Obama: I Could Use My Status to Get Special Treatment for My Kids
- Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:11am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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In response to an audience question during a recent NBC interview, President Obama admitted that he sends his children to private school instead of the “struggling” D.C. public schools. That’s despite the fact that he claims, given his status and position, he could “maneuver” it so that his children could get into any public school of his choice:
The D.C. public schools are so bad that even the president won’t pull strings to get his children into them.
So what’s the root of the problem? Are those schools bad because of poor teachers who are being protected by the unions? Possibly — Obama admits that some unions are resistant to change. But in the interview he said he would rather not “impose” anything on the unions, because teachers have to “feel good” in order to do a good job:
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wodiej
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:02amFeel good? I thought being a teacher was feeling good in itself by helping kids.
In Rochester New York, the public schools there put the nasty, vulgar rapper 50 cent on the book reading list. You’ve got to be kidding me….we pay enormous pensions and health benefits so they can decide to funnel this garbage to kids?? A black minister from Rochester was on Fox this morning very upset about it. Liberal schools response-we want the kids to engage in debate and opposing views. Uhm….no, they will go out and emulate the behavior. How many kids, really, give a crap about morals and debating serious social issues! Its called TEACHING not “if it FEELS GOOD DO IT.”
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:01amThis just in: American schoolchildren denounce Obama’s favoring an extended school year. Sally Muckenfutch, VP of “Organizing for Fun Stuff that Doesn’t Suck“ is quoted as saying ”President Obama is a meany-bobeany who smell like poo, and is a doodiehead for wanting to get rid of summer vacation.”
Report Post »Sally could not be reached for comment, Sally’s mom, Mrs. Muckenfutch reports “She can’t come to the door right now, she has chores to do.”
Mr. Muckenfutch Sr- Sally’s grampa is reported as saying “Get off my damn lawn, you damn kids.”
ateacher
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:00amHey guys, remember that teachers have to follow what the administration, both at their school, then at the district office, and then at the school board tell them to do. When they tie our hands behind our back and countermand our authority in our classrooms so that we can’t discipline the students and the students know this we are in serious trouble. When they dictate what has to be taught and we have to teach to the test we are in serious trouble. When they follow what the liberal politicians tell them to do, we are in serious trouble. I would love to be able to have control over my classroom, but all it takes to derail the entire room is for one student to get vindictive over being disciplined and get the parent to complain. I have never seen administration kowtow lower than to a screaming parent who is enabling her child to be defiant in the classroom. And when I‘m told I can’t do anything about it, well, there you go. The reason we don’t have educated kids is because the kids are running the system because of enabler parents and invertebrate administrators and school board members who just want to do their politicking. And the system of how many chances they get is absolutely incredible. And the steps are repeated each time the student does it again.
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:07amI would agree with that ATEACHER….and empathize with you and all the other “common sense” teachers out there. But you have to admit, yours is not a widespread point of view. There are lots of teachers (liberal progressives) than are perfectly okay with all the WRONG things going on in there…. In my opinion, a kid gets out of line, he / she should get a foot right in the !@ass ! Like we did, years ago. I used to tell teachers that if my kids gave them any trouble, kick them in the butt !! I didn’t dare come home and tell my father when a teacher cuffed me, why ?? I would have received a lot worse from my father, period !!! Discipline has been taken away,…..you could probably attribute that to ACLU and other progressive liberal entities that CONTINUE to warp and destroy our once great nation !!! Sometimes, common sense has to prevail, in fact, a lot of times…. Liberals don’t have the ability to equate the importance of common sense rationalizing…they are incapable….
Report Post »Slevdog1
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 3:59pmTestify, my teacher bretheren!
Report Post »Just Common Sense
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 6:02pmI am married to a teacher, and I also taught school for several years before deciding to stay home with my kids while they are young. The greatest thing I learned from my years of teaching is how to NOT be an idiot parent.
NFYRx hit the nail on the head,
“By the way, for a teacher to get through a child must be taught to respect authority, me (be?) motivated, do their work, show up…BY THEIR PARENTS. They’ve already failed by age 4. NO ONE WILL SAY THIS PUBLICLY.”
I am all for holding teachers responsible, and making it easier to fire the crappy ones. And I think the unions are a joke.
But if you haven’t ever taught you have NO IDEA what teachers have to deal with. I get so tired of hearing people make broad generalizations in criticizing teachers. Yes there are some crappy ones. But the vast majority are doing the best they can in circumstances stacked against them.
