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Reply #630 - May 11th, 2007 at 4:54pm
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holy crap, that's alot of money  Shocked
  
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Reply #631 - May 11th, 2007 at 7:35pm
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Ya I don't think they're getting their parts at RadioShack again!

Hopefully this time they'll align the lens right so we don't waste a good chunk of change like we did with Hubble!

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Reply #632 - May 14th, 2007 at 9:01am
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Family of girl, 12, sues after 'Brokeback' shown in class
May 13, 2007
FROM SUN-TIMES WIRES

http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/383097,CST-NWS-broke13.article

A suit was filed on behalf of a 12-year-old girl who claims she suffered psychological distress when a teacher showed in class the gay-themed movie "Brokeback Mountain."

The girl, Jessica Turner, and her grandparents Kenneth and LaVerne Richardson, are seeking more than $400,000 in damages under the suit filed Friday against the Chicago Board of Education and others.

According to the suit, a substitute teacher introduced herself as Ms. Buford to Jessica's class at Ashburn Community Elementary School, 8300 S. St. Louis Ave. She then said, "What happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class," the suit claims. Buford then had a student close the door, and started showing the controversial R-rated film, which features two men engaged in sex.
The suit alleges Ashburn's principal, Jewel A. Diaz, was aware that the tale of the love between two cowboys set in the West of the 1960s was being shown to the minors.

Turner later told her grandfather that she was confined to her seat and felt she could not leave the room, according to the suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court.

The plaintiffs accuse Diaz, Buford and the Chicago Board of Education of negligence, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The suit claims Jessica continues to suffer from emotional distress caused by watching the film and is currently undergoing psychological treatment and counseling.


I'm not really a fan of frivolous lawsuits, but a certain part of me hopes the plaintiffs win crazy money.

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Reply #633 - May 14th, 2007 at 10:49am
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Wow bob, I knew you were a crazy homophobe but I didn't think you would like people to push that kind of belief on a little girl.  There is a 99.9% chance the little girl was just happy to have a movie day and not have to do school work.  The "emotional distress" probably came from her parents yelling at her "OMG you saw WHAT!?!??!, GAYS are not allowed in school!!11bbq".  Now a couple questions for the rest of you: 1.Did you ever watch a movie in school with the door wide open?  2.Has anyone in school ever threatened you with bodily harm if you leave their class(and being serious, Mrs. Brock and Mrs. Gates don't count)?  3.When did you even watch a PG-13 movie without getting a permission slip signed?  4.Does seeing a movie like this force you to be gay? (if it does that means bob is gay from a movie I know jerod has shown him)

When are people going to see that almost every single time a child has mild "emotional distress" it is from the parents.  And don't give me this BS about what if they were taken hostage to a desert island and forced to watch puppies getting trampled, how often do things like that happen?  My only hope is the judge stands up, walks over to the parents, punches each one in the face, and then charges then for wasting his time.
  
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Reply #634 - May 14th, 2007 at 11:15am
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I'm not being homophobic by saying it's entirely inappropriate to force a class of middle schoolers to watch Brokeback Mountain.  Not only does the movie not have any intrinsic or cultural value, it's also offensive to a pretty decent portion of America (and the world as a whole).

Although I entirely agree that "emotional distress" is ridiculous in this case (as it is in most cases), I think I'd want to scrub my brain with steel wool if I had to watch that movie, too.  I don't know about anyone else, but I would've been getting pretty damned vocal if I was sitting in that class.

How many R-rated movies did you watch in middle school?  How many times did your instructor force you to watch two guys "gettin' it on" in class?

What's that?  You never had to sit through a gay romance movie in middle school?  What a coincidence, I didn't either!


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Reply #635 - May 14th, 2007 at 12:57pm
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I just have to ask why Middle Schoolers were watching a movie with sexual overtones, scenes, and partial nudity in it really.

Gay or not, that movie has no place in a school.
  
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Reply #636 - May 14th, 2007 at 1:48pm
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Shoot Mrs. Bennet made up watch Excalbur and "forgot" about the part where Uther is giving it to his sister in disguise.

10th grade it was "ha ha" but look at me now...sure I'm a sexual pervert...but that's only because I'm a guy...at least I'm not giving it to my sister...if I had one...though my brother is kinda girly....

Still, 1) you shouldn't show something "controversial" in a classroom which was probably only for shock value and having this type of response to point and say "See...people are homophobic still!" 2) If you can sue a school of pysch distress...I'm never working again...nor is anyone who has ever been in school!

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Reply #637 - May 15th, 2007 at 8:27am
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Reply #638 - May 15th, 2007 at 8:58am
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This has absolutely nothing to do with religion.  The point of this article was to illuminate a pathetic substitute teacher that showed an R-rated movie that depicted graphic anal sex between two men.  This movie was shown to a class of twelve year olds.  How messed up does your moral compass have to be to consider this event acceptable?

I don't know how any decent American, regardless of sexual orientation, could possibly think such a movie was appropriate for a class of prepubescent children.  I couldn't care less what kind of movies you may or may not have watched in junior high, but I absolutely guarantee that you were never forced to watch explicit anal sex while in junior high.  It didn't happen.

Don't try to make this a religious issue, because it isn't one.  It's an issue of common decency, common morality, and common sense.  You don't show graphic sexual content in a passive manner to twelve year olds, and you most certainly don't show it without the parents' knowledge and consent.

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Reply #639 - May 15th, 2007 at 1:04pm
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Just think is that teacher was a guy.  He'd be arrested for pedophilia.  What's the difference between showing that movie and showing a porn?  Just longer sex scenes I believe.

Basically...shouldn't teachers be more careful today.  I mean they're shacking up with more teens of both sex than the Vatican...and that's saying something!

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Reply #640 - May 15th, 2007 at 1:14pm
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X wrote on May 15th, 2007 at 1:04pm:
I mean they're shacking up with more teens of both sex than the Vatican...


Bam!  Straight in the kisser!

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Reply #641 - May 15th, 2007 at 3:18pm
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http://flickrvision.com/

This is kinda addicting.  Watch real time upload of images to flickr.  You can even go down to the street and rough house of the uploader!

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Reply #642 - May 21st, 2007 at 12:44am
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Man...I just feel....so....so....AWESOME!!!









And Frakes wrote "To Patrick - Go Boldly!"

We're friends now...see pic above for proof!

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Reply #643 - May 21st, 2007 at 8:35am
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Wow, he's looking crazy old!  I think it's time for some "Just for Men."

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Reply #644 - May 21st, 2007 at 10:16am
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ok, i give up, who the hell is the firsrt guy, I know "number one" but drawing a blank on the other.
  
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