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It's All About the Crayon's

Kerry L Marsala

For many children here in America back to school has already happened or will soon. The lazy days of summer bliss are quickly being replaced with shopping excursions to buy new boxes of brightly colored crayons, number two pencils, notebooks, folders, backpacks (with your favorite summer movie character emblazoned upon it), lunch boxes, new socks and underwear and most importantly trendy clothing. With a swipe of our plastic credit cards, America's children are once again ready to begin their task of learning the "3R's."

The educator's, whether public or private, have been given classrooms equipped with both air conditioning and heat, and they have aligned their student's desks and chairs to face them. Most teachers' classrooms and school grounds are well equipped. They have their own computers, filing cabinets, blackboards or whiteboards, supplies from the district, drinking fountains/sinks, cabinet space, textbooks, a teacher's lounge that includes a microwave/stove and vending machines for sodas/snacks. They've been blessed with an organized administration, a supportive principal and dedicated parents/volunteers to help. With purpose, our government encourages and protects the rights of American teachers to do what they do best--- teach.

In our daily routine as American's, we don't always give thought to other situations that are occurring in the world. We believe if we don't have everything set up just the way we feel we deserve; that our freedoms are being threatened, and we then place blame on our government. Our school systems and our government are not perfect, but did you ever stop to think how wonderful it must be to open and smell a new box of brightly colored sticks of wax for the first time? Some of Iraq's school children are receiving boxes of crayons, paper, glue sticks, folders and brave teachers who desire to educate the people of the new Iraq---for the very first time!

Their former leader, Saddam Hussein, had seen to it that no one received an education that was well rounded. The people of Iraq, under the former regime, had been educated--- educated in hate, as have many of the countries under tyrannical rule. Education for children was teaching: How to Strap On a Suicide Bomb (101). The next session taught was how to walk into the town square and kill the most people. This course came under the heading of: How to Receive Free Money for Your Family (102). Education of children was teaching them the way to properly behead a captive while proclaiming the name "Allah" as they ruthlessly slice their way through blood and screams of their victim. For centuries children who have lived under the horror of a dictator have been taught hatred.

If anyone wants to rule a country with a fist of fury all a person or group has to do is to begin filling our children's daily educational needs with social ideologies. Teach them about factions, injustices, inequality, and the evils of morality. Make sure to plant the seeds of jealousy because someone excelled. Make sure instead to have them all learn within the same framework. Don't encourage those who desire to push ahead, squash those who excel and incite the average child to feel envy. When teaching leaves behind its raison de tre (reason for being) and begins its dissent into social based education, we in America embark on our downfall of creating an environment that is heading towards a country run by tyranny.

In Iraq, those who are still operating under the old educational system of hate, fear, and destruction assassinated the head of the Teachers Institute. These terrorist murderers don't want anyone working under the freedom to learn. They have been indoctrinated to believe that the knowledge gained by learning about the world around them is evil.

Prior to the take over of the country by former dictator, Saddam Hussein, Iraq was traditionally the intellectual center of the Arab world. The society of Iraq introduced the concept of zero into mathematics. At one time Iraqis were described as having an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, and were known for having the highest rate of Ph.D. holders in the world. Great strides were made in the technical and medical fields to fight against disease and women's rights were being established as nowhere else in the Arab world. This all crumbled when Hussein seized power in the late 1970's (Karl Zinsmeister author of: Boots on the Ground). Tyrants like Adolf Hitler, Yasser Arafat, Ferdinand Marcos, Fidel Castro, Benito Mussolini, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein have always used the evil dart of hatred to bring their own people under their diabolical control. Divide the people, stir up strife, innate fear, pretend you're offering a solution and you have the makings of a dictatorship run by horror. Surprisingly enough this can all be done while sitting in today's comfortable, well-equipped classrooms if we are not careful.

Today, before the divisiveness of being fed intravenously by groups who push socialistic and communistic doctrines into the fabric of freedom from tyranny, fear, and hatred, let us give pause as we send our children back to school to learn math, reading, writing, and history. As parents, make sure you know your child's curriculum. Volunteer to sit on a board at school, work in your child's classroom. Be aware of what your children's minds are being fed and if need be do something to change it for the better.

