DETROIT – While some teachers might complain about the size of their paycheck, Detroit Public School teachers are hardly surprised when they don’t get a check at all.
“We need something that will effectively, regularly pay the teachers what they’re owed. They do the work. They need the pay. They need it on-time, with bills to pay. All they get now is a runaround,” Detroit Federation of Teachers President Steve Conn told Click on Detroit.
Conn raised a ruckus in the media this week after some of his members were shorted hundreds of dollars in their paychecks, while others didn’t receive a pay check at all. And it’s not the first time.
The socialist union boss blames Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, of course, because Snyder has sent in emergency financial managers to divert DPS from its crash course with total financial and academic failure, though the first EFM was sent in by former Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
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Saturday, August 01, 2015
Hartly Man Arrested for Exposing Himself
Hartly, DE- The Delaware State Police have charged an 18-year old man for exposing himself while at the Hartly Learning Daycare Center and the Hartly Elementary School.
On Tuesday July 7, 2015 at approximately 4:40 p.m. an employee of the Hartly Elementary School was cutting grass on the school property along the roadway when she observed a red two door vehicle, which had been traveling north on Arthursville Road, pull over onto the shoulder directly across from her. A male suspect, who was seated in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, opened the door with no pants on and exposed himself to the school employee. The suspect then began to touch himself in an inappropriate manner. The employee called 9-1-1 and the suspect drove off in an eastbound direction on Hartly Road. The school was not in session, and no children were present at the time of the incident.
On multiple occasions from July 15, 2015 to July 22, 2015, the suspect vehicle was seen at the Hartly Family Learning Center, which is a daycare facility located at 21 North St., Hartly. An employee of the daycare facility reported that on one occasion as she walked towards her vehicle, she observed a small red passenger car pull into the parking lot and park his vehicle. The driver described as a white male, opened his door with his pants pulled down to his knees and exposed himself to the employee. As the employee left the property in her vehicle, the suspect followed the victim onto the road and then drove off in a different direction.
On July 21, 2015, another employee of the daycare reported that as she was leaving the facility and was walking toward her vehicle in the parking lot, she observed the same red suspect vehicle enter the parking lot and park next to her vehicle. The same male suspect remained inside of the car and proceeded to follow the female employee as she exited the parking lot in her vehicle. The suspect then drove off in a different direction.
Through the investigation Troopers identified Brandon M. Tucker as the suspect and on Tuesday, July 28, 2015, they responded to his residence located in the 1300 block of Crystal Road. Brandon Tucker was taken into custody without incident and charged with two counts of Indecent Exposure 2nd Degree, two counts of Lewdness and five counts of Criminal Trespass 3rd Degree. He was arraigned at JP2 and released on $3,050.00 unsecured bond.
If anyone has any further information on this incident, they are asked to contact Detective M. Csapo at 302-741-2810 or Information may also be provided by calling Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333, via the internet at www.tipsubmit.com, or by sending an anonymous tip by text to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword "DSP."
Family feud in evidence at Bobbi Kristina Brown funeral
Bobbi Kristina, who dreamed of growing up to achieve fame like her mother, died in hospice care July 26, about six months after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta townhome.
CBS affiliate WGCL in Atlanta reported that the young woman was expected to be buried alongside her mother in New Jersey.
A longstanding rift between families of the young woman's famous mother and father broke out into the open at a memorial service held for Bobbi Kristina at the St. James United Methodist Church in Alpharetta.
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Iowa Poll: Trump Takes Huge Lead Over Walker
Trump has a 15-point lead over Walker
Billionaire Donald Trump is blowing away his nearest competitor, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, 2-to-1, in a poll of Iowa Republican voters released Friday by Gravis Marketing on behalf of One American News Network.
