Re: [vernalpool] diamondback terrapin (from late June)

 

And now for the rest of the story:

Nice article in the Sunday edition of the regional Standard Times
featuring Don Lewis (the turtle guy) and the eggs saved by Mike Maurer
(the salamander guy) - seems like fodder for a new comics
series....(we'll need Spring Peeper boy wonder, and the amazing fairy
shrimp woman....)

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120923/LIFE/209230302

Seems as though three of the babies made it out...Way to go Mike!

On 6/26/12 8:54 PM, Treeswallow5@aol.com wrote:
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>
> Thanks alot....haven't met a turtle I don't like or won't stop for!!!!!
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Maurer
> Marion, MA
>
> "The time to save a species is while it is still common" Rosalie Edge,
> Founder of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
>
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> Great job!
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> Subject: [vernalpool] diamondback terrapin
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>
>
> Today around 2 PM on the Wareham/Marion town line, as I was crossing the
> Weweantic River, I saw a diamondback terrapin trying to cross the four
> lanes.....I pulled a Jason Statham "Transporter" -type U-turn immediately
> and went back, parked in the middle lane with flashers going (it really
> wasn't that dramatic, as no cars were coming yet) and snatched her up. But
> as I carried her back to the car, her head was tucked in, blood dripped
> down, and the back legs dangled.
>
> Damn!! One car too late!!...
>
> I place her on the mat under my feet and sped off to the home of a
> couple of
> turtle experts who just happen to live in Marion. Susan Weiber Nourse and
> Don Lewis... They have been monitoring and researching these terrapins in
> Southeastern MA for 20 years or more. Also volunteering out on the Cape at
> Wellfleet Bay.
>
> My immediate thoughts were that if she was going to die, at least
> maybe they
> could save some eggs (why else would she be on land?) and also see if she
> was one their marked individuals.
>
> I arrived at the their home...ran to the door....explained the
> situation (I
> had already brought another dead female there last year from the same
> spot!)...we went back to the car and as I was handing her over to
> Susan, she
> emitted an egg!!! Susan asked me to check the car, and I found another egg
> on the mat!!!! As we examined her and discussed the possibility of her
> surviving these injuries, she deposited two more eggs in Susan's hand!!!!
> Holy Crap!!!!
>
> As of now (8:00 PM) I do not know her fate, but hopefully at least four of
> her offspring will stand a chance of making it.
>
> Wow...what a day
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Maurer
> Marion, MA
>
> "The time to save a species is while it is still common" Rosalie Edge,
> Founder of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
>
> Today around 2 PM on the Wareham/Marion town line, as I was crossing the
> Weweantic River, I saw a diamondback terrapin trying to cross the four
> lanes.....I pulled a Jason Statham "Transporter" -type U-turn immediately
> and went back, parked in the middle lane with flashers going (it really
> wasn't that dramatic, as no cars were coming yet) and snatched her up. But
> as I carried her back to the car, her head was tucked in, blood dripped
> down, and the back legs dangled.
>
> Damn!! One car too late!!...
>
> I place her on the mat under my feet and sped off to the home of a
> couple of
> turtle experts who just happen to live in Marion. Susan Weiber Nourse and
> Don Lewis... They have been monitoring and researching these terrapins in
> Southeastern MA for 20 years or more. Also volunteering out on the Cape at
> Wellfleet Bay.
>
> My immediate thoughts were that if she was going to die, at least
> maybe they
> could save some eggs (why else would she be on land?) and also see if she
> was one their marked individuals.
>
> I arrived at the their home...ran to the door....explained the
> situation (I
> had already brought another dead female there last year from the same
> spot!)...we went back to the car and as I was handing her over to
> Susan, she
> emitted an egg!!! Susan asked me to check the car, and I found another egg
> on the mat!!!! As we examined her and discussed the possibility of her
> surviving these injuries, she deposited two more eggs in Susan's hand!!!!
> Holy Crap!!!!
>
> As of now (8:00 PM) I do not know her fate, but hopefully at least four of
> her offspring will stand a chance of making it.
>
> Wow...what a day
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Maurer
> Marion, MA
>
> "The time to save a species is while it is still common" Rosalie Edge,
> Founder of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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[kitchencabinetforum] PUSSY RIOT AWARDED THE LENNONONO GRANT FOR PEACE

 

