Her likely opponent is Congressman Dean Heller from the second district.
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NYC students protest a teacher's suspension after a retaliatory principal was said to have written a false and defamatory letter about the teacher.
The teacher will likely be fired; after all, the principal must be protected at all costs.
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Despite First Amendment protections for teachers (and other public employees), an Allentown, Pennsylvania, superintendent plans to make good on his threat against teachers if they don't keep their mouths shut.
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Reno has been in the news quite a bit in the past couple of days. First a former resident was arrested in connection with four murders dating back from the 1970s and 1990s, Joseph Naso, and even more notorious is the fact one air traffic controller at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport was discovered sleeping on the job.
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This is a very good piece about the rise and fall of an iconic company.
The site is pay to play but there is free limited access.
Long before the fiscal crisis leading to Chapter 11 bankruptcy, however, ultimate control of the company and its profit left Jackson County. Transition to outside ownership began under John H.R. Holmes, son of the company's namesake Harry Holmes.
Ashland resident John Fox III, vice president of strategic planning when he left the company in 1987, said there was some angst when John Holmes relinquished controlling interest to R.J. Reynolds Development Corp. in a $74.1 million leveraged buyout in1986. Holmes became the company's president in 1968 and took the company public in 1976. Two years later, he and other veteran leaders were gone and RJR Nabisco had sold the company to Shaklee Corp. for $123 million.
"Everyone knows what generally happens after a merger," Fox said. "The new owner puts its own people in and those who were there are winnowed out. I don't think anybody resented Holmes selling, but there was some trepidation about what the new guys were going to do."
To say the least.
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A bullshit post in the Daily Kos which was later pulled was the start of a hoax about Sarah Palin being the grandmother of her son Trig rather than actually the mother, which she is.
Frankly, these assholes thought Palin should have aborted the pregnancy because of their extreme distaste that somebody would deliberately have a child with Down syndrome, and it pissed them off to no end that somebody who espoused anti-abortion views actually lived her beliefs.
Now a "report" from a so-called Ph.D. is making the rounds claiming the hoax about Palin being the grandmother of Trig could possibly be the truth and that Palin did commit a hoax by covering up for her daughter Bristol, who just happened to have a baby of her own some ten or 11 months after Trig was born.
In other words, we have an "academic" questioning the story which was a nonstory to begin with and merely a blogosphere rumor and wondering why more wasn't made out of it. This despite numerous photographs showing Palin obviously pregnant with having NO reason AT ALL for covering this up (after all, she didn't become McCain's running mate until months after Trig's birth). And this despite the fact Down syndrome is extremely rare in Bristol's age bracket percentage wise and the incidence more common with women in her mother's.
Truth didn't matter when it came to this. And still doesn't, apparently.
Does this "professor" have tenure, by the way? If so, it should be yanked.
He's a professor of communications, so evidently his credentials aren't a hoax.
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Obituary: Walter Breuning, 114, the world's oldest man, has died:
People began to arrive in Great Falls searching for work. He recalled transplants from North Dakota telling tales of desperate families pulling weeds from the ground and cooking them up for food.
Breuning's seniority paid off again — he held onto his job. But he and his wife never built their house. They sold the lot for $25, making a tidy $10 profit. It turned out to be the only time Breuning ever owned property — he was renter for the rest of his life.
Despite the hard times of the decade, he said what he considered the nation's greatest achievement came in 1935, when President Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law as part of his New Deal.
"I think when Roosevelt created Social Security, he probably did the best thing for people," Breuning said. "You hear so much about throwing Social Security out. Don't look for it. Hang on to your hat. It'll never go away."
He should have run for president.
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What in the HELL was Zsa Zsa Gabor thinking when she married her bogus prince?
Von Anhalt is reportedly working with Dr. Mark Surry of the Southern California Reproductive Center in Beverly Hills. He made a sperm donation yesterday and told TMZ that he's spending close to $100,000 to go through the surrogate process.
"It was always my wife's dream for us to have a child ... and even though we won't be using any of her eggs, she would be thrilled to know I'm going through with this," Von Anhalt told TMZ. "I am so excited!! I hope Zsa Zsa is going to hang around for awhile. I want her to see and hold the baby's hand. She will be a mother again at 95!! It was her wish to have a boy
If the doctor goes through with this, he should lose his license.
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Another obit of note: Arthur Marx, 89, son of Groucho and author of two books about the comedian as well as many others:
Taken together, Arthur Marx’s two books about his father offered a bittersweet picture of life in the Marx home. He described himself as desperate both to escape from his father’s shadow and to please him, an impossible task. The comic genius who kept millions in stitches was, in his private life, miserly and emotionally distant.
“No matter how much he loves you, he’ll rarely stick up for you,” Mr. Marx wrote in “Son of Groucho.” “He’ll make some sort of wisecrack instead to keep from getting involved. It’s a form of cowardice that can be more frustrating than his monetary habits.”
When “Life With Groucho,” which was much sunnier than the sequel, was being serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, Groucho denounced it as “scurrilous” and threatened legal action unless substantial changes were made.
Arthur sent him a phony set of galley proofs with the requested changes but had the book published as written. Groucho never brought the matter up again.
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