1 Urp.

2 *urp*

3 I hope your hands are clean.

4 Hey, you gals out there! Nir Rosen is looking for love!

5 No ONT? WTF? Is it hobo season?

6 Hump day, M&Ms. You've survived this far. So make some coffee and slog to the job, because people are depending on you!

7 Mom, try 3 threads down.

8 Mom, Ace had some late-night ideas so it pushed the ONT down a couple notches. Scroll down and there it is.

9 Mom's internal clock seems to be off just a wee bit..

10 Besides, hobos are always in season.

11 true dat.. hobo shanks in the slow cooker for din-din tonight! Mmmmm

12 Back to normal folks

Headline at Fox

Senate Dems to Embrace Obama Spending Freeze Wednesday

Gee, why am I not surprised. And why does the article not even mention how stupidly phony the plan actually is? We jacked up spending totals by a factor of 3 for “temporary” stimulus and now instead of temporary he wants to freeze it where its at and call it deficit reduction???  Only in Washington could anybody say this with a straight face. And only with communist Dems in power would the press go right along with it like it was serious.

And they canÂ’t even offer up the “AP” excuse this time. This article was written by a Fox reporter (probably block copied straight from the Dem talking papers sent out).   Hey, but they say it will save 400 billion over 10 years!

13

This is teh funny

I know there are some people on here who can not stand this guy, but there are also a lot of people that like what he is doing. Apparently there are a lot in his home State as well.

And this will make a lot of the Party establish heads go all explody and stuff.

14

"I am standing here beside myself."

Reminds me of one of my favorite worst song lyrics: "I stand beside myself And still I'm next to nothing."

15

Yet another case of our wonderful "smart" diplomacy

Looks like some official was irked because he failed to get the proper squeeze.

16

This is the kind of shit that just pisses me off

Supposedly we need to deepen Charleston harbor to accommodate larger shipping vessels expected after the Panama Canal is widened, That requires dredging.  Now I donÂ’t know how familiar most of you folks are with the requirements for “dredging” but think of this way, suppose you wanted to build a gasoline refinery on the edge of Lake Tahoe.  That is about the equivalent.

In this article in the Dem PR rag the emphasis is on commie Clyburn’s accusation that DeMint has caused the loss of funding because he and Joe “you lie” Wilson did not sign on to the request with Grahamnasty and himself.

So what was the request for?

$400,000 for money for a REQUIRED Army Core of Engineers “study” of the dredging operation.  Not a single damn word at all for why this study is required and whether or not these ‘studies” ever do anything but cost money, produce delays, and make work for government tit suckers.

Hey Clyburn and Grahamnsasty! Sponsor a quick bill to exempt this dredging from the requirement for yet another "study". That will not cost a damn thing.

17

Latest news on Alvin Greene

It seems he will not be able to “stealth” his way into a SC House seat for his Manning district.

18 Prayers for Lara Logan and her fam....

19 I'll write dredging report for only $200,000. Here it is. The water will get murky. You have to dump the silt someplace. Don't bother the nice men while they're working.

20 On Fox just now discussing the stimulus funds and what was actually done with it a Republican from OH says that Christina "Fugly" Romer was called to testify and refused to come.

So you see the strategy of this adm on these investigations. Unless you issue a subpoena they will not come and unless you swear them in they will lie.

21 I'll write dredging report for only $200,000.

I'll write it for $50,000 and do it exactly like what ever politically connected contractor they get will write it.

I will locate via public records the last "study" that was done and copy it into a new document. Change the names and the dates on it and publish it.

22 Good morning folks.  Woke up this morning to ABC radio saying that "despite calling for bipartisanship" Obama was threatening to veto the GOP budget cuts.

Then they played a clip of his that made no sense,  and sounded like high school BS from a kid who hasn't done the reading so throws together some big words and sounds all scholarly-like.

It really concerned me,  because I think HE thinks he can pull this BS and people will believe him.  at least long enough to send the economy into the tank permanently.

23

Thanks you very much, wonderful news!

 

24

Yet more whining from the liberal press

Get used to this folks. Harden your hearts and your attitudes. This kind of whining from budget cuts is going to be the norm for at least two years. My local papers are full of it based on Haley budget cuts and the national papers will be full of it based on evil Republican cuts.

Do NOT fall for this. Do not allow it to influence your vote for any candidate.

25
http://tinyurl.com/4fxajw8


I did a spit take to this..

It's that absurd.. 

Link to Hillbuzz showing off MoveOn's latest commercial..

26 From the Examiner:

Code Pink coordinator offers Gitmo terrorists her houseÂ’s spare bedroom. In light of the vote late last night by the Berkeley City Council to consider taking in freed Gitmo terrorists, a Code Pink coordinator went on national television to demonstrate how radical and un-American she was by offering room and board to Islamic terrorists who didnÂ’t have any place to go. Code PinkÂ’s coordinator for the Golden StateÂ’s chapter of Code Pink, those militant women who are anti-war to the max, Holly Harwood, said that freed Gitmo terrorists were welcome in her home and that she already had a spare room waiting for whatever terrorist wanted it. Late last night, BerkeleyÂ’s City Council rejected the initiative to invite a few freed Gitmo terrorists to come live among the citizens of Berkeley.

Damn....hilarity would have ensued, I'm sure...or beheading....I'm good with either.

27 19 I'll write dredging report for only $200,000.

Here it is.

The water will get murky. You have to dump the silt someplace. Don't bother the nice men while they're working.

Posted by: eman:Victorious People's Front of Logprof at February 16, 2011 07:20 AM (gZVTR)

I'll produce a better study than that for $150,000

Here it is....leave the water alone, there could be delta smelt in there.

Thank You.

28

The latest in the why CA is so boned war

State law allows the employees to increase their retirement benefits by tacking up to five fictitious years — known as "air time" — onto their public service. Although they pay a fee for the privilege and officials say it is high enough to cover the eventual payouts, critics of air time note that the boost can cost taxpayers millions when the state pension system's investment income falls short, as it has in recent years.

Pay a few buck and buy and even greater golden retirement. What are the odds that this will get killed?

29 Damn....hilarity would have ensued, I'm sure...or beheading....I'm good with either.

now now, there are like 2 or 3 conservatives that live in Berkeley, and we wouldn't want them to come to any harm

30

It's not all bad news today:

 

WASHINGTON -- Fresh off his House censure last year, Rep. Charlie Rangel is
shooting for a 22nd term in Congress.

The 80-year-old Harlem Democrat filed a 2012 statement of candidacy this week
with the Federal Elections Commission -- more than a year before the filing
deadline.

The rule-breaking and censure have not yet taken a political toll on Rangel,
who at the height of the scandal last year won re-election with 80 percent of
the vote.

 

 

31 Late last night, BerkeleyÂ’s City Council rejected the initiative to invite a few freed Gitmo terrorists to come live among the citizens of Berkeley.

Posted by: Tami at February 16, 2011 07:31 AM (VuLos)

Surprise surprise.  With the libtards it's always NIMBY.  They love the terrorists just enough to let other people get blown up. 

If these code pinko broads want to serve as comfort women for the enemy, let's let them have a taste.  Lock them up with the guys in Gitmo for a couple nights, and see how that goes.

32

Remember that PA abortion doctor who killed a couple of women and several viable fetuses?

Well, as a result PA is planning to reform the standards and monitoring requirements for abortion clinics.

Which brings out the crazies:

Dear Friends, (please excuse the potty mouth - I'm too mad to be polite)

Legislation in both DC and Harrisburg is moving that will put women's lives at risk. Cuts to all family planning funding. No abortion care in health insurance reform even if you pay it yourself. (And in South Dakota, they are considering making killing abortion doctors "justifiable homicide.")

We must go Egyptian on this bastards and let them know we won't go back to those bad old days when women paid with their lives for their basic human rights.

Rally on Thursday, February 17 at 4;30 p.m. at the Old Allegheny County Morgue, Bring coat hangers, lye, Drano -- all the "medical care" we had to use in the old days.

We must make this issue so hot that these ass hats back down immediately.

We've done it before when we stopped the Senate from sweeping Anita Hill's experience with Clarence Thomas under the rug, and made them reconvene the hearings. And in the next election, we replaced many of the bad guys -- Republican and Dem -- with strong women.

