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News/Politics 7-22-14

What’s interesting in the news today?

1. Perry is deploying a thousand National Guard troops to supplement border enforcement. With the Border Patrol distracted by the overflow of illegal immigrants, someone needs to.

From CBSNews  “Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, announced Monday that he is activating up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as he accuses the federal government of offering “lip service” on border security.

The announcement comes as the Obama administration is still struggling to deal with the influx of more than 50,000 unaccompanied minors, most from Central America, who have crossed into the United States in the past year. The additional resources are not aimed at the children themselves, Perry said, describing them instead as a “force multiplier” to help the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) “combat the brutal Mexican drug cartels that are preying upon our communities.”

“I will not stand idly by while our citizens are under assault and little children from Central America are detained in squalor. We are too good of a country,” Perry said.

The troops could detain people if asked, Texas Adjutant General John Nichols said at the press conference with Perry, but they are planning to play a “referring and deterring” role by deterring cartels with their visible presence and referring any immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally to DPS.”

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2. And it’s not just unaccompanied minors, and it never was.

From TheDailyCaller  “New data shows the White House has painted a false picture of the Central American migration by hiding a huge spike in “family units” who are illegally crossing the Texas border.

The data, which was dumped by the U.S. border patrol late Friday afternoon, shows that inflow of youths and children traveling without parents has doubled since 2013, to 57,525 in the nine months up to July 2014.

But the number of migrants who cross the border in so-called “family units” has spiked five-fold to 55,420, according to the border patrol’s data, which came out amid a storm of news about the shoot-down of a Malaysian aircraft in Ukraine, delays in failed U.S. nuke talks with Iran, and on Hamas’ continued war against Israel.

In the Rio Grande area where most of the migrants are crossing the border, the number of so-called “unaccompanied children” was actually outnumbered by the inflow by adults, parents and children in “family units,” according to the data.”

They just keep saying it’s just minors because they’ll garner more sympathy.

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3. Seems like the least they could do. This went on for years right under their noses.

From MSNNews  “A gynecologist who secretly used a pen-like camera to record hundreds of videos and photos of his patients’ sex organs during pelvic exams will cost one of the world’s most prestigious medical centers $190 million in a settlement with more than 8,000 women.

Dr. Nikita Levy was fired in February 2013, days after a co-worker alerted authorities at Johns Hopkins Health System about her suspicions. He was forced to turn over the camera, and committed suicide days later. Investigators discovered roughly 1,200 videos and 140 images stored on a series of servers in his home.

“All of these women were brutalized by this,” said the women’s lead attorney, Jonathan Schochor. “Some of these women needed counseling, they were sleepless, they were dysfunctional in the workplace, they were dysfunctional at home, they were dysfunctional with their mates. This breach of trust, this betrayal — this is how they felt.”

The preliminary settlement approved by a judge Monday is one of the largest on record in the U.S. involving sexual misconduct by a physician. It all but closes a case that never produced criminal charges but seriously threatened Hopkins’ reputation. Lawyers said thousands of women were traumatized, even though their faces were not visible in the images and it could not be established with certainty which patients were recorded or how many.

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4. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before….

Yes, more. Convenient, no?

From The DailyCaller  “IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the lost emails are still backed up somewhere.

The new round of computer crash victims includes David Fish, who routinely corresponded with Lois Lerner, as well as Lerner subordinate Andy Megosh, Lerner’s technical adviser Justin Lowe, and Cincinnati-based agent Kimberly Kitchens.”

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5. Prospective students and their parents should take note. This will make a degree from UW-Madison a useless piece of paper that no decent employer would even consider.

From CampusReform  “A new policy at the University of Wisconsin – Madison states that good grades should be distributed equally among students of different races.

The policy, named the “Framework for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence,” calls for “proportional participation of historically underrepresented racial-ethnic groups at all levels of an institution, including high status special programs, high-demand majors, and in the distribution of grades.”

UW – Madison professor W. Lee Hansen wrote about his concerns with the policy in a piece published Wednesday.

“Professors, instead of just awarding the grade that each student earns, would apparently have to adjust them so that academically weaker, ‘historically underrepresented racial/ethnic’ students perform at the same level and receive the same grades as academically stronger students,” he wrote.”

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9 thoughts on “News/Politics 7-22-14”

  1. People will soon learn not to trust a degree from U. Wisconsin.
    This is strange because when I was at Purdue, they were proud of the Big Ten reputation, not only for sports, but academically also. But that was in 1972.

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  2. Maybe it’s just me but I would be insulted to just be given a good grade. I worked a trade show with a vendor who was also friends with my ex-husband. He and his wife took me to dinner in Atlanta. On the way to pick up his wife we were stuck in traffic and had lots of time to talk. He questioned whether he got the job he had on his own merit or if it was given to him because he was black. Having worked beside his booth at the show and seeing how he handled customers I assured him that even if he got the job because he was black he kept it because he knew his product and was an excellent salesman.

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  4. As Kim alluded to, performance on the job is what really matters.

    I believe grades are secondary — important in some aspects (obviously, you’d probably want a surgeon operating on you who did better than just barely squeak by academically in his/her studies) — but good grades alone (even when they’re earned) don’t guarantee one will be successful in the practical application of the knowledge one has learned.

    My daughter just graduated as a vet tech, and she said that the only person in her program who earned a 4.0 never did well handling animals throughout the program. What good does that do? Grades don’t tell the whole story, and while they may look impressive and sometimes help one get a job, they’re not going to guarantee one’s ability to keep his job and be successful in the field, not to mention that they don’t necessarily indicate the character needed to be an asset to one’s employer, customers, clients, or anyone one comes in contact with through the performance of his/her duties.

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  7. Chas predicts:
    The Appeals Court will rule in favor of Obamacare. It will go to the Supreme Court.
    The Supreme Court will refuse to hear the case and the Appeals Court ruling and Obamacare stands.

    😦

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