[FOXNEWS] A law firm representing a Pennsylvania college professor has accused the state teachers union of ignoring for more than four decades a law requiring it to report the use of dues money for political contributions.
Its the latest salvo in an ongoing dispute between Mary Trometter, an assistant professor of culinary arts at the Pennsylvania College of Technology, and the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the National Education Association, which in a letter urged her husband to vote for Gov.-elect Tom Wolf.
Trometter filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board in November. Her attorney, David Osborne of The Fairness Center, argues that the NEA letter and PSEA publications supporting Wolfs candidacy are illegal under a 1970 state law.
The law says unions cannot use organization funds to make contributions in support of a political candidate, and they must report violations to the state within 90 days, he argued.
An open-records request, despite PSEAs enormous levels of candidate support over the decades, found no instance in the past 45 years in which the PSEA reported such contributions, Osborne said in a written statement.
This is just the latest example of PSEAs flagrant disregard for state law and abuse of union members money, as Mary Trometters experience illustrates, he said.
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If the union has to pay a huge fine, it will be charged to the membership... After which a lot of Pennsylvania teachers will be more interested in discontinuing membership, like in Wisconsin and elsewhere.
Another statistic of how effective the teachers' unions have been in dumbing down the masses to allow the oligarchy to distance itself through private schools and good universities..
As a note, when my son and daughter were in high school, I went to parents' night and was always amazed that books I read in the 7th and 8th grade were on the reading list for the "honors" program literature classes...Of course the stuff we read in high school, Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, For Whom the Bells Toll, A Farewell to Arms, East of Eden, and others were nowhere on the radar....
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See also INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > 25 SIGNS THAT THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICA IS SPEEDING UP AS SOCIETY ROTS FROM INSIDE OUT.
Once again, welcome Amerika to US-led?, Anti-US OWG Globalism, + US "Parity" wid Any Each + All Other Continent-specific/based OWG Global Federal Unions.
Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air..
Where are the clowns?
Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move...
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.
Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours.
Making my entrance again with my usual flair
Sure of my lines...
No one is there.
Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want...
Sorry, my dear!
And where are the clowns
Send in the clowns
Don't bother, they're here.
Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer?
Losing my timing this late in my career.
And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns...
Well, maybe next year.
'Our biggest advantage, major, is that our Muslim populations feel themselves to be Americans and there is this incredible process of immigration and assimilation that is part of our tradition,' he said." President SfB appears to have had some really good choom of recent. Most I know of are Muslims first, with any American identity being somewhere further down the burka hem - and they seem to like it like that (except at the first of the month.).
My experience is that Muslims seem to be self-selecting division.
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The Muslims of 1-2 generations back were more willing to integrate, but the Euros weren't especially willing to let them. The current generation of Muslims by and large doesn't want to integrate.
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From the Man who throws open his southern border to literally millions who he and his henchmen do not want integrated to become Americans but rather their peons for the Plantation rather than the one back home. New plantation boss, same as the old plantation boss.
#8
OTOH TOPIX > [GrantDaily] IS US AT RISK OF PARIS-STYLE ATTACK?
From failed attempted Terror agz NYC, to now successful terror agz Gay Pareee???
* SAME > [CNN.com] US "SPIN" WON'T STOP RADICAL ISLAM.
US "spin" = POTUS Obama "spin"???
IMO Artic is still more evidencia that US, Western Marxists = Commies-Socialists-Globalists, etal. MIGHT NOT BE ABLE EVAR! TO STOP THE HARD BOYZ = GLOBAL JIHAD.
VERSUS
* WORLD NEWS > [The LocaL] GERMAN JIHADIST SAYS ISIS "WILL CONQUER EUROPE".
* SAME > [Times of India] ISIS HAS FIGHTERS JUST WAITING FOR ORDERS TO "ATTACK THE WEST", SAYS [Ex-UK] TEENAGE GRAMMER SCHOOL JIHADIST.
[THEHILL] Black Democrats will celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend by gathering near Ferguson, Mo., where a black teenager was killed by a white police officer last summer. The number of white Dems with fortunes smaller than nine digits continues to dwindle...
The lawmakers, all members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), say they'll use the holiday to call on voters to get more involved in social justice issues while urging Congress to pass legislation overhauling the criminal justice system. They're just calling on black voters, though. The rest are all racists.
Those issues have gained national prominence since August, when Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, after a confrontation on the streets of Ferguson, a largely black suburb of St. Louis. After the gentle giant thumped him, reached into his police car to grab his gun, then went to charge him...
