Saturday, September 29, 2018

Dear Judge Kavanaugh "You are not alone" letter




Dear Judge Kavanaugh,

Notice I put a comma there after your name. This is not a business letter, this is a personal letter, a friendly letter. One friend to another. I am the friend you made during your testimony to the Senate in regard to the Politics of Personal Destruction.

I am also a fellow Christian. I want you to know that I am praying for you. For your wife, Ashley. For your precious little girls. For your friends who are giving you the support you need where you live. And for your friends all over this country who join me in this prayer.
I pray that God will send his angels to surround you all.

Why do bad things happen to good people?

As I was thinking/praying for you this morning, God reminded me, "My strength is made great in your weakness." I am reminded of Daniel in the Lion's den, because that is what those Senate Democrats reminded me of.


I am sure that you, like me, have promised God in song and word, "I will go, I will go, to the ends of the earth, wherever you need me." I am sure you never thought that the ends of the earth would be the Senate Judiciary Committee. God apparently thinks you have immense strength to be able to carry this load. You represent him well.

When President Trump got elected,  I could almost hear the agonized groans and primal screams unleashed from the gates of Hell that manifested itself in the horrible eruption called "Resistance," with the violence of Antifa and all of the Deep State manipulation of our government. It takes courage. It takes Faith.  But, "Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world." Never forget.

The Devil is definitely at work in this world. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" is one of the Ten Commandments. Sadly, God saw what would happen in this world and for that reason he told Moses to chisel that Commandment. The consequences of bearing false witness is something we are seeing on the national TV.

The first Biblical example that comes to mind is Potiphar's wife. She concocted a plan and charged an innocent man.

But then came a turning point in Joseph’s life: “One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. [Potiphar’s wife] caught him by his cloak and said, ‘Come to bed with me!’ But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house” (Genesis 39:11–12). Potiphar’s wife, spurned again, stands there with Joseph’s cloak in her hand, and she chooses an angry, vindictive plan: “She called her household servants. ‘Look,’ she said to them, ‘this Hebrew . . . came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house’” (verses 14–15).

When Potiphar came home, his wife showed him Joseph’s cloak and repeated the lie: “As soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house. . . . This is how your slave treated me” (
Genesis 39:18–19). Potiphar, outraged at Joseph’s supposed betrayal, put him in prison (verse 20).

The incident with Potiphar’s wife is bookended by two passages that speak of God’s love and blessing to Joseph. Joseph found favor in the eyes of the Egyptians among whom he lived and rose to a position of prominence in the house of Potiphar (Genesis 39:1–6). Joseph’s success and position was the direct result of God’s blessing (verses 2–3). When Joseph was wrongly accused and sent to prison, God remained faithful. God “showed [Joseph] kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden” (verse 21). Soon, the keeper of the prison had put Joseph in charge of the other prisoners and trusted him so fully that he no longer paid attention to anything that was under Joseph’s control (verses 22–23). Everything Joseph did succeeded because “the Lord was with Joseph” (verse 23).

The story of Potiphar’s wife is about loyalty as much as it is about resisting temptation. Potiphar’s wife was disloyal to her husband, but Joseph was loyal both to Potiphar and to God. 

God shows us amazing loyalty and faithfulness. It is part of His character. He is “compassionate and gracious . . . slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness” (Exodus 34:6). “For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does” (Psalm 33:4). Joseph’s desire to be faithful and loyal to Potiphar was in response to God’s faithfulness to Him; Joseph was reflecting God’s character, which is what the godly do. “Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did” (1 John 2:6).

I am sure that Joseph asked God why? many times. Perhaps you can relate to that. 


And then there is Jezebel.


Without Ahab’s direct knowledge, Jezebel writes letters to her townsmen, enlisting them in an elaborate ruse to frame the innocent Naboth. To ensure their compliance, she signs Ahab’s name and stamps the letters with the king’s seal. Jezebel encourages the townsmen to publicly (and falsely) accuse Naboth of blaspheming God and king. “Then take him out and stone him to death,” she commands (1 Kings 21:10).

I am sure you feel as if you have been stoned. I find this observation on Jezebel from Biblical Archaeology interesting. We must admit that these radical Left women have left all reason behind as they listen to the propaganda saying that they will lose the right to an abortion. Ironically, Baal, the head god of the many gods that Jezebel worships, is the head fertility god of the Canaanites.

Jezebel gets involved in a land dispute.

She is driven to eliminate Israel’s faithful servants of God. Evidence of Jezebel’s cruel desire to wipe out Yahweh worship in Israel is reported in 1 Kings 18:4, at the Bible’s second mention of her name: “Jezebel was killing off the prophets of the Lord.”


Jezebel writes letters enlisting folks in an elaborate ruse to frame Naboth. This looks way too close to what is happening here. She encourages them to publicly and falsely accuse Naboth.

