Cum Laude

I can't see this ever happening. The teacher unions would never allow it.

Wasn't it the KKK behind the Paris attacks last year?

Ahh, but Liberals are intolerant and cry and destroy and name-call when they lose. They love democracy until things don't go their way. You fail to seek the truth and instead accept the pablum fed to you by your CBC. Maybe downgrade the size of your spoon.

The countries Trump selected were selected by the Obama administration's director of national intelligence, secretary of state, the secretary of homeland security, and the department of homeland security, not by President Trump. The countries listed on President Trump’s executive order come from the Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, which restricted people from Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria and was expanded on January 2016, by Obama's admin, to include Libya, Somalia, and Yemen. Facts are elusive to Canadian Liberals who rely on fake news like your CBC and Globe and Mail. Canadians, I find, are easily influenced because they lack understanding.

Maybe you should work hard to understand the divisive politics of unions before making a naive generalization.

You have to look deep beneath the surface to understand where we are heading. Donald J. Trump is the person who best manifests the post-industrial, technotronic (computer & robot) hyper-finance civilization we have created in America. He tapped into the Zeitgeist and angst wonderfully and that is why he is where he is. That he is coarse, blunt and unexpurgated is just another reflection of the culture that produced him: TV is the pervasive social integrator nonpareil of all time. The president is a TV star, only now on the biggest stage imaginable. The future generation of adults, are mostly warehousing for youngsters teaching them God-knows-what: coherent thinking e.g. Logic or Rhetoric? the elements of Tweeting; strategic basketball playing; LBGTQ advanced placement courses? How much TV per day do they watch? Where Melville, Twain or Mencken are no longer read – too white, too male. Who’s got time to read anymore anyway? Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer are not the songwriting team of our time; Everyone’s “device” is loaded with the greatest hits of Pharrel, Rhinna and Katy Perry – how cool is that? Providing the “classical” background score to the spectacle: Madonna , Tupac and Slipknot And how the machines now keep the American civilization rolling: the Wall Street money machine; the D.C. war machine; the Hollywood infotainment and bullshit machine….now A.I. will be directing those machines: if anything,THAT IS CRAZY! I think ours is a collective guilt – so please don’t blame the messenger, the President of the U.S.A. As to the disposition of the current state of the new administration: Will he be carted off of the stage on a gurney after collapsing with apoplexy? Will the Deep State use a big hook to force an exit stage right? Can a foreign power or rogue agent interrupt our programming for a special announcement? Yelling fire in a crowded theatre is always hazardous. Stay tuned – it is the “real” daily show.

Michael, Trump shocked the political establishment and media by giving an inauguration speech that implied he is dead serious about destroying their oligarchy. They were bewildered. He’s supposed to sell out now that his populist song and dance won him the White House. Probably unfounded concern, a lot of his advisers are old guard establishment hacks. Immigration reform advocates point out he has yet to appoint Kris Kobach deputy Homeland Security Secretary, an essential step if the anarchist immigration policies of the Bush/Obama regime are to be rolled back. Meanwhile the journalism community is dead set on burying him for fostering public awareness of what a bunch of clowns they are. And he’s not helping himself by taking the bait they lay out hook line and sinker.

Look at the situation from the point of view of the part of US intelligence, which serves the interests of Hillary, Soros and Kagan. Trump could simply purge them up. And it is not even necessary to unleash some political repression or a witch hunt, all Trump needs to do is to investigate the participation of certain part of the US intelligence in support of ISIS and illegal arms shipments to the Jihadists. There is mounting evidence that the attack on Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi was to prevent Sevens from becoming a whistleblower about illegal shipments of Libyan arms to ISIS. Many employees of US intelligence are not just facing the prospect of losing jobs, but losing freedom or even their lives (High Treason is a Capital Offence) In order to prevent this, they are ready to propagate any fake news and accuse Trump of anything, no matter how nonsensical those charges would look. From their point of view – it’s a win-win move. If they can blame Trump, then it is good. And if they can not, then at least any attempt to clean up the security services, they immediately could start crying that Trump purges “real American patriots from the CIA” on Putin’s personal orders.

