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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (63700)	1/7/2012 1:01:28 PM
From: joseffy	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

New Book Details How President Sent White House Advisers to Deal With First Lady Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, January 7, 2012, 10:14 AM Obama knew his limits. He sent his advisers to deal with the First Lady. I suspected the girls-bike rider couldn't stand up to his wife. A new book reveals how Michelle Obama raged at White House advisers. The book also tells how White House advisers were forced confront the First Lady on her spending. Evidently, the president was not up to the task. The Telegraph reported: The First Lady reportedly believed that Mr Emmanuel’s willingness to cut backroom deals during the battle over health care reform was tainting Barack Obama’s image as a new kind of American leader. The Obamas paints a picture of a presidential inner circle divided between Mrs Obama’s idealistic belief in what the administration could achieve and the grittier pragmatism of Mr Emmanuel. The book, written by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, claims that the chief of staff refused to allow the president’s wife into high-level morning meetings, leading a brooding Mrs Obama to berate other senior advisers by email. She allegedly sent furious notes to Alyssa Mastromonaco, the president’s director of scheduling, and to Valerie Jarrett, a Chicago friend who now serves as one President Obama’s top advisors. Ms Jarrett was said to remove the First Lady’s name before circulating the emails widely within the West Wing. The then-press secretary Robert Gibbs was apparently often dispatched to placate Mrs Obama when limits were put on the amount she could spend on clothes or White House redecoration, as well as to explain why she could not take private holiday while on state visits. What a mess. They even had to lecture Michelle on her spending. They really do think they’re royalty. thegatewaypundit.com credit to brumar

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (63700)	1/7/2012 4:10:22 PM
From: John	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

Those are great points, my friend. I submit to you that most of humanity is a slave today, whereas slavery has taken on a new form of a friendly smile, a warm greeting, and a loan application. The old business of slavery was very messy and inefficient. A beaten, chained, and broken man doesn't have much to live for and the hopelessness was reflected in his work ethic and productivity. At some point, someone in the era of White slave owners must have figured this out and realized that a carrot on the end of stick is a much better tool for maximizing productivity and increasing profits than whips and chains. Indentured servitude was slightly better, but the illusion of freedom and self-determination was quickly realized as just that by those in debt. People worked themselves to the bone and into deep debt just to afford a meager bed, food, and clothes from the company store. There is a lot of truth in the old song "16 tons"; "I sold my soul to the company store." LOL. Seriously, everyone obviously cannot have the resources of Bill Gates, but what people can do is live well below their means and accrue wealth. It takes times and patience. The trap that virtually all leftists fall into is the compulsion to meet the false expectations of society. They see the Hollyweirds flaunting their hundreds of millions and think that is the blueprint for life. As a result, they are slaves and they are permanently owned. Blacks are particularly susceptible to this. Many Blacks on welfare are running the roads in Cadillacs and their kids are wearing the most expensive $250 basketball shoes that money can buy. They are all deep in debt. I'll stop there without going into a rant about how that debt is quickly shifted to White taxpayers by politicians, because everyone already knows about that. I haven't had a debt in many years and I couldn't imagine owing a penny today. I'd rather live in a mountain forest off the land rather than owe money to someone else just to meet my basic human needs. Fu¢k that. Who am I to say all of this? I'm one of the ones who carries America with my capital gains taxes, which are stolen from me at gunpoint without my consent and without any government representation of me and my views to speak of. That's who I am. -nfg-

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (63700)	1/7/2012 4:35:13 PM
From: joseffy	3 Recommendations Respond to of 103300

