Men fight for the good so they don’t have to fight against the evil.
Or as GOD says:
Proverbs 14: 34 (NIV)
“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.”
Mathew 15: 17-20 (NIV)
[Jesus asked them.] ‘Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder [abortion], adultery, sexual immorality [homosexual behavior], theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
http://blabber.buzz/politics/conservative-news/188685-24-republicans-vote-to-preserve-transgender-ideology-in-military
“24 Republicans Vote To Preserve Transgender [Transsexual] Ideology in Military
Warner Todd Huston | July 14, 2017”
My full post on the above article: https://votevance2016.blogspot.com/2017/07/transgendertranssexual-mutilating_15.html
House of Representatives Republicans “Wall of Shame” as established by their own votes:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll369.xml
“FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 369
H R 2810 RECORDED VOTE July 13, 2017 5:41 PM
AUTHOR(S): Hartzler of Missouri Amendment No. 10
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Amendment
Yes: Republican 209 ~ Democrat 000 = TOTALS 209
No: Republican 024 ~ Democrat 190 = TOTALS 214
Not voting: Republican 06 ~ Democrat 04 = TOTALS 10
House of Representatives Republicans “Wall of Shame.”
These 24 Republicans voted to force taxpayers to pay for mutilating surgery for delusional transsexuals who are in the military.
Republicans voting No to defeat the amendment:
[Conservative Review Conservative Scorecard grade]
01) Justin Amash [Michigan-District 3 A 96%]
02) Jack Bergman [Michigan-District 1 F 50%]
03) Mike Coffman [Colorado-District 6 F 56%]
04) Barbara Comstock [Virginia-District 10 F 19%]
05) Paul Cook [California-District 8 F 43%]
06) Ryan Costello [Pennsylvania-District 6 F 19%]
07) Carlos Curbelo [Florida-District 26 F 19%]
08) Jeffrey Denham [California-District 10 F 33%]
09) Charlie Dent [Pennsylvania-District 15 F 29%]
10) John Faso [New York-District 19 F 50%]
11) Brian (Michael) Fitzpatrick [Pennsylvania-District 8 F 50%]
12) Darrell Issa [California-District 49 F 55%]
13) John Katko [New York-District 24 F 25%]
14) Steve Knight [California-District 25 F 31%]
15) Leonard Lance [New Jersey-District 7 F 42%]
16) Frank LoBiondo [New Jersey-District 2 F 31%]
17) Tom MacArthur [New Jersey-District 3 F 25%]
18) Brian Mast [Florida-District 18 F 50%]
19) Tom Reed [New York-District 23 F 43%]
20) Dave Reichert [Washington-District 8 F 28%]
21) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [Florida-District 27 F 23%]
22) Bill Shuster [or, is it Shyster? Pennsylvania-9 F 47%]
23) Elise Stefanik [New York-21 F 19%]
24) Claudia Tenney [New York-District 22 F 50%]
No votes from Republicans by State:
1) Paul Cook [California-District 8 F 43%]
2) Jeffrey Denham [California-District 10 F 33%]
3) Darrell Issa [California-District 49 F 55%]
4) Steve Knight [California-District 25 F 31%]
1) Mike Coffman [Colorado-District 6 F 56%]
1) Carlos Curbelo [Florida-District 26 F 19%]
2) Brian Mast [Florida-District 18 F 50%]
3) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [Florida-District 27 F 23%]
1) Justin Amash [Michigan-District 3 A 96%]
2) Jack Bergman [Michigan-District 1 F 50%]
1) Leonard Lance [New Jersey-District 7 F 42%]
2) Frank LoBiondo [New Jersey-District 2 F 31%]
3) Tom MacArthur [New Jersey-District 3 F 25%]
1) John Faso [New York-District 19 F 50%]
2) John Katko [New York-District 24 F 25%]
3) Tom Reed [New York-District 23 F 43%]
4) Elise Stefanik [New York-21 F 19%]
5) Claudia Tenney [New York-District 22 F 50%]
1) Ryan Costello [Pennsylvania-District 6 F 19%]
2) Charlie Dent [Pennsylvania-District 15 F 29%]
3) Brian (Michael) Fitzpatrick [Pennsylvania-District 8 F 50%]
4) Bill Shuster [or, is it Shyster? Pennsylvania-9 F 47%]
1) Barbara Comstock [Virginia-District 10 F 19%]
1) Dave Reichert [Washington-District 8 F 28%]
Everyone of these Republicans In Name Only should be primaried and defeated by an actual constitutional conservative who has not capitulated to the radical homosexual lobby in this nation. These 24 RINOs by voting to affirm the delusional fantasies of transsexuals are helping to destroy the military and are, in my opinion, putting both delusional transsexuals and all other military personnel in danger on the battle field during combat.
