If there’s ever a need for a teacher (and the teacher’s aids) to get fired, it’s now. Watch this video and share it. This is total bullshit: Continue reading
If there’s ever a need for a teacher (and the teacher’s aids) to get fired, it’s now. Watch this video and share it. This is total bullshit: Continue reading
Have you ever had child services go to your kid’s school and ask them questions? Have you had them come to your house and ask you questions? What about going to the house of a former spouse of yours and ask them questions? More specifically, if any of these things have ever happened, did they ask questions such as if you have alternative energy means such as solar panels, where do you go camping and hiking, or if you have a supply of food stored? Oh, and ask if you are a blogger? What the hell does this have to do with child services, you might ask? Well, I don’t know. (h/t Verum Serum):
My child said, these are the questions they asked ” Does your mother have SOLAR PANELS? Where Exactly does your mother take you camping? Where exactly have you gone hiking? Do you hike and then camp? Does anyone else go with you camping? What do you do when you go camping? Does your mother have alternative energy? Does your mother have stored food? Does your mother have any guns? Does your mother saying anything about “The end of the world”? What kind of remodeling has your mother done to your home? Do you have a “safe room”, like a bomb shelter in your home?
I started thinking about this, and now I know why my father had solar panels installed on our house when I was a child. He simply HATED ME, and was looking for a way to abuse me! What better way to abuse your child then by having solar panels!
I should’ve known about the hiking and camping that we did, as well. OH! The abuse I suffered as a child! We would camp for up to a WHOLE WEEK sometimes! I gotta tell ya, I have never, EVER experienced such abuse in my entire life. We would even travel to far away distant lands to do this camping. It was a secret place, and was known only to a select few of people. I will reveal this place, because now I understand that it is a breeding place for child abuse, and I must protect the other children that may have to go camping and hiking there. This land that most people don’t know about is called…
Arkansas.
That is all I will say about that place, for I dare not share the location of it with the general public. I fear for my life if I do!
And the guns! The. Guns. Every time my father and I went hunting? SUCH an abusive time, it was! Dear Lord… the guns. We would shoot animals and EAT THEM! OH! The rabbits! OH! The squirrels! I should’ve known that my father was just trying to fill me with cholesterol! We wouldn’t only shoot animals, we would catch them on the end of a string, with a HOOK IN IT, no less! Then we would take these poor creatures, remove their outer shells, and EAT THEM! The horrors!
Whoa is me, OH WHOA IS ME! I now understand all the abuse I went through! I only wish I would’ve known sooner!
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Okay, all sarcasm aside, read the entire write-up at the first link. It’s a long read, but holy crap, it’s a bunch of bullshit. I can’t believe that this is a way they are trying to phish for information from people. Seriously, there is no way that those questions weren’t straight from the government. There are also a few clips of video on there. I would’ve personally put the whole thing up, but whatever.
Tyranny, you sure are swell!
You know, there’s not much that pisses me off beyond my normal pissed-off-ishness. One thing that drives me crazy though, is unions. What pisses me off even more than unions, are teacher unions. Let me tell you about the Danville Education Association (DEA, and yes, part of the NEA) and what they are, obviously, not happy with.
District #118 would like to have a pay freeze for teachers due to financial problems. From a PDF on that site:
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District teachers are by far the highest paid in Vermilion County and their salaries are among the top in the Big 12. Teachers have increased their earnings by 53.8% over the last 11 years. But, property values are down. Tax revenues are down. The state is facing up to a $13 billion
deficit. Currently, the state owes District 118 $2.9 million and the proposed 2010–2011 district budget indicates a $2.4 million deficit. The 2010 – 2011 district budget deficit could go higher if state finances do not improve. We need to be fiscally responsible in these perilous times
Fiscally responsible would be nice. Now, let’s see what the DEA wanted:
“Over a two year span, these raises alone would cost the district more than $1 million in new money. The cost of new money equates to as many as 20 certified staff positions,” said Heather McKiernan, Director of Business.
