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Quackers's JournalOhio sheriff says he fired 2 deputies over racial texts
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -An Ohio sheriff says he has fired two white veteran deputies accused of exchanging racially charged text messages.
Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer said he fired Detective Mike Sollenberger and Capt. Tom Flanders.
They had been on administrative leave during an investigation into accusations of inappropriate text conversations on personal cellphones that included racial slurs and comments directed at two black deputies. The sheriff's investigation also cited texts with comments about hanging or beating up black people and Sollenberger allegedly referring to President Barack Obama as "a half-breed." Obama's mother was white.
Three other deputies received suspensions ranging from three to 30 days.
More at link:
http://m.wlwt.com/news/Ohio-sheriff-says-he-fired-2-deputies-over-racial-texts/31152750
Currency manipulation could kill Obama's big free trade deal
There weren’t many lines in President Obama’s State of the Union that Republicans applauded. But the GOP did get behind the President’s insistence that Congress countenance an expedited approval process for a free trade deal—called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—his administration is negotiating with 12 other Pacific Ocean nations, including Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
The TPP was supposed to be the one issue that the President and Congressional Republicans could agree upon, but the odds don’t look so great anymore. In recent weeks, Senate Republicans have expressed reservations about the deal, specifically its failure to address concerns that American trade partners are manipulating their currencies to boost exports.
In a paper released Wednesday by the Economic Policy Institute, economist Robert E. Scott quantified these concerns, estimating that the U.S. economy has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs to countries like Mexico and South Korea because free trade agreements with those nations did not include provisions that prevented currency manipulation. Of the nations participating in the TPP negotiations, Japan is by far America’s biggest trading partner. And according to Scott’s analysis, the U.S. trade deficit with Japan has cost America $125.3 billion in GDP and “displaced 896,600 U.S. jobs” in 2013 alone.
More at link: http://fortune.com/2015/02/05/currency-manipulation-could-kill-obamas-big-free-trade-deal/
My Daughter's First Grade Homework.
This is the math problem:
Bella had 15 valentines to give to the class. She gave 7 of the valentines to the girls in the class. The rest she gave to the boys in the class. How many valentines did Bella give to the boys? SOLVE THE PROBLEM. SHOW YOUR WORK.
So I helped her with this problem and this is how we answered and showed her work.
15-7=8
The teacher graded it and marked this answer as wrong. The teacher said if the answer isn't shown in "circles", it doesn't count. WTF? The paper said nothing about drawing circles but this is what is expected? I'm a little upset about this.
Btw, this is the official answer according to the teacher:
⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️
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