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my72jeep said:The Smoking Nun had a bad habit.
The Smoking Nun had a bad habit.
Well played sir....
my72jeep said:The Smoking Nun had a bad habit.
The Smoking Nun had a bad habit.
medicineman said:Saw some business dweeb driving a bicycle down St James in Winnipeg on Tuesday night, over a very shoddily ploughed road, with a brief case in one hand and a handle bar in the other...and wobbling dangerously all over both lanes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it illegal in most places to be driving a bike during times of snow accumulation??!!
This dude should be in the Darwin Thread...
Jim Seggie said:Winnipeg is full of morons who think they should bike everyplace and have the run of the road. They constantly break laws then ***** and whine that they get no respect.
The bicycle has a fat bumper.
The bicycle has a fat bumper.
medicineman said:Shouldn't that be "The bicycle has a fat WANKER" instead?
;D
blackberet17 said:My fave:
Daphné à Monique: Il y a le feu à l'agence de voyage. Inutile de s'y rendre.
Daphné à Monique: Il y a le feu à l'agence de voyage. Inutile de s'y rendre.
Just let 'er burn, boys.
Andrea Rediske’s 11-year-old son Ethan, is dying. Last year, Ethan, who was born with brain damage, has cerebral palsy and is blind, was forced to take a version of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test over the space of two weeks because the state of Florida required that every student take one.
Ethan wasn’t the only brain-damaged child in Florida to be forced to take a standardized test; I have written in the past about Michael, another Florida boy who was born with only a brain stem — not a brain — and can’t tell the difference between an apple and an orange, but was also forced to take a version of the FCAT. (See here, here and here.) And there are many others, in Florida and across the country as well.
Why does Florida — and other states, as well as the U.S. Department of Education — force kids with impaired cognitive ability to take standardized tests? Because, they say, nearly every child can learn something and be assessed in some fashion. Even, apparently, a boy born without a brain.
Publicity last year in Florida about some of these cases sparked interest among some state lawmakers to pass legislation to make it easier for severely disabled students to get waivers from taking these tests. The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter warning lawmakers to keep assessing all children, and one Florida Education Department spokesman told me that “waivers do not apply to students with a chronic situation.” Legislation did get passed but it wasn’t what some had hoped. It allows parents to request a waiver (Michael’s parents abandoned him shortly after he was born, and he lives in an Orlando care facility for children called the Russell House), and the state has set out a long series of actions that have to be taken — including approval by the education commission — to get a waiver.
Ethan got a waiver, but now there is a new obscenity transpiring. His mother sent an e-mail Tuesday to Orange County School Board member Rick Roach and to Scott Maxwell, who has movingly written about Ethan and similar cases for the Orlando Sentinel, that the state is requiring her to prove that her son still can’t take another standardized test and can therefore keep his waiver. The e-mail says:
Rick and Scott,
I’m writing to appeal for your advocacy on our behalf. Ethan is dying. He has been in hospice care for the past month. We are in the last days of his life. His loving and dedicated teacher, Jennifer Rose has been visiting him every day, bringing some love, peace, and light into these last days. How do we know that he knows that she is there? Because he opens his eyes and gives her a little smile. He is content and comforted after she leaves.
Jennifer is the greatest example of what a dedicated teacher should be. About a week ago, Jennifer hesitantly told me that the district required a medical update for continuation of the med waiver for the adapted FCAT. Apparently, my communication through her that he was in hospice wasn’t enough: they required a letter from the hospice company to say that he was dying. Every day that she comes to visit, she is required to do paperwork to document his “progress.” Seriously? Why is Ethan Rediske not meeting his 6th-grade hospital homebound curriculum requirements? BECAUSE HE IS IN A MORPHINE COMA. We expect him to go any day. He is tenaciously clinging to life.
This madness has got to stop. Please help us.
Thank you,
Andrea Rediske
Angry Afghan Villagers stoning wreck of U.S. Predator Drone
(theaviationist.com)
Jan 31 2014
It allegedly shows what seems to be a group of Afghans stoning the wreck of a (most probably American) MQ-1 Predator drone, while other people cheer and laugh.
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Taliban Claims to Capture US Military Dog .
Posted 1 day ago by vlogger
The Taliban claims to have taken a military working dog as a prisoner in a video where Taliban members show off the dog and rifles supposedly obtained after a firefight with U.S. forces in December. A NATO spokesman has confirmed U.S. forces have been missing a working dog since December, which adds credibility to the Taliban's claim. However, NATO officials would not confirm if the dog in the video was one affiliated with a coalition unit. "We can confirm that a military working dog went missing following an ISAF mission in December, 2013. It is ISAF policy to defer identification to the appropriate national authorities," NATO's International Security Assistance Force-Afghanistan said in a statement sent to Military.com. The dog in the video appears to be a Belgian Malinois wearing a black vest held by a group of alleged members of the Taliban. During the video, one of the Taliban members refers to the dog as colonel, which is a rank they found on the dog's vest.
9-Year-Old's 'My Little Pony' Backpack Banned by School
By ABC News
One backpack is at the center of a national firestorm.
The always cheerful cartoon horses of "My Little Pony" have made Grayson Bruce, 9, the subject of bullying at his Buncombe County, N.C., elementary school.
"It made me feel devastated," Grayson told ABC News of the behavior he has endured. "I didn't think I was going to get the reaction that I got."
But it's the school's response to the situation that is generating controversy.
"The principal told me that we could no longer bring the bag to school," Grayson's mother, Noreen Bruce, explained. "That he as a principal had the right to ban anything that he believed was a distraction."
That triggered an outpouring of support for Grayson and the backpack he uses as a lunchbox.
Nearly 50,000 likes on the "Support for Grayson" Facebook page and a Change.org petition reaching more than 6,000 signatures and counting, calling for the school to allow Grayson to bring his backpack.
"Saying a lunchbox is a trigger for bullying is like saying a short skirt is a trigger for rape," said Bruce. "It's flawed logic."
"I didn't know why they weren't focusing on the big picture," Grayson added.
"The focus should have been more on educating the entire school body instead of actually isolating the child who is being bullied," said parenting expert Dr. Karyn Gordon.
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ABC News via Yahoo newsfeed
PrairieThunder said:Fresh off the HeadNovel...