A seven-term Democratic state assemblyman who also is president of the nation's largest municipal labor council was arrested on federal racketeering charges Tuesday,
Brian M. McLaughlin was accused of stealing more than $2 million from the state, labor unions and even a Little League fund.
accused of stealing more than $2 million from the state, labor unions and even a Little League fund. Brian M. McLaughlin, 54, was accused in an indictment of stealing money from several organizations in which he held official positions. He and his associates allegedly stole money from labor unions, the state of New York and not-for-profit groups.
Mr. McLaughlin has been under investigation for several years. He is president of the labor council, an umbrella group of unions that has supported Mayor Bloomberg. According to a 186-page indictment unsealed Tuesday, Mr. McLaughlin and others from 1995 through 2006 engaged in racketeering by using money collected for union activities to instead pay personal expenses, including credit card bills, rent and home improvements. There was no immediate comment from Speaker Sheldon Silver or from Mr. McLaughlin's office at the New York City Central Labor Council.
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Corrupt union bosses?
Johnson! Stop the presses!!
A man was killed when a large kangaroo, more than 1.3 metres (4ft) tall, crashed through his windscreen as he drove along a road near Manjimup, Western Australia.
Don't you just hate when that happens?
The kangaroo was flung into the path of the car, shortly before dusk on Sunday about 186 miles south of Perth, after being struck by another vehicle, the police said yesterday. "The animal went through ... into the back seat causing the driver to lose control and crash the vehicle," a spokesman said.
The kangaroo hit the driver, causing him serious head injuries. The man was flown to a Perth hospital but died on Monday.
How'd the 'roo do?
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Well tie me Kangaroo down, sport!
'as anyone seen me Matilda? I'd like to go waltzing it.
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They are a menace on the highways if you drive at night- if any Rantburgers visit Australia, try to avoid night driving in the bush. They can swarm, too. Dodging a roo every few hundred yards is really nerve wracking. Roos are very massive and bony about the hips, hit one at speed and they will smash in your grill and radiator or whatever they hit. If they are airborne, in thru the windscreen like for this poor man.
I had a big roo jump down from an embankment and nearly sqash me on a trail bike late one night. Right in front of the wheel- boing!
Shouldn't drive at dusk or dawn they're out feeding more then.
Should drive about 100km/h or less though there may be unlimited speed allowed on road because when skippy jumps out at you it can be fatal - for you - if you don't swerve.
Roo dead but important to check if there is a pouch: wallaby may be alive inside and you can rescue the baby critter.
I drove at night but I try to get in behind a big truck or road-train convoy-style.
They have massive shield grills on the front bigger than the biggest bullbar you ever saw. They just plough through and if you hang on their tail they clear the road for you!
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And all this time I was laboring under the misapprehension that a baby roo is called a "joey".
Zenster, you are quiet correct, sortof.
A "joey" is the baby version of both a 'roo and a wallaby. The wallaby being the smaller version of macropod family and the 'roo the larger.
Neither of these should be confused with wombats, which "eats roots and leaves"
Years ago my girlfriends used to call me a wombat for some unknown reason.
Hope that helps.
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Our reptile society had a talk about Australia by one of our state wildlife biologists. He said his biggest mistake was not signing up for collison coverage on the rental car. Apparently his own insurance didn't cover 'roo damage. He hit the 'roo at about 20mph and it pretty much trashed the car.
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Lol Barbara. Highest jump recorded (accurately!) by a roo is 8 feet 6 inches. A female Eastern Grey being chased by dogs cleared a pile of logs this high.
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According to the Hadith, women were advised to breast-feed their male servants or office colleagues so that they assume the status of her sons. This would prohibit sexual intercourse between them and the woman in turn would become immune from seduction and harassment by them, the sheikh claimed.
Um. Yeah, that should work. Ayuh. Uh-huh. Definitely.....
BTW__ there was an article on RB yesterday about a fatwa that said television was un-muslim..... so logically, how.... oh never mind, there I go applying logic again.....
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Perhaps the UK government should push to have their citizens take a train to Paris and fly out from there. Suddenly the UK makes their goals and France is way far off. Works for me.
