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by Carl Ballard — Friday, 8/26/16, 5:17 am

Back to the usual nonsense next week.

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  1. 1

    Sloppy Travis Bickle spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 7:57 am

    Tell a whopper of a lie, get yourself an extended paid vacation.

    Bothell teacher lied about being assaulted at school, police say

    It will be up to prosecutors to determine what charges Pygott will face for making up the story.

    Students and staff were shaken up after the alleged assault. Classes were canceled for one day as a precaution.

    “It was challenging, but it was an anomaly. This is not anything that is normal in the life of a school. From the beginning, it was odd, it was strange, it was difficult. But we worked through it,” said Bothell High School principal Bob Stewart.

    The district said Pygott is now on paid administrative leave for the time being.

    http://www.king5.com/news/crim...../308265677

    Self-inflicted. Hey, whatever happened with that gay pride week “assault” on an activist, which no one saw despite it happening on a frequently-traveled street during a very busy week on Capitol Hill?

    http://www.capitolhillseattle......ate-crime/

    Happy Pride.

    Been a coupla months. You would think the SPD would have something. Or at least something they could share publicly without being accused of insensitivity or shit.

  2. 2

    Sloppy Travis Bickle spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 8:00 am

    President Obama accused of welching on a monetary commitment.

    President Obama Broke Promise for Charity Donation, ISIS Hostage Family Says

    http://abcnews.go.com/Internat.....d=41658582

    Gee, I wonder what that feels like.

  3. 3

    Sloppy Travis Bickle spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 8:04 am

    (((Goldy))) @GoldyHA
    Don’t defame us bath-robed bloggers by comparing our work to that AP piece. https://twitter.com/hominidviews/status/768989321105932288 …

    How many” journalistic standards” can one be held to in a piece limited to 140 characters?

  4. 4

    Sloppy Travis Bickle spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 8:20 am

    (((Goldy))) Retweeted
    Hillary Clinton ✔ @HillaryClinton
    Trump first gained political prominence promoting the racist lie that President Obama isn’t really an American. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/232572505238433794 …

    And Crooked Hillary Clinton first gained political prominence by being fired from a Watergate investigation for dishonesty and unethical behavior.

  5. 5

    Sloppy Travis Bickle spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 8:27 am

    Robert Cruickshank
    ‏@cruickshank Robert Cruickshank Retweeted Diane Ravitch
    I’m really curious why major urban newspapers want to destroy their cities’ public schools and teaching profession

    I’m really curious why a teacher who perpetrated a hoax and distrupted his entire school @ 1 is still drawing a salary. I suppose it might have to do with the contract his union has with the school district.

    Maybe when schools stop being newsworthy for the wrong reasons, major urban newspapers will have less to cover. Just a thought.

  6. 6

    Sloppy Travis Bickle spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 8:45 am

    Unrelated @ 5, but a local WA Senate seat is probably going to go to a pro-charter schools Dem

    http://www.heraldnet.com/news/.....-district/

    unless the GOP candidate scores an upset.

    Don’t miss the irony of the losing Dem candidate being supported by the teachers’ unions despite having misstated his academic record. Ya can’t make this shit up.

  7. 7

    Teabagged Again spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 8:55 am

    Haven’t read the story posted @1 – due to time constraints, but eventually I might get around to it.

    But looks like it was very news worth for Boob to take the time to bring it up. And if the guy/gal lost their job for making false claim so be it. Not like any heterosexual ever making some false claim. Like being assaulted at the Olympics…..I’m sure tons of examples can be given….

    What’s your point Boob? Would you even care if it actually happened? Why do you care that it didn’t happen.

    You Fool Boob – you’ll never be right in your life. Use your 2nd amendment rights and put a gun to your head.

  8. 8

    ArtFart spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 9:40 am

    @7 Naaaah. We wouldn’t want his neighbors on Whidbey to have to clean up that much splattered shit.

