Well, I can't tell you how flattered I am that you would entrust your class to me Jambo ... to impart on them the lesson plan you had in mind. I assume you'd give me a moment or two to look over it myself prior to Sunday ...he,he. It would be nice if the Bund was less scattered, no question there ... perhaps one of us will get a job in the future ... in D,C. perhaps ... that requires a well paid staff, hmmmm ... then perhaps we will arrange for a more congenial geographical disbursement of the Bund.
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There is no greater evidence that the far-left of the liberal movement is absolutely as bereft of brains as they are bereft of morals than Bill Maher.
Of that there is no question. I am continually shocked at just how seething with hatred the Maher's of the world are for anything that represents "traditionalism." You can literaly hear it in their voice, see it on their face ... the only thing which gives me comfort is that SURELY these individuals are in the minority. For a fact I know that his ratings for an entire week are less then O'Reilly gets in a single night. And like or dislike the Limbaugh's, O'Reilly's, Hannity's etc (of which the last two are Catholics), they do defend a morally healthy, traditional ideology. The Maher's or Oberhmans seem to worship at the alter of bizzaro morals - up is down, day is night, Christians are evil and porn stars are role models.
That last bit was a reference to that train wreck of programming they call "The View." Unfortunately Ang has a sleeping habit of leaving the television on ABC. To change the volume or channel will break the hypnotic spell the orb box provides, thus awakening her. So, the practical affect is that I am subjected to - in a clear abridgment of my constitutional right not to be punished in cruel and unusual ways - The View as I get ready for work in the morning. One of the "gals", Joy Beyard (sp?) went on her own rant during the Pope's visit exclaiming how un-evolved the Church is (she claims she's a Catholic) when dealing with the Church abuse scandal - she wants female priests, she wants them to allow marriage for priests, etc. She also of course condemned the Pope for what she considered a "look the other way mentality." Now, in this SAME program they had a "profile in female courage" (my description). Their largest segment was dedicated to their female guest who was lauded with praise and support for having overcome depression, disease and divorce, and for holding her family (the children) together even as a working Mom. "Working" is the operative word there, for she was none other then Jenna Jameson the adult film mega star. That's right, in the same 60 minutes the panel bashed a sitting Pope and praised a "sitting" porn star ... like I said, up is down, day is night. And food for thought - did she ever consider that her marriage may have fell apart because, oh, I don't know - she's getting pounded by three guys and a monkey every day at work???! Sheeesh.
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So, I live in a descent neighborhood, nice little gated community, nice, new school ... and Friday my son comes home with a printed "memo" to the parents of all in his individual class. Apparently a child sitting next to mine (whom has had anti-social leanings in the past), brandished a box cutter in class (9 years old mind you). The teacher was rapidly made aware of this and she demanded it from the child. He then - and they wrote exactly this in the note home - went to the front of the class, raised the blade from the handle and exclaimed, "Now I have something to kill someone with!" He then handed it over to the teacher. Class was suspended, statements were taken, the police called, the whole 9. So, the note didn't "note" on whether this student was expelled - obviously I didn't want him back in my son's class. So I walked into the school office this very morning and demand an immediate meeting with the principal. They note his busy schedule to which I responded - my child had to give a statement as a witness to a crime .. a STATEMENT ... I want to talk to the principal NOW. So 30 seconds later I find myself in a conference room with the principal and the vice principal. The Principal by the way is a PhD in education, and I found myself making certain unreassuring assumptions about his life philosophy regarding crime and punishment ... at any rate I cut right to the chase and explain that the minute that child is allowed to walk back into that class is the minute my son will walk out. By the way, this was not the offending child's first incident; the antisocial leanings I spoke of include throwing a chair in class at a little girl and throwing books and bottles of water at the teacher. At least 3 times he has disrupted the class this year and I was fed up as you might imagine - I mean these are the "warning signs" the news media speaks of officials having missed, after a student is killed of course. So I was conducting this meeting to be sure the staff concurred that a line had indeed been crossed and under the "zero tolerance" provision, the child had now been referred to the superintendent for expulsion.
Well, they assured me that they understood my concern, that they were taking the matter seriously, etc but only divulged that the child was currently "under suspension." I noted that this, by law, required expulsion - weapons fall under the zero tolerance provision as a Nevada state statute. He then explained that the responding officer didn't consider the box cutter a "weapon." I grew somewhat enraged and pointed out that there are families of 3,000 dead people in New York who would disagree!!! So I knew at that point the Principal thought the officers comments gave him proper cover to not request an expulsion. Unfortunately for them they were dealing with no average citizen. Rather "super citizen", printer of state statutes. I had with me two copies of the county's school district policies and procedures, pulled off their own website no less, which explained in great detail that not only does bringing the weapon on campus (weapon being "without limitation any type of knife or cutting device") give the Principal the right to request expulsion, but it COMPELS him to .. he has no option, no discretion in the matter. I pointed to the highlighted section on what I noted was henceforth his copy to keep, and explained that as we sit here now, he is in violation of NRS 392.466, not to mention his own school districts policies on reporting it to the superintendent. And, I noted, that no where in the document does it explain the criteria as one requiring a police officer to define the object as a weapon as a condition for the expulsion request! They looked at each other then the Principal looked back at me and said, "I'll file the request by the end of the day." And he gave me his direct line to follow up in the morning.
Amateurs ...
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