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The situation is beyond local police control. Why is militry not called out ? Next time the "youths" stage a carbeque, they should be met by a company size squad with permission to fire directly at them on full auto. I'm certain the situation would be squelshed quickly. Cleaning the street afterward may take some time.
Nova M Radio, Inc. based in Phoenix, Arizona officially announced the formation of its new progressive talk radio network.
Debuting on the network will be the long awaited return to the airwaves of Americas original "truth-seeker" Mike Malloy. The Mike Malloy Show will initially broadcast live, from 9PM -12 Midnight (EST) beginning October 30,2006 on Nova M Radio affiliate 1480-AM KPHX Phoenix. The Mike Malloy Show will be made available to affiliates across the nation and will also stream live.
Malloy on his return to the radio quipped "Yikes! That was close. To not be on the air during perhaps the most critical election in modern U-S history would have been a real bummer. But, we're back and here it is: The Nova M Radio network. Another crack in the wall of right-wing drivel that saturates the airwaves. Join me nightly, truth-seekers and goodbye Air America - hello Nova M!"
Anita Drobny and Sheldon Drobny, co-founders of the Air America Radio Network along with partner Dr. Mike Newcomb, CEO & Chairman of Nova M Radio, are the principals of the new network.
Trying their con with a new network, huh?
On March 1, 2006 Air America Radios Phoenix affiliate went dark after the station was purchased by a religious broadcasting company who promptly terminated the progressive programming. Within 18 days Nova M Radio, Inc. had negotiated a deal with a new station and triumphantly returned progressive talk to the airwaves in Americas 5th largest city on April 3, 2006. Nova M Radio now looks to bring its unique brand to the rest of America.
Joining Nova M Radio as Media and Communication consultant will be Joe Trippi and Associates. Joe revolutionized electoral politics in America with his instrumental role in Howard Deans 2004 presidential campaign, raising over $40 million in small donor contributions over the internet.
And blowing it all in stoopid ad buys all over the country before the first primary ...
By leveraging the scope and breadth of innovative internet-based technologies and digital tools, Joe and his team will help Nova M Radio reach out to millions of people who share common values and common goals.
Also joining our team will be internationally renowned pollster John Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International. John will be co-hosting a weekly one hour show, "The Pulse of the Nation" where John polls particular hot button issues from politics and pop culture to the War in Iraq and stem cell research. Each program will include expert guests and audience participation. At the end of each show John will reveal the secret results of the poll and each listener will then know whether or not they have their finger on "The Pulse of the Nation"!
Zogby proclaimed "This is very exciting. I will have the chance to share some of the latest polling on what Americans are really thinking about their lives, their needs, the views of government and politics, and how they think things need to be fixed. I know listeners are going to be fascinated by hearing what their peers are thinking".
It's the rattling around inside their heads part that will be so exciting ...
Also debuting on Nova M Radios new network will be Mike "Doc" Newcomb and Peter B. Collins. Mike Newcomb, MD is a former gubernatorial candidate and physician who cares for the elderly and the poor. His brand of "freedom fighting, liberty loving and truth telling" radio has taken Phoenix, AZ by storm. After only his first year on the air Mike was selected as the "Best Radio Talk-Show Host 2004" by the Phoenix New Times. Doctor Mikes show will air Monday-Friday 9AM-Noon (EST).
Peter B. Collins, the San Francisco-based syndicated talk show host, is a veteran radio personality. In the Bay Area, Peter has entertained talk radio listeners on KGO, KNBR and KSFO. He was the top-rated morning personality on CBS-owned KRQ. His current daily program, The Peter B. Collins Show, originates 6-9pm (EST) weekdays.
CEO & Chairman Mike Newcomb stated, "We will continue to build upon the foundation laid by our predecessors and will work tirelessly to fulfill our fiduciary responsibilities to our investors. Equally important, we will with the millions of faithful progressive listeners uphold our vision to promote freedom, social justice, economic justice and peace worldwide."
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The Mike Malloy Show will initially broadcast live, from 9PM -12 Midnight (EST) beginning October 30,2006 on Nova M Radio affiliate 1480-AM KPHX Phoenix.
