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NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

The truth is no longer allowed in this country. Do not speak your mind. You can articulate the essence of a problem and nit the nail smack dab on the head (you don't hear the phrase "smack dab" nearly often enough), and you will be rewarded with ridicule. With scorn. With tisk, tisk.

This poor woman, a teacher in PA, just wanted to vent about her worthless students and their worthless parents. And she got burned and she may get fired. The truth hurts. The truth is not allowed.

Natalie Munroe teaches high school English in suburban Philly. She vented on a blog meant only for friends and family (yes I know if you put it on the 'net and expect it to stay private then you don't get the 'net). What she wrote was far too close to the truth for today's head-in-the sand brand of parents and education administrators.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20110216/US.Teacher.Suspended.Blog/
As she fights to keep her job at Central Bucks East High School, 30-year-old Natalie Munroe says she had no interest in becoming any sort of educational icon. The blog has been taken down, but its contents can still be found easily online.

Her comments and her suspension by the middle-class school district have clearly touched a nerve, with scores of online commenters applauding her for taking a tough love approach or excoriating her for verbal abuse. Media attention has rained down, and backers have started a Facebook group.

"My students are out of control," Munroe, who has taught 10th, 11th and 12th grades, wrote in one post. "They are rude, disengaged, lazy whiners. They curse, discuss drugs, talk back, argue for grades, complain about everything, fancy themselves entitled to whatever they desire, and are just generally annoying."

Suspended for pointing out students are out of control and annoying. Don't even begin to tell me that those things aren't true facts.

There's a lot of talk about shitty teachers. And they do exist. And sometimes unions protect them when they shouldn't.

There's not NEARLY enough talk about shitty parents and shitty students. Most parents suck, hence, their offspring sucks harder.

More truth:

"Parents are more trying to be their kids' friends and less trying to be their parent," Munroe said, also noting students' lack of patience. "They want everything right now. They want it yesterday."

One of Munroe's former students, who now attends McDaniel College in Westminster, Md., said he was torn by his former teacher's comments. Jeff Shoolbraid said that he thought much of what Munroe said was true and that she had a right to voice her opinion, but felt her comments were out of line for a teacher.

"Whatever influenced her to say what she did is evidence as to why she simply should not teach," Shoolbraid wrote in an e-mail to the AP. "I just thought it was completely inappropriate."

Jesus. That's what's wrong. Truth is irrelevant. Just make sure you're PC enough to NEVER ruffle anybody's feathers. This douchebag says she was accurate, but it's inappropriate.

What's inappropriate is the go-along-get-along mentality that allows this absurd situation to exist. Apathy and bend-over-backwards political correctness are strangling our educational institutions. Somebody's got to start screaming about it. You can't fix it if you don't understand the depth of the problem.

And in today's boneheaded society, you probably can't fix it anyway. Too many concerned about propriety. Too many concerned about what others might think.

And by the way, have we COMPLETELY LOST **ALL** OF OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS?

You are now free to put your heads back in the sand.

YOU CAN'T FIRE ANYONE IN PITTSBURGH

This town is a joke. But then, you knew that. A cop beats his wife. He doesn't get fired. A cop mistakenly things someone is a crook who isn't, and beats the shit out of him. The cop skates.

How strange a world is it that when a teacher speaks truth to power about snotty kids and dopey parents, and she may get canned, but a paramedic whose job it is to save lives refuses to walk a few blocks to save a life... and you can't fire her.

For you international MacYippers, we had a horrible winter last year, and a big dumping of snow nicknamed Snowmaggedon. There was a guy in trouble who called 9/11 but the streets were too snow packed to navigate.

The paramedics would have had to talk a few blocks and assist the man in trouble. But instead, they did this:

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11047/1125708-53.stm

Ms. Dimon declined to cross the snow-covered Elizabeth Street Bridge and wanted Mr. Mitchell to walk to the ambulance. By 6:09 a.m., city officials said last year, Ms. Dimon was tired of waiting.

