10:24pm MST
This is hilarious. Apparently FOX has defected to our side in the War on
Christmas.
Wonder if anyone has told Megyn or
McKeon Has Found The One Career That Normal People View As Even Less Ethical Than Congressmembers
Buck McKeon, Boehner's uber-corrupt head of the House Armed Services
Committee, is getting ready for his next career as a lobbyist. A bunch of
relatives have already started the firm and McKeon is busy lining up
clients by making sure the Military-Industrial Complex gravy train is not
interrupted by any sequestration. He has been busy tanking the chances of
Randy Forbes to succeed him as Chair because he isn't as much a shill to
arms makers and war contractors as McKeon's handpicked choice, corrupt
Texas congressman Mac Thornberry.
The revolving door between Congress and K Street ... more »
Thailand: Red Terror - Regime Thugs Firebomb Protest Leader's Home, Threaten Opponents
*Image: Protest leader, Chitpas Bhirombhakdi.**December 19, 2013* (Tony
Cartalucci) - After weeks of cyber-stalking by the Thaksin Shinawatra
regime's paid-PR machine, including disgraced former-Reuters editor Andrew
Marshall, regime thugs have fire-bombed the home of anti-regime protest
leader Chitpas Bhirombhakdi. In Bangkok Post's article, "Protest leader's
house firebombed," it was reported:
Four men early on Thursday morning threw a molotov cocktail at the family
home of Chitpas Bhirombhakdi, a former deputy Democrat Party spokeswoman
and now one of core protest leaders under t... more »
A Catastrophic and Catalysing Event: Millennial Futurology
*1993*
"To preserve American military preeminence in the coming decades, the
Department of Defense must move more aggressively to experiment with new
technologies and operational concepts, and seek to exploit the emerging
revolution in military affairs. Information technologies, in particular,
are becoming more prevalent and significant components of modern military
systems. These information tech- nologies are having the same kind of
trans- forming effects on military affairs as they are having in the larger
world. The effects of this military transformation will have profound
i... more »
Page charges for appeal transcripts
R. v. J.W., 2013 ONCA 723:
[16] In the circumstances, I am satisfied that the application should
be granted and an order should be made in accordance with the CSD policy.
Therefore, I find that for transcripts prepared for the Court of Appeal,
the court reporter is entitled to and shall be paid a fee of $3.75 per
original page. However, if the transcript has previously been transcribed
and produced at the lower court level for any reason, the reporter is
entitled to charge, for an appeal, $0.55 per page per copy for portions
previously transcribed, and $3.75 per page for any... more »
I am because you are... thank you for stopping by
Here are my favorite posts of 2013:
*Reflecting on what it means to be a bitch*
*Immigration Debate 2.0: No Human Being is Illegal*
*What makes a Hispanic Hispanic anyway? *
*Mickalene's Magnificence*
*Why playing is good for your brain*
*Love re-defined*
*Don't Cry for me: I am a Vegetarian*
*Favoritism will get you a job, and keep you employed*
*Are your cultural beliefs keeping you from achieving your potential?*
*Is being a good girl killing you softly?*
Months without their cherished rooster-brand sriracha? Can spicy-food addicts survive?
*It looks like it'll be months before Huy Fong Foods resumes providing
hot-sauce-starved gastronomes with its "most popular hot sauce."*
*by Ken*
It figures it would be the doing of some California buttinskies, who don't
know what it means to mind their own beeswax. As a result, Huy Fong Foods
has been forced to shut down production of its "most popular hot sauce,"
the sriracha in the clear plastic squeeze bottle with the rooster logo and
green cap. Shock waves are rolling through hot-food aficionados from coast
to coast, with early reports of sriracha-deprived users jonesing.
And... more »
David Coleman's Common Core Shows How Less Can Be More, Boring
Somehow I missed this in October from Perdido Street, but it is priceless:
NYSED ELA Lesson Module - 17 Days On One Short Story
As I posted earlier this week, the teachers who have had the misfortune to
have to use the Common Core lesson modules provided by NYSED at a website
they call Engage NY have found that the material is so full of
mind-numbing, soul-sucking drudgery that they had lost the interest of
students by the second week of school.
I have heard many complaints from teachers about one module that has
students read and re-read one short story over and over and over and ov... more »
Gold and Silver Report - December 18 , 2013 Harvey Organ post highlights , data of the day and more news and views.....
http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/2013/12/dec-182013gld-loses-another-42-tonnes.html
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Dec 18.2013:/GLD loses another 4.2 tonnes of gold/SLV remains constant/USA
tapers by 10 billion dollars/gold and silver slammed by the bankers/
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen:
Gold closed up $4.90 to $1236.10 (comex closing time ). Silver was up 22
cents at $20.01.
then came the FOMC report and the announcement of a 10 billion per month
taper:
Closing prices for gold and silver at 5:15 pm from the access market
gold: $1218.50
silver: $19.72
Gold was all ove... more »
India blast US for ignoring diplomatic immunity for its female Deputy Consul - Devyani Khobragade ...... degrading treatment on a alleged false visa application for a nanny brought arrest , repeated strip searches and cavity searches ! India has immediately retaliated as expected - India of course has become more sensitive to female mistreatment due to numerous recent rape cases in India . Apart from the rape angle , this is figurative " mistreatment " of the nation of India - what if India started enforcing its laws against Americans - such as by arresting same sex diplomatic couples ?
Indo-U.S. Ties Hit Logjam Over Indian Diplomat's Arrest
The arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York has sparked furor in New
Delhi, damaging Indo-US ties.
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Whether you call it a reaction or overreaction (or vengeance), India has
initiated a number of reprisals against the United States after the arrest
of an Indian diplomat in New York last week, thereby putting at stake
friendly ties between the world’s two largest democracies. In a series of
unprecedented measures, New Delhi scaled down ... more »
Faith's vision
*AK Note: **What follows in Faith 's vision. Consider it for what it is,
data. Use your own higher discernment. In some ways the vision corresponds
to what Sheldan and others have described at the time of the
planetary ascension of Earth. I can't say this is what will happen. We will
find out. **I don't know the reason or context for the Templars and
Dragons within this vision, but I do know the financial system is full of
Templars and Dragons, so I present it as Faith wrote it. I am not
promoting Freemasonry or any other Templar faction and neither is Faith. I
have slightly ... more »
Sensitivities of all Gaia inhabitants attain High Points…
*Sensitivities of all Gaia inhabitants attain High Points…*
by ÉirePort
Sensitivities of all Gaia inhabitants attain High Points, prior to
commencement of next phase.
This is a vital step on path to global Ascension.
Corollaries are now abandoned; primes are on point.
Flash points have been reached; required sparks follow in short order.
Release of all projection-with-resultant-fear scenarios is primary at this
moment.