The tragedy led to weeks of violent protests in Ferguson and launched a national debate on a range of race-based issues, including police brutality, profiling, youth development and criminal justice reform. The way the story was originally presented the "gentle giant" got lots of sympathy. Then the vid from the convenience store came out. Then the details of the incident came out. Then Al Sharpton showed up.
Revelations of a similar incident on Staten Island, N.Y., in July when a white police officer's chokehold during an arrest led to the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man have only fueled that debate. By that time it was a black versus white issue. Whites were in the wrong whatever they did, wherever their sympathies might naturally lie.
Since those episodes, Democrats in both chambers have called for broad reforms, including efforts to combat racial profiling, tighten the nation's gun laws and scale back a Pentagon program supplying local police with excess military equipment. 'Nother words, they've been making political hay the while.
As part of that effort, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) this week urged President Obama, as part of his annual budget, to include funding for a program requiring law enforcers to wear cameras, a concept Cleaver had pushed unsuccessfully as legislation last year. I believe that each incident should be recorded. The technology's just now getting small enough and light enough and cheap enough. The recordings protect the officers even more than the citizens. But it's probably still not cost effective. How many gigabytes does it take to store an eight-hour shift? Dash cameras will record traffic stops and mayhem that takes place in front of the car. Headpieces or vest cameras will show close-up to medium distance events but not peripheral events. Funding for the feds for cameras should maybe extend to FBI and DEA -- great for recording those little 3 a.m. drug raids, though the flash bang grenades might be hard on the microphones. Everybody else is a local concern and there's no reason to use federal taxpayer money or issue federal mandates. See Amendments Nine and Ten of the Constitution. What is this 'Constitution' of which you speak...
"The tragic events that unfolded in Ferguson, Missouri should not be repeated, Cleaver, former head of the CBC, said this week. Yer right. Perps should not try to knuckle cops, nor to charge them.
We can work to do this by giving our local police officers the best tools and training available to protect and serve our communities." Really. You can believe him. He's a Dem politician.
Cleaver will be among the lawmakers gathering near Ferguson on Sunday to commemorate the King holiday. It's a black holiday. The rest of us can bugger off.
Other lawmakers expected to attend include CBC Chairman G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) and Reps. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), André Carson (D-Ind.), James Clyburn (D-S.C.), Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Donald Payne Jr. (D-N.J.), Cedric Richmond (D-La.) and Lacy Clay (D), who represents Ferguson. Sunday's event will take place at Wellspring United Methodist Church in Florissant, Mo., which neighbors Ferguson. An apparently all-black church. Quite appropriate.
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"Black Democrats".....? Might we dispense with the obvious redundancy ?
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Holder & Co. could pull him through the Fed legal system trying to bankrupt him in his own defense, but...I suspect enough Americans are out there who'd pay into a fund for his defense that the whole mess would drag to 2016 and become a rallying point for far more of the law and order types than the 'base' they depend upon. If you read the tea leaves of the last election, motivation works both ways.
[BREITBART] On January 14, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) gave his State of the Commonwealth address, in which he called for a limit on the number of handguns Virginians can buy each month and a law to allow concealed carry permits to be revoked from those who fail to pay child support. The two are tightly interconnected, of course...
McAuliffe also pushed for new gun control measures tied to domestic violence, something that is already law at the federal level -- therefore, a redundant expanse of bureaucracy in the state. But it is an expanse that allows states to move closer to the creation of gun-owner registries. All the standard Dem blabber.
NBC 12 posted a transcript of McAuliffes speech. In it, he introduced his gun control proposals by first talking about his support of the Second Amendment. This is the same way that gun control proponents like Mark Kelly and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) introduced the gun control they have pushed over the years.
After paying lip service to gun rights, McAuliffe then explained his plans to curtail them. Those plans include closing the gun show loophole. They also include revoking concealed carry permits from those who do not meet their legal obligation to pay child support; and curtailing gun trafficking by restoring the one handgun a month law.
He framed all these proposals as part of his larger plan of keeping Virginians safe from gun violence.
He did not provide examples of how any of these proposals would have stopped even one high-profile public firearm incident in recent memory.
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Problem solved.
Now if it weren't for those darn publicans.....
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So Baker examined the relationship between handgun purchases and handgun-related crime, and found handgun purchases increased 112 percent from 2006 to 2011, but violent crimes committed with handguns fell by nearly 22 percent.
