It's Probably True

Fox News propagandist Roger Ailes is being sued for sexual harassment.

It isn't like he is centerfold material. Given the way women are sexualized on that network, it comes as no shock.

But Fox isn't alone.

I get really disgusted at the various cable "news" organizations employing what is in fact sex discrimination against women journalists and/or hosts by forcing them into sleeveless dresses, dresses that look like cocktail dresses rather than professional work wardrobes, ruinous high heels, even the showing of cleavage. Meanwhile, the men are dressed professionally in conservative dress with suits and ties. There is no attempt to sexualize the men. This is clear sex discrimination in dress codes. The news is not porn, and women should not be forced into porn-style attire. The women in these organizations should sue.

Getting back to the suit in question, Carlson's allegations are pretty damning.

I didn't know Carlson had been a Miss America. She held the title in 1989. This probably won her the title. She is a very good violinist. By not knowing about her beauty pageant past, you can tell I don't closely follow beauty pageants believing as I do they are relics of a sexist past.

Ed Etc.

Washoe County School District has to contend with yet another parent insurance claim:

In court documents filed Oct. 1 in U.S. District Court in Reno, parents Kurt and Michelle Huntoon allege that at Spanish Springs High School their daughter was “subjected to aversive interventions and inappropriate physical restraints constituting the excessive use of physical force, on several occasions by employees.”

The lawsuit says the girl, who was a student at Spanish Springs in fall 2011 and communicates with her hands using sign language, was restricted in one instance from moving for more than 14 minutes and was held with her arms and legs against the floor.

The suit says she was restrained 110 times during a period of 46 days, but her parents were never notified by school officials.

The Washoe County School District said it had no comment and had yet to be served with the lawsuit.

It'll be settled out of court.

One of the Dumbest Court Decisions in a Long Time,

and it doesn't even involve the United States Supreme Court. It's in Iowa, of all places:

After working as a dental assistant for ten years, Melissa Nelson was fired for being too "irresistible" and a "threat" to her employer's marriage.

"I think it is completely wrong," Nelson said. "I think it is sending a message that men can do whatever they want in the work force."

On Friday, the all-male Iowa State Supreme Court ruled that James Knight, Nelson's boss, was within his legal rights when he fired her, affirming the decision of a lower court.

Evidently the Iowa Supreme Court has never heard of sexual harassment. This is obviously such a case.

This May Be a Project for Me

in the near future, seeing about asking various Reno media outlets to remove any and all articles pertaining to that false lawsuit that was filed four years ago and was settled last November. The stuff remains on the internet, where any employer can look it up and use that information against me in hiring, especially school-related jobs, even though there was no case and I did nothing wrong.

It may be easier said than done, according to this article. However, I think I would have a very good chance of getting those articles removed. The Reno Gazette-Journal, which stupidly reported the civil action in the first place, withdrew those articles from its webpage almost immediately after they were published, I think perhaps within a week or two. They are not searchable, and I am not sure they are even available in the pay-to-view archive. The paper knew it screwed up; I was beyond furious over that, especially where my name was mentioned and I was vilified in comments following that article and many others.

From Reputation.com:

Reasons That News Organizations Will Or Won’t Unpublish Articles

Of course, sometimes a correction isn’t enough, but there is very little industry consensus as to when the complete unpublishing of an article is justified. Almost 80 percent of editors surveyed said they had deleted articles in the past, but their reasons varied widely. In 2009, Kathy English of the Toronto Star released an in-depth study on the issue: “The Longtail of News: To Unpublish or Not to Unpublish.” Read this report before you approach any newspaper with an unpublishing request.

Drawn from English’s data, below are the top two reasons newspapers have deleted articles, along with the percentage of respondents that have accepted each reason:

The content is viewed as inaccurate or unfair: 67 percent
Inflammatory or defamatory language or comments: 48.7 percent

The reasons least likely to get an article unpublished are the following:

Source rethinks what they want wider audience to know about them: 0.0 percent
Concerns that the post contains private information: 10.4 percent

Knowing these statistics can help you on your quest to understand how to remove news articles from the Web and protect your online reputation.

News, Etc.

So much for long articles in the Reno Gazette-Journal:  A settlement was reached in the HRT lawsuit.
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News, Etc.

Another lawsuit over the health risks of HRT will be going to trial next month.
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News, Etc.

Speaking of parasites, it didn't take long for lawyers to feed off the legal system in pursuit of bedbug lawsuits.

The claims, ranging from $100,000 to $3.55 million, are mostly against apartment building owners and managers who the victims say were negligent in dealing with infestations.

The lawsuits have made Whitney the object of scorn, with some people suggesting that he's, well . . . something of a human parasite himself.