“What the DEA is telling the public is misleading. We were surprised to hear the DEA expressing concern over losing retirement benefits and their insurance costs going up when we have already proposed to keep retirement incentives intact and to pay all increases in insurance costs. The teachers will not pay one penny more for the same insurance benefits,” Denman said.
So that damned DEA has been distorting the truth to the public to try and meet their own greedy ends. Fucking. Pathetic. Wanna see what is proposed by the Board, and what the DEA will get to have if they take a pay freeze? Check it out:
If the freeze is accepted by the DEA, the Board will agree to the following:
• Insurance – Although insurance costs to the District increased by 31% over the last two years, employees would not pay any additional cost for health insurance for the employee or the employee’s family. Individual employees will continue to pay no premiums for individual coverage. Insurance benefits and costs to the employees remain the same as in 2009 – 2010.
• Retirement – Retirement incentives will remain intact. Extra-curricular payments will remain for those continuing extra-curricular assignments.
• Sick Bank – In response to DEA’s request to change the employee sick bank, the Board Countered with:
• general pool for employees who have donated to the sick bank and a waiting period to use the benefit
• maximum number of days each person may donate and a maximum number of days each person may draw from the sick bank
• Nurses – The District will continue to maintain four full-time certified nurses. With attrition, they may be replaced with Registered Nurses. The Board has offered to increase Registered Nurses’ salaries from $27,300 to $35,000.
• Laptop Computers – The Board has proposed to make no-interest loans to teachers so that they may purchase personal laptop computers through a payroll deduction plan.
• Employee Access to School Buildings – The Board has proposed to increase employee access to school buildings before and after school hours.
I mean, what the shit? That first bullet for the DEA about insurance should be enough for them to jump up and damned down. Instead, what did they do? Negotiations were held a final time on a Sunday, leaving parents clueless to whether their child would be in school the next day or not. We all went to bed not knowing what to expect. Furthermore, this is still towards the beginning of the school year. Why in the hell didn’t they do something about this crap during the summer? I’ll tell you why:
The Danville Education Association doesn’t give a fuck about teaching children.
Go ahead, take a look at what the contract was. It’s pretty awesome. Stuff like duty-free lunches, seven hour work days, plus an hour away for planning. There are a lot of other great, nifty things too. Have a look if you’d like. Needless to say, that whole “teachers don’t make enough” BS is a tired and worn out statement. It’s very, very false, and if I know these freaks like I think I do, I’d say a union started that craptastic saying years ago.
This is why unions are absolutely useless now. They don’t care about a damned thing. There is MASSIVE unemployment in the country right now, and these unions want to squeeze the life out of the tax payers. “Wait what? The workforce has been dramatically cut back due to a bad economy? Huh. Anyway, give us more money. We need more money to teach your kids. Think of the children, you want them to get an education, right?!” #^%$@^%^T%$&#^&Q#$%#$ I HATE THIS SCUM. As an aside, look at the main page of that site, and just look at how they shill for Democrats.
But, we are taking matters into our own hand. Instead of our son sitting by waiting on the teachers to be done whining, we are going to enroll him in a private school. Permanently. It’s going to cost us more, but at least he won’t be sitting around waiting for the damned DEA to quit acting like children. Everyone is financially fucked right now. Sorry, teachers, but if you can’t hack it, get into a different line of work.
I say they should fire the whole damned union, and make-up the time it takes to higher more talented teachers in the summer.
I think I am seriously becoming anti-gay… a “homophobe,” or whatever one would call it. Continue reading
There comes a time when one needs to sit back and looks at the things going on in his or her country. Not necessarily just one or two facets of the country, but alot of it. Sometimes when doing this, something may really stick out like a sore thumb.
What is wrong with the people in this nation when it comes to our children? Our children are getting stepped all over, and no one is standing up for them! Is it our goal to kill their futures not only through massive debt that they will not be able to pay off easily? Is it our goal to have them grow up with no self-esteem or sense of self-worth? Well, we already know that they are going to have to deal with the economic ignorance of our current administration long after we are gone, so let’s look at the self-worth/esteem issue.
