This'n'That September Eighteenth #1; What Education?

Socio-fascists Rewrite History, Constitution
    I'm old enough (67) to remember when junior and high school textbooks dealt more with fact than what is seen today.  Today's textbook alterations began some years back with the socialization of historical events and those men and women involved.  Ever the keepers of the written word, America's socio-fascists have advanced to rewriting the various--most objectionable--amendments in the Bill of Rights.
    If your child attends--among several others--West Forsythe High, Clemmons, S.C., or Guyer High School, Denton, Tx., you should be very wary about their history education and the textbooks used in it's accomplishment.  Books like this go hand-in-hand with the Agenda 21 concept of dumbing down American students in preparation for their entry into the third-world rathole America will become in the future.
    New York State does the same thing with questionable textbooks but they go even farther.  The state education department actively and forcefully promotes mergers between two or more school districts.  The state usually pairs adjoining school districts, one with excellent graduation rates, teachers, administrators with a mediocre school having socialistic financial problems.  My experience was with the Cohocton (N.Y.) Central School District being forced to merge with the financial geniuses in the Wayland (N.Y) Central School District. 
     To shorten a long story, the merger was handled in such a manner as to remind one of today's obama Cabal.   The social dynamics of each district, of each village were diametrically opposed to one another; the two couldn't have been more different.  Where 'political' cliques, various  wealth and social strata existed in Wayland, Cohocton seemed to be a closer knit district, community.
Wayland was so in debt that servicing said debt AND budgeting for the upcoming school year was bordering on the impossible without massive school tax increases.  Cohocton had almost always had a budget surplus, rarely was there even a revote on the annual budget.  The state demanded as many referendums as necessary to get the desired result (it took three).  The instruction, the admin, the maintenance staffs were enticed into support with promises of flowery titles and in many cases, exorbitant pay raises.  Finally, the forerunners of today's obamacRATic voters (mindless, blind followers) were convinced to send their kids to a mis-managed system over one with a 100% graduation rate!! 
     Cohocton's community volunteerism was huge.  Cohocton Sports Boosters Club built three soccer fields, refurbished a baseball diamond (ALL LIGHTED-unheard of for the time [late 1980s] in a small town, school), built, maintained and staffed a snack bar on site--ALL with volunteers with donated supplies and materials.
    For the record I received an excellent education in the Cohocton school system, graduating in 1964.  My graduating class had 15 students IF one were to count the two exchange students!  We all went through 13 years of education IN THE SAME BUILDING.  So far as I know, no classmate ever ended up in prison; all had careers and families.
That's all I got,
Justin Case
1. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/17/publisher-of-ap-history-book-containing-questionable-second-amendment-summary-has-direct-ties-to-common-core-and-theres-more/
2. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/16/wait-until-you-see-how-a-high-school-textbook-summarizes-the-rights-granted-in-the-second-amendment/
3. http://www.dailypaul.com/299365/high-school-ap-history-book-rewrites-the-2nd-amendment
4. http://www.amazon.com/United-States-History-Preparing-Examination/dp/1567656609
5. http://www.conejo.k12.ca.us/Portals/49/Departments/Social%20Science/Palotay/Amsco.pdf
6. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/listing/2680207894060?r=1&cm_mmca2=pla&cm_mmc=GooglePLA-_-TextBook_NotInStock_75Up-_-Q000000633-_-2680207894060
7. http://www.perfectionlearning.com/common-core-overview
8. http://www.amazon.com/The-Enduring-Vision-History-American/dp/0547222785

This'n'That; August Fourteenth #1; Surprise!

Slaughter Has Surprised Me!
    Congresswoman Dorothy "Geeze-Louise" McIntosh-Rodham-Slaughter has taken me completely by surprise!!  The ol' bag has been in congress for the past two-and-a-half DECADES and has--in my memory--never gotten off her dead-ass and visited her district or it's voters.  I take that back; she will visit the area if there's someone--the likes of C. Ellis Schumer, the Putz of Park Avenue--she can suck up to!!

