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Dentistry Today: Marquette University School of Dentistry Suspends Dental Student for Blog Posts – The RESOLUTION
Flap first reported on a Marquette University Dental Student Blogger in December.
The Dental School Dean, William K. Lobb, D.D.S., M.S, through snail mail released his adjudication of the student’s appeal.
Marquette Warrior has the story.
Marquette Warrior: Dental School Blogger: Dean Reduces Punishment
It created a firestorm: the decision of the Marquette Dental School to severely punish a student who had unkind words on his blog concerning an (unnamed) professor and his (unnamed) classmates.
The draconian punishment imposed included a two semester suspension from school, the loss of a scholarship, and a requirement that the student see a counselor for supposed “binge drinking.â€
The sentence was appealed to Dental School Dean William Lobb.
Flap predicted the Dean who controls the Dental School purse strings (spelled fund raising) knew this was a NO WIN situation for the school. He overturned (spelled rebuked):
Dental School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Denis Lynch
Dr. Anthony Ziebert, who presided at the hearing.
The Marquette Connection – Dr. Tony Ziebert, Mr. Brian Trecek, Dr. Dennis Lynch, Fr. Patrick Dorsey, Ms. Nanci Dabareiner. The entire Student-Faculty Review Committee
The dental student blogger’s REDUCED penalties according to Scott Taylor, the student’s attorney):
1. The suspension has been overturned. Rather, the student will face three semesters of probation.
2. The action of the Student-Faculty Review Committee stripping him of his scholarship has been reversed.
3. The student will not be required to seek counseling for (nonexistent) “behavioral issues.â€
4. The student will have to do 100 hours of community service, and make a public apology to his class.
The entire Marquette Dental School community should be ashamed of this FLAP.
Marquette Warrior has the school’s statement here.Flap says if the student had been my son/daughter that Marquette would have offered a FREE dental school education for him/her at ANOTHER dental school.
As a Catholic dentist I am APPALLED.
Oh, yes for the MORONS at Marquette here is a link to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Update:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: No suspension for dental student
The dean of Marquette University’s School of Dentistry has overturned the suspension of a student who posted negative comments about classmates and professors on a blog, saying the discipline was “not appropriate” for the circumstance, according to Scott Taylor, the student’s lawyer.
Instead, Theodore Schrubbe, a second-year dental student, will be placed on probation and required to perform 100 hours of community service. He must also make a public apology to his class, Taylor said.
“Ted is very relieved,” he said. “This punishment differs dramatically from the first.”
And it turns out that Schrubbe’s mother works at the dental school.
Taylor said Schrubbe’s mother did not want to release the letter because she works in the dental school and fears retribution from the administration. The Schrubbes did not return a call for comment.
Flap wonders how long that will last?
Flap does not think this story is over…….
Stay tuned………
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Los Angeles Department of WATER and Power Watch: Pays $31, 160 for Bottle Water
Los Angeles Times: DWP Pays to Drink Sparkletts
L.A.’s supplier of tap water accounts for more than a third of the city money spent on the bottled variety.Despite spending $1 million in the last two years to assure Los Angeles residents that their tap water is not only safe to drink but also top quality, city officials spent $88,900 in public money during that time on bottled water from private firms.
The Department of Water and Power, which supplies the city’s water and promotes it, spent the most on bottled water, paying $31,160 to Sparkletts.
There you go again……..
Technorati Tags: Sparkletts, DWP, Department of Water and Power, City of Los Angeles
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Darwin Awards Watch: Rugby Fan Qualifies by Cutting Off His Testicles
He must have been nuts … Geoffrey HuishWe salute the improvement of the human genome
by honoring those who remove themselves from it in really stupid ways.
Of necessity, this honor is generally bestowed posthumously.This fellow will certainly qualify for an award.
The Sydney Morning Herald has Rugby fan can’t explain self-mutilation
A rugby fan who cut out his testicles with wire cutters to mark a Wales victory is at a loss to explain why he did it.
Geoffrey Huish, 31, performed the impromptu self-surgery in February when his beloved Wales beat world champions England.
After performing the deed, Mr Huish put his severed anatomy in a bag and took them to his local social club to show fellow fans.
He collapsed with blood loss and was rushed to hospital but surgeons could not reattach his missing parts.
Good God, can you even imagine……….?
Grab this conversation from the cutter……
He was put in a psychiatric ward but has no history of mental illness and was at a loss to explain why he did it.
