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Open Letter to TBP: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

I’ve lurked around this site for years, and, on occasion, put forth an article or two. Mostly I just read and listen in on the commentary. Some of it is humorous, some of it is vile, and much of it is informative, but the little bubble of free speech this site represents is a virtual “city on the hill” from Matthew (5:14). The spirit of freedom is what connects us, and even if most of us talk a bigger game than we walk, we are at least willing to talk which is where the intention to walk is born.

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9 Bizarre, Awkward Quotes From Bill De Blasio’s Press Conference

Via The Daily Caller

On Wednesday, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City schools will begin to observe the Islamic holidays of Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr.

The official press conference accompanying the announcement was decidedly strange, with de Blasio and his retinue of New York public officials using it as an opportunity to praise religion without mentioning God, ridiculously over hype the event’s significance, and otherwise use the event to be as awkwardly liberal as possible.

1. “One nation, under all.”

Letitia James, New York’s public advocate, wanted to praise New York and America as a beacon of religious diversity, but apparently also didn’t want to mention God. Instead, she said something that didn’t make any sense. What does it even mean for a nation to be “under all?” Is it the opposite of overalls? Does it imply having one nation is actually the least valuable thing imaginable? Is it like being one nation under a groove?

2. “Fifty years ago, Dr. King led a march from Selma to Montgomery, and tore down the walls of racism. Muslim community, this is your Selma.”

Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams swung for the fences with his comparisons, directly likening the effort to add two extra holidays to the school calendar with the effort to bring down Jim Crow. Sure, Muslim activists weren’t attacked by dogs or brutally killed, and they weren’t campaigning for something as momentous as voting rights or an end to a century of segregation, but other than that, yeah, the two have a lot in common.

3. ”People like Debbie and Linda, they are the Rosa Parks and the Sojourner Truths.”

Adams wasn’t done, and decided to double down by comparing advocates for the new holidays with crusaders against slavery. Sojourner Truth, of course, was an escaped slave and one of the country’s most famous female abolitionists. Linda Sarsour, the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and the one who apparently warrants this comparison, is not an escaped slave, and has spent more time comparing Israel to aparteid-era South Africa than she has attacking slavery. Of course, upon further reflection, having to sit around in public schools against one’s will is a lot like slavery.

4. ”We have just begun. Now that you have the winds at your back…it is time to ensure that when you go into your mosque, that police officers are not in there, not allowing you the right to worship.”

Adams wasn’t ready to stop, and transformed the calendar change into a demand that New York police stop observing mosques as possible breeding grounds for Islamic terrorism. For the record, just last week, three men in Brooklyn were arrested for allegedly planning to aid ISIS, and the group has claimed to be plotting an attack on the city. (RELATED: #NotAllMuslims Arrested In New York For Trying To Join ISIS)

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Absolute Proof That “More Money” Is Never The Answer For Skoolz

I know we’ve had a lot of articles here about the sad state of American schools. Why another one? Because Camden should be The Poster Child proving that more money — the battle cry for Teachers Unions everywhere — simply is not the answer. Anytime some dingleberry says — “We need mo money fo dis skool” — simply give a one word response — “Camden!”

You see, Camden spends more than $25,000 per pupil …. making it one of the highest spending districts in the nation. And what does all that money buy? Abysmal test scores, extremely high in-school violence, dilapidated buildings, a 40% drop-out rate …. in short, one the very worst public school systems in the entire country.

The first video describes the problem.

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Civil disobedience

Via The Lonely Libertarian

Okay, it’s going on 4 weeks of school and I have yet to turn in the Cute Chicks’ registration forms. Even though I get daily calls from Administration and notes from their teachers, I’m just not that motivated. As a matter of fact, the more they push, the less compliant I feel. Why? you may ask. Well, I’ll tell you…

First, they’ve gone to schools in this district since we moved here in ’99, lived at the same address, had the same phone number, God, I’ve even had the same momvan; but every damn year, I fill out the same damn forms, and I don’t understand why they can’t save it, print it, send it home for corrections if needed. I spend the better part of a day filling out forms I fill out every year.

Second, the main form has gotten ridiculously intrusive in a year when 30,000+ illegal alien kids are attending school with no personal records at all. Not only that, but the school districts are REQUIRED to admit them without any info and aren’t allowed to ask for it. However, I get harassing phone calls and notes, the latest of which informed me that “without registration information, your daughters will not officially be registered students of *ISD and will be considered truant. Please return the forms filled out in entirety to be legally compliant.” FUCK. YOU.

When we started here, the basics needed were shot records (don’t get me started), birth certificate (you know, legal citizen), and proof of county residency. That was it, and you’re in. This year, I filled out FIVE federal forms on race, citizenship, migrant status, homelessness, and school lunch qualification. Each one required Social Security Numbers for both girls and guardians. How do illegals do this? And the main registration form, the one I’m disobediently holding, requires SSN, legal address, mailing address; my SSN, and the make, model, color and license plate of my vehicle plus driver’s license number if I plan on driving on campus to drop off and pick up, their dad’s same info, and the car info and DL number of any friend or family member who could ever possibly drive their vehicle on school grounds. So far, I’m holding out on all the driver info, none of their fucking business, and SSN numbers. When it comes to race, I leave it blank to cause more work. At the bottom of every form asking for race, there’s a note informing you that school personnel will “observe the child and make an assessment of race”. I’m so tempted to send them to school in black face.

So, my protest, as soon as every illegal alien “kid” provides this info with all their illegal alien family members’ driver info and SSNs, I’ll come into compliance.

Fuck Obama.

Colorado High School Cafeteria Self-Immolation

With family, school and work I don’t have much time to post on here like I would but, I thought this story might have slipped through the cracks of the MSM and TBPers might have missed it. When will we actually have an open honest discussion about our YOUTH, the education system, pharmacology, medicine, endemic gratuitous violence in the media and personal responsibility and accountability? Instead we sell labels as explanations and causes to much more complex and interconnected factors. We have been brainwashed by the 20-minute sitcom plot resolution and conditioned to look for the quickest and easiest response or answer to much more dire and severe influencing factors. I will not speculate as to whether or not this kid’s parents had him on any anti-depressants; but I must admit, the thought did cross my mind. Many of school shooters were taking prescription medications like anti-depressants…Like many TBPers have mentioned before, this is rarely discussed on the MSM. Hopefully Nett, pulls through and recovers! Maybe then he might find a voice and tell us what would push a 16-year old boy to that point.

Godspeed on your recovery and God Bless!

Teen who torched himself in Colorado school burned over 80% of his body

The 16-year-old boy who set himself ablaze inside a packed cafeteria at a Colorado high school in an apparent suicide bid was being treated for burns over 80% of his body, officials said.

Vince Nett remained in critical condition Tuesday, a day after he drank a water bottle filled with bleach and doused himself with a gallon of fuel before he lit himself on fire inside Standley Lake High School in Westminster, just north of Denver, KUSA-TV reported.

Nett reportedly left a suicide note on Facebook, saying his death was “not someone’s fault. I had this planned for years.” He also apologized for the way the school would smell after he roasted himself in his bid to publicly kill himself.

“If anyone says that they know why I did this…nobody knows and nobody will,” he wrote, the TV station reported.

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