Kudos to Driver Elementary School (Suffolk, Va.) for their remarkable display of insanity, for suspending two second graders. The cause: CBS/DC reports the two 7-year-olds were suspended for - - wait for it - pointing their pencils at one another and making shooting sounds.
It seems the boys' actions are a violation of the school's "zero tolerance policy on weapons." Sounds more like a zero tolerance policy on common sense. Sense when did the boys' pencils become weapons? Were they loaded?
Why don't we have a zero tolerance policy on this idiocy? Why don't we fire the loons who create this kind of policy, and then fire those who are stupid enough to follow it?
That would make the schools a lot safer for sure.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Quickie divorce, 911 Style
From the Associated Press, Girard, Pennsylvania...
A 42 year-old woman was charged by police with disorderly conduct and misuse of 911 when she called them requesting a divorce and police assistance to make her husband leave. Perhaps she should not have decided to divorce her husband at 1 a.m. on a Saturday morning.
Naturally, the police were no help. No crime had been committed and divorce is a civil matter, so the police had no grounds to become involved. I'll bet the husband slept on the couch for the rest of the night, probably for his own safety.
I'd ask who this lady voted for in the last election, but that assumes she voted or knew how to. On the other hand, I'm sure some party member would have been only too happy to help this deep thinker vote - several times.
A 42 year-old woman was charged by police with disorderly conduct and misuse of 911 when she called them requesting a divorce and police assistance to make her husband leave. Perhaps she should not have decided to divorce her husband at 1 a.m. on a Saturday morning.
Naturally, the police were no help. No crime had been committed and divorce is a civil matter, so the police had no grounds to become involved. I'll bet the husband slept on the couch for the rest of the night, probably for his own safety.
I'd ask who this lady voted for in the last election, but that assumes she voted or knew how to. On the other hand, I'm sure some party member would have been only too happy to help this deep thinker vote - several times.
Monday, April 8, 2013
He Said What??
Barack Obama, most liberal senator ever and most liberal president ever, had this to say in response to the passing of conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher... really:
"Michelle and I send our thoughts to the Thatcher family and all the British people as we carry on the work to which she dedicated her life..."
Source:
weaselzippers.us/2013/04/08/obama-on-margaret-thatcher-michelle-and-i-carry-on-the-work-to-which-she-dedicated-her-life/
"Michelle and I send our thoughts to the Thatcher family and all the British people as we carry on the work to which she dedicated her life..."
Source:
weaselzippers.us/2013/04/08/obama-on-margaret-thatcher-michelle-and-i-carry-on-the-work-to-which-she-dedicated-her-life/
Sunday, April 7, 2013
We Made 'Em and You Can't Have 'Em
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry claims your kids are not yours. According to Perry, they belong to the community. Usually I try to find news items that have a touch of humor in them, but there is nothing funny about anything she said or believes. Beware America, and be very afraid. This is what the ultra-left-culture-as normal-life is bringing us.
I don't know about you, but I am not ready to surrender my family. And if the government thinks they have a right to take it away, they don't have the sense... you know.
Here's the site to listen to Melissa Harris-Perry for yourself:
www.bizpacreview.com/2013/04/05/liberal-host-touts-communism-kids-dont-belong-to-their-parents-59638
I don't know about you, but I am not ready to surrender my family. And if the government thinks they have a right to take it away, they don't have the sense... you know.
Here's the site to listen to Melissa Harris-Perry for yourself:
www.bizpacreview.com/2013/04/05/liberal-host-touts-communism-kids-dont-belong-to-their-parents-59638
Thursday, April 4, 2013
What? Guns Can Be Reloaded? Who Knew?
Colorado Democrat Rep. Diana DeGette may never live this down, and gun rights supporters are hoping she doesn't. The Congresswoman is on fire about banning high-capacity magazines as a means of curbing gun violence, as if the criminals care. But while commenting at a Denver Post forum earlier this week, DeGette responded to a question about the number of magazines already in existence that won't disappear once the ban is in place. This is how she answered:
"I will tell you these are ammunition - bullets - so the people who have those now, they are going to shoot them, and so if you ban - if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available."
