possessive pronouns, like "Steven's apple" or "Maria's pocketbook", but all the examples referred to employees of the Federal government.  This gave these third-grade students the mistaken idea that the government possessed all these objects.  Individual ownership of property was not mentioned much.  A blog article on the subject was linked.


An Alternative Lifestyle for the Young and Impressionable

The Milwaukee Public School System encouraged all the students to dress like a member of the opposite sex for one day.  A news article is linked.

A male student at a Texas high school was allowed to attend the prom wearing a dress, a wig, and makeup.  A news article is linked.

A man who works at a cafeteria in a California public school is allowed to wear women's clothing, a wig, and makeup while he works.  A news article is linked and a photo of the man is included.

An after-school program at a Philadelphia public school allowed a man wearing women's clothing, a wig, and makeup to read a book to children.  A news article is linked and the entire article is quoted verbatim.


Criticism of Educational Materials Used by Home-Schoolers

A blog article is linked.  This article states that the College Board will attempt to link their tests, including the Scholastic Aptitude Test (and others) with Common Core's educational standards.

Link to the 35-page PDF document published by the College Board.

Copied from Pat Kriegel's Facebook page

Here are just some examples of how my opponent has recently voted:

He voted against giving veterans public housing preference over illegals.

He voted for instate tuition for illegals.

He voted against residency requirements for public benefits.

He voted against holding public meetings across state before raising taxes.

He voted against having at least 2/3 vote for raising taxes.

He voted against providing a valid social security number to be eligible for public housing.

On November 4 please consider the issues when voting. The current Representative is not representing us!

I want to be Your voice on Beacon Hill because right now we don't have a voice.  Thank you!

Link to her Facebook page.

Vote for Pat Kriegel in the Norfolk 3rd District

The organization of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts has 14 counties.
Link to a map provided by the Massachusetts Secretary of State. (PDF format)

This is Norfolk County. Pat is running as a Republican for Norfolk County's 3rd House District. These areas make up the district: Holbrook: Precincts 2, 3, 4; Quincy: Ward 2, Ward 4: Precinct 5; Weymouth: Precincts 5, 6, 9, 12, 16

Who is Pat Kriegel?

Copied from her campaign website: "For many years I have worked on campaigns for many different candidates. The first time I volunteered was for Paul Tsongas at his headquarters in the Statler Office building a long, long time ago. I would later go door to door in Quincy and Norwood for Michael Bellotti when he first ran for Norfolk County Sheriff. Yes, like many born and raised in MA, I was a Democrat. One thing I never did was vote for Teddy after Chappaquiddick.  I would leave it blank or vote for anyone who ran against him."

"Then the Democratic Party changed, it is no longer the Party my parents supported, it is no longer the Party of JFK, who said “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”.  To me Ronald Regan had the same philosophy, he inspired Americans to rely on themselves and not the government, and so I voted for him.  President Regan said “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me” and that is so true for many.

In 2009 I was now a grandmother and saw what was happening in our wonderful country and started voicing my concerns on social media for the next four years until I went to see Jeff Kuhner of WRKO and Scott Brown at Bentley College.  The theme was just don’t sit there and complain, "get up and do something" and so I am doing something to help save our state from the insanity that liberalism has become."

Link to Pat's Facebook page.

If you want to volunteer to help the campaign, please e-mail her. 

Pat.Kriegel@Yahoo.com

Link to the page on her campaign website that allows you to make contributions to the campaign.

His name is Elbert Guillory. He is a Louisiana State Senator. Like Pat, he was once a Democrat. Listen to him tell you why he decided to become a Republican. Pat and Elbert didn't leave the Democrat party, it left them.

If you are a Democrat, your party will leave you, too, sooner or later, and the only people who will be left in the party will be loud, angry extremists.

Pat's Opponent is a Democrat

He is loud and angry. He is Ronald Mariano He is running for the 3rd Norfolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Ron, it's not smart for a man in your condition to run too hard. You were born in 1946, not 1976. Try to keep up with a grandmother. When you feel like you're out of breath, sit down and rest.

Drink some water and rest some more.  Be sure to monitor your heart rate and blood pressure.

Ron, when you think that you're feeling better, don't try running again.  Start by walking slowly and see how you feel.  Call your doctor and make sure he knows that you're exercising.

Don't worry about Pat, she has lots of energy because she will fight long and hard for her issues when she's a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

A Japanese grandmother can run faster than most teenagers.  Link to my essay about this wonderful woman.