As teachers let us give pause when we open our classrooms to eagerly awaiting children and young adults and let the enormous sense of gratitude come to mind that we don't have a faction who is trying to assassinate us for educating. As teachers let's examine the textbooks we're given to make sure they are correct. Let's utilize the resources we've been blessed with and develop them properly--- enriching our pupils minds into great ideas and thoughts.

As administrators let us not get bogged down into the mental cage of, "We're running a corporation here" and remember the element of our educational system is our children, not the dollar amount. We know it takes money to run schools, but maybe we've been adding one too many 'extra-curricular' activities from the divisive agenda pushers to our schools line up of teaching the "3R's."

As we move forward together as a nation who believes in "the pushing up of people, not the pulling down of the masses" may all be reminded of the symbolism in opening that fresh box of crayons. America's independence as a nation under God needs to remember we're never more than a generation away from loosing all we hold so dear. If we continue to be divisive, stir up strife, envy, wrath, and hatred America will no longer be the land of the free.

Americas Media Has Blood on Their Hands

Kerry L. Marsala- www.therant.us; www.opeds.com

As Daniel Pearls head was severed from his body, our national media delivered the horrifying message and showed a wife expecting her beloved husband's child, grieving. We were as a nation moved with outrage towards the murderous villains, but we also felt the pain and grief of a woman who lost her husband. Daniel Pearl had given his life for his profession.

Along comes the feeding frenzy of the elitist media sharks encircling around Abu Ghraib. Swimming viciously around the photos, our media paraded the display of overtures to the global public. Nodding, prodding, sharp razor edged teeth sought to destroy in a pool of blood the military of the United States and Britain. With their bloodthirsty eagerness to destroy and render our militaries asunder, by repeatedly showing what possibly a dozen soldiers out 140,000 American service people did. The blood stained ground screams out for justice to be served against the shark-infested cesspools of those who relentlessly stood with the murderers, all in the name of good reporting.

Berg, so it was shouted through the terrorists, was murdered in revenge for Abu Ghraib. In a recent popular newsmagazine the photos of abuse were displayed on a four-page layout, within the content of the article you could find a possible 1/8" size blip about Berg. Is the blood spilled from the severed head of Berg on your hands as well media?

Johnson, has been murdered now. They screamed in rage that it is he that must be martyred for the cause of Abu Ghraib. How did these terrorists become so enraged over a small insignificant bunch of photos? How indeed, mainstream media, and you know who you are. Justice needs to be served, these murderous terrorists need to be annihilated. But tell me those of you who pounded, hounded, and feed the world the disgraceful depiction of what you're calling American Journalism, when will your justice for you deeds be served?

This is an outrage! Our media that feeds the enemy has become nothing more than a political player for their own opinions and agendas. It is time that our media, who are seemingly acting as if they are in line with nothing more than terrorists, are called onto the carpet and stand condemned for contributing to war crimes, murders and the atrocities being committed by these terrorists. I hope those of you who appeared to contribute to these murders of innocent people will rethink your responsibilities to humanity. Think long and hard, whose side are you on anyway-the terrorist or those trying to do what is right?

Don't feed us the lie that you're just doing your job reporting, you revel in stirring the pot of evil, you feed the sharks of frenzy, you deliver our Daniel's into the mouths of the lions den. Along with the terrorists, and those who hate America, you too are partly accountable for Berg and Johnson.

Grab Your Keyboards and Pajama's

K L Marsala

When you sign up today with the P J Club (pajama club) you'll get full rights to espouse your ideals, opinions and investigations via the World Wide Web. The P J Club is open to all that love the free flow of information and value what our founding fathers valued and that is- freedom of speech.

The P J Club isn't pretentious. We don't require silk pajamas, cotton ones are just fine. Your Pj's don’t have to have your initials embroidered upon them, unless of course you can't remember your name, then by all means. We don't require a Harvard Law Degree or a journalistic pedigree. You don’t have to have a full head of hair, suit, or a tie squeezing ever so slightly at your throat to give your eyes a strained studious bugged look. You know what, you don’t even have to wear pajamas to belong. That’s right- if you desire to sit butt naked and type your dissertation of exposes on your home computer that is okay with us- we just ask that you leave your video camera in the off position.

