Can Computers Replace Classrooms?[K12 hires lobbyists contributes to politicians back school choice]
TheFiscalTimes ^ | November 27, 2011 | By LYNDSEY LAYTON and EMMA BROWN, The Washington Post
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 9:32:17 PM by fight_truth_decay
A Virginia company leading a national movement to replace classrooms with computers — in which children as young as 5 can learn at home at taxpayer expense — is facing a backlash from critics who are questioning its funding, quality and oversight.
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Iran says 150,000 missiles pointed at Israel
Jerusalem post ^ | 11-27-11
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 7:57:22 PM by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said that the Islamic Republic has up to 150,000 missiles pointed at Israel, according to the semi-official Iranian FARS news agency.
According to the report, Vahidi questioned threats against the Islamic Republic from Jerusalem, asking “How many missiles have they prepared themselves for? 10,000? 20,000? 50,000? 100,000, 150,000 or more?”
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Pakistanis burn Obama effigy and US flag
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Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 8:01:50 PM by Sub-Driver
Pakistanis burn Obama effigy and US flag Updated: 04:36, Monday November 28, 2011
Hundreds of enraged Pakistanis have taken to the streets across the country, burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and setting fire to US flags after 24 soldiers died in NATO air strikes.
The Sunday rallies were organised by opposition and right-wing Islamist groups in major cities of the nuclear-armed country of 167 million people, where opposition to the government’s US alliance is rampant.
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Governments Request “Contingency Planning For Extreme Scenarios – Rioting And Social Unrest”
TSHTF Plan ^ | 11-27-2011 | Mac Slavo
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 8:08:42 PM by blam
Governments Request “Contingency Planning For Extreme Scenarios Including Rioting And Social Unrest”
Mac Slavo
November 27th, 2011
SHTFplan.com
The writing is on the wall. If you can’t read it, then you’re going to have a problem – very soon. It was in early 2009 that we first warned our readers of the coming wave of riots and social unrest that would envelop the globe. Nearly three years on we’re seeing a progressive increase in tension among those affected by deteriorating economic conditions and the trend towards social unrest seems to be accelerating. Absolutely nothing has been resolved in terms of the economic and financial woes facing the world, despite the literally trillions of dollars of wealth in the form of credit and monetary easing that has been committed to the crisis.
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Obama Plays Golf for 30th Time This Year, 88th as President
Brian Koenig ^ | 11/27/11 | Brian Koenig
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 8:48:46 PM by Freemarkets101
While the U.S. economy continues to wane, and the European Union remains in endless turmoil, President Obama continues his all-too-frequent golf outings, as he hit the links for the 30th time this year – and the 88th time since his presidential inaugural.
Following his Thanksgiving feast on Thursday, the President went golfing Friday with his usual crew, including White House trip director Martin Nicholson, as well as Martin’s brother Walter and Reggie Love.
The problem is despite his countless golf excursions, Obama still has time to issue executive orders, squander taxpayers’ dollars, and sabotage the U.S. healthcare system.
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Has FaceBook gotten into my email addresses?
http://www.freerepublic.com ^ | 11-27-11 | self
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 5:23:01 PM by Former MSM Viewer
FaceBook keeps suggesting I ‘friend’ someone whose only connection to me is that I have emailed him a couple times. How else would they know I even know this individual.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast. Their 4-year-old son, Joel, asked to watch cartoons.
An ordinary morning was unfolding in the middle-class Tucson neighborhood — until an armored vehicle pulled into the family’s driveway and men wearing heavy body armor and helmets climbed out, weapons ready.
They were a sheriff’s department SWAT team who had come to execute a search warrant. But Vanessa Guerena insisted she had no idea, when she heard a “boom” and saw a dark-suited man pass by a window, that it was police outside her home. She shook her husband awake and told him someone was firing a gun outside.
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Michele, I am for Sarah, looking for a candidate I can support
Nolan Chart ^ | November 26, 2011 | Mark Vogl
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:58:58 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
This is an open letter to Michele Bachmann, after visting her web site.
Dear Michele:
I won’t lie, my first choice is Sarah Palin. And. I still pray she will run for President, but I have to look for someone to support, and you are one of the few I am considering.
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Introduction: First there was Joe the Plumber who became a down-to-earth conservative analyst of note by virtue of his blunt talk. Now there’s Wade House, also a plumber, who has started his own party, the True Democracy Party.