Trump has a 15-point lead over Walker in the poll taken of 227 registered Republican voters in the Hawkeye State, asked Wednesday who among the GOP candidates for president they would vote for if the caucus were held today. The results, according to the poll:
- Trump, 30.9 percent
- Walker, 15.4 percent
- Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, 10 percent
- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, 7.2 percent
- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, 6 percent
- Texas Sen.Ted Cruz, 5.5 percent
- Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, 5.1 percent
- Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 5.0 percent
- Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, 4.3 percent
- Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, 2.9 percent
- Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 2.8 percent
- Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, 1.7 percent
- South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, 1 percent
Planned Parenthood’s Mammogram Lie
The breast-cancer screening charade casts Planned Parenthood as a life-saving provider of vital health services unavailable anywhere else. You may recall that during the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama himself falsely claimed during a debate that the abortion provider administers mammograms to “millions” of women — and liberal CNN moderator Candy Crowley let him get away with it. On cue, Hollywood activists Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria, and Kerry Washington all attacked the GOP ticket for wanting to “end” funding for “cancer screenings” by cutting off government subsidies for Planned Parenthood’s bloody billion-dollar abortion business. The celebrities in the White House and Tinseltown took their script straight from Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, who purported to speak for countless women for whom Planned Parenthood is “the only way” they can gain access to mammograms. (If the name sounds familiar, Nucatola is the same wine-swishing Josephine Mengele who was exposed on video by the Center for Medical Progress two weeks ago lolling through a business lunch negotiating payments for aborted baby parts.)
Cop Fatally Shot Teen In Back, Not In Self-Defense, Family Says
A Seneca police officer shot the teen twice on Sunday during an arrest for suspected drugs, according to Greenville Online.
Police say Hammond was driving another woman to a parking lot, where an undercover agent had arranged to purchase drugs from her.
The officer got out of his marked vehicle and approached Hammond's car with his weapon drawn, Police Chief John Covington said, noting that this is standard practice for a "narcotics" investigation. That's when, according to the chief, Hammond accelerated his car toward the officer, local Fox affiliate WHNS notes. Covington maintains that his officer "fired two shots in self-defense" as Hammond "drove directly at him."
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DEA Official: Mexican Drug Cartels Doing 'Tremendous Harm to Our Communities'
(CNSNews) - "When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best," Donald Trump said last month, prompting fierce denunciation for suggesting that some of the Mexicans coming here are bringing drugs and crime with them.
On Tuesday, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency official told Congress that Mexican drug cartels are fueling the U.S. heroin epidemic, producing crime and violence, and doing "tremendous harm to our communities." And no one disputed him.
"Overdose deaths involving heroin are increasing at an alarming rate, having almost tripled since 2010," Jack Riley, the acting deputy DEA administrator, told a House Justice subcommittee on Tuesday.
"Today’s heroin at the retail level costs less and is more potent than the heroin that DEA encountered a decade ago. It comes predominantly across the Southwest Border
and is produced with greater sophistication from powerful transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) like the Sinaloa Cartel. These Mexican-based TCOs are extremely dangerous and violent and continue to be the principal suppliers of heroin to the United States."
Riley produced a map showing how the Sinaloa cartel has infiltrated the nation by partnering with street gangs to peddle their drugs.
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On Tuesday, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency official told Congress that Mexican drug cartels are fueling the U.S. heroin epidemic, producing crime and violence, and doing "tremendous harm to our communities." And no one disputed him.
"Overdose deaths involving heroin are increasing at an alarming rate, having almost tripled since 2010," Jack Riley, the acting deputy DEA administrator, told a House Justice subcommittee on Tuesday.
"Today’s heroin at the retail level costs less and is more potent than the heroin that DEA encountered a decade ago. It comes predominantly across the Southwest Border
and is produced with greater sophistication from powerful transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) like the Sinaloa Cartel. These Mexican-based TCOs are extremely dangerous and violent and continue to be the principal suppliers of heroin to the United States."
Riley produced a map showing how the Sinaloa cartel has infiltrated the nation by partnering with street gangs to peddle their drugs.
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Registered sex offender sentenced to over 21 years in prison
WILMINGTON, Del. – A repeat child sex offender was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison Thursday plus a life time of supervised release following his sentence for receiving child pornography. The investigation that led to his sentence was a result of a joint U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Delaware State Police effort.
Rogelio “Roger” Cordero, 58, of New Castle, Delaware, will also be required to continue to register as a sex offender in any jurisdiction in which he lives, works or attends school.
