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America’s Future? You’re Looking At It!

Deborah Venable

01/20/10

 

This is the “raw” picture I submitted to the publisher to be placed on the book cover of, “Professional Parenting, Raising the Hope for America’s Future.”  My husband took the picture back in 1976 soon after the birth of our second daughter, Heather.  He was an excellent amateur photographer among his many other talents. 

 

He was also an educator, and as the title of this site implies, education is an absolute imperative to the future of America.  Everything we do here is an attempt to encourage individual education.  The above picture, I believe, conveys a message of the very beginning of human education. 

 

Notice how my daughter is using every one of her senses to explore her new world.  She is reaching out and communicating as she focuses in on her first contact with human life.  It is said that babies can sense their mother’s identity through smell long before their eyes and ears can focus as accurately.  Having been a mother five times over, I believe this is true. 

 

The human connection that means more than anything else in the world is rightfully between parent and child.  To deny that is to deny that the earth is round.

 

Why then does any government think it is right to supplant parental rights to this connection with government mandated formal education?  That is what we have seen happen, and that IS the one true stumbling block to America’s bright future.

 

We might say that it has happened because most parents have no idea how to educate their children, therefore, the government is the logical substitute.  We might also say that education is a “right” and therefore it follows that government should guarantee this right.  Then there are those who say that parents don’t want the job anyway and somebody has to do it.  None of these things ring true in a spiritual sense, so I must conclude that they are all copouts to explain a much more sinister reason.

 

Let’s compare the issue of mandated public education with the latest affront to our American individualist sensibilities, shall we?  That of mandated healthcare coverage – does that one ring a bell?  Proponents of this attempt at government takeover of this very personal issue have said that most people have no interest in providing for themselves, nor could they because of expense, the personal commodity of healthcare.  They also say that healthcare is a “right,” don’t they?  While this seems to be touching a nerve in the fraying fabric of individualism in America at present, some folks are saying that eventually we will all lie down and let the bus roll over us – just like what happened with mandated public education.

 

I implore you to read The Yellow Prison Bus and the Future Of American Healthcare – by Voddie Baucham.  If you are an individualist instead of a collectivist and this well-reasoned article doesn’t scare you to death, then I guess you think the world is flat.

 

Education is so important that it cannot and should not continue to be mandated.  That which is mandated does not hold nearly as much importance as that which is acquired through choice.  I see very little educating toward choice these days.  What I do see is an overabundance of educating toward acceptance of collective value.  There is no collective value in a system that wipes out individual worth.  Individual human worth is something that must be claimed and then defended with every fiber of one’s being.  It is the secret to raising good children to teach them that they are important as unique individuals, and that every individual is important in the whole scheme of life.  Responsibility for themselves and their individual attention to those around them naturally follows these lessons when they are well learned.  This education cannot be mandated in a group classroom of collectivism.

 

The learning that goes on in such classrooms is directed by a consensus of whatever the group needs to think at the time according to those in charge.  That could be anything but individual responsibility or for consideration of the worth of any individual. 

 

Let’s take a look at Geoffrey Botkin’s overview, which succinctly answers the question, why revisionist history is being taught in public schools.  This important article gets to the meat of what I am saying here with this quote by Sam Blumenfeld:

 

“The plain truth is that there has been in this country a deliberate plan to change the nature of American education so that the American people could be easily led into socialism.”

 

Sam Blumenfeld is a contemporary, an accredited and very credible educator and he has even likened the public school system to a criminal enterprise.

 

I hope you will read these linked articles and think long and hard about the implications they contain.  I have been trying to draw attention and educate parents about these things for a long time now.   Until more people take these evident truths seriously and decide once and for all that parenting children, and thus educating them, is the most important thing they will ever do, America’s hope for the future will continue to be in deadly peril.

 

My husband dedicated his professional life to making a difference in individual lives.  Our children are a testiment and a reflection of his success in our personal lives.  We still ache from the hole his passing left, but there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t feel a spiritual direction to continue educating and trying make a difference in the lives of individuals. 

 

I could be doing other things at this point in my life.  I have many interests, and boredom has never been a word in my vocabulary.  I choose to use my twilight years to continue learning and imparting what I learn through researching and writing these little articles.  There are many others who are better at it than I am, but mine is a unique perspective, and with the propensity to connect with an unknown number of individuals, I am glad to have the choice to try to do so.

 

“Teach your children well” is a recurring theme in the Christian Bible.  I think it has been lost on much of modern society.  In the secular and progressive attempt to segregate any Chritian belief or teaching from the social mainstream, parents have been coerced into believing that they have no rights to discipline or direct their children’s education.  The inescapable truth, however, is that they have every right and more importantly the sole responsibility for their children’s education.  That they must now wrest it from the contemptuous shackles of government in our beautiful America is a shameful sin of the society that allowed it to happen.  