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Enraged Pakistanis burn Obama effigy, slam US
Google News ^ | 11/27/2011 | Google News
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 3:56:59 PM by Dallas59
RACISM!
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The latest from “JETMAN”, Yves Rossy flies in formation..
Skynews ^ | 11/27/11 | Skynews via YT
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 10:46:55 AM by Doogle
Jetman Yves Rossy flies alongside some jets around the Alps. One can only hope he never has a bird strike….
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The US Constitution: Hijacked!
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The ConCon/More Modern Con!
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Rick Perry 1992 RNC Convention Speech
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YouTube ^ | 1992 | RNC Convention 1992
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:16:40 AM by shield
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Lab at Hershey Medical Center identifies a virus that could kill cancer
Penn Live ^ | 27 Nov 2011 | NICK MALAWSKEY
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 2:09:04 PM by shove_it
This is not the kind of lab we picture when we think of world-changing science. It’s not the clean, spotless modern laboratories of television or movies.
It’s a cluttered, workaday environment, where plastic test tubes rub shoulders with petri dishes and tubs of chemicals on busy shelves.
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But it is here, on the fifth floor of the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, where Dr. Craig Meyers and his team might have conducted a miracle.
What he and his lab claim discovery of is breathtaking in its simplicity.
A common virus, omnipresent in the world.
When it infects humans, it does no harm.
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Colin Powell Blames Media and Tea Party for Divisive Tone in Washington
Newsbusters ^ | Nov 27, 2011 | Noel Sheppard
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 2:19:19 PM by bkopto
Colin Powell on Sunday blamed the media as well as the Tea Party for the divisive political tone in Washington.
Not surprisingly, neither the class warfare stoked by President Obama and his Party nor the resulting Occupy Wall Street movement was mentioned during this seven minute interview with Christiane Amanpour on ABC’s This Week (video follows with transcript and commentary):
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PICKET: Schumer and Bill Clinton plant kisses of death on Newt
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/nov/27/picket-schumer-and-bill-clinton-plant-kisses-death/ ^ | 112711 | Pickett
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 2:30:10 PM by Fred
The New Hampshire Union Leader‘s endorsement of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich could not have come at a better time for the former Georgia Republican Congressman, as he is getting kisses of death from places GOP primary voters are not necessarily fond of.
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“Agenda 21“: Obama advances United Nations scheme of global domination
Coach is Right ^ | 11/27/2011 | Doug Book
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 1:58:22 PM by Oldpuppymax
The United Nations invention known as Agenda 21 has been described as “…an amalgamation of socialism and extreme environmentalism brushed with anti-American, anti capitalist overtones.”
Euphemistically referred to as “smart growth” or the partnership for “sustainable development”, the purpose of this global assault on freedom, as stated by the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, is to reverse the “…perpetuation of disparities between and within nations…[and the]…continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend for our well-being.”
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Newt To Obama: Let’s Debate,You Can Use Your Teleprompter
RealClearPolitics ^ | 11/27/11 | RealClearPolitics
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 2:34:43 PM by mdittmar
“I already said that if he wants to use a teleprompter, then it would be fine with me. [applause, laughter] It has to be fair. [laughter] If you [were] to defend ObamaCare, wouldn’t you want a teleprompter?” Gingrich said.
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…..the U. S. Congress (or all of Washington, DC, for that matter) has reached the level of almost total dysfunction. There are a few individual exceptions, but not many.
Either the problems have become so large that ordinary men just can’t solve them and we are just passengers on a run-away train, or the widening ideological divide between the two parties and the general population renders them impotent. We tend to subscribe to the run-away train theory where the locomotive is being fed by the “fowl” smelling, explosive fuel of political and ideological insanity.
The foundation under which the American federal government operates (a Constitutional Republic) is sound, but the “players” have so corrupted the system over the last 100 to 150 years, there are serious cracks running through the building above it. This “fowl” system that has been built above the foundation has no future other than total collapse, a “turkey” by any other name.
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Barack Hussein Obama hopes to drive his Real People Enemies to distraction by playing golf and shooting hoops during the worst of times.
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Even when no one is taking his bait, he hopes for temper tantrums across the fruited plains and other acts of desperation to prove people are intrinsically no damned good.
When word came that 24 troops had been killed in Pakistan over Thanksgiving weekend, the Biggest Playboy in Human History was off golfing again.
“Look Ma no hands” is “Tragedy and Duty” can’t touch me, Obama style.
