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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Cartoon shows Asian man marrying White woman

Via Topless Robot...um ya...What are Cartoons becoming?

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

News fresh from the Tarantula's egg

Here's a few links to new stories you might find interesting. Several of them are from Fark.

Government considered bringing George Washington back from dead
6yo accused by school of sexual assult
Teachers claim parents are to blame for bad grades
Mail order brides still a booming industry
Judge blocks city council candidate for poor English skills
Park ranger uses stun gun on man walking dog off leash
5 simple things you will do that damage the planet today
Army claims secret to weight loss is medically adding more fat
Teacher of the year arrested for sex with 5 students
3yo boy getting an abortion

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Not in My Back Yard

How many of you ARNT involved with a caseworker from Children's services on a weekly basis? That a problem. See people dont "get involved" unless it directly effects them. Its the NIMBY syndrome. If the problem isnt in your face you may care but you arnt doing anything about it. You know - Jesus didnt sit in church..

Every week I read stories about Children's services caseworkers not doing their job, kids dying, and nothing changes. Here in a recent one. This stuff happens because people who ARNT abusing thier children dont really get involved. If its NIMBY, its someone else's problem.

“He looks like he just came out of Auschwitz,” Lederman said. “This is like a neon sign for child abuse. It would have been obvious to anyone who came in contact with this family the last few years.”
Among those who came in contact: a child-abuse investigator from the Department of Children & Families, a mental health counselor from Jackson Memorial Hospital and educators from the 9-year-old’s school — who called the state’s child abuse hotline recently seeking help for the boy.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

MOTW : Depeche Mode's “Everything Counts"

Kool dad. How many times do you think they practiced that? And you send your kid to daycare?

Friday, January 27, 2012

10 days without news

Sorry for the lack of posting. Here are some links you might find of interest.

Public schools collecting data on students
Student suspended for taking picture of sleeping teacher
US deploys 15,000 troops to Kuwait
Animal euthanasia down to 4 million a year from 20

One more story of interest - that being Obama's request that government draft laws requiring people to stay in school till they are 18. I was just thinking about this sort of thing the other day. Except..totally opposite of Obama. We need less "public school" not more. I want to see public school end at 15. At that point a kid can choose to attend a junior college or university if he/she/it is ready or get a job/take on an apprenticeship, join the military whatever. Junior and Senior years of high school are culturally decadent and often times scholastically unnecessary since they just get repeated in the first 2 years of college.

We were a better culture when a boy became a man at a job around adults rather than the festering social decadence that is the education system these days.