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Pittsburgh occupiers attend fundraiser, then vandalize neighborhood

From Trib Live

Early Thursday, a crowd of 40 to 50 people jumped on cars, tried to break  windows and scattered litter near the intersection of Baum Boulevard and  Highland Avenue, police said. Several were cited, police spokeswoman Diane  Richard said, but police released few details about the suspected vandals or  their motives.

Police learned that some of the rowdy people might be affiliated with a group  called Occupy Everything, Richard said. “I have no idea what Occupy Everything  even means,” she said. “It seems that some of these people might have been  living in a nearby vacant building.”

Some members of the group may have attended an event at the Shadow Lounge, a  performance lounge that hosted a fundraiser on Wednesday evening for the Occupy  Movement near where the incident took place, said the lounge’s owner, Justin  Strong.

Occupy Everything printed fliers that urged people to meet in the  neighborhood and “stand in solidarity with Oakland,” Strong said. “I think that  refers to Oakland, Calif.,” where there have been multiple violent protests, he  said.

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Courageous Teacher Calls Out Neshaminy Union Thugs for Harassment of Dissenting Members

MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Everyone has their breaking point.

After years of watching bullying and abuse of his colleagues, Neshaminy High School teacher David Ferrara decided to do something about the “gang” of thugs who have been terrorizing his school. So he wrote a simple letter of concern and emailed it throughout the school district.

Who are the thugs he refers to? The leaders of his local teachers union, who allegedly use fear and intimidation to deal with members who have dared to question union

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Occupier drives stolen SUV he claims was loaded with explosives into Pittsburgh convention center

From Gateway Pundit

A Pittsburgh Occupy protester drove a stolen SUV into up the steps and into the doors of the convention center.  He said there were explosives in the car before fleeing the scene. MSNBC reported:

An SUV was driven up the front steps of the downtown PNC Firstside Center and hit the entrance of the building on Tuesday afternoon.

Sources told Channel 4 Action News that, as the driver of the Hyundai Santa Fe fled the crash scene, he claimed to be with Occupy Pittsburgh and said there might be an explosive device inside the vehicle.

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Spokesman for Occupy Pittsburgh arrested for failing to register as a sex offender

From The Blaze

The Occupy movement keeps chugging along, despite the horrific stories that continue to emerge from its abyss.

This week, new revelations about one of the so-called leaders of the Occupy Pittsburgh, James Francis Hoff, will send a chill down the spine of a great many. Hoff, who calls himself “Blue Thunder,” is a registered sex offender who allegedly failed to register his status, as required under law.

Earlier this week, he was arrested for a second time in less than a year for violating Megan’s Law (the laws governing how sex offenders must report their information for public knowledge and safety). As CBS Pittsburgh reports, records show that Hoff was convicted in 1999 of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. While he was parading around the Occupy encampment in Pittsburgh, he apparently declined to register himself as a sex offender.

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Pennsylvania’s Largest Charter School May Close as Nearby School District Steals Its Funds

CHESTER, Pa. – Three thousand students at Pennsylvania’s largest charter school face the imminent risk of having their school year cancelled in the coming days or weeks, and seeing their school “stop operations” entirely due to a lack of funds.

That grim reality is a direct result of decisions by officials in the nearby Chester Upland School District to keep state funds legally owed to the Chester Community Charter School, and to use them instead to bail the district out of its “self-inflicted budgetary crisis.”

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The first Occupy candidate: Nate Kleinman

From Politico

Nathan Kleinman, a 29-year-old member of the Occupy Philadelphia movement, intends to run for congress in Pennsylvania’s 13th district against Democrat incumbent Allyson Schwartz.

“The petition gathering period starts today and lasts for three weeks, so I plan to file by then,” Kleinman told me over the phone today. “I’ll be running in the Democrat primary.”

Kleinman, who refers to himself as a human rights activist and organizer, served as an aide to Joe Sestak’s unsuccessful 2010 Senate campaign before becoming a legislative assistant to Pennsylvania State Representative Josh Shapiro.
More recently, he has been a member of the Occupy Philadelphia movement, participating in a number of associated working groups, including “Free University,” “Outreach Working Group,” “Process Working Group,” “Camp Liberty,” and “The Committee of Correspondence,” through which he became involved with InterOccupy.org, which he describes as “a central hub for communications” in the national Occupy movement.

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Judge Orders Bailout of Union-Dominated School District

These days a lot of school budgets are being held together by the accounting equivalents of bailing wire and duct tape. But one Pennsylvania school district is so broke that it needs the state to provide the wire and the tape.

The Chester Upland School District began this week with only $100,000 in its savings account, and had no way of meeting its $1 million payroll – that is, until a judge ordered the state to give the district a  $3.2 million advance in its allowance, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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High School’s Christmas play features occupiers saving Santa from evil executive

From Gateway Pundit

A highschool in Pennsalvania decided to put a new twist on the traditional Christmas Play by using the most nationally recognized symbol of Christmas……the Occupy Wall Street movement.  According to an article on Missouri Education Watchdog, the school’s website says this is the play that will get “everyone in the spirit of Christmas for the holiday weekend”:

“The action takes place in the North Pole with Santa Claus and his elves losing their workshop as a result of eminent domain. Soon, the elves’ work is outsourced and the workshop is taken over by a new corporate conglomerate, whose acronym is GREED. The sad and unfulfilled executive in charge begins using background checks to determine if children have been naughty or nice.”

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Pittsburgh occupiers storm Target store demanding unionization

From The Blaze
Facing a Sunday deadline to vacate their encampment, Occupy Pittsburgh demonstrators nevertheless stormed a local Target retail store Saturday in protest of the company’s hiring practices.
Protesters in the “flash mob” chanted and marched inside the store for about 10 minutes before dispersing, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Among their gripes was the company’s policy of hiring part-time versus full-time workers, the newspaper said.
Police were on the scene but no arrests were made.
Video posted online shows a noisy crowd of protesters marching from the store’s entrance up to the main level, chanting at customers and employees who were caught off guard.
“What do we want?“ ”Unions!“ ”When do we want ‘em?“ ”Now!” protesters shouted.
Read more at http://www.theblaze.com/stories/video-occupy-pittsburgh-flash-mob-storms-target/

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Majority in Ohio & Pennsylvania Don’t Want Obama Re-elected

I think that thought goes a little further than just Ohio and Pennsylvania. The majority of the states is probably more accurate, and that is an opinion, I have no facts to verify that.

Two new Quinnipiac polls provide more evidence the 2012 presidential election may be decided in the Rust Belt.

In Pennsylvania, just 43% approve of President Obama’s job performance, while 51% say he doesn’t deserve a second term.

In Ohio, just 42% approve of his job performance, while 51% say he doesn’t deserve re-election.

That snippet came from The Political Wire.

If his opponent is Romney, an important “rust belt” state will likely go to Mitt. That being his home state of Michigan, and that could seal the election, particularly if Pennsylvania and Ohio go Republican. I’d say he likely could pick up Wisconsin as well.

As for my home state of Minnesota… There’s too many dumbass sheep here, the stupid have overpopulated, it’ll go Obama. The current president could impose a Hitler-like totalitarianism on the country, and these dumb bastards would still vote for him.