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Current portrait of the Commander-in-Chief

Who is out-of-touch with the American people: a candidate who declared that forty-seven percent of voters would vote for a government that would allow them to live off the largesse of others or a candidate who was not properly vetted in 2008, admitted in 1998 he believed in "redistribution", did not want his daughters "punished with a baby", returned a bust of Sir Winston Churchill (a gift, I might add), would not have his photo taken with the troops in Baghdad, golfed while an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico threatened the local ecology and economy, has done nothing to fix an over eight percent unemployment rate, attacked the Catholic Church, has reduced women to their internal organs because he cannot run on his rancid economic and foreign policy record (which now officially stands in ruins after cowering to his beloved religion of peace), claimed not to know or really did not know the total amount of debt his country was in (in an interview he snubbed the Israeli prime minister for), has alienated the Great White North and attended yet another celebrity-sponsored fundraiser wherein bottles of champagne pricing at $300 a bottle lined the bar while many are on food stamps?

Well, that's awkward:

Chinese authorities are investigating a number of cases in which steel documented in receipts was either not there, belonged to another company or had been pledged as collateral to multiple lenders, industry sources said.

Ghost inventories are exacerbating the wider ailments of the sector in China, which produces around 45 percent of the world’s steel and has over 200 million metric tons (220.5 million tons) of excess production capacity. Steel is another drag on a financial system struggling with bad loans from the property sector and local governments.

Related: what the poor in China eat.


(Think about that when you buy their cheaply-made slave labour crap.)



STAMPEDE!



By the way, give Triple F a round of applause for a scintillating twelve years.



Unless they were teetering over the edge of a cliff or running on a highway, I'm not seeing what the problem is:

Allowing your kids to play on scooters outside the house on a quiet street seems innocent--and common--enough. But a Texas mom was arrested and spent the night in jail after a neighbor complained that the children were unsupervised.

The parent, Tammy Cooper, disputes the "humiliating" charge, saying she was watching the kids, ages 6 and 9, the whole time from a lawn chair.

But police took the neighbor at her word, and a few hours after the call, arrested Cooper for child endangerment. Cooper told KPRC that the arresting officer told her, "We're here for you."

The accused parent spent the night behind bars. "Orange jump suit, in a cell, slammed the door, for 18 hours," she said.

Cooper is suing the La Porte Police Department, the officer, and the neighbor who made the call. In a statement, the police department said it was "confident of the known actions of the officers on the scene that evening." The neighbor had no comment.

This is something:

The Edmonton teacher who was fired for giving his students zeros has got a new job at a local private school.

Lynden Dorval, a former physics teacher at Ross Sheppard High School, was suspended in May for giving students zeros for work that wasn't handed in or tests not taken.

That method went against the school's policy of not awarding zeros and on Friday Dorval found out he was fired.

However, less than one week after his termination, Dorval is now employed at Tempo School.

Peter Mitchell, head of Tempo School, says he had been looking for an advanced placement physics teacher and noticed Dorval’s passion for teaching during the public battle with the school board.

“I had been following Lynden’s case through the papers and realized I know a teacher who’s looking for work,” Mitchell said.

He added that he values Dorval’s decades of experience.

“It's certainly vindication that giving zeros is the right approach,” Dorval said in regards to his recent hire.

And now, cute desert animals. Enjoy.



(Applause for many)