Six Fraternities Suspended After Drug Raid at San Diego State University

Six Fraternities Suspended After Drug Raid at San Diego State University
"The San Diego chapter, founded 61 years ago, was the first national fraternity on campus and has 65 members.
Theta Chi's San Diego chapter declined to comment. The chapter occupies two low-slung homes a block off Fraternity Row, with large red-and-white Greek symbols propped on the roof.
Theta Chi has 131 chapters in the U.S. and Canada and more than 161,000 initiates. It was founded in 1856.
University police launched their investigation into drug sales on campus after Shirley Poliakoff, 19, died from a cocaine overdose in May 2007. Investigators discovered many students in fraternities were aware of organized drug dealing within their houses.
As the investigation continued, another student, from Mesa College, died of a cocaine overdose at an SDSU fraternity house on Feb. 26, the DEA said.
Some drugs bought and sold by students were traced to gangs linked to Mexican cartels, according to the DEA. Agents collected about $100,000 worth of drugs, including cocaine, ecstasy pills, hallucinogenic mushrooms and high-grade marijuana that were being advertised in 'resale quantities' between members of the fraternity and other students."

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools
"Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd."

Popping the Higher Ed Bubble

Popping the Higher Ed Bubble
'Over the last 10 years, after adjusting for inflation, tuition is up 48% at public schools and 24% at private schools.'"

Steinbeck’s grapes lack wrath this time around - Times Online

Steinbeck’s grapes lack wrath this time around - Times Online: "Whatever happened to the Great Depression? Not the real one from 70 years ago, the lost decade of unimagined misery and Steinbeckian angst, the worst period in the history of modern capitalism. I mean the replay we were promised this year. The one we were told was the inevitable counterpart to the greatest financial crisis since a couple of medieval Italians first sat down on a Florentine bench and invented the word “bank”.
I don’t know about you but I feel a bit cheated. There we all were, led to believe by so many commentators that the sub-prime crisis was going to force the United States into a new era of dust bowls and breadlines, a slump that would call into question the very functioning of the capitalist system in the world’s largest economy. Carried away on the surging wave of their own economically dubious verbosity, the pundits even speculated that this unavoidable calamity might presage some 1930s-style global political cataclysm to match."

We Can Solve It

We Can Solve It

Muskegon Township rejects plan for manager - mlive.com

Muskegon Township rejects plan for manager - mlive.com: "In the end, the historic decision to reject a proposal that would have changed Muskegon Township's government to a professional manager system hinged on one man.
And he couldn't make up his mind."

Vern Ehlers calls gas-tax holiday 'a silly idea'

Vern Ehlers calls gas-tax holiday 'a silly idea'
'A silly idea' is how U.S. Rep. Vern Ehlers, R-Grand Rapids, Monday described a proposal to lift the federal gasoline tax for the summer to help motorists paying record-high gas prices."

Beyond silly.... reducing taxes is always a bad idea...... good God....... where do we get such politicians?

Hep me here.... reducing the amout the taxpayers give to the government is bad?

Then increasing the amount that taxpayers give to the government is GOOD?

Now .... meebeee.... I'm gettin' it........

NOT!

$600,000/yr taken from Muskegon businesses?

Muskegon County tourism manager
"developing the county's roughly $170,000 advertising and promotional budget.
Besides Foreman's promotion, Wendling also received board approval to promote Kristin Venne to senior tourism aide. Wendling, Foreman and Venne are the only fulltime staff at the CVB, which has an operating budget of approximately $600,000 a year. The bureau has two parttime staff and two other seasonal parttime positions during the summer months."

Come on folks!

We ain't gettin'our money's worth!

Never did!

Mr & Ms Chairman of Tourism,

"Tare down that wall.......... of ineptness and waste!"

and free the businesses to make their own promotional decisions!

GRPS and teachers fight over safety

GRPS and teachers fight over safety: "School officials accuse the union of digitally altering the mailings; making union quotes in a Grand Rapids Press article appear as stated fact."

Imagine how tough it would be to view and report the actual mailings!

Classic cowardly reporting by the MSM that supports every union every time.

Not too much support for the dopes who pay taxes.....

Obama, Hagel, Cantwell, Smith Hail Committee Passage of the Global Poverty Act

Obama, Hagel, Cantwell, Smith Hail Committee Passage of the Global Poverty Act
"U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) today hailed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's passage of the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), which requires the President to develop and implement a comprehensive policy to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief, and coordination with the international community, businesses and NGOs. This legislation was introduced in December. Smith and Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) sponsored the House version of the bill (H.R. 1302), which passed the House last September."

The USA (us taxpayers!) has to cut global poverty in half by 2015?!!!!!!!??????

The USA alone?

Holy shitake!

Imagine what those bozos will pass when they have a democrat President!

