Friday Music, Jeff Beck Live In Tokyo 1999

Free Markets, the only way to truly break the Glass Ceiling.

Jeff Beck and Michael Jackson hired Jennifer Batten to play in their bands because she was the Best, Most Qualified person for the position.



And while we're at it, Defund the NEA. 

We do NOT need or want the government picking winners and losers in the arts.

The Russian experience ought to be all the background needed to explain that one.

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Teachers Union Says ObamaCare Hurts Women and Old People But Totally Supports It Anyway

Meet the Edu-Unionistas indoctrinating today's kids into tomorrow's Voters.

Daily Caller;
by Eric Owens

The National Education Association, America’s largest teachers union, released a report on Thursday which is critical of an excise tax on high-cost health plans. The tax is required under the Affordable Care Act.

The steep excise tax is intended to burden people who enjoy generous health plans. However, the NEA’s report asserts, the excise tax actually tends to burden women, older people and people who live in places where the cost of living is already high.

Milliman, an actuarial and consulting firm, produced the report for the NEA. (You can view the full report here.)

The problem, the report suggests, is that the rules for assessing the excise tax erroneously equate high insurance premiums with lavish health insurance benefits. However, people often must pay higher premiums for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the benefits they receive.

“We believe that it’s more accurate to call the excise tax on high-cost plans an ‘Age-Sex-Geography Tax,’” said NEA spokeswoman Kim Anderson in a statement obtained by The Daily Caller. “America’s tax policy should not be a game of chance for working families.”

The report “highlights a significant and damaging flaw in the excise tax,” Anderson said. “The excise tax on high-cost plans can randomly and unfairly cause hardship to American workers and their families. In fact, the excise tax will disproportionately hurt women and older workers.”

Despite the finding that an important Obamacare provision wrongly punishes women and old people with “arbitrary and negative consequences,” NEA leaders are unable to bring themselves to oppose Obamacare, President Barack Obama’s signature first-term law.

“We continue to support the Affordable Care Act because it already has strengthened health benefits for kids and families and provided an opportunity for millions of Americans to obtain quality, affordable care,” Anderson explained.

The teachers union has called on the Republican Congress to pass a law that will “avoid inflicting harm on American workers and their families” while keeping the rest of the Affordable Care Act intact.

Last month, the NEA was in the news because “Wisconsin Jobs Now” — a small, radical group to which the union gave $125,000″ — sponsored a rally at which two protesters unfurled a banner declaring “ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS.”(RELATED: OWN IT: ‘ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS’ SIGN Shows Up At NEA-Funded Protest)

In November, the NEA, which spends millions of dollars each election cycle on campaign speech, zealously endorsed a constitutional amendment that would limit everyone else’s ability to spend money speaking about politics. (RELATED: Teachers Union Wants To Amend Constitution To Limit EVERYONE ELSE’S Campaign Speech)

“Let us not deny the regular people a voice in determining the future of our country,” urged NEA President Lily Eskelsen García, adding that she wants “to turn down the volume on corporate speech.”

In January 2014, prior to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, the union representing over three million elementary and secondary teachers sent a 1,122-word letter to Obama outlining its policy wish list. Almost none of the longwinded letter bothered to mention the needs of American students.(RELATED: National Education Association IGNORES K-12 Students In State Of The Union Wish List)

Thank You Daily Caller and Mr Owens.

"The teachers union has called on the Republican Congress to pass a law that will “avoid inflicting harm on American workers and their families” while keeping the rest of the Affordable Care Act intact."

Oxy, meet Moron.

 Unionistas like these are the people who defacto forced the creation of sites like CampusReform.org

Feds Help Fund Pole Dancing - For Linemen

So what's yet Another stupid waste of Only $10,000? It's not This single Stupid that got us $16.8 Trillion in the red. It's that This kind of Stupid is going on all over the place, and it's the aggregate total of tens of thousands of these Stupids that our descendants will despise and Rightfully Excoriate us for.

CNSNews has;
Feds Help Fund Pole Dancing - For Linemen

May 8, 2013

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By Eric Scheiner

(CNSNews.com) - An Austin, Texas dance company has received a $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant for its upcoming performance featuring electricity linemen dancing on utility poles.

According to the description of “PowerUP!” by Forklift Danceworks on the Kickstarter fundraising website, “This dance will be a massive outdoor production—a set of 20 utility poles, bucket trucks weaving in and out, cranes extending 100+ feet into the air, and 50+ linemen climbing and performing aesthetically sculpted choreography that intertwines their physical work —high wire repairs, fixing electrical grids, and responding to power emergencies—with personal narratives of the long process it takes to become an expert at the job.”

The working title for the “PowerUP!” performance was “Journeyman” and it’s under that title that Forklift Danceworks received a $10,000 Art Works dance grant from the NEA.

“This is the third in a series of large-scale civic spectacles and will include original music by Graham Reynolds performed by the Austin Symphony and led by conductor Peter Bay, and feature 75 employees performing on 35-foot utility poles and ten bucket trucks and cranes,” the April, 23 NEA grant announcement says.

“The NEA funding really helps,” Allison Orr, Artistic Director of Forklift Danceworks tells CNSNews.com, “First of all, it’s a vote of confidence, it gives us a certain amount of respect and credibility that helps us to bring in dollars from other organizations.”

Orr estimates the cost of the two free performances to be about $100,000. The PowerUP! Project has received over $22,000 from its Kickstarter project fundraising efforts and additional funding has come in through donations and other private grants.

“We’re a non-profit organization, so we are fundraising all the time. We have a hard working board and we have individuals and other businesses in the community who are working with us,” Orr says, “We’ve received a lot of interest. It’s a family-friendly, free, fun event so people get excited.”

Orr says the two performances planned for September 21and 22 would happen even without the grant from the NEA, “We are dedicated to this art and bringing it free to the public. So yes, we are going to make it happen, but the NEA grant is a real vote of confidence.”

Thank You CNS and Mr Scheiner

It's no wonder people are 'depressed'.