All is at Peace with Gaia.
ÉirePort | December 18, 2013 at 20:13
URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-qS
Marlene Swetlishoff’s Incredible Photo – Pillar of Light in Canada
COLUMN OF LIGHT! Photo by Marlene Swetlishoff ©2013
*Marlene Swetlishoff’s Incredible Photo – Pillar of Light in Canada*
Posted by Stephen Cook on December 17, 2013
Reblogged from:
http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/marlene-swetlishoffs-incredible-photo-pillar-of-light-in-canada/marlene-beach/
On Sunday’s episode of Lift Your Spirit: Our 2013 Journey – Part 2 on
InLight Radio (the show that has everyone talking following Fran Zepeda’s
revelations about her own incredible Ascension journey) Blossom Goodchild
was guided to tell us all about a particular photo that appears on Marlene
Sw... more »
Not all orders to non-parties are final
Ambrose v. Zuppardi, 2013 ONCA 768
[6] *Smerchanski *was further weakened in the subsequent decision
in *Royal Trust Corporation v. Fisherman* (2001), 55 O.R. (3d) 794 (C.A.),
in which this court, following *Sun Life**,* emphasized that *Smerchanski* does
not stand for the proposition that all orders in which the court denies a
request to obtain information from non-parties are final. Simply put, if
the motion requesting information is dismissed where the information sought
from the non-party may still be available from the parties to the action,
the order is interlocuto... more »
Teaching in Finland, Denigration in the U. S.
We know what to expect when the NYTimes moneymen call on their token
minority, Brent Staples, to craft an Editorial of the Absurd on CorpEd's
antiquated reforms that have effectively blown up public education along
with the teaching profession. Staples' most recent effort does not
disappoint, as he uses the most recent PISA release to apply his pretzel
logic and funhouse lenses to make sense of the U. S. middle-of-the
pack-rankings. Rather than regarding PISA as the most recent example of
how CorpEd's policies have failed again to improve U. S. standings in the
international testi... more »
Happy Christmas? Dimon Daze? Pigs Snort In Glee - Clown Representatives Triumph! NC Crushing Unemployed and Employed: What’s Happened in North Carolina Since July Is an Indication of What Will Happen Nationwide (ALEC's Extreme Legislative Agenda for 2014)
We can't blame the right wingers for everything, I guess. Although at this
season of the year it's beginning to seem a lot like Grinchmas. Everywhere
we look. Surprise! Paul Ryan’s Debt Ceiling Hypocrisy: Mr. Realism Returns
to Extortion The GOP wants concessions from Democrats in exchange for not
allowing the U.S. to default on its debts this spring, Rep. Paul Ryan
(R-Wis.) said on Fox News
Ronnie Biggs, MK-ULTRA and the Fourth Reich
http://jimhougan.com/wordpress/?tag=the-great-train-robbery
"How Biggs, while hiding out in Rio, came to live at Scott Johnson’s
apartment, where he was patronized and protected by Huber and the others,
is an important question.
[An anecdotal account of Biggs' life in Rio, which discusses his friendship
with Johnson and Huber, can be found in Biggs: The World's Most Wanted Man,
by Colin Mackenzie, William Morrow & Co., New York, 1975.]
Among other things, it suggests the possibility (indeed, the likelihood)
that the firm which provided cover (or an alibi) for Jim Jones’s activ... more »
Western backed mercenaries intensify their targetting of Christians & Allawites
One news item that says so much about the *western backed mercenaries *brutal
war of divide to conquer in Syria.NATO. The blood of so many innocents
stain the nations that participate in this endless imperialism.
Yes, that includes Canada
*Militants have intensified attacks against Christians and Allawites*
A survivor of an August attack that killed nearly 200 people in the regime
stronghold of Latakia province walks near graves of some of the dead.
This month, rebels attacked the town of Deir Atiyah north of Damascus.*
Militants who participated in the attack alongside more moder... more »
Evil in a suit
A petition for the House of Commons to debate the issue of hunger and food
banks in Britain is successful. Iain Duncan Smith, the Minister for the
Department of Work and Pensions, fucks off when the debate starts. He is of
course a man determined to destroy welfare in Britain and terminally poison
the idea of collective provision for at least a generation. Austerity is
the Tory bid to reorganise society further in its favour (and that of the
capitalist class). Any normal person would be ashamed to do the things IDS
does. But stuff like this is water off a duck's back to Mr Smith. He ... more »
Summer Reading: What’s yours?
Around this time every year, I generally post a pile of summer reading I’m
trying to stuff into my pack. I’ll probably do that in a few days, but in
the meantime, what books are you stuffing into your pack or eBook reader
this summer?
And what books would you recommend to others?
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Hope in the holiday season
by Jon Rappoport
December 18, 2013
www.nomorefakenews.com
Untold millions (billions?) of people across the world are waking up to
official lies, cover stories, and conspiracies.
These people are crossing the bridge, so to speak, to see what's on the
other side.
The question is, do they stay there once they've crossed over, or do they
try to retreat back to their former positions as ordinary citizens with
dimmed perception?
It's quite a trick to a) maintain the status of "normal person" while b)
seeing through the enormous ruse.
In fact, in the long run, it's impossible.
Therefore... more »
Meyer Lansky, the Jewish Mob and the Nazi Underground Reich
"A revealing insight into this international f inancial and in- dustrial
network was given me by a member of the Bormann organization residing in
West Germany. Meyer Lansky, he said, the financial advisor to the Las
Vegas-Miami underworld, sent a message to Bormann through my West German SS
contact.
Lansky promised that if he received a piece of Bormann’s action he would
keep the Israeli agents off Bormann’s back.
*“I have a very good relation with the Israeli secret police” *was his
claim,although he was to be kicked out of Israel later when his presence
became too noted —and ... more »
Previously enormous story gets bigger!
*WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2013*
*Rachel continues bridge work:* As of Monday, the story had become
enormous. Or at least, so a little bird said:
MADDOW (12/16/13): The George Washington Bridge traffic jam story that
started as the teeny, teeny, tiny, tiniest little political story in the
entire world has just gotten enormous.
That was one of the teases on Monday’s Maddow show. Last night, we learned
that the previously enormous story had somehow become even bigger:
MADDOW (12/17/13): All right. If New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was
hoping that today was the day that people stopp... more »
Fat Free Econ 50: Growth, Bubbles and the PH Economy
* This is my article yesterday in interaksyon.com
---------
MANILA - A few weeks ago, an article from forbes.com written by contributor
Jesse Colombo, “Here’s why the Philippines’ economic miracle is really a
bubble in disguise,” went viral in the social media. One may not agree with
the analysis and conclusion but many data presented were useful.
