How long until it's burned down?

“Tom, I don't live in the northeast section of NC where they had some serious flooding so I don't know if it is a wasteland, but I do live downriver of quite a few hog farms. they have had instances where a lagoon would fail or flood, but there isn't much of a stink being made of it downriver.

Other than when it actually happens. Then it is front page news for a few days, but soon dissappears. Either the damage from the failure was minor in scale (or contained within a small area) or the damage was so catastrophic that the media is afraid to start a panic by doing fallow-up stories later on.”

“it is amazing how ignorant people can act. all to try and make themselves feel better.”

“and that post refers to the people who think they are funny at the expense of others.”

“Sorry about my last post. The paste job grabbed the whole page, not just two sentences I intended.

aero - Thanks for the clarification. I think it goes both ways.”

“I feel compelled to weigh in on this one.
They might as well paint a big target on the side of the school building. I think this a bad idea.
I used to live just north of San Francisco. San Francisco has a large, openly gay, population. San Francisco, in the time that I lived there, had one of the highest hate-crime rates against homosexuals. It seemed almost like a rite-of-passage for some boys, who were filled with rage, to beat gays.
I say, don't segregate groups that have such a potential for abuse. Let's find another way to handle abuse.
Now, does this make me liberal or conservative??????”

“Neither. Just a haiku spewing fool.”

“3) Teach that the real world shelters no one. Running away only builds wimps...oh wait they already are."
ThePackMan
12:18:20 PM

This is coming from a man who hides behind the 'shelter' of a computer and derides almost everyone that posts here. This is the way he started the thread (with an insult).

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ThePackMan
10:09:46 AM

I live and pay taxes in the City Of New York. Lord knows where TPM is from. He won't tell us. If this were a referendum that were put on a ballot today for us residents, I would vote no without an extra thought. Not becasue I am homophobic or because or anything like that. It just goes against everything I believe concerning the way our kids are educated. It's got nothing to do with lib v conservative. Packman, you managed to generate over 100 posts here, but you are one warped bastard.”

“Thanks for the input!”

“Anytime”

“Does Trail Tech have an admissions ceiling on I.Q;
60's,70's???”

“I saw on ABC a news report on this, the class rooms have rainbow chairs in the rooms. Every chair is a different color.”

“Another stimulating observation, Packman?”

“What sports would they have?”

“They'd probably beat your team, UU...”

“If the sport was underwater basket weaving! I heard you mastered the Lamar limp wrist javelin throw! You would make a great coach for the school. You share the same interests!”

“If the sport was underwater basket weaving! I heard you mastered the Lamar limp wrist javelin throw! You would make a great coach for the school. You share the same interests!”

“Stuttering, UU?”

“Just thought you might need to read it twice! So is that a pink t-shirt that you wear when you coach!”

“Hey, man! Why don't you chill out? You seem very excited today.

Frankly, I'm done with the pissing contest with you. Just giving you a little taste of what you dish out here”

“Didn't know we were having a pissing contest! Frankly, I never get heated talking to you morons!”

“Did someone say peeing contest?”

“oh no here we go again. to bad i lost my camera

my $ is on the tree”

“Watch it Maple, I can pee with the best of them.”

“Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

“"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
UpUrs
10:31:45 AM
07/29/03”

“Tee Hee Hee”

“From: blogspot

THERE MAY NOT BE A DIRECT LINK, BUT . . .
. . . Consider the Source

Not out of affection or sympathy, but rather as part of a longstanding interest in political extremism, I recently borrowed Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell & The American Nazi Party, by William H. Schmaltz, from the local library...

While reading the book earlier today I was struck by an aside in Chapter 8 in which Schmaltz was discussing the American Nazi Party’s demonstration against the 1963 March on Washington. The Nazis, expressing their opposition to “race-mixing” and their support of segregation, carried, among other placards, one that read:


They Don’t Want Civil Rights; They Want Special Rights


”

“Source: blogspot”

“Did you put on your helmet today violin?”

