{"id":136,"date":"2013-03-02T23:44:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/?p=136"},"modified":"2016-08-11T20:04:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:04:35","slug":"fort-lee-school-system-being-held-hostage-by-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lee School System being Held Hostage by Superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RECENT NEWS ITEMS THAT DEMAND ATTENTION!\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

My apologies to my wife in advance, but I couldn\u2019t resist.<\/p>\n

Everyone is getting on Manti Te\u2019o\u2019s case for an imaginary girlfriend.\u00a0\u00a0 I just think he\u2019s smarter than the rest of us.\u00a0 Does nobody else see the perks of an imaginary girlfriend?<\/p>\n

(1)\u00a0\u00a0 She will never charge designer clothing on your credit card.<\/p>\n

(2)\u00a0\u00a0 She would never ask for expensive jewelry.<\/p>\n

(3)\u00a0\u00a0 She will not complain when you don\u2019t take her out to a fancy restaurant.<\/p>\n

(4)\u00a0\u00a0 You will never have to worry about forgetting her birthday.<\/p>\n

(5)\u00a0\u00a0 She will not complain about not going to Rome on vacation.<\/p>\n

(6)\u00a0\u00a0 She will never get upset when you are cheating with the college \u201cgroupies\u201d that worship you and will do \u201canything\u201d for your attention.\u00a0 (Even at Notre Dame).<\/p>\n

(7)\u00a0\u00a0 She won\u2019t complain when you\u2019re spending the evening out drinking with your teammates.<\/p>\n

(8)\u00a0\u00a0 She won\u2019t complain when you are exhausted after a tough loss to Alabama.<\/p>\n

(9)\u00a0\u00a0 You will never have to put money away for an expensive engagement ring & your parents won\u2019t have to worry about an expensive wedding.<\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t sound so terrible, does it?! Of course, one has to wonder if any publicity stunt to help win the Heisman Trophy would be beyond this family\u2019s consideration.<\/p>\n

One might tend to be more concerned with the report in the NY times that Notre Dame is spending megabucks to engage a private investigator to see if Te\u2019o was the victim of a hoax, i.e. to protect the university\u2019s reputation.\u00a0 But in 2010, when Lizzy Seeberg, a college freshman at St. Mary\u2019s College in South Bend, accused a Notre Dame player of sexual assault, the University kept a lid on it.\u00a0 Note: Lizzy committed suicide ten days after the alleged assault.<\/p>\n

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Season # 12 for American Idol.\u00a0 Losing Steven Tyler and J-Lo, they have decided to go in a different direction, straight downhill.\u00a0 They have chosen to engage a no-talent misfit like Nicki Minaj as a judge. Besides Minaj\u2019s appearance, which is equivalent to a poor man\u2019s Lady Gaga, she is a pale shadow of Jennifer Lopez\u2019s star draw on the show.\u00a0\u00a0 To team with Minaj, the producers have exhumed Maria Carey, a diva, who never had a strong TV persona, to judge talented competitors.\u00a0 Her faux British accent (quickly imitated by Minaj) is the highlight of her Idol performance.\u00a0 Keith Urban is the saving grace; he adds a little class to the act.\u00a0 Of course being married to Nicole Kidman doesn\u2019t hurt his image.\u00a0 Randy Jackson\u2019s act is twelve years old, i.e. \u201cdawg-tired\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The word \u201ckow-tow\u201d is supposedly derived in 1804 from the Chinest k\u2019o-t\u2019ou custom of touching the forehead to show respect or submission, literally \u201cknow the head\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 In the figurative sense of\u201dact in an obsequious manner\u201d is from 1826.\u00a0http:\/\/www.etymonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It appears that the Thai court system loved the word and decided years ago to make it the primary law of Siam (Thailand, pre-1949). \u00a0Thai judges routinely hand down jail sentences to those convicted of offending the country\u2019s king under restrictive l\u00e8se-majest\u00e9 law. \u00a0On Thursday, the courts carried this hypocritical, anachronistic law to new heights.<\/p>\n

