It might look odd, but Punished, to the corner! by Cristina Toledo at least offers some form of relief to those who are running out of storage spaces in the house.KUS
You've seen it before. Schools get back their FCAT results and start having parties and passing out goodies to celebrate success. It happens in Texas, too. But now that state's education commissioner is warning against such practices, saying the rewards...
“I’ve got two daughters; 9 years old and 6 years old. If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby!”
Barack Obama doesn’t want people who “make a mistake” to be “punished with a baby.” And that is what over 90% of all abortions are all about. You decide.
This must be my day for t-shirt posts.
This second one is a doozy!
DOS PALOS — Students at Dos Palos High School protested Thursday — by wearing patriotic regalia to school — after a sophomore student was forced to remove a T-shirt depicting the American flag.
Officials at the Merced County school confirmed Thursday that Jake [...]
Whether you thought he was guilty the first time or not...most of America felt he was. The man once viewed as an American icon is now to many simply a criminal who got away with murder. Will these 12 jurors (his peers...ha...ha) attempt to right what almost an entire nation felt was a greivous mistake made many years ago....
Salon.com has an excellent article up today questioning why Washington culture rallies against prosecuting politicians for crimes. Democrat Harold Ford is the latest to argue Bush and co. shouldn't be held responsible for illegal behavior while in office. Salon.com takes a different view:"Why would we expect political officials to do anything other than break the law if we continuously tell them -
Seems to me like entrecard doesn't want the cry babies Bi+ching anymore.I'm glad they finally did this to many people I find in entrecard complain alotHow about you?As of right now, 9:00 PM PST, it is no longer permissible to discuss in any way, decisions made on behalf of the Entrecard team to remove a site from the Entrecard network.Any complaints, suggestions, or issues with our decision to rem
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Two seventh-grade boys were given detention and their classmates forced to miss their scheduled refreshment break when the pair refused to kneel and pray to Allah during a religious studies class.
Outraged parents called the punishment of the boys for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration at Alsager High School [...]
So, they tried to get Obama for taking the words of others, well here it stuck.
A high school principal and the schools valedictorian were punished for plagiarism.
Ok, principal aside…How smart could the valedictorian really be if he can’t even write is own speech.
Can you write” Duh?!”
Go ahead, you can use ” Duh?!” You won’t [...]
Chile coach Marcelo Bielsa declined to recall six players,
including ex-captain Jorge Valdivia, following the end of their
10-match bans for indiscipline.
A Japanese official was demoted after it was discovered that he had logged 780,000 hits on porn sites from his office computer over nine months.The unnamed man, a Kinokawa city government employee in western Japan, was, ahem, surfing madly from June 2007 to February 2008. Despite the frequency of his visits, none of his co-workers noticed anything untoward as, city official Tomiko Waki noted, "Ea
Prosecutors said Monday they will not seek the death penalty against four people charged with murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor when the crime was committed.
Justice Carries a Pair of Scissors
“Ready for that Haircut now, you treacherous flirtatious Man-Whore?”
Journey for a moment to the Magic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where the women get flogged for flirting and men–get a haircut?
The figure of blindfolded Justice had better not run in the Kingdom, not because she’s blindfolded, but because she now carries [...]
Today, society as a whole has a tendency to define most actions taken or carried out by police officers as forms of police brutality.
To fully understand the implication of the word, one must look at the beginnings, of said word. The word brutality originates from the Latin word Brutus, which translates [...]
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is in a funk, after being in its own funk less than one week ago. Just last week it gave comments to Reuters discussing forward...
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That's an extraordinary incident in the ATP Masters series match between Mikhail Youzhny and Nicolas Almagro. After lost a point, Mikhail Youzhny reacted by hitting himself in the head -and drew blood! Gosh, maybe he thought he's strong enough, but seems not!
Parties Differ on Whom Economic Aid Should Help - New York Times The ideological clashes are less about whether the government should intervene in the economy, and more about whom it should try to rescue.I'm not an economist, but it seems to me the big difference here is who gets to take the brunt of the problem. It a top down versus a bottom up repair approach. The conservatives, of course, want to protect the big companies. The liberals, of course, want to protect the American consumer.This is one area where I think both sides have valid arguments. Obviously the economy needs a certain stability in the financial markets, and obviously millions of consumers going bankrupt will hurt other market sectors. I also agree that the economy is going through a correction caused by both irres
By ANNE FLAHERTY and DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON - Two companies that provide workers for the State Department say they fired or otherwise punished those who improperly accessed the passport records of the three major presidential candidates. The security breaches touched off demands for a congressional investigation.
