Trouble With Getting to Class on Time? The Students?

Quoting from "Notable and Quotable" in the WSJ today, these quotes taken from a new story in the New York Post, "They have trouble with spelling, grammar and showing up to class on time--we're not talking about students.

The city tried to expel 26 teachers from the classroom last year for gross incompetence-such as English teachers who couldn't write of speak the language properly.

But officials maintain that stringent union rules prohibited the from succeeding in just half those cases-even when hearing officers actually agreed with the principals' assessments.

That's because the city has to prove not only that the teachers can't do their jobs but also that they have no shot at ever improving.

"What happens in every single thing is litigated or grieved or had a fuss made about it,' said Mayor Bloomberg, who, along with Gov. Cuomo, has demanded statewide adoption of new teacher evaluations.'

Oh yes, New York is NOT a Right-to-Work state.

Do I support unions in the public sector? Not much as unions and weak boards have nearly ruined Peoria Public School District #150 (and large schools all over the country) while Caterpillar, in the private sector, well, that's a different story it seems.

And, yes, Cat, I hope you do not give in to the stokers at one of your plants in Canada. Get your engines from Brazil, they need to bolster their economy.

I remind readers, that my company was represented by the Teamsters. No problem, I worked with them personally and they worked with me. Big difference in the public sector and at places like Government Motors, oops, I meant General Motors. Would I ever buy a GM vehicle, NO.

Cheating Educators

Two principals and two teachers were finally forced to resign in Georgia after a state investigation in classroom cheating.

Fortunately, Georgia is a Right-To-Work state or these resignations might come after years of union lawyers defending the cheating which John Barge, state school superintendent blames on the system, "Relying on a single test to determine a student's and a school's academic success is plagued with problems."

I agree that the poorly thought out NCLB has been mostly a failure.

Obama Accomplishments? Quite a Few!!

Passed on to me by a friend.

If a couple "accomplishments" are wrong these are at least 48% better than what Obama says he has done.


QUOTE


Merle:

Who said Obama hasn't done anything?

An impressive list of accomplishments!


First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States .

First President to violate the War Powers Act.

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .

First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to terminate America ’s ability to put a man in space-defunded NASA.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company (Boeing) in which State they are allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to fire an inspector general of Americorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date & counting.

First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to not know how to properly pronounce Navy 'corpsman'.

First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’-including bowing to foreign rulers.

First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.

First President to say that America was not a Christian nation.

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) just for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.


Was this the "Hope and Change" you wanted for America? How are you feeling now?


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Wise Words to the Republicans

I suggest donors to the Republican Party put their dollars to work making sure they hold the House and take the Senate. No way are any of the slightly jaded "four horseman" going to beat the worst president the populace elected in my lifetime.

Maybe in 2016 the Republicans can come up with a new voice who can be elected. Fortunately, this family has enough assets and income to make it five more years. I believe my direct relatives will make it also.

Sure, I'll vote for the Republican candidate that is selected in Tampa. So will all my family and most of my friends. But, the dice are loaded, lies, make no difference and Obama has convinced the faithful the skies were never more blue. Obama has the charm of the old time door to door drug & "snake oil" salesman. People bought then and are still buying now only the selling is done by flying all over the country and dominating almost all the pictorial media.

And the left wing liberals are having a field day. Think how many days they will have when Obama and most unions unleash their hoards of cash.

I am going to slow down my blogging and enjoy some warm weather again. If you don't read the Wall Street Journal you are missing out on reading the best columnists in print today. Fox TV is the best political media to view. And yes, I do believe it is REASONABLY "fair and balanced".

Local news is pretty much the same except I do wish the vendors would get paid more promptly by the state. What a mess this state is in but Republicans, you will not elect a Republican governor so here again, I suggest trying to win as many local and Springfield representatives as you can. Just be sure they aren't as big spenders as the Democrats.

On so many of the other issues like the ball park, libraries, and park district that I have written about, time will tell although my predictions on some have come true, moreso for one than the others.

Obama and the Democrats Solar Thing

Forwarded to me by a friend. Sad.