A student once student asked me “What, are you f-ing deaf? When I wrote him up, my administrator wouldn’t do anything about it. He sent the smug arrogant kid back to class, with the message to all kids that that kind of behavior was ok. The principal told me that it would have been different if the kid had said “F_ _ _ you”. I don’t care if he uses the word as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb. Talking to a teacher like that should have consequences. This principal regularly let things like this slide, because it was easier than having to deal with the parents. How on earth is a teacher supposed to maintain a learning environment with conditions like that? You would be surprised at the lack of support from parents and administrators, and the crap they deal with from kids. So cut teachers some slack.
And don’t talk to me about paid vacations, when teachers take hours of work home with them every night AND spend time in their classrooms in the summer and over holidays. By the way, where I live they pay a teacher with a masters degree and six years experience $34k! And FYI, most school districts give you the option of spreading your payment over 10 months or 12. Teachers are not paid for the summer months. They just have the option of receiving smaller payments and spreading them out all year for budgeting purposes.
So unless you have walked in a teacher’s shoes, quit being so critical. Save your criticism for specific teachers you know are doing a poor job, and quit trying to vilify all teachers.
Report Post »Slevdog1
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:59amAs a fellow teacher, I am not in the business of making money. I feel good about teaching only when my students learn and experience success through responsibility and independence of solving their own problems. That should be the point of school. However, most people who make decisions about schools: a) never taught in a classroom, b) left teaching because they despised some students and the system, and c) left teaching to move up the educational bureaucracy, so they don’t have to work with students and the everyday problems each student encounters. I love my job, yet the politics are horrendous and pathetic.
Report Post »sevenup5103
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:58amOh God help us all cause I believe Obama is hinting to Nationalize our schools!! That means he’ll probably make us pray to him just as Hitler did when he stole power before World War II!
Report Post »tisherself
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:53amYou do. You puke. How come your kids aren‘t in public school being taught to be government dependent losers that can’t read, write or even speak english?
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:02amTISHERSELF: Obviously, he doesn’t want his kids to be indoctrinated and “dumbed down” …. All progressives ae hypocritcal in nature…….it’s part of the Macchiavellian-Alinsky-ite principles, policies and procedural manual………. These people are evil, plain and simple… Bought and paid for by people like George Soros……..enough said….. Just get out there in November and make our presence known, heard and OBEYED !!! That’s right Obama ….obeyed….. Obey the people that employ you… I can’t wait for the real change to come…. America as it once was, a sovereign, free open market society and nation were “ruling class” legislators, agency chiefs and bureaucrats didn’t decide what we could or could not do in life !!!!! It’s coming…..get the word out NOW !!!! This tea party movement is great but we need to get more on board so we can smash the enemy….Progressive Liberals !!!
Report Post »MikeinIdaho
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:41amHey bozo, how about if the teachers aren’t doing their jobs, you fire their butts and hire some who will do their jobs. as for not “feeling good” aboput their jobs, so what? If they don;’t like their jobs, they should look for a new one that they do like! Bozo.
Report Post »THE GIRL
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:37amGet your kids out of there. Teach them at home!
Report Post »robinanddoc
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:36amEl Rey has spoken. Lourding over Obamadom.
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:36amGee……. I have an idea…… Let’s get all the text books from 40 years ago and start there. Let’s stop indocrinating our children, let’s teach them about the founding fathers and real history so that they can assess and decide what is right and what is wrong. Let’s teach them basic math skills, let’s teach them vocabulary skills, let’s TEACH THEM !! Let’s make them test out and receive the grades they earn. Let’s not “personalize” testings so that we can continue to “make people feel good” about earning an “A” or “A-” when they should have received a D or an F. What the heck is going on ? I’ll tell you what it looks like; it looks like a contrived effort to DUMB DOWN THE PUBLIC !!! If not, then it’s just bureaucratic incompetence…….but probably a combination of both…. Again, big government, big problems and big disastrous results !!!! Bye bye socialists, just a little while longer folks…can’t wait to kick them all to the curb, PERMANENTLY this time !!!!!!!!111
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 12:46pmHow about giving them grades? My granddaughter is in the 4th grade and their are no A, B, C, D, Fs, just progressing at level, above level or below level. Then after school she goes to soccer where they don’t keep score.
She is 10 years old. Her older brother is in high school and is an A student (whatever that means today). When I asked her about not getting actual marks in school and not playing a game where you keep score even she said, “it’s dumb.”
Seems she has more sense then the folks running our school systems.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:32amKeep they guy talking so that we don’t need to officially interrogate him.
Report Post »AMERICANCITIZEN
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:31amDepartment of Education is a waste of taxpayers money!
Report Post »We The People need to push for it to be abolished. Education should be regulated at the local level.
Uncle Sam just makes a mess out of everything it tries to fix.
