A teacher in Mississippi posed a survey to her 6th grade students to see who was ‘most likely to die before age 19,’ ‘most likely to get AIDS,’ and ‘most likely to get pregnant.’ What kind of idiot would possibly think this is appropriate for 6th grade? Hell, it’s not even appropriate for high school.
Parents are outraged over a controversial assignment at a Jackson middle school.
Curtis Lyons is the concerned parent of a 6th grader at Chastain Middle School. He said his daughter had to answer the following questions about her peers.
“Who do you think will be dead before age 19? Who will have no job? Who will get HIV or AIDS? Who will be pregnant?” Lyons read from a statement.
Lyons says it was part of an assignment in Roshondra Sipp’s 6th grade science class. And several parents told WLBT they’re outraged students were asked to list their peers.
“What kind of questions are those to ask kids? And then to have another kid determine those things? It’s just not fair,” said Lyons.
Lyons was upset when his daughter told him that her class voted her most likely to get pregnant before age 19. That’s right– Lyon’s says the teacher tallied the results and read them aloud to the class.
NumbersUSA brings us news that members of Congress have slipped amnesty for illegal aliens into legislation meant for funding the Iraq war. (hat tip: MM)
Pathetic.
Our NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team got several confirmations through both Democratic and Republican sources that Sen. Feinstein (D-Calif.) was preparing to add an [agricultural] amnesty to the Iraq bill Thursday afternoon in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
We don’t know the details of the amnesty. There is some chance she may try to slip it through by not including permanent legalization but just giving one or two million illegal ag workers a 5-year amnesty that allows them to work and live here while further sinking roots. The open-borders champions hope that the longer illegal aliens stay the more difficult it will ever be to deny them U.S. citizenship.
Michelle Malkin reports that the bill passed the Senate Appropriations Committee, 17-12.
When will these spineless politicos actually do what the majority of Americans want, stop this madness, and stop trying to reward people who have no respect for our national sovereignty? Granting amnesty would be a huge slap in the face to millions of legal immigrants who have jumped through hoops, paid thousands of dollars, and are waiting their turn for a chance at the American dream.
“She knew enough to pretend she was dead,” Isbell said. “After the perpetrator thought she was dead, then he raped her. This is a very sick individual.”
The individual isFrancisco Barbosa, aka Francisco Sanchez, a 35-year-old illegal immigrant who had been working construction in Monroe County. Isbell said Barbosa/Sanchez had been staying, off and on, at his brother’s house, in the victim’s neighborhood.
“We obtained his DNA from a straw he had used and it matched DNA taken from the victim,” Isbell said. “We went back into the community and started asking questions again. We learned that he was very concerned about providing a DNA sample and said he was going back to Mexico.”
And Mexico is where authorities believe Barbosa/Sanchez is right now. He hasn’t been seen in the area for a few days and his car was found in Houston, Texas.
“We have warrants on him for aggravated rape and especially aggravated burglary,” Isbell said. “We have full confidence the Mexican authorities will help us extradite him back here.”
It’s not known yet if Barbosa/Sanchez has a previous criminal record. “When somebody’s in this country illegally,” Isbell said, “and have no fingerprints on record,
it’s hard to know what they’ve done.”
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“This is a case of homicide and what he thought was post mortem sex,” Isbell said. “This is the kind of crime that shouldn’t happen anywhere.”
I know, I know…illegal aliens are just here to work. But, wow.
Didn’t Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House, pledge that they were going to end ‘business as usual’ and put a stop to wasteful spending?
Hahaha… Yeah right, like we really thought that would happen? Surely the Dems have noticed that the Congressional approval ratings are at all-time lows, even lower than President Bush. I hardly think that really matters to them though.
There’s something fishy in the Farm Bill, and taxpayers should beware. It’s a $170 million earmark for the salmon industry, quietly tucked into the mammoth bill at the last minute by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA). I don’t know much about the salmon industry. Perhaps Pelosi and Thompson can explain why it was necessary to earmark $170 million of the taxpayers’ money with no public scrutiny or debate. The earmark wasn’t in the House-passed Farm Bill or the Senate version; it was simply “air-dropped” into the final bill in secret.