“None of us wants to have a circumstance [...]
A little girl came home from school and said to her mother, "Mommy, today in school I was punished for something that I didn't do."The mother exclaimed, "But that's terrible! I'm going to have a talk with your teacher about this ... by the way, what was it that you didn't do?"The little girl replied, "My homework."
Seaside, Calif. (ThaLunatic Daily) -- A 15 year old California student who swung into action to stop an out of control school bus was punished by the school. No good deed goes unpunished at Marina High School.Amanda Rouse, a 15 year old Marina High School student took her usual bus ride to school along with 40 other students. But on this past Wednesday morning she was feeling sick and asked the bus driver to take her back home. She stayed on the bus, so that the driver could complete the route before dropping her back off.That's when things took a bad turn. The bus driver fell out of her seat on a hard turn and hit her head, rendering the bus out of control.Amanda immediately jumped into the driver's seat and applied the breaks, bringing the bus to a halt. Although the bus had stru
Zero tolerance policy at schools is going too far. Here in Vegas we’ve had kids expelled for drawing guns on a piece of paper. The media archives are full of such stories, and this is just...
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Best Of The Web (BOTW) is an old paid directory. In the 90s it used to be a network to rank websites which moved into paid directory business. In 2005-2006 amount of paid directories began to grow creating thousands paid directories which did not care who to approve as long money was paid. BOTW was the only directory providing fair services by rejecting websites with [...]
Being smart does have its perks, but then there are those times when you have to put up with less smarter people who have a lot more authority. This was the case for a class 11 student of Big Spring High School in Newville, Pennsylvania, USA. The student got detention for using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer and trying to persuade his teacher that Firefox was just a better browser and he wasn't doing anything wrong. Click on the pic below to enlarge it.Source: BoyGeniusReport
Being smart does have its perks, but then there are those times when you have to put up with less smarter people who have a lot more authority. This was the case for a class 11 student of Big Spring High School in Newville, Pennsylvania, USA. The student got detention for using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer and trying to persuade his teacher that Firefox was just a better browser and he wasn't doing anything wrong. Click on the pic below to enlarge it.Source: BoyGeniusReport
The Renault Formula One team has walked out of a courtroom in Monaco having been found guilty of possessing confidential information belonging to another team - but has remained unpunished.
The World Motorsport Council found Renault in breach of the regulations for its actions over computer disks with details of the McLaren car. But it imposed no penalty and said that it will issue its detailed reasoning tomorrow (Dec 7).
Its judgment is similar to the one it initially came to in the McLaren spy row that blew up in July this year.
The team was originally let off the hook in similar circumstances and then called back into court after new evidence came to light.
It was this second hearing that exposed the existence of email correspondence between McLaren’s drivers and disgraced chief designer Mike Coughlan.
The FIA has reportedly reserved the right to call Renault back into court should further evidence come to light in this second case.
Renault team boss Flavio Briatore has said
Dr. Mark Nesselson, a New York pediatrician who conspired with families to get their children into school without state-mandated vaccinations, has been fined $10,000 and told he can practice only under supervision. Dr. Nesselson admitted to falsifying forms for four children in two families, and later admitted that he had done the same for a handful of other families over the years.
The parents of his patients, who knew Nesselson was falsifying the forms, were concerned about the potential adverse health effects of vaccines.
Nesselson began to question the safety of vaccines in the 1990’s, after seeing many autistic children whose parents said that the onset of the disorder coincided with vaccinations. Nesselson’s actions were discovered after he moved to Hawaii two years ago and gave medical records to his patients' parents to take to their new doctors. A new pediatrician seen by two families turned Nesselson in.
Dr. Mark Nesselson, a New York pediatrician who conspired with families to get their children into school without state-mandated vaccinations, has been fined $10,000 and told he can practice only under supervision. Dr. Nesselson admitted to falsifying forms for four children in two families, and later admitted that he had done the same for a handful of other families over the years.
The parents of his patients, who knew Nesselson was falsifying the forms, were concerned about the potential adverse health effects of vaccines.
Nesselson began to question the safety of vaccines in the 1990’s, after seeing many autistic children whose parents said that the onset of the disorder coincided with vaccinations. Nesselson’s actions were discovered after he moved to Hawaii two years ago and gave medical records to his patients' parents to take to their new doctors. A new pediatrician seen by two families turned Nesselson in.
