High school senior told he's 'not welcome' at school after raising Gadsden flag

Via Susan

Greg Stoneburner, a senior who just graduated from Central High School in Grand Junction, Colo., said he was told in no uncertain terms that he was no longer welcome at the school after raising a Gadsden flag on the school's flagpole. Moreover, he told Examiner.com in an exclusive interview Friday, the principal withheld his flag and his diploma until after his graduation walk.

The incident, he said on Facebook, took place on May 9. That's when he replaced the school's flag with the yellow "Don't Tread On Me" banner often associated with the Tea Party as a senior prank. He also posted a paper to the pole that told the history of the flag.

More @ Examiner

Center For American Progress demands Sustainable Racism in education

Via Terry

 Look, I can point.......

As this year is the 60^th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial segregation in schools based on the “separate but equal” doctrine we will undoubtedly see a bumper crop of pleas for Sustainable Racism.

An early entrant is a report from the left wing Center for American Progress called Teacher Diversity Matters: A State-by-State Analysis of Teachers of Color.
The thesis of the report is:

At some point over the next 10 to 12 years, the nation’s public school student body will have no one clear racial or ethnic majority.In other words, students of color—students who are not classified as non-Hispanic whites, for purposes of this analysis—will constitute more than half of our primary and secondary students. This demographic trend is already manifest in some of the nation’s most populous states, including California and Texas, where the majority of students are students of color.

But the makeup of the nation’s teacher workforce force has not kept up with these changing demographics. At the national level, students of color make up more than 40 percent of the public school population. In contrast, teachers of color—teachers who are not non-Hispanic white—are only 17 percent of the teaching force.

This is a problem for students, schools, and the public at large. Teachers of color serve as role models for students, giving them a clear and concrete sense of what diversity in education—and in our society—looks like. A recent review of empirical studies also shows that students of color do better on a variety of academic outcomes if they’re taught by teachers of color.

There are two questions here. First, do minority students in elementary and secondary schools perform better by any measure when they are taught by teachers from their same racial or ethnic group? The corollary question here would be “so what?” because hiring and assigning employees based on race is pretty much against the law everywhere.

The second question would be how does the author’s “diversity index” stack up against something more tangible… like performance?

More @ Red State

Classic!: White House says Obama only learned of VA wait-list scandal on TV (just like the IRS, Fast and Furious and reporter snooping scandals)

Via LH

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney wound up with egg on his face Monday as he told reporters that President Barack Obama first learned from a TV news report that his Veterans Administration was denying medical care to vets with secret off-the-books-waiting lists.

But new evidence emerged this morning that his transition team was notified five years ago about how VA medical centers' official wait-list times bore little resemblance to reality and risked denying military heroes critical health care. 

The Washington Times reported Monday that waiting times at veterans' medical facilities were known to be wildly inaccurate at the end of the George W. Bush administration. By the time Obama's transition team got a post-election briefing from the VA at the end of 2008, scheduling failures were already reaching a critical point.

The newspaper received a copy of that briefing through a Freedom Of Information Act request.

Obama has come under fire before for saying he was made aware of scandal-worthy shortcomings in his own administration by watching television, including the IRS tea party-targeting scandal that rocked Washington 12 months ago and the Operation Fast and Furious saga that has tainted his Justice Department for years.

More @ Daily Mail

NC: Gun-Free, High-Risk Restaurant Robbed at Gunpoint! :)

Via GRNC

Durham Police are investigating an armed robbery at The Pit Restaurant on West Geer Street in Durham and the owner of the restaurant is offering a reward in the case.

Police say three men entered the business through the rear doors around 8:48 p.m. Sunday.

At least one of the suspects had a handgun and forced several of the staff to lie on the floor. Two employees were assaulted during the incident.

More @ WNCN

This n' That

The Past and Future of Drones in the U.S.

Source: CriminalJusticeDegreeHub.com

Unprepared

You know the question:

If you're not preparing for the worst, what are you preparing for?

You know the answer: avail thyself of long-term food stores, good water, viable food production, shelter and meds and supplies and security. You know the list of doomsdays too: financial collapse, EMP, pandemic—MERS or Ebola or worse, insurrection and civil war, and on and on—the exact nature of the beast almost doesn't matter, preps are preps, and serious preps put you way ahead. 

The question now changes to: if you—your own corporeal self—are not prepared for the worst, that is, if you are not prepared to personally do what has to be done, what are all your preps for? Perhaps you only imagine you know the answer.

Assume the worst doomsday scenario: grid down, distribution systems down, lawlessness and predation, mass privation, disease and death. Assume it's many months into an on-going calamity. You're skilled enough in useful crafts and were well situated at the start.

But the growing season was as bad as it was short. Now your supplies are low. Scary low. You're laboring long hours but you and your family are hard pressed. You'll probably make it, but there's no cushion. A family with small children approaches your door; exhausted, ragged and so famished it's all they can do to walk. You know legitimate charity is provided from surplus, that giving away needed sustenance is an unwarranted sacrifice. The weather's turned nasty and it's getting dark. There's a soft knock at the door.

More @ Ol' Remus

Police commissioner in NH resigns after calling Obama the 'N' word

 

A police commissioner in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, resigned on Monday under fire from town officials and residents after he called President Barack Obama the "N" word and refused to apologize, a police official said.

Police Commissioner Robert Copeland was overheard using the racial slur at a restaurant in the town in March and later admitted it in an email to colleagues, saying: "For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such."

More @ Townhall

Planned (Abortion) Parenthood plans to spend $3.3 million for Kay Hagan

Via Mike

 Witch

Women were the key to Sen. Kay Hagan’s election in 2008, and in what is likely to be a close race for re-election this year, she is stressing issues aimed at them_ equal pay, health care, birth control and education.

The strategy is part of North Carolina Democrat’s efforts to attack the policies pushed over the past three years by the Republican-controlled state legislature, where her GOP opponent, state House Speaker Thom Tillis, has played a major role.

Hagan’s game plan tries to capitalize on her party’s strength among women voters and gives her campaign a message that it hopes will appeal to women who vote independent as well. Boosting the Democratic turnout in the November mid-term election is crucial for Hagan, and Democratic candidates across the country. Midterms are traditionally low-turnout elections and often hurt the party in power, and this year it’s Hagan’s.

“In all close Senate races, male or female, Democrats win by winning women more than they lose men by,” said Democratic political strategist Celinda Lake.. “So women are key to their victory.”

More @ McClatchy

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/05/18/227694/women-voters-will-be-pivotal-in.html?sp=/99/104/244/112/#storylink=cpy

Goodies from Ol' Remus

Ol' Remus

The rumble seat [photo] has been converted to allow a full-length bed.

 1937. Winter Haven Florida, cars of migrant workers. 

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Cancer cure - Mayo Clinic researchers announced a landmark study where a massive dose of the measles vaccine, enough to inoculate ten million people, wiped out a Minnesota woman's incurable blood cancer... Researchers engineered the measles virus in a single intravenous dose, making it selectively toxic to cancer cells... one of two patients in the study who received the dose last year, and after ten years with multiple myeloma has been clear of the disease for over six months.
Lindsey Seavert at KARE, via usatoday.com

  Global Warming fanatics end skeptic's career

Professor Lennart Bengtsson—the leading scientist who three weeks ago signalled his defection to the climate skeptic camp by joining the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation—has now dramatically been forced to resign from his position. He has been so badly bullied by his alarmist former colleagues that he is worried his health and career will suffer, says James Delingpole in this article, Climate Science Defector Forced to Resign by Alarmist 'Fatwa', at Breitbart.

Fear

In the eyes of law enforcement and prosecutors, you are presumed a criminal. Don't forget that. They're looking for any way they can to increase their conviction rates and revenue, justice be damned. And they couldn't care less if that means you being stripped from your family on trumped up charges and sentenced to years in prison.  Prepare to be outraged by the injustices you are about to read, says Mac Slavo in this article, If You Are Doing Nothing Wrong You Have PLENTY to Fear – 30 Examples, by Doug Newman, at SHTFPlan.

It was rumored that the North Korean Commies wore thick clothing and that in the freezing rain, the outside, which was wet, froze. It was then said that the .30 Carbine would not penetrate this frozen clothing. I don't have any authentic North Korean Army clothing from that time period, but I do have some cotton terry cloth towels. So, I did the following, says Old Painless in this article, Frozen Clothing And The Box O' Truth, at The Box O' Truth.

Diplomacy - A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
Anonymous, via mass email 

Viet Nam - Not only did The Soviet Union and PR China send arms to the DRVN, North Korea also sent about forty fighter pilots to fly combat missions, about fourteen of whom were killed in action. Soviets sent crews who crewed missile, anti-aircraft gun, and radar sites, officially admitting 16 killed. Cubans also provided technical and personnel help, including mistreating US prisoners.
Rurik at americanthinker.com 

 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said May 13 that Moscow would halt the sale of RD-180 and NK-33 rocket engines to the U.S. for the purpose of launching military satellites.
Svitak and AButler at aviationweek.com 

Uh, man's sole “jabringing” object disfigure religion trauma and nubs, uh, the, inside the trauma of representation that turns into the black child devouring and identifying with the stories and into the white culture brought up, uh, de de de de de, dink, and add subjectively like a white man, the black man!
Excerpt from the Towson University debate team's winning argument at the 2014 Cross Examination Debate Association's national championship, via Aurelius at thepunditpress.com [Subject was The War Powers Resolution] 

Outcomes - We import poorly educated, low-skilled immigrants who predictably have unequal educational and occupational outcomes.  Then we are made to feel ashamed as a country when different ethnic groups have these unequal outcomes.  This neurotic cycle has to stop.
John Bennett at americanthinker.com