    Finally, the republicRATics have fielded a viable candidate--in Maggie Brooks--to contest the district (NY-28{now redrawn as NY-25}), and this has 'the ol' gray mare' shaking under her ill-fitting wig.  Ms McIntosh-Rodham-Slaughter took the occasion to stand in front of the tv cameras--surprisingly without "The Putz of Park Avenue"--at the local Hickey-Freeman facility to whine--just like "Clown Prince" obama--that 'the lack of jobs is all Bush's fault!'  While a socio-fascist in the same vein as the "Clown Prince;" while a fair-to-mostly-crappy legislator, "Geeze-Louise" is a terrific fundraiser and through that, actually represents those who donate: primarily the residents of New York City and the southern counties that surround it!!
Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; July Second #1: Curtiss Museum

What A Delightful Day!
    With upcoming surgery appointments, readying our rental property for sale, the "Young Miss Lovely" and I mutually agreed that we'd not be able to take our usual early-summer vacation.  As a result we had decided to take 'day-trips' to area museums and other points of interest.
    To that end, we decided to drive the 125 miles to take in The Glenn Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, N.Y.  What a delightful day we had.... from the late breakfast, to the museum itself, to a dessert on the way back to the Rochester area!!  What a way to distract one's self from contemplating how the current dictatorship will shit on the American taxpayer, next!!
    Once we got into the Village of Hammondsport, we found the 'Keuka Artisan Bakery' on Shethar Street and had a delicious breakfast sandwich--a REAL one--not that crap-on-a-biscuit one gets from the fastfood joints.  We both had ham-and-egg on seeded-rye; real rye bread, two slices about 7"x4" each!  Just DELICIOUS, and reasonably priced. If I have a complaint about the whole eating experience, it would be the non-availability of diet sodas.

We then wandered the village a bit including the village's "waterfront" area, the south end of Keuka Lake,

before we headed back to the south end, to the museum.
    From downtown Rochester, N.Y., we used NY-590 south, I-590 south, I-390 south, I-86 east to Bath, N.Y.  From exit-38 we used village streets to NY-54 north, toward Hammondsport.  The Curtiss Museum is on the south end of the village, on the west side of the road.  The museum entrance kinda 'sneaks up' on ya when using this route.  Another way--from the Rochester area--is NY-104 east, NY-14 south, NY-14A south, EITHER NY-54 south OR NY-54A south to the south end of Hammondsport.  You will see:

Once you're in the parking lot, near the building you'll find:

Once inside the building, you'll find things you never expected to see in an aircraft museum;  things like:
The earliest--up to the modern era motorcycles--such nampplates as Curtiss, Henderson, Indian, Harley-Davidson, BSA, BMW, Whizzer, etc:

The motorcycle Glenn Curtiss used to become a motorcycle racing champion; the world's fastest man (1907-136.36mph);

A close-up of the Curtiss-built V-8 motorcycle engine:

There are about a dozen antique cars--many from the personal collection of Guy Bennett, Wayland, N.Y.--as evidenced by this 1928 Chandler Dual-Cowel Phaeton Touring Car:

Several boats, like this hand-built mahogany power boat:

and this 1931 CeeStepper from Penn Yan Boats:

Various aircraft--mostly seaplanes--are still the main concentration, like the first Curtiss plane, the 1908 Curtiss 'June Bug:'

And the 1911 A-1, the VERY FIRST U.S. Navy plane:

How 'bout "America" the first multi-engine ever built.  Built by Mr Curtiss in 1914 for Rodman Wanamaker (of the department store 'Wanamakers') to be capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean, to win a 'Times of London' $50,000 prize: 

    When we finished at the museum, I surprised the "Young Miss Lovely" with a stop for ice cream, at a stand--in Kanona, N.Y.--that I remember from the early 1960s when I was a teenager:

I got a 'small' soft serve 'twist' cone.  I swear the ice cream stood a good 7-inches off the edge of the cone, which was full as well!!  "Lovely" had a 'small' peach frozen yogurt, which was three huge scoops, barely hanging on to the cone!!  All that for $4.05, tax included!!
Then we packed our full bellies home!!
Til Nex'Time....
[A youtube video of one of the museum's boats] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODWXrsGilTM
[More photos I took at the museum]https://picasaweb.google.com/112034064879483131006/GlennCurtissMuseumJuly12012#