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Two items of interest here in Tennessee:

Tennessee State Senator’s Bill Would Ban Diversity Programs On College Campuses…

and Tennessee Considers Training And Arming Schoolteachers To Protect Against Shootings.

Via Daily Caller: 

A Tennessee state senator has introduced a bill that would abolish diversity programs, ban diversity officers and end preference based on race, ethnicity and gender on college campuses in the Volunteer State.

Republican Jim Summerville calls his slate of legislation the “Civil Rights Initiative of 2013,” reports Knoxville NBC affiliate WBIR-TV. In addition to forbidding diversity preference programs, the proposal would prohibit the state from keeping any statistics based on race, gender or ethnicity, or using those criteria for hiring, except as mandated by federal law.

“It’s a little demeaning, I think, to classify people in those categories,” Summerville told WBIR. “They might wonder ‘Am I here because I’m any good or am I here to fill a quota?’ So I think it’s time to let this go.”

Keep reading…, hat tip Zip

Via TPM:

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As has been seen following other mass shootings, there’s a strong segment of the gun rights lobby that says the answer to events like the one in Newtown is more guns in more places. But they’ve said the recent massacre shows how important it is to put guns into elementary schools, where even gun-friendly states like Tennessee don’t currently allow them.

State Sen. Frank Niceley (R) told TPM on Tuesday he believes it’s time for that to change. He plans to introduce legislation in the next session, which begins Jan. 8, that will require all schools to have an armed staff member of some kind. The current language of the bill — which is in its early form — would allow for either a so-called “resource officer” (essentially an armed police officer, the kind which most Tennessee high schools have already) or an armed member of the faculty or staff in every school in the state. The choice would allow schools that can’t afford a resource officer to fulfill the requirement without having to pay for anything beyond the cost of the training and, presumably, the weapon. But Niceley said schools should use the wiggle room to train and keep on hand armed staff not in uniform.

That’s the best way to protect students, he said.  (read it all)

 

Many states already allow teachers to carry concealed weapons on school campuses.  Other states are now taking action to change their laws and allow teachers to be armed.

 

If but for ten good people…

By R.J. Godlewski

© January 31, 2013, All Rights Reserved.

 

“’For the sake of those ten,’ he replied, ‘I will not destroy it.’” Genesis 18:32 New American Bible

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            Usually, when I write, I have already plotted out the article or book well in advance, merely composing the words from memory whenever time presents itself. This piece, however, remains different because I wanted to write something from instinct – or from the heart, for that matter – and not suffer the intent through a myriad of cerebral modifications ad infinitum. Accordingly, I shall let the reader undertake the chore of mental evaluation and reflection. Anyone can lead a horse to water, I am constantly told, but only a leader can make that horse buy him double bourbon and, folks, leaders are sorely lacking today.

            The Biblical quote referenced above comes from Abraham’s intercession on Sodom’s behalf, of course, and remains illustrative of this very article. The “Father” of the world’s three great monotheistic religions could not save one single city and, no Virginia; there apparently were not ten good people in Sodom. Myself, I will be so bold as to turn the tables a bit on God. For the sake of ten good people, I will care about the world. I will make it even a bit easier, for the sake of ten good people; I will care about the United States. Inasmuch as I have not, yet, been able to find ten good Muslims to stand alongside me and protest against violence enacted in their name or against the persecution of Christians and Jews living within Arabic lands, I doubt that I will find ten good Americans living within the United States to sufficiently save this great nation of ours from itself.

            If there were a mere ten good Americans living today, then President Barack Obama would not be determined to destroy our beloved Constitution. Certainly, the president does not fear his constituency and so the most inexperienced, ill vetted and historically ignorant president in U.S. history landed a second term upon four years of shattered expectations and a mountain of unsustainable debt. If there were ten good Americans, at least one would be in the mainstream media and challenge the president, his party, and the journalist’s peers on what remains common sense and what remains abject subversion. If there were at least one good person working on the O’Reilly Factor, for instance, they would certainly have challenged host Bill O’Reilly on his professed endorsement of federalizing all gun crimes and requiring federal approval before one moves firearms across state lines (say, if I should relocate my residence from Michigan to South Dakota). If the avowed purpose of the Second Amendment remains to keep the government in the hands of the people, how does placing the people’s right and ability to defend themselves against government into said government’s hands beneficial? If there were at least one good person working the eight o’clock stretch at Fox News, perhaps they would tell Mr. O’Reilly to go back to teaching. Or, at least, write a book on his own merits.

