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Middle School Teacher Named ‘Stacie’ Caught in Perhaps Predictable Scandal

Posted on | March 8, 2012 | 55 Comments

Let’s face it: If you ever hire somebody with a name like that, you can generally expect trouble to result:

Stacie Halas, a 31-year-old science teacher at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard, was removed from the classroom Monday, three days after pupils reported spotting her in a series of X-rated clips.
“Maybe it’s not a crime as far as the penal code is concerned, but we feel it’s a crime as far as moral turpitude is concerned,” said Jeff Chancer, superintendent of the Oxnard school district. . . .
Halas . . . uses the stage name “Tiffany Six.”

What sort of “science” was Miss Halas teaching those kids? Did her duties include teaching the sex education classes that are now mandatory in California public schools? The question must also be asked why, if there was “moral turpitude” in Miss Halas performing as “Tiffany Six,” there was no criminal complaint against whichever Web site operator exposed her X-rated performances to her middle-school students?

Isn’t it illegal to show that stuff to kids? So why aren’t the proprietors of these sites held legally responsible for ensuring that kids don’t have access to these sites? But these are not the only serious questions raised by this disturbing news story.

How and where did these students see “Tiffany Six” in action? Did they volunteer this information to school officials? How much time elapsed between (a) when the students first figured out that their science teacher was “Tiffany Six” and (b) when students first made school officials aware of their employee’s extracurricular activities?

Am I the only one who suspects that Miss Halas’s video performance career may have been something of an “open secret” among her students for many weeks or months before somebody brought this to the attention of administration officials? How many of her students had seen these videos during whatever period of time it took for officials to become aware of this and take action?

Such questions are very important, because this isn’t the first time there has been a sex scandal at this Oxnard school:

Back in 2010, the very same Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School where Halas worked was in the news for a similar scandal, when two middle school students were caught videotaping themselves having oral sex in a classroom. . . .
According to ABC News, officials were notified that two junior-high school students, a boy and a girl, engaged in oral sex during class time. Even worse, some of the students were said to have started recording the two minors going at it on their cell phone cameras.

The kids got in trouble for producing their own amateur version of exactly what science teacher Stacie Halas allegedly did in her career as the professional performer “Tiffany Six.” Some people might think the following quote is slightly relevant:

“For more than a decade, California’s dedication to teaching comprehensive sex education has made the state a national leader . . .”
— Lauren Shaw-Stryker, Planned Parenthood

A national leader! And “dedication to teaching,” indeed!

Certainly, public schools around the country must be struggling to keep pace with the cutting-edge “comprehensive sex education” offered in California, where middle-school students watch videos of their teachers having sex and make their own sex videos in class.

Of course, this story doesn’t involve a Catholic priest or a radio talk-show host, or else the media might think it was a real scandal.

Possibly related: Is pornography really harmless? And finally: Would it be OK for Rush Limbaugh to call “Tiffany Six” a slut?

UPDATE: Conservative Hideout offers thoughts on moral relativism and Cultural Marxism in “Calipornia.”

Welcome, Instapundit readers! At least one of the commenters didn’t get the humor of the first line about why it’s always trouble to hire someone with a name like “Stacie.” Would it help to explain that this is self-deprecating humor?

But if you have to explain a joke . . .


Category: California, Education, Scandal, Sex

Webfoot Art Robinson For Congress!

Posted on | March 8, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

While I live in the shadow of Mount Vernon, I actually hail from the left coast. Coos Bay, smack in the heart of Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, in fact. Looking at the Wikipedia page, it looks like they’ve been electing the same leftist tool there for longer than ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran has besmirched the memory of George Washington. Which is bizarre; my kin in Oregon really aren’t granola heads. I blame California for this sorry situation.
Dr. Art Robinson sounds like what the webfeet need:

Dr. Art Robinson is an internationally respected scientist and educator, successful businessman, skilled public speaker, and expert on energy, medicine and emergency preparedness. He worked on medical and defense issues during the Reagan administration and on energy issues during the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Art gathered the signatures of more than 31,000 American scientists on a petition urging the U.S. government not to take action on the scientifically invalid claim that human activities warm the earth.
Art graduated from CalTech and, after receiving his PhD in chemistry from the University of California at San Diego, was immediately appointed to the faculty there.

What is the point of having a blog if you can’t toot the horn for genuine Americans?

Art Robinson For Congress!

Aside: Oregonians know that ‘webfoot’ is an acceptable demonym. The Oregon football team is the ducks, and ducks have webbed feet. Just so that those who’ve been whipped to a hyper-sensitive froth by the Left don’t think there is something strange going on.

Category: Election 2012, Oregon

KaplanGate: Is the Washington Post Covering Up Its Own Financial Scandal?

