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Woman saves 2,500 babies. Irena Sendler passes away at age 98.

She actually passed away on May 12th last year but many didn’t notice. Her actions eventually earned her a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Not that many noticed as the prize was given to Al Gore that year. Continue reading as this story is worth your time.

Irena Sendler dead at 98.

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old woman named Irena. During WWII Irena received permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as social worker. She had an 'ulterior motive' ... She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews. She was able to convince some parents of what was in store for their families. Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried in the back of her truck or in a burlap sack (for larger kids). She also had a dog that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the sounds of the babies if they cried.

During her time of doing this she managed to smuggle out and save 2,500 kids/infants. She was eventually caught and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. After the the war the Soviets considered her a threat.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the children she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war ended she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those children she helped were placed into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize but she did not win.  Al Gore won for a slide show on Global Warming. 

FYI – before she died Irena was cared for in the nursing home. One of the nurses that cared for her was one of the babies she smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto. 

You can read more about Irena at: The Irna Sendler Project: Life in a Jar and we have Glenn Beck coverage of her story below.

A giant well done to Irena Sendler. May you rest in peace.

 

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Florida Atlantic University official shuts down conservative student group meeting.

Full story here at Big Government.

We send our young adults to university to be educated in the ways of the world, we all know. Following that well-worn path, young James Schackleford decided on the publicly funded Florida Atlantic University for his edification and boy did he learn a lesson about modern education last week. Mr. Schackleford learned that the FAU administration prefers its campus Islamic terrorist supporters over representatives of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom organization. He also learned that it’s open season on all conservatives at our American universities.

At the Boca Raton campus Mr. Schackleford determined that his school needed a chapter of YAF, a 40-year-old conservative student organization, and so gathered a few like-minded students to meet with YAF State Director Daniel P. Diaz to discuss how they should proceed on organizing a chapter in the school.

As the few gathered were meeting, university administrator David Blank* burst into the room and demanded that they cease their meeting and vacate the room. According to the YAF press release, Mr. Schackleford asked for an additional 15 minutes to finish and Blank acquiesced to the request. But the 15-minute grant was short lived.

“Upon hearing Diaz address the liberal bias on the FAU campus, Blank stopped the meeting again and boorishly ordered the students to vacate the meeting room. Blank the shut off the room lights, tore down the group’s promotional posters, and called the campus police.”

continued…

I’m not surprised. Walk into the average campus activities office these days and odds are you’ll find that it is run by a motley crew of liberals. Who else could universities find to promote “diversity” by pushing kids into joining groups based on their ethnicity?

 

 

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1,000 Berkeley socialists protest cost of socialism during “National Day of Action”.

The Berkley Daily Planet covered the event. Link here. Take a look at the signs and you realize that these people are protesting their own ideology.

So here’s want they want:

• “social justice” 
• “environmental justice”
• “tax the rich”
• “tax big business”

Note to hippie protesters – you live in California and have all of that and then some. As a matter of fact you have so much of it that it has crushed the budget of the State of California and caused the tuition hikes that you are now protesting. That is the cost of socialism. Did the faculty at Berkley somehow convince these people that someone can waive a magic wand and deliver all of these goods and services for free each day?

 

 

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Obama kills NASA space exploration but plans to Increase Controversial “Safe Schools Czar’s” Budget.

Citizenlinkblog.com reports here:

President Obama and his administration have continued to ignore the loud outcry over the appointment of  a radical gay activist, Kevin Jennings, to head up the nation’s “safe schools” office.

Not only have they remained deaf to these concerns, but now they plan to give Jennings significantly more of our money to spend! President Obama’s proposed 2011 budget would allocate $410 million for programs overseen by Jennings. That’s an increase of $45 million.

So want does Jennings intend to do with this money?

For starters, he says he’s going to make “school climate” measurement a top priority—and, in fact, he’d love for “school climate” to eventually be made part of the “Common Core” national standards movement!  He plans to begin with “a new grant program coming out of this department where we’ll be providing possibly as much as $70 million for investments in school climate projects.”  (He revealed all this and much more in this month’s Phi Delta Kappan magazine. Scroll down to the “Safe at School” title.)

