Online headline: "House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Hospitalized, Released in Rome" -- Ooops, my bad. Thoiught maybe the Italian Hospital saw she had US Government based insurance, and figured there was a chance of getting stiffed on the charges.
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After the way he sat back on the BP/Gulf oil spill, we have to imagine that the UN is thankful Emperor Imam-a is not the Emperor of Japan.
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Online story: "President Barack Obama’s move to the center is alienating some of his liberal base. And one of the Senate’s biggest liberals, Vermont independent Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, says a left-wing primary challenger for Obama next year would be a good thing, The Hill reports." -- Huh? Not only does Emperor Imam-a rule from the left side, he golfs, bowls, and even writes from 'the left side' (which are things he doesn't do very well either). I'm willing to bet that even the only TelePrompter he reads from is the one on his left.
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Time to get ready to go to the hospital.. ya'll pray, ya hear?
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This will be a daily inclusion of the Breakfast Club: Diane Schneider, a representative with the National Education Association (NEA), said that graphic sex education needs to be taught in the classroom. * "She said that 'gender identity expression' and sexual orientation are a spectrum, and...that those [who are] opposed to homosexuality are stuck -- quote -- 'in a binary box that religion and family create.' -- This should be sent to every teacher in every school district, and they should be asked to either endorse it, demand Ms Schneider be fired, or drop their NEA membership.
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Our US Attorney General says Gaddafy has 'lost legitimacy' and 'should go'.....Hmmm, why isn't he saying that about Emperor Imam-a since this is his country and he has a legal right, maybe even a legal obligation, to comment on our President, but not another country's.
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Something doesn't compute properly when the MCSD has 6,200 employees for about 33,000 students (last figures I have) when classes have 30+/- students while the over all employee/student ratio is about 5-to-1.
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Speaking of suspect MCSD move to approve the Fort Middle School request to stop its application to becoming a charter school. A charter school would basically answer directly to the parents versus the MCSD board which would probably be an eye-opener for accountability. Instead, the school system wants to make Fort a 'magnet' school to (quoting the Fort Principal last week) attract "high performing students". The purpose of a 'magnet school' should be totally to attract students who have particular interests in a field of study, not just the elite. Isolating elite pockets of students does not give 'non-qualifiers' much option to attend schools that interest them, or that will keep their interest in staying in school.
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With the new L-E format, the Tuesday Legals Section is now bigger than any two of the other sections.
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Chuck Williams had a great and timely follow-up piece on the Parks&REC scandal.
I do think one thing that hasn't been touched is who at CB&T authorized the account without contacting the City Manager or City Attorney or the City Finance Office because of the City's exempt number being used. I'm pretty sure proper procedure was not followed. No secretary would have done the account without notifying an executive.
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Boy that was great news...a judge has thrown out the motion to stop ex-Illinois governor Blagojevich's retrial. Whew, just as I was about to forget him and how to spell his name. Speaking of Illinois, how is Rahm Emanuel staying out out the news...isn't there some chaos he can create?
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Saw a perplexing, maybe even c0nfusing t-shirt the other day. A senior woman was wearing such a shirt that had a Star of David on it with the following words inside the star, " Jesus Loves You".
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