Saw this! I like a man that goes straight to the public!

Racist!

Expect him to be destroyed as a hate monger racist in 5...4...3...2...

He looks rather typically white, and sounds bitter.

/better have the Office of Change watch him

Good for Bill harris. transparency is always the best policy

Good for him
I bet his career is over

I am so glad/relieved to hear this! And pleased that he's using YouTube! Thank you, sir.

Good.
Teachers are paid to teach, not browbeat children.
What a fair fight indeed!

How soon before Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton run to the teachers aid?

Excellent. Well done sir, and best of luck.

Dems are probably already ordering illegal background checks on this dude and MSNBC will likely send out reporters to investigate his background.

This would have never happened in Chicago.

thats he Bill Harris I knew

Heavy on the CYA, but good to know that this has come to his attention. Hope some appropriate discipline comes from the investigation.

Hat's off to the Lizards (or anyone else) who got this to Mr. Harris.

I hope that some action is actually taken against that teacher. I have first hand reports from friends that this was going on in at least three other schools in a different town, same state. They reported it, but alas no video so it was just swept under the rug. Sadly, this incident would most likely have been as well without the evidence.

Does the bully have tenure? What will the NCEA do?

I wonder about the child she berated

Good.

I was just listening to the New York teachers ad on WABC and thinking of all the GOOD teachers out there who work hard to do a good job. My parents were teachers, and they were superb. I thought of this woman as I listened to the ad and felt sorry for all the children who must put up with pitiful excuses for teachers.

Now, follow up. Let's see how he goes up against the teacher's union.
Wait for charges of racism to emerge in 5, 4, 3, 2...

Good for him. Bravo, Mr. Harris. Bravo.

It saddens me that in the present climate such a clear, just and forthright statement seems like an act of courage.

I was really struck by his saying that the school district has 15,000 military families in it.

I expect him to issue a statement that says the teacher was the victim, and that said teacher will be suspended WITH pay.

re: #19 rawmuse

Now, follow up. Let's see how he goes up against the teacher's union.
Wait for charges of racism to emerge in 5, 4, 3, 2...

That could prove interesting, since she was picking exclusively on white children.

Bravo! Now I, for one, want to see what action you'll take.

Speaking as a small employer, I am not always aware of all the actions of my employees. I do have the responsibility to supervise them and when warranted, to take disciplinary action. Giving the gentleman the benefit of the doubt, he's now aware of the situation. Knowing that there is an issue is the first step to fixing it.

I heard that the child berated was the child of a serviceman. Which makes me question the teacher's behavior even further than I already was.

Another Robert Spencer fan sends a love note; he got here by clicking a link at the Discovery Institute's Russia Blog. Subject: "IHT proves LGF was wrong"

on Russia and Georgia. Any apologies to the people you smeared as
Kremlin stooges and apologists? Of course not, anymore than you will
apologize to Robert Spencer for calling him a racist/facist or anyone
else you've alienated with your self-righteous obsessions, seeing
"racists" and "creationists" behind every curtain. But they were right
and you were wrong. Your first post about the "brutal Russian assault
on South Ossetia" was false. The OSCE monitors say Georgia attacked
first.

With a link to this article:

[Link: www.iht.com...]

(If you Google "OCSE bias" you'll find that their reports are generally not well respected.)

re: #9 musicman

They're fully engaged in receiving their spoils seeing how much they can get from BHO.

A good first step.

All teachers should be like Brian Lamb... someone who you cannot tell which side of the political spectrum they occupy.

To be anyway else is to be a propagandist, and not a teacher.

re: #24 Cattt

That could prove interesting, since she was picking exclusively on white children.

But he himself is a white man charged with meting out at the very least, a disciplinary action against a person of color, a woman, in the South.

They will call it a lynching. They are probably doing it already.

Well, I'm glad that .001% of America's teachers who are brainwashing our children into become liberals is being held accountable for it. When do we go after the rest of them?

I want to see this all the way to the end, not just a "Well good, now let's look at something else."
This Diantha needs to be made an example.
O-LIAR needs to see her wickedness like we saw it.

/yeah, I said O-LIAR...

re: #32 Crusty

Well, I'm glad that .001% of America's teachers who are brainwashing our children into become liberals is being held accountable for it. When do we go after the rest of them?

You mean .00000001% ?

Does anybody else get Related Searches: "Obama's Plan when you Google the word Plan? How did they get Google to do that?

re: #28 Charles

robert has interesting readers.

re: #32 Crusty

When do we go after the rest of them?

As soon as possible!

that woman is a disgrace.
she should never be in in a class room posing as a teacher before children.
this is the kind of unqualified, inept person who needs to be ruthlessly weeded out of the educational system.

We don't have teacher's unions in NC, so there is no one to protect this hate-mongering ass-clown. This needs to be made a public spectacle of.

re: #17 outsidephilly

I wonder about the child she berated

And don't you think that if this teacher and her dancing friends were willing to say these things on camera (I think it was a Euro station doing a documentary, right?), then how many other times has it happened? I think the teachers owe an apology to the military community for treating their kids like that. Imagine telling one of your students that her dad is fighting for nothing. Have they provided "grief counselor" type people for these kids? Talk from this guy is cheap. He needs to stand up and support the troops in his school district with more enthusiasm and if he can't, he should transfer to some area without military families.

re: #35 musicman

Does anybody else get Related Searches: "Obama's Plan when you Google the word Plan? How did they get Google to do that?

They used special Al Gore Rhythms...

Here's another love note, not related to Spencer for a change, from a Booby [sic] Jindal fan:

your obsession w/ bobby jindal is just bizarre. i think this is a
pathetic attempt at catharsis - you get attacked for going after dark
muslims, so it makes you feel better going after dark conservatives.
Classy.

re: #41 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

They used special Al Gore Rhythms...

*GROAN*

re: #31 rawmuse

But he himself is a white man charged with meting out at the very least, a disciplinary action against a person of color, a woman, in the South.

They will call it a lynching. They are probably doing it already.

How long before she sneaks a noose on her doorknob some night?

Levin leading his show with the Zero taking the classless shot at Nancy Reagan.

Racism is over. Sorry.

I expect that in response the NEA will:

1. Bring grievance charges against this administrator for harrassment and try to get him fired.

2. Give this teacher a medal.

3. Develop a new program for each election, based on this teachers actions, to interrogate students in class and berate/humiliate anyone not supporting their political views and to harrass the children of military folks.

Of course now that Barack Obama is our President there'll be no way of preventing teachers from gloating over him in the classroom.

I have no doubt that right now teachers across the country are already hanging pictures of our new leader on classroom walls and teaching their students about the wonderful new age that we are all about to enter.

re: #44 tommygum

How long before she sneaks a noose on her doorknob some night?

I now every mau-mau tactic you can imagine. And there are some with which I have personal experience.

i think this is a pathetic attempt at catharsis

WTF?

Rotating title nomination?

Nothing will come of it above a slap on the wrist, if that. Vouchers, private school and home schooling are the only answer, currently.

re: #45 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Levin leading his show with the Zero taking the classless shot at Nancy Reagan.