Merle

The Solar thing just got a little more interesting.......REALLY!> > >



>
> The Tonopah Solar company in Harry Reid's Nevada
> is getting $737 million from Obama's DOE as part of the so-called energy initiative.
>
> The project will produce a 110 megawatt power
> system and employ 45 permanent workers.
>
>
> That's only costing us $16 million per job
>
>
> One of the investment partners in this endeavor is
> Pacific Corporate Group (PCG).
>
> The PCG executive director is Ron Pelosi, who is the brother to Nancy 's husband.
>
> Just move along folks.....nuthin' goin on here.
>
>
> EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW HOW THEIR MONEY IS BEING STOLEN
> SO FORWARD THIS TO EVERYBODY.
>
>
> Google Tonopah Solar company and see for yourself.
>
>
> >

Obama- Note Who He Didn't Threaten

Passed on to me by a friend. I believe these comments are noteworthy.

Merle

It's incredible that 42% of Americans think that this unqualified, incompetent, dishonorable, ego-driven fraud is doing a good job. Take a
moment. Admit it to yourself. You know who his supporters are. They are the people that YOU support.

From now thru November 2012 this should be required weekly or at least monthly reading BY ALL WHO VOTE!!!

Did you notice who Obama threatened when he wasn't getting his way on raising the debt ceiling? He threatened to not pay:

Social Security Retirees, Military Retirees, Social Security disability and Federal Retirees.

- Now..let this sink in really good -

- He did not threaten to stop payments to illegal aliens

- He did not threatened to take frivolous benefits such as Internet access away from violent inmates

- He did not offer to fire some of the thousands of unnecessary federal employees that he hired

- He did not offer to cut down on his or his wife's frivolous gallivanting around

- He did not threaten to not pay the senators and representatives or any of their staff

- He did not threaten to take benefits away from welfare recipients

- He did not threaten the food stamp programs

- He did not threaten to not pay foreign aid

- He did not threaten to cut back on anything that involves his base voters

- The list could go on and on. He is in full political re-election mode!

• Why are we allowing this person to destroy this wonderful country with his selfishness and his lies?

• His type of change is killing our country. He needs to be stopped and only our votes can stop him.

• Do not forget about his tactics when it's election time. Vote Obama out of the Presidency in 2012.

LET'S MAKE 2012 - THE END OF AN ERROR!

We the people are coming

Only 86% will send this on. Should be a 100%. What will you do?


I did.

Merle

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Free Market Capitalism is the Best Path to Prosperity For All

So says Larry Kudlow of CNBC. So say all of us who are highly concerned about this countries slow slide to Socialism. I, and many others believe that the Republicans will not put up a candidate who can beat Obama. Obama is what I call an entrenched incumbent, hateful of Wall Street and anti-business except for the big businesses that he has benefited and have and will still support him. (think George Soros and G.E.'s head honcho).

I'm going to type in an article by Rick Moranis, a writer and an actor. Read it all the way through. I think his thinking is great.

Title; "Capitalism and My Discontents". Here it is.

"This morning, while I was grinding my blend of French, Colombian and Italian coffee beans, it occurred to me that I could be doing harm to the coffee shop and diner businesses in my neighborhood by making my own coffee at home. Might I have a responsibility and obligation to consume their product, either within their premises or brought right to my doorstep by one of their speedy, undocumented delivery men?

I also wondered whether still using my old, reliable German-brand coffee grinder, manufactured in China, might be an unpatriotic betrayal of American kitchen-appliance makers by choosing not to buy their Chinese-made grinder.

As I poured some house-brand almond milk into my homemade granola, I thought about the depressed demand and earnings on the higher-priced product manufacturers that I wasn't patronizing, their resulting order and production declines, and the backlogged inventories and possible layoffs of their factories.

How much of this country's economy am I personally destroying by my consumption preferences? I honestly never intended to do so much harm.

I ran a hot iron quickly over the front of a previously worn shirt, saddened at the thought of the jolly staff at my local dry cleaner who will suffer because of my initiative and tolerance for rumpled, moldy aromatic haberdashery.

I jumped into a cab, thinking about the MTA"s budget deficit and my part in not helping to reduce it.

The traffic was terrible. Here is was, going nowhere, idling in a quick-ticking metered medallion taxi, driving up the price of oil, edging the country further into runaway inflation while spewing noxious fumes into the precious air around me. I am such a horrible person.

The driver, a pleasant Middle-Eastern man who I did not suspect was part of, or supporting any terrorist organizations, was sipping a very large cup from one of several dozen popular coffee shop locations within a three-block radios of my home. I was pleased that at least one of us was supporting the hardworking baristas of this great nation.

