Candace Owens Show with Bryan Callen - GREAT

Be sure to watch this Candace Owens Show. Candace's guest is Bryan Callen. Bryan got "canceled" because of  an allegation of something that may or may not have happened 21 years ago. 

I wanted to post the image for this video on YouTube above, but YouTube must be censoring some of Candace's videos. The video can be viewed on YouTube, but it's not available in the menu of YouTube shows available to including at the top of a blogpost.

Will what you say or write today come back to haunt you (like, cost you your job) 21 years from now? Or sooner? How will you defend yourself?

Watch their discussion about free speech and what happens when you state your opinion - or are afraid to state your opinion.

People are getting fired for saying "All lives matter." Is this right?

Bryan recommends the book Skin in the Game, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He mentions white privilege and critical race theory. What happens when you take a stand but have nothing to lose by doing so? Then you can say anything and attack anybody.

At the end of the show, Bryan has some great advice for how to make the world a better place.

School board needs a Parliamentarian!!!

How can I describe last Tuesday's (Jan. 26) school board meeting?

A train wreck! I started to watch the Livestream on January 26 and quickly bailed out. Then I decided today to browse the recorded meeting.

At 1:31:30 (on the timer) Supt. Davis was going on and on about putting Richland 2 students in positions to "be global citizens prepared to lead themselves in a chosen pathway." "This is the mission of the school district. Mission critical." Where were they? NASA?  ... and "global citizens" a couple of more times...  And how Richland 2 has the finest educators in the state, maybe in the nation. Yawn....

Then, at 1:43:50, the Agenda Item for the proposed agenda for the next meeting began.  You'll want to watch that. Trustee Elkins wanted an agenda item to discuss face coverings (masks, shields) for board members. She is quarantining at home and said she won't return to Board meetings until there is a Policy. Board Chair Manning said there is a Board Policy - ABD. He asked if Monica wanted to make a motion to revise it. She did. 

Her Motion failed, 3-4. Elkins, Agostini and McFadden voted in favor. Manning, McKie, Caution-Parker and Holmes voted against it. No surprises there, for sure.

Why was the majority of the board unwilling to approve such a motion and allow discussion at the next meeting of a revision to a Policy?

And right there is where the meeting ran off the rails! I mean, OFF THE RAILS!!!

Monica spoke up and was allowed to continue speaking. She didn't ask to be recognized. She was out-of-order and got away with it. The Motion had been voted on. Discussion was over. A Point-of-Order should have been called. 

Monica said that, when the Board Chair and superintendent want something added to the agenda, it gets added. But, when a Board member wants something added, a vote is required.  And often such motions are voted down because of personal prejudice or like or dislike of a person (board member).

She hit the nail on the board. Often, when Agostini or Elkins wants something, they are voted down 2-5 or 3-4. Who hangs together to control the board? McKie, Holmes, Caution-Parker and Manning. 

Manning over-rode Elkins, interrupted her and tried to silence her, but Elkins was right. (Later in the Board and Superintendent Comments, Holmes tried to school Elkins (and Agostini) about "democracy" and majority rule.

Elkins commented further, and then the superintendent piped in. He too was out-of-order. He often does that, speaking without obtaining the Chair's acknowledgement and approval to speak. 

A Parliamentarian, if fully independent of the board, would correct any Board Member who spoke out in clear violation of Robert's Rules of Order. Same with the superintendent, which is why the Parliamentarian should not be a District employee. An employee in the role of Parliamentarian would be headed for the bread line.

At 1:58:10 Trustee Agostini made a Motion for an HR update. The superintendent immediately jumped in (Out-of-Order again) to ask for a delay. Then Elkins chimed in, also out-of-order.

Mrs. Agostini's motion needed a second, before discussion. It never got a second. And the discussion was argument, not discussion. 

The superintendent discounted Agostini's request, and then he tried to smooth over with "Respectfully" and "humbly". Had I been on the Board, about that time I would have made a motion to fire him. And make him sue for the balance of his contract. The majority on the board (The Squad, as I call them) have given him quite a Golden Parachute, and they would vote against firing him.

