High School Students Disciplined Over ‘Disturbing’ Nazi Salute Photo and Anti-Semitic Tweets
High school students in Maine are learning just how damaging some posts initially made in jest on social media sites can be.
A few students on the Greely High School girl’s basketball team in Cumberland posted anti-semitic tweets and a photo including a Nazi salute that has resulted in their being disciplined, although the principal of the school declined to say how, according to WLBZ2.
(Image via WLBZ2)
An anonymous letter sent to the school last week detailed three pages worth of offensive posts, which included calling one of the teammates “Hitler” and another saying ”If —- picked me up, she would’ve made me do sprints, then put me in a gas chamber,” WLBZ2 reported.
A letter was then sent to parents from Principal Dan McKeone and Athletic Director David Shapiro saying they hope that although “disturbing” this incident can be turned into a teaching opportunity to promote “tolerance and respect” and to show the implications of such posts.
“These were kids that made a mistake, and they learned from it, and they’re moving forward,” McKeone said, noting that he doesn’t believe the girls involved truly intended for it to be hateful speech, according to WLBZ2.
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jack_jack
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:47amwould it have been the same punishment if they were black students and the black panther sign. just wondering.
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sillyfreshness
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:24pmNo it wouldn’t. See the “chosen people” are in control of the US via the media and Hollywood, so they are calling all the shots. The US used to be a land of freedom until the late 1800s when “chosen people” flooded in here from Eastern Europe and they brought their liberalism and Marxist thoughts with them. Now socialism is the norm in the US thanks to the 24/7 bombardment we get from the media they own and control.
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stealthseesall
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 3:15pm@sillyfreshness You are the only posting on this story that speaks about the ROOT of the problem that has Plagued the United States. Until the power of the “chosen people” is broken their python grip will only be getting tighter on the “non chosen people”
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Marine25
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:01pm@sillyfreshness
Sounds like you yearn for a return to the “land of the free” before the 13th Amendment.
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The_Jerk
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:20pmNot on school time, it’s not the school’s business.
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tzion
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:55pm@Jerk
Did you see the picture? They’re wearing uniforms issued by the school in what is most likely the school’s gymnasium. Care to revise your statement?
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tzion
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:09pm@Silly
You seem to have selective perceptions. For one, there were Jews here far earlier than you seem to imply. Moreover, you seem like one of those people who believes the Confederacy had every right to secede. Would it then surprise you to know that Davis’ first appointment for Attorney General of the Confederacy was Jewish? Or how about how this same Jew was later appointed Secretary of War and then Secretary of State and was even featured on Confederate currency?
Was he a Marxist as well?
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sillyfreshness
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:05pm@tzion
Just because you can name one or two who served in the Confederacy doesn’t mean what I said isn’t true. I have no problem with the guy you mention. I have a problem with the Jews from Eastern Europe, about 95% of which were ultra leftist commies that flooded in here in the late 1800s. Copperheads are fine.
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TIME_THE_AVENGER
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:42amThey’re only ‘chosen’ in their own minds. They fell out of favor with The Lord a long time ago. Remember the golden calf and “the Cornerstone that he builders rejected’?
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tzion
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 10:40am@silly
You make it sound like only Jews can be leftists. And where did that 95% number come from? You? There are far more Jews who aren’t communists than that are. Just because they aren’t in the public eye doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
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G-WHIZ
Posted on February 10, 2013 at 11:36amWhy not kick-em outta school .the same as the child with a piece of writing-paper and calling it a gun??
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Fonz777
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:35amWell teedellee freakin’ dee!
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techengineer11
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:06pmI’m glad many others see how damn ridiculous these people are..
Just shut the hell up and quit trying to tell me what I can say or think!
Let me be clear. The Nationalists of 1930 Germany were not my enemy. The Marxists of 20 th century Russia and 21st century USA are..
Now if we would have put as much energy into eliminating Marxist as we did in murdering Nationalist the World would be much more decent place to live today.
Anyway it’s nice to see so many young people who understand that they are being brainwashed.. They see the hypocrisy in many of the discussions and they reject it.
