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A Maryland professor who instructed female students to remove their shirts during class created a “hostile environment” and violated Title IX, according to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education.
Investigators said the instructor at the Takoma/Silver Spring campus of Montgomery College in Maryland required female students to remove their shirts and wear only their sports bras to demonstrate a “medical assessment.” Some students put on lab coats for modesty and the professor instructed the students to remove them. He then commented on the students’ breasts, according to a letter from the Office of Civil Rights to the college.
Manny’s Blog: So, white students, and rightfully so, complain about this harassment and get an investigation from the government. That’s good and also interesting.
A mass shooting of undocumented immigrants has left the people in Texas in an uproar, most of them anyway. Gov. Abbott addressed the situation and offered a $50,000 reward for the capture of an obviously dangerous individual. While most applaud the Governor’s actions, as I do, there were some that took umbrage to the Governor’s description of the victims. Having first hand and personal experience on undocumented people, I can tell you that this is the wrong time to introduce personal feelings or politics to the situation. If you are offended, then send the Governor a private note asking him if he could refer to the victims as to what you feel might be the appropriate term and thank him for his response and for warning other non citizen citizens, my preferred term, that they might be targeted. Not the greatest time to go cancel culture or woke. Not everything has to be an Us against Them situation. I think normal people would agree with me, so that would be about 20% of America….. Jesus, I hope I didn’t piss people off by saying normal….. Fuck, I just said Jesus….Shit, I just said fuck…. Damn, I just said shit….. this can go on forever….
There is so much to this story that it boggles the mind. A 21 year old, non college grad, that lived his life on social media, is entrusted with some high level classified material on his Air National Guard Base…… I’m not sure if I should end that with a question mark or a period. Classified material that is usually found in a SCIF. This kid is obviously not a spy, wasn’t looking to harm U.S. interests, and wasn’t doing it for money. So why did he do it, because he wanted to show his social media friends how cool he was. He was 21…. he wanted to show off, like every other 21 year old. He is also a product of the new computer age. The age where he can’t really see everyone he is talking to but somehow they’re friends anyway. I think this age needs a name like other ages. We had the “Stone Age”, “Bronze Age”, “Iron Age”, “Classical Era”, “Medieval Era”, and “Early Modern Era”…. this one can be called “Goofy Age” or maybe “The Dumb Fuck Era” maybe it could be called the “Don’t Trust Anyone Epoch”… where people just do stupid shit for no apparent reason…maybe.
Jack, the kids first name, should have been out at bars and drinking and spilling those secrets to drunk women to get laid but that’s not how society works nowadays…. Now, the king of a social media website is somehow the cool kid on the block. It’s that insta-fame that everyone seeks that’s trapping these young people. I have theories… lol… on my social media website blog thingamajig… on how this kid got himself caught up in this mess, none are good for him but they also don’t paint him as a mastermind villain or a right wing or left wing political nut job. My theories are simply that he was goaded by the praise that his social media buddies bestowed on him by calling him the leader of the group, the “OG”. Probably the first time he ever had that moniker bestowed on him. I think someone played this young man with some high end psychological mind game to have him reveal those secrets. The only question I have is, was it that Russians, the Chinese or the FBI? If I was the lawyer of this young man, the first thing I would want to know is if any of his so called buddies were in contact with any of these agencies or were any of these social media friends of his actually working for any of the entities and pretending to be some young kid and that just heaped praise on this unsuspecting dumb dumb, stroking his ego to the point where he felt that he needed to prove that he was indeed the leader of this social media clan by showing off his intelligence or, in this case, the U.S.’s intelligence. There is no doubt he was somewhat entrapped but by what and whom remains the question. His ego a little bit, by someone way smarter than him, definitely, by his need to feel needed by a group of peers, most likely. Either way, disseminating classified material is a crime, but intent has its place in the court and so does entrapment. Giving classified material or comfort and aide to the enemy is a crime, but we’re not at war so he doesn’t have to worry about the death penalty. At least Jack has that.
What is apparent is that he is going to be labeled…. first thing they are going to say is he is “white” which shouldn’t matter but nowadays it seems to be a curse for some. Next, they’re going to try and put Jack in a category like radical or racist or sympathizer, he most likely wasn’t any of those. Then they’re going to say privileged or arrogant or narcissist, I don’t think that either. Than maybe lonely, eh, wouldn’t make that an issue either. Than mental problems, or he ran over a squirrel or he didn’t leave a tip at a restaurant. All of it BS and not bachelor of science. The truth is most likely he was young and got played Why him and how did he get on one of those entities radar, that’s probably the better question.
I will say though, if it was one of these entities, and I believe it was, the most likely one could be an internal investigation. I mean, why would a foreign source want to burn his intel guy unless he felt like he got everything they were going to and did it to embarrass the U.S., which is a possibility.
Also, look to see if anyone else gets charged. Jack placed it in a closed chat, then someone else disseminated the info, from what they are saying. If there isn’t any other people charged, that should be a clue to something.
There is another theory, it’s a little less complicated, it goes like this….. he just did it, without provocation.
