A Westport lawmaker who voted to hike the state sales and alcohol taxes was spotted brazenly piling booze in his car - adorned with his State House license plate - in the parking lot of a tax-free New Hampshire liquor store, the Herald has learned.
Michael J. Rodrigues' blue Ford Crown Victoria, emblazoned with his "House 29" Massachusetts license plate, was parked outside a Granite State liquor store on Interstate-95 South over the weekend, according to a witness who provided pictures to the Herald.
The witness, who requested anonymity, claimed he approached Rodrigues, noted his State House plate, and asked if he was on personal or official business. Rodrigues, who was loading booze into his car, snapped "mind your own business," the witness said.
The witness' account was also posted yesterday on Citizens for Limited Taxation's Web site.
A member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Rodrigues did not return several phone calls yesterday. But in an online interview with The Standard-Times in New Bedford, he acknowledged buying the booze during a bathroom stop while he and his wife were on a weekend getaway in New Hampshire.
He also blamed the brouhaha on "Republican demagoguery."
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The following day, Rodrigues was seen in the House giggling uncontrollably while drafting a bill increasing state reps' and senators' salaries. He was heard to mutter, "Take that, tax-paying peon bitches!"
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I realize that organizers of all stripes tend to inflate their numbers, and counting heads in a crowd is an inexact science in the best of circumstances. But this is an interesting contrast:
The dilemma facing Murphy, a Glens Falls Democrat in a largely Republican district, was in full evidence Wednesday night as about 120 MoveOn.org members showed up for a candlelight vigil at his downtown office here, to let the congressman know in no uncertain terms that they expect him to back what they call a "strong public option" as part of the proposed Obama health care overhaul.
Was something really good on television last night? Did somebody throw a last-minute party and send out 961 invites?
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Just goes to show that the rank-and-file MoveOn folks are pretty much like the rest of us. ObamaCare doesn't move them very much.
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They had a couple hundred show up a day or so ago in Madison, Wisconsin outside a cemetery (to accentuate the notion that people are dying for lack of affordable health care).
Lot's of MoveOn and SEIU folks.
No puppets or drums, though.
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outside a cemetery
Hold the rally outside a British or maybe a Canadian cemetery and the whole message gets reversed.
Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of Japan's Prime Minister-elect, Yukio Hatoyama, is a lifestyle guru, a macrobiotics enthusiast, an author of cookery books, a retired actress, a divorcee, and a fearless clothes horse for garments of her own creation, including a skirt made from Hawaiian coffee sacks. In her spare time, she enjoys writing poetry, long walks on the beach, and changing the wiring harnesses on old British sports cars.
But there is more, much more. She has traveled to the planet Venus. And she was once abducted by aliens....
"While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," she explains in the tome she published last year. "It was a very beautiful place, and it was very green."
When the new Japanese first lady related her adventures to her then husband, he thought to himself, "OMG, I married a loony" told her flatteningly that it was probably just a dream. But she is confident that Yukio, the man now entrusted with the task of hauling Japan out of its deepest recession, would have reacted very differently. "My current husband has a different way of thinking. He would surely say, 'Oh, that's great'," she wrote.... And you guys laughed at Billy Carter.
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The watchdog of the Securities and Exchange Commission has found that the agency consistently mishandled its investigations of Bernard Madoff's business, despite ample warnings of the multibillion-dollar fraud.
But SEC inspector general David Kotz's report found no evidence of any improper ties between agency officials and Madoff.
Despite speculation that senior SEC officials may have tried to influence the probes, a summary of Kotz's report released Wednesday also found no evidence of that.
The SEC enforcement staff, conducting investigations of Madoff's business, "almost immediately caught (him) in lies and misrepresentations, but failed to follow up on inconsistencies" and rejected whistleblowers' offers to provide additional evidence, the report says.
Revelations in December of the agency's failure to uncover Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme over a decade touched off one of the most painful scandals in the agency's 75-year history.
Between June 1992 and last December, when Madoff confessed, the SEC received six "substantive complaints that raised significant red flags" regarding Madoff's operations. But "a thorough and competent investigation or examination was never performed," the report says.
