81% of $160m+ of Taxpayer Money Attawapiskat Wasted on Chief and Her Friends Instead of Housing and Tribal Well-Being

From CBC: (Left)
Inside Attawapiskat’s Finances

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/01/09/f-attawapiskat-finances-faq.html

From Sun News: (Right)

“A Fake Hunger Strike”

In past years, this article would have typically gone under my category of “The result of Liberal Fantasies” for me here, or would be evidence to back up my previous claims or charges that “Liberals hate math.”

This is a new year, however, and with it comes a personal desire to be less divisive with my friends on the “other side” of the political spectrum.

With that in mind, I’ll say that this article simply serves as evidence that we, as citizens, really need to “wake up” to the matter of personal and individual responsibility that we SHOULD have in our lives whether it comes to personal finances or to politics in general.

On the far right people are surely screaming, “This is their fault, not ours! Cut off funding to the Reservations until they’re accountable!”  On the far left, they are surely screaming, “This is OUR fault, not theirs!  We need to be giving them MORE money, not less, and WE need to be more accountable!”

What both sides should agree on, for one, is that these aboriginal people need decent shelter, water, and basic services NOW – we shouldn’t get wrapped up in the politics of all the “who’s done wrong” while they’re sitting in the middle of a cold winter waiting for them.

Second, they should agree that corruption is corruption, theft is theft, and fraud is fraud no matter what the skin color or race of the person or people committing the crime happens to be.

Third, both sides should agree that this behavior was despicable.  The government waste is despicable and the fact that greedy tribal leaders and their friends have lined their pockets while the people and children they’ve been charged with taking care of have suffered is even worse.

Want to solve this problem? Then the far right should get honest about the fact that these children would have STILL likely suffered under a completely private system, and the far left should get honest about the fact that their way of doing things pretty much doesn’t work in the real world either.

Let’s see if the far right can admit that, and at the very least, the far left can come out and actually admit that Chief Spence is a fraud and a crook. Until then, I feel we’re just biding time until the next scandal becomes unearthed… five or ten years later.

Teachers’ Unions A Necessary Evil Against Inept Admin Leadership

A great post over at my NC friend Pino’s site about the damaging effects union thuggery has on the school system (http://tarheelred.com/2012/06/26/one-at-a-time-taking-schools-back-from-teachers-unions/). He cites initiatives in a number of states to give parents more power than unions over schools, and how unions then fight them and drag things on in court with their massive legal power.

As I read his post, I can hear my unionista friends wanting to quickly rush to unions’ defense with the usual ideological lines such as “unions are for the working people” and that sort of crap. Typically, I’d respond with the usual generalist argument from the right that all unions truly want is power, but since this is the kind of ideological axle-wrapping that is bringing this country down, however, I’m going to refrain and make a couple points that may surprise some of my detractors.

1) Right now, I believe that teachers’ unions – in general – are needed in schools. Why? Because the administrations I’ve been given insight into through the teachers I know are too inefficient, incompetent, and arrogant for their own good.

I don’t doubt for a second that without the unions, right now many school systems would be letting go of the expensive senior teachers for more junior teachers without any care or concern for the quality of the product – the education of our children. The capitalist argument doesn’t apply here because 1) the quality of the product isn’t there to begin with, and 2) neither is the quality of leadership there right now in order to sustain desired results.

2) In a number of ways I do support the tenure system. It’s not so anti-capitalist as some would like to believe. Consider the Japanese model and how employees were employees for life, and what this can do in terms of adding to the quality of the product when a person can pour their heart into their job without fear of that job being snatched from them tomorrow. I think that’s the kind of “love” we want our teachers to have for our kids, no?

Now from the other side – American public schools, for the most part, have morphed into a system where certainty of a job has been given almost total priority over certainty of education quality. One may argue all they want for unions, but the fact is that unions – being built for the sole purpose of job certainty – have become more of the problem than the solution.

My solution will sound simplistic here for brevity, but it really runs the same as how I’d fix ANY failing organization in three steps:
1) I’d make the product the “baby” rather than the people building it, 2) I’d make EVERYONE accountable for that product instead of the people with the most immediate hands-on, and 3) I’d make sure it had enough time to properly grow and improve.

Face it – teachers unions as they are now negatively impact each of those three things. The move like the one in Wisconsin to take power away from thug-like unions, or these moves to create “trigger laws” are therefore a good one because it addresses two of the three steps above – one, it allows for more individual accountability in a higher-quality product, and two, it has added a sense of urgency towards that higher-quality product being achieved. It does less to impact accountability, but that’s where the people and the politicians need to step in and pull back some of the “job certainty” powers the administrators in these school districts have equal to the pullbacks we’re doing with the unions. Have that happen, and I think we’d be getting somewhere.

