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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: ChuckJ on October 28, 2012, 11:58:52 AM
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I haven't seen this brought over yet. The OP is fairly interesting story, especially when compared to the current crop of Bouncy Tales, but I brought it over because of Wee Willie. He hasn't been getting the spotlight that he's used to. Did you know that he wrote books? Did you know that he wrote books?
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:29 PM
AaronMayorga (65 posts)
Fact Checked My Teacher
Before I begin, I would just like to formally introduce myself on DU. My name is Aaron, I'm 16 years old, and I'm from New York City, New York.
Anyway, let me begin, so in New York State in order to graduate, one must take a Health course. I know it sounds stupid, but for me its an easy 95. Regardless, my teacher is former military, pro-small government, and around fifty years old. He also has a sticker saying that he supports the separation of "Darwin and state," so it comes as now surprise that he is a Republican.
So in today's class, I walked in and saw on the board "$712 billion cut from Medicare" and an arrow pointing to AARP. This didn't come as a surprise since he done enough Obama-bashing for a lifetime. Anyway, I, who is not a fan of political discussion with teachers, thought to myself, seriously. So, we begin discusses what AARP actually does and why it endorsed the Affordable Care Act. He came to the conclusion that AARP endorsed the Affordable Care Act simply because its "Medicare cuts" forced seniors to get more supplement coverage from AARP. In other words, lobbying. It's an interesting argument that sounds reasonable, obviously it's was a bunch of stuff, malarkey if you please.
I'd had enough. I'd allowed him to walk over the Affordable Care Act for nearly two months, and allowed him to spew GOP talking points to the fellow classmates. I had heard this Medicare crap all throughout the summer, the conventions, and the debates. I, being a policy wonk, had that Joe Biden smile of death on my face as I raised my hand. When I was called, I quickly pointed out that it was not $712 billion in cuts but actually $716 billion. Next, I pointed out that the Medicare cuts wasn't from coverage to seniors, but actually from wasteful spending to hospitals and big pharma. Finally, I said that the Paul Ryan's budget also cut the same number, but the cuts under "Obamacare" extended Medicare by eight years. As I spoke, I realized that the class favored by facts over his talking points.
He tried to cut me off, but I persisted. I, then, pointed out the Washington Post had given it four pinocchios, and that PolitiFact.com (I had also pointed out that it was an arm of the Tampa Bay Times and was a winner of the Pultizer Prize) had deemed it as utterly false. He, then, said, "The Washington Post endorsed Obama. It's not true." I simply, "No, it's called facts." The class, in unison, yelled, "Oh!" My teacher looked at me with that face (the "I know I just got fact-checked face"), and had no reply.
Shut him up real good...
Edit: He also attempted to tell me and my friend that Fox News wasn't biased.
Note: I attend a Catholic High School on a scholarship; since most NYC high schools are terrible especially in the Bronx.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021619342 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021619342)
Response to WinkyDink (Reply #54)Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:20 AM
WilliamPitt (52,145 posts)
69. Um...Winky...
I taught at a private Catholic school while writing books against the Bush administration and the wars. The admin was, to a person, very very liberal, and they made it God-wrathingly clear that NO POLITICS shall enter the classroom by way of a teacher.
Take care with that broad brush.
Response to AaronMayorga (Original post)Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:17 AM
WilliamPitt (52,145 posts)
68. You know, AaronMayorga...
...I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
(watch 'Casablanca' if you haven't yet to get the reference)
As a former teacher who was writing anti-Bush and anti-Iraq-war books while still teaching, I felt it was my highest duty (beyond educating my students) to keep my own politics out of the classroom. Kids need to figure that stuff out on their own, and I did not want my students a) parroting my beliefs back at me to curry favor for a good grade, or b) afraid to express themselves for fear of getting a bad grade.
Cheers, and welcome to DU.
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h/t Rufus
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I bet the kid lives in low income housing and is a gerneration welfare bum. What I mean by generation welfare bum is that his Great Grandparents, his Grandparents, his parents , and him are all on welfare. The morons are only voting for obama because he gives them free stuff. They are too stupid to know that obama doing that is keeping them down with no possibility of ever bettering themselves. They will stay on welfare and sponge off the tax payers for the rest of their lives.
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the Medicare cuts wasn't from coverage to seniors, but actually from wasteful spending to hospitals and big pharma.
Kid,
If you don't pay people for products and services they stop providing them to the consumer. So, yes; it is a cut to seniors.
You may get a 95 in condom deployment but you get a 60 in consumer economics.
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Kid,
If you don't pay people for products and services they stop providing them to the consumer. So, yes; it is a cut to seniors.
You may get a 95 in condom deployment but you get a 60 in consumer economics.