John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has awarded legendary Pussy Riot this year's LennonOno Grant for Peace. Ono said: I thank Pussy Riot in standing firmly in their belief for freedom of expression and making all women of the world proud to be women. It's a terrible thing that all three girls have been jailed for not doing anything wrong. They were just standing for freedom of speech. http://venitism.blogspot.com

The LennonOno Grant for Peace is given every two years to honor John Lennon's dedication to peace and human rights. In the presence of many celebrities, such as Sting and Madonna, Pyotr Verzilov, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's husband, accepted the award on the group's behalf. He traveled to New York with their four-year-old daughter. Verzilov said: It's an incredible honor to receive this award from Yoko Ono. It's incredible to see the people around the world go out and voice their support.

­While in New York, Verzilov also met with Burmese hero Aung San Suu Kyi, who said: Pussy Riot heroines should be released as soon as possible. I don't see why people shouldn't sing whatever it is that they want to sing. There's nothing wrong with singing. I think the only reason why people should not sing is if what they are saying is deliberately insulting, or they sing terribly. That would be the best reason for not singing at all.

Heroin sniffers sniff heroines! Cock Riot and Pussy Riot lock horns! Putin, Kirill, and misogynist gay bishops, Cock Riot, managed to imprison for two years the female punk rock group Pussy Riot who held an impromptu concert inside Moscow's golden cathedral in February as part of a protest against the church's political ties. In the song, the Russian heroines prayed to Madonna to chase Putin out of Russia!

The heroines of Pussy Riot have received a two-year sentence in a labor camp. It is carried out in the name of Christianity, but the girls did not desecrate any icons and they did not destroy anything. It reminds Navalny of the Inquisition during the Middle Ages. Navalny is standing up for Pussy Riot. He cannot do otherwise. He is concerned with protecting the legal system. The girls have merely committed a minor offense, not a crime. They present no danger to society.

The Pussy Riot imprisonment for two years has brought a huge backlash with myriad attacks on churches, crucifixes, icons, and other idols of Christianity all over the world. Anna Gutsol, leader of legendary Femen chainsawed a famous crucifix in Kiev. Many crosses have been chopped down all over the world. There is an Armageddon between women and evil bishops. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Alexei Navalny points out Putin sees the women as a threat, but he has miscalculated. Pussy Riot only became a threat thanks to him. It was initially only a moderately successful performance that received far less of a response than the brilliant action on Red Square. At the time, Pussy Riot called Putin a coward. Then, two of the three activists were arrested shortly before the presidential election.

Navalny muses that when men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. But until recently, everyone deluded themselves into thinking that the Kremlin wouldn't dare put women behind bars. The women from Pussy Riot have become symbols partly because this cliche has been shattered.

Navalny states the Kremlin used the performance in the church to take revenge for the appearance on Red Square. Furthermore, it succeeded in taking the conflict between the government and the opposition movement and obscuring it behind the confrontation between the Church and the opposition. The idea was for the patriarch to stand in the crossfire, not Putin. That's why photos also appeared in the press of the patriarch wearing an expensive watch, instead of pictures of Putin's palaces.

Medvedev will remain in office. Navalny doesn't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes Navalny even feel sorry for the prime minister. Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor. The fact that the political climate has grown harsher is something Navalny even notices in his daily work as a legal representative of minority shareholders in large, state-owned companies. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level.

Pussy Riot leader Nadezhda Tolokonnikova regrets nothing. She thinks the trial against Pussy Riot was important, because it showed the true face of czar Putin's system. This system delivered a verdict on itself, by sentencing Pussy Riot to two years in prison although Pussy Riot committed no crime. The criminal trial is Putin's personal revenge, and no one can predict how and when an authoritarian system will apply revenge.

Tolokonnikova points out Putin's omnipotence is an illusion. That it's not a limitless thing is just as obvious as the fact that his propaganda machine exaggerates the president's power. Putin is dependent on the West roughly to the same degree that the West has an interest in exaggerating his power. In reality, Putin is small and pitiful. You can see that in his actions both as a person and as a politician.

Tolokonnikova notes the trial against Pussy Riot revealed the regime's repressive character. Putin's system is collapsing. It's not suited for the 21st century; it's more like something out of tribal societies and dictatorial regimes of the past. It's incapable of explaining why three political activists have to be thrown into prison just because they used the Cathedral of Christ the Savior as the location for a video performance and uttered a few powerful words against the system.