So, why would these radical feminists and Leftists participate in eliminating faithful servants of God? Because they ARE NOT faithful servants of God and that makes a good man their enemy. Especially one they sense believes in the sanctity of life. The only time you hear God on their lips it is used as a curse word.

It seems to so many of us observing the world today that the sad words at the end of the book of Judges--"Every man did what was right in his own eyes" applies today just as it did then. The Senate Democrats could not withstand the scrutiny to which they submit you. If they did, Cory Booker, Bill Clinton and Keith Ellison would be under FBI scrutiny because there is actual evidence that they are guilty of sexual assault. 

How does one prove a negative? Every time the Democrats demanded that you call for an FBI I wondered, Why should he ask for them to investigate something he knew did not happen?

Your daughter's wisdom "let's pray for her" is testimony to the goodness of her father and mother. Your willingness to acknowledge that something bad must have happened to the woman ensnared into testifying against you is testament to a forgiving and generous heart. 

It looks likely to me that Christine Blasey Ford, perhaps with a bit of an adolescent crush on the older son of her father's golfing friend at Burning Tree, may indeed have had a very vivid nightmare with the most memorable part of the nightmare being hearing the laughter of Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge. These two young men, seniors, could possibly have been totally unaware of the fifteen year old and the sting of that laughter, that an insecure girl imagined was instigated at her expense, manifested itself in a very vivid nightmare in which the two boys laughed at her. That very vivid nightmare when recalled became imprinted indelibly as a memory. 

Ford’s husband would later explain that Ford explicitly moved to the west coast to get away from the “D.C. scene.” He said to The Washington Post“She didn’t always get along with her parents because of differing political views. It was a very male-dominated environment. Everyone was interested in what’s going on with the men, and the women are sidelined, and she didn’t get the attention or respect she felt she deserved. That’s why she was in California, to get away from the D.C. scene.” https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/christine-blasey-ford-bio/

Might Blasey-Ford, as a psychologist interested in trauma, have been influenced by books on trauma that she might have read? 

Sources of Details That Could Affect Memory 
There are at least two important sources that could potentially feed into the construction of false memories. These include popular writings and therapists' suggestions. 

Popular Writings 
All roads on the search for popular writings inevitably lead to one, The Courage to Heal (Bass & Davis, 1988 ), often referred to as the "bible" of the incest book industry. The Courage to Heal advertises itself as a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse. Although the book is undoubtedly a great comfort to the sexual abuse survivors who have been living with their private and painful memories, one cannot help but wonder about its effects on those who have no such memories. Readers who are wondering whether they might be victims of child sexual abuse are provided with a list of possible activities ranging from the relatively being (e.g., being held in a way that made them uncomfortable) to the unequivocally abusive (e.g., being raped or otherwise penetrated). Readers are then told "If you are unable to remember any specific instances like the ones mentioned above but still have a feeling that something abusive happened to you, it probably did" (p. 21). On the next page, the reader is told 
You may think you don't have memories, but often as you begin to talk about what you do remember, there emerges a constellation of feelings, reactions and recollections that add up to substantial information. To say, "I was abused," you don't need the kind of recall that would stand up in a court of law. Often the knowledge that you were abused starts with a tiny feeling, an intuition... Assume your feelings are valid. So far, no one we've talked to thought she might have been abused, and then later discovered that she hadn't been. The progression always goes the other way, from suspicion to confirmation. If you think you were abused and your life shows the symptoms, then you were. (p. 22) 
What symptoms? The authors list low self-esteem, suicidal or self-destructive thoughts, depression, and sexual dysfunction, among others. https://staff.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/lof93.htm

Blasey Ford was the perfect choice for the Radical Left to levy charges like Potiphar's wife while using Jezebel's model to enlist them in an elaborate ruse to frame the innocent Brett Kavanough. 

Through it all God found a way, just as He will with you. Joseph gained position and power to use in behalf of God's people. I pity those whose Judgement God will levy against --those who stand against you. Stand firm. Be of courage. "God is not mocked."

"Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you."Deuteronomy 31:6

Lord thank you that through this trial you are using our lives and circumstances to make a mark on this world. Draw us close to yourself. May many know of your Great Name. May they hear of your works and miracles of your faithfulness. We choose again today to fix our eyes, not on all the troubles that surround, but on you alone. 

"Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, for what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
 https://www.ibelieve.com/faith/9-prayers-for-when-you-re-going-through-the-storm.html 

We are praying for you. 
Matthew 18:19 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

In His love,
Sharman Ramsey




Friday, September 28, 2018

Christine Blasey Ford v. Brett Kavanaugh THE POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION

She came first. In a very emotional little girl voice, Christine Blasey Ford spoke. She told a story of sexual misconduct. She recounted an event somewhere at some time the summer of 1982. She recalled others at the party including her best friend, Leland, a guy called P.J., Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh. She went up the stairs to go to the bathroom and was followed by two extremely inebriated young men, whom she identified as Judge and Kavanaugh, who sneaked up the stairs behind her. She remembers music in the room where the event occurred, but no music in the room below. One of the participants in the misdeed turned up the music and then jumped on her. After the roughhousing during which she claims she was groped, nearly smothered and laughed at, the three fell off the bed and she fled back to the bathroom and locked herself in.  The two extremely inebriated boys who sneaked up the stairs behind her turned the music back down, "pinballed" off the stairwell walls going down the steps and began a conversation below. Ford dreaded passing before everyone but could not remember anything about what did happen when she walked down the stairs to pass before everyone. She remembers leaving by the front door. Her recitation was emotional, sincere and compelling. 

Observations: 

1. All of the others cited as having been at the party deny any knowledge of any such event. 

2. The Judiciary Committee under the direction of Senator Grassley offered to accommodate Dr. Blasey Ford by coming to California. Her attorneys did not inform her. Indeed, they told the Judiciary Committee that she was so traumatized by the event in question that flying to Washington would be an ordeal. Senator Grassley extended the time so that Dr. Blasey Ford could drive to Washington. When asked how she got to Washington, she said that she flew. 

Mitchell: "You fly fairly frequently for your hobbies and you've had to fly for your work. Is that true?"
Ford: "Correct. Unfortunately."
Mitchell read from Ford's curriculum vitae, pointing to hobbies she pursues including "surf travel." Ford then confirmed she has flown to Hawaii, Coast Rica, South Pacific Islands and French Polynesia to surf.
So, that was an apparent lie fabricated to extend the period of time before she would testify. 

3. When asked about when she acquired her attorneys, she said that Diane Feinstein helped her get her attorney.

4. She did not know about paying her attorney’s bills. Really? What wife and mother would not 

know about paying her bills?


a.     When asked who paid her attorneys she looked confused and befuddled and said something about “Go Fund Me” pages, though she is apparently well-to-do, owning two homes in California, holds a tenured university position, and travels around the world to surf.
b.     Earlier during the dramatic hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ford said she didn’t think she paid for the polygraph test herself and she does “not yet” know who did. Her attorneys conferred and then agreed that they are working “pro bono.” 
c.     The attorneys recommended by Diane Feinstein to Blasey Ford, includes Deborath Katz.  George Soros’ Open Society Policy Center has directly funded the Project on Government Oversight — whose vice chairwoman is none other than Debra Katz. Townhall characterized Katz’s background as “a long history of dismissing sexual assault allegations against liberal politiciansdonating to left-wing causes, and even publicly demonizing all Trump advisors as ‘miscreants’ who are worse than deplorables.”
 Michael Bromwich, the attorney who flanked Blassey Ford on her other side at the hearing, told the committee. “We are not being paid. We have no expectation of being paid.” He also represents Andrew McCabe. 
What Bromwich did not mention was that he not only was not being paid for his time representing Ford—he also left his job at a Washington law firm where he served as senior counsel.
According to Bloomberg, Bromwich, 64, resigned from Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP, as some of the partners at the firm had objected to his decision to represent Ford. You can rest assured George Soros will make sure Bromwich gets remunerated.
Someone is footing these bills. With Katz involved, I would bet Soros money is there. In other words the "RESIST MOVEMENT"/Democrats" are paying for her testimony.)

5. She does not know with whom she came to the party nor how she got home. The country club where she assumes the party originated since she recalls wearing a one piece bathing suit is six miles from her home.

6.  So, how could something that is evidently so real to Dr. Blasey Ford not be real? 
There are those with extreme positions who would like to deny the authenticity of all repressed memories and those who would accept them all as true. As Van Benschoten (1990) has pointed out, these extreme positions will exacerbate our problems: "Denial fosters overdetermination, and overdetermination invites denial" (p. 25). 
If we assume, then, that some of the memories might be authentic and some might not be, we can then raise this question: If a memory is recovered that is not authentic, where would it come from? Ganaway (1989) proposed several hypotheses to explain SRA memories, and these same ideas are relevant to memories of a repressed past. If not authentic, the memories could be due to fantasy, illusion, or hallucination-mediated screen memories, internally derived as a defense mechanism. Further paraphrasing Ganaway, the SRA memories combine a mixture of borrowed ideas, characters, myths, and accounts from exogenous sources with idiosyncratic internal beliefs. Once activated, the manufactured memories are indistinguishable from factual memories. Inauthentic memories could also be externally derived as a result of unintentional implantation of suggestion by a therapist or other perceived authority figure with whom the client desires a special relationship, interest, or approval.  
The Memories Are Not Authentic 
To say that memory might be false does not mean that the person is deliberately lying. Although lying is always possible, even psychotherapists who question the authenticity of reports have been impressed with the honesty and intensity of the terror, rage, guilt, depression, and overall behavioral dysfunction accompanying the awareness of abuse ( Ganaway, 1989, p. 211 ). 
There are at least two ways that false memories could come about. Honestly believed, but false, memories could come about, according to Ganaway (1989), because of internal or external sources. The internal drive to manufacture an abuse memory may come about as a way to provide a screen for perhaps more prosaic but, ironically, less tolerable, painful experiences of childhood. Creating a fantasy of abuse with its relatively clear-cut distinction between good and evil may provide the needed logical explanation for confusing experiences and feelings. The core material for the false memories can be borrowed from the accounts of others who are either known personally or encountered in literature, movies, and television. 5
(https://staff.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/lof93.htm)