I think schools should start teaching economics to kids. Maybe then, some of them would know some things.
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That was painful to read. I had a better understanding of writing, punctuation, and sentence structure when I was 8 than this dolt does at 16.
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Have they tombstoned the kid yet? He's obviously not going to vote for O'bama and as I recall that is a bannable offense.
KC
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Is this mini-moonbat bouncy author perhaps actually from Sheboygan, Wisconsin?
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Is this mini-moonbat bouncy author perhaps actually from Sheboygan, Wisconsin?
The first thing that came to my mind. :lmao:
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Hey kid, the DUmmies might buy that BS story but momma won't. She'll know the real reason you got that "F".
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I see the Public School Education is doing great for this little shit.
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h/t Rufus
(http://www.conservativecave.com/Smileys/default/Obamabong.jpg)
Thanks, I wouldn't be surprised this was all fake, knowing them...
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All I got from the OP is that he's been given the chance for a good education through the giving of others and he's coming across as an entitled snot.
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I guess he did actually write books. I only knew about the one with his fellow prevert.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B001H6W47S_sr?sort=relevance&search-alias=books&field-author=William+Rivers+Pitt
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The new DUmmie strikes out....
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Basically, he "shuts his 50-ish racist redneck teacher up" in his school.
Note: I attend a Catholic High School on a scholarship; since most NYC high schools are terrible especially in the Bronx.
Er, to clarify: his PRIVATE Catholic High School, because the PUBLIC schools are all run by leftist, reverse-racist, socialist thugs who believe in a strict separation of Church and State..
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I guess he did actually write books. I only knew about the one with his fellow prevert.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B001H6W47S_sr?sort=relevance&search-alias=books&field-author=William+Rivers+Pitt
And only members of the DUmp bought it. Did you see how they have over 100 used copies for $.01? -> http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0745320104/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all <- The ones that have it for $3.99 are giving it away, as that is how much the shipping cost. :lmao: :lmao:
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And only members of the DUmp bought it. Did you see how they have over 100 used copies for $.01? -> http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0745320104/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all <- The ones that have it for $3.99 are giving it away, as that is how much the shipping cost. :lmao: :lmao:
Did you notice the review by txradioguy?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Greatest-Sedition-Is-Silence/product-reviews/0745320104/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
The most helpful critical review
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Typical Pitt Drivel
While this kind of leftist revisionist history will play well with the mouth breathing ritalin chewing types at DemocratUnderground that rah rah everything Pitt does. Like his Rovian prediciton of 24 business hours this book will sink just as quickly back into embarassing obscurity. Pitt is only at his best when he's on the barstool at his favorite imaginary bar in...
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Published 2 months ago by txradioguy
:-)
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Way to g, Txradioguy! :lmao:
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I am reading a couple of the reviews on his books. Almost everyone of them refers to the DUmp and how stupid the members are.. :lmao:
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So in today's class, I walked in and saw on the board "$712 billion cut from Medicare" and an arrow pointing to AARP. This didn't come as a surprise since he done enough Obama-bashing for a lifetime. Anyway, I, who is not a fan of political discussion with teachers, thought to myself, seriously. So, we begin discusses what AARP actually does and why it endorsed the Affordable Care Act. He came to the conclusion that AARP endorsed the Affordable Care Act simply because its "Medicare cuts" forced seniors to get more supplement coverage from AARP. In other words, lobbying. It's an interesting argument that sounds reasonable, obviously it's was a bunch of stuff, malarkey if you please.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/09/22/the-aarps-2-8-billion-reasons-for-supporting-obamacares-cuts-to-medicare/
How the AARP Made $2.8 Billion By Supporting Obamacare's Cuts to Medicare
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Here’s how it works. AARP isn’t your every-day citizens’ advocacy group. The AARP is also one of the largest private health insurers in America. In 2011, the AARP generated $458 million in royalty fees from so-called “Medigap†plans, nearly twice the $266 million the lobby receives in membership dues.
Medigap plans are private insurance plans that seniors buy to cover the things that traditional, government-run Medicare doesn’t, like catastrophic coverage. Medigap plans also help seniors eliminate the co-pays and deductibles that are designed to restrain wasteful Medicare spending.
AARP blocked Medigap reforms, saving the group $1.8 billion
But the AARP aggressively, and successfully, lobbied to keep Medigap reforms out of Obamacare, because AARP receives a 4.95 percent royalty on every dollar that seniors spend on its Medigap plans. Reform, DeMint estimates, would have cost AARP $1.8 billion over ten years.
