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An anal abscess is a pus-filled pocket located in the spaces around the anus and rectum. An abscess can be found near the surface of the anal opening or deeper in the rectum.
An anal abscess is caused by a bacterial infection. Infection may occur when there is a blockage in one or more of the anal glands that secrete mucous, or from an anal fistula.
Anal absesses are more common in men. Other factors that may increase your chance of an anal abscess include:
Symptoms depend on where the abscess is located. An anal abscess may cause:
Complications of an anal abscess may include:
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. An abscess near the surface of the skin may be visible. A deeper abcsess may require a digital rectal exam. The doctor will feel the inside of your anal canal for any abnormalities.
Imaging tests to look at anorectal structures may include:
Surgical drainage is necessary to treat an anal abscess. The type of procedure depends on its location and depth. It is possible that you may have a drain in the wound for up to 3 weeks to help the healing process.
Antibiotics are generally not necessary, but your doctor may recommend them under certain circumstances. Other medications may include:
To reduce your chance of an anal abscess, be sure to manage any health conditions that increase your risk of infections.
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Anal abscess/fistula. American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons website. Available at: http://www.fascrs.org/patients/conditions/anal_abscess_fistula. Updated October 2012. Accessed November 14, 2013.
Anal rectal abscess and fistula. Hemorrhoid website. Available at: http://www.hemorrhoid.net/abscess.php. Accessed November 14, 2013.
Anorectal abscess. John Hopkins Medicine website. Available at: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/adult/digestive_disorders/anorectal_abscess_134,175. Accessed November 14, 2013.
Caliste X, Nazir S, et al. Sensitivity of computed tomography in detection of perirectal abscess. Am Surg. 2011;77(2):166-168.
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Secretary Clinton recently offered a message to LGBT youth, saying:
"Like millions of Americans, I was terribly saddened to learn of the recent suicides of several teenagers across our country after being bullied because they were gay or because people thought they were gay. Children are particularly vulnerable to the hurt caused by discrimination and prejudice and we have lost many young people over the years to suicide. These most recent deaths are a reminder that all Americans have to work harder to overcome bigotry and hatred.
"I have a message for all the young people out there who are being bullied, or who feel alone and find it hard to imagine a better future: First of all, hang in there and ask for help. Your life is so important -- to your family, your friends, and to your country. And there is so much waiting for you, both personally and professionally -- there are so many opportunities for you to develop your talents and make your contributions.
"And these opportunities will only increase. Because the story of America is the story of people coming together to tear down barriers, stand up for rights, and insist on equality, not only for themselves but for all people. And in the process, they create a community of support and solidarity that endures. Just think of the progress made by women just during my lifetime by women, or ethnic, racial and religious minorities over the course of our history -- and by gays and lesbians, many of whom are now free to live their lives openly and proudly. Here at the State Department, I am grateful every day for the work of our LGBT employees who are serving the United States as foreign service officers and civil servants here and around the world. It wasn't long ago that these men and women would not have been able to serve openly, but today they can -- because it has gotten better. And it will get better for you.
"So take heart, and have hope, and please remember that your life is valuable, and that you are not alone. Many people are standing with you and sending you their thoughts, their prayers and their strength. Count me among them.
"Take care of yourself."
O.C. in the U.S.A. writes:
I brought this bullying issue to my school's principal over 7 years ago because I was constantly admonishing the subtle put downs like "You suck at basketball!" and other students invading their schoolmates personal bubble space. "Imagine that you're standing in a big bubble," I'd implore. Children learn this bullying behavior from their parents because so many are drug addicted or work for the cartels. One parent even stole my classroom fish accusing to call the ASPCA because she thought the children were feeding it too many brine shrimp. This is the kind of idiocy that teachers have to deal with on a regular basis and when you alert authority, your warning signals fall on deaf ears. The school ethos in many of America's schools is awful. We have many crazy children in our schools because their parents are crazy and drug addicted. Why are drug/marijuana addicts allowed to raise their own children? America can't compete if they don't improve the mental health of its children. It starts with strong parents and strong schools. Children get the unconscious message from their parents that they can't cope with life without a toke of Ganja. Why would any country want this for their future citizens? It makes no sense. We don't need anymore crazy a** parents on the schoolyard.
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The Visiting Professor is expected to complete a research project on Health IT in China, successfully co-conduct a CGU graduate practicum class, and facilitate exchange of students and practitioners in China and US. A review will be conducted at the end of the each of the two semesters (Fall, 2012, Spring, 2013). Reviews of progress will be on-going and aligned with program participation dates. Accomplishments will include, but not be limited to:
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Elpida Memory, the only maker of dynamic random access memory in Japan, has reportedly shown its interest in acquiring graphics memory business from insolvent Qimonda. The company and the insolvency administrators can ink the deal already in August, but in addition to Elpida, DRAM maker Winbond is also interested in taking over Qimonda's GDDR assets.
A Reuters' report claims that has been in "repeated talks with Qimonda's administrator and creditors about taking over the collapsed chipmaker's graphics operations". For Elpida it is rather logical to start making premium GDDR memory since the company already produces high-speed RDRAM as well as XDR DRAM developed by Rambus and has experience in making complex memory that operates at very high frequencies.
A news-story by Trading Markets reads that officials cited by Jiji Press indicated that Elpida was looking to purchase rights to use Qimonda's intellectual property and also planned to set up a new design office in Munich and re-employ Qimonda's engineers to work there. No deal has been signed so far, however, an Elpida spokesman is reported to have said.
Back in April '08 Elpida and Qimonda signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a technology partnership on joint development of memory chips (DRAMs) and process technologies for their manufacturing. In the planned cooperation, Qimonda would provide its know-how with the innovative buried wordline technology (which is usually called "trench technology" in DRAM world) and Elpida its advanced stack capacitor technology (which is normally called "stack technology" in DRAM industry). Elpida and Qimonda planned to introduce the jointly developed innovative 4F² cell concept in the 40nm generation in calendar year 2010 and to subsequently scale it to the 30nm generation.
At present only Hynix Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics produce GDDR3, GDDR4 and GDDR5 memory. Qimonda, which used to make GDDR3 and GDDR5, stopped production in Spring 2009.
