The 9/11 Goat Story

[655321]

"Doctor Oliver says, it was in England a common belief that the Freemasons were accustomed in their Lodges "to raise the Devil." So the riding of the goat, ...

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The parable of the sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25:31-46)
He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. .... Jesus is saying here in Matthew 25 that on judgment day, he will look for evidence that ...

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Bible.org: The Sheep and the Goats
The retribution for the goats (41-45). Their identity: “accursed ones”. Their punishment: “depart from me ... into eternal fire prepared for the devil and ...

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The slavery of Freemasonry pt. 2 « Sun & Shield
... the sheep were separated from the goats on Judgment Day and the goats .... Freemasonry is about being the slave of Lucifer, otherwise known as Satan. ...

[americana]

The Pet Goat is an example of an atrocious pedagogical system being used in the U.S. Read this article from The New Yorker. It is quite enlightening. "Scripting every word of every lesson." "We don't give a damn what the teacher thinks, what the teacher feels." "Controlling" "Robotic" "children ... chant words in unison while a teacher snaps her fingers to keep time." READ ON!

The Pet Goat Approach
by Daniel Radosh
July 26, 2004

Although you do not know his name, Siegfried (Zig) Engelmann is one of the most talked-about authors in the country right now. His most prominent work, which you have not read, is a story for second graders. It begins, “A girl got a pet goat.”

Engelmann’s story is the one that George W. Bush was reading in a Florida classroom on the morning of September 11, 2001, at the moment he learned of the terrorist attacks. A videotape of the President holding the book open while staring blankly into space for seven minutes provides the most memorable scene in Michael Moore’s movie “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Engelmann has not seen the film, but when he heard about his secondhand cameo he reread his story. “I don’t remember writing it,” he said the other day from his office at the University of Oregon, in Eugene. That may be because it is one of more than a thousand he has written in the past thirty years.

Curious viewers of Moore’s film who have tried to track down the book “My Pet Goat” have been unsuccessful, for two reasons: Moore, in his voice-over, got the title wrong—it is “The Pet Goat”—and it is not a book but an exercise in a workbook called “Reading Mastery 2.” This much was sussed out last month by a resourceful blogger named Peter Smith after he studied the raw footage from the Emma E. Booker Elementary School. Noticing that the teacher repeatedly cued the class with the same precise language (“Get ready to read these words the fast way”), Smith guessed that some particular pedagogical theory was at work. That’s what led him to Direct Instruction, a controversial teaching model that Engelmann developed in the nineteen-sixties.

“The whole idea is to do an efficient job with every single kid,” Engelmann, who is seventy-two and is a professor of education, said. His basic principle is that if a child isn’t learning it is always because the teacher is doing something to confuse him. Direct Instruction aims to eliminate that problem by introducing bite-size concepts that build directly on ones that have already been mastered, and by scripting every word of every lesson, including which words of encouragement teachers may and may not use. As the D.I. Web site puts it, “The popular valuing of teacher creativity and autonomy as high priorities must give way to a willingness to follow certain carefully prescribed instructional practices.”

“We don’t give a damn what the teacher thinks, what the teacher feels,” Engelmann said. “On the teachers’ own time they can hate it. We don’t care, as long as they do it.” Engelmann claims that Direct Instruction is one of the few teaching methods that have been consistently shown to improve student achievement, especially among disadvantaged children. “Traditionalists die over this,” he said. “But in terms of data we whump the daylights out of them.”

For years, Direct Instruction’s impressive performance in large-scale studies did little to win over his critics, who call his techniques “controlling” and “robotic.” D.I.’s phonics-based reading curriculum—Engelmann has also applied his principles to math, science, social studies, and handwriting—sometimes requires children to chant words in unison while a teacher snaps her fingers to keep time.


from the issuecartoon banke-mail thisD.I.’s fortunes began to change in 2001, when Bush introduced his No Child Left Behind legislation, which mandated that only “scientifically based” educational programs be eligible for federal funding. And here’s where Michael Moore missed an opportunity. No Child Left Behind has meant big profits for the publisher of the D.I. curricula, McGraw-Hill. So it’s easy to imagine one of Moore’s hallmark montages, spinning circumstantial evidence into a conspirational web: a sepia-toned photograph from the thirties of, say, Prescott Bush and James McGraw, Jr., palling around on Florida’s Jupiter Island; a film clip from the eighties of Harold McGraw, Jr., joining the advisory panel of Barbara Bush’s literacy foundation; Harold McGraw III posing with President George W. Bush as part of his transition team; and, to tie it all together, former McGraw-Hill executive vice-president John Negroponte being sworn in as the new Ambassador to Iraq.

One person who wouldn’t be included in such a conspiracy is Zig Engelmann. Engelmann calls himself a “political rebel,” but his inclinations are hard left. He hasn’t decided if he will vote for John Kerry, Ralph Nader, some alternative progressive party, or nobody at all. He is not fond of Bush. “For whatever it’s worth, I think Iraq is a total circle jerk,” he said. “I couldn’t think of how to do it worse.”

[americana]

Say 655321, thanks for your post! It got me thinking - - - SCAPEGOAT!!!

For anyone who's interested . . .
Here's the text of the story Bush was reading the schoolchildren on that fatal day.

Please note: there is no capitalization in the book!

the pet goat

a girl got a pet goat. she liked to go running with her pet goat. she played with her goat in her house. she played with the goat in her yard.

but the goat did some things that made the girl's dad mad. the goat ate things. he ate cans and he ate canes. he ate pans and he ate panes. he even ate capes and caps.

one day her dad said, "that goat must go. he eats too many things."

the girl said, "dad, if you let the goat stay with us, i will see that he stops eating all those things."

her dad said, "we will try it."

so the goat stayed and the girl made him stop eating cans and canes and caps and capes.

but one day a car robber came to the girl's house. he saw a big red car near the house and said, "i will steal that car."

he ran to the car and started to open the door.

the girl and the goat were playing in the back yard. they did not see the car robber.

more to come




the goat stops the robber

a girl had a pet goat. her dad had a red car.

a car robber was going to steal her dad's car. the girl and her goat were playing in the back yard.

just then the goat stopped playing. he saw the robber. he bent his head down and started to run for the robber. the robber was bending over the seat of the car. the goat hit him with his sharp horns. the car robber went flying.

the girl's dad ran out of the house. he grabbed the robber. "you were trying to steal my car," he yelled.

the girl said, "but my goat stopped him."

"yes," her dad said. "that goat saved my car."

the car robber said, "something hit me when i was trying to steal that car."

the girl said, "my goat hit you."

the girl hugged the goat. her dad said, "that goat can stay with us. and he can eat all the cans and canes and caps and capes he wants."

the girl smiled. her goat smiled. her dad smiled. but the car robber did not smile. he said, "i am sore."




THAT HAS TO BE THE WORST DIALOGUE IN THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS.

the end

[cruise4]

Atrocious. The kids have no hope do they?

[655321]

This is a good video on the masonic goat:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tgIVdb4AIIQ

[blueone]

FFS the kids have got no hope reading shit like that. Embarrassing!! :(

[redskywalker]

Explains the :confused:"how"? of gw bush as pres once and for all. I could almost here him mumble through it!
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