That's why he's the Great One.

re: #28 Charles

Another Robert Spencer fan sends a love note; he got here by clicking a link at the Discovery Institute's Russia Blog. Subject: "IHT proves LGF was wrong"

With a link to this article:

[Link: www.iht.com...]

(If you Google "OCSE bias" you'll find that their reports are generally not well respected.)

US Army troops have invaded Texas! Oh, wait—We're part of the US. Nevermind.

The Public attention span is that of a gnat. Today is Friday, a day nobody but us watches the news. No MSM will report the commie teacher or Harris' response. Diantha will be promoted into the new Ministry of Goodthink as a "trainer." Gnatpeople will watch CSI:Whatever and feel good about justice and equality.

Another child will grow thinking it's wrong to believe in American Supremacy, her parents, the honor of serving as a warrior and move another step towards groupthink believing it's all her fault for being born white.

If she has tenure, the union will make it impossible to fire her. The best one can hope for is that she gets "thrown upstairs" into one of the meaningless administrative jobs that abound in the public school system.

Time to break out the winged pig, Charles!

I won't be gloating over The One in my classroom.

re: #28 Charles

Another Robert Spencer fan sends a love note; he got here by clicking a link at the Discovery Institute's Russia Blog. Subject: "IHT proves LGF was wrong"

With a link to this article:

[Link: www.iht.com...]

(If you Google "OCSE bias" you'll find that their reports are generally not well respected.)

That's one of the side effects of the news media having the worst journalistic ethics in history today. No matter what side you want to take on an issue, you can go out there and link to a shoddy piece of journalism to provide the illusion that you're right.

re: #42 Charles

Here's another love note, not related to Spencer for a change, from a Booby [sic] Jindal fan:

Unhinged is an understatement.

What I'd like to see is a public apology from the teacher.

>...Good on him for doing the right thing.

Then he should know we wish good on him. Mr. Harris needs some encouragement. He may not read LGF. (maybe we can change that)
Anyone have an E-mail address ?

re: #57 Sean

I won't be gloating over The One in my classroom.

Glad to hear it.

re: #60 Ward Cleaver

What I'd like to see is a public apology from the teacher.

I'd like to see him placed into the stocks for a week.

re: #52 Who Watches the Watchmen?

That's why he's the Great One.

He pointed out that it was HILLARY who had seances to "talk" to Eleanor Roosevelt. Nancy Reagan supposedly consulted with some astrologer.

re: #63 Shug

I'd like to see him placed into the stocks for a week.

her.

re: #60 Ward Cleaver

Enumerating everything that she did wrong.

re: #63 Shug

I'd like to see him placed into the stocks for a week.

It was a "her" and I predict there will be no apology, for the teacher believed she did no wrong. This is the world they inhabit.

re: #44 tommygum

How long before she sneaks a noose on her doorknob some night?

yeah, like that slob at columbia U. to deflect the focus from all her plagiarism of students and fellow faculty members.

This is another good reason to home school if you can.

We have home schooled all of our children. My oldest graduated cum laude, my second is halfway through to her degree, my youngest started college at 16.

re: #42 Charles

Here's another love note, not related to Spencer for a change, from a Booby [sic] Jindal fan:

Very funny that this one mentions "obsession," since these people seem uber obsessed with you. There has to be some kind of deep-seated psychological thing going on with them. Love me daddy, maybe?

I've disagreed with you on Bobby Jindal, without being rude or getting booted and while respecting other opinions. Geez - this is a place where we can DISCUSS things. That is what I love about it - it is full of smart people who make varying points on subjects instead of marching lockstep into the fascist future. I consider people here with whom I disagree on a variety of subjects to be my FRIENDS. We are adults! This is the USA, where we can agree to disagree and still be comrades!

Maybe THAT's why they pick on LGF. They want everyone to be on the same page - to agree with THEM on everything. In other words - fascism.

re: #67 rawmuse

It was a "her" and I predict there will be no apology, for the teacher believed she did no wrong. This is the world they inhabit.

People like her should not be allowed near children.

re: #42 Charles

Here's another love note, not related to Spencer for a change, from a Booby [sic] Jindal fan:

Booby Jindal. Sounds like a foreign-translated porn flick. Should have been Booby Jingles. You know, for the Holidays.

The producer of the film defends the teacher! (What a jerk)

Asheville – The producer of a film that features a former Asheville schoolteacher talking presidential politics in the classroom defended the teacher in an interview today.

Swedish filmmaker Folke Ryden said teacher Diantha Harris was “exaggerating” when she told a child her father would stay in the military for 100 years if McCain won the election.

Bloggers are off the mark in saying Harris was “belittling” a child during the May lesson in her Cumberland County classroom, he said.

Harris is a dedicated teacher who used humor – like saying “Oh Lord” and “Oh Jesus” when the fifth-grader said she supported McCain.

That language was intended to fire up her class and engage students in a discussion, Ryden said in a telephone interview from Sweden.

[Link: www.citizen-times.com...]

re: #60 Ward Cleaver

What I'd like to see is a public apology from the teacher.

Agreed, but instead I'm sure she already has an ACLU attorney who will holler racism.

This "Teacher" is why my kids are in a private school, not in the public school system that I work for.

re: #66 Slumbering Behemoth

Enumerating everything that she did wrong.

Later in the documentary she is shown wearing an Obama button.
They don't enforce rules about politics in the classroom there?
I wonder what would happen to a teacher wearing a McCain button at school?
well i really don't wonder

re: #67 rawmuse

It was a "her" and I predict there will be no apology, for the teacher believed she did no wrong. This is the world they inhabit.

Students bullying other students = not okay.

Teachers bullying students = okay.

Do you think if this had been a PBS documentary that the video would've been erased/LATimes'd?

re: #76 HoosierHoops

I wonder what would happen to a teacher wearing a McCain button at school?

That would be hate speech.

Another Spencer fan accuses me of "racism," for referring to that video of kids singing about Barack Obama -- he says I really was talking about Obama's daughters.

Yes it was certainly disturbing to watch this video, to see all those
fictional and real-life children brainwashed.

However, perhaps the most disturbing comment of all was the your own
comment with which you ended the piece.

“Admit it — you thought about this movie too when you saw the
creepy Obama kids.”

I personally have never found anything “creepy” about
Obama’s two daughters. They have always seemed to me like two
perfectly normal, sweet little girls.

Your comments might interpreted as racism. Whilst I will not accuse
you of such a thing, it seems to me rather a cheap shot and unwarranted
accusation, I do at least find your comments mean-spirited.

Goes on in this vein for a while, before telling me that I'm stupid (as well as a racist) and Spencer is a genius.

re: #70 Cattt

I believe it's called "projection".

It's Fayetteville,NC
Fort Brag
Pope AF Base

re: #3 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

I'll be watching DKos. I'll bet they have something nice to have about this bitter, gun clinging redneck hick.

re: #73 nightlight

That just about sums up the Left in all its glory.

The "Colleges of Education" in our nations universities are turning out trash talking ideologues like the "lady teacher" in the Cumberland schools by the tens of thousands Thanks to "Distinguished Professors of Education" like Bill Ayers" and his acolytes.

re: #73 nightlight

The producer of the film defends the teacher! (What a jerk)

Asheville – The producer of a film that features a former Asheville schoolteacher talking presidential politics in the classroom defended the teacher in an interview today.