Reasons to vote for Pat

The Minimum Wage Scandal

As the Majority Leader in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Ron arranged for this "legislative body" to abandon its' duty to the voters.

The Massachusetts Legislature approved, on a voice vote, an increase in the so-called "minimum wage".

These are the first four paragraphs of the Executive Summary of a report that was produced by Suffolk University's Beacon Hill Institute: (PDF format)

A bill introduced by Representative J. James Marzilli would raise the Massachusetts minimum wage in two stages from $6.75 per hour to $8.25 per hour.  The bill would also index the minimum wage to consumer prices and provide for a commission to consider further increases in the minimum wage to “reflect existing economic conditions in the commonwealth.”

Supporters of the bill have distributed an “Economists’ Statement Supporting an Increase in the Massachusetts Minimum Wage.” This statement claims that the increase would yield benefits to labor and business alike and downplays any worry about job losses that the increase might bring about.  But, while some of the 50 signatories are among the state’s leading economists, the statement ignores a consensus among labor economists that increases in the minimum wage do, in fact, destroy jobs.  Indeed, one of the signatories, Professor Karl E. Case of Wellesley University, has coauthored a textbook in which he describes exactly how the job losses come about.

The Beacon Hill Institute estimates, conservatively, that the proposed increase in the Massachusetts minimum wage would cost the state 26,970 jobs.  The preponderance of this loss would be among low wage workers, women workers and workers 20 years old and older.

Most workers affected by the increase would, to be sure, keep their jobs and, in doing so, enjoy higher wages.  The wage gain for these fortunate workers would be about $405 million.  But that gain would be largely offset by $371 million in wages lost by the workers who, as a result of the higher minimum wage, ended up unemployed.

If you're not an economist, here's an easy way to understand this issue.

All you have to do is answer three questions.

1. If the minimum wage goes up automatically, does that mean that the income of the stores and restaurants that pay people those wages will go up automatically?


2. If the income of the stores and restaurants doesn't go up,
   
   • but if their expenses do go up, because they're forced to pay more in hourly wages to their employees,
   
   
   then how can these stores and restaurants avoid laying off some of the people that they hired?


3. Some of the stores and restaurants that were barely profitable while paying the current minimum wage to their employees will be unprofitable when the law goes into effect.  Do you expect unprofitable stores and restaurants to stay open?  Pat doesn't, but Ron does.

Whenever the minimum wage goes up, it's an increase in the costs for all the small businesses, including stores and restaurants, that have to pay those people, without any corresponding increases in the ability of those stores and restaurants to pay the money.

Ron voted to increase the expenses of Massachusetts stores and restaurants without increasing any of their revenue, the money they will need to pay for those higher expenses.

Illegal immigrants in public housing

They're illegal because they didn't get the approval of the United States Customs and Immigration Bureau when they entered this country.  Few other countries in the world have such poor border security, and the only categories that these countries are good at are poverty and crime.

Illegal immigrants were living in public housing even as long as five years ago.  Link to a story in USA Today dated January 1, 2009.  Ron has been tolerating this at least five years as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and he has made this a policy.

Some of those illegal immigrants, like Obama's Auntie Zitunie, live here in Massachusetts-subsidized public housing.

And yet, the men and women who have been discharged from military service, many of whom now need public housing, aren't getting it because the illegal aliens are ahead of them in line for any available units in public housing in this state.

Charlie Baker, one of the Republican candidates for Governor, had a confrontation with the director of a "housing collaborative" in Chelsea, a city that was run so poorly, management of this city was taken away from it's mayor and given to a receiver.  Link to a story dated September18, 1991 in Education Week. Link to a story dated August 29, 2014 in the Chelsea Record about the confrontation.

Massachusetts State Senator Bob Hedlund wants to change this.  These are the first three paragraphs of a story dated August 17, 2014 in Wicked Local Marshfield.

In Massachusetts, illegal aliens are still accessing public housing.  State Sen. Robert L. Hedlund (R-Weymouth), once again, wants to change this.

Hedlund offered an amendment to address the issue of illegal aliens securing state subsidized housing.

The amendment passed in the Massachusetts State Senate, but failed to earn support from the conference committee, Hedlund said.

Guess who was responsible for naming the legislators that served on this committee from the Massachusetts House of Representatives and earned extra pay and benefits for doing so?

That's right, Robert Mariano!

Newsflash to the Democrat Party!  Most Americans don't want illegal children in their town's public schools.  Part of the reason is because there are a lot of 20-something and 30-something adults (pretending to be children with the enthusiastic approval of the federal government) sitting next to their children in those public school classrooms and meeting them in school locker rooms.

