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It's All About The Children™

In the Reynolds school district, poor underpaid teachers are on strike. They don't want to be, but it's for the children™. And in that spirit of deep concern, it was only reasonable for them to attack a school bus that stopped by to pick up special-needs students for transport to class in the non-striking Multnomah ESD.

FAIRVIEW, Ore. - The Reynolds School District teachers strike is affecting students in another district as some parents blame the teachers in the picket line for stopping bus service for their special education students.

Bus drivers say the picketers made the kids feel unsafe after teachers pushed on the bus Thursday morning as they came into Reynolds Middle School, scaring them and the students.

For the time being, bus services have been suspended as the company works on a plan for augmented security. The Reynolds "teachers" have been coordinating with the "occupie Portland" crowd (sponsored by Portland State University Development Corporation) and with our local branch of the Communist Party, and it shows.

Be sure to throw them an apple, if you're in the neighborhood.

 

Implosion

Kimberlin funders who are willing to talk are shocked to discover that they've been contributing to a violent felon:

A spokesperson for Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift, which is listed by JTMP over several years, explained to Breitbart News that the fund is donor-advised, meaning that it does not have discretion over donations made by individuals or organizations with accounts at the fund. Donors merely park their funds at Fidelity to receive an immediate charitable tax deduction, and direct those funds over time, as they wish, to any 501(c)3.

Same with Schwab - nobody knew, nor do they vet the 501(c)3 organizations they're directed to distribute funds to. That's obviously not the case for the Barbara Streisand Foundation and the Soros-funded Tides foundation, who refused comment. Clearly, they knew exactly what sort of mayhem they were supporting, but didn't care as long as he was on "their side".

Meanwhile, of all places, ABC News released a story today about Barky and his "pot smoking 'choom gang'" - when the MSM starts ragging on their allies in the Democrat party, you know the bloom is off the rose. Time for Barky to fire up another stogie; all the previous ones have blown up in his face, but maybe this time it'll be different.

At least the rise of the oceans has slowed, and the planet has begun to heal. It's amazing what a convicted terrorist can accomplish, whith a community organizer leading from behind.

Brett Kimberlin: Evil Embraced By Leftists

The domestic terrorist, wannabe mass murderer, forger, and more has been not only accepted, but facilitated by the Left since his release from prison. He's a confessed dope dealer and tax evader, as well - small wonder that Leftists like the Tides Foundation and Barbara Streisand support him, now.

Lately, he's been looking to enhance his cred by going after conservative bloggers who've mentioned little facts about him - like the fact that he was convicted of multiple felonies, found guilty in a civil case brought by the widow of a man he blew up, ordered to pay $1 million in restitution, tried to hire hit-men to commit murder and additional bombings...little stuff like that.

One blogger has removed his family from their home, for the time being, due to threats.

That he's violent is unquestionable. That he's a liar is well documented. But his relentless pursuit of those who have held him up to the daylight cannot be allowed to stand. And so today, bloggers across the country will be doing what the mainstream media will not. We're all going to help make him famous.

Kimberlin was convicted of multiple federal felonies in 1981 and sentenced to 50 years in prison after he terrorized a small Indiana town in a brutal crime weeklong bombing spree. Law enforcement officials told the Indianapolis Star they believed the bombings were committed in an attempt to distract authorities investigating the 1978 murder of a 65-year-old grandmother, a crime in which Kimberlin was a suspect.

He was, unfortunately, paroled.

Welcome To Chicago!

There's all kinds of stuff going on in Windy City: the cops spent a million dollars on some all-new, all-cool equipment for the NATO event, including a couple of those $20,000 sonic cannons to blast the eardrums of any wayward "protesters". Not that that's apt to do all that much to folks like the 75-year-old granny from Portland; she's probably mostly deaf anyway. In any case, she appears to be one of the rare older folks who can't think of anything productive to do, so she spends a lot of time "protesting" like a good little sheep.

she said her youngest child called her “hero” but there were others in her family who had differing points of view.

Which pretty much sums up the "Keep Portland Weird" crowd....

Anyway, while she's out there in her Depends™ with her walker and her sign, her buddies charged into a restaurant armed with hammers and steel batons for a little of the old ultraviolence:

Police call the melee at the restaurant a targeted assault by a mob that Winston said wielded metal batons and hammers. Ten diners were hurt in the attack, and three of those were hospitalized.

Tinley Park police had five suspected assailants in custody, and Winston said 18 young men, all wearing hooded jackets and obscuring their faces with scarves and other coverings, stormed into the restaurant.

Surely, that'll get the attention of the greedy NATO folks. But they were probably doing it "for Trayvon". Yeah, that's the ticket.

Meanwhile, in order to demonstrate the fact that there's no such thing as too much security, Chicago cops raided an apartment, arresting three on charges of attempted terrorism, and confiscated all of the beer home-brewing equipment they found in there. Now, there's great beer, good beer, and Schludwiller - but even the latter doesn't qualify as a terror threat to most reasonable people. Heck, 20-something hipsters gotta have something they can afford after a hard day of brewing up double-tall-skinny lattes.

The Longest Three Months In Recorded History

When he was released from a Scottish prison on "compassionate grounds" in 2009, the Lockerbie bomber was being treated for prostate cancer and supposedly had but three months to live.

The longest three months in history is finally over; he's dead.

I oppose "compassionate grounds" for early release; he should've been kept in the cell in Scotland until at least 2015, or longer. When all that's left is skeletal, you hose the goo away, then get his brother on the blower to come pick ip the remains - if he wants to.