  9. 9

    Ima Dunce spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 9:43 am

    Nice to see HA has it’s own unhinged conspiracy theorist. That’s pretty desperate. Lies, jumping to conclusions and generalizations about entire groups of people to justify prejudices. Sad and immature. No wonder their presidential candidate hires them to run his imploding campaign.

  10. 10

    Sloppy Travis Bickle spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 9:57 am

    Weiner.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FW3NFXI?ie=UTF8&tag=althouse09-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=B01FW3NFXI

    One dick move after another.

  11. 11

    Distant Replay spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 10:49 am

    @5,
    Ah yes. Those A L L P O W E R F U L L public school unions are at it again.

    Wielding their magical kookoobanannas super teacher powers to gain all sorts of special treatment.
    Like the awesome privilege to pay for eight years of higher education, work a half year for free, to be ushered into the sweet, sweeeeet life of earning about half as much as their peers to spend all day listening to your 13-year-olds make fart noises in classrooms built over a century ago, holding weekend car washes to pay for classroom supplies, drinking lead laced water, breathing asbestos, and being told by the administration to “put on a sweater” on the 77 days each year that the heat is out while they spread their soul destroying virus of cultural Marxism to bring REAL MURIKAN White European Judeo-Xtian capitalism to its knees.

    Those clever bastards. White “conservative” Real Muikans have just got to figure out some way to rein in those awesome super teacher powers.

  12. 12

    Sloppy Travis Bickle spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 1:30 pm

    Eight years of higher education to become a teacher?

    Hell, why not make it 10 or 12, to account for the few who spent six years as undergrads then decided they needed to earn both MAs and MSWs, before realizing the only way they could feed themselves was to spend a couple more years training for a lifetime municipal job from which they would be really, really unlikely to be dismissed?

    ’cause if you’re going to embellish, might as well go to the extreme.

  13. 13

    Willy Vomit spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 2:03 pm

    @ 12

    ’cause if you’re going to embellish, might as well go to the extreme.

    You certainly set an example.

  14. 14

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 2:07 pm

    GOP primary opponent to McCain: Just die already!

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jo.....in-office/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: No big deal. We don’t expect Republicans to have class anymore. We expect nothing from Republicans, because that’s what we get from them.

  15. 15

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 2:17 pm

    Breaking News — Trump’s campaign manager commits voter fraud.

    http://www.usnews.com/news/art.....orida-home

  16. 16

    Ima Dunce spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 2:23 pm

    Some people say ugly things, and this guy tops the list of ugliest:
    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/0.....at-church/

  17. 17

    Distant Replay spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 2:48 pm

    @12,
    embellish nothing. Once again, you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. Not a year goes by that well meaning legislators don’t hold hearings concerning public teacher credentialing and the educational requirements. In addition to a Masters to obtain a continuing cert, there are many summer terms and evening classes devoted to ongoing ed and subject matter certs. In the end it works out to another four years beyond undergrad.

    None of which changes the absurdity of your underlying claim, that somehow these hapless unmotivated mouth breathing AMC Pacer driving Costco baloney eating shiftless slackers have magically super duper gamed the system to their benefit. Such amaaaaaaaazes benefits!
    What makes this most special of all is that idiots like you actually believe this.

  18. 18

    Distant Replay spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 5:27 pm

    “Just as we have to do the work of the mainstream media in order to force them to cover the news accurately, it is more than clear, we must also do much of the groundwork of local law enforcement, and investigate these fraudulent occurrences with even more vigilance.”

    Or in some cases, even less vigilance. Because, um…
    F R E E D O M !!!

  19. 19

    Teabaggers Again spews:

    Friday, 8/26/16 at 9:02 pm

    Puffballs should just finally come out of the closet.

    http://www.actionnewsjax.com/n.....430266524P

  20. 20

    Steve spews:

    Saturday, 8/27/16 at 7:25 am

    “And Crooked Hillary Clinton first gained political prominence by being fired from a Watergate investigation for dishonesty and unethical behavior.”

    Amazing. In one sentence you manage to ape Trump and channel Rush.

    http://www.snopes.com/politics.....eifman.asp

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