The Farm Bill has often been abused by politicians as a slush fund for bizarre earmarks and wasteful spending projects, and the latest version up for a vote on the House floor this week is no different. During Farm Bill negotiations, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) slipped in a targeted earmark to help the Plum Creek Timber Company in Montana sell a parcel of land to the scandal-tarnished “environmental group,” the Nature Conservancy. The earmark allows the Nature Conservancy to claim a $250 million “tax refund” – even though, as a non-profit they don’t actually pay taxes. But instead of being open and honest about their intentions to spend $250 million in taxpayer money, Democrats attempted to keep it secret by crafting the provision to ensure the funds go only to a federal forest project of a certain size that also has fish. That’s right. Fish. In a forest. Forest fish. In the whole country, only one tract fits the bill – and it happens to be located in Senator Baucus’ home state of Montana.
These examples serve as a perfect illustration of why taxpayers are fed up with a broken Washington. Despite the Speaker’s promises to “drain the swamp” at the beginning of the 110th Congress, it has become increasingly clear why Democrats are fighting as hard as they can to keep the earmark factory open on Capitol Hill. Not only have Democratic leaders have “showered” their newly-elected Members in pork in the attempt to help them win re-election, but their senior members – including the “King of Pork,” Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) – have made it clear that wasteful earmarks are here to stay.
New audits of New Jersey’s most troubled school systems question more than $83 million in spending by the heavily state-subsidized districts — from excessive travel expenses and legal fees to Christmas parties and food.
While 71 percent of all purchase orders examined were found to be “reasonable,” the auditors concluded more than 25 cents of every dollar spent by the districts was unnecessary, excessive or lacking documentation.
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Among the findings:
In Irvington, which accounted for more than a quarter of questionable expenses within the latest round of audits, examiners from the accounting firm KPMG flagged $6,421 for a school board retreat in Atlantic City; $56,721 for advertising; $33,102 worth of office furniture for unspecified employees and $126 for a floral arrangement for one board member. Some 250 purchase orders totaling more than $15.5 million were not supported with invoices, auditors said.
Nearly $1 million in legal fees incurred by the East Orange Board of Education lacked proper documentation or appeared excessive. The district also spent $10,836 for a superintendent’s convocation; $23,834 for 14 Dell laptop computers for board members, and $753 to cover the cost of 34 cakes — with no explanation as to why the cakes were purchased.
The Orange Board of Education spent $3,100 for a Christmas party for teachers and support staff and $12,144 for wireless phone services for district administrators.
An illegal allien was arrested by Bossier Parish deputies …on charges of forcible rape. Villalt Carlos Canales is accused of attempting to force his cleaning lady to have sex with him.
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Canales has been deported at least twice since 1999. Police say he has a criminal history of aggravated assault, battery with a dangerous weapon and simple battery.
Secure the borders. Enforce the laws. Stop the madness.
Here’s a feel-good story that I can practically guarantee the mainstream media hasn’t covered. Sure, they’ll do stories about anti-war groups’ lunacy rallies, but when was the last time you saw a story about the good things our soldiers do?
Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon, 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, when he saw Shahad Abbas. The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps of her legs where her calves should have been were crusted with dried blood.
Falcon couldn’t just walk on, so he stopped to talk. He came back the next day and the day after that, then every day for six months, bringing her toys, gauze for her legs, a new wheelchair. Anything she asked for, he would bring.
In a war that Falcon no longer really understood, Shahad became his mission. So when she asked for legs, that became his mission, too.
On Friday his dream and hers came true, just three weeks before he’s scheduled to leave Iraq. Shahad was fitted with prosthetic limbs in a U.S. military-funded clinic in Baghdad that normally provides artificial limbs for wounded members of the Iraqi security forces.
Perhaps the next time he’s just standing around during the national anthem and not placing his hand over his heart, he could actually take a look at the flag and count the stars on it.