The longer we let these guys go on, the stronger they will be. JOIN ME ON THURSDAY AT 4:30 PM AT THE OLD ALLEGHENY COUNTY MORGUE

Jeanne Clark

33

"Code PinkÂ’s coordinator for the Golden StateÂ’s chapter of Code Pink, those militant women who are anti-war to the max (unless a Democrat is in the WH)..."

FIFM

34 As the world revels in wonder and awe at the marvels of high tech communications to change the world...abbreviation stands for modernity. Only a yellow livered coward of a "career manager" would email pink slips to each man actively serving over 20 years in the military risking life doing FIVE warzone tours. That's the end result of PC in governance.

The Sun revealed 38 senior heroes including one on the Afghan front line were crassly sacked by EMAIL. The shocked men - all warrant officers - were informed "You will obviously feel concerned about your future but I have no other choice than to issue a Notice to Terminate." It informs them that by this time next year they will be out. The all-round email was sent by career manager Major Andy Simpson.  The men have a combined 836 years' service to Queen and country - and would have at least expected their commanding officers to gently break the news.

35 now now, there are like 2 or 3 conservatives that live in Berkeley, and we wouldn't want them to come to any harm

Posted by: chemjeff at February 16, 2011 07:41 AM (GaLxs)

Well, I was referring to Holly Harwood . 

I think you're waaay overestimating the number of conservatives that live there.

36

"Yet more whining from the liberal press

...

Do NOT fall for this. Do not allow it to influence your vote for any candidate."

Posted by: Vic at February 16, 2011 07:28 AM (M9Ie6)

They run this same type of story every few months.  Nothing new here. 

I'm still trying to figure out where this dream supposedly comes from.  We've gone from the land of opportunity where hard work really pays off to the land of handouts where no work really pays off.

Unfuckingreal.

37

Posted by: Ed Anger at February 16, 2011 07:43 AM (7+pP9)

There is one good thing about these loons - they have mailing lists.  Come that bright shining day when we finally say "enough is enough" those lists will prove invaluable to the work of taking out the trash.

38 #32

I just do not get this love for abortion.   It's not like back in the 50's when the only birth control was abstinence or a condom.  There are now pills,  foam, diaphragms, etc. not to mention knowledge of when fertile times of the month are.

So what is the deal with abortion?  I can only conclude that women do not want to be responsible and are using it as a method of birth control after the fact. 

Leaving aside my religious objections to this, I do not like subsidizing people who are lazy and irresponsible.

39 The magic 8 ball says Obama yet again finds a way to suck more cock today then he did yesterday.

40 And this will make a lot of the Party establish heads go all explody and stuff.

Really?

I think that a lot of you from other places in the country project an inordinate amount of wishcasting onto Arpaio and Jan Brewer.

As an Arizonan, living near the southern border I really could give a crap about "making Party heads go all 'splodey".

I used to go into San Carlos Mexico for weekend dive trips.

Last couple of years, I strap up for a 20 min. visit to Douglas.

Fun for you, I suppose, a couple of  3 thousand miles away...

Jan Brewer never would have signed off on S.B. 1030 had she known what an irrational and disproportionate response was waiting in the wings.

She was waffling on it, on the Thursday before!

Border Warrior, my blue ass!

Also, Joe Arpaio looks and comes off like some sort of local yokel in a crappy suit but with an inexplicable "attitude" just until a phalanx of super-fit young men hustle him off and he turns out to be the key-note speaker at a Mitt Romney fundraiser in Mesa...

(I dunno. I was bored and felt awkward.  It was my first political thing, evar!  I gravitated towards the only other person who also didn't seem to give as much of a shit as I didn't.)

41 What we should be seeing from the MFM on the Obama "budget".

Top Ten Reasons to Crap All Over the Obama Budget Failures

42 Senate Dems stay focused on important issues

...like the use of smokeless tobacco in MLB.

43 They run this same type of story every few months.  Nothing new here.

Right now I am seeing these stories daily from the Dem PR rags in Columbia, Charleston, and Florence.

44 Late last night, BerkeleyÂ’s City Council rejected the initiative to invite a few freed Gitmo terrorists to come live among the citizens of Berkeley.


They reconsidered to determine a more appropriate point for relocation, at a different state's expense than their own, voting to send GITMO prisoners to the officially Berkeley boycotted destination of AZ, in the spirit of civility, effectively ending the boycott. 

45 For all I know, I initially read this here or in the sidebar, but I think it was Instapundit.  This is chilling:  What Public Employee Union Members Really Think

46 I think that a lot of you from other places in the country project an inordinate amount of wishcasting onto Arpaio and Jan Brewer.

No Deety, I don't have a dog in that fight. I just noted that a lot of people who post here do not like Sheriff Joe and a lot of people nationwide do.

I also don't see what your ultimate point here is. Does this mean that you don't like Joe, you don't like Brewer, and you do or don't like border control?

In any case my point was that the story reflected that Sheriff Joe was wining the polls for the Senate seat in AZ. That has to mean something unless the polls are just BS which is not an unknown occurrence.

47 So what is the deal with abortion?  I can only conclude that women do not want to be responsible and are using it as a method of birth control after the fact. 

Posted by: Miss Marple at February 16, 2011 07:48 AM (Fo83G)

I agree in part, but I think there's more to it.  Most of them know it's wrong, just as surely as we do, and that's why they like it.  It's an opportunity to jam their thumb into the eye of decent society by committing a severe transgression against morality.  It's the perverse joy of defiance for its own sake.  These are the kind of people who need no more justification for what they do than "because I want to."  This business about safety, privacy, etc, is all a smoke screen.  The women involved in these radical movements also get the satisfaction of having monopoly control over the creation of human life - they are asserting ownership of the product of their womb.  They think they should enjoy the right to control access to it and to destroy it on a whim if they wish.

48

Yet more whining from the liberal press

 

Did you actually read the story? The Washington Times is no liberal rag.

49

just woke up to Don & Roma spanking Jan Schkowski (d-IL)over the Obamapocolypse Budget, it was epic, didn't know they had it them.

 

50 hey, let's have a rally! Bring logic, reason, morality, common sense, and responsibility. You know, like the stuff we used to have in the old days.

51

Kids Get Pro-Union Homework Assignment

Students at a Philadelphia-area elementary school get a homework assignment about how much their teachers are underpaid, to the chagrin of school officials.

The Pennsbury school district in Bucks County has been in the middle of a bitter contract battle with teachers since June 2010.

And the presence of a pro-union assignment handed out to the fifth graders isn't going over well.

Recently, fifth graders at the Penn Valley Elementary School received a whole-story comprehension exercise.

The reading exercise tells the story of a fictional eight-grade student in Michigan who is "upset over the way our teachers are being treated."

"We don't pay teachers enough for the very important job they are doing... Do school boards across honestly believe they will be able to lure one million of the best minds if they are offering meager salaries that are in decline?" says the reading assignment.

"What is the solution? It's simple: raise the salaries of teachers," the fictional student says.

One of the questions for the assignment asks students to identify the initials for the National Education Association, the teachers' union.

Other questions in the exercise included "teachers should be treated like professionals" and "low salary for educators is a problem."

52 Did you actually read the story? The Washington Times is no liberal rag.

Not all of it, and yes they are.

ALL big city newspapers are liberal rags. They try to fool you by making the story appear balanced but the headline and the fact that they aired the story at all as a "dream gone" is liberal bias.

53 I know there are some people on here who can not stand this guy,

Hm, the same who wouldn't lift a finger to support Constitutional Rights where those rights don't really matter, say in AZ.

54 Barack Hussein Obama, mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm

55 We need a name for these public schools that are left wing madrasas.

56 My congressman will introduce an amendment that defunds ObamaCare:

"None of the funds made available by this Act may be appropriated to any agency for the implementation, enforcement, or administration of section 1501 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the amendments made by such section, as amended."

The Rules Committee should have no issue with this.

57

Miss 80B, I want you to grab up a book for some light reading, right up your alley:

The Strange Death of Liberal England, by George Dangerfield. 

