Well, that was a waste of money.

Studies apparently show that most of the terrorists that the U.S. has apprehended on our soil since 9/11/01 have been young men.

What do you want to bet that all of those young men, presumably between the ages of 17 and 40, have something else in common? What do you want to bet that those who were "radicalized as part of a group" met that group in prison?

And what do you want to bet that nothing will be done with this information?

Honestly, Muslim preachers--mullas, or whatever you want to call them--should be banned from prison outreach. Especially when it's accompanied by lessons in Arabic so that no one can monitor the lessons.

Why is it always the pillars of the community that do crap like this?

A top police officer and boy scout leader in Fredricktown, Missouri, has been arrested and charged with statutory sodomy.

Needless to say, the underage ass-bandit is no longer a scout leader.

Why do this shitbirds always think they're above suspicion? Do they honestly think that people won't believe their kids when they say that so-and-so put his pee-pee in my bum?

The fucker'll get at least thirty years. He'll be out in twenty, and likely re-offend, given the recidivism rate for child predators is above 90%.

This is wrong.

A couple of parents are in trouble for not registering their homeschooled children with the local public school district.

This is wrong on so many levels that I don't even begin to know where to start.

A government powerful enough to give you what you want is also powerful enough to take everything you have--your belongings, your freedoms to purchase what seems best to you (everything from recreational pharmaceuticals to flatscreen televisions to black cars [in California] to the health insurance of your choice [if this ass-rape of a "health care reform" bill passes] to 3-gallon-flush toilets), and the right to raise and educate your own children.

Once is happenstance...

...but twice? According to the old saying, twice is circumstance, three times enemy action, but given that this makes two deaths at a government-run hospital (and make no mistake, the government is the enemy of free people), I think enemy action happened the second time. This is the second woman who wasn't properly treated at the same, county owned, Las Vegas hospital, and who gave birth to a premature baby that died.

This one wasn't a shrinking violet like the one who went home because she was tired of being ignored--no, Ms. Richardwas sent home by personnel who gave her a sleeping pill, rather than rush her into a room with a magnesium sulfate drip that might have stopped her labor and saved her baby.

Should mandatory Medicaid be passed against the will of the people, this is just going to keep happening, with increasing frequency and in more places.

And that's not all. The Mayo Clinic in Arizona is going to refuse Medicare/Medicaid patients, unless they want to/can pay out of pocket to keep their doctors. OCM, that means senior citizens who won't likely be able to keep their doctors because the government doesn't pay but about 60% of charged rates. By designed policy. The Mayo Clinic has decided that they're tired of losing money on this policy (and I don't blame them, since doctors usually are paid less than $.35 of every dollar charged, with the rest going to overhead. Government payments don't even cover overhead).

Should mandatory Medicaid be passed, there will be no insurance for doctors' offices and hospitals to overcharge to make up for what the government won't pay. That means the most expensive patients--like senior citizens and the chronically ill--will be shorted at best, or refused treatment or euthanized like this boy, who had Cerebral Palsy, at worst.

My hope for the New Year looks promising already.

I posted this over on The FFOT: "May 2010 bring much frustration from [meant to type 'for'] the Dhimmicrites in congress and Dear Leader, with regards to any and all legislation aimed at crippling our nation. I sincerely hope they fail miserably at abrogating our God-given rights."

While the mid-term elections won't be held until November, it already looks quite promising for us normal people who don't want the mandatory Medicaid bill shoved up our asses sideways: it looks like the GOP is going to do much better than the Left was hoping (and if left-leaning papers are publishing stories that even grudgingly admit that their gods have a chance of falling, it's a pretty good chance). I mean, Democrat recruits to run in this election are pulling back--so far, they've lost promising challengers in five races.

What those ass-weasel Dhimmicrats and Dear Leader all keep forgetting (and the American people are beginning to remember) is that they govern by our consent.

We are not consenting to the legislation they want to enact.

I don't know about everyone else, but when someone is trying to force something up my ass without my consent, that's both rape and sodomy. And I don't know about everyone else, but I'm eminently willing and able to shoot the rapist making the attempt, if he doesn't back the fuck off.

Congress, take note: if you keep trying to force the issue, there will more than likely be blood in the streets. And it will not be ours.

This person is a fool.

I'm going to post their whole letter to the editor, then respond.

I AM a math teacher at Brockton High School, the site of a school shooting earlier this month.

Current school security procedures lock down school populations in the event of armed assault. Some advocate abandoning this practice as it holds everyone in place, allowing a shooter easily to find victims.

An alternative to lockdown is immediate exodus via announcement. Although this removes potential hostages and makes it nearly impossible for the shooter to acquire preselected targets, it unfairly rewards resourceful children who move to safety off-site more shrewdly and efficiently than others.

Schools should level playing fields, not intrinsically reward those more resourceful. A level barrel is fair to all fish.

Some propose overturning laws that made schools gun-free zones even for teachers who may be licensed to securely carry concealed firearms elsewhere. They argue that barring licensed-carry only ensures a defenseless, target-rich environment.

