Gingrich: why are blacks offended by his plan to put children to work?
During Monday night’s GOP debate in Myrtle Beach, SC, presidential candidate Newt Gingrich once again spoke on his much-derided plan to put school children to work. Sometimes it isn’t what you say but how you say it. So Gingrich was careful to couch his controversial plan in more acceptable phrasing.
Gingrich insists that black kids don’t need handouts from President Obama — they need jobs. Gingrich says schoolchildren should be given janitorial jobs because, in his opinion, janitors in the NYC public school system earn way too much money.
The average annual salary for a NYC public school janitor is $80,000, compared to a teacher who earns $45,000 annually.
According to the NY Daily News, Gingrich argued the best thing public schools could do for students – particularly black students – was to give them a broom.
“Can’t you see that this is viewed at a minimum as insulting to all Americans, but particularly to black Americans?” asked Fox News questioner Juan Williams, who is part Hispanic and black.
“No, I don’t see that,” Gingrich responded, with rousing applause from the majority white audience.
Macy’s fires woman for refusing to allow transgender into women’s dressing room
A Macy’s department store in Texas is in the news today after the store’s manager fired a saleswoman for refusing to allow a man dressed as a woman to enter the women’s dressing room.
Natalie Johnson admits she watched the customerr from the start, and she made a beeline toward the shopper when he/she tried to enter the women’s dressing room.
Johnson told KSAT 12: “I had to just straight forward tell him, ‘You’re a man,’ and of course that really got him steamed.”
Citing her strict religious beliefs, Johnson told her manager she didn’t agree with Macy’s policy that allows transgender people to use the dressing rooms of their perceived gender.
“There are no transgenders in the world. A guy can dress up as a woman all he wants, that’s still not going to make you a woman,” Johnson said.
Ex-McDonald’s Cashier Cleared of All Charges in Assault Case
The word came down in a hushed Manhattan courtroom on Friday. At 4:30 p.m. prosecutors announced to the media that a NY grand jury cleared ex-McDonald’s cashier Rayon McIntosh of all felony assault charges connected with the savage beating of two female customers that was caught on tape.
“I’m just glad to be home,” McIntosh, 31, told DNAinfo after being released from Rikers Island Friday night. “I feel elated, I feel splendid.”
The case was a flash point for angry Americans who have grown wary of the national media portraying criminals as victims in cases such as this.
McIntosh, who served 11 years in prison for manslaughter, was fired from his job after the incident took place at a Greenwich Village McDonald’s in July. He spent the next seven weeks in a Rikers Island jail cell praying and awaiting his fate.
“We were begging them to get security,” McIntosh told DNAinfo.com by phone early Saturday morning. “The McDonald’s itself is a problematic store. It has a high, concentrated number of people every day. “In the Village, it’s crazy.”
The restaurant’s owner, Carmen Paulino, told DNAinfo that she hired security to patrol the restaurant every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. After the incident, which occurred early on a Thursday morning, she hired additional security for Wednesday nights as well.
But police sources told DNAinfo after the incident that McDonald’s management chose not to hire off-duty NYPD officers to patrol the restaurant because it “wasn’t in their financial interest.”
Meet Toni Braxton’s Personal Assistant, Zo (of Braxton Family Values)
If you watch WE tv’s popular reality Tv show ‘Braxton Family Values’, then you’ve met Zo, the efficient assistant to superstar Toni Braxton and her sisters Towanda and Trina Braxton.
If you thought Zo was an incompetent assistant who couldn’t get anything right, that’s what the show’s producers wanted you to believe through selective editing. Zo, who won the coveted gig after interviewing with Toni and Towanda last year, was edited out of last season’s episodes.
But Zo takes it all in stride as he prepared to fly back to Los Angeles from Atlanta yesterday to assist Braxton, who’s launching her own makeup line soon. The 22-year-old college grad will be featured in more scenes this season as the show expands to 25 episodes.
Zo had only a year’s experience working as an executive assistant for singer Nivea when he met Braxton in Atlanta.
“I thought the job with Toni would be more progressive for me,” said Zo, explaining that Nivea gave him her blessings when he decided to work for Toni. “Nivea is one of my best friends. I thank her because if I didn’t work for Nivea I never would have met Toni.”
McQueary won’t coach final Penn State game
Yesterday we asked what would become of Penn State receivers coach Mike McQueary who, in 2002, stumbled upon 57-year-old former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy in the team shower.
McQueary, who was 28 at the time, immediately fled the area. But instead of calling the cops, he called his daddy. They didn’t notify coach Joe Paterno about the incident until the next day.
McQueary, whose father was good friends with Paterno, was named receivers coach for Penn State a short time later — presumably in return for his silence.
On Wednesday, Joe Paterno, 84, was fired for ignoring his moral obligation to the child, and for assisting in covering up the heinous crime for 9 years.
But McQueary was allowed to keep his job even though he did nothing to stop the attack on the little boy.
Yesterday, Penn State announced McQueary will not be on the sidelines when Penn State takes on Nebraska in its final game on Saturday. School officials cited threats made against McQueary’s life as the reason.
According to TMZ, the university released a statement reading:
“Due to multiple threats made against assistant coach Mike McQueary, the university has decided it would be in the best interest of all for assistant coach McQueary not to be in attendance at Saturday’s Nebraska game.”
But the threats weren’t made by angry parents, they were made by the same unruly students who trashed the school hours after Paterno’s firing was announced.
Does anyone at Penn State have any morals?
Joe Paterno, Penn State President Fired Over Child Sex Scandal
Days after a smoldering child sex scandal exploded onto the front pages of the nation’s newspapers, Penn State’s legendary football coach Joe Paterno, 84, announced he would retire at the end of the season.
But that wasn’t soon enough for outraged parents who believe Paterno turned a blind eye to a culture of rampant child sex abuse that was covered up by university officials for years.
Yesterday, Paterno and Penn State president Graham Spanier were fired in phone calls by the board of trustees.
Paterno’s firing touched off riots on the campus, with angry students overturning a TV satellite truck.
“Right now, I’m not the football coach. And I’ve got to get used to that. After 61 years, I’ve got to get used to it,” said 84-year-old Paterno, speaking to hundreds of weeping students outside his home in the shadow of the storied university.
The only remaining question is what will become of Mike McQueary, the former quarterback for the Penn State Nittany Lions, and now the recruiting coordinator and receivers coach for Penn State. (He is pictured at right with Paterno.)
On March 1, 2002, McQueary, then a 28-year-old graduate assistant for Joe Paterno, walked into the team showers and witnessed a horrific scene that would shake Penn State to its core nine years later.
Cain Accuser Works for the Obama Administration
One of the women who accused presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s now works for U.S. President Obama.
You scoffed when I mentioned in this post, dated Oct. 31, that Obama was behind these scandalous allegations.
“Obama???? what makes you think its not his own party???” wrote loyal reader Carmez79 in the comment section. Another loyal reader, Jessie, commented, “I don’t believe for one minute that this revelation came from the Obama camp.”
According to the NY Post, Karen Kraushaar, a 55-year-old former journalist who currently works for the Obama administration, was outed yesterday as one of the three women who had filed sexual harassment complaints against Cain.
But wait it gets better.
According to the AP, after she settled her claim against Cain for $35K, Kraushaar then moved on to her next job where she promptly filed yet another complaint with the help of the same lawyer!