58 #51  Ed,  my mother and my grandparents were life-long teachers.  Back in the 70's,  when the state teacher's association changed from a professional organization to a union,  my grandfather warned that teachers would no longer be considered professionals,  and that it would cause a decline in standards and be the ruination of the schools.

My grandfather passed away several years ago,  but he was quite right.  

59 they are offering meager salaries that are in decline?" says the reading assignment. "What is the solution? It's simple: raise the salaries of teachers," the fictional student says.

Raise taxes to fund higher teacher salaries, because you students are willing to forfeit your parents' available income that would have purchased your new computer, games and skooter. Now sing the refrain, "We love our teachers, oh yes we do."

60 From Zerohedge:

Jack Daniels explains the budget deficit:

http://tinyurl.com/4hujnqy

61 #55  The name for these schools is "reeducation camps."

62

LOL, for the Morons, zombie Star Trek

63 Via Weasel Zippers: Republican Congressman Offers Budget Amendment to Eliminate Funding for ObamaÂ’s TeleprompterÂ…

64

Yesterday, I had to bring my passport to work and fill out some proof of citizenship form because my hospital is being audited by the federal government.  I find it hugely ironic that we're being audited while the same federal government is suing Arizona for passing a law that enforces federal immigration law.  A couple of the hospital employed doctors were in line behind me.  They were pissed.  The form asked for my social security number (which I didn't want to provide).  The woman from H.R. said I could write the word "declined" instead, but that as of April 1, everyone will have to provide their social security number on that form (as per the federal government). 

 

65

Ah, the morning ritual.

Coffee, headlines, and a thorough nose-licking.

 

Newsbusters:

Jaws dropped across the nation’s capital at the audacious annihilation of the truth on the front page of the February 15 Washington Post. The top headline read “Obama budget makes deep cuts, cautious trades.” It’s another day at the Post, where every day is an April Fool’s joke.

Reporter Lori Montgomery didn’t exactly say “deep cuts” in her first sentence. She explained that Obama’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2012 made “surgical cuts and cautious trade-offs.” But two paragraphs later, the reporter admitted “the president’s offer to freeze funding for domestic programs would produce minimal savings in the short term.”

66 Well don't feel too bad GITMO prisoners.  I have a feeling Berkeley would reject me too.  Being a straight, white, christian male from the hinterlands known as the South here in the good 'ol USA.  But, then Berkeley would be hell on earth for me anyway.

67 I also don't see what your ultimate point here is. Does this mean that you don't like Joe, you don't like Brewer, and you do or don't like border control?

I like border control.

I don't like Jan Brewer.

I don't know what exactly to make of Sheriff Joe Arpaio but I'm perfectly happy to keep leaving that judgment up to the citizens of Maricopa County.

(Clearly we have our own issues to deal with, given Clarence Dupnik, here in Pima!)

No.  Arpaio would not be one of my first picks to replace Jon Kyl as Senator.

I don't think that I would even vote for him to be Sheriff of Pima County, in all honesty.

If we could switch out Dupnik  for a Paul Babeu however...

That would be sooo AWESOME!

*drools*

 

68

Here's one for LauraW on why people in CT are so boned

“Connecticut’s second-highest court ruled Monday that a man facing charges of arson of his East Lyme beach house can sue the home’s insurer for emotional distress because of the way the insurer investigated the fire.”

69 Yesterday, I had to bring my passport to work and fill out some proof of citizenship form because my hospital is being audited by the federal government.

What will they do for people like me who do not have a passport?

70 57 Miss 80B, I want you to grab up a book for some light reading, right up your alley: The Strange Death of Liberal England, by George Dangerfield. 

That indeed sounds interesting. My question would be, however, if he begins by referencing the period prior to the post-Edwardian Era, since home rule and some other issues mentioned had already been slowly killing the Empire before that period of time.

71 Yet more whining from the liberal press

Popycock.  People can still own homes, they just can't own 3X more home than they can afford anymore.  If you're working a $15/hr job, maybe that 3500 square foot crib is out of your range and something in the 1200-1800 square foot range might be more suitable.

72 So... when will Happy Meals include condoms instead of toys?

73 This is from yesterday:

OBAMA: “.. bring annual domestic spending to its lowest sh** — lowest share to the economy since Dwight Eisenhower.”

Video

74
The Laura Logan "sexual assault" as suggested by CBS and other liberal news propagandist may not be what happened?  The term sexual assault suggests penile/vaginal contact, but to date there is no evidence this occurred.  She may have been roughed up and groped, and some  news outlets used the term rape, but with the loosey-goosey liberal interpretation of practically every incident so as to shape public opinion, I call BS until the Boston Blackie has completed his investigation. 

75 Alan Greene is a dead lock to win a seat in the SC House. All he has to do is pick a district that overlaps in large part, or in whole, Jim Clyburn's U.S. House district.

Isn't court-approved redistricting under the VRA a wonderful thing?

76 Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 16, 2011 08:26 AM (kprR6)

That is my take. The article would have been much more "balanced" if they had simply reported the truth or perhaps redid the headline to say this:

"Is the Government Waking Up to The Fact That it Is Not A Good Idea To Force Banks To Issue Loans To People Who Can Not Afford Them"?

And then reported the answer as no, because CRA is still in effect and STILL being enforced even though everyone knows it is a massive failure and at the root of the the collapse.

77 Unrest continues:

Clash breaks out as Libya braced for 'Day of Anger'

Fourteen people were injured in clashes in the city of Benghazi, a Libyan newspaper said on Wednesday, as the country braced for a "Day of Anger" following the revolts in neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia.

78

Posted by: Ed Anger at February 16, 2011 08:05 AM (7+pP9)

Maybe if teachers actually taught and/or actually knew the subjects they were trying to teach instead of creating 4 days weekends out of thin air under the guise of "teacher planning days" (or some other stupid shit), or showing fucking Disney movies a few times a year during class, or doing kindergarten level arts and crafts all the fucking time whil kids don't even know basic fucking math, or having pajama parties on Fridays...all in the 4th-5th grade level, then maybe, MAYBE I'd think people who bitched about working 9 months a year MIGHT be worth a raise.  (And my youngest's school is considered a top 10 Florida elementary.)

I can't believe I used to be on the "we don't pay our teachers enough" bandwagon.

79 When can we expect The Bangles' rendition of Drive Like an Egyptian to hit the airwaves?

80 Alan Greene is a dead lock to win a seat in the SC House. All he has to do is pick a district that overlaps in large part, or in whole, Jim Clyburn's U.S. House district.

Isn't court-approved redistricting under the VRA a wonderful thing?

Posted by: ya2daup at February 16, 2011 08:31 AM (yRrAd)

I don't know what article said that but it is obviously out of date. Look at the article I linked to above. He has already been completely shut out. He is history.

As for the VRA and minority majority districts, the VRA didn't call for that. If it had it would have never passed the House or Senate. These minority gerrymandered districts came from liberal court rulings that scream to be reversed as blatantly unconstitutional.

81 I'd bet on Col Crazy squashing them like bugs.  He doesn't have much in the way of  a rep to maintain.

82

That reminds me: The Washington Times publishes a weekly edition every Thursday that provides excellent, concise summaries of all of that week's newsworthy events, along with editorials by several prominent conservatives.

What's kind of neat is that, upon request along with your annual subscription to that outstanding weekly publication, which is very reasonably priced, incidentally, you can receive a book called Capital Contacts which provides a huge wealth of extremely useful information about all of the members of the Senate, all of the members of the House, all of the states' governors, members of the president's administration, etc., etc., including biographies of those people, their direct phone numbers, members of their staffs, and much, much more, which makes it an excellent reference for news junkies, and what's great, too, is that whenever new people are elected or appointed, The Washington Times will, upon request, send you all appropriate updates as inserts.  That once-a-week publication is better than anything that you will find anywhere on the internet or on any TV news program.

83 The WSJ: Chicago Population Sinks to 1920 Level

84 83 The WSJ: Chicago Population Sinks to 1920 Level   Taxes, regulations, crime and gun control.  What could go wrong?