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Here is a deeply disturbing truth of our age—one American group, our most aggressive political ideology, is dangerously reactionary, exhibiting all the hallmarks of a fundamentalist movement. Is this the Conservatives? No. This group is, of course—modern liberalism. In fact, during a recent debate witnessed by this author, one party claimed that any person holding a literal belief in the Bible should be kept from public office by law.
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Why? Because such persons are generally assumed unfit as they are incapable of rational thought. Specifically, the left must keep a perennial eye peeled for the advent of a theocracy.
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Congratulations! The city says you are a business
Contra Costa Times ^ | 11/26/11 | Tom Barnidge, Contra Costa Times columnist
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 12:26:50 PM by SmithL
If you have trouble falling asleep, here’s something new to try. When you curl up in bed tonight, bring along a copy of the local municipal code to read.
Slogging through the lawyerly fine print will not only make your eyelids heavy, it could help you unearth some surprising discoveries.
I learned the other day that if you earn an income working at home — anything from lacing lanyards for a craft sale to consulting on paramilitary projects for Halliburton — most East Bay cities require you to have a home occupation permit and a business license.
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Paying the Rates Obama Demands
Townhall.com ^ | November 27, 2011 | Marita Noon
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 10:08:30 AM by Kaslin
Electricity rates now depend more on public policy and regulatory decisions than on actual costs.
Based on a newly released report from Oliver Wyman, a leading global management consulting firm, “There is a growing need to increase electricity prices. These rate increases are largely being driven by environmental, regulatory, and security requirements.” And they are adding to “financial strain at the worst possible moment.”
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College Student Responds to New Hampshire Representative Who Defends Obama’s “Presidency”
….., you said, referring to the patriotic fight of many American citizens to defend the Constitution, “I am sure that the President loves this stupid fight; it keeps his opposition fighting among ourselves, instead of focusing on his failed presidency and focusing on why it would be suicidal to re-elect him.” In that statement, it is clear that you consider yourself among “his opposition” who, you assert, are “fighting among ourselves.”
Whereas, in the same letter you say, “To think that we can deny the President of the United States access to our ballot is beyond belief. Take your fight to the Federal Courts and leave us alone”, making your best effort to protect the illegitimate fraud and forger, the criminal illegally occupying the Oval Office from ABROGATION. You, sir, are a hypocrite, a coward and a liar. (In view of your writing you’re not very well-educated, either.)
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Triple Lutz Report–Black Friday Unrest Escalates
KerryLutz.com ^ | 11-27-11 | Kerry Lutz
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 9:23:59 AM by appeal2
Record numbers of Americans found themselves stuck in Black Friday mob scenes across the country. There were reports of shootings, pepper sprayings, riots and a lot of bad behavior. As FinancialCollapseBlog.com said, “Look what’s happening when people are trying to save $20, can you imagine what it will be like when millions of people don’t know where their next meal is coming from?”
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By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer
“I want to see the Microfiche,” Sheriff Joe Arpaio told a packed East Orlando Tea Party audience last week. In explaining his Birther Posse activities, he said his group of 60 retired cops and attorneys should have a report for him as early as January or February because they are searching around the clock to find out where the President was born.
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Did US ‘climate weapon’ knock-out Russian probe?
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The automatic Fobos-Grunt interplanetary station in assemblage building’s pad.
Russian space experts are struggling to decode fresh telemetry signals received from the stricken Phobos-Grunt probe. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating that America’s ionosphere research site in Alaska caused the spacecraft’s failure.
On Wednesday night, the European Space Agency’s station in Perth, Australia, established communication with Phobos-Grunt, which has been rotating helplessly around the Earth since its engines failed to fire two weeks ago.
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Daily Mail
Sunday, November 27, 2011
More than 5,000 documents have been leaked online purporting to be the correspondence of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia who were previously accused of ‘massaging’ evidence of man-made climate change.
Following on from the original ‘climategate’ emails of 2009, the new package appears to show systematic suppression of evidence, and even publication of reports that scientists knew to to be based on flawed approaches.
And not only do the emails paint a picture of scientists manipulating data, government employees at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are also implicated.
One message appeared to show a member of Defra staff telling colleagues working on climate science to give the government a ‘strong message’.
Full story here.
