[XqrkN4a0]

You must be brain damaged. Seriously. I commented on the teacher getting suspended saying it seems the system worked and you try to warp it into something unreal. How the **** do you get that out of a one sentence post saying "the system seems to have worked"? You must have been dropped on the head as a child or something.

Logic, reason, and a correct grasp of facts being foreign concepts to you, I will make this simple. The 'system' intends to encourage acceptable behavior through rewards and deterrents. A paid leave of absence is not really a deterrent. Furthermore, until the teacher's behavior is seen to have improved, any claim of the 'system' working in this capacity is premature. Alternatively one could claim the 'sytem' intends to provide a good learning environment for those lovable tykes, however, that also would be a premature claim.

[ZZtop]

Whether a paid leave of absence is a deterrent isn't clear- the teacher could find it humiliating.

Perhaps, but as I indicated it would be premature to indicate it has worked.

[ResistNewWorldOrder]

Paid vacations are humiliating?

No. By assuming this is identical to a paid vacation you are begging the question.

[Sowsunese]

Why has my thread turned into a procreation battlefield?

I is sowwy.

[DavidShreder]

Suspension is lame. The teacher needs to go through retraining. Arrested for bad mouthing the President? Is she from China or something?

[ElcinBoris]

Think back to the old days when Kennedy was bopping starlets on the side. The press showed considerable restraint and respect for the office by not splashing it on the front pages.

Was that such a bad thing? Question rah - if it were Bush would you be saying the same thing? That we should treat the sitting president with some modicum of civility? That sure didn't happen. People getting fired for bashing Bush? Never happen.

[BarBoss]

Question rah - if it were Bush would you be saying the same thing? That we should treat the sitting president with some modicum of civility? That sure didn't happen. People getting fired for bashing Bush? Never happen. Huh. I said that I prefer the old days. So yes, I think Bush deserved the same treatment, and so does Obama. (regardless of some of the jokes I've posted here )
I think "was that such a bad thing" already answered that question.

[margoaroyo]

So I take that to mean that you don't believe the office of president rates any respect. I will disagree.

[BJEugene]

Agreed. But using an avatar of a black jimmy carter to poke fun of the president is. There are ways to to criticize without being disrespectful.

[Finanziamento]

While I agree that this woman went WAY overboard here, the concept that the sitting president deserves a little respect is not that terrible of an idea.

Think back to the old days when Kennedy was bopping starlets on the side. The press showed considerable restraint and respect for the office by not splashing it on the front pages.
Was that such a bad thing?

Considering he almost left the nuclear launch codes in one of their vaginas, I think we can safely conclude that it was a bad thing.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...HlX4SmHQXaMPaA

[SQiTmhuY]

So I take that to mean that you don't believe the office of president rates any respect. I will disagree. I just think that those who ridicule a president that they disagree with relentlessly, should expect the favor to be returned for a president that they do like.

But using an avatar of a black jimmy carter to poke fun of the president is. There are ways to to criticize without being disrespectful How is comparing one beloved Democrat president with another beloved Democrat president disrespectful to the presidency? And that avatar wasn't a black Jimmy Carter. It was a White Jimmy Carter head with Obama's facial features.

[L0KoxewQ]

Has anyone EVER claimed that criticizing Obamacare is unpatriotic?

[Elisabetxxx]

Also, I remember back when GWB got the shoe thrown at him. I wished I could shake that Iraqi dude's hand, but my fairly conservative sister-in-law was indignant. She said that, while you could criticize the man, the office of the president deserved a little respect. I think my reply was that GWB was disrespecting the office of the president merely by occupying it. Also, if some foreign country came in and turned the US upside down, then its leader came over and gave a "well, you're doing an OK job cleaning up the mess we made of your country, I guess" speech...in that case, that ***** better just appreciate the shoe, and be grateful I couldn't smuggle in a cinderblock.

But I digress. The President, as the elected head of a democracy, is a public servant, and if your servant screws up, you make it crystal-clear. Ideally without being abusive, but even that's better than the silly imperial grovelling we generally give him.

[ingeneensueva]

The President, as the elected head of a democracy, is a public servant, and if your servant screws up, you make it crystal-clear. Ideally without being abusive, but even that's better than the silly imperial grovelling we generally give him.

This. That's why we save our grovelling for the unelected figurehead head of state, and abuse the **** out of our elected representatives and Prime Minister.

[onlineslotetes]

Are you trying to tell me that your use of that avatar was not a jab at Obama? It was a jab at Jimmy Carter.

[dyestymum]

Ben was using it to poke fun at a President. Despite anything that he's claiming now. He forgets that I have read his posts at another site that leaned to the right more than Poly. He took pride in it there since most agreed with him. So I won't believe anything he says if it's about giving the office of president an amount of respect since his action prove he doesn't believe it is due.
That's my objection.