Aug 13, 2009 8:59 am US/Eastern (CBS news)

NJ Teacher To Pay $22K Fine For Phone Call

Asbury Park Teacher To Pay Large Fine For 4-Minute Call Made During Class

Her lawyer says a New Jersey teacher won’t appeal a $22,000 fine for making a four-minute personal call in class.

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Court records show the Asbury Park High School performing arts teacher was covering for another teacher in 2008 when she called suspended superintendent Antonio Lewis.

A student recorded two students dancing while Getty was on the phone and posted it on YouTube.
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The district prohibits teachers from making personal calls while performing assigned duties.

Asbury Park High School is a comprehensive, four-year community public high school headquartered in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It serves prekindergarten through twelfth grade.

Were do we go to impose rules on the people that work for us?
The VOTING BOOTH!

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Who does she think she is? She thinks she’s omnipotent, someone that gets elected over and over again and answers to know one—that’s who!

From Drudge:

VIDEO: Dem House Member Takes Call During Middle Of Health Care Townhall Question...

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From Ed Morrissey:

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It’s the US Postal Service having the problems all the time…

—President Barak Obama

Isn’t the President making the point for the people hollering in town halls all over the country?

Like Allahpundit says on HotAir—the only thing that could have been better is if President Obama would have used the DMV or Medicare as a failed or failing government program to make the right’s argument that government doesn’ do well running things. (Speaking of which listen to how they talk about the failed public school sytem in this country sometime. And they want to run Healthcare?—Ha!)

NiceDeb is exposing more mis-dis-information…

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Durbin cashed out during big stock collapse

WASHINGTON | Asset sales came after meeting with Fed, Treasury chiefs

As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

“Durbin was doing what a lot of other people were doing, taking a look at their savings” and seeing it “start to tank and trying to preserve some level of wealth by getting out of the market,” said his spokesman, Joe Shoemaker.

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And the excuse:

Shoemaker said Durbin didn’t capitalize on anything Paulson and Bernanke told congressional leaders at the Sept. 18 meeting.

Whatever information Paulson gave lawmakers wasn’t secret or classified and was disclosed publicly the next day, Shoemaker said.

The Commentary:

And they get away with it everythime! I heard someone say the other day that when you get elected to Congress you should have to put all investments in a blind trust for the durtion of you stay in Congress—to avoid the temptations of greed that seem to be part of the reason people run for office. Don’t let that bit about wanting what’s best for the country crap get in your head.

I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or Republican or Purple—yes, they all do it and WE COULD stand up and prevent it if we all stood up as ONE! The technology of the day makes it easier than ever before!

Technorati Tags: Congress, greed, hypocrisy, News, Politics as usual

Obama flashback: Roberts and Alito are super-qualified but I’m voting no anyway

Prepare for the inevitable media finger-wagging towards Republicans who vote no on Sotomayor by refreshing your memory of how The One treated two eminent jurists while a member of the Senate. The clip of his Alito speech is shorter and more ironic — he worries about a judge who’d side with the executive branch in matters like (gasp!) indefinite detention — but the Roberts clip gives you a better feel for just how stupid and dishonest his litmus test is.

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How do we make a bad situation good? How do we solve our oil dependency? How do we put our own people back to work (here in the US)? How do we make national transportation more affordable? How do we make travel more eco-friendly?

I read the opinion piece and I can go along with the premise—so read!

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Goodbye, GM …by Michael Moore

I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.

As I sit here in GM’s birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will happen to them and to the town. Forty percent of the homes and businesses in the city have been abandoned. Imagine what it would be like if you lived in a city where almost every other house is empty. What would be your state of mind?

It is with sad irony that the company which invented “planned obsolescence” — the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one — has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive. Oh — and that wouldn’t start falling apart after two years. GM stubbornly fought environmental and safety regulations. Its executives arrogantly ignored the “inferior” Japanese and German cars, cars which would become the gold standard for automobile buyers. And it was hell-bent on punishing its unionized workforce, lopping off thousands of workers for no good reason other than to “improve” the short-term bottom line of the corporation. Beginning in the 1980s, when GM was posting record profits, it moved countless jobs to Mexico and elsewhere, thus destroying the lives of tens of thousands of hard-working Americans. The glaring stupidity of this policy was that, when they eliminated the income of so many middle class families, who did they think was going to be able to afford to buy their cars? History will record this blunder in the same way it now writes about the French building the Maginot Line or how the Romans cluelessly poisoned their own water system with lethal lead in its pipes.

But you and I and the rest of America now own a car company! I know, I know — who on earth wants to run a car company? Who among us wants $50 billion of our tax dollars thrown down the rat hole of still trying to save GM? Let’s be clear about this: The only way to save GM is to kill GM. Saving our precious industrial infrastructure, though, is another matter and must be a top priority. If we allow the shutting down and tearing down of our auto plants, we will sorely wish we still had them when we realize that those factories could have built the alternative energy systems we now desperately need. And when we realize that the best way to transport ourselves is on light rail and bullet trains and cleaner buses, how will we do this if we’ve allowed our industrial capacity and its skilled workforce to disappear?

