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To: LindyBill who wrote (359782)	4/16/2010 11:04:02 AM
From: ManyMoose	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793914

And here I was just beginning to feel nostalgia for the Oval Office philanderer. What a dope. One sign at our Tea Party said: "You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out." Bill Clinton warns the New York Times of "real consequences" that could result from the anger of some tea party demonstrators -- including terrorism reminiscent of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

To: LindyBill who wrote (359782)	4/16/2010 1:00:16 PM
From: Whitebeard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

I thought Oklahoma City was all Rush's fault. That's what Clinton said back in the 90's. What I want to know is where's Joe McCarthy when we need him.

To: LindyBill who wrote (359782)	4/16/2010 2:00:28 PM
From: Neeka	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793914

"Crash the Tea Party" Teacher Suspended. The Oregon teacher who announced his intention to "dismantle and demolish the Tea Party" has been placed on administrative leave until the school district where he works finishes its investigation and decides his fate. The state's Teacher Standards & Practices Commission is also conducting an investigation into Jason Levin, a media teacher at Conestoga Middle School in Beaverton, a school district employee who requested anonymity, told FoxNews.com. Levin has come under fire for saying he'd do anything short of throwing rocks to bring down the Tea Party. In the last two days the Beaverton School District has received thousands of e-mails and phone calls from people across the country who said they were outraged at his behavior. The school district is investigating whether Levin's political behavior is appropriate for a middle school teacher. The source within the district said parents at Conestoga did not initially appear upset at Levin's anti-Tea Party activism -- but that changed in recent days as controversial statements continued to emerge. Levin has said he would seek to embarrass Tea Partiers by attending their rallies dressed as Adolf Hitler, carrying signs bearing racist, sexist and anti-gay epithets and acting as offensively as possible -- anything short of throwing punches. Now, the source said, parents have become outraged by the severity of his political activism, and many have told the school board members that it has no place in a public school system. Parents supported teachers who wore Obama buttons during the 2008 presidential election, the source said. But they say Levin has crossed the line. thefoxnation.com Ironic Surrealism v3.0 It is not fear that grips me… only a heightened sense of things. Oregon Teacher Jason Levin Founder of “Crash the Tea Party” Under Investigation [Update: Levin on Paid Leave] with 2 comments Public School Teacher Jason “Crash the Teaparty” Levin who built CTTP and then promoted CTTP via Twitter during school hours is now under investigation. KATU During April 15’s Tea Party rallies, Beaverton Middle School teacher Jason Levin’s group plans to dress and act like Tea Party members but “crazier” with the goal to damage the movement’s reputation. But members of the Tea Party movement say it is defamation and claim that Levin has been working on his “Crash the Tea Party” Web site when he should have been teaching. …… Conservative radio talk show host, Lars Larson, has gotten an earful from Tea Party supporters and said he doesn’t like Levin’s ethics. “This is a man who thinks it’s legitimate to further your political goals by lying, by stealing and damaging somebody else’s reputation,” Larson said. “I don’t want a kid like that teaching kids.” He also said he doesn’t buy the Beaverton School District’s answer that what happens during off-hours is a teacher’s business. “If you ran a Klan Web site on your own time, do you think you would be excused?” Larson said. “If you ran a porno Web site, which is also legal, do you think you would be excused in that kind of job?” When asked if it was fair to compare that person to someone who does pornos or is a white supremacist, Larson said, “Sure, because all of those are simply forms of free speech.” One of his listeners called attention to code (“<o:LastAuthor>BSD</o:LastAuthor>” and “<o:Created>2010-04-06T22:32:00Z</o:Created>”) from Levin’s site that the listener said shows it was created on school software during school hours. “He Twitters all day long while he’s on the public payroll,” Larson said. “Do you think that he would do something like this (the Web page) on the public payroll – sit there and type a document? I wouldn’t find that amazing.” Levin denied that. “That is absolutely incorrect,” he said. “The Web site was registered, created, and maintained on my own time at my own home.” Officials with the district and the state said they will investigate. [...] The Oregonian UPDATE: The Beaverton School District has also launched its own investigation of whether Levin violated any conduct standards, said Maureen Wheeler, a spokeswoman for the school district. Jason Levin, the Portland man who caused a ruckus over his plans to “infiltrate” Tea Party protests in an aim to discredit them, teaches in a Beaverton middle school and now faces an investigation by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission. Melody Hanson, the commission’s director of professional practices, said Wednesday that the agency opened an investigation because “there was enough concern that there was some neglect of duty” on the part of Levin. [...] ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com