Link to a story dated August 16, 2014 in the Washington Times, which says that the illegals are getting "first-class treatment" at the expense of taxpayers.  They're also getting their first-class treatment at the expense of homeless veterans.

These three paragraphs are part of a story in the Lowell Sun dated August 28, 2014.  The link to the story is after the story.

The issue of housing preference for legal residents was recently debated by state lawmakers, with both branches passing similar plans in welfare reform and housing bond bills. In both instances, the proposals did not make it to the final version of the bills.

House lawmakers last year overwhelmingly passed a Republican-backed provision that would prevent people who are ineligible for federal public housing from receiving state public housing. After it was adopted as part of a $1.4 billion housing bond bill, the amendment was removed from the final version of the bill.

As part of a welfare reform bill last year, the Senate also passed a similar proposal that would align Massachusetts with federal public housing rules that give priority to citizens and legal immigrants. The proposal did not make it into the final version of the legislation.

Read more: http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_26418785/baker-calls-changes-public-housing-system#ixzz3COTGYllR

Guess who was responsible for removing the amendments to those pieces of legislation which made it hard for our homeless veterans to have access to public housing?

That's right, Robert Mariano!

Here's to you, Pat. Go, Pat, Go !!!

Dos elecciones están viniendo para arriba

Estas elecciones determinarán quién será el gobernador de Massachusetts, Tesorero, y otros trabajos.

La primera elección es de una semana a partir de hoy. Se llama una elección primaria. Se está llevando a cabo por los dos partidos políticos más importantes del país. Estos dos partidos tienen una elección primaria en todos los estados. Los resultados de las elecciones primarias decidirán quién es la elección del partido para las próximas elecciones, que se celebrará en noviembre.

Los dos partidos políticos

Usted probablemente ya está registrado como miembro de uno de estos partidos. Si usted no sabe cuál de las partes se ha registrado, vaya al edificio en su ciudad que tiene la oficina del alcalde de su ciudad. Alguien no puede ayudar a averiguar.

Las dos partes se llaman el Partido Republicano y el Partido Demócrata. El actual Presidente de los Estados Unidos y el actual gobernador de Massachusetts son demócratas, pero el anterior presidente de Estados Unidos era un republicano y el anterior gobernador de Massachusetts, también era un republicano. Ambas partes han tenido muchos presidentes que han ayudado a la gente de los Estados Unidos.

Cada presidente de Estados Unidos es la persona que es el responsable último de todas las políticas de los Estados Unidos. Todas las políticas económicas, las políticas de inmigración, las políticas agrícolas y las políticas comerciales pueden ser modificados por sus decisiones, pero hay que trabajar con nuestra legislatura, llamado el Congreso, con el fin de aprobar leyes que hacen y cambiar estas políticas.

Presidentes son también el comandante último de todas las fuerzas militares de los Estados Unidos, así que si hay una guerra entre los Estados Unidos y cualquier otro país, el presidente puede utilizar cualquier y todas estas fuerzas para luchar en esta guerra. Incluso cuando no hay guerra, un buen presidente siempre se preparan para luchar en una guerra por la formación de nuestros soldados y marineros, y enviándolos a los países que pudieran luchar guerras antes de que comience la guerra. A veces, al hacerlo, se evitan las guerras.

La elección de un gobernador

Los Deberes del gobernador

Gobernadores tienen la responsabilidad de hacer las políticas que ayudarán a sus estados. Ellos escuchan el consejo de muchas personas en diferentes campos de especialización, y deciden cuáles son las políticas que quieren implementar.

Para ello, también deben trabajar con una legislatura estatal. En Massachusetts, hay dos grupos de personas que legislan. Un grupo se llama el Senado de Massachusetts y el otro grupo se llama la Cámara de Representantes de Massachusetts. El Congreso de los Estados Unidos tiene una estructura organizacional similar.

El proceso

En este país, cuando cualquier gobernador decide no tratar de reelegirse, las personas optarán por un nuevo gobernador. Ellos toman sus decisiones por votación, ya sea en persona el día de las elecciones o mediante el envío de un voto por escrito al ayuntamiento de la localidad en la que vive. El actual gobernador de Massachusetts, ha decidido retirarse de su trabajo al final de su actual mandato, por lo que esta es una oportunidad para que toda la gente de Massachusetts para elegir un nuevo gobernador.

