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-Lurid Crime Tales-
POTUS asks why 'deep state authorities' aren't investigating Clinton emails
[The Hill] President Trump on Tuesday asked why "deep state authorities" aren't looking into the handling of the investigation into then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, referencing a guest who had just appeared on Fox News.

"Charles McCullough, the respected fmr Intel Comm Inspector General, said the public was misled on Crooked Hillary Emails," Trump tweeted. "Why aren’t our deep State authorities looking at this? Rigged and corrupt?"

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
Charles McCullough, the respected fmr Intel Comm Inspector General, said public was misled on Crooked Hillary Emails. "Emails endangered National Security." Why aren’t our deep State authorities looking at this? Rigged & corrupt? @TuckerCarlson @seanhannity
9:45 PM - Nov 28, 2017
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2017 01:53 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Women hater!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/29/2017 4:52 Comments || Top||

#2  When everybody's dirty they don't want investigations unless it is staffed by Dems investigating you and yours.
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218 || 11/29/2017 5:56 Comments || Top||

#3  This is a question for Congress.
Posted by: newc || 11/29/2017 13:48 Comments || Top||

#4  POTUS isn't the only one asking that question.
Posted by: P. Glilet5011 || 11/29/2017 19:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Somebody needs to come clean on the Christopher Steele dossier. If it was used to secure FISA warrants to monitor Trump Towers or anyone else, they (FBI) have just shi* the bunk.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2017 19:12 Comments || Top||


Suspect to be charged with murder in four Tampa killings
[NBC] Police in Tampa, Florida, said Tuesday night that they plan to charge a man who was detained at a McDonald's with four counts of first-degree murder in connection with a series of shooting deaths that authorities had said could be the work of a serial killer.

Acting on a tip about someone with a gun, officers found the man, identified as Howell E. Donaldson III, 24, at the McDonald's in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood, Police Chief Brian Dugan told reporters.

Dugan gave no further information about Donaldson, including his hometown, saying charging documents were still being drafted. But he said he believed Donaldson may have worked at the restaurant at some point.

Florida records indicated that Donaldson has no criminal past beyond a handful of traffic citations.

"Tonight, goodness has won," Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn said. "Tonight in the battle between darkness and light, light has won."

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2017 01:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Must be a trust fund white guy with a name like that.
Posted by: Flilet Omeremble3846 || 11/29/2017 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  NBC News will identify him as a white African American.
Posted by: Goober Cleans8722 || 11/29/2017 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  at least Matt Lauer won't be doing it :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2017 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Neither will Garrison Keillor.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/29/2017 13:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Serial killer huh...so what is the connection among the victims?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2017 14:39 Comments || Top||


Somali refugee, 20, who raped two Utah women in 2011 when he was 14 is spared adult prison
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Mohammed Ali Mohammed admitted raping two Utah women at knife point when he was just 14 in 2011

  • He was incarcerated for six years in juvenile detention but was due to age out of the system when he turns 21 next month

  • Judge decided rather than send him to adult prison, she would sentence him to five years probation

  • Sentence is a blow to his victims who had asked for him to be sent to jail

  • One woman, who Mohammed raped in her own home before forcing her to withdraw money from an ATM, is 'terrified' at the thought her rapist will be free

  • Breaking down in tears in court, she told the judge: 'He did adult crimes and should have an adult sentence to match what he did'

  • Prosecutors said the life of other victim, once a promising college student, fell apart after the assault, descending into drugs and trouble with the law

  • Mohammed admits he was 'a monster' but said he'd turned his life around

  • Court also heard how he'd witnesses his brother's murder, and suffered sexual abuse, as a child in the Somali refugee camps in Yemen before coming to the US
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Yet another Somali yute with wisdom teeth in and decayed?
Posted by: Glomp Elmeatch9308 || 11/29/2017 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Still treating 'juvenile' crime as though it was the old days of joy driving and popping gum machines. Be adjudged by the act you commit not some adjectival descriptive of who you are.

One woman, who Mohammed raped in her own home before forcing her to withdraw money from an ATM, is 'terrified' at the thought her rapist will be free

The state will not give you justice. Don Vito Corleone to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2017 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  If he was born in Somalia, how do we know how old he really is? Who vetted him?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/29/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Just like a tree - cut off a limb and count the rings
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2017 10:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Odds are he will be arrested again within a year. And for even more heinous crimes.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/29/2017 19:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Odds are he will be arrested again within a year.

Him and quite a few of his friends.