In other words, once the magazines are empty, you have to throw them away. Except you don't.
And if you think that's dumb, the story gets worse. A spokesman for Rep. DeGette compounded this dismal display of ignorance by issuing a statement saying the Congresswoman "simply misspoke - "she should have referred to 'clips' which cannot be reused because they don't have a feeding mechanism."
Wrong again. And besides, the original question was specifically about high capacity magazines, not clips. So Rep. DeGette answered the question as asked. The problem is that she doesn't have a clue what she's talking about. Not about magazines, not about guns, not about anything related to the subject.
They live among us and they vote - on our laws in Congress. No wonder the country is in such a mess.
(This item from www.foxnews.com, Denver Post and other sources.)
"I will tell you these are ammunition - bullets - so the people who have those now, they are going to shoot them, and so if you ban - if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available."
In other words, once the magazines are empty, you have to throw them away. Except you don't.
And if you think that's dumb, the story gets worse. A spokesman for Rep. DeGette compounded this dismal display of ignorance by issuing a statement saying the Congresswoman "simply misspoke - "she should have referred to 'clips' which cannot be reused because they don't have a feeding mechanism."
Wrong again. And besides, the original question was specifically about high capacity magazines, not clips. So Rep. DeGette answered the question as asked. The problem is that she doesn't have a clue what she's talking about. Not about magazines, not about guns, not about anything related to the subject.
They live among us and they vote - on our laws in Congress. No wonder the country is in such a mess.
(This item from www.foxnews.com, Denver Post and other sources.)
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
And We Thought Closing the White House Was Dumb ...
The Obama administration is closing tours of presidential planes on exhibit at the Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The story can be found at the Dayton Daily News website: www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local-military/air-force-museum-cuts-tours-due-to-sequestration/nW9h4/
How low-down, dishonest, and plainly outrageous is this? My family and I toured the Air Force Museum and the presidential aircraft exhibit only last month. Here are some simple facts about that exhibit based on the fact that I was there to observe the situation for myself.
The personnel involved with our visit are all volunteer. How do I know this? The particular volunteer who registered us for our tour happens to be the mother of one of my church members. She's done volunteer work with the museum for years. As a matter of fact, a large number volunteers serve at various locations throughout the museum. It's the way they've always done business. Cost to the government for all this labor: $0.00.
After we were registered for the tour, we boarded a bus for the few minutes it took to ride to the hanger where the presidential planes are currently located. We were accompanied by a tour guide - also a volunteer - who gave us a brief description of the history of Wright Field and Patterson Field. Here's a newsflash: the government is spending a fortune to build a new wing to the Museum so the presidential plane exhibit can be moved from its current location at a hanger on the active part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Not one word has been said about cancelling or delaying construction on this new wing. Instead, the White House expects the Air Force to shut down the volunteer-based tour. How smart is that?
When we arrived at the lone hanger, we were let off the bus and informed about what time the bus would reload. We were free to move about within the hanger since all the tours - like the rest of the museum - are self-guided. Tour guides (more volunteers) are available but not required. No Air Force personnel were involved with our tour. No one was stationed at the hanger. Cost to the Air Force: $0.00.
After an hour in the hanger, we boarded the bus back to the museum entrance. Along the way, we were invited to volunteer to serve the museum. All the people who helped us, including the bus driver, were volunteers. Cost to the taxpayers: $0.00.
In other words, the White House is forcing the Air Force to shut down a tour that costs nothing on account of cost. If you ever needed evidence that this whole sequestration thing is an absolute farce, a total lie, this is it.
And like a lot of things that characterize our government and leadership these days, not only is it stupid, it's dishonest.
How low-down, dishonest, and plainly outrageous is this? My family and I toured the Air Force Museum and the presidential aircraft exhibit only last month. Here are some simple facts about that exhibit based on the fact that I was there to observe the situation for myself.
The personnel involved with our visit are all volunteer. How do I know this? The particular volunteer who registered us for our tour happens to be the mother of one of my church members. She's done volunteer work with the museum for years. As a matter of fact, a large number volunteers serve at various locations throughout the museum. It's the way they've always done business. Cost to the government for all this labor: $0.00.
