Steely Dan
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Barrow teacher fired over Facebook still not back in classroom
It seems obvious that this is sooooooo effing stupid it's beyond belief. It's amazing how one idiotic person can have so much influence. If 5 people write to a TV company complaining about something that has a 20 million audience the TV execs have strokes.
The Principal should have sent an email back stating;
Dear Mrs. U. Needamidol,
This is what I can offer you. In order for me to discipline this teacher I will need you to agree to take a lie detector test. There will be two questions.
The first will be if you or any of your family members have ever had a beverage containing alcohol in front of your child. The second question will be; Have you ever sworn in front of your child and/or let them watch or read anything with swear words in them.
If you pass the test I will pay for it and fire the teacher.
However, if you fail the test YOU will pay for the lie detector test and you'll wear a sandwich board walking up and down the sidewalk in front of the school for two hours that says; I'm a huge hypocrite and a JERK.
Unless you agree to these terms I am going to ignore your email and any other emails you send me in the future.
The Principal.
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She is the first moviestar crush I had after seeing Silver Streak.
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Shawne Merriman | # | OLB
Buffalo Bills | Official Team Site
Height: 6-4 Weight: 265 Age: 26
Born: 5/25/1984 Washington , DC
College: Maryland
Experience: 6th season
High School: Frederick Douglass HS [upper Marlboro, MD]
If he can return to previous form then this is a lucky break for Buffalo. Especially if they can work out a long term contract on him. If he can stay healthy and get a long term contract this will be a fantastic stroke of luck.
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http://voteup.democratandchronicle.com/story/voting-machine-problems-ontario-county-resolved
Voting machine problems in Ontario County resolved
Posted: Nov 02nd, 2010 | Bennett Loudon • Staff Writer
There were problems today with voting machines in about a dozen Ontario County precincts in the townships that had municipal elections....
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You're finally gonna lose your virginity?
That's assuming the appointment doesn't get canceled at the last minute.I thought the "animal" they made those things from went extinct. And when I say "animal", think smaller. And with more legs
Those were made from some kind of animal?!
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These are the machines we used to use when I first started voting and up until the last election. Until the whole Florida debacle in 2000 I thought the entire country used them;
http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh396/Rfeynman/more%20pics/voting_machine.jpg
You'd walk in and pull the red lever and the curtains would close. There was a series of pull tabs. You'd pull down the tab for the candidate you wanted to vote for and when you were finished you'd pull the lever the other way and the tabs would reset, the curtains would open and your votes would be recorded. It was impossible to pull each tab for different candidates running for the same office.
They had a plastic numbered pull lock around a hole in the back so you'd know that nobody had opened the machine before representatives from both parties were present to verify the votes.
After the representatives had cut the tab and recorded the numbers A new plastic pull tab would be put into place and the number recorded in case a recount was needed.
Now we are using an electronic system that is much worse than the machines we used to use, IMO. IIRC, these are the machines that caused so much trouble in the election for Al Franken.
They give you a paper ballot and a small black magic marker type pen and send you to a table with dividers that make it so you can easily see the person's ballot sitting next to you.
Next to each candidate is a circle. You take the black pen and fill in the circle for the candidate you want to vote for. I had to look at the thing for about twenty seconds until I understood which circle was for each candidate and how the lineup for each office was placed to be absolutely sure I was voting for the candidate I wanted to vote for.
The pen they gave me was nearly out of ink but had enough, I think, to adequately record my vote.
I then take the ballot to a machine and slide it in, much like a credit card at an ATM machine. It keeps the ballot and tells you that the votes have been recorded.
Here's my problem with this. Electronic machines are hackable. A heavy power surge might wipe the hard drive. If you accidentally fill in the wrong circle what do you do? Do you ask for a new ballot and if so then all of the votes you've already made have to be destroyed somehow without anyone seeing them.
Some people's pens may be so out of ink that their votes for certain candidates aren't recorded.
If there is a close race like the Franken race was each ballot has to be hand counted by representatives of both parties who will argue over some ballots because the circle wasn't fully filled in and the circle for the other candidate is filled in a little more. So who did they intend to vote for? Well throw that ballot away. Hand counting is always less reliable than an old fashioned number counter, IMO. It also doesn't require a ridiculous number of recounts.
The county tried, I'm not sure they succeeded, to cut school nurses from the budget and yet are willing to spend money on a less reliable voting system.
This is not progress. Sometimes the best way is the old way. JMO
There my rant is over. GRRRRRRRRR!!!
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Pretty cool. Looks like they might be able to cut my kids arms off though?
I never thought of that. They can be used for punishment!
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Awesome, but the car is
so ugly.It's not their car design. I think those are Lincolns.
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I want to hear the presser on why they didn't go after this guy....
I want to know why he was cut. Remember, the Bills have a guy in the FO with close ties to the Steelers.
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I've had corn and peanuts in my poo, but never diamonds
Talk about a diamond in the rough.
