Month: August 2014

NYU Opressive Slavemaster

NYU Oppressive Slavemaster

NYU Opressive Slavemaster

 

Prestigious New York University is bastion of progressive liberalism.

NYU and other bastions of progressive liberalism, the Louvre and the Guggenheim, are building edifices on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi in the mind -blowingly rich United Arab Emirates (UAE).

And they are using poorly paid indentured servants, whom they trap in the country and force to live in squalid conditions, to do the labor.

That’s right, our progressive liberals are oppressive slave masters.

Just something to consider the next time you want to attend an OWS rally.

Vice.com has a great article spelling out the sordid details here.

In a completely related matter, the world’s most expensive RV was sold in Dubai, also in the UAE, for $3 million. It is a 40-foot long eleMMent Palazzo from Marchi Mobile, an Austrian company.

Gold RV Sold In Dubai NYU Opressive Slavemaster

It is covered with goal.

While our 1-percenters are generally irreligious — even anti-religious — this sort of thing does explain why they are generally less hostile towards Islam than Christianity.

 

 NYU Opressive Slavemaster

 

Swiss Minimum Wage? Nope

Switzerland, a nation that has one of the highest standard of livings and one of the highest life expectancies in the world, does not have a minimum wage law.

The unemployment rate is 3.2 percent and hasn’t been over 4 percent for years.

Minimum wage law laws do not help workers. They don’t help anybody.

Swiss Minimum Wage? Nope

Swiss Minimum Wage? Nope

 

William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-8-14

William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-8-14

 

 

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Dayna Perry Kudos

Dayna Perry Kudos

Kudos to Dayna Perry for winning a KIPP Foundation award for excellence in teaching, Aug.1.

Dayna is a teacher at KIPP Philadelphia Elementary Academy, a charter school in North Philadelphia. The award was bestowed on 10 teachers nationwide based on track records in improving student performance, commitment to helping students succeed and leadership in the classroom and their schools. It comes with $10,000.

KIPP stands for the Knowledge Is Power Program and is a national nonprofit network of 162 charter schools that are focused on preparing students for college.

Charter schools — including cyber ones — along with homeschooling and vouchers are the future, and salvation, of education in this nation.

The  red-tape filled, union-ruled public schools are dinosaurs that deserve the tar pit.

Dayna Perry Kudos

Fat Because Your Legs Have Nothing To Do

You’re fat because your legs have nothing to do.  Some machine is doing that for you.

At least that is the conclusion of an Stanford University School of Medicine study by Dr. Uri Ladabaum as reported by NPR.

Ladabaum looked at data collected by the federal NHANES program in 1988 and compared it to 2010 expecting to find that we have really started pigging out.

Nope. Caloric intake remained about the same. What was different, however, was that physical activity was a lot less. In the ’80s, 80 to 90 percent of people did at least some activity during their leisure time. About half say the same thing today.

For white and African-Americans — men and women — between 18 and 39 the number of those getting no activity more than tripled. For Mexican Americans, it doubled.

Dr. Tim Church, a professor of preventative medicine at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University said that in 1960 about half of Americans had jobs that had a lot of physical activity. Today it’s about 1 in 10.  He said that American men were burning 140 fewer calories during the day while women were burning about 120 fewer calories daily.

As a pound is usually considered equal to 3,500 calories that is more than a pound a month not being burned off.

Blame the internet.

Anyway, here’s the soundtrack for the story that we were sure you were waiting for:

 

 

Fat Because Your Legs Have Nothing To Do

Fat Because Your Legs Have Nothing To Do

Pennsylvania Seed Library Smacked Down By State

The Cumberland County Library System thought it had a neat idea. With the local Penn State Agricultural Extension System and the Cumberland County Commission for Women, it created a seed-gardening program — aka a seed library — that allowed residents to “borrow” seeds in the spring and replace them with new ones harvested at season’s end.

It was launched on April 26, Earth Day, at the Joseph T. Simpson’ Public Library in Mechanicsburg as part of the borough’s Earth Day Festival.

Sixty signed up.

Oh pity them for they didn’t realize they were part of a nefarious plot to violate  the Pennsylvania Seed Act of 2004 signed into law by then Gov. Ed Rendell.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture sent a high-ranking official and a bevy of lawyers to the library in July to shut the program down and make sure those running things got their minds right.

The Seed Act is about proper labeling in the sale of seeds, which the library was not doing. Apparently our state officials feared the seeds might be mislabeled on purpose hence allowing terrorists to spread poison ivy or some such thing.

Some cynics think the crackdown is because big agriculture doesn’t want competition no matter how small.

When is it going to dawn on the rest of you that really stupid and/or greedy people are governing our lives?

Hat tips Tom Flocco and Naomi Creason of the Sentinel of Cumberland County.

Pennsylvania Seed Library Smacked Down By State

 

Pennsylvania Seed Library Smacked Down By State

Nation Of Africa Says Biden

Nation Of Africa Says Biden

Nation Of Africa Says Biden

 

One heart beat away but we don’t care.

Still it’s worth knowing what we are getting in the event Barack Obama is impeached as he deserves to be.

Vice President Joe Biden was a speaker at today’s, Aug. 5, U.S.-Africa Business Forum hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The event was billed as the “first-ever U.S.-Africa Business Forum.” Here is what our Vice President said:
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That’s right. He called the Continent of Africa,  the world’s second largest and second most populous; a place with  54 fully recognized sovereign states (“countries“), nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition, a nation.

The bright side is that he did not suggest that they irrigate their crops with a sports drink.

 Hat tip Jerome Hudson at DailySurge.com

Marino Vs Pelosi Update

Marino Vs Pelosi UpdateMarino Vs Pelosi Update: A rant by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi caused her to be removed from the floor of Congress it has been reported

As reported here on Aug. 3 remarks made by Congressman Tom Marino (R-Pa10) on Aug. 1 concerning the border bill being debated in the House sent former Minority Leader and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi into a hissy fit.

Well, we have an update courtesy of Breitbart.com, Congresswoman Pelosi’s rant caused her to be forcibly removed from the floor of Congress by the sergeant at arms. It was likely unprecedented.

Marino Vs Pelosi Update

Witness Protection Program Has Heritage

Alex Mayyasi has a great article on the history of the Witness Protection Program at Priceonomics.com.

Mayyasi describes the program a being one of three major factors — the RICO Act and the use of wiretapes being the others —  in beating the Mafia.

Mayyasi writes that U.S. Marshals have relocated 8,500 witnesses since the program formally began in 1971 and that no one who has stayed in the program has been killed.

He says family roots have sprung from the program.

“I know witnesses who had children, and now they’re grandparents,” he quotes one employee as saying. “I doubt their grandchildren have a clue about their grandparents’ past.”

 

Witness Protection Program Has Heritage

 

Witness Protection Program Has Heritage

August 2014 First In 823 Years

This month counts five Fridays, five Saturdays and five Sundays. It is the first time this happened since 1191 and won’t happen again until 2837.

At least according to the internet.

Regarding the Chinese good luck thing, well, August is really not part of China’s traditional calendar albeit the nation has adopted the Georgian calendar as its official one.

August 2014 First In 823 Years

 

August 2014 First In 823 Years