Many of the SEC staff who conducted the investigations were "inexperienced," according to the report.
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Lessons Unlearned.
1 - the regulators charged with regulating failed to regulate. You don't need new rules or laws. You need new people.
2 - people allowed to be in persistent contact with those they're suppose to regulate tend to identify with those they're suppose to regulate particularly if the supervisees have more resources [$$$] than the supervisors. To twist a phrase - familiarity tends to breed corruption, in thought if not deed.
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President Obamas green jobs czar Van Jones has been targeted again and again by conservatives for his controversial views and now theyll have another item to use as fodder.
Mr. Jones signed a statement for 911Truth.org in 2004 demanding an investigation into what the Bush Administration may have done that deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.
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Van issued a statement, read just now on Hannity, that he was taken out of context, long time ago, sorry if you were offended, sun was in my eyes, dog ate my homework.....
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CBS 2 HD has learned of more alleged back-door dealings and political power peddling by Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel.
The reigning member of Congress' top tax committee is apparently "wrangling" other politicos to get him out of his own financial and tax troubles.
Here's a look at Charlie's so-called "angels" involved in his ethics investigation.
Congressman Rangel has been arrogant in refusing to discuss how, as the man who writes this country's tax laws, he failed to report over $1 million in outside income and $3 million in business transactions as required by the House, lapses under investigation by the House Ethics Committee.
"I recognize that all of you have an obligation to ask questions knowing that there's none of you smart enough to frame it in such a way that I'm going to respond," Rangel said.
There may be a reason for Rangel's arrogance. CBS 2 HD has discovered that since ethics probes began last year the 79-year-old congressman has given campaign donations to 119 members of Congress, including three of the five Democrats on the House Ethics Committee who are charged with investigating him.
Charlie's "angels" on the committee include Congressmen Ben Chandler of Kentucky, G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina and Peter Welch of Vermont. All have received donations from Rangel.
Only Welch sees something wrong with being financial beholden to Charlie. "In an abundance of caution, he has returned all campaign contributions from Mr. Rangel," said spokesman Bob Rogan, Welch's Chief of Staff.
It amounted to nearly 20 grand.
Experts say the congressman's largess makes him crazy like a fox.
"Certainly money does make friends and influence people and perhaps make him a little bit more popular and at this particular moment that might help," said pundit Micheline Blum of Baruch College.
"Buying insurance, you know? Don't bite the hand that's feeding you. Clearly he sees himself as having a problem and he is contributing to members who might look favorably," added Doug Muzzio of Baruch.
Congressman Rangel has said he expects the House Ethics Committee to rule quickly on the ethical charges that are being brought against him. The problem is he's been saying the same thing for well over a year.
Rangel's office did not return a request for comment on the question of whether the congressman thought members receiving donations from him should step aside and let others rule on the ethics charges.
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It's not just Chuckie.
Charlie Rangels forgetfulness is apparently contagious.
Two of his top aides are among about a dozen highly paid staffers on the powerful tax-writing Ways and Means Committee who have filed a flurry of amendments correcting their financial-disclosure statements since 2002.
Jim Capel, chief of staff for Rangels personal office, failed to file any such statements for six years.
On the afternoon of July 14, Capel filed five years worth of delinquent reports.
Capel told The Post yesterday it was a simple oversight.
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"Smiling Rascal"
Rangel fits perfectly.
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Buckets of cash collected for a state legislative candidate during a major fundraising dinner put the Tennessee Democratic Party on the wrong side of state campaign finance regulations.
Party officials decided to donate all the cash to charity after The Associated Press raised questions about their failure to gather the names of the people who put the money in the buckets.
Saturday's Jackson Day event was headlined by former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore and attended by more than 3,000 people, including elected officials, political operatives and other partisans.
State Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester in his speech urged attendees to throw money into the buckets placed on every table to support Shelbyville Democrat Ty Cobb's efforts to be elected to the vacated House District 62 seat.
But Forrester forgot to remind people to fill out forms left next to the buckets asking for their names to go along with their contributions, said spokesman Keith Talley.
