Friday Golf Begins – Rule 5 Implemented
“You Might As Well Throw Bones On The Ground” – Greenpeace Co-Founder Destroys Climate Change Science Models
Wow. I watched this last night and was impressed with Patrick Moore and his stance on how Greenpeace had turned into a leftist ideological group versus what he had envisioned it being. Then he proceeds too wipe out the science computer models showing human caused global warming.
http://youtu.be/ZfAcvV7cq10
DeBlasio Shuts Down Charter Shools
I don’t live in New York, have never been to New York, and have NO desire to visit New York. So somebody with more knowledge than myself can explain why one of the most successful education programs in your city is being shutdown?
Mayor de Blasio brought down the hammer Thursday on three charter schools operated by nemesis Eva Moskowitz, leaving hundreds of kids without classrooms this fall.
“This has to be the saddest day for the Success Academy’s children, family, teachers, school leaders,” Moskowitz said after meeting with stunned charter parents in Harlem. “Right now, our kids are being evicted. Evicted out of their school. It’s wrong and we need an explanation. You’re going to have to ask Mayor Deblasio what the motivations are for a decision that will hurt so many children now and, frankly, forever.”
Fulfilling a campaign pledge to limit charter expansions within public school buildings, de Blasio revoked approvals granted last year by the Bloomberg administration to two new Success Academy schools and to a third that planned to expand.
At the mayor’s behest, the Department of Education conducted a review of 45 “co-locations” where multiple schools share a single building — including 19 charters.
It revoked nine of the arrangements covering six public schools and the three charters, which all carried Moskowitz’s Success Academy banner.
Success Academy IV is the highest performing middle school in Harlem and among the best in the city. Moskowitz called on Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature to undo de Blasio’s actions. “We need political leadership,” she said.
“We need someone who will put kids ahead of politics. We are a public school. Public schools do not pay rent. And we cannot have a discriminatory policy. Kids are kids are kids. They must be treated equally whether they are in a district public school or a charter public school.” Keep reading
Sorry I don’t get it. Politics before the needs of children? God help you New York.
Speaking Of The Clintons – Flashback 2007
I really dislike Dick Morris but he did work in the Clinton administration and has personal knowledge of what they really are like. Here are a few examples of what Mr. Morris had to say about Hillarys wonderful experience. This was written back in 2007 as Hillary was gearing up for her Presidential run. I would suggest that anything she has done in the past pales in comparison to her failure in Benghazi. But still interesting info. Source
AN ANALYSIS WORTH READING:
by Dick Morris, former political advisor to President Bill Clinton
If you happen to see the Bill Clinton five minute TV ad for Hillary in which he introduces the commercial by saying … he wants to share some things we may not know about Hillary’s background. Beware as I was there for most of their presidency and know them better than just about anyone, I offer a few corrections;
Bill says: “In law school Hillary worked on legal services for the poor.”
The facts are: Hillary’s main extra-curricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent. She went to court every day as part of a law student monitoring committed to trying to spot civil rights violations and develop grounds for appeal.
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Bill says: “Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a children’s rights project for poor kids.”
The facts are: Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of the California Communist Party. She met Bob when he represented the Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an internship with him.
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Bill says: “Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but she turned down all the lucrative job offers.”
The facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam, yes, flunked, it is a matter of record, and only passed the Arkansas bar. She had no job offers in Arkansas , none, and only got hired by the University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was already teaching there. She did not join the prestigious Rose Law Firm until Bill became Arkansas Attorney General and was made a partner only after he was elected Arkansas Governor.
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Bill says: “President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal Services Board of Directors and she became its chairman.”
The facts are: The appointment was in exchange for Bill’s support for Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy.
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Bill says: “She served on the board of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.”
The facts are: Yes she did. But her main board activity, not mentioned by Bill, was to sit on the Wal-Mart board of directors, for a substantial fee.
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Bill says: “Hillary didn’t succeed at getting health care for all Americans in 1994 but she kept working at it and helped to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million children with health insurance.”
The facts are: Hillary had nothing to do with creating CHIP. It was included in the budget deal between Clinton and Republican Majority Leader Senator Trent Lott.
I know; I helped to negotiate the deal. The money came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney Generals’ tobacco settlement. Hillary had nothing to do with either source of funds.
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Bill says: “Hillary was the face of America all over the world.”
The facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her out of town so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that Hillary was running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely touristic and symbolic and there was no substantive diplomacy on any of them.
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Bill says: “Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting for children’s and women’s issues.”
The facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like changing the names on courthouses and post offices, she has passed only four substantive pieces of legislation. One set up a national park in Puerto Rico . A second provided respite care for family members helping their relatives through Alzheimer’s or other conditions. And two were routine bills to aid 911 victims and responders which were sponsored by the entire NY delegation.
Presently she is trying to have the US memorialize the Woodstock fiasco of 40 years ago.