Now in the United States, clashing in a battle, several powerful oligarchic clans for control of Washington and an opportunity to build their own vision of the future of the country and the world. Trump and Hillary are just visible peaks of enormous icebergs. They only publicly personify the opposing forces remaining in the shadow of the mass media, news releases and political battles. In fact, at the moment, Trump is trying to wrest control of the United States from the transnational oligarchic clans. Trump like a tank is going ahead through the dense ranks of the ruling US elite, regardless of party affiliation. His goal is to save the United States, which are being used to the full depreciation in the interests of transnational oligarchy. Trump wants to stop the destructive processes in his own country. Trump is not alone. Behind him are very influential people both within America and abroad. In addition he gets the maximum support of the US patriotic establishment (government officials, military personnel, intelligence and security officers) who dream to wrestle the US out of control transnational oligarchy. So, in fact, what is happening in America, is a revolution. And not only in the US but also around the world. If Trump will be able to fully take power in the United States, the transnational oligarchy will lose the most important tool of their power and influence in the world. If this happens, all currently existing world order would collapse.

Here is what I see when I view the MSM “news”: The New World Order train was rolling right along with directives from Bush II to “invade and occupy seven countries in five years”. Recall when Gen. Wesley Clark visited The Pentagon two weeks after 9/11 where he was handed a memo detailing how the United States intended to invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and ending with Iran over the next five years”? You can Youtube the video of Clark telling Amy Goodman all about it. So, that was the tip of the iceberg of “The Deep State’s” game plan and George W. Bush handed Obama the baton and Obama never broke his stride in attempting to keep the war ball rolling. Russia didn’t get in the way when Hillary Clinton and NATO destroyed Libya and sent a bayonet up Qaddafi’s rectum (it’s on video if you can stand to watch it). But Russia stepped in when Obama drew his “red line” and Kerry made the mistake of saying, “Well, if Assad’s chemical weapons were gone that would be a game changer.” Putin and Lavrov obliged and came in to help Assad get rid of the chemical weapons (even though all evidence pointed to the U.S. rebels using chemical weapons provided to them through Hillary’s “rat line” from Libya). Then Assad invited Putin to come in to help him deal with ISIS (who are now training seven year old’s to behead people and toddlers to shoot people…Google it), and Putin has come in and now it appears Syria, Turkey, Iran and Russia are the “peacemakers” having excluded the U.S. aggressor from “peace talks” (smart move!). Hillary Rodham Clinton was bold in her statements during the campaign that she would institute a “no fly zone” in Syria and be more aggressive in Ukraine against Russia. Of course a “no fly zone” would have pitted the U.S. military against the Russian military and we would be off to WW III which is exactly what The Deep State wants. More chaos, more enemies, more money to be made by the MIC and more power to be achieved through force. Any sixth grader presented with the facts regarding what happened in Ukraine would immediately see that the United States led by Hillary Clinton and her sycophant Victoria Nuland orchestrated the coup in Ukraine. What a SHOCK when Putin tried to protect the eastern part of Ukraine (who are predominantly Russian speakers and many traveled to Russia to work) and when he helped the people of Crimea to vote to secede from Ukraine. I watched that vote and it was a thing of beauty watching thousands of smiling people place paper ballots into clear plastic containers and watching people sitting around counting the results! The American people could learn a LOT about how a “transparent” voting process actually is done! Had Hillary Clinton been elected the plan was for her to take the George W. Bush “regime change” baton from Obama and continue the Deep State’s quest for “full spectrum military/economic dominance” of the world and to relegate Russia to a third world status (eventually) even if it meant war. In Obama’s recently signed NDAA it details all the locations of Russia’s high command centers in case of a nuclear war. Google it. Russia is in The Pentagon’s cross hairs. Putin giving Edward Snowden safe haven has to be a thorn in Obama’s side. Trump and his very bright son-in-law, Jared Kushner, threw a monkey wrench into the works when Kushner hired a wiz bang computer guy to figure out where Trump should be campaigning in order to win the necessary electoral votes. (Google this. It’s a fascinating story!) Hillary and her corrupt “team” obviously were playing checkers while Trump and Jared were playing chess. She may have won the “popular” vote by the millions of brain dead liberals in California and New York stacking the count, but Trump and his team received the votes they needed to WIN the election. Thus the shock of everyone on election night at CNN, MSNBC and even at FOX! All their stupid pollsters were wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s fun to watch election night coverage going from giddy (cocksure Hillary was coming to The Javits Center to break the glass ceiling) to catatonic in the span of a few hours. It was interesting though how the top two polls that had the best historical record were RIGHT! The IBD/TIPP poll and the LA Times/USC poll both consistently said Trump was ahead by 3-5%! The bottom line is this: Once Trump won the election and the wheels of regime change were ground to a halt with the Trump monkey wrench, Plan B had to be dusted off and that had to be to demonize Russia day in and day out. Thus the blaming of Putin for Hillary Clinton being a thoroughly corrupt, lying criminal (pay to play Clinton Foundation shenanigans for a starter). This is classic Wizard of Oz stuff playing out here. The great Wizard up on the screen is Putin and his “hackers” and Assange and Wikileaks but the guy behind the screen we are supposed to pay no attention to is The Deep State, the propagandistic media (think Operation Mockingbird), the corrupt Clinton Crime Family and their rotten DNC operatives who deep-sixed Sanders (that would have been yet a different monkey wrench dropped into their evil machinations). The curtain has been pulled back now and the whole world can see that the Emperor is wearing no clothes. Now it will be up to Trump to do his thing and time will tell if he is able to “make America great again” and to make peace with Russia and to stop the stupid and destructive “regime change” policies of The Deep State. I am willing to wait and see what he does and pray for him and his administration to make the sea change this country (and the world) so desperately needs.