I wondered out loud if the driver thought the price of his beverage would be higher or lower if baristas were unionized. He told me that in his country only men could be baristos and if a woman was caught even trying to be a baristas she would be roasted, percolated and covered in scalding, foamy mother goat's milk. He said "Only America is free. Only America is great, God bless America."

It sounded a bit suspicious to me. Was I seeing something? Should I say something? I threw him a 10-spot and decided to walk. I wondered how much of that 10 would wind up in the hands of our sworn enemies and felt a pang of pride in the dedication of our defenders.

A terrier on a long leash attached himself to my slacks. I shook hiom off and admonished the mink-wrapped diva at the other end of it letting her cherished little mutt-child attack an innocent at will. She accused me of being grumpy as I stared at the dog's mangy coat, imagining her wearing it as a hat. Shouldn't dog owners be required to get licenses, I though. Think of the revenue! The new agencies that would employ people! But wouldn't that increase the cost of government and create even more waste, fraud and corruption? I am such a confused and horrible person.

My cellphone rang. It was my mother in Toronto, telling me she was on her way home from her ophthalmologist, where she had a 7:00 A.M. appointment - the only time to go without having to wait 5 hours to see him. I thought about how lucky we are in the country to not have to to wait 5 hours to see a doctor. Unless you're poor sick people. I must not use my secular humanism as an excuse for not tithing, especially while t's still deductible.

I finally reached my office and opened my laptop. More shocking, breaking new to be read. More informed opinions; opinions to be listened to. More critical issues to consider and debate. Now, in this year-the most important election in our lifetimes. And I feel so utterly confused.

Tonight, I'll stay home and watch all the news channels. That will clear things up. I'll order in. And tip big!"

I thought this was sadly funny. Evidently the WSJ thought it was interesting. You read it in today's edition. Along with, "A Short (Sometimes Profitable) History of Private Equity" by John Steele Gordon. Too bad 'liking to fire peorple' is taken out of context and will be used widely by Democrats who know that most of their voters have trouble reading a whole sentence.

Us Lucky Guys!!

Forwarded to me by a good friend. Would you guess she is a woman??


Merle

WHY MEN ARE NEVER DEPRESSED:

Men Are Just Happier People --
What do you expect from such simple creatures?
Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack...
You can be President.
You can never be pregnant.
You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
You can wear NO shirt to a water park.
Car mechanics tell you the truth.
The world is your urinal.
You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.
People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them.
New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
One mood all the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
If someone forgets to invite you,
He or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough..
You almost never have strap problems in public.
You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes..
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, even decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color for all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can 'do' your nails with a pocket knife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives
On December 24 in 25 minutes.
___________________________________
Men Are Just Happier People
NICKNAMES
If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah. If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Bubba and Wildman.

EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

MONEY
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.

BATHROOMS
A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.

ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.


MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

OFFSPRING
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.


THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
A married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing!


SO, send this to the women who have a sense of humor and can handle it .... and to the men who will enjoy reading it.

Pressure Mounts to Evict Occupy DC

Article in the WSJ 1/17/12. It's about time. Here are some statistics forwarded to me by a friend.

Merle

Occupy Party vs Tea Party Comparison

The Democrats and the liberal media have said that the Occupy Party was a civic group "just like" the Tea Party.
I report......you decide.......

REPORTED OCCUPY PARTY TEA PARTY
ARRESTS 4149+ 0

RAPES 12 0
DAMAGE $10,000,000.00 $0
PUBLIC DEFECATION YES NO
ANTISEMITIC RANTS 12 0
COST TO TAXPAYERS ( by 11/9) $19,327,487.00+ $0
PUBLIC MASTURBATION 3 0
MOLOTOV COCKTAILS THROWN 10 0
FIGHTS STARTED YES NO
CHILDREN EXPLOITED YES NO
POLICE CARS DAMAGED 2 0
PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS YES NO
DRUG POSSESSION ARREST YES NO
CONCEALED WEAPON ARREST YES NO
DRUG OVERDOSE YES NO
THEFTS YES NO
BURGLARIES YES NO
VANDALISM ARREST YES NO
TRESPASSING ARREST YES NO
NON FATAL SHOOTINGS 1 0
PUBLIC URINATION YES NO
URINATION ON OTHERS YES NO
ISRAELI FLAGS BURNED 2 0
AMERICAN FLAGS BURNED 1 0
AMERICAN FLAGS DANCED ON 1 0
AMERICAN FLAG DESECRATION 25 0
FELONY ASSAULT ON AN EMT 1 0
HEAD/BODY LICE OUTBREAKS 1 0
TUBERCULOSIS OUTBREAKS 1 0
MURDER 1 0
SUICIDE 1 0

