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Teacher/Student Affairs
Jan 22, 2010Natasha - Indy
I keep seeing stories on the news about teachers having 'relations' with students. I think that this is disgusting and very wrong, but I'd like to ask this... what about the students and parents responsibility?! The majority of teenaged girls today are permiscuous and have seemingly no respect for themselves. Oral sex is considered to be no different than "making out" in this generation. Perhaps the students behaving like hookers to gain popularity is part of the problem. Parents - pay attention to your girls and teach them to respect themselves. Not only do we need more responsible teachers, we need more responsible parents and for the girls to be held accountable for their actions. Take a look around. These aren't all innocent little girls.
Indianapolis Colts game on Dec. 27, 2009
Dec 27, 2009E. Spiller - Carmel, IN
Hi, I just wanted to let everyone know, "that your entitled to your opinions just like me, so my take it's not about the win/lose, how did we play as over-all team." Each player tried and should be given a chance to play maybe sooner than later, yet each are getting paid to do a job." I believe we are AFC champions and have field advantage, so one lose isn't going to make the team less. Than if we had to win to get into the playoffs, unlike the Jets, who are barely in for their time to shine. So, we'll see who goes all the way, I don't want to be the team with perfect season and not opportunity for play-offs or Super-Bowl. Give the team-players a chance along with the coaches/managers, too. No team members are better than the rest in the long run even the starter may need a break. I'm a true fan even before the days of Harbough, Faulk, George, Peyton Manning, Saturday, Wayne, Freeney, Sanders or Clark, etc. Thanks for listening.
H1N1 Immunization
Dec 1, 2009April - indy
Where do teachers fit in on the H1N1 priority list? Now they are immunizing students at school but the teachers can not even pay to get protection!
tailgating
Nov 20, 2009jim - indianapolis
i think the nfl is insane ive been to the dawg pund in celeland they start at 5 am whats this 3and haLF hour bs before kickoff
Marion County Treasurer is robbing the poor
Oct 29, 2009Felicia - Indianapolis
...and giving to the Landlord, Investor, and Developers
All is quiet on the tax front.
I stumbled across this trying to find the order of hierarchy as to who the Marion county treasurer answers to. I underestimated them when I said the do-do was gonna hit the fan, after reading my mother's recent bill. All of us who got hit hard think everyone is in the same boat. WRONG.
It appears the reason the tax schedule has been so off and disorganized is because the Marion County assessor has systematically been working on a covert strategy to guarantee the displacement of "certain folks" in selected areas, and that takes time.
The site's Property Tax Viewer used together with Google (by copy/pasting a selected address into Google's search bar) allows interested developers and investors to shop without leaving the comfort of their home or office; allowing them to plan their next move with ease and efficiency; Ready to snap up property for the price of unpaid taxes.
All I have to say is we won the battle getting a black president but the powers that be have pulled knives from the briefcases to stab us in the back. They've been hiding in the shadows plotting. This little obscure website just proves it. They're counting on their chosen targets to lack resources, such as the one I'm using here to expose the site I found. They believed that placating the majority would allow them to pass the cost on to the minority. Indiana is not about to absorb the decreases it promised.
I posted a letter to Representative Andre Carson on his site. Here is what I wrote:
Dear Representative Carson,
I'm writing on behalf of my mother -----. She just received her property tax notice. It has gone from a 2008 assessed value of $65,000 to an assessed value of $108,300. How can this be? She was just denied a reverse mortgage.
She submitted an application based on the 2008 assessed value. The lender stated that based on the appraisal of the property, (less than $30,000) and the surrounding properties it would not be possible to grant because of FHA required repairs needed to this property.
In a time when homes have lost their value, and owners are struggling with upside down mortgages, how did this property which is visually clear from the curb in need of repair merit a $43,300 increase? My mother is 80 years old with a heart condition. She has taken to her bed worried that she's about lose her home. This assessment is just wrong. Please help, not only my mother, but others in this area who I'm sure are just as afraid.
The Indy.gov site is a clarion call if we (even the middle to upper middle class black folks) are going to come out of this alive. It's not just the poor areas. Even in the "better areas" the treasurer's office has been a tornado skipping one or more houses and landing on another seemingly at random. Just look at the Tarkington condominiums compared to the Towers across the street.
Study this map well. Click the hand icon to move the page, click the (i)icon then click on the boxes representing the property to pull up information on the owner and the current assessment back to 2007.
Concerned Citizen
Here is the URL:
http://maps.indy.gov/propertyassessmentviewer
America the great!
Oct 28, 2009Exodus - Indiana
Wow, I heard this morning on the news that NASA is spending 400 Million dollars to put a rocket in the air for 2 minutes, now I am no rocket scientist, but I would like to think that I could be a slight humanist, Does it make sense to waste tax payers dollars to put another fucking rocket in the air, at that cost? They need to shut NASA down, its a hole in the bucket, and another way for the gov to put its family members in pointless high paying jobs, under the idealogy of a possible alien attack. WTF. How about taking that 400 Million and feeding some hungry people, or impliment programs that help the children of stupid parents.
Sigh.
When will it all end!!