W.Va. journalist let go after reporting on abuse allegations
Story by By LEAH WILLINGHAM, Associated Press • 5h ago
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia journalist lost her job last month after she reported about alleged abuse of people with disabilities within the state agency that runs West Virginia’s foster care and psychiatric facilities.
Amelia Ferrell Knisely, a reporter at West Virginia Public Broadcasting, said she was told to stop reporting on the Department of Health and Human Resources after leaders of the embattled agency “threatened to discredit” the publicly funded television and radio network. She later learned her part-time position was being eliminated.
In a statement, Knisely said her news director told her the order came from WVPB Executive Director Butch Antolini, former communications director for Republican Gov. Jim Justice. Antolini has served as executive director since 2021, when his predecessor was ousted after Justice overhauled the agency’s governing board.
Justice has tried unsuccessfully to eliminate state funding for WVPB in the past and was accused of appointing partisan operatives to the board. WVPB receives around $4 million a year in state funding.
Antolini declined to comment, but other officials denied any effort to influence coverage. West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority chairman William H. File III said Antolini told the board “he was not coerced or pressured by anyone.”
File said in a statement that Knisely was never fired and remains on the WVPB payroll, though she said her door key and email were deactivated.
Knisely’s departure comes during a tumultuous time for West Virginia media. Days before she left WVPB, three reporters for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Gazette-Mail said they were fired after publicly criticizing an editorial decision by their company president Doug Skaff, who is minority leader in the state House of Delegates. Skaff approved and led a video interview with Don Blankenship, a coal company executive convicted of safety violations connected to one of the worst coal mining disasters in recent U.S. history.
The departures leave a diminished capitol press corps to cover the upcoming legislative session, which begins Jan. 11.
Knisely’s stories detailed alleged mistreatment of people with disabilities under state care. The department cares for some of the most vulnerable residents in one of the poorest U.S. states.
After Knisely’s departure from WVPB was first reported by The Parkersburg News and Sentinel last week, both Republican Senate President Craig Blair and Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin called the circumstances around her departure “disturbing.”
Pushkin said Knisely’s coverage of “the glaring issues at DHHR” was “detailed, in depth, and most importantly true.”
“There’s a very clear difference between not liking what the media reports and actively working to silence them,” Blair wrote on Twitter Dec. 29.
Knisely was hired as a part-time reporter at WVPB in September. In November, she was copied on an email from then-DHHR Secretary Bill Crouch alleging inaccuracies in a story and asking for a “complete retraction.”
That never happened, but in early December, Knisely said she was told by WVPB news director Eric Douglas that she could no longer cover DHHR because of threats by state officials to discredit WVPB.
A week later, amid mounting criticism, Crouch announced he was resigning.
Douglas confirmed to The Associated Press that he was instructed to tell Knisely she would no longer be reporting on DHHR, and that Antolini directed him to do so.
As for threats from DHHR officials about discrediting WVPB, he said: “I’d rather not comment on that.”
On Dec. 15, Knisely filed a human resources complaint about interference with her reporting.
Things came to a head later that same day over Knisely’s press credentials for the 2023 legislative session, according to emails obtained by the AP and first reported by The Parkersburg News and Sentinel.
Douglas initially informed legislative staffers that Knisely would “serve a vital role” in WVPB’s 2023 legislative coverage. But then the station’s chief operating officer left him off an email saying she wouldn’t need credentials after all.
That troubled Senate spokesperson Jacque Bland, who emailed Douglas to ask about it.
“It feels kind of gross and shady to me that someone else would dip in and say that one of your reporters won’t have any assignments related to the session,” she wrote.
She added: “I definitely wanted you to be aware that Butch and Pals were trying to stick their fingers in the pie.”
Responding the next day, Douglas said he had been pulled into Antolini’s office and told “things had changed with Amelia.” He said he didn’t appreciate WVPB leadership going behind his back, “but for now it is out of my hands.”
“And you’re right, it does feel gross and shady,” he wrote.
Knisely said she was informed Dec. 20 that part-time positions were being eliminated. Her email and key card were deactivated around that time.
This week, Knisely announced on Twitter she was hired by the Beckley-based newspaper The Register-Herald to report on West Virginia’s upcoming legislative session. Her coverage will include developments with the state Department of Health and Human Resources, she said.
I’m not going to lie, I’m printing this as a sort of “told you so”. If I, a person that can’t figure out a fingerprint lock, the instructions didn’t say you had to use the same finger every time, that was a long 20 minutes, saw this coming then….. actually it might have been a little hard to tell. Anyone that reads my blarticles, all 10 of you, might have read my article on why legalizing marijuana might not bring the tax windfall you might think. This was one of the reasons I said. All you are doing is getting people hooked, they’ll start not being able to afford the dispensaries, the local corner guy will have more customers, lol, they might be the same sellers. It’s a pretty simple formula. I do have an idea about solar powered blenders and electric mailboxes if you are looking to make money, yeah…no… ok. It was just a thought.
If I knew how to hyperlink the right way I would know how to use a fingerprint lock, both of those things are still a mystery to me. This is my previous article. Check it out, it has a few decent laughs in it. I’m not as funny as I used to be. Damn.
