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The PROMISE Program (Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education) represents the most comprehensive thinking available to address socially unacceptable or illegal behavior, targeting both short and long term academic success, aligning best practice models and Restorative Justice principles, and developing pro-social and resiliency skills. PROMISE, while addressing the behavior specific to the youth, is committed to addressing family and community circumstances that serve as both strengths and challenges for the youth\u2019s resiliency.\u00a0PROMISE is an intervention-based program designed to correct student behavior that violates Policy 5.8 and\/or Policy 5006, Suspension and Expulsion. PROMISE utilizes a comprehensive set of supports and education. The intent of PROMISE is to safeguard the student from entering the judicial system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is leftism on steroids.\u00a0 Not only does it make the public schools more dangerous, but it also garbages up the background check system by never entering criminal activities committed by fledgling criminals.\u00a0 And it is not the only landmine left on the body politic by the last regime.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/02\/26\/broward-county-likely-inspiration-for-obama-school-discipline-policy-to-report-fewer-arrests-suspensions\/<\/a><\/p>\n
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- Insanity. An Alaska House committee held a hearing last week on HB 75, legislation offered by Rep. Geran Tarr, one of the nastiest pieces of work in the Alaska legislature.\u00a0 The bill will make it easier for a family member, doctor, concerned outsider, to go to a judge, find a person a danger to himself (this rarely happens to women these days), and the State will get to seize his firearms and ammunition.\u00a0 Best of all, he doesn\u2019t even need to be at the hearing or be notified about it taking place.\u00a0 Think of the door this unlocks for the left, who believe that anyone who disagrees with them are insane.\u00a0 Tarr hearkens back to the Good Old Days of the Soviet Union whose government employed doctors found dissidents mentally ill and committed them to the Gulag.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen this sort of redefinition running rampant here in the US, where the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1975 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.\u00a0 In 2005, they did the same thing with transgender.\u00a0 How long before this politicized hard left organization decides that firearms ownership is a mental illness?\u00a0 How long before being a Trump supporter is considered the same thing?\u00a0 Better yet, we can apply this to anyone with a religious affiliation.\u00a0 With this legislation, all they have to do is make a blanket finding, and there will be a left-wing judge spring loaded to start signing weapons seizure orders.\u00a0 And they can probably do it with the state chapter of the organization.\u00a0 What a great way to steal civil rights.\u00a0 What other constitutional rights can we apply this worldview to?\u00a0 Right to vote?\u00a0 Right to an abortion?\u00a0 Right to peaceably assemble?\u00a0 Right to worship as you see fit?\u00a0 Right to speak?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think Tarr or her fellow co-sponsors Harriet Drummond and Ivy Sponholtz (all democrat house members) are thinking this all the way through.\u00a0 Perhaps they have, as it will significantly change the game in their direction.\u00a0 http:\/\/mustreadalaska.com\/tarrs-bill-give-judges-right-take-guns\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- PA Supremes. Democrats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court entered the 2018 election campaign via a new redistricting map which may turn over as many as five House seats currently held by Republicans.\u00a0 One of the first things they did following election of three new democrat members in 2015 was take democrat cases asking them to overturn the state redistricting map drawn by Republicans in 2011.\u00a0 Under that map, Republicans hold a 13 \u2013 5 majority in the House of Representatives.\u00a0 Granted, the map was Gerrymandered.\u00a0 The new democrat majority by a 5 \u2013 2 party line vote determined that it was indeed unconstitutional, threw it out in January and demanded the state create a new one.\u00a0 Otherwise, they threatened to create one of their own.\u00a0 Given that the state legislature is comfortably in Republican hands and the governor is a democrat, all the governor had to do was nothing and allow the Pennsylvania Supremes to usurp the authority of the legislature in this matter.\u00a0 And usurp they did, producing a map a couple weeks ago just as hostile to Republicans as the one they decided was so hostile to democrats as to be deemed unconstitutional.