So at this point, you might be wondering, What on earth does “school climate” really mean? I think it’s best to take that definition from Kevin Jennings–based on his record as the longtime founder and leader of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network).

Under Jennings’ leadership, GLSEN has provided students with a “school climate” continuum measurement tool.  This tool reveals a lot about Jennings’ true goals: A positively rated “inclusive school,” for instance, is defined as one where “LGBT themes are fully integrated into curricula across a variety of subject areas and grade levels.”

I.e., Jennings and GLSEN want homosexual, bisexual and transgender themes taught in every subject at every grade, all the way down to the kindergarten level, maybe even preschool.

By contrast, a “hostile school,” is one where “Curricula are devoid of LGBT themes” and homosexuality is “characterized” as “sin.” Does this mean that a school that acknowledges Christian students’ free speech rights to express their opinions about things like same-sex marriage is rated as “hostile”? Does this mean that if students disagree with lessons taught in class about homosexuality and same-sex marraige that they will be in violation of “school climate” safety policies?

Is this how Kevin Jennings will use taxpayer-funded money to measure our schools and force changes?

It remains to be seen, since his plans are still in the baby stages—but parents should stay on the alert.

 

 

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Berkeley hippies riot over cost of socialism.

Here is the video of the riot. Usual stuff.

So why the riot? There are a couple of blogs that will piece it all together for you. Occupy California and Reclaim UC. Hint - it's filled with socialist/communist views on the world. The irony of course is that this is going on in California. They voted for all of the liberals and their policies. Now they can live with the cost.

 

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Washington University Student Paper: “How to Give a Textbook Bl*w job”

 

This could be a contest: How did the writer end up with that topic?

• She was told to write about her favorite hobby.
• She was told to write about her favorite subject.
• She was told to research a career path.

Gateway Pundit has the full story here.

Your child is learning more on campus these days than you ever would have imagined. Skills that will help your child climb the ladder of success. Skills that will make your child marketable. Don’t worry about the recession. By the time your child graduates from Wash U. in St. Louis, your little darling will know what it takes to succeed. After all, it’s a tough market out there. And, your child will need the necessary skills to get ahead. Right?

The Student Life is the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878.
The latest edition of this liberal rag discusses “How to give a textbook blow job.”

From the article by Lucy Moore:

So, here goes my knowledge collected from interviewing men and women, and my observations (including those drawn from porn), which I will organize into a list of tips to be used at one’s own discretion. Remember: all men—and their penises—are different. These are not rules. Also, remember, STDs are transmitted from oral sex, too!

So…

1. Always keep the entirety of the shaft of the penis and the head covered with something, mouth or hand. As I find that not everyone is capable of deepthroating manuevers, especially when it comes to a man who is well endowed, I often find it helpful to think of blowjobs as handjob-blowjob combos; keep your left hand on the shaft in rhythm with your mouth over the head and whatever shaft you are able to keep in your mouth.

2. Mix it up, but not too much: Try and balance trying to create a unique experience for your partner (swirling of your tongue over the head, movement of your tongue down the shaft in succession, for example) with consistent rhythm that can maintain and build an orgasm……

I guess the men on campus might say that their parent's money was well spent. Some parents might not be so amused.

Princeton University hires communist Van Jones.

Van Jones does not have a degree in science nor economics but yet Princeton has hired him teach a seminar on those subjects. So much for a Princeton education. The Washington Post fawns over him in their coverage here.

He will have a one-year joint appointment as a distinguished visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for African American Studies and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he will teach a seminar on environmental and economic policy.

Eddie Glaude Jr., who chairs the Center for African American Studies, said in an interview that Princeton was eager to welcome "the leading voice in the environmental justice movement," even if it sparks some debate on campus.

"All of this is designed to create a vibrant intellectual environment for the exchange of ideas," said Glaude, adding that he had just hosted a visit by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele this week. "Universities are places for diverse voices to engage in conversation, relatively free from sanction and constraint, and to examine divergent ideas."

