#TBT #SpyGate #SandyHook #RacialProfiling #LifesUnfairness #hsvboe #environmentaljustice

NOTICE: Due to Huntsville City School Superintendent Casey Warydynski's  Executive Orders, the school district may have read your social media accounts without warning, warrant, or notice. You have no recourse nor protection but to call for the resignation of the Superintendent and the Board of Education who enabled him.

In addition to bashing any media who dares the report the facts (not to be confused with spin), and blaming everything on the black guy, I mean Al Langford, I mean the NSA, one of the memes HCS officials, including the Mayor, cite to justify monitoring some (not to be confused with all) students social media accounts for threats of potential (not to confused with real) violence is to evoke the memory of Sandy Hook, and other mass shootings.

There was a recent opinionated, and irresponsible, article in "The Huntsville Times" about a program the HCS has implemented to help keep the schools safe. We have only to look at national tragedies such as Columbine, Sandy Hook or Virginia Tech to see how badly things can go...or even locally at Madison City Schools or UAH.

 Like most every school system across America, the HCS has instituted security procedures to try to intervene before there is a tragedy. Unlike the picture painted by The Huntsville Times, we do not have a secret group that trolls the social networks across the world for possible threats. Instead, we follow best-practice protocols used by others.

But, but you do have an off the books spying program that  trolls  the social networks of some students for possible threats.  We don't know if you follow best-practice protocols used by others,  because some members of the BOE were kept in the dark about this program.  The public would still be kept in the dark if someone hadn't leaked it to Al.com.  

Both Blair and McCaulley voiced concerns about the information provided to AL.com and the subsequent media attention the program is receiving.
Blair said students intending to do harm at school might be less likely to put information about their intentions online if they know the district is watching.
"This kind of stuff puts kids in danger," Blair said.
McCaulley said that whoever leaked the security presentation to the media may have broken Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) laws because the presentation included pictures of students.

So now they are worried about FERPA?  Excuse me while I ROTFLMBO.

I am convinced this Superintendent, and this BOE  must think we are stupid.  I mean, really?  Do they honestly believe we are going to believe they are spying on some students (and who knows who else) because of concerns about student safety, and to prevent another Sandy Hook?  

The reason I know this isn't about student safety is because Huntsville City Schools risk the health of the next generation, for the sake of giving our community a school, located less than half a mile from an active rock quarry, aided and abetted by the city of Huntsville.

Mayor Tommy Battle and the city's air quality chief, Danny Shea, both say the amount of particulate matter in the air on Pulaski Pike is far below levels considered potentially harmful by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The city has an air quality monitoring station next door to the school site; Shea said it measures airborne particulate matter every six days.
The EPA threshold for particulate matter is 150 micrograms per cubic meter.
Shea said 46 micrograms is the highest reading detected by the city on Pulaski Pike in the past five years. The average particulate concentration was 14.8 micrograms in 2009; 17.8 micrograms in 2010; 16.3 micrograms in 2011; 14.9 micrograms in 2012; and 13.5 micrograms in 2013.
The levels are similar at Huntsville's other air quality monitoring stations on Airport Road, South Memorial Parkway and Madison Street downtown.
In a May 27 letter to the mayor, Shea said the city's measurements "demonstrate the absence of substantial adverse air quality impacts from quarry operations at the proposed school site."

I am not a rocket scientist, but you tell me how airborne fine particulate matter can be lower less than half a mile from an active rock quarry than at some other spots in town?

The reason I know this BOE doesn't give a flying flip about potential threats to some students is because not one of them has contacted the Environmental Protection Agency or conducted a health risk analysis.

One reason I know Sandy Hook is a red herring is because the targeted students were black and brown, wanna be gang members (not to be confused with real gang members who wouldn't be caught dead on Facebook), and studies show most school shooters are white males.

Sex of the shooter is fairly much a no-brainer – female spree/school shooters are rare, and the one entry here is only because I lowered the level to three fatalities.
Race of the shooter – there is a nearly 80% chance that the perpetrator will be white.
Age group – broadly speaking, there is about a one-third representation for teens, twenties, and 30-52.