\u00a0 The map needs to be in place for the 2018 campaign which is already under way with hundreds of thousands of dollars raised and spent by congress critters running for election.\u00a0 It is always good to be God Kings, especially democrat God Kings.\u00a0 I wonder if the legislature is up to impeachment and removal from office for being partisan hacks, because that is what these black-robed tyrants most certainly have become.\u00a0 They had better be.\u00a0 The PA legislature is appealing the opinion and order to the SCOTUS.\u00a0 We will see what happens next.\u00a0 https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2018\/02\/pennsylvania-republicans-file-federal-lawsuit-to-stop-pa-sup-ct-court-imposed-redistricting\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Cape Town. A drought in dry parts of the world is not an uncommon or even a particularly dangerous event.\u00a0 Unfortunately, when you politicize taking care of your residents, it gets expensive and perhaps even deadly.\u00a0 Such is the case in Cape Town, South Africa, in the midst of a 311-year drought.\u00a0 They have been watching reservoirs dry up for years, but the incompetence and corruption of the African National Congress (ANC) led government is such that nothing much has been done.\u00a0 They are staring down the barrel of what is being called Day Zero, the day the water runs out.\u00a0 One of my childhood memories was going to a central water distribution point with a grandmother to collect water during a massive drought in north Texas in the mid to late 1950s.\u00a0 Their solution?\u00a0 Build a bunch of reservoirs around north and east Texas so that there would never be a problem again.\u00a0 Water tastes a bit green, but it is abundant.\u00a0 Not so in Cape Town, which has grown to 3.7 \u2013 4.5 million in recent years.\u00a0 As with California, the infrastructure hasn\u2019t kept up.\u00a0 Recent articles, especially in the UK Independent blames the problem on manmade global warming due to CO2 emissions, aka \u201cclimate change.\u201d\u00a0 South Africa long had a close working relationship with Israel during apartheid.\u00a0 Since Mandela and the rise of the ANC, that relationship has fallen apart.\u00a0 The worldwide expert in desalinization today is Israel, which has managed to create an abundant water supply in the heart of a desert with a combination of conservation and desalinization techniques.\u00a0 They are even assisting the Palestinians with desalinization technology.\u00a0 Now, here\u2019s the funny part:\u00a0 The ANC turned down Israeli offers to assist with their water problem over solidarity with Hamas, the PLO and Palestinians.\u00a0 They have been doing it for years.\u00a0 The funny part comes when you consider the notion that the very people the ANC claims to be supporting with their actions are accepting help and expertise from Israel.\u00a0 Funnier still, the ANC in their divine wisdom decided to ask Iran for help even though the most recent round of anti-regime protests is about water shortages in Iran.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/South-African-stupidity-540605<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Zimbabwe. South Africa looks to be on the verge of traveling the same road so (un)successfully blazed by Robert Mugabe and his gang of racist thugs in Zimbabwe over the last half century.\u00a0 The most recent example is a move in the South African parliament to start stealing land from white South African farmers without compensation.\u00a0 Mugabe did this in Zimbabwe, the former breadbasket of Africa, for decades with the predictable result.\u00a0 The excuse was to get even with \u201c\u2026 the criminals who stole our land\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Also, in the speech was the line \u201cThe time for reconciliation is over.\u00a0 Now is the time for justice.\u00a0 We must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land.\u201d\u00a0 Today, whites own 72% of all farmland in South Africa.\u00a0 I predict a mass request for immigration from South African farmers who don\u2019t want to be murdered for simply being white.\u00a0 The ANC and current president are fully onboard with this legal racial theft.\u00a0 Want to destroy the economy of a nation?\u00a0 Expropriation based on the race of the targeted is rarely exceeded.\u00a0 Happily (\/sarc), the leader of this call for racial theft is \u201c\u2026 not calling for the slaughter of white people, at least for now.\u201d\u00a0 But it has already began, as last year more than 70 white farmers were killed in 340 attacks featuring rape, extreme brutality and torture.\u00a0 This is going to get really, really ugly before it ends, with a lot of dead people, most of them black.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/economy\/world-economy\/the-time-for-reconciliation-is-over-south-africa-votes-to-confiscate-whiteowned-without-compensation\/news-story\/a8a81155995b1adc1c399d3576c4c0bc<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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