Cordero was previously convicted in Delaware of unlawful sexual intercourse, unlawful sexual penetration and unlawful sexual contact, second degree in 1992. Those crimes involved Cordero’s sexual abuse of two female minors over an 18-month period. He was sentenced to 18 years in Delaware state prison, and five years of probation following his release. He was also ordered to undergo approximately 85 months of sex offender treatment. He was released from custody in December 2006, and committed the offenses he was just sentenced for while on state probation.
Reports conflict on whether Cecil the lion's brother, Jericho, also killed
Johnny Rodrigues, head of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, told CNN that a hunter illegally gunned down Jericho in Hwange National Park.
The task force also reported on its Facebook page that Jericho was killed at 4 p.m. local time.
Later, however, an Oxford University researcher tracking Jericho told CNN that the lion was alive and moving as of 8 p.m. local time Saturday, based on the GPS data from the animal's collar.
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Blacks Rule’ Painted Next to Burned Mississippi Flag on Disabled Vet’s Driveway
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Martin O'Malley proposes feds get involved with policing
BALTIMORE —Long-shot presidential candidate Martin O'Malley on Friday proposed getting the federal government more involved in local policing practices.
In a speech in Florida O'Malley billed himself as the most experienced candidate in criminal justice reform.
O'Malley's policing practices when he was mayor in Baltimore are a source of criticism. He advocated zero-tolerance policing, which led to high numbers of arrests.
As a presidential candidate O'Malley is calling for a national standard on police use of force. He wants local governments to be required to comply. He also wants police misconduct investigations to be taken out of the hands of local prosecutors. And he wants to lower the bar for the Department of Justice to conduct civil rights investigations of death in-custody cases.
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In a speech in Florida O'Malley billed himself as the most experienced candidate in criminal justice reform.
O'Malley's policing practices when he was mayor in Baltimore are a source of criticism. He advocated zero-tolerance policing, which led to high numbers of arrests.
As a presidential candidate O'Malley is calling for a national standard on police use of force. He wants local governments to be required to comply. He also wants police misconduct investigations to be taken out of the hands of local prosecutors. And he wants to lower the bar for the Department of Justice to conduct civil rights investigations of death in-custody cases.
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Democrats On Civil Rights: Bullet Or Bribe?
In 1857, the Supreme Court, with seven of the nine justices being Democrat, decided that Dred Scott was not a citizen, but property.
Chief Justice Roger Taney, appointed by Democrat President Andrew Jackson, wrote that slaves were “so far inferior … that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for their own benefit.”
After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment was adopted Dec. 6, 1865, abolishing slavery in America. Once Southern Democrats were forced to free their slaves, they attempted to effectively re-enslave them by passing “Black Codes” and “Jim Crow Laws” which required former slaves to be “apprenticed” to “employers” and punished any who left.
On Nov. 22, 1865, Republicans denounced Mississippi’s Democrat legislature for enacting “Black Codes” which institutionalized racial discrimination.
On Feb. 5, 1866, Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens introduced legislation to give former slaves “40 acres and a mule,” but Democrats opposed it, led by President Andrew Johnson. On April 9, 1866, Republicans in Congress overrode Democrat President Johnson’s veto and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on freed slaves.
To force Southern states to extend state citizenship rights to former slaves, Republicans in the U.S. House passed the 14th Amendment, May 10, 1866, as did the Senate, June 8, 1866. One hundred percent of Democrats voted against it.
The 14th Amendment was adopted by the states on July 28, 1868.
Republican Congressman John Farnsworth of Illinois stated, March 31, 1871: “The reason for the adoption (of the 14th Amendment) … was because of … discriminating … legislation of those States … by which they were punishing one class of men under different laws from another class.”
Once Southern Democrats could no longer re-enslave with “Black Codes” and “Jim Crow Laws,” they attempted to keep former slaves from voting.
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Chief Justice Roger Taney, appointed by Democrat President Andrew Jackson, wrote that slaves were “so far inferior … that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for their own benefit.”