“I’d told my pal Gethin Probert before the game that Wales didn’t stand a chance,” Mr Huish told The Sun.
“It wasn’t a bet but I said I’d cut my b*lls off if we won.
“I listened to the game on the radio at home by myself.
“After the match I got up for a pee and saw the cutters in the bathroom.
“Gethin had left them after repairing the chain on my toilet.
“I remembered what I’d said and thought he had left them for me.
“I thought ‘Oh no, I haven’t got to do anything like that have I’ and then I thought ‘You can do it’.
“So I started hacking away at my tackle.
“It took about 10 minutes and there was quite a bit of pain but I just kept going.
“The cutters were blunt so I had to keep snipping.”
After picking his testicles from the toilet bowl, he went to the social club.
“I went in and shouted out ‘I’ve done it!’,” Mr Huish said.
“I took my b*lls out and passed them in the bag to a friend.
“Some people then laid me on the floor.”
Mr Huish continues to see a psychiatrist.
“I think about what happened every day and still haven’t come up with a good reason why,” he said.
“I’d had a lot going on and felt a bit down.
“I can’t have kids now but still want a family – maybe I’ll adopt.”
Flap cannot imagine the pain and the psychological trauma and……..
the high squeaky voice………… j/k
Others from the Bear Flag League have commented:
XRLQ has I Kept My Promise
Patterico has Stupidest Man Alive: Geoffrey Huish
Darleen’s Place has The upside, he won’t be able to …
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: She’s BACK……..
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan talks to the media after arriving at the Waco Regional Airport after flying in from California, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005, in Waco, Texas. Sheehan plans to resume her war protest near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas.The ASSociated Press has Sheehan Back in Texas for War Protest
She’s BACK………..
Let the cameras roll………
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Zimbabwe Watch: Bush Issues Sanctions Against Mugabe
President Bush holds his dog Barney as he waves to a crowd after stepping off Air Force One, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005 in Waco, Texas. Bush is spending Thanksgiving weekend at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.The Los Angeles Times has Bush Issues Sanctions Against Mugabe
President Bush is targeting the U.S. accounts of leading government officials and others in Zimbabwe, saying those who work to support President Robert Mugabe must restore democracy or face sanctions.
The White House announced Wednesday that Bush had signed an executive order Tuesday blocking all property and financial holdings in the United States owned by 128 people and 33 farms and businesses in Zimbabwe. It also bars U.S. citizens from having financial dealings with them.
This action is not aimed at the people of Zimbabwe, but rather at those most responsible for their plight,” said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.
Bush already had issued sanctions against Mugabe and 76 other officials under an executive order signed in March 2003. Tuesday’s order included 75 from that list and added 53 others, and it applied sanctions to their immediate family members. It also allows the secretary of state and treasury secretary to expand the list without a presidential order.
Kudos to the President.
But, he has to do MORE.
The President must pressure the European Union to join the United States in imposing strict and appropriate economic sanctions (including a trade embargo and prohibitions on investment) on Mugabe’s government like they did in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s against the apartheid government of South Africa.
Moreover, the President must meet with President Mbeki of South Africa and obtain a memo of understanding that land reform (land ownership resistribution without fair compensation under the rule of law) in Zimbabwe will not spread along the continent of Africa and South Africa in particular. Mbeki has been AWOL on the issue of the authoritarian rule of Mugabe. If he wishes to lead a democratic country he must reject the ruthless criminal dictatorship of Mugabe.
Bush said that since the first order, conditions in Zimbabwe had continued to deteriorate.
“The government continues to suppress opposition groups and civil society, undermine the independent media, ignore decisions by its courts, and refuse to enter into meaningful negotiations with other political actors,” Bush wrote in a leader to congressional leaders. “Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections in March 2005 were not free or fair. Recent demolitions of low income housing and informal markets have caused 700,000 people to lose their homes, jobs, or both. Additional measures are required to promote democratic change.”
The United States has refused to recognize Mugabe as winner of last March’s presidential election, which was seen widely as rigged.
Mugabe led Zimbabwe to independence from Britain in 1980 and had its name changed from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, harking back to a great city in the country built by an advanced ancient culture. Mugabe has become increasingly authoritarian, spearheading media controls and takeovers of white-owned farms.
Stay tuned…….
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe speaks during a hunger conference October 2005. US ambassador to Zimbabwe Chris Dell risks being expelled for what the southern African country termed his ‘undiplomatic behaviour and meddling with Zimbabwe’s affairs’, the state-run Herald reported. -
Duquesne University Politically Correct FLAP: The Facebook Censorship
The FacebookThe ASSociated Press and the Pittsburgh Channel has Expulsion For Gay Comments?
