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That I love Metallica?

I’m joining the Public School teachers and their strike. I’m done.

Homeschooling: the wages suck, and you can blame the student’s bad behavior on anyone else but yourself.

Oh, yea, and the “principal” doesn’t get home until 6:30.

Nothing says “it’s not about the money, it’s about education” like marching with signs that read:

Hands off my benefits

Yet, you can always count on at least one striker making the asinine comment. This time, it was veteran teacher Audrey Gates:

“It’s not about money in our pockets, it’s about teaching these kid.”

For the sake of the children, of course. Because, you know it really makes a difference to the students if your insurance co-pay goes up.

Articles are stressing that the teacher’s want a 5% pay increase, which isn’t exactly the case. They want complete protection of their benifits, and a 5% pay increase each year for the next three years. I went to Detroit public schools, but I think 5+5+5=15%.

You’d have to live on another planet to not know that Detroit is broke, and that health insurance costs have gone through the roof. Detroit schools have been bleeding students for years, resulting in a bloated system serving a diminishing student body.

Yet, the public employees believe they deserve more. Keep repeating that teacher’s don’t make enough, and some fool will believe it. Teacher’s in Detroit with a Master’s degree can make $70,046. Not exactly second-rate pay.

Perhaps unspoken is WHY they believe they deserve higher pay (because it certainly isn’t for the superior product they turn out.) One striking teacher, though, let the honesty seep through after a fight broke out between two girls during registration:

“I need a raise at least as an incentive to come back to this,” Dianne Brown-McDuell, an English teacher at Denby, said after witnessing the fight.

Maybe she’s got a point. Could we earmark it as “hazard pay?”

Tonight, as I was running, two black teens yelled Run Forest, Run. Run from the niggers at me. I live in Detroit, in a racially mixed neighborhood Both of my immediate neighbors are racially mixed couples – and I’m not talking Irish/Italian mix. I have noticed that there are some racist people here – but they are mostly black racists. Don’t ask me how I know, I just know. What the neighborhood isn’t, is ghetto. But, those two (girls) who yelled at me are pure ghetto. I fumed as I ran. I was, basically, pissed.

I made sure I ran near their house again; preparing the admonishment I would give. They may have thought I was younger- I mean, the audacity to yell such a thing at an adult is pretty shocking, but that kind of stuff happened to me all the time when I was a young (and going to Detroit Public schools.

Anyway, the girls were gone, but there were to adult women out front. As nicely as I could, I informed the women what happen, who were horrified, and promised they would handle the situation.

Maybe Hillary was right; it takes a village.

On Hot Air. Michelle explores the ambulance hoax.

Why diet when you can Photoshop.

My husband will be so happy, because today was going to be the first day of our diet.

H/t: Hot Air.

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On a hike, in Wilderness State Park.

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Can you see the kids?

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The most beautiful drive I’ve ever taken. I cannot imagine how magical it is in the fall.

I’ll be away until Monday. See ya suckers.