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		<title>By: Peggy McGilligan</title>
		<link>http://www.cassyfiano.com/2009/09/the-indoctrination-of-our-children-continues/comment-page-1#comment-14471</link>
		<dc:creator>Peggy McGilligan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Astute observations Cassy. Here&#039;s some recent education hijinks. When President Obama hired Clinton-era players, he didn’t just signal a failure to grasp the fundamental lesson of that administration: loss of trust. Take Barack Obama’s CIA director, “nice, quiet, civilized” Leon E. Panetta. Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff. California State University – Monterey Bay’s patron saint. And, founder of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy. Leon Panetta, who flew back to Monterey at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and announced to the CSU, “There has been a stalker in the White House. It was frightening.” Thanks to some rather adroit media manipulation, students heard only Panetta’s accusations, but learned nothing of Monica’s exculpatory blue dress from local KSBW TV News. Panetta controlled the school’s cable TV, from which even CNN disappeared. Fox News would never be an option. Panetta who, from his publicly-funded political institute opposed George W. Bush’s Homeland Security reorganization, and the detention of enemy combatants at Guantánamo Bay.    

When Leon Panetta denounced the “Bush Doctrine” form his Panetta Institute, located squarely on the former US Army Fort Ord, where both his so-called “think tank CSU,” and his namesake institute are located, it was Memorial Day 2002. So, Panetta told the national television audience he was located in Salinas, Calif. instead. Conspicuously absent from the CSU bookstore, and its own well-stocked tax-funded oppression studies library: any textbook by a Caucasian author. (The text, Jihad vs. McWorld, by Clinton advisor Benjamin R. Barber, where tribalism and globalism collide, however was offered. The Green Movement adage: Think globally, act locally, best sums up the book, says Barber.) Panetta even used KSBW News to deflect Gary Condit’s detractors during the Chandra Levy disappearance. Remember Fox News commentator Barbara K. Olson? Flight 77 ring a bell? Perhaps not coincidentally, Panetta’s CSU opened its doors on 23 August: Italian anarchists Sacco &amp; Vanzetti Memorial Day. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis pardoned the Sicilians posthumously 23 August 1977, making Sacco &amp; Vanzetti Day official. How the US Department of Education aided the Clintons in “building a community,” and how the Western Association of Schools and Colleges conspired to accredit the “experiment,” thus granting these Alinskyites a license to steal my tuition and your tax-dollars is yet another story.     

Saul D. Alinsky was, among other things, a clotheshorse, who often donned a fedora. Louis Farrakhan always appears nattily attired. Al Capone’s official mug shot features “Big Al” in a three-piece suit. People tend to give Panetta a pass, if only because he wears a necktie. Interestingly, Panetta began his political career as a Republican. Panetta switched to the DNC because in his words, “They had a bigger tent.” Far from Illinois, Saul Alinsky passed away in 1972, in bucolic Carmel Valley, Sicilian Panetta’s fabled 17th congressional district. I first ran afoul of Panetta; while out trying to appease the radical professors, hate mongers and race baiters, he’d hired to inculcate Marxist philosophy into our daily lives. Personnel may be policy, but Panetta’s curriculum was straight out of Chicago. Anyway, the far-Left’s enforcer-in-chief would surreptitiously slip into my on-campus residence and replace my showerhead with a stingy water-conserving device. In like manner, my wall-mounted fire extinguisher vanished shortly thereafter. Gone without a trace. But “social justice” and “sustainability 101” were just getting under way at this full-blown criminal enterprise, and things were about to get worse. Much worse: http://theseedsof9-11.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Astute observations Cassy. Here&#8217;s some recent education hijinks. When President Obama hired Clinton-era players, he didn’t just signal a failure to grasp the fundamental lesson of that administration: loss of trust. Take Barack Obama’s CIA director, “nice, quiet, civilized” Leon E. Panetta. Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff. California State University – Monterey Bay’s patron saint. And, founder of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy. Leon Panetta, who flew back to Monterey at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and announced to the CSU, “There has been a stalker in the White House. It was frightening.” Thanks to some rather adroit media manipulation, students heard only Panetta’s accusations, but learned nothing of Monica’s exculpatory blue dress from local KSBW TV News. Panetta controlled the school’s cable TV, from which even CNN disappeared. Fox News would never be an option. Panetta who, from his publicly-funded political institute opposed George W. Bush’s Homeland Security reorganization, and the detention of enemy combatants at Guantánamo Bay.    </p>
<p>When Leon Panetta denounced the “Bush Doctrine” form his Panetta Institute, located squarely on the former US Army Fort Ord, where both his so-called “think tank CSU,” and his namesake institute are located, it was Memorial Day 2002. So, Panetta told the national television audience he was located in Salinas, Calif. instead. Conspicuously absent from the CSU bookstore, and its own well-stocked tax-funded oppression studies library: any textbook by a Caucasian author. (The text, Jihad vs. McWorld, by Clinton advisor Benjamin R. Barber, where tribalism and globalism collide, however was offered. The Green Movement adage: Think globally, act locally, best sums up the book, says Barber.) Panetta even used KSBW News to deflect Gary Condit’s detractors during the Chandra Levy disappearance. Remember Fox News commentator Barbara K. Olson? Flight 77 ring a bell? Perhaps not coincidentally, Panetta’s CSU opened its doors on 23 August: Italian anarchists Sacco &amp; Vanzetti Memorial Day. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis pardoned the Sicilians posthumously 23 August 1977, making Sacco &amp; Vanzetti Day official. How the US Department of Education aided the Clintons in “building a community,” and how the Western Association of Schools and Colleges conspired to accredit the “experiment,” thus granting these Alinskyites a license to steal my tuition and your tax-dollars is yet another story.     </p>
<p>Saul D. Alinsky was, among other things, a clotheshorse, who often donned a fedora. Louis Farrakhan always appears nattily attired. Al Capone’s official mug shot features “Big Al” in a three-piece suit. People tend to give Panetta a pass, if only because he wears a necktie. Interestingly, Panetta began his political career as a Republican. Panetta switched to the DNC because in his words, “They had a bigger tent.” Far from Illinois, Saul Alinsky passed away in 1972, in bucolic Carmel Valley, Sicilian Panetta’s fabled 17th congressional district. I first ran afoul of Panetta; while out trying to appease the radical professors, hate mongers and race baiters, he’d hired to inculcate Marxist philosophy into our daily lives. Personnel may be policy, but Panetta’s curriculum was straight out of Chicago. Anyway, the far-Left’s enforcer-in-chief would surreptitiously slip into my on-campus residence and replace my showerhead with a stingy water-conserving device. In like manner, my wall-mounted fire extinguisher vanished shortly thereafter. Gone without a trace. But “social justice” and “sustainability 101” were just getting under way at this full-blown criminal enterprise, and things were about to get worse. Much worse: <a href="http://theseedsof9-11.com" rel="nofollow">http://theseedsof9-11.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Norris Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.cassyfiano.com/2009/09/the-indoctrination-of-our-children-continues/comment-page-1#comment-14020</link>
		<dc:creator>Norris Hall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Cassey
    On November 14, 1988, President Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. The speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “to schools nationwide on three different days.”
    In his speech to students and the question and answer session following Reagan

