[FOXNEWS] An item in the Milwaukee Public Schools' proposed budget listing $471,073 for Black Lives Matter has critics fuming, but district officials said Monday it is all a misunderstanding.
Although the budget draft lists the controversial activist group, whose members have called for attacks on coppers, as the recipient of the funds, school officials said much of the money would go to hiring and training three social studies teachers.
"No funding is going to any Black Lives Matter organization," Tony Tagliavia, a front man for Milwaukee Public Schools told FoxNews.com in a statement. "The specific expenditures, which are also outlined in the budget proposal, are for three social studies teachers and staff development for other employees."
The funding would also pay for a "cultural studies curriculum" which aims to "[ensure] that culturally responsive teaching practices are in place at all schools, enhancing the district vision for student participation in a wide range of after-school activities..."
When asked what role Black Lives Matter would play in the training and curriculum development, school officials said they are only partnering with people who "espouse the values" of the Black Lives Matter.
Only? Such a small word to carry so much meaning.
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How soon do we learn that this BLM line item is actually an application for funding provided by the Federal Government ?
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"No funding is going to any Black Lives Matter organization," Tony Tagliavia, a front man for Milwaukee Public Schools told FoxNews.com in a statement. "The specific expenditures, which are also outlined in the budget proposal, are for three social studies teachers and staff development indoctrination for other employees."
not an organization per se, just members of it
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4 new hires for BLM activists (3x100k rate plus benefits) plus specialized training for hundreds of others (71k) seems about right. Nothing to see here...
[BBC] Downing Street has said David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... stands by his criticism of Donald Trump but will work with whoever is elected US president.
The UK PM has called the Republican hopeful "stupid, divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... and wrong" over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.
Mr Trump replied by warning he may not have a "very good relationship" with Mr Cameron if he enters the White House.
He is also involved in a spat with new London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The US presidential contender said he would not forgive Mr Khan for calling him "ignorant" - and challenged the Mayor to take part in an IQ test, an offer mocked by Mr Khan's team.
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Nice to see the PM has something in common with Sadiq Khan.
Donald Trump says so many things that are offensive, incorrect, and dishonest that it is often impossible to keep up. In just the past few days, he’s flip-flopped on his tax position, his support for raising the minimum wage, and his so-called Muslim ban. He even denied he imitated a public relations executive in the 1980s named John Miller or John Barron, even though he’s publicly joked about it for years and there’s an audiotape to prove it.
But in the thickets of Trump’s statements there are the occasional views that should terrify every American -- and which speak openly to the threat that Trump represents to Americans’ political freedoms. He’s basically giving us a preview of how he will abuse his power as president. Partisan hack Columnist Michael A. Cohen did not appear to be interested in this subject until recently. How convenient!
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Good point, g(r)om - from one perspective, that's right on. I did audits for the Mass. Department of Revenue years ago, and a local radio talk show host (Howie Carr) claimed that the then governor, Michael Dukakis (ran for President in 1988 - he was the guy in the tank!), had him audited. Eventually I called in to explain that 1) I sat four desks away from the guy who audited him; 2) reading the audit report made it clear it was entirely the auditor's volition, not an order from high up.
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The orders didn't need to come from on high, Raj.
Philosophically, the left in government have what are essentially standing order to use the police and taxation power of the state to attack anyone who might threaten the status quo in terms of income stream. My understanding of Howie Carr is that he was and is that, exactly.
This is the same dynamic at work in the case of Lois Lerner. The orders didn't need to come from Obama because everyone at the IRS knows that they are to use the power of their organization to crush anyone who might affect their magic paychecks.
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No Mo Uro... you don't suppose the demise of 'Sprockets' and the emptying of his weapons warehouses represents a similar foreign policy paradox ?
All we need are lickspittle courtiers trying to curry favor to make a tyrant's reign a real tyranny. "Standing Orders" seems, IMO, to give the process more dignity than it deserves.
[CNSNEWS] Delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University in New Jersey today, President Barack Obama told the graduates that “the good old days weren’t that good” and that both America and the world are better than they were “even eight years ago.”
“When you hear someone longing for the good old days, take it with a grain of salt, take it with a grain of salt,” Obama said in his address.
“In fact,” he said, “by almost every measure, America is better and the world is better than it was 50 years ago or 30 years ago or even eight years ago.”
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Irrefutable proof that Champ is delusional.
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Justas our basic vocabulary grows and evolves on an almost daily basis, so too does our usage of technical terminology and acronyms.
For example, the president of our once-great nation has been identified by the acronym "POTUS", which, when coined years ago, stands for "President of the United States".
However, during the past 7+ years, many may not be aware of the subtle change in the meaning that has come about regarding this term.
The current occupant of the Oval Office is still referred to as the POTUS, but the term has become much more descriptive of the man presently holding this once revered position.
POTUS now means: "Piece of Totally Useless Shit".
Just wanted to get your day started right with this important bit of information.
As they say in Texas, "You can't get the water to clear up until you get the turd out of the creek.
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(1) Gay marriage. Check
(2) 15$ minimum wage. Check
(3) Transgender restrooms. Check
(4) Muslim invasion of EU. Check
(5) Return of Russian empire. Check
(6) Billions for (nonworking) green energy. Check
(7) Race war in USA. Check
(8) Collapse of USA international standing. Check
(9) Collapse of USA economy. Check
(10) Collapse of USA educational system. Check
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But...but..I was told he was the Messiah. And he is the first Black President, that must count for some thing.
