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ATEK at a crossroads – the fallout post-3WM

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Author’s note: if the title of this post makes no sense to you, please read this post to catch up.

Some weeks after the Three Wise Monkeys’ expose on ATEK (read part 1, part 2, and part 3), the first salvo in response seems to be ready – Roboseyo’s four posts on ATEK (part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 are here, although comments are closed on all but the 4th part), a press release stating the ATEK president is stepping down, and the Seoul Podcast’s first podcast in two months interviewed Greg Dolezal – former ATEK president and present Communications Officer.

It’s in the Seoul Podcast’s interview with Greg that we learn there have indeed been some efforts to change behind the scenes – Greg himself has stepped up to replace Rachel Bailey. This podcast interview, of course, doesn’t come without a few notes:

  • In the 15th minute, Greg seems to think that the 3WM carry some sort of journalistic responsibility. In a world where mainstream journalists are neither fair nor balanced, that expectation seems unfair at best and unrealistic at worst. Sure, we’d like people to write from an objective, impartial perspective, but that’s not exactly common anymore.
  • In the 16th minute, Greg tells us about the president’s future resignation and the organization’s future restructuring – “talk of combining the National Council and the Executive Council”. Um, ok – with the exception of the aforementioned press release, where else has this been discussed?
  • In the 20th minute, Greg talks about how the bylaws haven’t been changed in a year, and that they may be coming up for rewriting soon. Why? “The current affairs”, and to show “we’re doing something here.” OK – how about telling us about the people you’ve reached, or the problems you’ve helped to solve? Even now, after receiving dozens of ATEK newsletters and official communications, I’m not sure which issues ATEK could actually help me with. I couldn’t tell you who I would contact, either – now without a peek at a website (and there’s no guarantee that’s accurate either)
  • Just before the 23rd minute mark, Greg mentions how the number of members has been a bit higher in the past. A few seconds later, he says there’s been a “net gain every month”. Does not compute.
  • In the 23rd minute, he notes how it’s been tough to get associate members to take that extra step, to get them more deeply involved or fully register. What incentive do they have to register? If I can get everything I want with a lower-level membership, and won’t be asked to serve in office or volunteer, that sounds perfectly fine to selfish little me.
  • In the 36th minute, Stafford asks if you “only help members”; Greg responds “absolutely not”. Seconds later, Greg mentions that “we don’t go around advertising that we’re going to help anyone that comes to us”, but that they try to provide help to people if they can. OK, ATEK, let’s pick a side of the fence and stop hopping it. Are you a soup kitchen (helping all comers, no matter who you are) or a club (helping only your members)? Are there certain questions that can ONLY be answered with membership? If I can get you to answer my question without joining, what incentive do I have to join? In the interest of clarifying, some companies offer a chart showing you what each level of membership offers – for example:

Source: screenshot from hostgator.com – no endorsement intended. It’s just an example.

  • In the 38th minute, Greg reveals only 5 of the 16 PMA’s are active – and how adopting “the KOTESOL model” regarding the chapters across the country would make ATEK easier to run. Not a bad idea – but if the problem is inactivity, the solution would involve drumming up more interest and activity, not consolidating.
  • In the 46th minute, Greg talks about the Legal Assurance Program – what sounded like a good idea has now been killed, and a relationship that could have been rebuilt now sounds permanently broken.

Throughout the podcast, Greg sounds like he doesn’t know what’s going on. At one point he says “you’ll have to ask Jeff Nunziata [the current membership officer]” about how many members the organization has, although only the Communications guy actually communicates with the press and this information is publicly available on their own website. He could be forgiven were he a new officer still learning the ropes; however, Greg has been part of the organization longer than anyone else ever has.

 

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Within hours of Roboseyo’s first post on ATEK, the 3WM had a response in the inboxes of their mailing list. One telling line: “We invited Atek for an official response that we would run in full– they declined.” [Emphasis mine] Odd English notwithstanding, the ATEK cry for balance becomes suspicious if you decide not to comment.

A slightly longer quote from the 3WM’s e-mail now:

Now to more important stuff: Does 3wm care about English Teachers? Not as much as we care about English students.
I get enraged when I make the expat rounds to the pubs and cafes and music gigs and theater performances and the bodegas and the soju tents and the churches and the bookstores and the galleries and all all all of the time I always here the expat teachers here going off on their trips to Thailand their stage debut their latest screen play etc etc et-fucking-cetera.
Let me ask you when is the last time you heard some of us teachers over here talking about what’s needed in the class room for the students?