That trend continued last year. Total handgun purchases in Virginia (pistols and revolvers) increased 17 percent from 221,720 in 2011 to 259,814 last year. But violent crimes committed with handguns fell 2.3 percent, from 3,154 offenses in 2011 to 3,080 in 2012. Increased gun sales, concealed carry and crime drop in Virginia. Such numbers don't make any difference to the Donks--they've got their agenda of disarming citizens regardless of the 2nd Amendment.
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More startling is (from the above article): Looking back over seven years, total firearm sales in Virginia have risen a staggering 101 percent from 2006 to 2012, while gun-related crime has dropped 28 percent during that period.
That means more time on the range boys. It's like driver's ed. Training means more effective users. Better gun control. Get the legislative branch to remove local obstructions to opening accessible ranges.
[NYDAILYNEWS] Mayor de Blasio said he wont apologize to cops for saying what he thinks but seized on the safety improvements pushed for by dissident delegates at a Police Benevolent Association meeting that turned into a near-brawl as a way to heal the rift with the NYPD. That's okay, the cops aren't apologizing to you either...
You cant apologize for your fundamental beliefs, de Blasio said Wednesday when asked if hed acknowledge any missteps in his fight with cops, who have expressed outrage at his comment that he taught his biracial teen son to be careful when dealing with police and other statements.
The things that I have said were based on my beliefs, the truth as I know it, he said. Can we do a better job communicating, and listening, and deepening an understanding of what our officers need? Yes.
De Blasio was buoyed by reports of a furious conflict within the Patrolmens Benevolent Association whose leaders are some of his fiercest critics.
A PBA meeting Tuesday degenerated into a screaming match, where cops pushed and shoved each other, after opponents of union president Pat Lynch said cops really need better equipment and more officers to keep them safe on the street - not an apology from the mayor.
De Blasio sided with the dissident faction, calling their concerns reasonable and promising to find ways to improve officer safety.
Everything that's been put on the table there - vests, vehicles - those are all valid issues that we want to find solutions on, he said. It doesn't surprise me at all that more and more officers would offer different views on what needs to be done. I think where there's an emerging consensus is that we have to focus on officer safety as part of the package of reforms that we are making.
De Blasio also wasnt surprised that only a small fraction of cops signed pledges asking him to stay away from their funerals and has long thought that many rank and file cops arent on the same page as their fiercely critical union heads.
I always assumed there was a real diversity of opinion. And I think it is more on display now, he said, again raising the safety issue. Theres going to be emotion. Theres going to be rhetoric. Theres going to be some things said that shouldnt be said. But I think underneath that there are some real issues that we can address.
De Blasio took a much harder line against protesters who have spouted anti-police rhetoric, making a point in unprompted remarks of condemning groups behind protests that are planned for Thursday.
The groups involved in those protests scheduled for tomorrow have a long history of unfortunately allowing some of their members to say really inappropriate, reprehensible things about our coppers. Things that I think are actually quite sick, de Blasio said. They may have a constitutional right to chant their chants, but they're wrong.
The vast majority of protesters from everything I've seen are peaceful protesters, they respect the police but want to see a change in policies. But there's a small group that has consistently used absolutely unacceptable, reprehensible language towards officers. They may have a constitutional right to do it, but they should stop doing it, the mayor went on.
De Blasio was referring to groups like Peoples Power Assemblies, OWS-S17 and Occu-Evolve, which have protests against the lack of an indictment in the Eric Garner case planned for Thursday, aides said.
His unsolicited slam of the protest groups was a departure from the tone hes taken in the past, when hes bristled at being asked about inflammatory chants and blamed the media for bringing them up. It followed another nod to cop concerns his pledge Tuesday to veto a bill to make chokeholds a crime, which he reiterated Wednesday.
Imani Henry, an organizer with the Peoples Power Assemblies, stood by the groups protests and hit back at the mayor.
People are simply stating facts. The police are murdering and killing people in our communities, he said. Thats not inflammatory. That is an actual fact.
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[DAILYCALLER] As President B.O. faces harsh criticism for his handling of the Islamic terrorist attack in Gay Paree, a review of his personal statements about religion presents a window into his view of the Moslem faith, which he acknowledged his father was born into.
Obama drew fire for not appearing at an anti-terrorism unity march in Gay Paree after the attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... . White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that it was not accurate to call the Hebdo attack an act of radical Islam.
A pre-presidential speech by Obama can offer some insight into the presidents view on Islam. In 2006, Obama acknowledged for the first time that his father was born a Moslem in a speech at the Building A Covenant For A New America conference in Washington, D.C. on June 26, 2006. The organization Sojourners, an evangelical Christian group based in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of D.C., co-sponsored the Call To Renewal event.