Earlier on Tuesday it transpired that Winbond, a relatively small Taiwan-based company that produces commodity DRAM, was interested in acquiring GDDR assets from Qimonda. Even though Winbond's board of directors has approved the plan, no deal has been inked yet.
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The 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), 'Sharing Worlds of Knowledge,' will be held February 28-March 3, 2013, at the Hawai'i Imin International Conference Center on the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa campus.
By popular demand, the 3rd ICLDC will be a full day longer than the previous two conferences. The conference program will feature an integrated series of Master Class workshops. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawai'i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately follow the conference (March 4-5).
This year's conference theme, 'Sharing Worlds of Knowledge,' intends to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of language documentation and the need to share methods for documenting the many aspects of human knowledge that language encodes. We aim to build on the strong momentum created by the 1st and 2nd ICLDCs to discuss research and revitalization approaches yielding rich records that can benefit both the field of language documentation and speech communities. We hope you will join us.
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We are also seeking abstracts on the science of documentation and revitalization. Documentation is usually portrayed as a means of collecting language data, and revitalization is generally seen primarily as a kind of applied work directly benefiting communities. However, each of those domains is a genuine area of research, and we welcome presentations that treat documentation and revitalization not merely as activities, but also as domains requiring theorization in their own right.
In addition to the topics above, we warmly welcome abstracts on other subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may include but are not limited to:
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Well, boys and girls, the NBA trade deadline came and passed today at 3pm ET. What 3 things have we learned in the last 3 weeks? Let's review.
1. Dwight Howard is NOT Shaquille O'neal (yet). - The fact that Dwight is staying in Orlando is great for the Magic and everybody else who loves basketball around Disneyworld. How fitting? Only Disneyworld itself can actually compare to the circus Howard brought to Orlando this season. I applaud him for staying, and for apologizing for all the nonsense, but why now? Did the Magic convince him that if he's patient they will actually build around him? Reports are that Howard wanted the Magic to make a move for Steve Nash, but the Suns made it clear that they would not deal Nash unless he asked for a trade (I will touch on this later). Dwight said today that he "got some bad advice". From who? His agent? The guy who wasn't his agent when he signed his last contract and didn't make a cut? I can't imagine why that guy would wanna see him in a bigger market...... Either way, Magic fans can breathe a sigh of relief because they get to keep dating one of the hottest girls in school for another year.
2. Jeremy Lin is NOT Steve Nash - "Linsanity" was fun. So was "Tebowmania". Personally, I preferred "Hulkamania"...but that was years ago. However, the awesomeness that Lin put up for 2 weeks in February seems to have fizzled out faster than a topless 2-liter of two week old soda. Known ball-buster Carmelo Anthony isn't helping much. Since he has come back, Linsanity has died, they lost 6 straight, and now D'antoni has quit. They had a blowout win over Portland last night, an obvious response to the criticism, but hopefully Mike Woodson can get a system in place that works for these guys. There is just too much talent on the Knicks for them to suck this bad.
3. Steve Nash is NOT Lebron James - Nash may be 38, but you would never know by watching him play. The Suns probably could have gotten a decent pull if they traded him now, but they took the high road and elected not to drop a bomb on their season. and more importantly their fans, by not shipping Nash out of town. Now, we can gracefully say goodbye to our Canadian hero before he becomes a free agent in the off-season and gets offered more money than the Suns can pay him. It would have been easy for Nash to say "TRADE ME", and they would have done it if he pressed, but that's not Steve. If Nash does leave, hopefully he gets paired up with a team that can give him a chance to finally win a ring. Didn't I say something about Dwight Howard earlier? What about the Knicks? Now that Linsanity has fizzled out, are NY fans still hoping for a Nash/Stoudimire reunion, or did that idea die when D'Antoni left NYC?
Love me some NBA.
Yeah, you could call me a fan of Nash!
so we haven't heard from JB since Steve Nash signed with JB's newest favourite team the Lakers!!!!!!!
looks like Houston is trying to fill the Yao gap by offering Lin a "ridiculous" contract ..
I obviously am not thrilled about Nash going to the Lakers, but it is what it is. I hope he gets a ring, because he deserves it, but we gotta see how it all comes together on the court and how healthy Nash and Kobe can stay.
It's also a different beast when it comes to playing for the Lakers in terms of expectations and media scrutiny, and Steve definitely knew that going in. Arizona has some great sports fans, but a lot of us who live here are transients from all over the country (mostly the Chicago area, like myself), and they bring their loyalties with them to Arizona. In turn, the teams here need to work harder to get asses in the seats at every game, so when a player like Nash or Larry Fitzgerald comes along, they generally get treated like royalty by not only the fans, but the media as well. When he plays for the Lakers, the scrutiny will be much harder than it ever was here in Phoenix, because it's the Lakers. It's win or go home, EVEN if you are Kobe Bryant, and Kobe knows that too in the back of his mind. That franchise has done nothing but win, and they could suck for 5 years straight and every game would still be sold out. But they never truly "suck" (at least, not for long), because they are the Lakers and big time players will always want to play there (until the Earth covers it in water, then Arizona will have the nice ocean front property). I'm not saying I don't think Nash can handle it, because I think he can, but he's also in the twilight of his career and I'm sure there is a threshold for the amount of crap he's willing to put himself through both on and off the court.
Going back to Phoenix sports fans for a minute, we get a lot of crap from other cities in terms of how we are when it comes to sports, but that culture is changing over the last 12 years. The reason for that has been because of 3 things.
1. The Cardinals coming withing 2 minutes of winning a Super Bowl (also the Cards getting their own brand new stadium).
2. The Diamondbacks winning the World Series.
3. The run of success the Suns had during the Nash/Amar'e/ D'Antoni "7 seconds or less" era, and subsequent battles with the Spurs and Lakers (both champions) during that time.
Regardless of that, Nash will always be remembered for his brilliance during his time with the Suns unless the Lakers start training with Chael Sonnen and win more than one championship. Speaking of Chael Sonnen, I just finished reading his book and I think I'm gonna take a page out of it by referring to the Cardinals as the true Super Bowl 43 Champions.
