A special education teacher in Providence, Rhode Island set himself on fire after he was fired from Lincoln High School. He had crashed his car into the side of the school and then, pushing away other teachers, dosed himself with gas and set himself ablaze.
Paul died from the injuries. Other teachers report that they tried to help him out of the car but he kept referring to the fact that he was just fired.
Pam Falcone quoted him as saying, “He fired me. I can’t believe he fired me.”
The school administration had fired him and told staff to call security if he tried ot re-enter the building.
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Buddha: “It’s strange that you point that out because right after the Saudis, the HKS was my first line of suspects. Those pesky blind terrorists.”
Buddha,
I wasn’t kidding. You had 21 eyewitnesses to the hijacking and stabbings shoved back in coach.
What does Sweeney & Ong say between 8:40am and 8:43am?
FFLEO,
I wouldn’t be so sure of that statement on punishment. “Head on a stick” is a phrase I often find falling from my lips. You have to admit, as draconian as it sounds, the Neocons heads on pikes lining Pennsylvania Ave. would send a strong message to Congress about who their employer actually is and how we feel about them acting criminally.
Bob,
It’s strange that you point that out because right after the Saudis, the HKS was my first line of suspects. Those pesky blind terrorists.
Buddha said,
“FFLEO is a Republican and he feels that Bush and Cheney must be punished as much as I do (I hope he doesn’t mind me saying that).”
No Sir, I do not mind you saying that. However, I am most likely an advocate for more severe punishment than you would want or recommend.
So Buddha,
If I read Chapter 1 of the 9/11 Commission Report a few more times, will that make it true?
My favorite part is the implicit assumption that Flight 11 was chartered by the Helen Keller society.
If you repeat something enough time, it still isn’t true.
If you repeat something enough time, it still isn’t true.
If you repeat something enough time, it still isn’t true.
“Dont feed the trolls”
Obviously Malo finds himself/herself among a very small minority of Americans who approve of the way things have been handled. It takes a healthy bit of verbal gymnastics to try and rationalize supporting positions that are rejected by most everyone else. Malo’s party has lost power, this is just part of the grieving process.
OK… Professor Turley needs to institute comment moderation here.
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gah I hate tiny keyboards and displays
Malo,
Is that really your best?
Ok, you can point out that the Democrats suck all you like. You mistake me for a Democrat. I’m a far more dangerous political creature that that. Here’s the facts, sport.
The GOP sought a permanent majority. As undemocratic, as in TOTALITARIAN, an action as one can hope to achieve.
No matter what happened in the House during the Bush mis-administration, he had his obstructionist REPUBLICAN Senators help him violate the Constitution, domestic and international law. Some of them have blood on their hands as well.
The Bush Co. led this country into a war with a country that did not attack us based on fraudulent evidence and then outed at CIA agent in an attempt to discredit evidence of said fraud. They did this so they could line the pockets of the VP’s friends at Halliburton and aid the one’s who did attack us on 9/11, George’s buddies the Saudi Arabians. You do know that treason is Constitutionally defined as providing material aid and comfort to enemies of the United States during war time, right? In doing so, he further violated to Constitution by promoting torture, violating the Separation of Powers doctrine, ignoring lawful judicial orders and circumventing Congress with illegal use of signing statements, violated international treaties designed to safeguard OUR troops, illegal domestic wiretaps, and lets not forget the murder of thousands of innocent people – just to make money. This President Bush you are so proud of, this one, the one who whisked Bin Laden’s family out of the U.S. after 9/11. The one who did more damage to the country himself than any terrorist could EVER hope to achieve.
You can call the Democrats ineffective, graft swilling semi-competents all you like. They are. But what they aren’t is treasonous criminals like Bush and Cheney. You know, the guys you want to have their brown shirted children. So go ahead and defend them. History is against you. So are (1) the facts, (2) ethics, (3) 250 years of jurisprudence and (4) the Constitution.
You backed evil men. That’s makes you a bad guy. Accept what you are and go spread your Neocon spam elsewhere. Too many of us here know how to define a crime. This isn’t about party in case your slow to pick that up. FFLEO is a Republican and he feels that Bush and Cheney must be punished as much as I do (I hope he doesn’t mind me saying that).
NOT. ABOUT. PARTY.
This is about CRIME. Period. End of story.
You’ll win no converts here and only further alienate the general populace which is already becoming more and more hostile to your theocratic fascist agenda. Propaganda works best with an audience primed for compliance, not free will and independent thought. You stand a greater chance of teaching a fish to play piano than you do of winning a Neocon convert here or to propagandize without challenge. All you’ll win here is scorn and more enemies to your evil cause.
Enjoy.
Raf:
Every occasion Congress tried to reign in or roll the wheels to investigations, every single Democrat in Congress voted to block it. You can’t do anything at all when one party blocks everything with parliamentary maneuvering.
Malo,
Why didn’t the Bush Justice department follow up on these alleged crimes?? Bush had 8 years to go after them. He had 6 of those years with a compliant Congress and still no action on this hot issue of yours. Come back when you have a real issue with real facts. And just to be accurate, George Soros isn’t your problem. The American people have just had it with your side’s lies.
Frank, Dodd and Obama’s high crimes
They hide in plain sight, and no one will police them for reasons that speak to corruption that has insinuated itself deep into the leadership of the Democratic party.