For far worse. After all what you condone - you get more of. But that is what the Democrats are aiming for isn't it?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/29/2017 20:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Hang a thief when he's young and he won't steal when he's older.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 11/29/2017 23:07 Comments || Top||

#8  the life of other victim, once a promising college student, fell apart after the assault

So, what's she whining about? She hasn't even killed herself yet.
Posted by: Nate Parker || 11/29/2017 23:30 Comments || Top||


Employee used crisp packet as 'Faraday cage' to hide his whereabouts during work
[YAHOO] A man in Australia was sacked after he relied on a 180-year-old scientific discovery to help prevent his colleagues discovering his whereabouts while he played golf during work hours.

Tom Colella, a 60-year-old electrician in Perth, lost his job after an anonymous letter to his firm claimed that he left work to play golf at least 140 times over the last two years.

Australia’s Fair Work Commission, a workplace tribunal, heard that Mr Colella blocked his whereabouts by storing his personal digital assistant, a phone-like device that has a GPS inside, in an empty foil packet of Twisties, a puffy cheese-based snack that is popular in Australia.

The tribunal found that the packet was deliberately used to operate as an elaborate "Faraday cage" - an enclosure which can block electromagnetic fields - and prevented his employer knowing his location. The cage set-up was named after English scientist Michael Faraday, who in 1836 observed that a continuous covering of conductive material could be used to block electromagnetic fields.

"I can find no plausible explanation why Mr Colella would create a Faraday cage around his PDA, except to obstruct the GPS collecting capacity of the device," said Bernie Riordan, a commissioner at the tribunal.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Okay, you can't use the PDA without pulling it out of the faraday cage and thus giving away your location so why not just leave the PDA behind?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/29/2017 11:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Hopefully Australian teens don't notice and hide those parental trackers using the same trick.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/29/2017 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Kudos to Tom!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/29/2017 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  RJS, its' because they would page him on his phone and he has to respond within probably 30 minutes. Hear the ring, head down the road and answer.
It's part of the 'always on call' that a lot of people work under now.
I find that forgetting to put it on the charger works well.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/29/2017 13:22 Comments || Top||

#5  gettin pretty close to "1984" when they GPS track you and no one seems to think it obtrusive, on the contrary, its "normal".
Posted by: 746 || 11/29/2017 13:32 Comments || Top||

#6  ...he left work to play golf at least 140 times over the last two years.

Who does he think he is, Barack Obama?
Posted by: Raj || 11/29/2017 16:51 Comments || Top||

#7  ed in texas, if he's on call but still manages to take the call and do what is necessary does it really matter that he was golfing?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/29/2017 17:34 Comments || Top||

#8  A clever electrician putting his knowledge to use.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2017 18:10 Comments || Top||

#9  We were trying to get a Tom gps to reset its satellites, and had to put it in the microwave. Wrapping it in aluminum foil didn't do it.
Posted by: KBK || 11/29/2017 18:39 Comments || Top||


USAF: Several dozen criminal histories not given to FBI
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suppose it would be inappropriate to request a demographic breakdown.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2017 2:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Dozens? Ah, no...

An Air Force review revealed that there have been 60,000 unaddressed cases since 2002 of airmen that “‘potentially’ merited inclusion” in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/29/2017 7:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, that makes it about 5,000 dozen then, doesn't it?
Posted by: gorb || 11/29/2017 13:24 Comments || Top||

#4  OOD defines several as "More than two but not many." 5,000 dozen doesn't seem to fit.

Oh! You meant those several dozen criminal histories.... /sarc
Posted by: P. Glilet5011 || 11/29/2017 19:05 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Alexander 'Sasha' Chechik takes last 'hand grenade' selfie
[Independent] A Russian man has died after he pulled the pin out of a hand grenade and posted photographs of himself holding it.

Alexander 'Sasha' Chechik was killed instantly in the incident in the city of Labinsk in south west Russia, police said.

According to local news outlet Kuban.kp.ru, the man had sent a text to a friend, including a picture of the grenade in his hand with the pin pulled from the device lying nearby.

In the text exchange, the man’s friend asks him where he is and if everything is ok.

“It depends by what you mean ‘OK’,” he replied, posting the photograph of the grenade.

“Listen, don’t f*** around,” his friend then replied before following it up with: “Where are you,” to which they received no response.

According to Russia’s Interfax news service, police have launched an investigation into the illegal trafficking of weapons and ammunition.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2017 08:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  According to Russia’s Interfax news service, police have launched an investigation into the illegal trafficking of weapons and ammunition.

