From a Florida teacher

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Worth Reading............. LETTER BY A FLORIDA TEACHER A TEACHER SPEAKS OUT This is a Subject close to my heart. Do you know that we have Adult students at the school where I teach who are NOT U.S. Citizens and who get the PELL Grant, which is a federal grant (no Payback required) plus other federal grants to go To school? One student from the Dominican Republic Told me that she didn't want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting Housing from our housing department and She was getting a PELL Grant which paid for her total Tuition and books, plus money leftover. She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which Is a special program (check it out - I did) for Immigrants and it pays for child Care and all sorts of needs while they go to School or training. The one student I just mentioned told me she was not going to be a U.S. Citizen because She plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday And that she 'loves HER country.' I asked her If she felt guilty taking what the U.S. Is giving her And then not even bothering to become a citizen and She told me that it doesn't bother her, because that Is what the money is there for! I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a U.S. Citizen, you don't qualify for their Program. And all the while, I am working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a week, and everyone in my family works and pays for our Education. Something is wrong here. I am Sorry, but after hearing that they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough. That's a real slap in the Face. It was written by Francis Scott Key and Should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation -- not Even close. I don't Care whether this offends someone or not but this is MY COUNTRY. IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP -- please Pass this along. I am not against immigration -- I Just expect immigrants to come through like everyone Else. Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; Have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the Past -- and GOD BLESS AMERICA! PART OF THE PROBLEM - Think about this: If you Don't want to forward this for fear of offending Someone - YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is Time for America to speak up. If you agree -- pass this along, If you don't agree -- delete It!

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Mychal Massie "Why I do not like the obamas"

A Black perspective on the Obamas Interesting read… Mychal Massie is the Chairman of Project 21's (the Black Conservative Leadership Network) National Advisory Council, a position he has held since mid-2006. He writes “The Daily Rant”, which published his commentary below. Categorized | Daily Rant, Featured Why I Do Not Like The Obamas 23 February 2012 The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn’t like the Obama’s? Specifically I was asked: “I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama’s? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed their Christmas family pic.” The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation. I’ve made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don’t like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state. I don’t hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America. They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama’s raw contempt for white America is transpicuous. I don’t like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect, for the Office of President and a love of our country and her citizenry from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagans made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs? Presidents are politicians and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie, but even using that low standard, the Obama’s have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry and they display an animus for civility. I do not like them, because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to now being able to be proud of America. I view that statement and that mindset as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world. Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites, because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do same. I have a saying, that “the only reason a person hides things, is because they have something to hide.” No president in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. And what the two of them have shared has been proved to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother’s death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father’s military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nauseum. He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address. He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today. He has fought for abortion procedures and opposed rulings that protected women and children, that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel. His wife treats being the First Lady, as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world). I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement – as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare. I don’t like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority. Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin, it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their playing the race card. It is my intention to do all within my ability to ensure their reign is one term. I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them, as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are. There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color. As I wrote in a syndicated column titled “Nero In The White House” – “Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequalled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood … Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement – while America’s people go homeless, hungry and unemployed.” (WND.com; 8/8/11) Oh, and as for it being personal, you tell me how you would feel if a senator from Illinois sent you a personally signed card, intended to intimidate you and your family. Because you had written a syndicated column titled “Darth Democrat” that was critical of him. (WND.com 11/16/04)

Clean Humor ... thanks Lyle!

