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Dem guv of Michigan: “YOUR money? NOT!”

This is just jaw-droppingly appalling. From New Fallujah (AKA Detroit):

The guv’s spin machine hit overdrive this past weekend with an over-the-top interview that strained credulity and probably pushed more than a few aortas toward the breaking point. Michigan’s budget woes, it turns out, are the fault of its greedy citizens.

“It’s not just about me, me, me. It’s about investing in Michigan,” Gov. Jennifer Granholm told the Free Press in a piece Sunday. “Where’s the notion of the common good? It’s been lost over decades because there’s been … this idea that it’s your money, it’s your money. (Yeah, what kind of crazy talk is THAT? – Ed.) What happened to, ‘It’s your schools, and it’s your roads and it’s your parks, your libraries?’”

There you have it folks: It’s not your money. It’s hers. Or the Legislature’s. Or the state bureacracy’s — anybody’s but yours. Don’t ask questions about how it is spent, or on what. Don’t demand better results from your schools or your local governments. Don’t ask how Michigan stacks up to other Great Lakes states or anywhere else. Just pay up, shut up and sit down.

Otherwise, you don’t want good schools, good roads, good parks and good libraries, just squalor for as far as the eye can see. The accusation is as absurd as the fact that it was aired unchallenged.

Yes, Michigan: You’re the problem. And if you weren’t gobsmacked by the guv’s high-handedness on public revenue, there was her claim that Michigan could position itself as the nation’s alternative-energy manufacturing hub. Really? How?

“Those alternative energy companies are going to come where it makes business sense for them, from the standpoint of geography, workforce, where there is the talent for development and research,” Granholm said. “Nobody has what Michigan has in terms of water, wind, wood, the workforce, the history of the automobile, the technology and research. We have this place that is second to none.”

And the evidence that this is so? Anyone? In the waves of new investment? How could it be so with the nation’s highest unemployment rate, lowest job creation rate, high cost of doing business, increasing tax burden and deserved reputation as one of the nation’s labor strongholds?

From the jackass’ mouth. Of course, the guv is just saying what every other liberal thinks but doesn’t usually have the stones to be so public about it.

October 17, 2007 Posted by | economic ignorance, socialism, taxes | 1 Comment

Ninth Circus: Statutory rape no big whoop

From Moonbattery:

The latest from San Franfreakshow’s Ninth Circus Court of Appeals:

On Tuesday, the court decided that Alberto Quintero-Salazar – a Mexican national and legal resident of the U.S. – could not be deported on the basis of a sex crime he committed in 1998, namely illegal intercourse between an adult over 21 and a youth under 16. According to the court, adults taking sexual advantage of a minor (so long as they have the “consent” that minors are legally unable to provide) are not guilty of a crime of “moral turpitude,” which is needed to subject legal U.S. residents to deportation.

Congrats to the militant degenerates who make up this court: they’ve managed to advance both the Mexican invasion and the sexual exploitation of children — two favorite progressive causes — in a single misruling.

Judge Sidney Thomas wrote for the majority that statutory rape “is not inherently base, vile or depraved.” Oh yes it is, Thomas. And so are moonbats like you. 

This is great news for guys like R. Kelly and Scott Ritter, whose mottos are “as long as there’s grass on that field, play ball!”  For the rest of non-depraved and normal America, I’d recommend not raising your kids in San Fransicko.

October 17, 2007 Posted by | judiciary, moonbats, Ninth Circus Court, San Francisco | 3 Comments

MO government school files complaint to stop “neglect”, AKA homeschooling

From WND:

A Missouri public school is pursuing a complaint against a mother for withdrawing her son and daughter from the school and teaching them at home, after an apparent threat to the daughter’s life at the school.

The case involves Moberly, Mo., mother Anita Nicoli, who withdrew her daughter and a son from Moberly Middle School recently after what she has described as a two-year campaign of intimidation by other students.

The breaking point came when another student, who allegedly had harassed and assaulted her daughter, drew a picture of herself holding a gun and pointing it directly at Nicoli’s daughter. The picture was passed around among students, she said.

But she now has been cited in a complaint filed by the school after she withdrew two of her children.

Multiple telephone messages left with officials at the school district were not returned. But Nicoli told WND that she is accused of “educational neglect” by social services, based on a complaint from the school.
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In Nicoli’s encounter with school officials in Moberly, she said her children had been subjected to harassment and badgering at the school for several years. She cited incidents of being slapped, bullied, kicked and butted, as well as threatened. Her son was shoved into a metal bar. Another time a student used a seat belt buckle on the school bus to hit him.

The last situation with her daughter happened when the other student hit her daughter in the face with a locker door, leaving a bruise on her check. Then the other student slapped her daughter, punched her, and threatened to “kick” her.

The attacker then drew the picture and showed it to Nicoli’s daughter before it was taken by the teacher, she said.

Discussions with school administrators led nowhere, so she notified the school of her homeschool plans and went forward.

