Video – Twilight Sad
Aug 20, 2010
Is there a better way to kick off the weekend than with a brand-new Twilight Sad song and video? How about one that features puppets and strippers?
The Scottish band gives us seven and a half minutes of noise rock with its “The Wrong Car.” The track will be released by FatCat Records Sept. 28 on 12-inch vinyl.
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August 20, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury and the father of Reaganomics, believes the United States is beyond repair and that only a revolution will save the country. Before you go thinking he’s just another GOP fringe player who hates Obama, his vitriol cuts both ways — he famously called for the impeachment of George W. Bush in 2005. As an economist, he believes Wall Street and the corporations have painted the U.S. into a corner.
Americans have no greater enemies than Wall Street and the corporations and their prostitutes in Congress and the White House.The United States and the welfare of its 300 million people cannot be restored unless the neocons, Wall Street, the corporations, and their servile slaves in Congress and the White House can be defeated in a good way.
See the full article from “ffog.net”
August 20, 2010
Her most prominent example was the death threats made to the Danish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, and the subsequent controversy over “South Park” creators trying to show Mohammed on their Comedy Central show. She said it was wrong they weren’t even allowed to show Mohammed in a “honey bear costume.”
“There’s no reciprocity,” Geller said. “It’s a two-way street. It can’t be only one way. Building a 15-story mega mosque on a building that was destroyed, that’s not outreach.”
She also thinks it is not a fair comparison between the proposed center and the 92nd Street Y because “anyone could walk into a church or synagogue but non-Muslims can’t pray in a mosque.”
Geller argues the building where the Cordoba House is sacred because it was hit by landing gear on Sept. 11, 2001, and doesn’t buy arguments about some of the more seedy buildings in the area desecrating the memory of those killed nine years ago.
“Strip clubs didn’t bring down the towers. It’s faulty logic,” Geller told TPM.
See the full article from “TPMDC (blog)”
August 18, 2010
When a Fayette County teacher was suspended from her job after another teacher posted photos of her with a male stripper to the Internet, she feared more for her father’s 34-year legacy in the school district than she did for her own career.
“The first thing I thought about was my father, who had been there so long,” said Ginger D’Amico, a Brownsville Area High School Spanish teacher whose father also taught in the district.
“That’s all I could think about,” said D’Amico, referring to her late father, Orlando “Lundy” D’Amico. “My father’s name, drug through the mud.”
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Although D’Amico said the photo depicts her “laughing and pushing” the stripper away, district officials previously said it is suggestive of a sex act. D’Amico said Savini advised her she was suspended — other employees were given letters of reprimand — because she was the only teacher who could be identified in the photos.
See the full article from “Tribune Review”
August 18, 2010
Brownsville settles with teacher over Facebook photo with stripper
A picture worth $10,000
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Ginger D’Amico didn’t take the pictures, and she didn’t post them on Facebook.
But her face was the only one clearly identifiable. And she paid the price.
A Spanish teacher in the Brownsville Area School District, she was suspended for 30 days without pay because a photograph of her with a stripper at a colleague’s bachelorette party was posted on the popular social networking website.
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On Dec. 19, the former teacher of the year in Baltimore County, Md., hosted a bachelorette party for a fellow teacher at her home. The group hired a stripper, who was there for 30 minutes.
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She described the picture in question as her “laughing,” and “pushing” the stripper away.
See the full article from “Pittsburgh Post Gazette”
August 18, 2010
Markoff was arrested in April 2009 on charges of binding, beating and shooting the 26-year-old Brisman with a gun that prosecutors say he later stashed in a hollowed-out anatomy textbook. He became instant tabloid fodder and a cover story in People magazine.
“It has sex, it has enigma, it has the story of a respectable, smart, success-oriented, helpful young man who, without warning, becomes a killer, and that is why people pay attention to it,” said Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston who has written books on murder.
Authorities charged him in two other attacks including the armed robbery of a Las Vegas woman at another Boston hotel and the assault of a stripper inside a Rhode Island hotel where authorities found his fingerprints on the wall. The three crimes occurred within a week.
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August 17, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union has reached an agreement with the Brownsville Area school district who suspended a teacher because photographs of her with a stripper appeared online.
Ginger D’Amico, a high school Spanish teacher in Fayette County was penalized after images of her with a stripper at a bachelorette party she hosted for a fellow teacher were posted on Facebook. The photos were posted by another school district employee and were online for less than a day. She was suspended for 30 school days without pay because hers was the only identifiable face in the photos.
“That’s the first time I’ve ever been in any kind of trouble in 14 years of teaching. I really was devastated because I really take pride in being a good teacher and a mentor and it kind of ripped my heart out,” she said.
See the full article from “WDUQNews (blog)”
August 17, 2010
Brownsville teacher settles suit over photo with stripper
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A Fayette County teacher who was suspended for 30 days without pay because pictures showing her with a stripper were posted on Facebook has settled her case for $10,000.
Ginger D’Amico, who teaches high school Spanish in the Brownsville Area School District, also will have her disciplinary record cleared and be given back pay for wages lost during her suspension.
Ms. D’Amico hosted a bachelorette party, including a stripper, for a fellow teacher in December. Another school district employee, who attended the party, posted pictures from the party on Facebook, though they remained there for less than a day.
However, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Ms. D’Amico, she learned in January that she would receive a 30-day suspension without pay. Other school district employees who attended the party received a disciplinary letter in their files, but no suspension. Those letters are the subject of arbitration.
See the full article from “Pittsburgh Post Gazette”
August 17, 2010
A Brownsville Area Spanish teacher will receive a financial settlement related to her suspension earlier this year after someone posted racy photos of her with a male stripper on the Internet, the American Civil Liberties Union, Pittsburgh chapter, announced this morning.
Ginger D’Amico will split a $10,000 payment from the district’s insurance carrier with the ACLU, which intervened on her behalf and helped to negotiate the settlement.
D’Amico also will receive $2,842 in net pay because of the 19 days of unpaid suspension she served in January and February.
School directors initially imposed a 30-day unpaid suspension, but the ACLU stepped in to represent her.
In addition to the payments, the school district is required to remove and destroy all reference of the incident from D’Amico’s personnel file, ACLU officials said at a press conference at their Oakland office.
See the full article from “Pittsburgh Tribune-Review”
August 17, 2010
ACLU reaches $10K settlement in Pa. Facebook case
JOE MANDAK The Associated Press
Updated: 08/17/2010 11:55:30 AM EDT
PITTSBURGH — A southwestern Pennsylvania school district has agreed to pay a teacher and the American Civil Liberties Union $10,000 and refund more than $4,000 in back pay the teacher lost when she was suspended for a Facebook photo of her with a male stripper.
Thirty-seven-year-old Ginger D’Amico is a Spanish teacher at Brownsville High School. She was given a 30-day suspension, later reduced to 19 days, after the photo from a bachelorette party at her house was posted by someone else who attended the party.
D’Amico and the ACLU never sued, but ACLU attorneys did contact the district shortly after the suspension in January, leading to the settlement announced Tuesday.
The ACLU questioned the suspension, saying D’Amico’s actions were private and legal.
See the full article from “Yorkdispatch.com”
August 17, 2010
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