District’s Teachers Work 50+ Days Less Than Private Sector, Union Prez Gripes [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

District’s Teachers Work 50+ Days Less Than Private Sector, Union Prez Gripes [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Emily Tims is president of the Lake Shore Federation of Teachers Local 1465 and is listed as a teacher on the payroll of Lake Shore Public Schools.
But the contract her union has negotiated with the Macomb County district allows Tims to collect a full-time teacher’s pay while spending half her workdays doing union business. 
The practice is called “leave time.”
Tims, who had a salary of $81,572 in 2016-17, recently wrote a letter for Teacher Appreciation Week that was addressed to union members and shared by the Michigan arm of the American Federation of Teachers.
The letter highlights a gripe Tims has about a feature of teachers’ jobs that most people regard as a benefit: the 183-day annual work schedule.
...The BLS found that the average full-time private sector employee...works 234 days a year after holidays and days off, or 51 days more than a Lake Shore Public Schools teacher.
Also, the Lakeshore union contract states that a teacher workday is generally six hours during the 183 days a teacher is contracted to work.
The average teacher is not in the classroom 183 days in a year, though, being absent several days a year for sick days, doctor's appointments and work-related conferences.
A 2017 study released by the Thomas Fordham Institute found that 25 percent of teachers in public school districts missed 11 days or more from the classroom, which it defined as chronically absent..."
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Judicial Watch Obtains Emails Showing Podesta Group’s Work for Pro-Russia Ukrainian Political Party - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch Obtains Emails Showing Podesta Group’s Work for Pro-Russia Ukrainian Political Party - Judicial Watch:

"Emails show then-Obama White House Counselor John Podesta Lobbying on behalf of the Podesta Group
(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch today released new documents from the U.S. Department of State showing the Podesta Group working on behalf of the pro-Russia Ukrainian political group “Party of Regions.” The new documents also show then-Obama White House Counsel John Podesta lobbying on behalf of his brother’s firm.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department filed on November 20, 2017, (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:17-cv-02489)). The lawsuit was filed after the State Department failed to respond to a September 13, 2017, FOIA request for:"

Did You Know the Greatest Two-Year Global Cooling Event Just Took Place? | RealClearMarkets

Did You Know the Greatest Two-Year Global Cooling Event Just Took Place? | RealClearMarkets
"Would it surprise you to learn the greatest global two-year cooling event of the last century just occurred?
From February 2016 to February 2018 (the latest month available) global average temperatures dropped 0.56°C.
You have to go back to 1982-84 for the next biggest two-year drop, 0.47°C—also during the global warming era.
All the data in this essay come from GISTEMP Team, 2018: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (dataset accessed 2018-04-11 at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/).
This is the standard source used in most journalistic reporting of global average temperatures..."
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Funny how no 'unmasking' was done for the Hillary campaign

Funny how no 'unmasking' was done for the Hillary campaign:
"Why hasn't anyone asked James Clapper, James Comey, or Susan Rice why no calls were inadvertently picked up on Hillary Clinton or any of her campaign team?
If the government had been worried about collusion, wouldn't they have listened in on both sides?
Former national security adviser Susan Rice went to that probing investigative reporter Andrea Mitchell for her only interview.
Mitchell asked Rice if the leaking or unmasking was done for political reasons.
Rice was offended, and she said no one from the Obama administration would dream of doing that for political reasons.
Then Mitchell said, did you leak anything?, and the brilliant Rice said, I didn't leak nothing on nobody.
Andrea then must have thought, I did my job, and we know Susan has never lied before..."
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Obama spied on Trump's campaign. Where's the outrage? - Washington Times

Obama spied on Trump's campaign. Where's the outrage? - Washington Times:

"It’s been nearly 24 hours since it has been revealed to the world that President Barack Obama’s Justice Department conducted a counterintelligence investigation on the Trump campaign. The investigation began 100 days before the presidential election and was executed with all the traditional tools of spy trade-craft including  informants (spies) and electronic surveillance (wire tapping.)
These stunning revelations were memorialized in the bible of the Mainstream Media: It was written in the Gospel According to the New York Times.
After two years of every sentence of Trump’s rhetoric being shot through the lens of “Hitler” or “1930’s style fascist” or “Banana Republic dictator” it’s fair to ask where is the universal condemnation of the Obama/Lynch/Brennan/Clapper/Comey cabal’s Stalinesque escapade on behalf of their chosen candidate, Hillary Clinton? "

The F-35 Could Become a 'Navy' Killer (Thanks to Norway) | The National Interest Blog

The F-35 Could Become a 'Navy' Killer (Thanks to Norway) | The National Interest Blog:
"In the mid 2000s, the Royal Norwegian Navy was looking to select a new anti-ship missile (ASM) to equip their ships.
They looked at all foreign offerings, didn’t find any missile satisfactory, and instead drew up their own set of requirements.
The requirements were: to meet the challenges of a future (up to 2040) ship-to-ship combat environment; to have a high probability of penetrating enemy air defense and countermeasures; to be effective in confined and open waters; and to be easily adaptable to different platforms.
From these requirements, Kongsberg Defense drew up the NSM, or Nytt sjømålsmissil.
The name “Naval Strike Missile” was only attached later for English marketing purposes.
...The NSM is being considered for the Over-the-Horizon Weapon System (OTH-WS) competition, to replace the aging Harpoon—which is being phased out.
...The NSM has also been adapted into the joint strike missile (JSM), an air-launched cruise missile system designed to fit inside the internal weapons bay of the F-35..."
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Ivy League law school hiring ‘Director of Social Justice’

Ivy League law school hiring ‘Director of Social Justice’

• The University of Pennsylvania Law School is looking to hire a high-level administrator to promote “social justice” on campus.
• The new "Director of Social Justice Programs" will work with the school's Toll Public Interest Center, which facilitates student activism, often in the form of "resisting" President Trump's policies.

