Former CBS News president Richard Salant (1961 - 64 and 1966 - 79) explained the major media's role: "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." ...and to this very day most Americans haven't noticed they're being brained washed! ~ N. Hooben
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Friday, August 28, 2015
Obama is at it again... My question is, "Why do we let him?" By the way, There is no such thing as 'gun violence'...you're an idiot if you believe otherwise!
People get violent, guns do not!
President Obama is at it again...He is now seeking to deny millions of law-abiding Americans their 2nd Amendment right...
Posted by Sam Johnson on Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Then there's this...
Wow!!! Please share this story with all of your Facebook friends after you watch.
Posted by Is this FreeDumb? on Friday, December 21, 2012
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Common Core Problems guaranteed to make your brain hurt
Source: National Review
The Ten Dumbest Common Core Problems Sample questions guaranteed to make your brain hurt in all the wrong places.
Here are eleven Common Core–compliant problems that have caused parents, students, and even teachers to scratch their heads or respond in outrage:
1. Starting with an easily solvable problem, New York takes the simple “7+7″ and complicates it with something called “number bonds.”
2. Not willing to ruin addition alone, educators take aim at subtraction as well, forcing students to make visual representations of numbers in columns.
3. This third-grade Common Core-compliant question asks students to match the shaded geometrical figures with their corresponding fractions. Problem is the figures aren’t shaded.
4. The first question on this first-grade math test, found by the Washington Post, makes one wonder how coins relate to cups.
5. From the same test, numbers 7 and 8 unnecessarily complicate simple arithmetic with odd, quadrilateral diagrams.
6. This question apparently eschews the use of rulers.
7. This “cheat sheet” provided to parents at an Atlanta elementary school provides definitions for some of Common Core’s Newspeak vocabulary, which throws out stuffily precise language like “add” and “subtract.” Under the obsolete math paradigm, students were bored by “word problems,” but in the new era they are challenged by “math situations.” And where a pre-enlightenment teacher might advise students to “borrow” a number when performing an equation, today’s kids are trained to “take a ten and regroup it as ten ones.”
8. Students now learn to visually show “doubles plus one . . .”
9. Apparently, “1” is a very blue number.
10. Last up: A math problem that isn’t a problem at all. In fact, the answer is stated at the very beginning.
— Alec Torres is a William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institute.
The Ten Dumbest Common Core Problems Sample questions guaranteed to make your brain hurt in all the wrong places.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is widely denounced for imposing confusing, unhelpful experimental teaching methods. Following these methods, some have created problems that lack essential information or make no sense whatsoever.
Some 45 states and the District of Columbia have so far adopted Common Core standards, leaving students all around the United States to puzzle over mysterious logic and language devised in accordance with Common Core’s new methods.Here are eleven Common Core–compliant problems that have caused parents, students, and even teachers to scratch their heads or respond in outrage:
1. Starting with an easily solvable problem, New York takes the simple “7+7″ and complicates it with something called “number bonds.”
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Have faith America...we will not be destroyed because we have found 'one just and honest person'
by Norman E. Hooben
I'm not well-versed in the Bible but I recall a story from my childhood the nuns at the orphanage narrated to us...I should point out the nuns never quoted the bible, they just told us the stories that were part of a lesson plan and I'm sure the nuns knew these stories by heart. Somewhere along the way from there to here I found the connections to the Bible and/or the story itself in some numbered bible verse. As I said above, I'm not well-versed in these matters and verse numbers are never something that I could recall. I think the nuns were effective in that I remembered the message and not the number. One such message can be found in Jeremiah 5:1:
I'm not well-versed in the Bible but I recall a story from my childhood the nuns at the orphanage narrated to us...I should point out the nuns never quoted the bible, they just told us the stories that were part of a lesson plan and I'm sure the nuns knew these stories by heart. Somewhere along the way from there to here I found the connections to the Bible and/or the story itself in some numbered bible verse. As I said above, I'm not well-versed in these matters and verse numbers are never something that I could recall. I think the nuns were effective in that I remembered the message and not the number. One such message can be found in Jeremiah 5:1:
"Run up and down every street in Jerusalem," says the LORD. "Look high and low; search throughout the city! If you can find even one just and honest person, I will not destroy the city. (New Living Translation and other versions Jeremiah 5:1)
Now the passive reader may not see the relationship the verse above has with the modern world for it was written so long ago...so long, nobody knows exactly how long ago it was. Is there a relationship to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah? I look at the passage as a warning to today's society for the wrongful (should I dare say, "sinful") ways society has succumbed to that could best be described in Epistle of Saint Paul where he writes about Sodom and Gomorrah:
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness...They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy."God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil." Sure reads like a description of today's U.S. Congress especially the Democrats since they denounced God at their last convention. The complete reading of Saint Paul's description can be found here but that one 'just and honest' person Jeremiah writes about can be found in the following video: (This is amazing!!! Wait for it...)