That's not very smart programming. He'll be on at the same time as Art Bell, and they'll be fighting each other for the same audience.
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I love the MSM efforts to make Joe Trippi the Guru of Internet politics - has he ever helped anyone actually win an election, lol? Anyway, this reminds me of the alGore meme.
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How wonder how much free publicity this "Progressive" network will get? I mean they practically demanded that everyone watch Err Amerika because Rush Limbaugh has a show and it needs a "Counter balance". Mike will not tear away too many listeners from Coast-to-coast, which is now hosted by George Norry (I have insomia some times). Another money pit for which liberal can through their money.
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Peter B. Collins, the San Francisco-based syndicated talk show host, is a veteran radio personality. In the Bay Area, Peter has entertained talk radio listeners on KGO, KNBR and KSFO. He was the top-rated morning personality on CBS-owned KRQ. His current daily program, The Peter B. Collins Show, originates 6-9pm (EST) weekdays.
Um, my bullshit meter just pegged. I listen to KSFO almost religiously and have never, ever heard of this guy.
KSFO is a conservative station and has been for at least the last 10+ years (switched over to them when Jim Eason left KGO for retirement back in North Carolina last I heard).
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Well, I'm not the first to point this out, but liberals essentially ignore talk radio outside the NPR format. Since National People's Radio folx are fakely calm, government sponsored and present a phoney veneer of sophistication and "fairness," they cop everybody except the Pacifica Moonbats. That, combined with the fact that Randi Rhoades and the squirrills at AA rant n' rave according to what they THINK the stereotype of "Reich-wing talk radio" is (and really isn't), means that few people really want to listen to them.
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Is it just me, or are the Dems' politix particularly odorous this year?
I think this meets the common definition of 'smear'.
Mike Rogers, who calls himself "the nations leading gay activist blogger" has just finished a nationally-broadcast interview on the Ed Schultz Radio Show in which he alleges that Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig has engaged in same-sex sexual activity.
Senator Craigs office flatly rejected the claims. "The Senator says this story is absolutely ridiculous almost laughable," said press secretary Sid Smith. It has no basis in fact. Rogers said he has talked to three men unknown to each other who all reported in detail their sexual encounters with Craig over the last four years. The men were of legal age, Rogers said.
Rogers says that digging into the private lives of politicians who support anti-gay legislation is legitimate. Because Craig supported and voted for the Defense of Marriage act, it is politically relevant to reveal these claims, Rogers said. In a letter to Craig, he wrote: "What these citizens are not being told is that some of the politicians who want their help are or have staff who are part of the so-called homosexual lifestyle."
Rogers reported that he took "trips out west and met with folks in the Senators region and in the Pacific Northwest" as part of his research. Rogers said he and his advisors are solid on the sources, but they would remain anonymous. Rogers said he tried to contact the Senator, but never got a response from Craig or his staff.
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Rogers said he and his advisors are solid on the sources, but they would remain anonymous. Rogers said he tried to contact the Senator, but never got a response from Craig or his staff.
Gee, why do you suppose that is? Folks, this is the Mary Cheney gambit writ large, and if this is all the Democrats have they are completely unfit to govern. But then you knew that.
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My goodness. Homosexual groups are eating their own - so to speak. Pointing out that Homosexual represenatives, either Republican or Democrat are living the "Homosexual lifestyle" aka: Foley and Barney Frank- complete with all of the glorious details they shared with us of pervs preying on young boys - it doesn't make the avergae person think, heck there goes Bob and Bob - aren't they nice folks. Rather it makes the average person think of decadent DC parties with sex toys, boy toys, multiple partners, aids and sleeze oozing everywhere.
How is this helping the average homosexual to get acceptance for their lifestyle? This will do far, far, more overall harm than good for homosexuals.
Supporters of 6th Congressional District Democrat Tammy Duckworth were left scratching their heads Monday at campaign finance reports that showed her with $206,000 left for the races stretch run. Word of Duckworths relatively empty coffers comes as her campaign stopped running TV ads and as her Republican opponent, Peter Roskam, is up with a TV spot attacking her on illegal immigration.