Flagwaver
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:30amSo, the teachers have to feel good to do a good job, yet they are not doing a good job? This is circuitous logic in my book. If they must feel good to do a good job, and you do not want to fire them because they would do a worse job… Blood is going to shoot out of my eyes.
I say break all the blasted unions!
Report Post »freebornson
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:40amI don’t know if I would support destroying the unions, but it amuses me that they think it is ok to promote all these workers rights for union people while the average American gets no such perks. They get bigger raises more benefits and, most outrageously, generous retirement packages that are paid for by you and me. That’s right, the average American has to foot the bill to the tune of billions of dollars for the state entitlement packages for unions. Sounds like the American dream is only for the self-entitled union members. Just sayin. Not even going into the greed, election fraud, intimidation, million dollar union boss salaries etc.
Report Post »freebornson
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:29amBoth my parents are teachers and they refuse to join the unions. This is why. Greedy sycophants that only take care of themselves. Democrats claim to care about the children; my question to the unions is what about the education YOU are providing our children? Unions protect lazy worthless teachers while our children underachieve versus other countries in math, science and reading etc. Do you really care about the children? School choice.
Report Post »By the way the most under reported wasteful expense in the education industry? Schoolbooks. The most Marxist and idiotic ideas now coming home from newly indoctrinated children is only the beginning of the outrage for parents. It costs hundreds of dollars each year PER STUDENT to bring in the newest and the best in liberal and Marxist propoganda to indoctrinate our children. The lefty people in charge of education are supporting a massive leftist propoganda machine that gets to rewrite our history and poison the minds of our children on the backs of taxpayers. Look at your local school taxes and start getting angry. Read some of these ridiculous text books they send home with our kids.
natstew
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:28amThe first thing Obama did when he got in the White House was to cancel the Bush Voucher Program that llowed poor children to go to the school of their choice even if it was out of their district. I remember the FNC interview with the poor black girl who was using the program. She was very upset because she and her younger sister would have to return to the getto school.
Obama is a disgrace to America and should be impeached for treason.
Report Post »Lib2libertarian
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 12:05pmYes, and he campaigned as pro-voucher.
Report Post »End.The.Silence
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:23amWow…I suppose that it shouldn’t surprise any of us that he would use his presidency as a means of getting special treatment. He already has, so why does it continue to surprise us? He needs to be impeached…we cannot wait until 2012.
Report Post »Freelancer
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:22amSo, in order to teach properly, you must make the teachers “feel good” right? Here is a thought…. Install an “orgasmatron” in every public school and all of the children should be geniuses right?
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:22amWhat a jackass. Would someone please lock this moonbat up so we can get on with the trial. Oh I can hardly wait to see what barry’s punishment will be.
Report Post »FreedomOfSpeech
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:18amAll hail the king. Why should this community organizer be allowed to “maneuver” to get his kids into better schools while the rest of us eat dirt? That‘s what’s wrong with this country. A few people are running this country for their own benefit at the expense of everyone else.
Did you know our government is in the business of burning books now?
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT0qgjxJyRA
pavnvet
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:18amJust more of the elitist Obama. My kids are better than your kids.
And teachers have to feel good? How about them being qualified? I imagine that is a top recruitment priority.
Just remember in November!
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:18amTeachers need to “teach good” (I know wrong grammer) – forget “feel good”. More evidence of liberal hypocrisy. Shows again that Socialism is for the people, not the Socialists.
Report Post »Moonage Daydreamer
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:17amFeel good to do a good job? Liberals are so touchy feely aren’t they….ugh.
Education in this country is being flushed down the toilet, time to make changes, flush the Education Dept and let the states keep their money allotted for education.
Vote the bums out!!
Report Post »roninshaman
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 1:22pm@Moonage Daydreamer
Wasn’t there a time, way before the age of Big government, when Doctors, Teachers, Fireman and Police Officers did the job just because they wanted to serve society? They are all noble professions and I am not deriding the people who do these important jobs. The Unions and Lobbyists who “protect” their interests are another story.
Sometime I feel the best after I’ve done some difficult work for no pay or given money to a charitable cause. I guess if you don’t want to do the hard things the only way to feel good is take whatever you can get.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:17amTeachers have to feel good??? Give me a break. If teachers aren’t up for the task then they should be elsewhere.
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:07amWhere else can you get a nice job like teaching with guaranteed pay increases, 3 months off every summer, bennies and absolutely no possibility of dismissal once you have tenure?
Report Post »Fred Hussein
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:16amTeachers do not get paid vacations.
Report Post »AngryTexanFromAmarillo
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 12:06pmhmm for 3 months out of the year they get to go on un-employment….sounds like payed vacation to me.
