Miscellaneous Articles

What did FDR really die from, or rumored to have died from?
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Wall Street is behind the U of C cash crisis.
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Is Tiger Woods' wife to blame for his accident the other day when he first ran into a fire hydrant then into a tree with his SUV?

Reportedly his wife saw reports, presumably from the National Enquirer, her husband was having an affair with one Rachel Uchitel, 34, but Uchitel has denied ever having any affair with him and calls the reports "bullshit."

National Enquirer:

The ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its print edition that the 34-year-old brunette, who has a reputation for dating married celebrities, has been telling friends about a jet-set liaison with 33-year-old Tiger that began in June.

Multiple sources, who passed polygraph tests, say Rachel told them that she and Tiger also stay in touch during his frequent travels through phone calls and "sexting," sending each other racy text messages on their cell phones.

One close friend of Rachel's -- Ashley Samson -- told The ENQUIRER: "Rachel told me, 'I'm having an affair with Tiger Woods. We're in love!'"

And while Rachel emphatically says she's no home wrecker, she recently had a disastrous affair with David Boreanaz, the star of Bones. The affair even continued while his wife was pregnant and was reported exclusively by Star magazine.

So despite Rachel's protestations, the ENQUIRER amassed plenty of evidence for its story and is now releasing part of it.

Rachel, an events planner and former director of VIP operations at the NYC nightclub Grffin, has attempted to distance herself from the growing scandal in several comments made to media in the last 24 hours, including to the Associated Press, New York Post and New York Daily News.

But The ENQUIRER can show how Rachel's denials are full of contradictions!

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Although Vice President Joseph Biden appears to be all but invisible, this article says he is the second most powerful vice president in American history.

The reason he appears to be invisible to people like me is because he is spending most of his time on foreign affairs, of which he is an expert. I too believe he should have been president.

In any case, he's probably the most powerful VP, for Dick Cheney wasn't really VP anyway--he was actually the president while little George was little more than a figurehead.
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The Education Wars III

K-12 education isn't the only thing under siege thanks to our worsening economy:

BERKELEY, Calif. — As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut of 8 percent.

In chemistry laboratories that have produced Nobel Prize-winning research, wastebaskets are stuffed to the brim on the new reduced cleaning schedule. Many students are frozen out of required classes as course sections are trimmed.

And on Thursday, to top it all off, the Board of Regents voted to increase undergraduate fees — the equivalent of tuition — by 32 percent next fall, to more than $10,000. The university will cost about three times as much as it did a decade ago, and what was once an educational bargain will be one of the nation’s higher-priced public universities.

Among students and faculty alike, there is a pervasive sense that the increases and the deep budget cuts are pushing the university into decline.

As California goes, so does the rest of the country.
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Predictably, special education complaints are increasing in New York City, at least.

Proposition 13's Revenge

Thanks to California being too broke to help its once-celebrated University of California system, budget cuts will be enacted. But faculty, staff and students aren't taking the news lying down.

The taxpayers in the state are too ignorant to realize the state's problems are a direct result of the hideous Proposition 13, passed 31 years ago.