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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Yeah I see no reason to give the school the benefit of the doubt and I don't know why "women is fired for mentioned she is married to another woman" is something that should bring up any questions regarding her conduct. Would we assume the same if it was a women mentioning her husband?
edited 29th Mar '18 12:56:04 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yangyeah I have distinct memories of knowing when teachers were getting married because their names were changing in elementary school
Most were rather tight lipped about their private life, so even if there was an actual breach in privacy, that doesn't sound like a reason to fire a teacher. It sounds like a reason to talk to them at most.
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She was suspended, not fired - but yeah, it's very common for students to want to know more about their teachers (at least at first). Hell, it was one of my preferred tactics when I used to sub - "If you're good and finish up the coursework early, I'll leave the last 5 minutes for a little Q&A" type of deal.
edited 29th Mar '18 12:58:45 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"I note for the record that the school says that the teacher was also speculating about the orientation and gay relationships of historical artists.
Not that I consider that a reason to suspend her either, because if she was talking about artists being in straight relationships nobody would have doubted for a second that that could be discussed in age-appropriate fashion.
It has been confirmed that Mueller's team is going after Robert Gates for more than just getting at Manafort and his fraud charges. They are attempting to link Manafort to Russian intel.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/politics/mueller-gates-russia-investigation-contacts/index.html
Considering how easy they went on Gates, he probably gave them something good.
edited 29th Mar '18 4:22:49 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.As a follow up to Laura Ingraham mocking David Hogg, advertisers are fleeing her show.
At least six said they would cease buying ads on the show. Nutrish, celebrity cook Rachael Ray’s dog food company, announced on Thursday that it was “in the process of removing ads from Laura Ingraham’s program.” Trip Advisor, the American travel website, told POLITICO that it had “made a decision to stop advertising on that program.”
“We believe strongly in the values of our company, especially the one that says, ‘We are better together,’” a Trip Advisor spokesperson said in an email. “We also believe Americans can disagree while still being agreeable, and that the free exchange of ideas within a community, in a peaceful manner, is the cornerstone of our democracy.”
The spokesperson added: “We do not, however, condone the inappropriate comments made by this broadcaster. In our view, these statements focused on a high school student, cross the line of decency.”
Wayfair, the online home-goods store, said the Fox News host’s comments were “not consistent with our values” in announcing that it would also pull ads from the show. A spokesperson for Nestle confirmed in an email that the company had “no plans to buy ads on the show in the future,” and Expedia also said that it would follow suit in cutting promotional ties with the program.
Later on Thursday, the video-on-demand service Hulu tweeted that was no longer advertising on Ingraham’s show and was “monitoring all of our ad placements carefully.”
The decisions came in response to an online plea from David Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, for the company to cease its promotions on the show.
Ingraham on Wednesday shared a report on Twitter that Hogg’s college application had been rejected by certain schools. “David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it,” the Fox News host wrote.
Hogg responded by listing several of Ingraham’s top advertisers — Nutrish, Sleep Number, AT&T, Allstate, Esurance, Bayer Liberty Mutual, Arby’s, Trip Advisor, Nestle, Wayfair, Rocket Mortgage by Quickens Loans, and Hulu — and calling for a boycott of the program.
“I’m so sorry to everyone that @Ingraham Angle has ever tried to hurt we are here for you and we love you,” Hogg tweeted on Thursday.
Representatives for the other companies listed by Hogg did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ingraham on Thursday issued an apology via Twitter for the remarks.
“Any student should be proud of a 4.2 GPA — including David Hogg,” she said. “On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland.”
Ingraham added that Hogg was “welcome to come on my show anytime for a productive discussion.”
Hogg and other Parkland students have faced backlash from conservative commentators, who have criticized their lobbying for gun control legislation in response to the deadly shooting last month in which 17 were killed and several others wounded.
The attack has sparked a wave of protests. Over the weekend, Hogg and other students helped organize the March for Our Lives in protest of gun violence.
edited 29th Mar '18 5:28:41 PM by TheRoguePenguin
Mueller probing Russia contacts at Republican convention
Mueller's team has been asking about a convention-related event attended by both Russia's U.S. ambassador and Jeff Sessions, the first U.S. senator to support Trump and now his attorney general, said one source, who requested anonymity due to the ongoing investigation.
Another issue Mueller's team has been asking about is how and why Republican Party platform language hostile to Russia was deleted from a section of the document related to Ukraine, said another source who also requested anonymity.
Mueller's interest in what happened at the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio in July 2016, is an indication that Trump campaign contacts and actions related to Russia remain central to the special counsel's investigation.
Trump, who was nominated as the Republican Party candidate for the November 2016 election during the convention, has denied any collusion with Russia during the campaign. Moscow has denied U.S. intelligence agencies' findings that it interfered in the campaign to try to tilt the election in Trump's favor.
Investigators have asked detailed questions about conversations that Sessions, then a Trump campaign adviser, had at a convention event attended by then-Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak, said the first source, who was questioned by Mueller about the event.