Jones will commute to Princeton from Washington, where he lives with his family, and will spearhead a "green opportunity initiative" as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Jones said he would spend his time at the think tank examining how to push for "green enterprise zones" that would encourage clean technology development in poor urban and rural areas; for an aggressive national renewable energy standard; and for a "Home Star" program that would provide federal incentives to make homes more energy-efficient.

This guy is amazingly dumb. He wants to push for "green energy zones" in poor urban areas. Does he want the poor to pay MORE for electricity? Anyone that looks into the cost of solor power can tell you that unless the government gives you equipment for free then it costs more per kilowatt than the electric company charges. Oh wait - I forgot who we are talking about. Maybe that is what he wants.

 

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University of Houston approves income level based tuition increases.

 

The University of Houston System Board of Regents recently approved a tuition and fees hike. The average UH undergraduate will pay $138 more a semester. Full story here.

Students, get ready to pay more. Tuition is going up at colleges across the country, and the rising costs will soon be felt in Houston, too. On Monday the University of Houston System Board of Regents approved a tuition and fees hike.

The average UH undergraduate will pay $138 more a semester.

Board Chairman Welcome Wilson, Sr. calls it a modest hike.

"We are unwilling to cut teacher salary. We're unwilling to lower our standards to make the budget work," said Wilson.

Students say they're disappointed and nervous about the decision.

"America really likes to paint this picture that it's easy for everybody to go to college and easy to pay. That's not the case sometimes," said Chechey Nweke, a sophomore who works and uses financial aid and loans to put himself through college.

That story was reported by Fox News Houston on February 16th,2010. On that same day University of Houston President Khantor "Tweeted" the follow message:

"Freshman at UH? Look at Cougar Pledge Program...no tuition increase for 4 years if on track toward graduation."

Now that sounds interesting so I searched around for more information on that program and quickly found that the university is now offering free tuition based on your level of income. As a matter of fact the UH president also "Tweeted" about it here.

"Cougar Promise--Tuition free education for families with less than $45k per year family income..board committee approves!"

You can find the full details regarding "free" tuition here:

Guaranteed Free Tuition for Students with Family Income up to $40,000

Beginning in Fall 2008, the University of Houston will guarantee free tuition and mandatory fees to new in-state freshmen with family incomes at or below $40,000. The Cougar Promise is the University of Houston's promise to low income families that college is accessible to their children and that financial aid will be available to them.

To be eligible for Cougar Promise, you must be:

• A new entering freshman
• A Texas resident for tuition purposes
• A high school graduate who has earned a recommended or distinguished diploma
• A member of a family whose adjusted gross income does not exceed $40,000
• Eligible to receive federal financial aid and must submit all financial aid forms with supporting documents by March 31, 2009
• Enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Houston, maintaining at least 30 credit hours within a 12 month period.

That is an amazing deal - for those students with an adjusted AGI less than $40,000.00. For the rest of students it's a tuition increase this year. I guess when UH Board Chairman Welcome Wilson, Sr. said "...We're unwilling to lower our standards to make the budget work," he meant that UH wants to cover the costs of free tuition for some people, based on their income, by increasing the costs of tuition for everyone else.

 

 

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Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA) considering retiring from Congress. Oh - he's the guy that let Amy Bishop off for killing her brother.

 

Yes - that Amy Bishop. The nut job professor that just shot and killed several people at The University of Alabama. Retirement story here. Killing the brother story here.

ORLEANS - US Representative William Delahunt said yesterday that he is considering retiring from his congressional seat representing the South Shore and Cape Cod, although he portrayed his deliberations as routine and said they are not related to challenges from Republicans who are energized by Scott Brown’s upset victory in last month’s special Senate election.

“Every election cycle, I take my time, I think it through, and I think, not about whether I can win or lose, but: ‘Am I in a position to make a difference?’ ’’ Delahunt, a Quincy Dem ocrat, said in a telephone interview. “Can I achieve what I want to achieve outside of public life?’’

Delahunt, who has not faced a serious challenge since he was elected in 1996, has a campaign war chest of more than $600,000 but has not been aggressively raising money this year, according to federal records. He said he will announce in March whether he will seek reelection.