"We had the paperwork on the tables, it's just one of those mistakes," Talley said. "We're just going to donate it to a local charity."
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Sounds lame til you realize at least it isn't going back to the crooks who donated it. Going to different crooks instead....
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Of course, since they don't know exactly how much got collected, there's no way to know if ALL of the money will really be donated to charity.
And isn't ACORN considered a charity?
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Don't they know that you suppose to use a credit-card website with security checks disabled?
Has he no shame? Charlie?
Of course not. What were you thinking?
He's Charlie Rangel, head of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee -- who can't be bothered to tend to his own tax returns, but now intends to punish ordinary folks for making arguably minor mistakes on their forms. The Post's Charles Hurt reported yesterday that Rangel's committee seeks to reduce legal defenses and increase fines and penalties on taxpayers undergoing IRS scrutiny for what they assert are innocent errors. The bigger the government the smaller the citizen, until we're so miniscule we can't be seen with the naked eye. Or more importantly, heard with the naked ear.
Among other things, Rangel's bill would even prohibit the IRS from forgiving taxpayers who erred in good faith -- though that would be a very generous interpretation of his own tax troubles. In just the last year, Rangel has been forced to file late-disclosure reports involving millions from land transfers and unreported business deals. Such transgressions should preclude Rangel from even voting on tax legislation, let alone writing any. But they won't. And the provisions won't apply to him.
Indeed, we wouldn't be all that surprised in the least if there were a Charlie Rangel exclusion clause written into the IRS-crackdown bill discovered by Hurt. Me neither.
Just kidding. I'm not.
But it's no joke. Even though many of us would be laughing if it didn't hurt.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi needs to remove Rangel from his Ways & Means chairmanship. Never happen. Birds of a feather.
He has long since lost the credibility necessary for a sensitive House position -- and if Pelosi doesn't move on Rangel soon, she's going to be in the same boat. Nancy'll never be voted out. Even if the Pubs win the next election she'll still be in Congress, along with Charlie and those like them.
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A photo of two Democratic legislators playing solitaire has ignited controversy at the state Capitol and in the blogosphere.
The Associated Press picture has appeared in any number of venues, and it shows two lawmakers sitting in the back row of the historic Hall of the House in Hartford during the lengthy debate over the two-year, $37 billion state budget.
On the left is Rep. Barbara Lambert, a freshman Democrat from Milford who won her first legislative election in November 2008. She replaced longtime Milford Democrat James Amann, who ended his legislative career as the House Speaker and is now running for governor against Republican M. Jodi Rell.
Lambert is playing spider solitaire in the photo, while Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, a Bridgeport Democrat who has served in Hartford since 2005, is playing regular solitaire. They both voted in favor of the Democratic-written budget, while Cafero voted against it.
During the long debates at the state Capitol, legislators often work on their laptop computers - as seen in the photograph. Sometimes they are answering e-mails from constituents, while other times they are researching important information on pending bills. Other times, they are playing solitaire.
When asked Tuesday about the photo by Capitol Watch, Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell laughed and said, "I think if they'd spend less time playing computer games and more time looking for spending cuts, then we would have been out of here a lot sooner.''
Republican Tom Foley, who is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Christopher J. Dodd, said, "I was disheartened to see a Hartford Courant front page photo showing members of our Democratically-controlled legislature playing solitaire on their computers while debate was occurring on a new state budget that raises taxes and contains no net reduction in spending. This is not a time for the Democrats who control our legislature to be playing games with Connecticut's future. Our elected officials need to put away their computer toys and help working people by lowering taxes and keeping government spending down."
The photo by Jessica Hill is gaining national attention through an item posted to the front of the Drudge Report and a blog post by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin.
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I've not sat in on a session of any legislature, but I have sat through school board meetings as an observer. I, no doubt, would have been photographed reading Rantburg and the Wall Street Journal -- solitaire isn't nearly stimulating enough to enable me to listen to such droning on.
This is a sweet little bit of visual demagoguery. They'd better get some solid legislative wins under their belts or they're toast next election.