God Bless em!
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oneshiner
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:38pmSo, they are just kids? Why couldn’t the powers involved with the little 6 yr. old who threw a pretend grenade to “save the world” see that he was just a kid? Double standards it appears.
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Joyzee
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:26amMisguided Nanny generation’ with no History of Self or Country Looking for the pre- ********** 15 mins of Fame with No Results except a Blaze photo.
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toiletclogga
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:01amI did mean spoof, not spook. Damn, I thought it was boys in the picture. Not until somebody posted it was a girls team did I tak a second look. Those are some manly looking women!
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BurntHills
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:59amsure looks like those Maine girls wear teeny weeny jockstraps.
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BurntHills
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:58amdemocrat Maine, a nest of untold Evil, just like their beloved boy Stephen King details in every book.
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AUsername
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:47ambig deal as long as there not physically hurting someone, what happened to the first amendment. at Government school you have no constitutional rights. its a cool looking gesture that some bad folks happen to have used but there not the only one and the girls have the right to say stupid things.
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tzion
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:15pmWhat does this have to do with the 1st amendment? Are they being arrested? No. Are they being fined? No. All that happened was that they used their freedom of speech irresponsibly and are now learning that such behavior has consequences. After all, are they not wearing their uniforms in that picture? They are representatives of their school and should have acted the part. Wouldn’t surprise me if the discipline was them being removed from the team.
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ares338
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:38amIf they were members of the New Black Panthers and they advocated stomping white babies it would be just dandy with everyone!
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neocon1
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:13amif they were muslims they would be treated as heroes.
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Gonzo
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:53amThose are girls in that picture?
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Eastinfection
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:59amThey are 100% female… except for the parts between their Adams Apple and their package.
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Gonzo
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:01amThey should shave their legs East.
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jungle J
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:51amprogressives want them held accountable for this but if they murdered someone the would want them to get a slap on the hand…progressivism is a mental disorder by choice.
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Comcast3
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:45amSomething tells me that, Anne Frank; Diary of a young girl, was not required reading in their earlier years of school.
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XCitizen
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:24amabsolutely! tollerance is taught only by specifics at public schools
1. If it’s about homosexual live style(nothing gay about that!)
2. If it’s about ” African American’s( they won’t help their relatives in Africa)
3. If it’s about “transgenderism(mental f’n illess)
4. Evolution(“science fiction) that people came from monkey’s
Anything Decent, normal, constitutional, civil minded, reigious based…
does NOT belong in schools..Quote the Public Educational System!
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rochrealtor
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:44amWhat kids do (without knowledge) is not, and shouldn’t be a vehicle to make them afraid to express themselves. We should hold the liberal…progressive educators accountable for the the students insufficient understanding of a horrible historical event. NOT THE KIDS!
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rochrealtor
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:47amThat is if it is even a Nazi salute!
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:33amROCHREALTOR, I’m with you on this. Its kids playing and joking around. As the story says above as well the video they call one of their team mates Hitler. Apparently because of the way she must conduct herself. The result is just more of the SS (School System) Thought Police going overboard. If, anything a teacher, coach, or staff should have discussed this with them. These people have lost their minds in their thirst for more power.
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willbedone
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:31amTO: Socialist Slayer
Yes, they had the “right” to free speech, Just like the principal had the “right” to “gently remind” them of the origin and intention of their actions. It was a good lesson for everyone.
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DougHuffman
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:15amRead about the Bellamy Pledge and Salute, and who learned from it.
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justangry
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:13amSo much for the doctor’s speech on political correctness.
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:05amThat used to be the way we did The Pledge of Allegiance.
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the bean
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:00amThis will all blow over, Mach schnell…….today’s high school kids are stupid and immature…………….
Just like we were.
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hgaut
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:50amjust wondering if the “discipline” is as severe as the elementary school kids who was going to shoot another kid with a bubble gun, or the other kid who made like he was pulling a pin on a grenade to save the world. Freedom of speech is down, PC is up.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:50amAfter reading a couple three comments by TECHENGINEER over the last week and a half… could she be? Naw, TECHENGINEER is at least first year at a 2yr tech school.
