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-Land of the Free
Experts slam DOJ letter telling schools to implement race-based punishments
[Daily Caller] Education experts decried a new memo from the Departments of Justice and Education that instructs public schools throughout the country to cease punishing disruptive students if they fall into certain racial categories, such as black or Hispanic.

The letter, released on Wednesday, states that it is a violation of federal law for schools to punish certain races more than others, even if those punishments stem from completely neutral rules. For example, equal numbers of black students and white students should be punished for tardiness, even if black students are more often tardy than white students
If you like this book, maybe you'll like Eric Holder's other books related to freeing FALN murderers, GITMO terrorists and cop killers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2014 07:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The educational experts basically told Holder to FOAD in a nice way. Next, there will be a call for parity in prison populations by the DOJ. Certain groups in our society can't be in prison more than their percentage of the population. Complete nonsense coming from D.C.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/10/2014 14:22 Comments || Top||

#2  You have to understand that to Holder, Obumbles, Racist Jesse Jackson and Racist Al Sharpton it's all about RACE - there is no other possible explanation.

The fact that blacks are punished more than their portion of the population couldn't possibly be related to the gangta culture or single parent families or how hollywood glorifies the 'Gangsta' and the 'Ho'.
Oh No! It has to be because of their race - the color of their skin. It couldn't possibly be due to anything else.

Primary example is their embrace of the Gangsta-loving Thug-wannabe Trayvon. He couldn't possible have been shot in self defense by the man he was trying pretty fu*king hard to kill by bashing his head into the concrete. Oh no it must have been because he was black. Never mind all the evidence that Zimmerman wasn't white and wasn't a racist, and even went out of his way to help people. It must have been because of Trayvon's skin color - it couldn't possibly be anything else. Because for Holder, Obama, and the Racist Twins everything is about race.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/10/2014 14:43 Comments || Top||

#3  CrazyFool.
I disagree. For that bunch, it's not about race. They know better. They know, and they're right, that a sufficient number of the rest of the peeps can be fooled.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 01/10/2014 15:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Here’s Why Obama Will Get A Third Term…
..certainly hope not, but the author makes a good case while taking "Conservatives" to task for slothfulness...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 01/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The writer has a bucket of imagination, fat chance this comes to pass... here have a musical interlude... calm your nerves, if you think this will come to pass

Posted by: Beldar Bucket || 01/10/2014 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  "The bigger picture of social collapse and revolution ..." > IMO the brouhaha between China-vs-Japan, PHIL, etal in East Asia will be the final catalyst inducing all the other [anti-US OWG Globalist?] dominoes.

There is of course Iran's NucProgs, but as long as Iran includ ally Baby Assad = Syria is taking major steps to contain or defeat the Qaeda Boyz + aligned in the Middle East, I don't foresee alleged anti-US, Marxist-Anarchist-Globalist POTUS Bammer initiating any MilAction agz it.

That leaves us back again vee CHINA.

AFAIK a bad econ is NOT a reason to suspend the Govt,,habeas corpus, + invoke martial law + POTUS Bammer "third term" - DE FACTO, NOT DE JURE, CIVIL WAR AKA ARMED INSURRECTION IS, and the only reason for the former to happen is iff China attacks andor invades CONUS ala "Red Dawn II"; or in altern POTUS Bammer does something(s) catastrophic which mainstream America does NOT expect + W-I-L-L N-O-T ACCEPT OR TOLERATE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES vee the escalating China-vs-Japan, PHIL, etc. Crises.

Again, "THE BAMMER SAYS THE US CAN NO LONGER ECON AFFORD TO GO TO WAR", VERSUS "US FALLBACK ACROSS ASIA-PACIFIC WAS PART OF A YEARS OR DECADES-OLD, LONG-PLANNED GLOBALIST + ALIGNED. GEOPOL AGENDA" [read, MURDER + HIGH TREASON WORSE THAN BENEDICT ARNOLD, THE ROSENBERGS, OR ALGER HISS].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/10/2014 1:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Lest we fergit, kiddies, 1960's -70's GUAM TAOTAMONAS = US fallback or retreat across the Pacific is what induces the US to sink or destroy major or key Pacific Islands e.g. GUAM, ETAL. vee "EARTHQUAKE/TECTONIC BOMBS", as part of STRATEGIC DENIAL = post-9-11's so-called
"A2/Area-Denial".

[HUGO CHAVEZ, RED BERET, + MICHELLE'S/MILWAUKEE BRIGADE here].

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* BIGNEWSNETWORK [ANI] > POLL: 82% OF US DEFENCE LEADERS BELIEVE CHINA GROWING STRONGER, US DECLINING SINCE 2008.