Another  reason I know Sandy Hook is a red herring is because what is the first thing white males did in response to the Sandy Hook massacre?  Call for comprehensive gun control laws?  Nope, the demand for weapons and ammunition skyrocketed.  Which leads me to the conclusion if the school district were really trying to prevent another Sandy Hook, the NSA would be calling them about potential threats of violence from the people pictured below.   I'm just saying...

A crowd winds around Larry's Pistol & Pawn Friday morning along North Memorial Parkway. Interest in guns and ammunition has soared since the shootings of over two dozen students and staff at a Connecticut elementary school. WT Martin/HNW

What if the City of Huntsville looked like the Huntsville City Schools system Monday through Friday?

University Place students sit for 2012 kickoff of Mayor Tommy Battle's Book Club. (Huntsville Times file)


This is a follow up to What if Huntsville City Schools looked like downtown Huntsville on a Thursday night.

Yep, young, old, rich, poor, men,women, black/white/brown/red/yellow people of all religions, sexual orientation, and class, had equal access to spend their money at one of the most exciting Thursdays ever in downtown Huntsville.
It looked like One City, One Vision.   
Then I attended the school board work session, which was originally touted as an opportunity for citizens to comment on the desegregation case, and I thought, what if Huntsville City Schools looked like downtown Huntsville on a Thursday evening?  What if all children, regardless of their race, sex, or address, had equal access to the best public education their parents tax dollars could buy?

Justice Department slams Huntsville for creating more segregated educational environments

Today I ask: What if the City of Huntsville looked like the Huntsville City School system Monday through Friday?

What if we had separate exciting Thursdays in downtown Huntsville? 

What if we had separate shopping centers, movie theaters, swimming pools, clubs, hotels, bars and restaurants?

What if had separate public libraries, museums, swimming pools, and parks?

What if we had separate hospitals, police departments, fire departments, and emergency responders?

Oh wait,  been there, done that.

What if all children, regardless of their race, sex, or address, had equal access to the best public education their parents tax dollars could buy?

What a wonderful school district it would be......

What if Huntsville City Schools looked like Downtown Huntsville on a Thursday Evening?

al.com

On my way to the Huntsville City Schools Board of Education work session last night I encountered droves of people headed towards downtown Huntsville.   

This evening, the sidewalks and streets of downtown Huntsville were filled with thousands upon thousands of people out and about enjoying one of the biggest, most entertaining evenings the yet.

Several events including the Street Food Gathering, Greene Street Market, Thursday Night Bikes, Downtown Jam Session, Weeden House Museum Tour, the Downtown Arts Stroll and so much more came together to create "one of the most exciting Thursdays ever," according to Downtown Huntsville Inc. CEO Chad Emerson.

Yep, young, old, rich, poor, men,women, black/white/brown/red/yellow people of all religions, sexual orientation, and class, had equal access to spend their money at one of the most exciting Thursdays ever in downtown Huntsville.

It looked like One City, One Vision.   

Then I attended the school board work session, which was originally touted as an opportunity for citizens to comment on the desegregation case, and I thought, what if Huntsville City Schools looked like downtown Huntsville on a Thursday evening?  What if all children, regardless of their race, sex, or address, had equal access to the best public education their parents tax dollars could buy?

What a wonderful city it would be......

#hsvboe

Stupid is......as Stupid does....

What's behind the sagging pants trend?

Stupid Is......

With all the pressing issues facing the city of Huntsville, and the state of Alabama, there is a petition being circulated asking the city of Huntsville to pass an ordinance for a $25-$50 fine and community service to children and adults wearing "saggin pants" in public.

