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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/22/2012 11:32:02 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

NC Teacher Suspended For Yelling At Student Over Comments About President Obama By: Associated Press \| WSPA-TV May 21, 2012 www2.wspa.com SPENCER, NC -- A North Carolina high school teacher has been suspended following the release of a YouTube video in which she is heard yelling at a student in class and telling him it's wrong to criticize President Barack Obama. The Salisbury Post reports that Tonya Dixon-Neely's class at North Rowan High School was discussing Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney when the conversation turned to accusations that Romney bullied someone as a teenager. An argument followed, with some students questioning whether Obama also bullied someone in high school. Dixon-Neely was heard describing the question as disrespectful and that Obama wouldn't be disrespected in her classroom. One student responded that he would say what he wanted to. The video had close to 450,000 views on YouTube as of Monday evening.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/22/2012 11:35:52 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

Student Who Recorded Teacher Yelling at Him for Criticizing President Obama Speaks Out foxnewsinsider.com A teacher is now suspended with pay after audio was found of her yelling at a student for criticizing President Obama. It all began in the classroom when the topic of the day was a discussion regarding GOP contender Mitt Romney being a bully in high school. When the student challenged the teacher, the audio reveals she began yelling at him. In the audio clip, she said, “That’s disrespect!” The student then responds, “You’re disrespecting Romney!” That, of course, prompts another response from the teacher, who says, “How’s that disrespect? He’s not the president! You will not disrespect the President of the United States in this classroom!” The student involved in that incident, Hunter Rogers, and his mother, Gina Rogers, spoke out about this matter on today’s Fox and Friends. After he asked the teacher if Obama had been a bully, he said she immediately got defensive and responded, “Not to my knowledge.” __________________ • Teacher Suspended After Audio Captures Her Yelling at Student for Criticizing President Obama • Should Teachers Be Allowed to Interact With Students on Social Media Websites? • CAUGHT ON TAPE: New Jersey Teacher Berates Student __________________ When he played the audio tape of his argument with the teacher for his mom, she said her immediate reaction was “shocked.” While Gina doesn’t think the teacher should’ve started a political discussion in the classroom, her biggest concern is that the teacher is not teaching students factual information. Hunter responded, “I’ve been told in my life that you’d have to threaten the president to get arrested, and she kept telling me over and over again people were arrested for disrespecting and slandering the president. At the time I wanted to laugh.” Hear the full audio below and let us know what you think.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/22/2012 11:47:24 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

A Contrarian View on Technological Progress ....Peter Thiel is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal. He hit the jackpot again when he gave Mark Zuckerberg the money to launch Facebook. Thiel's half-million dollar Facebook investment is now worth more than $1 billion. His success and his smarts have made him a virtual rock star in Silicon Valley. A Contrarian View On a recent day at Stanford University, the lecture hall is full long before Thiel saunters in — light blue business suit, open collar, a Diet Coke in his hand, his eyes shifting nervously as he scans the crowd of mostly adoring undergraduates. He's come to argue a contrarian view: that technological progress is decelerating. "Whether we look at transportation, energy, commodity production, food production, agro-tech, nanotechnology — that with the exception of computers, we've had tremendous slowdown," he says. Thiel acknowledges that computers are getting faster, cheaper and better. But he says that's the virtual world of bits and bytes. In the real world of stuff, Thiel insists, there's been a slowdown. "I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years — part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion," he says. "And all the engineering disciplines that had to do with stuff have basically been outlawed one by one." In other words, he says government regulation stifles innovation and, without innovation, there is no economic growth. Encouraging Entrepreneurs In technology circles, Thiel's libertarian views are well known. As a law student in the 1980s, Thiel co-founded the conservative Stanford Review, and he co-wrote a book critical of political correctness and multiculturalism on that campus. In more recent years, he's argued that higher education is failing America and that some of the brightest students are probably better off not going to college at all. That's why he created the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowships — a program that gives promising young entrepreneurs $100,000 to skip college for two years and create their own business, as he explained on All Things Considered last year. "I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system," Thiel said. "Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.".... Source: npr.org