It looks likely to me that Christine Blasey Ford, perhaps with a bit of an adolescent crush on the older son of her father's golfing friend at Burning Tree, may indeed have had a very vivid nightmare with the most memorable part of the nightmare being hearing the laughter of Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge. These two young men, seniors, could possibly have been totally unaware of the fifteen year old and the sting of that manifested itself in a very vivid nightmare in which the two boys laughed at her. That very vivid nightmare when recalled became imprinted indelibly as a memory.

7. The Democrats took this poor woman, ignored her request for confidentiality, provided her with political hacks for attorneys who had no intent to represent HER, but the Democrat Party. She was a pawn in their effort to derail a qualified candidate.

Does Blasey Ford's career as a psychologist (PH.D. in Educational Psychology) have anything to do with her own "recall"?  


Ford recalled that she ended up falling into a career researching trauma after a friend gave her a “harsh talk” and told her to pull it together (after failing statistics), advising her to study psychology because the major didn’t require classes to be taken in a specific order.
Ford “wholly embraced the So-Cal lifestyle” during her postgraduate years, according to The Washington Post, and even took a one-year internship in Hawaii to finish her PhD.
Ford’s husband would later explain that Ford explicitly moved to the west coast to get away from the “D.C. scene.” He said to The Washington Post“She didn’t always get along with her parents because of differing political views. It was a very male-dominated environment. Everyone was interested in what’s going on with the men, and the women are sidelined, and she didn’t get the attention or respect she felt she deserved. That’s why she was in California, to get away from the D.C. scene.” https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/christine-blasey-ford-bio/
Might Blasey-Ford, as a psychologist interested in trauma, have been influenced by books on trauma that she might have read? 
Sources of Details That Could Affect Memory 
There are at least two important sources that could potentially feed into the construction of false memories. These include popular writings and therapists' suggestions. 
Popular Writings 
All roads on the search for popular writings inevitably lead to one, The Courage to Heal (Bass & Davis, 1988 ), often referred to as the "bible" of the incest book industry. The Courage to Heal advertises itself as a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse. Although the book is undoubtedly a great comfort to the sexual abuse survivors who have been living with their private and painful memories, one cannot help but wonder about its effects on those who have no such memories. Readers who are wondering whether they might be victims of child sexual abuse are provided with a list of possible activities ranging from the relatively being (e.g., being held in a way that made them uncomfortable) to the unequivocally abusive (e.g., being raped or otherwise penetrated). Readers are then told "If you are unable to remember any specific instances like the ones mentioned above but still have a feeling that something abusive happened to you, it probably did" (p. 21). On the next page, the reader is told 
You may think you don't have memories, but often as you begin to talk about what you do remember, there emerges a constellation of feelings, reactions and recollections that add up to substantial information. To say, "I was abused," you don't need the kind of recall that would stand up in a court of law. Often the knowledge that you were abused starts with a tiny feeling, an intuition... Assume your feelings are valid. So far, no one we've talked to thought she might have been abused, and then later discovered that she hadn't been. The progression always goes the other way, from suspicion to confirmation. If you think you were abused and your life shows the symptoms, then you were. (p. 22) 
What symptoms? The authors list low self-esteem, suicidal or self-destructive thoughts, depression, and sexual dysfunction, among others. https://staff.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/lof93.htm

I remained glued to the television emotionally drained. Nearly convinced. 

And then Brett Kavanaugh came into the room for his testimony clutching his wife’s hand and surrounded by guards in uniform. You could tell the man was sleep deprived and emotionally drained. He came armed with indignation at how the reputation he had worked so hard to acquire –long hours studying, going to church, doing volunteer work, coaching his daughter’s basketball teams, and listening to causes to adjudicate fairly. With years of service and accomplishment, now at the pinnacle of his career, he must experience a drive-by ambush, an attack on him and his family by people he does not know or was only vaguely familiar with.  With no regard to the consequences on his family and little girls, the Democrats sought and stirred up innuendo and malicious accusations by women who are more political than honest. Some so absolutely horrific as to be ridiculous, yet the Democrats give them credibility because “women must be believed.” 

