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California school district reinforces dumbness through grade inflation

Eric Owens
The Daily Caller
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:26 UTC
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© getty images"Forget it. I'll take the C."
Officials in a public school district about 50 miles north of San Francisco have found a new and exciting way to coddle kids. Under a new policy, students will be able to earn passing grades with scores of just 20 percent — and a solid C for doing absolutely nothing at all.

The lax, taxpayer-funded Cotati-Rohnert Park school district's new grading system is called the equal interval scale, reports The Press Democrat, a newspaper out of nearby Santa Rosa.

The Cotati-Rohnert Park grade scale deviates from the traditional, well-established A-through-F scale by distributing grades in 20-percent increments from 0 to 100 percent, and by only giving grades of F for students with scores below 20 percent.

Comment: More proof that modern education is only tasked with churning out obedient debt slaves who are unable to use their brains in any way that matters. What difference do grades make when the entire system is designed for mis-education?

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Leaked emails of Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice reveal jokes about raping women, molesting kids, and racism

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:24 UTC
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Justice J. Michael Eakin
Hundreds of emails obtained by the Daily Beast reveal the twisted mind of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice and his circle of colleagues who take delight in misogyny and racism.

Justice J. Michael Eakin communicated with state and federal officials using a private "John Smith" email account. Emails include suggesting that a battered wife treat her wounds by "keeping her mouth shut," a joke about a man using a Taser to rape a woman, jokes about kids being molested by pedophiles, and numerous racial slurs.

"An email Eakin received from defense attorney Terry McGowan links to a video titled "Craziest White Man," which shows a man picking up Latino day-laborers, who he then takes to immigration services. Afterward, the man in the video comments on the need to "cull the herd, make sure they don't overpopulate."

Much of the correspondence was received by prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's office in Harrisburg as well as by various county Common Pleas Court judges and district attorneys. It included a set of "motivational posters," which feature a woman mock-fellating a beer bottle above the slogan, "True Love: Sometimes you know it the instant you see it across the bar" and one of a topless woman which reads: "Dear Abby: I'm an 18 year old girl from Arkansas and I'm still a virgin. Do you think my brothers are gay?"
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Sick society: Dallas woman kidnapped, forced to take heroin and engage in blood ritual

Tobias Salinger
New York Daily News
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:02 UTC
Mercedes Salazar
© Bexar County Sheriff's OfficeMercedes Salazar, 32, is accused of kidnapping her slain brother's ex-girlfriend in revenge for her suspicions that the 25-year-old woman had something to do with her brother's death. Salazar was arrested early Sunday.
A Texas woman took revenge on her slain brother's ex-girlfriend by rounding up a crew that abducted and drugged her, police said.

Mercedes Salazar, 32, was arrested early Sunday in the kidnapping of a 25-year-old woman who was found screaming for her life at a home on San Antonio's West Side last month, according to the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies rescued the victim Sept. 9 when one of three other accomplices who have already been arrested fell asleep and the woman managed to contact her mom, officials in the sheriff's office said.

The group led by the longtime offender Salazar - whose brother was murdered in August - held the victim captive for three days inside the house in a subdivision near Lackland Air Force Base, Bexar County Sheriff's spokesman James Keith told KENS-TV.
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Disintegrating society: Huge brawl at high school leads to student slamming principal to ground, 3 arrests


RT
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:48 UTC
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A brawl at Florin High School, Sacramento led to the arrest of three students. Three school officials were injured during the fight, including the principal, who was body slammed into the ground by a student.

"It was like chaos," Marquice Wong, a sophomore at the school told local KCRA. "There were students everywhere fighting. I (saw) school officials getting hurt."

Some of the fight, which occurred on Monday, was caught on video and posted to Facebook and YouTube. When the fight broke out, it drew a school resource police officer, a school official and Principal Don Ross.

The video shows students gathered around as officials try to break up the fight. There is much screaming and what sounds like punches being exchanged. After trying to restrain a tall student in a blue sweater, Principal Ross was body slammed to the ground. Ross quickly gets back up and grabs the student from fighting again, puts him a hold and draws him to the back of the room, where another officer joins him.
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PBS Frontline: Inside Assad's Syria - what Syrians really think (VIDEO)

Martin Smith
Frontline
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:37 UTC
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For weeks, the world's eyes have been fixed on the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for Europe. But what is life like for those left behind? Correspondent Martin Smith goes "Inside Assad's Syria" to report from government-controlled areas as war rages, with on-the-ground reporting and firsthand accounts from Syrians caught in the crisis.


Comment: A reader from Fort Russ comments:
I see no objectivity in a piece which cuts footage of the "barrel bombs" (or actually standard gravity bombs, but released by Mi-24 helicopters) together with pictures of explosions and their aftermath from other events, including suicide car bombings of Damascus. It's great editing, telling a story but not telling the truth. Or ridiculing Syrians for trying to live a "normal" life and enjoy it while it lasts, going to a disco, or to a beach, or attending a concert. This idiot meets scores of people, refugees from Aleppo and Homs and doesn't ask himself, how come 7 million displaced Syrians ran to the state controlled areas (Sunnis in Lattakia), running to Assad not from Assad. He meets people supporting the state everywhere and yet never pauses the question, why Assad should go when Syrians want him to stay... But there is one thought that sticks to me after watching the doc. The contrast of the alternatives in Syria. The state side standing for secularism, normality above the dividing lines of ethnic and religious background and the other side: "the scum of the earth are selling now women of the minorities as slaves".....and we are supposed to support the scumbags!
Indeed. Smith tries his hardest to portray Assad and his government in the worst light possible, but the actual people he interviews suggest things are not so simple. That is the real value of this documentary: what Syrians themselves think. In the process, PBS ends up broadcasting a little bit of truth: the 'peaceful protests' were not so peaceful, and the 'protesters' shot first. The Syrian government offers amnesty to rebels who choose to stop fighting. Whatever one thinks of Assad, Syria needs the existing infrastructure and institutions in order to survive, and the only alternatives are the scumbag jihadis and a woefully inexperienced and inept 'opposition'.