A supposedly warm, loving, serene, rational, tolerant practitioner of the Religion of Peace™ apparently threatened a disabled teacher because he had a service dog. The dog accompanies the man because he is subject to seizures. However, dogs are considered ‘unclean’ to Muslims.
A Muslim high school student’s intolerance for a service dog needed by a student teacher with a disability has reportedly prompted the student teacher to abandon the last 10 hours of his scheduled assignment at Technical High School in St. Cloud, Minn.
The St. Cloud Times online said the situation developed with student teacher Tyler Hurd, 23, of Mahtomedi, who hopes to teach special education.
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The newspaper said Hurd needs a service dog because of a childhood injury that leaves him with seizures, sometimes happening as often as weekly. The black lab is trained to protect Hurd when he has a seizure.
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Hurd, however, reported a student threatened to kill his dog. He said the threat came from a Somali student who is Muslim. Minnesota has a large Somali population, mostly Muslim, and they have been involved in issues over their religion in the past.
At the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, many taxi drivers are Somali Muslims and they have raised objections to carrying passengers with liquor. Airport officials finally threatened to remove from the cab drivers’ line waiting for fares anyone who refused a passenger over the issue.
WND also has reported on the dispute over a taxpayer-funded school in a Minneapolis suburb serving mostly Somali Muslim students and accusations that Islam is being taught at the public facility.
An illegal immigrant living in Mount Kisco [NY] has been arrested for allegedly exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl at the T.J. Maxx store on Main Street, police said.
Jesus De-Maria Sandoval-Lopez, 23, …was arraigned…on misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child and public lewdness, Mount Kisco police Detective Lt. Patrick O’Reilly said.
Sandoval-Lopez was arrested …at the store after he allegedly displayed his genitals to the child in the girls clothing section. A security guard detained him until police arrived.
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Federal authorities have also issued a detainer warrant, considering him a fugitive because he entered the country illegally from Guatemala in 2001, O’Reilly said.
He was arrested after crossing the Mexican border into Texas, but failed to appear for a followup court date.
Snuck in illegally years ago, was caught and given a notice to appear (which he skipped out on), and now exposes himself to a 10-year old girl. This report is a prime example of how jacked up our border security and immigration policies have been, thanks to our spineless politicos.
Secure the borders. Enforce the laws. Stop the madness.
A recent report about the Dallas Independent School District states that upwards of 75% of the graduating seniors from a school may not be able to read above an 8th grade level. If this report is true, then it’s pathetic and flat-out unacceptable. In a separate case, a father is being jailed because his 18-year old daughter failed to get her GED. So, if one father can be jailed because his daughter didn’t achieve a basic minimum, then why is an entire school administration not being held accountable for failing to educate 75% of graduates? Aren’t they equally as guilty of failing to educate, if not more so?
And another question remains… If these kids can’t read above an 8th grade level, then why in the hell are they receiving diplomas and being allowed to graduate? I can’t help but be concerned that we’re creating a nation of dumb masses. And just think…many of these people will vote.
It’s May, which means thousands of high school seniors across North Texas can almost taste it: their diploma. This month 7,500 Dallas ISD seniors are expected to walk across the stage and make their families proud.
But what if we told you that 75 percent of the seniors headed to Dallas community colleges can’t read above an 8th grade level, and others can’t add or subtract?
Graduation is a time for feeling proud, but that might quickly change to frustration for thousands of DISD students like Gia Hollis come fall, when reality hits.
News 8 requested and received documents from the Dallas County Community College District that show, over the last three years, an average of 75 percent of the DISD students enrolled in classes took at least one developmental education course.
More pandering to political correctness, this time in the UK. You know, at some point, eeeeeverything offends someone. So where does it end? Pork not allowed because it might offend Muslims. Beef not allowed because it might offend Hindus. If we continue down this path, every single thing will end up being banned because it might somehow offend someone else. At what point will people finally have enough of ‘PC’ and just say?… ‘Tough! Suck it up.’ Personally, I don’t believe Hindus are the ones throwing a fit about this, but rather busybody do-gooders who want to preemptively prevent people being offended. The comments at the end by the Hindu Council reinforce that belief.