Update: Illinois Leftists “Wall of Shame.”
Original Article: https://votevance2016.blogspot.com/2017/08/transgendertranssexual-delusion.html
“Transgender/Transsexual Delusion, Legislative Fraud, and a RINO Governor Who Signed into Law His Reelection Defeat”
1) Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner
1a) Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner: The last week of September, 2017 Governor Rauner also signed into law a bill requiring Illinois taxpayers to pay for the murder of babies within the womb for Illinois Medicaid recipients and State of Illinois employees.
2) 64 members of the Illinois State House of Representatives [Listed at the end of the original article]
3) 32 members of the Illinois State Senate [Listed at the end of the original article]
Update: The Illinois House of Representatives overrides the Governor’s veto increasing the individual State income tax rate by 32%.
https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/unsustainable-raising-taxes-solves-nothing-makes-illinois-worse-off/
“The Illinois State House was back in session this afternoon to override Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto of a 32 percent permanent tax hike on Illinois families (SB 9). This tax grab also raises the corporate income tax rate by 33 percent. As anticipated, the House voted to override the veto this afternoon by a vote of 71-42 [71 being the minimum number of votes to override.]—with 61 Democrats and 10 Republicans voting in favor of increasing our taxes [By raising the tax rate by 32%. Plus, no doubt, increasing the cost of goods and/or increasing unemployment by raising corporate income tax rates by 33 1/3rd percent.].
To see how your state representative voted, please click HERE. To see how your state senator voted, please click HERE.
Much has been written for many years now about how Illinois is being mismanaged. The votes to override common sense is only the latest chapter in that mismanagement.”
Illinois Republicans “Wall of Shame.”
From: David E. Smith of Illinois Family Action
July 7, 2017
“The Republicans who voted for the tax grab include:
01) Steve Andersson (Geneva)
02) Terri Bryant (Carbondale)
03) Mike Fortner (West Chicago)
04) Norine Hammond (Macomb)
05) David Harris (Arlington Heights)
06) Chad Hays (Danville)
07) Sara Jimenez (Springfield)
08) Bill Mitchell (Decatur)
09) Reggie Phillips (Charleston)
10) Mike Unes (East Peoria)
David E. Smith, Executive Director
Illinois Family Action
P.O. Box 93
Mokena, Illinois 60448”
“The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this—it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity. If it has never been considered in that light, it is because its compass has not been perceived.” ~ John Quincy Adams
Y Mike Unes (Republican voted to increase taxes! Lives in East Peoria)
Y Gordon-Booth (Democrat voted to increase taxes! Lives in Peoria)
Four of the seven Morton, Illinois District 709 School Board members voted to support transsexual sexual delusions. The “Four Pretenders” are:
Shaun Bill elected term ended in 2017. He is off the school board.
Clint Heinold elected term ended in 2017. He is off the school board.
Kelly Scarfe elected term ended in 2017. She is off the school board.
Michelle Bernier elected term ends in 2019. [Will she run for reelection after the results of the 2017 election?]
Board decisions have consequences. Elections have consequences.
Note: [ ] = my additions
Roe vs. Wade decided January 22, 1973 = 44 years ago as of January 22, 2017
Over 44 years of government sanctioned murder of our own children. Evil personified!
