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Texas parent complains: Children can’t ‘grow naturally’ unless school fires transgender teacher
A Texas school district has suspended a transgender teacher, and is now trying to decide if she can be legally fired for creating a “distraction” in the classroom with her gender.
Laura Jane Klug told KBMT that she worked as a substitute teacher at Lumberton Intermediate School until some parents complained recently.
During a meeting with Lumberton Independent School District’s Human Resources and Superintendent John Valastro on Tuesday, Klug said she was suspended from her job.
“I have always conducted myself in a professional manner and would never discuss my gender identity in school,” Klug pointed out.
But Roger Beard, whose son was in Klug’s fifth grade class, argued that her gender should be enough to ban her from the classroom.
“If it does affect my child and his ability to learn or if it causes questions that I don’t feel are appropriate then undoubtedly there’s an issue with having somebody transgender, transsexual or transvestite, to be teaching that age group,” Beard insisted.
More here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/10/texas-parent-complains-children-cant-grow-naturally-unless-school-fires-transgender-teacher/
IRS planned to crack down on Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS before scandal blew up
GOP-led House committee voted Wednesday to seek criminal charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner, who used to run the IRS division in charge of tax-exempt groups. In a party-line vote, the committee accused Lerner of unfairly targeting the applications of conservative groups and misleading the Treasury inspector general, which was auditing the IRS based on allegations of bias against conservative groups.
Though the committee referred Lerner to the Justice Department for prosecution, it will likely have little practical effect, as the Justice Department is already investigating the Internal Revenue Service and Lerner. But the documents released by the committee do shed some light on the inner workings of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations division and how it approached applications of social welfare nonprofits, also known as dark money groups because they spend money on elections without reporting their donors. The influence of such groups has skyrocketed since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision.
Here are the top five takeaways ProPublica found from the documents:
1.The IRS planned to deny the application of Crossroads GPS. Crossroads GPS spent more than $90 million from unknown donors to elect conservatives in the 2010 and 2012 elections, far more than any other dark money group. By the beginning of 2013, the IRS was planning to deny the group’s application, the documents show.After applying to the IRS in September 2010, Crossroads started spending, and campaign-finance watchdogs started complaining. An IRS panel considered taking a deeper look at Crossroads twice — in November 2010 and June 2011 — but rejected the idea both times. One reviewer in November 2010 said that Crossroads was a “for-profit entity,” a mistake Lerner later wrote that she found “most disturbing.”
By June 2012, the IRS created a spreadsheet on Crossroads to analyze the group’s TV ad costs and track whether the ads were political or issue advocacy. A description of the group’s website in an IRS spreadsheet said it “appears to be an anti-Obama Administration website; however there are educational materials on site.”
In late 2012, Crossroads’ application was released to ProPublica in response to a public-records request — even though it wasn’t supposed to be made public. The application showed that Crossroads told the IRS that its political spending “will be limited in amount.”
The IRS received 25 referrals on Crossroads GPS between 2010 and 2012, the documents show — a referral is a complaint about a nonprofit, and can include a formal request for investigation or simply a news article.
On Jan. 2, 2013, an IRS spokeswoman, Michelle Eldridge, emailed Lerner and other IRS officials about questions from ProPublica over Crossroads’ application. “I recommend that we just let this one sit and wait out the deadline,” she wrote.
In an email two days later, Lerner wrote that she had read through allegations from campaign finance watchdogs about Crossroads, adding that they “were really damning.”
By Jan. 9, 2013, the IRS was drafting a denial letter to Crossroads, the documents show. There was no more significant action until May 2, 2013, when a call was made to discuss the “draft denial letter.”
More here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/10/irs-planned-to-crack-down-on-karl-roves-crossroads-gps-before-scandal-blew-up/
Texas AG sides with hospital that allowed ‘sociopathic’ surgeon to maim, kill patients
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is going out of his way to defend four civil lawsuits against a hospital accused of allowing a “sociopathic” neurosurgeon to treat patients.
None of the suits name the state, but the Dallas Morning News reported that Abbott has asked a federal court for permission to represent Baylor Regional Medical Center of Plano in the suits related to Dr. Christopher Duntsch.
The physician practiced medicine and performed “minimally invasive” spinal procedures in the north Texas area for two years before losing his license in 2013 after the deaths of two patients and the paralysis of four others.
The suits claim Baylor put revenue ahead of patient safety by overlooking the Duntsch’s substantial substance abuse issues and doing nothing to stop him from treating patients.
The physician told the newspaper Baylor made about $65,000 profit on each procedure he performed.
Former colleagues called Duntsch a sociopath and a “clear and present danger to patients,” and one doctor compared him to a serial killer.
Another surgeon was so alarmed by Duntsch’s actions that he took away his surgical tools in the middle of an operation.
The surgeon’s roommate and closest friend says Duntsch operated on him after a night of using cocaine, and he emerged from the surgery a quadriplegic.
Duntsch has since moved to Colorado and filed for bankruptcy, rendering him essentially judgment-proof, reported RH Reality Check.
More here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/10/texas-ag-sides-with-hospital-that-allowed-sociopathic-surgeon-to-maim-kill-patients/
President Barack Obama and the First Lady at Ft Hood
President Obama accompanied by the First Lady lays a coin for each of the victims at Fort Hood
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/04/09/fort-hood/
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