Occupy – They’re Losers Because Their Attitude Sucks

A great post by Pino over at http://www.tarheelred.com. He shows an Occupy page where its leaders are asking for help to clean up. Guess what the Occupussies do? They pull backaches and every excuse not to show up and help. Not surprised – they obviously feel that work is “below them”.

As another example, Sean Hannity had an Occupy leader on his show a few days ago. He challenged the guy to wake up early, throw down some coffee, and spend as much time as he does protesting on going out and finding a job. The guy’s response? “Give me a job and I’ll work.” Yes, he said GIVE ME A JOB. “I’ve been trying to get a job,” he says, “I’ve been online sending out resumes for days.” Haha! Sweat pouring off your brow, no doubt.

(Hannity also said he had the kid on his radio show where he was actually offered a job but wouldn’t take it, however I can’t locate the clip…)

That’s the attitude of the Occupy whiner mob in general. Because they breathe, because they feel frustrated – because life isn’t easy and is perhaps getting harder – they feel more compelled (and justified) to take than to give.

Success starts with the right attitude. Yes, it’s cliche, but it’s true and has been proven true time and time again. Bottom line is Occupidiots’ attitudes are not those attitude of successful people, and I don’t mean successful peoples’ attitudes after they’ve won or achieved something – I mean their attitude when they set out to.

Occupiers are ignorant to words “choice”, “initiative”, and “resourcefulness”. They hate all three words because they’re tied to two other words – “work”, and “responsibility” – and because of that, their movement was doomed from the start.

Good riddance indeed.

The Business Of Racism In The USA

The case of Treyvon Martin’s death is a tragic one. Early accounts appear to indicate that an over-zealous, likely racist, cop-wannabe block captain shot a mostly innocent kid for what appears to be “mischief” at worst.

Now enter the vultures Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton now circling Martin’s carcass looking to milk the incident for all it’s worth. In my opinion these two men are more a disgrace to the incident and the cause than they are any sort of solution.

Are they trying to stop racism? No. If that happened they’d lose their lobbying power and be out of a job. Instead, they’re out there fanning the fires of racism to gain attention, popularity, and votes saying racism is some sort of epidemic when it isn’t. A marijuana-smoking kid gets shot by a hispanic and that means it was all of a sudden a “War on Blacks” as Jacson puts it? Hardly.

There should instead be a war on idiots making issues bigger than they actually are for their own media attention, because that to me is a large part of what fuels the violence against people of a certain group or class. Doesn’t some overpaid union rep whining about their virtuslly guaranteed job at 23% higher wage turn public opinion against unions? Similar thing when rich, overpaid, oversensationalized guys like Jackson and Sharpton start playing victim again, I believe, and same as those phony 99%ers.

As for the Sharpton and Jackson issue, the former NAACP president appears to agree. In his comments here, former leader C.L. Bryant says the real epidemic is black on black violence, but we hardly hear Sharpton and Jackson say much about that, do we? I wonder why. Perhaps it doesn’t pay as well as the “fair share” liberal population does, ever wanting to continue apologizing and giving handouts from someone else’s pocket over something they’ll never allow themselves to see and end to or move on from.

Zimmerman’s a creep and a killer, and he should be punished to the full extent of the law. People like Spike Lee, Sharpton, Jackson, and the BPP, however, should stop trying to use the incident to increase their own visibility and should simply let the legal system run its course. And besides, aren’t these the same people who hate it when the public automatically convicts their favorites without a trial? I just read that Spike Lee tweeted Zimmerman’s home address, and the BPP just put a bounty on him. Yep, these are your “fair share”, “we care about everbody and we’re all about love” liberals, people. Bless ‘em.

Reuters: “Three Occupy Oakland protesters charged with hate crimes”

The Occulosers strike again. Turn a blind eye and offer unconditional support for this bowel movement once again, you “Fair Share” Liberals!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/03/us-oakland-protests-hatecrimes-idUSTRE82208720120303

Documentary: “The One Percent” by Jamie Johnson

I was hoping for a good documentary here. It started off well: Jamie Johnson, one of the heirs to the Johnson and Johnson empire, discovered that his father in his youth made a documentary on poverty in Africa, yet his father was quiet about it. For a number of reasons, Jamie wondered why.

He starts to explore that question, and brings up a subject matter that I was previously unfamiliar with – the sugar “cartel” in Florida and how it was a totally rigged game and pretty much a f@scist sham from the start.