Kavanaugh emphatically denied Blasey Ford accusations, struck back at individual Democrat Senators for calling him evil and everyone associated with him evil, and labeled what should have been Senatorial "advise and consent" to "seek and destroy!" 

After listing all of the horrible experiences his family had endured during the time the Democrats stalled, Kavanaugh proclaimed, “This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade competence in good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.”
Amen. 
Democrats, show the truth of your indignation! Your righteousness! Apply the same standards to your own Party!

Juanita Brodderick is waiting for you to apply all of that fiery indignation by supporting her! 
Karen Monahan, the woman Keith Ellison abused, waits for you to defend her with the same fury. Then go after Cory Booker who admitted in a column titled 'stealing second' that he wrote in the Stanford student newspaper in 1992 about fumbling a girl's breast at a party. Pretty much what Kavanaugh is alleged to have done. And he pontificates on the heinous crime allegedly committed by Kavanaugh?!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6198473/Senator-Cory-Bookers-column-groping-girl-resurfaces.html 

Republicans, CALL FOR FBI INVESTIGATIONS TO CORY BOOKER, KEITH ELLISON AND BILL CLINTON ON THE SAME STANDARD!

Until they apply the same standards for their own, the rest of us will see them as merely a bunch of political activists who have no care to the consequences to our country.










Saturday, September 22, 2018

Another Feminist Lynching while Republicans play by Marquess of Queensbury Rules! Hypocrisy and George Soros




Why do Liberal Women Support Abusers and Blackmail Honorable Men?

I just wonder if you are as disgusted as I am at the hypocrisy of these folks. The Ends Justifies the Means has long been the ideology of socialists. And you see it in action, I believe, in this newest she said/he said 36 year buried accusation. What is the real goal here? It is pretty obvious by the people who surround her. Like, for example Debra Katz, her attorney.

The Democrats play with guerrilla warfare and Republicans dance around with Marquess of Queensbury Rules. Gentlemen of the Senate condescend to the little ladies treating them with manners and respect while the little ladies hiss, grow talons, grab grenades and attack with vengeance while all of their supporters rally around. There is no tactic too low for them to support. Because you see, the Resist Movement has no morality. They have one goal: Democratic Socialism with "no borders, no walls, sanctuary for all." 

We are in the middle of a Revolution and Conservatives didn't get the memo. There is an organized coup underway and the fate of our nation may rest in the hands of that slight majority in the Senate.

The Washington Times connected some dots and found that a political advocacy group formed in June was promising to funnel $5 million into the effort to stop Kavanaugh’s confirmation. That group received donations that trailed through other funds that led to Soros.

“The group, Demand Justice, established in 2018, gets its money from the Sixteen Thirty Fund — and the Sixteen Thirty Fund received roughly $2.2 million from the Open Society Policy Center, one of Soros’ outlets, between the years of 2012 and 2016.”

And the Open Society Policy Center has directly funded the Project on Government Oversight — whose vice chairwoman is none other than Debra Katz.

Townhall characterized Katz’s background as “a long history of dismissing sexual assault allegations against liberal politicians, donating to left-wing causes, and even publicly demonizing all Trump advisors as ‘miscreants’ who are worse than deplorables.”
It certainly looks like there is more to the current state of affairs regarding the Kavanaugh hearings than just vetting a Supreme Court jurist. As the tentacles spread out, they reach farther and farther to the left, seeming to embrace more liberal activists and their agendas.

What is the Modus Operandi of liberal women? Level a sexual accusation and suddenly the male is guilty. Just the words make the man guilty. Whatever happened to fairness or equal justice under the law? Remember the Duke Lacrosse Players? 

Do I as a woman think a woman would falsely accuse someone of something so painful as a sexual assault? You betcha. Ever hear of a black widow spider? How about Mata Hari? Delilah? I have no doubt the vulgar women of this Resist Movement would lodge false sex allegations if convinced it was good for their cause. They are sitting back with an appletini laughing up their sleeves at how they have these people dancing to their tune -- just because some folks actually believe that other folks share the same sense of honor. 


I am reminded of the British insisting on marching in straight lines in their red coated uniforms while the Americans who really knew what they were fighting for utilized guerrilla tactics and toppled the greatest Army in the world. Conservatives -- You are the British waiting to get shot. Wrap your mind around what is really happening and what is at stake. 

Don't think that the lunatic left that is so involved in the RESIST movement would not plot something like this! Madonna already said she would like to blow up the White House. Naomi Judd proclaimed, with pride, mind you, that she is a "dirty" woman. Guess what? They mean it!

Hillary Clinton called all the women Bill Clinton abused and raped all kinds of horrible names. Bill Clinton is honored at Democrat gatherings. Hillary set up a war room to deal with "Bimbo Eruptions." Ted Kennedy killed a woman and he became the "lion of the Senate." Keith Ellison is caught on tape abusing a girlfriend and he remains in place in the DNC. 