“Three days after I pulled my kids out, the school apparently wrote a letter to juvenile authorities [with a complaint],” she told WND. She was notified by juvenile authorities and went in to talk with them.

The complaint letter, filed by a counselor at the school, essentially said, “I couldn’t adequately teach (neither can a lot of government school teachers, but that doesn’t stop them from collecting paychecks! – Ed.),” Nicholi said. But she said juvenile authorities would not let her touch, or even see the letter, instead reading from it to her.
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“They’re lashing out because they didn’t want to deal with the reason for this – what they were not doing for my children,” Nicoli said. “I told them, ‘My children have a right to a safe and proper education, and you’re not doing it so I’m pulling them out.’” …

“Educational neglect” is educrat speak for “not letting your kids get assaulted or killed in our war zone facilities”, I guess.

Homeschooling threatens the government school bureaucracy, so by God (insert politically correct deity here), they’re not going to just sit back and allow that to happen!  Who in the hell does this woman think she is, educating and protecting her own kids instead of trusting her local government school to do better than she does?  Since when do we allow parents to determine their kids’ best interests?

October 17, 2007 Posted by | public education | 11 Comments

Hilldawg: Say “yes” to “war for oil”!

How this must agitate the leftards who support this wench!  From the AP:

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton advocated talks to settle differences with Iran but said Saturday that Tehran would invite U.S. action if it were to disrupt oil supplies. 

In other words, Her Highness would launch a “war for oil”, presumably just to show Dubya how a real “war for oil” should be conducted!

October 17, 2007 Posted by | Hillary, hypocrisy, Iran | 6 Comments

MSM: Bush causing Iraqi gravediggers to lose jobs

George Bush doesn’t care about Iraqi gravediggers.  Dammit, we need more deaths to keep these folks from losing their jobs!  From Say Anything:

You ever get to thinking that President Bush literally can’t do anything right in Iraq as far as the media is concerned?  Like maybe the journalists are going to find something negative about everything that happens there?

You’re not alone.

That’s right.  Go ahead and cry a little tear for all the grave diggers put out of work by General Betrayus’ surge strategy. 

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Nope…no liberal media bias!

October 17, 2007 Posted by | Iraq, media bias | 3 Comments

Rudy to Barry O: “You’re no Ronald Reagan!”

I don’t think anyone will be confusing Barrack Hussein with the Great Communicator anytime soon. That’s the understatement of the decade, Rudy.  From Breitbart/AP:

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday ridiculed Democratic rival Barack Obama for saying he would meet, without precondition, with leaders of renegade nations.

The Obama campaign answered back, arguing that Giuliani may not want to engage in diplomacy with outlaw leaders but he’s been willing to take their money.

Addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition, Giuliani described Obama’s offer, during a presidential debate in July, to meet as president with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.

“Then he went on to explain that Ronald Reagan negotiated with the communists (Reagan talked to Obama? – Ed.) ,” Giuliani said, pausing and sighing. “I say this most respectfully: You’re not Ronald Reagan, you know?”

The audience in a downtown Washington hotel laughed and clapped.

“Here’s what Ronald Reagan did before he negotiated with communists,” the former New York mayor continued. “First he called them the evil empire. Then he took missiles, intermediate-range missiles … and he put them in European cities, and he pointed the missiles at Russian cities with names on them.

“Then he said, in a very nice way, ‘Let’s negotiate.’” 

Get some aloe for that freshly spanked tush, Barry O!

October 17, 2007 Posted by | Obama, Rudy | Leave a Comment

San Fransicko: Give me your tired, your poor, your…heroin-addled masses?

Only in San Franfreakshow does this make sense to people.  From San Franistan’s fishwrap:

Two months ago I wrote about an idea for a place in San Francisco where intravenous drug users could shoot up under the supervision of trained personnel. A lot of people thought it sounded crazy.

Well, get ready to hear about it again, because the idea is gaining momentum.

On Thursday, an all-day symposium – co-hosted by the city Department of Public Health – will examine the idea of creating safe injection centers where users could bring their drugs, shoot up and leave, without fear of arrest.

The idea is to decrease overdoses, keep dirty needles off the street, and cut the risk of spreading HIV and hepatitis C. Those are all good things. It is the idea of providing addicts with their own injection clinic that riles people up.

“What’s next?” a reader wrote when the first column appeared. “Giving them the drugs, too?”

No. But there’s no doubt that if San Francisco ever established such a center, even as a pilot program, there would be an enormous brouhaha.

“It would be huge international news,” said Peter Davidson, a researcher at UCSF in the epidemiology and biostatistics department. “It would be the first facility in the United States, and there would probably be a firestorm for a while.”

You can count on that. The conservative radio talk show hosts (and bloggers – Ed.) are probably already jump-starting their tonsils. Wacky San Francisco, providing a party room for junkies.  (Guilty as charged. – Ed.)

October 17, 2007 Posted by | drugs, San Francisco | 3 Comments

   

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