- Don’t even bother trying the “too irrational to be a terrorist” defense.
- Seems this teacher never learned either the Bill of Rights, school district policy, or elementary human interaction during her education.
- Who’s behind the Trump dossier that the FBI relied on? Oh, this gets so thick and deep I can’t even go there. But it does help explain why the left — which has always rightly distrusted the FBI — is suddenly in love with its historic nemesis. (H/T DBH)
- And why “conservatives” are suddenly suspicious of the Glorious Patriotic Institution they’ve generally supported even through the worst of its wrongdoing.
- Four ways to liberate yourself from your smartphone.
- CPS agent took bribes to look the other way while a little boy was tortured, killed, and buried in the back yard.
- Joel Kotkin looks at the three faces of Democrats and the crisis between them.
- There’s a backlash whipping up; and dividing the sexes into warring (or at least wary) camps isn’t going to be good for either.
- Yet another fatal Amtrak crash.
- How tos: dehydrate your own milk (dunno; seems easier and cheaper just to buy a #10 can or even a box from the grocery store) and make your own powdered citrus zest. (Both howtos H/T MJ)
- Therapy dog (and his kind owner) comfort a man stuck in traffic behind them.
- The moment your dog realizes you’re headed for the vet, not the park.
“You will pray to Holy Pole Quilt as I demand, or I will KEEL you!!” ~ “teacher” Karen Smith
The therapy dog story is wonderful. That sort of thing keeps alive the hope that people can actually be civilized.
The odd thing about the pledge story is that it’s up in Boulder county. Boulder proper has long been the granola-left capital of CO. Years back, there were odd little islands of right-wing ideology, such as SOF magazine, and the bank that had Weatherby rifles as account premiums, instead of toasters. But I sort of thought that stuff had faded away. The notion of anything resembling nation-worship existing up there, particularly in the school system, is surprising.
The bureau is under fire not from those on the left but rather conservatives who have long been the agency’s biggest supporters
Talk about a huge and erroneous generalization. I identify as a political conservative and I’m not a big supporter of the FBI. Of course, the article is in WaPo, so consider the source.
Reading the story about the teacher beating up on the kid was interesting. One thing i have learned over the years is there two sides to every story. I guess we’ll just have to hold off a bit before passing judgment on her actions seeing there is no information about what could have precipitated the incident. Teachers, like the rest of us are human and have breaking points, so if the kid was pushing buttons…
Looked at the mild dehydrating thing, ya not so sure about that but the powdered citrus I may just give a try.
The therapy dog story was nice. It’s good to see this side of the equation, as opposed to those who use the therapy animal designation to get freebies like this woman:
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/01/31/united-airlines-grounds-peacock-that-someone-tried-to-take-on-board-as-a-support-animal.html
“Reading the story about the teacher beating up on the kid was interesting. One thing i have learned over the years is there two sides to every story.”
Indeed. “Assaulting” the kid may have been something as simple as grabbing him/her by the arm and hoisting him to his feet. Still wildly inappropriate, but not “beating up.”
Mere touching, nowadays, can be filed on as “assault”. You don’t have to grab or strike.
Recall the old days’ movie bit? A guy poking another guy in the chest with a forefinger, during an argument? (Abbott and Costello, e.g.) That’s now “Assault!”
Hmmmmmm…..I reckon I was assaulted numerous times by teachers.They called it paddling.Remember my Dad telling them it stops NOW in a most threatening manner….and it did.My dad who wouldnt harm a fly yet you did NOT want to see him pissed off.Beating his kid,didnt fly.
Go Dad!
BTW,I bounced off the walls with boredom in school.I WAS smarter than my teachers mostly by a long shot.Dam school drove me nuts,I was the perfect poster child of what should be home schooling.
Remember my Dad telling them it stops NOW in a most threatening manner
Guess I grew up earlier. On the rare occasions I messed up, I’d much rather take a paddling than have the teacher call or send a note home.