(hat tip to LivingDangerously http://conservativeinmuskegon.blogspot.com/)

Wisconsin prison guards scam overtime and sick leave system

Wisconsin prison guards scam overtime and sick leave system: "The scam is simple: Call in sick to get a day off, but then pick the next shift which puts you into overtime status. You still have your day off, but your next day is at time-and-a half."

Superintendent gets glowing evaluation

Superintendent gets glowing evaluation
'She has improved education at Whitehall immeasurably.'
After meeting with Dongvillo, board members voted 6-0 in open session to accept the evaluation. Trustee Randall Fielstra, who has been Dongvillo's harshest critic in the past, was absent.

As is customary at Whitehall schools, the school board addresses the superintendent's salary at a later date. Dongvillo's current salary is $120,965."

NSU professor loses job in dispute over grades

NSU professor loses job in dispute over grades
"For more than four years, Aird has carried on a running battle in which NSU administrators repeatedly pressed him to raise his pass rate and he steadfastly refused.
Twice, he was denied tenure and issued a one-year terminal contract, meaning he would have to leave at the end of the year. After the first denial, he filed a grievance. A faculty grievance committee found in his favor, ruling that the tenure decision was flawed by procedural violations and retaliatory actions by administrators."

Save the Gettysburg electric Civil War map!

Gettysburg park pulls plug on huge electric Civil War map
"For decades, visitors willing to shell out a few extra dollars at Gettysburg National Military Park could be entertained - or bored - by an electric light display showing troop movements in that pivotal Civil War battle."

http://www.savetheelectricmap.com/

THIS MAP NEEDS TO BE SAVED!

Islamist Chickens Roosting in America’s Backyard

Islamist Chickens Roosting in America’s Backyard: "A potential audience of one million Arab-speaking cable subscribers of Time Warner in the greater New York area can feast on the Arabic Channel known as TAC to choose a menu that includes:
A daily dose of Islamic jurisprudence from a sheik — most often Egyptian Amr Khaled, who wears a suit instead of a robe, advocating “peaceful jihad.” He opines on how it is the duty of Arab-Americans to become first, second, and always members of the Muslim ummah. ....

TAC also serves a nightly diet of Syrian TV News, direct from Damascus with Syria’s view of the world. In this diatribe of analysis and disinformation, Iraq is an American butchery, the Zionist regime of Israel is destined for obliteration, and Syria is the greatest gift to the “Arab cause.”

"I'm expecting to have unbridled sex Pam. What do you expect me to be doing?"

CARRIER PBS

"I'm expecting to have unbridled sex Pam. What do you expect me to be doing?"

A quote from a sailor on the USS Nimitz to the reporter when asked about his interest when the deployment is over.


I just watched, only parts, of the PBS TV show "Carrier".

I'm overwhelmed at this surprising insight to our fighting forces.

And so thankful for those true Americans who protect us every day.

Please watch this wonderful gift to all of us who are protected by these brave men and women.

My God, how I wish I could have shared this show with my submarine officer Father.....

And how lucky I am....

Hillary Clinton Curses Eight Bells

Hillary Clinton Curses Eight Bells: "The Kentucky Derby, followed suite to the democrat primaries.
The heavy favorite Big Brown ( Barack Obama ) beats the field with ease. While filly Eight Bells ( Hillary Clinton ) closed with fierce strength.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a press conference outspokenly gave her support for the filly Eight Bells to beat the favorite Big Brown as she is going to do to Barack Obama.
Eight Bells closed so fiercely that she broke both front ankles and had to be euthanized.
Did Hillary curse the filly or simply is Hillary going to follow suite and have to be euthanized."

A point worth serious discussion!

The Silent Scream of the Asparagus

The Silent Scream of the Asparagus: "You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the 'dignity' of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called 'plant rights' is being seriously debated."

"greenhouses prisons for slaves"

this video is for adults only, please!

http://muskegonpundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/arrogant-worms-carrot-juice-is-murder.html

http://instapundit.com/archives2/018754.php

Ehlers: Offset rising gasoline prices by 'conserving energy'

Ehlers: Offset rising gasoline prices by 'conserving energy'
'The quickest, easiest and cheapest solution is conserving energy,' Ehlers told about 100 people at the Gerald. R. Ford Presidential Museum. 'It's quick, it's easy and it's not very expensive.'"

Bozo alert!

Let's admit our national malaise and put a Jimmah Carter "Cardigan" over the country......

.......or build some freakin' nuclear power plants!

Can We Prevail If We've Lost Energy Savvy?

Can We Prevail If We've Lost Energy Savvy?: "The more al-Qaida mouthpiece Ayman al-Zawahiri threatens the West, the more he sounds like Hitler's shrill propagandist Joseph Goebbels in his bunker as the Third Reich was crumbling."