85

From JWF, re former Rep. Christopher Lee:

After a lecture on "intelligent use of information technology" which clearly didn't sink in -- and a few drinks at a pub near the hotel with Rep. Duncan Hunter, Rep. Bill Shuster and Rep. Tom Rooney, Lee headed back to his room, a spy said, just in time to send a few flirty messages to Callahan

86

Holy typos in my litle rant above.  I guess I just get really pissed having to be a teacher to my kids for the shit they should be learning in school.  Instead, school just seems to be fucking taxpayer funded daycare.  Not that I mind teaching my kids (at least I know it will be done properly), but fuck, I did fifth grade a long time ago. 

I want to test their knowledge and expand upon it, not have to do the teacher's job.  Thankfully though, there's not a lot of social science bullshit they're trying to peddle.  So at least I don't have to teach and de-program.

87 Things may be calming down in Egypt, but...

Egyptian youth group: Halt gas shipments to Israel

April 6 youth movement says if military doesn't meet our demands, "we'll be on the street again"; says army still loyal to Mubarak.

88 Posted by: Truman North at February 16, 2011 07:55 AM (8ay4x)

Coming from the world of "at will employment" with basically "no protection"  but having to do your job and making yourself a critical part of the operation, that was bone chilling.

Been hearing a lot of government employee stories lately.  They don't have to be nice, they can be bitches, they have a job for life, they are "protected by the union" and they seem to revel, no matter what part of the government they work for, in creating clusterfucks.  On average, after a discussion the other night, we realized, if you are dealing with a state or federal agency, you have to make a lot of pre emptive phone calls only to go to the agency to find out that what you were told on the phone "isn't true" and that you need "further support, documentation, forms filled out, etc" ultimately ending in the "at least three phone calls and then three personal visits" in order to accomplish your task.  We agreed that these people would not last five mnutes in the private sector which is why they used to make less money, they can't compete.  Now that they make more money than the rest of us, their clusterfuck mentality seems to have gotten worse, not better.  The government needs a whole sale cleaning out and new appointments across the board, a lowering of salaries and the outlawing of public employee unions.

the article said both the republicans and the dems seem to view the public employee unions in the same way.  Of course, all their staffs belong to these unions.  Can you imagine if they came out against these unions, their staff would make their lives miserable.  Some congressman or senator has to pull a raegan and fire their entire staff and hire outside folks from the private sector who do not and will not belong to any union. 

89

"I am standing here beside myself."

Sober up, man.  It's called a mirror.

90 82

That reminds me: The Washington Times publishes a weekly edition every Thursday that provides excellent, concise summaries of all of that week's newsworthy events, along with editorials by several prominent conservatives.

 

A few years back they were sending that to me in the mail for free I guess to induce me into subscribing. I'm sure they get your name from conservative mailing lists. I liked it a lot but didn't subscribe because I was on the road most of the time and tried to steer away from getting my mail box filled with stuff while I was gone. And it would be old news by the time I read it.

91 Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at February 16, 2011 08:44 AM (9hSKh)

that's interesting because I heard someone interviewed about this on the radio while I was driving and the person basically said that the youth met with the military and have no completely backed down.  They likened this to what happened in Iran in the 70's.  They were upset because the same people are in charge that brought them mbarack and that the youth were being fooled.  Guess not.

92 20  So you see the strategy of this adm on these investigations. Unless you issue a subpoena they will not come and unless even if you swear them in they will lie.   FIFM

93 Andy Stern, SEIU on CNBC now, had to turn him off he's there cheerleading for the health care bill.

94 Miss Marple at February 16, 2011 08:10 AM

My impeccable grandmother was a public educator when teachers were held to the strictest ethical and moral standard, and could be summarily dismissed for any perceived infraction.

While I was in grade school, my father's sister would report how horrible working conditions teaching in Southern California had become since her early years teaching, shaking her head at the state of affairs happening, frustrated with the system's enforcement of decline.

While I was in high school, the old guard of teachers were furious with the new college graduates in their first year teaching, rallying for a teachers' strike on our high school campus. I'll never forget our taskmaster choir director's outrage with the corruption of the profession when unions took hold of educational organizations.

I've spent a life teaching. And while student populations generally have become more and more stupid (we all begin from a state of ignorance--but stupidity reflects the inability and lack of desire to learn, the refusal to follow by example), I found the biggest stumbling block to successful learning was parents.

95 Andy Stern, SEIU on CNBC now, had to turn him off he's there cheerleading for the health care bill.

I guess they got their waivers.

96

I'm just now reading something about the head of the EPA talking about children getting autism from "contaminated water".

It's from Feb. 3, so you may have already seen it.

97

Love, the anti-Christi ad on the header, also love the anti-Christ sentiment coming out of the new and improved Egypt.

//

  

98 I found the biggest stumbling block to successful learning was parents.

Posted by: by any other name at February 16, 2011 08:55 AM (H+LJc)

Isn't the 800 lb. gorilla in the room "discipline"? Starting in the home and extending into the schools?

99 Do we need Stuxnet 2?

'Iranian nuclear facility recovered quickly from Stuxnet'

IAEA report due for release expected to show steady or even slightly elevated production rates at the Natanz enrichment plant over past year.

100 73 This is from yesterday:

OBAMA: “.. bring annual domestic spending to its lowest sh** — lowest share to the economy since Dwight Eisenhower.”

I like the one from a few days ago where he was addressing the college sheep and called for a tranfo...transition in Egypt.

101 ". . . even if you swear them in they will lie." This is a much bigger problem than the vast majority of people in this country will admit. It started with the general public's acceptance of Clinton's perjury. It solidified with Libby's conviction. The rule is that any non-lefty even only charged with lying is guilty. No lefty is ever guilty of lying no matter how much he lies. I would guess that nobody here was even the least bit shocked by Obama's outright lies about his budget yesterday. Bad faith actors do not rate courtesy or civility.

102 I found the biggest stumbling block to successful learning was parents.

Posted by: by any other name at February 16, 2011 08:55 AM (H+LJc)

You can have parents that are ill-educated and their children can succeed as long as the parents value the education and demand that the children act apply themselves.  Unfortunately a lot of parents today have no respect for education which makes it nearly impossible for their children to succeed.

103

A Pakistani official says that a U.S. consulate employee held for the murder of two men is shielded by diplomatic immunity, according to Reuters.

...

It also signaled there have been internal divisions within Pakistan's government over how to handle a case that has severely strained relations with the United States.

...

Ahead of the meeting with Kerry, the prime minister raised the possibility of another solution to the debacle: having the U.S. compensate the families of the dead Pakistanis in lieu of sending Davis to prison. Such a system, known as "qisas," is used in Islamic law and accepted in Pakistan. However, at least some of the dead men's relatives have rejected the idea.

Fox News

104 "We want New York City to be the safest city in the world to have sex," said Dr. Monica Sweeney, the city's assistant health commissioner. "A lot of people come here for that, so we want them to practice safer sex."

Just don't get caught eating salt, or it's a felony.

105

Posted by: PoconoJoe at February 16, 2011 08:49 AM (3Z+/3)

That fantastic book, Capital Contacts, alone, is worth the nominal price of an annual subscription to The Washington Times Weekly Edition.. 

What's cool, too, is that, in their classified ads, affluent subscribers sell kind of expensive, but really, really cool stuff that you can't buy anywhere else. If you have a pricey item that you want to sell, that's the place to advertise it.

106 No Women No Christians!! Like Allahpundit's ticket!! Between the muslims, the left and the atheist right, I'm thinking anyone with the word christian associated with them should be very worried.

107 Today's Houston Chronicle has a front page story about the teaching of history in Texas headlined
State history standards get 'D'"Conservative think tank says politics have distorted curriculum"Of course the conservative think tank is quoted only because it supports a liberal agenda.

The story does contain a money quote talking about how it is conservatives trying to rewrite the history books:

"They are trying to resurrect the old triumphal narrative in which everything in American History is wonderful as opposed to the left-wing narrative in which America is uniquely evil,"

Yes, that does describe the left wing narrative to a T. Uniquely evil; the only country in the history which could have conquered the whole world and didn't even try - who's only request for payment for beating back the Nazis was enough land to bury their dead - who instead of demanding payment spent a fortune rebuilding their enemies- yes, that uniquely evil country.