Cuts to Medicare Advantage could earn AARP over $1 billion
Cuts to Medicare Advantage could earn AARP over $1 billion
Not only did AARP succeed in getting Democrats to balk at Medigap reform. Obamacare’s cuts to Medicare Advantage will drive many seniors out of that program, and into traditional government-run Medicare, which will increase the number of people who need Medigap insurance.
AARP Medigap plans exempted from Obamacare’s insurance mandates
It gets worse. AARP Medigap plans are exempted from most of Obamacare’s best-known insurance mandates. AARP Medigap plans are exempted from the ban that requires insurers to take all comers, regardless of pre-existing conditions. The plans are exempted from the $500,000 cap on insurance industry executive compensation; top AARP executives currently make more than $1 million. AARP plans are exempt from the premium tax levied on other private insurers. IPAB, Medicare’s rationing board, is explicitly barred from altering Medicare’s cost-sharing provisions, provisions that govern the existence of Medigap plans.
And AARP Medigap plans are allowed to have twice the administrative costs that other private insurers are allowed under Obamacare’s medical loss ratio regulations. This last point is key, because AARP’s 4.95 percent royalty is a significant administrative cost.
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WilliamPitt (52,145 posts)
As a former teacher who was writing anti-Bush and anti-Iraq-war books while still teaching, I felt it was my highest duty (beyond educating my students) to keep my own politics out of the classroom. Kids need to figure that stuff out on their own, and I did not want my students a) parroting my beliefs back at me to curry favor for a good grade, or b) afraid to express themselves for fear of getting a bad grade.
Cheers, and welcome to DU.
Pittstain was a teacher? That drunk? I suspect they finally got rid of him cause he either passed out on his desk or was too drunk to show up.
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Pittstain was a teacher? That drunk? I suspect they finally got rid of him cause he either passed out on his desk or was too drunk to show up.
I believe they got rid of him because he was taking 'liberties' with some of the female students (or attempting to).
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I believe they got rid of him because he was taking 'liberties' with some of the female students (or attempting to).
Thanks Chris! I hadn't heard that he was teacher before. :cheersmate:
He's lucky he didn't get his ass shot. Fathers tend to take a really, really, really dim view of men that try to molest their daughters. Least they do around these parts.
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Hi 5 to Snuggs and TRG.
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Thanks Chris! I hadn't heard that he was teacher before. :cheersmate:
He's lucky he didn't get his ass shot. Fathers tend to take a really, really, really dim view of men that try to molest their daughters. Least they do around these parts.
The Bostnian Drunkard wasn't a professional teacher.
He was a substitute, temporary, teacher.
His academic credentials don't allow him to be a full-time teacher.
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The Bostnian Drunkard wasn't a professional teacher.
He was a substitute, temporary, teacher.
His academic credentials don't allow him to be a full-time teacher.
Hmmmm Frank. To my way of thinking... wouldn't one have to have the same credentials to be a sub teacher as one would to be a full time teacher? I really dunno. Seems reasonable to me. I would think the teacher unions would cry foul if he didn't.
Then again maybe he had a 24 business hour exemption. :rotf:
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Response to WinkyDink (Reply #54)Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:20 AM
WilliamPitt (52,145 posts)
69. Um...Winky...
I taught at a private Catholic school while writing books against the Bush administration and the wars. The admin was, to a person, very very liberal, and they made it God-wrathingly clear that NO POLITICS shall enter the classroom by way of a teacher.
Take care with that broad brush.
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The Bostnian Drunkard wasn't a professional teacher.
He was a substitute, temporary, teacher.
His academic credentials don't allow him to be a full-time teacher.
I would have to see verification documents before I believe that. Now, as far as no politics in the classroom? That, I can verify.
Never. Ever.
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Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:20 AM
WilliamPitt (52,145 posts)
I taught at a private Catholic school while writing books against the Bush administration and the wars.
Well, now, since Mister Pitt has been unemployed for years now, falling into a hopeless state of daily drunkenness, one must wonder how that promising career as an educator came to an end.
Surely it wasn't to pursue a career in writing, since Mister Pitt has have been paid a penny for his writing, and his mother, the wallduded DUmmy Raven, has paid a vanity publisher for every single copy of his "books" ever printed.
What happened Mister Pitt?
Why no teaching career?
Did some kind of problem crop up?
Were you caught with your, uh, finger in the cookie jar?
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Well, now, since Mister Pitt has been unemployed for years now, falling into a hopeless state of daily drunkenness, one must wonder how that promising career as an educator came to an end.
Surely it wasn't to pursue a career in writing, since Mister Pitt has have been paid a penny for his writing, and his mother, the wallduded DUmmy Raven, has paid a vanity publisher for every single copy of his "books" ever printed.
What happened Mister Pitt?
Why no teaching career?
Did some kind of problem crop up?
Were you caught with your, uh, finger in the cookie jar?
