Here is the comment I posted to the story in the Tribune about the Milwaukie teacher.
“This bogus story plays to the worst stereotypes of male teachers…That they cannot be trusted around children.
Oh wait, correction, around female children.
He should have been fooling around with boys, he’d be mayor of Milwaukie now instead of in jail.
How is this guy any different than our Mayor?
One gets to be mayor, the other gets jail?
That doesn’t make any sense. Either throw Sam Adams in jail or set this man free.
I phoned every commissioner this morning and asked them if they’d be issuing a statement of solidarity with the jailed teacher or if they thought it was okay that he was in jail for making the same “mistake” that Sam made. I was actually hung up on by Saltzman’s lackey.
I reminded them of the “soft bigotry of low expectations” they were displaying towards gays. It is in fact bigoted to expect and condone bad behavior by gays. They didn’t like being called bigots.
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By now, the entire world knows that pres__ent Obama has flubbed protocol in dealing with our good friends, the British. He showed a total lack of class by giving the British PM 25 DVD’s that won’t even play in England!
Now, he further embarrasses America with his latest trip to Great Britain and his exchange of gifts with their Queen Elizabeth. One is left to wonder just who he has in the Office of Protocol as I’m sure his adolescent daughters could conceive of more fitting gifts to give foreign dignitaries.
Additionally, the Queen was presented with a signed songbook, supposedly “rare” by Richard Rogers. It should also be noted that the Queen has had her own iPod for the last 4 years.
In return, the Obama’s received from Her Majesty “a silver-framed, signed photograph of themselves,” apparently a standard present for visiting dignitaries. Was the Queen prepared for a substandard gift? Or, perhaps was she returning the sub-par gift giving that he gave PM Brown? We may never know.
Contrast this with the president mast hated in modern history and who for 8 years endured false accusations of low I.Q., unable to speak properly and who character and style was almost daily assaulted.
In May 2007, towards the end of his administration, President and Mrs. Bush presented the Queen of England with a bronze statuette “High Desert Princess” with a personal inscription on the bottom of the base, a replica of the original statue located at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Ft. Worth, Texas.
In exchange, the Royal Couple presented President Bush with a sterling silver oversized plate by William & Son with gold seals including the Presidential seal, the Royal seal and a center seal with the star of Texas surrounded by roses and a personal inscription on the back of the plate. They presented Mrs. Bush a gold and crystal clock with the Royal seal by William & Son.
UPDATE: As the video below shows, the Obama’s committed yet another gaffe in protocol by his not bowing before he Queen and she forgetting to curtsey, as is European tradition.
In another protocol gaffe, Obama did bow before the King of Saudi Arabia, a sign of the Monarch’s power over their subjects.
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