Subj: Clean Humor While I sat in the reception area of my doctor's office, a woman rolled an elderly man in a wheelchair into the room. As she went to the receptionist's desk, the man sat there, alone and silent. Just as I was thinking I should make small talk with him, a little boy slipped off his mother's lap and walked over to the wheelchair. Placing his hand on the man's, he said, I know how you feel. My Mom makes me ride in the stroller, too.' ***** As I was nursing my baby, my cousin's six-year-old daughter, Krissy, came into the room. Never having seen anyone breastfeed before, she was intrigued and full of all kinds of questions about what I was doing. After mulling over my answers, she remarked, 'My mom has some of those, but I don't think she knows how to use them.' ***** Out bicycling one day with my eight-year-old granddaughter, Carolyn, I got a little wistful. 'In ten years,' I said, 'you'll want to be with your friends and you won't go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now. Carolyn shrugged. 'In ten years you'll be too old to do all those things anyway.' ****** Working as a pediatric nurse, I had the difficult assignment of giving immunization shots to children. One day, I entered the examining room to give four-year-old Lizzie her needle. 'No, no, no!' she screamed. 'Lizzie,' scolded her mother, 'that's not polite behavior.' With that, the girl yelled even louder, 'No, thank you! No, thank you! ****** On the way back from a Cub Scout meeting, my grandson innocently said to my son, I know babies come from Mommies' tummies, but how do they get there in the first place?' After my son hemmed and hawed awhile, my grandson finally spoke up in disgust, 'You don't have to make up something, Dad. It's okay if you don't know the answer.' ***** Just before I was deployed to Iraq, I sat my eight-year-old son down and broke the news to him. "I'm going to be away for a long time," I told him. "I'm going to Iraq." "Why?" he asked. "Don't you know there's a war going on over there?" ***** Paul Newman founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for Children stricken with cancer, AIDS and blood diseases. One afternoon, he and is wife, Joanne Woodward, stopped by to have lunch with the kids. A counselor at a nearby table, suspecting the young patients wouldn't know Newman was a famous movie star, explained, That's the man who made this camp possible. Maybe you've seen his picture on his salad dressing bottle?' Blank stares. 'Well, you've probably seen his face on his lemonade carton.' An eight-year-old girl perked up. 'How long was he missing?' ***** His wife's graveside service was just barely finished, when there was a massive clap of thunder, followed by a tremendous bolt of lightning, accompanied by even more thunder rumbling in the distance. The little old man looked at the pastor and calmly said, "Well, she's there." =

Kentucky's NBA announcements ... Thanks Judi!

Sending this just in case you haven't seen it yet. This guy knows what he's talking about!

They made the announcement together, which certainly was fitting, and it was at their insistence. Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Terrence Jones, Doron Lamb and Marquis Teague officially left NCAA basketball behind Tuesday evening, but, unofficially, they never will leave Kentucky.
In just seven months, they forged themselves into a team for the ages and, more to the point, for this age.
Their collective departure for the NBA Draft will not be universally appreciated, however, and that is the one great tragedy of the 2011-12 Kentucky basketball season. There wasn’t much these Wildcats left undone: They tied the Division I record with 38 victories in a season, won the SEC regular-season title, reached the Final Four, won the NCAA title.
But they failed to convert the agnostics.
They did all they could, of course. Davis was so spectacular he swept every major award a college player can win: Freshman of the year, player of the year, defensive player of the year and most outstanding player of the Final Four. No one among the Wildcats averaged 10 shots a game. No one averaged 15 points. All six in the primary rotation averaged more than an assist per game.

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These Wildcats played the game the way basketball purists dream for it to be played: Intelligently, fairly, aggressively and, now more than ever, selflessly.
Six-time NBA champion Scottie Pippen once said, “Sometimes, a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team." Among the 2012 Kentucky Wildcats, senior Darius Miller gave up a starting job because it made sense to bring his scoring ability off the bench; Davis refurnished his house with trophies despite taking the fourth-most shots among the Wildcats, and Jones took fewer 3-point shots because these loaded Wildcats didn’t need him to force offense.
“We tell them all the time: Be the teammate you want to play with,” Calipari said Tuesday night.
It was quite clear these Wildcats -- though products of the summer basketball subculture so widely derided, carrying the recruiting rankings that supposedly warp one’s sensibilities, each of them ground daily through the mock drafts that distract so many college players -- had listened to their coaches.
“During the season, it’s about our team. You saw it in this year’s team: They were about each other,” Calipari said. “When the season is over, it’s about moments like this.”
Tuesday night’s press conference was exactly the moment Kentucky’s critics had anticipated, and with contempt. It has been breathtaking to observe, in the aftermath of Kentucky’s championship, the intellectually dishonest dismissals of the Wildcats’ achievements, so many seizing upon the myth of this team rather than its reality.

