The local news outlets are having a field day. Cass County Pam Shipley Cleared of Nepotism Charges! They conveniently ignore the the truth. Shipley was NOT cleared.” Cass County Prosecutor refused to charge fellow democrat Shipley and chose to ignore the evidence of nepotism.
There is a difference between being “cleared” and the Prosecutor refusing to file charges.
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Unions are in the news today. Specifically, teacher’s unions in Chicago. They turned down a 16% pay raise. Why? Because they demanded a 30% raise! For you in the private sector, how much was your last raise—if you got one?
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers’ Unions
By John Fund, September 10, 2012 9:16 A.M
The smartest parents in Chicago right now are those whose kids attend charter schools, private schools, or parochial schools. Those institutions don’t employ Chicago’s unionized public-school teachers, who went out on strike this morning for the first time in 25 years.
The coverage of the strike has obscured some basic facts. The money has continued to pour into Chicago’s failing public schools in recent years. Chicago teachers have the highest average salary of any city at $76,000 a year before benefits. The average family in the city only earns $47,000 a year. Yet the teachers rejected a 16 percent salary increase over four years at a time when most families are not getting any raises or are looking for work.
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But beyond the dollars, the fact is that Chicago schools need a fundamental shakeup — which of course the union is resisting. It is calling for changes in the teacher-evaluation system it just negotiated by making student performance less important.
Small wonder. Just 15 percent of fourth graders are proficient in reading and only 56 percent of students who enter their freshman year of high school wind up graduating.
There’s more info if you follow the link above. Greed, as always, and the lust for power is what is driving this strike. If Rahm Emanuel had any integrity, he would respond by firing the teachers. I’ll bet he could fill their slots very quickly.
That won’t happen, however. The unions are in Emanuel’s pocket as much as he is in theirs.
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What do you do if you don’t like the polls? If you’re Obama, you send your thugs to the pollster and “make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
Obama Thugs Rough Up Gallup For Polls They Don’t Like
By Dick Morris on September 10, 2012
The Obama Administration’s Justice Department announced, on August 22nd, that it was joining a lawsuit by a former Gallup employee and whistleblower against the Gallup Corporation for allegedly overcharging the government on polling work.
The announcement comes on the heels of a confrontation between Gallup staffers and Obama strategist David Axelrod in which he accused the company of using out of date sampling methods which, he said, generated polling data negative to the president.
The whistleblower’s lawsuit has been kicking around since 2009, but the Justice Department joined the suit only after the run-in between Axelrod and Gallup in April of this year.
In a scene right out of a typical authoritarian regime, Fox News reports that “employees at the venerable Gallup polling firm suggested they felt threatened by Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod when he questioned the methodology of a mid-April poll showing Mitt Romney leading the president – according to internal emails published Thursday.”
That poll that sent Axelrod ballistic showed Romney leading Obama 48-43 percent.
The Daily Caller published e mails that started when Axelrod sent a tweet to Gallup saying the tracking poll was “saddled with some methodological problems” and directing followers to a National Journal story in which a professor suggested outdated sampling.
According to the email chain titled “Axelrod vs. Gallup,” the White House in addition asked that a Gallup staffer “come over and explain our methodology,” which was apparently perceived as a subtle threat.
Fox News reported that “a Gallup official said in an email he thought Axelrod’s pressure ‘sounds a little like a Godfather situation.’”
Gallup refused to change its methodology to suit the White House.
The article continues. Follow the link above. Obama appears to be following the tactics used by his mentors. When you don’t like the news, attack those that published the news.
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Missed the Darwin award by…that much!
Words fail me on this one. Take it as an object lesson for gang-bangers and others alike. If you don’t know how to handle a weapon, get some training. Like the warnings on TV, “Don’t try this at home.”
PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida — A teenager is recovering after
police say he shot himself in the penis and testicle while cleaning a gun he just bought.It happened Thursday morning at a home on the 200 block of Verada Street in Port St. Lucie.
Police say 18-year-old Michael Smeriglio first lied to police saying someone shot him while he was walking down the street. After being questioned by police he admitted to accidentally doing it himself.
Even will all the advantages of modern medicine, OHSA and liberal nannies, people will still find ways to cleanse the gene pool.