1. Just as President Roosevelt did after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the President must tell the nation that we are at war and we must immediately convert our auto factories to factories that build mass transit vehicles and alternative energy devices. Within months in Flint in 1942, GM halted all car production and immediately used the assembly lines to build planes, tanks and machine guns. The conversion took no time at all. Everyone pitched in. The fascists were defeated.

Technorati Tags: Michael Moore, Oil dependency solution, solution to GM

brazen |?br?z?n|
adjective
1 bold and without shame : he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance | a brazen hussy! See note at bold .
2 chiefly poetic/literary made of brass.
• harsh in sound : the music’s brazen chords.

Just like the attacks on the twin towers years before 9/11. Just like the US Cole bombing. Just like countless embassy attacks. Etcetera and so on…

Here we go again!

Recruiting Center Gunman Targeted U.S. Military

LITTLE ROCK, Ark —  A man with “political and religious motives” killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center in Arkansas, police said. The shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme.

A police report based on an interview with the suspect says Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, told police he observed two soldiers in uniform, drove up to the recruiting center in Little Rock and started shooting.

“He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them,” Lt. Terry Hastings told The Associated Press. “That’s what he said.”

Muhammad had converted to Islam at some point in his life and interviews with police show he “probably had political and religious motives for the attack,” Police Chief Stuart Thomas said.

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Other Voices:

Breaking: Soldier murdered in Arkansas; Update: Shooter a Muslim convert, opponent of military; Update: “Studied” in Yemen? by Ed Morrissey

Technorati Tags: Global War on Terror, Terrorism

The cast of characters:

President Barack Obama

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer

Act One

President Barack Obama: Rahm, what was I thinking by letting that fool on the hill redesign the Porkulous package. I campaigned on the promise to go line by line removing fat and she makes me a fat sandwich I have no choice but to eat! —Forcing the shit sandwich down the throats of Americans for generations!

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: Calm down, Big O. I realize that every time Nan opens her mouth our agenda gets put on hold and we must not be stopped! I have a plan to squash Madam Speaker’s balls in a vice!

President Barack Obama: I’m listening…

(Meanwhile, somewhere in Washington, DC in front of a mirror)
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Mirror, Mirror, on the wall! Who beat out that bitch Hillary for the highest ranking woman of them all?

Mirror: You did, my Stretchness, oh and Barack…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: I said WOMAN! Speaking of a woman where is my House Bitch Steny Hoyer? He’s not returning my calls!

Mirror: Right…

Back at the Whitehouse:

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: Listen, it’s quite devious! First we declassify some CIA documents that will show the reason not to keep written records in the first place and be able to kick the previous administration in the balls AGAIN! It will show how many times they splashed water in the terrorists face.

President Barack Obama: Rahmbo! Come on now, TORTURED, how many times we tortured those poor people in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong administration in place…

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: Right tortured, *Jesus Christmas Barack you’re Chicago Politics, we do worse things in the Senate* We show how many times they were tortured.

President Barack Obama: but won’t the American people see how effective it was when we show them the results of the torture? And then demand torture on demand?

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: OB1 You don’t know how lucky you are to have me by your side. We don’t release all the classified documents only selected pieces. You can count on that imbecile Cheney to scream for the documents, but his rating are through the floor, nobody will care. But the questions about who knew what and when will come up. We will put that shitstain Hoyer on it! Nancy Pelosi knew about the waterboarding from the beginning.

President Barack Obama: Rahm, I smell what you’re cooking… and it stinks, but we need to tape her mouth shut! What puppet will replace her?

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Madam Speakers digs

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer: Madam Speaker, uh, we need to uh, look like we care about misleading the public and out-right-lies against other agencies of our government, so it looks like we’re going to have to start an investigation. I’m sure it will be harmless…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: I admit nothing, deny everything, and I will make counter accusations like “the CIA lied to us!” and “what difference would it make if I said anything against what I’m saying I knew nothing about because they wouldn’t do anything anyway!”

Act Two

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: When we release the amount of waterboarding amounts we will make the wording such that confuses the issue… We’ll use the New York Times to run this story: Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects

Unfortunately, Fox News will run a more legitimate story: Despite Reports, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Not Waterboarded 183 Times.

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Other Voices:

Dance, Nancy, dance By Michelle Malkin

Watch and learn with easy 6 step Video!

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TheAnchoress: Fun Game, Oratory Page & other stuff

Tracking the stimulus: oh, you didn’t really buy that transparency thing, did you? Because you know, if you bought that you were just dumb.

Stimulate this!

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Democrats pretty excited about errors found in CIA list on waterboarding briefings May 20, 2009 9:14 PM by Allahpundit

How much more pathetic and embarrassing can this story get? This much.

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Soooo Good!

“It all depends what the definition of legal is… After all, what is legal, changes from President to President…”

Pelosi: I Was Told Interrogation Methods Were Lawful

The House speaker’s statement came after CIA records showed Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 on the interrogation methods and appeared to contradict her claim last month that she was never told that waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation techniques were being used.

Video: ComedyCentral

It all depends on what the definition of “not” is…

It all depends on what the definition of “flat-out” means…

Nancy says she’s always been for a truth commission—who would be in charge of that?

Can you count how many times Nancy points her finger—DRINK!

Technorati Tags: Caught in web of lies, Culture of corruption, Liar, Nancy Pelosi

—courtesy of Nice Deb! Thanks Deb!

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