This'n'That; March 31st[oFluffy obama;RCSD]

When Potentates Travel

Check this out-all the expense involved when Fluffy obama travels outside the country. The Fluffmeister will travel with over 200 Secret Service agents, easily identified by their "talking shirt cuffs," RayBan sunglasses and dark business suits. Fluffy's personal aide Reggie Love, "the kid brother I never had," will be at hand to provide pens, provide inspired "Government Motors" solutions, Nicorette gum, provide inspired "presidential gifts [various CDs and DVDs]-should they be necessary, throat lozenges, tea or even aspirins.

US security teams have already carried out three visits to prepare for Obama's first official visit to Britain. The first was a "site survey", the second a "pre-advance visit" which was carried out to pick sites that the president would visit. Finally there was the "advance trip", which took place last week. Its purpose was to set up equipment, sweep venues for electronic bugs, test food for poison and measure air quality for bacteria.

Air Force One, a Boeing 747-200B is fitted with its own gym, electronic defense units and shielding to protect its complex communication devices from radiation caused by nuclear blasts. The aircraft is equipped armored glass in all windows, armor-plated wings capable of withstanding a nuclear blast from the ground, flares to confuse enemy missiles and electric defense systems able to jam enemy radar. Mirror-ball technology in the wings is able to scramble infra-red guidance systems. More than 200 miles of wiring are specially shielded from electromagnetic interference caused by a nuclear attack. The plane has 85 telephones, 19 televisions, computer suites and faxes to ensure the Fluffmeister stays in touch with the outside world. At the rear of the aircraft is Fluffy's travelling propaganda corps.

The $300,000 presidential limousine ["The Beast"], outfitted with armour-plated body and doors, a raised roof, and reinforced steel and aluminium, is the official car of "the handled". It boasts a titanium and ceramic superstructure and a sealed interior forming a "panic room[for those times when a handler is not available to provide answers to questions, provide presidential opinions]" capable of shielding him from even a chemical weapons attack. Equipped with "run flat" tires, a night-vision camera and an armored gas tank filled with foam to prevent explosion should it suffer a direct hit, it also has pump-action shotguns, tear-gas cannon, oxygen tanks and bottles of the president's blood.

While in town, His Royal Fluffiness will be flown to central London in a VH-3D helicopter known as Marine One. Again, high-tech security will dominate; Marine One is fitted with flares that can be fired to confuse heat-seeking missiles and always flies in groups containing several identical decoy helicopters.

Oh, don't forget..... Her Royal Highness, Michelle "The Chin" obama is going along for the ride. She'll have her own un-necessary staff of eight, including a secretary, a press officer and bodyguards.

[One security precaution not mentioned is Fluffy's cast-iron underdrawers. He better be wearing them any time he's not on the plane or in the Ambassador's residence. I'm afraid Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, will hand Fluffy his marshmallow "ass-on-a-platter" when he tries to force his socialist policies on the rest of the G-20!!]

Unions To Let This Happen?

The Rochester City School District will cut 287 jobs, including more than 251 teachers, under a $687 million budget proposed for the 2009-10 academic year. Superintendent Brizard, who presented the new spending plan to the school board Monday, said he expected most of the cuts could be achieved through attrition, which averages about 300 teachers each year. Rochester Teachers Association President Adam Urbanski called the spending plan "irresponsible." "The effect of that will be the ruination of the city schools," Urbanski said. But Brizard said with more than 4,000 teachers in the school district, the number represented by the cuts would be about 6 percent. And he said some classrooms now have as few as eight students. The district will manage with fewer teachers by increasing class sizes. But class sizes will still be within mandated limits, Brizard said. High school classes that now have 24 or 25 students, for example, could have 28 students next year, the contractual limit, Urbanski said. "That's less learning time for students. It's really contradicting (Brizard's) expressed purpose to achieve more learning time for kids," Urbanski said. Brizard also pointed out that his budget proposal includes only the $432 million in state funding proposed by Gov. "Double-Dealin' Dave" Paterson in his initial preliminary budget. But he anticipates the new state budget will increase that amount and allow him to reduce the number of job cuts. Brizard's budget closes a $50 million deficit mainly with the job cuts, the addition of about $17 million in federal stimulus funding, and other cuts throughout the district. The city provides $119.1 million or 17 percent, while grants contribute another 15 percent. More than 70 percent of the budget goes to salaries and benefits. [Surprising that the autocratic Rochester Teachers Association will allow this to stand. The bloat is the result of their stranglehold on the city school district. They're using an indefensible reason; the 'learning time' of students. The thugs required to be there until the age of sixteen, on many occasions, make learning impossible. The teacher has very little to no control of the classroom! The association's president says this budget will be the ruination of the district. Adam, ain'cha been watching..... it's already ruined.... check the graduation rates, suspension rates-in and out of school, weapon confiscation rates and dropout rates!!]

Til Nex'Time....