Pelosi told the bloggers she favors using the "self-executing rule" strategy in which the House would pass the Senate health care bill without going on the record as specifically voting for it. "I like it," Pelosi said of the scheme, "because people don't have to vote on th...

North Carolina Teacher Suspended After Writing 'Loser' on Girl's School Work

I can't believe they suspended him.

Here's the story.

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589386,00. ... latestnews

Anybody know how old the teacher is? As for joking with students, maybe it would be more acceptable in speech to a 16 yr old. But writing it (officially) on an 11 yr olds paper...it's not funny.--A I asked my 17 y.o. last night what he would do if that happened to him and he said that he would thin...

I don't understand how anyone can think that there isn't enough information here to make a judgment call. The teacher did write "loser" on the student's work. How is this acceptable in any context? The only thing I think is funny about this is that the teacher thinks that name calling is a...

I liked your comment too, Lorin, about how you are learning to embrace your darker side. That's an interesting concept and one that I've not considered before. I'm always too busy battling myself, which is exhausting. But embracing it....I'll have to give that some consideration.

Maybe this is our own little group therapy.

Btw, I liked how you said this Cag:

And I loved my depression - it was warm and it was mine.

Depression....it's a sensitive subject for me and one that Zarathustra and I have had our differences about. :) To be entirely too personal, my mother was bipolar (she died about 9 years ago). Her mental illness was debilitating for her and barely controlled even with medication. Having witnessed he...

I'm, of course, against it. In addition to the privacy concerns, it's another pain in ass level of government bureaucracy that I'll have to keep up with in addition to all the other government stuff that I have to keep up with. What, another department, similar to the likes the Department of Motor V...

Eh, no big deal. And I'm sure I've been negative on Fox, but that's just my opinion of the organization. They're perfectly valid to cite (just don't tell Liberal Headquarters. They'd tear up my membership card). Oops...too late...I've already spoken to them. They should be knocking on your door in ...

Well, I guess I did turn up my nose at your sources and I guess I shouldn't have. :oops: And I didn't really turn up my nose at the Media Matters piece. I just said it didn't convince me and that I had read other pieces that were more convincing and not as inflammatory. My bad about attributing you ...

Is there something wrong with the links I provided? Finn had said something before about not using original source material and I was trying to adhere to that. Did I do something wrong? You usually don't like my sources and have complained when I have used Heritage Foundation or Fox News so I though...

Hynes could've recused himself and just b/c someone at Media Matters claims it is ridiculous doesn't convince me.

Looks like the Brooklyn DA, Charles Hynes, might be a little biased, as in August 2009, he endorsed the Working Families Party, which according to Wikipedia New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a coalition of labor unions, ACORN and other community organizations . en.wiki...

You didn't. I was explaining when I began looking into the matter. Oh, ok. I'm glad I hadn't done that. Sure, to both. Would you prefer I called her a bitch? Of course not. I think it's interesting and certainly not directed at you, but since you and I are discussing it, that hardly anyone brings h...

The one that came out three months ago? Yes. I thought it was odd too for this article dated March 5, 2010 to mention a 3 month old report but since it did, I read through it and commented on it. That was part of why ACORN commissioned the investigation, stated in the scope of the report. I didn't ...

I know it's much more fun to focus on Colbert but did anyone read the independent review which was, interestingly enough, commissioned by ACORN and didn't just deal with only the O'Keefe videos. There were more interesting findings than only the information about the O'Keefe videos, such as the year...

I took him at his word. He promised to fundamentally transform this country and I believe that's what he intends to do.

I was only playing devil's advocate earlier, btw. I think by now anyone who reads my posts ought to know that I am not in favor of a single payer system.

Of course lower wait times would be better.

It's b/c of rationing which is inherent to the system. You can't add millions of people to a system, offering them free care, which will cause a significant increase in utilization, without there being rationing and a significant decrease in quality of care.