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I like the part where they have generics for name brand drugs. That would solve alot here right away
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The basic problem with public healthcare in developed nations is that it is politically untenable to provide a service inferior to private healthcare and so costs run away.
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#4 The advantage of being a dirt poor country is that there is little incentive for tort lawyers and the standards are not 'perfection'. Posted by Procopius2k
This certainly may explain the continued migration of attorneys from California.
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The basic problem with public healthcare in developed nations is that it is politically untenable to provide a service inferior to private healthcare and so costs run away.
[Bangla Daily Star] Boatmen beat to death two persons and injured another on the Buriganga when the three allegedly attempted to rob a couple late Sunday night.
Meanwhile early yesterday, a man was killed on suspicion of mugging at Paina Nayagaon of South Keraniganj.
The dead could not be identified immediately but the injured was identified as Mizan, 25, while the suspected mugger was identified as Nurul Islam Minu, 24. Police arrested Mizan.
Among the unidentified pirates, one aged around 27 died at Mitford Hospital yesterday around 1:30pm while the other, 30, at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) around 2:30pm. Mizan with severe injuries was undergoing treatment at DMCH.
The police and witnesses said a gang of three pirates swooped on a young couple who were crossing the river on a small boat at around 11:00pm on Sunday from Zinzira in South Keraniganj.
The couple taking their four-month-old son with them boarded the boat for Swarighat near Sadarghat.
The pirates came by another boat, they said.
They threatened the couple with sharp weapons and tried to rob them of all their valuables, said Officer-in-Charge of Keraniganj Police Station Abul Bashar.
When the couple cried out for help and tried to resist the attack, the robbers threatened to throw the baby into the water, the OC added.
The OC also said when the pirates snatched the baby from its mother's lap, other boatmen of nearby boats came to their rescue. The pirates then returned the baby and jumped into the water to escape.
The boatmen started beating them with oars, and at one point they dragged the three to the riverbank near Zinzira Alam Tower where locals also joined in.
Later, police rescued them and rushed them to the hospitals.
The OC said the identities of the couple could not be known as they had left the scene.
In another incident at Paina Nayagaon in South Keraniganj, a mob beat to death a youth in the early hours yesterday for his suspicious movement.
Police said locals suspected that Minu was a mugger, and attacked him.
He succumbed to his injuries at Mitford Hospital.
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This happens in Africa too.
If you are a tourist in Kenya, and someone steals your mobile phone, do NOT point and yell "Thief"
People will run from everywhere, ordinary people in business suits, and beat them to death in front of your face.
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The boatmen started beating them with oars, and at one point they dragged the three to the riverbank near Zinzira Alam Tower where locals also joined in.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Sporadic gunfire continued through the night and fresh fires raged in southern Kyrgyzstan on Monday, as the Central Asian nation's worst ethnic violence in decades that prompted thousands to flee showed no signs of abating.
The official death toll reached 117 with 1,500 hurt, the Health Ministry of this beleaguered former Soviet country, which hosts U.S. and Russian military bases, announced early Monday.
Accounts from international aid agencies and other witnesses suggest the real figures could be multiples higher: the International Committee of the Red Cross has said its delegates witnessed about 100 bodies being buried in just one cemetery.
In days of attacks, mobs of rioters slaughtered ethnic minority Uzbeks and burned their homes and businesses. More than 75,000 Uzbeks fled the country amid attacks that also appeared aimed at undermining the new interim government.
New fires raged Monday across Osh -- the second-largest city that's on the border with Uzbekistan, and where food and water were becoming scarce. Armed looters smashed stores, stealing anything from televisions to food.
No police could be seen on the streets, though authorities insisted some of the improvised checkpoints dotted around the city of 250,000 were theirs.
Cars stolen from ethnic Uzbeks raced around the city, most crowded with young Kyrgyz wielding sharpened sticks, axes and metal rods.
In some parts of Osh, Kyrgyz residents protected homes housing both Kyrgyz and Uzbek.
In another city beset by violence, Jalal-Abad, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away, armed Kyrgyz amassed at the central square. Their stated goal was to travel to the nearby Uzbek settlement of Suzak in search of an Uzbek community leader they blame for starting the trouble.