The Philippines’ recent strong economic performance -- like the 7.4 percent
GDP growth in the first three quarters of 2013 -- is it a miracle or a
bubble in disguise, as Mr. Colombo and a few others would put it?
*Chart 1. Quarterly GDP gr... more »
Has Cheri Bustos Earned Reelection?
Who's worse to be hanging with, Pete Peterson or Rahm?
In 2010, the Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature gerrymandered the
state-- in the same anti-democratic way that Republican-controlled
legislatures did in states like North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,
Georgia and Michigan-- to create more congressional seats for its own
party. One of those seats, IL-17, was expressly designed to defeat freshman
Republican Bobby Schilling. The awkwardly-drawn district starts up in
Rockford and the suburbs of Dubuque and Davenport and works its way down
and across into the Democratic p... more »
I really don't give a rip what Barbara Walters said to Piers Morgan about Obama being the "Messiah"...
*and I don't really care that both of these people have faces that move
about as much as a cement sidewalk. *
However, I *do* find it interesting that they have both pumped so much
Botox into themselves that nothing moves. Piers Morgan's forehead would
make a marble statue jealous.
Dine' Ed Becenti: Ask not what your Navajo Nation can do for you
Ask
not what your Navajo Nation can do for you
By Ed Becenti, Dine'
Letter to the Editor
Censored News
With the death this week of Nelson Mandela, we thought of people like
him and John F. Kennedy who really cared about their countries.
Kennedy’s quote “Ask not what your country can do for you, Ask what you
can do for your country”
1963
1963: Act I - The Good We Oft Might Win...
from Spike EP on Vimeo.
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by
fearing to attempt”
*Measure for MeasureAct I, Scene IV*
Mohawk John Kane 'There is no victory for us in U.S. or Canadian Courts'
There
is no victory for us in U.S. or Canadian Courts
By John Karhiio Kane (Mohawk)
Censored News
The embarrassing failure of the U.S. prosecutor in the Three Feathers
Casino trial is not a win. It's not even a draw! Surviving the
persecution and prosecution of their law enforcement agents, lawyers,
judges and juries is a good thing, but it is not justice. It is not
justice when
Mohawk Nation News "Great Peace on Earth!'
GREAT
PEACE ON EARTH!
Posted on December 18, 2013
Mohawk Nation News
MNN. Dec. 18, 2013. The US dollar started with the theft of Indigenous
land and resources here on Great Turtle Island. No one helped us resist.
Now it’s a worldwide problem. It will end soon!
The only impediment to peace on earth is the 13 crime families now known
as the bankers. When you follow the great white
Mohawk Nation News 'Shut the F--- Up about Ford!'
SHUT
THE F— UP ABOUT FORD!
Mohawk Nation News
MNN. DEC. 15, 2013. The recent uproar in Prime Minister Harper’s caucus
when the Finance Minister swore at Jason Kenny, “To shut the f— up about
Rob Ford”, has Mohawk origins. “Flaherty’s profane rebuke to Kenny’s
Rob Ford comments.”
See.’2010 update on Flaherty’s Mohawk land grab’.
Jim and Christine & Flaherty fam’ heading out to
Jacob Ostreicher escaping Bolivia
So the story is that a gang of kidnappers set upon Jacob in Santa Cruz,
demanded a ransom and
threatened to kill him...but decided to be nice and deliver him to his home
thousands of miles away in Brooklyn. OK. Some believe it, some don't. At
Chaplins and other comedy clubs in La Paz, this is a joke; the Russian
customers call it skazka - fairy tale.
The sad part is that there are two sides left hurt in this - the Jewish
Community and the La Paz government - but the real culprits are the drug
dealers, extortionists and political opportunists; the latter of whom
exasperated the La Pa... more »
Updates On Syria [12.18]: Erdogan's Brand Takes Another Hit While Assad's Image Is Recovering, 9 Reasons Why Kurds Are Defeating Al-Qaeda, Syrian Minister Says Regime Will Not Relinquish Power At Geneva II Conference
*1. An excerpt from, "Assad Stays While Erdogan Goes?" by 'b', Moon of
Alabama, December 18:*
Yesterday the police in Istanbul arrested dozens of people related to
Erdogan's AK Party including the sons of three ministers involved in a
number of graft cases. Just hours later the five police leaders responsible
for the case were fired and two new prosecutors were named to oversee the
whitewash of the issue. More police chiefs were fired today after the
justice minister intervened. This hasty cover-up seems to show that the
cases are valid. This corruption and justice scandal comes on... more »
HEROIN, HAIRLESS BOYS, 9 11 HIJACKERS, TURKISH HISTORY
*Ataturk*
Turkey is famous for heroin and hairless boys.
Ataturk, the leader of Turkey from 1923-1938, is still the most popular man
in Turkey.
According to Patrick Balfour, Lord Kinross, *Ataturk had sexual "adventures
with young boys*, if the opportunity offered and the mood, in this bisexual
fin-de-siècle Ottoman age."
According to Irfan and Margaret Orga, in *Atatürk*, Ataturk "was used to
... the craze for handsome young men, (and) fleeting contacts with
prostitutes... His body burned for ... a boy."
According to H.C. Armstrong, in *Mustafa Kemal, An Intimate Study*, Atatu... more »
A Merry Banksy Christmas
Five years ago, BBC correspondent Aleem Maqbool walked from Nazareth to
Bethlehem, retracing the route taken by Mary and Joseph by donkey as told
in the Bible.
For ten days he and his donkey successfully negotiated the queues,
turnstiles and x-ray machines at some military checkpoints while being
turned away at others despite his foreign passport and Israeli press
credentials.
On the morning of December 22 on his trek, he talked to a New Yorker who
had emigrated to the Jewish settlement of Shilo built on Palestinian land in
the middle of the West Bank.
... more »
Today’s Tests vs. “Better” Tests
I sent this letter to the editor (below) in response to Alan J. Borsuk’s
article in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinal. In the article
Professor Borsuk laments low standardized test scores and over testing and
then simply (with the help of Marc Tucker, CEO and president of the
National Center on Education and the Economy) offers […]
Reddit: a major "share a random URL" server bans climate skeptics
I know the reddit.com server as one of the servers where you may "share an
URL".
Why someone would visit this server has always been completely
incomprehensible to me – the pages on reddit.com look like a collection of
trash – some random URLs – and the discussions attached to these URLs seem
to be overwhelmed by trolls. I have been thankful to reddit.com as one of
the sinks of the trolls' energy – a place where this foam of the Internet
interacts with itself so that it has less time to annoy decent Internet
users.
Even Reddit's official logo seems to confirm that this is the mis... more »
Forgotten Audio Gems - Tim Binnall Interviews Scott Corrales
Forgotten audio gems: *Community Video* over at the *Internet Archives*(archives.org) has hosted an episode of *Tim
Binnall*'s "Binnall of America" in which he interviews yours truly, Scott
Corrales, on the Chupacabras and sundry matters.