Last edited by J.B.; 07-16-2012 at 03:39 PM.
Also, I just noticed my last two posts in this thread from back in March and I have two quick things to say about those posts...
1. I am not sure why I said "Steve Nash is not LeBron James" in reference to the "trade me now" stuff. I think I meant to say "Carmelo Anthony". Either way, I feel like an idiot.
2. It's kinda sad, funny, and a little creepy, that I referenced the Nash jersey in that post and this thread was brought back up today. I've been rearranging my house this last week and yesterday I decided, since Nash is no longer a member of the Suns, it was time to take that old jersey down and frame it up. It won't be seeing any more Suns games, and it's served me well. So today I planned to stop a few places and look for a decent frame. However, the jersey is still hanging on the wall to my left, and I fear it senses something is askew. Is this what Travis felt before he took Old Yeller out behind the barn?
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Skip to comments.What Chicago's Five Hundredth Murder Means
Posted on 12/28/2012 7:59:12 AM PST by usconservative
Chicago experienced its 500th murder of the year on Thursday night, when a 40-year-old man was shot to death in the Austin neighborhood. It was only the second time in the last ten years the city has reached that mark. In 2008, 513 people were murdered.
However, this years violence has attracted unprecedented national attention to Chicago. In October, Diane Sawyer held a town hall meeting at St. Sabinas Church, hosted by Father Michael Pfleger. The killings have earned the city the nickname Chiraq and have been inspired an emerging Chicago rap form known as drill.
Read the rest at NBC 5 Chicago
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
Now can anyone guess how many of those 500 people who were murdered, were killed with one of the 120 weapons that Diane Feinstein's "Assault Weapons Ban" would make illegal?
Absolutely ZERO. NONE of the 500 people that were murdered in Chicago would've been any safer with Diane Feinstein's "Assault Weapons Ban" in place.
Further, can you all guess how many of those guns used to murder 500 people in Chicago were LEGALLY OWNED? Considering the murders were committed by GANG-BANGERS the likelihood any of those guns were LEGALLY OWNED is ZERO.
Tell me again how "gun control" works and "saves lives?" (Stupid Liberals!!!)
Chicago is an example of what makes this country great
-—Barack Hussein Obama
Here is the ugly truth about the murder rate in Chicago. If you factor out 3 or 4 particular neighborhoods it drops to nearly zero.
It doesn't mean a thing. The MSM won't touch those deaths. Five hundred is not a milestone to be proud of in Obamagabe's Chicago.
Not sure if the number of neighborhood's is that low, but your point is well taken.
Factor put just the Lawndale and Englewood neighborhoods and it drops by nearly half.
What does it mean? Niggas wid guns be keeping it real, bro. What you be staring at?
Wall it off.... Let them eat each other.... Pick them off as they try to escape...
Shootin' at for no good reason!?!? They need be dead like any other ignorant murderin' thug.
Looks like I'm right. The politicians are deliberately and intentionally letting criminals keep their illegal guns all the while doing everything in their power to take guns from honest, law-abiding citizens.
umm, they win free chicken and waffles?
what's it mean. means the liberal elite's plans are right on track on ultiple levels.
as in "escape from New York!?)- for some dumb reason
my wife loves that dopey flick.
I cannot find how many people have been wounded by gunfire this year- anybody got a figure?
It means this boy avoids Chicago.
No wonder the nobama's don't like to go to their rezko-home-mansion in chi-town.
It means Chicago is a quagmire- its time to pull out.
Austin too
Yep. the city of the big shoulder...holsters.
What the 500th murder means?
I know Teach, I know!
500 Dead Democrats!
It means Washington gets to send millions to Chicago for a gun buy back program and lighted basketball courts. Rahmbo takes his cut, filters half to the DNC and the rest goes to 3 or 4 parks... Of course the lights are stolen within a week and sold.
LOL!!! Now that's funny, I don't care who you are! And so so correct.
My commuter train goes through Englewood - it looks like a war zone. Seriously, I shake my head wondering how people can live like that.
So Englewood is the highest by itself from what I've seen, I don't know what the neighborhood on the near west side is called --- is that Austin? I'm reading some stats I found via a google search which indicates Englewood and the neighborhood I think is Austin seem to be "battling it out" year over year to see which is the most violent.
Gun prosecutions under Obama down more than 45 percent
Exclude DC, Chicago, LA, Philly, E.St.louis & Baltimore and wed probably have the gun murder rate of Switzerland.
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Skip to comments.Key witness in (presidential) passport fraud case fatally shot [old article]
Posted on 04/18/2009 9:26:11 PM PDT by rxsid
Key witness in passport fraud case fatally shot
A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.
Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department's Criminal Investigations Division.
Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris was found dead inside the vehicle, which investigators would describe only as a blue car.
Emergency medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
City police said they do not know whether his death was a direct result of his cooperation with federal investigators.
"We don't have any information right now that connects his murder to that case," Cmdr. Anzallo said.
Police say a "shot spotter" device helped an officer locate Lt. Harris.
The Washington Times reported April 5 that contractors for the State Department had improperly accessed passport information for presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, which resulted in a series of firings that reached into the agency's top ranks.
One agency employee, who was not identified in documents filed in U.S. District Court, was implicated in a credit-card fraud scheme after Lt. Harris told federal authorities he obtained "passport information from a co-conspirator who works for the U.S. Department of State."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
(link to pdf court docs -download before it disappears)
Thanks for the ping, keep'em coming.
This is fascinating to watch and enraging at the same time.
OK, there, I feel better now.
Very well said, MHG, and the possible/likely connection with fraudulent credit cards and "donations" to 0 bow ma (good one) is interesting.
I wonder if the Quarles fellow worked for ACORN.
Seems they could have been related, just different parts of the same overall job. Meaning scoping out passports for getting fraudulent CCs for "donations" to the jackal, and getting the jackal's passport info scrubbed and fixed. Once they had people in the State Dept files to do stuff, they may have had more than one task to do.
So when he was stopped for tinted windows, he decided that would be a good time to confess to these other crimes? Or they found docs and he happily spilled the beans?
