John sent me the link to this article on the Puffington Host.

The city and teachers’ union may have agreed to shut down the usage of “rubber rooms” — reassignment centers for educators awaiting discipline hearings in 2010 — but according to a new report, the city is still shelling out to idle teachers.

The Daily News reports traditional rubber rooms have been replaced with unused offices and even cramped utility closets, where although numbers have improved, on an average day roughly 200 teachers sit and collect their normal salaries.

And for their time, the city is projected to shell out a staggering $22 million to teachers doing absolutely nothing this year alone.

And that’s opposed to many of the incompetent school teachers who are still teaching and in effect doing nothing while standing up in front of students.

When the city announced an end to the controversial rubber room practice in 2010, Mayor Bloomberg denounced the centers as an “expensive abuse of tenure.” Under the new agreement, teachers accused of wrongdoing were supposed to be assigned administrative work until their cases receive a hearing.

Two years later, many teachers subjected to waiting say they haven’t received such duties.

Prolly because the New York school system, like most school systems, is already awash with administrators.

Rubber rooms remerged under the spotlight earlier this month when a Staten Island teacher was found live streaming his time in a center with signs readings “I’d rather teach!” and “Don’t Tread On Me.”

A department spokesperson said Francesco Portelos had been removed as a computer technology teacher because he was deemed “extremely difficult to work with,” but he claims he was actually penalized for accusing the school’s principal for financial misconduct.

Which was prolly the truth.

“It’s just crazy, I never thought this would happen especially in the New York City Department of Education,” Portelos said. “A $24 billion budget and I’m being paid $75,000 to sit here. It’s ridiculous. I’m not here because I’m a bad teacher, I’m not here because I did anything to anyone physically, I’m here because they were trying to shut me up and it backfired big time.”

I don’t know what his problem is. He’s still getting paid a lot of money.

Gotta love the gummint.

Worked out in the yard today for about an hour getting the weeds and trees out of my rose beds on the side of the house. Drank plenty of water. It was hot. I’m beat. Fortunately, I’ve got Ron to fall back on. Here’s his latest.

Spying, leaking, surveillance, espionage, snooping, wiretapping, data mining . . . it’s all just the modern version of a primeval stratagem for maintaining one-upmanship over another tribe who might have neater stuff or a cooler religion or better weapons or bigger dicks or something.

It’s most certainly nothing new, and nobody should be surprised that modern paranoiacs are using modern technology to gain advantage in la dans ancienne. What’s worse is that it’s been going on in this country for decades. Remember J. Edgar? Now THERE was a guy who KNEW some stuff, and how to USE it.

That’s how he was able to stay head of the FBI through so many administrations. He knew where all of the bodies were buried and who buried ’em.

Hell, the British were reading the German Enigma traffic even before many of the field commanders or U-Boat skippers had even decoded it. And we were reading the Japanese naval codes by the middle of 1942.

My bet would be that the Israelis and Russians know more about us than our own government does, the difference being that they know how to keep their damned mouths shut about intel once they have it and our government is populated with blabbermouths.

Look at all of the leaks sanctioned by Obungler and his minions to make him look good. Who cares if it gives important info to our enemies as long as it makes Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade look good. The only leaks these assholes are concerned with are the ones that make the Obamessiah look bad. They don’t give a damn about national security.

I can remember back in Subic during ‘Nam if you wanted to know when a particular ship was coming in for a liberty call or shipyard repairs, all you needed was which mama-san in which bar to ask. I’m assuming it was the same in Sasebo and Yoko during the Korean war, and prob’ly even during ‘Nam. And this was all BEFORE e-mail and smartfones and i-Pads and all that stuff.

I can attest to the girls in Subic knowing ship movements. Ron, it was the same in Sasebo and Yokosuka at that time, as well.

Jeeez, I had a Top Secret clearance and did virtually all my shipboard work in the communications or combat-information centers, and I could hear more stuff at Mama Yee’s or D’Cave or the Rio Club or even the Eagle’s Nest about ships’ movements than I could aboard ships.

I was an ET who stood radio watches and had a Top Secret/Crypto clearance so I had the same info as Ron, even more since my Crypto clearance allowed me to use the little crypto machine in the safe in the crypto room to decipher the crypto messages. The babes on the beach did know more about ship movements than I did.

Heard a guy two days ago on some alphabet network news show that the new data-storage center in Utah that everybody’s got their undies in a wad over is actually more for cyberwarfare than for data gathering on US citizens.

Actually, I HOPE the site is accumulating and analyzing international calls on a who-called-whom basis to identify potential terrorist threats. But I suspect the guy I heard is at least to some degree correct and all that time, energy, and money is multi-purpose, one of which is hacking into the Chinese and Russian servers and data bases. I mean, if we’re NOT going mano-a-mano with those guys with hi-speed servers locked in eternal combat, we’re doomed.

With assholes like Oblunder, exSpeaker Blinky, Horrible Harry, Chuck ‘the schmuck” Schumer (someone ruined a perfect prick when they put ears on him), the rest of the liberals progressives rat bastard commies in the Dimocrat Party, and the RINOs in the Republican Party running things (Sure, let’s give the illegal aliens amnesty before we secure the borders because that’s always worked so well in the past. Hello scamnesty!), we’re already doomed.

Leaks have come out of the Obama head shed like those slick, stiff, brightly colored flyers we get tons of in the mail every two years just before elections. Most of them are deliberate, and damned near all are political, especially from THIS regime. Today many leaks are just feelers, like teenage kids at a school ball game on Friday night looking for a hookup after the game.

Intel gathering, surveillance, data mining . . . makes no difference what it’s called, we’re inextricably locked into it, and we’ll never know to what extent it goes. Never. Wouldn’t be worth much if we did. In fact, it’s much like sausage – if we watched it being made, we’d prob’ly quit eating it for a while ‘til the shock wore off.

Spying is a de facto ritual, a sacrosanct ceremony, an unwritten and time-honored contract through which nations with divergent interests agree to harass, sabotage, outmaneuver, out-intrigue, out-negotiate, out-propagandize, and out-scrutinize each other . . . kinda like a marriage after a few years . . . ‘til death do them join.

And there ain’t one helluva lot any of us can do about it, ‘cause even if we toss out the entire bunch of reprobates and thieves in D.C. today, we can’t allow a snoop gap to develop.*

Remember, Oboner ran against all of this snooping until he became president and then he doubled down on all of it.

[* I’d have used the word spook instead of “snoop,” but since it’s a given that sooner or later somebody in gubmint (or should that be bugmint) will read it, I’d much rather be on a list of subversives than be under investigation by the Political Correctness Cops.]

Yeah, go ahead . . . you can use “bugmint.” Tell ‘em I said it’d be O.K.

Yesterday in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, PolitiFact Georgia fact checked an op-ed by noted “civil rights icon” and racist John Lewis. In it he wrote the following: “Black children constitute 18 percent of the nation’s public school children but 40% of the children who are suspended or expelled.” They rated it mostly true.

John Lewis was hit on the head one too many times with a night stick during the Civil Rights era. He has become a race baiting asshole. A few examples.

A few years back when John Eaves was running for head of the Atlanta City Council, Lewis, Shirley Franklin, and Andrew Young made a race baiting ad that ran on black radio stations that stated, among other things, that if Eaves lost the election we would be going back to the days of fire hoses and dogs. There was a large outcry about this race baiting but Lewis shrugged it off.

When Obummercare was passed, Lewis and the rest of the Congressional black Caucus walked through a Tea Party protest trolling for racist remarks. There were none. However, Lewis claimed he was called “nigger” thirteen times. All the videos taken at that event showed no evidence of racist remarks. Fellow race baiter Al Sharpton told Bill O’Reilly that he had seen the tape supporting Lewis’s contentions. Breitbart offered $50K for any video supporting Lewis’s contentions. There were no takers. Sharpton must have lied as well. I’m shocked!

So, now that I’ve attacked Lewis’s credibility, I’ll have to give him props on this. These figures are prolly correct. Does this indicate racism? Hardly.

Blacks overall commit more crimes than whites, and most of them are crimes against other blacks. What do you expect? The majority of black children are raised by single mothers and single grandmothers. There are lots of baby mommas but no baby daddies. This lack of fathers leave black children with no male role models other than than athletes, rappers, pimps, and drug dealers. Of course this carries over when black males go to school. Also, there is the black culture that doing well in school is “acting white”.

With just those two things I would expect blacks to have more discipline problems in schools.

Here’s a personal anecdote. Back when I worked in the Office Products Mattel Division of IBM, I hated going to the predominately black schools to fix the typewriters in the typing classrooms. There was far more vandalism in the black schools than the white schools. I got real good at replacing rotate tapes on Selectric typewriters, since that was the easiest thing for them to break. Cover off, new rotate tape installed, adjusted, and cover back on in less than ten minutes. Before I entered the school, I usually put ten rotate tapes in my suit coat (yeah we wore suits back then) pocket. I usually used them all. I could count on spending an entire afternoon in a majority black school. I spent less time in a majority white school. Less vandalism. I’m a racist for pointing this out.

Sorry Congresscritter Lewis. As Cassius said to Brutus, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

The fault here is not racism, but the black culture itself. You don’t solve poverty by giving people money and you don’t solve problems in the black community by making excuses for poor behavior and screaming racism. You should be demanding excellence. You should be aghast at a population where the illegitimacy rate is around 70%. That is a disgrace. You should be asking, “Where are the fathers?”

But it is far easier to scream racism, blame whitey, promote dependence upon gummint, and not demand responsibility for one’s actions. And I’m a racist for writing this.