Why being broke is better. Put Down The Dubious Dooby Law! (copy and paste or search my blog for it)
I’m not going to go into the whole story but unless they pushed him in, there is very little they could have done to save him. Lifeguards go through some intense training to learn how to to do water rescues and sometimes they get drowned, it hasn’t happened in a long time, by the people they are trying to save. Not any one person, in their right mind, unless they were trained in water rescue had a good chance of saving him. I understand the human aspect of this story and that people sometimes think that police officers are something else other than human, that they should be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they can’t. I get the sympathetic feelings that overwhelm you just thinking about this poor guy drowning and that somebody should have helped, but that’s not realistic. Chances are, the officer would have drowned with him. I also get the possible accountability feature of that story, but there is no there ..there for what happened here. A man, for whatever reason, lost his life when he felt like going for a swim. I feel bad for his family and the loss they must feel. The officers are not responsible for that. Police officers are there to prevent crimes and to make arrests when a crime occurs, not to save people from themselves.
For a immensely smart guy, he made one mistake… he let his intentions about how he was leaning politically be known way to soon. Politics is very tricky to navigate. They, the politicians, are very paranoid, thin skinned and most lack a sense of humor….. (most lack a sense of humor, the ones that don’t usually are outliers, not to be mistaken for lying out loud, and they are usually considered the best Presidents we had, i.e. Lincoln, heard he was a real hoot, Clinton, Obama, both Roosevelts and Ike. They didn’t necessarily have to be George Carlin, just watched his biopic on HBO, would not have made a great President but he knew that, that’s what made him great, but they could take a joke, while some could deliver them) given that our current political system resembles something like Ukraine, a battlefield, then a consortium for compromise ……so, imagine my surprise, when the most influential man in America voices his opinion on politics, this early. Now, I’m not passing judgement on their morality, the politicians, just on how politics and its political warfare that coincides with reputation ruining repudiation, if you piss off the wrong people, can get under your skin. (That’s a shitload of commas, more to come)
It took no time whatsoever to try and reduce how influential Elon is (he should think about going to the one name like Prince and Madonna and … is it Ye). Politics is extremely divisive….. The story that leaked seems and feels like a lot of bullshit, $250K from a multibillionaire… something is not right about that. I read the story and it’s kinda funny because I always get my massages with my underwear on and they ask me to take them off, could be because those brown stains that came with the underwear. I don’t know. That timing of the leaked story is a doozy. When Elon, or EF Musk or maybe Elon Hutton, you get it, speaks… people listen, not his fault, but with great twitter accounts comes great responsibility, who knows why. It shouldn’t be but it is and, well, this is where we’re at now in history.
Reputations are a lot like my stained underwear, that’s it…no clever quote behind it. Alright, maybe I should finish it, no one person’s is clean. And here’s a quote from another smart guy, lol, driving these atheists crazy, let that one person who has never had a stained underwear throw out the first stone. Something like that. In other words, and back to what I think of Elon’s situation, maybe it’s true but I’ll bet my last clean pair of fruit of looms that it ain’t, at least not the way they’re portraying it.
Reports of former Heavyweight champion getting into an altercation on a flight have gone viral. With the video attached to the disruption, it didn’t look pretty. After watching the video, I did notice a couple of things. The person filming the video seems to be egging his drunk friend on. The intoxicated guy was being a little belligerent according to on lookers. There was mention of money on the recording. And the video cuts out and comes back, being careful not to show too much of the drunk person’s behavior. Finally, the person filming ends with a quote saying all he wanted was an autograph, most likely meaning that the intoxicated individual was not leaving Tyson alone when asked. It looks like an attempt to entice a person of wealth into a confrontation for an eventual payout. Lucky for that guy that Tyson was a boxer and not some crazy guy. Most people make a big deal about people that are trained in boxing and MMA. The fact is that the more dangerous people are the drunk guys that don’t know how to fight because they start throwing objects and start using more deadlier items. Tyson punched the guy and by all accounts it seems like it might have been self defense, but he only used his hands and not in a lethal way. It’s people that use weapons like knives and guns because they won’t use their fists when necessary that create the bigger problem.
‘You can’t help but notice’: World Series showcases dearth of Black players By Curtis Bunn
A very interesting article…. It was very insightful except for one little error….
“As the World Series plays out this weekend between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros, the glaring lack of Black players on both teams, and MLB in general, is not lost on Grissom. The Braves and Astros each have one Black player on their World Series roster: Terrance Gore of Atlanta and Michael Brantley of Houston. Most MLB teams had two or fewer Black players, and three had none at the start of the season. About 50 percent of the league, meanwhile, is made up of Latin players”
Let me help you out a little….
“As the World Series plays out this weekend between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros, the glaring lack of Black players on both teams, and MLB in general, is not lost on Grissom. The Braves and Astros each have one Black player on their World Series roster: Terrance Gore of Atlanta and Michael Brantley of Houston. Most MLB teams had two or fewer Black players, and three had none at the start of the season. About 50 percent of theleague, meanwhile, is made up of Latin players“
An unnecessary statistic. It gives the allusion that they are somehow being favorited or that the owners are of Hispanic descent and the players are not there because of their talent, otherwise the article was great.
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