Wizard sacked by Muggles
Jim Piculas of Florida has been fired as a substitute teacher for practicing wizardry for a toothpick disappear, then reappear.
Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears.
But after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land ‘O Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own.
“I get a call the middle of the day from the supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, ‘Jim, we have a huge issue. You can’t take any more assignments. You need to come in right away,’” he said.
When Piculas went in, he learned his little magic trick cast a spell that went much farther than he’d hoped.
“I said, ‘Well Pat, can you explain this to me?’ ‘You’ve been accused of wizardry,’ [he said]. Wizardry?” he asked.
Tampa Bay’s 10 talked to the assistant superintendent with the Pasco County School District who said it wasn’t just the wizardry and that Picular had other performance issues, including “not following lesson plans” and allowing students to play on unapproved computers.
Florida’s been a source of amusement for quite some time now as it seems to always be doing something that’s a bit on the nutty side of things, but this does take the cake doesn’t it?
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Note to Linguistic Fascists
If you’re going to demand that people speak English, you should make it a priority to learn how to spell English.
via: Immigration Chronicles: Perhaps spell check is in order …
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God made Spring
Just ask my five year old. Where’d she hear that gem? At school and it’s the truth because her teacher said so.
We should have known that something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. The teacher has made it extremely obvious she’s one of those Christians who assumes everyone else is also.
For example, we recently watched in shock as she led the students in two god soaked pledges and a god soaked song which she followed up by telling the children to bow their heads and say their prayers.
I’ve been hoping that we wouldn’t have to deal with this until our daughter was older and more capable of understanding what’s going on, but it appears that’s not going to be possible.
What’s gets me though is that I feel like the bad guy for even considering making a complaint about this.
I’m also quite worried about what will happen to our daughter if we do. A lot of Christians simply can’t handle not being allowed to use their official positions to promote their personal beliefs. They tend to turn into vicious bullies who make life hell for the only party can reasonably get to - the kid(s).
Our daughter is just coming out her shell and I’m afraid that if there is a backlash, she’ll retreat back into it - permanently.
What’s a parent to do?
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In case you thought women were human
The state of Oklahoma would like to inform you that you are wrong.
Under the guise of obtaining informed patient consent, this new law requires doctors to withhold pregnancy termination until an ultrasound is performed. The law states that either an abdominal or vaginal ultrasound, whichever gives the best image of the fetus, must be done. Neither the patient nor the doctor can decide which type of ultrasound to use, and the patient cannot opt out of the ultrasound and still have the procedure. In effect, then, the legislature has mandated that a woman have an instrument placed in her vagina for no medical benefit. The law makes no exception for victims of rape and incest.
Can it be any clearer that abortion access is not about the precious babies, but about undermining the rights of women? What else do these jackasses have to do before people wake the fuck up?
Honestly, I swear sometimes we women should start rioting in the streets. What’s there to lose?
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Who’s the president of Germany?
If you guessed anyone besides Vladimir Putin, you’re better qualified to be president than John McCain (via “m” in the comments“):
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Keith Olbermann - worst person in the world
Last night Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman decided to get together for a chit chat about Hillary Clinton. As you may know she hasn’t dropped out of the race and certain people are none to happy about it. In fact the recent tone of things can be best summed up as “how do we get the bitch to stop”.
So, after Olbmermann reads parts of a whiny, anti-democratic editorial from the NYT, Fineman started talking about how the adults were going to have to step in and “stop this thing”. In response to this Keith Olbermann casually suggested that this alleged adult would be “somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.”
Watch it for yourself:
This is some seriously fucked up shit.
If you fail to see the problem, consider for a moment what your response would be if these two white men were discussing how somebody needed to stop Barack Obama who is read as being a black man here in America. Suppose they suggested that that somebody would be “somebody who can take him out back and come back alone”.
The message would be clear, right? Everyone would realize that they were not only physically threatening Barack Obama, but by extension all black men. Know why? Because that’s how white men speak to one another when they decide that a black man isn’t following the rules they think he needs to be following.
And no, they are not talking about merely speaking to the man in question and convincing him to see things their way. They are talking about physically assaulting that man to such a degree that he won’t be walking away from the “discussion”. That’s why that “somebody” always comes back alone.
And for women - we get taken into a room where the man tasked with policing us reminds us - with his fists - about our proper place in the world. And when he’s done “discussing” things with us, he walks back out alone.
Both of these phrases are about white men asserting with violence their self-declared right to dominate everything and one. They do not “discuss” anything. They beat, maim and kill. And since that “somebody” is always faceless, we women of all colours and men of colour learn to fear saying/doing something that may cause “somebody” to take us out back or into a room for a “discussion”.
So I think it’s quite clear that Olbermann needs to declare himself to be “the worst person in the world” as he quite literally threatened every woman in America with physical violence.
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Houston wins! Pollutes more air than LA!
Since moving to Houston from El Paso about six or seven years ago I swear a month hasn’t went by without me spending a few days with some moderate to severe congestion. It’s so bad that I like to say I’m allergic to Houston.
So it’s with great displeasure that I announce that Houston, Texas has taken first place for releasing 18.625 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere barely beating out Los Angeles (another place I’m allergic to) which took 2nd place with 18.595 million tons.
As you may be aware both of these cities are obsessed with pubic “morality” in that they’ve declared war on smokers and other domestic sources of air pollutants (aka: things that we can pretend are worse than the actually worse things the government is involved in).
Both earned their medals by allowing their moneymakers to run wild with Los Angeles paving the entire area and Houston saying “what industrial pollution?!?” while really cranking up the “leave no ground unpaved” industry.
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