I found this shrine in the 2800 block of 12th St NE of Washington, DC. News and police reports stated that Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr. of Capitol Heights, MD, aged 24, was shot and killed at close range while getting into his car at about 11 PM on Thursday April 17 2008. Police said he was carrying his car keys, a muffin and a bottle of water when he was shot.
They asked to search his car and he said "Yes"
What an idiot. That is when they found the docs. Then he started talking.
Whoops! I didn't mean to shout...
A Teddy Bear. Now I feel bad for calling the dead man an idiot..But letting them search the car was not the smartest thing to do.
I am an idiot - I often ask questions before informing myself and it is a lazy habit. (shame on me...)
...Leiutenant Harris was in court for that case three days before his murder. "He felt like he was going to do jail time. He was willing to do jail time."
He didn't expect to be killed for credit card fraud. And no mention of who his accomplice may have been. In the STATE DEPARTMENT!
There's a HUGE piece of the story missing IMO.
Obama's Intelligence Adviser Involved in Security Breach ("cauterized" O's passport info)
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Posted on Monday, January 12, 2009 10:42:32 PM by dascallie
Obama's Intelligence Adviser Involved in Security Breach
Monday, January 12, 2009 1:46 PM
Obamas top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March for breaching sensitive files in the State Departments passport office, according to a State Department Inspector Generals report released this past July.
The security breach, first reported by the Washington Times and later confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, involved a contract employee of Brennans firm, The Analysis Corp., which has earned millions of dollars providing intelligence-related consulting services to federal agencies and private companies.
During a State Department briefing on March 21, 2008, McCormack confirmed that the contractor had accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the inspector general had launched an investigation.
Sources who tracked the investigation tell Newsmax that the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file, and that the contractor accessed the file in order to cauterize the records of potentially embarrassing information.
They looked at the McCain and Clinton files as well to create confusion, one knowledgeable source told Newsmax. But this was basically an attempt to cauterize the Obama file.
At the time of the breach, Brennan was working as an unpaid adviser to the Obama campaign.
"This individual's actions were taken without the knowledge or direction of anyone at The Analysis Corp. and are wholly inconsistent with our professional and ethical standards," Brennans company said in a statement sent to reporters after the passport breach was made public.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
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Passport Files of Three Presidential Candidates Were Breached
Los Angeles Times (LATWP News Service) (CA) - Friday, March 21, 2008
Author: Letta Tayler=(c) 2008, Newsday
The contact workers opened Obamas and McCains files earlier this year in Obamas case, as recently as last week. Supervisors were alerted by a computerized alert system that flags unauthorized peeks into high-profile passport files.
A fourth employee casually opened Clintons file last summer during a training session with another worker and was reprimanded, McCormack said.
Passport files include such information as Social Security numbers that could allow sleuths to access credit history and other personal details.
Two workers were from Stanley, Inc., a Virginia company that just signed a five-year, $570 million contract to work on the State Departments passport database, The Associated Press reported. A third worker was contracted from the Analysis Corporation (TAC), which is headed by John O. Brennan, a former CIA agent who advises Obamas campaign on intelligence and foreign policy, the Washington Times reported. The paper also said the State Department was conducting polygraph tests.
New York Post (NY) - Friday, March 21, 2008
Author: GEOFF EARLE Post Correspondent
The incidents occurred in January, February and March, as Obama burst onto the national scene to become a top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, but Obama wasnt informed about it until yesterday, his campaign said. Passport files are supposed to be kept secure under the Privacy Act, and employees are instructed not to read them without authorization.
The fired employees got caught by a computer system that monitors people who dig into files of high-profile individuals.
State Department officials said the files probably contained Obama s passport applications, which include information like date of birth, travel plans and Social Security number.
They couldnt say for certain that the fired employees didnt pass the information on.
Obama has a particularly diverse background that makes his file juicy. His father was from Kenya, and as a child, Obama lived in Indonesia - a country subject to travel warnings and terror threats.
He made a 2006 visit to Kenya that attracted national attention at the time, and more recently, when photos surfaced of him in tribal garb.
Passport Files of 3 Candidates Were Pried Into
By HELENE COOPER
Published: March 22, 2008
Two Fired for Viewing Obama Passport File
State Department Investigating Whether Contractors Broke Law
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 21, 2008; Page A03
The two contractors were identified late Friday as the Analysis Corp. of McLean, Va., and Stanley Inc., an Arlington, Va., firm that earlier this week won a five-year, $570 million extension of its contract to perform passport services.
State Department officials said their review showed that Obama's file was accessed improperly on three occasions.
On Jan. 9, the day after the New Hampshire primary, a Stanley contract employee accessed Obama's records and was fired within days, officials told the Associated Press. A second worker, employed by Analysis Corp., looked into Obama's files on Feb. 21, but was not fired. On March 14, another Stanley employee pried into the Democrat's files and was terminated.
It was not immediately clear why employees at the two firms were treated differently. But in a statement issued late Friday, Analysis Corp. said it was honoring the State Department's request to delay firing its consultant in order to give investigators time to conduct their probe.
Holy crap! How could I miss that one?
I though LEIUTENANT was his rank. It is his first name. Oy!
Direct link to your post #96, ptbor.
Man Fatally Shot in Northeast Had Been Charged in Fraud Case
Passport Information Was Used to Obtain Bogus Credit Cards
The affidavit said that Harris was questioned by the Secret Service, State Department, Postal Service and D.C. police. Despite the prosecutor's objections, Harris was released the next day on personal recognizance and faced a court hearing in June.
Cleopatra (why am I thinking of Miss Cleo? ), LEIUTENANT, Ebony. Wonder if Ebony has a twin named Ivory?
On a serious note, I wonder if the prosecutor argued personal safety? Next question: Who was the judge
re: "personal recognizance"
Does that mean no bond? Isn't it unusual to release someone on personal recognizance with felony drug charges and credit card fraud charges?
A pdf document of the (tinted windows) 3/25/08 complaint is available at restornu's link #58.
LEIUTENANT AKA LIEUTENANT AKA Foots. :)
the only 3 passports breached were Clinton, McCain and Obama. Out of those 3, obama is clearly the one with questionable origins/travels.