It would seem bloggers, ezine journalist, and editorialist via the net are causing a wave of elitist fit throwers to spin their large craniums of, how dare anyone else have an opinion who hasn’t attended the school of stuck up journalism, into a bit of a quagmire. The pajama writers are becoming known to be a troublesome bunch. Is it possible that they are all from a "far-right wing" group? These pajama wearing people who like to "think" of themselves as journalist are probably nothing more than white Anglo-Saxon protestant's who have several loaded shot guns in their homes and in their Chevy 4x4's. They all are probably card-carrying members of the NRA too. They certainly didn't receive an education beyond the sixth grade and are so bassackwards in anything cultural, social or political that they are the next big danger to this country and her freedoms since the end of the Cold War. Why I bet these pj wearers probably even type their investigations and editorials on a computer from the early 1980's and it still has the Atari version of centipede downloaded on it.

Now personally as a card-carrying member of the P J Club, and most others like me, subscribe to several newspapers worldwide. I have become a political, social and cultural junky. Most of the time the news leans so far to one side and is so convoluted with worthless fodder that this is what it becomes in my household I have several birds hence I need cage bottom covers. Though I do believe Jefferson prophetically saw the use of the newspapers and their biases long before the revolution of the P J Club came into existence. Thomas Jefferson stated, "Newspapers...serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke." Can anything be said more succinctly?

The pomposity of news anchors on TV (Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, Katie Couric, and for a brief moment of hallucinating grandeur Bill O'Reilly) has really begun to crumble for what these demagogue's think of themselves as they love to look down upon the little people. How dare we as the common people rise up and let our voices be heard! Funny thing is when this elitist group became so wrapped in themselves they forgot what Laura Ingraham termed, "They forgot who brought them to the dance." Truer words have not been spoken quite so symphonically. When you forget who brought you to where you are now and you decide you've outgrown your "dance partner" more often than not your date with destiny will leave you alone, all by yourself, because your got to big for your journalistic britches. Ask these pompous journalists how it feels to be all by yourself in your own little world of "perfect me." These elitist still have their club, most are connected with the Hollywood elite's, but what happens when a group of snobs gets together? Think back to your high school days. Remember the upper class snobs? They'd all be buddy, buddy when you were in their world, but the moment you stepped out and went to go grab a coke you became the conversation of gossip. Back stabbers is what spins the world of elitist snobs and their world is blood letting itself quicker than imagined.

Those who belong to the P J Club don’t pretend to have all the answers. We can't and we never will. So who is it that makes up the P J Club? Well, many of us have master's degrees in a wide range of subjects. Most of us hold down regular jobs and drive a compact car. Many of us have families and are happily married. Some of us don't even own a gun. There are those of us who are Christian, agnostic, atheists, Muslim, Buddhist and a gamut of other followings too numerous to name. We are an open minded group of people though who love the exchange of ideas, the free flow of opinions and the ability to cut through the murky waters of media biases that plague the information highways. There will be times those of us in the P J Club will be wrong, but when we are wrong it will not crush us and cause us to run, hide and lie our way out. When a member of the P J Club places themselves above the common man and becomes a legend in their own mind- then they have withdrawn their own membership and have created their own little world of elitist snobbery.

Yes, perhaps the elite's of the journalistic world should be worried that their little world of -our club only- is disintegrating around them quickly. The P J Club is here to stay, our cause is larger than we are and you cannot muzzle a human from speaking and writing what they believe to be true. The union of elitist journalism is dead, the P J Club is here to break the bonds of tyranny the elitist journalist have tried to ink blot this world into believing. Our pens, typewriters, and computer keyboards have become the tools needed to expose the biased skewed print of the media.

Sign on today, the P J Club is open to all that love free speech and the freedom to exchange ideas, investigate, and espouse truths.

Did CBS and Rather Get Typeface Font all Over Their Disingenuous Faces?

K Marsala

Why what took place over thirty years ago has become the battleground for John Kerry and his campaign camp seems rather null and void to me. But Kerry has insisted he must bloviate at any given moment that he served (four months) in Vietnam. One would think if you ask a former president, Bill Clinton who won two terms, for advice and the advice given was to stop stumping on "I served in Vietnam" you would quit. Not John F. Kerry though, he just continues to ooze from his purple hearts. Hence, since this is the platform Kerry has decided to run his platoon or "Swift boat" by, we now have what appears to be forged documents surfacing against our current president, bubbling up from the depths of liberal murky waters called- lies, lies, and more lies. Supposedly these credible documents bring forth questions over President Bush's service to his country, some thirty years ago. These documents are to be held quite suspiciously particularly when the typeface used didn't exist back then. CBS, Rather and Kerry campaigner's, it would seem collectively all of you are adrift, possibly even lost, on a Swift boat somewhere in Cambodia perhaps? It would appear John Kerry that your very inept captain is Dan Rather and CBS- quick Kerry jump ship!

