2 bits' of News.

K-12 funding problems are far from over even with the Passing of Prop
30.

The fact that this passed is a fail, but hey, im glad people want to pay more taxes so "history of humor" can be taught! California’s voters avoided massive cuts to public education that would have gone into effect in January by approving Proposition 30, Governor Jerry Brown’s tax measure. Now the question is: when will the money show up? The short answer is the income tax revenue on anyone who earns more than a $250 thousand dollars a year, plus the additional quarter-cent sales tax, will have a ripple effect on the different systems of public education.Moreover, large corporations were given a pass from the rate increase. Skeptics believe that was a strategic maneuver by Brown’s team designed to keep the powerful Chamber of Commerce and other industries on the sidelines during the campaign. “Very frustrating for us,” Kabateck said. The state chamber did remain neutral. It did not return emails asking for comment, nor did Brown’s campaign. For K-12 schools, not much may change in the short term because most districts assembled their budgets assuming that Prop 30 would pass.The extra cash infusion expected next fiscal year – about $5 billion in 2012-13 and an estimated $10 billion in 2013-14 - means students won’t lose any more instructional time and teachers won’t have to take off more unpaid furlough days. School districts are still reeling from $20 billion cut over the last four years. The Prop 30 money isn't going to "restore" anything. It just avoids further cuts. In order to restore programs schools would need 1. to be paid what they are owed due to $10 billion already deferred and 2. additional money on top of that funding. When asked if higher taxes scare the wealthy into fleeing California, Gov. Jerry Brown likes to cite a university study suggesting that divorce is more to blame for chasing out millionaires. “The Stanford study shows very clearly that high paid individuals have more to fear from their spouse than they do from the state of California,” Brown has said, often drawing chuckles. Before last week’s election, much attention was paid to the roughly $6 billion Proposition 30 would raise through temporary tax increases, the bulk of which will go to schools and the rest into the state’s general fund. But the measure also guarantees annual funding for the counties, some of which have struggled to lock up or supervise the additional offenders. But what about next school year? Prop. 30 essentially keeps K-12 education funding level, which means that we still would be 47th out of 50 states in per pupil funding. Regarding higher education, even Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has publicly said that Brown is misleading college students to believe that passage of Prop. 30 will prevent 2013-2014 tuition increases at campuses of California State University and the University of California systems. (It won’t.) And what about the school year after that? Most voters don’t seem to realize that Prop. 30 is a constitutional amendment that permanently moves a portion of the state prison responsibilities (and its corresponding budget) down to the county level. This is called “realignment,” and it sounds great in theory. But, here is the dirty part: Realignment shrinks the state general fund. Oh, so what? Well, education funding in California is determined each year as a percentage of the state general fund. Basic math tells us that X percent of a smaller number will be smaller than X percent of a bigger number. So, Prop. 30’s realignment provision, by shrinking the state general fund, actually reduces the funds for public education in the long term. Well we just all have to wait and see.......................

Retired U.S. General David Petraeus, the man credited with helping turn around the second Iraq War, has resigned as chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, citing an extramarital affair.

Paula Broadwell promoting her Petraeus biography last January on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.”Wowee!

CIA Director David Petraeus resigned Friday after admitting to an extramarital affair -- an affair with his biographer that was revealed over the course of an FBI investigation, Fox News has learned. you people actually believe this self-serving trash that Petraeus resigned??  Ho - Ho she's hot . If you see the picture .

He committed the unpardonable crime of letting the truth out about Obama leaving the diplomatic team in Benghazi to be murdered at the hands of the people Team O and the State Dept put in power.  

Enough with this idiotic cowardly hand wringing about an investigation.   We already know what happened.  The  Claim that the FBI had been investigating an unrelated and much broader case before stumbling on the affair. Fox News has learned that during the course of this investigation, the name of biographer Paula Broadwell came up. The FBI followed that lead and in doing so, uncovered his affair with her. The FBI for some time was concerned that perhaps Petraeus was some sort of victim, but there has been no evidence discovered to back up such concerns. Broadwell co-wrote Petraeus' biography, "All In." That's a good and healthy looking woman. She's a triathlete and it shows. I can't hate on the general, I'd be highly tempted too. Have you seen the picture of his wife? These women get married then let themselves go, are always tired when the man is feeling frisky, then wonder why he strayed.That's a good and healthy looking woman. She's a triathlete and it shows. I can't hate on the general, I'd be highly tempted too. Have you seen the picture of his wife? These women get married then let themselves go, are always tired when the man is feeling frisky, then wonder why he strayed.That's a good and healthy looking woman. She's a triathlete and it shows. I can't hate on the general, I'd be highly tempted too. Have you seen the picture of his wife? These women get married then let themselves go, are always tired when the man is feeling frisky, then wonder why he strayed.Analyzing Broadwell's physical self-presentation: As a late-thirties female doing interviews for a book she's just published, she is dressed way too young. Too young to the point of possibly suggesting psychological issues above and beyond the usual human anxiety over getting older and experiencing waning physical attractiveness. I mean...ruffles? Really?? And what is up with the skin-tight jeans tucked into boots. Is this a high school production of Grease. It's sort of a mid-to-late twenties version of looking nice - not what a professional woman who's almost forty wears into a press encounter.  The way she winks at the interviewer at :50 seconds into the CBS interview creeps me out and makes me wonder about her extracurricular activities more generally. It just seems icky. For surely it was just a coincidence that Petraeus resigned on Thursday, the very same day that Fox News reported that the Foreign Affairs Committee was planning to call him to testify at their Benghazi hearings, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Matt Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Surely that had nothing to do with Petraeus’s decision to submit his resignation. This couldn’t have had anything to do with his quitting. It is much more likely indeed that suddenly, just as the news that he was going to be summoned to testify came in to his office, Petraeus was overcome with remorse over his affair, and decided – although apparently the affair began some time ago, since there were rumors about it while he was still in Afghanistan – that Thursday was the day, right then and there, to come clean and resign his position.The preposterousness of this scenario is obvious. And the convenience of the timing for Barack Obama cannot be overlooked. Now Petraeus will not be testifying at the House hearings, and so, barring a subpoena, the primary witness to who ordered the CIA to stand down in Benghazi has been removed.