[DAILYCALLER] Some parents in Dupo, Ill. are not happy that a biography of President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... is required reading for fourth-graders. They say the book contains a host of controversial elements, not least of which is that it casts white Americans who disagree with Obama's politics as racist.
Fourth-grade students at Bluffview Elementary School were instructed that they would be tested and graded on the book's contents, reports EAGnews.org.
The book, called simply "Barack Obama," is published by Lerner Publications. The author, Jane Sutcliffe, appears to specialize in these kinds of biographies. She has written similar titles about Jesse Owens, Ronald Reagan, Sacagawea and Milton Hershey. I'll just bet that her bio on Reagan reads a tad differently...
The kerfuffle about the book originally bubbled up through a Facebook page called Moms Against Duncan (MAD). The group actively opposes implementation of the Common Core curriculum.
EAGNews notes that the Obama book is part of Scholastic's "Reading Counts" program and an acceptable title under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which attempts to standardize various K-12 curricula around the country.
You can view a sample of the bio on Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... Books.
The book continually identifies Obama on a first-name basis. It bizarrely blames the evils of television for learning ways "to be black" that are hilariously caricatured, stereotypical and negative.
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When does Obama swim the Yangtze supported by frogmen below view?
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Crystal Mangum lied, and unlike our President was caught and punished.
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Crystal Magnum wasn't 'punished' for ruining the lives of those 4 innocent lacrosse players - she got off scott free for that. She was later convicted for 2nd degree murder of her 'boyfriend'.
Personally I think she (along with Nifong, Racist Jesse Jackson and Racist Al Sharpton) should have been forced to serve the time for 4 rape charges - consecutively.
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To be entirely accurate in the protrayal of Brak, Jane had somebody else wright her book, then ate a dog.
There is a lot wrong with the common corpse method. Mathematics is horrible, forcusing on rote memorization. If I can try to explain, the traditional count fingers method of 3 + 2 would have three items, in this case fingers, combined with a group of two, to make 5. What they are being taught is to see 3 + 2 and just say 5. Seeing 2 + 3 is a seperate thing to memorize rather than seeing the question and thinking, "Oh, same question just different order."
I expect to see interest, participation, and success in Algebra to suffer tremendously. Imagine a generation unable to figure how to get the most tacos (A) and burritos (B) with (<=) $20 (C) without resorting to a computer.
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My wife teaches K and is being forced (along with her peers) kicking and screaming into using this $hit. I read her one of the problems going the rounds yesterday and she recognized it after 4 words. Then she explained it to me......
They are NOT allowed to teach kids how to count anymore!! Everything is groups of 5 or ten and these are kids that can't do 2+1 = 3 or 3+1 = 4.
The book shown, the one she's got, is the cheap one and not even understandable for the teachers it's such crap. She figures that the teachers will revert to their own methods next year after the Trolls stop looking over their shoulders.
[BREITBART] A California ordinance that prohibits smoking in residences with shared walls may be the strictest anti-smoking law in the United States, city officials say.
The ban, passed by the city of San Rafael, applies to both owners and renters, ABC News reported Thursday.
It covers any multi-family residence with three or more units, including condominiums, co-ops and apartments. The ban took effect Nov. 14.
"I'm not aware of any ordinance that's stronger," said Rebecca Woodbury, an analyst in the San Rafael's city manager's office who helped write the ordinance.
She cited studies that found secondhand smoke seeps through walls, ventilation ducts and even cracks as justification for the ordinance. Nicophobe...
Critics jumped on Woodbury's reasoning and the ordinance itself.
"The science for that is spurious at best," said George Koodray, the state coordinator for Citizens Freedom Alliance and the Smoker's Club in New Jersey.
Steve Stanek, a research fellow at the free-market oriented policy group Heartland Institute in Chicago, supported the rights of smokers. Stanek, a non-smoker, said, "My sympathies aren't with smokers because I am one, it's because of the huge growth in laws and punishments and government restricting people more and more."
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...another example of liberal fascism at work.
South Pasadena has a similar ordinance as well, which even covers people smoking in their cars while traveling through the city.
A recent local news article claimed that retail sales were off by 30% YTD.
And they can't seem to figure out why.
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Of course they could just ban cigarettes et al from sale in the state (leaving a monopoly to Indian reservations and other federal lands), but then where would they make up all that tax revenue?
[CNSNEWS] The price of electricity hit a record for the month of October, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That made October the eleventh straight month when the average price of electricity hit or matched the record level for that month.