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/22/2012 1:55:20 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

DENVER, Clorado ( KUSA) - Police are investigating a vicious beating at a McDonald's drive-thru in Denver. Shannon, who asked us not to use her last name, was the victim of an attack on May 9 just before noon. She called our sister station KUSA 9News, and asked for help finding her attackers. "I don't feel safe anymore," Shannon said. The attack happened in the middle of the busy lunch hour at the McDonald's on 3300 Colorado Boulevard near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Radio reference recorded dispatchers describing the attack, as multiple 911 calls came in. "Two black females are inside. They're fighting inside the car still in the drive-thru," one dispatcher can be heard saying. Shannon has been coming to the same drive-thru almost every day for five years without a problem... until this incident. "I witnessed this young lady throwing trash out of her car and all I said was that it wasn't cool," Shannon said. A few choice words later, Shannon thought the argument was over. "All of a sudden I was being attacked," Shannon said. Two women jumped out of the car in front of her. "She was right in my window just punching me in my face, pulling my hair," Shannon said. "She started biting on my hands so severely. I thought she was gonna bite 'em off, actually." Then a man jumped out of the car and threw a soda through her window. "He said, 'This is for you, you white b----. This is a grape soda.' And then they took off," Shannon said. The attack happened in plain view of a rooftop security camera, but Denver Police told Shannon the actual beating wasn't caught on tape. Investigators won't release the security video, calling this an "open investigation." McDonald's management has no comment, but say it is cooperating with police. "If they can do that, they can snap and do something else. Something worse," Shannon said. Shannon hopes police find whoever beat her up before they do it again. "I don't want anybody else to get hurt like I got hurt," Shannon said. The description of the suspects - two black women and one black man - is vague. The best clue police have to go on right now is they were driving a light-blue Cadillac with temporary tags. Call Denver Metro Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP (7867) or text DMCS plus your message to 274637 if you have any information. You can remain anonymous and cou

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/22/2012 8:46:56 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 89467

Of course Hitler was a white supremist. But racism was also a tool that he used to create the "3rd Reich" in which private industry was subordinated to the will of the state, specifically by targeting Jewish financiers and industrialists. en.wikipedia.org If you were an Aryan, you had equal protection under the law, or "Völkisch equality" en.wikipedia.org And if you read that properly, you'll see it wasn't equality for individuals, but for the "Aryan Community". mises.org grutty.tumblr.com And it's interesting to see what Trotsky had to say about National Socialism: marxists.org Of course, we all know what happened to Trotsky, right? Mr. Stalin made sure he would not become a rival to power. Whether it be Nazism, Marxism, or Fascism, they were ALL TOTALITARIAN regimes. And funny how you mention Michael Savage. He's Jewish, isn't he? Hmmm.. But then again, so was Trotsky.. But just discovered something.. Michael Savages son is the founder of company that produces "Rockstar".. And man.. I just love their pomegranate and lemonade flavors.. ;0) en.wikipedia.org But I seldom listen to Savage's radio show. Btw.. do you know what a Communist is? ... A Socialist who's in a hurry.... That said, I fully agree that in some instances of private market failure, bringing to bear the resources of the state serves and economic purpose. HOWEVER, I believe those governmental resources must be tested in order to produce a ROI to the taxpayer down the line. I do not believe the Gov't should be in the business of passing out entitlements to able bodied individuals with no expectation of some form of community service, or ROI. Help those who want to help themselves, or CAN NOT help themselves. Hawk

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/23/2012 9:32:49 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