Posted on | March 8, 2012 | 8 Comments

Rusty Weiss at Accuracy in Media examines the relationship between the Washington Post and Kaplan, a lucrative for-profit education firm owned by the Post‘s parent corporation:

[T]here is a longstanding history of allegations of fraudulent practices, with hundreds of millions of dollars of profits diverted to Kaplan executives. Perhaps it’s also Kaplan’s generation of such profit on the backs of poor students and returning war veterans, preying on their vulnerabilities only to later reward them with degrees of questionable value, massive student-loan debt, and little employment opportunity. Perhaps it is Kaplan’s curious hiring of lobbyists to influence legislation at the state and federal levels, including a former Obama staffer, Anita Dunn, just as the heat was being turned up on for-profit colleges to rein in out-of-control practices.

Read the whole shocking report.

In related news, my 9-year-old daughter Reagan came home crying today because she got a bad grade on a third-grade spelling test. Failure can be an emotionally devastating experience for those of us accustomed to success, but thanks to Advanced Parenting Skills™ my daughter has now recovered from this psychological trauma.

Yeah: I bought her a cheeseburger. “Best Dad ever!“

Category: Education, Media Bias, Scandal

Ziegler: Breitbart Thought Matt Drudge Was ‘In the Tank’ for Obama in 2008

Posted on | March 8, 2012 | 27 Comments

In a Wednesday talk-radio appearance, conservative filmmaker John Ziegler said that the late Andrew Breitbart told him that during the 2008 presidential election campaign, Matt Drudge altered content on his famous Drudge Report site in such a way that Breitbart believed Drudge was “in the tank” for Barack Obama.

Interviewed by Chris Daniel on California’s KMJ 580 AM, Ziegler said Breitbart, who for years served as an assistant editor at the Drudge Report, had privately confided that his efforts to post negative articles about Obama at the popular site were blocked by Drudge.

“Matt Drudge was totally in the tank for Obama, and he blocked Andrew Breitbart from doing anything about it,” said Ziegler, who directed the documentary film Media Malpractice about the 2008 election. “Andrew told me about this. The evidence is overwhelming, and I can and will prove it.”

Breitbart “had determined that Drudge was in the tank, that every time [Breitbart] put something up that was anti-Obama that Matt Drudge would at least move it down, if not take it off entirely, which he hardly ever did to Andrew,” Ziegler told Daniels in an exclusive interview Wednesday. “And then specifically the Reverend Wright story was completely muted because of Matt Drudge.”

Ziegler has posted an article on his Media Malpractice site detailing these allegations. Breitbart died last week of a heart attack at age 43.

Category: Andrew Breitbart

Bring In Jeff Goldstein?

Posted on | March 8, 2012 | 44 Comments

by Smitty

Bill Quick and some people are arguing past each other on an important linguistic/cultural point:

Are you guys really this dense, or is it just that you can’t see past your own blinders – lefties don’t like racist terminology and usage, so you think you have to approve it, or pretend that it isn’t racist?
You have a right to say any dumbass thing you wish to – but you don’t have any right to a free pass on it based on some of the screwiest reasoning I’ve ever run across in supposedly intelligent people.
“Jig is up” is a usage of “jig” that is related to dancing, so naturally there is no possible occasion when the context of its usage could also have racist overtones even though it also has a vile and racist meaning.” Are you even listening to yourselves?

I have not been arguing that other people are incapable of re-purposing the symbol ‘jig’ to have racist connotations. And, certainly, with an imaginable suffix, it’s a racial epithet.

The point I’ve been getting at, and one of the major themes of Protein Wisdom for probably longer than I’ve read it, is that we are in an ideological war, and that this is precisely the sort of tool employed against us: taking a symbol, re-working the meaning, and then using that re-worked meaning as a weapon to beat us down.

Such is evil, demonic, and a ploy of Satan himself. We should (a) refrain from doing it ourselves, and (b) confront anyone using the tactic and say ‘No’.

Let jigs be jigs. And let crackers be something put on soup. And let me cheerfully laugh, and de-escalate the situation, if somebody uses ‘cracker’ on me to mean otherwise. For hyper-sensitivity, too, like turning up the gain on a control circuit amplifier, is still another de-stabilization technique of the Left.

Peace, out.

UPDATE (RSM): Minor editing has been committed. Our blog is sometimes improvised or, as some would say, jerry-rigged. (No offense to Germans intended.)

Category: Bill Quick, Protein Wisdom

She Could Have Said, ‘Of Whom?’

Posted on | March 8, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Michele Bachman stands her ground against Piers Morgan. She stands judged as being ‘judgemental’ for daring to assert that the Postmodern narrative is wrong. But of whom? Doesn’t judging involve, you know, a case, i.e. a context with actual, specific people?

Loving my relatives and friends (that happen to be gay) does not, cannot constitute an endorsement of their bad ideas. Stating that I disagree with ideas they espouse is not a judgement of my relatives and friends (that happen to be gay).

This conflation of people and ideas as a form of rhetorical judo is utterly diabolical. If only Piers knew of the New Tone!

Bonus: the Motor City Madman does to Piers what Michele is simply too nice to undertake:
Bonus II: you know you’re an alpha male when you can sport ~45K followers on Twitter, while demonstrating a deeper commitment to Luddism than Robert Stacy McCain:

Category: Progressivism

Breitbart DC: Instapundit Interviews

Posted on | March 8, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Click the photo to go to PJTV and view the outstanding editing job of splicing various blogger interviews into a nifty segment remembering Andrew Breitbart. Here, the fabulous Dr. Helen conducted the interviews, while His Insta-badness worked the camera:

Tidbits of Stacy, his close friend Tabitha Hale, Cynthia Yockey, and I are included, among others.
 

