RANT: New education lows

Thursday, December 12, 2013

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/patrick-j-buchanan/is-the-us-a-90-pound-weakling/

Is the Sun Rising in the East?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
December 7, 2013

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The scores are in from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, which, every three years, tests 15-year-olds from the world’s most advanced countries.

For the United States, the report card is dismal. The U.S. ranking has fallen to 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math.

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Maybe it’s Gooferment and Gooferment Skrules?

How about if “we” do less and put the parents back in charge?

Argh!

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RANT: Gooferment outrages don’t even register anymore

Monday, December 9, 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-pardon-these-turkeys/2013/11/27/aa718f32-56c8-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html

Pardon these turkeys
By George F. Will, Published: November 27

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In Washington, even local government is demented: Its transit authority Metro threatened Henry Docter with “arrest, fines and imprisonment” for the crime of unregulated gardening. Docter had filled 176 empty planters at the Dupont Circle subway stop. Metro was briefly deterred by the public outcry against its threat to punish Docter for his uncompensated act of beautification. But then it had the 1,000 morning glories and other plants ripped out.

Those vigilant about our welfare never sleep; Canadian relief supplies for Oklahoma tornado victims were stopped at the U.S. border until every item could be itemized in alphabetical order and its country of origin noted. You can’t be too careful.

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Argh!

Did anyone hear about these?

Somehow the Press isn’t doing its job.

We should have a daily litany of these stupidities!

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RANT: Corruption in the numbers?

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/11/27/did-the-bls-give-obama-a-major-election-2012-gift/

Peter Ferrara, Contributor
OP/ED | 11/27/2013 @ 8:00AM
Did The BLS Give Obama A Major Election 2012 Gift?

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Just before the election. How convenient.

That was totally unbelievable at the time, and I and others said so then.

In my Forbes column the very next week, “President Obama’s Unemployment Still Stuck at 14.7%,” I noted how inconsistent the supposed unemployment drop was with other contemporaneous economic data.

The sharp unemployment drop supposedly resulted from a total of 114,000 new jobs created in September, 2012, according to the Establishment Survey of business payrolls of the Bureau of Labor Statistics that the Obama Administration had been emphasizing throughout its first term.

But economist John Lott noted at Foxnews.com that the working age population had grown by 206,000 in September, 2012. With normal labor force participation during a recovery from a steep recession, that would have required 138,000 new jobs that month, just to keep pace with population growth, let alone to reduce the unemployment rate.

Moreover, the BLS also reported for September, 2012 that the number of full-time jobs declined by 216,000 in that month.

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Nothing like “cooking the books”!

A CEO or CFO would be in prison.

A politician gets reelected.

And, no one inquires.

Argh!

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Where are the yellow dog journalists?

OH, yeah, it’s “their candidate” doing it.

Argh!

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RANT: A new report of ‘unarmed, barefoot’ officers

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/whos-lying-benghazi-witnesses-vs-state-dept/?cat_orig=world

WND EXCLUSIVE
WHO’S LYING? BENGHAZI WITNESSES VS. STATE DEPT.
Narratives clash amid new report of ‘unarmed, barefoot’ officers
AARON KLEIN

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TEL AVIV – None of the security officers inside the U.S. compound were armed during the Sept. 11, 2012, attack and one was barefoot while another two were “riding around in a Land Cruiser,” according to the witness testimony given to a U.S. House panel.

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee, disclosed the details in an interview with Fox News earlier this week.

Unreported by Fox News is that the witness testimony of unarmed personnel directly contradicts the narrative in the extensive report released by the State Department-sponsored Accountability Review Board, or ARB.

The ARB report states the personnel inside the compound were armed and even describes how the security officers retrieved their weapons.

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Anyone think that we will ever get the truth?

I don’t!

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RANT: Crony Drug War

Sunday, December 1, 2013

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2013/11/crony-drug-war-a-government-crime-lab-chemist-with-close-relations-to-prosecuters-has-been-caught-intentionally-forging-signatures-and-tampering-with-evidence-in-as-many-as-40000-cases/

Crony Drug War: A government crime lab chemist (with close relations to prosecutors) has been caught intentionally forging signatures and tampering with evidence in as many as 40,000 cases
By Nick Sorrentino on November 27, 2013

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The drug war is a colossal disaster. It is a massive sociological experiment which because of crony capitalist forces (and other forces) continues on. Many groups make lots of money and have gained lots of power because drugs are illegal. They are not going to give up this power just because the lives of millions of Americans are destroyed by the policy every year. Hey, they’ve got to get paid.