Tolokonnikova muses the overwhelming reaction to what Pussy Riot did was a pleasant surprise. The government's reaction to the Pussy Riot performance was to be expected, since after all we're dealing with an authoritarian system. But Tolokonnikova has been pleased with the support from friends and other like-minded supporters, despite the threat of years in prison that she is facing. Tolokonnikova declares the Pussy Riot fight for its ideas and values will continue. http://venitism.blogspot.com

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[kitchencabinetforum] HOLLANDE AND LE PEN LOCK HORNS

 

Marine Le Pen calls for a ban on veils and skullcaps in public, leading to fears of an increase in religious tensions sparked by cartoons of Muhammad. Le Pen favors a ban on religious headgear in stores, on public transport, and on the streets, as well as banning Halal and Kosher foods from schools. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Islam requires all women to dress like zombies! Veil and headscarf are not welcome in Fourth Reich (EU), because they are symbols of women's subservience, repression, incivility, and an increasingly divided Fourth Reich. Veil and headscarf make women invisible, transform women to zombies, invalidate women's participatory rights, flag women as evil temptresses, oppress women with barbarity, are brands of misogynist Islam, and are a security threat.

Marine Le Pen has a modern image which appeals to many voters. Marine, the youngest of Jean-Marie's three daughters, took over the leadership of National Front in January 2011. The 43-year-old lawyer is more flexible than her father. She is trying to modernize the party and launch it in a libertarian direction.

Le Pen accuses Hollande of being far too lax with political and religious fundamental groups, saying that the country should restore law and order to gain the upper hand. But Hollande hoodwinks that everything that tears people apart, opposes them and divides them is inappropriate and we must apply the rules, the only rules that we know, the rules of the Republic and secularism.

Le Pen warns about the might of Fourth Reich. She declares that Frau Merkel and her friends, Van Rompuy and Barroso are in the final stages of creating a European Soviet Union. French are about to lose their status as a free nation. Le Pen calls for the reintroduction of the Franc.

Fourth Reich is an illegal confederation that has no voted constitution, a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings, a Fuehrer no one can name, a parliament of prostitutes, a capital of huge bureaucracy no one controls, a currency that soon will not exist, rules of fiscal behavior that no member has been penalized for ignoring, a commission which is the Eldorado of corruption, brutal cybercops, and kleptocrats galore! Ode to Joy is the anthem of Fourth Reich. It is based on the final movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and it's used without lyrics.

Le Pen also accuses Hollande of stupidity for imposing 75% tax on millionaires! Rich French now wait for Scarlet Pimpernel to save them from the 75% income tax, the financial transactions tax, the huge stupidity of Hollande, the huge regulation, the 23% VAT, kleptocracy, and the cancer of socialism.

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a secret libertarian society, rescues French from the daily executions of the Reign of Socialistic Terror. Legendary Scarlet Pimpernel took his nickname from the drawing of a small red flower with which he signs his messages. Scarlet Pimpernel helps corporations move out of eurozone. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Euroskepticism and the defense of French sovereignty remain central to the National Front's program. Marine wants France out of eurozone, and out of NATO. The National Front continues to fight against the subversion of the country at the hands of Muslims.

Le Pen supports Terry Jones of Florida, who has established September 11 as the International Burn a Koran Day! Jones declares Koran is a stupid unholy book of satanic verses, the main source of culture clashes, misogyny, polygamy, incivility, and holy wars. Mu-ham-mad is a mu ham gone mad (((:-{>

National Front is a massive protest party. Marine Le Pen makes herself out to be the defender of freedom, the separation of church and state, and the values of the French republic. Marine Le Pen speaks to all parts of society - not just the frustrated, elderly and poor, but also industrial and service-sector workers.

Le Pen fights against the Caliphate, the system of government established in Islam and represents the leader's unity of the Muslim Ummah community. It is an aristocratic theocracy, where the Caliph and other officials are representatives of the people and of Islam and must govern according to Sharia. Now Occident has been hoodwinked to support a global terrorist caliphate by encouraging Islamist rebels! http://venitism.blogspot.com

Al-Qaeda has as one of its clearly stated goals the re-establishment of the caliphate. Ayman al-Zawahiri seeks to restore the caliphate, which had formally ended in 1924 following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Zawahiri believes that once the caliphate is re-established, Egypt would become a rallying point for the rest of the Islamic world, leading the jihad against Occident.