Obama’s “Debunking” of Islamic Background Raises More Questions By Debbie Schlussel January 25, 2007 debbieschlussel.com I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails from ostriches, in light of yesterday’s stories in which Senator Barack Hussein Obama allegedly “debunks” the Insight Magazine story and other charges– first made on this site–about his Muslim background. But apparently ostriches can’t read. Because Obama’s alleged “debunking” didn’t debunk a thing. It raised more questions. For starters, many have cited an AP story and a CNN story, both of which sent “reporters” to check into the Muslim school that Obama attended. All of Al-AP’s Muslim “reporters” in Indonesia tell us that the school, SDN Menteng 1, is a public school, NOT an Islamic school or madrassa (which literally means “academy”), as Hillary Clinton’s camp claims in the Insight Story. The vice principal of the school, Akmed Solichin, tells AP that Most of our students are Muslim, but there are Christians as well. Everyone’s welcome here. . . it’s a public school. And we should trust him because Muslims never lie or propagandize. Taqiyyah is a concept in Hinduism or maybe atheism? The same goes for the denials of Indonesia’s Islamofascist-dominated Ministry of Religious Affairs, which denies the school is Islamic. They hate America and would love one of their own in the White House, but they would never lie. More important, in his own two autobiographies, Obama writes that his teacher at the school sent a note home to his mother that Obama made trouble by making faces while the class was studying the Koran. Uh, sorry, but public schools DO NOT study the Koran. Islamic schools do. And which suras was Obama studying? How about the many suras that preach deception and killing of Infidels? It’s doubtful that the school didn’t teach those. It’s more likely that they did. And which violent Hadiths did the school teach? We’ll never know. And Obama won’t be trumpeting them. So Christians and others are welcome at the Muslim school Obama attended. That proves nothing. Everyone (except women) would be welcome in most Islamic schools around the world–a great opportunity to indoctrinate and convert them. How do you think Adam Gadahn a/k/a Azzam Al-Amriki learned about Islam before he became a fully converted, educated Muslim? It wasn’t by osmosis. And finally, there is the glaring red flag on Obama’s attendance at Fransiskus Assisi, a Catholic school. AP reports this: At first, Obama attended the Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisi, where documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim, the religion of his stepfather. The document required that each student choose one of five state-sanctioned religions when registering _ Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant. Gibbs said he wasn’t sure why the document had Obama listed as a Muslim. Gee, if he wasn’t a Muslim, but a Catholic, why would a Catholic identify as a Muslim in a Catholic school? He and his parents were trying to hide his Catholic background from a Catholic school? I don’t know about him, but when my parents enrolled me–a Jew–at Akiva Hebrew Day School, they didn’t tell Rabbi Schostak that I, Debbie Schlussel, am a Muslim . . . just to make me sound more exotic. And I doubt that’s the reason Obama self-identified as a Muslim at Catholic school. The real reason might just be the logical one: that it’s the truth. That he actually was a Muslim. One other thing: Obama told NBC’s Today Show: Me going to school in Indonesia for two years at a public school there at the age of 7 and 8 is probably not going to be endangering in some way the people of America. Well, that depends on what they taught him there. If we shouldn’t be worried about what Obama learned in a school that he admits taught him the Koran (shortly before he self-identified as a Muslim at a Catholic school), then we should stop worrying about Palestinian Authority TV training kids at age 3 to kill Jews and Americans and become homicide bombers. After all, what they learn when they are young and impressionable doesn’t matter. Does it? . . . Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Martyr Poster of Palestinian Child Terrorist Homicide Bomber

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/23/2012 10:17:47 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