But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.

I have several issues with this moonbat's take on things. First of all, I'm shocked by and angry with his version of why the lockdown policy is the best option. Mass exodus (which causes confusion and might save lives because it's harder to get a lethal hit on a target moving away from the shooter) isn't fair? It isn't fair for students to be given a chance to escape because it rewards resourcefullness? It's better to let the shooter have students trapped because that way, they are all in equal danger of dying? "A level barrel is fair to all fish"? Seriously, what is this guy on?

(On a side note, were I in a locked down classroom, I'd be waiting by the door with my pistol drawn. Fuck policy. I will not go down without a fight. Barring that...a freshly dead body does a great job of absorbing gunfire, and I've never cared quite as much for my classmates as I probably should have. The safest fish is at the bottom of the barrel.)

But what I take the most issue with is his last statement. Either he has no kids, or is a lousy parent who doesn't give a damn about his kids. Because, seriously? "But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime" sounds to me like he either doesn't have kids, or doesn't love them.

My husband and I are in agreement: no way are we going to just let someone kill our son. I will go any distance, do anything, break any laws to protect my child. My own ideals, while far less selfish than this douchebag's "make someone else protect me because I won't" view of the world, do not come anywhere near close to as important as my son's safety and wellbeing.

And I can provide for and protect my son far better than any law enforcement officer, legislative member of government, or nanny-stater transnational progressivist.

Hope y'all have a Happy National Hangover Day tomorrow...

Looking back over this year, I will admit I fell far short of my own expectations for myself. I will grant that it’s been difficult adjusting to being a work-from-home mom, but that’s no real excuse when the baby’s slept twelve hour nights on his own since February, and between one and three two-hour naps every day. My house is a disaster, I kept falling behind in my grading, and I haven’t lost but ten pounds of the twenty I gained while I was pregnant.

Not to mention the other ways I haven’t been taking care of myself, my husband, or our budget.

I’m going to try to do better this year. I won’t set huge, sweeping, life-changing resolutions that do nothing but set me up to feel like even more of a failure than I do, though. Baby steps, HH. Baby steps are the way to go.

I resolve to…

…spend 15 minutes per day, in one room per day, picking crap up and putting it away. I will not let clutter pile up on flat surfaces in the living room—I will throw away trash, pay bills as they come in, shelve books as we’re done reading them, hang up coats, and put miscellaneous junk where it belongs. (I don’t think there’s a damn thing I can do about keeping the toys scattered on the floor picked up just yet...) I will not let dishes pile up in the sink and on every flat surface in the kitchen—I will put dishes into the dishwasher as they’re dirtied and run it when it’s full.

…sort through all of the papers we’ve accumulated and throw away the ones that are not necessary to keep. All of them.

…de-clutter that third bedroom over the course of the next three months or so. We’ve got a whole lot of stuff that we need to throw away, give away, and/or put into storage. I’ve got all of the bookcases in there, and can’t get to any of our books! Nor can I get to the bookcases to put away books that have migrated elsewhere.

…remember that I need to take a little time every day to take care of myself so that I can keep taking care of my husband, my son, my house, our budget, and my classes.

…have supper waiting on my husband when he gets home. He’s been working harder than he should—two months ago, his part-time help quit (when they moved her useless ass from full-time to part time), and he’s been running a two person store by himself, working 55-hour weeks, since then. Somehow, even in this rotten economy where nobody can find a job, nobody’s willing to take a part-time job at a payday lending company. I wish I could think of more to do to help take care of him than having supper ready, but I can’t.

…get my son far more used to his maternal grandmother so that my husband and I can have her babysit while we get in some range time! I haven’t been shooting since July, and I’m kinda going nuts! I’m sure my husband is, too.

…put aside more time to keep in contact with friends.

…stop procrastinating grading. I will grade my students’ blogs the Saturday after they’re due, and get the grades for them posted promptly. I will grade their discussion board posts the day after they’re due and post points as I grade them. I will grade 10 papers per day—5 from each class—and get those grades posted and the papers returned the week after they’re handed in. I will keep up with helping my colleague with the bad eyes on getting his grading done the day after his students’ posts are due. Procrastinating only adds to my workload and my stress load. I need to stop it.

I know that there will be times that I won’t be keeping my resolutions to the best of my ability, and that there will be times that I feel totally overwhelmed by what I haven’t done, and how much I need to get done besides what I’ve procrastinated. But as I’ve said in other posts, you haven’t broken your resolutions until you’ve quit trying to keep them. If you stumble a time or two, get back up and keep working on them.

I know I’ll more than likely stumble, but I never give up. I suppose I'm just stubborn, that way.

And this is one reason why I don't let my students use Wikipedia as a source for their research papers.

Rush Limbaugh was hospitalized during his vacation in Hawaii with chest pains yesterday. He's currently resting comfortably.

Wikipedia has pronounced him dead.

Yeah. Their fact checking is about as good as the mainstream media's was with Obama's books.

Me, too.

