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Dave
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 10:06 pm |
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Check this out...
Yes, she should be fired.
No, she should be punished, but not fired.
No, she was right to suspend the boy for speaking Spanish.
Teen Sues After Being Suspended For Speaking Spanish
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A Kansas high school student is suing his school because he was suspended for speaking Spanish in the hallway.
The attorney for 16-year-old Zach Rubio filed the lawsuit over the weekend. The suit details how the phrase "no problema" got Rubio suspended.
"You can't do that, this is America. You can't tell somebody not to speak Spanish just because it's your building," Rubio said.
Rubio is a junior at the Endeavor Alternative School. He has been taking classes to catch up on what he missed while caring for his family in Mexico.
The lawsuit alleged that Principal Jennifer Watts suspended Rubio after a teacher heard him say "no problema" in a school hallway.
"I said, 'What am I going home for?' She said, 'For speaking Spanish and we told you not to.' I asked, 'Why can't I?' She said, 'This is not Mexico, this not Germany,'" Rubio said. "My dad wasn't happy about it when he got home."
Rubio said his father complained to the principal and to Superintendent Bobby Allen.
"'You're not suspending my kid for fighting, for being disruptive for being disrespectful -- just speaking Spanish?'" said Rubio, detailing what his father asked the school.
Rubio said school officials told his father, "'Yes, that's correct, just speaking Spanish, and I don't want it here.'"
The suspension was later reversed, and Allen apologized to Rubio.
The lawsuit was filed against the school district and several teachers.
Rubio said he filed a lawsuit now because it seems to him that nothing happened to the people he believes wronged him.
"The same principal that suspended me, she's still there, the same teacher who sent me to the office, she's still there -- like nothing happened. I don't feel that there was justice and that's what I want," Rubio said.
The school district released a statement, saying it acted quickly in the matter and has apologized to Rubio and his parents.
The school has no policy prohibiting Spanish. Meanwhile, Rubio is back in school.
Results posted online...
32% - Yes, she should be fired.
53% - No, she should be punished, but not fired.
15% - No, she was right to suspend the boy for speaking Spanish.
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Randy in Pensacola
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 08:10 pm |
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weasle wrote: these guys from that church must be real assholes, blaming dead soldiers for the fags that are in the world ??? wtf kinda reasoning is that ??? Sounds like the results of a couple of generations of inbreeding if you ask me....Last edited on Tue Dec 13th, 2005 08:51 pm by Randy in Pensacola |
weasle
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 07:38 pm |
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| these guys from that church must be real assholes, blaming dead soldiers for the fags that are in the world ??? wtf kinda reasoning is that ???
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marc
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 05:50 pm |
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| Blows my mind that someone can get that many DWI's and still be on the road....Should be 3 strikes and yer out....There was an interesting article in the New York Times last Sunday on DWI in various states.....N.M. has a real bad problem as Zippo has mentioned many times.... They are also the only state with a full time DWI Czar working on the problem...What I found real interesting though is that N.H. has the highest liquor consumption per person in the USA (2 times that of N.M.) and about half the DWI's as N.M....Guess they pass out before they are able to drive or maybe just don't drive....Anyway the problem isn't getting any better....I read in the paper every week/day about some DWI accident and yes many of them are repeat offenders...Big problem... Last edited on Tue Dec 13th, 2005 05:51 pm by marc |
zippo
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 05:12 pm |
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This is NOT unusual here - Sadly
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
class=storyheadDriver Picks Up His 15th DWI Arrest; Suspect Had Last Infraction in 1991
class=storybody Gerald Garcia found himself in what was once a familiar situation for him over the weekend— getting arrested for drunken driving.
Before his arrest Sunday evening, Garcia had been charged at least 14 times for DWI in New Mexico. But then he went nearly 15 years without being arrested for DWI in the state.
The last time the 41-year-old Garcia was caught driving drunk was when he was 26 years old.
It appeared that he was either rehabilitated, moved out of state or was never caught, said Linda Atkinson, director of the DWI Resource Center.