The local libs are complaining that things like the KKK have been white washed out of history. I agree completely. Things like the Trail of Tears, The Klan, lynchings, the Jim Crow laws, and the racist Japanese relocation of WWII need to be fully disclosed in the History books; including the single most important fact about all of that - it was members of the Democratic party behind 100% of it.

Suddenly the Liberals don't want that much full disclosure, do they?

108

Isn't the 800 lb. gorilla in the room "discipline"? Starting in the home and extending into the schools?

Posted by: PoconoJoe at February 16, 2011 09:01 AM (3Z+/3)

My wife is a school teacher and she was talking about that just yesterday, she said even the kids in kiddiegarten have this attitude of who do you think you are?  She said a bunch of spoiled kids who never hear no.

109

This probably mentioned somewhere upthread, but I haven't had a chance to scroll through yet:

US Immigration Agents Shot in Mexico; One Dead (link to WSJ)

It happened outside Mexico City, on the way to Monterrey.

110

You have two kinds of parents who interfere with education: those that don't give a shit and those who think that their kid is einstein and shouldn't be judged. The outcome is similar.

I'm convinced that there is so much guilt or disassociation from those who have had their kids in daycare since 3 weeks that they don't want their children made to do anything. It's not fair.

111 Is there something that will convert a video file that you have already downloaded? Trying to convert Fitna to MP4.

112

If ya'll read anytime soon about a 50 car pile-up or so in the KC area, don't be surprised. The fog that started last night is thick as hell. Just now coming home from work was pretty attention getting. It's so bad that at some intersections the sensors aren't seeing the cars, hence not changing the light.

I got lucky on my last left-hand turn. I had a signal, but it looked like traffic was backed waay up in all directions.

Our problem is warm air+snow still on the ground=pea soup.

Well, at least I made it home.

113 She may have been roughed up and groped, and some  news outlets used the term rape, but with the loosey-goosey liberal interpretation of practically every incident so as to shape public opinion, I call BS until the Boston Blackie has completed his investigation.

I dunno.

Me, as a 5'3"  110lbs (127 lbs in top shape and lots of muscle mass but that was a decade ago!) weakling of the female persuasion, getting beaten and " merely groped" by a crowd of "enthusiastic" Egyptian protesters until a group of women and 20 Egyptian soldiers can extricate me from my "sustained assault" might just qualify as a mite traumatic.

Would it qualify as rape-rape in the Whoopi Godbergian sense?

I don't know.

For me?

I would be a wreck after something like that.

114 Prayers for Lara Logan and her fam....

Ditto.  Horrific for this woman.  Laura Ingraham is on this big time this morning on her radio program. 

115 "Wait....I said PALI's should riot....not YOU people!"

-----------------

Riot breaks out in Libyan city of Benghazi

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Hundreds of people clashed with police and government supporters overnight in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a witness and local media said, in a rare show of unrest in the oil exporting country.

Libya has been tightly controlled by leader Muammar Gaddafi for over 40 years but has also felt the ripples from popular revolts in its neighbours Egypt and Tunisia.

Libyan state television said that rallies were held in the early hours of Wednesday morning across the country in support of Gaddafi, who is Africa's longest serving leader.

Reports from Benghazi, about 1,000 km (600 miles) east of the Libyan capital, indicated the city was now calm but that overnight, protesters armed with stones and petrol bombs had set fire to vehicles and fought with police.

http://tinyurl.com/4njqe5t

116

I am standing here beside myself.

 

You're With Stupid. --->

 

HI-YOOOOH!!!

117 The term sexual assault suggests penile/vaginal contact, but to date there is no evidence this occurred.

Really?

How would you take it having your boobehs twisted off or having random fingers or objects invading any vulnerable orifice whilst being carried off by a mob of men?

Ahh. Got it!

So long as there is no "penile/vaginal" contact there is nothing sexual about it whatsoever.

118

A Pakistani official says that a U.S. consulate employee held for the murder of two men is shielded by diplomatic immunity, according to Reuters.

...

It also signaled there have been internal divisions within Pakistan's government over how to handle a case that has severely strained relations with the United States.

...

Ahead of the meeting with Kerry, the prime minister raised the possibility of another solution to the debacle: having the U.S. compensate the families of the dead Pakistanis in lieu of sending Davis to prison. Such a system, known as "qisas," is used in Islamic law and accepted in Pakistan. However, at least some of the dead men's relatives have rejected the idea.

 

All we have to worry about now is if Pakistan has a LT. Al-Murtaugh, who might unilaterally revoke his diplomatic immunity.

119 74
The Laura Logan "sexual assault" as suggested by CBS and other liberal news propagandist may not be what happened?  The term sexual assault suggests penile/vaginal contact, but to date there is no evidence this occurred.  She may have been roughed up and groped

I call that a night out at a club.

120

All we have to worry about now is if Pakistan has a LT. Al-Murtaugh, who might unilaterally revoke his diplomatic immunity.

Posted by: Ben at February 16, 2011 09:22 AM (wuv1c)

Isnt it amazing that almost every real world event or situation can be snarked with hollywood? Nicely done

121 The Laura Logan "sexual assault" as suggested by CBS and other liberal news propagandist may not be what happened?  The term sexual assault suggests penile/vaginal contact, but to date there is no evidence this occurred.  She may have been roughed up and groped

I concur - nothing of consequence happened to Laura Logan.

/She's too old for me!

//btw, sexual assault doesn't have to mean "rape" - being groped and having your sex organs roughed up constitutes sexual assault.  What a bunch of animals those protesters were!  Too bad the Egyptian military didn't return the favor to them, or at least crack their skulls.

122 110 You have two kinds of parents who interfere with education: those that don't give a shit and those who think that their kid is einstein and shouldn't be judged. The outcome is similar.

I'm convinced that there is so much guilt or disassociation from those who have had their kids in daycare since 3 weeks that they don't want their children made to do anything. It's not fair.

Indeed. I know a number of teachers (almost became one myself) and the number of parents who demand to see a teacher because poor little Johnny is required to do his homework is ridiculous. What's worse is that these parents sometimes win against the teachers due to their hysterics about their kids being mistreated. Meanwhile, the other parents are apathetic and so are their kids. These particular offspring are the types who text in class, don't care about homework, and do whatever else they please.

123 Indeed. I know a number of teachers (almost became one myself) and the number of parents who demand to see a teacher because poor little Johnny is required to do his homework is ridiculous.

That used to happen to me teaching a college (sophomore) class. 


People have kids, they treat them like pets growing up, then they get all interested when the kid becomes an adult.

124

As an aside...

Anyone have a contact @ the new 81 IRS positions (heh) for Tanning Salon Compliance Officers?  W/the stated salary budget (11.5M), I know I could use a $142K job...

 

 

125 @ NRO RE GOP embracing entitlement reform:
“We have the 218 votes needed to support entitlement reform."

More: “While raising it now provides an important contrast, to be sure, we would not be bringing it up if we did not have the votes. We know the conference will back it if it’s included in the budget. The leadership knows they have to lead and there is no one better than Paul Ryan to take charge. The sense in the conference is, ‘let’s be serious.’”

126 I'm just now reading something about the head of the EPA talking about children getting autism from "contaminated water".

And I am sure that the EPA's "science" is about as good as that for the previous Lancet article that blamed it on vaccines.

IOW, non-existent.

We need to get the House to author a bill that forces the EPA to publish for public comments ALL of their science backing up any new regulation before they can issue said regulation.

127 I'm so not in the mood for a "parents suck; poor teachers" discussion today after dealing with my son's lazy, slow-witted kindergarten teacher all year. She came in last week and vomited in the classroom - she gave half the class her tummy bug (including my son). So he was sick all weekend and I kept him home Monday too to recover. He'd already done all THIRTY valentines he had to do (yay giant Catholic school classrooms) plus one for her. He proudly brought them in yesterday only to be told by her "sorry, Valentine's Day was yesterday, take that all home" I love picking up weeping children! I love having to teach him his sight words and pretty much everything else after school because GOD KNOWS what they are doing in school! I love the constant other "Extra Projects" (woot it's 100 day! bring in a cool craft Mom!) that I'm on the hook for constantly! And meanwhile *I* teach math to my daughter and *I* teach phonics to my son. AND I'M PAYING FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL!!!!