Obama's passport was breached first. 1/9/08. I will attempt to excavate my 008 book marks with a source.
NOTE: The first name of the decedent in this case is reportedly spelled differently then the common term Lieutenant meant to designate a specific rank.
I kept reading this thread to learn in what organization he was a "Lt." Thanks for answering my question.
What were his parents thinking?
You didn't. This story was deliberately sat on.
Barry Soetero and Stanley Dunham's (RIP) passport information is a little bit safer form prying eyes
Barry's supposed gay lover in Chicago was also shot near a church, wasn't he?
Stanley Dunham's passport records might also have been of interest
A little off topic but up lifting.
I see James Lewis lifted this from Michael Savage and pretended he came up with this on his own. I don't care that he wrote about it. Just give credit where it is due.
It's the Chicago Way to promise retaliation if you don't cooperate. I wonder if that's what's going on here:
March 21, 2008 (Sun)
Passport official quits amid probes
April 5, 2008 (Sat)
Passing On Passports at the State Department
April 05, 2008 (Sat)
FYI: the man's NAME is Lieutenant — it's NOT his Rank
Informant Gunned Down Amidst 5D Violence
April 18, 2008 (Fri), 8:52 pm - Washington
Man Fatally Shot in Northeast Had Been Charged in Fraud Case - Passport Information Was Used to Obtain Bogus Credit Cards
April 20, 2008 (Sun) - Washington Post, The (DC)
Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr. Shrine
May 8, 2008 (Thur)
Security breach of passport applications
November 1, 2008 (Sat)
Barack Obama nominates Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State
December 01, 2008 (Mon) 8:42 PM
Obama's Intelligence Adviser Involved in Security Breach
January 12, 2009 (Mon) 1:46 PM
Passport Snoop Snared
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0113091passport1.html State Department employee illegally accessed celebrity applications
Jan 13, 2009 (Tue)
Former State Department Employee Sentenced for Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport...
Mar 23, 2009 (Mon) 11:32am EDT
EXACT same headline, but different story 3 1/2 months later (curious)
Former State Department Employee Sentenced for Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport...
Jul 8, 2009 (Wed) 1:22pm EDT
"It's the Chicago Way to promise retaliation if you don't cooperate. I wonder if that's what's going on here" LorenC under other sign-on names used that very tactic with Polarik. And when Ron wouldn't shut up and get out of Obammy's way, a squad was activated at FR to attack him personally and destroy his credibility. A fake exhibit was even produced and shoved at him for analysis. After calling hawaii and verifying an item on the exhibit, I am convinced the exhibit is not ebing presented accurately. But the game was to destroy Polarik, so a thread was posted and operatives jumped in to amplify the personal attack. It's the Chicago way. Of ocurse, the exposure of the forgeries posted at Factcheck, KOS, and the pres_ _ent's website are now being ignored. The truth is pushed aside regardign the criminal in the Oval Office as the Chicago mob attacks Polarik rather than answering his data which exposed a forgery.
Its the Chicago Way to promise retaliation if you dont cooperate. I wonder if thats whats going on here
"LorenC under other sign-on names used that very tactic with Polarik.
"And when Ron wouldnt shut up and get out of Obammys way, a squad was activated at FR to attack him personally and destroy his credibility.
"A fake exhibit was even produced and shoved at him for analysis. After calling Hawaii and verifying an item on the exhibit, I am convinced the exhibit is not being presented accurately.
"But the game was to destroy Polarik, so a thread was posted and operatives jumped in to amplify the personal attack.
"Its the Chicago way. Of course, the exposure of the forgeries posted at Factcheck, KOS, and the pres_ _ents website are now being ignored.
"The truth is pushed aside regarding the criminal in the Oval Office as the Chicago mob attacks Polarik rather than answering his data which exposed a forgery."
WHo is going to keep tract of the deaths. This isn't the first and it won't be the last.
Look at the lady who called in the possible break in Cambridge. She was almost immediately demonized as a racist.
Obama and his goons are hiding something with the BC and hiding a lot more. Our opponents do not back down unless we stand up to them.
An example of a person who has not backed down is Sarah. We have gotten "bad press" because of her and using the arguement & logic of the anti-birthers (Coulter, Ingraham, Hewitt, Medved, OReilly, et al) - we should throw Sarah under the bus.
The left is going to demonize us no matter what.
I think Lieutenant was a non-government pawn who was expendable.
IMO, he was involved because he was a peddler on the street with the passport information and credit cards. I think he may have had something to do with the foreign money ("cash cards") that may have come from overseas and stateside "donors" into Obama's campaign in August and September.
Everyone else involved in/with the State Department break-in seems to be in government, or a contractor, and can be leveraged if they want to keep their careers, and/or family, safe.
IMO, the only break we can expect to get on this care is if INTERPOL, or if one of the players in the break-in, leak something that is picked up by an unsuspecting LEO or reporter who dares to proceed further on it.
Yep, these people are NOT our friends.
Do not try to appease them — it does nothing but encourage them to take further advantage of those who let them do so.
Extended Clinton administration with islamonazis thrown in for good measure. It's a horror story that seems to have no end.
I saw coverage of it last year. The passports, the credit cards and the murder.
It was just a brief news blip, then it disappeared.
Interesting stuff...:0/
And even better. Why do you think it took weeks for Hillery Clinton to accept the post of Sec State as offered her by Obama?She held out for all the perks she could get because Obama needed her to bury this so that his personal data( COLB, travel records) would not surface. Any bets that the first thing she did when she entered the office was to send a team to bury this so far, that it would be as likely to see the light of day as the sphincter of a deep sea mollusk.
The fix went in.
He wasn't a Lt., his actual name was Leiutenant.
When this happened did the Wash Times report get reported in the MSM?
That was fast. Links have been scrubbed.
But they cannot scrub our collective brain.....yet.
Theres a HUGE piece of the story missing IMO.
Better late than never:
State Department employee pleads guilty to identity theft
The name of the convict is Rodney P. Quarles Jr.. Note that his name and the murder victim's names both contain "Quarles."
