"'We’ve gone from Martin Luther King to Reverend Al Sharpton"

"The irony isn’t merely rich. It’s tragic. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 'I Have a Dream' speech this week, the Obama Justice Department is suing the state of Louisiana to stop it from distributing school vouchers to kids seeking to escape failing schools. ...

In King’s 1963 speech, he told of his 'dream' that his four children would 'one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.'

That dream remains noble, but it hasn’t been advanced by a civil-rights leadership that opposes school choice and often follows an 'I have a scheme' method of activism. As liberal journalist Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg News said last Friday: 'We’ve gone from Martin Luther King to the Reverend Al Sharpton, and . . . it’s very dispiriting.' It’s also deplorable that King’s dream as been sullied by an administration that claims King’s mantle but acts against the interests of children so that they can be counted 'by the color of their skin." - John Fund, National Review Online

Barney Frank Gives this Movie 3 D***s Up

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Chelsea Clinton: "I personally am obsessed with diarrhea”

via NewsBusters

"Joe Conason is still trying to be the number one journalistic

ring-kisser to the Clinton family. His latest effort is fawning all over Chelsea Clinton, the humanitarian (and occasional NBC News correspondent.) He complained on her behalf that “the political press still seems far more inclined to ruminate over her supposed ambitions rather than report her real concerns.”

 Chelsea is Nobel Prize material, Conason wants you to know, with global concerns that include, “among other things, an unshakable obsession with diarrhea.” In a Third World, sense of course:

 [S]he is willing to confess that “I personally am obsessed with diarrhea”—meaning the symptoms of waterborne disease that leads to diarrhea, dehydration and death for millions of children annually across Africa. Aside from her growing experience in the field, she holds a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University. “I wish that someone wanted to talk about diarrhea and why I think we really have the chance to eradicate diarrhea, even before every country across the African continent or across the world has strong public health systems of sanitation and clean water.... Yes, I wish the mainstream media were interested in things like our growing work in diarrhea or the work that we’re doing in agriculture or the work we’re doing on HIV/AIDS and how important that is.”

Conason was one of the ogling correspondents who traveled to Africa with Chelsea and her father Slick Willie, and this is where the goo really began to flow freely, on how the press fails to give the Clintons enough credit for their work in Africa:

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DOJ Sues the State of Louisiana  

Seems Big Brother and the Holder Company have nothing else to do these days except interrupt the progress a solid RED STATE is making to improve it's citizen education possibilities. Mr. holder must still think it's 1964, and would do better by going after say.....obvious voter fraud ......or maybe prosecuting civil rights violation involving REAL racially motivated incidents that seems to be plentiful these days.....oh wait....

N.O. Times Picayune

"The U.S. Justice Department is suing Louisiana in New Orleans federal court to block 2014-15 vouchers for students in public school systems that are under federal desegregation orders. The first year of private school vouchers "impeded the desegregation process," the federal government says.

The statewide voucher program, officially called the Louisiana Scholarship Program, lets low-income students in public schools graded C, D or F attend private schools at state taxpayer expense. The Justice Department's primary argument is that letting students leave for vouchered private schools can disrupt the racial balance in public school systems that desegregation orders are meant to protect. Those orders almost always set rules for student transfers with the school system.

Thirty-four school systems could be affected, including those of Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. John the Baptist and St. Tammany parishes. Under the lawsuit, the state would be barred from assigning students in those systems to private schools unless a federal judge agreed to it....."    

In Tangipahoa Parish, for instance, Independence Elementary School lost five white students to voucher schools, the petition states. The consequent change in the percent of enrolled white students "reinforc(ed) the racial identity of the school as a black school."   

HOLY SH*T, five cracker kids get vouchers and a chance at a better education that their parent's tax money pays for and all of a sudden we have a FEDERAL CASE!  Guess it doesn't matter that some of those kids in that same school might be half white?

Mr. Holder, the country is full of corrupt politicians, people defrauding the federal government out of billions a year, and the streets of America are full of racist scumbags causing trouble like attacking elderly war veterans, and you see fit to go after a STATES public education improvements? We all know the teacher's union leads the fight against vouchers.....being led around by the ring in your nose, eh Eric?

You, Mr. Holder (your boss aside) are the best example and crowning achievement of that failed institution known as affirmative action.  

........you and the horse you rode in on!

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Ben Affleck Ousted from Batman Role

The Incredible Lethargic Duo

With all the furor over second rate actor Ben Affleck being cast as the new Batman and acceding to the demands of what he called “the voice of the American People, Barack Obama has agreed to take on the role of Bruce Wayne in the next Batman episode after a fan backlash against Affleck flooded social networking sites, and Obama’s own tax free super PAC, OFAA (Organizing for African Americans). During secret closed door negotiations, handled by Obama’s agent Valerie Jarrett and assisted by Barracuda Barrister Gloria Allred, Warner Bros. Studios agreed to hold off the release until Jan 2017, with filming to begin in late 2015 , the last year of Obama’s dead duck term as POTUS when he’ll be claiming unused vacation time for rehearsals.