128 People have kids, they treat them like pets growing up, then they get all interested when the kid becomes an adult.

Oh, no!

Poor kids!

I'll take Benign Neglect and Unintentional Cruelty in the '80's for $1,000, Alex!

129 125 Which is an old story from yesterday (see Weekly Standard & HQ thread), but they are now on-record saying they have the votes and are committed.

130

The story is only at CNS News, so far as I can tell. They have the video of her making the statement and then they asked her about it:

“While the science is not evolved enough to explain that increase, some emerging studies show a possible association between environmental exposures and autism,” the statement continued. “Though we do not yet know enough about autism to identify any specific environmental contaminants that are responsible, EPA's job is to be on the forefront of protecting American's from such threats.”

We're protecting you from what we don't know!

131 111 Is there something that will convert a video file that you have already downloaded? Trying to convert Fitna to MP4.
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handbrake.fr

132 128 I don't think anyone here would say all teachers are good; rather, many of the teachers who are good (an ever shrinking group) are getting into trouble for doing the right thing. The rest of them are either what you describe or are libs pushing to indoctrinate young minds.

133

Hearing on: the “Constitutionality of the Individual Mandate”

Wednesday 2/16/2011 - 9:30 a.m.

2141 Rayburn House Office Building

Full Committee

http://tinyurl.com/4aogxdl

You have to click on 'watch video webcast' and your media player will open.

134 Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2011 09:41 AM (SB0V2)

Sounds like you need to evoke the thing that is good about private schools and private enterprise. If the service is crappy find another vendor.

135 Cuccinelli up right now.  Virginia AG.

136 I received an email from my son's computer teacher yesterday. It has words and periods but in no other way does it resemble written English.

But it's the parents, you know!

137

  Sorry to hear about your kindergarten teacher woes, BlackOrchid.  Have you lodged a formal protest against this teacher?

138 Deety at February 16, 2011 07:51 AM

I wouldn't disagree with your view from Pima County.

Vic's itch rehashed news I posted yesterday.

Malor explicated the yokel in Arpaio repeatedly last year, ridiculing the lack of metromale finesse in the Sheriff who combats the nation's highest kidnapping statistics in PHX, Maricopa County. Given Malor's ability to edit, I had suggested that rather than ridiculing Arpaio, offering Malor's improvements on formal procedure to Arpaio's office directly would perform a public service, should Malor be so inclined.

Arpaio's flame-war critics in league with McCain (Open Borders and Amnesty with US Citizenship for Illegal Aliens) claim that it's a waste of taxes when Arpaio's Department conducts raids on houses used in the human trade and drug smuggling by coyotes, cartels, and illegal aliens.  Open borders are a mandate of globalism that renege our Constitution.

Arpaio manages on the limited budget provided by the his county's taxpayers, overburdened by provision of benefits via federal policy mandating all such be given without recompense to illegal aliens, including room and board in prisons.

The poll published yesterday noted its own vested interests. Sure, it polled likely Republican voters. I'd think that the support expressed for Arpaio is more a show of confidence in SHERIFF Arpaio even as Obama presses down with the full federal abuses of power to remove all semblance of states rights beginning with AZ as the example. Arpaio holds now the position of his "calling".  Who else could or would exert such strong backbone for constitutional Rule of Law as Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio?

Arpaio winning that poll means as much as Ron Paul winning the CPAC Potus straw poll.

I'm repulsed by revisionism, and regardless of who is friends with whom in the blogosphere or in politics, won't accept Alinsky styled smear campaigns against targets based upon malicious whole cloth fabrications.  I won't stand silent when I see malicious bullying from those in position to help "The Great Cause" (US Liberty) but who would rather deliver death by a thousand cuts for perverse amusement from a safe distance, pointing out a perceived flaw in mannerist style as reason to politically assassinate an Atlas grunt. When Ace promoted style as if intrinsically empowered with integrity, I argued against that false premise using the example of the French Court. Delegates from the provinces seeking audience with the Monarch were refused audience unless after banquets they were proven the most highly skilled DANCERS.

139 Some good news for the people suffering from the abominable cold. The goldfinches at my feeder are starting to turn yellow now.  That is a sure sign that Spring is on its way.

140 many of the teachers who are good (an ever shrinking group) are getting into trouble for doing the right thing.


It's a small group all right.

Madistan teachers stage "sickout" to protest having to contribute 12% of their health insurance premiums.  For The Children™!

141 RE: the sidebar post about NYC's apocalypse manual?  Zombies, dude.  It's all about preparing for the zombies.

142 What's this? Only In Florida. Woman at school doesn't like that some other mom is showing so much boob-cleavage. So she teaches the other woman a lesson by pulling the other mom's jugs out of her shirt/bra and squeezes them together. So there! Then she was arrested.

143 BlackOrchid at February 16, 2011 09:41 AM
Vic at February 16, 2011 09:54 AM

So it goes.

144 Chris Christie is speaking  at the American Enterprise Institute today.  The event was so over subscribed they are going to live stream his speech here.  He'll be speaking at 1 pm hope ace live blogs this event.

145 For The Children™!
Posted by: HeatherRadish

Don't press the RESET button!

146

Morning.

I'm a little late on the draw here, but to any OH morons reading, Ryan Widmer was found guilty. Again. I think this  time it will stick.

147 I'm so not in the mood for a "parents suck; poor teachers" discussion today after dealing with my son's lazy, slow-witted kindergarten teacher all year.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2011 09:41 AM (SB0V2)

Not trying to do that at all; just pointing out that there's plenty of blame to go around for the pathetic state of education in the country.

Btw, is anybody else having problems staying connected here today?

148 So she teaches the other woman a lesson by pulling the other mom's jugs out of her shirt/bra and squeezes them together.

Not satisfied with the oops spilled soda maneuver?

149 The poll published yesterday noted its own vested interests. Sure, it polled likely Republican voters.

I would think for a Republican Primary for the Senate seat that would be what you would want to poll for the most accuracy.

After all, who votes in a Republican Primary anyway? It is always the active base who care more about politics than the general public.

That is why the Tea party candidates in the last election were so successful in getting on the ballot. That may be for good or ill for the Republican party as a whole, but the politically active will control a Primary because the overwhelming majority of the voters do not show up for the primaries.

And the caucus States are even worse (based solely on what I have seen posted in the news accounts)

150 My parents (mom especially) became very involved in our school system when they started using "values clarification" curriculum (this was in the 70s in an "open education" public school system).  My sister and I were subjected to life boat exercises, personal journals, report cards without letter (or numerical) grades, and all sorts of wacky stuff.  It really came to a head when I was included in a research project by Johns Hopkins - without parental permission - that involved a survey designed to probe into our family's personal life, including religion.  I think I was in middle school at the time.  My mom got wind of it (from me), contacted the school demanding the survey be pulled from the study.  They claimed they couldn't do that (supposedly anonymous), but I had recalled a code on the survey sheet and lo and behold they were able to magically pull my survey.  Ultimately, my mom became one of those involved parents they try to ridicule, but she had the last laugh and was the first lay person to have a regular column in one of the social studies professional journals. 

So parental involvement is good.

But calling professors demanding that your kid be given a new exam or higher grade when he's been slacking off in his college course and blows a mid-term... not so good. 

151 Where Cuccinelli?

152

Some good news for the people suffering from the abominable cold. The goldfinches at my feeder are starting to turn yellow now.

There are males and females, y'know.

153 Vic at February 16, 2011 10:05 AM

Timing and relevance.
1. Kyl only just announced his determination to not run again.
2. Has Arpaio ever announced his desire to become AZ Senator?

154 Where Cuccinelli?

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at February 16, 2011 10:07 AM (SJ6/3)

You missed it.  He finished his opening statement.  I'm sure he'll be back.

155

BlackOrchid

I went to pick up my first grader yesterday and noticed there were only 10 kids. Teacher (wonderful wonderful) said that 20 were out sick with tummy or cough. I noticed that he had 3 Valentines in his folder that he didn't get on Monday because obviously the kids had missed it.

