De Blasio gets policing advice — from ex-cons

Socialism in Action

The insane new Communist Mayor of New York wants

criminals to tell him how to reform the police department.

Communist Democrat New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is getting his policing advice from the real experts — hardened criminals.

A group of 50 ex-cons, kidnappers, junkies and chronic vagrants gathered at a Manhattan “Think Tank” Thursday to describe what they thought the NYPD should be doing to make their lives easier.
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The felonious forum outlined a clear “get-soft-on-crime” vision.

“I like the idea of ending stop and frisk. That was the first thing that was totally there for me,” opined Mikell Green-Grand, a 49-year-old former jailbird who has convictions for grand larceny and identity theft reports the New York Post.

Arthur Castillo, 38 — who has been convicted for possessing stolen property and assault — said he would be much obliged if the cops just left him alone to do his thing.

“Cops won’t leave us alone!” he said. “Newly released prisoners are watched by the police and a lot of us don’t feel we have an opportunity to readapt to normal life because we are treated as criminals even though we are free.”

The event, which was held in Morningside Heights, was hosted by an advisory group called Talking Transitions, run by liberal billionaire investment magnate George Soros.

The goal was to offer de Blasio tips on “policing, corrections, parole policies and more.”

Since Talking Transitions is actually advising de Blasio during his preparations for assuming office, the opinions posited by the panel of crooks and deadbeats will be relayed to him and could have real policy effects.

“Bloomberg forgot about all of us. I’m hoping DeBlasio remembers us,” said Gregorio “Koko” Cruz, 63, who was convicted of first degree manslaughter, robbery, kidnapping and criminal possession of a weapon.

“After 12 years of Bloomberg, it’s time for a change,” the thief Green-Grand added.

Castillo, of Bayside, Queens, called for de Blasio to both “redistribute” the wealth and pay what is, in effect, protection money.

“A lot of money is spent on the prison system — it should be used to cultivate prisoners lives,” he opined. “The money should be redistributed to help those who want to change while they are incarcerated.”

My kind of law enforcement

"Nothing wrong with shooting as long as
the right people get shot!"
Harry Callahan

Al-Qaeda cuts down 150-year-old tree after accusing locals of worshipping it

Where are the Environmentalists?

FSA/Islamic state of iraq and the levant cutting a 150 years old tree
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f7_1385095379#0zW5rPjU5GZYM00j.99

FSA/Islamic state of iraq and the levant cutting a 150 years old tree
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f7_1385095379#0zW5rPjU5GZYM00j.99

Islam - Looking forward to living in

the 8th Century someday.

This tree is 150 years old in Aleppo, Syria and a lot people go there thinking it is blessed.  So the tree was removed by radical Islamist terrorists because, according to them people are worshiping idols and only god should be worshiped.

(Live Leak)

Praise be to Allah!
The 150 year old anti-Islamic tree is gone.
Fact of Life #8 - Not all religions are created equal.

RETARD ALERT - Parent fined $10 by school for not including crackers in a sack lunch

Socialist Food Police

Parents fined for not including Ritz crackers

in kids’ school lunch

Retard Alert  -  The insane are running the asylum.  I am firmly convinced that our "educators" are some of the most fucking stupid people on the planet.

It's quite possible that the single stupidest school lunch policy on the planet comes courtesy of a strange interpretation of the Manitoba Government's Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations (an earlier version of this article incorrectly pointed at the Manitoba Child Care Association as the source of the strangely interpreted policy).

Apparently if a child's lunch is deemed "unbalanced", where "balance" refers to ensuring that a lunch conforms to the proportions of food groups as laid out by Canada's awful Food Guide, then that child's lunch is "supplemented", and their parent is fined.

Manitoba Government’s Early Learning and Child Care fined mother Kristen Bartkiw $10 because she neglected to include healthful Ritz crackers in her kids’ school lunches. Weighty Matters has more details:

She sent her children to daycare with with lunches containing leftover homemade roast beef and potatoes, carrots, an orange and some milk. 

She did not send along any “grains”. 

As a consequence the school provided her children with, I kid you not, supplemental Ritz Crackers, and her with a $10 fine.

(Yahoo News)

Army to go Vegetarian to Fight Global Warming

 

Norwegian army goes on vegetarian diet

The Norwegian military said Tuesday it plans to put its troops on a vegetarian diet once a week in a bid to fight a new kind of enemy — climate change.

