S.H.I.E.L.D.: HAPPY FLAG DAY!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

HAPPY FLAG DAY!

Happy 235th Birthday!

When Freedom from her mountain height,

Unfurled her standard to the air,

She tore the azure robe of night,

And set the stars of glory there.

--Joseph Rodman Drake

1819

Too Long/Didn't Read

Too Long, Didn't Read (TL/DR) section

If you give a kid an iPad, he'll have to have an Internet connection. And if he has an internet connection at school, he can have one at home, too. If you have an Internet connection at school and home, you can implement digital textbooks. If you use digital textbooks, you can easily create digital exams which everyone can take. If you create digital exams for everyone, you will need to teach a common curriculum. If you teach a common curriculum, he can pull out his free iPad from his backback to create an advertising brochure for a green energy company in 7th grade math class. If he creates green energy brochures in math class, he will be completely unprepared for the real world. But, at least he has a free iPad.

Rich Crandall admits he has spent 5 years working alongside leftists intent on destroying our educational system and "equalizing" outcomes. CCSS is FAR from a "state-led" effort. It was conceived, written, implemented and funded by leftist organizations and an Obama Administration whose goal is to "transform" America using our children.

Obama's "Green Ribbon" awards in Arizona. Just another way to implement Agenda 21 in our local schools. Less about learning and more about brainwashing.

Jeff Flake was FOR Comprehensive Immigration Reform before he was AGAINST it after he was FOR it.

Robert Graham prides himself on single-handedly defeating Prop 121 which had no chance of winning to begin with and lined the pockets of political consultants along the way. "Conservative" Graham's ARL PAC also donated to Orrin Hatch as well as the Republican Victory Fund who used that money to support Rich Crandall over John Fillmore in a primary election.

Robert Graham's credentials might not be all they are cracked up to be.

Arizona Farm Bureau teams up with leftists to push immigration reform.

Arizona Party Builders backed by the usual suspects.

Company Layoffs in Obama's Second Term

197,000+

Abbott Labs 550 10/12

Alcatel Lucent 15,500 9/12
American Express 5,400 1/10/13

Alpha Natural Resources 1,200 9/12

American Airlines 370 10/16/12

Ameridose LLC 650 11/8/12

ARAMARK 277

Bank of America 30,000 10/12

Barclays 50 10/12

BASF 400 10/12

Boeing 30% of Execs 11/7/12

Bristol Myers Squibb 480 in NJ 11/6/12

Capital One 217

Cisco 1,300

Colgate 1000's thru 2016 10/26/12

Comcast 500

Consol Energy in WV 145 10/31/12

Corning 500 11/12

Cummins Inc. 1500 10/12/12

Dana Holding Corp

Dow 2400 (20 plants) 10/24/12

Energizer Holdings 1500 11/9/12

Ericsson 1500 11/7/12

GE Healthcare 52 (10%) 11/19/12

Goodyear 10/24/12

Hawker Beechcraft 240 11/8/12

Harper Collins 200

Honeywell 334

Hostess 18,000 11/13/12 *complete closure*

HP 29,000 thru 2014

Infinity Pharmaceuticals 20%

ING 2350 11/7/12

Jewel-OSCO 900

Kaiser Permanente 84 11/1/12

Karstadt 2000

Kodak 200 10/12
Living Social 400 11/30/12

Lockheed Martin 10,000 10/10/12

Lower Bucks Hospital 30

Martha Stewart Living 70 11/1/12

Morgan Stanley 1600+

Motorola Mobility 4000

Murray Energy (coal) 156 11/7/12

Navistar International 900 10/12

NBCUniversal 500 11/13/12

Nextel 20% of VA jobs

Northrup Grumman 350 10/24/12

Office Depot "1000s"

Orlando Health 400 11/19/12

Panasonic 10,000 11/14/12

PayPal 325 10/29/12

PEMCO 474

Pfizer 300

Pratt & Whitney 100 11/8/12

RIMM 200 in TX 11/8/12

Rubbermaid 2000 10/29/12

Sharp 10,000 9/26/12

Siemens 8000 10/12/12

Sikorsky 600 10/12

Stryker 1275 11/13/12

TECO Coal 90 11/9/12

TE Connectivity Greensboro, NC plant 620

UBS 10,000 10/23/12

United Blood Service 10% 11/6/12

US Cellular 980 11/7/12

Vestas Wind Systems 3,000 11/7/12

Wake Forest Medical Center NC 950 11/14/12

Welch Allyn 275

Xerox 2,500 11/13/12

Yakima Reg. Medical Center 10,000 11/8/12

Zinga 150 10/12