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Eight months after the 44th year of the illegal, unconstitutional Roe vs. Wade decision, approximately 665,753 babies within the womb have been murdered because of federal government sanctioned evil based upon one million murders of babies within the womb per year. And the murders continue day after day. What has Congress done to stop the unconstitutional murder of our own children? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Congress can not even defund Planned Murderhood.
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Petition: http://nationalprolifealliance.com/lacAM_petition.aspx?pid=0219&npla=EH17
Abolishing the murder of babies within the womb by Congressional law will actually be faster and more effective than waiting on the court. Right now there are five justices on the court who support the murder of babies within the womb. The four radical Leftist justices appointed by Democrat Presidents and Justice Kennedy. Therefore, to even have a chance of the court reversing, we need one more Constitutional Justice and the one appointed has to replace one of the five pro-murdering babies within the womb justices. Even then, it would take a couple of years, at least, to get the case through the court system.
Passing a law of Congress is the best way of ending the terror of our American holocaust. The best way to abolish the murder of babies within the womb. The best way to stop any State from passing a law allowing the murder of babies within the womb. And it is also best constitutionally.
Life for all persons within the United States including babies within the womb is guaranteed and protected by the Declaration of Independence, Amendment V of the United States Constitution, and Amendment XIV of the United States Constitution. No court, no government body, no individual can constitutionally sanction the murder of babies within the womb. All such decisions, laws, and regulations are patently unconstitutional and illegal and should be immediately abolished by Congress by law!
Statistically, everyday of delay over 2,700 babies are murdered in the womb through abortion using 1 million abortions a year as a baseline. It is past time to attack the evil of murdering babies within the womb on every front with every legal weapon we can use until the murder of babies within the womb is abolished completely throughout the United States and its territories. Murder of babies within the womb is a horrendous evil that needs to and must be terminated.
Sign the petition to the Health and Human Services Secretary to help put an end to taxpayer funding of Planned Murderhood.
Click here to sign the petition.
http://www.stopp.org/price-petition/
No organization that murders babies within the womb and/or supports and promotes the same should ever receive federal government money either directly or indirectly.
The latest released video exposing Planned Murderhood and the murder of babies within the womb industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1ycCmX3uU
Above video was removed by youtube as it censors video that is in opposition to its LEFTIST agenda.
New link to the video:
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=746_1495760241
This one has now been removed too. What does the murder of babies within the womb industry fear? The truth and the truth getting out to the world. No better proof than this censorship.
Newer link to the video:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/i-need-4-intact-limbs-planned-parenthood-abortionists-describe-beheading-ri
As of 1PM CDT Saturday 5/27/2017 the video is at this link. I do not know how long it will remain. I am listening to it as I write.
As of 3:33AM CDT Sunday 5/28/2017 the video has been removed.
“Sorry
This video does not exist.”
Censorship by the Left reigns supreme in the United States of America.
My post on the judge who censored the videos: https://votevance2016.blogspot.com/2017/06/abortion-california-federal-judge-and.html
Order given by federal judge William Orrick who was appointed by President Barack Hussein Obama.
Petition to Defund Planned Murderhood NOW!: https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/congress-must-de-fund-planned-parenthood-immediately.html
NO organization, including Planned Murderhood, which is involved in any way with the sinful, evil, barbaric practice of murdering babies within the womb should ever receive our taxpayer money!
The lies of Planned Murderhood supporters and promoters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJjSPsVuS8g&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Live+Action&utm_campaign=456b90d2cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b50982edcd-456b90d2cd-86729901
DEMAND FULL REPEAL of OBAMACARE
Petition: http://madisonproject.grassrootsaction.us/demand-full-repeal-of-obamacare/
Petition to defund the United Nations:
http://madisonproject.grassrootsaction.us/defund-the-united-nations-h/
The UN is a completely failed organization. It needs to be defunded.