Barack Obama's 7 Nastiest Moments Townhall.com ^ \| May 23, 2012 \| John Hawkins townhall.com 1) President "punish our enemies:" On Univision radio, Barack Obama actually referred to Republicans as " enemies" of Hispanic Americans, And if Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, we're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us, if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder - and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2. You could say that the President of the United States telling an entire ethnic group that an opposing political party is its "enemy," like Al-Qaeda, because they don't agree with his political stance represents a "change in tone," but it's a change for the worse. 2) Obama's Bain attacks: It's hard to find an example of political cynicism that tops the way Barack Obama is treating Mitt Romney's time at Bain Capital. At the same time that Obama is running ads attacking Romney for working at a private equity firm that cost some people jobs while it created even more jobs for other people, Obama is doing fund raisers with other private equity groups. In fact, in 2008, Obama raised almost twice as much as McCain in private equity, hedge funds. Additionally, one of Obama's top bundlers, Jonathan Lavine, used to work at Bain. Even more importantly, "employees of Bain Capital and Bain & Company have given more than* $152,000 to Obama's campaign and the joint fundraising operation he runs with the Democratic National Committee."* Arguing that Mitt Romney was incompetent at his job would be one thing, but if Obama is going to argue that working at Bain Capital is so disreputable that it should be a disqualifier for the presidency, then maybe he shouldn't be taking their money. 3) Fast and Furious: Nixon had Watergate and Obama has Fast and Furious. In both cases, there has been stonewalling and a cover-up by the Administration, but there was no bodycount associated with Watergate. The Department of Justice under Barack Obama helped facilitate the death of hundreds of Mexican citizens and at least one American. Although Obama talked a lot about "transparency" when he was running for President, it looks like Republicans may have to hit Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, with contempt charges just to get the basic information they need to investigate the scandal. 4) Teabaggers: It's no surprise that the bottomfeeders in the left-wing media use the sexual slur "teabaggers" to describe Tea Partiers they disagree with. However, when the President of the United States uses a crude sexual term to describe his political enemies, it stands out. In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.” The same guy who lectured the country on the importance of civility after Gabrielle Giffords was shot also refers to people he disagrees with politically as "teabaggers." That says a lot about his, "There's one set of rules for me and another set of rules for the rest of you" mentality. 5) "I won:" Anyone who wanted more evidence that all of Obama's "unity" and "new tone" talk was pure phoniness got their proof early in his administration. The top congressional leaders from both parties gathered at the White House for a working discussion over the shape and size of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. The meeting was designed to promote bipartisanship. But Obama showed that in an ideological debate, he’s not averse to using a jab. Challenged by one Republican senator over the contents of the package, the new president, according to participants, replied: “I won.” The statement was prompted by Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona , who challenged the president and the Democratic leaders over the balance between the package’s spending and tax cuts, bringing up the traditional Republican notion that a tax credit for people who do not earn enough to pay income taxes is not a tax cut but a government check. Say good-bye to post-partisanship and hello to arrogance. 6) "Don't do a lot of talking:" Along those same lines, Obama didn't sound so concerned about reaching out to the GOP when he simultaneously blamed them for all of America's problems and told them to shut up and do as they were told, "But I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.." Wow, this guy has trouble playing in the sandbox with Republicans? What a shocker. 7) Get under the bus, grandma! There was one indication of Barack Obama's surly, narcissistic temperament during the 2008 campaign that was very telling. At the time, he was standing with his anti-Semitic, anti-white, anti-American spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright because he had voluntarily associated with him for 20 years. While giving a speech defending his association with that vile hatemonger, he besmirched his own grandmother as part of his defense of Wright. “I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.” In the history of American politics, I'm not sure there has ever been a politician before Obama who was willing to smear his own grandmother because he thought it might help him politically.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/23/2012 10:27:02 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/23/2012 10:37:03 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

Obama didn’t even have an opponent in Kentucky, but with 99 percent of the vote counted, Obama took just 57.9 percent of the vote, with the remaining more than 42 percent of ballots cast for “uncommitted.” Continue Reading In Arkansas, with 70 percent of the vote tallied, Obama nabbed just 59 percent of the vote. His opponent there, John Wolfe, was able to take 41 percent of the vote. Read more: politico.com

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/24/2012 10:35:29 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