Swedish filmmaker Folke Ryden said teacher Diantha Harris was “exaggerating” when she told a child her father would stay in the military for 100 years if McCain won the election.

Bloggers are off the mark in saying Harris was “belittling” a child during the May lesson in her Cumberland County classroom, he said.

Harris is a dedicated teacher who used humor – like saying “Oh Lord” and “Oh Jesus” when the fifth-grader said she supported McCain.

That language was intended to fire up her class and engage students in a discussion, Ryden said in a telephone interview from Sweden.

[Link: www.citizen-times.com...]

folke ryden is a fcking imbecile. these kids are 11 yrs. old, they don't need to be fired up abt. politics thru ridicule and abuse from this illiterate beast w/ her own selfish agenda.

re: #80 Charles

There is no more racism, Charles. It ended Tuesday night.

re: #80 Charles

Wow! I don't recall anyone mentioning the Obama girls.

re: #80 Charles

Send him this. RIF

/cuz reading is teh hard!

re: #72 Sol Roth

Booby Jindal. Sounds like a foreign-translated porn flick. Should have been Booby Jingles. You know, for the Holidays.

The Nipple Song. :D

re: #40 Sunlight

And don't you think that if this teacher and her dancing friends were willing to say these things on camera (I think it was a Euro station doing a documentary, right?), then how many other times has it happened? I think the teachers owe an apology to the military community for treating their kids like that. Imagine telling one of your students that her dad is fighting for nothing. Have they provided "grief counselor" type people for these kids? Talk from this guy is cheap. He needs to stand up and support the troops in his school district with more enthusiasm and if he can't, he should transfer to some area without military families.

This guy is just making like he's gonna do 'something'!

re: #55 wolfie

A poster upthread noted that there are no teacher's unions in North Carolina...(?)

re: #87 Sean

There is no more racism, Charles. It ended Tuesday night.

Ah, but race-baiting still seems to be around, unfortunately.

re: #80 Charles

Spencer sides with the VB gang and you're the one accused of racism?!

My wife teaches Special Ed. Let's just say that some of her co-workers did not appreciate her McCain/Palin sticker. Or at a different school in 04, her Bush/Cheney sticker.

She had a sticker on her car, they wore buttons TO school and preach the praises of Obama.

I always thought it was a teacher's job to teach children how to think. That is what I call education.

In this case, this woman seems to think a teacher's job is to teach children WHAT to think. That is what I call indocrination.

My left moonbat sister school teacher can shove it.

I also have one or two Spencer-related emails that are basically nothing but profanities.

re: #92 J.S.

A poster upthread noted that there are no teacher's unions in North Carolina...(?)

The way the state is trending, I do not expect that to continue.
But I hope they can keep it out, if California is any example. What are we, dead last? If not we are close.

re: #91 outsidephilly

This guy is just making like he's gonna do 'something'!

No, that guy is extremely uneasy. What how he can't sit still and fidgets with the cards. He's feeling pressure from someone. 15,000 military children? Thats amazing. No doubt the first stop for the BOzo indoctrination program.

re: #48 Ringo the Gringo

Of course now that Barack Obama is our President there'll be no way of preventing teachers from gloating over him in the classroom.

I have no doubt that right now teachers across the country are already hanging pictures of our new leader on classroom walls and teaching their students about the wonderful new age that we are all about to enter.

My German teacher, when I was in high school, was a Czech who lived in the Sudetenland. After that callow pacifist, Chamberlain, handed the Sudetenland to Hitler, Dr. Messerod had to go with the "new" curriculum. A deep and prideful man, the final straw was the obligatory picture of the new leader. He turned it around to face the wall, was denounced and fired. Through the grace of G*d he escaped and made his way to Long Island.

re: #87 Sean

There is no more racism, Charles. It ended Tuesday night.

don't tell that to sharpton and jackson.
you have just deleted their livelihood,

re: #86 nyc redneck

folke ryden is a fcking imbecile. these kids are 11 yrs. old, they don't need to be fired up abt. politics thru ridicule and abuse from this illiterate beast w/ her own selfish agenda.

The only way..and i do mean the only way his explanation can be believed is this..
These kids were special gifted kids auditing a college political science class.
otherwise..she was out-of-bounds and needs to be disciplined.

re: #97 Charles

I also have one or two Spencer-related emails that are basically nothing but profanities.

so, he has a vocabulary deficit?

re: #80 Charles

Wackjobs don't live in reality. Facts are another universe entirely.

re: #73 nightlight

Apparently Folke Ryden does not have a strong command of the English language. Nuanced remarks can be stronger and more telling than just blurting out how you feel. The teacher clearly expressed without humor or satire that supporting McCain was evil or wrong.

re: #97 Charles

I also have one or two Spencer-related emails that are basically nothing but profanities.

What is it about that guy? Did an LGFer run over the guys dog or something?

re: #103 outsidephilly

so, he has a vocabulary deficit?

Not Spencer, his supporters.

re: #80 Charles

Clearly you saw young black children and images of the Obama children popped in your head.

/RACIST!
//You get the best mail!

re: #77 Ward Cleaver

Students bullying other students = not okay.

Teachers bullying students = okay.

I've posted before about what happened to my oldest son. He didn't jump into the anti-Bush rhetoric and anti-death penalty/ anti-2nd amendment crap the teachers wanted and was "rewarded" by being made Larry Craig in the mock Senate they did. The bullies in the class were merciless and I thought we were going to have to pull him from school. I think the administration was also afraid of that (and the lawsuit the school district would have faced)-by the time I sent him back to school after a day off, he had been switched to another Senator and narry a peep was allowed about it in class. He did have some friends who avoided him afterwards.

The teacher was reckless and she absolutely did bully that young girl who had a Dad in the military. Disgusting.

re: #100 tommygum

My German teacher, when I was in high school, was a Czech who lived in the Sudetenland. After that callow pacifist, Chamberlain, handed the Sudetenland to Hitler, Dr. Messerod had to go with the "new" curriculum. A deep and prideful man, the final straw was the obligatory picture of the new leader. He turned it around to face the wall, was denounced and fired. Through the grace of G*d he escaped and made his way to Long Island.

That's next. Oh so very next.

It's happening again folks.

re: #97 Charles

Unclean and inarticulate?

re: #103 outsidephilly

so, he has a vocabulary deficit?

No, you misunderstood - "Spencer-related" does not mean "from Spencer." They're from his fans.

re: #92 J.S.

A poster upthread noted that there are no teacher's unions in North Carolina...(?)

I can't imagine that the schools are not unionized in NC., but maybe.
If that is the case her dismissal becomes geometrically easier.

re: #109 livefreeor die

He did have some friends who avoided him afterwards.

Then they weren't friends worth having.

re: #92 J.S.

A poster upthread noted that there are no teacher's unions in North Carolina...(?)