Pathetic
Clinton Calls Voter ID Laws An Assault – Seems To Forget Assaulting Women In His Previous Life
What a jackass. Bill Clinton has been put on a pedestal, when in fact his policies caused the housing bubble, and his appetite for sex with women other than his wife is the stuff of legend. So his claims of Voter ID laws being an assault on anybody rings hollow.
Clinton cited laws that have shortened voting hours and pared back early voting, as well as measures requiring increased identification. “They are all designed to make it harder for working people — especially people of color, the elderly, those with disabilities and young college students — to get to the polls,” he said.
Just Flat Out Crazy
Maybe it’s just me, but Democrats are losing whatever grasp on reality they have left. I certainly hope this bodes well for mid-terms. Harry Reid called a bunch of very sick Americans liars on the senate floor, Babara Boxer just claimed that a pipeline, a sealed pipeline, could cause cancer. Apparently lifelong politicians know more than the experts….who knew?
Sen. Barbara Boxer wants to add a new element to the Keystone XL oil pipeline debate: its effects on health.
“The Environmental Impact Statement was woefully inadequate when it came to exploring human impacts of the pipeline,” Boxer said Wednesday at a press conference held with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and anti-Keystone XL activists and environmentalists.
She said Keystone would add pollutants to the air that will increase the likelihood of people getting cancer or heart disease.
Number one, it’s a pipeline. A puncture causing a spill would be the only thing that would possibly expose any oil to the environment. Much like natural gas lines, sewer lines, and water lines which run beneath your streets and buildings everyday….external causes would be the only thing that could produce anything that could marginally be construed as cancer causing.
Number two, oil in it’s liquid form causes as much cancer as spilling gas or motor oil on your skin, none, nada, zero. Her statements at this press conference are complete and utter bullshit. And she should be called on it.
A Nod to Weasel Zippers for the heads up.
It’s Worse Than You Think
Great read, here’s an excerpt:
By 2031, nearly a century after the Social Security Act, an estimated 75 million baby boomers will have retired. Aside from the demographic disparity in worker ages is a subtler disparity in worker productivity and independence as senior citizens are left chasing social spending dollars that are increasingly going to a younger population. ObamaCare with its Medicare Advantage cuts was a bellwether of the shift in health care spending from seniors to the welfare population.
Which we all know will happen. If not curbed the welfare state will grow exponentially.
Increasing welfare is only a form of Death Panel economic triage that doesn’t compensate for the lack of productive workers. It’s easy to model Obamerica as Detroit, a country with a huge indigent welfare population and a small wealthy tax base. The model doesn’t work in Detroit and it’s flailing in New York, California and every city and state where it’s been tried.
Taxing the rich only works when more people become wealthy and the stick around. Which is not happening.
After a century of misery, the left still hasn’t learned that there is no substitute for the middle class. It’s not just running out of money, it’s running out of people. Keep Reading
And there in lies the sprint for immigration. It is worse than it appears.
Ouch, Thats Gonna Leave A Mark
There is no scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm, according to Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who testified in front of a Senate committee on Tuesday.
Moore argued that the current argument that the burning of fossil fuels is driving global warming over the past century lacks scientific evidence. He added that the Earth is in an unusually cold period and some warming would be a good thing.
“There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years,” according to Moore’s prepared testimony. “Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species.”
The “Next Obama” Implicated In Millions Wasted
I blame myself. Quite a few glasses of wine, nightly news, all of the political posturing, and I am fit to be tied.
What in the hell happened to this country? Every time I turn around somebody has been caught or implicated in some kind of scam at the taxpayers expense. They just don’t give a rats ass about the money. It seems to be just an endless supply of cash for them to do whatever the hell they want. When will the American people say enough is enough? I am tired…I mean really tired.
After five decades of wandering this barren wasteland trying my best just to get by, this kind of blatant theft at the hands of our elected officials is sickening. The game of he said, she said is getting to be old hat. The game of one party “really looking into” Benghazi, IRS, Fast & Furious, and the other myriad of scandals and the other side trumpeting gay rights, the war on women, blah blah blah just seems like window dressing for ALL of them. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is ever settled with someone being held accountable.
I’m tired and I am going to bed. I hope the sun is just a little brighter tomorrow.
While the media gorges itself on the story of Chris Christie shutting down a bridge one day last year, a real political scandal is brewing in New Jersey filled with corruption, millions in fraud and waste, and a Democrat appointed official pleading the Fifth and the media? Well, the media is ignoring it all.
Even as Newark, New Jersey was laying off policemen and was pleading for more tax money and state bailouts, it has now been discovered that a heavily employed city contractor was stealing millions from the city with crony deals and bribery and it’s all tied to people appointed by Cory Booker–the man many Democrats think might be the “next” Barack Obama. There is even no-work jobs to buddies and other such criminal waste.
All this comes from investigations into a city agency called the Watershed Conservation Development Corporation, an entity that supposedly monitored and managed the city’s 35,000 acres of reservoirs and other water resources.
The Watershed agency was disbanded last year, but not before Booker’s buddies stole millions from the city. keep reading