Department of Education IG Reveals $6 Billion In Improper Payments in 2016

Department of Education IG Reveals $6 Billion In Improper Payments in 2016:

"These improper payments included sending money in the wrong amount, making unnecessary disbursements, and sending payments to the wrong recipients entirely, reported the government watchdog group Judicial Watch.

There were $2.21 billion in improper Pell Grant payments and $3.86 billion in the Direct Loan program, according to Inspector General Tighe in her May 25 testimony before the House Subcommittee on Government Operations."

Blog: Finally, conservatives are fighting back!

Blog: Finally, conservatives are fighting back!:
"For years, I have been extremely frustrated with my fellow Republicans and conservatives allowing leftist Democrats to dictate how we're allowed to fight for our ideas.
Meanwhile, leftists can promote whatever violence-inciting lie they deem necessary.
Remarkably, despite overwhelming evidence proving otherwise, leftists are still promoting the lie that black criminal Michael Brown was gunned down by a white racist cop while surrendering with his hands up.
Leftists can say and do disgusting things publicly in front of innocent children, all the while outrageously decreed by fake news media to have the moral high ground.
Here are just a few examples of what I am talking about.
On Trump's inauguration day, at the anti-Trump Women's March in D.C., thousands wore what they crudely called "pussy hats."
From the podium, in a gross way, Ashley Judd spoke of menstrual blood and women's private issues. My late mom would have been shocked and extremely embarrassed.
Madonna boldly proclaimed her desire to blow up the White House.
Fakes news media would have demanded the immediate prosecution of a Tea Party person saying the same.
In 2010, over a million Tea Party Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. to oppose Obamacare. The peaceful, polite crowd left the place cleaner than they had found it.
Fake news media despicably told our country it was a mob of haters against their black president.
Leftists routinely trash the cites of their rallies..."

Terror rampage strikes London - Washington Times

Terror rampage strikes London - Washington Times:

"“We cannot and must not pretend that things can continue as they are,” Ms. May said.
While authorities do not believe the recent attacks were coordinated, the prime minster said, “They are bound together by the single, evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows division, and promotes sectarianism.”
“Defeating this ideology is one of the great challenges of our time,” she said."

Business license required for teens to cut grass | WBMA

Business license required for teens to cut grass | WBMA:
"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Teens in Gardendale are in for a rude awakening this summer when it comes to cutting grass. According to the city's ordinance, you must have a business license.
Teenagers have been threatened by officials and other lawn services to show their city issued license before cutting a person's lawn for extra summer cash.
Cutting grass is often one of the first jobs many have in the summer.
But a business license in Gardendale costs $110.
And for a job, just for a couple of months, that can be a bit extreme.
"I have never heard of a child cutting grass had to have a business license," said Elton Campbell.
Campbell's granddaughter cuts grass around the neighborhood.
...Now, Mayor Hogeland says that it's just unfortunate that issues as small as a teen cutting grass trigger these types of complaints.
He said he doesn't want this to discourage kids from trying to earn money."

Michigan Teachers Are the Nation’s Highest Paid [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Michigan Teachers Are the Nation’s Highest Paid [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
"The average salary of a Grand Rapids Public Schools teacher was $54,690 in 2015-16.
The per capita income of city residents from 2011 to 2015 (in 2015 dollars) was $28,930, or just 53 percent of what teachers made in the school district.
Using that type of analysis, a study from the Citizens Research Council of Michigan found that Michigan public school teachers are the highest paid in the nation when salaries are compared to average incomes in the state where they serve.
The average Michigan public school teacher’s salary in 2015-16 was $63,878 while the state’s per capita personal income was $42,833 that year. 
This means the average teacher made 1.49 times the average income, the highest ratio in the nation.
Oregon, whose teachers earned $60,064 while the state’s personal income was $43,830 per person, had the second-highest ratio in the nation at 1.37..."