In sentencing a former protest leader to two years in prison, a court ruled that the defendant was liable not only for what he said, but also for what he left unsaid.\u00a0 The criminal court\u2019s ruling said the defendant, Yossawarit Chuklom, had not specifically mentioned the king when he gave a speech in 2010 to a large group of people protesting the military-backed government then in power. But by making a gesture of being muzzled \u2014 placing his hands over his mouth \u2014 Mr. Yossawarit had insinuated that he was talking about the king, the court ruled.\u00a0 \u201cEven though the defendant did not identify His Majesty the king directly,\u201d the court ruled, Mr. Yossawarit\u2019s speech \u201ccannot be interpreted any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n

As King Bhumbol Adulyadej, 85, enters the final years of his life, the court has been implementing this law ever more frequently. \u00a0In recent years, dozens of people have been convicted of insulting the king and his family. Among them are a Swiss man sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2007 for defacing posters of the king; a naturalized American citizen convicted in 2011 for translating a banned biography of the king; and a Thai truck driver who received a\u00a0 20-year prison term for sending explicit text messages that insulted the king and queen. www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

While the U.S. makes a feeble attempt to adjust to the 21st<\/sup> century, it is clear that, in many parts of the world, civilization has not set in yet, and that many governments remain in the 15th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

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On Dec. 14, 2012, the Newtown Massacre took place.\u00a0 Legislators all over the country, e.g. Andrew Cuomo, are scampering quickly to cash in politically on the disaster.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Jan. 17, a seven-year old boy enters a Queens elementary school with a flare gun and a .22 caliber automatic pistol, a magazine with 10 rounds of ammunition, and 14 additional rounds in a plastic bag.\u00a0 His mother, Deborah Farley, 53, was arrested on Friday for weapons charges, unrelated drug charges, and child endangerment.\u00a0 This \u201cbrain surgeon\u201d put these items on Wednesday evening in her son\u2019s back pack for \u201csafekeeping\u201d. The police found a 2nd<\/sup> unlicensed handgun in her home later under a warranted search.<\/p>\n

So now we will enact new legislation regarding gun control and new regulations to prevent mentally ill citizens from owning guns, all for show. But how do you legislate against stupidity?\u00a0 Maybe our legislators should focus on preventing unfit parents from having children!\u00a0 Or perhaps we could legislate against people with very limited intelligence, banning their purchase of illegal handguns at gun shows or through the internet!<\/p>\n

Considering the possibility of this \u201coversight\u201d having resulted in another massacre, the judge, Mary R. O\u2019Donoghue, appears to be very lenient in setting Ms. Farley\u2019s bail at $ 35,000. A bail of $3.5 million might have sent a slightly stronger message.<\/p>\n

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Lance Armstrong has confessed, \u00a0however, it is unlikely that many people will accept his apology at this point.\u00a0 He may have to return prize money, forfeit all his awards and his reputation will be tarnished forever.\u00a0 In order the recoup these losses, it is speculated that Lance will be starting a new charitable organization \u201cSteroids R\u2019Us\u201d.\u00a0 He is soliciting Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, Alex Rodriguez , and Marion Jones to be on the Executive Board.\u00a0\u00a0 Lance speculates that if all the \u00a0professional athletes that have used steroids in the last two decades donates one tithe (10%) of their earnings during their respective careers to this charity, we can eliminate world hunger.<\/p>\n

One more thing. Who is the major beneficiary of Lance\u2019s confession? It is Oprah Winfrey\u2019s OWN channel, that has been suffering from ratings that border on abysmal.\u00a0 Under those circumstances, one can understand Oprah\u2019s sympathetic attitude during the interview.<\/p>\n

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Final vignette:<\/b> \u00a0Eric Wander, esteemed editor and friend, is departing from the Fort Lee Patch to pursue bigger and better things.\u00a0 We all wish him great success.\u00a0\u00a0 Personally, I am deeply concerned about whether his new employer will allow him to wear his baseball cap to work.\u00a0 My greatest fear is that he will not be able to perform without it.<\/p>\n

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RECENT NEWS ITEMS THAT DEMAND ATTENTION!\u00a0 My apologies to my wife in advance, but I couldn\u2019t resist. Everyone is getting on Manti Te\u2019o\u2019s case for an imaginary girlfriend.\u00a0\u00a0 I just think he\u2019s smarter than the rest of us.\u00a0 Does nobody else see the perks of an imaginary girlfriend? (1)\u00a0\u00a0 She will never charge designer clothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlsofwisdom.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}