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > OIL PRICES COULD GO BELOW US$80.0 A BARREL IN 2014, AND US FOREIGN POLICY CRISIS | [CNBC.com] OIL COULD GO BELOW US$80.0 IFF IRAN GETS SOLVED: EURASIA [Eurasia Group President] BREMMER. VIDEO: US TOP GLOBAL RISK: AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY [espec China-vs-Japan].

ARTIC > "YEAR 2014" = "DO-OR-DIE" YEAR FOR IRAN.

* RELATED SAME > GEOPOLITICAL RISK: IRAN IS OUT, CHINA + JAPAN ARE IN.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > CHINA CALLS FOR [worldwide = Internatinal] WARNING TO JAPAN. Yasukuni.

* SAME > [World Tribune] CHINA PREPARING TO DECLARE ECONOMIC WAR AGZ SHINZO ABE.

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > FOREIGN FISHING VESSELS [now] NEED CHINA'S APPROVAL TO ENTER SOUTH CHINA SEA | [Reuters] CHINA DEFENDS NEW FISHING RULES IN DISPUTED AREAS.

RELATED SAME > VOA NEWS > CHINA'S [new]FISHING RESTRICTIONS ARE "PROVOCATIVE AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS".

RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BILL GERTS: CHINA ORDERS FISHING VESSELS OUT OF MOST [2/3rd's] OF SOUTH CHINA SEA.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > NORTH KOREA SAYS ABE YASUKUNI SHRINE VISIT EQUAL TO A "DECLARATION OF WAR", agz the Peoples of Asia + World.

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > JAPAN COULD BUILD NUCLEAR BOMBS FROM NUCLEAR [Plutonium] WASTE, SAYS PLA DAILY. Up to 2000 Plutonium-based NucBombs from six Nuclear waste processing/
recycling plants around the country, ergo the "JAPAN NUCLEAR THREAT" IS FAR/MUCH GREATER THAN ANY FROM NORTH KOREA'S NUCPROGS.

Artic > China = believes that Nippon may already have 2-5 NucBombs.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/10/2014 2:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Not a snowball's chance in hell.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/10/2014 8:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Not a chance the Clinton machine will allow it. Even if the republicans agreed, the Clintons and their followers in DC would kill it. I can see call of fraud and social problems if a republican looks to win the elections. And that where I think Obama will disregard the constitution and declare the election void until his investigation is complete. Basic marital law effectively giving him a third term or as the rest of the world calls it Coup d'etat.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/10/2014 10:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Old men have dreams.....

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2014 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Should I live to see such a headline. Except for the part where "Biden will take office today," I like it. I might like a headline that reads: "All the political lemmings run for the cliff in an unexplained mass phenomena."
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/10/2014 14:35 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
CM Punjab's admirable moves against vulgarity
[DAWN] NADEEM F. PARACHA
Paracha's a funny guy, sometimes hilarious.
Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  The gentleman is so dry he may be mistaken for being serious by the perpetually aggrieved. Which is probably his intent.
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra || 01/10/2014 16:19 Comments || Top||


Ghastly crime
[DAWN] THE crime was gruesome even by the standards of small-time Mister Bigs. Six men were found slaughtered at a remote shrine in Gulshan-e-Maymar, located in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's outskirts, on Tuesday. Along with ending the men's lives in a grisly manner, the perpetrators of the barbaric act also damaged the shrine. Reports say a note found at the scene, reportedly signed off by the TTP, warned that anyone else visiting the shrine would meet a similar fate. Religious snuffies are known to bear extreme malice towards all sorts of religious expression that does not fit within their narrow definition of what is Islamic. They have been known to mete out similar 'punishments' to unfortunate souls in many parts, while they are notorious for their iconoclasm: the fanatics have attacked many a Sufi shrine in the country. Karachi itself witnessed an attack believed to be orchestrated by snuffies on its most prominent dargah -- that of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in 2010. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
all things considered, the killings in Gulshan-e-Maymar require further investigation to prove whether the TTP was really involved in the outrageous act, or if other criminals used the snuffies as a cover to settle their own scores.

