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Fairfax County Oublic Schools

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Fairfax County, VA public schools:

2,346 HQ administrators who don't work in a school. Total salaries: $272 million

Superintendent Michelle Reid alone: $445,353

$56 million in legal fees since 2020 — a record $12 million this year — defending the School Board's own controversies in court.

Enrollment falling. Budget growing. Teachers cut. Central office untouched


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Fairfax public school 9/11 lesson plan 

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Virginia’s largest school district is under scrutiny for what they’re leaving out of lessons on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

For instance, FCPS is directing teachers not to associate 9/11 with Islam despite the terrorist attacks being committed by Islamic extremists.

Fairfax County is just a few miles from the Pentagon where 184 people lost their lives when hijackers flew an American Airlines jet into the building in the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares says this kind of instruction over teaching 9/11 expands beyond Fairfax County.

This year, Governor Abigail Spanger signed legislation to restore so called culturally responsive material on the teaching of 9/11.

“I think it's monstrous,” said Miyares. “I think this deals with legislation that was passed that put back in some of this so-called guidance that Governor Youngkin had removed. But I think it's intentional, and I think it's asking us to forget what is one of the darkest days in our history-a day that was perpetuated by extreme radical Islamic terrors. The idea that you can't say two plus two equals four is not education. That is indoctrination. That is trying to hide what happened.”

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Re: Virginia Gov Spanberger

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...Hire single folks who don't want any rug rats crawling around all over the place.

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If business are required to do this.
They will either raise prices or layoff employees.
Or move to a different state.


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This is Insane 

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THIS IS INSANE.
A man who STABBED his landlord to death was declared “not guilty by reason of insanity”… then Virginia authorities gave him a 48-hour free pass from a mental hospital.
A JUDGE said no.
Steve Descano and Virginia officials said YES anyway.
They even helped him get a passport.
Result?
He walked out… went straight to Dulles… and FLED THE COUNTRY to Tajikistan.
A violent, committed killer is now gone — and the people who let it happen still have their jobs.
This isn’t a mistake.
This is a complete betrayal of public safety.
Who is going to answer for this?!

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Re: Virginia Gov Spanberger 

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If business are required to do this.
They will either raise prices or layoff employees.
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According to the governor‘a office, under the new law, more than three million workers across Virginia will gain

the right to take 12 weeks of paid  

family and medical leave to welcome a new child, care for a loved one, or recover from illnesses[/color]without sacrificing their pay.


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Virginia Gov Spanberger 

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According to the governor‘a office, under the new law, more than three million workers across Virginia will gain

the right to take 12 weeks of paid  

family and medical leave to welcome a new child, care for a loved one, or recover from illnesses[/color]without sacrificing their pay.


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Star Wars Laser Weaponry is here! 

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How The U.S. Is Using A Laser Weapon To Take Out The Latest Cartel Threat

http://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-u-s-is-using-a-laser-weapon-to-take-out-the-latest-cartel-threat

Drone activity has dropped roughly 75% along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley following the deployment of a new laser weapons system, military officials told CBS News.

While illegal immigration has dropped to record lows, Mexico’s cartels have found new ways to threaten the United States using drones.

Army Col. Robert Felicio, commander of the 130th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade deployed to the border, said the laser technology has had a “significant” impact on drone activity.

The U.S. military took out three drones on August 25 and 26, when it first began using the weapon, CBS News reported.

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Re: Canada's Latest Faceplant

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Once again, in a long line of ineptness and sheer stupidity on world display, Canada rises to the to the top of the nincompoop academy.

Poster Child of "how not to run a country" Canada is once again showing its blatant ignorance of other countries that do not wish them well and would love to destroy lots of other countries like the USA, Israel, and CANADA IF GIVEN THE CHANCE.

I suppose he question begging to be asked is why doesn;t Canada have a better pool of actually quality leadership that has half a brain minimum to run for the top seat in government there?

Its embarrassing to be their southern neighbor.

Apparently socialist countries simply lack the ability to actually discern or think.. Canada is the leading example...

OH CANADA!

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Canada's Latest Faceplant: Millions in Contracts to Iran VP's Son

http://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/09/02/canadas-latest-faceplant-millions-in-contracts-to-iran-vps-son-n2206417

O, Canada! What have you done now?