Before I type another word let me make if perfectly clear I think sagging pants are a sloppy fashion trend, and adds to the negative perception of black youth.  That said, what part of you can't legislate personal behavior don't you understand?  If you don't like sagging pants, don't wear sagging pants.   It's like telling a woman she can't choose to have an abortion.  It's like telling gay people they can't serve in the military.  It''s like telling women they can't wear pants to work.  It's like telling grown folks they can't gamble  in their own state, with their own damn money.  It's like telling Michelle Obama she can't show her arms.  It's like telling someone you can't drink alcohol on Sunday.  You get my drift?

The Declaration of Independence declares We the People are entitled to Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  If wearing sagging pants makes someone happy, so be it.  If they can't get a job because their pants are sagging that's on them.  If they can't run from danger because their pants fall down around their knees and trip them up, that's on them.  If an airline won't let them  board the plane with sagging pants, that's on them.  You feel me?

Note the race of the young men (?) in the picture above. This is a another way to target young black men, putting them at risk for subjective profiling, something they already face disproportionately.

.....As Stupid does

 

The Women's Business Center of North Alabama and Bradley Arant Boult Cummings hosted a seminar focusing on bringing your guns to work a year after Alabama began enforcing a law allowing concealed carry permit holders to keep firearms in their vehicles while on the job.  

No charges are expected to filed in the case of the downtown Huntsville shooting at the skate park that left one injured and children running for cover.  As the shooter said  "I think it's a pretty clear-cut case of self-defense,"  Oh, OK.

But let's talk about all the drugs, gun violence, and crime in north .......Huntsville.

Two career readiness seminars will be held soon in Huntsville to help job seekers find work at Remington Outdoor, Toyota and the Huntsville Police Department. Remington announced in February it will create 2,000 jobs over 10 years at its new gun plant in the former Chrysler building near Huntsville International Airport.

Expect more gun makers to follow.

RedEye tiptoeing away from the computer muttering  life is like a box of chocolates....

"It's in north Huntsville, who cares?"

 

 School busses in the parking lot of the elementary school in Gurley Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 in Gurley, Ala. Gurley Mountain, located in northeast Madison County, is the center of a controversy between the surrounding communities and the mining company.

"It's in north Huntsville, who cares?"  If you ever want to get the real flavor about what's happening in Huntsville, Al  all you have to do is read some of the comments on AL.com.

 Allowing blacks to get away with things like this is like negotiating with terrorists. Once you give in even one time they know you will give in and they will NEVER stop begging at the public trough and costing our country/State/City money with their endless pursuit of "free" (to them) stuff from our government (us) by playing the race card and crying "discrimination" and "racism" when it doesn't exist. Someone should educate these people that begging is not an honorable career.

HCS, enabled by the media, gave taxpayers in north Huntsville the middle finger before a standing-room-only groundbreaking ceremony inside a tent, when they broke ground on 2 black schools, illegally renamed for two black astronauts, less then half a mile from an active rock quarry, to the tune of $65 million of their tax dollars.

There is just one problem with this little standing room only....narrative....the facts don't fit.  First,  the standing room only crowd included three bus loads of students from Ed White and Davis Hills Middle Schools (the buses served double duty to block the view of protesters and the rock quarry), the Butler High School JROTC, and some band members from J.O. Johnson High School.  The rest were invited guest, the media, and assorted dignitaries, most of whom do not live, work, or send their children to school in District One. Noticeably absent were the Mayor, the City Council member who represents the district and the Madison County Commissioner who represents the district.  The name of the state rep was called, but I can't confirm her face was in the place.  If I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct me.

Decatur-born astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison flew in from Chicago for the ceremony and challenged the schools' future students to make a difference in their city, their state, their world. Jemison became the first black woman in space when she flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor in September 1992.
Children are born with an "innate energy and drive," she said, but it can be dampened by adults.
"Adults started telling you what you couldn't do," Jemison told a group of students from the four schools that will feed into the new campuses: Johnson High, Butler High, Davis Hills Middle and Ed White Middle. "We started lowering your expectations of this world that was around you. Ignore them.

"Know that you can achieve so many things."