After we were registered for the tour, we boarded a bus for the few minutes it took to ride to the hanger where the presidential planes are currently located. We were accompanied by a tour guide - also a volunteer - who gave us a brief description of the history of Wright Field and Patterson Field. Here's a newsflash: the government is spending a fortune to build a new wing to the Museum so the presidential plane exhibit can be moved from its current location at a hanger on the active part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Not one word has been said about cancelling or delaying construction on this new wing. Instead, the White House expects the Air Force to shut down the volunteer-based tour. How smart is that?
When we arrived at the lone hanger, we were let off the bus and informed about what time the bus would reload. We were free to move about within the hanger since all the tours - like the rest of the museum - are self-guided. Tour guides (more volunteers) are available but not required. No Air Force personnel were involved with our tour. No one was stationed at the hanger. Cost to the Air Force: $0.00.
After an hour in the hanger, we boarded the bus back to the museum entrance. Along the way, we were invited to volunteer to serve the museum. All the people who helped us, including the bus driver, were volunteers. Cost to the taxpayers: $0.00.
In other words, the White House is forcing the Air Force to shut down a tour that costs nothing on account of cost. If you ever needed evidence that this whole sequestration thing is an absolute farce, a total lie, this is it.
And like a lot of things that characterize our government and leadership these days, not only is it stupid, it's dishonest.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Twitter, McCain Style
Meghan McCain's actual Twitter post (9:53 PM - 31 Mar 13):
"I'm a lover not a fighter, but I'm also a fighter so watch it."
Got that?
"I'm a lover not a fighter, but I'm also a fighter so watch it."
Got that?
911 Chinese Drill
From CBS Boston - A New Hampshire woman called 911 because she needed help ordering Chinese food. Maybe she just couldn't speak Chinese (and the fire department could?) Obviously, she needs more help than that. She complicated things by falsely reporting a fire first. If she ordered jalapenos, she would have needed the fire department. Considering the $5000 bail, this turned out to be one expensive Chinese meal. I suggest Kentucky Fried Chicken next time. They probably still speak English in Kentucky.
Betcha she votes, and you can just guess for which party. No, I'm not giving hints.
Here's the link: www.boston.cbslocal.com/2013/03/29/police-nh-woman-called-911-to-get-help-ordering-chinese-food/
Betcha she votes, and you can just guess for which party. No, I'm not giving hints.
Here's the link: www.boston.cbslocal.com/2013/03/29/police-nh-woman-called-911-to-get-help-ordering-chinese-food/
Saturday, March 30, 2013
This Time the Rabbit Didn't Die
According to Todd Starnes (Fox News) the school board of Madison City Schools, Madison, Alabama has spared the life of the Easter bunny.
Lydia Davenport, principal of Heritage Elementary School, had banned the erstwhile Easter creature, claiming people relate the Easter bunny to religion. Pardon my cannibalism, but if you can find the Easter bunny in the Bible, I'll eat it.
The principal ruled, in the name of religious diversity, that no activity centered around any religious holiday would be allowed. Some diversity. The last time I checked, "diversity" meant a multitude of views discussed openly in the public arena of ideas. Depriving students of any and all holiday activities is not religious diversity. It's not diversity of any kind. It is hypocrisy. It is totalitarianism. It is prison.
Fortunately, school superintendent Dee Fowler had better sense: "These traditions [Christmas and Easter] are part of our rich heritage, and I do not see them as infringing on one's religious rights."
Score one for real diversity - the ability to hear a different point of view without being permanently scarred. Score one also for the school board that refused to have its traditional heritage being railroaded out of school.
Score one for the Easter bunny too. Ironically, many evangelicals have been quietly objecting to the Easter bunny for years because it is probably of pagan origin. When I spoke to a fellowship recently, I advised, "Pretend you're offended. Maybe Christianity will be rid of one more pagan holdover."
Now, thanks to the Madison City School board, the rabbit lives.
Lydia Davenport, principal of Heritage Elementary School, had banned the erstwhile Easter creature, claiming people relate the Easter bunny to religion. Pardon my cannibalism, but if you can find the Easter bunny in the Bible, I'll eat it.