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Skip to comments.Byron York: Winning Hispanic vote would not be enough for GOP
Posted on 05/03/2013 10:27:43 AM PDT by Will88
"But what if Romney had been able to reach a mind-blowing 70 percent of the Hispanic vote? Surely that would have meant victory, right? No, it wouldn't. Romney still would have lost, although by the narrowest of electoral margins, 270 to 268. (Under that scenario, Romney would have won the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College; he could have racked up huge numbers of Hispanic votes in California, New York and Texas, for example, and not changed the results in those states."
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They don't call 'em the Stupid Party for nothin'.
Clearly, if Republicans want to get elected, they need to somehow win over the dead people vote.
Dead people are one of the Democrats' most reliable voting blocks. Plus they vote early and often.
Klueless Karl Rove is again proven to be wrong. Far more White conservatives will stay home again if the GOP goes the McCain/Rubio route for amnesty.
If white voters stay home again, the country really will be finished.
The GOP is definitetly the stupid party as they constantly prove. And they seem to have a policy of offending white voters, especially the Tea Party types and Sarah Palin admirers and conservatives in general.
I wonder if they'll ever figure out that it's the white voters staying home now that who are withholding their winning margins in elections. Chasing the Latino vote is a fool's errand.
The GOP needs to stop with the fantasy scenarios and get down to the very serious work of trying to win governorships and Congressional races. The White House isn't in the cards anymore.
True, and not inviting Palin to speak at the GOP convention and practically barring any mention of Tea Party sentiment cost them many votes in 2012. Such stunts as that and amnesty would cost them more votes in the future.
They'd be be better off forgetting about the Obama/Schumer/McCain/Rubio amnesty, but they won't.
If the GOP 'leadership' continues on its current path that's probably true, but if they'd end the pandering to groups and start presenting consistent and principled policies to everyone, they might get back in the WH. And, of course, an intelligent and appealing candidate would help.
There are factions within the black coalition partner of the Democrat party. Some of them are ripe for disaffiliation!
You would be wise to ask how we did that ~ and it's simple. We lost the Charlie Crist faction! The guy had fans and somehow the local Republican machine and the Rubio faction completely forgot about Charlie.
It's all about demographics now....not so much about the economy anymore. Romney actually won a higher percentage of the white vote in 2012 than Ronald Reagan won in 1980, meaning that if demographics had not changed dramatically since 1980, Romney would have won in an even greater landslide that Reagan did that year (he only lost six states).
I have a feeling the Obama temper tantrum is going to be fr more pleasurable than a Romney presidency.
But hey, we'd better give them amnesty as fast as we can, right?
Not to mention votes they will lose if they support amnesty. It is a lose/lose situation for our country and the Republican politicians. So why are some supporting it? Who knows, but might want to follow the money.
"Likewise, the white vote is so large that an improvement of 4 points — going from 60 percent to 64 percent of those whites who did vote — would have won the race for Romney."
So, how is the White House not in the cards? 4% of the white vote is an insurmountable goal?
"We lost the Charlie Crist faction!"
I think we were always going to lose Key West.
From the Washington Examiner
. In 1980, Reagan won white voters 56 percent to 36 percent, with third party candidate John Anderson taking 8 percent of the vote. He ended up beating Carter by 10 points and winning 44 states.
Romney wins white vote by same margin as Reagan did in 1980 landslide
Actually, John Anderson, a Republican who lost to Reagan in the primaries of 1980, won 8% of the vote in the general election. Most of his vote would likely have gone to Reagan so those percentage comparisons with Romney don't work from 1980 to 2012.
The Republicans are losing elections because many conservatives, mostly whites, are staying home because they're tired of their priorities being ignored.
Yep, and I think they've already lost many votes by W's pushing amnesty so hard in 2006 and 2007. And now some GOP characters are back for more, or less.
"Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande."
Maybe Marco should revive that classic and use it to push the Gang of 8 amnesty.
I think so, too. And if Republicans could peel away just 10 - 15% of the black vote that would be huge because their votes are in many more states than Latinos whose votes are concentrated in a smaller number of mostly blue states.
We'd lost far worse if we hadn't seen the voter registration files purged of all the phony voters, but for someone reason they let Charlie go and forgot about his followers!
The Doug Wilder action could very well have been busted out of the Democrat party every time Webb ran but we had too many Republican GOP-e types imagining that we can't offend any Republican by calling on the black voters to join us!
Yep, I was thinking about Virginia, and also more black votes could shore up NC, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, and a few other states that have moved back-and-forth during the past few presidential elections.
I've wondered if Norquist and his crowd think if they keep going left they will peel off a good percentage of the liberal white vote as they become disenchanted with Obama. They MUST know they'll never get the socialist hispanic vote.
My favorite Norquist quote:I started out as a right-winger, and when I retire I want to be a squishy middle-of-the-roader, he jokes, chortling at the thought.
They probably thought ObamaKKKare was going to lit medical care for employees of their backs, but by now they should be completely re-educated!
Someone might make a try.
2014 and 2016: Go White, go Right, or go home.
Because.. half of that extra four percent white vote will go to the dems.
You could make that argument....that whites are staying home. But the bottom line is this: Whites are a shrinking part of the overall population....including the voting population. This especially true here in CA where white are now less than 40% which has had the effect of turning CA into a solid blue state. Not even Ronald Reagan could win in CA with current demographics in this state. And what is happening in CA is happening across the country. And Republicans are being pushed out of all of the metropolitan and urban areas. Here in CA we (Republicans) no longer win in San Diego, the Inland Empire, Fresno, San Jose, Stockton. We are close to losing Orange County, we are now losing in Ventura and Santa Barbara. We get absolutely annhilated in the SF Bay area and LA. But this jusn't in CA where we are now losing big in urban areas.