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I could be wrong but I believe C-SPAN is contractually obligated not to broadcast any congress members in session in an unflattering way such as sleeping. Surprisingly they still dont mute the audio every time Maxine Waters speaks.
A boisterous crowd of at least 2,200 showed its passion for the national health-care debate at Tucson's Sahuaro High School on Tuesday night.
The two-hour event, the second one of the day after an earlier one in Green Valley, was billed as a listening session by its host, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
Yet many attendees drowned out the speakers with applause and boos when hot-button issues like uninsured Americans and a public insurance option came up.
Several times Giffords reminded the crowd to keep civility in the discussion and at one point asked some hecklers "to be a little less rude."
A line for the 6 p.m. town hall began forming at 2:15 p.m. Parking was treacherous and many attendees said they had to park at least a half-mile away.
Educator Marjorie Miller said she asked a neighbor who wasn't attending to drive and drop her off rather than face the logjam. By 5:40 p.m. the high school's auditorium was at its 1,200-person capacity and organizers began seating people in chairs outside. At least 1,000 people, including Miller, listened outside to a live feed of the forum, many of them sitting on the ground.
"This is important and it's what makes America great -- we can express our views," said Miller, 56. "I've never seen this many people in one place for an event in Tucson before," said Khwaja Philip Boatright, a 74-year-old minister with the International Metaphysical Ministry.
"This is a historic moment for Congress," said Bernadette Boschert, a school counselor in her 40s.
Boatright and Boschert held signs in support of proposed health-care changes and a public option plan that would give people with no health insurance the option of a government-run plan, even if they have pre-existing conditions.
"It's kind of unfathomable to me that people can go bankrupt because they are sick," said Lucy Simpson, who stood outside the high school with her 8-year-old daughter, both holding signs supporting reform.
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said Khwaja Philip Boatright, a 74-year-old minister with the International Metaphysical Ministry
Hey lookie there Obama finally got the thumbs up from Pagans for Health Care Reform. Axelrod was right this is a new phase.
The buzz is about a new political job, but Eliot Spitzer has one gig nailed down. He's an adjunct political-science professor at City College. "It was his first day today," CCNY spokesman Ellis Simon said last night. Spitzer will teach a three-hour law and public policy class once a week, earning $98.43 an hour. "It's an eclectic course that, at the end of the day, hopefully, will teach students to think both philosophically and practically about government," he told the Journal News.
Isn't this like setting the sharks loose in the school of tuna?
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This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," September 1, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: And tonight in "Your America" now, Democrats have accused town hall protesters of being trained by Republican operatives but there is more evidence tonight that liberal groups are the creating an Astroturf movement.
An organizer from the left-wing group Health Care for America Now was recently caught on tape training town hall attendees on how to silence anybody speaking out against reform. You'll love this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If they stand up and start asking questions and you're in that area, simply stand up, and start -- no. Start yelling, "health care now, health care now, health care now." Yes. You people, why won't you -- then simply stand up, "health care now, health care now" until they get frustrated.
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Repeating mantras is a religious activity well suited to those idiots with faith in marxist "solutions".
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When you have 'reasonable liberals' like our own esteemed liberalhawk using the term "teabagger", it's an indication of just how far things have fallen.
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.. then simply stand up, "health care now, health care now" until they get frustrated.
'They' simply change the chorus to 'Social-sit'. which really gets the social-ist upset and agitated being called for what they really are. That's because they and everyone else knows that its incompatible with American culture. If it wasn't, why are they afraid of openly embracing the name.
Embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford acknowledged Tuesday that he has been shaken by the failure of a single fellow Republican to back him in his fight to save his job, but vowed to fight on for conservative causes and for "what God wanted me to do with my life."
The governor, trying to survive a scandal involving a widely publicized extramarital affair, also compared a new ethics probe over his travel and personal expenses to what he called the baseless complaints brought against former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
"I think I now know what Sarah may have been feeling," Mr. Sanford told The Washington Times.