This guy really likes guns.

Unless we get a Christmas miracle...

*snicker*

What the hell has happened to our independent spirit?

Europeans immigrated to America because they were tired of monarchies and church hierarchies telling them what to do, and how to live their lives. They were tired of depending on others to defend them, and to arbitrarily decide what was right or wrong, and to arbitrarily decide who was worthy of forgiveness or punishment.

For nearly four centuries, that spirit was the driving force behind the lives and decisions of all of this nation's citizens.

No more. People are now refusing to take responsibility for themselves and their families. Want examples? How about the mother of four who called 911 because her 14 year old son wouldn't stop playing Grand Theft Auto? Or the Ohio mother who called the cops on her six year old for shoplifting? Or the Texas woman who called 911 because her husband wouldn't come eat dinner?

What happened to being willing to discipline your own children? What happened to "if you don't come eat what I fix, fix your own damn dinner when you feel like it--I'm going to go stay with my family"?

What happened to that sense of independence that wanted civil authorities to take care of, you know, actual crime, and not our private lives?

And people wonder why the government is allowed to take more and more power unto itself.

I'm glad at least one judge has at least as much sense as God gave chickens.

A few weeks back, a Florida judge ruled that a seventeen year old girl that converted from Islam to Christianity and ran away from home because she feared for her life, had to go home.

That struck me as judicial murder. That judge would have been kinder to put a gun to her head and pull the trigger.

Well, a judge in her native Ohio ruled that, despite her sand nigger father saying that he meant the girl no harm,* she would not have to meet and reconcile with her parents after all. I guess he realized that forcing her back into her home meant that he would be as guilty of her "honor killing" as her male relatives.

Merry Christmas, sweetheart. I hope you survive until your eighteenth birthday, and are legal to get the hell out of Dodge.

*According to their own "holy" book, Muslims are required to lie to unbelievers. Just as they're required to kill those who convert from Islam to another religion.

The parents need to be prosecuted.

A boy in New Jersey was beaten badly enough that he was hospitalized, and has needed reconstructive surgery on his face. He may be blind--they're not sure yet.

The news story doesn't identify the race of either victims or attackers, but I will be willing to bet that, since the victim was an honors student, and was beaten because of an accident, he was black and beaten as much for "acting white" as the accident. And I'd also be willing to bet that the "vicious gang" that beat him close to death is black.

To be perfectly honest, while I believe that the little animals need to be prosecuted, and prosecuted as adults, I also think that their parents should be prosecuted for failing so miserably at being parents that their kids don't know right from wrong.

Update: This story has a picture of the victim. I was wrong about his race, but it's still a hate crime.

An ICBM would fix that.

Bin Laden's family has been found hiding in Iran.

Of course our deadline is being dismissed.

Ahmadinejad knows it's safe to ignore the deadline to prevent sanctions because Dear Leader is so hung up on international opinion that he's going to bend over to take that nuclear missile right up the ass, with or without lube, smile, and say "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

After all, as a world citizen, it's not important to protect the nation that elected him president, right?

Don't give in when you're right.

General Cuculo is rescinding his order to court-martial and jail women who get pregnant on the battlefield (and the men who get them pregnant? That wasn't clear), because of political pressure brought to bear on him by women's groups.

Ironic, that the groups who are so very pro-abortion are against punishing pregnant women for getting pregnant.

I think the general needs to grow enough of a spine to not back down when he's right. Again, it's not that I'm against sex on the battlefield; it's that I'm against the type of carelessness that doesn't take reasonable precautions to preserve battle readiness.

Gah. Indoctrinating kids into a religion like this is...flat evil.

The company that does the Build-a-Bear shops in malls across the country have produced videos that suggest that, if parents don't stop global warming, Christmas will be canceled.

I'm not sure what you could call shit like that except evil. Nasty, evil, vicious attempts to bully parents through making their children cry.

It's as much the parents' fault as the pedophile's, in this case.

I don't remember my mother ever leaving me alone in an exam room with a pediatrician when I was younger. I don't intend to leave my son(s and/or daughters) alone, either--and not just because I'm paranoid.

If I'm not there, how do I know instructions are relayed properly, or that questions that need to be asked are asked?

If it prevents some pervert from raping my kids, all the better.

Though, once they force mandatory Medicaid up our collective ass, do you think the AMA will be assigned a "safe pediatrics offices czar" like we were a "safe schools czar? If so, then I'm betting that this guy will be it, and I will definitely switch from a pediatrician to a family practice, and still won't leave the kids alone during any exams.

Way to go, Senator Harkin!

Your ridiculous claim that the pernicious and open attempts to bribe, bully, or otherwise coerce the votes needed to pass legislation that a majority of this country's productive citizens (as well as almost half of those who aren't productive citizens) don't want passed is "small stuff" is the kind of behavior driving long-time morals-driven Democrats who don't want the country destroyed into the other party.

Well done, sirrah. Well done, indeed. You've gone so far into the idiot category that I'd almost hail you as a bassakwards hero.