Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Funny, Brilliance, Narrative, Oops, Immigration

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) announced that he does not “classify” illegal immigrants as criminals, although he admits “it’s obvious that they broke the laws and did things that were criminal and they shouldn’t.”

Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Funny, Brilliance, Narrative, Oops, Economy, Jobs

If we don’t deepen our ports all along the Gulf — places like Charleston, South Carolina, or Savannah, Georgia, or Jacksonville, Florida — if we don’t do that, those ships are going to go someplace else. And we’ll lose jobs. -President Barack Obama

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Hate, Character, Funny, Racism, Brilliance, Tolerance, Jobs, Diversity, Bigotry

Attorney Tim Larsen, a white man, claims Alvarez denied him a promotion based on his race, as evidenced by comments he made to Larsen to not be “so Anglo” and admitting he would have granted the promotion “if you had more melatonin in your skin,” according to court documents filed last month. The suit surmises that Alvarez actually was referring to “melanin,” a hormone that determines skin pigment.

Crime, Violence, Government, Education, Assault

Another Exceptional Student Education (ESE) teacher with the Lake County School District has been reassigned out of the classroom after he allegedly choked his wife to near unconsciousness. Anthony Javon Walker, who teaches students with behavioral issues at Oak Park Middle School in Leesburg, was charged by Leesburg police with domestic battery by strangulation on Aug. 27. He bonded out of the Lake County jail the next day after posting $10,000... "She don't want to do nothing about it, we just had an argument, that's all," Walker told police.

Liberal, Funny, Brilliance, Narrative, Oops

Image of @barackobama’s semi-literate aerial banner

Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Funny, Brilliance, Narrative, Oops

Obama and pals spell out "OIHO".

Crime, Government, Sex, Brilliance, Oops, Education

A longtime St. Louis-area teacher is jailed and facing charges of rape and statutory sodomy. Donald Ingerson, 67, was arrested and charged on Monday in St. Louis County. He is jailed on $300,000 cash-only bail and does not yet have a listed attorney. In a press conference this afternoon, St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch said Ingerson contacted his office out of the blue in early June with information he had sexually assaulted two former female students some 20 years apart. McCulloch said Ingerson falsely believed the statute of limitations had run out in both cases.

Crime, Government, Character, Brilliance, Education

A Kingsport man who teaches at a vocational school in Abingdon, Va., has been arrested after allegedly pulling a blank firing gun on his students, pointing it their direction and firing multiple times.

Liberal, Character, Brilliance, Protest, Vandalism

Two Occupy Wall Street protesters were collared Thursday for vandalizing subways — a day after a local TV news station recorded the crime, cops said. Jeffrey Brewer, 34, and Aaron Minter, 40, spoke to NY1 News on Wednesday and allowed a news team to follow them as they placed decals on a subway car seats, cops said. The stickers read: “Priority Seating for the 1%.” After receiving a complaint about the underground shenannigans, police watched the news segment when it aired on TV, cops said.

She reportedly remarked she didn't think her relationship was inappropriate based on her Internet research, learning Georgia's age of consent is 16.

Incompetence, Education

While Detroit faces rising unemployment rates, crime, violence and awful football, it has now come to light that the man who leads their school system can't write a functional sentence.

Union, Incompetence, Education

Nobody but a schoolteacher or a union acolyte could criticize the Los Angeles Times' terrific package of stories—complete with searchable database—about teacher performance in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Government, Incompetence, Education

47 percent of America’s kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers come from the bottom one-third of their college classes (as measured by SAT scores). The figure is from a study by McKinsey & Company, “Closing the Talent Gap.”

Democrat, Editorial, Liberal, Incompetence, Narrative, Oops, Education

When it come to excellence in education, red states rule — at least according to a panel of experts assembled by Tina Brown’s Newsweek. Using a set of indicators ranging from graduation rate to college admissions and SAT scores, the panel reviewed data from high schools all over the country to find the best public schools in the country.

Environmentalist, Warming, Incompetence, Science, Oops

I’m not adept enough (totally inept) with excel to do this now as no-one who knows how to is here.

Democrat, Liberal, Brilliance, Terrorism

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Patty Murray intended to be provocative when she told a group of high school students terrorist leader Osama bin Laden is popular in poor countries because he helped pay for schools, roads and even day care centers.

