Hot For Teacher Unemployment And School Board Troublemakers

How about those Des Moines schools? 300 teachers being laid off? As always, the real story is buried deep in the comments. Here's an example:

The school district blew the one cent sales tax on new stadiums. They emphasise sports over learning. This entire district has their priorities all catty-whompus. It started with Dr. Eric Witherspoon, and it continues today even though he is gone. Trust me, no one at the administrative level will lose their jobs, they will push the layoffs to the front-line teachers and educators.

This is probably as close to reality as it gets.

It's interesting how the school district can't keep up even though they got the "optional" sales tax made permanent by the Democrats in the Iowa Legislature.

Nevermind that the State of Iowa has millions to give to profitable companies like Whirlpool.

Over in Iowa City, the school district there continues to mess around with borders and nobody seems very happy with any of the choices. The district there is using RSP and Associates out of Olathe, KS to draw up all the scenarios, and their offices are maybe a 20 minute drive from where I am.

One name I see keep popping up in the stories is that of Tuyet Dorau, who is a new school board member in Iowa City Community School District since last fall's elections. The local newspaper there, the Press-Citizen, seems willing to constantly quote her.

Dorau comes off as yet another bedwetting liberal activist who is content to spread misery at the expense of everybody else. Witness Dorau's wish to "pair" a couple of elementary school so that K-3 are at one school and 4-6 are at another. That would not be a hit with parents who have children spread out over a number of years. Dorau also has a fetish for forcibly moving around children based on socio-economic status, which based on my experience looking at school district shenanigans over the years is little more than a sick joke.

Worse, Dorau blabbed about how she would like pick off part of the Clear Creek-Amana School District in order for the ICCSD to acquire their new high school, rather than having the ICCSD spend money on a new high school for the growing North Liberty and Coralville area. Even the stupidertendent for the ICCSD nixed that idea. Dorau will likely keep opening her pie hole in the future. She should be fun to watch and make fun of again.

Speaking of school board troublemakers, former Des Moines School Board member Jonathan Narcisse is challenging The Big Lug for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Narcisse also says he'll run as a third party spoiler if he doesn't get the nomination. I've actually liked some of what Narcisse has said in the past. He's a good kind of troublemaker in that he challenged the lefty status quo in the Des Moines School Board but he paid a huge price by speaking out and got censured by the other board members, which caused him to give up and not run for re-election. There's no way Narcisse will win the nomination, but he'll be entertaining. That's one to watch.

I've also been enjoying the Tax Update Blog's ongoing coverage of the State of Iowa's film tax credit scandal. Those tax credits were destined to be a scandal from the beginning.

Profitable Whirlpool Likely Getting $6.5 Million In Iowa Taxpayer Corporate Welfare

According to the Cedar Rapids Gazette, the Iowa Department Of Taxpayer Money Burning is going to announce that they'll be giving $6,500,000.00 of your tax dollars to the profitable Whirlpool Corporation.

Why? I don't know.

Maybe Whirlpool is going to launder the money for Iowa's politicians.

Bruce Braley Looks Like A Picasso

Bruce Braley, the sweaty, creepy-looking Democrat Congressman from NE Iowa, sat down with what's left of the Register's Editorial Bored and fielded some hand-picked softballs.

The Register can't use something like YouTube. They're forced to deal with the shitty Livestream service that Gannett basically owns. Naturally, because Livestream is so crappy, the initial video still on the Register's site makes Braley look like a Picasso painting.

Ed Fallon Wants A Democrat Other Than Ed Fallon To Challenge The Big Lug

According to the DMR, Ed Fallon sent out an email to past supporters saying that he wants a Democrat other than Ed Fallon in order to challenge Gov Chet Culver, the Big Lug.

I used to be on Ed Fallon's mailing list. I didn't get any email about this. All I get these days is endless junk from Nick Wagner. Who the hell is Nick Wagner? I didn't sign up for that.

Last week I did get something from The Fallon Forum saying that Donald Kaul is apparently alive or at least life-like and was going to be on Ed's radio show that nobody sticks around for after Sean Hannity on 98.3 WOW-FM.

I kid Ed Fallon. I always kind of liked him.

Good luck getting any Democrat elected come November.

Dick Doak On Partisan Bickering

Dick Doak is no longer an idiot partisan liberal who writes unreadable column after unreadable column of crap for the Des Moines Register anymore.

Today he's retired, but sucking off the teet of the State by working as a lecturer at the Cunt-run Iowa State University. Dick should be in good company there.

The DMR still publishes Dick's dumbass screeds, like the one in today's Sunday Register "Hyper-partisanship: What the media could do about it"

According to The Dick, the media seeking out comment from Republicans over something Obama says results in "hyper-partisan" behavior on the part of Republicans.

Dick doesn't think the Republicans should have any comment over Obama's attempt to nationalize the student loan industry in America, much less anything else.

Then he criticizes journalism as trying to have "a slavish devotion to a 'phony' balance" - that's nothing but Little Dick's ongoing anger at the existence of FOX News. The whole gang at the Register has had nothing but spittle coming out of their mouths about FOX News for years.

Then Dick rolls out old Joe McCarthy, like anybody remembers him, or much less cares.