The principal ruled, in the name of religious diversity, that no activity centered around any religious holiday would be allowed. Some diversity. The last time I checked, "diversity" meant a multitude of views discussed openly in the public arena of ideas. Depriving students of any and all holiday activities is not religious diversity. It's not diversity of any kind. It is hypocrisy. It is totalitarianism. It is prison.
Fortunately, school superintendent Dee Fowler had better sense: "These traditions [Christmas and Easter] are part of our rich heritage, and I do not see them as infringing on one's religious rights."
Score one for real diversity - the ability to hear a different point of view without being permanently scarred. Score one also for the school board that refused to have its traditional heritage being railroaded out of school.
Score one for the Easter bunny too. Ironically, many evangelicals have been quietly objecting to the Easter bunny for years because it is probably of pagan origin. When I spoke to a fellowship recently, I advised, "Pretend you're offended. Maybe Christianity will be rid of one more pagan holdover."
Now, thanks to the Madison City School board, the rabbit lives.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Oh the Humanity!
National Review Online (along with several other news outlets) reports a New Hampshire school district has voted - well, the school board did, 4-1 - to do away with dodgeball because it is a "human target" game.
I could understand this decision better if we were talking about the kind of dodgeball we played when I was a kid and the balls were heavy missiles. When I was six years old, I was hit flush in the face with one of those artillery rounds and both lens in my glasses popped out. But in this case, the balls in question are not even inflated. They're Nerf balls. You know, the kind of soft, spongy balls that big brothers like to bounce off the heads of their baby sisters.
I can only imagine how many lens have popped out, how many faces have been rearranged by a flaming Nerf ball. (Come to think of it, if we had had Nerf balls back in my day, they probably would have been flaming, just to make the game more interesting.) At any rate, the citizens of New Hampshire can rest easy knowing their school boards, one of them anyway, is out there protecting their children from themselves.
Meanwhile, we have an answer to the age-old question "What do Nerf balls and New Hampshire have in common?"
Answer: They're both soft.
I could understand this decision better if we were talking about the kind of dodgeball we played when I was a kid and the balls were heavy missiles. When I was six years old, I was hit flush in the face with one of those artillery rounds and both lens in my glasses popped out. But in this case, the balls in question are not even inflated. They're Nerf balls. You know, the kind of soft, spongy balls that big brothers like to bounce off the heads of their baby sisters.
I can only imagine how many lens have popped out, how many faces have been rearranged by a flaming Nerf ball. (Come to think of it, if we had had Nerf balls back in my day, they probably would have been flaming, just to make the game more interesting.) At any rate, the citizens of New Hampshire can rest easy knowing their school boards, one of them anyway, is out there protecting their children from themselves.
Meanwhile, we have an answer to the age-old question "What do Nerf balls and New Hampshire have in common?"
Answer: They're both soft.
Maybe If the Building Fell in the Shape of a Swastika
Find the source for this post at the Associated Press:
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SEPT_11_MEMORIAL_CROSS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-29-17-31-57
A judge has finally seen the light and tossed out an insane lawsuit brought by a group calling itself American Atheists against the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found among the rubble of the World Trade Center. Naturally the atheists claimed that allowing the beam to stand amounted to a governmental sanction of Christianity, and thus (according to them) a violation of the Constitution.
What could possibly be wrong with their claim? Plenty.
Aside from the simple fact that the Constitution guarantees freedom of (not from) the free exercise of religion, no where are the atheists promised the right not to have their feelings hurt. But I digress.
The real idiocy of the lawsuit lies in the fact that no one (except God) created the cross in question. It exists because that's the way the building fell down.
"What?" you say.
That's right.
The cross is not and was not the brain-child of some enterprising rescue workers. It is a cross section of girders that remained in place after the rest of the building around it collapsed. Rescue workers -hardly flaming evangelists - treated the crude remains with reverence because of their task in locating survivors and the remains of victims.
The American Atheists and their supporters, ever vigilant to take offense, couldn't wait to get their dander up the instant their collective imagination told them the standing beams resembled something ever so faintly religious. The judge had better sense.
