Just a bit of poetic justice in the land of jihad.

Taliban forces in Afghanistan have been blowing themselves up setting the bombs they intend to kill British and American troops.

Makes me think of this:



Especially after about 7:10.

Please don't feed the homeless people.

Because apparently, they leave messes and get aggressive about obtaining more food.

Yet another victim of gun control and gun-free zones.

A young teacher in Washington was killed by a man who'd been stalking her since they were classmates in college. She had a restraining order. He killed her anyway. Why? Because she was on her elementary school's campus. Where guns are banned. She may have also been brainwashed to fear guns.



It doesn't matter, now. A woman the same age I am that taught elementary school special needs children is now dead, because she legally couldn't defend herself where her attacker chose to turn her into a statistic.




It also doesn't matter that the police turned him into a statistic a few moments later. The young woman is still dead.


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My students rock, this semester.

Most of my kids did a spectacular job on their first paper. I'm going to have to toughen up my already high standards just to make sure that they don't all earn A's.

Gun-free zones=target-rich environments

A couple of days ago, I ran into one of my former students in the local big-box-store's sporting goods section, buying a fishing license. We got to talking, and he brought up the Amy Bishop thing, and said he was glad he was nearly ready to graduate. He said he was tired of waiting for some nut-job to come on campus and open fire.

So, I pulled out my CCW, and told him that I was planning on ignoring the no-weapons policy on our local campus when I went back to work. I told him that there was no way I was going to permit some douchebag in the administration to turn my students into statistics with that policy.

His shoulders kinda relaxed, and he said that if some crazy person was going to ignore the signs and bring a gun on campus to commit violence, that there needed to be a crazy person bringing guns onto campus to prevent that.

My state recently considered (briefly, before they shot it down) a law requiring state colleges and universities to permit faculty with CCWs to carry on campus. I really wish they hadn't shot it down, because if I have to draw down to prevent a mass murderer from turning my students into statistics, I likely would get fired.


It would have been a far lower death toll at Columbine High School in 1999, had faculty been carrying (I think--it's entirely possible that no teacher could have brought themselves to kill one of their students). Math teacher David Benke would have had a far easier and safer job stopping the crazy bastard shooting at his middle-school students had he been permitted to carry a gun.


Colorado State's faculty and Board of Governors just turned their students into walking targets in a target-rich environment.

Things that make you go, "Say what, now?"

Dingy Harry, as Limbaugh calls him, is claiming that he's backing Dear Leader's jobs stimulus bill to protect women. Because we all know that men who're out of work beat women.

Funny, that. I've been with the same man for twelve years. I've been married to him for six. There've been times when he's been out of work (fewer, shorter, and less regular than the times I've been unemployed), but I don't recall him ever getting violent with me in any way, shape, or form.

Then again, that may be because I'm proud of my man, and I let him know that I'm proud of him and support him, whether he's working or not.

Somehow, I don't buy this...

There was an incident on Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, last night. A couple of guys in a stolen car were trying to rush a gate, forcing the guard to open fire. One twerp was killed, the other injured.

The official story is that this has nothing to do with terrorism; that the two were nothing more than run-of-the-mill car thieves.

Our current administration is looking weaker by the day, almost begging for more attacks with the way they've handled those that have actually happened.

I would be willing to bet that, American born or not, the two car thieves in Arizona were radical Muslims.

If anyone ever asks me why I've got the simplest cell phone I can find...

...I can answer with this attempt on our God-given, Constitutionally-guaranteed safe from government bureaucrats rights.

Blackberries, iPhones, and other really fancy communications devices have edged away from being mere 'phones into being small computers, containing much of their owners' lives through correspondence, paperwork, appointment books, and the like.

Law enforcement agencies are pushing for the legal ability to thumb through peoples' lives through their cell phones without the need for a warrant. That, as I said, is like picking through their computers, or through hard-copy filing cabinets, without said warrant. It is not necessarily protected within the wording of the laws, Constitutionally or otherwise, but it is by God protected by the intent behind those laws.

I don't know if law enforcement will get what they want regarding warrantless searches of arrested perps' cell phones; however, I do know that, if this is permitted, none of us are safe from the same.

Again, too far.

A school in Pennsylvania has provided laptops to their students. That, in and of itself, isn't too bad. No, what I have a problem with is that these laptops have integrated webcams which can be remotely operated by the school.

Naturally, the school's administration uses (and abuses) this ability: they've activated the webcams and spied on the students while the students are at home with their families. And students and families know this because...the school has sent home notes with some students warning families of "unacceptable behavior" that the school has pictures of. Taken with the remotely operated webcams.

Um. No. That is not legal. That is not legal any more than it's legal for police to fully wiretap your home and plant video cameras. Schools are currently government entities, and as such, are just as bound by Constitutional law as law enforcement. And this is infringing upon the rights of not just students, but also their parents.

And, ironically, at least one class has just finished 1984.

I think, were I one of the students at that school, I'd've refused the school's laptop and purchased my own netbook (mine cost a bit under $300). And if the school had forced one on me, it would remain unpowered in the top of my locker--or dropped on the floor in the principles office as soon as I'd received it. Most of the kids have started covering the webcams and microphones with masking tape.