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Department of Education IG Reveals $6 Billion In Improper Payments in 2016

Department of Education IG Reveals $6 Billion In Improper Payments in 2016:

"These improper payments included sending money in the wrong amount, making unnecessary disbursements, and sending payments to the wrong recipients entirely, reported the government watchdog group Judicial Watch.

There were $2.21 billion in improper Pell Grant payments and $3.86 billion in the Direct Loan program, according to Inspector General Tighe in her May 25 testimony before the House Subcommittee on Government Operations."

Chemistry Expert: Carbon Dioxide can't cause Global Warming - Principia Scientific International

Chemistry Expert: Carbon Dioxide can't cause Global Warming - Principia Scientific International:
"Scarcely a day goes by without us being warned of coastal inundation by rising seas due to global warming.
Why on earth do we attribute any heating of the oceans to carbon dioxide, when there is a far more obvious culprit, and when such a straightforward examination of the thermodynamics render it impossible.
Carbon dioxide, we are told, traps heat that has been irradiated by the oceans, and this warms the oceans and melts the polar ice caps.
While this seems a plausible proposition at first glance, when one actually examines it closely a major flaw emerges.
In a nutshell, water takes a lot of energy to heat up, and air doesn’t contain much. In fact, on a volume/volume basis, the ratio of heat capacities is about 3300 to 1.
This means that to heat 1 litre of water by 1˚C it would take 3300 litres of air that was 2˚C hotter, or 1 litre of air that was about 3300˚C hotter!
This shouldn’t surprise anyone.
If you ran a cold bath and then tried to heat it by putting a dozen heaters in the room, does anyone believe that the water would ever get hot?
The problem gets even stickier when you consider the size of the ocean.
Basically, there is too much water and not enough air.
The ocean contains a colossal 1,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 litres of water!
To heat it, even by a small amount, takes a staggering amount of energy.
To heat it by a mere 1˚C, for example, an astonishing 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules of energy are required.
Let’s put this amount of energy in perspective. 
If we all turned off all our appliances and went and lived in caves, and then devoted every coal, nuclear, gas, hydro, wind and solar power plant to just heating the ocean, it would take a breathtaking 32,000 years to heat the ocean by just this 1˚C!
In short, our influence on our climate, even if we really tried, is miniscule!..
Read on!!

AM Fruitcake

History for June 4

History for June 4 - On-This-Day.com:
George III (England) 1738, Rosalind Russell 1908, Dennis Weaver 1924


Dr. Ruth Westheimer 1928, Bruce Dern 1936 - Actor, Michelle Phillips (Holly Michelle Gilliam) 1944 - Singer (The Mamas & the Papas), actress ("The Last Movie", "Knot's Landing")


1792 - Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Britain.


1805 - Tripoli was forced to conclude peace with U.S. after conflicts over tribute.



1896 - Henry Ford made a successful test drive of his new car in Detroit, MI. He called the vehicle was called a "Quadricycle."


1940 - The British completed the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk, France.


1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific.


1944 - The U-505 became the first enemy submarine captured by the U.S. Navy.


1944 - During World War II, the U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, which began the liberation of the Italian capital.


1947 - The House of Representatives approved the Taft-Hartley Act. The legislation allowed the President of the United States to intervene in labor disputes.

London police respond to two terrorist attacks; at least one dead - Washington Times

London police respond to two terrorist attacks; at least one dead - Washington Times:


"British police said terrorist attacks in London late Saturday inflicted multiple casualties, with a vehicle running down pedestrians on London Bridge and people being stabbed nearby.
Reuters reported at least one person dead."

Judicial Watch obtains new classified Clinton emails | Fox News

Judicial Watch obtains new classified Clinton emails | Fox News:

"A nonprofit legal watchdog claimed Thursday that newly unearthed documents show Hillary Clinton sent and received more classified information on her private server than previously known, and that the papers also show top aide Huma Abedin did favors for Clinton Foundation insiders.

Judicial Watch released more than 2,000 pages of documents it obtained pursuant to a May 5, 2015 court order, after filing a lawsuit against the State Department for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request."

The way we were-----Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime ORIGINAL 1970