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REPEAL, DON’T REPLACE!
by Burt Prelutsky
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Time to End liar-nObama-Era DOE Suspension Discrimination
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          A 2015 poll showed that 59% of teachers were opposed to the new policy guidelines. (We’re guessing the other 41% were 10% true believers and 31% too afraid to speak up.) And the reason was obvious, as one teacher explained, “There’s nothing going to happen, and the kids know it. It’s hard to keep order in a classroom when the kids know there is no consequence to misbehavior.” As any teacher knows, it’s not a student’s race that gets them in trouble, rather it’s their misbehavior.
          Now a study of the policy’s impact on the state of Wisconsin has recently been released. The study reveals that overall school suspension rates have declined, but the highest percentage of suspension rate decline by race was, interestingly, among white children. The study also found that the factors of poverty and disability had the greatest impact on suspension rates, not racial background.
          Will Flanders, the study’s author, stated, “I think what we see is that the factors that are impacting suspension rates differ at the district level. We see some districts where maybe there is a racial factor. We see other districts where poverty and disability seem to be the driver.” Flanders argued that the liar-nObama-era policy should be rescinded, saying, “We really shouldn’t be instituting a national policy that we need to be focused on disparate impact, that we should be reducing suspension. What instead we should do is encourage the ‘dear colleague’ [liar-nObama policy] letter to be reversed, and to restore to the school districts themselves, and to the states, the power in determining what policies work best for their school district.” Imagine that.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51952

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New IRS Policy – 2017 Returns Not
Accepted Without liar-nObamacare Fine or Exemption
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{rickwells.us} ~ A lot more Americans are going to really be wishing that the Republicans had repealed liar-nObamacare when tax time rolls around next year... A new IRS policy being implemented will result in returns that have not stated whether or not the taxpayers have insurance not being processed and implement huge Democrat mandated fines, a minimum of $2,432.50 for a family of three. The Internal Revenue Service announced the change for 2017 in an online notice sent out to tax professionals. It stated, ” the IRS will not accept electronically filed tax returns where the taxpayer does not address the health coverage requirements of the Affordable Care Act.” “Returns filed on paper failing to address the health coverage requirements face suspension until the information is received. Any refunds due will be delayed,” the IRS stated... Trump needs to do something about this. https://rickwells.us/irs-returns-obamacare-fine/
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Russia tables turn, roping
liar-Clinton, liar-nObama, scum-Holder, not Trump
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by Cheryl K. Chumley
{washingtontimes.com} ~ The tables have turned and what was once the media’s favorite message — President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election — has now grown silent... Apparently, it’s liar-Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton who’ve been doing the behind-scenes and suspicious dealings with Russia all along. Oh, and perhaps others in the Barack liar-nObama administration, too. You think special counsel Robert Mueller might switch the target of his investigation any time soon? Seems a bit time-wasting — not to mention taxpayer dollar-wasting — to keep on the Trump trail, desperately searching for signs of a collusion that just didn’t happen. Futile is a word that comes to mind... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/18/russia-tables-turn-roping-clinton-obama-holder-not/
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IG: 13 Afghan Military
Trainees Have Disappeared Inside the U.S.
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by Susan Jones
{cnsnews.com} ~ Thirteen Afghans who came to the United States for military training between 2005 and 2017 went AWOL here and have not been accounted for... according to an inspector general's report. During that same period, a total of 253,977 foreigners came to the United States for military training, including 2,537 of them from Afghanistan, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in a report released on Friday. During that time, 320 foreign trainees went AWOL in the United States. And of those 320 AWOL trainees, 152 of them (47.5 percent) were from Afghanistan...  https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/ig-13-afghan-military-trainees-have-disappeared-inside-us?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpVM1pqTXpPREExTmpZdyIsInQiOiIrYng1a2ljZXIzV3RQMmJyUHlaSVlJcHVYVW5EVHRXaXloZCtjV2RwaU1qOGY5YXA2UzNqcEF5ZkVib2taalk1ME9LMG4zTzJRVWlydnZFdk9saDZjQmRFSXk2U2tPSnJ3M1RPcGVQV050eWRhQnhQN0hPT1wvbU15a1wvWHBUQk0rIn0%3D
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Liberal Media Attempt to
Whitewash liar-Clinton's UraniumGate Scandal
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by C. Mitchell Shaw
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The liberal mainstream media has spent more than a year claiming that Trump — both as a candidate and as president — colluded with Russia in business deals and back-room deals that have never materialized... Now that there is proof positive that their darling, liar-Hillary Clinton, is guilty of colluding with Russia, those same liberal mainstream media are either silent on the subject or making lame attempts to whitewash yet another liar-Clinton scandal. On Tuesday The Hill reported on new government documents showing that Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton signed off on transferring between 20 and 25 percent of U.S. uranium to Russia in the Uranium One deal even though the FBI was aware that Putin’s regime in Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to secure the deal. This was — or course — at a time when the liar-Clinton Foundation was receiving huge donations from Russian interests involved in the deal...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/27182-liberal-media-attempt-to-whitewash-clinton-s-uraniumgate-scandal
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Why Are Restaurants' Profit Margins So Low?
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by Truth Revolt
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Restaurants are a big part of many Americans' lives. They are also a massive part of the U.S. economy... Watch this short video to learn five things you didn't know about the restaurant industry. The restaurant industry in the U.S. is vast and is a part of daily life in America—with 57 percent of us eating at a restaurant at least once a week. In fact, for the first time in recorded history, U.S. consumers are spending more money at restaurants than at grocery stores...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/prager-u-why-are-restaurants-profit-margins-so-low
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REPEAL, DON’T REPLACE!
by Burt Prelutsky


With that title, you would expect I was referring to liar-nObamaCare. And you’d be right if I thought there was the slightest chance of that ever happening. But, I haven’t taken total leave of reality, so I am actually referring to the United Nations.