WORDS THAT WARNED: Against Your Will: Obama's Plan

By Sharon Sebastian 

 

SPECIAL NOTE: This revealing article was published on April 14, 2010 on Sharon Sebastian's website www.DarwinsRacists.com. Sebastian's analysis from three years ago is today's fact. The assault has begun on America’s freedoms, faith and sovereignty. You can read Sebastian’s further insight’s at: http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/sharon-sebastian/

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Brace yourself. If President Obama rams through health care with tactics that circumvent the Constitution, obliterates checks and balances and ignores the will of the majority of the American people, be prepared for the same bully tactics to be used in other critical upcoming legislation. If voters think the health care debacle is ugly, expect it to get uglier based on the President's planned agenda. Health care reform is not the ultimate objective. Devising "the formula" needed to get it passed is. Unlocking the formula to open the floodgates to enact whatever future legislation Obama wants, is the goal. Once the formula is in place, then the Obama administration has the key to do to America and Americans whatever it wants. It won't matter how Americans vote in the mid-term.

Senate leader Harry Reid revealed that legislative checks and balances were neutered when he said the reason he is pushing so hard for Obamacare is because, "the President wants it." Democrats supporting a Democrat President is expected, but to do so to the point of rewriting law and ignoring Constitutional guidelines in order for the President to get his way, eviscerates the legislative branch and empowers the executive branch with unchecked powers. It is dangerous. Our founding fathers warned of its dangers.

Israel Strikes Again - Good!

It was reported yesterday and confirmed shortly thereafter that Israel bombed a suspected shipment of antiaircraft missiles in Syria. Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah condemned what they called an Israeli attack which it said targeted a Syrian research center. 

Russia condemned the unprovoked attack by Israel. 

The United Nations says Israel must withdraw all of its citizens from the regions of Judea and Samaria.

The early-morning strike in a border area west of Damascus targeted a convoy of trucks carrying Russian-made SA-17 missiles to Hezbollah, the anti-Israel Shiite militant and political group in Lebanon, according to a Western official briefed on the raid. ...

In addition to taking out weapons that could be used by Hezbollah against Israeli warplanes in a future conflict, Israel sent what amounted to a message of warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iran against attempting to transfer any chemical or biological weapons to Hezbollah, U.S. and Western officials said. The use of such weapons has been singled out by President Barack Obama as a "red line" that could trigger a U.S. intervention.

Syria maintained that the accounts of a strike on an arms convoy near the country's border with Lebanon were wrong. Instead, Syria's military said, Israeli jets had attacked a military facility near Damascus.  (continue at Wall Street Journal)

 

Iran threatens serious consequences.

The Iranian regime's English language mouthpiece, Press TV, quoted a deputy foreign minister as saying that the "strike on Syria will have serious consequences for Tel Aviv." The official did not elaborate. (more at Jerusalem Post)

 

The useless anti-Israel United Nations:

The United Nations says Israel must withdraw all of its citizens from the regions of Judea and Samaria.

The recommendation came in a report issued Thursday by the U.N. Human Rights Council, which has a history of passing numerous biased resolutions condemning Israel for various alleged ‘crimes’ each year.

"Israel must, in compliance with Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, cease all settlement activities without preconditions," the report said in part. "It must immediately initiate a process of withdrawal of all settlers from the occupied Palestinian territories."

Israel’s Foreign Ministry responded in a fiery statement immediately to the report, which claimed that Jewish settlement activity only “hampers peace efforts.”

In response, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, “The Human Rights Council has sadly distinguished itself by its systemically one-sided and biased approach towards Israel.

“This latest report is yet another reminder of that,” he added.

At least half a million Israelis live in Judea, Samaria and areas of Jerusalem restored to the capital during the 1967 Six Day War.  (YNET)

 

I support Israel!

 

 

 

Help Wanted: Qualified Death Panelists

Are you a nationally recognized health finance and economics expert willing to work for beans on a political lightning rod of a project? Do you enjoy being the subject of Senate confirmation hearings? If so, apply to be a death panelist today…because it doesn’t look like anyone else is. The Washington Post reports:

The Independent Payment Advisory Board, the new, 15-member panel . . . has the authority to reduce Medicare doctors’ reimbursements and pilot new ways to deliver high quality care for less.

Obama’s former health policy advisers worry that other top health economists, those in hot demand in academia and in the industry, won’t be interested in a federal job where the compensation is low, the political controversy high and the ultimate payoff unclear.