If this behavior truly offended these women, they would not give safe harbor to their own offenders. And so, I truly do not think they would hesitate to organize an assault on an honorable man.
Democrat women (especially Hillary) cozied up to Harvey Weinstein for money and now they dare to presume moral high ground!





Dr. Blasey Ford, represented by an activist in George Soros' organizations, Debra Katz, claims to have been groped 36 years ago at a place she cannot remember at a party (she and four others attended, I guess that included Kavanaugh and his friend, so that would leave two others) she barely recalls, but she can name Brett Kavanaugh committing an act none of the others who knew him then can imagine him committing. 

Don't you wonder why those Holton Arms high school yearbooks were scrubbed? Apparently not soon enough. Blasey Ford appears in these yearbooks from her eighth grade forward. 





"...loss of consciousness is often an integral party of the party scene." This is from the yearbook from the private school Christine Blasey Ford attended. Apparently drinking to blacking out was a common thing for this school and it is chronicled in the yearbook. So, when Blasey Ford claims:

She "was terrified," and that she "would be in trouble if her parents realized she had been at a party where teenagers were drinking," and she "worried they might figure it out even if she did not tell them." One must wonder how truthful she is being when evidence of her involvement in alcohol and intoxication is rampant in her yearbook.  



She was fifteen? On the streets alone? Two other people other than the accused were at the party and they didn't realize this young woman had left? And why would anyone suspect a political agenda here? 


The Letter (which no one, except Feinstein can see) was submitted in July and it just surfaced at the last minute. And now, claiming victimhood (and she's a feminist?) can't stand the scrutiny to which any man (I thought there was supposed to be equality) would have to submit.

Women! Are you equal? Are you strong and empowered? Or are you Victims? Too intimidated to face the man you accuse? 

His major crimes? He's white. He's Male. He is a Constitutionalist. And he is a Christian. All on the Left's hit list. 

Why might she remember his name? Because his mother is the judge who granted a motion for dismissal in a foreclosure brought against the parents of Blasey Ford. And because of that he deserves "lynching," as Clarence called the attack of the Left years ago. 

I am appalled that Grassley has kowtowed to this travesty of feminist blackmail. Blasey-Ford, obviously a feminist, would deny Kavanaugh his Constitutional right to face his accuser. She makes restrictions on who would proceed first according to her own edict and is not respectful of normal procedure or to the traditions of the Senate. Who does she think she is? As Jonathan Turkey so succinctly put it, she wants Kavanauagh to swing before the ball is thrown. 

Why do feminists think they are above the rules of the Senate?

They claim equality but latch onto victimhood at any opportunity if it furthers their cause. . 

What would Hillary say? Why, her words are recorded when Bill stood accused with much more evidence. 



Perhaps it is time for Republicans to take off the gloves. Especially Republican women. We have let feminists claiming to speak for all women have the stage far too long!

Looks to me as if Hillary's same MO is in motion today. Only now Blasey Ford violates Brett Kavanaugh in a very visible attack on a man's honor and livelihood. Once again Hillary supports the violator. And with those people, all gloves are off. 

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Grade Level Reading (GLR) Another Con Game in Education?


Do you see that 60 percent of Florida's fourth graders are not reading on grade level?

This is not a new problem. Retarding America: the Imprisonment of Potential discusses the same findings in a Justice Department Study released in 1993. No telling how much money has been spent doing exactly the OPPOSITE of what this book finds. Phonics works to teach ALL children to read. But, Progressive reading instruction has been made so complicated and obtuse they really do not actually teach children to read.

I have five grandchildren and the oldest three have ALL had special tutoring. Why? Because two were taught with Sing Spell Read and Write that has now been bought by Pearson a partner in the education cabal with Bill Gates with Common Core. That program has now been corrupted with the "eclectic"/Whole Language/ Progressive approach favored by the Education Establishment. Sue Dickson created a good program. Pearson bought it and corrupted it. Both of those children were at private schools.

The third attended first grade in a public school in Mobile, Alabama. It was a given that Whole Language/Progressive/Eclectic method would be his reading instruction. The school  was touted as the best in Mobile. I had hope that a good Phonics background might possibly have infiltrated. He came to visit and in listening to him "read" I knew it had not and he needed help. And fast. I do not believe in waiting until the third grade to "fix it". By then they are so discouraged they have given up. He now attends an ABEKA private Christian school and is doing great.


Pearson has bought up all these book publishing companies. And more.


Let me share with you the Education Establishment's idea of training for teaching reading.  Below you will see"attack skills" for reading. If you see this in your child's classroom, RUN!



The "methods" above will be taught in a Progressive classroom. After all of that do you think the child has retained the meaning of anything he might have read previously? Do you think their "comprehension" might suffer? This is why so many children are illiterate. 