The announcement sent thousands of Batman fans into the streets in hysteria, leading to flash mobs cleaning out shoe emporiums, adult beverages stores, medical marijuana clinics, comic book shops and KFCs in some cities.

The NYT entertainment page called the casting of Obama, “Simply brilliant. Not since 2008 has the world been more ready for the emergence of an untried, inexperienced, over educated product of our vaunted ‘Halls of Ivy’ to take on a new acting role on the world’s stage! ”

The editorial went on to state, “Surely an Oscar awaits Mr. Obama as he is well suited to play the deeply tormented Bruce Wayne as he attempts to emerge from his dark and tortured tenure as the CEO of a failed socialistic enterprise and the mysterious violent deaths, disappearances and suicides of former classmates, teachers, lovers and enablers."

Questions still remain, however, if the producers will move Batman’s undisclosed sexuality closer to the Green Hornet playbook as a closet Chablis drinking gay Bon vivant who splits his summer on Martha's Vineyard and Fire Island trying to quench his secret longings and reach inner peace.

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Bend Over America, Here it Comes Again.....

Independent Sentinel

"President Obama drew a spotlight on the high cost of attending college this past week, a worthy cause, but unfortunately, he sees the answer in more government control over all colleges. Government caused most of the problems in the first place.

Mr. Obama is slow-walking a nationalized college education system. 

Barack Obama can’t come right out and nationalize college education with a Common Core maneuver, as he is doing in the K-12 school system, so he is instead working his way up to controlling colleges using aid money.

William Pitt once said, Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

Mr. Obama is putting forward a plan for ranking colleges that

would be tied to aid as a way to cut college costs. The government would decide school rankings, including private schools, according to tuition, student-loan debt, and graduation rates. Students will get more aid money by going to the colleges that the government decides are best.

When it doesn’t work, more exemptions, carve outs, and cronyism will seep in as it always does with massive government programs.

Higher education is about to be politicized.

Government caused the problem with their easy loan money and Mr. Obama’s answer is more government.

The high cost of college today is in large part due to student aid money. The government gives easy money to colleges and they never have to lower the costs of anything. In fact, they add unnecessary frills to entice students to their country club environment. Colleges encourage more-and-more students to attend since they will be bailed out with the student loans by the taxpayers. The government controls more than 90% of the loan money in this country, but it will eventually be 100%. With this new program that Mr. Obama wants, higher learning will be under the thumb of the government for their very existence.

Mr. Obama wants to cap payments at 10% of their income, which puts the burden on the taxpayer. It is just another redistribution of income idea.  

Eventually, the government will get to decide what schools are good and why, how much they can charge, and who they should enroll."...... More

But....Healthcare Works So Well Over There We're Told.....

 "Last month, Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, issued a forensic report, commissioned by the government, which found that 14 under-performing hospitals in England had substandard care, contributing to the needless deaths of nearly 13,000 people since 2005.

Earlier this year, it was reported that a single hospital in Staffordshire recorded 1,400 "excess" deaths.

Following the July report, letters from patients and relatives of those who died flooded in to newspapers, Sky News and the BBC. Many confirmed poor treatment, if in fact they or their loved ones were able to receive timely care at all. The lack of adequate nursing staff, cuts to elder care budgets and a rise in immigrant populations are a few of the factors that have exacerbated the problem......"

"What happens when big, lumbering, inefficient government seeks to provide health care. Why should the U.K.'s horrid experience with NHS matter to Americans?

Because if, in a much smaller country horror stories abound, how much worse could it be when our big, lumbering, inefficient government launches Obamacare? What impact will it have on U.S. hospitals and health care providers? Instead of merely mandating insurance coverage to the uninsured, will our government eventually begin dictating what surgeries and treatments it will pay for based on what a bureaucrat deems cost-effective?

It's only a short step from overseeing health insurance to more intrusive oversight of medical care in general.

Everyone in the U.K. might have access to health care, but they are often forced to accept inferior health care. Will Obamacare result in Americans patiently waiting four-and-a-half months between a referral and an appointment with a specialist or surgeon?

Will Americans have to wait weeks, or months, for treatment or surgery, in some cases, risking death? With Obamacare scheduled to begin phasing-in on Oct. 1, in order to avoid what Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., has called a "train wreck," these questions need answers." - CAL THOMAS, Washington Examiner

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