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To: koan who wrote (40279)	3/21/2013 9:47:34 PM
From: Brumar89	11 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

What Democrats have done to minorities ... given them crappy schools, destroyed their family structure, made them compete for low wage jobs with illegal entrants from third world countries. Liberal Democrats have run the areas where minorities live for over half a century and you've failed to better their lives.

To: koan who wrote (40279)	3/22/2013 9:31:17 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Rahm Emanuel to Close 54 Chicago Schools in Poor Neighborhoods (Teachers Union Pensions Destroying Schools and Children) by Tony Lee 21 Mar 2013 Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office indicated Thursday he plans to close 54 elementary schools in poor, predominantly black neighborhoods because Chicago public schools face a $1 billion shortfall. According to the Associated Press, "many of the schools identified for closure are in high-crime areas where gang violence contributed to a marked increase in Chicago's homicide rate last year." These schools are in "overwhelmingly black and in low-income neighborhoods." In addition, "about 30,000 students will be affected by the plan, with about half that number moving into new schools." Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said she intends to fight the mayor every step of the way to prevent the closures, which may be finalized in May. “Rahm Emanuel has become the ‘murder mayor.’ He is murdering public services," Lewis said. "Murdering our ability to maintain public sector jobs and now he has set his sights on our public schools. But we have news for him: We don’t intend to die. This is not Detroit." Chicago Public Schools claimed the plan could "save the district $560 million over 10 years in capital costs and an additional $43 million per year in operating costs." The potential school closures could also endanger schoolchildren in neighborhoods already plagued by shootings. Those who oppose the plan said closing the schools would "erode troubled neighborhoods and endanger students who may have to cross gang boundaries to attend school." And parents familiar with safe and unsafe areas in their current neighborhoods expressed concerns that they would not know which areas would be safe near the new schools their kids will be forced to attend. Some parents even said they would not send their kids to schools in unfamiliar areas because of safety concerns. The city is expected to make final decisions about the school closures in May after it reviews and finalizes budget plans. Emanuel and his family were outside Chicago the day of the announcement, enjoying a skiing vacation. breitbart.com

To: koan who wrote (40279)	3/22/2013 9:32:47 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

Pelosi double racial standard? Nancy Pelosi Accused of Holding Racial Double Standard by Bryan Preston March 21, 2013 - 8:03 am Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) faces accusations that he used campaign funds for family trips. He is currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for taking trips to Scotland and the west coast, and billing the campaign because his kids were on the trips and they were “campaign volunteers.” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appointed Andrews to a leadership post in the party, and as the ethics investigation builds steam, she and other Democratic leaders are showing no interest in asking Andrews to step down from that party post. To a person, the Democrats are backing Andrews, with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) offering the clearest defense of why: “You’re not going to convict somebody just because there’s an allegation. That’s not America,” he said. That’s not how Democrats behave when a Republican is the target, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus have noticed that that’s not how the Democratic leadership behaves when the accused isn’t white like Andrews. “It bears notice that Pelosi appointed Mr. Andrews to a leadership position in the midst of this investigation,” the [chief of staff of a Congressional Black Caucus member] said. “That is in direct contrast to the approach taken with similarly situated members of the Black Caucus, who routinely faced pressure to step away from leadership posts during investigations. “Her commitment to fairness will be tested in how she responds to this announcement.” Pelosi promised the Democrats would lead the most ethical Congress ever, and she personally promised to “drain the swamp” of unethical behavior. She never promised to drain the Democratic Party of racial double-standards, though. When Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York was under ethics investigation, Pelosi repeatedly asked him to step down from his committee chairmanship. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/03/21/nancy-pelosi-accused-of-holding-racial-double-standard/

To: koan who wrote (40279)	3/22/2013 11:20:03 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 85487

‘The Obama Experiment’ Causes Economics Professor to Fail Entire Class 12/26/2011 This anecdote taken from facebook gives an analogy of economics through redistribution, enjoy… Seriously, koan, wouldn't this be a good idea? Average all the grades in class and give everyone the same grade. After all, we want to educate everyone and succeed collectively. Obama: "My individual salvation depends on our collective salvation" Barack Obama ‘The Obama Experiment’ Causes Economics Professor to Fail Entire Class An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars – something closer to home and more readily understood by all). After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections. These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment: 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it! 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation. libertypulse.com

To: koan who wrote (40279)	3/22/2013 11:33:22 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

"You think women like ultra sounds?" geez another head in hands moment, before you get an abortion from plan Parenthood you have to get an ultra sound or you don't get an abortion. the only difference in that Bill from the Guy in Vir was the mother not to be had to look are the picture of the ultra sounds. How terrible forcing a woman to look at a picture. but your lib media didn't tell you that "Your views have nothing to do with reality at all." wow projecting and you don't know it

To: koan who wrote (40279)	3/22/2013 11:53:02 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	3 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