When in the process of awarding military contracts, it would seem an elementary exercise to check the backgrounds of the people you are awarding contracts to. For example, you might want to make sure that the person receiving a $2 million military contract isn't, say, the son of a senior official in the government of the country that is the leading state sponsor of Islamic terrorism, a country that is an enemy of civilization itself.

And yet, that's just what Canada has done, hiring this goblin even as the Canadian intelligence apparatus was looking into the guy's activities.

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The Canadian government awarded millions worth of contracts to the son of Iran’s former vice-president, despite an ongoing investigation into allegations he helped the Islamic Republic evade sanctions and develop missile systems, documents obtained by Global News reveal.

Since founding two companies in Alberta, an Edmonton resident named “Sal Ghafouri” has received more than $2 million in federal and provincial contracts, including from the RCMP and Department of National Defence, public records show.
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Here's the onion: This guy's name isn't really "Sal Ghafouri." And his background is a long, long way past suspicious.

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But according to newly released records, Ghafouri is actually Mohammad Reza Ghafouri Fard, an Iranian who has been the subject of a long-running Canadian investigation into his alleged work for Iran’s military and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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Re: 63% oppose, a mere 14% support Lake America.... 

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Another crazy thing that happened while on that project.

We had a coworker from L.A. here in VA helping us on the proposal. He had been here for three months. He was the head engineer for the SatCom design.

He was really tried of being on the east coast. He was suppose to be here for a week or two, but the proposal kept dragging on and on.

On one of our last trip to Ottawa he was going to finally get to go home when we finished. But the Canadians changed a bunch of stuff. We told him he could still go home and if we needed him we would just give him a call.

The flight back was Ottawa to Syracuse to D.C. we’d get off in Washington and he’d stay on the plane and continue on to Columbus then to L.A.

Between Syracuse and D.C he decided he’d stay another week and then go home, so he got off in D.C with us. The flight he would have been on crashed that night in L.A. landing it hit another plane that was sitting on the runway and then crashed into an airport building. A lot of people died in That crash.

A couple days later he was going around the office kiddingly telling everyone that the main reason he stayed was that he was afraid I was going to meddle in his SatCom design if he wasn’t here. And he didn’t want to risk it getting screwed up. He said I saved his life.


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In the early 90s I worked on a large Canadian military project. Spent almost a year on the proposal, writing the proposal, pricing and repricing and rewriting the proposal.

After we were awarded the contract we had to renegotiate everything over and over again. That was another six months.

The Canadians wanted a technology we had developed but they wouldn’t let us bid the contract as the prime because we were an American Company,so we teamed with a Canadian company and made them the prime. We did all the engineering and built the hardware.

The Canadians were really assholes during the whole procurement. The terms & conditions were crazy. We were engineering and building the system. But they required us to build 40% of the hardware in Canada. One of our subs was a large military radio manufacturer in the U.S. . We had to get them to move their manufacturing plant to Canada. They built that cost into their radios.

Canadians would only let us take 65% of our profit out of Canada. They had all kinds of requirements for technology transfer from us to them. They wanted a license to sell our system to NATO & other countries. They thought they would be able to buy American Top Secret tech and sell it abroad. That didn’t happen.

The Canadians were all hot about Ada programming so we sent a programmer up there to teach at the university of Saskatchewan for two years. As they kept adding to the Terms & Conditions and we kept adding to the price. We made a good profit on that project.

While writing the proposal we went up to Canada and worked with the prime. The first day we were there all of the Canadians packed up at 4:45 and went home. They were union. We work 12 hr days on proposals.

That experience was how I learned Canadians weren’t our friends. In fact they were just arrogant assholes.

After the project finally got started I told my program manager that I wasn’t going to work on the program. So he funded me to run my own little Internal Research and Development program. I worked on that for a year. It was a nice reward for putting up with all the crap from the Canadians.


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Re: 63% oppose, a mere 14% support Lake America.... 

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In the early 90s I worked on a large Canadian military project. Spent almost a year on the proposal, writing the proposal, pricing and repricing and rewriting the proposal.

After we were awarded the contract we had to renegotiate everything over and over again. That was another six months.

The Canadians wanted a technology we had developed but they wouldn’t let us bid the contract as the prime because we were an American Company,so we teamed with a Canadian company and made them the prime. We did all the engineering and built the hardware.