I refer to those in Congress and others in government who promoted and acted under the auspices of the Community Reinvestment Act, which ostensibly made it easier for Americans to actualize “the dream of home ownership,” but effectively amounted to affirmative action loans to the un-creditworthy.
So the responsibility for this fiasco rests squarely in the laps of those – largely, congressional Democrats – who vigorously advanced the Community Reinvestment Act. Like Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who continue – occasionally with belligerence – to defend their actions and failed institutions such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when such comportment is indefensible, quod erat demonstrandum.
Yet, I would wager that less than a quarter of voting Americans are even aware of all this, due, yet again, to the far-left establishment press.
The “big bad suits” involved – these being executives in the private sector who are taking gargantuan bonuses and golden parachutes while the stock market induces motion sickness – whom one would think the far left elements in our Congress would joyfully attack with every means at their disposal, remain unassailable save for harsh criticism from the alternative media. The reason for this is that no one in government wishes to do much more than scratch the surface, lest their complicity be revealed.
In some cases, of course, though the establishment media is mum on this fact, the necessity for lawmakers to keep their responsibility under wraps rests with the fact that they received campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie. This includes President-elect Barack Obama, who was the largest recipient of these donations behind Dodd.
The incestuous relationships between Democratic lawmakers and the principals in the sub-prime mortgage crisis amount to high crimes against the people of the United States of America. Americans should be calling for Frank, Dodd, & Obama to be impeached and prosecuted.
Away from the bluster and begging for bailouts, this columnist wonders what might be revealed if the finances of Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, or any other prominent liberal Democrat in Congress were examined. Would we see some movement right around the time the economy went south? A Justice Department probe into these matters might prove interesting, to say the least.
Since we’re discussing incestuous relationships, it might also be enlightening to know if billionaire financier George Soros – who factored largely in the 2008 election (with his MoveOn.org political action group) and who has a history of tinkering with currencies to his personal benefit – lost money or if he actually made money during these last few months.
Given the evidence at hand, it is as likely as a Beatles reunion that the Obama Justice Department will follow up on any of this.
Malo,
Once again you retreat to your learned mantra that George is good and everything else is bad. It is interesting that you take the facts of what George W. Bush has screwed up and try to claim that,it didn’t happen or that Barack Obama is to blame. It is amazing that Obama is guilty of so much and he hasn’t even taken office yet and George W. Bush is guilt-free after killing over 100,000 innocent civilians over a lie and his quest for oil. It is time for the trolls to return to Crawford and await the indictments.
I guess then on January 22, 2009 Barack Obama has well earned the title “war criminal” if he doesn’t order our troops in Iraq, Afganistan, and everywhere else America is protecting Democracy to drop their guns and run for the border, close Gitmo and fly the killers there to any country willing to harbor them (say, how about Pakistan, they need a few dozen new killers now), close down the NSA, publish the Presidential Daily Briefing in the New York Times each day, dismantle our nuclear arsenal, beg Islam radicals to forgive us, sink our navy at sea, and turn our air force into high energy drink cans.
What oh what will the left do when Barack the Messiah becomes Barack the Bomber ala Bill Clinton and all the countries HE bombed!!!
malo:
““I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process,” Bush said in the interview. “I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values. And I darn sure wasn’t going to sacrifice those values.”
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Only the fool is certain — and unyielding to the facts.
Malo,
It is very instructive that you have to repeat your learned mantra that George Bush is great and forget about the hundreds of thousands that he has killed over a lie about weapons of mass destruction. I know the facts aren’t something that is considered important in the world of trolls, but to the rest of us (98%)facts are important and the facts are not something that George W. Bush should try to use in defense of his illegal and immoral regime. He should not try to use facts because the facts spoeak for themselves and they tell us that George & Co. are felons.
If you repeat something enough time, it still isn’t true.
Buddha is a fat statue joke, this one is for you again:
GOD BLESS YOU PRESIDENT BUSH, one of the GREAT ONES:
“I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process,” Bush said in the interview. “I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values. And I darn sure wasn’t going to sacrifice those values.”
“I’d like to be a known as a president who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace; that focused on individuals rather than process; that rallied people to serve their neighbor,” the president added.
He mentions his roundly successful HIV/AIDS and malaria initiatives in Africa, and the Medicare prescription drug benefit as two programs he is proud of.
Asked about his “No Child Left Behind” education law, Bush called it one of the “significant achievements of my administration.
“We said loud and clear to educators, parents, and children that we expect the best for every child, that we believe every child can learn, and that in return for federal money we expect there to be an accountability system in place to determine whether every child is learning to read, write and add and subtract,” Bush said.
GOD BLESS YOU PRESIDENT BUSH, one of the GREAT ONES!
Now if only someone would let George play with a lighter. Doh! I keep forgetting they are chimp, er, child proof.
And case? What case? Yeah, setting yourself alight shows conviction but that’s the only conviction you’ll ever see over someone doing something like this absent some third-party contributory negligence and/or a foreknowledge that him setting himself ablaze was a likely outcome of losing his job.
Obviously the victim’s family has a case against the school and should have no problem finding dozens of attorneys ready and willing to sue the school. Good Lord, you can’t just FIRE people anymore, you need to get their written permission before you fire them and a signed release from their spouse & dependents…THAT”S THE LAW!