Not that my parents wouldn’t back us to the hilt when we were in the right. When someone messed with my brother and me, that was about the only time my Mom or Dad got angry. Even then it was a quiet, “you better be listening because I’m only saying this once” kind of way.
Like the time Mom caught a librarian telling me I couldn’t read anything outside the little kid’s section. (I was six, and into big, thick, adventure novels.)
Reading between the lines in “Faces,”
To win and consolidate their gains, particularly amidst a now strong economy, Democrats need to find a way to recover their basic economic message…
Evidently the “reasonable” Democrats haven’t figured out that their populist “basic economic message” won’t “build sustained economic growth.”
“The economy is strong, but the Republicans are doing everything wrong, so we need to go back to the policies we were following when the economy sucked.”
Evidently, also, the folks in love with railroad haven’t figured out the prime flaw in the model. Almost all of the routes are trying to move traffic both ways on a one-lane railroad. Then, whenever you need to fix anything, it shuts down your one lane.
I didn’t dare tell that I got disiplined at school. If I was lucky, it was just grounded for a few days. A couple of times, my mother called the teacher for details. Once, I was simply told “don’t do that again .” The other time, I got another paddling.
Just a note of caution about the citrus “zest.” Most citrus bought in the grocery store has been sprayed with serious chemicals, for several reasons – good and bad. I’ve tried making zest from store fruits, and sometimes the flavor is simply terrible. I bought some “organic” dried zest, and it has almost no flavor at all! The oils in the citrus skin provide the flavor, and drying it cooks off that oil fast. Make it fresh (and freeze the excess), paying the extra for organic fruit – if you are confident of the source, of course. A lot of stuff labeled “organic” really isn’t… and you can’t tell by looking at it.
I went to Catholic schools K-12, nuns in grammar school and a mix of brothers, nuns and lay teachers in high school. There was a nun I had in 3rd grade who had a wound up rubber coated wire bunch that she called “my little friend” and she’s take boys into the cloak room and whip their butts with it for misbehavior. She never whipped a girl with it, it was all boys. I avoided it by behaving myself but I was also bigger than her and tall for my age, so she never messed with me.
I had a brother in freshman year in high school who was my English teacher and he slapped boys around and slammed a kid’s head against the blackboard for some infraction. He scared the crap out of all of us and I never dared to step out of line in his class! He’d
never get away with that crap nowadays and that’s a good thing! I really do think he got off on the power he had over us.
On the Pledge of Allegiance, I stand respectfully silent for it, with my hand over my heart. I do believe that this is a great country, albeit falling far short of its potential. That is why I stand respectfully. However, I refuse to solemnly swear a pledge that refutes the Declaration of Independence, whose principles I hold to be true. Specifically, whenever a government becomes oppressive of liberty, it is the right and the duty of the people to throw off such government, and institute a new one. The Pledge of Allegiance says that now matter how oppressive of liberty the U.S. government ever becomes, nobody may ever throw it off; it is indivisible. It really boggles my mind that people stand up on Independence Day, and as part of the commemoration of the Declaration of Independence, swear out an oath that refutes it. I commonly point this out to people, and a lot of them get irate with me.
Reply to “Desertrat 1 February 4, 2018 2:39 pm:
A Public Defender friend (from Hudson County, NJ – so he knew ALL the urban PD tricks of their trade) once explained the difference between “Assault” and “Assault and Battery” to me:
“Assault” is when you take a swing at a guy and miss.
“Assault and Battery” is when you take a swing at a guy and connect (hit him).
You can have “Assault without Battery. You can’t have Battery without Assault.
Mere touching, or “poking another guy in the chest with a forefinger”, should most certainly rise to the level of “Assault and Battery”.
[NOTE: This should NOT be considered legal advice. I am not admitted to The Bar in any state, I am not a “non-attorney spokesperson”, and, I most certainly do not portray an actor on TV. Where is Jonathan Turley when ‘ya need ’em?]