First, They Came for Cory Booker Townhall.com ^ \| May 24, 2012 \| Ben Shapiro townhall.com Cory Booker is, by most accounts, a reasonable man. He went to Stanford and Oxford, as well as Yale Law School; now he's the mayor of Newark. He's also African-American. That last fact is only important because liberals have made it so. Booker has been a strong backer of President Obama -- so strong, in fact, that in 2009, Obama offered him a slot in his administration as head of the Office of Urban Affairs Policy. Booker turned it down on the grounds that he wanted to fulfill his job as mayor. That should have been the end of the story. Obama and Booker should have remained friends. Instead, President Obama's desperation to beat Mitt Romney into the ground led Obama to attack Romney's record at Bain Capital, over and over again. On NBC, Booker, who the Obama campaign trotted out as their "surrogate," made the mistake of telling the truth. When asked about Obama's attacks on Bain Capital, he was honest enough to rip the tactic: "I live in a state where pension funds, union and other people are investing in companies like Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital's record, they've done a lot to support business, to grow business, and this, to me, I'm very uncomfortable with. ... This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. It's nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity." This put Booker right in the firing line of the left. It was one thing for an Obama surrogate to go off-message -- Obama surrogates from Joe Biden to Hilary Rosen have done it repeatedly. It was another thing for an African-American Obama supporter to go off-message. The White House was fuming mad -- so mad that the Democratic National Committee called up Booker to chew him out. Meanwhile, spokespeople for the Obama campaign appeared on television to assure the public that no such action was taking place. Republicans quickly cut an ad showing the Obama campaign lying about putting pressure on Booker. Booker, properly chastised, quickly backed down. He cut a video on YouTube kissing President Obama's ring; he took to Twitter to send missive after missive about how he supported Obama. He suddenly reversed himself, explaining that Romney was running as a businessman, so Obama should attack Romney's record. He even said he was "upset I'm being used by the GOP this way." Let's stop and consider for a minute. After Booker made his remarks on "Meet the Press," prominent Democrats including former Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., all backed him up. But they didn't receive anywhere near the same kind of scrutiny Booker did. Why? The obvious answer is that they are all white, while Booker is black. It is one thing for a white Democrat to disagree with Obama on anything; for a black American to disagree with President Obama is akin to treason. That perverse political truism explains President Obama's embrace of same-sex marriage. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People came out this week in support of same-sex marriage, even calling it a civil rights issue -- even though just 39 percent of black Americans support same-sex marriage. Why have major institutional black organizations come out in support of President Obama's policy? Because they feel that racial loyalty will overcome ideological diversity. Even worse, while groups like the NAACP demand ideological conformity from black Americans, so do white liberals such as Chris Matthews, who said that Booker had engaged in an "act of sabotage," a "betrayal." The truth is that during the "Meet the Press" interview, Booker gushed over Obama's economic policy and endorsed him multiple times. So that simply wasn't true. But straying from the Obama path is verboten, even for black liberals. Booker's race shouldn't be important to this story. There's only one reason it is: Liberals want to use race as a litmus test for ideology. And that is deeply bigoted.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88474)	5/24/2012 11:39:30 AM
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Gov. Brown may shorten high school science requirement SACRAMENTO (KABC) -- Governor Jerry Brown is talking about cutting down the science requirements in high schools to save money, which has some students concerned about how they will get into California colleges. The California finalists for Intel's Science Competition have developed truly amazing things after beginning their projects in high school. The genetic test James Thomas of San Jose generated will be helpful. "I created a model that actually has 92 percent accuracy in predicting the on-set of alcoholism in individuals," said Thomas. The technology Jessica Richeri of Riverside developed will change the way we drive. "My research finds a way to avoid traffic jams in the future with an autonomous robotic vehicle," she said. Supporters believe this illustrates how innovation can stimulate California's economy and that these kids are tomorrow's job creators. They also say it all begins with STEM: science, technology, education and math. But because of California's continued budget crisis, the Governor is considering cutting the second year science requirement in high school to save $245 million. For decades, schools have always been reimbursed by the state for teaching a second science class, but Governor Brown wants to move away from state mandates because they're too expensive. Brown dropped by the science fair and said the cuts mean districts will have to find the money themselves to continue the program. "I personally went to the school board and said this is a good requirement, but we want the locals to pick up that up. Otherwise, they charge us," he said. Related Content Story: $16B state deficit fuels deeper proposed cuts Critics say, though, after years of decreased state funding, schools can barely keep the lights on, let alone pay for science curriculum. "The problem is, all of this is being done during a time when other states and other countries are boosting their science and technology education to make their students and their population more competitive in this global market," said Matt Gray with the California STEM Learning Network The other problem is University of California and Cal State both require two years of science for admission. So if you're in a school where you can't take that second class, it'll be tough to get in.