Some folks (powerful folks) actually bought Kenneth Goodman's 1967 conclusions in "Reading: A Psycholinguistic Guessing Game." Goodman and his wife, Yetta, later edited a book entitled The Whole Language Catalog that became the bible of Progressive Education.  A "guessing game" will not get a space ship to the moon, supply the information to successfully build bridges, nor will it keep airplanes in the sky. Folks, the Emperor is wearing no clothes in education. 

Below you will find a screen shot from the Florida State University catalog. Do you see phonics anywhere? Do you see anything regarding using Explicit Phonics to Directly instruct children in reading? Can any teacher trained like this actually teach children to read with Phonics? 
Below you will see how important Hillsdale College considers Phonics. 

Notice HILLSDALE COLLEGE calls it EXPLICIT PHONICS and that is quite different from ECLECTIC/WHOLE LANGUAGE. 

This is the catalog entry for Elementary Education from Pensacola Christian which uses the ABEKA curriculum. Whereas an Education degree takes 48 hours at FSU, it only takes 16 at Pensacola Christian. Why? Where do prospective teachers Pensacola Christian earn extra hours? In Content areas. So they might actually KNOW SOMETHING to teach!


So what is Grade Level Reading? First of all it is a bigoted concept that makes distinctions between the abilities of children in different economic strata. Why is their answer always something new and untested? Why not use a program known for its effectiveness for all children?

Why do I cynically think -- money and power.  I remember when I first discovered the "great debate" between SIDE (systematic, intensive, direct and early) phonics instruction and look say/whole word/whole language. And then with new math. How in the world can you politicize reading and math? Read the Whole Language catalog. It is filled with politics! And now with GLR we see a full frontal assault on the family in the name of reading instruction!



These screen shots are from the Grade Level Reading https://gradelevelreading.net/resources/technology-for-successful-parenting

That is a goal. Not a fact. 

 This reminds me of the Music Man. Reading-infused? How about the think system. Just put a band instrument/book in the kid's hand and he will WANT to play/read and therefore-- ta da!!! he plays/reads!

I am reminded of a Simpsons episode where a banner across the school entrance read "Share the Blame". Really? If only parents (who frequently are themselves victims of the schools' inability to teach reading) had read to their child in the womb, as a toddler, etc. the school could teach them to read. How did poverty stricken, English as a second language immigrants in the 1890s learn to read? They were taught with Websters Blue Backed Spellers! Phonics! 

What are those community driven efforts? WOMB TO TOMB control of a child. OUTCOMES ACCOUNTABLE (what the heck does that mean?) systems of CARE (total control of your child including religious training --secular humanism--and disciplinary instruction) requiring DATA COLLECTION on you AND your child. 

Has Outcomes-based education (a.k.a. Mastery Learning, a product of the Chicago Anenberg project headed by Barack Obama and Bill Ayers) worked? In Chicago, only 1 in 4 children can read.



Only a totalitarian society can impose OUTCOMES WOMB TO TOMB for your child. And we would give it up because the schools stupidly refuse to use a method of instruction for reading THAT HAS WORKED FOR CENTURIES?

So what is the definition of Grade Level Reading. This is a screen shot of what they tell us. 

Let's analyze this: 

I just love that part about "world-class standards" and "equitable opportunity"! Just what does that mean? I would prefer United States standards since our education system was ONCE THE ENVY OF THE WORLD!  But now that we have COMMON CORE BASED ON THE WORLD CORE CURRICULUM OF ROBERT MULLER AND THE UNITED NATIONS, THOSE STANDARDS HAVE DECLINED!
  • Close the gap in reading achievement that separates many low-income students from their peers? That means equity in learning. That means those with the opportunity to excel will sacrifice their excellence to lift others to the same bar.  It does not mean equal opportunity, it means some are subsidized at another's expense.
  • Raise the bar for reading proficiency so that all students are assessed by world-class standards. Now most folks would assume that meant better than the US standards. But what if it means your child's vocabulary will be restricted to a rolodex of memorized words that all children world-wide memorize and that limits their understanding of the world to THOSE words. 
  • And insure that all children, including and especially children from low-income families, have an equitable opportunity to meet those higher (presumed) standards

Please think about the words used here! Don't assume you understand. Think! They are telling you their intent. Womb to tomb control of children. Change society to fix reading?

So, do you think ceding control of your child and home to government do gooders will enable your child to read? Or do you think you are just ceding control of SOMEONE ELSE'S child?

And you are okay with this? It doesn't really matter if you are.  "Use the courts to create a sense of crisis" is how they impose this upon us. They did it with Goals 2000, the Kentucky Plan, etc. in the early 90s and where did it get us?