Now you would think Huntsville City Schools leaders would want said students to hear this inspirational message wouldn't you?  You would think Wardysnski would want personally escort Dr. Mae Jemison on a tour of the schools that were be renamed in her honor.  You would think she would sign autographs and take pictures with students on the last day of Black History Month.  Yet none of this happened.  It's like she flew in to give the taxpayers in north Huntsville the middle finger(at their expense) and flew out. But that's OK, it's north Huntsville, who cares. Sigh

Psst Dr. Mae Jemison, the "adults" inside that tent with you are the ones telling parents and children what they can't do.  They are the ones lowering their expectations and ignoring them.  

As Wardynski spoke, about 20 sign-waving protesters stood across Pulaski Pike. Michelle Watkins said the group is upset that Johnson High alumni and supporters were not consulted about the name or location of the new high school. Many wanted to keep the J.O. Johnson name.

How long are elected officials and the media going to continue to ignore the valid concerns citizens have about the relocation of the new $65 million dollar school?  

Other parents contend the Jemison and McNair campus may be exposed to dangerous levels of airborne dust from a rock quarry located about half a mile away.
Danny Shea, the city's natural resources director, has said airborne fine particulate matter is actually lower at the city's Pulaski Pike measuring station near the quarry than some other spots in town.

I am not a rocket scientist, but you tell me how airborne fine particulate matter can be lower less than half a mile from an active rock quarry than at some other spots in town? 

Other elected officials speaking against the quarry were Mark Russell, president of Huntsville City Council, Madison County District 3 Commissioner Eddie Sisk, state Sen. Paul Sanford, state Sen. Shadrack McGill, state Rep. Wayne Johnson, Gurley Mayor Rob Sentell, Gurley Councilman Robert Wren.
Their concerns addressed environmental quality of Flint River and Hayes Nature Preserve, unsafe traffic with trucks crossing Norfolk Southern Railroad along a curve, heavy trucks sharing roads with school buses, air quality at two nearby schools and a lack of local governmental control of the quarry operation.

How long are the citizens in north Huntsville going to continued to be undervalued, under estimated, and marginalized?

Is this how those in positions of power and influence  really feel about the taxpayers in north Huntsville?

 I have never in my life heard a group gripe and complain more about issues that mean nothing at all than North Hsv blacks. They are merging the two schools. How about they call it Butler? You people sit around looking for something to complain about so you can cry racism and keep the false perception that blacks are the victims (rather than the perpetrators) of racism in an effort to keep your special status and benefits from the government. You are a bunch of entitled cry babies with cry baby do nothing leaders. I would think you would be more concerned about the high levels of violent crime, single parents, and unemployment in your community. But what do you decide to march about? The name of a crappy high school? Get a clue people.

It's not just north Huntsville.  Today's Must Read
Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Gets More Protection Than Mobile's Drinking Supply for 25,000

Please stay tuned for the next post about Plains Pipeline Company.  Next time, I'll discuss their assault on Mobile's Historic Africatown Community and the Mobile County Training School.

How long?  Not long.

Now isn't that special?

Remington Arms Plant where Remington has been producing firearms for nearly 200 years.

On the morning after the Jordan Davis mistral/verdict, I booted up my computer to do my daily blog stroll and rolled upon Left In Alabama's Resident Righty gleefully congratulating a gun manufacturer for relocating to Huntsville,  which had to be the best-kept secret in Madison County history. Strike that.  This was the best-kept secret since the Downtown Rescue Mission was relocated from Lowe Mill Village to northwest Huntsville.  But I digress.

The deal is set to be announced Monday at a special meeting of the Huntsville City Council, though sources said there may be a news conference prior to the meeting.
Huntsville and Madison County elected officials declined to comment when contacted about the deal this morning. Officials with Remington Outdoor did not immediately return requests for comment.
Gov. Robert Bentley did not directly confirm the reports about Remington, but told AL.com today that a big announcement is coming Monday.
"I think Monday you'll see something very special in the state," Bentley said.