*https://archive.org/details/Season2Episode5ScottCorrales*. It was a lively
and informative exchange.
Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history in Spain,
Latin America and the Caribbean
Untitled
*More massive tar mats from BP oil spill discovered on Louisiana beaches
~Bob Marshall, The Lens*
Another heartwarming rescue by Eldad Hagar of Hope for Paws...
Please consider a donation to *Hope for Paws* this Christmas season.
The Fight Against School Reform Is a Fight for Children
Why did commenters say that Diane Ravitch's, "What Happens to Kids Who
Don't Graduate?" is her best post ever? Ravitch reviews the dramatic drop
in Kentucky and New York pass rates after instituting Common Core
assessments:
*In New York, the “passing” rate on the Common Core tests was 30%
statewide. Only 3% of English learners passed, and only 5% of students with
disabilities. The pass rate for African American and Hispanic students was
15-18%. *
If reformers "continue to insist upon a wildly unrealistic passing mark,"
Ravitch reminds, "the percentage of students who do not gradu... more »
Bone Doc
Southern Man got the call yesterday from the Bone Doc and saw him (or,
rather, his PA) this morning. That fracture blister was swollen to epic
proportions and the pic is sufficiently disburbing that Southern Man is
going to make you click on the link to actually see it.
Fracture Blister
They usually wait for these to go down on their own but this one was so
large that they lanced and drained it before applying the splint which
means that Southern Man must remove the splint, remove the dressing, clean
the wound, apply all manner of topical ointments and gels and such,
re-dress the ... more »
Caching On Crutches
You don't think a minor setback like a fractured fibula is going to keep
Southern Man from geocaching, did you?
Dedicated cacher or just plain crazy? You be the judge.
Parents Opting Out of Tests: What is Your Goal?
After doing a segment on the local Albuquerque news channel about refusing
the state tests, I received a few responses. Most were questions or
suggestions for the website, which were all very good. Then, I received a
letter that was full of stuff I’ve heard over and over again, and to which
I’ve responded too […]
There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections
From the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Travis
Rathbone)
*There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections*
*One of the earliest examples of ingenuity in the Western Hemisphere is
composed of gourds and twine*
By Neil Baldwin
Smithsonian magazine, December 2013, Subscribe
As a nomadic cultural historian, my subjects have led me in wildly
different directions. I spent every Friday for five years in a dim, dusty
reading room in West Orange, New Jersey, formerly a laboratory on the
second floor of Thomas Edison’s headquarters, deciphering the
blunt-... more »
Who Remembers Romney's 47% Host, Marc Leder? Now He's Raising Money For Another Economic Reactionary, Ro Khanna
Shady billionaire-backed Ro Khanna primarying Mike Honda
Blue America has endorsed only 2 House incumbents facing reelection
difficulty. And one, Mike Honda, represents Silicon Valley-- CA-17, a
heavily Democratic area-- D+20 which Obama took with 72% last year. Honda
even did better than that, beating his Republican opponent 74-26%, more
than 100,000 votes separating them. The plutocratic interests in the
district-- and across the country-- know they can't beat Honda, a lifelong
staunch advocate for working families, with an outright Republican, so now
they're trying to a stealth Re... more »
Heavenletter #4771 Oneness Will Sing Its Song and Do Its Dance, December 17, 2013
Image courtesy: http://www.onenessblessingarkansas.com/
*This one jumped out at me. Heather was walking on the beach the other
night doing some meditation and a dolphin jumped out of the water and
landed in front of her. She got in the surf and pulled it back into the
water "this will not do she told it..." as it would have died if it stayed
on shore. We've been puzzling over the symbolism of it all since... and
here comes this curious post.... -Bill*
*Heavenletter #4771 Oneness Will Sing Its Song and Do Its Dance, December
17, 2013*
God said:
You are My seed that has sprouted. ... more »
The Realist Report - David North: Center for Immigration Studies
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by David North, a
fellow at the *Center for Immigration Studies*. David and I will be talking
about EB-5 visa programs and the "China City" project currently scheduled
for development in Sullivan County, New York, along with other issues
related to legal and illegal immigration policy in the United States.
You can download the mp3 for this program *here*, or visit *The Realist
Report* on BlogTalkRadio to subscribe via iTunes and view past programs.
Below are relevant links for this program:
- *China City: A perfect storm... more »
Pittsburgh School Board Reconsiders TFA Deal As Real Teachers File for Unemployment
From the Post-Gazette:
The board of Pittsburgh Public Schools heard from a dozen people Monday --
most of them teachers -- who oppose the district's plan to bring in Teach
for America teachers to take hard-to-fill jobs at its most challenging
schools.
The outgoing school board voted 6-3 in November to approve a contract with
Teach for America, despite a petition that asked them to defer the decision
to the new board -- with four new members -- that took office early this
month.
During a presentation last week by a Teach for America representative,
several board members challenged the... more »
Provocation
The criterion to be applied in order to determine whether there is any
provocation sufficient to reduce murder to manslaughter is a dual test,
the classic formulation of which was pronounced in Wright, [1969] 3 C.C.C.
258 (S.C.C.).Fauteux J. (as he then was), after quoting s.203(2) [now
s.232(2)], said (at 261 and 262):
One must then first consider the effect, on an ordinary person, of the
particular wrongful act or insult relied on. In the words of Lord Simonds,
L.C., the purpose of this objective test is "...to invite the jury to
consider the act of the accused by reference... more »
FIVE KEY POINTS AND ELEVEN SOLUTIONS: The New York Times and the PISA cult!
*WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2013*
*Interlude—Functional illiterates:* As many have noted, sometimes unwisely,
anti-intellectualism can be a troubling strain in the American fabric.
We liberals tend to focus on the anti-intellectualism associated with the
red state South. We tend to look away from the anti-intellectualism which
pervades our mainstream and liberal cultures.
That powerful strain of anti-intellectualism may service the needs of our
global elites. In a relentless series of columns, Paul Krugman has shown
how our economic discourse is shaped by such elites, then enabled by t... more »
The snowboarding crow
That crows are intelligent and use tools is understood but a crow
snowboarding...
Now that's an intelligent and fun loving bird!
It's Wednesday...
*what's going on.*
Last Refuge: *Seriously ? – Pajama Boy Now Represents The Image of
ObamaCare*
American Thinker: *Left to Die in Benghazi*
iOwnTheWorld: *Mr. T Gets Unfollowed in Droves on Twitter For Saying
Something RADICAL*
Angry White Dude: *QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF KRYSTAL’S
IDEA? *
Proof Positive: * President Selfie is 111th Most Influential Person in
History *
I'm a Man. I'm 41: * Apple Approves An App That Allows Homosexuals To Meet
Up With Other “Gays” As Young As 12-Years-Old*
Jammie Wearing Fool: *CBS/NYT Poll: Only 15% of Insured Say ObamaCar... more »
Two-Headed Dragon of Education Policy
Two-Headed Dragon of Education Policy. via Two-Headed Dragon of Education
Policy.
