I held my tongue.  Later, I found out that the teacher was a sub and not a special ed teacher.  That's pretty poor performance for a regular teacher, but at least she isn't around all the time.

In the good news category, there were reports of acting out by the kindergarten son.  As they accumulated, it became clear that he was trying to get out of doing things by using high drama.  I talked with his teacher and we both agreed he shouldn't be allowed to do that.  My suggestion was "Frog march him if you have to!".  

Kristen Diane Parker, the former surgical technician accused of stealing drugs and ultimately infecting patients with hepatitis C, is expected to plead guilty today.

She is scheduled to be in court at 2:30 p.m. today. Her attorney said discussions with the prosecution involve her serving at least 20 years of jail time.

"I was against the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage nation-wide, and I still think that the American people should be able to play this out in debates," Clinton said. "But me, Bill Clinton personally, I changed my position.

"I am no longer opposed to that," he added. "I think if people want to make commitments that last a lifetime, they ought to be able to do it."

(Transcript taken off The Confluence)

Carlson:  Let me just say that very clearly it was the Obama campaign that first brought up the race question.  It was the Obama people that smeared the Clintons as racists.  Bill and Hillary Clinton.  They made the case to reporters off the record, including me, that the Clintons were racists.  They started this.

So for him to get up with a straight face and say "Oh the media's bringing this race issue up" - no, it was your campaign that started it.

Van Susteren:  How did they bring it up?

Carlson:  By this whisper campaign that Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton were somehow opposing Barack Obama because they didn't like the fact that he was black and that various statements they made . . . Hillary Clinton remember famously said that "Of course it was, you know, Lyndon Johnson that signed the Civil Rights Act.  Martin Luther King might have advocated for it but it was the President who signed it."  Somehow that became a racist statement according to allies of Barack Obama.

He didn't, he didn't tell them to be quiet then.  He allowed that to happen, allowed that, I think, the slur against the Clintons to fester, that they were somehow animated by bigotry.  It was outrageous, and he did nothing to clear the air.

The NY State legislature passed, and Governor Paterson signed, a bill which gives people injured, particularly (though not especially) those who suffered exposure to toxins while working on the Pile at Ground Zero and/or at Fresh Kills Landfill, an additional year within which to file their notices of claim and start proceeding.

In short, to sue (or otherwise seek compensation from) municipalities for injuries inflicted by or as a result of the municipality's action/inaction, one must file a notice of tort claim with the municipality within 90 days of the injury or when the injured person reasonably became aware of it.  This notice of tort claim is prefatory to (and an essential condition precedent to) filing suit.

The workers and volunteers who, post 9/11, went into the Pile or to Fresh Kills Landfill (where the debris was shipped for sorting, etc.) were, by and large, time-barred from filing notices of claims.  A lot of this was by virtue of Christie Todd Whitman's and Rudy Giuliani's assertions that it was not unsafe to go into the soup of chemicals that was Downtown - the folks were effectively duped out of their rights to seek compensation and there were a lot of heart-rending stories of people being sick solely because they sought to help, and getting no recompense.

The bill which Paterson signed gives the people injured another year within which to file their notices of claim and start their claims. The bill took effect September 16, 2009.

US officials say Obama first told of Iran secret nuclear plant during the transition - as President-elect.

"This treasure will revolutionize understanding of the Anglo-Saxons who, before becoming part of the American ruling class, were a Germanic people who ruled England from the 5th century until the Norman conquest"

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My prediction: the market gets hammered in a super bear plunge finally signaling the change of power to the Democrats. The Republicans will then proceed needing to spend the trillions of tax dollars laundered as quickly as they can to prevent new claw back rules.

The twist in this story? They are all men.

TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- For Rick Kelly, the first sign of cancer was a feeling of discomfort in his chest.

"My wife would hug me, and it became almost unbearable," he said. "I went to a doctor, and they sent me to the oncologist, and they did biopsies on both sides. And then I ended up with a double mastectomy."

Kelly is one of 20 retired U.S. Marines or sons of Marines who once lived at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and who are now suffering from breast cancer, a disease that strikes about one man for every 100 women who get it. Each of the seven men CNN interviewed for this report has had part of his chest removed as part of his treatment, along with chemotherapy, radiation or both.

All 20 fear that water contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals may have caused their illnesses, but the Marine Corps says no link has been found between the contamination and their diseases. Without that link, the men are denied treatment by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which says it can't treat them for a condition that hasn't been shown to have been "service-related."