    1. stressed the importance of low taxes and free trade.
    2. stressed the importance of religion in our nation.
    3 touted the economic achievements of his administration ,
    4.put in a plug for the line item veto,
    5. told the students that lowering taxes increases revenue
    6. boasted of his administrations aid to Negro colleges
    7. and told students that if guns were banned, burglars would be “celebrating forevermore”

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/111488c.htm
 

    Two years before that  Reagan again spoke to the children of America  on nationwide TV . 
    He spends the bulk of his address touting the wonderful accomplishments of his administration in fixing the economy, restoring America&#039;s military, bolstering foreign policy. (Gee, isn&#039;t it suppose to be about the kids??)

Then he goes on to exhort the students to help make America strong by
 
1.   studying hard (good)
2.   being good citizens (wonderful)
3.   staying away from drugs. (excellent)
4.   and lowering the tax rates (Huh???)

Why he just couldn&#039;t help himself slip his political agenda in there again.


http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/51386d.htm


in Oct. 1991 HW Bush senior  looked into the TV camera from a classroom
&quot;Write me a letter -- and I&#039;m serious about this one -- write me a letter about ways you can help us achieve our goals. I think you know the address.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Cassey<br />
    On November 14, 1988, President Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. The speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “to schools nationwide on three different days.”<br />
    In his speech to students and the question and answer session following Reagan</p>
<p>    1. stressed the importance of low taxes and free trade.<br />
    2. stressed the importance of religion in our nation.<br />
    3 touted the economic achievements of his administration ,<br />
    4.put in a plug for the line item veto,<br />
    5. told the students that lowering taxes increases revenue<br />
    6. boasted of his administrations aid to Negro colleges<br />
    7. and told students that if guns were banned, burglars would be “celebrating forevermore”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/111488c.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/111488c.htm</a></p>
<p>    Two years before that  Reagan again spoke to the children of America  on nationwide TV .<br />
    He spends the bulk of his address touting the wonderful accomplishments of his administration in fixing the economy, restoring America&#8217;s military, bolstering foreign policy. (Gee, isn&#8217;t it suppose to be about the kids??)</p>
<p>Then he goes on to exhort the students to help make America strong by</p>
<p>1.   studying hard (good)<br />
2.   being good citizens (wonderful)<br />
3.   staying away from drugs. (excellent)<br />
4.   and lowering the tax rates (Huh???)</p>
<p>Why he just couldn&#8217;t help himself slip his political agenda in there again.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/51386d.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/51386d.htm</a></p>
<p>in Oct. 1991 HW Bush senior  looked into the TV camera from a classroom<br />
&#8220;Write me a letter &#8212; and I&#8217;m serious about this one &#8212; write me a letter about ways you can help us achieve our goals. I think you know the address.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Darius</title>
		<link>http://www.cassyfiano.com/2009/09/the-indoctrination-of-our-children-continues/comment-page-1#comment-14017</link>
		<dc:creator>Darius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The speech itself - as released - is innocuous. 