We are ingrained with the belief that the president should act “presidential”. That some career politician, or attorney, or partisan mafioso should be held, and maintain, deep respect. De facto legitimacy. The great thing about Trump, is that he destroyed that. We no longer MUST hold these criminals and clowns in high respect. When the president Tweets that the cow Meryl Streep is an overrated actress, we are met with pangs of embarrassment, followed by waves of joy… finally someone reverential… speaking the truth. Hilarious.

Common knowledge for those of us in the know. Unbelievable for you Canucks who rely on your CBC. Research for your own citation.

This is nonsense, and I don't think you have even a remote understanding of this issue. Maybe you rely on the CBC just a TAD too much. Obama’s press conference recently was full of the “Russian hacking” issue.The presstitutes on “real news” TV are now round-the-clock involved in reporting on the Russian hacking-the-election issue. That and Aleppo.Blaming Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, for personally leading the hacking program against the U.S. elections (and Aleppo as it happens;) now the FBI and CIA are confirming this.Are these people and organizations insane or simply dumb? The government of the United States of America has spent trillions of military budget dollars expressly for “cyber-warfare” apart from personnel and traditional weapons systems. There’s even a four-star flag officer in charge.The military organisms are in addition to “civilian” cyber-warfare outfits which include NSA, CIA, NRO and a host of others. On top of all the governmental activity there are the monster computer technology and research companies, from IBM and Hewlett Packard to Google and Facebook. These companies have leading edge and intimate knowledge of cyber-warfare. Have their expertise not been taken advantage of by the government? If no, why not? Then there are the leading U.S. research universities – most of which are the best in the world: MIT, Cal Tech, Stanford etc. – or so the story goes. Have they not been (t)asked by the government to help out in the age of cyber-warfare? If no, why the hell not?There is absolutely no excuse on earth (other than laziness, stupidity or treason) that any U.S. government, or affiliated system(s) should be getting hacked. People responsible need to be held accountable (hahahahaha.) After the press conference, Barry, Michele and the rest of the First Family’s retinue will be going to Hawaii for winter break. No one will be held accountable and nothing substantive will be done about it – well except for plenty hand wringing. But continue to piss off and insult Vlad Putin and whine about the hacking will be non-stop media fare until the next LeBron James or Kanye “K.S.c” West press conference. Edward Snowden and Julian Asange were & are right about all this. The Chinese must be choking on their dim-sum with laughter.

