Hey, remember this dork?  Yeah, he finally figured out how to get here through those confusing Intertubes and is now displaying his still-prodigious, er, intellect in my comment section.  

Enjoy.

There is a Heinlein story, the exact name of which I forget (MLG will know), in which the protagonist tracks incidents that he feels are indicators of the onset of “The Crazy Years.”  That story quite naturally resulted in the protagonist holed up in the mountains while nukes fell on the cities below.

We are, my friends, slap-ass in the middle of The Crazy Years Redux, if you haven’t already figured that out for yourself.  I’m not just talking about our new socialist overlords government – and the near-constant subversion of our Constitution – but smaller things, daily occurrences that chip away at the average human’s ability to be a self-reliant, logical, reasoning entity.

Here’s a big old stinking example.  January 13 a Texas high school basketball team beat another team by the whopping score of 100-0.  No big deal, right?  The winning team was clearly a great deal more talented than the losing team, and just outplayed them.  Some might whinge that was “running the score up,” but what is the winning team to do, just stop trying?  What kind of lesson is that for those girls?  Or for the losing team…who have a total of EIGHT girls on the varsity team, with only 20 total in the entire school…they never quit, kept playing, kept TRYING through the entire game.

A few days later it was reported the winning team wanted to forfeit the win to the losing school, they felt bad about the blowout…AFTER the fact, mind you, when they’d had the opportunity to be scorned by the bleeding hearts among the teaching staff/parents.  (That last bit is pure conjecture on my part, but I’m probably right, you know.)

Then winning team’s school administrators then posted a public slam of everyone involved:

On its Web site last week, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. “It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition,” said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier.

And now the coach has been fired for calling bullshit:

The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize “for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity.”

Hopefully everyone involved – save the reactionary pussies that blew it all out of proportion – will take the following lessons from this ludicrous non-incident:

• It’s ok to win.
• It’s ok to lose.
• School administrators, with few exceptions, fail upwards.
• Sometimes a teacher will take a hit for you.  Honor them by remembering the fucking lesson.

Oh yes, I do, and this is the source.

Stop the “Lynching” of Rod Blagojevich: A Great Governor

The title right there pretty much says it all, no?  The author, one Peter N. Kirstein deploys his considerable, er, intellect in defense of the current frontrunner for Sleazebag of the Year.  You can go read the entire thing if you like (and then come back and explain to me how our nation “gratuitously spills their blood…in emergency rooms,” for fuck’s sake), or you can view his Wikipedia entry and learn everything you need to know.

Kirstein is a progressive known for his antiwar views, dynamic lectures and support of academic freedom.  He claims to be a pacifist.

He is a nationally known advocate of academic freedom and has defended free-speech rights of many scholars who were denied tenure, incarcerated or removed from their position for speech and controversial writings.

It’s simply astonishing, is it not, how often the words “pacifist” and “completely ignorant of history and/or the law” go together, no?  A private company firing someone – or otherwise refusing to grant immutable job security (a bullshit concept if ever there was one) – has (pay attention now) NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

Only the GOVERNMENT can infringe on freedom of speech, you cockbiters, not a private company.  Jeebus, you can’t even ACT smart.

And “incarcerated”??  Just where the fuck do you think you live, son?  

Sweartagad, it is my stated goal in life to ensure my children enter University with nothing but wariness for these parasites, these psychic leeches.  There will be no starry-eyed professor worship going on here, I tell you.

Via Pirate Ballerina

It’s about to be a very busy day here at Liberty House, but while I enjoy my morning cuppa joe, here’s one more reason to wonder why we tolerate the existing state of the public school system:

A white social studies teacher attempted to enliven a seventh-grade discussion of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black girls, prompting outrage from one girl’s mother and the local chapter of the NAACP.

Now why is it you think this stupid fucking cow only bound the hands and feet of the black girls and not EVERYONE’S hands and feet?  Because she’s a sadistic bitch, yes.

If you wanted to deliver a truly effective lesson on slavery, then you tie everyone up…but you’d STILL be a sadistic bitch.  