Take a look at Texas. Sure it voted GOP in the last election, and probably will for the next several election cycles at least. But there are some warning signs: Whites are now just under 50% of the population in TX. Wiit unti whites are below 40% in Texas, you will see that state turn purple then red. In the last election, Obama carried Harris County (Houston) and Dallas County-—the state's two biggest counties——GWB and RR easily carried both these counties back in the day. The GOP vote in Texas as in CA is being pushed out of the big metro areas and into the hinterlands. Here in CA nearly all of our (few remaining) GOP elected legislators (congressmen, assemblymen, state senators) com from remote and rural corners of the state as the Party has been effectively pushed out of all of the coastal areas and big metro areas. I see the same thing happening in Texas and elsewhere. I am not in favor of compromising our conservative principles. I am adamantly opposed to illegal immigration and have witnessed first hand how it has destroyed my once great state. I am concerned about the GOP's weakness in most of our nation's urban areas and I do believe the US is going the way of Europe. And I wish we could reverse these disturbing trends. Not even a pro-business articulate candidate promising progrowth tax cuts and decent private sector jobs and energy independence can win any more. It is all about the raza and all about who can promise to give away the free stuff at the expense of others. It is all about reparations baby——here in obamanation.
I meant to say Texas will turn blue.
I don't know. I can't see any real libs voting Republican under any circumstance.
I've said that the swing vote which put Obama in office was the white guilt vote. By that I mean those white voters who are independents, or moderates, or whatever we call those who still might move back-and-forth from one presidential election to the next - those voters voted for Obama out of white guilt. It just felt so good to vote for a black guy.
I think those voters might come to their senses and vote Republican next time. And I still think many conservatives have stayed home the past two elections.
But I think Norquist and his ilk have just bought into a line of thinking that they have to pander and compete with the Dims for all sorts of group votes, and that that strategy will mostly lose more and more conservative voters.
About 1/3 of the Hispanics in the US are here illegally, but those illegals appear in or census counts and in all the demographic analyses and projections. And that is why they are about 14% of the population and only about 7% of the voters.
That's why amnesty or not is so critical. It would bring a net of several million new Dim voters.
But you live in California and tend to think the rest of the nation is just a few years behind. Actually the Latino population is still very small in most states and they are not the swing voters who determine all elections.
And some of the most reliably Dim states are 85% plus white. One wonders if they will ever give up their leftest world view: Wisconsin, Minnesota, most of New England and others.
I'm not talking about increasing the number of white people by 4%, I'm talking about convincing 4% more of the existing ones to get out to the polls and vote for us. Is that not possible? Have we just given up on selling our message to the public?
Hispanics have dramatically increased their numbers in a lot of states including TX, NM, FL, AZ, CO, NV, and others-—they aren't as concentrated in CA as they used to be. In fact as CA's economy has worsened in recent years many have left the state.
And 1/3 of them are illegal.
We're seeing the same dynamic here in Virginia. Since 1964, Virginia was a reliable pro-Republican state at the national level, governors notwithstanding. Then, immigrants started rolling in the northern part of the state back in the 1990s. You can travel parts of Falls Church and be convinced you're not even in America anymore.
Additionally, property developments and suburban sprawl up there attracted much of the government worker base from the DC area, Maryland, and as far away as Pennsylvania. The big warning signs we saw came in 2004, when Bush trailed throughout most of election night until he finally pulled ahead when Richmond County and Hampton Roads tabulated their vote totals. The first big bombshell came in 2006, when George Allen was upended by Jim Webb in his first try for reelection. While, we know about the impact from the "macaca" incident, the fact was a single word could sway the relatively small number of voters needed to tip a vitally important election.
The 2009 (gubernatorial) and 2010 (Congressional) elections gave some hope that a red-state turnaround was in the offing, but the results of 2012 put that notion to rest. GOPers still do somewhat well Hampton Roads, but the numbers are narrowing, and barring miracles, it's gotten nearly impossible to overcome the dems' totals in Fairfax County, the beltway region, Norfolk and Newport News. This was clearly evidenced by the state's 13 EVs going to Obama.
Like the states you mentioned, Virginia is looking particularly troubling. The 2014 elections are going to draw in the supporters of that pathetic sock puppet Mark Warner, so the pro-GOP tilt may not be pronounced at all.
Yes, I know a lot what you are saying about VA. My grandparents (RIP) used to live there in northern VA and I am very familiar with your state. It is quite true, VA no longer even seems like a southern state anymore. You are lucky though to have a pro-business state government. Some say your governor has now become a RINO-—but compared to what I'm stuck with in CA he looks VERY good. Remember I got Gov. Moonbeam and I'm also stuck with Boxer, Feinstein, Pelousy and Maxine. Yes, VA has turned purple, some might even say blue after voting for Obama twice. I am keeping a close eye on your gubernatorial election this yers-—Love Cuccinnelli ( I probably mispelled his name). I could care less what happens in NJ this year.
I hear ya, but that involves pulling them back from their perceived comfortable climes of liberalworld. Large percentages of Americans have become slothful and dependent on government handouts, and will vote for whomever keeps the gravy train rolling. The numbers of hispanics are growing rapidly as well -- these are people who think and act in a collective sense, not individual, so -- like the blacks -- they tend to support who their leaders instruct them. Hate to be a bucket of cold water here, but the demographic changes are not in our favor.
Supporting white priorities will expose the GOPe to withering criticism from the MSM that they don't know how to rebut without sounding "insensitive."
So they literally have no idea what to do, now.
If something doesn't break the hold the Karl Rove types now have on the GOP national party, then they have little hope of winning the presidency again in the foreseeable future.
To get more conservatives back into the active fold of the party, about all they have to do is stop pandering to groups and: be pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, be fiscally conservative, don't award illegal behavior with amnesty, and generally uphold the conservative values the party upheld in the past. And they don't have to be strident and over-the-top in doing it.
And stop insulting and excluding Tea Party types and Palin supporters from the party functions such as the Romney convention.
Those steps might lose a few RINO votes, but those would be in mostly deep blue states.
Then we are screwed forever.
Time to self deport. Where? I don't know. Certainly not here.
"Hate to be a bucket of cold water here, but the demographic changes are not in our favor."
Screw the demographics. We used to go out there with a message and the attitude that we could win, if we could just communicate our message to the people, because our message was right.
Now people just want to throw up their hands and say "it's the demographics!". Well, the demographics shouldn't matter if you have the right message. Vote fraud shouldn't matter if you have the right message. Welfare leeches shouldn't matter if you have the right message. We need to get back to the fundamentals.
