CHICKS VS VELOCIRAPTORS

Best new video game concept ever!

Think those are real?

Via Topless Robot...

Canada ends funding of Canadian "peace corps"

Wrong direction Canada..totally wrong direction. If you dont expose people to volunteerism early on they'll be too introverted and busy buying expensive homes and lattes to bother volunteering when they are older. 

Wa Governor circumvents legal system to protect pension

Hmm..been through something similar myself.

"After nearly seven years of going through all of our state's court systems and prevailing on every single level, I still lose in the end, making me really question our judicial system and who it protects and benefits," Harvey "Al" Anthis' widow, Bonnie, said in an email to the Herald.

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2012/03/30/2050601/family-of-pasco-man-expresses.html#storylink=mirelated#storylink=cpy

Dr Drew on feeding your child like a bird

New York Schools to ban use of 50 words

Via the Dori Monsen show, are all schools boards chalk full of nut-jobs ? (Yes because normal people dont get involved)

New York City schools are banning 50 words on tests including the use of Dinosaur because it "promotes evolution", Halloween "for promoting paganism" and birthday for "offending Jehovah Witnesses"

"Clueless" Actress feeds baby with spit

Via Tmz ...ummm that cant be healthy

Wa. School pays teacher $430,000 to resign

This is cheaper than letting him sue?
The district fired him in 2009 for alleged acts of misconduct, including verbal abuse to students and refusal to help struggling students. As part of the settlement, the district agreed to give him a letter stating that he’d done a satisfactory job as a teacher there, Lacy said.

The Mass Effect of News

Swedish schools use hockey stats to teach numbers
Bear attacks women in residential area of St Pete
Airport security does full body search on 3yo in wheelchair
Bees use heat waves from own brain to "cook" prey
400 pound shark caught off Daytona Beach
Seattle teachers union trying to blacklist non-union teachers
Florida judge declares Red Light cameras unconstitutional
101yo sets world hang gliding record
2 dead babies found on flight to Cuba
Father arrested and charged for offering girls a ride in rainstorm
The care and feeding of remote Port-o-Johns
Secret Service arrests man, calls yelling at Dick Chaney "assault"
100s of pot grow houses may go free due to police maleficence
Pretty graphic about how corrupt your State is
Everquest 2 players build in game theme park for dying 6yo
Puppeteers in Israel get own Muppet-esk TV show

Two Lumps

Staying with the cat theme - Here is a funny cat-based e-comic! Check it out!

Cat links and some other stuff

Cats 
Cats gene to taste sweetness broken
The surprising and unique way cats drink
Cats know what they are doing when the purr
Teachers
Teacher slept with student 231 times during school year
Teacher forces students to pee in bucket
Porn star reinstated as substitute teacher
Other
Worlds tallest man
Donate money to individual science projects
Police in Brazil hire real life "batman"
Florida lawyers want more lawyers for Foster Children
Police send unit to reporters home at midnight to demand change in story
Customers/Taxpayers must pay 1.1B for plant that wont be built
Encyclopedia Britannica to end printed version
2 separate shark attacks at popular Daytona area beach
Famous "White Cliffs of Dover" eroding away

Many north Florida public school still paddle students

Via NPR, corporal punishment is still alive and well in North Florida.

But Joe! Isnt hitting children wrong? No. There are many people who need/benefit from CONSISTENT physical consequences as a part of learning self control. Florida seems to have gone to great lengths to make sure the procedure for this sort of discipline is clearly laid out. As long as the rules are followed and there is a 2nd adult involved as a check on the authority calling for the paddling - I say we need more of this. Coarse I also feel we should bring back duels, canings and more dealth penalties to help correct the behavior of adults.  Shrug.

Harry Potter actors reads HP fan fiction

When Dolphins Walk on Land

 Via the Dori Monsen Show

News posts like the scales of a python

700 Club Christian network calls for legalization of pot
Rabbi gives baby oral herpes during circumcision
3 teachers at same school arrested for raping student
Ikea sells instant house-in-a-box for $86K
World's largest Albino family
Florida city to set world "Bikini's on the Beach" record
US government paying for illegal immigrants to have abortions
Police being called 34 times not enough for DCF to remove kids
Schools buying meat and meat by products Mcdonalds passed on
Senator sponcers bill equating single parenting to child abuse
Lotto winner still getting government assistance; claims times are tough
Chuck E. Cheese averages 1 violent brawl per month per location

Bremerton shooting update

The 9yo who brought a gun to school which discharged and hit a classmate will get probation and write an apology letter. He will also testify against his mother and her boyfriend relating to the gun they werent allowed to have because they are felons. The police have apparently misplaced them.

 Looks like a good ending for the kid at least. Hopefully the little girl will survive and recover quickly. Update 2: The boy claims he brought the gun to school for protection against bullies when his teacher and principle didn't listen to his requests for help. The bullies were suspended earlier in the year for hurting him so it looks like the kid was only acting in self defense. Idiot DSHS and idiot teachers in this story..both I'm sure cant be fired or held accountable.

Main char in new AAA first person shooter is -gay-

ME3 is expected to be the most popular thing since toast. Dialog is a bit stiff

News News NEWS! and links

Choir made up of people singing on Skype
13yo steals AK-47 while working as house cleaner
300 million year old forest discovered in China
hockey fans throw fish to honor fallen
Children's Services director anoints all doors at office with holy water
1st grader reported missing was out "fighting crime"
Taxpayers fund $750,000 soccer field for Gitmo detainees
Wyoming legislature passes plan for the end of America
Christchurch, Nz still getting large aftershocks from quake a year ago
FBI arrests man; claims talking about illegal things=possession
Warning issues about watermelon sized pinecones
 Florida passes student prayer bill into law

This sounds familar

DCF and GAL working together to deny and cover up reality in order to return a child to a home he is afraid to return to. Click below for a summery of the juicy bits.