Pack up the car, kids. We're moving!

re: #97 Charles

I suppose when you're standing in the way of the only people who are "truly fighting jihad," it's bound to arouse some resentment.
///

re: #113 Charles

No, you misunderstood - "Spencer-related" does not mean "from Spencer." They're from his fans.

oh, okay, got it.

re: #86 nyc redneck

hmmm...I suspect that the Swede is (probably) not a fluent speaker of English...(if you're not born/raised/fluent in a foreign language, you'll miss all sorts of things going on -- especially the emotional content of words...which every native speaker immediately picks up on...all the little nuances of speech, native people hear/understand -- but it'll fly right over the head of a foreign, non-native speaker...)

re: #115 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Then they weren't friends worth having.

That's what I told him. The whole incident still breaks my heart.

Aside of in how many ways this teacher was inaccurate - that she told the little girl that her daddy would be at war for 100 years, that was abusive child cruelty.

re: #92 J.S.

The NEA is all over NC. The union is just not as publicly visible in the states like NC where teachers strikes are generally forbidden by law.
I have run across people here in VA who think we don't have unions "like those big Yankee cities do" just because we don't have strikes.
You CAN opt out of the union in VA, if you're willing to go through a lot of bureaucratic nonsense. Very few teachers do, however, because it is the kiss of death. You can be fired on a whim and the union will cheer and support your elimination.

Be nice to see a follow up. He said it would be investigated.

Did anyone else have trouble hearing it?

re: #46 Sean

Racism is over. Sorry.

To put this in the words that today's generation will understand, "Racism is sooo yesterday."

re: #106 logboy

The military is the only reason this man's town/county
are on the map. I just imagine some general might be
putting a little pressure on him.

re: #90 Cattt

The Nipple Song. :D

LOL! Click on that folks, it's funny as hell.

Democrats have been winning elections they should have lost for decades due their controlling the "education" of generations of children via teachers, teacher's unions and college professors.

I'm not saying it was a conspiracy on their part. It wasn't. But, generally speaking, liberals become teachers and professors. And as a result of that fact, even those that don't consciously try to be biased are going to impart, perhaps on a subconscious level, their ideas and belief system on the most impressionable.

Those of us who want to return to a society that values individual liberty, personal responsibility and a smaller limited government will have a difficult - if not impossible - task ahead of us unless we somehow reach the children that are being brainwashed.

re: #125 Mike in Georgia

The military is the only reason this man's town/county
are on the map. I just imagine some general might be
putting a little pressure on him.

Not to mention e-mails galore courtesy of the blogosphere.

I don't even allow politics to be discussed in my classroom.
It has nothing to do with my curriculum, and I don't want tempers to flare.

I really think that this teacher is covered no matter what.
Ok, so maybe she could lose her teaching job, but I bet then that Barry would tap her for Secretary of Education

When I was in jr.high in L.A. I had a science teacher who told us Jewish babies are born with tails and horns, that are removed immediately. I asked my mom about that. Guess a lot of kids asked - the teacher was fired very quietly.

OT - Fox is saying that Oprah is seeking Palin interview. Palin should either tear her a new one or simply say eff-off.

re: #28 Charles

Another Robert Spencer fan sends a love note; he got here by clicking a link at the Discovery Institute's Russia Blog. Subject: "IHT proves LGF was wrong"

With a link to this article:

[Link: www.iht.com...]

(If you Google "OCSE bias" you'll find that their reports are generally not well respected.)

Speaking of OCSE, I had not heard of them until yesterday as I was looking up the latest news on Estonia...don't ask...and apparently this group has also recommended that Russians have a "role" in protecting Russian speaking minorities in Latvia and Estonia who are being oppressed because they cannot run for elected office due to their non-citizen status, Seriously. And to top it off, today I watched Medeved's speech to the Russian Parliament and it was frightening. Russia has serious ambitions.

re: #132 Abbey

OT - Fox is saying that Oprah is seeking Palin interview. Palin should either tear her a new one or simply say eff-off.

Can she do both?

re: #121 Teacake!

Aside of in how many ways this teacher was inaccurate - that she told the little girl that her daddy would be at war for 100 years, that was abusive child cruelty.

It would have been funny as hell if the kid would have said "So you think my dad will live to be 136 years old and still able to serve in the military?"

I don't know about others, but obama is making race things worse imo.

re: #132 Abbey

OT - Fox is saying that Oprah is seeking Palin interview. Palin should either tear her a new one or simply say eff-off.

I think an interview with Oprah might do her some good. Any thoughts?

re: #26 arethusa

I heard that the child berated was the child of a serviceman. Which makes me question the teacher's behavior even further than I already was.

She is the child of a serviceman in Iraq. This inarticulate goon threatened that McCain would keep her father in Iraq for 100 years. All the children were wary of this bully, but the child she most directly attacked (in that moment of that day) was fighting back tears.

re: #107 astronmr20

Not Spencer, his supporters.

One thing I noticed long ago about his blog was that it was poorly policed for trolls, mobys and other hooligans. Many of his supporters (& former-supporters) are reasonable people who, if they realize who VB is, are quite dismayed and feel betrayed by R. Spencer's new path. I hope he realizes his error soon.

re: #136 logboy

I think an interview with Oprah might do her some good. Any thoughts?

She should say, "Thanks, in a couple of years." so Oprah's stuck and then ignore her for the next two years. Oprah will just bring up bad stuff.

It's time for conservatives, classical liberals and libertarians to begin our own "long march" through the institutions.

re: #42 Charles

The whole Creationism debate aside (I actually believe that God set forth things about 15 billion years ago and has let the dice roll ever since), I am willing to give Gov. Jindal the benefit of the doubt for the time being.

re: #116 livefreeor die

Pack up the car, kids. We're moving!

Oh boy, can I relate!

re: #110 rightymouse

The teacher was reckless and she absolutely did bully that young girl who had a Dad in the military. Disgusting.

Just got in on the thread, but this, I think. is only the beginning.

re: #102 HoosierHoops

The only way..and i do mean the only way his explanation can be believed is this..
These kids were special gifted kids auditing a college political science class.
otherwise..she was out-of-bounds and needs to be disciplined.

i find it a travesty that today children are subjected to "teachers" like this person.
and so much money is going to the school systems. prop taxes are sky high to educate our kids. it seems that purpose is not a priority anymore.

re: #46 Sean

Racism is over. Sorry.

Sorry but I believe it has just reversed polarity in the last few decades.

re: #132 Abbey

I think Palin should tell her "some other time when my schedule is open." Oprah said a pre-election interview didn't fit into the Oprah Show schedule, didn't she?

The statement is all well and good. But, let’s wait to see what actual punishment this bully gets.

The teacher’s union is very strong. If the bully is in the union I am doubtful much will happen.

re: #129 goddessoftheclassroom

I don't even allow politics to be discussed in my classroom.
It has nothing to do with my curriculum, and I don't want tempers to flare.

Pardon me, goddess, for going OT but your angel avatar is exactly the statue that I have been looking for to grace my garden. She's loverly and I've had no luck finding her up here.

re: #80 Charles

Another Spencer fan accuses me of "racism," for referring to that video of kids singing about Barack Obama -- he says I really was talking about Obama's daughters.

Goes on in this vein for a while, before telling me that I'm stupid (as well as a racist) and Spencer is a genius.

I'd hate to have to wade through your email, between the moonbats and fascist lunatics. Hang in there, Charles.

re: #136 logboy

I think an interview with Oprah might do her some good. Any thoughts?