The Uzbek border is just 3 miles (5 kilometers) from Osh. Uzbek refugees were mostly elderly people, women and children, with younger men staying behind to defend their property. Some were fired on as they fled.
The United States, Russia and the U.N. chief all expressed alarm about the scale of the violence and discussed how to help the refugees. The U.S. and Russia both have military bases in northern Kyrgyzstan, away from the rioting. Russia sent in an extra battalion to protect its air base.
Uzbeks make up 15 percent of Kygryzstan's 5 million people, but in the south their numbers rival ethnic Kyrgyz.
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Approxi 100,000 ETHNIC SERBS have repor fled the border areas into UZBEKISTAN.
* WMF > CHINA TO SEND TWO CHARTERED FLIGHTS TO KYRGYZSTAN.
* WMF > CHINA SHOULD NOT RUSH SENDING TROOPS INTO KYRGYZSTAN. HIGH RISK OF INDUCING A MILITARY CONFRONTATION WID RUSSIA REGARDLESS IFF RUSSIA SENDS IN PEACEKEEPING TROOPS OR NOT. CONTROL OF KYRGYZTSAN IS KEY TO ACCESS, DOMINATION OF CENTRAL ASIA INTO ANATOLIA + BALKANS[Central Asian Plains-Steppes, Mil-Trade Routes].
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Two Turkic peoples fighting to the death, while the mother country postures over half a community of twisted Arab killers, which the rest of their community doesn't even want succored.
French police are banning a street party whose organizers planned to serve alcohol and pork-based sausage in a heavily Muslim Paris neighborhood.
Police said Tuesday that the party, called "Sausage and booze," was banned because it could have been viewed as a provocation in the Goutte-d'Or neighborhood of northern Paris, where Muslims pray on the streets on Fridays because there are not enough mosques. Alcohol and pork are banned in Islam.
Organizers said they were organizing Friday's party to protest Islam's encroachment on traditional French values in the neighborhood. The party was backed by several extreme-right associations. Muslim groups had announced a counterparty serving halal food.
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The War of Ethnic Cuisine begins! I'm claiming neutrality with the expressed intention of partaking in halal food, followed up by sausage and wine. Sounds so good right now.
Moody's on Monday downgraded Greece government bond ratings into junk territory, citing the risks in the euro zone/IMF rescue package for the debt-laden country.
Moody's cut the government bond ratings of debt-laden Greece to Ba1 Monday, moving the debt one notch into junk status. The agency downgraded the rating by four notches to Ba1, placing it one notch into junk status. The outlook is stable.
The rescue package "effectively eliminates any near-term risk of a liquidity-driven default and encourages the implementation of a credible, feasible, and incentive-compatible set of structural reforms, which have a high likelihood of stabilizing debt service requirements at manageable levels," said Moody's senior analyst Sarah Carlson.
"Nevertheless, the macroeconomic and implementation risks associated with the program are substantial and more consistent with a Ba1 rating," Carlson added.
News of the downgrade made U.S. stocks trim some earlier gains, but declines were mostly moderate as investors seemed to take the downgrade in stride.
"It has been relatively priced in the options market. This is not changing the overall scope of trading," said Steve Claussen, chief investment strategist at Optionshouse.com.
Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller, Tabak and Co. in New York, called the move by Moody's "well behind the curve."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Barcelona is to become the first major Spanish city to bar the use of face-covering Islamic veils in municipal buildings.
City Mayor Jordi Hereu announced the measure Monday but insisted it was not specifically religious. He says it is aimed at all dress that impedes identification, and thus includes motorcycle helmets and ski masks.
Lleida, also in the Spanish region of Catalonia, last month became the first Spanish city to regulate use of body-covering burqas or face-covering niqab garments.
Barcelona town hall said the measure was largely symbolic given that it is unusual to see women wearing burqas or niqabs in the city, which has a population of 1.5 million.
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#2 All Arabs will hereafter be required to wear a bikini when on government property. Including the guys.
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Please gorb ... NO, NO, NO!!!
German chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition government looked to be close to collapse today, weakened by a string of disagreements and intense infighting over austerity cuts, policy reform and the departure of senior conservatives.
Less than eight months after it took office, the government was given only a narrow chance of running to a full term by the majority of Germans, 53% of whom said in a poll they expected it to fall.
"Either we get things sorted out in Berlin, or it will soon be the end for the coalition," said Jorg-Uwe Hahn, head of the Hessen branch of the Free Democrats (FDP), the junior coalition allies of the Christian Democrat Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU. Renate Künast, leader of the opposition Greens, said: "The phrase 'new elections' is in the head and the heart of anyone who is thinking in a politically responsible way."
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Appears that Greek salad isn't going down well.
Greece's finance ministry on Monday rejected a decision by Moody's rating agency to slash the country's sovereign rating to "junk" status.
"This downgrading in no way reflects the progress we have made in the last few months, nor the opportunities opened by our budgetary stabilisation and the improvement of our country's competitiveness," it said in a statement.
But you're still broke ...
It said its budgetary measures "showed very clearly" that Greece was meeting the requirements of the EU and IMF, which have together provided Athens with a 110 billion euro ($A157.06 billion) bailout.
Moody's said it had dropped its rating for Greece by four notches from A3 to Ba1 on concerns about how Athens can repay its debts.
"This uncertainty represents a risk that leads Moody's to believe that Greece's creditworthiness is now consistent with a Ba1 rating, a rating which incorporates a greater, albeit, low risk of default," Moody's said.
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Greece's "rejection" of the rating means nothing. It is what it is. Only when acceptance comes will they begin the road to recovery. Apparently they are still in the denial phase.
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So what's below junk? The US gov is on an even faster greased slide to hell than the Greeks. Much of the bailouts were (and still are) done off book and does not show up in the federal budget numbers but the taxpayers still have to pay for them.
During March 2009, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that gross debt will rise from 70.2% of GDP in 2008 to 100.6% in 2012.
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During March 2009, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that gross debt will rise from 70.2% of GDP in 2008 to 100.6% in 2012.
Left out: We will already be there at end 2010 (debt 100% of GDP). CBO was only off by 200%.
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This is the second great depression, folks
the central bankers have just staggered it so it rolls across the world at different times.
2010 might be year of the Eurozone but then it will be China's turn
maybe by staggering the collapse it will drag on longer but be milder ...
i wonder what the heads of the world's central banks talked about when they met in Sydney early this year. They were all there... China, Bernanke, ECB's Trichet, BoE, RBA etc
The partially paralyzed son of the late Canadian al-Qaeda associate Ahmed Said Khadr has been arrested in Toronto for alleged sexual exploitation of a minor. Canada's favourite terrorist family.
Abdulkareem Ahmed Khadr, 21, was arrested 10 days ago by Toronto Police and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice on July 15. "He has been charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation," Constable Tony Vella, a police spokesman, said on Monday. The alleged victim was a minor but is now 18 years of age, Const. Vella said.
Reached at the family apartment on Monday, Mr. Khadr said: "Don't worry about it. I'm pretty sure the law is going to do what it's supposed to do."
The arrest is the latest chapter in the saga of the Khadrs, Canadian citizens who once lived in the same compound as Osama bin Laden but fled Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
The family patriarch, Amhed Khadr, crossed into Pakistan, where he was killed in a shootout with Pakistani security forces in 2003. His son Omar is at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, accused of killing a U.S. soldier.
Another son, Abdullah, is in Toronto awaiting extradition to the United States, where he has been charged with smuggling weapons to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, while son Abdurahman has said his father tried to recruit him to become a suicide bomber.
Was Abdurahman the favourite son or the disliked one?
The fifth of six Khadr children, Abdulkareem, who was born in Pakistan, was present when his father was killed near the Afghanistan border. Then 14, Abdulkareem took a bullet to the spine and is paralyzed from the waist down.
He returned to Toronto in 2004 using an emergency passport issued by the Canadian government.
At the time, Stockwell Day, then an opposition MP and now International Trade Minister, said the Khadrs had lost the right to call themselves Canadians. "They've expressed their allegiance to the principles of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden," Mr. Day said. "That alone should be grounds to have their citizenship revoked." You'd think so, wouldn't you?
The mother denies the family has ties to al-Qaeda. In 2006, Abdulkareem turned up in Brampton to watch bail hearings for the Toronto 18 terror suspects who were charged with plotting truck bomb attacks in southern Ontario.
Two years later, he took part in a protest outside the United States consulate in Toronto to call for the release of his brother Omar. On Monday, Abdulkareem said he was arrested at a police station in suburban Scarborough on June 4. "I went to go see what they were talking about, talk to them and that's it," he said. "They gave me the papers and whatnot and that's it, they let me go."
Mr. Khadr said he was unsure whether he would have to appear in court next month. "I might not need to appear, I might need to appear, it doesn't matter," he said. Asked if he meant the case might be resolved or the charges dropped before that date, he said, "yes." If she's muslim, then her family will insist on dropping charges. the Khadrs are practically royalty in the islamist world. Still, he's a smug little sh*t, isn't he?
His sister Zaynab said she was unaware of any charges. "He hasn't been charged with anything. If there was any charges believe me I'd know about it," she said on Monday. "I don't know about any of that and believe me, I would have known, I have a minor in the house." apples. oranges.
Massachusetts lawmakers passed an amendment on Monday expected to save the job of a public high school ROTC instructor who refused to pay teachers union fees.
State senator Richard R. Tisei introduced legislation last week on behalf of Maj. Stephen L. Godin, a retired Marine and ROTC instructor who was told he'd get the ax if he didn't chalk up a $500 teachers union "agency fee."
Godin, a senior naval science instructor at the Naval Junior ROTC at North High in Worcester, said he receives medical and dental benefits and half his salary from the military and refused to join the union or pay it's "agency fee," which is assessed to offset the union's collective bargaining costs.
On Monday, Tisei, who is also running for lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket, reintroduced the bill as an amendment to a supplement bill that was passed by the Massachusetts Senate and House.
The language added to the bill exempts public school junior ROTC teachers across the state from having to pay union fees. It is now headed to Gov. Deval Patrick's office for signature. He has 10 days to sign it.
The governor looks forward to reviewing this legislation. As he has said, he wants the involved parties to find a solution that makes sense for everyone and assures that the students will continue to benefit from Maj. Godin's experience and leadership,' said Gov. Patrick's press secretary, Juan Martinez, in an e-mail statement to FoxNews.com.
Patrick, a Democrat is running for re-election against Republican Charlie Baker, whose running mate is Tisei.
This is a victory for Major Stephen Godin and it's my hope that Governor Patrick immediately signs this legislation protecting public servants from unjust labor harassment," Baker said in a written statement released by the Baker-Tisei campaign. "It's really a shame that Major Godin's situation even rose to such a level and goes to show how far out of touch Beacon Hill really is.'
Godin has told FoxNews.com that he has been teaching in Worcester for 15 years without having to join the teacher's union or pay the agency fee. But last month he said he received a letter from school officials telling him he'll lose his job if he doesn't pay up by Tuesday.
"I just want to save my job here," the 58-year-old father of two told FoxNews.com. "I've been doing this for 15 years. Nobody has ever told me to join the union or be terminated."
An official with the Massachusetts Teachers Association said state law requires public employees--including teachers at public schools--to join unions as a condition of employment or to pay an agency fee.
Godin, who earns roughly $75,000 a year, said he has asked for arbitration no fewer than five times, but never heard back from the teacher's union. Now, he's waiting to hear back from the school district as the Tuesday deadline nears.
"It's really nothing," Godin said of the $500 fee. "It's the principle of the matter. I think they're trying to extort money from me. They do nothing for me."
Godin says he should be exempt from the law since he receives military benefits, including medical and dental insurance.
"So that's nothing to do with Worcester there," he said. "Neither the union nor the Worcester Public Schools have allowed me to make that argument. It's just the union that wants my money."
Godin, who retired from the Marines in 1994 after logging more than 2,000-plus hours flying F-4 Phantoms and five overseas deployments, said he has not hired an attorney.
"That would cost me money, too," he said.
Several messages seeking comment from officials at Education Association of Worcester and North High School, including Principal Matthew Morse, were not returned.
In a statement to FoxNews.com, Dr. Melinda Boone, superintendent of Worcester Public Schools, said she had not issued "any official position statement" to Godin or the union.
"I've asked our legal counsel to research my responsibility and obligations as superintendent in this matter," Boone said in a statement
In a clear demonstration that he is fed up with the inaction and ineptitude of the federal government and BP to address growing concern about the impact of the Gulf oil disaster, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal ordered the National Guard late this afternoon to begin building a protective barrier wall off the shore of the Gulf coast.
According to ABC News,
In Fort Jackson, La., Jindal has ordered the Guard to start building barrier walls right in the middle of the ocean. The barriers, built nine miles off shore, are intended to keep the oil from reaching the coast by filling the gaps between barrier islands.
Today, huge Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters lined up in the air, dropping sandbags one by one into the sea.
"They are lifting up about 7,000 pounds of sandbags," said 1st Lt. James Tyson Gabler.
Jindal intends to send the bill for the massive project to BP.
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As was stated in another blog that posted this story, Jindal is simply doing his job ... protecting his state.
We, as a nation, need more politicians like Jindal.
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"You see it, you own it." Now the results in these specific area belong to Jindal, which is great, if they work perfectly, but they won't. No doubt the lawyers are lining up to figure out who might be harmed by this effort.
Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft T2 successfully completed the program's first mission systems test flight on June 8 in Seattle. T2 will be used to verify integrated mission systems performance during flights in Seattle and at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.
During the three-hour flight, the joint Boeing and Navy test team exercised mission computing on all five operator workstations and successfully demonstrated key systems - including acoustics, mission planning, tactical data-link, communications, electronic support measures and flight test instrumentation - for the first time.
"This successful flight moves us a step closer to getting the Poseidon and its next-generation radar and sensors into the hands of the warfighter," said Chuck Dabundo, Boeing vice president and P-8 program manager. "Future flights will demonstrate the state-of-the-art systems that will provide the Navy superior performance well into the 21st century."
T2 is one of five test aircraft that are being assembled and tested as part of the U.S. Navy System Development and Demonstration contract Boeing received in 2004. Boeing's T1 airworthiness-test aircraft entered flight testing in October 2009 and arrived at the Navy's Patuxent River facility in April 2010.
The Navy plans to purchase 117 P-8A anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to replace its P-3 fleet. Initial operational capability is planned for 2013. Too bad the Chinese beat us to it. Link
Think again. Its the stuff that doesn't show that makes the difference. Airframe strengthening, increased load capability and endurance,. And then there;s the electronics.
To put it simply: which would you choose to ride to war in, a cheap Chinese lash-up, or a purpose modeled US warplane?
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It's stupid and dishonest to claim "the Chinese beat us to it." As I pointed out when the original article was posted here, there have been 737s with special mission equipment since the 80s. That is NOT equivalent to the P-8.
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My sensors detect P-8A "spiral development" efficiencies just waiting in the wings to be realized. Boeing PM sez, "Future flights will demonstrate the state-of-the-art systems that will provide the Navy superior performance well into the 21st century." Great can-do and wishful thinking from DODa-stan. Son, Spiral Development is the key; the wave of the Future. (Oh...? You mean there's a future??)
[Straits Times] A THAI judge gave police on Monday three more days to investigate two foreigners detained nearly a month for allegedly violating an emergency decree during bloody, anti-government protests.
Briton Jeff Savage and Australian Conor Purcell were held for their alleged roles in street clashes between Red Shirt protesters and government forces that left almost 90 dead and more than 1,800 injured during two months of demonstrations.
Police requested the judge extend their detention for an additional six days, but he authorised an extension of only three more days, in keeping with the emergency decree's detention limit of 30 days.
'I object to staying in a jail cell like a criminal with rapists and murderers when I have not been accused of anything,' Purcell told the court.
Purcell, 30, a former Perth resident, allegedly incited violence by making incendiary speeches on the protesters' main stage in their downtown Bangkok encampment. The protesters demanded the government call early elections.
Savage, 48, was detained for allegedly inciting or participating in arson. Footage surfaced on the Internet of the Kent native purportedly stating his intention to set fire to the CentralWorld shopping mall, one of Thailand's largest, after the military broke up the protests May 19. Purcell, whose bail was previously denied, is expected to get a new bail trial.
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Fucking dumbasses. Getting involved in another nation's political disputes just 'for the adventure'. Purcell apparently expects the same legal rights as he enjoys back home - I suppose it hasn't dawned on him yet that a foreign country might have a different legal system.
It warms my heart to know that they are enjoying the legendary hospitality of Thai prisons.
SOUTH YARMOUTH Some students are calling for the firing of two Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School teachers who held an anti-war sign during a school assembly Friday.
History teacher Marybeth Verani and English teacher Adeline Koscher made their silent protest during the part of the assembly in which school officials recognized graduating seniors who are entering the military.
"They not only imposed their political will, they imposed it at the wrong time," said D-Y junior Andrew Bowles Jr., who organized an after-school protest yesterday that drew about 30 students.
Parents and other community members have flooded the high school principal's office with about 40 e-mails and phone calls criticizing the teachers' actions.
"I honestly feel (the protest) was misplaced," said D-Y parent Joanne Schuman of Yarmouth. "I think they should have been removed from that event."
Some individuals have voiced support for the two teachers, who were put on paid leave until at least tomorrow, Verani said.
She said she and Koscher were not trying to undermine the students but "to address the expansion of military recruitment of children in our schools.
"I think we're supposed to open the door for differences of opinion," said Verani, a longtime peace activist. "We're not all in lock-step agreement on everything."
The protest unfolded during the senior last assembly, when the high school gathers to recognize graduates for a variety of achievements. For the last five years the recognition ceremony has included the awarding of plaques to students entering military service, said Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School principal Kenneth Jenks.
"Most schools don't recognize students who go into the military," he said.
When D-Y resource Officer Nicholas R. Pasquarosa Jr. addressed the crowd, comparing the volunteer enlistees to a sheepdog standing between the flock and a wolf, Verani and Koscher stood on the bleachers and held an "end war" sign while everyone else sat.
What to many was a sign of respect for the students was to the protesting teachers a recruiting moment, said Verani, who noted that assistant principal George Morrison, a National Guardsman, attended in military fatigues.
"This was a captive audience," she said, adding that the plaques should have been given out at an after-school awards ceremony that was not compulsory attendance for all students.
Verani and Koscher tucked their sign away and sat while the names of the six students entering the U.S. Marine Corps, Army and National Guard were announced.
They remained seated while the rest of those at the assembly gave the students a standing ovation.
"Standing and applauding is a sign of support for the decision these people have made," Verani said. "I want them to be home and alive and well and going to college and dating and having kids and coaching Little League."
The protest struck the wrong note with many attendees, Jenks said.
"Large numbers of students and faculty were upset," he said. "This is a recognition ceremony, not a classroom debate."
Heightening the reaction was the attendance of Yarmouth police Lt. Steven Xiarhos, who lost his son, U.S. Marine Cpl. Nicholas Xiarhos, to a roadside bombing in Afghanistan in July 2009.
Nicholas Xiarhos, a 2006 D-Y grad, was among the first group of students to receive a plaque recognizing their military service.
Jenks would not comment on what sort of discipline Verani and Koscher might face. "We're reviewing our options," he said. "The reality is we follow due process."
Bowles, who plans to join the Air Force ROTC when he graduates, said he wants the teachers fired.
"I'm sick of seeing people tarnishing the memory of our troops," he said as fellow students waved the American flag and sang the national anthem on Station Avenue.
James Kinney of West Barnstable, who knows Verani and wrote a letter to the editor of the Cape Cod Times in her support, defended the teachers.
"I think that it's important to show dissent," he said. "I think that's the highest form of patriotism."
Maureen Tuohy-Bedford, whose son Evan Tuohy-Bedford just graduated and has joined the U.S. Marine Corps, wouldn't let the protestors ruin Friday's assembly.
"The ceremony was beautiful," she said. "So many people did the right thing."
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"I think that it's important to show dissent," he said. "I think that's the highest form of patriotism."
Until it isn't in line with what you believe.
There is a time and a place for protests, and that wasn't it, you fascist fucks. Stop stomping all over other people's beliefs and show some fucking respect and common decency. Otherwise you will get none and some pepper spray for your rudeness.
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Thanks for finding an open link --- email sent.... my last sentence --- Please share the letters of support you are receiving with those students who have chosen to serve.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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