Your children are to them "Radical Possibilities." Grade Level Reading is merely a facade for the true intent. All the words are carefully chosen for modeling attitudes to accept this camel's head creeping slowly and determinedly into the tent (your home).
Paolo Freire (defrocked Jesuit priest and founder of liberation theology in Nicaragua and liberation pedagogy here in the US) is a hero to Progressive Educators. The Goodmans (Ken and Yetta) spotlight Freire throughout the Whole Language Catalog. He promotes the concept that children create their own meaning in reading just like radical math (Freire's baby at Harvard)  encourages children to create their own mathematical knowledge. (Does that not give you chills? Think of the bridges these folks will build, the planes they will build/repair, etc.)

Now back to this GRADE LEVEL READING. I see a campaign and a lot of money spent but, 
  • HAS THIS BEEN TESTED ANYWHERE? 
  • WHAT IS THE EMPIRICAL DATA ON THIS? 
  • Is this just ANOTHER FEEL GOOD PROJECT BASED ON POLITICS AND NOT DATA?
  • I hope you see here that Grade Level Reading is not focused on actual reading, but on getting into the child's home. 





NOW WE GET DOWN TO THE FUNDERS FOR THIS PROJECT. GEORGE SOROS AND THE OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS MAKE ME NERVOUS AS DOES THE CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE KNOWING HOW BIASED THEY ARE AGAINST ANYTHING CONSERVATIVE.

Apparently Systematic, Intensive, Direct and Early Phonics Instruction is now considered "conservative" since mainly Christian schools use it. And yet, all children, black and white learn best with Intensive Phonics. Marva Collins used Professor Phonics Gives Sound Advice and Open Court Readers and taught minority children labeled Learning Disabled/Dyslexic/etc. to read when the public schools could not. John Winston used the Spalding Writing Road to Reading to bring his school serving 3 housing projects, 98% minority, at least 40 identified dyslexics produced yearly and many discipline problems and brought the Reading scores up from the 24th percentile to the 80th, only one or two identified dyslexics/learning disabled and very few discipline problems.


My conclusion regarding the Grade Level Reading is that third grade is too late to begin teaching children to read. That was exactly what we saw with our grandson. According to the school, he was doing fine at the end of the first grade. But listening to him attempt to read I knew he was struggling. We sent him to Diane Steensland, a Speech Language Pathologist in Dothan, Alabama and the only person I know who can identify, analyze and remediate effectively. She showed me how he could sound out the initial sound and the ending sound and would guess what might be in the middle. If you look above at those "attack skills" you will see that according to Progressive teaching, he was doing as he had been instructed--guessing. He now attends an ABEKA school and thrives. Praise God!

Now, it would appear Grade Level Reading is doing another one of those feel good campaigns that I have seen so often.

There an excellent Phonics program that works for all children, but it is so effective and inexpensive the Establishment Educators refuse to use it!
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/spalding-writing-road-to-reading-and.html

My goodness! If you used a program that actually worked, all those reading specialists would be out of business!  All of those book publishers that sell remediation materials to go along with the reading books would be unnecessary!

And if they did well and had a future, these socialists would have not excuse to come into our homes to "fix them."


RADICAL POSSIBILITIES: YOUR CHILDREN 
Think  about the fact that many children no longer learn cursive writing. They now can no longer read the major documents of our democratic republic. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are written in cursive. Must we all now depend on someone's translation into print? Would that also include their interpretation of those documents?

How dumbed down can we allow the Education Establishment to take us? How much power/control of your family are you willing to cede?

In the name of equity in society lifting reading scores. Hogwash!


The Politics of Common Core
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-politics-of-common-core-powerpoint.html

The Truth about Phonics
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-truth-about-phonics-that-will-help.html

Sing Spell Read and Write, Dolch Words
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2018/07/sing-spell-read-and-write-dolce-word.html

Social Engineering, Co-operative Learning
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2018/05/social-engineering-co-operative.html

The Bigotry of Low Expectations
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-bigotry-of-low-expectations-profits.html

The Yes We Can Movement to Manipulate 
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-yes-we-can-movement-to-manipulate.html

TEACHERS AS LIBERATORS PRODUCE STUDENTS AS REVOLUTIONARIES: 
Whole Language Lives On!

RADICAL POSSIBILITIES: YOUR CHILDREN 
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/radical-possibilities-your-children.html

Response to AL.Com article "Alabama Superintendent Proposal to Raise Academic Standards."
SECULAR HUMANISM IS NOW THE RELIGION OF OUR SCHOOLS

COMMON CORE: THE EMPEROR IS WEARING NO CLOTHES

COMMON CORE=PETRI DISH FOR RADICALS
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/11/common-core-petri-dish-for-radicals.html

REVOLUTIONARY PEDAGOGY

Revolutionary Pedagogy: Or, so you thought reading, writing and calculating were why you sent your child to school?
These are some posts on my blog that are the most pertinent to this issue. There are many others that might interest you as well. Welcome to my blog.