:lol: :lol: :lol:
H5!!!
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I am fear’s hostage.
Several years ago, I was wrongly and clandestinely accused of terrible things in two separate incidents. The action appears to have been motivated by petty maliciousness in one case and by fear and racism in the other. The rumors were discussed and believed by literally hundreds of people, including those in administrative and dominant social positions. I found out about both years or months later from people outside the organizations, as no one inside them bothered to confront, warn, or face up to me in person. Prior to this, I was one of the most universally respected persons, but since then I have been stained, and carry a legacy of disgrace. Upon visiting one organization after my direct involvement ended, I heard about the accusation there again from people much younger than me, indicating that when I and the others left, the story and the mark stayed.
Though the accusations were never brought to legal ends, I fear that they carry the effect of multiple felony convictions. I believe that should I ever apply for a job that requires a thorough background check, run for public office, or make an enemy of any person, these rumors will spring out of my history, and because they are believed by so many people and I have no means to disprove them, be taken as fact. This won’t ever go away, no matter how old I live to be. It will follow me all the way to my grave.
I’m in a different town now, but I remain surrounded by people involved in both incidents. At any time, should I be recognized publicly, or should someone have a grudge against me, some of the very accusers themselves can step forward and instantly destroy my career prospects, social relationships, and most other aspects of my life beyond hope of repair.
That this has happened and that I cannot escape it shames and angers me. I want to loosen its grip on me, and gain what measure of freedom from the terror and stigma I can.
To that end, I am considering open disclosure and discussion of the incidents with the majority of my friends, so that among them I can move among them without such shame or secrecy. I see no means to eliminate the root problem, as it would require all the accusers, some of whom were never identified to me, to openly confess their falsehood, and for thousands of people all across this state to hear and believe them. I expect that if they hear about this, several of my friends will break contact with me, lose their faith in me, or no longer be trusting and genuine, and that I will not be able to tell with certainty which do and which do not.
I post this here in search of friendly advice and support.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4584820
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Hmmmm Frank. To my way of thinking... wouldn't one have to have the same credentials to be a sub teacher as one would to be a full time teacher? I really dunno. Seems reasonable to me. I would think the teacher unions would cry foul if he didn't.
Then again maybe he had a 24 business hour exemption. :rotf:
Nope.
At least at the time the Bostonian Drunkard was a substitute teacher, the laws of Massachusetts were similar with the laws here in Nebraska, in regards to temporary teachers. Probably it's still the same way; I cain't imagine there's any reason it'd bee changed.
To be a substitute teacher in Nebraska or Massachusetts simply requires a bachelor's degree in some area.
A simple four-year college degree will do it, but of course there's severe limitations on what one can do, and it's low-paying, so many don't do it. Also, one gets no benefits, just the daily pay.
The Bostonian Drunkard has a four-year college degree in English literature.
One has to have a four-year college degree in "education" to be an official teacher.
I guess in Missouri the standards for substitute teachers are even more minimal.
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Nope.
At least at the time the Bostonian Drunkard was a substitute teacher, the laws of Massachusetts were similar with the laws here in Nebraska, in regards to temporary teachers. Probably it's still the same way; I cain't imagine there's any reason it'd bee changed.
To be a substitute teacher in Nebraska or Massachusetts simply requires a bachelor's degree in some area.
A simple four-year college degree will do it, but of course there's severe limitations on what one can do, and it's low-paying, so many don't do it. Also, one gets no benefits, just the daily pay.
The Bostonian Drunkard has a four-year college degree in English literature.
One has to have a four-year college degree in "education" to be an official teacher.
I guess in Missouri the standards for substitute teachers are even more minimal.
Wow. Never knew that. That's why I like you Frank. You never fail to broaden my knowledge. :cheersmate: :cheersmate:
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Formerly, Pitt taught English literature, journalism, grammar and history at a small private school outside Boston. He set aside teaching in 2003 and became a full-time professional writer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rivers_Pitt
*snort*
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*snort*
I think the Bostonian Drunkard wrote his wikipedia entry his own self.
One wonders if franksolich could do that, getting into wikipedia.
Anyway, as originally written--it's since been changed--when describing his couple of years in San Francisco, the Bostonian Drunkard tried to make it sound as if he were an attorney for a law firm there. He didn't actually say so, but wrote it so the reader would get that impression.
Actually, the Bostonian Drunkard was a courier, a go-fer, at the law firm of college pals of his father.
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I think the Bostonian Drunkard wrote his wikipedia entry his own self.
It appears so. Most serious biographies wouldn't be so trite as to refer to "a small private school outside Boston".
I don't suppose it matters. He has his background listed on his Facebook page. Oh wait, no he doesn't.