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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:07amI think he/she/it is a 4th year student at a 2 year school for morons.
Clowns to the left jokers to the right here we are stuck in the middle of the mess.
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justangry
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:16am@Bolshevik Engineer. You’ve just been familiarized with Tech a week and a half ago, eh? LOL, you’re hysterical.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:21am“I think he/she/it is a 4th year student at a 2 year school for morons.”
You might be right. And it’s said that Ron Paul’s old supporters (which TECHENGINEER obviously is) have the market cornered on smarts. They have the market cornered with yesterday’s racists and anti-semites from the old Dem Party who were actively pursued by the right fringe for money and votes.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:26am@ANGRYMAN. Just as with you… it only took about three to four comments to figure out where you come from. You and TECHENGINEER may not roll the same way rhetorically. But politically you two rubes both fell in love with the same buffoon.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:38amBtw ANGRYMAN. I get the feeling someone continually pee’d in your Wheaties. Sorry about your continued anger regarding that, but no need for transference.
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justangry
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:42amEveryone with a lick of sense knows who you are Time2.
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Fubared
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:51amAw, leave Just Mangy alone. He, Tofu, Jihad Jerk, SillySally, and MorsiEngineer69 still can’t figure out why Paul got zero traction and only .5% of any vote. Paul’s supporters have these lil factions of wanna be nazis and pot heads all under the same tent. Sad that a decent message got drowned out by dregs and purported individualist that ride the anarchist’s fence. Aw, poor Just Mangy. Don’t forget Bro Smith the fake human, never misses an opportunity to be fake.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:12amFUBARED. You hit the nail on the head. Many people enjoyed “part” of Ron Paul’s message. How could one not? BUT… Ron Paul was obviously NOT the man to be carrying that message. Maybe his son will fare better or someone else.
Ron Paul’s saner voice brought many Constitution, freedom and liberty loving patriots along with the message back into the limelight, but his lunatic voice brought the garbage and trash element in even greater numbers which turned saner people away from him and especially his supporters.
ANGRYMAN writes about having “a lick of sense”….yet he doesn’t say one word about TECHENGINEER in a negative light here. A person like ANGRYMAN will ignore the ash and trash of their political allies and jump on the sane who understand just what this ash and trash is all about and the negativity it continues to bring to the right. The leftist media takes the Ron Paul type fringe and uses it against the Conservative right. They are an rusted anchor around our necks.
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justangry
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:25amYour attempt to conceal yourself after calling for collectivism and being exposed as a REMF projecting is the only topic I’ll discuss with you time2. Your patterns are obvious. Why do you feel the need to deceive?
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Fubared
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:33amANgry you coddle and fluff fricken nazis. What can you now bring to any conversation? Oops? Well, by golly even nazis get a say? Align with nazis and feel the warmth that brings. Nazis, cheetos, and bongs under one tent. Wow. How could you guys not be ANGRY over .5% and bitch every second.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:37amANGRYMAN. You abviously have no answer to my claim regarding you above. Transference and small conspiracy are your watch words I guess. When you come to terms with who you are, why and how you fit into the big picture, you can then write about other’s whom you seem to hold in contempt for some reason. It’s very easy to hold most of Ron Paul’s far right and fringe supporters in contempt on any number of fronts by Conservatives like myself… not the other way around.
Good day to you ANGRYMAN… you’ve wasted enough of my time this morning.
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DLV
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:03amJust- I dunno Time2 was a huge supporter of the military has this guy supported the military yet?
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justangry
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:18amUm Time2… If you’ve been around for only a week and a half, how did you know I was a Ron Paul supporter?…. HMMMM? You’re too stupid to pull it off.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:24amDLV. Now that’s a good question (while not directed at me in a couple ways) that I can answer for you in one short comment.