Las personas que quieren ser el próximo gobernador del Estado de Massachusetts deben estar calificados. Bajo las leyes de este estado, ninguna persona puede ser Gobernador a menos que él o ella cumple con los requisitos. Los candidatos para el puesto de gobernador de Massachusetts deben ser mayores de 30 años, deben ser ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos, y tienen que vivir en Massachusetts.

Los candidatos

Los dos partidos políticos más grandes han determinado que cinco personas están calificados para ser el próximo gobernador. Tres de ellos son demócratas y dos de ellos son republicanos. Otros partidos políticos han hecho determinaciones similares. Si las personas seleccionar uno de ellos, entonces esa persona será el próximo gobernador, pero es probable que una de estas cinco personas será el próximo gobernador, porque los dos principales partidos políticos reciben casi todos los votos.

Demócrata	Republicano
Stephen Grossman	Mark Fisher
Martha Coakley	Charles "Charlie" Baker
Donald Berwick

Un candidato tiene ya un escándalo.

Martha Coakley es el actual Fiscal General del Estado de Massachusetts. Es su trabajo para hacer cumplir las leyes de este estado, pero ella está sufriendo de un escándalo en su trabajo actual.

Martha tiene un amigo llamado John Brennan, que solía ser un miembro de la legislatura de Massachusetts. Es abogado, y él realizó algunos servicios legales para un hospital que está dirigido por los padres franciscanos.

Los tres párrafos siguientes se copian de un artículo con fecha 21 de agosto 2014 que se encuentra en el sitio web del Boston Globe. El artículo fue escrito en Inglés, pero me lo tradujo al español.

La oficina de Coakley alega que la empresa de Brennan, el Grupo de Brennan, recaudó $ 370.000 en honorarios inadecuados de presión del Hospital franciscano infantil por el trabajo realizado entre 2004 y 2006.

Brennan, según el fiscal general, tenía un contrato de cuota litis con franciscana que permitió a la empresa para cobrar una comisión sobre el dinero que ganó para el hospital en Beacon Hill. La ley estatal prohíbe a los acuerdos de contingencia.

Brennan, según el fiscal general, tenía un contrato de cuota litis con franciscana que permitió a la empresa para cobrar una comisión sobre el dinero que ganó para el hospital en Beacon Hill. La ley estatal prohíbe a los acuerdos de contingencia.

John Brennan se pagó 370.000 dólares por un trabajo que no debería haber hecho, por haber violado las leyes de este estado. Martha Coakley tiene la responsabilidad de hacer cumplir las leyes de este estado, sino porque es su amiga, ella le permitió mantener casi las tres cuartas partes del dinero que recibió ilegalmente!

Hay mejores opciones que Martha Coakley.

Si usted es un demócrata

Steven Grossman es ahora el Tesorero del Estado de Massachusetts. Es su trabajo para proteger las finanzas de este estado. Donald Berwick es un médico que se especializa en la salud de los niños. Cualquiera de estas personas sería un mejor gobernador que Martha Coakley.

Si usted es un republicano.

Charlie Baker, estaba a cargo de una organización que proporciona servicios de salud a muchas personas en este estado. También trató de convertirse en el gobernador de la última vez que hubo una elección para gobernador de Massachusetts. Eso fue hace cuatro años.

Mark Fisher es la mejor opción. Como muchos de ustedes, que es el dueño de una pequeña empresa que se encuentra en este estado. Él es también un miembro de un partido informal llamado el Tea Party que está tratando de reformar algunas de las políticas extremistas del Partido Republicano en este estado y en los Estados Unidos.

Los dos párrafos siguientes se copian de la página en el sitio web de Mark Fisher que trata sobre la inmigración. Yo les tradujo del Inglés al Español

Yo empleo los inmigrantes que han venido a este país legalmente. Ellos han permanecido en la fila, esperando su turno y cumplieron con las reglas. Obtuvieron sus tarjetas de residencia sólo después de muchos años y cientos de dólares gastados en las tasas de solicitud. Veían a Estados Unidos como una tierra de oportunidades. Después de haber jugado por las reglas les ha hecho y nuestro país mejor.

Hay otra clase de inmigrantes que quieren ser tratados como iguales, si no mejor que, los inmigrantes que están aquí legalmente. Estas son personas que irrumpieron en y entraron en nuestro país ilegalmente. Para tratarlos como distintos de lo que son cualquier cosa - ilegal - es una bofetada en la cara de los verdaderos inmigrantes, legales. No voy a faltarle el respeto a los inmigrantes legales en esa forma.

Vota por Mark Fisher!