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Russia Today
Sunday, November 27, 2011
NATO admits it’s probably to blame for a deadly helicopter raid on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, that killed up to 28 Pakistani soldiers and injured over a dozen others. Islamabad responded by cutting off the flow of vital NATO supplies to Afghanistan. The incident may deal a serious blow to their already-strained relations over lethal incursions in Pakistani territory. John Rees, a political analyst from the British-based ‘Stop the War Coalition’, told RT that the U.S. and its allies are creating an explosive situation in the volatile region.
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“Put down the Chore Boy and back away from the weaponry!”
It’s an order that actually could be heard, given that a letter has surfaced from the federal government warning against consumers stockpiling Chore Boy household scrubbers because they can be considered a component of a gun silencer and, therefore, regulated by federal gun laws.
The letter is from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the ATF. It was obtained by David Codrea, who publishes online as the Gun Rights Examiner.
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New Bill Would Extend Federal Employment Benefits to Homosexual Partners
The New American ^ | 11/25/2011 | Dave Bohon
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 8:24:48 AM by IbJensen
In a deep bow to the homosexual lobby, a small army of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced legislation that would extend employee benefits to the same-sex partners of federal workers. Under H.R. 3485, homosexual partners of federal employees would be eligible for such benefits as retirement, life insurance, health insurance, workers compensation, and death benefits.
“The federal government must set an example as an equal opportunity employer,” the bill’s sponsor, lesbian Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) was quoted by The Hill as saying. “If we are to treat all federal employees fairly and recruit the best and the brightest to serve in government, we need this legislation.”
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How Eisenhower Solved Illegal Border Crossings from Mexico
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The Christian Science Monitor ^ | July 6, 2006 | John Dillin
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 7:46:13 AM by BarnacleCenturion
Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America‘s southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.
President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents – less than one-tenth of today’s force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.
Although there is little to no record of this operation in Ike’s official papers, one piece of historic evidence indicates how he felt. In 1951, Ike wrote a letter to Sen. William Fulbright (D) of Arkansas. The senator had just proposed that a special commission be created by Congress to examine unethical conduct by government officials who accepted gifts and favors in exchange for special treatment of private individuals.
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Romney Admin. Destroyed Emails to Thwart “Opposition Research”
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The New American ^ | 11/26/2011 | Michael Tennant
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 8:16:18 AM by IbJensen
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney says his administration deleted all its emails near the end of his term specifically to frustrate political opponents. Though the move appears unorthodox, if not downright illegal, the Republican presidential candidate claims everything was above board and dismisses the recent flap about the emails as pure politics.
On November 17 the Boston Globe reported that at the end of 2006, just as Romney was leaving office and gearing up for his first presidential run, “11 of his top aides purchased their state-issued computer hard drives, and the Romney administration’s emails were all wiped from a server.” In addition, the remaining computers in the Governor’s office were replaced.
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If You Thought Police Brutality Was Bad … Wait Until You See What Congress Wants to Do Next Week
Washington’s Blog
Sunday, November 27, 2011
The police brutality against peaceful protesters in Berkeley, Davis, Oakland and elsewhere is bad enough.
But next week, Congress will vote on explicitly creating a police state.
The ACLU’s Washington legislative office explains:
The Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself.
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The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world.
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Caption the Obamas at the TU/OSU game
Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2011 8:45:51 PM by Baladas
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WHY does he HAVE to sit like THAT?
via Caption the Obamas at the TU/OSU game.
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U.S. executes another round of Web site takedowns (Are we next?)
CNET ^ | 11-26-2011 | Edward Moyer
Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2011 9:35:55 PM by Cacique
As Cyber Monday draws near and debate continues about the Stop Online Piracy Act, the U.S. government has again seized a bevy of domain names it says belong to Web sites that deal in counterfeit goods.
Blog TorrentFreak ran a list of more than 130 domains it said were seized by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security‘s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement division as part of “Operation in Our Sites.” TorrentFreak called the move the largest such round of seizures to date.
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Not Photoshopped: Beam of Light Shines on Fallen Soldier’s Miracle Dog (incredible)
ABC News ^ | 11-24-11 | Kimberly Launier
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 3:06:21 AM by STARWISE
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Sometimes when Rhonda hugged Hero she would softly pet her face and coo, “Justin, are you in there?” It was Rhonda’s gentle way of remembering their son and his last living connection to Hero. At one point, Hero wandered off and took a stroll in the backyard. All of a sudden, the clouds broke and a light began to solidify in a beam directly down on Hero — a kind of vertical halo.
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