Can you recognize projection? “This leaves us wondering if there is more than just an Obama disinformation campaign being perpetuated against the American people, and if the Obama administration is deliberately attempt to distract the public from the bombshell that Georgia Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, dropped last week when he publicly revealed that the Obama’s Department of homeland Security conducted 10 separate cyber attacks on their election database. The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office now confirms 10 separate cyberattacks on its network were all traced back to U.S. Department of Homeland Security addresses. In an exclusive interview, a visibly frustrated Secretary of State Brian Kemp confirmed the attacks of different levels on his agency’s network over the last 10 months. He says they all traced back to DHS internet provider addresses. It was also confirmed yesterday that both West Virginia and Kentucky were attacked by DHS IP addresses as well, as reported by WSB TV in Atlanta… While Barack Obama is attempting to distract the nation with claims of “Russian interference,” which his administration cannot even provide the House Intel Committee with proof of, the politicized DHS has been caught red-handed trying to hack into at least three states election databases. That is what the should be investigated by Congress because the leaked emails sent to Wikileaks came from within, and there is every indication that Russia wasn’t the ones who tried to “hack” the election, but the Obama administration unsuccessfully tried to hack it and when that did not work, they moved on to plan B, which is an attempt to overturn the results.”

The men are moving in, and the mice are moving out. Jill Stein has been bitch slapped by the courts, and now the Dems are demanding intelligence briefings before the electoral college vote a week from today. I hope Trump can do it, but I don’t see a coherent, workable plan in place to handle the economy. Lower taxes and begin huge, ambitious projects? Would the Chinese even think of buying those 50 and 100 year “Build America” bonds? Guess who’ll be paying for the Carrier “bailout”? The economy may now be simply unmanageable without a lot of suffering. No fault of Trump. “Ice nine” may be closer than we think.

Earth is a cesspool. World governments are a cesspool. Our own Wash DC (Congress, SCOTUS, White House, K Street, Fed Reserve, etc.) is a cesspool of unbelievable corruption. We are in a dwindling spiral in our civilization, morality has decayed to a very low level, as has spirituality (actually per the definition of civilization, there really isn’t one on this planet). The description that this planet is “a floating lunatic asylum” was an apt statement. We are in history. Who knows what the historians will write about this period 50 and 100 years from now (if we are still here). No one really knows where we are headed. All we can do is hope that Trump’s minor influences push us in a better overall direction. May happen, may not. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Do what you can to flourish and prosper and make a good life for yourself and your family. Become financially intelligent through study and make your own economy, and avoid the pitfalls and booby traps. And, do what you can to help others do the same. Teach morality, character, virtue, importance of education, importance of creativity and production, importance of contribution and participation, etc. etc.(all the amazing positive traits we possess as humans). What else can one do?

So I guess this reveals a need for teacher unions?

Here is an update on the story. http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchford-posh-vancouver-school-places-staff-under-gag-order-after-teacher-fired

How is PC getting out of hand? The teacher's words were careless, hateful, and hurtful. This girl displayed fortitude for having the guts to stand up to this bully.

Believe what you want. Not everyone agrees with you are shares your dark opinion.

You don't believe the student was traumatized?

Not at all. I don't get how you can trivialize the emotional trauma this girl has endured. But I am impressed with the hard ass administrators at this posh private school.

What the teacher said was awful. It's as simple as that. Look past your own hate and realize a child has been victimized.