Daily Archives: 5 July 2009

All-Stars on Freedom Watch: Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell & More

This is fantastic. (Can’t believe it’s on TV.)

pt 1 – Ron Paul

pt 2 – Peter Schiff’s Euro Pacific Capital fined $100,000 for hiring people too quickly, as the world calls for more regulation.

pt 3

pt 4 – Tom Woods & Lew Rockwell on our elected dictatorship.

pt 5 – Banks now required to spy against online gamblers.

pt 6 –
paramedic hurrying to hospital with patient = resisting arrest
flashing of headlights = obstruction of justice
photography = terrorist activity

700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing

Such are the miracles of government-run education.

“Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that’s what they want to do.

Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its ‘rubber rooms’ — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings.

The 700 or so teachers can practice yoga, work on their novels, paint portraits of their colleagues — pretty much anything but school work. They have summer vacation just like their classroom colleagues and enjoy weekends and holidays through the school year.

‘You just basically sit there for eight hours,’ said Orlando Ramos, who spent seven months in a rubber room, officially known as a temporary reassignment center, in 2004-05.” (Read more from news.yahoo.com)