What’s needed in the classroom? A lot less homework, a lot less class time, less punishment of the corporal type, and a lot more critical and creative thinking. Are you going to hear teachers talk about that openly? No – not because it’s not of interest, but because of how little control we foreign teachers have over how Koreans have decided to run their educational system. For better or worse, a foreign English teacher is a hired hand, paid to deliver lessons in the manner the school wishes. Protesting that system or fighting that system does nothing. Zilch. The vast majority of foreign English teachers are neither in the position to fight for change, nor are we particularly able. By the time any individual or organization had significant influence, they would be investigated, fired, and arrested or deported for one reason or another. Anyone remember the nerves Minerva struck?

Even if we were organized to talk about it, it would easily be construed as political activity. When even the Korean teachers feel taken advantage of, or when the local teacher’s union / political organization can’t create change, what hope do you have for a loosely-organized group of expat English teachers whose interests and priorities are far from the same? With all respect to KOTESOL and the educational opportunities they offer, what changes have they – the country’s largest ESL organization – been able to make in Korean classrooms?

Another quote, which directly follows the previous one:


Great, so you write a farce to deal with how little you can help kids? As for the ‘underdog’ ‘proof’, a single story about an unfortunate individual given a chance to live in a foreign country also seemed as much about the opening of a new bar in a popular expat neighborhood. Tell me, when was the last story 3WM wrote about the life of Korean kids in classrooms?

Sure, plenty of expats come to Korea to teach – and they discover there’s plenty of other opportunities that might not have existed back home. Keeping a blog about my life in Kentucky? Not nearly as interesting as life in Korea. Now add choirs, dance groups, filming documentaries, forming a band, traveling, and any other number of things going on around Korea. I came to Korea to teach English, yes – and as time went on, I learned of opportunities I’d be a fool not to accept.

ATEK, get your website up to speed – your second most recent ‘Association News’ should not be about your new president when that was eight months ago – especially since that president is now resigning. The desire to become an NGO is a good long-term goal – but the emphasis is on long-term. You don’t get to the major leagues until you show a solid foundation and room / ability to grow. Thus far, ATEK has neither. Roboseyo’s advice to ATEK in part 3 is more helpful and clearly written than anything else I’ve read on the subject. That there are many many sources of information – some good, some mediocre, and some excellent – tells me we need an aggregator, not another new source of content.

3WM, if you’re serious about helping kids in the Korean classroom, tell the rest of the world about your experiences effecting change in such endeavors. If expats talking about extracurricular activities really “gets your mick up”, stop publicizing them. I’ve seen more about past HBC Fests from your site than anywhere else on the blogosphere. Put up some ‘public service ads’ that advertise something other than expat hangouts – or take down the ads altogether. Why are you running free ads for for-profit companies anyway?

To both of you, any podcast you may end up recording can only serve to hash up past problems and stir up the pot among the handful who still care. If that’s your point, please prove me wrong by focusing on the issues concerning the future, and rise above the silly political grandstanding and double-speak.

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Carter Returns Empty-Handed

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Lowballing estimates of the value of negotiating with the North Koreans is a nearly impossible act, but what did President Carter get in Pyongyang?

Carter said that North Korea wants to have an unconditional dialogue with South Korea and the United States on denuclearization or any other subject, but will not abandon its nuclear weapons without a security guarantee.

“We are hearing consistently throughout our busy schedule here in Pyongyang that the North wants to improve relations with America and is prepared to talk without preconditions to both the U.S. and South Korea on any subject,” Carter said Wednesday in a message posted on the Web site of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders to promote global peace and humanity.

“The sticking point, and it’s a big one, is that they won’t give up their nuclear program without some kind of security guarantee from the U.S.,” he said.

This last point, Nightwatch points out, is misleading.

The international team missed the nuance in the North Korean usage of the term “without preconditions.” For the North, that means ignore the past and start anew. The North deliberately exploits its understanding of the American sense of fair play in order to persuade an American-led delegation that the North’s intentions are open and sincere.

Nevertheless, the North Korean slate is not clean and its intentions are far from sincere. The North wants to start a new cycle of aid requests without accounting for its unprovoked provocations last year — the sinking of a South Korean patrol ship and its coastal artillery fire that killed South Korean civilians on a South Korean island.

Aside from a tainted offer, the North’s leaders never will trust security assurances from the US. To do so would contravene “juche” — self-reliance – the national mythology. No US security guarantees would ever be adequate.