Update: they were cool enough to YouTube the clip:

Update II: linked by Daily Pundit, who, I must say, is one of the better interlocutors on the ‘net these days.

Category: Instapundit

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.08.12

Posted on | March 8, 2012 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Obama Administration Weighs Non-Lethal Aid To Syrian Rebels

A Syrian refugee receives aid at a camp in northern Lebanon

Panetta rejects calls for unilateral action; meanwhile, the slaughter continues

Santorum Calls On Mississippi Voters To Drive Out Gingrich
Former speaker abandons Kansas, digs in in Dixie

Some Overrated Computer Company Launches Another Money Suck Of A Product
Is the horrible new iPad launch a sign of Apple’s unraveling?



POLITICS
Poll: Jerry Brown’s Tax Plan Has Narrow Backing

Governor Jerry Brown

No great enthusiasm for “temporary” tax hikes

Kucinich Holds Back On Future Plans, But Not On Kaptur Criticism

Obama Drones On About Green Technology In NC

Mayor Bing Resists Outside Manager For Detroit

NH House Passes Religious Exemption From Contraception Mandate

Pingree Declines To Pursue Snowe’s Senate Seat

Villaraigosa Says Gay Marriage Should Be Part Of 2012 Democratic Platform



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Trades Near Two-Day High As Iran Fears Counter Rising U.S. Supply
Natural Gas Falls To Ten-Year Low
Gold Up Slightly On Fed Bond News
Asia Stocks Gain On Japan Economic Data
Not Too Warm For A Labor Department Snow Job
Private Investors With 60% Of Greek Bonds To Join Swap
Treasury Launches $6 Billion AIG Stock Sale
LulzSec Brought Down By Own Leader
IBM’s Holey Optochip Pumps 1 Trillion Bits Per Second
YouTube To Power Live Streaming Olympic Coverage For NBC
Eye-Tracking Interface Promises Hands-Free Gaming, Glasses-Free 3D



SPORTS
Spurs Deal Skidding Knicks Third Consecutive Loss

Carmelo Anthony scores 27 in a losing cause

Knicks fall to full-strength Spurs, 118-105

Nyets’ Farmar Drains 3-Pointer At Buzzer To Beat Clippers, 101-100

Wizards Rally To Stun Kobe And The Lakers In 106-101 Upset

Rangers’ Darvish Has Enigmatic Start


Pens Rally To Beat Leafs 3-2

Huskies Beat Mountaineers 71-67 In OT

South Florida Handles Villanova To Keep NCAA Bubble Hopes Alive

Nationals And Cardinals Call It A Draw At 3-3



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Snooki: Yes, I’m Pregnant And Engaged

Snooki, unusually decorous

“I have different priorities now. I don’t care what anybody else thinks.”

Pregnant Jessica Simpson Poses Nude For Elle, Confirms It’s A Girl

“I’m So Excited!” Sienna Miller Opens Up About Her Pregnancy

WNBC Booting Anchor Sue Simmons After 32 Years

Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Being Shopped

Maher Comes To Limbaugh’s Defense


“All American Muslim” Canceled Amid Controversy, Sagging Ratings

Etan Cohen To Direct “Boy Scouts V. Zombies” For Paramount

Demi Lovato Still Struggling With Bulimia, Cutting



FOREIGNERS
“Get Kony” Goes Viral; Questions Raised About Charity’s Social Media Blitz
Images Suggest Iran Is Cleaning Up Nuke Site Before Inspectors Arrive
Why Sarkozy’s Hard Words About Immigration May Resonate In France
Triumphant Putin Pours Scorn On Opposition
Syrian Deputy Oil Minister Defects
Hamas Rules Out Military Support For Iran In Any War With Israel



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: The War On Conservative Women
Villainous Company: “My Party Right Or Wrong” Is Not A Winning Message
Five Feet Of Fury: Baby Boomers, This Is Why We Hate You And Can’t Wait Until You All Die
Riehl World View: Think Progress – The Stalinists Are Here
American Thinker: Will 2012 Be A Republican Year?
Ed Driscoll: “We Hid This Video Throughout The 2008 Campaign”
Protein Wisdom: The Vetting – Obama Embraces Racialist Harvard Prof
Don Surber: Rush Refuses To Suspend Himself
Powerline: The Party Of Hate
Dan Riehl: Dems Inciting Death Threats Against Limbaugh
National Review: Conspiracy, Again
NewsBusters: MoDo Gets Offensive On GOP “Warmongers”, Israel, And The Iraq War
Lonely Conservative: “People Fainting Happens All The Time In My Meetings”
USNI Blog: A Remarkable Man Has Stepped Into The Clearing
R.I.P. Captain Carroll LeFon, 1960-2012, a/k/a Neptunus Lex

Category: Live at Five
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