After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment was adopted Dec. 6, 1865, abolishing slavery in America. Once Southern Democrats were forced to free their slaves, they attempted to effectively re-enslave them by passing “Black Codes” and “Jim Crow Laws” which required former slaves to be “apprenticed” to “employers” and punished any who left.
On Nov. 22, 1865, Republicans denounced Mississippi’s Democrat legislature for enacting “Black Codes” which institutionalized racial discrimination.
On Feb. 5, 1866, Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens introduced legislation to give former slaves “40 acres and a mule,” but Democrats opposed it, led by President Andrew Johnson. On April 9, 1866, Republicans in Congress overrode Democrat President Johnson’s veto and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on freed slaves.
To force Southern states to extend state citizenship rights to former slaves, Republicans in the U.S. House passed the 14th Amendment, May 10, 1866, as did the Senate, June 8, 1866. One hundred percent of Democrats voted against it.
The 14th Amendment was adopted by the states on July 28, 1868.
Republican Congressman John Farnsworth of Illinois stated, March 31, 1871: “The reason for the adoption (of the 14th Amendment) … was because of … discriminating … legislation of those States … by which they were punishing one class of men under different laws from another class.”
Once Southern Democrats could no longer re-enslave with “Black Codes” and “Jim Crow Laws,” they attempted to keep former slaves from voting.
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Md. officials want kids’ hot car deaths to be thing of the past
Last year, 31 children died from heatstroke and 15 have already died this year, according to data provided by Prince George’s County Fire & Rescue Service.
In the mock scenario, 911 received a call from a bystander who found a child locked in a hot car. Emergency rescuers responded, hoping to free a child locked in a hot car.
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Leaves Changing Colors So Soon?
Verizon Strike Possible As Contract Deadline Looms
A contract covering 39,000 Verizon workers represented by two unions expires at the end of Saturday. Last week the Communication Workers of America announced that 86 percent of Verizon workers covered by the contract voted to strike in a recent poll, if a new agreement isn’t reached.
The contract covers employees in nine states from Massachusetts to Virginia who work for Verizon’s wireline business, which provides fixed-line phone services and FiOS Internet service.
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Did You Ever Notice the Asterisk on Your Social Security Statement?
While engaging in the mundane task of gathering financial statements for a “secure retirement” meeting with my husband’s and my adviser, this Baby Boomer stumbled upon documented proof that our nation does not have the guts to confront one of its most serious economic problems. The realization came when I pulled from my files a document statement innocently titled, “Your Social Security Statement.”
At first glance, the statement did not appear menacing. I was told I could expect to receive a benefit of “about $2,136 a month” upon reaching age 70 — which certainly seems like good news. But immediately I thought of a parallel of President Obama’s infamous Obamacare promise: “If you like your Social Security, you can keep your Social Security.”
At first glance, the statement did not appear menacing. I was told I could expect to receive a benefit of “about $2,136 a month” upon reaching age 70 — which certainly seems like good news. But immediately I thought of a parallel of President Obama’s infamous Obamacare promise: “If you like your Social Security, you can keep your Social Security.”
Then, as if on cue, I saw an asterisk with the following message:
The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2033, the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 77 percent of scheduled benefits.
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‘Dancing Umbrellas’ video understates inherent danger
The aftermath of this event is rather simple since no injuries were reported, but people can and have been seriously injured in similar circumstances.
“I tell my guards to treat a blowing umbrella as just as dangerous as someone drowning,” Butch Arbin, captain of the Ocean City Beach Patrol said. “I’ve seen them take off like a rocket. The downtown condos can cause some bizarre drafts and flight patterns.”
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Jefferson Who? Democrats Are Disowning Their Founders
Matt Hennessy attended the Connecticut Democratic Party's annual fundraising dinner recently. He was surprised when Nick Balletto, the party's chair, announced that the name of the dinner will change next year.
Like other state and local Democrats around the country, those in Connecticut for decades have named their annual dinner after two of the party's primary founders: Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. But after the killing of nine worshippers last month at a church in Charleston, S.C., party leaders have been rethinking the wisdom of honoring the two slave-owning presidents.
"Their names on this party event have the potential to interfere with party unity by appearing to honor slaveholders and an oppressor of Native Americans," said Hennessy, a Democratic consultant. (Jackson pursued a policy of "Indian removal" that might be likened to ethnic cleansing.)