What got people upset was the released lesson plan, which asked kids to read up on Obama&#039;s life, to write letters to Obama on how they could help obama, etc.

For a prez already accused of cultivating a cult of personality, it was... tone deaf.... at the very least.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The speech itself &#8211; as released &#8211; is innocuous. </p>
<p>What got people upset was the released lesson plan, which asked kids to read up on Obama&#8217;s life, to write letters to Obama on how they could help obama, etc.</p>
<p>For a prez already accused of cultivating a cult of personality, it was&#8230; tone deaf&#8230;. at the very least.</p>
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		<title>By: WRG</title>
		<link>http://www.cassyfiano.com/2009/09/the-indoctrination-of-our-children-continues/comment-page-1#comment-14015</link>
		<dc:creator>WRG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What, Exactly, have you got against an authority figure like the president urging kids not to drop out of school, and to study hard? Could it be that the more they study, the more they learn, the less likely they are to support conservative policies?

The White house published the text of the speech. Your argument that parents aren&#039;t &quot;in on the speech&quot; is shot.

Having read the speech, your use of the word &quot;indoctrination&quot; implies you think education and personal responsibility are some form of conspiracy or crackpot ideas.

Right from your first paragraph, your arguments are invalid. Those who aren&#039;t smart enough to see that need to go back to school. And at some point, you and your readers ought to experience shame for your inability to comprehend.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What, Exactly, have you got against an authority figure like the president urging kids not to drop out of school, and to study hard? Could it be that the more they study, the more they learn, the less likely they are to support conservative policies?</p>
<p>The White house published the text of the speech. Your argument that parents aren&#8217;t &#8220;in on the speech&#8221; is shot.</p>
<p>Having read the speech, your use of the word &#8220;indoctrination&#8221; implies you think education and personal responsibility are some form of conspiracy or crackpot ideas.</p>
<p>Right from your first paragraph, your arguments are invalid. Those who aren&#8217;t smart enough to see that need to go back to school. And at some point, you and your readers ought to experience shame for your inability to comprehend.</p>
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		<title>By: Jenn Q. Public</title>
		<link>http://www.cassyfiano.com/2009/09/the-indoctrination-of-our-children-continues/comment-page-1#comment-14013</link>
		<dc:creator>Jenn Q. Public</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Platitudes and Abstractions?  Yes We Can!...&lt;/strong&gt;

President Obama will deliver his Indoctrination Speech™ to the nation&#8217;s schoolchildren today.  His silver-tongued litany of subversive communist rhetoric is expected to completely annihilate the morals and values of American students.  Compli......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Platitudes and Abstractions?  Yes We Can!&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>President Obama will deliver his Indoctrination Speech™ to the nation&#8217;s schoolchildren today.  His silver-tongued litany of subversive communist rhetoric is expected to completely annihilate the morals and values of American students.  Compli&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Chris M-G</title>
		<link>http://www.cassyfiano.com/2009/09/the-indoctrination-of-our-children-continues/comment-page-1#comment-13985</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris M-G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While that video is completely inappropriate, having read the released version of Obama&#039;s school speech I really can&#039;t see anything blatantly political or wrong about it. My problem is this: &quot;Do as I say, not as I do.&quot; How many kids, after seeing this speech, will question the legitimacy of it if they know ANYTHING about the corruption that exists in his administration? If anything, it&#039;ll turn them off to doing what he says. In this case, he&#039;s shooting himself in the foot by doing something right for once.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While that video is completely inappropriate, having read the released version of Obama&#8217;s school speech I really can&#8217;t see anything blatantly political or wrong about it. My problem is this: &#8220;Do as I say, not as I do.&#8221; How many kids, after seeing this speech, will question the legitimacy of it if they know ANYTHING about the corruption that exists in his administration? If anything, it&#8217;ll turn them off to doing what he says. In this case, he&#8217;s shooting himself in the foot by doing something right for once.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin M</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin M</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anything...seriously, ANYTHING involving Hollywood celebrities makes my skin crawl.

With the sole exception of James Woods, I wouldn&#039;t believe an actor if they told me I lived on Planet Earth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anything&#8230;seriously, ANYTHING involving Hollywood celebrities makes my skin crawl.</p>
<p>With the sole exception of James Woods, I wouldn&#8217;t believe an actor if they told me I lived on Planet Earth.</p>
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