An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 03/28/08
High school trainer charged with sex assault
A female athletic trainer and substitute teacher at Hinkley High School in Aurora has been fired and charged with sexual assault on a former student.
According to Aurora Police, Yvette Starzyk, 26, turned herself in to police this afternoon and was charged with two felonies, sexual assault on a child with a pattern of abuse and sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.
She is being held in the Aurora Detention Center on $20,000 bond.
Where do they keep finding these “teachers”? Is there an 800 number the schools call? “Send us a sexual predator to teach our students”?
Death Toll Rises in Iraq in Clashes Between Government and Shi’ite Forces
Iraqi authorities say the death toll from five days of intense fighting between Iraqi forces and Shi’ite militias has surged to more than 200.
Many of the casualties have occurred in Baghdad’s Sadr City, a stronghold of militias loyal to Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. A spokesman for the Iraqi Health Ministry says at least 75 people have been killed and nearly 500 wounded in clashes and U.S.-led airstrikes.
Does mean they’ll end up killing each other, and our troops won’t have anything to do but pick up the pieces and bury them?
Abbas urges Arab, int’l forces to protect Palestinians from IDF
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called on Arab and international forces in the Palestinian territories to protect his people against Israeli attacks.
Abbas has called in the past for international peacekeepers in the Gaza Strip, but his call Saturday at the Arab Summit in Damascus marked the first time he has urging Arab countries to send forces.
Uh huh. And who is going to protect the IDF, and the Israeli people from the Arabs, and their merry band of “international peacekeepers”?
Tigers beat Michigan State 92-74
The team that can’t shoot free throws, the team that can’t solve a zone, the team that came from ramshackle Conference USA and the team that couldn’t possibly live up to its No. 1 seed was right there Friday night in the middle of Reliant Stadium, waiting to be exposed.
Boy, were they.
With a focus and purpose it seemed to be reserving precisely for this moment, the University of Memphis turned its South Regional semifinal with No. 5 seed Michigan State into a breathtaking exhibition, a 92-74 dissection that sends the Tigers into their third consecutive Elite Eight against No. 2 seed Texas at 1:20 p.m. Sunday.
I’ll be the first to admit….I don’t like basketball! But congrats to the Tigers! They have worked really hard, and taken up all the local news time too! 
N.D. University Investigates Raunchy Skit Where White Student Played Obama in Blackface
People who attended it said a pageant contestant from Saddle and Sirloin dressed as a woman from the Internet video “I Got a Crush on Obama” and performed a strip tease for another student, who was wearing dark makeup and an afro wig.
In the background, two male students dressed as cowboys simulated anal sex while holding an Obama sign that one student ripped at the conclusion of the 30-second performance, the Forum reported.
I don’t even have to state this was a tasteless display. What annoys me, isn’t the fact that these students obviously have no idea of art. No, what annoys me is that the ‘powers that be’ are getting their knickers in a twist over a wig and black face. Big deal! If the so called actor is white, and he’s portraying a semi black person, I’d say stage props were needed.
“We’re still going to be proactive in student government, as far as diversity education and training,” he said. “If there are pockets out there that we don’t know about, we want to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
What a crock of cow flop! People don’t need diversity TRAINING. We’re already diverse! If I’m going to paying for a college education, you damn sure better leave that PC crap to seminars, and open a flippin’ history book! All this diversity BS has done more damage FOR diversity, than if society had just been left alone to find their own way to a melting pot!
Illegal law practice ordered to close
A Rutherford County resident the state Attorney General accuses of ripping off immigrants by posing as an attorney has been ordered to close his unlawful business and pay restitution to consumers.
The state accuses Christopher Mountry, who is also known as Ott Mountry, of telling Laotian immigrants in La Vergne that he could help them with immigration problems, divorce, disability issues and other legal problems.
Illegally “helping” illegals! I’d say he should do more than just pay restitution. He should see the world from behind bars for a while.
Overhaul of U.S. financial regulatory system proposed
Under the administration’s plan, which will be released in detail Monday, the Federal Reserve would get expanded power to promote stability in financial markets.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and a handful of other federal agencies — all formed in the Great Depression or earlier — would be restructured and have their responsibilities redefined.
I am become more and more convinced that Bush has lost his mind. I’ll just be polite and say the stress of the job has gotten to him. (A return to the gold standard would do much to regain my confidence in dollar, btw.)
Iran felicitates Pakistan on new government inauguration
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini on Saturday felicitated Pakistani people on inauguration of new government. He extended the felicitation to the Pakistani people and government on election of the country’s Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani
Felicitates, eh? Is that a fancy way of saying Iran is going to continue to, or increase, they supply of weapons to the Pallies so they can increase the number of Israeli deaths? Just wondering.
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“If I’m going to paying for a college education, you damn sure better leave that PC crap to seminars, and open a flippin’ history book!”
You’re going to pay for a college education??? Whos?? lol
Generally speaking, of course……….wisenheimer! Already coughed up a few bucks on YOUR education, y’know.
Ok, maybe not much….but a few monthly payments do count.