Duquesne Student Resists Punishment
A Duquesne University sophomore will risk being kicked out of school rather than write an essay as punishment for expressing his view that homosexuality is “subhuman.”
Ryan Miner, 19, of Hagerstown, Md., was sanctioned by Duquesne after posting his view in The Facebook, an online directory that is not related to the university.
The political speech cops are out at Duquesne.
Who are the MORONS who are monitoring this kid’s Facebook?
Miner opposed an effort by other students to form a Gay-Straight Alliance group, an issue that is still being debated by the university.
“I believe as a student that my First Amendment rights in the Constitution were subverted and attacked,” said Miner.
You betcha……
After Miner’s comments appeared online, some students complained to the school.
After a hearing, the Office of Judicial Affairs found Miner guilty of violating the University Code, which prohibits harassment or discrimination based on sexual orientation, among other groups.
A 10-page paper was assigned as punishment. Miner said he refuses to write it and will file an appeal.
What a waste of time.
This is Facebook.
And the University Code violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
A reminder:
First Amendment of the Bill of Rights: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
The ACLU has a good section on free speech and university codes of speech and conduct here.
Don’t write that paper!
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George Galloway Watch: Hitchens Calls Galloway’s BLUFF
Member of Parliament George Galloway and former Iraq Prime Minister and Saddam Hussein’s henchman Tariq Aziz.Slate and Christopher Hitchens has Calling Galloway’s Bluff.
The Senate uncovers a smoking gun.Just before my last exchange with George Galloway, which occurred on the set of Bill Maher’s show in Los Angeles in mid-September, I was approached by a representative of the program and asked if I planned to repeat my challenge to Galloway on air. That challenge—would he sign an affidavit saying that he had never discussed Oil-for-Food monies with Tariq Aziz?—I had already made on a public stage in New York. Maher’s producers had been asked, obviously by a nervous Galloway, to find out whether I had brought such an affidavit along with me. I replied that this was not necessary, since his public denial to me was on the record and had been broadcast, and since it further confirmed the apparent perjury that he had committed in front of the U.S. Senate on May 17, 2005. I added that I wanted no further contact with Galloway until I could have the opportunity of reviewing his prison diaries.
That day has now been brought measurably closer by the publication of the report of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. This report, which comes with a vast archive of supporting material, was embargoed until 10 p.m. Monday and contains the “smoking gun” evidence that Galloway, along with his wife and his chief business associate, were consistent profiteers from Saddam Hussein’s regime and its criminal exploitation of the “Oil for Food” program. In particular:
1) Between 1999 and 2003, Galloway personally solicited and received eight oil “allocations” totaling 23 million barrels, which went either to him or to a politicized “charity” of his named the Mariam Appeal.
2) In connection with just one of these allocations, Galloway’s wife, Amineh Abu-Zayyad, received about $150,000 directly.
3) A minimum of $446,000 was directed to the Mariam Appeal, which campaigned against the very sanctions from which it was secretly benefiting.
4) Through the connections established by the Galloway and “Mariam” allocations, the Saddam Hussein regime was enabled to reap $1,642,000 in kickbacks or “surcharge” payments.
(For a highly readable explanation of how the Oil-for-Food racket actually worked, see the Adobe Acrobat file on the site www.hitchensweb.com prepared by my brilliant comrade Michael Weiss and distributed as a leaflet outside the debate in New York.)
George Galloway should be brought to the United States and prosecuted for perjury and any other federal crimes in the United Nations Oil for Food Scandel.
George Galloway, Saddam Hussein, Norm Coleman, oil for food, United Nations
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Recall 2006
Dr. Kenneth Matsummura (C) talks with campaign volunteers (R) Jasper Summer and Herman Waters about recalling California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in Berkeley, California, October 24, 2005. Matsummura, whose inventions include the first-ever artificial liver, has launched an effort to gather a million signatures to force a recall vote on Governor Schwarzenegger, who came to office two years ago following an unprecedented recall.Flap reminds the good doctor:
There is an Election Next Year!Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kenneth Matsummura, recall 2006
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George Galloway Watch: “I am Ready to Fly to the US Today”
British legislator George Galloway is sworn in before his testimony at the Senate subcommittee for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Capitol Hill in this Tuesday, May 17, 2005 file photo in Washington. Galloway gave false testimony to U.S. lawmakers when he vehemently denied receiving valuable U.N. oil-for-food allocations from deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a Senate investigative subcommittee said Monday Oct 24 2005. Sen. Norm Coleman presented evidence that they say shows British lawmaker George Galloway’s political organization and his wife received nearly $600,000 (502,344) from the oil allocations. Galloway denies the charges.AFP News has Come and get me, George Galloway challenges US Congress.
George Galloway has challenged the United States to charge him with perjury after he was accused of lying to a Senate committee over the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq.
Galloway, a strident opponent of the Iraq war, said he was “completely bemused” by fresh allegations that he personally solicited and received eight oil vouchers from Saddam Hussein’s regime between 1999 and 2003.
During sworn testimony in May the bombastic left-winger told a US Senate subcommittee investigating the oil-for-food scheme that he never benefitted from the controversial programme.
The Senate governmental affairs subcommittee on investigations will hand over its findings in a report to the U.S. Justice Department and to British authorities, said panel chairman Senator Norm Coleman.
Flap has the story George Galloway Watch: May Face Criminal Charges for Givng False Testimony Under Oath to U.S. Senate.
Speaking to BBC radio on Tuesday, Galloway said: “I did not lie under oath in front of the Senate committee.”
He said he had not seen the latest allegations from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, which he accused of being “cavalier with any idea of process and justice”.
Galloway added: “I’m still willing to go to the United States and still willing to face any charge of perjury in front of that Senate committee.
“I’m demanding that they charge me with contempt and with perjury, I’m demanding it.“If a Senate committee can go on the international airwaves without putting this to you, without sending me an advance (copy) and accuse me of lying under oath in front of a Senate committee, then I demand they charge me with perjury — and I’ll be on the next plane to face it.”
Flap is looking forward to George Galloway’s return to the USA and he is sure that Senator Norm Coleman is as well.
Led by Senator Norm Coleman, the investigative arm of the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs has been studying reports of corruption surrounding the 1996-2003 UN Iraq oil-for-food programme.
Coleman’s group has focused its attention on individuals it believes took illegal benefits from the programme, which was aimed at allowing sanction-hit Iraq to sell a limited amount of oil to buy food and medicine for its people.
Besides Galloway, Coleman’s committee has accused senior officials at the United Nations and top Russian and French politicians, of taking money or oil allocations from the program.
Two former high-ranking French diplomats — including the country’s representative to the United Nations between 1991 and 1995 — have been placed under criminal investigation by a French judge looking into the matter.
Senator Norm ColemanWill Galloway be prosecuted?
Perhaps.
But, he has already been exposed as the CROOK and LIAR SCUM that he is.
George Galloway, Saddam Hussein, Norm Coleman, oil for food, United Nations
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George Galloway Watch: May Face Criminal Charges for Givng False Testimony Under Oath to U.S. Senate
Matt Drudge has UK’S GEORGE GALLOWAY REFUTES NEW OIL SCANDAL CLAIMS.
George Galloway has strongly refuted new allegations that he pocketed money from Saddam Hussein’s scandal ridden oil-for-food programme and lied about it under oath.
The US Senate committee investigating the Respect MP’s alleged involvement in the saga claims to have discovered £85,000 (150,000 dollars) in Iraqi oil money in his wife’s bank account.
Mr Galloway may face criminal charges if found to have given false testimony to the committee when he defended himself against similar claims in a passionate showdown earlier this year.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has accused him of giving “false and misleading testimony” at the May 17 hearing.
Mr Galloway, who used the headline-grabbing appearance as the basis for a new book, denied being an oil trader, soliciting oil allocations or instructing anyone to do so on his behalf.
But Republican Senator Norm Coleman, who chairs the committee, claims to have obtained new evidence proving that Saddam’s regime granted oil allocations to the Bethnal Green and Bow MP and his Mariam Appeal fund.
The committee’s new report accuses Mr Galloway of personally soliciting and being granted eight oil allocations totalling 23 million barrels from the Hussein government between 1999 and 2003.
It claims that his estranged wife, Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad, received approximately £85,000 (150,000 dollars) in connection with one allocation of oil.
Developing…
Arrest this socialist scum, CROOK and LIAR.
The American Spectator has a good piece, Curious, George! and a link to a transcript of George Galloway’s Senate Testimony.
Flap and Armed Liberal attended a lecture by this moron in Los Angeles, September 22, 2005. He called President Bush UNCHRISTIAN.
Galloway is just SCUM.