"No reasonable observer would view the artifact as endorsing Christianity," the judge said.
Ah, there's the difference - "reasonable."
Maybe if the World Trade Center had fallen into the shape of a swastika, the atheists would have been happy.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Follow-up on the restaurant story
Here's the link to the Washington Times story on the police officers refused service. Find it at
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/28/virginia-police-officers-refused-restaurant-servic/
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/28/virginia-police-officers-refused-restaurant-servic/
But Would They Have Served the Lone Ranger and Tonto?
The Buffalo Wild Wings Restaurant in Manassas, Virginia restaurant with one very dense employee on its roll has the honor of being the first entry to our new blog. The reason will be immediately obvious. This item is taken from Cheryl K. Chumley, of the Washington Times.
It seems our stalwart anti-gun employee refused to serve eight police officers (plain clothes but displaying their badges) because - get this - they were carrying guns. Here's the quote:
"A restaurant manager in Manassas, Virginia has gone on the defensive, rushing to apologize after an employee refused to serve eight police officers because they were carrying weapons."
According to the story as detailed by the Washington Times, the officers were not only refused service, they were asked to leave. How stupid is this? For starters, cops are allowed to carry their weapons legally because they are police officers (Duh!) The fact that they were plain clothes does not mean necessarily that they were off duty. After all, they were displaying badges - something officers don't do when they are off duty (another "duh").
But to top it off, now the whole world knows that not only does this restaurant have no way to protect itself in case of a robbery, but every Buffalo Wild Wings Restaurant in the country has the same policy. So goodbye cops and hello thieves.
I can think of at least one restaurant where it would not be safe to eat, especially around closing time. The manager wants the cops back and has "reached out to the Prince William County Police Department." Don't expect a stampede of cops to their front door.
It seems our stalwart anti-gun employee refused to serve eight police officers (plain clothes but displaying their badges) because - get this - they were carrying guns. Here's the quote:
"A restaurant manager in Manassas, Virginia has gone on the defensive, rushing to apologize after an employee refused to serve eight police officers because they were carrying weapons."
According to the story as detailed by the Washington Times, the officers were not only refused service, they were asked to leave. How stupid is this? For starters, cops are allowed to carry their weapons legally because they are police officers (Duh!) The fact that they were plain clothes does not mean necessarily that they were off duty. After all, they were displaying badges - something officers don't do when they are off duty (another "duh").
But to top it off, now the whole world knows that not only does this restaurant have no way to protect itself in case of a robbery, but every Buffalo Wild Wings Restaurant in the country has the same policy. So goodbye cops and hello thieves.
I can think of at least one restaurant where it would not be safe to eat, especially around closing time. The manager wants the cops back and has "reached out to the Prince William County Police Department." Don't expect a stampede of cops to their front door.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Jumping into the shallow end of the gene pool...
Okay, this is different. I just had to have a place to write something totally different, something off the wall, a place to release some frustrations. After viewing all the nonsense in the media and posting several items on Facebook, it became obvious to me that way more was happening out there than Facebook could - or would - handle. So here goes.
The game rules are simple. The idea is to post items taken from mainstream, reputable media that are thoroughly documented, thoroughly accurate, and completely without common sense whatsoever. No hearsay rumors. No conspiracy theories. Not too much taken from isolated you-never-heard-of-before websites. (Sorry about that.) I want to use items so obviously true and so completely ridiculous that no one can seriously contend with the truth of the item even when they disagree with it - which someone is bound to do.
Judging by the way things are going out there in the country, I should have lots of material to work with. So check in from time to time. This should be fun.
The game rules are simple. The idea is to post items taken from mainstream, reputable media that are thoroughly documented, thoroughly accurate, and completely without common sense whatsoever. No hearsay rumors. No conspiracy theories. Not too much taken from isolated you-never-heard-of-before websites. (Sorry about that.) I want to use items so obviously true and so completely ridiculous that no one can seriously contend with the truth of the item even when they disagree with it - which someone is bound to do.
Judging by the way things are going out there in the country, I should have lots of material to work with. So check in from time to time. This should be fun.
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