Screw the demographics.
I wish we could, but the demographic problems are not what you think they are.
Last May, the Pew Hispanic Center, in a study based on U.S. and Mexican statistics, reported that net migration from Mexico to this country had fallen to zero from 2005 to 2010.
In a nutshell:
Whats way up among working class whites are out of wedlock births and males dropping out of the workforce.
I do see some hope.
According to a recent study by Harvard University's Institute of Politics, voters aged 18 29 are not clamoring for more gun control, even after the tragedies in Colorado and at Sandy Hook elementary school.
The GOPe always take the conservative whitey vote for granted. They think we have no alternative but to vote Republican. They never seem to realize that another choice is to just stay home and not vote...
"..one more illustration of how the Republicans in pursuit of the Hispanic vote are wasting their while losing many white votes from voters who are offended and sick of GOPe pandering to groups."
It reminds me of how Republicans focused on the Independents! Well, Romney got the Independent vote this time, but STILL LOST!
Time for the Republicans to be concerned about energizing the BASE!
Demographics will continue to go against whitey as long as whitey continues to feed the "democrats."
These groups have multiple children, or come to this country illegally, because whitey subsidizes their lifestyle. What 12 kids with 12 different fathers? Sure, no problem. Whitey will give you money - mo' kids, mo' money.
What happens when there is an economic collapse and whitey can no longer pay for all these democratic voters? Well, aside from riots, there will be more of a balancing out of demographics...
Tell me Freepers: Which segment of the white vote are we not getting but that are not? We are not getting secular whites, white single women, and white single moms. What, pray tell, do we do to get these folks, none of whom seem to like conservatism? I see no evidence of a "hidden conservative vote" anywhere. Hence, why I am despondent when I look at the numbers.
Anderson's voters were socially liberal suburbanites, many of whom now vote Dem. Even in looking solely at white America, this is a vastly different country than the one in 1980. If you were 30 in 1980, you are now 63.
Screw the demographics. We used to go out there with a message and the attitude that we could win, if we could just communicate our message to the people, because our message was right.
Now people just want to throw up their hands and say its the demographics!. Well, the demographics shouldnt matter if you have the right message. Vote fraud shouldnt matter if you have the right message. Welfare leeches shouldnt matter if you have the right message. We need to get back to the fundamentals
You could not be more RIGHT if you tried.
I remember too that the foolish Bob Dole wouldn't let Pat Buchanan speak in San Diego in 1996; couldn't have helped Dole in the least. Then E. Dole took the Helms seat and squandered it away.
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By SHAINA STOCKTON
A homeschool educator believes public schools should work with parents to allow homeschooled students to take part in sports and other extracurricular activities at public schools. The Galax School Board opposes a bill that would allow this, but homeschoolers and public school officials aren't too far apart in their opinions.
HILLSVILLE — Future teachers of the year will receive more than an award inscribed with their name, Carroll County School Board members decided at their December meeting.
Certain classroom and educational stipends for the teachers to use will commence with the 2012-13 teacher of the year, Becky Isom.
School officials invited Isom to the meeting to collect her now-inscribed award and voted on the enhancements to the recognition as she watched.
HILLSVILLE — Scores for math in the Virtual Academy of Virginia reflected a trend of lower-than-usual math results in the latest round of Standards of Learning testing.
Carroll County Public Schools helps with the online academy run by the private company K12.
The virtual school's report card posted by the Virginia Department of Education shows that online students missed benchmarks in math and history scores.
HILLSVILLE — Just like parents and community members requested, St. Paul School's grade structure of pre-kindergarten through seventh will remain the same, the Carroll County School Board members decided at their meeting Dec. 11.
At the same time, on a motion by member Joey Haynes, the school board affirmed that parents have the option to send their sixth- and seventh-graders to the Carroll County Middle School if they want.
INDEPENDENCE – Cuts in federal education from both the federal and state level once again loom over local educators as they begin the process of developing next year's school budget.
Grayson Superintendent Kevin Chalfant provided the school board with a brief update on budget needs and priorities for the 2013-14 school year during the board's regular meeting last week.
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WOODLAWN — Carroll schools' county-wide teacher of the year has taught at Woodlawn since beginning her career.
Becky Isom will also be the last teacher of the year to come from the school that's scheduled to be closed after the completion of grade realignment, when construction work wraps up at Carroll high and intermediate.
Surprised in class by school and division administrators, Isom reacted that Woodlawn's a good school full of good teachers.
HILLSVILLE — Strong student performance on the Carroll County High School Cavalier Classic yearbook sparked a "three-peat," with the publication earning statewide awards.
It's the third time in a row that the yearbook staff has brought back honors in the Virginia High School League competition, chosen from among 1,000 total entries in three classes, says teacher and advisor Shannon Dalton.
The book, titled "Spark," won first place and the students won many awards for their work.
HILLSVILLE — Busing middle school children from Cana to Hillsville would be similar to Carroll County sports teams riding to play away games in Franklin County, said one speaker at the second public hearing on the grade structure at St. Paul.
The difference is that Cana students would have to take the bus to Hillsville every day, not to the occasional away game, said Mark Beck, one of the 12 speakers who attended a Carroll County School Board public hearing on Nov. 13.
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Teacher tenure took a hit on The View last week. "Bad teachers don't do anybody any good," said co-host Whoopi Goldberg. "So the union needs to recognize that parents aren't going to stand for it anymore."
"I love teachers, I respect them fully, but who is respecting the students?" said co-host Jenny McCarthy.
Goldberg released a video in response to criticism from teachers. "I am all about teachers," she says. "My mom was a teacher. I like great teachers. I don't like bad teachers. I don't think bad teachers should be given the gift of teaching forever badly."
Defenders of traditional job security rights for teachers should be very worried about a shift in the popular culture.
The problem isn't "bad" teachers, writes Maureen Downey in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. They usually don't get tenure. It's not teachers who show up drunk and pantless (and unphotogenic) in class. There aren't many of those. The problem is the "just-OK" teachers. There are lots of those.
Can the sober, properly dressed, not terrible but not very effective teachers become "fantastic" teachers? Or maybe just competent?