Low Level Attacks Characterize Violence In Iraq’s Ninewa November 2013
According to the United Nations Iraq’s Ninewa has been the second deadliest
province for most of 2013. That’s because the governorate capital Mosul is
the major urban base for the insurgency. Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Baathist
Naqshibandi and others have been able to assert control over wide swaths of
the city and surrounding area. Unlike places like Baghdad where mass
casualty bombings are the norm, in Ninewa violence consists mostly of
low-level shootings and roadside bombs but with no less deadly results.
November 2013 saw the most reported attacks in Ninewa since the beginning
o... more »
Accountability without Autonomy Is Tyranny
At The Answer Sheet, Valerie Strauss confronts What’s wrong with this
headline?:
What’s wrong with this headline speaks to what’s wrong with a lot of the
debate about school reform today. The problem is the indiscriminate and
inaccurate use of the word “accountability.”
While politicians and the media continue to pound at one nail—teacher
quality—almost no one confronts the nearly universal lack of credibility or
expertise among those politicians and much of the media—both of which
remain, somehow, above the accountability they constantly call for
impacting others, specifically tea... more »
Untitled
*Hearing: Which court should hear coastal lawsuit? ~Janet McConnauhey*
Read more here:
http://www.thestate.com/2013/12/18/3165351/hearing-which-court-should-hear.html#storylink=cpy
*Study Shows Gulf Dolphins in Poor Health following Deepwater Horizon
Oil Spill*
*HUD: State must negotiate with HUD on Gulfport port project or face
funding loss ~Anita Lee, Sun Herald*
Read more here:
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/12/18/5204760/hud-state-must-negotiate-with.html#storylink=cpy
*Mid-City residents worry about railroad tracks ruining St. Patrick
Playground ~Della Hasselle, Mid City Messe... more »
2014 Educators’ Agenda
Begin a movement to create and fund Deliver for America, temporary driver
pool to replace full-time drivers at FedEx. (See FedEx Celebrating Holidays
with TFA Donations.) Call for a nation-wide evaluation of political leaders
based on value added methods measuring their positive impact on the people
they represent; standardized tests administered for every elected official
should include […]
Birnam Wood Is Moving
The year end interview with CTV's Bob Fife is off. That's because there's
nothing Stephen Harper wants to talk about. It's been that kind of year.
It's been the kind of year that Eric Grenier believes may well have sunk
the good ship Harper:
The polls have gone from bad to worse for Harper, as his government plumbs
the depths of its time in power. Never before has support for the
Conservatives dropped so low for so long since they defeated Paul Martin in
the 2006 election.
Challenges by Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff, who both led Liberals
into first place in the polls for ... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Alan Rudolph, 70.
Travel day yesterday, so I hardly saw any good stuff, but there are these:
1. Andrew Sprung, as usual, listens to Obama better than most of us.
2. Keith Bentele and Erin O’Brien track black voting and restrictions on
voting.
3. And really, no more (blogging) Dan Drezner?
What the Koran says - something for @sambarnet to read and listen to
Earlier this year Robert Spencer was on the BBC Asian Network and at one
point the host (Nihal) asked him to quote verses from the Koran or the
Hadiths that he finds reprehensible. Robert Spencer quickly responded with
several verses from the Koran and one from the Hadith. Note that the Imam
(Dudwallah ?) to provide the proper ‘context’ for these verses, since he
objected to them being out of context. Note that he was unable to do so and
when put on the spot he claimed that this is Robert Spencer’s field, not
his. I did enjoy Nihal responding incredulously "But you're an imam!" Also ... more »
Is The Senate Actually Starting To Function Again?
Monday there were two votes in the Senate on Presdient Obama's nomination
of Jeh Johnson to be Secretary of Homeland Security. First came a cloture
vote. There were 57 ayes and 37 nays, with 6 Republicans not voting. Under
the bad old rules, that would have ended the chance to confirm the first
African-American ever nominated to that position. The only Republicans who
broke with McConnell and crossed the aisle to vote with the Democrats were
Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). That was at 5:59 pm.
Because shutting down a filibuster on most nominations no longer requires... more »
A blogger using the pseudonym "teacherken" collects a number of quotes by Bill Moyers and uses them as context bearing on his own history-based sense of what We the (99% of American) People currently confront, i.e., living under an extractive plutocracy, and how this nightmare fits in our history.
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Bill Moyers recently gave a speech at the Brennan Institute. If you go to
his website, you can read an edited version of that speech, titled The
Great American Class War: Plutocracy Versus Democracy.
Simply put, Moyers provides context ... more »
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Justices Should Stay If They're Able To Work
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy*
Some liberals have recently called on Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire so that
President Barack Obama can choose her replacement. At 80, she is the oldest
justice on the court. Some fear that if she chooses to stay, a Republican
succesor to Obama might nominate another A. Scalia. God help us! But
Justice Ginsburg believes that Supreme Court justices should not be
influenced by political assessments of a party's future prospects with
respect to the court.
One of Ginsburg's shining moments came with the dubious ascension of one
George W. BUsh to... more »
Widespread Snow On Christmas Eve/Christmas For The UK & Ire 2013?
*Widespread Snow On Christmas Eve/Christmas For The UK & Ire 2013?*
The latest weather models are indicating that a rather wet and windy
picture will develop for the 2013 Christmas period across many parts of the
UK & Ireland.
A significant area of low pressure is set to feature across the country in
or around the Christmas Eve period (24th). This will also bring a period of
exceptionally windy conditions, with some severe gales developing in places.
However, it is also set to turn noticeably cooler across many parts of the
country from next week and as we head into the start of t... more »
Mild December? + What is really going on? + IMPORTANT rest of December & January update
*Mild December? + What is really going on? + IMPORTANT rest of December &
January update*
High pressure will be a dominating feature throughout the start to this
week, resulting in relatively dry and more settled weather across a good
bulk of the country. It will also feel rather mild for the time of the
year, with the increased risk of some heavy rain and strong winds
developing later in the week (especially in parts to the west).
However, as with November, what is being projected by standard weather
models in the upper atmosphere, may not necessarily be reflected upon in
actual s... more »
Weather Wars Update & My Accuracy
*Weather
Wars Update & My Accuracy*
*Weather Wars: Met Office denies predicting three months of
exceptionally
cold weather amid reports of Britain's coldest winter ever!*
*http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/weather-wars-met-office-denies-predicting-three-months-of-exceptionally-cold-weather-amid-reports-of-britains-coldest-winter-ever-8973755.html*
So
it's not acceptable when the Met Office are misquoted in
articles or
headlines are misinterpreted!