"He ain't [expletive] comin' down, and I ain't waitin' all day for him," she said to a colleague on a call recorded at the dispatch center. "I mean, what the [expletive], this ain't no cab service."

Ms. Dimon later said, "Is he on his way? Because we are not going to wait all day for him."

At 6:15 a.m., officials said, Mr. Mitchell, unable to walk, canceled the call. By the time an ambulance reached him the next day, he had died of what the medical examiner's office ruled were natural causes.

"HE AIN'T COMIN' DOWN AND I AIN'T WAITIN ALL DAY FOR HIM. I MEAN, WHAT THE FUCK, THIS AIN'T NO CAB SERVICE"

They fired the bitch. An arbitrator has reinstated her. How did she even get the freaking gig?

You can't fire anyone in Pittsburgh. With the exception of smart allecky talk show hosts. I shoulda been a paramedic. Or a weatherman.

AND FINALLY... THE SLEAZY STATE GOP LAWMAKER WHO ACCEPTS A FREE TRIP TO THE SUPERBOWL SAYS HE'LL REIMBURSE CONSOL ENERGY... BUT ONLY 'CAUSE HE GOT BUSTED

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11046/1125499-454.stm
HARRISBURG -- The leader of Pennsylvania's Senate said Monday that he would repay one of the state's largest energy companies for his trip to this year's Super Bowl in Texas.

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson, announced through Twitter and Facebook that he would reimburse Consol Energy Inc. in full for the trip, which included airfare, hotel, and Super Bowl tickets.

HOW. COULD. THIS. POSSIBLY. BE LEGAL. ????????????????????????????????????????

You realize he's only reimbursing because he was exposed. You also realize technically, he doesn't have to.

Because PA lawmakers are largely compromised, unethical, no-good, money grubbing louts.

Two words for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania my friends.

BACK. WATER.


POST-GAZETTE'S BRIAN O'NEILL REVIEWS MAC-YAPPER VIDEO

Brian O'Neill is a fine columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

He happened upon the MacYapper blog the other day, and was amused by my jealously of homeless-guy-turned-guy-with-several-lucrative-offers Ted Williams.

Hence he wrote the following. Enjoy. Or not. I thought it was groovy.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11034/1122562-155.stm?cmpid=bcpanel2
I'm not sure I've ever helped anyone go viral, at least not since I went to work at Waldbaum's deli with bronchitis 35 years ago.

But "going viral'' is now the buzzword of new media. Ya gotta make something wildly popular in a flash, even if that popularity has a shorter shelf life than your average banana.

The most obvious recent example would be Ted Williams, the homeless fellow with the sonorous voice whose image was captured last month at a highway off-ramp by a videographer with The Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Williams' baritone was so captivating that he wound up all over the TV talk shows and was offered more jobs than most Ivy Leaguers.

Long battling alcoholism, he entered rehab after receiving national attention. I saw a report that he's out again, but in this hyperspeed age, Mr. Williams is already yesterday's news. The media are now going 24/7 with Steelers/brrr-it's-cold/Egypt, roughly in that order. The mid-January fame of Mr. Williams now seems a very long time ago.

John McIntire remembers, though. I called up his MacYapper blog the other day and found Pittsburgh's own "underemployed broadcaster and comedian'' going full tilt, like an auctioneer with two minutes to live, in an ostentatiously envious, politically incorrect way about how this homeless man gets all the breaks.

His screed had only 162 views by Wednesday morning, which is more like a polite cough than a virus. But it's funny.

Here is the video to which Brian refers.



Just as it is as American as apple pie to romanticize about a rags to riches fairytale, so too is it as American as wasting money on crap at Target, to envy those who convert the aforementioned rags to actual cash-money.

Hence, I join a long list of extinguished Americans in my effort to keep up with the Joneses. Or in this case the Williams. ses.

Can I out homeless the homeless guy and hence out succeed him in the long run?

Ah, the great American soap opera. You doubt me? Wash your mouth out with soap opera.

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