Who knew Putie was running his own 'Fast and Furious' program. I believe the term is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2017 10:33 Comments || Top||

#2  He had a blast
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/29/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Here...hold my Vodka.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 11/29/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#4  I'll just set my hand grenade down while I reply to his message ....
Posted by: gorb || 11/29/2017 13:13 Comments || Top||

#5  This story is all over the place.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2017 13:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Don't worry, I can put the pin back.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/29/2017 15:10 Comments || Top||

#7  OOOoooooo....

Who puts a pineapple next to his head?
Sa-Sha Chech!*(booom)*!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2017 16:43 Comments || Top||

#8  ...In Russia, grenade throws YOU.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/29/2017 19:01 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Keith Olbermann: 'I am retiring from political commentary'
[THEHILL] GQ special correspondent Keith Olbermann announced Monday that he is "retiring from political commentary in all media venues" during his online program "The Resistance."

The former ESPN, MSNBC, Current TV and Fox Sports host said he was "confident" President Trump's presidency would end soon, thereby making it the "correct moment" to exit from making further political commentary.

"I am confident now even more so than I have been throughout the last year that this nightmare presidency of Donald John Trump will end prematurely and end soon, and I am thus also confident that this is the correct moment to end this series of commentaries," Olbermann said, adding that Trump will either be removed from office or forced to resign by his own party sometime in the next 13 months.

The 58-year-old progressive provocateur insisted to his viewers that he wasn't being fired and was in good health.

"No illness. No scandal. No firing. Just I've said what I've had to say," Olbermann said. "It was as obvious as I made it seem. I give my work everything I can, so it's not like I can dial it back."

"I am retiring from political commentary in all media venues," he concluded. "Thank you for all the kind words and all the support. Have fun storming the castle. My work here is done. Matter of fact, so is Trump's."
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe he can host a cooking show.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2017 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Ignorant Loudmouths can't help themselves, he'll never stop spouting stupid shit.
Posted by: NCMike || 11/29/2017 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  His bathtub: Oh shit
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2017 7:06 Comments || Top||

#4  His appeal is becoming more selective
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/29/2017 7:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Someone powerful must have had a talk with him about how he is damaging the demoncratic brand.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/29/2017 9:13 Comments || Top||

#6  His bathtub: Oh shit

*chortles*
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2017 10:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Didn't he ruin MSNBC and ESPN? Why not give him a chance on CBS?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/29/2017 11:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Promises, promises . . . .
Posted by: Barbara || 11/29/2017 15:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Suspicious timing. I bet he had his hands on an intern and he's getting out before the accusation.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 11/29/2017 16:24 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Kenyatta sworn in as president of Kenya
[Al Jazeera]
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was still waiting for Baracky-poo to sneak in.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/29/2017 7:34 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
US warns South Sudan to end its nearly four-year war
[PRESSTV] The US government has threatened to take unspecified measures against South Sudan unless it moves to end the nearly four-year war and stop harassing United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
peacekeepers and international aid workers.

US Ambassador Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
on Tuesday put the responsibility squarely on South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir to take action, telling the UN Security Council that "words are no longer sufficient."

"The United States is prepared to pursue additional measures against the government - or any party, for that matter - if they do not act to end the violence and ease the suffering in South Sudan," Haley said.

"Going forward the United States will judge President Kiir and his government by their actions, not their words," she said.

Last year, Washington unsuccessfully pushed for an arms embargo on South Sudan and international sanctions on bigwigs.

Haley said Kiir must uphold ceasefires, join a new regional peace initiative, stop placing restrictions on UN peacekeepers and allow access for aid groups.

A report released Tuesday by UN monitors accused South Sudan’s government of using food aid as a weapon of war during its campaign against opposition forces in the northwestern city of Wau.

After aid finally reached civilians in August, the first time in a year, humanitarian workers "witnessed significantly high levels of malnutrition, with high rates of severe acute malnutrition," the report said.

Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Trump vows 'we'll take care of it' after North Korea fires new ballistic missile
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The missile was fired eastwards from Pyongsong at 3.30am local time

  • South Korea responded very soon after with its own missile exercise

  • Trump has said 'we will take care of it' and 'it is a situation we will handle'

  • Guam Homeland Security says it posed no threat to the US island territory

  • Comes two months after North Korea fired a missile over Japan in September
Posted by: Fred || 11/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Watch Lockheed Martin's laser beam system burn drones ... - YouTube

With a little imagination and a Zumwalt-class destroyer catching it in boost phase....
Posted by: P. Glilet5011 || 11/29/2017 19:15 Comments || Top||


Vacancy at Chinese Political Work Dept., General Zhang Yang ends it all
[CNN] Beijing A top Chinese general hanged himself after coming under investigation for corruption charges, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday.