The average price of electricity in October was 13.2 cents per kilowatt hour (KWH), up from 12.8 cents per KWH in October 2012--and up from 9.3 cents per KWH in October 2003.
Americans now pay 42 percent more for electricity than they did a decade ago.
In November 2012, electricity was 12.7 cents per KWH, which was down from the 12.8 cents per KWH price of November 2011. But, in December 2012, the price of electricity stayed at 12.7 cents per KWH, matching the record monthly price of 12.7 cents per KWH that had been reached in December 2011.
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"Americans now pay 42 percent more for electricity than they did a decade ago."
[THEHILL] After the Senate voted to change filibuster rules Thursday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) called for more reforms.
"This has been escalating for a long period of time and it was time to stop it and that's what we did this morning," Harkin said. "Now we need to take it a step farther and change the filibuster rules on legislation."
I agree: eliminate the filibuster completely. It's an anachronism and ill-suited to our times. Let 50% + 1 be the rule, especially after the Pubs take the Senate back in 2015...
Fifty-two Democratic senators voted to limit the minority party's right to filibuster executive branch and judicial nominees. Under the old rules, 60 votes were necessary to end debate on nominees, but Democrats changed the rules to require a simple majority.
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Harkin calls for more rule changes
Like pushing back election dates just like, mandated by law, Obamacare enrollment?
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Mitch McConnell - Worthless traitor who needs to get replaced by an actual human being with a spine.
RNC, if you ready this, you get nothing from me moneywise cause you're not conservative Americans. You have become Demonrats and I see no difference between you two.
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Y'all don't know that the TEA party simply means "Taxed Enough Already".
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The only conscience the senator has is how much of his reelection fund he can convert to his personal use and the kind of paying gig he can get on K street when he does.
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The Tea Party opposes the wild out-of-control spending of establishment Washington and they all go ape $hit? The Tea Party tries to put the power and control back in the hands of Americans and the Donks and Rinos go ballistic. Gimme a break.
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Before there was a Tea Party, there was the Porkbusters. People saw that every 'emergency' ended up with tremendous bloat in the funding to buy votes with. Under the guise of 'conscience' was outright fiduciary criminal looting of the public treasury.
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Oops! Another right-winger with a conscience. Hilarious
Once again JA your commentary is flat out absurd. Senator McConnell is an Establishment politician in a leadership position. This, by definition, means his decisions are driven primarily by strategy – not ideology. Therefore, he is neither a “right-winger” nor is he particularly conscientious. So follow along here junior. He’s not challenged by Tea Party policies. He’s threatened by their very existence. Hilarious.
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Who are you supposing to punch these people in the nose Mitch? You?
No? Are you advocating for others to go and punch people in the nose for you?
There is a nice corner at Boot Hill in Dodge City Mitch, you give me 15 minutes on that corner and I could point out everything which is right and wrong in America, then you can punch me in the nose - but I bet that bloody nose that I will convert you.
Why? Because four out of five things I say will be a positive story, with 10% wrong being government funded gangsterism and the other 10% being gangster influenced government.
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One has to forgive the Honorable Senator from Kentucky. He's been under a lot of strain recently, what with his poll numbers, viable opponents in both the primary and general election, and backlash from the filibuster nuke.
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..well, when you make deals based upon your future needs to 'make friends and influence people' as a K street lobbyist rather than the people you're suppose to represent, it does get a little nasty back home. Can't blame yourself now can you? /rhet question
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Yup. That's the corner bman. There are a few who work, but a whole bunch who don't seem to. The corner I'm talking about includes the parking lot they have come to dominate, chasing off business from a Chinese/Thai restaurant, a Mexican shoe store, another Chinese restaurant, and a tourist gift shop. Double park, park in the throughway, loitering in front of entrences.
My point: its the paid to not work culture, and how it affects those who are working. The sales, property, payroll taxes those business pay go into encouraging people to not only not work, but how that hurts the very businesses which fund those programs. Paying people to hurt your business.
Its also a story about paying taxes for police, and them not making sure this plaza, and businesses on the main tourist route through town is functional.
I pull into the lot to get my Panang Gai and food for the fam, and a van stuffed with people double parks right in front of my store. They park, unload, go into some store with blacked out windows for five minutes, come back with no merchandise, and leave. Meanwhile, three guys are squatting on the sidewalk not talking to each other and have the 100 yard stare. I tip well because when they opened they were so busy they talked family into moving to Dodge to help out, then this pod of no workers showed up in their parking lot. I'd be pissed.