Arizona withholds school funding over ethnic studies class The state's superintendent finds Tucson's Mexican American studies program again in violation of state law. The program might have to be cut, a school district board member says. John Huppenthal, Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, announces in June that Tucson's Mexican American studies program is a violation of state law. (Ross D. Franklin, Associated Press / June 15, 2011) By Stephen Ceasar, Los Angeles Times Jan. 6, 2012 latimes.com Tucson's Mexican American studies program remains in violation of state law, Arizona's public schools chief ruled Friday, ordering that millions in state funding be withheld from the school district until the program is dismantled or brought into compliance. John Huppenthal, the state superintendent of public instruction, said the Tucson Unified School District program was in violation of a new state law prohibiting ethnic studies classes that are deemed to be divisive. Among other things, the law bans classes primarily designed for a particular ethnic group or which "promote resentment toward a race or class of people." Defenders of the program say it does no such thing. They say the classes push Latino students to excel and teach a long-neglected slice of America's cultural heritage: Chicano perspectives on literature, history and social justice. Huppenthal ordered that beginning in February, 10% of the district's monthly apportionment of state aid be withheld until the program comes into compliance. He did not say the district should eliminate the program but did not offer any suggestions on how it could be changed to comply with state law. It is the second instance in which Huppenthal ruled that the program violated the law. The first decision, in June, was appealed by the school district. Last week, an Arizona administrative law judge rejected that appeal, affirming Huppenthal's original decision. The withholding of state funds will also be applied retroactively between August 2011 and January 2012. That money — about $5 million — will be taken out of the district's February allotment, said Ryan Ducharme, an Arizona Department of Education spokesman. Should the district not bring the program into compliance, the district stands to lose about $14.4 million over the fiscal year, Ducharme said. The district's governing board can also appeal the decision in Superior Court. The board will discuss the matter in its next meeting on Tuesday, a district spokeswoman said. "We would find it nearly impossible for them to cure the program," Huppenthal said. "The problems are so widespread and so deep that it would be very difficult. These are decisions they would have to make." Miguel Cuevas, a member of the district board, said that Huppenthal's decision to withhold funds retroactively took the board members by surprise. They will now review the decision and determine whether Huppenthal was within his legal rights to withhold funding while the district was appealing his first decision. Cuevas told the Los Angeles Times that because the district would not be able to weather the loss of more than $14 million in state funding, the board would have to consider several options, including the elimination of the program. "I cannot go down the path of losing $15 million," he said. "That is something I cannot see happen." The law does not outlaw all ethnic studies courses in Arizona, but was framed in a way to target the Tucson program. The program's opponents — led by Huppenthal, a veteran state senator elected superintendent of public instruction in 2010 — say that by framing historical events in racial terms, the teachers promote groupthink and victimhood. The classes, Huppenthal said in a statement, assert that "Latino minorities have been and continue to be oppressed by a Caucasian majority." A separate case pending in federal court contends that the state law is unconstitutional. Eleven teachers and two students have requested an injunction to halt its implementation. A federal judge in Tucson heard arguments on the injunction last month but will soon rule on Huppenthal's motion to dismiss the case.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (63700)	1/7/2012 5:49:57 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 103300

Man Makes 3 Calls to 9-1-1 about Westland Break-In, Gets Ticketed Friday, 06 Jan 2012 by RON SAVAGE WJBK \| myFOXDetroit.com myfoxdetroit.com WESTLAND, Mich. (WJBK) -- She arrived home after work at Woodcrest Apartments in Westland, but was frozen in fear when she saw her front door had been kicked in. "My mom called me, said someone had kicked in the door," said Sean Street. I actually got dressed. I drove over to her house. It probably took me approximately an hour to get there." He called 9-1-1 to report his mother's break-in, then hustled from his West Bloomfield home to his mom's apartment on Wayne Road in Westland. He said it took him one hour. Now, he and his mom were waiting for police. Sean called 9-1-1 again. He said he waited one more hour, but still no police, so he made a third 9-1-1 call. Did he lose his temper? "Actually was no profanity whatsoever. I was very polite with them. The officer actually seemed very polite, also, and he told me let us handle it. Don't take matters into your own hands," Street explained. He said a witness claimed he saw the guys break-in and that person waited for police to arrive. "He said that he talked to the witness upstairs. The witness wouldn't tell him exactly who it was. He just told him that it was two guys wearing black hoodies and that there was nothing they could do about it," Street said. "I asked him if they would've came on time, the guys would've still been there? He said, if you want us to have a faster response time, contact the mayor to see if we can arrive on time faster and have more police officers." So, no arrest. Then, a week later, Sean Street got a misdemeanor ticket in the mail. The ticket read "Malicious use of communications device misuse of 911." He must appear in court. The ticket says Street repeatedly called 9-1-1 escalating a police run because he was unhappy with the response time. If convicted, he faces a $500 fine and 90 days in jail. Street said he called 9-1-1 three times and does not believe that's excessive. "They found the time to write me a ticket. They never followed up with my mom about the investigation, the detective at all, but the detective actually had time to write me a ticket for that," Street told us. Street said he'll contest the ticket with Westland Police.