First of all, the Safe School Czar Kevin Jennings. Here is a man that looked up to Harry Hay, “a radical, a communist, and a homosexual” (read the PDF on that page), and someone who had ties to NAMBLA. Jennings also gave advice to a 16-year old kid at one time. The kid told Jennings that he was seeing an older man, and claimed that he was having sex with him. Instead of Jennings doing the right thing and contacting the parents, he asked if he had worn a condom. That’s it. Oh, there is an argument that 16 was an age of consent at the time, but the truth that the liberals don’t want you to put together is that Jennings thought the kid was 15 at the time! Debate crushed. Be that as it may, the kid was apparently a sophomore in high school, and any high school kid shouldn’t be having sexual relations with someone that is older. Jennings is obviously irresponsible. On top of that, he also wrote a foreword for a book called “Queering Elementary Education” which has a lot of very disgusting material in it. I don’t want this man anywhere near my child’s school, or have anything to do with making policy for any schools.
Secondly, there was a judge recently that had to make a decision on a man that “[plead] guilty to first-degree statutory sodomy, child molestation, and enticement of a child.” The judge ended up suspending his sentence, the article states, and assigned him to five years of probation!! What the hell is wrong with that judge? How can he get away with that? The judge even refuses to answer any questioning put to him about his decision. Something needs to be done about this, because it’s truly, truly disgusting that this man is only getting probation.
Point C, the whole Polanski crap, which I have blogged about before. How all of these Hollywood idiots can stand behind him and say he has gone through alot of pain already is just baffling to me. This man drugged up a 13-year-old girl, performed oral sex on her, sodomized her… a whole host of crap, while she was saying no! The beast then ended up admitting to this crap, then skipped the country to get away from a sentencing. Thirty years later, here we are, and people are defending him! What the crap!?!
Fourth: Harvey Milk. This man was given the Congressional Medal of Freedom by Obama. He did alot to advance gay rights and what-not, but why is it that this man gets this honor when in his biography, which is all compiled from interviews of around 140-or-so people that were close to him, it’s stated that he had relations with a 16-year-old boy? Here’s the book, read pages 30 and 31. Milk was 33 when he was living with this kid!
All of this, on top of children singing songs about our current President… I just don’t get what the hell is going on in this country. Why aren’t more people speaking out about all of this? Our children need us!
Just when I think people in this country can’t be more disgusting, they always seem to one-up themselves.
Roman Polanski, some 30-odd years ago, drugged up a 13-year-old little girl, and forced himself on her. If you want to read some of exactly what happened, check out this article over at NewsBusters (it’s not an easy read, so tread lightly towards the end):
Now, this guy skipped the country because, “[Oh crap, I'm in deep shit!]” He has been banned from entering numerous countries, and finally slipped up. The Swiss nabbed him!
Anyway, that’s not the scope of this blog post. What I want to talk about is how this country has become so jaded, so desensitized, that there are people out there that think what he did isn’t such a big deal! First of all, if you didn’t watch the video over on NewsBusters, here is one of my most hated people in Hollywood, Whoopi Goldberg, TRYING to defend this guy:
I am so sick of these failed actors and their liberal ideologies being spread all over the air waves. She is one of the worst, by far.
Not to mention, I am sitting here listening to Sean Hannity’s radio show, in which he is avidly against Polanski getting released. However, there are people calling in to his show and saying things like, “Well, maybe it was okay for him to do that.” WHAT?!?!!!! The argument was that because “that’s how Hollywood is (note: or was, I can’t remember).”
Holy shit, if that’s how Hollywood is, it needs to be brought to it’s knees!
Anyone out there that stands up for this guy for whatever reason can kiss my ass. I don’t care how long ago it was, where it was, or who it was. That is just wrong. Don’t defend this man!