I must have done something horribly wrong in a former life. Friday, my day of leisure, and yet I asked Mrs Crewe blog if she fancied a day together around Chester. A chance to get away from the usual stuff, see a few different sights, enjoy some lunch and a few drinks together. Oh, and as I'm a nice fella, she could grab an hour's shopping... ....THE BIG IDEA: trying to be green we'd walk the kids to school then grab the bus down to the train station. Hop on the chuff-chuff and saunter into Chester for around 10am. Grab a coffee, walk along the historic streets, watch the hustle and bustle, maybe take in the city wall views. Pop into a few shops, grab some lunch and a bottle of wine. Take a walk through the Christmas market and pick up a few things. Another coffee then walk back towards the station and home. Lovely day... THE REALITY: With the kids dropped off Mrs Crewe blog started talking about an itinerary or something. Then we waited, and waited. Mrs Crewe blog starts moaning ab
As a freethinker I believe that religion is a blight on humankind; I long for the day when we no longer need to believe in myths and fables to make sense of the complexity of our universe.
I’m a frequent critic of Christianity, particularly of the excesses of televangelists, because Christianity is the predominant religion [...]
When I hear the words air force, I think of Top Gun. To think there was a time when we all wanted to be Tom Cruise.
A pilot in Thailand has been suspended from the countries air force after he landed his helicopter in the countryside so he could pick mushrooms for his mother. Dude, you’re in the flipping air force. Sunglasses, wind flowing through your hair, badass flight suits. You don’t park your helicopter in a field to go pick mushrooms for mommy, regardless of how great she is.
His fellow pilots are never going to let him live this down. His nickname will probably be Mushroom from now on. Or Princess Toadstool.
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An ongoing legacy of the authoritarian ethnocentrism policies of the Putin administration is fostering hate crimes in Russia. Africans, Armenians, and members of other ethnic groups who come to large cities like Moscow encounter discrimination, hatred, and even death. A few months ago, a jury in the Moscow Region Court found a man innocent of murder even though witnesses saw him take out a knife on a crowded commuter train and shout, “Glory to Russia” as he plunged a knife into the heart of Artur Sardayan, an Armenian. A man prior to this trial another man was found innocent of killing an Armenian on a crowded metro station. Finally, the Russian Supreme Court threw out the verdict and ordered a new trial that hopefully will conclude in a conviction.
There is always a penalty when a nation is led by a man who considers himself an all-powerful ruler who is above the law. In Russia, Putin has projected this image while slowly dismantling democratic values. This has led to an i
Shares of investment banks resumed their monthlong plunge Thursday after three French mortgage investment funds stopped letting investors cash in or out, underscoring the tumult in the mortgage financing market.France's biggest bank, BNP Paribas SA, said Thursday it has stopped trying to calculate what the assets of three of its funds are worth. These funds invest in bonds and other securities backed by home loans.The markets where these investments trade have been in upheaval for the past few weeks as weak home prices and decaying credit quality spook investors.The "complete evaporation" of liquidity from these markets means the three funds cannot calculate what its assets are worth based on market prices.For now, three funds are not returning money to investors or taking new investments, the bank said.
Earlier this week Major League Baseball handed down five game suspensions to both Chris Young and Derek Lee for their fracas on Saturday night. I could be wrong, but I’m assuming MLB intended to give them somewhat equal punishments. I think that’s the right move because while Lee threw the first punch, Young did drill him with a pitch and throw a haymaker when Lee came after him. That seems even to me.
The problem is that these punishments are nowhere near equivalent. In fact, Young’s suspension is barely a punishment at all. He can serve his entire suspension by switching his next turn in the rotation with the pitcher behind him, and because of off days nobody even has to pitch on short rest. Meanwhile, the Cubs are losing their best hitter for five games.
Listen up Bud Selig—if you want a pitcher to miss one start you must suspend him for at least 9 games. Commissioner’s class is now dismissed.
The B. League committee suspended Sheikh Russel Krira Chakra's official in-charge of team affairs Mosharraf Dewan and assistant manager Habibur Rahman Manu for three and two years respectively for assaulting referee Munaf Sarker after last week's match against Arambagh.This comes after the club's decision to suspend both the officials for lesser periods.The two officials would be persona-non-grata at all stadiums during tournaments of the Bangladesh Football Federation.Russel's ball-boys Sayeed and Kamal have been banned at all venues for life for same reason. The BFF has also recommended the club to sack the pair.The committee, which fined the club Tk 50,000 for failing to control the situation, hailed their players including Moroccan midfielder Ighir Mohamed for trying to stop the assault and save the referee.
This is an interesting poll. I personally thought the numbers would be higher. The question posed by the poll was:
There are those who claim that Ariel Sharon, Haim Ramon, Moshe Katzav,
Halutz and Karadi were Divinely punished for supporting the Disengagement
plan. To what extent do you agree or...
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