For example the recent six inches of snow headline (please see link
below).
I did feature within the article, but I simply sta... more »
Trifecta: President Obama Says Income Inequality is the Defining Challenge...
*as he heads off for seventeen sun soaked days in Hawaii. *
Breaking News: Russian Scientists Call For A 10 Year Ban On GMO
Breaking News: Russian scientists urge 10-year ban on genetically modified
products.
READ:
http://rt.com/news/gmo-ban-russian-scientists-293/
*Source:*
*GMO Free Canada*
Serbia Bans The Growing Of GMO Crops
Serbia will not allow the cultivation of GMOs in its territory,
Minister of Agriculture Dragan Glamocic stated, despite pressure to accept
GMOs from the WTO. "We have to harmonize our legislations with the EU
acquis, which does not mean tha...t we will allow the cultivation of GMOs,"
the minister told Radio and Television of Serbia, stressing that the
citizens should know that 95 percent of meat, milk, eggs that are imported
from other world countries are coming from animals which were fed by GMO
soy products. A draft law, which is underway, will clearly label all
imported produc... more »
Citibank pulling out of Philadelphia and shutting regional branches in Cherry Hill and Lawrenceville ( both in NJ ) , as well as branches on US 202 North of Wilmington , Del !
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/Citibank-shutting-Philadelphia-.html
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Citibank, the global Manhattan-based loan and investment company, is ... more »
AT&T patents tech that can block copyright pirates (and anything else) in real-time
*Its not a small step to go from banning a video to banning a forbidden
document or web page... they're analyzing content and scoring the results
in a database... And then acting as judge and law enforcement, who needs
Judge Dredd when you have AT&T? Now do you see why they consolidated the
Internet Provider Services by subsidizing the Telecom giants with nice
billion dollar wiretap contracts with the NSA and FBI? They can easily
pressure the major telecom CEOs to comply but they could never do that
without public exposure to the thousands of ISP providers that existed in
the lat... more »
Gardasil: My Daughter’s Worst Nightmare by Donna Malone
Allie Malone
Gardasil: My daughter’s worst nightmare
By Donna Malone
Murfreesboro Tennessee
Sane Vax, Ince, November 27, 2013
Cancer is a frightening word. Any parent in the world would do whatever was
in their power to protect their child from this terrible disease. I had no
idea adding Gardasil to our list of protective measures would turn our
lives into a nightmare.
Allie is my beautiful 12 year old daughter. She is the youngest of my three
children. Having been born 12 years after her brother and sister, she was a
little spoiled. Allie made every day a party. For several y... more »
If my favorite textbook hasn't simplified things enough for you...
My friend and former student Miles Kimball takes a stab at explaining some
basic macroeconomics through the vehicle of a child's storybook.
The #ChristmasMyths, #1: The Myth of the Miraculous Birth
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Christians claim the miraculous Christmas story of the Nativity and all its
trappings as unique to their own particular heresy, apparently as unaware
of the story’s origins as they are of its paucity of even Biblical
support—failing to notice that that there is nothing at all miraculous in
Paul’s two quite minor references to Jesus’ birth (the earliest written
reference), nothing at all in Mark (the earliest Gospel), two quite
different and incompatible versions of the birth written later and
attributed to Matthew and Luke (prompting many historians to contemplate ... more »
Gardasil : le pire cauchemar de ma fille par Donna Malone
*Gardasil *: le pire cauchemar de ma fille
Par Donna Malone, Murfreesboro, 27 novembre 2013 (Sanevax)
Le mot « Cancer » est effrayant. Tous les parents du monde feraient
n’importe quoi pour protéger leurs enfants de cette terrible maladie. Quand
j’ai ajouté le Gardasil à toutes les précautions que nous avions prises
pour la santé, notre vie est devenue un véritable cauchemar.
Allie est ma jolie jeune-fille de 12 ans. Elle est la plus jeune de mes
trois enfants. Comme elle est née 12 ans après son frère et sa sœur, elle a
été quelque peu gâtée.
Pour Allie, chaque jour était un jour... more »
Thai Crisis: Alternative Thai News Round Up
*December 18, 2013* (Tony Cartalucci) - With the ongoing counter-color
revolution unfolding in Thailand against the Wall Street-backed regime of
Thaksin Shinawatra, here are some stories published on Alternative Thai Newsthat weren't yet posted on Land Destroyer.
Thailand: Inside the Mind of a Thaksin Regime Supporter
Disturbing 2009 interview with pro-Thaksin demagogue reveals mentality of
regime's supporters - utter ignorance regarding human rights, basic human
freedom, and the very concept of democracy they claim to be defending.
*December 16, 2013* (Forward by Tony Cartalucci) - ... more »
Watch this kitten...(video)
*and learn something.*
Seriously.
Can you hear the sound of teeth being gritted at the BBC?
This is the top of the BBC UK News home page
If you think you can hear the sound of gritted teeth as the BBC report this
news, you're probably right.
Incidentally the BBC report about the UK jobless rate ends thus:
Average weekly earnings growth including bonuses picked up by 0.9% in the
three months to October compared with a year earlier, the ONS said, a
slight improvement on the three months to September.
Excluding bonuses, pay grew by 0.8%.
But this is still well below the level of inflation - currently running at
2.1% - meaning that people's living standards are falling in r... more »
Fun with German compound words
Even if you have no German language skills this video should still make
perfect sense and amuse...
STRIP SEARCH LEADS TO USA-INDIA 'WAR'.
*Diplomat Devyani *
Devyani Khobragade is India's deputy consul general in New York.
On 12 December 2013, she was taken into custody just as she was dropping
her daughter off at school.
She was handcuffed in public.
*She was strip-searched.*
*She was put in a cell with drug addicts and subjected to DNA swabbing.*
*Devyani*
Devyani was arrested because her maid had complained she was being payed
less than the minimum stipulated under US visa requirements.
INSIDE-JOB: MUMBAI. / CIA'S DAVID HEADLEY PLOTTED MUMBAI MASSACRE
*Now, remember that it was the CIA that reportedly carried ... more »
Math is the language of the true culture of modern times
*...and math skills are unavoidable side effects of skills that turned some
humans into heroes of natural selection...*
*Copenhagen:* I haven't been to theaters in Boston too many times ;-) but
it was at least once when we went to see Copenhagen. You may watch Bohr and
Heisenberg in a 90-minute BBC-4 movie now. Via Joseph S.
Three days ago, Sabine Hossenfelder wrote a text about the role of
mathematics in the society:
Mathematics, the language of nature. What are you sinking about?