¨ For its attacks on the sovereign State of Israel,
¨ For its promotion of and support for murdering babies within the womb and the radical homosexual agenda.
¨ For supporting and promoting the scientific nonsense of man-made global warming,
¨ And for its call for one world government in direct violation of the sovereignty of the United States of America.
¨ Then, the US needs to get out of the UN and get the UN out of the US.
I have been asking these questions for a good while. The correct answers are given below.
A brief quiz on the Constitution:
1) What Article, Section, Paragraph within the United States Constitution gives the federal courts the power to interpret the Constitution of the United States?
There is no provision within the Constitution that gives the federal courts the power to interpret the Constitution of the United States.
2) What are the constitutional qualifications for individuals appointed to the federal courts?
Appointed by the President and approved by the Senate by a simple majority vote. There are no other specific qualifications. They do not have to be lawyers. Technically, there is not even a citizenship requirement.
3) What is the constitutional term of office for individuals appointed to the federal courts?
Good behavior. As stated in this post: https://votevance2016.blogspot.com/2017/09/constitution-day-federal-courts.html there is no “life time” appointment. The correct answer is good behavior.
Restore the Constitution
Take Back the Nation
I am a Christian, Constitutionalist, conservative
Isaiah 1: 1-31 (NIV)
The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem [Applicable to the United States today, in my opinion. GOD is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. HE is righteous, just, and true yesterday, today, and tomorrow!] that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the Lord has spoken: ‘I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me [The United States has and is rebelling against GOD!]. The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel [the United States] does not know, my people [the United States] do not understand.’
Woe to the sinful nation [the United States], a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord [the United States]; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel [the United States] and turned their backs on him [the United States] .
Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil.
Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers. Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege. Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom [destroyed by GOD because of homosexual sin!], we would have been like Gomorrah [destroyed by GOD because of homosexual sin!].
[Read Genesis 18 and 19 for the Biblical account. Genesis 19: 23-29 (NIV)]
“By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he [GOD] overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities [A righteous act by a righteous GOD WHO destroyed evil people who refused to repent from their evil. And yes, I believe the account and so did JESUS the SON of GOD. HE referenced Sodom and/or Gomorrah several times. Matthew 10: 15 (NIV) “Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.”]—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he [GOD] brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.”
This is also why homosexual radicals attack Christians who speak out against homosexual behavior. Christians who know the Bible know that homosexual behavior is sin punishable by spiritual death. There is NO “right” to homosexual behavior and people are NOT born homosexual. Homosexual behavior is learned behavior. Therefore, people do not have to be involved in the behavior and people can repent and STOP being involved in the behavior!]
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom [the United States]; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah [the United States]! ‘The multitude of your sacrifices—what are they to me?’ says the Lord. ‘I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations—I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you [the present or the future for the United States?]; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening [the present or the future for the United States?].
Your hands are full of blood [the present for the United States as we as a nation MURDER over a million babies a year through government sanctioned abortions!]!
Wash and make yourselves clean [Will we?]. Take your evil deeds out of my sight [Will we?]; stop doing wrong [Will we?]. Learn to do right [Will we?]; seek justice [Will we?]. Defend the oppressed [Will we? Who are more oppressed than murdered babies?]. Take up the cause of the fatherless [Will we? GOD’S family structure not man’s]; plead the case of the widow [Will we? GOD’S family structure not man’s].’
‘Come now, let us settle the matter,’ says the Lord. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. If you are willing and obedient [Stop rebelling], you will eat the good things of the land; but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.’ For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her—but now murderers! Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water. Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: ‘Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities. I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.’
Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness. But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish. ‘You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen. You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water. The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.’”
Planned Murderhood does not provide healthcare video:
https://www.facebook.com/liveaction/videos/10155273054558728/?utm_source=Live+Action&utm_campaign=cb5b583ece-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b50982edcd-cb5b583ece-86729901
“Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] says it needs hundreds of millions in taxpayer funding to help pregnant women. Yet when moms need prenatal care, ultrasounds, and adoption services, Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] turns them away and tells them to ‘Google it.’ How is the abortion [murder of babies within the womb] giant using our tax dollars [Over half a billion dollars of federal money in the last fiscal year and funded by a Republican Congress through the 2016-2017 fiscal year that ended September 30, 2017.]?”
