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ROGERSVILLE — School district officials are investigating allegations that a Lauderdale County High School teacher made slurs in the presence of students regarding first lady Michelle Obama and gays. Superintendent Jennifer Gray confirmed the investigation concerns the school’s head football coach, Bob Grisham, who also teaches driver’s education and psychology.
The investigation includes a 1-minute, 24-second audiotape of Grisham asking who knows who is behind the 600-calorie school lunch.
“Fat butt Michelle Obama,” he said. “Look at her. She looks like she weighs 185 or 190. She’s overweight.”
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Later in the tape, Grisham referred to the U.S. as going in the “wrong direction” and tells the students they can “get pissed off at me or not. You can go tell the principal, call the superintendent and tell her. I don’t believe in queers. I don’t like queers, I don’t hate them as a person, but what they do is wrong and an abomination against God.” The tape was reportedly recorded by a student Monday and took place on school campus during the school day.
http://timesdaily.com/stories/Teacher-linked-to-gay-slurs-at-school,201960
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/31/alabama-football-coach-caught-slurring-fat-butt-michelle-obama-and-queers/
The NRA doesn’t speak for its members; it is basically a lobbying arm of the gun industry.
9 in 10 back universal gun background checks
Only seven percent of respondents in the poll, which was conducted before the president's press conference, said they oppose background checks for all potential gun buyers.
Support for universal background checks went across party lines: 89 percent of Republicans and 93 percent of Democrats and independents were in favor, as well as 93 percent of gun households and 85 percent of those living in a household with a member of the National Rifle Association.
Seventy-four percent of Americans, meanwhile, said that more armed security guards would help prevent mass shootings in public places. Thirty-five percent said armed guards would help a lot in places like schools, movie theatres and malls, and another 39 percent said they would help some. One in four said they would not help.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57564386-10391739/9-in-10-back-universal-gun-background-checks/
In new PPP Poll 49% of TEXANS favor an Assault Weapons Ban!
Texans support assault weapons ban
Overall on the issue of guns Texans say they trust the NRA over President Obama by a 47/43 margin.
And despite all of that 49% of Texas voters support an assault weapons ban to just 41% opposed to it. Texans support assault weapons ban, mixed on CornynMost Democrats support it, independents favor it by a 53/34 margin, and even among Republicans 23% support it. We've found support for the assault weapons ban everywhere we've polled it, but it's particularly striking to see that voters favor it in a pro-gun, anti-Obama state like Texas.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/01/texans-support-assault-weapons-ban-mixed-on-cornyn.html#more
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/30/1183474/-In-new-PPP-Poll-49-of-TEXANS-favor-an
N.R.A. DEFENDS RIGHT TO OWN POLITICIANS
January 30, 2013
N.R.A. DEFENDS RIGHT TO OWN POLITICIANS
Posted by Andy Borowitz
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, National Rifle Association C.E.O. Wayne LaPierre warned that the N.R.A. would vigorously oppose any legislation that “limits the sale, purchase, or ownership of politicians.”
“Politicians pose no danger to the public if used correctly,” said Mr. LaPierre, who claims to have over two hundred politicians in his personal collection. “Everyone hears about the bad guys in Congress. Well, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a vote is a good guy with a vote. I’m proud to be the owner of many of those guys.”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/01/nra-defends-right-to-own-politicians.html
E-mails link Bush foundation, corporations and education officials
Source: Washington Post
E-mails link Bush foundation, corporations and education officials
Posted by Valerie Strauss on January 30, 2013 at 4:47 pm
A nonprofit group released thousands of e-mails today and said they show how a foundation begun by Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and national education reform leader, is working with public officials in states to write education laws that could benefit some of its corporate funders.
A call to the foundation has not been returned.
The e-mails are between the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) and a group Bush set up called Chiefs for Change, whose members are current and former state education commissioners who support Bush’s agenda of school reform, which includes school choice, online education, retention of third-graders who can’t read and school accountability systems based on standardized tests. That includes evaluating teachers based on student test scores and grading schools A-F based on test scores. John White of Louisiana is a current member, as is Tony Bennett, the new commissioner of Florida who got the job after Indiana voters rejected his Bush-style reforms last November and tossed him out of office.
Donald Cohen, chair of the nonprofit In the Public Interest, a resource center on privatization and responsible for contracting in the public sector, said the e-mails show how education companies that have been known to contribute to the foundation are using the organization “to move an education agenda that may or not be in our interests but are in theirs.”
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The e-mails were obtained by Cohen’s group through public record requests and are available here, complete with a search function. They reveal — conclusively, he said — that foundation staff members worked to promote the interests of some of their funders in Florida, New Mexico, Maine, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Louisiana.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/30/e-mails-link-bush-foundation-corporations-and-education-officials/
Gayle Trotter Opposed Law To Protect Women Before Testifying On Guns For Moms
Crazy Mama"An assault weapon in the hands of a young woman defending her babies in her home becomes a defense weapon," said Trotter, a mother of six. "And the peace of mind she has ... knowing she has a scary-looking gun gives her more courage when she's fighting hardened violent criminals."
By: TBogg Wednesday January 30, 2013 11:48 am
Here is entirely reasonable mother of six, Gayle Trotter
explaining the daily grind of taking care of her kids, washing and
cleaning, making dinner, and blowing away hordes of ruffians and
scalawags intent upon breaching the sanctity of her home is order to
steal her Ethan Allen sideboard and matching china closet.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/01/30/gayle_trotter_s_fantasies_of_fighting_off_violent_men_don_t_have_anything.html
So Trotter has six kids and yet keeps an available loaded AR-15 at the ready at all times because, you know, blahs…
This will not end well.
(ADDED) Wow. Trotter is an opponent of the Violence Against Women Act. So she’s not just a terrible mother, she’s a horrible fucking human being.
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2013/01/30/crazy-mama/
Art Can Be Beautiful AND Sad...
and so much more:
Klimt In Syria
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/30/the-most-beautiful-and-saddest-thing-you-will-see-today
Tennessee GOP: Report Students Who Might Be Gay
Tennessee GOP: Report Students Who Might Be Gay
Posted on 01/30/2013 at 4:30 pm by JM Ashby
A new provision added to Tennessee’s proposed “Don’t Say Gay” bill compels teachers to inform parents if they believe their child might be gay.
The bill, SB 234, still bars Tennessee teachers from discussing any facet of “non-heterosexual” sexuality with children in grades K-8. But the newest iteration also includes a provision requiring teachers or counselors to inform the parents of some students who identify themselves as LGBT. State Sen. Stacey Campfield (R), who authored the bill the first time around and again introduced it this time, calls out students who might be “at risk,” but leaves the interpretation of that behavior to the teacher.
Don’t say gay, and don’t discuss being gay with students, but please inform parents if you believe a student is “at risk” of being gay. To what end?
http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2013/01/tennessee-gop-report-students-who-might-be-gay.html
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