"This is not a real typical gap we see with (repeat) drunken drivers," Atkinson said.
According to court records and the DWI Resource Center, by the time Garcia turned 21 he had been arrested for DWI three times. When he was 21, he was arrested four more times.
Of his 14 prior arrests, only one was dismissed in court.
After his 10th conviction, Garcia was ordered to go through counseling. He completed it, received a sentence reduction and was arrested three more times for DWI within a year.
His last conviction came in December 1991. After that conviction he was sentenced to at least 1,400 days in jail over the course of seven years.
In the most recent arrest, on Sunday, Bernalillo County Sheriff's deputies spotted Garcia driving a Dodge pickup without its lights in the 2500 block of Bridge SW.
After a deputy turned on her lights and siren, Garcia continued to drive, hitting a median twice, according to court records.
When he did pull over, deputies said they noticed he had bloodshot eyes and showed signs that he was intoxicated. Court records also say police found cocaine on him.
While deputies were trying to get a blood sample from Garcia at the police station, he became combative and started to fight with deputies. They were not able to get a blood sample, according to the complaint.
Garcia was injured during the struggle with the deputies. He was taken to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where he was treated for injuries to his face.
The deputies were exposed to Garcia's blood, the complaint said, and after the struggle Garcia told them he had hepatitis A, B and C.
Sheriff Darren White said Monday that "it's not unusual for some of these offenders to go for years without being stopped.
"That by no means should be confused with them not drinking and driving," White said. "The only way you will stop someone with a record like Garcia's is if he is put behind bars."
Late Monday, Garcia was in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center on the DWI and drug charges. His bail had been set at $50,000.
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Mikey
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 05:02 pm |
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Counterprotest far outnumbers 8 anti-gay pickets at memorial
VIRDEN — Family and friends of Army Staff Sgt. Gary Harper in his Illinois home town - and even some people who didn't know him - were puzzled why anyone would picket the memorial service for Harper, Green Beret medic and father of three killed in Iraq this fall.
They were disgusted at the thought of a maverick church demonstrating at the service Saturday in this town of 3,500 in Macoupin County, about 80 miles northeast of St. Louis. It was in Virden that Harper, a Boy Scout and athlete, graduated from high school and immediately entered the military, as he had always planned to do.
But it happened. A handful of people from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., showed up to publicize its vitriolic anti-gay message.
"It's a tremendous disruption from what should be a nice ceremony," said Virden Police Chief Steve Huggins, as he and a line of officers stood between eight picketing Westboro Baptist Church members and more than 150 counterprotesters. "It really has the town upset."
The real point of the day was the memorial inside the high school gymnasium, where roughly 200 people attended a service to remember Harper, who earned the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart as a Special Forces combat medic.
Mayor Donnie Neighbors recited the Boy Scout oath - "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country..."
"This oath described Gary to a T," Neighbors said.
Harper was killed Oct. 9 when his unit came under fire while on a reconnaissance mission. He was 29. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, but family members and friends wanted to organize a local memorial service.
At Saturday's service, a slide show of photos showed the father of three as he grew up - a smiling boy hamming for the camera in a cowboy hat, a proud football player and track runner, a doting parent at the beach, a professional soldier in dress uniform. In the background, the "Ballad of the Green Berets" played softly.
"Gary Harper was the man who made the beret, the best of the best," said Maj. Gen. Randal E. Thomas, the adjutant general of the Illinois National Guard.
Before and after the service, two different honor guards fired rifle volley salutes. Linda Morrison, Harper's mother, and other family members were presented with two folded American flags.
Word had spread last week that the Westboro Baptist Church member would be coming to town. Their arrival angered many and threatened to turn the service into a media circus.
In recent months, the church has picketed nearly 70 military funerals, proclaiming the deaths of soldiers as America's punishment from God for protecting homosexuals. And they admit the fiery rhetoric - slogans such as "God Hates Fags" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" - is, in part, a bid for publicity.