Mr. Sanford vowed not to quit despite growing pressure from South Carolina lawmakers and Republican Party officials to resign or face impeachment. He said he intends to complete his term, not to hold on to power but to fight for conservative principles of governance.
"I feel absolutely committed to the cause, to what God wanted me to do with my life," he said in an interview. "I have got this blessing of being engaged in a fight for liberty, which is constantly being threatened."
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The difference, Mr. Sanford, is that many of the things that Sarah Palin was accused of were either made up from nothing or were mountains made from molehills.
You, on the other hand, were caught cheating on your wife.
If you want to be committed to the cause that God wanted you do do with your life, you should start by obeying ALL of the commandments, especially the one about not committing adultery. Liberty does not mean you can do anything you want to.
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Sarah would kick his ass if he did that with her present.
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Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they're "assholes."
Jones' remarks were recorded in a video from February that was posted to YouTube.
He made the remark during an energy lecture in Berkeley, Calif., after a woman in the audience asked him why President Obama and congressional Democrats were having trouble moving legislation -- even though Republicans, with a smaller majority, didn't have as much trouble earlier in the Bush administration.
"Well, the answer to that is, they're assholes," Jones said, to uproarious laughter. "That's a technical, political science term."
The questioner responded, "I was afraid that that was the answer."
But Jones said that, even though Obama is "not an asshole," others have to step up the fight.
"Now, I will say this. I can be an asshole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity," he said.
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"Republicans are Assholes."
I wish. If they were they would tell the Dems to f off and die. But not in my life time I'm afraid.
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"Now, I will say this. I can be an a$$hole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity," he said.
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I actually partly agree with Jones on this: a lot of Republicans ARE a**holes. Of course I pretty much think people s*ck - but some s*ck worse than others.
James A. Traficant, the Ohio Democrat who was expelled from Congress after being found guilty of bribery and racketeering, walked out of prison in Minnesota on Wednesday, after serving seven years behind bars.
Traficant, 68, an eccentric former sheriff, hailed a taxi and did not answer reporters' questions as he left the prison alone. He wore a T-shirt, shorts and knee-high white socks and carried some of his belongings in a plastic bag.
Linda Kovachik, a close friend who has kept in touch with him, said Traficant was planning some quiet time with his wife, Tish, and children and grandchildren and had not yet made plans about what he might do next.
On Sunday, 1,000 of his supporters are planning a welcome-home dinner for him in Youngstown, Ohio. He still has strong supporters there despite his felony conviction, and hundreds of people have bought "Welcome Home Jimbo" T-shirts.
In 2002, in a trial in which Traficant represented himself, he was convicted of 10 felony counts, including accepting bribes from businessmen and taking kickbacks from his own congressional staff. He was the second House member since the Civil War to be voted out for unethical behavior.
Traficant often make "Star Trek" references, and signed off on the House floor by saying, "Beam me up."
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They should have given his hair a life sentence.
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They should have given his hair a life sentence.
Here, here! I'll have you know that's a separate, though symbiotic, life form, and it was deeply aggrieved that it was forced to go to prison with him (it will die if separated from its host). It's a lot smarter than Traficant, too.
I fondly remember watching Greta van Susteren interview Traficant while, playing the home game, Niles and I interviewed The Thing on Traficant's Head. The voice we gave it was a stitch: sounded like Boris Karloff after 20 Nyquiladas.
President Obama's plan to inspire the nation's schoolchildren with a video address next week erupted into controversy Wednesday, forcing the White House to pull out its eraser and rewrite a government recommendation that teachers nationwide assign students a paper on how to "help the president."
Presidential aides acknowledged the White House helped the U.S. Education Department craft the proposal, which immediately was met by fierce criticism from Republicans and conservative organizations who accused Mr. Obama of trying to politicize the education system.
White House aides said the language was an honest misunderstanding in what was supposed to be a inspirational, pro-education message to America's youths.
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Why do we still have a Department of edcation? I mean if they shut down for say six months, who anyone notice? How about a year? Ten? Next week should be fun.
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Private or parochial school is looking better and better for the Tsarevich. (Or were they gonna be subjected to this agitprop, too? Can't find any info on that anywhere.)