"Compassionate" anything almost always blows up - looks at Bush's "compassionate conservatism". When people start tossing "compassionate" this or that around, it's time to break out the old pruning shears and nip it in the bud before it has a chance to run amok.

Tri-Met: Who Ya Gonna Believe? Us, Or Your Own Lying Eyes?

Tri-Met folks claim that light rail is safe, despite findings to the contrary in a survey conducted by the Oregon High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program and the Clackamas County Sheriff's office.

An uptick in gang banging around Clackamas County is tied mostly to gangsters based in Portland -- some who take TriMet's Green Line trains to Clackamas Town Center, according to a new survey.

The survey lays some of the increase to recent transportation-system improvements, specifically the MAX light-rail line to Clackamas County that opened in 2009.

Clackamas County Sheriff's office has reported a 32% increase in crime along the Green line since it went live, even as crime has decreased elsewhere in the county. An interactive crime map published by The Oregonian in 2007 shows high concentrations of crime within a three block radius of then-existing light rail lines.

None of that matters, according to Tri-Met's effervescent flack, Mary Fetsch: 

Fetsch pointed out that light-rail lines run throughout Portland and Washington County, where police are not blaming commuter trains for increases in gang activity.

The map says otherwise, Mary. And Milwaukie Police Chief Bob Jordan said he is concerned that the new light-rail line to Milwaukie may give gangbangers an easy way to the city, bringing the same problems police have experienced in areas adjacent to the Green Line. 

Keep smilin' and shinein' Mary.

Van Jones Joins The TEA Party

Hard to believe, but Barky's former "Green Jobs" czar took to the radio Wednesday night, and unloaded on Barky's pal Eric Holder over his handling of the gun-walking scheme that has resulted in the deaths of two US agents and at least 300 Mexicans; going so far as to suggest that had this happened at our northern border, there would have been more decisive action. That's fairly close to coming out and calling Holder a racist, as it implies that the AG cared less because the victims were Mexican.

Host Brent Munlin pointed out that the “tea party is the one speaking out about this [Fast and Furious]; they’re the ones saying, ‘Hey, people are getting killed, we don’t care if they’re white, they’re black, they’re brown.’ It’s bull crap: that people are getting killed because of a government program that is just letting guns go across the border.”

Jones also said that while he hasn’t closely followed all the developments on the Fast and Furious scandal, he will ultimately back conservatives who have pushed for greater accountability.

“I do know enough to know that something terrible is going on down there,” Jones said. “And if the tea party is going to lead the way to try and shed some light on it, I’ll be right behind the tea party on it. I just don’t know enough about it right now.”

During a discussion that touched upon similarities between Jones’ ideology and that of many tea party activists, he said that grassroots activists should have more influence. It's surprising to find Jones, of all people, backing the TEA Party (albeit tepidly).

 

How To Burn Through Half A Million Dollars

A couple of folks in Arizona evidently spaced the fact that pot-heads tend to, well, space things. So when they each loaned a "medical marijuana" company in Colorado $250,000 apiece and didn't get paid back, they did what you'd expect: they sued. And lost.

Marijuana is illegal under federal law. And the judge said he can't enforce the loan agreement because the money was for an illegal purpose under federal law. He dismissed the suit.

"The macro view of this is, if it's true that anyone who has a contractual relationship with anyone dispensing medical marijuana and that contract is not enforceable, how does anyone enforce a legitimate contract in this business?"

It looks like that would be "No".

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Strange Bunch

Members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb have desecrated a Muslim saint's tomb in the fabled city of Timbuktu, an official said on Saturday.

"Members of AQIM, supported by (the armed Islamist group)Ansar Dine, have destroyed the tomb of Saint Sidi (Mahmoud Ben) Amar. They set fire to the tomb," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that they had pledged to destroy others too.

Something seems out of whack with these whack-jobs. Okay: their buddies, the Tail-ban, they went out and blew up a couple of 1,000-year-old statues of Budda, on account of they're an infidel religion. And they run around issuing fatwas and whatnot when somebody draws a cartoon. Over in Germany, these devout practitioners of The Religion Of Peace™ have been rioting in protest of freedom of speech, and yesterday they peacefully stabbed two cops. Here in the USA, that whacky Florida preacher went and burned himself a Koran again, and so a peaceful Muslim cleric announced a hefty bounty to be paid to anybody who kills the preacher.

Naturally, Hillary Clinton's State Department had a little something to say about all this: 

The US State Department condemned the pastor for hurting sentiments of Muslims around the world, saying his act “does not represent the American values”.

The guy may be a fool, but it's not like he set fire to a Muslim tomb or anything....

Meanwhile, in freedom-loving Michigan:

In the middle of an event to extol the virtues of the U.S. Constitution and “American Laws For American Courts,” the audience learned first-hand how easy it is to lose their freedom of Speech and Assembly.

Amid shouts of “What about free speech?” from the audience, the Allegan Police Department ordered the event shut-down. School officials notified police that they had received a letter complaining about the event from Dawud Walid, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI). The letter asked the school to disallow the event despite an existing contract. CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism funding trial in U. S. history, U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation.

As a result, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR- MI), its Executive Director, the City of Allegan, the Allegan Police Department and the School District were named as defendants in a thirty-four page civil rights lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Michigan, this morning. The claims included constitutional and contract violations.

All it takes is a letter of complaint from a terrorist front organization, and your rights cease to exist. Spooky, yes. Welcome to the United Workers of America. Forward!

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