The army said its new meatless Mondays are meant to cut its consumption of ecologically unfriendly foods whose production contributes heavily to global warming.

“It’s a step to protect our climate. The idea is to serve food that’s respectful of the environment,” spokesman Eystein Kvarving told France24 News.

Hmmm . . . which one should I eat?

 

The diet has already been introduced at one of Norway’s main bases and will soon be rolled out to all units, including those serving overseas, said the army, estimating it would cut its meat consumption by 150 tonnes per year.

“It’s not about saving money,” said Kvarving. “It’s about being more concerned for our climate, more ecologically friendly and also healthier.”

A Norwegian environmental group that campaigns for meatless Mondays nationwide, The Future in Our Hands, welcomed the army announcement.

"The defence ministry deserves a lot of praise because it's taking climate and environmental issues seriously," said the group's director, Arild Hermstad.

According to the organisation, the average Norwegian eats more than 1,200 animals over the course of their life, including 1,147 chickens, 22 sheep, six cattle and 2.6 deer.

Democrats to mandate porn stars wear goggles

Porn Stars Jessica Drake (right) and James Deen appear in a protest of
'condoms only' measure that passed in California, but the pair could soon be
complaining about the required use of goggles.

 

What the Fuck!

I think we just found a new use for Google Glasses.

The People's Republic of California  -  The insanity of Big Brother Liberalism knows no bounds.

First it was mandatory condoms in the California Porn industry. Now lawmakers want to make porn stars don more gear to keep them safe from infection from bodily fluids.

If an updated draft of Bill AB 640 goes into effect eye protection would be required during filming sex scenes, according to the proposed legislation.

Sexy lab technicians and plastic-coated germaphobes may soon be the hot new ticket in porn. And not by kinky viewers' choice.

The latest version of a California worker safety bill may require adult film actors to wear items like protective goggles while filming sex scenes reports the New York Daily News.

An updated draft of Bill AB 640 would not only prohibit state-wide performers from ejaculating onto the genitals, mouth or eyes, but require employers to provide "barrier protection" eyewear as well.

Bill AB 640 is currently awaiting review in the senate. If approved it would require "personal protective equipment" to "prevent contact of an employee's eye; skin, mucous membranes, or genitals with the blood or OPIM-STI of another."

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health defines OPIM-STI as any bodily fluids, including fecal matter and those from wounds or sores.

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This latest proposal comes exactly one year after condoms were mandated during filming of vaginal and anal sex scenes in Los Angeles County to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

Demolition Man - Edgar Friendly Speech

Freedom from fucking government - what a concept.

 

 

 

Democrat Party Condom Police
Democrat run Los Angeles is sending condom inspectors to the sets of porn movie shoots to make sure the condoms are properly installed and snug with no leakage. Moron Democrats want to get a firm grip on both our wallets and our deployed condoms.

 

Insanity - Having a "mean" looking Arab team mascot is racist

Idiot Alert!

• The Race Card!  A California high school is called racist for having a "mean" looking Arab as their sports mascot. 
• I guess depicting pride, strength and power in schools is old fashioned.  Much better for the students to be taught that weakness and cowering in fear of political corrected lawsuits is the way to live your life.

The pretend "civil rights" group, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, accused a Coachella Valley High School of stereotyping and demanded a name change.

The group also is seeking a change of the school mascot.

 

The group said it was "shocked to learn that the Arab" is the official mascot of the high school in Thermal.

 

 

"Continued use of the 'Arab' mascot perpetuates demeaning stereotypes of Arabs and Arab Americans," it said. "Coachella Valley High School's gross stereotyping cannot be tolerated," reports CNN News.

 

The school has a mascot that "depicts a man with a large nose, heavy beard, and wearing" a traditional head covering, the group said.

 

During halftime, "a female dressed as belly dancer entertains the mascot by dancing for him," it added.

 

But for the school, the mascot and cheerleaders shouting "Let's go, Arabs, let's go" are nothing new. The mascot dates back to the 1930s.

The Arab mascot recognizes the influences of the Middle East in the area's date farming, said Rich Ramirez, president of the Coachella Valley High School Alumni Association and a 1959 graduate of the high school.

 

In the early 1900s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture acquired date shoots from Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries and used them to establish date orchards in the valley's desert climate, Ramirez said.

 

Some of the valley's Arab-Americans -- largely of Lebanese background -- were involved in date farming, but they mostly ran men's apparel stores and groceries, Ramirez said.

