Well, not really, but Kris, over at Anywhere But Here, pointed me to a really cool video of the Mona Lisa… “speaking.”
Believe it or… don’t.
🙂
It’s for the Childrenâ„¢
Below is a retread of a post from my Blogger days. Feel free to critique, scream, rant or flame all you want.
Of the top five problems I see in “prisons for kids” (also disingenuously called “public schools”) today, every level of administration has to rank close to the top. I have been privileged to know two intelligent and capable principals. Neither are principals, now. One retired and another was promoted to his level of incompetence. The rest? Object lessons in how idiots, bullies and poltroons suck up public funds.
While I have never found the axiom “Those who can do; those who can’t teach” to be a universal truth (I know some very fine teachers), I know of only two exceptions to this axiom: “Those who can teach bust a gut to do so in the face of almost overwhelming opposition from theose who can’t teach: administrators.”
Of course, many who can teach simply leave in the face of such overwhelming opposition to teaching/learning, often leaving a sad mix of beaten down teachers and lazy (and sometimes even stupid) bums putting their time in until retirement.
*Remove remote dictates to local schools. And invite to a “tea party” then shoot (or hang, I don’t really care) the politicians and bureaucrats who attempt to insinuate themselves into local schools from afar.
*Fire (or hang, for all I care) all the administrators (and mourn for the few good ones caught in the housecleaning).
*Require responsible behavior from both students and parents (dump –“viciously” prune from the student body– students who refuse to learn. Put ’em in labor camps for all I care.)
*Sweep out the bums marking time to retirement. Buying them out would be better than letting them stay. (“Three generations of idiots is enough” *heh*)
*Burn to the ground all the colleges’ and universities’ education departments. Send the professors to labor camps to work alongside with the products of their theories.
I know this may sound a bit harsh, but It’s For the Childrenâ„¢, so surely it’d fly… All one need to is repeat the mantra over and over, It’s For the Childrenâ„¢… It’s For the Childrenâ„¢… It’s For the Childrenâ„¢…
And you know the really neat thing? Since Judge Greer has laid down the principal that severely mentally/physically handicapped people can be… capped, all that would be needed to get the ball rolling would be for a judge to declare some “school” administrators to be in a “Persistant Vegetative State” and there we are! I’m sure that after that, we’d have “education” professors lining up and begging for slots in work camps… Neat, huh?
Ranting and throwing crockery all over the place at TMH’s Bacon Bits, Woman Honor Thyself
An Earth-Shattering Solution/Weekend OTA
This is an Open Trackbacks Alliance post, open all weekend. Link to this post and track back. More below the “Earth-Shattering Solution” to a large part of the illegal immigrant invasion…
I recieved this in email. Sounds like a reasonable response to a terrible tragedy…
Just suppose…
A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale hits Mexico. Two million Mexicans have died and over a million are seriously injured.
The country is totally ruined and the government doesn’t know where to start with asking for help to rebuild.
The rest of the world is in shock.
Canada sends troops to help the Mexican army control the riots.
Saudi Arabia sends oil.
Other Latin American countries send supplies.
The European community (except France) sends food and money.
The United States, not to be outdone, sends three million replacement Mexicans.
God Bless America.
(Works for me. Were I processing the “aid” request, I’d also empty a few prisons and send second and third generation welfare families… )
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Stop the ACLU
This Stop the ACLU Blogburst guest post is from John Stephenson at Stop the ACLU.
The above banner and slogan is quite deceptive and an utter joke to those that are truly aware of the ACLU’s workings. Just in the past week the ACLU has launched a massive campaign against the NSA’s efforts to trace terrorist phone calls into the U.S. This campaign with full page ads has even been denounced by media that usually defend the ACLU as completely lacking in context. In just the last few days the ACLU has pounced at the chance to bash America, applauding the decision of an EU Court that struck down an anti-terrorism agreement that allows the European Union and the U.S. to share information on airline passengers. And in the same day the ACLU of Florida came out against a new law that restricts colleges and universities from using state funds for travel to countries classified as terrorist states by the U.S. government.
The ACLU consistently allign themselves with groups like CAIR, and other organizations that have known terrorist ties. They have turned down donations from some of their most generous donors because of anti-terrorism stipulations. They can always be seen defending our enemies. It is no wonder that they fight to exempt lawyers from anti-terror supporting oaths.
A while back, my friend Kathy wrote about how deceptive this banner is, and it still applies today.