Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
How the 1% roll at the Kentucky Derby ~ It’s the 140th Run for the Roses, where $1,000 will get you a mint julep. And $9,300 will buy you the best seat in the place.
No thanks -we’ve got a much better view from the comfort of our own couch. Better anyway than cramming into the infield where the commoners only have to pay $60/ticket.
Common Core Disses Poetry ~ Cultural impoverishment. Common Core isn’t about education – it’s about depriving American children of their own cultural heritage.
Now Muslim “culture”? That’s a priority ~ One Nation Under Allah’: The Islamization of American Public Schools ~
The implications of this cannot be understated. This is an outrage. Your taxpayer dollars were going to brainwash our children to Islam.
The Peace Process is the Process of Blaming Israel ~ from Sultan Knish. Foreign policy built on a big pile of lies is destined to fail.
And speaking of falsehoods ~ The ‘Apartheid’ Israel Charge Began with the Soviet Union. The “apartheid” allegation was advanced by the USSR in the 1970s, as a way to isolate Israel and cultivate communist allies in the Arab world.
Michelle’s Motto: ‘Sometimes the best time is to do nothing at all’ ~ Taking “livin’ large” to a whole new dimension. Let’s re-cap the first lady’s downtime for just the first four months of 2014 ~
After 27 days in Hawaii (17 with family and an additional 10 at Oprah’s Maui Estate), a star-studded birthday bash, a State Dinner in a heated tent on the South lawn dressed in a $12K Carolina Herrera gown, skiing in Aspen for President’s Day weekend, bunking in an $8,400 per-night Presidential Suite in China for eight days, and Key Largo lodging at the Ocean Reef Resort ($35 million net-worth members only), Michelle apparently felt entitled to sneak away for some well-earned downtime at Salamander Resort in Middleburg, Virginia.
Lesbian ‘throuple’ proves Scalia right on slippery slopes ~ Once we moved past one man + one woman, it’s Katy-bar-the door. Pity the children who are choice-less in this travesty.
After Right-To-Work, 80% of Mich. Health-Care Workers Desert Union ~ Translation: some 44,000 workers did not wish to be part of the SEIU, when given the choice.
According to Michigan Capital Confidential ~
The workers previously were forced to pay dues or fees to the SEIU after the union orchestrated a scheme that took money from the Medicaid checks of the people the workers were caring for in homes across the state. The “dues skim” ended in 2013, but not before the SEIU took more than $34 million from the elderly and disabled across the state.
Fave tweet of the week ~
Obama LIES over the Ocean
Obama LIES over the Sea
Obama LIES here in the U.S
Oh bring back MY COUNTRY TO ME!
#LNYHBT #CCOT #TIOT #FullREPEAL
— Booyah Boyz (@BooyahBoyz) April 28, 2014