 

Fucked no matter what you do.
Even when you try to honor a group the insane liberal fringe so-called "civil rights" groups crap on you and call you an evil racist.
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Middle Eastern influences are reflected in community names of Mecca, Oasis and Arabia. The city of Coachella has street names of Damascus and Baghdad, and the valley's largest city, Indio, has a street named Deglet Noor, a date variety.

 

 

 

By 1921, the valley held its first date festival in Indio, and people who dressed in Arabian style were admitted free to the festival, he said. The Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival now attracts 300,000 people over 10 days every February, said Ramirez, a former board member of the Coachella Valley History Museum.

Middle Eastern influences are also reflected in community names of Mecca, Oasis and Arabia. The city of Coachella has street names of Damascus and Baghdad, and the valley's largest city, Indio, has a street named Deglet Noor, a date variety, Ramirez said.

 

By 1931, the high school adopted the mascot name of Arabs, replacing the informal names of "date pickers" or "farmers" inspired by the area's industry. It was a common way of nicknaming communities then, much like the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers, Ramirez said.

 

"We're proud of Arab tradition and Arab culture," Ramirez said.

 

The high school band and drill team dresses in Arab style, and a girl in a genie costume dances during football halftimes, Ramirez said.

Honoring Arab Culture & Food
Left: Indio Scenic Guide Map, circa 1975. Middle: Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival Premium List, 1953. Right: Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival Pamphlet, 1950. | Courtesy of the California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California.

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See more at KCET.org - Coachella Valley.



"Arab Marching Band" from the Coachella Valley
Union High School Yearbook, 1953.

 

8-year-old threatened with expulsion for drawing Star Wars characters

Retard Alert!

Another moron "educator" is frightened by a

drawing of a Star Wars character.

(CBS News)  An eight-year-old at Scottsdale, Arizona’s Charter Country Day School was threatened with expulsion after drawing a picture of soldier with a gun as an idea for a Halloween costume.

The child’s name has not been released—to protect his identity—but his parents pulled him from the school last week after he was threatened with expulsion for drawing a picture of a soldier with a gun, a ninja warrior with a gun, and a Star Wars character holding laser guns.

Many of the third-grader's other journal entries were about saving the earth and protecting humanity.

According to CBS 5 Arizona, the child’s father, who also remains anonymous, said this is a situation where the headmaster literally “bullied” his son over the drawings, and “bullied the parents” too.

The father said the headmaster pointed to writings in the eight-year-old’s journal where he wrote of adventures filled with “booby traps” and “shooting gadgets [like] a rope gun.” The boy also wrote about doing away with nuclear weapons, “saving the earth and protecting humanity.”

However, the headmaster focused on the drawings—like the one of the soldier with a gun—and said he “couldn’t guarantee the safety of other student’s with [the eight-year-old] around.”

"I don't understand how somebody can say that about an 8-year-old that has no history of violence, no history of making threats - nothing at all," he said

See more and a video at CBS News KPHO.

Grounds for Expulsion

Star Wars character drawn by 8-year-old.

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America is Doomed

We are being ruled over by fucking idiots.

School Eliminates the Honor Roll - All hail Marxism and the equality of blandness

Lohini Winn and her son, Andreas, are upset that St. Basil Elementary and Junior High School
is moving away from recognizing its Grade 7 to 9 students academic achievements, dropping
awards ceremonies and honor roll to avoid “hurting the self-esteem and pride of those
who do not receive a certificate.”

School Eliminates the Honor Roll

Awards might ‘hurt the self-esteem’ of the dumb students

(Calgary Herald)  -  When Grade 9 student Andreas Winn, 14, made the honour roll last year, it was a point of pride for him and his parents.

He won’t make the honour roll this year. Not officially at least. And not for a lack of effort.

Administration and staff at St. Basil Elementary and Junior High School, in the northwest community of Tuscany, decided earlier this month to stop recognizing the academic achievements of its roughly 250 Grade 7 to 9 students, axing award certificates and year-end ceremonies.

“They’re telling us that the one per cent of students or so who have learning problems or the group of students who can’t get on the honour roll outweighs the kids who can,” said Winn.

“So we should all stoop down to their level so everyone is happy.”

So-called "educators" are some of the most stupid people in society.

But he’s not happy. Neither are many parents and students who expressed shock, frustration and disappointment by the school’s decision and apparent lack of consultation.

