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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Disgraced Missouri professor seen yelling profanity at police in new video





A since-suspended University of Missouri professor is seen yelling profanities at police officers trying to clear activists blocking traffic in a video that surfaced late Sunday night of an October protest.

Assistant Professor of Communication Melissa Click was suspended from her position in late January after she was charged with misdemeanor assault following a different videotaped skirmish with a student journalist in November. The prosecutor has said he’ll drop the charge in a year if Click completes community service though her position at Missouri is still being reviewed.

The new video of Click tangling with police officers during an Oct. 10 Homecoming Parade could complicate the matter. The Missourian obtained the police body camera footage through an open records request.

“Her conduct and behavior are appalling, and I am not only disappointed, I am angry that a member of our faculty acted this way,” Interim Chancellor Hank Foley said in a statement emailed to The Missourian. “Her actions caught on camera last October are just another example of a pattern of misconduct by Dr. Click – most notably her assault on one of our students while seeking ‘muscle’ during a highly volatile situation on Carnahan Quadrangle in November.”

In the new video, Click can be seen in the same group as several student protesters who were blocking the Homecoming Parade route. As officers attempt to direct the group back onto the sidewalk, Click forces herself between a police officer and graduate student Jonathan Butler, who is also a prominent campus activist. Click tells the officers to “get your hands off the children” and then uses a profanity against an officer who grabs her shoulder as he tries to direct her back onto the sidewalk.

“We must have high expectations of members of our community, and I will address these new revelations with the Board of Curators as they work to complete their own review of the matter,” Foley said in the statement.

Click first gained notoriety after a video surfaced of her during a Nov. 9 demonstration by student activists who took issue with perceived racial bias at the university. A YouTube video shows Click confronting videographer Mark Schierbecker, apparently trying to block him from shooting video on the public quad. When Schierbecker asks to speak to Click, she tells him to leave.

“No, you need to get out,” she says, pointing away and then apparently grabbing Schierbecker’s camera. “You need to get out. You need to get out.”

When Schierbecker refuses to leave, Click yells to a nearby group: “Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here.”

In an interview with The Missourian on Friday – before the new video became public – Click admitted the November incident was a “mistake” but hoped to still keep her job.

“My mistake is just one part of who I am,” she said. “I want to stay at MU. I deserve to be heard and I deserve to be treated fairly, and I’m going to fight to be treated fairly. I think it’s everybody’s right to be treated fairly.”



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How would you like to be a parent paying thousands in tuition so your kid can be"educated" by this bitch? What does she have to do to get fired?








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A meeting of the minds















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Monday, February 15, 2016

Michael Moore documentary bombs at the box office





Michael Moore's latest documentary, Where to Invade Next, has failed to live up to its bombastic title, pulling in the worst per-cinema opening weekend takings of the filmmaker's career.

On average the documentary made $3,030 in each of its 308 cinemas after opening on Friday - even less than the $3,810 per-cinema average of his sole panned feature film, Canadian Bacon, which has an average score of 14% on review site Rotten Tomatoes.

This may be a blow for Moore, whose films tend to open in a small number of cinemas before expanding to many more, says The Hollywood Reporter




Career low: Where to Invade Next, the latest documentary by Michael Moore (pictured), has made less per cinema in its opening weekend than any of his other films, pulling in $3,030 per cinema



Invasion: In the documentary, Moore travels to Europe to find out how other countries deal with some of the problems that affect the USA



Moore's last film, 2009's Capitalism: A Love Story, made $231,964 when it opened in just four theaters - an average of $57,991 per cinema. It then expanded to 962 theaters and pulled in a total of $4.4million, with an average of $4,263 per location.

In some ways, the results may seem positive: Where to Invade Next gave the filmmaker his second-biggest opener since Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004, with a total opening weekend gross of $933,240. Fahrenheit 9/11 made $23.9million.

However, the fact that Where to Invade Next was shown in 308 theaters gave The Hollywood Reporter pause for thought.

'It's the per-theater average, and not the opening gross, that is the true gauge of success for Moore,' wrote Hollywood Reporter senior writer Pamela McClintock, 'since all of his films, save for Fahrenheit 9/11, have opened in a limited number of locations before expanding.'

Those limited opening weekends include 33 cinemas for 1998's The Big One (with an average of $4,452 per cinema), eight for 2002's Bowling for Columbine ($26,143 per cinema), and just one for 2007's Sicko ($68,969). 



