Under Assault: teaching in NYC: GW Bush — you besmirch everything you touch

January 16, 2010

GW Bush — you besmirch everything you touch

Just heard your speech at the launch of the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund.

You hideous liar! How dare you say with a straight face that great tragedies bring out the best in us. Remember this picture? We do, if you don't.

When Obama introduced you he purposely sidestepped your abominal response to

K A T R I N A

where you abandoned American citizens to the elements. I hated you then, I hate you now.

And . . . we will NEVER forget how you destroyed this country.

There. I feel better now.

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AnonymousJanuary 17, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Thanks, Under Assault. You read my mind as I watched that horrible little twitching weasel appear once more on television, saying little except "send cash".
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Under AssaultJanuary 17, 2010 at 12:44 PM
I wish Obama would read my mind !
He continues to block out the left as if we don't exist.
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UA retired from teaching after 24 years, having built more than a couple of dozen school choruses and conducted them in well over 100 concerts. Her absences have been infrequent, her ratings satisfactory, and she teaches with enthusiasm. In some years, up to 450 students have passed through her classroom each school year.

UA was a musicologist before she became a teacher and held the position of senior staff editor on the world's largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia of music (The New Grove Dictionary of Music, 29 vols.). She is known for her scholarly work on some of the longest (and most tedious) bibliographical articles in the main work and the subsequent offshoot reference books. She also trained as a coloratura in New York, London and Italy, and has a working knowledge of several other languages.

After a flirtation with rumba and tango, UA wrote a play on ballroom partner dancing called Real Changes, which makes side trips into Zen, intellectualism/eroticism, tragedy/comedy, a parody of Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost, Nietzsche's early works, and nirvana. (She is still not clear which of these should dominate the psyche, but is happy to have spent four years trying to find out.

Before her recent retirement, UA thought she could pass the remaining years of her career in relative calm. But this was not to be. She was excessed for the second time in her career and was for a year and a half a sub, or in the vernacular, an ATR. A successful grievance restored her to a position, but a principal has many ways to keep someone squirming. Teaching fully out of license was one of them, during which time she lost her desire to teach at all.

It is very hard to tell whether she was excessed in that period because her subject is music (which is not particularly respected in this school system), or because she was becoming too old, too expensive, or too ... "vocal."

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January 16, 2010

GW Bush — you besmirch everything you touch

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