SHOTS FIRED AT WHITE HOUSE 1 0
SCABIES OUTBREAKS 1 0
OBAMA ENDORSED IT YES NO
PELOSI ENDORSED IT YES NO
CAIR ENDORSED IT YES NO
SOCIALIST PARTY ENDORSED YES NO
NAZI PARTY ENDORSED YES NO
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ENDORSED YES NO
COMMUNIST PARTY ENDORSED YES NO
BIDEN ENDORSED YES NO
HUGO CHAVEZ ENDORSED YES NO
BLACK PANTHERS ENDORSED YES NO
HEZBOLLAH ENDORSED YES NO
MARXIST UNION ENDORSED YES NO
9/11 TRUTHER ENDORSED YES NO
BOLSHEVIK ENDORSED YES NO
IRAN GOVERNMENT ENDORSED YES NO
AYATOLLAH ENDORSED YES NO
NORTH KOREA ENDORSED YES NO
FARRAKHAN ENDORSED YES NO
NATION OF ISLAM ENDORSED YES NO



Oh yes, I see the similarities now��..



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Some Simple and Obvious Facts

Forwarded to me by a friend. Who said it doesn't matter. If it is only 3/4 right, that is still better than Obama's half-truths and outright lies.

Merle

Let me get this straight . . .
We're going to be "gifted" with a health care
plan we are forced to purchase and
fined if we don't,
Which purportedly covers at least
ten million more people,
without adding a single new doctor,
but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,
written by a committee whose chairman
says he doesn't understand it,
passed by a Congress that didn't read it but
exempted themselves from it,
and signed by a Dumbo President who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who
didn't pay his taxes,
for which we'll be taxed for four years before any
benefits take effect,
by a government which has
already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,
all to be overseen by a surgeon general
who is obese,
and financed by a country that's broke!!!!!
'What the hell could possibly go wrong?'

Obama Supporter Sends His Recommendation - TIC

However, my friend recommends a change. So do I. If the Republicans can get their act together, it can happen. In the meantime far right Rick S. should drop out along with Newt and Perry should go back and continue to govern Texas.

I know quite a bit about Texans, I lived there two years. They are ok people but Perry hit the "Peter Principle".

Merle

Let's look at the Historical First's of this “President”:

* First President to refuse to show a valid Birth Certificate.
* First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
* First President to have a social security number from a state he's never lived in.
* First President to Preside over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government.
* First President to Violate the War Powers Act.
* First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels.
* First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
* First President to Defy a Federal Judge's Court Order to Cease Implementing the 'Health Care Reform' Law.
* First President to Require All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party.
* First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs--and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs.
* First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters.
* First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat.
* First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the US , Including Those With "Criminal Convictions".
* First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees.
* First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space.
* First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places.
* First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present".
* First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It.
* First President to Threaten Insurance Companies if they Publicly Speak out on the Reasons for their Rate Increases.
* First President to Tell a Major Manufacturing Company In Which State They Are Allowed to Locate a Factory.
* First President to File Lawsuits Against the States He Swore an Oath to Protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc).
* First President to Withdraw an Existing Coal Permit That Had Been Properly Issued Years Ago.
* First President to Fire an Inspector General of Ameri-Corps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case.
* First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to bid on Government Contracts.
* First President to appoint 45 'czars' to replace elected officials in his office.
* First President to Golf 73 separate Times in His First Two-and-a-Half Years in Office.
* First President to hide his medical, educational, and travel records.
* First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
* First President to coddle America's enemies while alienating America's allies.
* First President to publicly bow to America’s enemies while refusing to salute the US flag.
* First President to go on multiple Global apology tours.
* First President to go on 17 'vacations', including 'date nights' paid for by the taxpayer.
* First president to blatantly "Bribe" a state to vote his way on a bill.
* First President to trade books with Hugo Chavez and then pat each other on the back.
* First President to consider his own military, returning from battle, as "terrorists".
With so many, ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO HIS CREDIT JUST IMAGINE WHAT HE COULD DO WITH A SECOND TERM!!! "

Corruption does not require a face, only an important position.











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