Adrienne LaFlamme, 60, and a Florida science teacher has been arrested after allegedly having sex with her 17-year-old student. This is just plain sick and nasty.

Investigators arrested Palm Bay resident Adrienne LaFlamme after being contacted by the boy’s mother. They believe that LaFlamme and the boy had sex at least 15 times over a four-week period.

LaFlamme is also being charged with filing a false police report. Police say she had lent her car to the boy, but reported it stolen after learning that she was being investigated.

These teachers that prey upon their students need to be imprisoned for a long time and not just given a slap on the wrist. There have been so many instances in which the female teachers were given minimum jail sentences and even just straight probation. A message needs to be sent by the legal system that there will be zero-tolerance for this behavior. If this were a male teacher, he would be called a rapist and thrown in prison for a long time. This woman could have been this young man’s grandmother. Excuse me while I throw up. This is just plain sick.

On a personal level, as a parent of two boys, I would be totally irrational in dealing with something of this magnitude and a beat-down would be in order for me. This latest incident is just plain sick and really disgusting. Just my thoughts, you be the judge.

Some supporters of Barack Obama are taking Hussein as their middle name, not legally of course. A growing number of these supporters are expressing solidarity with Obama and what is amazing is the fact that this group of unlikely-sounding Husseins include Jewish, Catholic, Hispanic, Asian and Italian-Americans. The reality is that these supporters are tired of so-called political pundits such as Ann Coulter and others who continue to use Barack Obama’s middle name as though it were a scourge and ties him, somehow, to being a Muslim. It does not matter, to these pundits, how many times Obama has said that he is a Christian and that his middle name was inherited from a Kenyan father he barely knew, who was born a Muslim and died an atheist. The name seems to have become a political liability for Obama, which is just not right. Some critics on cable television talk shows dwell on it, while others, on blogs or in e-mail messages, use it to falsely assert that Mr. Obama is a Muslim or, more fantastically, a terrorist.

The movement has taken place mostly online, the digital equivalent of wearing a button with a clever, attention-getting message. A search revealed hundreds of participants across the country, along with a YouTube video and bumper stickers promoting the idea. Legally changing names is too much hassle, participants say, so they use “Hussein” on Facebook and in blog posts and comments on sites like nytimes.com, dailykos.com and mybarackobama.com, the campaign’s networking site.

New Husseins began to crop up online as far back as last fall. But more joined up in February after a conservative radio host, Bill Cunningham, used Mr. Obama’s middle name three times and disparaged him while introducing Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, at a campaign rally. (Mr. McCain repudiated Mr. Cunningham’s comments).

The practice has been proliferating ever since. In interviews, several Obama supporters said they dreamed up the idea on their own, with no input from the campaign and little knowledge that others shared their thought. According to the New York Times, some supporters said they were inspired by movies, including “Spartacus,” the 1960 epic about a Roman slave whose peers protect him by calling out “I am Spartacus!” to Roman soldiers, and “In and Out,” a 1997 comedy about a gay high school teacher whose students protest his firing by proclaiming that they are all gay as well.

Newsweek has published a very embarrassing story, which is now online, about Sen. John McCain, that has revealed the McCains have failed to pay taxes on their beach-front condo in La Jolla, California, for the last four years and are currently in default, Black Political Thought has learned.

Under California law, once a residential property is in default for five years, it can be sold at a tax sale to recover the unpaid taxes for the taxpayers. The McCains own at least seven homes through a variety of trusts and corporations controlled by Cindy McCain.

The report notes that the McCains paid the bulk of their back taxes yesterday, but continue to owe additional taxes: When you’re poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you’re rich, it’s hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying. It’s a lesson Cindy McCain learned the hard way when NEWSWEEK raised questions about an overdue property-tax bill on a La Jolla, Calif., property owned by a trust that she oversees. Mrs. McCain is a beer heiress with an estimated $100 million fortune and, along with her husband, she owns at least seven properties, including condos in California and Arizona.

According to the Huffington Post, shortly after NEWSWEEK inquired about the matter, the McCain aide e-mailed a receipt dated Friday, June 27, confirming payment by the trust to San Diego County in the amount of $6,744.42. County officials say the trust still owes an additional $1,742 for this year, an amount that is overdue and will go into default July 1. Told of the outstanding $1,742, the aide said: “The trust has paid all bills shown owing as of today and will pay all other bills due.”

I know they are very wealthy people, but you have to wonder what else does John McCain and his wife have lurking in the background, considering how they have been very vocal about Barack and Michelle Obama. This has to be very embarrassing to the McCains and once again, shows that John McCain does not have a grasp of what is going on. Who is the accountant for this couple? I suspect it is a firm and they need to be fired! Every fool knows, you don’t play around with property taxes or you run the very real risk of your property being sold. I am pretty sure they were sent multiple past-due notices and possibly threatening letters too. Who’s the idiot that ignored this? John McCain seems more and more to be like President Bush–out of touch with reality and a bumbling idiot. I think the McCains were a little too arrogant to think that this matter would escape the prying hands of the mainstream media. I am just surprised it took this long to come out. Just my thoughts, you be the judge…..

Here we go again. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, vandals have spray-painted 60 city vehicles in Orlando, Fla., some with messages against Sen. Barack Obama. This has become really ridiculous that people are so uncomfortable with the fact that a black man could actually dare to run for the presidency.

One of the 60 city vehicles spray-painted by vandals while they were parked across from Orlando city hall late Saturday night June 28, 2008. Investigators have said that the culprits spray-painted notes such as ‘Obama smokes crack’ and a racial epithet. They even left cards on each vehicle disparaging both Obama and Sen. John McCain but have messages of support for Sen. Hillary Clinton. Police also found that many of the vehicles had open gas tanks.

Witness Mike Lowe first told police about the damage. He saw three cars with anti-Obama messages, while the others were just heavily painted. People have way too much free time on their hands and need to stop trying to siphon off other people’s gas.

Not sure what to make of this, but I consider it important for my readers none the less. Here is the article in its entirety from U.K.-based Guardian’s website.

UPDATE: Roosevelt Dorn has resigned as mayor Sunday evening, hours before he pleaded guilty Monday morning to a misdemeanor. His public corruption trial was set to begin. He was fined $1,000 and placed on two years probation as part of the plea agreement reached with prosecutors. He is banned from from holding public office.

Another black mayor has bitten the dust. Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn was charged Thursday with conflict of interest and misappropriation of $500,000 in public funds stemming from a city low-interest loan program originally intended to help Inglewood administrators afford to live in town. Mayor Roosevelt Dorn is an ordained clergyman and once was a sheriff’s deputy, an assistant Los Angeles city attorney and a Municipal and Superior Court judge known for his no-nonsense attitude toward crime.

According to the New York Newsday newspaper, second-grader Jaiden Haber was sent to the principal’s office — not for bad behavior, but for her T-shirt’s slogan. Last week, the principal told Jaiden, 8, to change her shirt, which read, “N the ‘N’ Word” and “It’s time.” Jaiden’s mother, Karen, 45, said teachers at Northwest Elementary in Amityville should have “seized the moment” to discuss the shirt because it aimed to encourage tolerance. But district superintendent John Williams said the word’s inflammatory effect outweighed the shirt’s potential educational value. He said Amityville schools strive to regularly instill cultural lessons.

Did the school overreact? You be the judge. “To send a little white girl wearing this shirt into a very diverse district that is almost 90 percent nonwhite was not the way to address this word,” Mr. Williams said yesterday. “It’s a lightning rod.”A gym teacher noticed Jaiden’s shirt and sent her to the principal, who asked her to change into a school shirt because hers was a “distraction,” Williams said.