The same source said Mueller's team also has been asking whether Sessions had private discussions with Kislyak on the sidelines of a campaign speech Trump gave at Washington's Mayflower Hotel in April 2016.
Sessions' spokespersons have denied repeatedly that he had any private discussions with Kislyak at the Mayflower. Sessions told lawmakers last year he could not recall any conversations with Russian officials at the hotel but could not rule out that a "brief interaction" with Kislyak may have occurred there.
Spokespersons for Mueller and Sessions declined to comment on Mueller's interest in Sessions' activities at the convention and other convention-related events.
UKRAINE LANGUAGE
The special counsel's investigators have also interviewed attendees of the committee meetings that drafted the Republican Party platform in Cleveland.
At one committee meeting, according to people in attendance, Diana Denman, a member of the platform committee's national security subcommittee, proposed language calling for the United States to supply "lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine's armed forces and greater coordination with NATO on defense planning."
But the final platform language deleted the reference to "lethal defensive weapons," a change that made the platform less hostile to Russia, whose troops had invaded the Crimean peninsula and eastern Ukraine.
After the convention, Denman told Reuters in 2016, J.D. Gordon, a Trump foreign policy adviser, told her he was going to speak to Trump about the language on Ukraine, and that Trump's campaign team played a direct role in softening the platform language.
The Trump campaign has denied playing any role in the weakening of the party's position regarding Ukraine. Gordon has called Denman's version of events "inaccurate."
Stephen Yates, co-chair of the platform committee's national security subcommittee, said he has "heard nothing about other members of the subcommittee being called in for questioning, and I have had no interaction with anyone working on the investigation."
Sessions recused himself last year from the federal probe into Russian election meddling after it emerged that he had failed to say during his Senate confirmation hearing to be attorney general that he had met with Russia's ambassador in 2016. [1]
Donald Trump is finally putting "Russia First", isn't he?
edited 29th Mar '18 6:01:36 PM by megaeliz
Hillary Clinton: No one told a man who lost an election to shut up.
I wonder if saying this is going to make her even more unpopular?
Hell, we practically revere them. Both Mitt Romney and John Mc Cain hold a ton of esteem in the public.
So does Bernie Sanders, for that matter; the inevitable respect for the Presidential runner-up jumped the track, flew over Hillary's head, and landed on her most prominent primary adversary.
edited 29th Mar '18 6:30:40 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Case in point: Romney would deport Dreamers.
“For instance, I’m a deficit hawk,” Romney said. “That makes me more conservative than a lot of Republicans and a lot of Democrats. I’m also more of a hawk on immigration than even the president. My view was these DACA kids shouldn’t all be allowed to stay in the country legally.”
"Mainstream conservatism" is full of garbage, and "Never Trumpers" in particular are full of shit, proudly promoting the policies and attitudes that led to the current state of the Republican party.
Another case in point: The Atlantic's recent right-wing hire.
Describing a 2014 visit to the impoverished city of East St. Louis, Illinois, Williamson compared a black child to a “primate” and a “three-fifths-scale Snoop Dogg” before likening his own trip through Illinois to Marlow’s journey up the Congo River in Heart of Darkness, all within the space of a single paragraph. (He later denied, unconvincingly, that the three-fifths reference was a slavery joke.) In a column that same year about Orange Is the New Black actress Laverne Cox, Williamson compared trans people to voodoo doll worshippers. “Regardless of the question of whether he has had his genitals amputated, Cox is not a woman, but an effigy of a woman,” he wrote. He accused Bernie Sanders, a secular Jew, of leading a “nationalist-socialist movement” in a too-cute-by-half bid for rage clicks. And perhaps most notoriously, he once opined on Twitter that women who had abortions should be hanged. “I believe abortion should be treated like any other premeditated homicide,” he later clarified, in case anybody doubted his sincerity. “I’m torn on capital punishment generally; but treating abortion as homicide means what it means.”
[...] All of this makes Williamson, with his frequent sneer, dearth of empathy, and dicey treatment of race, a bit of a weird fit for the publication. He reacted to Black Lives Matter with an O’Reilly-esque rant about “race-hustling professionals” and black-on-black crime that I have a hard time picturing sharing space with a TNC essay.
So why did the Atlantic hire him? Goldberg and Ideas editor Yoni Appelbaum did not respond to my request for an interview, but it appears Williamson despises Donald Trump, and Never Trump conservatives have a lot of cachet these days among left-leaning media outlets that want to show a commitment to publishing a range of views.
Never Trumpers embody Never My Fault. They're in complete and utter denial about how the GOP getting into bed with the USA's reactionaries — the racists, the homophobes, the Religious Right, the xenophobes (and of course there's plenty of overlap) — for decades culminated in President Trump.
edited 29th Mar '18 6:47:05 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised

It's not uncommon for teachers to have a "getting to know you" exercise, and those always involve personal details. Even if it's not part of an exercise, knowing minor details about their personal life is a good way to build trust. The teacher in question should be allowed to feel as open as she wants about the gender of her spouse.