Lawyers have always been a bit irony impaired.
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Teachers who refuse to follow principals' illegal directives usually suffer harassment or worse. Inflating or changing grades is common in both public and private schools, and teachers who refuse to do so generally have their careers destroyed by vindictive administrators.
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News

A family decides with their attorneys to shake down a southern Oregon school district following an incident or incidents involving a teacher who was accused and later fired for inappropriate touching of a kindergarten student. The suit is asking for a mere $6 million, which of course they won't get.

A couple of hundred grand, and they will be happy.
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"Performance assessments" for teachers is another crock of shit to scam teachers out of even more money.

It costs HUNDREDS of dollars, which teachers must pay out of their own pockets, to be licensed. Besides, dosen't student teaching include performance assessments? Student teaching IS a "performance assessment."

For fuck's sake, cut this shit out of demonizing teachers.
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The Education Wars

A school district settles a sex discrimination suit filed by 22 teachers, and of course the teachers have receive a pittance.

The Richland School District will pay $460,000 to 22 female teachers who claimed in a federal lawsuit that they were the victims of sex discrimination and were due back wages.

The teachers and district filed a joint statement in U.S. District Court in Johnstown asking that the suit be dismissed, The Tribune-Democrat has learned.

While the checks would average $22,900 per teacher, individual payments would vary based on the length of service and the individual circumstances of each teacher. “Somebody might get $2,000; somebody might get $50,000,” said Carl Beard of Altoona, the district’s attorney.

Of course the lawyers get a hell of a lot more.

Miscellaneous Articles

Ten cents says Phillip Morris will either win on appeal or else the jury award will be reduced to next to nothing.

Details:

Lucinda Naugle, the 61-year-old sister of a former Fort Lauderdale mayor, was awarded $56 million in compensatory damages and $244 million in punitive damages Thursday after a three-week trial and three hours of jury deliberation in Broward County Circuit Court.

Ms. Naugle, an office manager, had started smoking when she was 20 and quit when she was 45 years old, her lawyer, Robert W. Kelley of Fort Lauderdale, said in a telephone interview Friday. She now has severe emphysema and needs a lung transplant she cannot afford, he said.

The jury assigned her 10 percent of the liability for her smoking and disease, and Philip Morris 90 percent.

“She’ll get paid, I would hope, within a year or two,” Mr. Kelley said. “The question is will she live long enough.”

Sovereign Immunity

A lot of commentators, who don't understand the REASON prosecutors are immune from civil damages during the course of their duties, are bitching and moaning about a case put before the USSC regarding prosecutorial misconduct.

Hopefully the high court throws this nonsense out. The plaintiffs can go the U.S. Attorney or to the state bar and go after the lawyers' licenses, but what cannot be allowed is the idea any old criminal, or in fact, anybody who has a beef with ANY public employee, as sovereign immunity applies to all public employees during the scope of their duties, can file a stupid lawsuit in civil court.

The courts are backed up enough without garbage lawsuits filed against public employees.

Miscellaneous News

It appears Washoe County is in the hot seat with a federal lawsuit being filed claiming D.A. Dick Gammick retaliated against the plaintiffs when they complained of sexual harassment.

What else is new under the sun? The women have a very tough row to hoe and will most likely settle. The county has unlimited money to bury them.
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What the McNair case proves is you mess around, you will get burned, or in this case killed.

Jealousy is involved in so many killings.

I think this comment says it all:

McNair is like most married men, if they see a woman they want to be with they lie to get her in bed. McNair had no intention of leaving his family, he lied to this woman and the decision he made caused [sic] him his life. When one makes bad decisions everyone suffers, now his four sons are suffering, no father. His wife is suffering, no husband. His mother's heart is aching, she lost a son. His brother's heart is aching, he lost his brother. He probaby [sic] lied to this young woman about leaving his wife and she belived [sic] him. Women need to wake up. If a man truly loves his wife it doesn't matter how many times he goes to bed with you, the heart is always at home. This young woman made a made [sic] decision that caused [sic] her her life. May she rest in peace. I hope other women will learn from this tradegy [sic]. I really feel sorry for his young sons. How can this wife tell her sons that their father will never be coming home again.?

There's more here. It's not yet known whether McNair's girlfriend was herself murdered or that she killed herself.
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Personal Stuff

I am not in much of a mood to blog right now. I lost my job through the arbitration process, a TRUE joke of a process, and now I have to figure out what to do next. I really want to file a major lawsuit against WCSD, the hospital, the physician's service, and, yes, even the union because of scapegoating behavior beginning two years ago with a bad principal and escalating into the termination over what amounted to a clerical error, called "dishonesty" by another piece of shit principal.

The kicker of the whole thing is the district wants me to cooperate in that lawsuit that I am named in regarding alleged rapes at Sparks Middle School two years ago. You tell me WHY, after the crap this district has pulled, why I would give a flying fuck what happens to them. They can go to hell.

I am this close to taking my gripes to the local media.

The Booming Economy.

Thanks to a provision in the ERISA law, employers can screw their workers and their families by restricting the amount of money or damages employers can be sued.
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The elderly are being screwed over thanks to rises in gas prices.
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