Edward Measure's brief response proved that mathematics plays a much
smaller role in the society of p... more »
Bane sings Elton John
In a casting choice that's as vile and puke-making as Matt Damon playing
Liberace's toy boy, actor Tom Hardy has upcoming central roles in both Mad
Max (Fury Road) and the Elton John biopic (Rocketman).
There's probably a real news story hiding underneath this cheapshot stab at
humour, but really it's just for laughs.
dream - dead cat returns - with kitten and an old work colleague
this was kinda weird, in that I didn't know this particular cat was a) dead
or b) associated with an ex-work colleague whose funeral we all attended on
September 11th 2001.
I met the guy in the street, in passing. It was in London, as I was running
to catch a train, he had a younger brother with him and a moustache.
I can't remember if it was he or the younger brother who had the moustache,
but then a cat appeared. And I nearly didn't recognise it as it had grown
greyer than I remembered it. But the way it pushed its face at the back of
my hand, and the thinness at the end of its t... more »
today is chelsea manning's fourth birthday behind bars
Private Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning), who risked her freedom
and her life so that people would see the truth about the US occupation of
Iraq, is spending another birthday in prison. This is Manning's fourth
birthday behind bars. She was held in solitary confinement (a recognized
form of torture) for 10 months, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison for
releasing the video now known as Collateral Murder and other information to
Wikileaks. Not one person was harmed as a result of the information
becoming public.
On the other hand, the men who cooked up the highly profit... more »
open letter to james moore
To the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Industry:
In answer to your recent question, yes, it *is* your job to feed your
neighbour's child. And it's my job, and it's my neighbours' jobs, too. It
is all of our jobs to feed every hungry child, because we live in a
society, and that's what society is for. It is appalling that anyone in
government would ask such a question.
Mr. Moore, you may have been cornered into an apology by public outcry, and
of course you tried the old "I was quoted out of context" route, but we
know the truth when we hear it. And that comment was the true fac... more »
Tutorial: FROZEN Anna Cloak
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop
has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for
Collective Bias and its advertiser.
We are completely FROZEN obsessed in this house. About a generation ago, my
family came to America from Norway, my mom's brother and cousins still live
in Norway, and so when we heard that Disney's FROZEN has Norwegian
influences we were thrilled. Being Norwegian has always been a big part of
my identity, an identity my mom always took care to share with me, but I
was unsure of how to share it with my daugh... more »
Updates On Syria [12.18]: West Says Assad Could Remain In Power In A Limited Capacity, Syria-Linked Extremists Target Alawites In Lebanon, Vatican Is Negotiating The Release of Kidnapped Nuns
*1. An excerpt from, "West Tells Syria Rebels: Assad Must Stay" by Jason
Ditz, AntiWar.Com, December 16:*
Members of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) report that they have been told
by Western officials that they believe President Bashar Assad must remain
in power to prevent an al-Qaeda takeover of the country.
“Some do not even seem to mind if he runs again next year,” noted one SNC
member. That’s not sitting well with the SNC, but it may not matter.
*Western diplomats confirmed the shift, saying that the rebels have been
warned that any “transitional administration” would have ... more »
Alan Grayson-- The Essential Member of Congress
Blue America doesn't do many live events. But on November 12, 2011 we were
very excited to offer all of our Southern California members an opportunity
to meet Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson at the Brave New Films studios in
Culver City. John Amato, Digby and I had worked with Robert Greenwald to
host the free event featuring Grayson. I blogged about it that day and
again last July on the occasion of Britain granting one of World War II's
greatest heroes, Alan Turing, a posthumous pardon for the crime of being gay.
That day at the Brave New Films studios was a wonderful day for... more »
The Anglo American Establishment
"The Rhodes Scholarships, established by the terms of Cecil Rhodes's
seventh will, are known to everyone. What is not so widely known is that
Rhodes in five previous wills left his fortune to form a secret society,
which was to devote itself to the preservation and expansion of the British
Empire. And what does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret
society was created by Rhodes and his principal trustee, Lord Milner, and
continues to exist to this day. To be sure, this secret society is not a
childish thing like the Ku Klux Klan, and it does not have any secret
robe... more »
Censored News Year in Photos 2013: Ten Indelible Images
Censored
News Photos of the Year 2013
Censored News most shared and viewed photos of 2013
An incredible year of women and youths in resistance
Jan. 25, 2013: Police in St Louis today use compliance pressure on
protesters, as Navajos demanded to talk with Peabody Coal
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/01/navajos-and-appalachians-protest.html
Jan.
27, 2013: Debra White Plume, Lakota,
One Third of NJ Urban Students in Unfit, Dilapidated Buildings
As Chris Christie's hopes for a presidential run diminish day by day, his
record on education in New Jersey is enough to disqualify him as
presidential material and should actually get him impeached. Another four
years of gridlock on the George Washington Bridge, no infrastructure
improvements on the rails to NYC or the tunnels but lots of empty photo ops
isn't going to cut it. His education policies have been devastating for
public schools in the state as he touts higher standards, accountability
for teachers, and vouchers.
Christie refused to raise taxes on millionaires and billio... more »
A tenured sociologist gets a bit of the #teacherprep treatment, more like #teacherperp @scottjaschik
In a nutshell, a tenured professor at UC-Boulder is leaving the university
because the administration is no longer allowing her to implement a lecture
on prostitution that includes a role-play, whereby teaching assistants for
the course play dress up as various kinds of “whores” and get interviewed
by the class. You know, you’re just going […]
Sandy Hook Exposed: The Realist Report Discusses The Latest On The Sandy Hook Fraud, And Updated Video By Sofia Smallstorm
To this day, I am still shocked that people do NOT see the obvious... That
is of course the fact that the "shooting" that occurred over one year ago
at Sandy Hook "Elementary" School in Newtown Connecticut was a complete
hoax. I have long said that it was a preplanned and well orchestrated
simulated shooting operation that the criminals decided to go "live". I
am also stating again that I am fully convinced more than ever that
absolutely NOBODY died in this operation.
I want to present the following important link to John Friend's "Realist
Report" for today, December 17th, 2013... more »
"Surely a country that honors the devotion of family members to each other should want to make it at least a little easier for them to do their jobs" (E. J. Dionne Jr.)