Meanwhile, Jun Young-su is still in North Korea. Carter never met Kim Jong-il, either. Perhaps, if nothing else, this trip will put paid to the bizarre notion, that Carter is magic in North Korea, and nowhere else.

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What’s So Funny about Peace and Indifference

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About the land of bad options and worse still, Joshua Snyder asks why Americans shouldn’t disentangle ourselves from the Korean peninsula.

While conservatives in South Korea and the United States have long maligned the “Sunshine Policy” of economic engagement with North Korea, defectors themselves, and the local experts they quote, understand that it is indeed the best way to effect long-term change in the North. Why not let trade bring about the economic growth necessary for the North Korean people to bring about regime change in their own country? While it might be gradual and piecemeal, in the long run, it will be far more cost effective than continuing the confrontational policies of the last six decades.

Well, perhaps not cost-effective. Just not as confrontational.

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Busan e-FM Week 27: Baby Photo Shoots

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About 'Open Mike in Busan'

Introduction

Back in January I talked about the birth of my son in Korea, and how we named him. This week, I wanted to talk about another apparently important baby issue – baby photos.

Counting days

Part of the significance of these baby photos is to do with the way people count days here. Actually, I found that Koreans are obsessive counters of days, formally marking such occasions as 49 days after the death of a loved one, 15 days after Seollal with Jeongweol Daeboreum, and even more modern examples, such as burning a wedding bouquet after 100 days to ensure a trouble-free marriage. Some of it is really quite inconvenient too – I used to live in Hadan, where there was a ‘Five Days Market’ - which occurs every five days, so basically you never know when to go. It would be a lot easier if it happened every Wednesday, for example.

We don’t count days a lot in England. Of course, we’re generally really bad at maths, so that wouldn't help. I find it especially confusing here because it’s not just the normal calendar you have to contend with, but also the lunar calendar. I don’t know how Koreans manage it – but maybe there’s a smartphone app that helps you with it all these days.

Apparently there’s not much counting with marriage though – when I asked my wife about it she told me “once you get married you tend not to celebrate any more” - isn’t that the truth? But babies are a different matter.

50 days

We had a few shots taken with a photographer for our baby’s 50th day, although it felt quite informal. At the time I didn’t think much of it because I thought it was part of the baby package that we’d bought through the hospital for my wife’s birth.

100 days

So we counted the 100th day for our baby, when I gathered photos must be taken. But evidently there’s more to it than this, because my wife started browsing the Internet intently for baby things, and making a lot of phone calls. Packages began to arrive. By the time the day came we had a big banner across the wall with my son’s name on it plus the words “Happy 100th Day”. And surrounding it we had the world’s entire supply of purple balloons. Then there was a cake with candles for ‘100’, which was surrounded by dishes of fruit, and of course, I had to take the photos.

So I figure we're done here right? Wrong. These were not the official 100th day photographs. No, we still had to go to a studio – except on the 130th day, because apparently this is when the baby ‘looks better’. I’m told it’s not uncommon, but then it’s all a lie really isn’t it?

130 days

So for the 130th day 100th day photo shoot we hired a studio, which was basically a big room split into six different themes with various props. And I took along my DSLR to take the photos. You can hire a camera, but this probably isn’t a good idea because most DSLRs – especially the high end ones – can take a lot of getting used to. I know a lot of men don’t mind fiddling around with their equipment, but trust me, you don’t want to be doing this against the clock, in-between bouts of baby and partner screaming, depending on the quality of the results.

It was quite stressful, and I hadn’t worked with big studio flash-lights before. Plus I had to keep an eye on what was going to be in the background to each shot, because the props were sometimes a little odd. Fortunately I noticed the words “Adolph Hitler” on the spine of a book in the background of one photo before I took it. These are probably not the words you want floating around above your baby's head in the family album.

Of course, the advantage of the self-studio is that you can take all the shots you want, but the downside is that you probably can’t take all the shots that your partner demands. And it gives you freedom, but the freedom to mess things up. So the next day it was my partner’s face that was the picture – she said only five shots were worth saving out of the 554 I took. For what it’s worth I saved 94 of the photos, but clearly it’s debatable whether it’s worth the stress; there’s something to be said for going down the professional route, rather than apparently as it was in our case, the unprofessional route.

200 days

So I thought, well, thank God I don’t have to do that again. And then my wife said to me “We have to do another photo-shoot on the 200th day”. No. You know, I do like this country, but sometimes it feels like a nightmare I can’t escape from.