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Retired cop to use 'stand your ground defense' after fatally shooting Florida moviegoer for texting daughter's day care provider

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:35 UTC
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© WFTSCurtis Reeves
A retired police officer who gunned down a married father who threw popcorn at him will use Florida's "stand your ground" law as his defense when he goes on trial for murder.

The lawyer for Curtis Reeves confirmed that the retired Tampa police captain would use the controversial law to claim self-defense in the fatal Jan. 13, 2014, shooting, reported the Tampa Bay Times. The 73-year-old Reeves was charged with second-degree murder after he shot 43-year-old Chad Oulson to death because he refused to stop sending a text message to his 2-year-old daughter's day care provider.

The former police officer fatally shot Oulson once in the chest, and the man's wife, Nicole, who was sitting next to him during the matinee showing of "Lone Survivor," was grazed by a bullet — which prompted an additional charge of aggravated battery. "Just to think that in the blink of an eye, my whole world just got shattered into a million pieces, and now I'm left trying to pick them all up and putting them back together," Nicole Oulson said after her husband's slaying.

Reeves' attorney has maintained all along that video recorded inside the Wesley Chapel movie theater will show that Oulson attacked the older man first — causing Reeves to fear for his life. Defendants must show they had a "reasonable belief" that they were threatened before using force — even if no such threat actually existed.

Comment: It's nice to see some common sense coming from law enforcement in the whole 'popcorn is a weapon' defense.

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Activist releases disturbing video of animal cruelty at Tyson chicken factory


RT
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:34 UTC
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A graphic video secretly recorded by an animal rights activist inside a Tyson Foods plant has led to two firings after it showed workers punching chickens and ripping their heads off. The footage could instigate legal proceedings against the fast food chicken supplier.

In September, a Mercy for Animals activist went undercover to accept a job with Tyson Foods at its plant in Carthage, Mississippi, then filmed coworkers abusing chickens in a variety of violent acts, including bashing chickens with their fists or by throwing them against equipment. Among other abuses, the domesticated birds, called broiler chickens, had their heads manually ripped off while they were still alive and conscious.

"We do not believe the behavior shown in this video by the two team members we have now terminated is representative of the actions of the thousands of workers we employ across the country," Tyson wrote in a public statement.

"Ongoing and systemic" is how affidavits filed by Mercy for Animals described the maltreatment at the slaughterhouse, which processes 2.5 million chickens a week.

Comment: So on top of filling their chicken with poisonous anti-biotics and feeding them GMO foods, Tyson is literally torturing their chickens before they are killed. Anyone with a conscience and a desire to eat healthy foods should refuse to eat anything with the Tyson name on it.

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Plane at Florida airport catches fire on runway


RT
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:23 UTC
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An airplane has caught fire at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood international airport in Florida.

All the passengers appear to have been safely evacuated to the terminal building, as emergency crews battled flames on the port-side engine of the Dynamic Airways Boeing 767-200, with the registration N251MY.

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Police dismantle tiny homes constructed for homeless in Denver park, 10 activists arrested

John Vibes
True Activist
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC
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Ten activists were arrested this weekend for attempting to help the homeless in the city of Denver by building tiny houses in a park. The houses were also immediately destroyed just after the arrests were made.

The activists belong to a group called Denver Homeless Out Loud, released a statement after the arrests which read:

Comment: Makes you want to cry: What local, state and federal funds and resources should be allocated towards - serving those most in need - gets destroyed, and those creative enough and caring enough to work on this project get punished for exercising their creativity and expressions of conscience. And, of course, the homeless are still left in the cold. Welcome to Amerika.

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Nervous Austrians snapping up guns as refugees crises intensifies


RT
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:13 UTC
Hand guns and rifle sales are spiking in Austria, with some shops reporting they are running out of stock of shotguns, since no license is needed to buy them.

"Yes, I can confirm, the demand in Austria for weapons is growing. My revenue doubled in September. And in October it has doubled again, and we are still in October," a gun shop owner told RT.

Obtaining a firearms purchase license in Austria involves passing special courses concerning basic handling and knowledge of weapons. The gun shop owner confirmed to RT that the number of people taking the gun handling courses has increased tremendously.

"In the past, I had one appointment a week for 'weapon license training' with one or two people. Now I have a fixed second event, with 6 to 10 people attending," the gun dealer said.

"Most of the people who came to me in the last week for a consultation or to buy a weapon, are telling me, and I always ask them, that the reason for buying is the 'current situation' in Austria," the man told RT.

The "current situation" in this context is the influx of refugees entering Austria.

Comment: Arming themselves against unarmed refugees is an accident waiting to happen.

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