The Canadians were really assholes during the whole procurement. The terms & conditions were crazy. We were engineering and building the system. But they required us to build 40% of the hardware in Canada. One of our subs was a large military radio manufacturer in the U.S. . We had to get them to move their manufacturing plant to Canada. They built that cost into their radios.

Canadians would only let us take 65% of our profit out of Canada. They had all kinds of requirements for technology transfer from us to them. They wanted a license to sell our system to NATO & other countries. They thought they would be able to buy American Top Secret tech and sell it abroad. That didn’t happen.

The Canadians were all hot about Ada programming so we sent a programmer up there to teach at the university of Saskatchewan for two years. As they kept adding to the Terms & Conditions and we kept adding to the price. We made a good profit on that project.

While writing the proposal we went up to Canada and worked with the prime. The first day we were there all of the Canadians packed up at 4:45 and went home. They were union. We work 12 hr days on proposals.

That experience was how I learned Canadians weren’t our friends. In fact they were just arrogant assholes.

After the project finally got started I told my program manager that I wasn’t going to work on the program. So he funded me to run my own little Internal Research and Development program. I worked on that for a year. It was a nice reward for putting up with all the crap from the Canadians.


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Hmmmmm . . . .

Being as Canada has been using unfair trade tactics to the detriment of Americans . . .

And Canada has not been meeting their NATO spending obligations . . .

I'm in favor for renaming it 'Lake America'.
(If only because it has driven the canucks and left wing lying wingnuts crazy.)

By the way, did everybody see the 'Donald Ducks' Memes?

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Re: 63% oppose, a mere 14% support Lake America....

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Hmmmmm . . . .

Being as Canada has been using unfair trade tactics to the detriment of Americans . . .

And Canada has not been meeting their NATO spending obligations . . .

I'm in favor for renaming it 'Lake America'.
(If only because it has driven the canucks and left wing lying wingnuts crazy.)

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Elaine Luria Wants to Raise Your Taxes

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Elaine Luria Wants to Raise Your Taxes, but She Doesn't Pay Her Own on Time

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Elaine Luria is running for Congress in Virginia's 2nd District, and she's running on a platform to raise taxes on hardworking Virginia families. It's a platform Luria isn't exactly hiding, either.

She launched her campaign by opposing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, saying specifically that she entered the race to oppose the bill. According to Virginia Public Media (VPM):

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In her campaign announcement, Luria wrote Kiggans has “established a pattern of promising Virginians one thing in public, only to turn around and vote the other way in Washington.”

She pointed specifically to Kiggans’ vote on the Big Beautiful Bill, which cut health care subsidies, despite Kiggans previously saying she could not support a federal budget that “come(s) at the expense of those who depend on these benefits for their health and economic security.”

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“I cannot sit back and watch as Republicans in Congress create chaos while failing to address the rising cost of living and the issues that matter to Coastal Virginians,” Luria wrote in her campaign announcement.

(Zim : Bidenflation raised the cost of living for EVERYBODY!)
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Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Virginia families got an average tax cut of $3,600 relative to prior tax law, and it protected 62 percent of taxpayers from automatic rate hikes.

Elaine Luria, on the other hand, opposed all the tax cuts contained in the bill, including No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, the expanded Child Tax Credit, the SALT Deduction expansion, and Death Tax relief for family farms.

No Tax on Tips will save the average worker about $1,800 annually, while No Tax on Overtime will save them between $1,400 and $1,750 per year. The Death Tax provision increased the estate tax exemption from $5 million to $15 million, preventing twice as many family farms from being hit with a massive estate tax bill.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act also made the 2017 tax cuts permanent. Luria specifically targeted those tax cuts, saying at a 2018 candidate forum, "We need to roll back these tax cuts that we've made."

But while Luria wants to raise your taxes, she has a troubling history of not paying her taxes on time. According to official City of Norfolk tax records, Luria has repeatedly failed to pay her municipal real estate taxes on time, going back to at least 2005.

Between 2005 and 2022, Luria failed to pay her municipal real estate tax promptly, with some of her payments being made several weeks late. In total, Luria was late on over $8,400 in payments.