Jason Redelback, whose 14-year-old son “hates” the decision, doesn’t think dropping awards and ceremonies is in the best interest of students.

“When you start to take away the recognition of a job well done, what you end up doing is you take away someone’s well-being,” said Redelback. “What they’ve done here is take away something of value and purpose.”

That’s not how officials at St. Basil see it.

In a letter to parents explaining the decision, school officials said, “Awards eventually lose their lustre to students who get them, while often hurting the self-esteem and pride of those who do not receive a certificate.”

That letter also cites the work of education guru Alfie Kohn, who contends that “dangling rewards in front of children are at best ineffective, and at worst counterproductive.”

Praise and recognition will now be immediate through feedback from teachers, not awards. Individualized goal-setting will be prepared by teachers and students. Parents are encouraged to celebrate academic success as a family.

Winn’s mother, Lo, believes awards and ceremonies serve a purpose: they act as an incentive for students to strive for high marks, and prepare kids for university and beyond.

“The students have nothing to work toward,” said Lo Winn. “They need incentive, they need motivation. I totally believe that if a child does well, a child needs to be recognized for it.”


Thanks to Blazing Cat Fur for a heads up on this story.

Even China abandoned Socialism.
The Chinese threw away Socialism and the moronic "equality" of bland Chairman Mao jackets in favor of capitalism, excellence, achievement, fashionable clothes and wealth.
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As China adopts excellence and success, the nations of the West want to adopt the insane philosophy of Socialism, mediocrity and failure.

Cheerleader car wash banned by Enviro-Nazis

The Enviro-Nazis Ban Car Washes

"We had to cancel this and all future car washes.”

The People's Republic of California  -  Don't expect to see teens standing on corners waving signs at motorists encouraging them to participate in a school car wash any time soon in San Jose.

 

While car washes have become a favorite tool for school clubs, teams, cheerleaders and classes to raise funds for trips, uniforms or supplies, the liberal Democrat run city of San Jose is now saying stop.

This is what happened to Lincoln High School cheerleaders  trying to raise money to attend a national competition in April. The San Jose Mercury News reports that local environmental officials warned the high school cheerleaders that their car wash violated the city’s water discharge laws.

“We had a visit from the city of San Jose Environmental Services Department who said that the car washes at Hoover [Middle School] are in violation of water discharge laws, therefore we had to cancel this and all future car washes,” said an email that was sent out to neighborhood email lists on Oct. 18.

“Anything that is not storm water or rain water is considered a pollutant,” said Jennie Loft, acting communications manager for San Jose’s Environmental Services Department.

“If it goes into a storm drain, that pollutant will harm wildlife and habitats in the creeks. Water goes directly from the storm drains into our creeks.”

The city intervened in response to two complaints received about the car wash events Lincoln High Schoolers had been holding at Hoover Middle School. City officials reached out to school and district staff to give them information on how to prevent pollutants from getting into storm drains.



You must obey your Green Masters.

Asked if the city came out in response to complaints, Loft wrote in a follow-up email, "The City of San Jose responded to two complaints, one about a month ago and one last week, re: the Lincoln High School Car wash events held at Hoover Middle School.

"Our staff responds to complaints to ensure that pollutants do not go directly into our storm sewer system since it flows into local creeks, and the SF Bay and Delta.

"As part of our protocol when we received these complaints, our staff reached out to staff at Lincoln High School and San Jose Unified last month to provide information about preventing pollutants into storm drains.

"Our staff also met directly with Lincoln High School Staff last week."

Greens Ban Harmless Fun

The Enviro-Nazis are now preventing community car washes that raise money for charity and other causes.  The hand-wringing Leftists were up all night worried that water with soap in it might get on the ground.  Oh the humanity!

Democrat proves retards can win elections - Grayson says the Tea Party = the KKK

A Village is Missing its Idiot

Lunatic Democrat now says the Tea Party is the

home of the Ku Klux Klan.

Leftist loon Congressman Alan Grayson (Socialist Democrat - Florida) has defended a moronic campaign email linking the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan.

“One could go on and on, because there is overwhelming evidence that the Tea Party is the home of bigotry and discrimination in America today, just as the KKK was for an earlier generation,” the statement concludes reports The Blaze.

“If the shoe fits, wear it.”

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Which is worse:

Playing the race card or being stupid enough to believe it?