I know where Dick Doak is coming from with this column. He doesn't want anybody criticizing Obama or the Democrats in Congress and having it reported in the media. Dick hates Republicans, hates Conservatives, and hates anybody who doesn't fall in line with his rigid belief system.

Why?

Dick knows the writing is on the wall for Obama and the Democrats in Congress. He knows that the public is going to destroy the Democrats in November. Dick won't admit it, because he's a rabid partisan dog who is in complete denial, but deep down inside he knows the end is near.

You see, Dick has nothing but contempt for the general public.

In Dick's eyes, you people are too stupid to realize what's really going on.

It's not that Obama and the Democrats in Congress stepped into it bigtime with an aggressive Marxist agenda. Oh no. Dick thinks it's that the media shouldn't report what the Republicans are saying because that's hyper-partisanship.

Hey, Dick, you're one of the reasons why I quit subscribing to the Des Moines Register long ago. You're stupid. You're out of touch. You're an asshole. Nobody believes the crap you write, except maybe those fat demented cows you used to work with.

Ah, I waste too much time on pieces of crap like Dick. I suppose every now and then I have to look and see what's going on in the Register. Perhaps in the hope that things will eventually improve, but it never does. Gannett destroyed the Des Moines Register by putting asshole hyper-partisans like Dick Doak and his legacies in charge. What a shame.

Tom Harkin: "Them Teabaggers Are Radical Extremists With The Fringe On Top"

GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004.

Senator Tom Harkin (D-Bahamas), deep within a DMR-bought poll whose headline ("33% of Iowans Support Tea Party Movement") tries to put a negative spin on the Tea Party movement, says that the Tea Party supporters aren't "mainstream", but rather they're "loud" and part of a "fringe, radical group" of people.

Interestingly, 49% of tea party supporters in Iowa are Independents and 17% are Democrats, while 34% are Republicans.

So 66% of tea party supporters are Independents or Democrats. That's what Tom Harkin calls "not mainstream" and a "fringe, radical group" of people.

You know what? Tom Harkin is not an Iowan. Not really. Sure, he owns a little shack in Cumming, but that's only for show. He spends most of his time in Virginia or at his place in the Bahamas. Must be nice having a wife who used to work with Enron and was a director at an oil company.

The Iowa City Press-Citizen Thinks School Boards Should Be In Charge Of Something They Can Never Control

Looking at the news around Iowa over this weekend I noticed an editorial by the Iowa City Press-Citizen. It's titled "Why School Boards Need To Address Poverty Rates" and it's a hoot. It's liberalism gone berserk.

Reading some other stories from that area, it seems the school system in Iowa City is attempting to redistrict by moving around borders based on family income levels in such a way that is upsetting all the parents due to how much change is being proposed.

The editorial promotes the idea that shifting kids around based on family income is somehow going lead to a poor performing student's educational success. This, of course, is a complete crock of shit.

Comments on the editorial and related stories by those favorable to the change (and there are few of them) complain about Iowa City forcing lower income people into particular areas of town. This is how idiotic some liberals think. They believe that somehow that the City's politicians can force developers to build slums in the nice parts of town and that nobody who lives in the affected area is going to move away from the usual bunch of thugs, sociopaths, drug dealers, and alcoholics.

Years ago and until fairly recently, the trend for school districts was "desegregation". Even though we in the North didn't intentionally segregate schools based on race, the liberals who ran things got White Guilt because some neighborhoods would have few white students in them and test scores were lower than the average. These schools were usually in poorer parts of town. Today the fetish amongst liberals is socio-economic status, usually based on the Free Or Reduced Lunch statistic. It's really nothing more than Desegregation Part II since what the liberals are really talking about is poor black kids again. Why is this? It's because of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involed In Community Schools vs Seattle School District No 1 and also Meredith vs Jefferson County Board Of Education.

If you've never read the Des Moines Public Schools' history of their desegregation plan, it's worth a look and a laugh. This 8 page PDF spells out the entire history, and it becomes more absurd as time progresses. Case in point: 1988's Multicultural Nonsexist Education Plan. It almost seems like a joke, but it isn't.

Why can't we just educate kids the best we can? Most people agree that equal opportunity is the best you can do. If you have kids in certain schools with problems, then you concentrate resources there. You can't equalize outcomes, although liberals keep trying. Why put kids on buses and shift borders so that parents and children are upset? Don't we have enough evidence from the past few decades to show that this is nothing but an expensive folly?

Jack Kibbie Has Another Bad Idea For Gambling In Iowa

Jack Kibbie

I have to weigh in on the story about Iowa Senate Democrat Jack Kibbie wanting to legalize sports betting at Iowa casinos.

If you remember from a few years ago, Jack Kibbie was the moron who wanted to sell the Iowa Lottery in exchange for some quick cash.

The dumbest quote about the sports betting story came from Bill Dotzler, I mean Ditzler, the Democrat from Waterloo:

"The people that do the sports betting, they're doing it now on the Internet, and there's a lot of it going on underground"

and

"I think this is a way of controlling it."

You know, Ditzler, people look for porn on the internet. I bet you know all about that. Did you ever think that the State of Iowa should look into a way of controlling online porn? You should look into the matter and research it thoroughly, as I'm sure your doing right now. Why not propose some tax giveaways to the pr0n industry. Maybe convince them to move their base of operations from the San Fernando Valley in California to Iowa? Think about it hard.