The University of Pennsylvania Law School will soon become the first in the Ivy League to retain a high-level administrator to promote “social justice” on campus.  

The new Director of Social Justice Programs will work at the Law School’s Toll Public Interest Center(TPIC), where they will collaborate with students, faculty, and local nonprofits to increase opportunities related to “social justice” for Law students. 

UPenn activism center: "We believe Trump’s agenda is racist, authoritarian, and corrupt, and it must be stopped."Tweet This

“The Director will design and implement the comprehensive array of programs that will manifest in curriculum for scholars, fellows, and the broader social justice community at Penn Law,” the May 15 job postingindicates. 

[RELATED: Stanford hiring admin to ‘advance social     justice’ on campus] 

As Campus Reform has reported, “social justice” administrators at other universities are frequently dispatched throughout campus to facilitate trainings on: 

• privilege, 
• implicit bias, and 
• microaggressions, as well as to 
• plan community events for student minorities..."

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Our Over-Controlled Society is Damaging Children’s Social Skills | Intellectual Takeout

Our Over-Controlled Society is Damaging Children’s Social Skills | Intellectual Takeout
"Have you ever wondered what happened to the days when children could roam through the neighborhood, building forts in empty lots, walking to the store a half mile away, and inventing all sorts of games to play up and down the block?

According to Angela Hanscom’s column in today’s Washington Post, well-intentioned caution has caused adults to exert a damaging overabundance of control on children’s time.

“Most children today are spending a majority of their time indoors and under the direct supervision of adults. We are dictating how children spend every waking hour both in school and outside of school. Even their play opportunities are often regulated and controlled by well-meaning adults. Hour-long recess sessions have been reduced to 20-minute rule-infested movement opportunities...

Hanscom, a pediatric occupational therapist, believes that such control is damaging children’s social behaviors and attitudes, for they increasingly exhibit negative qualities such as:  

• Entitlement
• Dependence
• Inability to resolve conflict
• Lack of confidence

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Nancy Pelosi Defends MS-13 from Donald Trump’s Mean Words

Nancy Pelosi Defends MS-13 from Donald Trump’s Mean Words:

"The game today is taking people out of context. Especially if your name is Trump and the topic is MS-13 (see Sarah Huckabee Sanders Hits Media, Describes Exactly How MS-13 Are Animals and Chuck Schumer Sides with MS-13 Over President Donald Trump). So let’s play. Nancy Pelosi is criticizing Donald Trump for calling MS-13 animals. So obviously that means she’s defending the violent gang."

No, we didn’t ‘owe’ Iran that $1.7 billion ransom payment

No, we didn’t ‘owe’ Iran that $1.7 billion ransom payment:
"Amid all the fuss over President Obama’s “ransom” payment to Iran to free US hostages, less scrutinized is the president’s justification for airlifting cash to Tehran: that we owed them the money. It deserves more attention, because the administration has failed to make its case.
To review: On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration not only paid $400 million in cash to Iran on Jan. 17, but $1.3 billion more in cash in two subsequent shipments — all in Swiss francs, euros and other currencies.
 The administration claims the payments were returning money Iran paid in 1979 under the Foreign Military Sales program for military equipment it ordered but did not receive, plus interest.
It’s a misdirection.
And as Congress returns from its recess, it’s time to focus on two key questions the administration has been refusing to answer ever since the beginning of the year: How was the payment calculated, and was it really due?...
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History for May 22

History for May 22 - On-This-Day.com:
Wilhelm Richard Wagner 1813 - Composer, Mary Cassatt 1844 - Painter, printmaker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 - Author of Sherlock Holmes detective novels


Vance Packard 1914 - Journalist, social critic, author, T. Boone Pickens 1928 - Oil tycoon, Peter Nero (Bernard Nierow) 1934 - Pianist, conductor


1819 - The steamship Savannah became the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean.


1872 - The Amnesty Act restored civil rights to Southerners.


1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a military alliance between Germany and Italy known as the "Pact of Steel."


1947 - The Truman Doctrine was enacted by the U.S. Congress to appropriate military and economic aid Turkey and Greece.


1967 - "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" premiered on PBS.


1977 - Janet Guthrie set the fastest time of the second weekend of qualifying, becoming the first woman to earn a starting spot in the Indianapolis 500 since its inception in 1911.


1990 - Microsoft released Windows 3.0.


1992 - Johnny Carson hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time. He had been host for 30 years.

“Collusion against Trump” timeline | Sharyl Attkisson

“Collusion against Trump” timeline | Sharyl Attkisson:

"On the other side, evidence has emerged in the past year that makes it clear there were organized efforts to collude against candidate Donald Trump–and then President Trump. For example:"

The way we were-----Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione [FULL VERSION]

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Supreme Court Crushes Unions By Limiting Collective Action Bargaining | Zero Hedge

Supreme Court Crushes Unions By Limiting Collective Action Bargaining | Zero Hedge: 
"In what will likely be remembered as an epic middle finger to America's unions, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday - in a decision split along ideological lines - that businesses can force employees into individual arbitration to resolve disputes, virtually eliminating the threat of a class-action lawsuit.
The Washington Post described the ruling as "an important outcome for business interests."
The decision could make life much harder for unions fighting for better conditions and wages. 
...Bodies representing business were united in support of the ruling..."
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