1st word of advice about kid. Mail the kids his valentines. It's an expensive pain in the ass but he'll remember what you did. You are his advocate.

Second, you can use catholicism to force the catholic school to act catholic. Believe me.

Couch every discussion you have with the principal and the teacher in catholic terminology. For example, "I'm struggling with my response to this teacher's lack of charity. I feel like her response to my child's hard work was not charitible and that it has caused me an occasion of sin. God endowed us with reason and the teacher has not been reasonable. Since I am the primary educator of this child, I am coming to you for you to use your authority to lovingly correct this teacher and ensure that she realizes she be more cognizant of each child's dignity. I will pray for you and for her."

They hate it when you do that but it works everytime. And really it's what you mean just said in Church-speak.

156 I found Handbrake through Kim Kommando's site as well. FL Gov Scott rejects 39 MPH rail.

157

Gotta love them unions:

Allegheny County Council declared a Rankin steel plant a "sweatshop" Tuesday night, the culmination of an 18-month union campaign against W&K Steel LLC.

The bill moves to County Executive Dan Onorato, who hasn't decided whether to approve a designation that bars the nonunion company from county projects, county manager Jim Flynn said.

W&K Steel doesn't have any county contracts. Council members said they were acting on accusations of low pay and unsafe working conditions.

"(Union organizers) would not be sitting there if something wasn't going on," Councilman James R. Ellenbogen, D-Banksville, said in announcing his support to an audience filled with union activists and company employees. "This is not a court of law, but I'm a working guy and I believe what they say."

The action was the first since County Council adopted a sweatshop ordinance in March 2007.

158 "Possible Mexican Military Incursion On U.S. Soil"  link

159 Turbo Tax Tim is going to be grilled by the House Budget Committee this afternoon.

160 152 Where Cuccinelli?

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at February 16, 2011 10:07 AM (SJ6/3)

Online at Judiciary.House.gov

161 159 That is nothing new. I had video of a Mexican Marine helicopter doing a snatch and grab in a Texas subdivision.

162 Obama cuts off VOA funding for China; gives it to NPR

163

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 16, 2011 09:41 AM (SB0V2)

and

Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 16, 2011 09:59 AM (nAOMZ)

All of which points to my personal theory, which is that the pressure placed on kids while they're in school to BECOME teachers after they graduate and have gone to college is encouraging lots of people who would otherwise never go into the teaching profession to become teachers.  Let's face it, if you can't stand kids, can't spell or do basic math, and don't know the first thing about how to control a classroom, you're going to be a crap teacher.  But thanks to the unions, you've got a job for life!  It's a job that you HATE, but it's a paycheck.  So you have thousands of underqualified, uninspired "educators" suffering through a long workday, preaching to a bunch of apathetic and hostile students who would rather be at home playing Call of Duty.  It's ridiculous.

Also, this prompts me to point out the huge difference between "teaching" and "educating."  When someone is "taught" good manners, it means that they are expected to learn and demonstrate those manners.  When someone is "educated" about good manners, it means they're made aware of them, but not necessarily expected to demonstrate them.  "To teach" is much stricter than "to educate," which I'm convinced is why the liberals HATE using the term "teacher."  It implies a black and white type of learning, where there is a right and wrong answer to every question, and the adult is the one with the answers.  Liberals are much happier EDUCATING than TEACHING, because educating is just a way of raising awareness about a topic without requiring anything solid in return.  "Results?  What results?  Who cares about results?  We want to open the students' minds!" 

So every time I hear the term "educator," I want to punch someone.

164 There are males and females, y'know.

Posted by: Ed Anger at February 16, 2011 10:08 AM (7+pP9)

Yes, but the males start turning and turn only during breeding (Spring) season. The females turn during the Summer while the males turn back.

At least that is how I understand it. I am new to this bird watching stuff though.

165

Geez, this thread is getting old.  I got a legit question.  A couple weeks ago I heard that the FCC wanted to add an Obama message to the Emergency Broadcast announcement.  Anyone heard anything about that?

What can that egomaniac add to the Emergency Broadcast that can't be covered by what is already in place?  Hope and Change?

166 Turbo Tax Tim is going to be grilled by the House Budget Committee this afternoon.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at February 16, 2011 10:11 AM (yfJ6g)

According to the Fox web site he is being grilled now. So if you want to see it better tune in.

167 For all the "teaching" posters, Monty has a "teaching" thread up now.

168

166,

You mean this? "The Federal Communications Commission today took action to help pave the way for the first-ever Presidential alert to be aired across the United States on the NationÂ’s Emergency Alert System (EAS).."

http://tiny.cc/7gp5f

169 and have gone to college is encouraging lots of people who would otherwise never go into the teaching profession to become teachers.

Is this also an outgrowth of "everyone must go to college"? If you're a straight white kid who can't do math or languages, there's a place for you in the College of Edjukashun.

(I'm trying to find a study where researchers at one of the state universities in the SEC calculated the average HS GPA of their students by major, and Education was dead last, and by about 0.3, but I'm not hitting the right keywords.)

170 So parental involvement is good.

Yes and no.

"Good" requires a firm grounding of mutual expectations that coincide.

Parents remain the greatest stumbling block in the child's learning process when expectations are that the teacher will "teach lessons" to the child who refuses to diligently study until lessons are learned at home each day, overseen by the parents at home.

Working parents complain that they haven't the time or resources to properly parent, so they pay money to others to meet parental responsibilities (tutors, teachers' aides in school districts, police, child care services).

And some parents that stay at home are just lazy, rearing lazy children. Their involvement, producing offspring, raises their own expectations that oblige others to fulfill their responsibilities, often manipulating the perpetuation of the Welfare State.

All these post-WWII generations, the PTA reflects Parental involvement with Teachers in the public educational system. As a body, "Parents" are the ones who welcomed the progressive agenda themselves,  using the pretext of  "compassion" and "fun" while inaugurating the socialism in contemporary societal cultural institutions, schools and government.

171 The TARP watchdog resigned.

167 According to the Fox web site he is being grilled now. So if you want to see it better tune in.

Oh, I see; he's being grilled by the Senate Budget Comm. right now, which is chaired by Kent Conrad. Conrad & co. might actually give him a hard time. Going to check and see.

172 Yesterday's Drudge link:

Two US ICE Agents were assassinated in their vehicle on the highway en route from Mexico City to Monterrey, Mexico.

173 Asshole Rosen resigns from NYU: http://tinyurl.com/5uvrg56

174 It's not easy. I spent 1 and 1/2 hours last night listening to my 7 year old (who is so proud) read me books. This is such a fantastic thing and I know it will pass away. He is the last child and these moments are precious. Would I liked to have done other things or even gone to sleep . Yeah. Parenting is a lot of self-denial. People who can't deny themselves make crappy parents and I hear it constantly. Some look constantly for things that keep the kids busy and away from them.

175 Turbo Tax Tim, as Sec./Treasury, is autonomous. He need not answer a damned thing to anyone, Congress included, thanks to GWBush's executive order. Mum's the word.

176 The rest of them are either what you describe or are libs pushing to indoctrinate young minds.

I went for my "certification" at my local U after having worked hard to earn a pretty solid B.A. from a "real" College (even by an Amish Dude's standards) and was just nauseated by the curricula.

I quit but I still wake up with night-sweats thinking about how effective that sort of claptrap is likely to be on a willing and docile 19 yr. old mind.

Let's face it.

The types most likely to pursue "Education" as undergraduates "because they love children" are not going to think about bucking the shady "social science" that backs up some of the more dubious theories of education being promulgated as gospel these past few decades.

In fact.  How could they?

They don't typically take one course in statics, now do they?

What if we had bunches of teachers who were more concerned with excellent pedagogy in their field and damn "the children"!

*Full, disclosure.  I find "the children" as a class to be repellent, weird little beasts.  I can, at times, be persuaded to interact with them as individuals. My passion and love has nothing, nothing I tell you to do with their innate "kid-ness".  I am immune.

Stony faced I am when it comes to enforcing good order.

"Why does Miss. Burroughs keep dropping her pens whenever Cal goes up to the board?"