So what did he have to do with Amy Bishop and the shooting of her brother? Oh wait - he was the District Attorney at the time.

The state police report in the 1986 shooting, released by the office of U.S. Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Massachusetts, gives an account similar to a Boston Globe story published on December 8, 2008. Delahunt was district attorney at the time; staffers said he was in the Middle East on Sunday and unable to comment on the case.

Earlier this weekend, Braintree police said records from that shooting were missing, and that the department's log indicated the shooting was accidental. However, Police Chief Paul Frazier said he didn't agree with the Globe's account.

The Globe's story stated that Anderson asked her mother how to unload a round from a 12-gauge shotgun and that Anderson -- then known as Amy Bishop -- accidentally shot her brother while she was handling the weapon. The article cited then-Police Chief John Polio as the source.

According to the state police report released Sunday, Braintree police told state police that "indications were that Amy Bishop had been attempting to manipulate the shotgun and had subsequently brought the gun downstairs in an attempt to gain assistance from her mother in disarming the weapon" when it went off, shooting her brother, Seth, in the chest.

But, Frazier said Saturday, "it is a far different story I believe than what was reported back then. I cannot tell you what the thought process was behind our releasing her at the time."

An officer then involved in the case who is still working for the department told him that Anderson shot her brother during an argument, Frazier said.

The officer said Anderson allegedly fired a shot in her bedroom without hitting anyone, argued with her brother, shot him and then fired another round in the home before fleeing, according to Frazier.

Frazier said the teen was arrested after pointing a weapon at a vehicle near the house in an attempt to get the driver to stop, but it drove on. But during the booking process, then-Chief Polio called and told the officers to release her, Frazier said. He said her mother was at the time a member of the Braintree Personnel Board.

Shot and killed her brother? Then aimed the gun at a car to get the driver to stop in an attempt to flee? Was released?  Anyone else thinking WTF?

 

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Amy Bishop had history of violence prior to shooting up a university. Shot and killed her own brother but was released.

 

The Boston Herald crazy background piece on Amy Bishop. Pun intended. Full story here.

As authorities searched for clues into what could have sent a University of Alabama neurobiology professor on an alleged killing spree, friends and family yesterday described Braintree native Amy Bishop as an awkward introvert on the brink of losing her teaching job.

Bishop’s husband, James Anderson, told the Herald his wife had been fighting the university for over a year about a tenure denial, and several months ago received a final decision. She was upset, but not overly emotional, approaching her appeal “like a game of chess,” he said.

Police in Huntsville, Ala., charged Bishop, 44, with capital murder after she allegedly opened fire on six colleagues at a faculty meeting Friday, killing three. Afterward, she calmly called her husband and asked him to pick her up as if nothing had happened, said police Chief Henry Reyes.

Here's the clue - she's a nut job. The story also notes:

She was an oddball - just not very sociable,” said Sylvia Fluckiger, a former lab technician who worked with Bishop in 1993.

Bishop acknowledged at the time being questioned in the bombing attempt of a Harvard medical doctor evaluating her on doctorate work, a professor with whom Bishop was known to quarrel, Fluckiger said.

Reyes confirmed he is working with the FBI to learn more about why Bishop was a suspect in the attempted bombing of Dr. Paul Rosenberg, who received a double-pipe bomb in the mail on Dec. 19, 1993. He ran from his Newton home with his wife, escaping without injury. The bomb never exploded.

“She was quite cavalier about it,” Fluckiger said of Bishop’s description of her interview with police. She said Bishop “grinned” as she described being asked by cops whether she’d ever taken stamps off an envelope and fastened them onto something else. “I cannot tell you what the grin meant,” Fluckiger said.

But wait - it gets even worse:

Seven years prior, Bishop shot her brother to death in Braintree in an incident that was ruled an accident at the time.

But Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier has raised questions about the handling of the case, and officials are investigating missing records in the 1986 death of 18-year-old Seth Bishop

Shot and killed her own brother? Now go back to the fist part of the Boston Herald story about authorities looking for clues. Just what other clues are you looking for as to "why" someone might start shooting people. I mean other than she has a history of shooting people.

 

 

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