She also failed to pay her personal property taxes on time. In Virginia, personal property is considered "automobiles, trucks, manufactured homes, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, boats, trailers, and aircraft." According to City of Norfolk records, she paid her 2005 quarterly taxes late. The payment was due on December 5, and she didn't pay it until December 6. She also did not pay any penalties or interest on the late bill. That pattern repeated itself several times, and according to city records, Luria never paid a penalty or interest for her late payments.

Luria is running on a campaign to raise taxes on Virginia families by at least $3,600 a year. She also wants to roll back the 2017 tax cuts, resume tax on tips and overtime, and reduce the Child Tax Credit. All of that means less money in the pockets of hardworking Virginians. Meanwhile, Luria has a troubling history of paying her taxes late. Voters should not only know Luria will hike their taxes, but that she repeatedly fails to pay her own in a timely manner.

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63% oppose, a mere 14% support Lake America.... 

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Canada's Latest Faceplant 

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Canada's Latest Faceplant: Millions in Contracts to Iran VP's Son

http://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/09/02/canadas-latest-faceplant-millions-in-contracts-to-iran-vps-son-n2206417

O, Canada! What have you done now?

When in the process of awarding military contracts, it would seem an elementary exercise to check the backgrounds of the people you are awarding contracts to. For example, you might want to make sure that the person receiving a $2 million military contract isn't, say, the son of a senior official in the government of the country that is the leading state sponsor of Islamic terrorism, a country that is an enemy of civilization itself.

And yet, that's just what Canada has done, hiring this goblin even as the Canadian intelligence apparatus was looking into the guy's activities.

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The Canadian government awarded millions worth of contracts to the son of Iran’s former vice-president, despite an ongoing investigation into allegations he helped the Islamic Republic evade sanctions and develop missile systems, documents obtained by Global News reveal.

Since founding two companies in Alberta, an Edmonton resident named “Sal Ghafouri” has received more than $2 million in federal and provincial contracts, including from the RCMP and Department of National Defence, public records show.
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Here's the onion: This guy's name isn't really "Sal Ghafouri." And his background is a long, long way past suspicious.

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But according to newly released records, Ghafouri is actually Mohammad Reza Ghafouri Fard, an Iranian who has been the subject of a long-running Canadian investigation into his alleged work for Iran’s military and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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Newt Gingrich on Democrat Candidates 

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Every voter and every Republican candidate should ask the Democratic candidates these simple straightforward questions about the platform of the Democratic Socialist Party:

20 Questions for House Democrats on the DSA Platform

Do you support the DSA proposal to abolish the United States Senate?

Do you support abolishing the Electoral College?

Do you support replacing the President of the United States with an executive chosen by and subordinate to Congress?

Do you support replacing the Supreme Court with a judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress?

Do you support replacing America’s two-party system with a multiparty system based on proportional representation?

Do you support giving full voting rights in American elections to permanent U.S. residents who are not American citizens?

Do you support giving people currently incarcerated in prisons the right to vote?

Do you support public—government—ownership of America’s largest corporations and essential industries?

Do you support DSA’s proposal for “aggressive wealth taxes” on wealthy individuals and corporations?

Do you support taking steps toward what the DSA explicitly describes as “fully abolishing the police and prison system”?

Do you support redirecting funding away from police departments and disempowering police unions as steps toward that objective?

Do you support abolishing ICE and ending ICE detention and deportations?

Do you support granting amnesty to all immigrants regardless of their current immigration status?

Do you support eliminating immigration visa caps and quotas?

Do you support closing America’s overseas military bases?

Do you support ending all American military and economic assistance to Israel?

Do you support prosecuting American and Israeli political leaders whom the DSA considers responsible for genocide in Gaza?

Do you support ending American economic sanctions against governments such as Iran, Cuba and Venezuela?

Do you support phasing out the use of fossil fuels?

Do you support the DSA’s larger objective of creating a new political system culminating in a democratic-socialist society?

The especially important follow-up
For a DSA-endorsed candidate, add one question:

If you disagree with any of these positions, how do you reconcile that disagreement with the DSA’s current requirement that nationally endorsed candidates “commit to uphold DSA’s national policy platform, Workers Deserve More”?

That wording is significant. As of August 29, 2026, DSA’s national endorsement criteria explicitly require candidates to commit to its platform, identify publicly as socialist or democratic socialist, and regard themselves as “socialist organizers first, and legislators second.” 

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