France-Fourth Reich relations have become increasingly similar to the Ballet de
la Merlaison, created by Louis XIII of France in the 17th century. In this
unique ballet, the king authored the work and played the leading role. All the
other roles in the ballet were considered extras, who eagerly danced to the tune
of the king.

As long as the king was still alive, this ballet was considered to
be the work of a genius. Hollande, who loves the Ballet de la Merlaison, asserts
France should play the leading role in Fourth Reich. But we all know that
France and all countries of Fourth Reich have become colonies of
Germany! Well, France is now the leading colony of Germany!

Hollande and Merkel are engaged in a waltz-hesitation. It's an endless back and forth that must often seem, to its anxious audience, deliberately designed to confuse. That
audience consists of the fifteen other members of the monetary union and, worse
still, the teetering financial markets. Hollande and Merkel need to have the courage to measure themselves against the great figures of European politics, such as Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. http://venitism.blogspot.com

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Re: [Homesteadingfamily] Learn to spin

 

Thanks, Ninja,

They sent me their website and I'm considering the purchase.

Blessings,
Teresa in WV

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Teresa, they can be contacted here....solacefarmfiber@yahoo.com.

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[Homesteadingfamily] Learn to spin

 

Teresa, they can be contacted here....solacefarmfiber@yahoo.com.

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[kitchencabinetforum] LIBERATING THE KIDS FROM SCHOOLS

 

Average per-student spending in American public schools is $13,000 per year. Lindsey Burke points out the system of teacher evaluation used in many school districts relies heavily on classroom observations. It rarely counts student achievement on state tests as part of a teacher's overall evaluation. This model consists of cursory classroom visits by principals who declare nearly every teacher good, or at least competent, even in failing schools where few if any children meet basic educational standards.

Han Han, a high-school dropout born in 1982, is a Chinese professional rally driver, best-selling author, singer, creator of Party magazine, and China's most popular blogger. He has published ten novels to date, and he is also involved in music production. The Han Han story proves that schooling must be abolished. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Burke declares present schooling is an incredibly unfair system for children, who, year after year, are needlessly subjected to ineffective teachers, causing them to lose years of potential learning gains. A good teacher can get 1.5 years of learning growth; a bad teacher gets 0.5 years of learning growth. If you get a few bad teachers in a row, a student's life is altered dramatically.

Moreover Burke laments, it's incredibly unfair for teachers. The existing system, effectively blind to teacher performance, compensates teachers based on years in the classroom, not effectiveness. The best teachers aren't noticed; the worst are protected.

Dropping out of school is a smart strategy of cutting losses short! Public schools are filled with eager, fresh-faced youngsters, and prisons contain many rough-looking adults with uninviting personalities. They are both kleptocrat-run facilities where individuals are held for a specific number of years without their consent, at the mercy of their custodians.

Yet the unions, who claim to represent the interests of both students and teachers, are using Chicago children as political pawns in their quest to fortify the status quo and ensure nothing threatens their entrenched power.

For years, kleptocrats have been doing their best to further blur the distinction by giving public-school officials the same powers as the warden of San Quentin. There are many
abridgments of freedom and invasions of privacy inflicted on children. Children
are looking for a Moses to liberate them from the jails of classes, and lead
them to the promised land of real life.

The socialistic feature of public schooling that dooms it to fail is that at
every level, the system relies on compulsion instead of voluntary consent. The
curriculum is politicized to reflect the socialistic cancer of kleptocrats in
power. Standards are continually dumbed down to the least common denominator.
The brightest children are not permitted to achieve their potential, the
special-needs of individual children are neglected, and the mid-level learners
become little more than socialistic cogs in a kleptocratic machine.

Burke notes the union was offered a 10 percent pay raise over the next four years, continued step increases based not on merit but on time served in the system, more than 500 new art and P.E. teachers hired by the district, and the creation of a hiring pool where any laid-off teacher would have first dibs on any job openings within the district. They rejected that offer. The main sticking points: teacher evaluations, the length of the school day, and what to do about under-performing teachers.