*"At a time when the political news is dominated by a debate between
do-little conservatism and do-nothing conservatism -- which is to say,
between a right-tilting Republican establishment and the radical tea party
-- [Senator] Gillibrand's package includes building blocks for a broader
counter-vision inspired by the idea of an Empowering Government."*
-- *E. J. Dionne Jr., in his* Washington Post *column*
"Family values hypocrisy"
*by Ken*
We talk a lot about families here -- but actual families and their actual
hopes and needs, not the crap blithered about the phony-baloney avata... more »
Quote of the Day: On Women
*“If women ran the world we'd still live in caves, but with **really fancy
curtains.**”*
- Kate at Small Dead Animals
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Syria and Afghanistan updates - December 15 , 2013 - Syria item of note....With FSA Supreme Military Commander Idris literally run out of Syria by the islamist / jihadist / Al Qaeda forces - looks like the US is preparing to get in bed with terrorists - these same fighters will without questions use any US weapons provided to them against either Israel and / or the US interests down the road... Regarding Afghanistan - we need to stay there because of Al Qaeda - that would be the same franchise islamist tyep fighters we are meeting with on Syria ? What is our foreign policy regarding aiding terrorists again ?
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
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The brief rebel-offensive against the Damascus suburb of Adra, and the
Syrian military is once again in control. As usual, it was the civilians
that bore the brunt of the clash, with reports of mass kidnappings and 80
civilians executed by the rebels before they were ousted.
The rebels, identified as al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra faction by locals, began
targeting Druze, Alawite and Christian residents early on in the siege of
the city, kidnapping them en masse.
The military insisted that the rebels were using the kidnapped as human
shields, but ... more »
Stay of civil proceedings on Court's own motion to be granted rarely
Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corporation, 2013 ONCA 758:
[54] While s. 106 of the *CJA* entitles the court to grant a stay on its
own motion, the circumstances under which it may appropriately do so are
rare. As stated by Epstein J. in*Gruner v. McCormack* (2000), 45 C.P.C.
(4th) 273 (Ont. S.C.J.), at para. 30,
To justify a stay, the defendant must satisfy the court that a continuance
of the action would work as injustice because it would be oppressive or
vexatious or an abuse of the process of the court and that the stay would
not cause an injustice to the plaintiff.
[55] In my vie... more »
George Zimmerman, rip off artist
Apparently, when the hero of the gun crazy crowd isn't busy murdering
unarmed teenagers for inciting his personal terror of Skittles, or
threatening women, he's taken up more artistic pursuits. Zimmerman's first
painting fetched a cool 100K when he put up for auction at EBay this week.
And if that's not enough to gag you, he has fans:
A well-wisher expressed love and support for Zimmerman in a question posted
on the eBay auction, telling him there were many people on his side, and
the artist replied.
“Thank you so much for the words of kindness and support. I do know how
many gr... more »
Libya Updates - December 17 , 2013 .....Security or the lack thereof items of interest , petrol shortage in Tripoli finally resolving , economic and political matters of note .......
Militia withdrawal “so slow it has almost stopped”: Elbadri
*By Ahmed Elumami.*
[image: Tripoli Local Council leader Sadat Elbadri addressing the local
councils' conference (Photo: Aimen Eljali)]
Tripoli Local Council leader Sadat Elbadri addressing the local councils’
conference (*Photo: Aimen Eljali*)
*Tripoli, 17 December 2013:*
The process or removing militias from urban areas, was going so slowly,
that it had almost stopped, Sadat Elbadri, head of Tripoli Local Council,
complained to fellow Libyan municipal chiefs in Tripoli today.
Elbadri, told a forum representing 34 local cou... more »
Western Governors University's Path to Becoming a Teacher in NJ
The Christmas gift that keeps on giving. Teaching jobs abound in New Jersey.
Western Governors University is recruiting heavily for part time adjuncts
in New Jersey to stay in their pajamas and conduct on line courses for
NCATE approved "evaluations." If you are looking for a job as a data
evaluator, with no benefits, no job security and no office, then this is
for you.
Now that they are dismantling teacher unions and public schools, it's a
free for all. Just sign up, pay some money, take some on line courses and
you are sure to be an
"effective" teacher. Just follow the script. Y... more »
The reason for the season?
It’s the Christmas season. Yuletide. The festive season. And the reason for
the season is …. not what you think it is.
Let’s start with a Christmas joke:
Q: "What's the difference between God and Santa Claus?"
A: "There is no God."
Ha ha ha. The fact is, dear readers, at least Santa—well, Saint Nicholas
at least—was a real figure, if not a real bloke, even if the other
inspirations for the Santa Claus character were not.
And the harsh fact is, I’m sorry to have to tell you, Christ himself was
never even *in* Christmas --except in fiction and by order of the first
Popes.
[The ... more »
Will you print your next house.
You can do it today, thanks to Wikihouse.
A Teacher’s 12 Days of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas my students gave to me: A Well Deserved Day
Alone On the second day of Christmas my students gave to me: Two Misplaced
Gloves and a Well Deserved Day Alone On the third day of Christmas my
students gave to me: Three Broken Pens Two Misplaced Gloves and a […]
West's Support For Sunni Extremism In Syria Is Triggering Chaos In The Region
An excerpt from, *"Extremist Syrian faction touts training camp for boys"*by Joby Warrick, Washington Post, December 16:
At first glance, the training camp appears no different from the many
others shown in propaganda videos posted by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria.
Hooded recruits in camouflage shoot at targets or march in formation under
the black flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
But look closer and the “fighters” appear quite small. The tallest are
barely chest-high to their instructors, and the shorter ones wear
ill-fitting uniforms and appear to struggle under the wei... more »
Fukushima: The Sailors of the USS Ronald Reagan
In 2011, the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan assisted with rescue
operations after the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster.
At least 51 members of the crew of the USS Ronald Reagan have now developed
radiation-related illnesses.
It is thought that the ship's desalinization systems took in radioactive
water which the crew drank, cooked with and bathed-in.
Charles Bonner, attorney representing sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan
said "They have testicular cancer, they have thyroid cancers, they have
leukemias, they have rectal and gynecological bleeding, a host of problems ... more »
Doug Martin on Justin Oakley's Radio Show Wednesday, December 18
By Doug Martin
I will be joining Justin Oakley on his Just Let Me Teach radio show on
Wednesday, December 18 from around 9:15 to 10:00 pm. I will be launching
the pre-order phrase of my book, *Hoosier School Heist*, which is scheduled
to be released in February and details the Walton Family, Jeb Bush, New
York hedge fund managers, the DeVos family of Amway fame, plagiarists, and
Republican campaign donors who run charter schools in Indiana, just to name
a few. People interested can pre-order the book on an ad on the Indiana
Talks website pages (scroll down on the right hand side), ... more »
The Elephant in the Room
*The Elephant in the Room*
By American Kabuki
December 17, 2013
We are in an amazing time of transition. Nothing is staying static, not
you, your relationships, your interests. Even your very body is changing
and in transition. The old ways of being, class, "knowing your place",
acceptance of abuse as just part of life, is rapidly becoming clear as the
mental programming that separated your mind from your heart. You were
taught to distrust your heart.
The awakening journey is a highly personal one. How it begins is
different for all of us. So is the ending, its all tailored ... more »
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