Honestly, in what kind of echo chamber are these people being trained that she had not one thought, not even the tiniest inkling, that this might be A Bad Idea?  Sure, kids that age are basically higher-functioning animals with abysmal taste, but you just don’t do something like that.  

Speaking of bitches, their Queen here needs to take the fuckin’ hint and maybe actually sew her mouth shut.

 

Natalie Maines, the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, is being sued for defamation for statements she made at a rally in 2007 about the murders of three young boys.

A complaint was filed November 25 by Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of three 8-year old boys murdered in 1993.

His complaint says Maines wrongfully made a “false and reckless claim that [Hobbs] committed the murders of the three boys.”

…

Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin were convicted of the murders in 1994.

 

Oops.  I guess you aren’t really all that misunderstood at all, are you.  

Here’s the video slideshow, with bonus not-used-to-speaking-in-public news conference voiceover, for the arrest of that sack of ass rampaging through Plant City yesterday.  I have to say, I’m very disappointed this didn’t end in the discharge of about 250 peace officer sidearms.

You know, if this bullshit occurred anywhere other than Canuckistan, I might be an eensy bit more pissed off than I am right now…

The Carleton University Students’ Association has voted to drop a cystic fibrosis charity as the beneficiary of its annual Shinearama fundraiser, supporting a motion that argued the disease is not “inclusive” enough.

Cystic fibrosis “has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men” said the motion read Monday night to student councillors, who voted almost unanimously in favour of it.

Hey kids?  Go fuck yourselves.  Because honestly, if I find out you’ve been fucking other people, thus risking the passing along of your clearly deficient genes, I’m going to come up there with my cheese grater and put an end to that nonsense.

This child needs to be brought to a laboratory, her moxie sampled and developed into a commercially-marketed aerosol.  We could call it Glade® Shovel-rite, the spray specifically designed to uncover bullshit, wherever it may hide.  Now in Clean Hippie, Honest Politician, and Reasonable Leftard scents!

Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park.

She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. His campaign kept preaching “inclusion,” and she decided to see how included she could be.

Long fucking story short, she got her ass handed to her by the Inclusion Party(TM) members when wearing the McCain Girl t-shirt (instructed to die screaming basically), and then congratulated for her discerning judgement for wearing the Obama Girl t-shirt.  

Just so I have this straight…we’ll include you all fucking day long, just as long as you’re thinking OUR way?  So, not only is the Inclusion Party(TM) really not all that interested in including anyone outside their little belief-clique, but they’re also just desperately unoriginal.  

Glad we got that sorted out.  See you all in the gulag!

The jump from 5th grade to 6th grade is quite jarring.  Kids go from one classroom teaching all subjects to eight 45 minute classes a day with eight different teachers.  I emailed the Kid’s English teacher this morning about something and she replied with the info plus this little bonus:

I am glad you contacted me.  Kid struggles with his handwriting.  Do you have a handwriting book that he could do at home to help him?  We do not teach handwriting in middle school.

Why yes, I DO have a handwriting book at home.  I make it practice to purchase every single learning aid my child might ever need just in case one of his teachers emails and says, “we don’t teach that in middle school.”   And really, why should I expect you to teach that, you have FCAT tests to teach to, don’t you?  And Title 1 requirements to meet!  You know, important shit.

Last year I taught Kid math because he was not being taught math at school.  You know what…I already have a fucking full-time job.  It is hard enough to get him to actually bring home his homework, and we have no accountability because his assignments are never recorded anywhere for us to review.  We all get it that these kids have more responsibility this year, but a little support from the school, in whatever capacity, would be appreciated. 

Yesterday I spoke to a guidance counselor at the school regarding Kid not getting his homework assignments home.  “Take away his priveleges” and “email the teacher”  was all the advice she had.  Now I certainly don’t expect the school to PARENT my kid while he’s there but acting as authority figures is kind of your fucking raison d’etre, isn’t it?

I tell you all…the public school system went to HELL when paddling was outlawed.