War on Women (they can't fight if they don't show up)

Hey look...it's a conference on contemporary women in Saudi Arabia.

AND...THERE'S NO FREAKIN' WOMEN!!!!

I remind you, once again, that 85% of Muslims voted for Obama, and the Republicans have some kind of female war going on.  Or something...

It's Microcosm Time (everybody dance)

The Philadelphia School District is in the hole and their finances are putrid.  I wonder what caused the problem.

How did the district arrive in its current financial predicament?

A failure to cut costs as it shrank was a factor; certainly big cuts in state and federal revenue and the brutal economy have contributed to the fiscal woes. But Ramos has acknowledged that "poor fiscal policy" - too much borrowing, too much spending on the part of prior administrations - also landed the district in its tight spot.
 

The short version is that they spend too much, and when enrollment drops in the city, they refuse to close schools and consolidate, because that would mean the layoff of employees (the teacher's union would not allow that).

So, how are they going to fix the problem?

 The Philadelphia School Reform Commission moved Wednesday to borrow $300 million - money it needs just to pay teachers, heat buildings, and buy books for the rest of the school year.
 

The vote by the commission was unanimous.  This is how Liberals apply economics.  Spend, and then borrow.  Tax...then keep spending...then borrow again.


ADDENDUM:  You know what?  Let's do some research. 

The Philadelphia Public School District has a teacher to student ration of 1/19.   There is a teacher for each 19 students.  This is low.  And yet, they will layoff no educators.  They will close no schools and consolidate students.  Not only would they cut down on costs tremendously through salary and building maintenance, they would be in a position to sell prime real estate to private entities due to the abandoned locations.  These are significant figures.

Also, the total enrollment of the Philadelphia Public School System is 196,309.  They receive $7,669 for each student, which totals over $1.5 Billion.  They can't make the system work with that much money, and require a $300 Million loan just to make payroll.

Does anyone remember President Obama's priority in solving the economic crisis?  That's right, he wants to hire more teachers.

Burn America Burn...

War On Women (as long as it isn't literal)

NEW YORK — Democrats and liberal advocacy groups have declared victory in what they called a Republican “war on women” and are celebrating the pivotal defeats of some GOP candidates who took rigid stands against abortion.

However, the issues in dispute — notably access to contraception and abortion — are far from settled, and social conservatives are already girding for new confrontations.
 

Yes...without question, Republicans do everything possible to subjugate women.  That's sarcasm for you troglodytes out there. 

Meanwhile, Democrats received over 85% of the Muslim vote:

 Women shut out of Syria’s opposition leadership
 

 Thousands of hard-liners demonstrated in Cairo yesterday to demand that Shariah, or Islamic law, be the basis for legislation in a new constitution being drafted for Egypt.
 

CBS Sycophancy

(MoneyWatch) The election is finally over, which means the tax clock is ticking. Congress now has eight weeks until the U.S. economy jumps over the much-dreaded "fiscal cliff," the combination of tax increases and spending cuts that are scheduled to go into effect in January 2013.
 

Two days.  That's all it took for CBS to finally admit that President Obama raised taxes on the Middle Class to become effective after the General Election.  Disgusting and dishonest.  Blatant and sad.

And here is the CBS Fact Check comment from August of this year:

There are two problems with this claim. The first is that Mr. Obama has not raised taxes on the middle class.
 

Lying sacks of excrement...that is our network media.

One-stop Shopping

PHILADELPHIA could be facing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of gun owners who say the city violated their privacy by publishing their personal information and launching an interactive Web map that included clickable icons of revolvers over their homes.

Attorney Joshua Prince filed a motion this week in Common Pleas Court, requesting that the suit be sealed to avoid revealing the names of his five clients - and potentially hundreds of others if the case is granted class-action status.
 

This was stupid, on the part of the City of Philadelphia.  Ultimately, no one is giving the true reasons for releasing the personal information and (more importantly) location of the gun owners.  Simply put, it was intimidation and vindictive politics of the Left. 

As a result of this behavior, gun owners all over the city are the equivalent to marked targets by those less than savory characters that would like to add an illegal gun to their personal collection.  In essence, the City of Philadelphia gave an interactive map to criminals so they would know where to go to steal a gun that they couldn't acquire legally.

I'm not a fan of a litigious society, but I hope this Class Action suit nails the City officials with a vengeance.

This Sucks...and so does Boeing

From September:

The Obama administration issued new guidance intended for defense contractors Friday afternoon, reiterating the administration’s position that the companies should not be issuing layoff notices over sequestration.
 

And, today:

 Boeing announced a major restructuring of its defense division on Wednesday that will cut 30 percent of management jobs from 2010 levels, close facilities in California and consolidate several business units to cut costs.

"Instead, he and his allies focused in large part on undermining Romney"

Gannett (USA Today) is one such ally, and continues in that role.

Gannett owned water carrier for President Obama, USA Today (the second highest circulated domestic news source) finally admits the truth.  They had no idea what his second term agenda was (or if they did, they hid it).  They admit that the whole campaign rallied around trying to destroy the challenger (Romney).  USA Today did their part in perpetrating exactly that.

In this year's campaign, Obama didn't do much to establish a policy mandate for his victory. Instead, he and his allies focused in large part on undermining Romney, depicting him as a heartless corporate raider with little empathy for the lives of most Americans.

It worked. In surveys of voters as they left polling places, one in five voters said the most important quality in determining their vote was that the candidate "care about people like me;" they broke by 4-1 for Obama. Three in 10 said the most important quality was having "a vision for the future;" a majority of those supported Romney.

"It is not as though the president announced an ambitious second-term agenda," says William Galston, a former White House domestic-policy adviser to President Clinton. "He may have one in mind, but he has not done much to share it with the American people."
 

Of course, USA Today fails again in this regard.  The title of this piece is, " 4 more years: What to expect of Obama's 2nd-term."  And then they tell us absolutely nothing in any detail, because no one in the press has been forward enough to simply ask, and keep asking until it was revealed.