General Zhang Yang, the former head of the Chinese military's political work department, was found dead at his home on November 23, the news agency said.

Military investigators had launched an investigation into Zhang's ties to two former Central Military Commission vice chairmen -- Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou -- who fell prey to President Xi Jinping's massive anti-corruption campaign.

Xinhua said investigators found Zhang had seriously violated party discipline and broke the law by allegedly giving and accepting bribes as well as possessing a huge amount of money, the sources of which he could not account for.

He was allowed to stay at home during the early stages of the investigation, the report said.

Zhang was a member of the Central Military Commission, which runs the two-million strong People's Liberation Army.

More than 1.4 million people have been punished under Xi's anti-corruption campaign since 2012, according to state media, including around 300 senior officials.

In a scathing commentary published by the People's Liberation Army Daily Tuesday, the paper said he "wanted to evade punishment by party discipline and state law by committing suicide -- such behavior was extremely despicable."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  General Yang will be punished!! He will now serve as a door stop for a sentence of 20 years.
Posted by: Steven || 11/29/2017 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Will Fat Leonard officers take a hint?
Posted by: Glomp Elmeatch9308 || 11/29/2017 3:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Zhang had seriously violated party discipline and broke the law by allegedly giving and accepting bribes as well as possessing a huge amount of money, the sources of which he could not account for.

So, a Donk or RINO or GOPe.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2017 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  "He bound his own hands and feet, hung himself, then shot himself behind the ear. Twice"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2017 10:40 Comments || Top||

#5  "broke the law by allegedly giving and accepting bribes as well as possessing a huge amount of money"
I would have though that this was in the job description. Political Work?
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/29/2017 13:26 Comments || Top||

#6  What Frank G. said.
Posted by: P. Glilet5011 || 11/29/2017 19:18 Comments || Top||


Europe
Greek terror squad detains 9 Turks ahead of Erdogan visit
[Ynet] Greek counter-terrorism police detained nine Turks in Athens on Tuesday in an investigation connected with Ottoman Turkish leftist Lion of Islam groups, ahead of a scheduled visit next month by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
A police statement said the Ottoman Turkish nationals -- eight men and a woman -- were detained in the central Athens areas of Neos Kosmos and Kallithea earlier Tuesday.

Police said the operation was not connected with suspected Islamist terrorism. The detainees are suspected of links with the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C,
...a Turkish Marxist-Leninist group...
deemed a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...

Erdogan's visit, announced Tuesday, is set for December 7-8.
Boy, nobody likes that Erdogan fellow.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Home Front: Politix
Two Familiar Democratic Names Tied To Possible Immigration Scam
h/t Instapundit
...a group of Chinese investors who are suing both McCauliffe and Tony Rodham, brother of Hillary, claiming that they were defrauded in an immigration scam involving a company McAuliffe founded nearly a decade ago.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/29/2017 13:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gee... another Rodham family member involved in corruption.

Who would have guessed?
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/29/2017 13:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Genetics
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2017 14:59 Comments || Top||

#3  No surprise. Rodham was involved in Haiti goldmine scam about the time the CF was running off with Haiti boodle. McAuliffe has his own problems funneling money to Feeb's wife running for office.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2017 18:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
NBC fires Matt Lauer after complaint about 'inappropriate sexual behavior'
"Hey, I'm no Roy Moore. I'm one of you!"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2017 08:30 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remember for the Left its all been Freudian Projection upon the rest of us. They're bad, but in their minds everyone else has to be worse. Thus, we all have to pay for their sins.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2017 9:11 Comments || Top||

#2  The "Today" show and Lauer were most popular; cornerstone of the program for two decades.