“It is supposed to be 15 members, with limited salaries who can’t do any outside work,” says Peter Orszag, the former director of the Office of Budget and Management under Obama who was a key proponent of IPAB. “It will be challenging to find [15 top] health-care experts . . . who would want that job.”

It isn’t hard to see why nobody is clamoring to take a job that offers low pay and lots of regulations and will make everyone in the country hate you.

  (continue at American-Interest, hat tip Instapundit)

Also see Business Week.

Heh - Gross. Arabs Forgot to Add Adequate Sewage System to World’s Tallest Building – All Poop Must Be Removed By Trucks (Video)

Gateway Pundit has the story and video.

Gizmodo reported:

Today I learned something that also defies belief: all the poop produced there has to be removed by trucks.

Let’s do the math here. The Burj Khalifa has 163 habitable floors. It’s designed to hold 35,000 people at any given time. Now, humans produce 100 to 250 grams (3 to 8 ounces) of feces per day. Let’s say 200 in this case, since these people are well fed. That’s 7,000,000 grams per day. Seven tonnes of poop per day. Now, add human-produced liquids (pee, bathing, cleaning their teeth…) and the water to push the poop down its miles of sewage pipes. I think a very conservative total would be 15 tonnes of sewage per day.

That’s a lot of poop.

Continue reading and see video at Gateway Pundit.

 

Defense Department’s Actions Against LTC Matthew Dooley Violate National Interests:

You may remember that Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Matthew Dooley was removed from his teaching post as a result of demands by Muslim organizations that all training materials offensive to Islam bepurged and instructorsusing the materialsdisciplined.

The Thomas Moore Law Center (TMLC) Challenges National Defense University’s Accreditation

TMLC announced today that it filed a formal complaint with the President of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (Commission) challenging the accreditation of the National Defense University (NDU).  The Commission, which accredited NDU as a degree granting university, responded that it has begun a “preliminary review” of TMLC’s complaint.

TMLC’s complaint provides overwhelming evidence that several NDU and Department of Defense (DoD) policies relating to academic freedom were violated ...

TMLC also asked the Commission to conduct its own confidential on-site interviews of NDU faculty members to determine the extent to which academic freedom has been diminished and what measures should be taken to insure the future integrity of NDU as a university.

LTC Dooley was an instructor at the NDU, and one of the faculty members assigned to run the elective course entitled, Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism.  Click here to read TMLC’s 7-page complaint.  (continue reading at TMLC, hat tip R.J. Godlewski)

 

A "reworked" National Anthem at the Super Bowl?

via Ricochet:

Alicia Keys will sing our national anthem at the Superbowl on Sunday, and she has said it is actually a brand new song in the style that she'll deliver it.  We don't know what that means, if lyrics will be left out, changed, or if it's just a publicity leak, as if the game needs any more publicity.  (continue reading at Ricochet and read comments)

 

Military Still Isn’t Fixing Its Sexual Abuse Epidemic

Even after the Lackland Scandal.  How much worse will it get now that Gays (LGBTQ) can serve openly and now that women will be allowed to serve on the front lines?  Just asking.  Robert Beckhusen at Wired's Danger Room reports:

The Pentagon has talked a lot about putting a stop to sexual abuse and harassment in the military, including abuse carried out by general officers. Yet a new report from the investigative arm of Congress finds it’s mostly that — talk. It catalogs how the military still hasn’t fixed a host of systemic obstacles that contribute to sexual assault and make it less likely for survivors to get help.

According to a report released Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), while the Pentagon has made some progress in recent years at trying to stop sexual abuse, treatment isn’t always available. Medical first-responders are undertrained and not always aware of services available for survivors. Perhaps worse, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs — which oversees the military’s health resources — hasn’t “established guidance,” required by the Pentagon, “for the treatment of injuries stemming from sexual assault.”

Among those guidelines: standardizing procedures for collecting evidence; providing specialized medical care; and, perhaps most alarming, keeping the identities of survivors private. Instead, sexual assault survivors within the military have to navigate a hodge-podge of different standards between branches — even at individual bases. “These inconsistencies,” the report states, can “erode servicemembers’ confidence. As a consequence, sexual assault victims who want to keep their case confidential may be reluctant to seek medical care.”  (continue reading at Wired's Danger Room)

Obama phone lady turns on Obama, again

Obama Phone Lady Michelle Dowery Calls Obama a Punk: If You Can Be Safe with a Gun We Can Be Safe With Ours.  Read it here, see the video.   Recently she said in an interview, that she would not vote for Obama a third time.  Wow.

This reminded me of the following t-shirt offered by BigFurHat: