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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
4 Houston schools with Confederate names to get new monikers
[AMARILLO] Trustees of the largest school district in Texas have decided that four campuses with Confederate names will get new monikers.

The Houston Independent School District board voted Thursday night to rename Robert E. Lee High School plus three middle schools -- Henry Grady, Richard Dowling and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

A committee at each school -- including a teacher, a parent, a student and alumni -- will propose a new name, with recommendations to trustees.

Confederate symbols nationwide are facing review over concerns about racism. James Douglas, president of the NAACP of Houston, urged the board to drop Confederate loyalists from school names.

One critic of changing names, Howard Moon, says a lot of people are getting tired of political correctness.

The Houston ISD has about 215,000 students at 283 schools.
Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As I said before: if you're going to destroy a nation, you have to start by wiping out its history.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/18/2016 3:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Lets name two American Elementary Schools after Obama's father. And another one after Back Door Betty, his mother.

And don't forget something to commemorate Hillary...How about Squat Elementary or perhaps Grandmother Squat Elementary.
Posted by: Glick Slereck8149 || 01/18/2016 5:38 Comments || Top||

#3  When the progressives kommunis win, die taal (the language) changes, the old monuments and flags come down. Anyone remember:

Enkeldoorn → Chivhu
Essexvale → Esigodini
Fort Victoria → Masvingo (for a bit, Nyanda)
Gatooma → Kadoma
Gwelo → Gweru
Hartley → Chegutu
Marandellas → Marondera
Matopos → Matobo
Melsetter → Chimanimani
Salisbury → Harare
or
Belfast → eMakhazeni
Butterworth → Gcuwa
Duiwelskloof → Modjadjiskloof
Ellisras → Lephalale
Machadodorp → eNtokozweni
Malelane → Malalane
Naboomspruit → Mookgophong
Nelspruit → Mbombela
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2016 5:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember Judea ---> Palestine ---> Israel, Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/18/2016 5:51 Comments || Top||

#5  It also happens that these schools are in minority black areas of town.
Just sayin'...
Posted by: ed in texas || 01/18/2016 8:28 Comments || Top||

#6  And the youts will still be culturally and intellectually underserved.

Squirrel!
Posted by: Frank G || 01/18/2016 8:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton's big problem isn't Bernie Sanders, it's white voters
[CSMONITOR] At Sunday night's Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Kissinger ...
will be facing far more than a resurgent Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
. She will face mounting evidence of an open political rebellion among white Americans.
Your party is racist. You talk down to whites based on their color. You pronounce us racist whatever we do. And then you want us to vote for you.
The dynamic has already been well-established among Republicans, where it is most acute given the predominantly white demographics of the party. Working-class whites, buffeted by the Great Recession and an economic recovery that has seen the wealthy move further ahead, are forming a key nexus of the Trump vote.
Black Lives Matter. Don't say "all lives matter." We saw what happens when somebody's dumb enough to do that.
Now, white voters appear to be stirring the Democratic race in similarly surprising ways. Senator Sanders of Vermont has long held a lead on former Secretary of State Clinton in New Hampshire, which holds its primary on Feb. 9. New polls show that he is now essentially tied with Clinton in Iowa -- and even ahead among white voters nationally -- ahead of the Feb. 1 caucuses there.
Sanders isn't Clinton. That might be a factor. Martin O'Malley is nobody.
These first primary states -- among the whitest in America -- could dramatically change the narrative of Clinton's primary campaign from one of inevitability to one that suggests she is teetering on a repeat of 2008, when she lost to underdog Barack Obama.
I inhaled. That was the point...
In 2016, the demographics could work in her favor, with the states that follow Iowa and New Hampshire being much more diverse, and Clinton holding a large lead on Sanders among black and Latino voters. But the evidence that white primary voters might opt for a general election between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, at least at this moment, is a graphic indicator of how their thirst for "change" has only broadened and deepened since Mr. Obama's election eight years ago.

The change they appear to want is more than a change of party or ideology to something approaching a reset button for American politics. A Trump or Sanders presidency would represent a profound rejection of business as usual in Washington. Now, it seems, white voters of both parties are seriously considering it -- at least fleetingly, in the case of Democrats.

On the Republican side, the trend has been going on long enough that its causes have become fairly well known. With establishment Republicans unable to coalesce around a single candidate, antiestablishment candidates such as Mr. Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas have built strong momentum heading into the Iowa caucuses.

Sanders's latest rise has come so suddenly and unexpectedly that its causes are less clear. Yet despite the galactic differences between Sanders and Trump on policy, a clear line strings them together as politicians.
Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She will face mounting evidence of an open political rebellion among white Americans.

It's not just 'white Americans' it's anyone with at least a 3rd grade education.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2016 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought her problem was being Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: DoDo || 01/18/2016 1:23 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder why?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/18/2016 3:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Republicans in Congress eager to provide more immigrant voters for her.

Rubio came out ... again ... for amnesty yesterday.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/18/2016 10:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Venn diagram, Besoeker?
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/18/2016 11:01 Comments || Top||

#6  It's not just whites - but anyone with a shread of decency.

I think that democrats are beginning to finally realize that the Democratic Party has shifted far left and no longer represent their values.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/18/2016 11:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Hillary Clinton's big problem isn't Bernie Sanders, it's white voters democracy

FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/18/2016 13:04 Comments || Top||


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Hildebeest: 'I Know How Much Money Influences the Political Decision-Making'
[Breitbart] "I know how much money influences the political decision-making," Clinton said, not acknowledging the irony of the statement, considering her years of Wall Street campaign contributions.
Bloodly well right she does, she keeps the receipts in her Chappaqua potting shed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2016 00:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Better than anybody?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/18/2016 3:13 Comments || Top||

#2  She is a graduate- level study in this process.
Post doc candidates, get your theses ready.
Posted by: ed in texas || 01/18/2016 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  They know what she is, they just haggle about the price.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/18/2016 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  After "I know" insert "to the penny"
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/18/2016 17:12 Comments || Top||


Hildebeest: '€˜I'm Just Too Busy' to Watch Benghazi Movie '13 Hours'
No worries, it will be the only book and video available in your prison library.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2016 00:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Your, OUR Security is but a joke to you.
Posted by: newc || 01/18/2016 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Too busy sleeping?
Posted by: gorb || 01/18/2016 1:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe she could watch it if she didn't spend so much time in the bathroom.
Posted by: jpal || 01/18/2016 6:17 Comments || Top||

#4  She'll have plenty of time in prison.
Posted by: Spinesing Gray3122 || 01/18/2016 8:14 Comments || Top||

#5  She didn't have time the first go around, why find time on the story telling? What difference does it make? It's not like she's the hero.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/18/2016 9:24 Comments || Top||

#6  She should have to watch it. Every day - starting with a 3 AM phone call
Posted by: Frank G || 01/18/2016 10:43 Comments || Top||

#7  She's already seen it.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/18/2016 11:09 Comments || Top||

#8  She lived it!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/18/2016 12:05 Comments || Top||

#9  She's afraid someone will catch her rooting for the bad guys or something.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/18/2016 12:59 Comments || Top||

#10  AFAIC, as went the Bammer Admin's response in Benghazi, or LACK OF SAME, so also amy the Bammer Admin respond as per agz CHINA in the China Seas andor IOR, + agz IRAN in ME.

There's also Darth Vlad = RUSSIA, but I'm not too worried about a US MilPol confrontation wid Moscow their MSM-Net rhetoric to the contrary.

As a reminder per various MSM-Net Artic Reposts...

* WAFF > [Business Insider] "PROVOKE AT YOUR PERIL": OBAMA ADMIN IS SENDING A MESSAGE TO SAUDI ARABIA.

* WORLD NEWS > [SCMP] 2016 COULD PROVE TO BE A AMEK-OR-BRAEK YEAR, AS [Unilateral, MilPol = Geopol aggressive] NEW CHINA STRATEGIES TO BE BORN.

* LUCIANNE, DAILY BEAST > THE YEAR OF [America = US-Allies] LIVING DANGEROUSLY: OBAMA AND YEAR 2016

As a matter of Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS OBama-led US Foreign Policy + related, THE USDOD IS A "POSER", NOT A DEFENDER OR FIGHTER, FOR US INTERESTS INCLDU AGZ US REGIONAL OR OVERSEAS ALLIES.

THE BAMMER WILL ORDER THE DEPLOYMENT OF SELECT US MILASSETS TO WORLD TROUBLE SPOTS FOR THE DIPLOM + PCORRECT-DENIABLE PHOTO-OP, NOT TO STOP THE EXPANSION OF OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS CHINA, IRAN, + RUSSIA [Other?] AGZ US REGIONAL ALLIES???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/18/2016 19:57 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2016-01-18
  But wait - ther's more: Kerry Says U.S. to Pay Iran $1.7 Billion in Debt and Interest
Sun 2016-01-17
  Burkina Faso attack: At least 23 dead, scores freed after hotel siege
Sat 2016-01-16
  Senior Qaeda-linked figure captured in Lebanon
Fri 2016-01-15
  U.S. designates ISIS in Afghanistan as foreign terrorist organization
Thu 2016-01-14
  Terror attacks in Jakarta -- 7 die so far
Wed 2016-01-13
  Suicide bomber kills 10 people, mainly Germans, in Istanbul
Tue 2016-01-12
  Bombings at Iraq cafe kill 20: Officers
Mon 2016-01-11
  It begins: Cologne gangs attack foreigners
Sun 2016-01-10
  US drone strikes kills 25 suspected militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan
Sat 2016-01-09
  Philadelphia police officer ambushed 'in the name of Islam'
Fri 2016-01-08
  ISIS Man Executes His Mom
Thu 2016-01-07
  Iran says Saudi-led airstrike hit Iranian Embassy in Yemen, but no damage seen
Wed 2016-01-06
  1 US soldier killed, 2 wounded in Taliban attack in Helmand
Tue 2016-01-05
  44 ISIS Bad Guys die in battles near Fallujah
Mon 2016-01-04
  38 die in Kurd, ISIS battles in Raqqa

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