Yes McDonald’s is thinking about all-day breakfast, CEO tells CNBC
MMM that’s means more dollar items..
Sunday, May 5, 2013
WOW, Really, Breakfast All day, just wow
Those snaky GOP’ers, the low down Efforts to blocks the court’s powers
Last week, the creative and constitutionally questionable efforts by Iowa Republicans to punish the state supreme court justices who issued the state’s landmark marriage equality ruling.
Wisconsin Republicans are up to something similar, seeking to strip county circuit court judges of the ability to issue preliminary injunctions on laws that may be unconstitutional. The measure, which was introduced last month and had public hearings yesterday, is widely seen as a reaction to judicial injunctions on efforts by state Republicans to impose voter ID requirements and limit collective bargaining rights.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel explains:
With some of their major legislative achievements thwarted by trial courts in the past two years, Wisconsin Republicans have been looking for ways to rein in local judges, particularly in liberal areas such as Dane County.
Since 2011, circuit court judges have blocked all or parts of laws backed by Republicans that required voters to show photo ID at the polls, limited collective bargaining for public employees and expanded the governor’s power over administrative rules. Under a measure announced last month, such injunctions would be automatically stayed as soon as they were appealed - meaning laws that were blocked would be put back in effect until a higher court issued a ruling.
The state’s nonpartisan Legislative Council is now warning that the bill is likely unconstitutional.
Incidentally, one of the bill’s sponsors is state Sen. Glenn Grothman, who last year tried to get a state public health agency to list single parenthood listed as “a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.”
Something to Think About.
But now I want to turn to the violence we do to our children by forcing them into schools. When schooling is compulsory, schools are, by definition, prisons. A prison is a place where one is forced to be and within which people are not free to choose their own activities, spaces, or associates. Children cannot walk away from school, and within the school children cannot walk away from mean teachers, oppressive and pointless assignments, or cruel classmates. For some children, the only out—the only real way to quit—is suicide. As writer Helen Smith put it in her book, The Scarred Heart, in describing the suicide of a 13-year-old girl who had been regularly bullied in school: “After missing fifty-three out of the required one hundred and eighty days of school, she was told that she would have to return to school or appear before a truancy board which could then send her to a juvenile detention center. She decided the better alternative was to go into her bedroom and hang herself with a belt. … In times past, she could have just dropped out of school, but now kids like her are trapped by compulsory education.”
Lots of words have been spent on the problem of school bullying and related problems such as students’ general unhappiness, boredom, and cynicism in school. Nobody has found a way to solve these problems, and nobody ever will until we grant children the freedom to quit. The only way to solve these problems, ultimately, is to do away with the coercion.
When children are truly free to walk away from school, then schools will have to become child-friendly places in order to survive. Children love to learn, but, like all of us, they hate to be coerced, micromanaged, and continuously judged. They love to learn in their own ways, not in ways that others force on them. Schools, like all institutions, will become moral institutions only when the people they serve are no longer inmates. When students are free to quit, schools will have to grant them other basic human rights, such as the right to have a voice in decisions that affect them, the right to free speech, the right to free assembly, and the right to choose their own paths to happiness. Such schools would look nothing at all like the dreary institutions we call “school” today.
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He’s also written a book on this topic called Free to Learn.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Koch Brothers Senators, I wonder how much they cost??
These four elected officials—U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-KY.), Govs. John Kasich (R-Ohio) and Nikki Haley (R-S.C.)—all attended the billionaire Koch brothers’ summit with the country’s “leading conservative donors” in California this weekend, according to the New York Times.
More:
Those discussions unfolded over two days at the Renaissance Esmeralda, a sprawling golf resort that has previously hosted the Kochs’ twice-yearly conferences. The atmosphere was equal parts revival and situation room, participants said: Phones and electronic devices were banned from some panels, as Koch strategists detailed next year’s electoral battlegrounds and donors committed contributions to particular states or projects.
I wish I could afford to buy a few senators and have them do what I want done.
NCGA Freshman Brian Brown thinks Education is only for select few..
From the Young Democrats of Pitt County, a very interesting press release,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Uriah Ward
Phone: 252-565-2038
Email: UriahWard@yahoo.com
NC House member Brian Brown is one of the primary sponsors of House Bill 944, which was filed on April 16th. The bill would go into effect for the 2013-2014 school year and would cost 40 million ($40,000,000) in its first year and 50 million ($50,000,000) in its second year. The bill would provide scholarships to select applicants so they can attend private schools.
The full text of the bill can be found here: http://ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/HTML/H944v0.html
Uriah Ward,President of the Young Democrats of Pitt County, responded to the introduction of H944: “At the core of public education is the idea that every single child has the right to be given the tools they need to succeed in life. It is not a select few that are owed that opportunity, it is everyone. Pitt County, the old home of East Carolina Teacher’s College, is the embodiment of that sentiment and this county deserves representation that stands alongside it in that ideal.
“I would never claim that our education system is totally adequate, but instead of attempting to address our problems as a state and as a county Brown has elected to provide a solution that only addresses the needs of a select few. When I look at public education I don’t see something we need to save our children from, I see something we can save them with. If you don’t think public education is doing our children service, then let’s work together to fix it so that all of our children can get the education they deserve.”
Friday, May 3, 2013
Sometime Just Stupid is the perfect word to use..
"The latest proposal for ending the BSA’s ban on homosexual participation in Scouting is a strategic ploy. What is most disturbing is that it uses the young participants in the Scouting movement as cannon fodder in the battle against the natural family. Some youngsters will be positioned to draw other youngsters into situations where, because they react against sexual advances according to the moral precepts of the faith of their fathers, they will be viciously accused of unrighteous bigotry. Or else their vulnerable adolescent emotions will impel them to betray the tenets of conscience derived from their faith, and slip into a whirlpool of compulsive sensual indulgence, moral guilt and spiritual confusion." - Three times failed presidential candidate and three times failed Senate candidate Alan Keyes, writing for World Net Daily.
Sometime you just can’t fix stupid..
NCGA Senate 5.06.2013
An updated Senate calendar has been posted on the N.C. General Assembly’s website.
http://www.ncleg.net/curcal/currentsenatecalendar.pdf
NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2013 SESSION
SENATE CALENDAR
Monday, May 6, 2013
| Senate Convenes - 7:00 p.m. | Legislative Day 56 |
| CALL TO ORDER | Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, President |
| PRAYER | The Reverend Peter Milner, Senate Chaplain |
JOURNAL APPROVAL
RATIFICATION OF BILLS ORDERED ENROLLED
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES
REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES
INTRODUCTIONS
MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
VETO MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
SPECIAL ORDERS
GENERAL ORDERS