*Because, Miss. Burroughs thinks that Cal is a funneh as hell, smartypants 9 yr. old that needs to be reigned in and would rather duck under the table than let the little bastard know that she can't help but crack a smile at his fucking antics.*

177 Nate Silver discusses the 2012 Republican primary field, citing a WaPo piece by Jennifer Rubin that this crop looks particularly bad. Thune and Pawlenty have room to grow, though they start around zero. "Nevertheless, their numbers were worse than someone like John Kerry, who was also not all that well-known, but who elicited favorable (rather than ambivalent) reactions from those voters that did know him." Doomabee scores 8, and Romney 4. Then Pawlenty and Daniels have -1, DeMint -2, Barbour -3, Paul -4, all the way down to Palin -23. This is actually encouraging in a sense; those polled want Obama defeated and have realistic expectations. Doomabee has said he will bow out if someone (Thune likely) catches fire in Iowa.

178 145 - Christie sure is getting his name out there for a guy who says he is not running for president.

179 Jess, yes that's the one.  Again, my question is: What can that egomaniac add to the Emergency Broadcast that can't be covered by what is already in place? 

180 And some parents that stay at home are just lazy, rearing lazy children. Their involvement, producing offspring, raises their own expectations that oblige others to fulfill their responsibilities, often manipulating the perpetuation of the Welfare State.

Keep in mind that for that particular segment of the population having kids is an occupation and means of making a living. They really don't give a shit about the kids other than as a source of some kind of weekly/monthly check. The schools and the street are the only way those kids ever get civilized at all, much less educated.

181 What can that egomaniac add to the Emergency Broadcast that can't be covered by what is already in place?

SSSSibilance.

182 171 So parental involvement is good.

Yes and no.

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You apparently didn't read my post. 

183

What can that egomaniac add to the Emergency Broadcast that can't be covered by what is already in place?  Hope and Change?

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at February 16, 2011 10:15 AM (M8GPY)

Yep, just what I need when the shit hits the fan, a reminder that hes our 'leader' in times of crisis

184 Who else could or would exert such strong backbone for constitutional Rule of Law as Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio?

Perhaps, I'm too close or too far or something.

I find that statement entirely bizarre!

He's a cop.

He is a political cop.

He makes no bones about being more of a means guy rather than an ends guy.

Fine.

If that's what it takes to "Sheriff"  Maricopa  Cty.?

Okay.

Don't pretend to me or imagine to yourself that what Joe Arpaio does in Arizona is some sort of exemplar of Jeffersonian Federalism in action.

He is the head of a political machine up there in Phoenix, just as sure as Richard Daley is in Chicago.

185 Another high-speed train gets stopped on it's tracks.
http://tinyurl.com/46ym4jw

186 From Politico, FWIW:  Daniels faces tea party heat

A tough, Arizona-style anti-immigration bill in the Indiana state Legislature has put Gov. Mitch Daniels — who is mum on whether he backs it — on a collision course with tea party activists who see it as a big priority and could have national implications for the Indiana governor in a GOP presidential primary.

187

Copts out of Egypt?

Sounds about right.

Where are our resident Dhimmi to explain the mysteries and nuance of the Arab Street? 

Surely someone must have slept at the Holiday Inn Cairo and can explain this to me.

188 If Daniels is seen as soft on border security and amnesty he can kiss a Republican nomination goodbye.

189 "Yep, just what I need when the shit hits the fan, a reminder that hes our 'leader' in times of crisis" I'm all for it. Just hearing his voice will be a potent reminder of why the shit hit the fan.

190 Congresswoman wants to end military's NASCAR sponsorships

Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minnesota, is offering an amendment to the 2011 House budget bill to ban the sponsorships, which her office said has cost the military $100 million over the past 10 years,

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"I would challenge the Pentagon to give me one example of someone today in Iraq or Afghanistan who saw the Go Army car going around the racetrack and that's why they joined the Army,"  -- Bill Harper, McCollum's chief of staff,

191 Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minnesota, is offering an amendment to the 2011 House budget bill to ban the sponsorships

I think she's right.  It's not like the existence of our army is a secret.

192 Test.

193 Posted by: toby928™ at February 16, 2011 11:36 AM (GTbGH)

I'm sure it's a political move to heap shame on the Repubs for failing to cut it out of their budget cuts proposed -- the military also sponsors NHRA (though not to the same level) but there's a famous drag strip in Brainerd, Minnesota where they run the Lucal Oil Nationals, so that goes unmentioned.

194 Lucas, not Lucal  (bah)

195 So she teaches the other woman a lesson by pulling the other mom's jugs out of her shirt/bra and squeezes them together.

Man. I thought that my Mom, what with all the serially diagnosed Paranoid Schizophrenia /Bi-Polar/ "Mood Disorder" was fucked up.

No way in hell would she even do something like that!

And she's crazy!

There is something deeply wrong with you, that can't even be explained by bad chemicals if that is your reaction to a parking lot dispute at your kid's school.

I was mortified when my Mom started acting a little bit "off" at school.

(Too excited, too interested, sometimes...)

Damn. 

What kind of lunatic rips off another lady's shirt?

Fer Gawds sakes!

196 Is there a way a we can send the teacher thread and all it's commenters into the 9th concentric ring of Dante's Inferno?

197 Happy to see that pig at NYU was kicked to the curb quick.  What a disgusting excuse for a human being.

Gee, I am absolutely gobsmacked that women and Copts are excluded from the the Egyptian government.  Who would have seen this coming???

198 The Producer Price Index for finished goods rose 0.8 percent in January, seasonally adjusted, the  U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Boned.

199

Again, my question is: What can that egomaniac add to the Emergency Broadcast that can't be covered by what is already in place? 

A chance to kill off conservatives during the emergency, either because they can't stand to listen to him at all and tune him out, or because he doesn't give a straight answer about what to do in the emergency during his rambling rhetoric?

200

Well, at least I made it home.

Yeah it was pretty bad out this morning and it's still bad out there.  Glad you made it home safe.

201

Protesters demanding sweeping political reforms from Bahrain's rulers held their ground Wednesday in an Egypt-style occupation of the capital's landmark square

Fox News.

When I first found out that my husband was heading to Qatar this year, I wasn't that worried. Now...

202 I think she's right.  It's not like the existence of our army is a secret.

Bravo, toby9281!

203 toby928 -

Just a few more thoughts -- these race drivers are run ragged throughout the year promoting both their teams and their sponsors - the Army drivers, NASCAR's Ryan Newman and NHRA's Tony Schumacher, spend much of their "free" time visiting military hospitals, attending recruiting events, honoring the fallen at memorial services, etc.

Schumacher has been to both Iraq and Afghanistan.

So, it isn't like they are sitting on their butts for a couple of hours a week milking in the government cash cow.

204 So, it isn't like they are sitting on their butts for a couple of hours a week milking in the government cash cow.

I wouldn't suggest anything like that.  It's just that WE.DON'T.HAVE.THE.MONEY.

205 Yeah, you're right -- and let's scrutinize all the military's MWR programs while we're at it, 'cause they cost money, too.

206 Yeah, you're right -- and let's scrutinize all the military's MWR programs while we're at it, 'cause they cost money, too.

I don't think anything should be exempt from examination.  As Ace noted yesterday, governing is about making choices.

207 TX-D Rep. Henry Cuellar couldn't have been less clear as to what "improved path forward" he is promoting through "discussion".



“Today, I served as Ranking Member in a hearing called ‘Securing Our Borders – Operational Control’ in the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, for the Homeland Security Committee. I am hopeful that today’s discussion will lead to an improved path forward regarding effective border policies and practices, especially ensuring that the ‘bad guys’ don’t even make it to our borders. We, in Congress, must provide the Department of Homeland Security all the tools and resources it needs.

208 We, in Congress, must provide the Department of Homeland Security all the tools and resources it needs.

How many years has DHS had to secure our borders since Bush established his uber-brainchild? No matter what Congress legislates ("Build the danged fence"), administrations and budget appropriations refuse their oaths in treasonous disregard for the Constitution.

Just cut to the chase, Cuellar, and promise American citizens themselves all the tools and resources that each State needs to prevent and HALT invasion of our sovereign territory.

209 Give me Liberty or give me another hit, bro.

210 thanks for sharing