Sicko: Moore had to cancel a promotional tour around all 50 states when he was hospitalized with pneumonia. This may have contributed to the film's relatively poor performance.

Thought Sicko was an autobiography.




Where to Invade Next sees Moore traveling to Europe to find out how European countries deal with issues that affect the US and has been largely positively received by critics, being 'Certified Fresh' with a score of 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.

However, it has suffered pre-release difficulties. Its initial release date of December 23 was pushed back to January 15 and then February 12.

And Moore's plan to promote the film in all 50 states of the USA, as well as on TV shows Conan and Real Time With Bill Maher, were canceled when he was hospitalized with pneumonia. 

It is projected to make a total of $1 million for the opening weekend, giving an average of $3,256 per location.

To put things in perspective. Star Wars: The Force Awakens did $248 million in its opening weekend.










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CHEAP TOMATOES?







On a tip from Ed Kilbane



CHEAP TOMATOES?







(or why Donald Trump is leading the pack)


(If this doesn't get your attention, you better check your pulse!)


900 teachers just got laid off from the Los Angeles Unified School District. They are $650,000 over their annual budget. 


The following by an English teacher helps to explain one area that looms large over California's educational crisis.


I hope each person will read it this carefully, all the way to the end. It is sad what is happening to our great country all because our politicians are afraid they will miss out on a vote. What a travesty!


THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T CARE.


THIS ENGLISH TEACHER HAS PHRASED IT THE BEST I'VE SEEN YET.


THIS SHOULD MAKE EVERYONE THINK, BE YOU DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN OR
  INDEPENDENT.


FROM A CALIFORNIA SCHOOL TEACHER - - - 

As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large Southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.

Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and a roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make the Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten 


(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!)


I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids 


(MORE OF OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!)


I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America


(MORE AND MORE OF OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!)


I have had to intervene several times for young substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less than 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them Putas (whores ) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, day care, etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled not only to be in this country but to demand rights, privileges, and entitlements?


To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc., etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.

Americans, We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?


It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15, and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about "political correctness" that we don't have the will to do anything about it.

If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know including your Congressman and Senators.


CHEAP LABOR? ISN'T THAT WHAT THE WHOLE IMMIGRATION ISSUE IS ABOUT?


BUSINESS DOESN'T WANT TO PAY A DECENT WAGE.


CONSUMERS DON'T WANT EXPENSIVE PRODUCE.


GOVERNMENT WILL TELL YOU AMERICANS DON'T WANT THE JOBS. 



But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor."

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free. 


ALSO....


HE QUALIFIES FOR SECTION 8 HOUSING AND SUBSIDIZED RENT.

HE QUALIFIES FOR FOOD STAMPS.

HE QUALIFIES FOR FREE (NO DEDUCTIBLE), NO CO-PAY) HEALTH CARE.

HIS CHILDREN GET FREE BREAKFASTS AND LUNCHES AT SCHOOL.

HE REQUIRES BILINGUAL TEACHERS AND BOOKS.

HE QUALIFIES FOR RELIEF FROM HIGH ENERGY BILLS.

IF THEY ARE OR BECOME AGED, BLIND OR DISABLED, THEY QUALIFY FOR SSI.

ONCE QUALIFIED FOR SSI THEY CAN QUALIFY FOR MEDICARE. ALL OF THIS IS AT TAXPAYER'S (OUR) EXPENSE.

HE DOESN'T WORRY ABOUT CAR INSURANCE, LIFE INSURANCE, OR HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE.

TAXPAYERS PROVIDE SPANISH LANGUAGE SIGNS, BULLETINS, AND PRINTED MATERIAL.

HE AND HIS FAMILY RECEIVE THE EQUIVALENT OF $20.00 TO $30.00/HOUR IN BENEFITS.

WORKING AMERICANS ARE LUCKY TO HAVE $5.00 OR $6.00/HOUR LEFT AFTER PAYING THEIR BILLS AND HIS.

THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ALSO PAY FOR INCREASED CRIME, GRAFFITI AND TRASH CLEAN-UP.



CHEAP LABOR? YEAH RIGHT! WAKE UP PEOPLE!

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!

THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T CARE.

THIS WILL BE PASSED ON ONLY BY AMERICANS WHO TRULY CARE!










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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Government Gone Wild - Special Interests...EXPOSED




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