Saw it on the tube yesterday during the Bears game, no less (smart buy). Good ad, but Roskam didn't pay for it, the NRCC did. Named Duckworth specifically as a supporter of amnesty.
For Duckworth backers who might fear the campaign peaked too early, the response coming from her spokeswoman Monday wasnt too encouraging. Spokeswoman Christine Glunz said she didnt know how much money Duckworth has raised since Sept. 30 and didnt know when Duckworth would begin airing TV ads again. By contrast, Wheatons Roskam had $1.5 million to start October, although hes dipped into that for his TV ad blitz.
Duckworth, a Hoffman Esates veteran whos running as a fiscal moderate, has spent her money on a large staff, expensive consultants and an early $1 million TV campaign designed to rebut a wave of attack ads run by the National Republican Campaign Committee. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which reserved $2.3 million to run ads blasting Roskam, starts airing its first ad today.
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Can't believe the donks wouldn't reach deep into the money sack for Duckworth. She fits so well into their victimhood methodology.
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Where's Rahm Emanuel when it gets tough ? Where's the Hilldebeast ? She's got millions extra to spread around, doesn't she ?
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Duckworth, whos running as a fiscal moderate, has spent her money on a large staff, expensive consultants and an early $1 million TV campaign designed to rebut a wave of attack ads run by the National Republican Campaign Committee.
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Roskam is kind of a jerk but Duckworth isn't a fit for this Gerrymandered district. Hyde would always win by 75% or better and Hyde anointed Roskam.
I will hold my nose and vote Roskam.
One thing in his favor is he weighs several hundred pounds less then Hyde. For several years when Hyde would ride in the Wheaton/DuPage 4th parade I snapped some photos of him in the small convertable - one cheek on each rear seat. I never figure what he sat on in the house where the seats are so small.
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anon: Certainly someone I want managing my money.
Political campaigns aren't run like 401(k)'s. The object of a campaign is to win, not accumulate funds. Duckworth is an unknown Democrat in an uphill battle against an opponent in a staunchly-Republican district that elected Henry Hyde by margins of 3-1. Her only hope was to generate buzz early on and try to attain the kind of winner's halo that inspires political donors to ante up more cash - in the world of campaign cash, polling success begets fund-raising success.
The same Democratic leaders who have long hoped to regain control of Congress by blasting a Republican "culture of corruption" are in danger of losing their shot at the Senate because of accusations of corruption against Sen. Robert Menendez.
What was expected to be an easy win for Democrats has become one of the nation's most hotly contested Senate races. Mr. Menendez, New Jersey Democrat, has been plagued by news reports that he's under federal investigation for a long-standing rental deal with a nonprofit group that received millions in federal funding while he was a House member. His Republican opponent, Tom Kean Jr., has hammered the Democratic incumbent in negative ads. And the criticism increased last month after the Philadelphia Inquirer reported a taped conversation in which a Menendez ally told a government contractor that he would have "protection" if he hired a doctor with ties to Mr. Menendez.
Democrats say they're not surprised by the Republican focus on accusations of corruption but say Mr. Menendez will win anyway by linking Mr. Kean to President Bush. Polls show that Mr. Bush is unpopular in this liberal state, where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans. "We are confident Bob Menendez is going to be elected," said Phil Singer, spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "Tom Kean is a George Bush clone."
Political observers say the outcome depends on whether voters here get angrier about Mr. Bush and the Iraq war or about state corruption. "Is this going to be a national referendum or is it going to be a statewide referendum on state corruption?" said New Jersey Republican political consultant Mark Campbell. "If this is national, Menendez wins; if this is a statewide election on the need for reform ... Tom Kean Jr. wins."
"People deserve to know if their senator is the only senator under federal criminal investigation," Mr. Kean said as he took a break Oct. 8 from shaking hands with the tailgating crowd at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. A Quinnipiac University poll taken Oct. 4 to 10 found 49 percent of likely voters support Mr. Menendez and 45 percent back Mr. Kean. It also found that 57 percent of voters feel the ethics questions about Mr. Menendez are serious.