Yeah, I'm definitely homeschooling my kid(s). This is total bullshit.

I say: good on them.

Apparently, Israel has assassinated a top Hamas official at a hotel in Dubai. Europe is trying to prosecute Israel for killing a terrorist that wasn't on a battlefield, but Europe is being Islamicized, and was anti-Semitic even before that, so their opinions don't count.

Well done, Israel.

Posts will be light to nonexistent for the next week...

I'm picking up papers that were due today for my two online classes. I will be grading for the next week, pretty much nonstop. So far, I've gotten around 26 out of nearly 50 expected to come in before midnight tonight.

Pray for my sanity.

If they don't want to play what he wants to play, he'll just make them!

According to the New York Times*, Dear Leader plans to use his presidential super-powers to force us all to do what he wants us to do, despite the entire country's open opposition:

"But in the aftermath of a special election in Massachusetts that cost Democrats unilateral control of the Senate, the White House is getting ready to act on its own in the face of partisan gridlock heading into the midterm campaign.

“We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff."

In other words, like any other thwarted bully, Barak Obama is going to throw a fit and do his damnedest to make us play by his rules.

They're trying to excuse it--"White House officials said the increased focus on executive authority reflected a natural evolution from the first year to the second year of any presidency"--but it's pretty obvious what's going on. At least, it is to those of us who've progressed beyond the fifth-grade mentality so displayed by Dear Leader.

This is racist.

Not the billboard--that's just stating the facts. No, Planned Parenthood is racist. How else do you explain them pushing pregnant black women who come in for help with unplanned pregnancies to abort harder than they do non-black women?

Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, said, "Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated." It really looks like Planned Parenthood is still following her dreams.

Again, more proof...

Gun-free zones are target rich environments to the criminally-minded.

I am not criminally-minded. I will, however, be one of those that carries even in "gun-free zones." I will not be victimized by someone who intends to do harm.

"Read my lips..."

Obama is a liar. His campaign promise that no one making under $250,000/year would see new income taxes? Yeah. Just like all his other promises.

This "...no new taxes" pledge is what got G.H.W. Bush unceremoniously thrown out of office. And Dear Leader knows it. He's already accepted that, barring unconstitutional action on his part, he will be a one-term president.

Unfortunately for him, he's no better of a president than he is a father.

Too far.

You don't send a six-year-old to a mental institution because she throws a temper tantrum. Especially not if it's the school's, not the parents' choice.

Send her home, certainly. Refuse to allow her back until her "temper issues" have been dealt with, maybe.

For God's sake, people: she's six years old. She shouldn't be expected to act like a tiny adult. Her parents maybe should discipline her better, but temper tantrums and meltdowns are normal for that age, especially when the kid's scared, uncomfortable, frustrated, or tired.

Here's my question: what did the teacher ask her to do? Was it something that the little girl was having a frustrating level of difficulty with? Why didn't the teacher ask her what was wrong, and try to help before taking her to the office and handcuffing the child one day, and institutionalizing her the next?

The more I hear, the more determined I become to homeschool my child(ren).

I want some of what they're smoking.

According to the New York Times, there's a debate raging between the sane scientists who actually follow the scientific method without falsifying data, and those who are screaming that the world's gonna keep heating up until it catches fire, and that the current winter weather is only indicative of global warming.

Really?

Last summer did have a good, hot spell (but it wasn't as hot as the previous summer's, and didn't last as long); however, last summer was shorter and cooler than the summer before.

And there are record breaking amounts of snow in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; in Baltimore, Maryland; in Washington, D.C.; in Chicago, Ohio; and Dallas, Texas will be seeing snow tonight. The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation has been snowed under so heavily that it's been effectively cut off, and will likely see more deaths as a percentage of population than the other areas combined (the initial press release is dated Feb 1, and is currently about a third of the way down the page).

Human-caused global warming my ass. The earth goes through approximately sixty-year cycles, thirty years warm, thirty years cold. We were in one of the warming cycles for most of my life, and there was nothing anybody could do to change it. We're heading into the cold half of the cycle, and there's nothing anybody can do to change it.

Shut up. Just...shut up. Don't dump a crap load of taxes on us designed to force us into "green" behavior. We're already doing everything a reasonable nation can expect to do. Any more and we'll be crippled.

Unless, like a character in a book once implied, that there is no difference between our modern "greens" and the former Russian Reds.

In which case, that's precisely what they want.

Another definition of irony.

Global warming legislation has been delayed by somewhere around four feet of snow in Washington D.C.

This is not fair.

I don't smoke. I may have done more than ten years ago, but I don't now. I have a great many friends that do.

Not one of them makes $50,000/year, much less $250,000/year.

No new taxes my ass.

Even more,"it'll bring in billions of dollars of revenue" my ass. Adding a dollar per pack of tax is going to have people going to Indian reservations, where they can buy tobacco without paying the stupid sin tax, or else cutting back on the quality of their smokes, going from Marlboro to GPC or AlwaysSave.

Then again, this smells more of the nanny state trying to force us all into healthy behavior, whether we want to have healthy behavior or not.

This from the idiot that didn't understand TurboTax.

How is it that this clown is the treasury secretary when he doesn't understand just how credit ratings work, much less how they are maintained?