The tiny church is headed by the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., who has said that three-fourths of its 100 or so members are his relatives. Phelps himself was not picketing in Virden. His church had planned similar demonstrations the same day at military funerals in Papillion, Neb., and the Chicago suburb of Beach Park.
The church's demonstration brought a crowd of counterprotesters -veterans, National Guard soldiers, high school students from Alton and a large contingent of black leather-clad members of motorcycle clubs.
Westboro Baptist Church members cited Bible verses and held neon-colored signs with their slogans. The counterprotesters turned their backs, waved American flags and recited the pledge of allegiance.
A truck stereo blared a bagpipe rendition of "Amazing Grace."
The protests by the Westboro Baptist Church members have also drawn the ire of some officials in Illinois and Missouri who in recent weeks have called for legislation to ban such demonstrations from funerals.
At the memorial Saturday, many acknowledged the Westboro Baptist Church members' right to free speech, but called them offensive and cruel.
"What you've seen here today is not a true taste of Christianity," said Kevin Coleman, a Virden member of the Christian Motorcyclists Association. "Thank God for the soldiers like Sgt. Harper who gave their lives for the rights of us and them (the Westboro Baptist Church members) to be here today."
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marc
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 04:32 pm |
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| He got what he deserved....Death....Unfortunately they shoulda killed em 20 years ago.....Look at all the $$ they wasted keeping that bastard alive....
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empty
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 03:27 pm |
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zippo wrote: The media and his supporters made this asshole out to be some kind of reformed got his shit together kinda guy. I heard on the radio this morning about all the shit he stirred up while in prison, fights, attacks on gaurds,etc.
The interesting argument (to me) is that the largest numbers of people arguing to save him tend to bring up the fact that he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Heh, so was Hitler and Stalin.
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zippo
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 03:21 pm |
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| The media and his supporters made this asshole out to be some kind of reformed got his shit together kinda guy. I heard on the radio this morning about all the shit he stirred up while in prison, fights, attacks on gaurds,etc.
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Vero Steve
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 01:19 pm |
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| I see he got the needle , way too humane for the crimes he committed. I think they still should hang them or use Ole Sparky to turn them in to toast.......They had no concern for there victims...................JMHO
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Dave
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 10:23 am |
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| 12-ga. is loaded (No kids, So, I don't have to worry about it) and the safety is on...
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Abo
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 10:06 am |
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| Hey man. Good NEWS. Dont let down your gaurd. Take care. Abo
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Dave
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Posted: Tue Dec 13th, 2005 10:01 am |
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So far, everything is quiet...
Williams Executed For 1979 Slayings
UPDATED: 1:05 am PST December 13, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO -- Prison officials said Stanley Williams was executed by lethal injection early Tuesday morning at San Quentin State Prison.
NBC4 reported that Williams was pronounced dead at 12:35 a.m. He is the 12th inmate in California executed since 1978 when the state reinstated the death penalty.
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Jed
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 10:28 pm |
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| http://news.google.com/news?q=%22crips%22&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr
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zippo
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 09:48 pm |
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Mikey wrote: Dave wrote: Mikey wrote:
Break out the party favors tonite Dave....Hope you have a safe trip home....
Yup... Time to break 'em out and get things in place. Just in case.
Got one of these?..hehe
Looks like Abo's cat's closet. Too bad ya can't mount that sucker on the P-pad. Seriously - take care out there!
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Dave
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 08:59 pm |
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| Hope it don't go that way...
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Abo
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 08:52 pm |
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| Hey Man. Dave, Be very careful!!. Take no chances. Things get out of hand start shooting. Ride Free Abo
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Vero Steve
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 08:47 pm |
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| Dave Let us know when the lights dim.........................
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Dave
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 08:37 pm |
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Well, I'm in my truck today. So, I've got a little protection...
Have to see how thing go this evening and tomorrow...
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weasle
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 08:30 pm |
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| got it all over the news , all the anilists [ect]hat a crock of shit. guy killed 4 people 20 some years ago fer a couple 100 bucks. bout time justice was served. be carefull going home dave, suppose the minorities aint gonna like it.
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