“Who you callin' foo, foo?!?”

“Sheryl McCarthy calls 'em as she sees 'em:



Opponents of Gay School Display Their Bigotry

Sheryl McCarthy Newsday

July 31, 2003

Trying to reach anybody at the Harvey Milk School over the last few days was like trying to get through to the Oval Office.

The principal was busy interviewing staff for the coming school year, the receptionist told me, while the school's press spokeswoman was tied up in meetings with Department of Education officials. Moreover, they've been bombarded with inquiries since Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that this tiny, privately run school for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youths is about to become a bona fide New York public school - the first public high school for homosexual students in the country.

The mayor's announcement provoked a howl from the usual opponents of change and accommodation to anyone not in the mainstream. Some editorial writers compared running a public school for homosexual students to running racially segregated schools in the old South.

Are gay students the only ones who face harassment, they asked, snidely inquiring whether there's any such subject as "gay math"? And what will come next, they demanded to know, a school for Haitian kids, for Russian immigrants? Goodness gracious! And so un-American.

One columnist inveighed that the government ought not be running a school whose values go against the Bible, the Quran, the Torah and the Buddhist scriptures.

Please. I'm sick of people who, in the guise of supporting equality and promoting the American values we supposedly all share, practice bigotry.

When I visited Harvey Milk 15 years ago, in its modest lodgings in Manhattan's meatpacking district, it was run by the Hetrick-Martin Institute, an organization devoted to supporting the needs of homosexual youths which has run the school up until now. Its 20 students were refugees from the anxiety, abuse and even violence they had suffered at regular public schools.

The school appeared to be working beautifully. I met Maria, an 18-year-old lesbian who left her Queens high school where students called her "dyke" and where her family felt she was an embarrassment to her niece, also a student there. Finnegan, 19, had dropped out of his Queens high school, where he constantly caught flak, had been harassed by his Jehovah's Witness family, left home, attempted suicide and wound up in a psychiatric hospital. Donna, a lesbian who'd been called "she-man" at her former school, could never come to class before without getting picked on.

At Harvey Milk, they found a comfortable place where they could study and develop themselves without the distractions of a hostile environment.

You might infer from some recent developments that society's growing acceptance of homosexuality precludes the need for a separate high school. But David Buckle, an attorney at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, says the organization still gets calls from students who are cornered in gym locker rooms and dark hallways, and who have to leave home for school earlier than other students to avoid being attacked on the bus and so they can hide until the school bell rings.

Buckle described the expansion of Harvey Milk as a very positive thing. "It's too bad that it has to happen, but thank goodness that it has."

One of the great things about New York is its willingness to try to accommodate so many different kinds of people in a constructive way. One million public school children already choose from a dizzying array of schools geared to a wide spectrum of personal interests and proclivities. They include schools for students who use sign language, who sing and dance and play instruments, those who want to do automotive work, and girls who want to develop leadership skills without the distraction of boys. Surely, there's room for a school for fewer than 200 gay and lesbian students.

One of the final acts of the former Board of Education before it was demolished and replaced by the Department of Education was to vote to make Harvey Milk a full-fledged public high school and to set aside the money to expand its physical space. I think the old board went out in style.”

“"When I visited Harvey Milk 15 years ago, in its modest lodgings in Manhattan's meatpacking district,"

A gay school in the Meatpacking district?

Ha Ha, that is way too funny!!!”

“I wonder if they exclude hetrosexuals?
Is there an entrance exam to be sure you're gay?

I wonder if there will be similar schools for fat kids. Geeky kids. Kids who climb on rocks...”

“What next; Poindexter School for Nerds?”

“No, Aero, the Poindexter school will be for kids who tell lies but won't get punished for it.”

“That article indicated that NYC had a school for girls only. Thats doesn't seem possible given what has happened to the all male public schools around the country. Does anyone know if the NYC school system has a girls only school?”