In a New York Times piece that appeared just hours after the Wildcats triumphed in New Orleans, Ohio University professor David Ridpath called Kentucky’s method of constructing basketball teams “a complete façade” and posited, “Anyone who thinks that this has anything to do with the collegiate or educational model is flat-out wrong.”
Associated Press columnist Jim Litke declared the term “student-athlete” died at 11:42 p.m. ET on April 2, which was the moment Kentucky completed its victory over Kansas and claimed the school’s eighth NCAA championship.
In fact, the 2012 edition of Kentucky basketball wasn’t substantially different than many modern college teams. It was just better than all of them.
Its roster was not entirely composed of “one-and-dones.” Such players did not even form the majority of its playing rotation. There were three, we know now, following Tuesday evening’s press conference Davis, Kidd-Gilchrist and Teague. Two of the most important players in the drive to the title, though, were sophomores about whom it was conjectured a year earlier that their departure would come after a single season: Jones and Lamb. And Miller, one of the heroes of the semifinal win over Louisville, will graduate from UK this spring.
Kentucky actually got more from its senior class than Connecticut did a year ago, or Florida in 2006.
Kentucky had only one more “one-and-done” this season than Texas did in 2010-11 and precisely the same number as Ohio State in 2006-07, but it doesn’t seem anyone proclaimed the end of the world as we know it after the Buckeyes lost to Florida on an April night in Atlanta. And it’s quite obvious that the world did not end without warning, or we would not be here debating the Wildcats’ place in it.
So what is different about Calipari’s Kentucky, exactly? Is it that he makes it obvious his ambition is to get his players to the NBA, to the point he persistently provokes his own fans with proclamations that a successful draft night is more important to him than a deep NCAA Tournament run?
No doubt there are still some among the privileged who still attend college for the sake of being genuinely educated, to be able to have deep, intellectual discussions at wine-and-cheese parties about Proust and the Pythagorean Theorem. This is an alluring luxury available to a few, like investing in hedge funds or cruising the Bahamas on one’s own yacht.
Most of us who went to college, though, were there in pursuit of career training.
So the Kentucky players who announced they will depart short of earning their degrees are no different than the majority of their classmates, except that each of the Wildcats players leaves with a reasonable level of assurance there will be a job waiting for him in his chosen field.
That should be the measure of how Kentucky operates: Are its teams successful at the college level, and are its early entrants being drafted into the league and performing once there? In three Kentucky seasons, Calipari’s teams have reached the Elite Eight, the Final Four and the NCAA championship, in addition to winning either the SEC regular season or SEC Tournament each year.
To date, six of UK’s seven early entrants under Calipari were first-round selections. The only exception, guard DeAndre Liggins, was chosen in the second round last June and has spent the year as a deep reserve with the Orlando Magic. Guard Eric Bledsoe has not been spectacular in the league, but getting him positioned as a top-20 pick despite a modest prep pedigree seemed too great an achievement to risk in the spring of 2010. The rest, including John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins, mostly have done well.
In saying goodbye to his five underclassmen Tuesday, Calipari listed the basketball attributes of each, most of it reiterated from lectures along the NCAA Tournament trail. And then he said something for the first time, which isn’t something he gets to do often:
“I’m proud to say I was able to spend a year with them,” Calipari said.
And why wouldn’t he be?

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Best USMC joke ... thanks Ron!

USMC =oke of the Year

A Marine squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came =pon an Iraqi =errorist who was badly injured and unconscious. On the =pposite side of =he road was an American Marine in a similar but less serious state. =he Marine was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both =en, the squad leader asked the injured Marine what had happened.
The Marine =eported, I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway =ere, and coming south was a heavily armed insurgent. We saw each =ther and both took cover in the ditches along the road. I =elled to him =hat Saddam Hussein was a miserable, lowlife scum bag who =ot what he =eserved. and he yelled back that Barack Obama is a lying, good-for-nothing, left wing Commie who isn't even an American. So I =aid that =sama Bin Laden dresses and acts like a frigid, mean-spirited lesbian! He retaliated by yelling, Oh yeah? Well, so does Nancy Pelosi!
And, =here we were, in the middle of the road, shaking hands, when a truck hit us.