Just keep thinking that and you will never win another election. ahhh, I see that you don't think that the pendulum will ever swing the other direction..... How you can look at all the venal things the pubs have done to minorities even recently and fail to see it blows my mind. Venal things that republicans have done? you mean like supporting civil rights while the democrats opposed them? Even your assertion they are all wrong and you are right is demeaning to them and arrogant. You think women like ultra sounds? Blacks and Latinos like standing in line all day to vote. They know why pub govs shortened the voting periods! My wife loved getting her ultrasound. Hell, I just had one the other day...no big thang. I have no idea what the hell you are talking about standing in line all day to vote. Maybe they need to get out and volunteer at the polls. Or latinos like to hear romney say the pubs wil make things so hard on the Latinos they will self deport. If they are here illegally 1. they should be deported, 2. it's better if they self deport, 3. They should have no bearing on voting results because they are here illegally anyway. I suppose you think the pubs are helping the gays to by denying them the right to marry? I have gay friends who are very pissed off at the dems for hurting their businesses. They are more concerned with the fact that they are losing their businesses than the fact that they can't get married. Personally, I believe that the US government has to handle marriage consistently (under the concept of equal protection). They will come up with the wrong answer though. Gay marriage will eventually be legal. The correct answer is that marriage is a religious institution. Let's leave marriage in the church. The government should only care about the legal partnership between consenting adults. Your views have nothing to do with reality at all. You may not like my views, but it is a fact that the vast majority of minorities live in democrat controlled cities and states. And the minorities that live in democrat controlled cities and states are worse off than the general population.

To: koan who wrote (40279)	3/22/2013 1:27:45 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Stanford drops pro-capitalism course from roster (and didn't Feinstein go to this POS school) [iframe id="f3651295f4" name="f5a124738" scrolling="no" title="Like this content on Facebook." class="fb_ltr" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?api_key=&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D19%23cb%3Df3655846ac%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fredalertpolitics.com%252Ff1cdec0634%26domain%3Dredalertpolitics.com%26relation%3Dparent.parent&href=http%3A%2F%2Fredalertpolitics.com%2F2013%2F03%2F22%2Fstanford-drops-pro-capitalism-course-from-roster%2F&node_type=link&width=90&layout=button_count&colorscheme=light&show_faces=false&send=false&extended_social_context=false" style="position: absolute; border-style: none; overflow: hidden; height: 20px; width: 75px;"][/iframe] Stanford University administrators axed a popular course titled “Moral Foundations of Capitalism” that portrayed free markets in a positive light. John McCaskey, a philosophy professor at Stanford, decided to offer the course after the 2008 financial crash, and began teaching it in 2009. Both the course and McCaskey’s teaching style soon earned rave reviews from students of all political stripes. “This is one of the most fantastic courses that I have taken at Stanford,” wrote one student. “Definitely offer this course again,” wrote another student. “This course exposes students to concepts that many ought to be exposed to. It teaches students to think more completely than they probably do now. Please offer it again.” But despite the course’s popularity, administrators discontinued “Moral Foundations of Capitalism” last year. The Stanford Center for Ethics in Society, which sponsored the course, decided to invest its resources elsewhere. “The Center on Ethics in Society will play a role in supporting the creation of new courses and existing courses in ethical reasoning, and the Center decided to allocate its limited resources (human and financial) to this task in the coming years,” said Rob Reich, director of the EiS program, in a statement to the Stanford Review. Reich did not respond to requests for comment. However, according to the winter course guide, the EiS program continued to offer a course that challenges the moral goodness of markets: “Moral Limits of the Market.” McCaskey stressed that his course was “discontinued” rather than “canceled.” “‘Cancel’ is when the university says it will offer a course in a certain term and then doesn’t, like when you cancel a dinner reservation,” he wrote in an email to The Daily Caller News Foundation. “That didn’t happen here.” While he shared students’ disappointment that the course would not be offered again, he stressed that the university makes similar curriculum changes all the time. “Course rosters are always changing so many, many courses get discontinued, even many popular ones,” he wrote. “I know many students were hoping to take that course, but there is never a guarantee that an elective offered in one year–or even for several years–will be offered in perpetuity.” McCaskey said he didn’t know whether the new ethics curriculum would be more or less politically diverse without his course. “We really can’t say that without looking at the whole curriculum,” he wrote. “It might be that the new suite of offerings is more diverse. Maybe it is less diverse. I don’t know.” McCaskey was invited to teach a similar course, titled “Rival Defenses of American Capitalism,” at Brown University last semester. He expects to teach it again in the fall. A spokesperson for Stanford did not respond to requests for comment.

To: koan who wrote (40279)	3/22/2013 3:41:56 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

Texas: Armed Homeowner Uses His Gun To Stop Home Invasion, Both Intruders Killed… Dem Rep. Jackie Speier unavailable for comment. MAYPEARL (WFAA) — Two teenagers died Wednesday afternoon in a failed home invasion robbery attempt south of Maypearl in Ellis County. The teens were identified as Kenneth Chaffin, 17, and Dillon King, 18, both of Oklahoma. It all started around 1 p.m. when a woman alone in her two-story rural farmhouse on Bee Creek Road heard a rattle at the door. She told deputies she saw two men trying to break in — one of whom was dressed in camouflage with a gun strapped to his back. The woman called her husband, who was pulling into the driveway at about the same time. He raced inside the house and got a gun. Investigators said the homeowner and the suspects exchanged a significant amount of gunfire, with some rounds penetrating the walls of the residence. “The homeowner was hit. There’s multiple rounds through his house,” said Lt. James Saulter of the Ellis County Sheriff’s Department. “Actually, one of them went through the side, and is above the bed in the master bedroom.” The homeowner’s wound was superficial. He was treated by paramedics at the scene and is expected to fully recover. One suspect was shot by bullets from the homeowner and was dead at the scene, although he appeared to have died from a self-inflicted wound, Saulter said. The other suspect fled in a pickup truck reported stolen from Oklahoma. He only drove a few hundred yards across the street into another field. He was found dead. Investigators believe he also shot himself.