The 200th day photo-shoot was booked, and my wife wanted to do another self-shoot, but I caught a break, at least, I think I did. My wife entered our baby’s photo into a photo competition run by a large studio here, and we won a free photo-shoot with a photographer.

In fact, my wife’s been entering our son into a few competitions. I think it’s very Korean behaviour, but being British I have reservations about the whole thing, because it just seems quite presumptuous to think your baby looks nice, especially when I look at myself in the mirror and think that if he does it can’t be from my genes. But it seems to be a very serious business in Korea – there was a national competition on an Internet site here, and when the last ten were announced, hundreds of mothers were so disappointed by the exclusion of their baby that they were posting lots of angry messages on the site, with levels of rhetoric almost approaching that of North Korea. I half-expected them to threaten to destroy the site in a sea of fire.

So it was quite a relief – in a way – to just be a bystander at the photo-shoot we won. Except there’s still some stress, because our baby was full of smiles before the shoot, and as soon as it started, he wouldn’t smile, and he began to cry. He did get better - but it helps to understand Korean, because eventually I discovered the photographer was complaining that he was smiling too much. Apparently the ‘concept’ was ‘being moody’. I don’t know why there has to be a concept, but there was. It seems they wanted to highlight his big eyes – and if he smiled, his eyes weren’t as big. But anyway, the photos are better than mine.

365 days

But remember I mentioned that before the competition win, we’d originally booked the self-studio for his 200th day shoot? My wife re-arranged it... for his 1-year shoot.

[to be continued...]

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Sick in South Korea

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After three years in South Korea I've finally fallen ill. It's been a good run, but something eventually had to give. For the past two days I've been either perched on the toilet or writhing in agony in my bed in the prelude to another visit to the toilet. Graphic stuff, I know. Apologies.

 

If you're teaching in South Korea chances are you'll eventually fall ill. Most everybody who comes to the peninsula gets the 'greeting present' of a nasty cold or three before their immune system adjusts to the change in environment. My poor girlfriend Kimberly hasn't managed to have a healthy day since she got here and I remember my first six months here being a string of frustrating head colds from which I'd never fully recover before the next one started in.

 

The first thing you need to know about Korea is that sick days are virtually unheard of. Koreans almost never take them, and I've had co-workers on the verge of collapse still soldier on. They say it's a way to show their dedication, but it's more about saving face and not appearing weak. Only in a country like Korea would employees be encouraged to come to work when they are deathly ill and possibly infectious. It extends to the children as well. The stink of kimchi vomit in my classroom still haunts me three years after I witnessed its explosive introduction into the world.

 

Public school teachers have the benefit of up to 11 sick days and they don't seem to get the same harassment that we humble private school employees are subjected to. I had to actually fight to get three sick days in my current contract and the reaction when I've asked to use them has been akin to emotional blackmail. Lots of sighing and moaning and reminders that everybody else will have to work extra hard to cover for me. If I were capable of being away from my toilet for fifteen minutes I'd be doing something more entertaining that sitting in my bed watching episodes of (the admittedly very good) Bored to Death on my laptop. This isn't my idea of a fun way to spend time away from work.

 

So, if you need the day off - don't be surprised if your boss tries to guilt you into coming in despite your symptoms. They might even tell you that you have to work. I know my first employer took that tone with my co-worker and I when we had requested time to recuperate from our brush with influenza. But if it's in your contract and you need it - TAKE IT! You're not Korean and you're sick. If you don't think you can work, don't make yourself miserable by going in.

 

If you do take a day off, you'll almost certainly be asked to 'go to the hospital'. Don't be alarmed. It's not as serious as it sounds. Koreans seem to use 'hospital' as a catch all term that includes the many private practices around the country - and even if you're not in a city serviced by a number of English speaking physicians - most doctors tend to be educated enough that they can speak a few words of English. Coupled with your grasp of basic Korean, you should be able to make your symptoms known and get some advice. And if you've got an Alien Registration Card (a requirement if you're teaching here) - you're not going to paymore than 2000 to 4000 won for your visit. That's the equivalent of $2-$4! You'll obviously be looking at more if you need X-Rays or blood tests or the like, but that's a pretty cheap visit by anybody's standards.

 

Korean herbal remedies. Photo by Kimberly Calkins.

    Prescription medication is also cheap. In the past two days I've been given all manner of random drugs (in nondescript packaging) and paid 4000 won for four days worth of medication. Much cheaper than I'd have paid back in Australia, and we've got a pretty fantastic healthcare system to rely on.