And its not the ethnicity, pretty frustrating watching toothless white meth heads get houses and dudes straight from the campos getting into brand new trucks with a bed full of groceries.
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Senator John McCain's office in Arizona got a call from me when he went after Senator Ted Cruz, (if you read this article you will see that Mitch also is going after Ted Cruz and the Tea Party) for him trying to prevent the federal debt ceiling from being raised. I told the sanctimonious sounding female voice on the other end of the line what John McCain needs to do, but doesn't have the guts to do.
Come to Dallas, Houston, San Antone, Abilene, and try spewing his spit at the people who sent the messenger to DC instead of trying to punch our messenger in the face. He obviously was too cowardly to follow through.
Sounds like I will be making the same call to Senator Mitchel's Office in Kentucky, 859-224-8286, come Monday morning, and then calling Senator Rand Paul's Kentucky office to offer my congratulations for standing up to the Senate Rhinos who are just as against Tea Party reps filibustering as Senator Reid and company.
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The problem is that the pub leadership is not much different than the dem leadership.
The dems are evil and greedy.
The pubs are greedy and stupid.
I just do not think that either the dems or the pubs are reformable. The tea party wants less government and taxes lowered. For this they got the most vicious ad hominem attacks. They hardly ever got an intense discussion of the merits of the ideas they put forward.
So these dinosaurs are unreformable. Let's put our energy into what can be positive and can be accomplished. I like the idea of independents working together on the merits of the issue. Vote trading works when there is plenty of money to throw around.
Well, there is no money to throw around any more.
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I think Mitch is speaking figuratively about the campaign contributions he will receive as opposed to any Tea Party candidate who dares to oppose him in the Republican primary. Unfortunately, he is probably right. But the RNC will never get another penny from me. This is also the same reason I didn't vote for Carly Fiorina when she ran for Senate against Barbara Boxer. Fiorina would have been the same kind of senator as McConnell.
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And the RNC wonders why contributions keep dropping.
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We got something. Definitely not a Constitutional Republic at the moment.
Not when the pseudo king can change law with a presser and a wave of his hand.
Not when we have an imperial city whereto all the wealth is drained; the richest counties now surround the capital; the economic malaise seen by the rest of the country is absent here.
Not when we have a kings court populated by arrogant beltway aristocracy and their lobbyist courtiers.
Not when we have unelected panels (EPA, etc) surpassing the Constitutional Process and thereby Congress and debate to make mandates that we vassals are forced to obey.
[Weekly Standard] Minnesota senator Al Franken, a Democrat, opens the door to a delay of the Obamacare individual mandate in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio. Here Franken, make sure this gets to the MSM. Yea, anytime on Friday will be fine. WAPO Reports:
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) says he would be open to a brief delay in the individual mandate if the problems with HealthCare.gov aren't fixed by the end of the month, according to Minnesota Public Radio. Brief delay as in... just following the upcoming election.
"I think then we have to consider extending the deadline for the mandate, but letÂ’s hope that doesn't happen," Franken told MPR. Regime expectation management at it's very best.
Franken has so far been relatively quiet about potential changes to the health-care law, but he now joins a growing group of Senate Democrats in seats that could be targeted by the GOP in 2014 who are speaking up on the issue. Others need help! Not everyone can win an election by using votes found in the boot of a car.
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Whoa whoa whoa Mr. Franken, calm down that rhetoric. Why, its that sort of crazy whacko bird gun to your head rhetoric which will make people think you are a racist, and a dang near worse than the Taliban of politics.
[MCCLATCHYDC] The nation's largest news organizations lodged a complaint Thursday against the White House for imposing unprecedented limitations on photojournalists covering President Barack Obama, which they say have harmed the public's ability to monitor its own government.
Why doesn't the MSM just ask for official White House photos of the events? It would save everyone time and the coverage is going to be the same regardless from the credentialed wing of the Democratic Party...
The organizations accuse the White House of banning photojournalists from covering Obama at some events, and then later releasing its own photos and videos of the same events.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest defended the release of photos and videos, saying the practice helps Obama live up to his pledge of transparency by allowing the public to have greater access to the inner workings of the administration when it's not feasible for news media to be in the room.