Oct 26, 2009Exodus - Indiana
My boss whos skillset has been outdated since the 1980's back when things were powerd by vacume tube, things he is an expert in IT all of a sudden. Mr rogers needs to go back to his office and shut his door and his mouth, Im the fucking engineer, not him this dude cant even speak in proper english half the fucking time, I am absolutely not sure what the hell he things hes doing disagreeing with his engineering team. Bah I should be lucky to just have a job right?!!
Someday when we can mess with people via telepathy I am going to scramble this guys head like a fucking egg.
Pissed.
The art of being obnoxious
Oct 19, 2009Frustrated - northside
My son plays on a travel U10 ( all the boys are under 10 years of age ) soccer club and we play teams from all over the city and other cities and states as well. Over the last 2 years of playing on this team we have encountered many teams we love to play and would gladly play many times over because it's good soccer. There is one team we collectively hate to play, not because of the boys on the other soccer team, but rather the parents of the soccer team and it's coach. I have never met a more nasty group of parents or coach than I have with this team.
When we first played this team the coach asked our coach how long we have been playing together and he told her we had just formed the team a couple months prior which was the truth. We ended up beating her team and after the game when the coaches normally shake hands and tell each other, 'good game' she proceeded to walk past our coach and call him a, ' fucking liar' ( I assume because she didn't believe him when he told her we had just been together for a few months ). That was the beginning of this relationship. From that point forward every time we play this team we have to endure the parents of this team yelling and screaming at OUR kids, not their own kids, during soccer play.
We played them in a tournament by ft. Ben and while we were IN PLAY, their parents were yelling at one of our players, " You look too old to be on this team!!! how old are you?! When's your birthday?!!!" THIS WAS SAID DURING tournament PLAY to a 9 year old boy!!!! So this boy starts to get upset and cry because these parents are yelling at him. So one of our parents went over to their side to tell them not to talk to our players during play and he couldn't even get them to listen because they were acting like he wasn't there.
There is a good side I guess to some of the parents because a few did come up to our side later on and said they are embarrassed by how the other parents act during games.
It just gets worse and worse the more we play this team though.
One of the major points when we play this team is that soccer, even at this young age group, can get rough. The boys are pushing and shoving to get to the ball first and it does get aggressive. I understand that and have over the last year come to cope with watching these young kids getting aggressive. We played this team once where their boys were being a bit too aggressive and this one play they took out our goalie with an elbow to his face this was after he had kicked the ball away ( think of it like a football quarterback who has thrown the ball and the other team isn't allowed to touch him once he's gotten rid of the ball). So when their player did this the ref never blew the whistle and the father of this kid yelled at the ref to call the foul. The ref said they didn't see what happened. The parents from the other team start yelling at this father that it was a fair play. The father says he just wants his child to be safe while playing soccer because he signed him up to play soccer not football. So the coach on their team yells across the field, "Then take him home!!!!"
At this point we, as a collective team, should have just packed up our kids and walked away from this game. Our coach should have gone to their coach and told her that was unacceptable as a coach to say and that she should apologize to the father. But we allowed this nasty coach to bully us into not doing the right thing which should have been end the game. Why didn't we end the game? It would have meant this team gets a 'win' for us leaving.
This is the least of their obnoxious attitude. Because we are in the same age group and we do the same tournaments we will invariably be playing the same time they are playing another team and have to listen to their parents screaming and hooting and hollering the whole time while they play the other game. What I have come to notice this team does and makes me want not to play them anymore at any cost is I watched a game they played against another team.
I sat there and was a passive bystander to see if maybe I was just being a little too sensitive to this team and wasn't giving them a fair shake. What I saw was that this team played a team that wasn't as good as they were. Before half time this team was beating the other team by 7-0. In soccer that is a huge deficit. It pretty much means you aren't going to come back unless some miracle comes your way. What I saw and heard is that each and every time this team scored a goal, the parents were hooting and hollering and yelling. There's one thing to be happy for your team that they scored a goal, but once the score gets to a point where you are skunking the other team and you can clearly see that the team isn't up to your caliber you stop yelling and hooting and jumping up and down. It's unsportsmanlike to sit there and yell and whoop it up when your team just scored their 10th goal to the other teams 0 goals. Again remember this is U10 division. These kids are all under 10 years of age.
So to top off the cherry on this game after they beat the team by a massive margin the team proceeds to run around the field doing airplane wings and the parents the whole time are yelling and partying it up and then to accent their win against this team they start chanting for one of their players to do a 'flip' in celebration. The parents all get together in the middle of the field and sit there yelling, " FLIP! FLIP!FLIP!FLIP!" and they celebrate while a player does a back flip.
Every game this team plays it's the same thing. It doesn't matter how much they win by they do the same obnoxious cheering and the celebration show after the game is over is just the final straw.
If we were to play this team without their parents there or their coach, it would be a good game, because this team is a good team. They play hard and it puts our guys to the wall to play harder. But at what cost do we keep allowing this sort of behavior from the parents and coach?
Darkness descends!
Oct 12, 2009Ann Goodall - Indianapolis
Why is there no legislation regarding how high home owners can allow their trees to grow? Winter is nearly here, and the little sun people could be getting is obscured by massive weed trees...aka Maples. I live in fear of neighbors trees coming crashing through my home during storms. C'mon...cut them short enough to allow people light into their lives! Surely insurance companies should enforce this...no trees within striking distance of a home. Makes sense! If neighbors have no insurance, what happens if one of their trees demolishes my home? Who pays?