 

Of course, Korea's also a country that is relatively new to Western medicine. Don't be surprised if concerned co-workers ply you with various herbal remedies. During a vomiting bout earlier this year my employer's mother brought me some disgusting fruit juice that I had to dilute and microwave before drinking. It very nearly made me vomit again. There's weird ginseng drinks, disgusting dried herbal powders you're supposed to chew or mix into water depending on who you speak to, and the various old wive's tales as well.

 

"Eat kimchi," is a common one. I was told to treat my current diarrhea with that particular spicy cabbage dish. I opted for the more conventional mix of bananas and dry toast. Now excuse me while I return to my porcelain throne...  

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Breakfast Burritos with Chorizo

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3/4-1 cup cooked chorizo sausage (1 link)
8 (6 inch) tortillas or 4 costco size cut in halves
6 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup shredded cheese
1 dash hot pepper sauce (e.g. Tabasco™), or to taste
1/2 cup salsa

Directions
1.Crumble the sausage into a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir until evenly brown. Set aside.
2.Heat one skillet over medium heat, and heat another skillet over high heat. The skillet over high heat is for warming tortillas(you can also pop them in the microwave). In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, salt and pepper. Spray the medium heat skillet with some cooking spray, and pour in the eggs. Cook and stir until almost firm. Add the sausage, and continue cooking and stirring until firm.
3.Meanwhile, warm tortillas for about 45 seconds per side in the other skillet, so they are hot and crispy on the edges, but still pliable.
4.Sprinkle a little shredded cheese onto each tortilla while it is still hot. Top with some of the scrambled egg and sausage, then add hot pepper sauce and salsa to your liking.

You can easily substitute the chorizo for bacon, ham or pork sausage.
Chorizo can be found on nicedeli.com
Feel free to add any veggies you'd like to the mix, such as cherry tomatoes, bell pepper, mushrooms, onions or spinach. Get creative and enjoy!! :)

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Tremare Italian Restaurant, Gwangalli Beach - Busan Awesome

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I was embarassed as soon as we walked into Tremare. There were three tables occupied by couples that were looking, well, not like bums. Unfortunately, WE were looking like bums, and I imagined a record scratching and everyone staring as we walked into the place.

Having spent a (hung-over) day on the beach, we were on a wild goose chase looking for a new place that we had heard about that was sadly not even open yet. We wandered around for a bit more, and after the first few pasta places we passed (Gwangalli seems to have about 40 of them), we finally settled on Tremare.

steak at tremare restaurant, gwangalli

photo by Alex Roche

We didn’t realize that it was such a nice place. It’s not formal by any means, but I wished that I was wearing jeans and a decent shirt, rather than electric blue Adidas pants and a sweatshirt. Once we got over feeling a little strange, however, we could relax.

Tremare would be a great place for a date. It’s on the second floor looking out over the beach and at the Diamond Bridge. When it gets a little warmer, I’m guessing they’ll open up the floor-to-ceiling windows to make it ‘open air.’ The interior is classy, with brick walls and worn wood trim.

What we really liked was the affordability of the wine. 21,000 will get you a nice bottle of red, which is a bit cheaper than other places we’ve tried recently.*** They have other wines on the list going upwards in price.

I usually don’t bother with the water on the table, but this water was either disgusting or delicious, depending on who you asked (4 of us loved it; 3 of us (including me) hated it). The water had what appeared to be a dissolving breath mint in it that made it all taste like Listerine. So beware of spit-takes if you’re caught off guard.

Food-wise, we were all surprised by the quality. The pastas and risotto were delicious and cooked well, and the salads especially exceeded expectations.

There is also a steak set on the menu for 39,000 that, at first, got everyone pretty excited. It included garlic bread, shrimp salad, a steak, a glass of wine, and then dessert. The bread and the shrimp salad were awesome, however, it went slightly downhill from there. Our beef with the steak (HA!) was that it was a little small. The steak was cooked correctly (i.e. “medium” actually meant medium), and the flavors were good, but it left a little to be desired in the hunger department. We ordered bottles of wine, so I guess they thought we didn’t want the glass of wine that came with the set. We had to ask for it specially. Then “dessert” was only a coffee or tea, which was… so-so.

tremare delicious shrimp salad, gwangalli beach

photo by Alex Roche

So go to Tremare on a date. Enjoy the wine and some of the salads and pastas, but don’t get too excited over the steak set (although it is pretty good overall).