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gawd i hope Tom Kean wins, how sweet that would be eh... warm my cold hard heart it would!
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It's hard to believe the people of Joisey would continue to vote democrat after the brutal shagging they have put up with these last few years.
But stuck on stupid means stuck, held fast, unable to move.
Less than a week after the National Republican Congressional Committee cut the television advertising budget for a contested congressional race in West Virginia, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., stumped for Republican candidate Chris Wakim in Charleston. On Monday, McCain asked a crowd of about 75 supporters, who paid $250 a plate to attend the fundraising luncheon at the Embassy Suites hotel, to do whatever they could to help elect Wakim, a state delegate representing Ohio County, to the U.S. House of Representatives. Im here because I believe in him, McCain said. We need a person with his qualifications and integrity in Washington today. Wakim is running against 12-term incumbent Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., in the states 1st Congressional District.
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Bonnie Garcia caused a political ruckus when she told a classroom of La Quinta High School seniors that she wouldn't kick Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger out of her bed.
Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia (R-Cathedral City) caused a political ruckus when she told a classroom of La Quinta High School seniors that she wouldn't kick Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger out of her bed. Garcia, 44, made the remark Oct. 10 while she was speaking to an economics class, shortly before she was scheduled to appear before the school's Young Republican Club. Garcia, who is in a tight race for reelection, had been the object of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ethnically charged remark regarding her "very hot" Latina temperament a comment for which the governor later apologized. Garcia, who is Puerto Rican, was quick to defend the governor, and he has supported her campaign.
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LA Times is reporting this? This kind of dust up can only help both of them.
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I think they should go ahead and get a room. All this apologizing is for the birds. Some people are "hot", and damned few would kick a decent healthy appropriately-aged member of the opposite sex out of bed. Sheesh. Damned near everyone in America is a silly lying prig regards sex.
Where's Mae West when ya really need her?
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I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
Once, during a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage, the judge asked, "Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?"
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I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
I always say, keep a diary, and some day it'll keep you.
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then. As long as you don't break any.
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Maid (unpacking): Goodness, what nice jewelry.
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When I'm good, I'm good. When I'm bad, I'm very good.
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
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WC Fields referred to Mae West as, "A plumber's vision of Cleopatra." To her credit, she was one of Hollywood's first woman stars to take an active business role in her filmaking and realize much greater wealth from it than most others.
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ELF: Activists' criminals' passion turns to violence
There - fixed that for ya'.
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"Paradoxes and ironies abound here, and they're all wedded to a tragedy," said David Frank, a University of Oregon professor who knew Phillabaum when she was in his debate program.
"How could such bright, articulate, well-meaning people ... how could they have been tempted by violence?"
I dunno. Maybe they were always psychopathic assholes. Maybe dipshits like the perfesser were just too dense to pick up on it.
But that's just me...
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send em away for a looooong time - sorry Zen, but they won't fry em up
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ELF are simply terrorists. Calling someone an eco-terrorist does not make him less a terrorist. These cockroaches should be squashed and their ashes flushed down the nearest public toilet.
Tag, you're out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable. What's next? Helmets and knee pads for hopscotch, 'cause you might fall down?
Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban. And people say that edumacation colleges don't teach their graduates a damn thing!
While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous. Nope, only if you were too stupid to get outta the way of the oncoming ball...
Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."
Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said. That was always part of the fun, Celeste....or were you one of the dorks who weren't smart enough to get out of the way of the oncoming ball when you were a kid?
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"Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule."
-That's because your son is a pussy. He'll prolly get a great degree in the arts or some such and then write eiditorials for the Herald while spending his weekends shopping for birkenstocks and sipping lattes. Fricken' prancer. Good job mom.
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Broadhead you're wrong.....he'll be writing editorials for the Globe. The Herald is way to butch for people like him.
My wife is a Kindergarten teacher about 40 miles West of Boston and is constantly fighting agains this kind of lunacy. Given what she says they'll be putting little boys in chains to "protect" them.
Of course if a bully starts trouble the administrative reaction is to go all relative and blame the victim at least as much.
