vafishing Loc: Abingdon, VA

So what???

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

Totally amazing what the media will do. Are they that bored that they have to lie and reverse what they have already stated to be fact? Well, its been proven to happen here in Houston, and some of the culprits (from age 15 up) have been caught.

bvm Loc: Glendale, Arizona

So What?

You better not go outside,
unless you wear your " I love Obama " t-shirt.

But then you probably live in one of VA's exclusive lilly white enclaves.

Must be an retired Federal employee!

vafishing Loc: Abingdon, VA

You need a geography lesson and a sociology lesson too. I live quite happily and safely in a little mountain town where fine mountain folks live. Wearing an Obama t-shirt would get me lots of curious stares. This town and this county in the southwest corner of Virginia hasn't voted for a Democrat candidate for president or the U.S. Senate in decades. I am a retired school teacher, but my father was a retired federal employee who worked his butt off standing at a metal lathe eight hours a day all during WW II turning out parts for naval weapons. Enough snickers about retired federal employees. Don't be so cavalier about topics and people you have no knowledge of.

bvm Loc: Glendale, Arizona

OH, a teacher whose retirement is EXEMPT!
Good move, explains it all.

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

My dad is a retired school teacher and retired Air Force. One tour in Vietnam. Don't fault them for the benefits they earned. My dad towards the end of his teaching career said he felt safer in Vietnam than the public school he taught at. He retired early when the school system went to hell under liberal leadership. :thumbup:

bvm Loc: Glendale, Arizona

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Your dad and I share a common air force history.

But there are teachers who are retiring today, in the 6 digit figures and 100% benefits and if they pass, their spouses get the same till they pass.

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

Public school teachers today should receive combat pay. :lol: :thumbup:

vafishing Loc: Abingdon, VA

I wonder whom you have any respect for. The government and its workers are bad, teachers, I guess, are free-loaders. I don't have any idea what I am or ever have been exempt from. I pay my taxes and always have. I pay them willingly because I know that that is a citizen's responsibility. I don't have a beef with the poor. I help them as I can, especially by giving them the respect that a human being deserves. I don't think that anyone needs t earn my respect. You appear to be a disgruntled, mean-spirited man who is quick to calling folks you don't know various epithets. You must be a delight to be around.

bvm Loc: Glendale, Arizona

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Perhaps we should put a nun in front of the class.

Too bad the teachers aren't allowed to run their classrooms as centers for learning instead of socializing !

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

I had a nun once as an art teacher in the 7th grade. You don't mess with them! :lol: :thumbup:

bvm Loc: Glendale, Arizona

When I was in HS I got suspended for 3 days ( in school ).
Each teacher ( nun or priest ) gave you assignments.

My English Lit teacher said at the end of 3 days, I had to have memorized the first 20 lines of chaucer's canterbury tales IN MIDDLE ENGLISH!


Here bygynneth the Book
of the tales of Caunterbury

Here begins the Book
of the Tales of Canterbury

1: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour
4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5: Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
9: And smale foweles maken melodye,
10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye
11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
13: And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
14: To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
15: And specially from every shires ende
16: Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,
17: The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
18: That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. When April with his showers sweet with fruit
The drought of March has pierced unto the root
And bathed each vein with liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;
When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,
Quickened again, in every holt and heath,
The tender shoots and

AND THAT TEACHES YOU NOT to screw up in class!