Video: “Pregnant women call Planned Parenthood [Planned Murderhood] to hear about their options”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acb1KUESU6M
Donate to Live Action: https://donate.liveaction.org/checkout/donation?eid=125628&utm_source=lan&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=live_action_news&utm_content=side_ad_square
Bonus video: The advantages of a Harvard education and being a Leftist:
https://crtxnews.com/lighter-side-just-cant-make-stuff-female-millennial-snowflake-comes-unglued-white-male-patriarchy/
UNBELIEVABLE! She needs to go back to Harvard? No wait, Harvard obviously did not do a thing to educate this individual to the realities of the real world.
Is this the future for the United States?
Boycott Target UPDATE:
The purpose of the Target boycott is to help Target change its current policy of allowing men into the facilities of women and allowing women into the facilities of men by hurting its bottom line. A classic “follow the money” approach. Is it working? Your decision:
Target stock as of the day American Family Association called for a boycott of Target because of its transsexual policy.
4/20/16: Open price: 83.94 High price: 83.96 Close price: 82.87
The following are selected end of the week closing prices for Target common stock:
Target: 05/17/16 close: $ 73.61 DOWN $9.26 in just under a month.
Target: 06/18/16: 67.50
Target: 12/05/16: 77.68 Peak retail businesses time of the year
Target: 12/30/16: 72.23 end of year. Christmas time and after is the most important time of the year for retailers such as Target.
Target: 01/20/17: 64.10
Target: 03/15/17: 54.57
5 year price for Target stock as of March 15, 2017
“High 84.69 on July 17, 2015
Low 54.56 on March 15, 2017
Average 68.03 for past 5 years”
Target: 06/02/17: 55.52
Target: 06/16/17: 52.61 ▼ new weekending low since boycott started
Target: 06/23/17: 50.67 After Hours ▼ new weekending low since boycott started
Target: 06/30/17: 52.24
DOWN $30 a share in just over a year and two months. DOWN $30 a share.
Follow the money. One million shares of common stock equals a loss in share value of 30 million dollars.
Boycott update:
Target: 09/01/17: 56.15
Target: 10/06/17: 57.13
Dow Jones Industrial Average June 1, 2017 closed at 21,144.18
Dow Jones Industrial Average September 1 closed at 21,987.56 up 3.99%
Dow Jones Industrial Average October 6 closed at 22,773.67 up 3.58%
Target from 55.52 on 6/2/17 to 56.15 on 9/1/17 up 1.14%
Target from 56.15 on 9/1/17 to 57.13 on 10/6/17 up 1.75%
August is back to school month which is normally the second busiest season for retailers like Target. Yet, while the Dow Jones was up 3.99%, Target was only up 1.14%. The boycott stills seems to be having the desired effect.
Dow Jones was up 3.58% in just over a month. Target was only up 1.75%. Target is still lagging behind the larger market as measured by the Dow. The boycott stills seems to be having the desired effect.
When I was in high school and teaching in the 1970’s the standard deviation diagram or Bell Curve was suppose to be the standard for grades based upon the abilities of the students. Therefore, theoretically about 3% of the student body should receive A’s, about 3% should receive F’s, about 14% should receive B’s, about 14% should receive D’s, and about 66% should receive C’s. I don’t know of any schools who actually followed the curve. However, it was suppose to be the guiding principle.
What is the guiding principle in public schools today? It seems it may be one closer to a new definition of equality. Everyone receives the same grade regardless of actual achievement.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18709/everyone-special-almost-50-high-school-students-hank-berrien?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=071817-news&utm_campaign=position7
“EVERYONE IS SPECIAL: Almost 50% Of High School Students Earn A’s, SAT Scores Drop
Hank Berrien | July 18, 2017
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT
“The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States. Introduced in 1926, its name and scoring have changed several times; originally called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, it was later called the Scholastic Assessment Test, then the SAT I: Reasoning Test, then the SAT Reasoning Test, and now, simply the SAT.