Generations of dumbing-down and educational indoctrination have brainwashed hoi
polloi. Perhaps citizens will wake up quickly to their peril, perhaps not. They
must be taught the value of freedom. Many do not even know what it is, and many
don't put a value on it. Where the Founders had the advantage of the spread of
Graecoroman ideas, and a population receptive to them, we have the disadvantage
of the decline of those ideas, and a population largely indifferent to or
ignorant of them. This is quite an obstacle.

Burke muses those picketing in the streets in Chicago — the teachers, who earn on average, $76,000 per year, and after 30 years in the classroom, receive an annual payment of $77,400 for life, courtesy of the Illinois taxpayer — want to continue receiving this compensation. Moreover, they want it without the accountability that is so badly needed. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Schools dumbdown children. It's ridiculous to jail children in schools for
sixteen years! No wonder children revolt violently. Homeschooling is the
education of children at home. Homeschooling is a legal option in many places
for parents to provide their children with a learning environment as an
alternative to publicly-provided schools. Parents cite numerous reasons as
motivations to home school, including better academic test results, poor public
school environment, improved character, and objections to what is taught locally
in public school. It is also an alternative for families living in isolated
rural locations or living temporarily abroad. Homeschooling is legal in many
countries, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and
the United States.

Burke says that level of compensation, in a district that faces a $1 billion deficit, certainly merits accountability. Teacher evaluations should be based in part on student performance on tests, using a value-added model that takes extraneous factors such as socioeconomic status into account. Those models should be based on growth: Has a teacher imparted a year's worth on learning in a year's time, or better yet, a year-and-a-half's worth of learning in a year's time? Other factors, such as principal and parent evaluations and observations, should also play a part. Burke asserts effective teachers should be well-compensated; ineffective teachers should find another profession.

Unschooling is a curriculum-free philosophy of homeschooling. Unschoolers
believe that the use of standard curricula and conventional grading methods, as
well as other features of traditional schooling, are counterproductive to the
goal of maximizing the education of each child. Instead, unschoolers typically
allow children to learn through their natural life experiences, including game
play, household responsibilities, and social interaction. Exploring activities
is often led by the children themselves, facilitated by the adults. Child
directed play is a key tenet of the unschooling philosophy.

We should abolish schooling, to end the ugly and inhuman business of
people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves. Learning is not
the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.
The teacher gives explanations, not learning. If a child is left to himself, he
will think more and better. Be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that
you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.

Unschooling is based upon and built around the growth of the child and the
success that is an inherent part of a self-actualizing life.
The notion of teaching people to become better thinkers is such a basic concept
that most people would assume the goal has always been a vital part of
educators' tool kits. But the concept is fairly new on the education landscape,
and it has yet to accurately address some tricky cognitive terrain. http://venitism.blogspot.com

LIB THE KIDS
By Basil Venitis

Children locked in all these classes
Dumbing down our kids
Boring teachers with glasses
Unschool now and lib the kids.

Kids are looking for a Moses
To liberate them from all these freaks
To lead them to the promised land of chosen
Unschool now and lib the kids.

Eager fresh-faced youngsters
Bored to hell and tired lids
Are in classes like gangsters
Unschool now and lib the kids.

Abolish schooling right now
Abolish all these stupid grids
Fire all these teachers anyhow
Unschool now and lib the kids.

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[ASGG] TAKEN: Sleeper sofa Alt Mall area

 

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Need an air mattress for guests coming to visit. Preferably full size but any size will do. Thank you!
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[kitchencabinetforum] TROIKA MUST FIRST DEMAND THE ABOLITION OF IMPUNITY!

 

Troika must first demand the abolition of impunity and immunity of Graecokleptocrats. Impunity and immunity are the real cause of all Greek problems. Everything else appears trivial in comparison. Do it right or don't do it at all. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Greeks accumulate eggs and yogurt in order to hurl it at all Graecokleptocrats they could find, especially Venizelos of Pasok, who introduced the stupidest law on Earth which states ministers of the Greek government are immune to prosecution! As a result of this infamous law, Graecokleptocrats cannot be prosecuted, even though Graecokleptocrats get myriad bribes. This socialist bulldog has transformed hoi polloi to slumdogs!

Charles Dallara asserts Greece should get cheaper rates on its 130 billion euro aid deal and at least two more years to repay them, but better terms could only come after Samaras and Venizelos, Laurel and Hardy of Greek politics, deliver on commitments they have made to fiscal reform.