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...other than shuffling their paper work duties to validate various pork and prestige programs to another office, it can be one of the departments of the federal government that should be axed as a means of balancing the budget. If it didn't exist before 1965, its a prime target.
Page down to the PDF's for (pre K-6) and (7-12) indocrination materials. They have, however, apparently been scrubbed to delete the "How can I help President Obama." exercise.
1930 Germany anyone?
In his defense, however, The Statist Mighty O has done something I thought would be impossible. He has made Joe Biden appear almost executive-like!
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It's a good thing these guys are too stupid to run a kool-aid lemonade stand. Schools are closed in Boston, NYC, LA, and probably many other places on 8 Sept, the chosen day.
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Responsibility, Persistence, Goals, all very benign on the surface. I for one will have my kids at home on the 8th. I will not tolerate any attempt from our government, left or right, to step away from education with this type of propaganda and reeducation reminiscing of Cambodia and North Korean relearning camps. I beg every parent to go to the gov site that has the outline on his speech and decide for yourself. Check the link at the outline. It directs the teachers to focus on these three terms of responsibility, persistence, and goals. Simple at first glance, but in reality this is a complicated idea and philosophy. Then it directs the teachers to get the students to look for the terms in the speech. Finally, after the speech it tells the teachers to ask the students the THREE most important words and the thesis. This is simple and pain predispositioning the students. What is most frightening is what he wraps around these terms in his definition and examples, which of course we wont know until the speech, IE parents, church, tolerence, government service, family, hints of Plato here. This is where the agenda and danger lies. He has the potential to drive an ideological wedge between parents and kids here. Every flag in our soul should be going off here! He is trying to reach and influence a generation of kids that are vulnerable to influence from positions of power. He is not working from an approved curriculum, his speech and lesson plan has not met with the basic requirements of all other lessons in our public schools. He has an agenda that we don't know and he is trying to influence our children around our ability to stop him.
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AND YES I'M REALLY PISSED OFF AT THIS!!!!!!
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The White House is suprised at the backlash to this. How I don't know, though the incompetence is so great that it's just commonplace now.
Reagan/Bush(41) did this too supposedly. Anybody Confirm
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I did a little research on it. Bush gave a speech on staying in school and drugs. The Senate investagated him for the cost of it. But it was a speech with no read ahead, study guide, or book list.
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Ima thinkrn Teh Won needs to reassess his Cult of Personality Czar's work.
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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.
A Westport lawmaker who voted to hike the state sales and alcohol taxes was spotted brazenly piling booze in his car - adorned with his State House license plate - in the parking lot of a tax-free New Hampshire liquor store, the Herald has learned.
"While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," she explains in the tome she published last year. "It was a very beautiful place, and it was very green."
The watchdog of the Securities and Exchange Commission has found that the agency consistently mishandled its investigations of Bernard Madoff's business, despite ample warnings of the multibillion-dollar fraud.
CBS 2 HD has learned of more alleged back-door dealings and political power peddling by Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel. 
Buckets of cash collected for a state legislative candidate during a major fundraising dinner put the Tennessee Democratic Party on the wrong side of state campaign finance regulations.
Has he no shame?
A photo of two Democratic legislators playing solitaire has ignited controversy at the state Capitol and in the blogosphere.
A boisterous crowd of at least 2,200 showed its passion for the national health-care debate at Tucson's Sahuaro High School on Tuesday night.
This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," September 1, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
Embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford acknowledged Tuesday that he has been shaken by the failure of a single fellow Republican to back him in his fight to save his job, but vowed to fight on for conservative causes and for "what God wanted me to do with my life."
Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they're "assholes." 
James A. Traficant, the Ohio Democrat who was expelled from Congress after being found guilty of bribery and racketeering, walked out of prison in Minnesota on Wednesday, after serving seven years behind bars.
President Obama's plan to inspire the nation's schoolchildren with a video address next week erupted into controversy Wednesday, forcing the White House to pull out its eraser and rewrite a government recommendation that teachers nationwide assign students a paper on how to "help the president." 
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