In his speech, in which he criticized white Christian leaders and discussed his own skepticism of faith, Obama explained the appeal of organized religion.
In his speech, in which he criticized white Christian leaders and discussed his own skepticism of faith, Obama explained the appeal of organized religion.
They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives. They're looking to relieve a chronic loneliness, a feeling supported by a recent study that shows Americans have fewer close friends and confidants than ever before. And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them that they are not just destined to travel down that long highway towards nothingness.
"And I speak with some experience on this matter. I was not raised in a particularly religious household, as undoubtedly many in the audience were. My father, who returned to Kenya when I was just two, was born a Moslem but as an adult became an atheist. My mother, whose parents were non-practicing Baptists and Methodists, was probably one of the most spiritual and kindest people I've ever known, but grew up with a healthy skepticism of organized religion herself. As a consequence, so did I.
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By Muslim teachings, if the father is Muslim, the children must be raised Muslim even if the mother does not convert.
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Most or all of FRANCE is repor upset at the Bammer not personally appearing wid other world leaders, etc. in the wake of the deadly "Charlie Hebdo" terror incident.
#7
Behavior which is rewarded is reinforced. You take a cheap, two-bit leftard hustler and elect him POTUS (otherwise, IMO, he'd grow up to be Charlie Rangel), what do you expect?
#13
My old man’s a muzzlim,
What do you think about that?
He wears a muzz mans collar,
He poops in his muzzmans hat.
He wears a muzzmans raincoat,
He stays dry from our mullahs pee,
And every Friday evening,
He screams like a castrated ewe.
And someday, if I can,
I’m gonna be a nut case just like my old man.
Apparently, he's not high up enough in the food chain to escape retribution. It's too early for me to determine if might (and I mean might) be related to John Henry and a change in direction. I'm inclined to say no until proven otherwise. In my near forty years of reading this paper, I have learned never to give them the benefit of the doubt. They have never earned it.
A Boston.com associate editor who wrote an article making fun of death threats against House Speaker John Boehner has been fired.
Reached by phone today, Victor Paul Alvarez told the Herald, Why not comment on the truth? Yes, I have been fired. Thats my comment.
Alvarez, who posted a photo of the underside of a bus on Twitter earlier today, declined further comment. He did later tweet: "Also, in case it wasn't abundantly clear, I'm looking for a job. I doubt there will be any offers. But I am available."
His article, which was posted prominently on the websites homepage Top News section for about 12 hours, was headlined: Would Anyone Have Noticed if Bartender Succeeded in Poisoning John Boehner?
The question is: Would anyone have noticed? Stories about Boehners drinking have circulated for years. His drinking inspired a blog called DrunkBoehner, and in 2010 he brought booze back to Washington, the article read. Had he been poisoned as planned, perhaps his pickled liver could have filtered out the toxins.
The cutline on the Associated Press photo attached to the boston.com article read: House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, has been known to get hammered from time to time.
The Republican House speaker decried the article yesterday morning.
In an email to the Herald, Boehners press secretary Michael Steel said: It should be obvious to any sentient human being that an item mocking threats against the Speaker and his family is completely insensitive and inappropriate. One little victory - I'll take it...
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he'll get a raise and a job at Salon, Daily Beast or Media Matters
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Maybe he can work at Charlie Hebdo.
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Can't allow the mask to fall in front of the plebes. Can't reveal what the 'institution' really believes. Can't give the other side ammo when they are accused of such thoughts.
[Huffpoo] The White House said Obama's guide during the tour was 83-year-old South African politician Ahmed Kathrada, who also was held at the prison for nearly two decades and guided Obama on his 2006 visit to the prison as a U.S. senator. The president also saw the prison courtyard where Mandela planted grapevines that remain today, and where he and others in the dissident leadership would discuss politics, sneak notes to one another and hide writings.
"On behalf of our family, we're deeply humbled to stand where men of such courage faced down injustice and refused to yield. The world is grateful for the heroes of Robben Island, who remind us that no shackles or cells can match the strength of the human spirit," Obama wrote in the guest book in the courtyard.... Cuban government soon to provide guided tours of GITMO where the "shackles and cells" of Yankee colonialism, racism, and Islamophobia can finally be revealed.
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past. ~ Dreams of My Father.
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In the mind of the Champ, the parallels of Robben Island and GITMO are undeniable. A petulant victim mentality is the dominate element of his psyche. I really do believe this is where he is going.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