Dallara points out only twenty billion euros are needed. This can easily be realised in part by reducing interest rates on the loans which Fourth Reich and IMF made to Greece on more concessional terms. Responses to the Greek debt crisis placed too much emphasis on short-term austerity and not enough on improving the country's longer-term competitiveness.

Dallara does not realize the real problen is not time but political corruption. The cradle of democracy has become the cradle of kleptocracy! Pasok and Nea Democratia mafias must be abolished now, because they have robbed the Greek treasury and the pension funds, received myriad bribes and kickbacks, exchanged sinecures for votes, spread the cancer of socialism, destroyed the Greek economy, robbed the banks at gunpoint, imposed kangaroo justice, persecuted dissident bloggers, established the kleptocratic impunity, framed a ridiculous constitution, enslaved Greece to Fourth Reich, debased the Greek soul, transformed the cradle of democracy to the cradle of kleptocracy, and deteriorated the national character of Greece.

Laurel and Hardy want two more years to implement economic reforms tied to the aid package to soften their impact. Graecokleptocrats have a long history of promising reforms and not delivering, and this time is no different. After decades of using public services as political spoils, Graecokleptocrats must also take on the corruption and inefficiency they fostered before they can implement the reforms that creditors demand before releasing further funds. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Every time Graecokleptocrats have to receive a tranche of the money we're going to have the same problem. If they keep missing targets, sooner or later they won't get the money. There is a chance this is just delaying the inevitable. Graecokleptocrats have repeatedly voted in measures and privatizations that have never materialized. It is proving a Herculean task.

Portugal, which does not have a political corruption problem, got more time to meet fiscal targets as depression saps Lisbon's ability to deliver. Under the revised targets, Portugal has until 2014 to bring its budget deficit down to the EU limit of 3 percent. Previously, the 78 billion euro package required a deficit of 3 percent in 2013.

Greek debt differs from that of Portugal, because it's not due to spending, but robbing! Graecokleptocrats got huge kickbacks from overpriced purchases of public equipment and contracts and by churning the state insurance funds. If this is not robbing, what is it? When politicians of Portugal were trying to do things for their citizens, Graecokleptocrats were trying to fatten their secret offshore accounts, protected by parliamentary immunity. Graecokleptocrats rob Peter not to give Paul, but to themselves!

That's why the Greek workers are on strike. They resent paying the huge Greek debt created by Graecokleptocrats. It's not fair to tax and reduce the salaries and benefits of workers to make up for the money stolen by Graecokleptocrats. The fairest action would be for Graecokleptocrats to return the stolen money back to the Greek treasury. Many Graecokleptocrats live like princes of Saudi Arabia! Enough is enough, bring the money back!

Troika is evaluating the progress of Laurel and Hardy on agreed targets before releasing the next, 32 billion euro tranche from the giant aid package. Troika, dressed for funeral, is mad as hell, and it cannot take it from piggish Graecokleptocrats anymore. Troika walks grim-faced into its meetings with piggish Graecokleptocrats wearing funeral clothes! Troika is a doctor, who is looking over the tests of Graecokleptocrats, shaking its head, and Graecokleptocrats wondering if they are going to live or die.

Troika rushes in and out of ministers' offices with heads down, clutching files and avoiding reporters. Troika reviews a track record of two years of broken promises to international lenders, who have pledged a quarter of a trillion euros to pull Greece back from the brink of bankruptcy.

The coalition government of Samaras and Venizelos, Laurel and Hardy of Greek politics, is racing against the clock to come up with cuts and reforms. Laurel and Hardy have fallen quite badly behind, due to the election campaign and they are trying very hard to put the train back on track. Troika's main task is to see how Laurel and Hardy could get restarted.

Troika is angry and fed up. Greece would not get any money unless it showed some progress. Among a long list of failures, Laurel and Hardy have not completed any substantial privatizations and is behind on tax reform, restructuring the public sector and properly opening up markets and professions.

Laurel and Hardy blame their failure on a deeper than expected recession and want two more years to catch up. Troika says huge political corruption and half-hearted reforms are to blame for holding the economy back. The lenders are demanding abolition of Graecokleptocracy and Trojan Horses. Troika has made it clear to Laurel and Hardy that they should forget about renegotiating the 130 billion euro bailout plan; instead, they should prove their credibility first.

