Chicago teachers strike: want a 16% wage increase

[CTU President Karen Lewis makes a poor argument that Chicago teachers are starving.]

I create this post with my caveat:

I am a member of an association that has its roots in unions.  Mine has been a “closed shop” for a number of years, which means that I have no voice in where my dues go, nor do I have an ability to stop my dues.  With one exception: I can shuttle my dues over to our law enforcement chaplaincy, which I have done.  When I was in Homicide, I saw the Good Works that our LE chaplains did on a daily basis.

That said, I first made $5.79 an hour whilst a Fornicalia deputy sheriff in a coastal county in 1978.  And that coastal county had (and still has) one of the highest costs in the state for housing.  That wage also included my premium hourly 25-cent “shift differential” for working graveyards.

I never entered law enforcement to cut the proverbial fat hog.  I lived month-to-month for, literally, two decades at work.  Whatever wage or benefit issues were acquired due to negotiations were such that both sides of the table agreed to it.

In the very best of years, I perhaps acquired a 3% to 5% increase — in the 90s.

In Chicago, however, the city teachers have clearly gone “off the rails.”

Apparently the teachers, identical to Mr Obama, are “tone deaf” in re the tenor of the times.

Chicago: the city where Rahm Emanuel is Mayor.  The city that spawned Barack Hussein Obama as a community organizer.  The city that embraces William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Reverend Michael Pfleger.

The city that has a higher murder rate than New York.  The city that has Draconian gun laws.

Chicago: the city where its teachers want a 16% increase in wages.  In 2012!  A raise that the teachers turned down.  City of Chicago teachers already have the highest average salary in the entire nation.  Even more than Fornicalia.  That in itself is amazing.

Chicago teachers average $76,000 per year prior to the addition of benefits.

For — dare I portray the obvious here — three months OFF per year.

Frankly, I don’t think even the CEO of Exxon-Mobil acquired a 16% raise this year.

BZ

P.S.
9/11 has been over-done.  I’ll let others make that post today.

 

More truth about Barack Hussein Obama: “Dreams From My Real Father”

First, please attend Dinesh D’souza’s new film, 2016.

Then watch this video in re Dreams From My Real Father — a different DVD already produced.

THE JOURNALIST’S CREED:

I believe in the profession of Journalism.
I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of responsibility, trustees for the public; that all acceptance of lesser service than the public service is a betrayal of this trust.
I believe that clear thinking, clear statement, accuracy and fairness are fundamental to good journalism.
I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.
I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible.
I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one’s own pocket book is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual responsibility may not be escaped by pleading another’s instructions or another’s dividends.
I believe that advertising, news and editorial columns should alike serve the best interests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and cleanness should prevail for all; that supreme test of good journalism is the measure of its public service.
I believe that the journalism which succeeds the best-and best deserves success-fears God and honors man; is stoutly independent; unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power; constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, always respectful of its readers but always unafraid, is quickly indignant at injustice; is unswayed by the appeal of the privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every man a chance, and as far as law, an honest wage and recognition of human brotherhood can make it so, an equal chance; is profoundly patriotic while sincerely promoting international good will and cementing world-comradeship, is a journalism of humanity, of and for today’s world.

J’ACCUSE, American “Journalistas.”  You DEM/MSM‘ers.  You members of the Defeatist Elitist Media / MainStream Media.  You Ignorers of Reality.

I ask YOU, my dearest readers, to digest the above creed and then posit: are there really any true journalists remaining in the continental United States?

BZ

 

This just in: FEDS DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO of MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA!

And let there be NO mistake.

This WILL NOT be covered by the DEM/MSM!

From NBCNews.com:

By NBC News staff and wire services

The federal government has closed a criminal probe of alleged financial misconduct by Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as “America’s toughest sheriff,” and no charges will be filed, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said on Friday.

A separate federal investigation relating to allegations of civil rights abuses by Arpaio’s office is continuing.

The announcement on Friday marked the end of an investigation that began in November 2010 at the behest of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to examine alleged financial improprieties by the county sheriff and his deputies.

A federal criminal inquiry into several of those matters was concluded last summer with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona declining to initiate criminal charges.