Hell no.
Tell that bitch to fuck off.
Why give her the ratings?
I can't stand oprah.
I am tired of hearing about how historic it is that a black man got elected president when we have billionaires like her, will smith, michael steele, jesse jackson etc etc.
All successful black people.

And another thing.
He should not be referred to as African American.
He is the president of the UNITED STATES and is an AMERICAN.

re: #131 Teacake!

Yikes! In junior high in the 80's, I was only taught how horrible Reagan was.

BBL . . . , heading to the Healthplex for a swim

re: #132 Abbey

OT - Fox is saying that Oprah is seeking Palin interview. Palin should either tear her a new one or simply say eff-off.

Palin should send her a fresh moose head in response.

re: #136 logboy

I think an interview with Oprah might do her some good. Any thoughts?

Forget that. She has a day job as the Guv, and a family. Oprah can wait.

re: #134 livefreeor die

Can she do both?

Oh, I think she's capable. :)

re: #129 goddessoftheclassroom

I don't even allow politics to be discussed in my classroom.
It has nothing to do with my curriculum, and I don't want tempers to flare.

You don't want any angry first graders, huh? : )
/

re: #135 Typicalwhitey

It would have been funny as hell if the kid would have said "So you think my dad will live to be 136 years old and still able to serve in the military?"

I don't know about others, but obama is making race things worse imo.

It really is.

re: #122 wolfie

I see. As someone else noted, I guess it would be a pretty odd situtation not to have a teacher's union...

re: #141 RightLogic

The whole Creationism debate aside (I actually believe that God set forth things about 15 billion years ago and has let the dice roll ever since), I am willing to give Gov. Jindal the benefit of the doubt for the time being.

If he would just take Sarah Palin's approach, and not push it, I'd be behind him 100 percent.

re: #129 goddessoftheclassroom

I don't even allow politics to be discussed in my classroom.
It has nothing to do with my curriculum, and I don't want tempers to flare.

The problem is that while our side feels uneasy about bringing political bias into classroom, the other side does not.

That's why they're winning.

re: #116 livefreeor die

Pack up the car, kids. We're moving!

Be careful about that. Some of the communities can tell you which school your child has to attend. As a friend of mine there has lamented.

re: #153 RightLogic

Palin should send her a fresh moose head in response.

With a note saying,"Sorry I like to spend my free time right now with my husband and kids. What do you do during your free time, Oprah?"

Sorry, pregnancy hormones make me extra-bitchy on these things.

re: #136 logboy

I think an interview with Oprah might do her some good. Any thoughts?

The only thing with a stronger gravitational pull than Oprah is her ego.

re: #136 logboy

I think an interview with Oprah might do her some good. Any thoughts?

Her ratings have been down, so I suspect part of it is an attempt to win back some of her previous viewers.

Thanks for finding and posting this!

re: #134 livefreeor die

Cage Match!
Oprah diet number 3,987,939.
heh, that is surpassing the number of Islamic Holy Sites!

/sucks gut in

re: #138 David IV of Georgia

One thing I noticed long ago about his blog was that it was poorly policed for trolls, mobys and other hooligans. Many of his supporters (& former-supporters) are reasonable people who, if they realize who VB is, are quite dismayed and feel betrayed by R. Spencer's new path. I hope he realizes his error soon.

Indeed... I feel the same way. As Charles pointed out, he's sort of "had his chance," though. Hoping this new round of proof about VB will be enough for him to realize his errors.

Oprah Ummah, Ummah, Oprah

re: #141 RightLogic

The whole Creationism debate aside (I actually believe that God set forth things about 15 billion years ago and has let the dice roll ever since), I am willing to give Gov. Jindal the benefit of the doubt for the time being.

I wrote this a couple of days ago, but I'll repeat it; if Jindal were a creationist, but never tried to push it into schools, it wouldn't be a major problem. But he's the only governor of a major state who is more than just a believer -- he's an activist, doing the bidding of the Discovery Institute. He signed a stealth creationist bill promoted by the DI into law, that will allow them to sneak their agenda into Louisiana schools.

And then of course, there's that little "exorcism cures cancer" problem. If the GOP picks him as a rising star, they're cutting their own throats.

re: #136 logboy

I think an interview with Oprah might do her some good. Any thoughts?

If I were Sarah, I'd politely decline and leave it at that.

re: #156 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

You don't want any angry first graders, huh? : )
/

OMG, I could NEVER teach elementary school! Give them to me when they're teenagers who can appreciate sarcasm irony.

re: #159 Ward Cleaver

If he would just take Sarah Palin's approach, and not push it, I'd be behind him 100 percent.

I agree and I must admit that I haven't been following him that closely but I plan on it as he has been mentioned as a 2012 contender. We need another Reagan (God bless his soul) not some Evangelical preacher.

re: #141 RightLogic

The whole Creationism debate aside (I actually believe that God set forth things about 15 billion years ago and has let the dice roll ever since), I am willing to give Gov. Jindal the benefit of the doubt for the time being.

You're wrong. The one went back in time and created earth and all the beings. Now he's president so he can punish us for our sins.

re: #133 Nuclear Ninja

Wait, I thought Putin might be making a comeback to the top spot?

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

/Who thinks President Medvedev was ever in charge?

How about Tancredo in '12

re: #119 J.S.

hmmm...I suspect that the Swede is (probably) not a fluent speaker of English...(if you're not born/raised/fluent in a foreign language, you'll miss all sorts of things going on -- especially the emotional content of words...which every native speaker immediately picks up on...all the little nuances of speech, native people hear/understand -- but it'll fly right over the head of a foreign, non-native speaker...)

i took that into consideration. but i think the film maker is beyond foolish to defend this abusive woman. and certainly has some responsibility for being familiar w/ the actual tone and implication of his work and what it really says.

re: #160 Ringo the Gringo

The problem is that while our side feels uneasy about bringing political bias into classroom, the other side does not.

That's why they're winning.

I agree, but I don't think politics (at least mine), like religion, has any place in the classroom unless its germane to the curriculum.

re: #175 livefreeor die

How about Tancredo in '12

He could never win, plus he's a bit of a nut.

We need fresh blood and fresh faces.

It would really be fun to watch a teachers union try to take
on the military in that county.

re: #88 Sharmuta

Wow! I don't recall anyone mentioning the Obama girls.

None of us here have in any way posted anything remotely insulting about the Obamas' children. If anything we've been ultra respectful of Malia and Sasha and their rights to privacy.

Unlike the unhinged vitriol that came from the left about Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig Palin.

Track - drug addicted delinquent (with no evidence)
Bristol - egads, where to begin...
Willow - once Bristol's pregnancy was announced, the 2nd choice of moonbats for candidate as Trig's mother
Piper - unsanitary in her convention "spit-do" on Trig
Trig - Erica Jong (wasn't it?) speculated that Trig would wish he'd have been aborted

It's apparent that the IQ's of the adherents to Mr Spencer's POV have dropped precipitously since he and Charles parted ways.

re: #153 RightLogic

Palin should send her a fresh moose head in response.