The last time there was a similar organization filled with such a repulsive group of members, it was the League of Nations, the brainchild of that fatuous prig, Woodrow Wilson. When the League failed to do anything to defend Ethiopia’s spear-chuckers from the Italian planes and machine guns of Mussolini, everybody realized the organization was a total washout and everyone went back home to prepare for World War II.

By this time, most sensible people realize that after 71 years, the UN is equally useless. The only difference is that it has gotten to be extremely expensive for the United States. Why on earth would we want to play host to the various gangsters and vile bureaucrats who fill the building that resembles one of those glass ant farms that kids usually lose interest in after five minutes.

The problem is that as soon as people begin speaking seriously about getting out of the UN, they begin promoting the notion of creating a different organization consisting only of our peace-loving allies. 

The problem is that a lot of the nations that could probably worm their way into that new organization are irredeemably socialist, and why on earth would we want to surrender even an inch of our sovereignty to countries so stupid they continue rolling out the red carpet to Muslims and promoting a financial system that has brought so many of them to the brink of bankruptcy and, in some cases, over the brink?

I mean, to the extent that we may share mutual interests, say in regard to North Korea, Iran and Russia, there’s nothing to prevent our presenting a common front.  But why on earth do we have to draw up a laundry list of rules, hold endless meetings and sign a bunch of mutual-defense treaties? 

You don’t need to do any of those things with friends. You merely trust that you have each other’s back in case either of you gets in trouble. If you have to sign a paper, you’re not friends; you’re merely business associates in desperate need of lawyers.

To make my point, I’ll present a couple of examples. Years ago, a friend of mine, Hank Hinton, had a neighbor who was working in construction and wanted to go out on his own. So, Hank and I both pitched in a little money, enough for the guy to open a small office, put in a couple of phones and pay for stationery.

The fellow got a few small jobs, but only enough to keep his head above water, so Hank and I didn’t get a return on our investment that first year. But we had our hopes.

Unfortunately, it turned out that one of the ways that the other guy managed to keep from submerging was by not paying his taxes. I forget if it was the state or the feds who got wind of that fact and came calling. After questioning us about our involvement, the investigator determined that Hinton and the other guy would be fined, while I came out of it clean as a whistle.

It made no sense. Hinton had been as unaware as I that the guy had thought it was a good business decision to ignore the taxman. So, I naturally coughed up half the money to pay off Hinton’s obligation, knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt that he would have done the same for me.

The other example of the way such things are supposed to work, began in the 1930s, during the height of the Depression. One night, a guy was sitting in his room in a Hollywood boarding house. Suddenly, he heard music. Intrigued, he took the stairs to the roof and found a guy about his own age strumming a guitar and singing softly. After a few minutes, they got to talking. It turned out the singer didn’t have an agent or a manager. On the spot, the fan said he’d like to represent him. They shook hands.

The agent was a young man named Mitchell Hamilburg, the singer turned out to be Gene Autry. In case you don’t know, between movies, TV, records and real estate investments, Autry became, along with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Fred MacMurray, one of the richest men in show business.

And for all those years, Hamilburg continued to represent the singing cowboy and continued to get his 10%. All on a handshake.

● In the midst of the fires that were ravaging the wine country in northern California, I received an email from a subscriber who was concerned that my wife and I might be in jeopardy.

Grateful for his concern, I assured him we were about 450 miles south of the fires.  I let him know that ours is a residential area where the only natural disaster likely to leave us homeless would be an earthquake.

I added that, being in California, our greatest danger was from unnatural disasters, of which we have an overabundance; namely, Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pulosi, Adam Schiff, Xavier Becerra and Mad-Maxine Waters.

● After writing about children born with Down’s syndrome, I heard from a subscriber who is the father of a 53-year-old victim of Down’s. He wrote: “Sometimes in the night, I wonder if giving him life was really doing him a favor.  His is a very sad life. As he sinks into old age at 53, he is in many ways older than I am at 80, I reflect on how really unhappy his life has been. I just have no idea if we’ve done him a favor. Now I have to set up the computer to softly play classical music, currently Paganini’s ‘Suites for Violin and Guitar,’ which he likes to have on as he sleeps. No need to reply.”

I, on the other hand, saw a need, and acknowledged there was no easy answer. “But,” I went on, “the truth is that a lot of people have sad lives; lives, in the words of Henry David Thoreau, of quiet desperation. At least your son has had loving parents, and that is not as commonplace as you might think.

“Did you do him or yourselves a favor by letting him live? I’m not sure that’s the appropriate question. If you had not allowed him to live, he wouldn’t have had a sad life. He would have had no life.  As for yourselves, I can only imagine you would have had your lives and even your dreams haunted, never knowing what might have been.

“In your position, I would have made your decision. If in time, I came to rue it, it wouldn’t be the first decision I have regretted and I’m sure it won’t be the last. At least your son loves good music. That’s something he would have been denied if you’d gone with Plan B. Best wishes, Burt”
 
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