Maricopa County authorities were informed on Friday that federal prosecutors had likewise declined to bring charges in connection with allegations that the sheriff’s office had misused county credit cards or misspent money from jail facilities excise taxes.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been portrayed in the AMERICAN media as a racist, a criminal, responsible for the hateful and recriminative application of onerous, fatal, oppressive, unlawful, sexist, suppression of the basic and fundamental rights of Americans nationally.  To include, of course, those persons who are NOT lawful American citizens but whose status is protected and/or ignored by the very administration tasked with enforcement: the US federal government.

To those of you who cared not for Sheriff Joe Arpaio and determined him to be racist and unlawful I say: under Mr Romney, I submit Sheriff Arpaio’s name for Secretary of Homeland Security.

All those in favor, say “aye.”

BZ

 

 

Eric Holder sets ADA Nazis on Sacramento Public Library:

And he can also purposely choose to not prosecute Black Panthers who intimidated voters in Philadelphia because of their rmelanin counts.

But even more importantly, Mr Holder’s DOJ has decided it’s critical to go after a public library for loaning E-book readers.  No kidding.

From CNSNews.com:

The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached a settlement with the Sacramento (California) Public Library over a trial program the library was conducting that let patrons borrow Barnes and Noble NOOK e-book readers.

DOJ and the National Federation of the Blind objected to the program on grounds that blind people could not use the NOOK e-readers for technological reasons.

So because a blind person cannot use a NOOK, it’s time to make sure that NO ONE in a Sacramento public library can use a NOOK?

In the land of Mr Holder’s DOJ, the answer is short: correct.

Your friendly, neighborhood ADA Nazis, once again, at work.

Please check my related posts:

The ADA Nazis again at work.

Let “Poolmageddon” Commence.

ADA Shakedown Nazis Strike Again.

The Squeeze Inn gets squozed by the ADA.

And friends, please remember, when people say “Hey, it’s not about the cash!” — you can rest assured it is ALL about the CASH, at least with Scott Johnson.

BZ

 

 

This just in: OBAMA WANTS TO SELL ALASKA BACK TO RUSSIA; OUR 4 OLDEST AIRCRAFT CARRIERS TO CHINA

From a number of various sources in not only American civilian and military intelligence, but from persons in the State Department and the Pentagon:

Mr Obama, in an “under the table” and “under the radar” attempt to reconcile his massive deficit — to the tune of roughly $16 trillion dollars[see the US Debt Clock here], has tasked various elements of the US intelligence community to craft a plan that would not only work hand-in-hand with his current military sequestration efforts but would ultimately placate what he perceives to be the two largest challenges to false American “superiority” and perceived jingoism — at once both “leveling the global playing field” and also helping to solve national budgetary issues.  At this point, the U.S. national debt is more than 22 times larger than it was when, say, Jimmy Carter became president.

Mr Obama has set the potential end-goals at this: the sale of Alaska first and foremost back to Russia — the first targeted buyer — and then a specific list of “elder” aircraft carriers to China.

One point at a time:

Russia, as most clear-thinking people realize, had a foothold in a number of places now claimed by the United States.  Our current Ft. Ross in Fornicalia was once the most extreme outpost of Russian power.  Russian settlers established Fort Ross in the early 1800’s, during a time of unprecedented international expansionism.  Any number of people “claimed” Fornicalia but actual occupation became the tipping point.

Alaska, then, was “officially and formally” purchased from Russia in 1867:

The Alaska Purchase was the acquisition of the Alaska territory by the United States from the Russian Empire in the year 1867 by a treaty ratified by the Senate. Russia, fearing a war with Britain that would allow the British to seize Alaska, wanted to sell. Its major role had been buying furs from Indians, along with missionary work to convert them. The purchase, made at the initiative of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, gained 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km2) of new territory. Originally organized as the Department of Alaska, the area was successively the District of Alaska and the Alaska Territory before becoming the modern state of Alaska upon being admitted to the Union as a state in 1959.

As the intelligence offices were told, the loss of Alaska would play into the overall second term of Obama on three fronts: first, as an appeasement to Russia (please see Mr Obama’s comments to Russian President Medvedev in re his “guaranteed” second term), and also as a reduction of American Expansionism and exceptional debt.

With one extremely important additional aspect: it would close down the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez.

That, in concert with Mr Obama’s refusal to consider the Canadian Keystone XL pipeline, would yield the proverbial “win-win” Demorat situation.

Because, of course, in a second term the gloves would officially be “off” and Mr Obama could enable and envision his most liberal or true-to-form proclivities.

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