It's in keeping with other debates that are taking place around political symbols such as the display of the Confederate flag. Minnesota is debating whether to remove paintings from its capitol that depict white settler and Army attacks on American Indians. (Although admittedly those paintings are not as blatantly offensive as the Indian slaughter murals at the fictional City Hall in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation.)
"As far as these symbolic gestures, these are perfectly legitimate, fine and polite things to do," said Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University.
But he cautioned that removing the name or images of old-time leaders who acted in ways that many now find abhorrent is not sufficient.
"We need not only to erase this stuff, but confront it," Thompson said.
Many are concerned that the "PC police" threaten to worsen historical amnesia by portraying leaders of the past as villains. Jefferson owned slaves, but he also wrote the Declaration of Independence, among other accomplishments still worth celebrating.
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Like other state and local Democrats around the country, those in Connecticut for decades have named their annual dinner after two of the party's primary founders: Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. But after the killing of nine worshippers last month at a church in Charleston, S.C., party leaders have been rethinking the wisdom of honoring the two slave-owning presidents.
"Their names on this party event have the potential to interfere with party unity by appearing to honor slaveholders and an oppressor of Native Americans," said Hennessy, a Democratic consultant. (Jackson pursued a policy of "Indian removal" that might be likened to ethnic cleansing.)
It's in keeping with other debates that are taking place around political symbols such as the display of the Confederate flag. Minnesota is debating whether to remove paintings from its capitol that depict white settler and Army attacks on American Indians. (Although admittedly those paintings are not as blatantly offensive as the Indian slaughter murals at the fictional City Hall in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation.)
"As far as these symbolic gestures, these are perfectly legitimate, fine and polite things to do," said Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University.
But he cautioned that removing the name or images of old-time leaders who acted in ways that many now find abhorrent is not sufficient.
"We need not only to erase this stuff, but confront it," Thompson said.
Many are concerned that the "PC police" threaten to worsen historical amnesia by portraying leaders of the past as villains. Jefferson owned slaves, but he also wrote the Declaration of Independence, among other accomplishments still worth celebrating.
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Children’s Day on the Bay at Sunset Park this Sunday
“The Delmarva Discovery Center will bring turtles, snakes and other animals, the Coast Guard will offer knot-tying lessons and [Museum Curator] Sandy Hurley will be leading our shark sessions,” Assistant Curator Diane Knuckles said.
Shark species will be identified, explained and budding shark biologists can have their voluminous questions answered.
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Higher wages a surprising success for Seattle restaurant
SEATTLE — Menu prices are up 21 percent and you don't have to tip at Ivar's Salmon House on Seattle's Lake Union after the restaurant decided to institute the city's $15-an-hour minimum wage two years ahead of schedule.
It is staff, not diners, who feel the real difference, with wages as much as 60 percent higher than before. One waitress is saving for accounting classes and finding it easier to take weekend vacations, while another server is using the added pay to cover increased rent.
Seattle's law, adopted last year after a strong push from labor and grassroots activists, bumped the city's minimum wage to $11 beginning April 1, above Washington state's highest-in-the-nation $9.47. Scheduled increases that depend on business size and benefits will bring the minimum to $15 within four years for large businesses and seven years for smaller ones.
There's little data yet on how the law's working.
"To the extent that we can look at macro patterns, we're not seeing a problem," said Seattle Mayor Ed Murray.
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It is staff, not diners, who feel the real difference, with wages as much as 60 percent higher than before. One waitress is saving for accounting classes and finding it easier to take weekend vacations, while another server is using the added pay to cover increased rent.
Seattle's law, adopted last year after a strong push from labor and grassroots activists, bumped the city's minimum wage to $11 beginning April 1, above Washington state's highest-in-the-nation $9.47. Scheduled increases that depend on business size and benefits will bring the minimum to $15 within four years for large businesses and seven years for smaller ones.
There's little data yet on how the law's working.
"To the extent that we can look at macro patterns, we're not seeing a problem," said Seattle Mayor Ed Murray.
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