Liberal, Funny, Science, Un, Brilliance, Crazy, AntiAmerican, Ignorance

The second project was as successful as the first. It was euphemistically entitled “Petition to Ban the Use of Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)” (translation water). It was designed to show that if official U.N. delegates could be duped by college students into banning water, that they could essentially fall for anything, including pseudo-scientific studies which claim to show that global warming is man-caused.

Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Brilliance

"Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace.

Democrat, Liberal, Brilliance, Oops

“Outside of the killings, Washington [DC] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”

Democrat, Liberal, Funny, Brilliance

REP. DAVID R. OBEY, D-WIS.: Troops must be out of a combat role by October — I mean, by August of 19 — 2007.
    REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF.: 2008. If they meet (inaudible).
    OBEY: I’m sorry, that’s right.
    PELOSI: OK. But if they haven’t made any progress by July, we begin the 180 days. If they haven’t made any. If they haven’t made — if the president cannot demonstrate progress by July, we begin the 180 days.
    UNKNOWN: July 1st or 31st?
    PELOSI: Is it July 1st or 31st? July 1st?

Democrat, Funny, Brilliance

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'" Barack Obama's running mate recently told the "CBS Evening News." Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time.

Democrat, Character, Brilliance, Oops, Crazy, Terrorism

A full 22.6% of Democrats said it was "very likely." Another 28.2% called it "somewhat likely." That is: More than half of Democrats, according to a neutral survey, said they believed Bush was complicit in the 9/11 terror attacks.

Liberal, Brilliance, Oops, Economy

"Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs."

Liberal, Government, Funny, Science, Brilliance, Oops, Energy, Ignorance

“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,”

Liberal, Brilliance

According to our tipster, Jarrett was seated at the head table along with several other big-name politicians and a handful of high-ranking military officials. As an officer sporting several stars walked past Jarrett, she signaled for his attention and said, “I’d like another glass of wine.”

Democrat, Obama, Funny, Brilliance, Oops

President Obama pronounced "corpsman" as "corpse man" twice in the same address. This mispronunciation has caused quite a bit of ridicule about a man who ascended to the presidency based upon his rhetorical skills.

Democrat, Obama, Funny, Brilliance, Oops

At an April 4 news conference in Strasbourg, France (White House transcript here), President Obama referred to a language that doesn't exist.

Democrat, Obama, Funny, Brilliance, Oops

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes – and I see many of them in the audience here today...

Democrat, Obama, Funny, Brilliance, Oops

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died..."

Democrat, Obama, Brilliance, Oops

“Well, look, Texas has always been a pretty Republican state, you know, for historic reasons,” Obama replied.

Democrat, Funny, Brilliance, Immigration

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D.-Fla.), chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, denounced Republicans last week for believing illegal immigration “should in fact be a crime.”

Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Brilliance

There was another revelation Tuesday that is likely to add to talk about the governor's accident _ Corzine's SUV was going 91 mph in a 65 mph zone just before the crash, according to state police. "He's a governor," Tim said. "He should have been showing us an example. I wear my seat belt all the time." The governor, in fact, has been a proponent of seat belt usage.

Liberal, Brilliance, Oops, Economy

To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble. -Paul Krugman

Democrat, Liberal, Brilliance, Oops

Biden to Gabby Giffords: “Welcome to the Cracked Head Club”

Liberal, Hate, Union, Violence, Threats, Brilliance, Oops

A case of mistaken identity has entangled a small family-owned Des Moines company in union protests and led to a death threat.

Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Obama, Brilliance, Oops

Looks like someone in the White House press office needs to brush up on his or her U.S. geography. The press office issued credentials to those reporters and photojournalists who are covering the president’s trip this week to Washington state, California, and Colorado. The credential even provides a handy graphic highlighting (in white) which states the president will visit. The only problem? Wyoming is highlighted, not Colorado. To be fair, both states are rectangular, nearly identical in size, and stacked next to each other. But we doubt our third grade teachers would buy that!

Democrat, Brilliance, Oops

Later in his response in talking about the frustration seen in the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Group, Biden said "you have on the one end Van Jones' guys, whoever he is, talking about Wall Street." Jack Harris and Tedd Webb stopped him to tell him he had previously been "Green Czar" in the administration. The VP responded, "Oh is that... alright"

Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Brilliance, Oops

Listen, Abraham Lincoln helped build the interstate…the intercontinental railroad in the middle of the Civil War because he understood this was going to be important.