Manning asked Agostini if she wanted to make a Motion with more detail, apparently forgetting that she already had made a motion. Then the superintendent wanted to buy more time (delay).

Then Manning incorrectly claimed privilege as Board Chair and decided Agostini's request would not be on the next agenda, and he never asked for a Second, Discussion or a Vote.

Manning asked Agostini to put her request in writing. Agostini said that every time she had done that, her request had been denied. 

Agostini did it correctly. Make a Motion. Then there should be a second, discussion and a vote; even if it fails, it's on the record. If the Chair attempted to cut it off, any other Board member should have objected. Even McKie, Holmes (Vice Chair), Caution-Parker (Board Secretary), or McFadden, the newest member of the board. And then responsibility (blame) can be assigned to those sticking their heads in the sand. 

So Agostini's Motion is still pending, and the Board ought to still be sitting in that room.

Boys in girls' sports?

What's happening in Richland 2 schools? Are boys competing in girls' sports?

Are "boys" taking home all the trophies in girls' track? soccer? basketball? You name it?

What do you think of the "movement" to allow boys to compete in girls' sports?

Do you agree? Disagree?

If you disagree, what are you doing about it?

Uncle Tom - see it now

As soon as I saw this headline, "'Uncle Tom' Blacklisted by Hollywood", in The Daily Signal this morning, I went to Amazon Prime Video and began watching it.

Do you know these names: Booker T. Washington? Larry Elder? Thomas Sowell? Herman Cain? Walter Williams? Col. Allen West?

If you are an Amazon Prime member, it's free; if you are not, it's worth the rental price ($3.99). Gather your family around, turn off the cell phones, and watch this 1¾-hour documentary. Tell your kids to take notes. Take notes yourself.

Better yet? Buy it for $9.99 and refer to it often.

Can you afford this?

Parents, read this article.

Now is the time for a serious conversation with your children about whether you, and they, can afford the announced policies of the Biden Administration.

What are your kids learning in Richland 2 schools? Do you know? Find out.

It's too late not to vote for Joe Biden. But you, and other parents around the country, can still affect decisions being made in Washington, D.C. by constant contact with your elected representatives in Washington. This means mail, email, phone calls and personal visits - telling them what you want, what you expect, and then holding them accountable.

It starts with the $1,400 top-up to the last coronavirus stimulus award. Now there is talk about even more money to families. But there is no talk about how all the "free stuff" is going to be paid for.

A strong economy is supposed to result in higher employment, and more people working should mean more taxes being paid in. That's more taxes being paid in by the working people, not sitting back and soaking "the rich" with higher taxes.

Right now your kids, and their kids, and their kids, and their kids will be the ones paying for all the "free stuff" being passed out. 

It ain't "free". 

Richland 2 history book?

Do you know what history book is used in Richland 2 schools? Have you, as a parent, read the books that your children are required to read?

Is there any chance that Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the history text in Richland 2?

Dennis Prager refers to Zinn as "an icon of the American Left". In Prager's book Still the Best Hope, he writes that Zinn's book "became the single most widely read history text in American schools." When you check out Zinn's beliefs, you will want to question whether Richland 2 should be using this text, if it is. 

Familiarize yourself with The 1619 Project and with the Report issued in January 2021 by The President's Advisory 1776 Commission. This Report was published days before the end of President Trump's term, and one of Joe Biden's first Executive Orders was to "disappear" the Commission.

If you want to read the Commission's Report, click here.

President's 1776 Commission

Do you know what The 1776 Report of The President's Advisory 1776 Commission is? It was published this month (January 2021) just before the end of President Trump's term. 

President Joe Biden trashed the Report and rescinded the Commission on his first day in office on January 20, 2021. I think we can all be sure that he did not read it. His Executive Order was on his desk and waiting for his signature on his first day at the desk. 

Does anyone else think his action is hasty, since he obviously didn't read it first. Who has his ear?

The 1776 Report can be read here.

Why would Biden do that? A clue can be found in the second paragraph of the Introduction.

"The declared purpose of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission is to “enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.” This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles that is “accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling.”

The Democrats and progressive education are re-writing history, as evidenced by absurd publications like The 1619 Project.