CBS and Mr. Rather need a good butt whippin for trying to break a lead story without establishing clearly the authenticity of the allegations made. Recently I was talking with Jack Yan, a resident of New Zealand, (publisher of Lucire Magazine, and a co-author of a book called Beyond Branding) about these questionable documents over our president's military service- thirty years ago. Mr. Yan is known to be a leading font developer in the Southern Hemisphere and his earlier typeface designs are sold here in the United States. Mr. Yan shared with me his knowledge over the integrity of the typeface design profession with no political bias or opinion for either candidate.

Dan Rather, of CBS, claims in his defense of the documents that the Times Roman typeface has been around since 1931. That is true, but the specific cut of the typeface used in the letters is post 1985. According to Mr. Yan, "Every time a font is recut for a different machine, experts are able to tell. Each laser printer, each digital file, has subtle differences." But, Dan Rather being the professional journalist he is certainly must know more about typeface than all the leading font developers and computer script geeks in the world do.

Mr. Yan went on to state, "Specifically, the typeface in the letters appears to be Times Roman, as licensed by Linotype of Germany, after 1985. It is not Times New Roman as Mr. Rather claims (as 'New Times Roman' [sic]), which is different again-- that is very evident from the PDFs. (Hence in a lawsuit I worked on in 2001, the typeface was designed in 1954 but could only possibly have come off a Hewlett Packard LaserJet III post 1993). Despite reproduction, the proportions and sizes of the letters relative to each other remain the same and are identifiable to any true typographic expert." Now, I bet you won't hear this full explanation on CBS's 60 Minutes I, II, or any other number they want to throw out.

Can CBS find a typewriter hiding somewhere in a barn outside New York City that might be able to produce this exact typeface that Mr. Rather claims was bestowed upon these typewritten documents? Quite possibly they could, but the only typewriter that could of come close to resembling a Times typeface was an IBM Selectric and those letters don't have the Times cut Mr. Rather is defending. To further the point of the ease of telling forgery typed documents Mr. Yan stated, "Even to a layperson, the Selectric Golfball settings would seem looser (i.e. the type is not so close together)."

Still Mr. Rather claims that other documents from the White House have superscript. "Superscript letters," Mr. Yan shared, "on old typewriters were either (a) in the same size but raised or (b) were separate, selected letters in a cut that made them visually the same weight. The 60 Minutes documents have superscript letters that could only have been proportionally and mathematically reduced on a computer."

Finally according to Mr. Yan the defenders of these documents make "very fundamental errors, they can be argued against by any first-year design student studying typography. They also seem to be skewing the issue away from the typeface, which the one matter that effortlessly categorizes CBS documents as counterfeit."

Didn't the Kerry camp demand of President Bush to unequivocally denounce the 527 Swift boat ads? Why is it when the Swift boat Vets book was released multiple news organizations and ranting bobbled headed media puppets cried, "that's not fair" and demanded the Bush administration to "denounce" the ads? Wasn't there even a call for investigating the ties between the Bush campaign and the Swift boat Vets? Don't the Swift boat Vets have free speech rights and the right to divulge what they deem the truth? Where is the media's cry for justice and full investigation into these forged documents? Where indeed is a call for journalistic honesty Dan Rather and CBS? Answer the American people CBS, Dan Rather, and the other Democrats sailing on the sea of lies. The double standards being played out by so many here is appalling. What happened to the news story over Sandy Berger being caught with files conveniently stuffed down his pants and tucked in his socks? The same thing that will happen with these forged documents- it will all be conveniently drowned and never fully exposed for what it is- lies. You know something? That all really stinks- badly. The media and their hyenas, so innocent and saintly, hushing up when we need to tell the truth.

Dan Rather and CBS these typos are on your face. You can't wipe away the facts or the ink. The imprint of truth has already become permanent. It's time to read the transcripts of the liberal media clearly, and expose their biases of, "anyone but Bush." The American people are tired of hearing what happened back then. We want to know what the candidates running are going to do today and tomorrow and we can't find out if forged documents are going to be the toy boat the liberals want to play with.