Greece is the queen of political corruption in Occident. The freakish government of Greece stole my life! The impunity of the 300 MPs of the Grand Brothel of Democracy on Syntagma Square is the most freakish thing on Earth. Even though Graecokleptocrats loot many billion euros in bribes and churning, Graecokleptocrats cannot go to jail! Graecokleptocrats are protected by the parliamentary immunity, and nobody can touch them, no matter what. Moreover, they have the nerve to jail dissident bloggers. It's a long way from the 300 Spartans of Leonidas! Allons enfants de la Grece! http://venitism.blogspot.com

There are no words to describe the stupidity, corruption, and freak of Pasok, the most infamous political mafia on Earth! Pasok mafiosi are the freaks that initiated the impunity of ministers of the Greek government, the immunity of MPs, the Siemens scandal, the military bribes, myriad kickbacks, and the fiasco of October 18, 2010, which destroyed my life. Pasok freaks stole my life. Pasok declared a war against me, but the whole world is watching this Armageddon.

The Greek government is the #1 enemy of the Greek people! Graecokleptocrats do myriad stupid things. The freakish Pasok government of Greece in 2010 was so stupid that it hoodwinked all media that I conspired to trigger a war between Greece and Turkey and blame Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, for it! Accusing dissident bloggers of treason, Graecokleptocrats have manufactured a blood libel in cyberspace, which in turn incites hatred and violence. The government of Greece gave my head on plate to Erdogan. Brutal Graecokleptocrats have destroyed my life. My life is stolen. Now I demand my life back!

Laurel and Hardy must come up with a dozen billion euros of extra cuts for the next two years to get the money, and they have fallen behind in reforms. Dumping euros on Greece is ridiculous. It's unfair to squander hard-earned German euros, and it's unfair for Greeks to be addicted to German handouts. Nobody wins in dumping, which increases sinecures, laziness, profligacy, diseconomy, political corruption, and bad attitude. The freakish government of Greece stole my life! http://venitism.blogspot.com

Lagarde now says lenders may agree to some sort of extension. But Maria Fekter asserts Laurel and Hardy would get a few weeks more time to meet terms of Greece's international rescue. The idea of having a year or two is dead and no extra money is on the table.

Lagarde has made it absolutely clear she does not trust Graecokleptocrats, because they never apply what they vote in the Grand Brothel of Democracy on Syntagma Square! All Europeans condemn Graecokleptocrats for creating hundred state agencies and hiring many thousands of public employees, even though they promised Troika to close down all agencies and fire many public employees.

Some executives at state enterprises have annual salaries of 300,000 euros! Greeks wonder why the offshore accounts of rich ministers have not been traced and why the names of hundred Graecokleptocrats who took many billions of euros in bribes have not been published.

Michael Fuchs says: Even if the glass is half full, that won't be sufficient for a new aid package. Germany cannot and will not agree to that. We long ago reached the point where the Greeks must show they are capable of delivering a shift. A policy of the last, last, last chance won't work anymore and must come to an end.

Fuchs points out Germany had reached its limit with Greece and would not hesitate to veto more aid if lawmakers were convinced it was not fulfilling the conditions of its bailout. Were that to happen, grexit would be inevitable. Greece could remain a member of the European Union after exit and receive a form of Marshall Plan to help it as it returns to its own currency.

Alexander Dobrindt says: With Greece we have reached the end of the road. There must not be any further aid. A country which does not have the will to fulfill the conditions, or is not able to do so, must get a chance outside the euro. Greece should start to pay half of its civil service wages, pensions and other expenditures in drachmas now. A soft return to the old currency is better for Greece than a drastic move. Having the drachma as a parallel currency would allow the chance for economic growth to develop. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Dallara welcomes the ECB's stupid commitment this month to launch a potentially unlimited bond-buying program to lower the borrowing costs of PIGS in a bid to end the debt crisis, but it is at risk of failure. The announcement by ECB was very bold on the one hand, but it will come to naught, nothing, unless Spain or Italy ask for EU/IMF endorsement of an economic program.

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[kitchencabinetforum] DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL IS A SMART STRATEGY!

 

There will be no classes in Chicago public schools on Monday and Tuesday, affecting 350,000 kindergarten, elementary and high school students. For years, kleptocrats have been doing their best to further blur the distinction by giving public-school officials the same powers as the warden of San Quentin. There are many
abridgments of freedom and invasions of privacy inflicted on children. Children
are looking for a Moses to liberate them from the jails of classes, and lead
them to the promised land of real life.