Maybe Palin should go on & make it like the Springer Show.
First initiate a slap fight with Oprah With all of the gals in the audience chanting "Oprah, Oprah"
Then they go after each other with chairs & burly Security guys rush to break it up.
Sarah & Oprah separated scream obscenities at each other. I would stay home from work to see it.

re: #150 Typicalwhitey

Hell no.
Tell that bitch to fuck off.
Why give her the ratings?
I can't stand oprah.
I am tired of hearing about how historic it is that a black man got elected president when we have billionaires like her, will smith, michael steele, jesse jackson etc etc.
All successful black people.

And another thing.
He should not be referred to as African American.
He is the president of the UNITED STATES and is an AMERICAN.

Nope. You're wrong. He's a "citizen of the world".

re: #177 goddessoftheclassroom

You mean that there are teachers out there that don't berate students and compare their support of conservatism to Nazism?

/Why couldn't I have gone to that HS?

re: #175 livefreeor die

How about Tancredo in '12

Newt.

re: #105 David IV of Georgia

Apparently Folke Ryden does not have a strong command of the English language. Nuanced remarks can be stronger and more telling than just blurting out how you feel. The teacher clearly expressed without humor or satire that supporting McCain was evil or wrong.

Also, being from "secular" Europe, it probably hasn't occurred to him that there are probably quite a few parents of those kids in that classroom who don't appreciate the teacher (an authority figure) taking the Lord's and the Son's names in vain in the classroom.

If it happened here in South Central OH (which a college professor of mine referred to as "the buckle on the Bible Belt"), the school board would already be getting demands from the local PTA for the teacher to be at least reprimanded, more likely suspended without pay, and preferably fired outright just for that, regardless of the context it was done in.

And yes, those parents are careful not to do it themselves in front of the kids or otherwise.

/we're all rednecks around these parts, ya know- ask any Columbusite, "transplanted" or otherwise ;-)

cheers

eon

Time to make dinner. I'm so glad LGF is back up to speed. This place has been so therapeutic this week!

re: #162 livefreeor die

With a note saying,"Sorry I like to spend my free time right now with my husband and kids. What do you do during your free time, Oprah?"

Sorry, pregnancy hormones make me extra-bitchy on these things.

Here, luv. This will make everything much better. :D

re: #143 Soona'

Just got in on the thread, but this, I think. is only the beginning.

When are the teachers going to be told to teach children to denounce their parents for 'wrongful' thinking?

I see it coming like a freight train.

A Dutch newspaper (Telegraaf) today repeated the "Palin does not know Africa is a continent" line and also wrote that "she opened the door to some members of the McCain team half naked, clad only in a towel".

Is McCain planning to contradict this rubbish at some stage or is he too busy crying in his pillow because he lost? I thought he was such a gentleman? Grrr!

re: #182 Soona'

Soon to be the "President of the World".

/We'll see how long Obamaism lasts throughout the world. I'll give it 2 months after January 20th, tops.

re: #69 3 wood

This is another good reason to home school if you can.

We have home schooled all of our children. My oldest graduated cum laude, my second is halfway through to her degree, my youngest started college at 16.

Really? I am homeschooling my 12 year old son- what did you find worked best?

re: #73 nightlight

None so blind.

She wasn't using 'humor' but she was trying to draw the kids out. Into to admitting they supported McCain. (The Obama supporters didn't need reassurance that they wouldn't get into trouble.) Why? She had to reassure them more than once that it was okay to say so. And looking at them, one could see those kids were afraid to speak up about McCain in front of her.

They needed the reassurance because clearly they ALREADY knew the teacher's leanings.

So we know this wasn't the first time she had infused her politics into the room.

Imagine how she teaches about the history of the US, or current events.

re: #180 Intrepid

Indeed- the only thing I've seen here at LGF about the Obama girls is how how cute they are.

re: #190 mitthrawnurdo

Soon to be the "President of the World".

/We'll see how long Obamaism lasts throughout the world. I'll give it 2 months after January 20th, tops.

Oh I pray you are right. I doubt it, though.

re: #189 infidel4ever

I heard that line "Palin doesn't know Africa is a Contintent" today. grrr...

re: #183 mitthrawnurdo

You mean that there are teachers out there that don't berate students and compare their support of conservatism to Nazism?

/Why couldn't I have gone to that HS?

Worse still, whenever my students say anything the leat but moonbattish or wingnuttish, I demand a citation and the source.

re: #184 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Newt.

He's going to be head of the RNC- with any luck.

re: #193 Sharmuta

Indeed- the only thing I've seen here at LGF about the Obama girls is how how cute they are.

Which, by the way, they certainly are.

re: #169 Charles

I wrote this a couple of days ago, but I'll repeat it; if Jindal were a creationist, but never tried to push it into schools, it wouldn't be a major problem. But he's the only governor of a major state who is more than just a believer -- he's an activist, doing the bidding of the Discovery Institute. He signed a stealth creationist bill promoted by the DI into law that will allow them to sneak their agenda into Louisiana schools.

And then of course, there's that little "exorcism cures cancer" problem. If the GOP picks him as a rising star, they're cutting their own throats.

So noted and thanks Charles. I have heard his name bantered about as a 2012 contender. Conservatives and the GOP don't need a "cult-of-personality" that blinds people to a person's political flaws (like what just occurred this past Tuesday). I want someone who will draw on not only the 40% of conservatives in this country but also the 20% of moderates (the majority of whom swung left this time around).

re: #176 nyc redneck

Yes. It could also be that IF the Swede had recognized the teacher as "abusive", then what was he doing filming it? did he want to get her into trouble? (in other words, he's defending the teacher because he made her teaching-style public, and now he wants to deflect the heat. and the easiest way to do that is exclaim: "why, she's not being abusive!").

re: #133 Nuclear Ninja

I didn't bother looking up the OCSE to see who they are—I already know the basic facts of the story. Any cause from a tiny social group to a major country or even the UN can find someone who will print their version of a story. And if a credible sounding source can't be found to support the cause, it is very easy to create a impressive sounding organization whose only purpose is to make another organization look good. Happens all the time. When a story or "fact" is supported by some source, it is often important to research who published the source material in the first place.

infidel4ever says:

Is McCain planning to contradict this rubbish at some stage or is he too busy crying in his pillow because he lost?

Yeah, that's John McCain, such a wuss.

New version:

Question Othority

re: #127 Steve Rogers

In CA the teachers union has a lock on the state.

And, huge amounts of money to throw around via CALPERS which the teachers union is invested in.

re: #192 Silhouette

None so blind.

She wasn't using 'humor' but she was trying to draw the kids out. Into to admitting they supported McCain. (The Obama supporters didn't need reassurance that they wouldn't get into trouble.) Why? She had to reassure them more than once that it was okay to say so. And looking at them, one could see those kids were afraid to speak up about McCain in front of her.

They needed the reassurance because clearly they ALREADY knew the teacher's leanings.

So we know this wasn't the first time she had infused her politics into the room.

Imagine how she teaches about the history of the US, or current events.

And this was WITH people watching her and our behavior is usually much improved when we know people are watching - what was the horror show like when no adult was watching her?

re: #175 livefreeor die

How about Tancredo in '12

Nope, Duncan Hunter instead. Pro-secure borders, without the loose cannon mouth.

as a former public school teacher, I predict that she will be disciplined not fired.

re: #200 J.S.