HUGE supporter of our Military. You? As a matter of fact… there is a HUGE anti-Military contingent within Ron Paul’s ranks.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:36amANGRYMAN. No conspiracy here. You mentioned Paul’s name in a comment the same or second night I came on here in a very positive light as a supporter to another poster (I have no problem reading and comprehending)… not to mention your political leaning is as transparant as one of Lady Gaga’s outfits.
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:57amSorry, that would be “transparent” along with a couple other typos in earlier comments above. Beyond that ANGRYMAN, I think your fixation on my screen name, who I am… along with some other obvious fringe supporters on here gives me hope that someone else took the time to point out the failings of Paleo-Libertarianism (or much of Libertarianism in general), Ron Paul and much of the ash and trash that attach themselves to this ideology and it’s much flawed characters and mouthpieces.
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circleDwagons
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:05pm@fu. You are closer to being a nazi than Justified. Can’t help being learning impared but you could spend more time looking at the big print children books
Time2 was a senile old man who i am sure is resting comfortably in a home
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:34pmCIRCLEDWAGONS. I can’t write for FUBARED but it doesn’t seem to me that he is an ardent Ron Paul supporter. That being said, which political ideology and it’s vocal Paleo-Libertarian attracted more White Supremacists, neo-Nazi’s and Jew haters from around our nation and the world to his run(s) for POTUS… and why?
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circleDwagons
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:04pm@Lefty. I do not know why you supported obama but you are misguided.
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DLV
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:05pmLEftist- So I’ll just come out and ask it are you the screename Time2 end the Ron Paul Campaign 2012?
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:16pmDLV. No, I use the screen name, or my handle is… LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS.
Now what do you think of people like TECHENGINEER and what they write… getting back to topic here.
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termyt
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:46amSounds like a reasonable, metered response. How odd.
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:43amAs disgusting as it is – Its called Free Speech and the Schools nor the Government have any right to punish it ! Freedom is the most important of our Rights and we should never give it up without a fight !
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neverending
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:33amFree speech indeed first and foremost. Lacking and nearly totally are high standards, morals, dignity, decency, respect and great love for our country and those who give their lives for it. If we ever got that back so much of this garbage would go away – but good luck with that one.
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jeffryd
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:42amI’m in now way condoning the actions of the teens but just how does the school have the authority to take disciplinary action?
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Neils60
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:52pmAll public school systems have a set of rules/guidelines for parents/guardians/students. In that handbook, there’s likely a wide-ranging statement, subject to local interpretation, that indicates that any behavior which is disruptive to the operation of the school, whether it be on campus, or not, may be subject to school disciplinary action. Additionally, that disciplinary action is not to be disclosed to the general public by the school system. That’s why no other info has been disclosed by the school’s principal.
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woodyee
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:41amLIZ!!!
The videos are only screwed on YOUR posts! They auto-run, and DON’T play what you say they are – I’m getting “Adrift In The Pacific” from the Travel Channel dated Nov. 8, 2012, and YOU say I should be viewing a report from WGME.
This has been going on for over a week with your posts, and is unacceptable. Fix it, please.
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Jake Dog2
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:37pm@ Woodyee
Sorry you are having a problem with the vidio but I’m not So what is up I wonder?
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toiletclogga
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:41amLooks like a spoof to me, and throwing the Seig Heil salute is not genuine. What is the difference between these kids doing it as a spook, and Hollywood doing it occasionally to get a laugh?
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LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:53am“… a spook”…
yeah, that term will be applauded in White Supremacist land…
I’m sure you mean’t “spoof.”
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Eastinfection
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:30amYou’re right. It would have been much funnier if they were in “Black-face”.
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OldSurfRat
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:49amMorning East
“A few students on the Greely High School GIRL’S basketball team”
Was this a Russian girls basketball team? Some manly looking girls.
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Eastinfection
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:56ameek SURF..
you’re right!
maybe they have a lot of Transgenders at that school?
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:55amOLDSURFRAT, Frankly, I think somebody removed members of the Old East German Female Track and Field team from their cryogenic containers.
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OldSurfRat
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:30amHi RJJ
Maybe they just have their winter coats growing.
“So Easy A Caveman Can Do It”
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