Friday Night Video
Posted by: KevindF on 3/12/2010 at 10:13 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Another Failure Of Collectivism
Two billion dollars of tax money was spent on this fiasco!
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* MARCH 12, 2010District Tackles Woes Money Didn't Fix
Decision to Shutter Dozens of Kansas City Schools Marks Major Shift After Reliance on Court-Ordered Special FundingKANSAS CITY, Mo.—Arthur Benson fought in court for decades to improve the Kansas City School District. This week, he voted to close nearly half its schools.
The decision by Mr. Benson and his colleagues on the Kansas City School Board to shutter 26 of the district's 61 schools marks a sea change for the inner-city district, once viewed as an experiment in using generous spending as a way to improve performance.
Now, administrators are using the recession-driven funding shortfalls to tackle problems many observers say should have been addressed years ago.
"These closings are absolutely in the best interests of our kids," said Mr. Benson, a 66-year-old civil-rights attorney who said he had filed about a dozen suits against the district since 1970 before joining the board two years ago.
Faced with half-filled schools and a $50 million annual deficit, the board hopes that Wednesday's decision, reached after a five-to-four vote, will help shore up the district's finances and free resources to revamp the district's academic offerings.
The closings, scheduled to take place before the next academic year, will eliminate about 700 of the district's 3,300 jobs, including 285 teachers. Enrollment today is less than 18,000 students, half what it was a decade ago.
The district has turned to more than two dozen superintendents over the past 30 years to tackle its problems. No longer can it look outside for help. "Now we have to fix from the inside," Mr. Benson said.
Posted by: KevindF on 3/11/2010 at 9:35 PM | Comments (2) | Permalink
Cook Your Way Into Heaven!
The Jesus pan. How easy can it get?
Perfect for your next endless loaves 'n fishes buffet!
Posted by: KevindF on 3/11/2010 at 5:22 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Suspicious object found at Fargo's South Campus II
How much did this fiasco cost taxpayers?
At least the FPD got to play with their expensive high tech toys again! 
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The Fargo police bomb squad used a water cannon to disarm the object, but Sgt. Joe Anderson said the object was not explosive.He said it looked like a homemade science project. He described it as a car with an attached candle and a wick that may have been mistaken as a pipe bomb.
A teacher found the suspicious object about 3 p.m. in a garbage can, which was moved outside.
A portion of South University Drive is still closed, but should open by 6 p.m., he said.
About a dozen homes in the area were told to evacuate. Students weren’t evacuated because it was the end of the school day, but they were safely moved out of the building on the northside.
Superintendent Rick Buresh said school will resume tomorrow as usual.
There were no arrests made, Anderson adding, “There doesn’t appear to be any crime.”
A couple students were detained outside the school at 1305 S. University Drive because they were being belligerent and uncooperative, he said, but they were released.
Posted by: KevindF on 3/10/2010 at 10:36 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Poop Fight!
I prefer cat fights, myself.
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Women fight over dog feces
Posted: Mar 09, 2010 9:56 PM CST
MADISON (WKOW) -- Two women engaged in a kind of dog poop warfare over the weekend.Madison Police say the trouble started when Nina Bell, 56, came out of her east side apartment Friday afternoon and discovered a pile of dog doo on her front walkway.
Bell says she knew, from the size of the pile, that it was too big to come from her pooch.
She shoveled up the excrement and flung it on the neighbor's stoop, belonging to Arnessa Battles, 38.
Police don't know what happened next, but when they arrived on scene, the women had shoveled up multiple piles of feces, flung them on each other's property, smeared them across each other's car windshields, and chucked them on each other's clothes.
The women even squared off in a doggie-shovel fencing match, but neither woman was actually struck by the weapons.
Madison Police say the backyard was covered by a winter's worth of dog droppings, made more obvious by melting snow.
Bell and Battles were cited for disorderly conduct. Both women promised Madison Police they would only allow their respective pooches to defecate on their owner's lawns.
Madison is full of burntout Bohemians.
Posted by: KevindF on 3/10/2010 at 6:00 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
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