Yes. It could also be that IF the Swede had recognized the teacher as "abusive", then what was he doing filming it? did he want to get her into trouble? (in other words, he's defending the teacher because he made her teaching-style public, and now he wants to deflect the heat. and the easiest way to do that is exclaim: "why, she's not being abusive!").

could be that too. interesting.

re: #173 logboy

You're wrong. The oneOne went back in time and created earth and all the beings. Now he's president so he can punish us for our sins.

A slight correction.

Well, money time! Of course gas and heating oil prices are going to jump.

Enact a Windfall Profits Tax to Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American Families:Barack Obama and Joe Biden will enact a windfall profits tax on excessive oil company profits to give American families an immediate $1,000 emergency energy rebate to help families pay rising bills. This relief would be a down payment on the Obama-Biden long-term plan to provide middle-class families with at least $1,000 per year in permanent tax relief.

When the story first broke and the school was incorrectly identified as being in Asheville, NC, I shot off an email to the mayor. I was pleased at the urgency of the response.

Thank you for your correspondence regarding the YouTube Video referenced in your e-mail. I appreciate your concerns and take them very seriously. Please be reassured of my commitment to the education of our children.

The Asheville City Council is responsible for appointing members to the Asheville City School Board, and the board and its administration is responsible for operating the school system. Since this issue came to my attention, I have been in close communication with City Schools Superintendent Allen Johnson. Superintendent Johnson is working to provide accurate information to the public about this incident, and I trust that he is responding the situation with diligence and professionalism.

According to Mr. Johnson, the woman pictured in the video is no longer employed by Asheville City Schools. For additional information regarding the video, Superintendent Johnson is posting information on the Asheville City Schools’ website at [Link: www.asheville.k12.nc.us...]

In addition, Superintendent Johnson has been in contact with YouTube regarding changing the title of the video.

Asheville City Schools has been very responsive to e-mails and phone calls on this matter and will continue to answer any additional questions you might have. I am confident that they will review this issue thoroughly and will take any necessary steps to ensure our children are educated in open, inclusive and unbiased environment.

All my best,

Terry M. Bellamy

Mayor

re: #132 Abbey

OT - Fox is saying that Oprah is seeking Palin interview. Palin should either tear her a new one or simply say eff-off.

Hah! Oprah can go jump in a lake. Palin towers over that wildebeest.

Let's focus on getting Congress back before we start bantering names about for 2012.

re: #170 Ward Cleaver

I kind of agree. However, I think she needs exposure to correct all these McCain a**wipes that are just looking to work another campaign. I mean seriously, Palin carried McCain from a complete blow out.

I'd be careful though. If Barry continues along this path, Sarah will be a shoe - in if she plays her cards right, i.e. stay on the stage.

Larry King also interested. Big NO.

re: #188 rightymouse

When are the teachers going to be told to teach children to denounce their parents for 'wrongful' thinking?

I see it coming like a freight train.

It seems to me that this is already happening somewhere in regards to parental shortcomings on global warming.

Nothing's gonna happen here.

re: #190 mitthrawnurdo

Soon to be the "President of the World".

/We'll see how long Obamaism lasts throughout the world. I'll give it 2 months after January 20th, tops.

We should start an over/under on the number of stupid or classless things he'll say in his inauguration speech.

re: #175 livefreeor die

All border control...Nothing else.

Most of the seniors should love this one!

Eliminate Income Taxes for Seniors Making Less than $50,000: Barack Obama will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This proposal will eliminate income taxes for 7 million seniors and provide these seniors with an average savings of $1,400 each year. Under the Obama-Biden plan, 27 million American seniors will also not need to file an income tax return.

Sarah should agree to 0prah- but make her haul her ass to Alaska for it.

re: #210 Outrider

Where the hell is the "excessive oil company profits" with oil prices falling and demand dropping?

/Or will this be retroactive?

re: #188 rightymouse

When are the teachers going to be told to teach children to denounce their parents for 'wrongful' thinking?

I see it coming like a freight train.

The NC teacher berating those children cound not have been clearer. You could see it in the childrens faces as their parents we basically painted as a very very dark evil mosaic.

Saw the video of the teacher in the classroom this morning and I was pissed! I am glad that her boss is on the case, this teacher should be terminated immediately. I worry everyday about what kind of propaganda my son is being exposed to in school and I make it point to ask him about all time as I think we all should. The only way this indoctrination is going to stop is for parents and the media to get involved.

While I had some really, really good teachers in the Philly public school system, I also had some really bad ones. There is def a scary ideoplogical element to this, but she reminded me more of the teacher I had in fifth grade who used to sip her "cough medicine" from a paper bag at her desk among other things including verbal and physical abuse.

re: #214 Abbey

I kind of agree. However, I think she needs exposure to correct all these McCain a**wipes that are just looking to work another campaign. I mean seriously, Palin carried McCain from a complete blow out.

I'd be careful though. If Barry continues along this path, Sarah will be a shoe - in if she plays her cards right, i.e. stay on the stage.

Larry King also interested. Big NO.

Sarah could convert some of the dunderheads that listen to Oprah. That would be a good thing.

re: #217 Ward Cleaver

He'd be wise not to scratch his face during the speech.

re: #195 mitthrawnurdo

And how could anybody Not know that? Good grief, in which grade do they teach continents in the US? Seconed? Third?

re: #220 Sharmuta

Sarah should agree to 0prah- but make her haul her ass to Alaska for it.

Amen. Make Oprah go to Wasilla. In January.

re: #22 MandyManners

I was really struck by his saying that the school district has 15,000 military families in it.

I always wanted to live next to Camp LeJeune. I feel like Lydia "ohhh, a whole platoon"

re: #217 Ward Cleaver

We should start an over/under on the number of stupid or classless things he'll say in his inauguration speech.

We could do one on the number of times in his first Hundred Days he does something he "swore" he wouldn't do at all, too.

/in his case, look for them to be rather like Napoleon's, hence the capitalization

cheers

eon

re: #209 RightLogic

A slight correction.

Typing with only three fingers makes me lazy with the caps. I still prefer BOzo over "The One".

re: #212 NoSubmission

Hah! Oprah can go jump in a lake. Palin towers over that wildebeest.

what is in it for sarah. that is the only question?
how can she benefit at this point?

my first instinct is for sarah to snub okra.

Newt for RNC Chair!

Watch the video- he makes a great point about lack of training in our ranks.

re: #220 Sharmuta

Sarah should agree to 0prah- but make her haul her ass to Alaska for it.

Alaska isn't big enough for Oprah's ass.

re: #226 mitthrawnurdo

He'd be wise not to scratch his face during the speech.

He can't help himself. It's like he's in ninth eighth grade.

/punk

re: #227 infidel4ever

At least I think Gov. Palin knows there are 50 states.

re: #212 NoSubmission

TIDAL WAVE!

/Bad week. Normally better:)

Hat Tip AP!? I had that posted in the comments on this site 8 minutes before he posted it.
Get your news first at LGF!

re: #221 mitthrawnurdo

Where the hell is the "excessive oil company profits" with oil prices falling and demand dropping?