The smartest man in the room...remember. A " Community organizer". PLUS the thrill up your leg...don't forget that.
He will bring us all together. And he was elected by the American people ( twice). makes you want to shop at Walmart and show your ass-crack doesn't it , America?
And his mother and his father...America at its finest. The MSM worked very hard to make sure we all understood.
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Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glenn Doherty, and Tyrone Woods were not available for comment - but their lives - and those of their surviving families - are assuredly not better.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Pennsylvania Democrats, no strangers to corruption, are surpassing their own dirty reputations as they prepare to host the Democratic National Convention this summer in Philadelphia.
There’s Rep. Chaka Fattah, an 11-term Democrat from Philadelphia whose trial opens Monday in federal court on charges of bribery, concealment of unlawful campaign contributions and theft of charitable and federal funds. Voters took the rare step in the Democratic primary last month of voting out Mr. Fattah, the longest-serving black congressman in Pennsylvania’s history.
Philadelphia lawyer/lobbyist John Estey, who served as chief of staff in the administration of Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, pleaded guilty last week to federal wire fraud in an FBI sting involving suspected bribery of state politicians. That probe seems sure to bring even more explosive corruption charges: Estey wore a wire for Sherlocks, perhaps as long as five years.
There is speculation that Estey also helped federal authorities bring down state Treasurer Rob McCord, a Democrat who pleaded guilty last year to trying to extort $125,000 in campaign donations from two businesses during his failed bid for governor. McCord resigned the treasurer’s post. He, too, has secretly recorded conversations for the FBI but has yet to be sentenced.
In the past three years, The Philadelphia Inquirer noted, the list of city Democrats accused or convicted of corruption includes a congressman, a former sheriff, five state representatives, a state senator and eight judges. Other ongoing federal probes are reaching into Democrat-run city administrations in Allentown and Reading, Pennsylvania.
The wave of corruption cases, with more charges expected, comes as Democrats are gearing up in two months to host the giant party that will launch their presidential nominee, presumably Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ... , on to glory. Or something.
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[THEHILL] Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is not reining in his attacks against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
When New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... columnist Maureen Dowd asked Trump if "he had been chided by any Republicans" for his Twitter war with the Democratic senator, the presumptive nominee said, "You mean Pocahontas?"
Trump earlier this week fired off insults on Twitter, calling the senator "Goofy Elizabeth Warren."
In March, Trump attacked Warren for saying she was part Native American while a professor at Harvard.
"You mean the Indian?" Trump said then when asked about Warren.
Warren said she "laughed out loud" when she saw Trump had called her "goofy."
"Really? That’s the best you could come up with? Come on. I thought Donald Trump said he was a guy that was good with words," she said.
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I can't wait until Trump sinks his teeth into the evolving Clinton Foundation corruption. Yesterday the Beest announced that she would 'assign her husband' the task of essentially rebuilding the economy.
New every morning, the unveiling of additional theater of the absurd material.
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The Clinton Foundation should have a retroactive tax exempt revocation slapped on them; their net worth would be cut in half. The resulting lawsuits would take care of what's left of the bank accounts.
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Affordable to the sort of people who can donate the max amount to his campaign, or affordable to the sort of people who get a pack of cigarettes or bottle of muscatel to go vote. There is a difference, ya know...
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Here in southern California they've been crying about the need for more "affordable housing" for as long as I can remember and that's a long, long time. So they've been building as fast as they can for the last six decades until it's sticks and stucco as far as the eye can see. But you can't buy one of these "affordable houses" for any less than half a million dollars. In my neighborhood it's more like a million for a modest 2,000 to 2,300 square foot home.
I remember in 2008 after the mortgage meltdown when housing prices started falling to where some lucky people might think it really is affordable, the same crooked politicians and developers who had always called for more affordable housing suddenly wanted the prices to be stabilized and then get "back up to where they should be".
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The Housing Secretary is in the midst of increasing Section 8 affordable housing vouchers for poor urban residents in areas like New York City to move to places like Westchester County via “mobility counselors,” the New York Post reported.
How about moving them to agricultural regions in the South so they can get jobs picking cotton?
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Thanks for that link, Skidmark. I think there are a lot of weirdos in the California back country. The can do their thing out there and nobody notices. Dunno if it's an appropriate place for Section 8 housing, though. My thought was to locate the housing where the Section 8 participants could find jobs. Suburbs are not generally where you go to look for work. They are where you go when you're done working and you wanna go home. That's why they're called bedroom communities. You put the Section 8 housing in the suburbs and next thing you know you're gonna be providing those people with Section 8 cars so they can go to the city and work. Government Motors might like that.
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.
David Cameron
No Mo Uro... you don't suppose the demise of 'Sprockets' and the emptying of his weapons warehouses represents a similar foreign policy paradox ? 
[CNSNEWS] Delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University in New Jersey today, President Barack Obama told the graduates that “the good old days weren’t that good” and that both America and the world are better than they were “even eight years ago.”
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Pennsylvania Democrats, no strangers to corruption, are surpassing their own dirty reputations as they prepare to host the Democratic National Convention this summer in Philadelphia.
Hillary Clinton
[THEHILL] Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is not reining in his attacks against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). 
IMA so confused. 