"Journalists are routinely being denied the right to photograph or videotape the president while he is performing his official duties," according to a letter the organizations sent to the White House. "As surely as if they were placing a hand over a journalist's camera lens, officials in this administration are blocking the public from having an independent view of important functions of the executive branch of government."
Presidents often look for ways to get their own messages out. But media experts say Obama's administration has developed an aggressive strategy to use social media, including government-sponsored websites and blogs, as well as Twitter, Instagram and Flickr accounts, to circumvent the media's constitutional duty more than its predecessors have.
"You are only seeing what they want you to see," said Lucy Dalglish, the dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest defended the release of photos and videos, saying the practice helps Obama live up to his pledge of transparency by allowing the public to have greater access to the inner workings of the administration when it's not feasible for news media to be in the room.
"What we've done is we've taken advantage of new technology to give the American public even greater access to behind-the-scenes footage or photographs of the president doing his job," Earnest said. "To the American public, that's a clear win."
He said the news organizations' protests were just part of the natural tension between journalists and those they covered.
"The fact that there is a little bit of a disagreement between the press corps and the White House press office about how much access the press corps should have to the president is built into the system," he said at the daily White House news briefing. "If that tension didn't exist, then either you or we aren't doing our jobs."
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Why doesn't the MSM just ask for official White House photos of the events? It would save everyone time and the coverage is going to be the same regardless from the credentialed wing of the Democratic Party...
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Actually I have noticed that since the Obamacare rollout fiasco, the exact same photos have been used over and over again for many different articles.
Also every single one of them appear to have been Photoshopped in some way or the other to enhance the main stream media's point of view.
The art of photography/photojournalism, today, is a lost art.
Most photographers today don't even try (or know how) to take quality images. They simply snap a bunch of snapshots, download the entire batch DIRECTLY from their cameras into a Photoshop application, and the Photoshop artists take over from there.
In a great many cases I doubt that the images we see posted on the MSM are any more real than the one I posted above.
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JI, yours take time, effort, creativity, imagination.
Too many photographers have taken on the mindset of being tripods. Well dressed and snotty tripods, but tripods nonetheless. I'm afraid that the same thing that is happening with people not being able to retain phone numbers is happening with the mass recording of anything, that people are sacrificing the be here now for hours of stale video footage.
Going through that digital video, picking the frame where el pres has the best smile and wink combo, adjusting bright/contrast, hue, saturation to make the most pleasing effective picture is not photography in the sense they pass it off as, the happened to catch the moment they sell it as. Its really advanced 21st century poster agit prop.
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"You are only seeing what they want you to see," said Lucy Dalglish, the dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
How is that different from ABC?
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"What we've done is we've taken advantage of new technology to give the American public even greater access to behind-the-scenes footage or photographs of the president doing his job," Earnest said.
Evidently, a WH photographer was a bit overzealous carrying out Earnest's mandate...
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"What we've done is we've taken advantage of new technology to give the American public even greater access to behind-the-scenes footage or photographs of the president doing his job,"
[DAILYCALLER] Happy Thanksgiving from the B.O. regime. The Energy Department has sold off its $192 million loan guarantee to Fisker Automotive to Chinese billionaire Richard Li for $25 million -- the biggest taxpayer loss on a green loan since the failure of Solyndra. ...a green technological winner picked by the Obama administration that cost the taxpayers a half billion dollars, with the added benefit of the campaign contributors who put money into the project getting paid before the taxpayers when the wreckage went up for sale...
The Energy Department will announce the "selling of the promissory note" to Hybrid Tech, which is owned by Chinese billionaire Richard Li, according to sources familiar with the sale. The DOE sold the loan to Li for $25 million after lending the financially troubled green automaker a total of $192 million since 2009. I guess this is how a Chinese billionaire got to be a Chinese billionaire... Continued on Page 49
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It wasn't lost, it was just 'redistributed'. How much over the period of the loan was laundered 'redistributed' to various reelection funds and PACs we can guess.
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.
[DAILYCALLER] Some parents in Dupo, Ill. are not happy that a biography of President 
[BREITBART] A California ordinance that prohibits smoking in residences with shared walls may be the strictest anti-smoking law in the United States, city officials say.
[THEHILL] After the Senate voted to change filibuster rules Thursday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) called for more reforms.
[MCCLATCHYDC] The nation's largest news organizations lodged a complaint Thursday against the White House for imposing unprecedented limitations on photojournalists covering President Barack Obama, which they say have harmed the public's ability to monitor its own government.
[DAILYCALLER] Happy Thanksgiving from the 