Mayor Emanuel calls the strike illegal and he will go to court to seek an injunction to block the labor action. The socialistic feature of public schooling that dooms it to fail is that at
every level, the system relies on compulsion instead of voluntary consent. The
curriculum is politicized to reflect the socialistic cancer of kleptocrats in
power.

Standards are continually dumbed down to the least common denominator.
The brightest children are not permitted to achieve their potential, the
special-needs of individual children are neglected, and the mid-level learners
become little more than socialistic cogs in a kleptocratic machine.

Teachers revolted last week against sweeping education reforms sought by Emanuel, especially evaluating teachers based on the standardized test scores of their students. Generations of dumbing-down and educational indoctrination have brainwashed hoi
polloi. Perhaps citizens will wake up quickly to their peril, perhaps not. They
must be taught the value of freedom. Many do not even know what it is, and many
don't put a value on it.

Where the Founders had the advantage of the spread of
Graecoroman ideas, and a population receptive to them, we have the disadvantage
of the decline of those ideas, and a population largely indifferent to or
ignorant of them. This is quite an obstacle.

School Board President David Vitale says: We are extremely disappointed that after 10 months of discussion reaching an honest and fair compromise that the union decided to continue their strike of choice and keep our children out of the classroom.

The Chicago strike has shone a bright light on a fierce national debate over how to reform failing inner-city schools. The union believes that more money and resources should be given to neighborhood public schools to help them improve. Schools dumbdown children. It's ridiculous to jail children in schools for
sixteen years! No wonder children revolt violently.

Homeschooling is the
education of children at home. Homeschooling is a legal option in many places
for parents to provide their children with a learning environment as an
alternative to publicly-provided schools.

Parents cite numerous reasons as
motivations to home school, including better academic test results, poor public
school environment, improved character, and objections to what is taught locally
in public school. It is also an alternative for families living in isolated
rural locations or living temporarily abroad. Homeschooling is legal in many
countries, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and
the United States.

Emanuel and a legion of financiers and philanthropists believe that failing schools should be closed and reopened with new staff to give the students the best chance of improving. Average per-student spending in American public schools is $13,000 per year.

Han Han, a high-school dropout born in 1982, is a Chinese professional rally driver, best-selling author, singer, creator of Party magazine, and China's most popular blogger. He has published ten novels to date, and he is also involved in music production. The Han Han story proves that schooling must be abolished. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Dropping out of school is a smart strategy of cutting losses short! Public schools are filled with eager, fresh-faced youngsters, and prisons contain many rough-looking adults with uninviting personalities. They are both kleptocrat-run facilities where individuals are held for a specific number of years without their consent, at the mercy of their custodians.

Unschooling is a curriculum-free philosophy of homeschooling. Unschoolers
believe that the use of standard curricula and conventional grading methods, as
well as other features of traditional schooling, are counterproductive to the
goal of maximizing the education of each child. Instead, unschoolers typically
allow children to learn through their natural life experiences, including game
play, household responsibilities, and social interaction. Exploring activities
is often led by the children themselves, facilitated by the adults. Child
directed play is a key tenet of the unschooling philosophy.

We should abolish schooling, to end the ugly and inhuman business of
people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves. Learning is not
the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.
The teacher gives explanations, not learning. If a child is left to himself, he
will think more and better. Be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that
you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.

Unschooling is based upon and built around the growth of the child and the
success that is an inherent part of a self-actualizing life.
The notion of teaching people to become better thinkers is such a basic concept
that most people would assume the goal has always been a vital part of
educators' tool kits. But the concept is fairly new on the education landscape,
and it has yet to accurately address some tricky cognitive terrain.

LIB THE KIDS
By Basil Venitis

Children locked in all these classes
Dumbing down our kids
Boring teachers with glasses
Unschool now and lib the kids.

Kids are looking for a Moses
To liberate them from all these freaks
To lead them to the promised land of chosen
Unschool now and lib the kids.

Eager fresh-faced youngsters
Bored to hell and tired lids
Are in classes like gangsters
Unschool now and lib the kids.

Abolish schooling right now
Abolish all these stupid grids
Fire all these teachers anyhow
Unschool now and lib the kids.

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