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Police: It was a jewel of a smuggling attempt
Sri Lankan man accused of swallowing 2,060 diamonds packed in condoms
msnbc.com msnbc.com
updated 10/28/2010 2:35:09 PM ET
...Mohammed Shakif, 43, of Galle, Sri Lanka, is accused of attempting to smuggle 2,060 diamonds worth up to about $670,000 through Chennai airport. He was intercepted by suburban police acting on a tip Tuesday, BNO News Service reported.
Shakif was taken to the police station and later to a hospital where an X-ray of his stomach was taken. Shakif then confessed that he had been hired to smuggle the stones....
In order to "get them out" they fed him bananas!
He said he was going to use the money to buy a condomminium.
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...On Monday, Childress told the media that he spoke to Carl Johnson, the league's vice president of officiating, about the missed call.
"I was told this morning that that was a touchdown by Carl Johnson," Childress said. "He was disappointed to see that reversed."
That, apparently, is another no-no in the NFL...
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Congratulations, you just formulated the single worst idea ever uttered in the English language!
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Will Ravens Beat The Bills?
Bills First Win Makes Ray Lewis Cry
See More Wins To Come!
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Randy Quaid's Wife Sued for Brush with the Law
10/7/2009 2:40 PM PDT by TMZ Staff
http://ll-media.tmz.com/2009/10/07/1007_evi_quaid_ex_wm-1.jpg
...Evi painted the sign after she and Randy were arrested by Deputy Davis last month -- after warrants were issued for their arrests for allegedly stiffing a hotel in Santa Barbara...
This contains audio of Evi
http://www.tmz.com/2010/09/21/dennis-quaid-evi-quaid-audio-tape-arrest-burglary-felony-squatting/
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When I was in college I wrote for the student newspaper. The
:censored: editor changed the wording in my article on "black history month" to "black student union" (A club on campus) month. Needless to say there were some people pretty upset that "I" didn't know it was black history month. Man was I pissed at the editor.I had been writing movie reviews also for over five months and they fired me from that. I'm guessing so they could tell TBSU President that they had fired me. The "official" reason was that I refused to put in plot points about the movie that might give away too much of the story.
I took an acting class and the teacher asked me If I was the person who was writing the movie reviews. I told him I wasn't doing it anymore and he said he had thought they were great.
Anyhoo, the point of the story is John may have had it right just some copy editor "thought" JW had made a mistake.
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NPR hates the fact that he works for FOX, in the past they criticized him and Mara Liasson for being part of their daily programming. To me this is no surprise, if you listen to NPR the way I do in the mornings then you see that 9 out of 10 stories have a left-leaning sympathetic tilt to it. Very subtle, but it's there.
Why hasn't anyone addressed the fact that it's a really dumb thing to say. IIRC, The shoe bomber and the 911 hijackers were not dressed in typical middle eastern clothing.
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give your pets condoms.
PETA dresses up as condoms in Syracuse to promote spaying and neutering
There actually are some dog condoms it turns out.
I'm waaaaayyyy against animal cruelty but not PETA's way of doing things. They act like a bunch of dicks.
I was hoping to find in the article where they will begin to spay and neuter themselves to set an example for people. These people disgust me. About a year and a half ago they convinced the SPCA to condemn a farm of an elderly man and seize his cows because they looked "too thin." The man faced cruelty charges yet the cows were still healthy and a vet testified that much to have charges dismissed. However, PETA and the SPCA would not return his animals, most of them had already been sold to feedlots by that time.
Sounds kind of like hypocracy to me.
Go to youtube and look up Penn and Telller's BS on PETA. It's really good.
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DALLAS -- Bob Guccione, who founded Penthouse magazine and created an erotic corporate empire around it, only to see it crumble as his investments soured and the world of pornography turned toward video and the Internet, died Wednesday. He was 79.
A statement issued by the Guccione family says he died at Plano Specialty Hospital in Plano. His wife, April Dawn Warren Guccione, had said he had battled lung cancer for several years.
He was the best biology teacher I ever had!
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DALLAS -- Bob Guccione, who founded Penthouse magazine and created an erotic corporate empire around it, only to see it crumble as his investments soured and the world of pornography turned toward video and the Internet, died Wednesday. He was 79.
A statement issued by the Guccione family says he died at Plano Specialty Hospital in Plano. His wife, April Dawn Warren Guccione, had said he had battled lung cancer for several years.
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Done, and will be done again!
The puritans are taking over the country.
in Off the Wall Archives
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The courts are starting to sift through the legalities and illegalities of this issue;
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It’s now a little safer to complain about your boss on Facebook
An ambulance company's social media policy is being challenged by the National Labor Relations Board, which claims the company's firing of an employee that complained about her boss on Facebook violates her First Amendment rights.
A federal agency ruled today that it was illegal for a company in Connecticut to fire a woman who lewdly criticized her supervisor on Facebook. In what could easily be the first of many cases of its kind, the National Labor Relations Board argued that Dawnmarie Souza’s Facebook rant against her boss was well within her First Amendment rights....
This is another article on the same case.