The SAT is owned, developed, and published by the College Board, a private, not-for-profit corporation in the United States. It is administered on behalf of the College Board by the Educational Testing Service, which until recently developed the SAT as well. The test is intended to assess students’ readiness for college. The SAT was originally designed to not be aligned with high school curricula, but several adjustments were made for the version of the SAT introduced in 2016, and College Board president, David Coleman, has said that he also wanted to make the test reflect more closely what students learned in high school [What do they learn in high school?].
On March 5, 2014, the College Board announced that a redesigned version of the SAT would be administered for the first time in 2016. The current SAT, introduced in 2016, takes three hours to finish, plus 50 minutes for the SAT with essay, and as of 2017 costs US $45 (US $57 with the optional essay), excluding late fees, with additional processing fees if the SAT is taken outside the United States. Scores on the SAT range from 400 to 1600, combining test results from two 800-point sections: mathematics, and critical reading and writing. Taking the SAT, or its competitor, the ACT, is required for freshman entry to many, but not all, universities in the United States. Starting with the 2015–16 school year, the College Board also announced it would team up with Khan Academy, a free, online education site to provide SAT prep, free of charge.”]
When I was in high school, I took both the SAT and the ACT. That was standard at our high school. I don’t know the practice today. I do know that I only took two years of math in high school—algebra and geometry. I tested out of the math requirement at Illinois State University based upon my SAT and ACT math scores. I also tested out of the required oral exam or research paper for my Master’s Degree at Illinois State based upon my score on the Graduate Record Exam in political science.]
Two researchers conducting a study found the percentage of high school seniors graduating with an A average has risen sharply in the last 20 years, even though SAT scores have been dropping.
According to the study conducted by Michael Hurwitz of the College Board and Jason Lee, a doctoral student at the University of Georgia’s Institute of Higher Education, almost half (47%) of high school seniors in 2016 had an A average, a percentage that had risen from 38.9% in 1998 [I don’t know the statistics. However, I would be surprised if 20% of our high school graduating class had an A average. I do know this, my Grade Point Average (GPA) in college was higher than my Grade Point Average in high school. I also worked harder in college and took a higher percentage of subjects in which I was actually interested than I did in high school.]
In that same time span, average SAT scores fell from 1,026 to 1,002 [About 2.4 percent. This drop could be because more people with lower ability are taking the exams. After all, if almost 50% of the students are A students they certainly should continue on into college. Except we know that almost 50% of the students in high school are not A level achievers. Inflated grades lead to more people going to colleges who really should not which also puts pressure on colleges to lower their grading standards. It is a vicious circle. I’m sure the percent of A’s at the university level is also increasing. Grades are no longer an accurate measurement of ability and achievement.] on a 1,600-point scale.
All of that information suggests that there is widespread grade inflation being practiced across the country [DUH.]. And here’s another interesting tidbit that might lead you to wonder if standards are being lowered: a record number of students graduated from high school last year [That was one of the major goals established by the federal government in its intrusion into the education system. Doesn’t mean people are better educated. It probably means the system is being gamed for more federal dollars.] The average high school graduation rate now tops 83%, according to federal statistics.
Yet as USA Today notes:
‘A recent study by the Harvard Graduate School of Education found that just 56% of college students complete a four-year degree within six years of entering college [Over half. I received my Master’s Degree in five years and a summer session back when universities only held one summer session. It is my understanding that most have two sessions now. One reason for the low number is that the quality of the student is less now. Percentage wise, more students start college now than back when I attended. Quite frankly, many of those should not be wasting their time trying to earn a higher degree. Of course, with lower standards the universities have also lowered their own graduation standards. It costs the universities when students begin but don’t complete their education. There has always been a number who start and don’t complete. That is expected. The big question is the percent who do not complete the requirements. The education of today is not the education of yesterday. Grade inflation has occurred at the college level as well.]. For students who start at two-year colleges, it’s even worse: Just 29% earn a degree within three years. Examining the academic transcripts of high school graduates in the 18-year period from 1998 to 2016, they found that the average grade point average (GPA) rose from 3.27 to 3.38, even as the average SAT score dropped.’
