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San Francisco Chronicle reports a former softball coach at a northern New Jersey high school has been sentenced to five years' probation for engaging in sexual activity with a student.


The Record(http://bit.ly/1gz5Ujk) reports 29-year-old Jillian Clementi also must register as a sex offender and is barred from teaching or coaching anywhere in the country.
Clementi taught social studies at Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township and coached softball at Wood-Ridge High School. She was arrested last year and charged with sexual activity with a 17-year-old Wood-Ridge student in 2009, and eventually pleaded guilty to criminal sexual contact

Bergen County prosecutors said the incidents took place at a Lyndhurst home where Clementi once lived. They said the student had graduated by the time Clementi was arrested, but authorities eventually learned of the activity after a student who had heard allegations about the relationship told school officials.

Clementi's attorney, Brian Neary, told The Record that Clementi has apologized for her actions, and he argued during her sentencing on Friday that his client was not a sexual predator.

"This was an isolated incident," he said. "She was a great athlete and a smart person."

KATV reports a former teacher at eStem Public Charter Schools is arrested for sexual assault.


According to a Little Rock Police Department report, 24-year-old Joshua Wayne Cameron faces a charge of second-degree sexual assault for an incident last August.

The report states that Cameron placed his hands inside a juvenile's pants at eStem High Public Charter School.

School faculty reported the incident to the child abuse hot-line and Cameron was placed on administrative leave.
Cameron reportedly refused to make a statement to police, but resigned his teaching position on September 4th.  

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Purveyor of Truth

If anyone has ANY doubts as to whether the progressive movement, and it's socialist agenda is ALL about turning this nation into a SOCIALIST country you really, realty need to NEED to read this.

Now I get that capitalism in the USA has really botched things up in a big way. Government, in cahoots with business, has developed a huge crony capitalist system whereby subsidies (the taxpayers money) prop up businesses that otherwise would fail.

Businesses (industries) cry for regulations that hamper their better competitors from more effectively, and at a lower cost, serving their customers at a higher level of efficiency.

Labor unions, now clamoring for a ridiculously high minimum wage see no correlation between the effect of increased costs to the businesses and the effect it will have on the price of product or service to the consumer.

Our government, and it hasn't been just the democrats, has been moving towards European style democratic socialism (or if you prefer economic fascism)for many a year. American progressives are pushing this agenda in the media, government, and yes even business.

I suppose, as the USA is a representative democracy, when the majority in the country are able to elect enough representatives and senators in the 50 states and the federal government they will succeed in turning this country into the socialist utopia they dream of.

I guess the truth is, very few things remain static, including politics and government as we have seen over the course of our Nation's history. So, unless saner minds can prevail and find a way to re-energize our once vibrant capitalist system in a way that benefits the broad majority we will be looking at "The United States of New Europe".

Our federal system of government was set up so the people would always have a voice. That vice has moved us to where we are mow. Progressives are gaining a louder voice and are gaining strength because their antagonists have failed to provide a better mouse trap of late.

Following is a list of five things Jesse A. Myerson of Rolling Stone proposes the progressives need to have as their sgenda and vigorously pursue.

1) Guaranteed Work for Everybody
2) Social Security for All
3) Take Back The Land
4) Make Everything Owned by Everybody
5) A Public Bank in Every State

If any of this sh*t scares the h*ll out of you (it certainly does me) I highly suggest reading the complete article below the fold.

Via: Memeorandum

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The line in blue shows the 5-year CD rate at commercial banks (left scale).

The line in black shows wages and salaries divided by deposits at commercial banks (right scale).

Here's the theory.

A lender's ability to lend is generally determined by the amount of their deposits (fractional reserve banking notwithstanding).

A lender's desire to lend is generally determined by the stable income streams of the borrowers (NINJA loans notwithstanding).

When wages (a bank's desire to lend) grow slower than deposits (a bank's ability to lend), then all things being equal (which they rarely are), the interest paid on deposits should fall (clearly seen in the chart). It's simply supply vs. demand. Not enough wages. Too many deposits.

Unlike nearly every financial expert on CNBC, I am not a believer that we're in a rising interest rate environment over the long-term. Wage growth is not keeping up with deposit growth. There are no signs of that trend changing any time soon (as seen in the declining black line in the chart). Why would I expect higher CD rates when there is a growing wage famine (nonfarm payroll employment) relative to a growing deposit glut (CPI adjusted deposits)? As seen in the following chart, note that this is a new development that began in February of 2000 (the peak in wages divided by deposits). In hindsight, Y2Katasrophe for the win!


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Inflation (or the lack of it) isn't really going to alter the dynamics much in my opinion. Banks aren't going to pay higher CD rates just because food costs more. I would be the last to argue that they're nonprofit food banks (Jamie Dimon sarcastically notwithstanding).

This is not investment advice. If it was, I would have written this post in Japanese as a tribute to Japan's popping housing bubble in the early 1990s and 20+ years of its ongoing low interest rate aftermath.

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart #1
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart #2

ChristianPost reports a former North Carolina minister who pleaded guilty in 2013 to sexually molesting underage Haitian girls received a 25-year sentence from a federal judge on Friday.

Larry Michael Bollinger, 68, pleaded with a federal court judge for over an hour to prevent him receiving a maximum 120-year sentence, and admitted that he was a sex addict who for years had been obsessed with pornography, and had solicited sex from prostitutes, as well as frequented adult bookstores.

Once he was in Haiti and the opportunity presented itself to sexually abuse the girls, Bollinger "crossed boundaries I never imagined I would have crossed."

"I'm very embarrassed that I let myself slip to those depths, but I did," he said tearing up in the court room, reported WSOC.

After spending the last year in prison, Bollinger returned to federal court Friday because he entered a conditional guilty plea in his 2013 court hearing that authorized him to "appeal a federal judge's ruling that denies his motion to dismiss the charges against him."

Larry Michael Bollinger confessed last year to molesting four girls who ranged from 11 years old and up, while working at a non-profit in the country. He served as a Lutheran minister for 33 years in North Carolina before he and his wife began working in 2004 with the Lazarus Project in Haiti, which runs a vocational school and medical clinic.

Although his wife often accompanied him to Haiti, she often left the country before he did, which was when he abused the girls, said prosecutors.

In 2009, Bollinger and his wife went to counseling where they signed an agreement permitting the counselor to report any information to authorities regarding the abuse or exploitation of a child. After the former pastor disclosed that he had sexually abused Haitian girls, the counselor reported him.

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NY Daily News reports Stark, 39, was taken from his outside his office on Thursday evening, bound with duct tape and thrown into a Dodge Caravan. Authorities now say a badly burned body they discovered on Long Island is the missing man.

The Brooklyn landlord who was kidnapped near his office late Thursday was found in a dumpster at a Long Island gas station, authorities said Saturday.

The body of Menacham Stark was found in the trash container at the Getty gas station in Great Neck just before 4 p.m. Friday, according to Nassau County cops....

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Joe Arpaio

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