{"id":182393,"date":"2015-10-03T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/03\/ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2015-10-03T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T01:52:00","slug":"ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/03\/ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PHQLQ1Rc_Js?rel=0\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s educational privatizer in chief, Arne Duncan, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/education\/wp\/2015\/10\/02\/education-secretary-arne-duncan-reportedly-will-step-down-at-end-of-year\/\">announced that he is stepping down at the end of the year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to step down from his Cabinet position by the end of the year, leaving the Obama administration more than a year before the president\u2019s term will end.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cHe\u2019s done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else,\u201d President Obama said as he announced Duncan\u2019s resignation at the White House on Friday afternoon. \u201cAmerica will be better off for what he has done.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, as is made clear by Obama&#8217;s statements, the Cossacks work for the Czar.<\/p>\n<p>As anti-public education and anti-teacher as he has been, it is clear that he has been executing a pro-Wall Street, anti-Teacher, and anti-Student<sup>*<\/sup> agenda at Obama&#8217;s behest.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I am sure that he will get a 7 figure jackpot at the end of the rainbow. <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">As I have asked many times, &#8220;Is there <b>anything<\/b> that big finance can&#8217;t make destructive and evil?&#8221;<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">If the goal is to involve Wall Street in a public service, the effect will harm that service.  QED.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s educational privatizer in chief, Arne Duncan, has announced that he is stepping down at the end of the year: U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to step down from his Cabinet position by the end of the year, leaving the Obama administration more than a year before the president\u2019s term will end. \u201cHe\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,968,969,1004,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-education","category-evil","category-finance","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}