Every year we staff our schools with teachers taught by other teachers whose job is to teach teachers to teach. There's something missing here that keeps the equation from being successful... actual real world knowledge.

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Online story: "LOS ANGELES -- Accusations are flying over the Los Angeles Police Department's bungled effort to replace a bullet-ridden pickup truck that belonged to two women who were mistaken for fugitive Christopher Dorner one horrifying morning. *Two days after the almost-deadly case of mistaken identity, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck visited the victims' homes to apologize, and the department publicly promised to give them a new pickup truck by the next week. * According to Bert Boeckmann, owner of Los Angeles-based Galpin Motors, Chief Beck called him personally to ask if he would handle the truck replacement. But after weeks of fruitless negotiation with the victims' lawyers, he said, he is convinced the other side wanted a botched deal just to get more press for an impending lawsuit against the city. * But when it came time to seal the deal, Jonas said that Boeckmann and the Police Department stood firm that the truck would be counted as the victims' income and reported on a 1099 form." -- Poor ladies... Just minding their own business, they were caught in a cross-fire of a hail of bullets, and survived, but it may be another story being caught in the crossfire of hell between lawyers and government.

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Online story: "A photo of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hugging late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez's grieving mother has caused a storm of controversy among conservative Muslim leaders who feel Ahmadinejad's actions were inappropriate. * Islamic rules, which are applied in Iran, typically forbid Muslim men from touching women outside of their own families." -- Oh, Ahmandine-JIHAD can hug a nuke, but not someone else's mother? This sharia law almost makes Islam 'honor killings" seems like a misdemeanor... almost...

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Online headline: "George P. Bush Running For Texas Land Commissioner" -- Hmm, can't you see the bumbersticker now, "P"? (Make up your own punchline.)

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Online story: "A dramatic new account by the State Department reveals that Stevens was locked inside a ‘safe room’ choking to death from diesel-heavy smoke as the building around him burned to the ground. * Alongside him was a security guard, tasked with the impossible choice between staying in the deadly room – or facing the rocket-propelled grenades and machine-guns outside. * Eventually the guard slipped through the window – and was cut down by the grenades. * No-one saw the ambassador alive again – another agent tried desperately to enter the safe-room, but could not find him anywhere" -- No wonder Benghazi-gate was kept under wraps until after the election! Ambassador Stevens sought safety as best he could knowing help would be there in time to save him, but potUS 00-bama didn't answer the "3:00AM call" as Hillary suggested in 2008.

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From a fellow BCer - read and pass 'excerpt' along:

PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS A List of Republican Budget Cuts Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list. These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end. * Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings. * Save America 's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings. * International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings. * Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings. * National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings. * National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings. * Hope VI Program -- $250 million annual savings. * Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings. * Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually. * U.S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings. * Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings. * Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings. * John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings. * Community Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings. * Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings. * Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings * Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings. * Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings. * Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings. * Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program -- $125 million annual savings.. * Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization -- $530 million annual savings. * Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings. * New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings. * Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings * Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings. * Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual savings. * Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual savings. * Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual savings. * Programs under the National and Community Services Act -- $1.15 billion annual savings. * Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings. * Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual savings.. * Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings. *Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million annually. * U.S.Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion annual savings. * General Assistance to District of Columbia -- $210 million annual savings. * Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -- $150 million annual savings. *Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years. * No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings. * End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services. * Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion annually. * IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget -- $1.8 billion savings over ten years. *Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees -- $1 billion total savings. WHAT'S THIS ABOUT? * Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion savings over ten years. * Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of -- $15 billion total savings. *Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress. WHAT??? * Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings. *Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings. WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL * Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings. * USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings. * Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings. * Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual savings. *Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs -- $900 million savings. * Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million savings.. * HUD Ph.D. Program. * Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act. *TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place? Maybe this is why the Democrats are attacking Paul Ryan. Please Send to everyone you know.. --- L-E story: "CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A bearded and bushy-haired James Holmes sat quietly as a packed courtroom waited Tuesday for a plea that could help shed light on a deadly shooting rampage he is accused of going on in a crowded Colorado movie theater last summer. * Instead, his lawyers told the judge they weren’t ready to enter a plea — despite numerous delays since the July 20 attack that killed 12 people and injured 70." -- In the end, the judge entered a plea for him of "not guilty' to move the process along, but why tax dollars being used to pay lawyers for not being ready to make a plea? --- L-E story: "JERUSALEM — Israeli troops shot to death a Palestinian man on Tuesday after he and others hurled rocks and firebombs at them in the West Bank, the military said. " -- Hmmm, maybe our Border Patrol office should see if there re any Israeli border patrol officers available as free agents? --- A local lawyer doing a survey on legal fees paid by our MCSD board says he contacted " 21 Georgia school districts similar in size to Muscogee County". Hmmm, There are 21 similar sized school districts GA alone, and not one of them has a Superintendent that might be worthy of changing to Muscogee County for a few bucks more? The hands-off approach of our School District Board gets more dubious as we speak. --- L-E headline: "AUBURN MEN’S BASKETBALL * Tigers in for an SEC tourney fight * Need five upset wins to take conference title"{ -- Hmmm, I think Webster has a new example to post in its dictionary under the word "optimist". --- L-E headline: "Hostess: No other bids to buy Twinkies" -- Ooops, my bad, thought another Washington, DC "madam" scandal had been revealed by 'the sequester'. --- L-E headline: "U.S. employers post more jobs, cut fewer workers " -- Of course, what the potUS 00-bama spinmeisters are not saying is that most of the new jobs start at and a lot of the old jobs have been reduced to under 29 hours to escape the mandatory laws of HELL-thScare. The amount of hours will not escalate, just the number of people filling those hours. --- Muscogee (GA) County School District lunch menu for next week: "Monday: Hot dog or popcorn chicken; hush puppies; french fries; baked beans; fresh fruit; milk. Tuesday: Machos or burrito; corn; refried beans; fruit; milk. Wednesday: Fish sandwich or hamburger; green salad; sweet potato wedges; fruit; milk. Thursday: Sloppy Joe or beef stroganoff/rice; green beans; okra; fruit; milk. Friday: Pizza; green salad; carrots/dip; fruit; milk. " -- Obviously approved by neither Michele Obama nor Mayor Bloomberg, but highly influenced by strings attached to government grants for meal programs. Sequester could/should generate healthier food choices at schools.