This is not the first time individuals have been slain in such a brutal manner in Karachi. In November last year, a suspected faith healer was decapitated and his head hung from a city bridge. Investigations into that case have also proved inconclusive. If krazed killer elements are indeed found to be involved in such acts -- only thorough investigations can establish the facts -- the state must prepare itself to confront a ferocious new player in Karachi's deadly vortex of violence. For many years now, there has been talk of creeping Talibanisation in the city, particularly on its outer rim. Police have come under attack, as have polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
workers and political activists, in areas where the TTP is said to have influence, while 'Sharia courts' are also known to be operating in some neighbourhoods. Karachi has enough violent elements as it is. If the authorities fail to identify and neutralise an emerging Taliban threat, ghastly incidents such as the one witnessed at the shrine may just be the beginning as the bully boyz expand their targets in the city.
Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Olde Tyme Religion
Liberation Theology is back as Pope Francis holds capitalism to account
Posted by: tipper || 01/10/2014 09:25 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This guy is a socialist, in sheeps clothing. I was down in South America.

Not condemning people but immorality and laziness is very common there. And then they go to confession and blame the rich (who actually WORK) for their poverty.
Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 || 01/10/2014 16:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Why Nations Fail
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/10/2014 20:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Liberation Theology is dead. Socialism and communism is not what this is about. Go look up Subsidiarity. Come back after you learn what that means.

And the capitalism he refers to is then Crony Capitalism where the rich use government to amass and protect wealth at the expense of others. He saw it first hand in the kleptocracy in Argentina, and now in the US, with companies making millions off Obamacare while the religious are being discriminated and bullied by an allegedly capitalist government.

Go read it, and you may find actual agreement, instead of this breathless moonbattery from the right (and left) about the re-emergence of liberation theology and socialism.

Actually READ his stuff in its entirety instead of depending on gutter journalism and calumny like the UK tabloid you link to.

This thinly masked hijacking of the Catholic Church by lefties and journalists combined with know-nothing anticatholicisim is disappointing coming from Burg posters who should know better.
Posted by: OldSpook || 01/10/2014 21:59 Comments || Top||

#4  To poster #1, you are, simply put, ignorant or else astoundingly stupid. As is the author of the article.

Let's look at the actual papal exhortation, and the scholarly the sources cited in that document.

In this, Pope Francis never mentioned or referenced any 'liberation theologians' or ''new theologians'. Analysis of the list of over 200 references to sources is revealing. The most frequently cited source was John Paul II, followed by Benedict XVI. They were particularly cited to supported his comments on socio-economic issues. The third most frequently cited sources was Paul VI, who among other things re-affirmed the Church's teaching on sexual matters, including contraception. The most frequently cited theologian was St Thomas Aquinas, who belongs to the 13th Century,. Notably, Thomism is a favored philosophy by orthodox and conservative Catholics (c.f the writings of Chesterson). Apart from a few early Church Fathers, the only other theologians cited are DeLubac and Guardini, both of whom can be regarded as 'conservative' or orthodox. If anyone thinks there is any discontinuity between Francis and his conservative immediate predecessors, he is deluding himself, and to do so publicly is to deliberately mislead the public in a fundamentally dishonest way.
Posted by: OldSpook || 01/10/2014 22:52 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Global warming's glorious ship of fools
An excerpt:

But alas, eating one’s shipmates and watching one’s extremities drop off one by one is not a part of today’s high-end eco-doom tourism. Instead, the ice-locked warmists uploaded chipper selfies to YouTube, as well as a self-composed New Year singalong of such hearty un-self-awareness that it enraged even such party-line climate alarmists as Andrew Revkin, the plonkingly earnest enviro-blogger of the New York Times. A mere six weeks ago, pumping out the usual boosterism, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that, had Captain Scott picked his team as carefully as Professor Chris Turney, he would have survived. Sadly, we’ll never know — although I’ll bet Captain Oates would have been doing his ‘I am going out. I may be some time’ line about eight bars into that New Year number.
Posted by: badanov || 01/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These Global Warming people become more desperate every passing day, and are locked into a group insanity, which will likely end, only when they are dead. For to face any alternative reality other than what they have concocked will lead to individual insanity from which there is no escape


Posted by: Beldar Bucket || 01/10/2014 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't know about all of you but personally I'm enjoying the humor of the Ship of Fools story immensely. Seldom does one find such humor and irony in reality. Karma at its best.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/10/2014 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  It will end when the grants dry up. The grants will dry up when Al Gore style "get rich by selling a huge lie" enrichment schemes stop working. That's already happening. Heard much about Dr. Heidi Cullen lately?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/10/2014 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  http://youtu.be/FpMswvtDj7Y
Posted by: Frank G || 01/10/2014 9:29 Comments || Top||

#5  The Grateful Dead do a much better Ship of Fools.
Posted by: remoteman || 01/10/2014 16:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Grants = Rent Seekers
Posted by: mossomo || 01/10/2014 20:50 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 The Grateful Dead do a much better Ship of Fools.
Posted by: remoteman

that was my link in #4. Deadhead here :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 01/10/2014 21:42 Comments || Top||



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