Flashermac Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 All right, so a foreign language is mandatory. But why not give students a choice? My high school offered German, Spanish, French and Latin. (Only reason guys took Latin was so they could see the girls in togas at Latin Club parties. :hubba: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 I loved latin class because I had a great teacher but to be honest we were all nerds and there was maybe one hot girl in the latin classes. Only reason I didn't get beat up like the other kids in class was because I was a upper middlle class white suburban HS and the kids were scared of me. lol. Looked great on my college application to take latin though. Most kids had spanish, german or french. I still think the money was the main motivator. Schools are trying to find any source of funding nowadays. It was the reason why that Oakland school tried to get the ebonics as a 2nd language thing years ago.Teachers got extra money and the school did as well if they were proficient in a 2nd language and they didn't know spanish. I'd have preferred if they actually tried to learn spanish, french or german instead of the easy route. Money. The whole thing smacks of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Married GOP Congressman Sent Sexy Pictures to Craigslist Babe Rep. Christopher Lee is a married Republican congressman serving the 26th District of New York. But when he trolls Craigslist's "Women Seeking Men" forum, he's Christopher Lee, "divorced" "lobbyist" and "fit fun classy guy." One object of his flirtation told us her story. On the morning of Friday, January 14, a single 34-year-old woman put an ad in the "Women for Men" section of Craigslist personals. "Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?" she asked, inviting "financially & emotionally secure" men to reply. That afternoon, a man named Christopher Lee replied. He used a Gmail account that Rep. Christopher Lee has since confirmed to be his own. (It's the same Gmail account that was associated with Lee's personal Facebook account, which the Congressman deleted when we started asking questions.) By email, Lee identified himself as a 39-year-old divorced lobbyist and sent a PG picture to the woman from the ad. (In fact, Lee is married and has one son with his wife. He's also 46.) ... The woman says she cut off contact when she searched for Lee online and concluded he'd lied about his age, occupation, and marital status. Then she forwarded us the correspondence. [color:red]Yesterday, we reached out to Rep. Lee, whose support for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and vote to reject federal abortion funding suggests a certain comfort with publicly scrutinizing others' sex lives.[/color] A spokesman for the Congressman confirmed that the email address belonged to Lee, and that he had deleted his Facebook account because our initial inquiry had him fretting about "privacy." ... Hypocrites R Us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 All right, so a foreign language is mandatory. But why not give students a choice? Simple answer.... Lack of money. Hence the grants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 This is kinda cool given the state of the economy. http://shine.yahoo.com/event/the-thread/michelle-obama-wows-in-a-35-h-m-dress-2452062/ Michelle Obama wows in a $35 H&M dress. She did the Matt Laur show in it. Not the first time she's publicly worn off the rack and sometimes The Gap, etc. She's a classy lady no matter what you think of Obama. I felt the same about Laura Bush as well, she seemed classy. The only first ladies I wasn't too fond of were Hillary and Nancy Reagan for different reasons obviously. Hillary was a political animal. Nancy seemed a bit of an elitist. I liked Barbara Bush at first and she made a comment or two about the state of the people in the hurricane in New Orleans I thought didn't show enough sensitivity to their plight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Michelle is hard to figure. She goes from one extreme to another, from thrift to extravagance. But she is a woman, so I don't expect to understand her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 With several countries having coups agitated by facebook, do the the overthrown countries have to still pay the debts the 'older' government had acquired? If they don't have to honor previous debt, this would be a great way for the USA to get out from under her debt load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Who the fark puts $39K into their baggage? Can you say, dumb azz... Two TSA agents arrested at JFK Airport for stealing $39K from passenger's bag http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/02/16/2011-02-16_two_tsa_agents_arrested_at_jfk_airport_for_stealing_39k_from_passengers_bag.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 [color:red]Two TSA agents busted at JFK Airport for stealing $160,000 from checked bags[/color] Noo Yawk Post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Who the fark puts $39K into their baggage? Can you say, dumb azz... Two TSA agents arrested at JFK Airport for stealing $39K from passenger's bag http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/02/16/2011-02-16_two_tsa_agents_arrested_at_jfk_airport_for_stealing_39k_from_passengers_bag.html I am surprised it got reported. Anything over $10,000 is fair game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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