Someone else must not like Lauer and NBC. The network MSM viewership has been diminishing for years, probably because of a lack of trust and being left-wing agenda-driven. In a nutshell, they have been dishing up fake news and people are on to them. Moreover, talking heads like Lauer, Rose and others are very high-priced. Lauer was reported to make $25 mil annually. Maybe his behavior was inappropriate. Maybe this was also an opportunity to dump an over-priced prima donna. Perhaps a chance for NBC to get rid of a behavioral problem and improve the bottom line at the same time. Maybe a part of the swamp or sewer draining.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2017 9:31 Comments || Top||

#3  They'll replace him with another talking head who is just as bad. There must be dozens waiting in the wings.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/29/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#4  I guess rape culture is real, its just a blue state elite thing.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/29/2017 11:41 Comments || Top||

#5  This guy committed adultery years ago - not much of a surprise, really.
Posted by: Raj || 11/29/2017 12:35 Comments || Top||


#7  "Where all the boys are above average, and all the busty girls can bounce on my lap like a penguin on a teeter-totter."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2017 14:38 Comments || Top||

#8  #7 - LOL!
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2017 14:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Did he bring his dates under that dudes desk from mslsd to get pee peed on?
Posted by: Bubba the Great4743 || 11/29/2017 17:38 Comments || Top||


Almost Every Graduate Of DC High School Was Truant, Yet All Of Them Were Accepted To College
[Daily Caller] The majority of graduating students at a Washington, D.C. high school did not attend more than six weeks of high school, but still managed to get into college, an investigation into the students’ records found.

NPR and WAMU looked into the seniors who graduated from Ballou High School in 2017, a school located in a poverty stricken area of the nation’s capital, to see how much school the graduating students missed. Ballou High School was previously heavily praised for all students in its senior class getting into college.

Almost half of the graduates had unexcused absences that totaled to more than three months of missed school, documents obtained by NPR and WAMU reveal. About 20 percent of the high school graduates were absent more times than they were present for classes, emails and records also show.

The District of Columbia Public Schools system policy states that students who misses a class more than 30 times should fail that class, according to WAMU.

Despite these absences, all of the 2017 seniors got into a college, a feat for which the school received high praise. One student said the class-wide acceptance was a repudiation of all those who said the school ‐ where at one point only 3 percent of students met the reading standards ‐ couldn’t do it.

"Everybody just, they was betting on us failing, and we all came together and we graduated," said student Me’Ashja Hamilton.

Some teachers who spoke to the outlet said they felt they had to graduate failing students due to pressure from the high school administration. Other teachers said the lack of expectations allowed students to do what they wanted and not show up for class.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2017 02:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rhetorical question of course, but the funding to finance their college experience came from where ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2017 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Thems a lotta basketball scholarships.
Posted by: Glomp Elmeatch9308 || 11/29/2017 3:10 Comments || Top||

#3  To be fair, given the craptastic job inner city schools do, it probably doesn't change the outcome much if the students are in class or not.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/29/2017 3:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe we (Israel as well) need to adopt Hank Morgan's way of organizing the British military to higher education.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/29/2017 4:51 Comments || Top||

#5  The state runs schooling and funds it by extortion and you're surprised by these results?

Just the harvest of fertility redistribution * iron law of subsidy
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/29/2017 7:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Schools are generally funded by student head counts and number of days attended. Wanna bet some fraud was committed here?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2017 8:40 Comments || Top||

#7  How many of them will graduate college and, more importantly, what will they do upon such graduation? What will they be qualified to do?

I'm concerned about the money being squandered on all of this but the real tragedy here is high school teaches them absolutely nothing that they can use to get real, productive jobs. High school only wastes their time and now they're being encouraged to waste four more years in college where they will also be taught nothing that they can use to get real, productive jobs.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/29/2017 10:58 Comments || Top||

#8  How many of them will graduate college and, more importantly, what will they do upon such graduation? What will they be qualified to do?

Reading skills, maths, graduation; none of this matters. Affirmative Action will ensure 'end to end' programme success. What are your questions.
Posted by: Uleth Bonaparte4945 || 11/29/2017 12:15 Comments || Top||

#9  How many of them will graduate college and, more importantly, what will they do upon such graduation?

Where do you think people like Joy Reid and Rochelle Gutiérrez come from?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/29/2017 12:24 Comments || Top||

#10  How much more evidence is needed to prove affirmative action has been everything the liberals ever dreamed of?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/29/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#11  My own opinion as to why schools are funded by state extortion is that it encourages both parents to work.

Anything that gets into students heads while there is purely accidental.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/29/2017 16:13 Comments || Top||


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Freedom Watch lawsuit filed in US District Court to remove Robert Mueller as Special Counsel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Could this end up with the Supremes?
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 11/29/2017 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  finally
Posted by: 746 || 11/29/2017 13:25 Comments || Top||

#3  This could end up with the Supremes. Larry Klayman has had a few successes. It would be helpful if Congress got behind this too.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/29/2017 17:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Congress needs to start it.

They are so lame.
Posted by: newc || 11/29/2017 23:12 Comments || Top||



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