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When one of my sons was in 8th grade, he received a one-day suspension from the principal because she didn't line some things he had said on his Xanga website after school hours. She didn't like what I said to her in response either, but she couldn't suspend me. Meanwhile, my son learned that Dad will back him up when he's right and we had a nice father-and-son luncheon on his day off after he finished sleeping late. Many of the professional educators that I am exposed to are just a tad better than idiotic.
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I'd agree with ya, Darrell, excepting that this irrational fear is somewhat founded. School districts get sued all the time for all sorts of idiotic stuff. I blame it all on the hyper-lawsuit happy/ambulance chasing attorneys. While I feel the Districts should fight back, they've been beaten down so hard by so many different lawsuits (and idiotic judges ruling in favor of these lawsuits), that I almost don't blame them. Of course, you'll always have your moonbats in power at schools, but for the most part, pretty much all teachers I know are more conservative and just want to go about their job of actually TEACHING KIDS (what a novel idea) instead of having to deal with all this bureaucratic/legalese types nonsense. In this case, it is the principal's fault (it's NOT a district-wide "policy"), so I'd blame her.
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Home schooling is really looking like a bargan.
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A few years ago I learned (to my amazment)that a time honored recess activity had been outlawed by my daughter's school. When I was growing up we called it "artillery" (although to others it was known as "dodge ball").
Ever notice the correlation between the people outlawing dodge ball ( or tag ), or forcing the wearing of bike helmets, to the same people wanting to outlaw your right to wear own and carry a gun?
Hmmm....
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Darrel,
Many years ago (11 to be precise) my 4th grade son responded to a bully and got into trouble for fighting back, more than the bully.
I went to school and told the teacher & principal that my son had been taught to never start a fight. BUT, he was also taught to end any fight that was forced upon him. And, if they didn't like that I would have them speak to my lawyer.
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Q. What is the definition of the word "boy", according to what educators have been taught for the last 25 years?
A. "Defective girl".
And yet, American boys are not being feminized - the women public school teachers are too jealous of their anointed victim status as females to share.
American boys are being emasculated, something completely different. It satisfies the teachers' need to strike at the evil male, and makes the boys docile and less work to teach, all at once.
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Had to laugh at this- at our last school in Central Australia we had a School Whip and the Official School Spear Collection, both hunting and punishment spears. Second last school had a Munga Wirri, a fighting club/ wooden axe, and a Wirri- a killing stick. Never had to deploy any of them, but there they were. Cultural heritage, don't you know.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A seven-term Democratic state assemblyman who also is president of the nation's largest municipal labor council was arrested on federal racketeering charges Tuesday, 
A man was killed when a large kangaroo, more than 1.3 metres (4ft) tall, crashed through his windscreen as he drove along a road near Manjimup, Western Australia.
Nova M Radio, Inc. based in Phoenix, Arizona officially announced the formation of its new progressive talk radio network. 
Mike Rogers, who calls himself "the nations leading gay activist blogger" has just finished a nationally-broadcast interview on the Ed Schultz Radio Show in which he alleges that Idaho Republican Senator 
Supporters of 6th Congressional District Democrat Tammy Duckworth were left scratching their heads Monday at campaign finance reports that showed her with $206,000 left for the races stretch run. Word of Duckworths relatively empty coffers comes as her campaign stopped running TV ads and as her Republican opponent, Peter Roskam, is up with a TV spot attacking her on illegal immigration.
The same Democratic leaders who have long hoped to regain control of Congress by blasting a Republican "culture of corruption" are in danger of losing their shot at the Senate because of accusations of corruption against Sen. Robert Menendez. 
Less than a week after the National Republican Congressional Committee cut the television advertising budget for a contested congressional race in West Virginia, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., stumped for Republican candidate Chris Wakim in Charleston. On Monday, McCain asked a crowd of about 75 supporters, who paid $250 a plate to attend the fundraising luncheon at the Embassy Suites hotel, to do whatever they could to help elect Wakim, a state delegate representing Ohio County, to the U.S. House of Representatives. Im here because I believe in him, McCain said. We need a person with his qualifications and integrity in Washington today. Wakim is running against 12-term incumbent Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., in the states 1st Congressional District.