 

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Who else thinks that the birth control pill was the greatest invention of the 20th century – besides Hugh Hefner I mean?  Hardly!  Geoffrey Botkin tells it like it is in this World Net Daily article.  Take a look at his website after you read the article.  Take time for the insightful review of Avatar, whether or not you have seen or plan to see the movie. 

 

 

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Going, Going, Gong! – Okay, half the fun of this article is reading the comments.  It’s all about the shake up at NBC with Jay and the boys.  For the record, I’ve always liked Jay Leno’s brand of humor.  Conan O’Brien, on the other hand turns me off.  He looks and acts like a scarecrow hopped up on speed.  The only reason I put this here is to ponder a point.  Leno seems to have made enemies – probably due in part to his equal opportunity jabs at BOTH sides of the political aisle.  Think about that one.

 

 

Words Mean Things – Or do they?  Maybe only mean words mean mean things?  Maybe only just words that can be skewed to be racist mean things?  Anybody else think “honest injun” is a racial slur?  How about “white trash” or “black power” or let’s think way back to this article I wrote when the whole Trent Lott debacle happened.

 

 

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Telling Video – Senator Jim DeMint, (R), South Carolina questions rules changes hidden in health bill rammed through the Senate on Christmas Eve that seek to make it impossible for future congresses to repeal bad law.  Listen for the word, “tyranny” in this one, folks!

 

 

Christians are the New Negro – by Kenneth Hutcherson.  This is an excellent, thought provoking commentary!  Well worth the read!

 

 

America Under Barack Obama – by John W. Whitehead – an interview with Nat Hentoff. 

This man bridges all the popular ideologies with his consistent and individual views.  Take the time to read this for an in depth look at this president from a man who cannot be labeled.  Excellent!

 

 

Verification Page For Letter making the email circuit now.  Ninety-five year old veteran of WWII dictated, signed and sent this letter to Obama.  It is a MUST READ!  God bless patriots like this man!  Thanks to Mr. Veritas for submitting it to this site.

 

 

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Good Report On the Global Warming Fraud – This insidious campaign to turn American’s pockets inside out for the rest of the world via the ridiculous claims of global warming should have been stopped in its tracks a long time ago.  But since it wasn’t – let’s see if congress has what it takes to once and for all sort out the truth and stand up for this country!

 

 

Reviving the tenth Amendment – from Barry Farber.  This one makes points that too many citizens have never thought of.  Ever wonder why America is truly different?  Here’s your answer!

 

 

Glenn Beck Video On "War Tax" etc. – Telling it like it is as always, Beck nails it again!

 

 

Tea Partiers Turn On Each Other – This is exactly what I’ve been afraid of.  One cannot expect collective, groupthink – call it what you will, to ever defend individual rights!  We do not all go into a voting booth together.  We vote as individuals.  We live our lives as individuals.  As soon as we employ collectivism to solve individual problems, we are doomed! 

 

 

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This website expounded on Mr. Hollrah’s article in July of this year, and those comments have now been compiled in an email making the rounds.  Well, gee, folks, it is now well into October.  How long are we supposed to wait for answers?

 

 

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What He Sees

Deborah Venable

01/30/10

 

He’s had his say so can we please

Look at what he really sees?

He’s come before us for a year,

To tell us what we want to hear,

Or so he thinks, but that’s not why

He cannot look us in the eye.

 

The truth would never set him free,

For he sees what he wants to see.

Truth he doesn’t understand,

For lies are all he’s ever planned.

He has no interest in the views

Of people he would then abuse.

 

A leader, as the word implies,

Could prove that he is truly wise,

Through all the things that he has done,

Which tell us all why he’s the one

That we should follow, come what may,

And hear just what he has to say.

 

We’ve listened, though he says we’ve not,

We’ve seen our ever-dwindling lot

Played out upon his actor’s stage,

Where he cannot begin to gage

Effects of acts he forces still

Against the people and their will.

 

What he sees as he looks out

Across this land that’s full of doubt,

Is not that beacon on the hill

Where people come to drink their fill

Of freedom, sweet with honey’s taste,

And heritage we must not waste.

 

No.  What he sees does not reflect

Anything but great defect

That only he must change and show

How wrong the Founders were, you know,

To document our rights from God

Instead of governmental nod.

 

He does not see a nation strong,

And will not say that he is wrong,

To wish that we would lose our pride

In principles he can’t abide.

Our very freedom can’t allow

This land to ever take that bow.

 

He’s not an ideologue, says he.

He thinks we simply cannot see

That policies he would dictate

Preclude inviting a debate.

But if we question not his rule,

He’d be the king and we the fool!

 

He lectures with a boldness new,

Without respect for any who

Would disagree with his desire

To see our liberties expire

With policies that he’d impose

To saddle us with wretched woes.

 

I’ve had my say, and that’s my right,

And I thank God for this insight

Which tells me every single day

That for my country I should pray.

And yes, even for this man

That God’s included in His plan.

 

Hatred’s not the Christian way

To get our point across and say

That what he sees does not define

America that’s yours and mine.

For what he sees will never be

If we, the people, remain free!

 

 

 

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