There was a time when the war on drugs, as stupid as it is, had the hope of success. (Because it hadn’t been tried.) There was a time when thoughtful people could defend the effort (sort of.) But that time has passed. The below story is a reflection of an asinine, corrupt, horribly unhelpful policy put forward by big government nanny staters.

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So when do we stop this suicidal self-destructive corrosive program?

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RANT: Fox has a “Heidi” moment

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Anyone notice that Fox couldn’t cover the overtime Bears Vikings game due to “league rules”.

Argh!

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RANT: A rare form of cancer and lost his health insurance

Thursday, November 28, 2013

http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/boy-with-cancer-loses-coverage-after-obamacare-launch/

WND EXCLUSIVE

BOY WITH CANCER LOSES COVERAGE AFTER OBAMACARE LAUNCH
Bureaucrats won’t help unless he is ‘pregnant or an illegal alien’
Published: 19 hours ago
author GARTH KANT

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He was born with a rare form of cancer and lost his health insurance just after Obamacare went into effect.

Americans were told the health-care law was designed to help children just like Hunter, born with a deadly pre-existing condition and little means to pay for expensive treatments.

The Affordable Care Act was not supposed to take away the insurance these most-vulnerable children already had and leave them utterly defenseless against a life-threatening disease.

Answers are hard to come by, but it looks like that’s what the president’s signature achievement has done in the small town of Gainesville, Texas.

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If I was the President, the Governor of Texas, any of the Congress critters covering him, or any of the local politicians and bureaucrats, then I’d call an EMERGENCY conference call today.

By End Of Day, I’d want the facts and reassurance for this family, and all families.

Tell me again, how Saint Jude’s For Children, a private charity, would do this?

Gooferment is ALWAYS immoral, ineffective, AND inefficient!

“Happy Thanksgiving”!

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RANT: Heat out

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Walk in from vacation in vegas, and the bat cave has no heat or hot water.

Argh!

Karma?

Perhaps it was lonely, and like misbehaving pet, decided to punish me for my absence.

Laff.

This is not the coldest I’ve ever been.

USAF Survival School someplace in the pacific northwest Idaho Washington border. Not snowing; that would have been warmer. Wet from rain on the hour as demanded by the trainers; it was survival school. Temperature was 100 below, or felt that way. And, we weren’t allowed to hunker down, but had to move 5 miles a day. Doesn’t sound like a lot, but it was through what they called a “slash forrest”. Every other tree was over on its side. Not cut, but blown. Did I mention the wind? Yeah, it too felt like 100 mph. The phrase “witch’s *** in a brass *** in the middle of January” comes to mind. 

That was cold.

This is merely annoying.

Imagine what TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) will be like.

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Read: expired drink tickets

Sunday, November 24, 2013

One scam here at the Aria hotel casino, is they give “free drink tickets” when you make Sportsbet but they don’t tell you the coupons expire the same day.

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RANT: Old war heroes don’t matter

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/443425/Royal-Navy-hero-tells-how-Hitler-couldn-t-stop-him-but-health-and-safety-zealots-have

DISGRACE: War hero banned from veteran’s parade for being ‘too old’
A WAR hero has told how Hitler couldn’t stop him – but health and safety zealots have.
By: Jason TaylorPublished: Sat, November 16, 2013

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Royal Navy legend Albert ‘Dusty’ Miller served his country with distinction in World War Two.

He earned countless medals and recognition for his bravery, first in the Atlantic convoys and later as a submariner in the Burma campaign.

But the 89-year-old, who has been a parade marshal for the Royal British Legion for nearly 40 years, has now been told he can no longer represent veterans – because he’s too old.

Senior officials broke the news to Mr Miller shortly before last week’s Rememberance Day parade, claiming he was ‘too old to be insured’

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Argh!

Doesn’t this just make you <past tense synonym for urine output> off?

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