Where does Jamie Johnson go from there, however? In my opinion, nowhere.

Here’s a “Trustafarian” (as his father calls him), who’s had nothing but a silver spoon in his mouth from day one biting the hand that feeds yet refusing to let go of the silver spoon.

If he’s so passionate about his subject, where’s his detachment from the family money? At least in the documentary, it doesn’t exist. According to Wikipedia, when he was interviewed about the film he was asked this same thing, and Jamie Johnson simply dodged it with, “We’re not here to talk about that.”

My assessment? He’s a spoiled, lazy little rich kid who’s simply trying to gain attention and bite the hand that feeds in order to assert himself and try to feel significant. In fact, he was so lazy he even chose the easiest way to way to do it – pick up a camera and invade peoples’ privacy trying to play “gotcha”. On top of “spoiled”, I think he’s also a whiner, a freeloader, and a hypocrite.

Don’t see this movie – it’s a waste of time. “Born Rich” is a much better movie about why I think many trust fund babies need their heads slapped and asses kicked.

Planned Occupy Protest at Congress Fizzles

Hahahaha. Hahahahahahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Occupussies. They make me laugh.

Said one protester (of the two?) “We need to stay focused on our message of shortening the gap between the rich and the poor.”
Ok. Did that “message” include a plan, per chance?
Didn’t think so, so shiver away, losers.

http://news.yahoo.com/several-hundred-occupy-protesters-rally-capitol-233535407.html

More Annoying “Race Card Rhetoric” From Dems

It’s a simple rule: if you live in this country legally, you have identification proving as much starting with a passport, continuing with a driver’s license, bank card, utility bill, etc. etc. etc.

Here’s another simple rule: one person, one vote. Assuming rule #1 is followed, this rule should be easy to enforce, yet for some reason Democrats want to equate voter eligibility and the prevention of voter fraud with racism.

Enter good ol’ Barbara Lee from (shocker) California:

“It’s no coincidence that a disproportionate number of these affected voters come from communities of color as well as the poor, the elderly and students.”

Oh, so I get it. Because these people are too lazy, or are too illegal to go get a passport, anyone requiring them to prove their identity must be a “racist”.

There are so many things about Lee’s statement and her position that are ridiculous and frustrate me, but let me zero in on two:

1) The fact that Lee makes such absurd race-baiting statements in the first place,
2) The fact that she does so knowing that there’s still an idiot, race-baiting population that will hear her and agree with her.

The reason racism is still an issue in this country is because people like Lee continue to make it one.

If voting matters enough to people, having proper identification to do it shouldn’t be a problem. Race has ZERO to do with it.

Occupy LA: Charity Through Thuggery

Reading in the L.A. Times this morning how “Occupy LA receives offer to decamp“. Apparently they’re being offered 10,000 sq ft of office space as well as farmland if they decamp City Hall.

What’s the world coming to? Why are we giving in to thugs? Certainly there are charities that are far more worthwhile, focused, and less violent than these bozos. These charities would surely be far more in need of space to operate and far more deserving of it, yet once again we have the situation of the spoiled teenager using a parent’s compassion for them as a weapon to effectively steal, and government in their weakness and uselessness is caving in. Thuggery over charity. Wow. Check out the additional articles on the left side of the article, particularly Occupy’s Freeloading Freedom Fighters“. (So much for “freedom”, by the way – these protestors are showing just how bad they want to live off the government teet and have no freedom at all, except just to breathe and sing kumbuya and play bongos whenever they want to.)

What I find most amusing about this is a comment by one of the protestors:

‘”I don’t appreciate people appointing themselves to represent me, to represent us,” one woman called out during the assembly.’

Haha! Really?! That’s like Jehovah’s Witnesses hating Halloween because they hate all the annoying strangers coming by dressed up all funny and knocking on their doors. Such hypocrites they are, and by the way, “Hey Occupy, who appointed you to represent the other 98%?” The answer is “No one” – you just felt entitled to and now you feel entitled to free office space and farmland paid for by us, the 53%.

A$$holes.

Let’s All Get Out There And Support “Hot Dog” and “Ketchup” with OWS – NOT!

And people wonder why I can’t get behind this movement? Look at this ridiculousness. Twinkle fingers? Seriously?!?!?!?!

I know Colbert’s playing both side of the issue, but my hat’s off to him in this case for making something that’s already much of a joke even funnier. Check it out…

Part 1:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/401092/october-31-2011/colbert-super-pac—occupy-wall-street-co-optportunity—stephen-on-location

Part 2:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/401261/november-01-2011/colbert-super-pac—stephen-colbert-occupies-occupy-wall-street-pt–2