Liberal, Funny, Brilliance, Oops, Protest

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Protesters who have been at the Statehouse in Columbia complaining about the nation’s economic and political systems took their rally up the street to complain about bank bailouts. But The State newspaper reported the group stopped in front of the wrong building on North Main Street on Wednesday when they started complaining about Wells Fargo and bank bailouts. Police Chief Randy Scott pointed out to the group that Wells Fargo was farther up the street.

Democrat, Liberal, Brilliance, Oops, Smears, AntiAmerican

“Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.”

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Education, Bush

WASHINGTON (USATODAY.com) — While the general impression during the 2004 presidential campaign was that Democrat John Kerry was the intellectual superior to President Bush, it turns out that their grades while undergraduate students at Yale were remarkably similar. In fact, Bush's were a tad higher. His four-year average was 77; Kerry's 76.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Education, Bush

Much was made during the past two presidential elections about President George W. Bush's mediocre grades at Yale. It now turns out that his 2004 opponent Sen. John Kerry had similar grades. The Boston Globe reports that Kerry's Yale transcript shows he had a cumulative score of 76. President Bush had a score of 77.

Liberal, Brilliance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg&feature=player_embedded

Crime, Government, Incompetence, Education, Waste, Law

Hundreds of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers accused of misconduct are spending months in so-called "teacher jail," where teachers still collecting pay but often have nothing to do but read, blog or text. Since the scandals, LAUSD officials have enforced a zero-tolerance policy, placing nearly 300 teachers in "teacher jail" by reassigning them to office or administrative duty until investigations conclude. The move, the LA Daily News reports, is costing the district $856,000 for substitutes to fill vacancies in addition to a staggering $1.4 million monthly in regular teacher salaries.

Democrat, Funny, Brilliance, Oops

Pressed by Colbert what she would be free from, the black congresswoman responded, "Slavery." "Slavery. Really? I didn’t realize there was slavery in Brooklyn in 1898," Colbert responded, seemingly looking to give the lawmaker a chance to catch her error. "I’m pretty sure there was," Clarke responded. "It sounds like a horrible part of the United States that kept slavery going until 1898," the late-night comedian then quipped. Colbert pressed on, asking, "Who would be enslaving you in 1898 in New York?" At that point, Clarke responded, "The Dutch."

Liberal, Funny, Brilliance, Oops, Education

This apparently is the only fail from the left in recent weeks: MoveOn.org couldn't differentiate between "then" and "than."

Liberal, Incompetence, Narrative, Education, Image

Inflation-Adjusted Cost of a K-12 Public Education and Percent Change in Achievement of 17-Year-Olds, Since 1970

Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Funny, Brilliance, Oops

"... it is just wonderful to be back in Oregon, and over the last 15 months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in fifty seven states? I think one left to go. One left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit but my staff would not justify it."

Democrat, Incompetence, Funny, Brilliance

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D., Tex.), while visiting Mars Pathfinder Mission Control Center, asked whether the Pathfinder had taken pictures of the American flag planted by Neil Armstrong in 1969.

Democrat, Liberal, Brilliance, Oops, Abortion

REP. PELOSI: I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition. Church writings specifically naming abortion as murder appear as early as 70 AD in the Didache, the first written catechism of the Christian church: “The second commandment of the teaching: You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child” (Didache 2:1–2 [A.D. 70]).

Democrat, Liberal, Funny, Brilliance, Oops, Immigration

"They wanted a fence," he said, to boos from the crowd, speaking in shirtsleeves on a hot, sunny day at a park within sight of the border. "Well, that fence is now basically complete."

Liberal, Funny, Brilliance, Fear, War, Terrorism, Ignorance

BILLIONAIRE Mark Zuckerberg has spoken out against the "fear and distrust" spread by the recent wave of terror attacks – and called for "love" to combat them... He said: "Each of these attacks were carried out with a goal to spread fear and distrust, and turn members of a community against each other." The "only sustainable way to fight back" against the sickening attacks is to "create a world" where everyone "feels cared for and loved", he added.