Before I type another word let me say I am not opposed to skilled manufacturing jobs coming to Alabama.  As a matter of fact, I hope they will employ some of the people who desperately need jobs, but I'm not counting on it.  My problem is the same people who are happy to create jobs making guns won't expand Medicaid and reject key provisions in The Affordable Health Care Act because of Obama.

Another bone of contention I have is al.com claiming the city welcomes Remington based pm an abundance of positive, pro-gun comments posted to the AL.com story this morning.  First, let's look at how the online poll questions are framed:

Would you support Remington opening a production plant in Alabama?
Yes, I love the Second Amendment.
No, I don't agree with guns/gun ownership.
It doesn't matter to me
Yes, bring the jobs and the business

Next let's look at some of the abundances of positive, pro-gun comments posted to the AL.com story this morning.

but,but ,but ,,,the unemployed can stay a home and take care of the kids,,cook meals,spend more time with the kids....according to some of your liberals leaders. in Washington told that to us last week,,,those that has lost their jobs because of obamacare..its better than being employed......is that not true ???

 Democrats and liberals should be prohibited from obtaining employment at this plant. That should be the first question on the application.

Liberal Occupier types are fun to watch... They are frothing over 2000 new jobs in Alabama.... Jobs seem to be hated by the Neosocialists

 The LIBERAL OCCUPIER WHACKJOBS got a double whammy ....2000 new jobs in Huntsville and NO to the UAW in Chattanooga....hahahaa

 tis is great they can the guns faster to Birmingham

 Bo..You can thank Obama for these 2000 jobs

 Clearly businesses are trying to escape the LEFTWING OCCUPIER areas where they are attacked and over taxed

Forgive me for not doing handsprings because a gun manufacturer is moving here based on this abundance of positive, pro-gun comments posted to AL.com.    I guess we will have to wait until tomorrow to find out what the City of Huntsville gave Remington to entice them to relocate to our fair city.   As countrycat said  keep in mind they recently paid a department store $4 million to move from one mall to a newer one 1 1/2 miles away. 

BOOM! (pun intended).

Hump Day Hypocrisy Diary # 2

 2000+ Comments

From DaleJackson @aol.com

To Redeyeblog.Alabama@yahoo.com

Wednesday, 

Sent Monday August 26, 2013 at 9:04 AM

You can continue to make them all day, but you will be blocked and I will not engage you on Twitter UNTIL you acknowledge you will NOT play the "I don't understand card"...

Ignore this e-mail if you want.

Dale Jackson
PD/ Host of The Dale Jackson Show 6AM-9AMThe Attack Machine Blog
NewsTalk 770 AM/92.5 FM WVNN
Cumulus Media - Huntsville , ALdale.jackson@cumulus.com
Office:  (256) 216-0165
Fax: (256) 232-6842

This is a copy of an email I received this morning from conservative radio talk show host, and Rush Limbaugh wannabe, Dale "Jackson" informing me he is still standing in the Blogosphere Door and preventing me from commenting unless I bow down to his demand and admit I will NOT play the "I don't understand card"...  In other words, it's my way or the highway.  

 What exactly is playing  the "I don't understand card" you ask?   It's when a person dares ask Dale to clarify, explain or justify, his comments/point of view. You know, that thingy that usually happens during the course of a civilized, respectful, mature,  debate/discussion.

Either Dale thinks I can read his mind, knows when he's joking, or, what he's trying to say, or, he feels as if he is one who can not be questioned.

Yes, the same Dale Jackson who is accusing Huntsville City Council member Will Culver of running away from his questions,  demanding answers from high profile city officials,  and, who filed a freedom of information request with the City of Huntsville regarding the hiring of Kenneth Anderson as the Multicultural Affairs head.

What's amazing to me is the fact Dale doesn't see the gross hypocrisy of his actions. He can dish it out, because he's not government..

RT @RedEyesPage: @TheDaleJackson you can't complain about the 1st amend when you don't practice the first amend // DJ: I am not government.
— Dale Jackson (@TheDaleJackson) August 23, 2013

He can't take it because according to him,  he's press but not a journalist. Huh?