Menu:
Pastas with cream sauce: 15-22k
Pastas with tomato sauce: 15-20k
Pastas with olive sauce: 14-16k
Risotto 16-18k
Oven pizza: 15-16 for ‘regular’ pizzas; 18 for shrimp; 20 for steak pizza
Steak course: 39k
Couple course (same as steak course, but also includes pasta… but oddly, only one glass of wine): 59k
Salads: 4-8k

There is also a lunch menu available where everything is discounted.

***Aiola in Kyungsung holds the award for the cheapest wine – 3,500 a glass.

Directions: From Gwangan metro, take exit 3, do an about-face and turn right and walk all the way down to the beach. Turn left at the beach (at the Lotteria) and Tremare is a couple buildings down on the second floor. It’s in the same building as Breeze Burn’s.
If you’re already on the beach, find Lotteria on the big corner. Facing Lotteria, you’ll see Breeze Burns a couple buildings to your right. Tremare is on the second floor.

 



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there are lots of theories about teaching styles for boys vs. girls

boys= trouble

more often than not they are tactile learners

requiring some sort of tangible aspect to their learning

visual- spatial learners

Meet Steven

Meet Jason

Meet Sheon

These three gentlemen bring me great joy. I have them in 4 classes throughout the week. They are 6-7 years old. Absolutely skilled when it comes to their English abilities. Steven loves robots. Jason loves dinosaurs {and can tell you all their scientific names}. Sheon loves to draw something, then scribble over it. Catch phrases, “what’s so funny”, “blue pencil means water, orange pencil means fire”, ” i must have the pokee crayon”, “teacher what is that noise?” It is such a incredible thing to be a teacher.

BIRTHBAGGERS DEBUNKED; TRUMP FEASTS ON MORNING DUMP

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Okay, you fucking thick tongued racist shitbags, here's the "long form" birth certificate: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/A_Politics/longformbirthcertificate.pdf

It turns out that our socialist Nazi communist Muslim usurper President was actually born in America, despite a growing clamor among the loudest and dimmest of our ranks that he was not.  It's time for you cuntfaces to sit down at the trough and gorge on a meal of your own shit. 

This especially goes for Mr. Donald Trump, the worst person in America.  Eat, Donny boy, eat.  Eat your fill.  Gag all the way to Hell, asshole.  You've always been a contemptible human being, possessing not even trace amounts of either humility or decency.  You are a privileged twat.  You were born into the uber-rich, inhereting millions yet squandering it twice, strutting around while gripping your shriveled cock and possessing the hubris to act as if you are some kind of "self-made man." You are a fevered ego, a pumped-up hair piece, a screeching imbecile who parades himself in front of the cameras and sputters nonsense - nonsense which is drunk down by the beef-coma'd masses who simply worship anyone in America who has a really fat stack.  After all, that's the only thing that matters, isn't it?  Money.  Lots of it

I've been watching this birther BS from the getgo, scouring the message boards, clicking on links and shaking my head in total incredulity that the rumor has not only persisted, but picked up duct-loads of steam. We can thank the charlatan Mr. Trump for that, who used his considerable resources and over-amplified mouthpiece to sound the alarm and beat the drum of pure, pure lies.  But this is modern America, where the truth no longer counts.  People are scared and ignorant and would rather dig trenches of idiocy than actually inform themselves.  A lie repeated enough becomes a fact, and I'm sure there are still a lot of yahoos - and let's face it, that what these birther jacksasses are - who still believe Obama was not born in America, and no amount of reason or documentation will satisfy their blind hatred.  His name is far to scary and his skin far too black for him to ever be a "real American" in their eyes.

But how many yahoos are there?  Barnum rightly said that there's a "sucker born every minute," and this especially goes for the right-wing jerkoffs who believed, at least up until today, that Obama was foreign-born.  Numbers vary, but nearly half of all Republicans polled believed this.  That's A LOT OF PEOPLE.

The fact that this story garnered so much attention and picked up so much momentum is testament to the pathetic state of affairs in our country...  there is plenty to take issue with as far as Obama is concerned, but the lunatics took over the asylum and still remain in charge, at least as far as our public discourse goes....

Whatever the case, I am puzzled at why anyone listens to Donald Trump.  He's is a terrible, terrible man.  He's just awful.  He always has been, and the fact that this isn't manifest to ANYONE who's ever listened the piece of shit makes me shake my head in puzzlement and shame.

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