From online quote site: "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." - Vince Lombardi " -- It's time to take these ordinary adages so well known in locker rooms across the nation, and post them in School Administration offices and teachers' lounges in every city.
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Online story: "Undocumented workers (illegal aliens) collected $4.2 billion in a certain tax credit last year, up from less than $1 billion five years ago, according to a new audit. * Many of those people cannot obtain a Social Security number, so to facilitate this the IRS hands out what are known as Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers -- so illegal workers can file returns. However, in doing so many of those workers are claiming tax benefits like the Additional Child Tax Credit. For some, it's a way of making even more money. * The Additional Child Tax Credit is an offshoot of another tax credit worth up to $1,000 per child. Restrictions for the tax credits were loosened in 2001, and eligibility was temporarily increased by the 2009 stimulus bill. " -- "Temporarily increased" in 2009? Looks like a 'tax increase' on real Americans to pay for it.
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HuffPost headline/story: "Limbaugh Goes After Frank Rich, Obama" -- That is the headline...the story is that the HuffPost didn't go after Limbaugh for saying what he did. Don't you love it when liberals eat their own?
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According to a L-E story on the arrest of 2 Harris County School System contracted janitors, the 2 had been cleared in a background search to work at schools. I find it hard to believe that 30-something year old men willing to sell 'crack' to school student on a campus were first time felons. Whoever conducted, or accepted, the background check for the HCSS has some 'splaining to do.
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The number one problem is that teachers with an attitude that their students are 'victims' and placating them rather than pushing them to achieve is compassionate. If you ingrain in a child that 'he can't' because of his environment or circumstances, by God, he will believe you.
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How come the new Smith Station HS that just opened is 18% bigger than the new Carver but costs millions of tax dollars less Carver is projected to cost?
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No wonder Expedia is still fighting the attorneys. It looks like Expedia's situation is one of a criminal nature than a civil one, but class action attorneys can't get big bucks simply by turning over evidence to the State Department of Justice. It appears that the real charge against Expedia should be for either a failure to collect due taxes from the 'end user' OR for failing to turn over revenue collected as taxes to the state for distribution.
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Online headline: "Comedian Wants to Run for Office" -- Arrggghhhh!. We already have too many lawyers in office; we surely don't need any more clowns!
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Online headline: "Roger Clemens Will Face Second Perjury Trial" -- Gimme a break! The headline we NEED to see is "Politician will face perjury charges for lying to the public in a campaign speech".
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Liberal's "soundoff": "Work hard, do without, pay bills on time, and save up for big-ticket items. Result? A low credit score, because lenders don’t like people who don’t borrow money. High scores are bought, not earned. " -- Liberals don't get the concept of having the good self-esteem people get by working hard, and living within their means. To a liberal, having 10 maxxed out credit cards is more important than having a saving account and sleeping well at night.
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Another liberal's "soundoff": "Instead of a 10-day vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, I spent 10 days at the unemployment office. No success." -- Well, you were no less successful than potUS O'Blather. You got paid for doing nothing productive.
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That ad by the Nissan dealership "honoring" Sam Rawls is almost vile at a minimum, and too self-serving to be run once, much less twice.
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Online headline: "US to Sue Slew of Nation's Big Banks" -- potUS O'Blather must not know about this yet (we're always hearing he 'knows nothing' until the staff informs him of it). but since Warren Buffet just invested $5 BILLION in Bank of America, do you feel Buffet will be so interested in paying more in taxes (or being O'Blather's poster child for higher taxes)?
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From a Glenn Beck newsletter: "Green bust: Another subsidized solar company touted by Obama goes belly up
Thursday, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:20 PM EDT


Obama has repeatedly touted green jobs as the solution to the ailing economy. Even though Spain proved green technology is not quite ready to shoulder the load, and forcing it too early is disastrous (they bet the farm on green and now have 21% unemployment). But Obama continues to force it, and yet another $535 million dollars went down the drain. Glenn reports on the latest solar company to get huge sums of federal cash only to go belly up.

Obama said, ” The companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future. The true engine of economic grown will always be companies like Solyndra.”

What happened to Solyndra? They’ve gone bankrupt!

“They received $535 million, half a billion dollars in your money,” Glenn said.

“And one year and three months later, bankrupt. Done. Bye-bye. Their employees are now looking for jobs,” Pat explained.

“I don’t even understand that. If you have a $539 million, even if you sell zero solar panels, how do you go out of business?” Stu wondered. -- What I want to know has an investigation begun on where $539 million dollars of your and my money was dispensed over 15 months (that's about $36 million a month).

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When it comes to statistics, the government thinks a job salary should be based on the number of people in a family rather than the worth of the worker to the job. Is that not Communism 101?
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