RT @RedEyesPage: @TheDaleJackson And according to you, you are "free press" // DJ: I never said I wasn't press, I am NOT a journalist.
— Dale Jackson (@TheDaleJackson) August 23, 2013

There is more than a whiff of hypocrisy.  

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Figure it out...
Downrating coming in 3...2...1...
Squash dissent!

Do better. Dale, I have to say you were right - mooncat You're an entertainer son! -Parker Griffith

 This is how Dale Jackson responds to people he doesn't agree with.

Again,  I don't know Jeff Mosley, but I wish he'd spoken up for himself at the City Council Meeting, or at least had someone to speak on his behalf that doesn't censor liberal comments on his blog, screen liberal callers to his radio show,  and resort to name calling, personal attacks, and insults when the substance of his arguments fail.

"Keep in mind, this little game has a victim" and it's not Dale "Jackson"

I’m the news, I should not be….

If there was ever any doubt about the power of the press, and I don't mean the printing press, I mean the people who report the news, look no further than the latest media enabled, faux, right wing outrage, starring none other than conservative talk radio host, and Rush Limbaugh wanna be, Dale Jackson.

During the public comment portion of Thursday's Huntsville City Council meeting, Jackson, host of a conservative talk show on WVNN, alleged that Calhoun wanted a powerful African-American elected official on the faculty to help push through its plans for a larger Huntsville campus. Jackson contends that Calhoun dismissed Jeff Mosely, an instructor with "excellent" personnel evaluations, to make room for Culver.

Click and read the full timeline, much of which was complied with the "help of folks who wish to remain anonymous", complete with a copy of a letter written by Jeff Mosley, "sent to many in the 2-year college chain of command, up to the Governor", without a response.

Actually there are some valid questions and concerns surrounding this issue, however, the media has made this about conservative talk show host Dale Jackson, instead of Jeff Mosley, the expansion of Calhoun Community College into Huntsville, and the  hiring of the Director of Multicultural Affairs.  Was this a quid pro quo?

We have to question the motives and the agenda of folks who wish to remain anonymous, and conservative talk radio host......who probably just added 10% to his ratings.

I don't know Jeff Mosley, but I wish he'd spoken up for himself at the City Council Meeting, or at least had someone to speak on his behalf that doesn't censor liberal comments on his blog, screen liberal callers to his radio show,  and resort to name calling, personal attacks, and insults when the substance of his arguments fail.

Keep in mind, this is not a little game, it's about real people.  The real victims are the truth and the taxpayers.

I've been hanging out in Right Wing Land so you won't have to

Fist Dap Truthout

Recently I broke a longstanding, self imposed, rule of  not commenting on right wing radio host Dale Jackson's  The Attack Machine blog, and I'm glad I did, because I've learned a lot about who they are, and how they think.

One of the things I've learned is there more than a whiff of hypocrisy in Right Wing Land.  For example, their underwear is all in a knot over The City of Huntsville Joins the Fight For Secrecy,  at the same time they defend republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney fight for secrecy

Another thing I learned is they don't like to be questioned, or to back up their assertions with facts.  For example, they say the high unemployment is because the democratic controlled Senate refused to pass 30 jobs bills passed by the republican controlled house.  When you ask what 30 bills they either say "look it up" or resort to name calling, personal attacks and insults.  Then when you call them out, they call it whining.

I learned they are school yard Bullies, who try and intimidate those who dare question them, or have an opposing point of view.

I learned they believe so called independent voters are stupid.


The last thing I've learned is they more interested in doing what's right, pun intended, than being right.  It's all about winning elections. It's not about governing.

What if there were a great debate concerning the future of American Society and only one side showed up?

"Democracy demands an educated and informed electorate"~Thomas Jefferson

Unless and until the progressive left develops an effective media voice, there can be no restoration of American Democracy, no return to political sanity, and no establishment of economic justice.~ Ernest Partridge

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