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Open Thread: Your Bummer Lamb

by: Dean Barker

Wed Aug 11, 2010 at 07:38:33 AM EDT
Warner's Maxine Kumin:
Bring me your fallen fledgling, your bummer lamb,
lead the abused, the starvelings, into my barn.
Advise the hunted deer to leap into my corn.
Dean Barker :: Open Thread: Your Bummer Lamb
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Open Thread: Your Bummer Lamb | 5 comments
If you're on Facebook, (4.00 / 2)
please join my page Jennifer Daler for NH House. It has a direct link to donate to my campaign through Act Blue.

I will need lots of support to win this election.

Thanks.

Manchester Stomping on Free Speech? (4.00 / 3)
Based on a story in today's UL, it looks like the Manchester School District has turned its attention away from such weighty matters as whether teachers can wear toe revealing footwear to prohibiting teachers from exercisng their First Amendment rights.

According to the story, ".. staff should not use the Internet to say anything disparaging about students, staff or the district."

http://www.unionleader.com/art...

Hopefully staff is professional enough not to say disparaging things about specific students, or their colleagues, on Facebook or a blog. However, the First Amendment gives staff the absolute right to use the internet to say things like, "I wish the district was as focused on classroom performance as it is on stupid policies like whether teachers can wear sandals to work".

Will it violate the policy to post a comment at the UL web site criticizing the district, but not violate the policy if you write a letter to the editor? Or is it okay to physically mail a letter, but not okay to send it electronically? Can a staffer e mail a spouse from a blackberry and say, "you won't believe the stupid meeting I had to sit through at school today"?





"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

In favor: Shaheen, Hodes, Shea-Porter. Opposed: Gregg (4.00 / 2)
700 teachers in New Hampshire will not lose their jobs because of a bill signed by President Obama yesterday.

Senator Shaheen and Reps. Hodes and Shea-Porter voted for that bill. Senator Gregg didn't.

Do Republican candidates for federal office think New Hampshire would be better off with seven hundred fewer teachers? Someone should ask them.

--
Hope 2012

@DougLindner

The Dumbest Campaign Ad in History (4.00 / 1)
Ladies and gentlemen, Dan Quayle's moronic son
Ben Quayle says he gonna knock the HELL out of DC (4.00 / 1)
Although when he says he's going to knock the hell out of this place... you BELIEVE him... well actually you don't believe him at all.  He has about as much personality as a zucchini.  He makes his dad look like Bill Clinton in comparison.  
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