Report Post »Eagle07
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 12:09pmEvery time you say something to the teachers right away they say they are not in it for the money. Sop if not and they are doing a job they want to do what do they have to feel bad about? I have had jobs I didn’t l;ike but I did them because they paid good and if I would have tried to use the excuse that I didn’t feel good about my job thats why my productivity is down I would have been fired on the spot.How dumb does Obozo think we are?
Report Post »sabichan
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 12:10pm@Fred
Teachers don’t have paid vacation? What do they do when they want to take a trip over Christmas?
Oh…they get that off?
What about federal holidays? The probably have to work those while everyone else takes a break.
Those are off too?
Well, what about summer vacations? Everyone loves to take time and go off over the summer, how can we not let teachers?
oh…wait.
Well, how long is that “summer vacation”, it’s probably nothing compared to the 2 weeks I get off a year.
3 months?
Alright, I can’t defend the teachers anymore. Sorry if I don’t feel bad about their situation, I sure won‘t waste any time thinking about them when I’m taking my 2 weeks a year.
Report Post »flagbearer
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 12:44pmI am a retired teacher. I went back to college when I was forty-ish to get my education degree because I was appalled at the way my children were being taught and wanted to know why teachers do the things they do. Most of what I objected to was correct, but I ate some of my words. I came up with this ridiculous statement, but at the same time true. Every parent should be a teacher before becoming a parent, and every teacher should be a parent before becoming a teacher. The average person has no idea what a teacher does/does not do today. The classroom is nothing like it was in the past. It would be better if it were, in my opinion. Language skills suffer enormously at an elementary level, mostly because the cart is put before the horse. Just look at the grammatical and spelling errors on blogs. Some are typos, but many are not. Then when children reach middle school, teachers are amazed at how ill-prepared they are. There is never enough time to teach things the way it is set up today, but everyone wants art, music, gym, etc. When I was young, I was lucky if we colored a pumpkin ditto sheet for art, but it didn’t stop me from first majoring in art. Why are there resources? Mostly because teachers want/need a planning period and people have become convinced they are critical on an elementary level. Then all the diruptions that happen during a normal school day are unreal! There are so many misconceptions about schools and teaching, and no one addresses the problems that need to be addressed–too controversial. I disagreed left and right with colleagues about many things, and I laugh today about how many of my arguments are now, finally, coming to light and are being accepted. I was furious yesterday when a NY union teacher on Sunday FOX said that the right-to-work states, like Virginia, has some of the poorest outcomes. LIE! Virginia has some of the toughest standards in the nation and ranks #4 on SAT scores! The insinuation was that unionized states do better because they are union. I sent a request to the BLAZE to do a follow up story about her comment, but so far, nothing. There are so many different educational philosophies and so many problems. But beware of fork-tongued Obama.
Report Post »just happy
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 1:10pmshall we just give them all a participation trophy? that will work!!
Report Post »d55may
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 1:23pmIts the kids who should be feeling good. Its Obama who feels good because the teachers will be his betting for him. He gives them the money[taxpayer(stimulus)]they vote for him, our kids lose.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 5:10pmWaiting for Superman is a progressive film… there is an agenda here that is hidden. The Department of Education WILL BE “superman”. It is a powergrab and propaghanda for the Department of Education. Notice… he is talking about “radical change”…
Report Post »ChrisXL
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:12pmMaybe the parents should turn off the kids xbox, tv,and computer and make em go outside and play, then read some books before bed. That’s how i raise my kids and they are doing awesome in public school. Our teachers are even in a union. The importance of involved parents cannot be overestimated. Unreal that TEACHERS are being attacked by the right when they should be attacking the lazy ass parents who don’t know what the heck the kids are doing. And for the guy complaining about the kid using the F-word, I said almost the same thing to a teacher in high school. Mr Foster grabbed my by the shirtcollar and hauled my ass down to the office. My dad showed up grounded me for 6 months, and i was immediately on wood detail until further notice. Ever have to split 12 cords of wood with a maul and wedges? It’s something you remember and i never mouthed of to a teacher again.
Report Post »GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on September 28, 2010 at 4:55amIt amazes me how you think you know about “teachers” and what they get for free! They do NOT draw unemployment, they do not get PAID for the summer’s, they work more than 40 hours and week and do not get paid for it. They do NOT get raises every three months! Most school systems do not PAY 100% of their retirement or their health insurance………My husband is a TEACHER and he hasn’t had a raise in 3 years. Where the hell do you people get your information from?
