...Congress cuts unemployment benefits. I disagree with the writer’s assertion that the Democrats “wanted to continue” unemployment benefits. Are you kidding me? These are the same people going along with Third Way mentality that wants to end New Deal social programs….
…meanwhile, they budgeted $500 Billion for the defense budget….a budget that should be reigned in, because they have too many contractors, too much waste, (want to find money to support the jobless, give food to the hungry, and find homes for the homeless? $430 MILLION in cutting waste is a place to start) and an NSA that is running amok.
There is just something very, very wrong when a country spends more money to kill people than save them.
The opening quote is an understatement. (love the mural, too)
Of course, the people want peace–it’s the politicians and war profiteers who want war. Most of the people in the world just want to live in peace…raise their families…earn a living…follow their own paths….
…but then you get to the end of the article…<sigh>….well, baby steps towards Peace…but I’ll take it.
Break a woman’s head in three spaces? Hey, that’s okay…I’m sure you didn’t mean to hit her with such force that you broke the bone.
From the link on the sentencing:
Chief Deputy Yellowstone County attorney Juli M. Pierce said after the hearing that she respects the two sentences the judges gave Ferguson.
“We’ll continue to prosecute domestic violence cases no matter what the outcome is,” she said, shortly after Ferguson was taken into custody. “We’ll continue to fight that fight because that’s why we’re here – for the protection of the community.”
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You call *that* prosecution? God help the women of Yellowstone County.
<sigh> Well, folks, if you were feeling a little more secure about our Constitution with the last court ruling on NSA surveillance...think again.
As the commenters said, I wonder what kind of dirt the NSA has on Judge William Pauley. There is no way on Earth that this is in keeping with the Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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This bears repeating: No warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
Probable cause is required for searching a person, their houses, papers, and effects. A court must agree that there is probable cause in order for the agency to violate someone’s privacy.
This amendment protects a person from a government abusing its power, as we saw in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and China. People who are not doing anything wrong have a right to be let alone.
You might remember this post with a quote that says the words “third way”. Not long after I posted it, Ed on the Ed Show (MSNBC) mentioned the Third Way. I can’t remember exactly what he said, but it was negative and the segment intrigued me.
I’ve just now gotten around to doing a bit of research on Third Way. Whew…do you smell a rat?? Me, too.
Red flags are going off with Elizabeth Warren being attacked by supposed Democrats for…speaking out against selling us out to the 1% by cutting Social Security and other social programs….calling them “populist”. Um-hmmm…that and the word “entitlement” are key words for the “I’ve-got-mine-screw-you” crowd.
Now, getting back to the previous post with Hillary Clinton’s religious leader saying those words: third way…and how they wanted to do away with New Deal programs:
It emerged, he [Reverend Don Jones] says, as a third way, a reaction against both separatist fundamentalism and the New Deal’s labor-based liberalism.
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Social Security. Public Schools. Medicaid. Medicare. Public employees like fire fighters, police. Public Libraries. A decent living wage.
I know that it’s hard to believe they want to destroy it all, but all signs are pointing towards that very end.
Please, please run for President, Elizabeth. Please!! I’ll go knocking on doors…whatever needs done to help get you votes. Hillary Clinton is nothing but a Goldwater Girl doing the dirty work of the bankers, warmongers, education profiteers, Big Oil, Monsanto, and no doubt countless other organizations that don’t give a crap about Americans or America, the poor, the elderly, the children, the environment, nor the middle class.
Yeah, I didn’t know what “colocation” meant, either. The former post on Bloomberg at Diane Ravitch’s has led to a great discussion on it and there is a charter school troll there advocating Success Academy, a charter. A poster supplied a link to an insightful post here.
This is just absolutely wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Another link provided a report on Eva Moskowitz and Success Academy receiving preferential treatment from the DOE. Good Grief, can they be any more of an enabler?
The preceding also has a link to Juan Gonzalez’s column on the sardine-like atmosphere in the colocation schools. Shocking cannot even describe the overcrowded conditions that led to an autistic child disappearing. Good God.
…and $1300 on marketing…per child….are you kidding me?? That money could have been used for public schools in more education-oriented ways. It’s just mindboggling how dense and misguided this misuse of funds is…
…and how the public is being ignored:
Moreover, it is also clear from the abundance of comments at public hearings that the vast majority of parents oppose these proposals – and these parents’ choices are being ignored. Just check any of the Public comment analyses on the DOE webpage. In many of these summaries, every single parent who spoke opposed the co-location, as well as representatives of the Community Education Councils and elected officials.
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The public, that pays the taxes for the public schools, is…ignored.
Diane Ravitch has a blog up on a homeless girl, Dasani, and the heartless comment about her living conditions by Michael Bloomberg, as self-righteous as they come.
What a smug, heartless little turd.
Jesus has said one can only have one Master–money or God.
Obviously, Bloomberg chose money.
I read stories like this and feel such despair….
**edited to add: There’s quite a discussion going on at Diane’s blog, and I thought I’d explain my thoughts. Here’s a comment I left at Diane’s:
Wow, I must have struck a chord. I personally am poor and homeless as I write this. I am nothing like what Bloomberg, et al, would like to characterize the poor as– I’m college educated, once lived an upper middle class lifestyle. Being poor has taught me so much–that I could have and should have done so much more when I was wealthy. If I had money again, I would choose driving a Ford over a Mercedes, and give that difference to the poor.
Warrior Publications has a blog up on the ruling that it’s okay to allow a repeat offender access to its victims…
Part of the problem with the conditions set is that even though Enbridge must carry $950 million in insurance…one cannot replace what is lost with…money. You can’t eat money. You can’t breathe money. You can’t drink money. It won’t make a bit of difference if you have billions upon billions of dollars if you are made ill by breathing particulate, eating food grown in polluted soil, or trying to cleanse your kidneys and liver with petrochemically poisoned water.
Jan Ressenger has this up on the recent nominee to the Dept of Education. Yeah, if you were hoping that President Obama had somehow seen the light about the U.S. education fiasco, well, you (and I) were sadly mistaken, because he’ s nominated another corporate takeover twerp.
Be sure to click on the link to the Nation’s report:
In addition, [Ted] Mitchell serves as an adviser to Salmon River Capital, a venture capital firm that specializes in education companies. Mitchell sits on the board of Parchment, an academic transcript start-up that is among Salmon River Capital’s portfolio. Salmon River Capital helped create one of the biggest names in for-profit secondary education, Capella University.
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Italics mine.
That, my friends, should read as a rap sheet.
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In other Education News, School Matters has this blog on the lack of transparency for the State of Indiana….so what else is new?
I agree that individuals should probably not be named, but there absolutely needs to be an accounting of how many students went to school B, and how much money was diverted from School A.
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School Finance 101 has a good report on the lies and statistics of mis-edumucation. One can make statistics say anything you want, if you know how to skew the data…or leave out the data that doesn’t agree with your goals.
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