Hurwitz pointed out that an A is now ‘the modal high school grade,’ which certainly points toward grade inflation [Either that or the value of an A has fallen dramatically. Or, more likely, both have occurred. There is no way, in almost all public high schools, that almost half the students are A students. It is a telling indictment of the deterioration of public education. Is it a coincidence that, at the same time, the federal government has become more and more involved in education? I don’t think so. The federal government has no constitutional authority to be involved in education at any level. It needs to end. And yet, even with the Republicans in control of Congress and the Presidency, federal government involvement has actually increased. Education is a State government function. It needs to be returned to the State governments where it belongs. The Department of Education needs to be abolished. If it is not, public education will continue to erode. For those who don’t read this blog regularly, I have some knowledge of education as a public school student, public school teacher, and public school board member.].”
Now it is time to donate for the general election victory over the Leftist candidate. I have been receiving e-mails from him daily and he is a typical Leftist candidate. He needs to be crushed as well.
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The conservative Senate candidate for Alabama—Judge Roy Moore
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The conservative Senate candidate for Alabama—Judge Roy Moore
From: The Loop from Catholic Vote
“QUOTE OF THE WEEK // Hans Fiene on anti-Christian Twitter mobs: ‘Twitter: We hate Joel Osteen for not following the Bible. Also Twitter: We hate the Nashville Statement for following the Bible.’”
Supposedly, Joel Osteen said his church would not be available during the current Houston flooding challenge. The Nashville Statement confirms the long standing Christian acknowledgment that homosexual behavior is sinful behavior.
The Left hates anyone and anything that disagrees with them and their agenda.
https://spectator.org/at-the-orgy-of-self-righteousness/
“At the Orgy of Self-Righteousness
George Neumayr | August 18, 2017”
“One wonders what entitles this generation to speak so confidently about past evils given its inability to recognize present ones. Modern America is awash in the blood of millions of aborted [murdered] children—a monstrous evil we’re told is as central to the modern lifestyle as slavery was to the ancient one [Make no mistake about it. Murdering one’s own children is far more evil than slavery. And yes, slavery is evil.]”
The best, most constitutional way to accomplish abolishing abortion is to do the following:
1) Congress by law affirms that human life begins at conception/fertilization.
http://nationalprolifealliance.com/rlacaa_petition.aspx?npla=EH17&pid=0820c
2) Congress by law affirms that human life is protected by both Amendments Five and Fourteen from the beginning of life at conception to the end of life through natural causes.
3) Congress by law affirms that the taking of a human life within the womb is a criminal offense and establishes the legal parameters for prosecuting and punishing all such criminal offenses. Congress by law affirms that any local official and/or State official who tries to hinder and/or does not apply these laws properly has committed a criminal offense. Congress by law establishes the legal parameters for prosecuting and punishing all such criminal offenses.
4) Congress by law affirms that any and all previous court case rulings in contradiction to these specific laws passed by Congress are null and void.
5) Congress by law removes the courts from any ability to alter and/or invalidate any provisions of these specific laws passed by Congress.
Rules of Life:
1) Actions have consequences and may have a lasting impact on the rest of your life.
2) There is no reset, undo, or edit button in life.
3) You are the ONLY person responsible for your actions.
4) You are free to choose whatever action you want to take, but you are NOT free from the consequences of that action.
5) Doing nothing is an action.
Or, as GOD said in James 4: 17 (NIV)
“If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.”
Matthew 12: 35-37 (NIV)
“‘A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned [We are all held accountable by GOD.].’”
Restore the Constitution
Take Back the Nation
For Life, for liberty
Don L. Vance
“With a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
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