If a Republican were president, Edward Snowden would be declared a hero.  Think Daniel Ellsberg, a darling of the left who leaked the Pentagon Papers.  Daniel Ellsberg himself supports Snowden.

I think there has not been a more significant or helpful leak or unauthorized disclosure in American history ever than what Edward Snowden shared with the Guardian about the NSA—and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers.

Since we have a liberal progressive rat bastard commie in the White House the liberals progressives rat bastard commies are confused as to whether Snowden is a hero or a traitor.

Got it from Ron who got it from one of his friends.  It will never happen, but I can dream can’t I?

How would you like to stay at home and do nuttin’ and get paid more than everyone else at your place of employment. Well if you worked for were employed by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit – San Francisco’s mass transit system), you could be.

With a gross salary of more than $333,000, BART’s highest-paid employee last year wasn’t its general manager, police chief or a worker who racked up gobs of overtime scrubbing grime from filthy train seats.

It was someone who did no work at all for BART in 2012: Dorothy Dugger, the agency’s former general manager who resigned under pressure more than two years ago.

Kewl. She resigned under pressure and she’s still the highest paid “employee”. Love them gummint jobs.

Under a lucrative retirement scheme, Dugger, 57, quietly stayed on the books, burning off nearly 80 weeks of unused vacation time, drawing paychecks and full benefits for more than 19 months after she agreed to quit in May 2011, according to an analysis by this newspaper. By remaining on BART’s payroll, she accrued almost two extra months of vacation, while sitting at home drawing a six-figure salary for unused time off.

Even MARTA here in Atlanta is not that corrupt. That title goes to Atlanta Public Schools.

The months of extra pay were on top of the $920,000 that BART paid Dugger to leave after the agency’s board botched an effort to fire her by violating public meetings laws.

“Wow,” said James Fang, a BART board member who tried to oust Dugger. “She was still on the payroll? I did not know this. It’s startling.”

And it’s nice work if you can get it.

Update: Peggy U. sent me this link to an interview with this gummint parasite in 2008. I started to reply in the comments, but was having so much fun that I decided to add it to the post.

Some of the lowlights.

Goal yet to be achieved: To secure an adequate level of funding to meet our legacy responsibility of reinvesting and maintaining BART.

Ripping BART off really goes a long way towards achieving that goal.

Like least about job: Not having all the financial resources we need.

Because she’s busy ripping off BART.

Pet peeve: Waste of any kind.

She’s the epitome of waste.

Greatest fear: On a personal level, disappointing people. On a global level, that we will not figure out a way to settle differences without resorting to conflict.

Your personal fear has been achieved. You have disappointed people. You’re a typical gummint worker.

Characteristic most admired: Generosity of spirit and action.

I’ll bet you just love BART’s generosity.

Characteristic most deplored: Deceitfulness.

So, do you deplore yourself?

How do you deal with disappointment: Try to dig deeper into the cause and understand my role in it.

I guess that’s why you had to be forced out of your job with BART.

How do you deal with stress: I tend to ignore it and push on through.

That’s prolly why you ignored your incompetence and had to be forced out of your job. Stress? What stress. Even unemployed you make more than anyone else at BART.

Most influential book: “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” by Jane Jacobs.

You’re doing your best to aid in the death of San Francisco, but quite frankly, they didn’t need your help.

I guess it comes as no surprise that she’s a Dimocrat.

Karl U. sent me this long one made up of puns of biblical proportions.

Old Testament computing….

In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dorothy. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.

And she said unto Abraham, her husband, “Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?”

And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, “How, dear?”

And Dot replied, “I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah’s Pony Stable (UPS).”

Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.

To prevent neighbouring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures – Hebrew To The People (HTTP).

And the young men did take to Dot Com’s trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.

And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates’ drumheads and drumsticks.

And Dot did say, “Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others.”

And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as it came to be known.

He said, “We need a name that reflects what we are.”

And Dot replied, “Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators.”

“YAHOO,” said Abraham.

And because it was Dot’s idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.

Abraham’s cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot’s drums to locate things around the countryside.

It soon became known as God’s Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).

That is how it all began. And that’s the truth.

Amen.

Thomas sent me this picture of an uninformed voter.

Obviously an Obungler supporter.

From a tan lines email sent to me by my buddy Pres. (more…)

I’m gonna give it to Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade. He fired up Air Force One and headed out to California to try to convince the rubes in that state that Obummercare – which we see the LSM referring to more and more as the Affordable Care Act – is a good idea.

He’s also trying to tell us that all of the surveillance programs he was against back in 2008 and which he has expanded since he was elected are for our own good.

And here he is at all of his SCoaMF eloquence when he doesn’t have his trusty TelePrompTer to read from. Someone’s prolly gonna get audited by the IRS for that foul up.

All in all, a week worthy of the award.