Report Post »baldwin4freedom
Posted on September 28, 2010 at 8:30am@CHRISXL
Report Post »You are exactly right, though I am not saying there is not a problem with our schools being run by the feds. Parents have to be more involved with making sure their kids are getting an education that matters.
Contrarianthinker
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:16amHow do you spell two words: rationalization and hypocrit? Clinton did the same. Many GOP and DP congresscritters do the same.
Report Post »NFYRx
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 2:19pmContrarianthinker
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:16am
How do you spell two words: rationalization and hypocrit?
Not like that.
Report Post »FreedomMissMeYet
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 4:41pmAccording to Obama, some teachers are not feeling good. Could that be because they know the pension pyramid they’re aiding and abetting is helping sentence children to serfdom?
Feeling good at work is about fulfillment and one’s values being in alignment with how they go about their work. Who created the disconnect? The unions, institutions, the people? Stop chasing their fulfillment with our money. That has never worked. Fix your root problems. Hint, they’re called values a subject you have graded an “F”.
Report Post »littlebin518
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:15amI just want to throw-up. This guy & his administration needs to go away!!!
Report Post »fluxblocker
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:53amYeah I want to puke every time I see or hear this guy.
Report Post »Muslim in Chief
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:58amWhy is anyone shocked by this. From Pelosi using the Air Force as her personal Taxi service, to Dear Leader and Mr’s Gimmee Gimmee to their 57 vacations a year. This is the Administration of entitlement.
This is what Barakus Obamacus had in mind when he said Hoax and Charade
Is it 2012 yet?
Report Post »Freelancer
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:06amThis is how they control a population…. My doctor immigrated from Korea 40 years ago. She still has family residing in South Korea who managed to escape from the North. She tells me that the North Koreans all believe that they are the richest, most prosperous and most powerful nation on the face of the Earth. Her family suspected this but never really realized how much crap they were being fed until they escaped. Once they arrived in the South, they were astonished at what they could do and learn without the government thumb controlling every aspect of their lives. They North have no clue that they live in abject poverty and have no rights at all. This was all accomplished through State managed education.
Report Post »wleeblake
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 12:12pmI agree I feel almost physically sick when I hear this guy talk, knowing the policies he wants will and are killing our great country.
Report Post »AnnMarie
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 12:21pmThere goes that rotten capitalism again. Sending your kids to private school when so many poor children are in public schools. Maybe, in accordance with his definition of transformation, he should switch putting his kids in the public school and the public school kids in private school Yeah right???
Report Post »Compete or Lose
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 12:47pmWhy did the Obama Education Department eliminate the Vouchers for Washingtonn DC minority kids? The kids on the vouchers did better than the kids in the DC public schools. I guess when it comes to a conflict with the DC Teachers Union and doing the right thing for the minority kids, the union wins and the kids lose.
These people need to go–the sooner the better.
RGS
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 1:10pmHis arrogance will be his undoing. He is certainly the least presidential executive our nation has ever had. Coupled with his complete lack of experience and inability to perform the job, he is a national embarrassment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UtmTALMkU4
Report Post »NFYRx
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 2:12pmLol He doesn’t want his kids going to school with black kids.
Report Post »NFYRx
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 2:17pmBy the way, for a teacher to get through a child must be taught to respect authority, me motivated, do their work, show up…BY THEIR PARENTS.
They’ve already failed by age 4. NO ONE WILL SAY THIS PUBLICLY.
megansmom
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 5:19pmHere I have an extra barf bag. I’ve stocked up on them since these freaks took over in 2007. Looks like it was one wise investment.( When the Dems took over the house )
Report Post »WeimMom
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 5:50pmDouble Ditto!!
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 6:03pmConsidering the one of the strong staff members of the DC system has been speaking out on a clip on Fox News, is it any wonder our robotic prez has chosen private over the pathetic DC system! It has been a terrible system since as far back as I can remember and I’m no spring chicken. Once the unions added “teachers” to their list of members, our public schools have hit rock bottom! I loved my job but I knew whay my wonderful schools would become as the unions moved in and retired early giving up the best job anyone could ever want with the best kids I could ever ask for as a teacher. I’ve watched the disaster of failing schools get worse each year. The school closest to me had terrible results on the exams last year—because of the quality of students, it should have been amongst the top in the district. I’ve told everyone either “home school” your children or get them into a private school. The private schools in my area have waiting lists because public schools have become so bad—–THANK YOU UNIONS FOR DESTROYING WHAT WAS ONCE THE GREATEST EDUCATION IN THE WORLD, RIGHT HERE IN THE GOOD OLD USA!
Report Post »ConsChristian
Posted on September 28, 2010 at 2:46amI just puked a little in my mouth.
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