CT education bloggers agree that NAACP has struck a "Deal with the Devil."

The Schools Matter blog said it this week after the NAACP sided with the Bush Administration on "teach to the test" NCLB, and the Connecticut Attorney General said it in a manner more genteel.

Hell I said it a long time ago. Just run "Faustian Bargain" on this blawg. As someone who has been involved in education issues for many/years, I was gearing up to work with NH educator Chris Hookway after I drafted our nonprofit prospectus. In point of fact, I had just got the HELP -- Higher Education Learning Project Organization's 501(c)(3) sorted to help fill the void in part caused and left by NCLB, when I became victim of a rather rude and baseless prosecution. Said prosecution forcing my resignation as witnessed by the letter that may be viewed in the above "years" post.

I can't work on these weighty issues right now because of yet another shady NAACP chapter turncoating on me to help get me indicted even though they used to "love and support" me.

In the end, the children (and me and those around me) suffer because of the NAACP. You want damages? I'm one damaged pup but I can't do much about my head until the benefits kick in at work. My nieces wonder why I don't have as much time for them. I haven't ridden my mountainbike in months (no money for suspension repairs), I haven't seen the side of a mountain this entire ski season (time, money) and I don't breathe very deeply these days. I haven't done much yoga because I've been working 2 jobs or trying to keep up with the criminal and civil cases (their motions to dismiss the pro se civil cases were denied, I might add). I smoke too much. Not a ton, but 2 a day I find tolerable. I am well above that. I drive a POS $1,000 250K mile SAAB now; I used to have a nice convertible SAAB when this started.

As noted in a link to another legal blogger's posts about me (click on "crazy" in the "Goodnight, Mrs. King" post), this open letter to a former employer -- with whom I had earned award for Exceptional Customer Service -- shows that I shattered the transmission because of nerves on the day they tried to revoke my bail. I actually missed a shift. Ouch. In that attempt they even used bullshit that included mail sent by Chief Dunn's lawyer to an address at which I never even lived. We also filmed "lawyerman" that day in cinema verite, as I open my mail for my film maker on the first take to see what goodies the Defendants had sent me earlier via hand delivery.

I have since filed perjury/fraud upon the court against Bauer for other well-documented issues, and thankfully, they lost the revocation hearing, even though Cheshire County criminal Judge Arnold is none too much in my corner as you can see in the new "Oreo" video. And you can watch him and the Prosecutor ponder who pays for my films and in general get down on me and my website as well. At least back in Nashua, Gloria/NAACP lost her stupid "stalking" hearing. You can hear the whole trial, "Stalking Trial" (Audio #1) and watch a movie -- "Day in Nashua" -- about that on the website.

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I've always been told I look young for my age. Today I look my age and feel older yet, despite my green tea, positive mental outlook, good diet and vitamins. Sure people still say "I can't believe you're 40," but those who know me know I look like hell. I haven't swung a tennis racket in months, either -- the last time might have been to film "First Amendment Movie Trailer" back in late fall. Taking the motorcycle to work and enjoying my nieces are largely all that get me by, and I'm not going into my private life here but that has suffered in some respects as well. Vacation? Ha!

This is another facet of the legacy of today's/NAACP. As none other than Ralph Abernathy noted to Jerry Doyle, a Columbus First Amendment client of mine, some of them will sell a brother down the river quicker than any white man will. But I stand strong, and as Buju Banton would say:

They all try to discredit the work you have done..... Lord help me sustain these blows, I cry...... It's not an easy road......oh, no..... he who feels it knows..... oh, no.... it's not an Easy Road.... I tell you...."

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PS: Back to education: Ironically -- or perhaps not -- when I called Chris Hookway from work tonight, he had just spent a couple hours going through this blawg. And also ironically -- or perhaps not -- I was one of two servers at the Marriott Stamford last week for the LEAD conference, met some very nice people including the Assistant to the Director of the National Ass'n of Secondary School. Traded cards, natch.

PPS: Caught my manager singing my masthead song yesterday: "When the pigs try to get at you.... drop it like a blawg..... drop it like a blawg.....