For decades the national dish has been a staple meal on the national carrier.
But now British Airways has taken beef off the menu for economy passengers amid concerns about its “religious restrictions”.
The airline has instead switched to a fish pie or chicken dish option for the so-called “cattle class” passengers.
BA’s second-biggest long-haul market is to India, where the majority Hindu population do not eat beef because of their beliefs.
The decision to scrap the nation’s favourite fare was described as a “great shame” by the English Beef and Lamb Executive, formerly part of the Meat and Livestock Commission.
A spokesman said: “It is regrettable that Britain’s flag carrier is not proposing to serve Britain’s national dish.
“It is a meal we are rightly proud of. Roast beef and beefeaters are symbols or Britain used to promote tourism.
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The Hindu Council UK said: “The Hindu community will welcome this decision and the news it has been made partly because Hindus don’t eat beef.
“Hindus have a great deal of respect for British culture and are well integrated into the British way of life, so it’s good to see evidence of how they are literally flying the British flag by choosing British Airways.
“That said, Hindus are tolerant of the beliefs of others and do not expect everyone to stop eating a food because they do not eat it.”
A federal sting of four companies accused of arranging fraudulent marriages for U.S. citizenships, complete with wedding photos of brides in gowns and elaborate fake cakes, has netted more than 80 arrests, authorities said Friday.
Immigrants, Americans and company officials were among the 83 arrested. The immigrants paid as much as $10,000, while the U.S. citizens were offered up to $2,500, U.S. Attorney Robert O’Neill said.
The couples were coached on how to pass immigration checks with fake answers, even though in some cases they didn’t speak the same language as their purported spouses, officials said. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials who review each citizenship-conferring marriage to ensure legitimacy tipped off federal agents in many cases.
At least one of the businesses kept a standing wedding showroom in its office, with a prop cake, an assortment of 10 to 15 wedding dresses and table settings never dirtied with dinner or drink.
“What we’ve seen in the past generally is that a person will meet someone, that person might be desperate for some money, willingly engage in a sham marriage and then they go their own ways,” O’Neill said. “Here, you can see this was much more sophisticated. They incorporated businesses, they obviously sought out people, people came in.”
Officials said some of the immigrants had criminal records, ranging from burglary to battery, drug offenses, domestic violence and even aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. They were primarily from Central and South America, though at least one was from Morocco.
Secure the borders and enforce the laws currently on the books.
A gun shop in Georgia is being sued by New York City lawyers at the behest of NYC Mayor Bloomberg. The lawyers are asking the presiding judge to not allow any reference to the 2nd Amendment. You know, the Amendment that pertains to the right to bear arms? Yeah, that one. Now ask yourself how idiotic and unconstitutional it would be to tell a judge to not allow any reference to the 1st Amendment (freedom of speech) as well. Yeah, that’d be just as dumb. But don’t let logic get in the way of a politician though.
Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.
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“Apparently Mayor Bloomberg has a problem with both the First and the Second amendments,” Lawrence Keane, the general counsel of a firearms industry association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said.
The trial, set to begin May 27, involves a Georgia gun shop, Adventure Outdoors, which the city alleges is responsible for a disproportionate number of the firearms recovered from criminals in New York City. The gun store’s owner, Jay Wallace, says his store abides by Georgia and federal regulations and takes steps to avoid selling firearms to gun traffickers. Mr. Wallace’s store is one of 27 out-of-state gun shops sued by New York City, and the first to go to trial.
City lawyers, in a motion filed Tuesday, asked the judge, Jack Weinstein of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, to preclude the store’s lawyers from arguing that the suit infringed on any Second Amendment rights belonging to the gun store or its customers. In the motion, the lawyer for the city, Eric Proshansky, is also seeking a ban on “any references” to the amendment.
“Any references by counsel to the Second Amendment or analogous state constitutional provisions are likewise irrelevant,” the brief states.
Only in the minds of lawyers and politicians would references to the Constitution be ‘irrelevant.’
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