/Or will this be retroactive?

You got me. Go that damn web site. That whole site... page after page... after page is some damn scary stuff!

re: #195 mitthrawnurdo

I heard that line "Palin doesn't know Africa is a Contintent" today. grrr...

That's BS.

re: #220 Sharmuta

Deadliest catch?

/hmmm...crab legs

Rove and Cheney picking out a cell at Gitmo for her now.
/

re: #231 logboy

Typing with only three fingers makes me lazy with the caps. I still prefer BOzo over "The One".

I shall refer to him as The Exalted One from now on. Just as a matter of respect.

/following the Han custom noted in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan, written in 1921- the original source for Buck Rogers

cheers

eon

re: #189 infidel4ever

Is McCain planning to contradict this rubbish at some stage or is he too busy crying in his pillow because he lost? I thought he was such a gentleman? Grrr!

McCain is too busy mending fences with his friends on the left

re: #132 Abbey

OT - Fox is saying that Oprah is seeking Palin interview. Palin should either tear her a new one or simply say eff-off.

How bout Sarah send her information on the NRA?

re: #204 Ledger1

In CA the teachers union has a lock on the state.

And, huge amounts of money to throw around via CALPERS which the teachers union is invested in.

California is probably long gone. Let them collapse in on themselves so they can start fresh and hopefully abandon all the wacky people and ideas that make up that state. For example, there is probably no other state that has more energy alternatives (wind, solar, geothermal, etc.), that the looney left says will magically get us off oil, and yet each summer, year in and year out, they run out of power with their rolling blackouts. So perhaps we should not focus on them for the moment. They may have to learn the hard way the way the Soviet Union did.

But there must be a way in the other 49 states (or 56 if your Obama) to counter the looney left stranglehold on the "education" of children. I know people will say, "Home Schooling," and that's just fine. But there is no way home schooling will ever make a dent in the massive government-education near-monopoly in this nation. There has to be a way.

re: #234 RightLogic

Alaska isn't big enough for Oprah's ass.

Ow, that is a disgusting image. I have to go wash my mind. brb.

re: #202 geepers

infidel4ever says:

Yeah, that's John McCain, such a wuss.

I did not say he was a wuss. I think he is behaving less than gentleman-like to leave his running mate in the line of fire without at least trying to put paid to some of the rumors/slander. Very disappointing, IMHO.

re: #241 Abbey

Deadliest catch?

/hmmm...crab legs

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I'd pay to see a big wave knock Oprah's ass flat on the deck.

re: #233 Sharmuta

Newt for RNC Chair!

Watch the video- he makes a great point about lack of training in our ranks.

He was for the global warming nonsense, for cripe's sake. Newt has sipped some kool-aid along the way.

I'm thinking more of someone Fred Thompson for RNC chair, except he's got his own PAC right now.

re: #211 ugetwhatuputout

Justice; what a concept.

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

re: #217 Ward Cleaver

We should start an over/under on the number of stupid or classless things he'll say in his inauguration speech.

Obama: Er..uh...mm..I don't really like this country but this president stuff is turning out to be a cool gig.

re: #248 infidel4ever

I did not say he was a wuss. I think he is behaving less than gentleman-like to leave his running mate in the line of fire without at least trying to put paid to some of the rumors/slander. Very disappointing, IMHO.

I agree that he should come out and slap down all those dissing her now.

re: #16 MandyManners

Does the bully have tenure? What will the NCEA do?

That depends on what the investigation finds. If there is a finding of actual abuse - which doesn't seem at all unlikely - she could be history very quickly and the teacher's union won't waste a minute of their time on it. Child abuse. In a school. By a teacher. Bad Juju all 'round from their perspective, and they'll help shove her out the door, tenure or no. There are usually specific exceptions to upholding tenure when the act is grievous enough.

Failing that, if they can't break her tenure she'll probably be assigned to some job within the district that doesn't involve contact with children in any way. I used to work for a large school district in their AV department, which served ten schools and was in it's own building. We wound up with a handful of teachers so incompetent they could barely find their way into work in the mornings, and they stuck them with us because they couldn't fire them, and they figured our department was the place where they would do the least harm. Some sort of purgatory like this may also be an option.

But to be honest, this superintendent came across VERY strong. If you've never heard the careful way such incidents are normally addressed, you'll just have to take my word that this guy's statement sounds like he's calling for a witch burning in comparison. I think this woman's done. They're going to find a charge serious enough to break tenure and give her the boot, or he wouldn't be issuing statements this strongly worded.

It will take some time to complete a thorough investigation, which will involve interviews with many former students and parents. I'm betting it won't be hard to turn up more horror stories, and the threat of airing that laundry in public on top of the video will probably be enough for her to pack her bags voluntarily.

One note: the kid and her parents seem OK with this incident, or at least don't want to be involved in all the media attention. At least that's the story as told by another teacher. I'm sure they're near the top of the list of people the superintendent will want to speak with.

re: #153 RightLogic

Palin should send her a fresh moose head in response.

That might make Levi, Bristol Palin's beau, rethink his desire to join "The Family".

re: #232 nyc redneck

what is in it for sarah. that is the only question?
how can she benefit at this point?
my first instinct is for sarah to snub okra.

Nothing. Gov. Palin doesn't need that pandering fat pig. I'm sure she'll take the high road but I'd like to see her mail Oprah a dead skunk.

Anyone that hasn't read Obamas web site:

http://change.gov/agenda/economy/

should do so when the opportunity arises. He has a book written there that has expanded his Blueprint for Change and his promises. Don't know how this stuff is going to work out.

Outrider (#210),

Well, money time! Of course gas and heating oil prices are going to jump.

Enact a Windfall Profits Tax to Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American Families:Barack Obama and Joe Biden will enact a windfall profits tax on excessive oil company profits to give American families an immediate $1,000 emergency energy rebate to help families pay rising bills. This relief would be a down payment on the Obama-Biden long-term plan to provide middle-class families with at least $1,000 per year in permanent tax relief.

It's sad when mathematical illiterates get elected.

Exxon Mobil reported second quarter profits of 11.7 billion for this year. "Exxon's profits amounted to about 8.5 cents per dollar per of sales verses 11.6 cents per dollar for the companies making up the Dow Jones industrials."

re: #252 Soona'

Obama: Er..uh...mm..I don't really like this country but this president stuff is turning out to be a cool gig.

He lights up and blows smoke rings during the speech.

Good Evening Lizards! It's getting cold in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland.

Well, I give kudos to the the Superintendent. Hope he's not the only one in the school systems that has those sentiments.

How are you-all and what are we talking about?

re: #150 Typicalwhitey

Hell no.
Tell that bitch to fuck off.
Why give her the ratings? -TW

That is the key - Ratings.

Stop feeding the MSM Monster. Quit watching Oprah and the rest of leftist's garbage on the tube.

I might suggest even discarding your TV – but that is only one's personal preference.

re: #230 eon

We could do one on the number of times in his first Hundred Days he does something he "swore" he wouldn't do at all, too.

/in his case, look for them to be rather like Napoleon's, hence the capitalization

cheers

eon