Tag: stupid is as stupid does

So sue me. 🙂 I was a tad busy when the Webb City R-7 School District caved in to pressure from the ACLU on June 24, 2005…ACLU Drops Censorship Suit, Webb City Allows T-shirts

[N.B. This is the first of a series I plan on the ACLU's assault on the brakes on barbarianism that form the bulwark encouraging civilized behavior. Yeh, it’s a multi-mixed metaphor. Have the ACLU sue me, OK?]

It’s yet another case of the barbarians inside the gates winning over civilized order. Is it really a censorship issue when rebellious teenagers are told what they can and cannot wear? Or is it yet another case of “Let the little barbarians say and do darned near anything they want”?

Poor babies: they wanted to wear t-shirts promoting a homosexual lifestyle. Can no one see that promoting sex period is simply not proper behavior in school? Homo- or heterosex. Neither are appropriate things for kids to wear promotional billboards for in school. Where are the adults? (Especially the parents—oh, that’s right, the parents are the ones breeding and raising the barbarians…)

Ah, but since it’s already OK, as far as society as a whole is concerned, for girls to dress like prostitutes in school and boys to dress like gangbangers, what’s a little promotion of sexual promiscuity, let alone sexual perversion? (Well, the ACLU thinks those are all positive values: after all, it promotes NAMBLA activities and pornography as supposedly Constitutionally protected behavior… )

And in fact, the ACLU is consistent here: while the First Amendment was specifically written (according to its authors) to protect religious speech and practice and political speech and press, the ACLU has been at the forefront of convincing judges and, with the conivance of the courts and the media, most of America, that the First Amendment also applies to burning flags, to displays of crucifixes in urine and to promotion of a homosexual lifestyle in public schools.

None of which can remotely be understood by any rational person as political or religious speech or press.

*sigh* Do we have to stupidly let them continue to rewrite the rulebook to suit themselves?

And the ACLU’s adding of the argument that the harassment of the Webb City R-7 School District was also based on the Fourteenth Amendment is beyond ridiculous. Here’s what Justice Black said in 1971 about a similar Fourteenth Amendment argument (concerning a case that was brought a few years after I graduated from Coronado High School where the “cause” of the case originated). The argument brought forward was that Due Process and/or Equal Protection (14^th Amendment)clauses were violated when the school refused to allow a student to attend class because he refused to comply with the dress code, specifically referencing hair length for male students:

“I refuse to hold for myself that the federal courts have constitutional power to interfere in this way with the public school system operated by the States. And I furthermore refuse to predict that our Court will hold they have such power. It is true that we have held that this Court does have power under the Fourteenth Amendment to bar state public schools from discriminating against Negro students on account of their race but we did so by virtue of a direct, positive command in the Fourteenth Amendment, which, like the other Civil War Amendments, was primarily designed to outlaw racial discrimination by the States.

There is no such direct, positive command about local school rules with reference to the length of hair state school students must have.And I cannot now predict this Court will hold that the more or less vague terms of either the Due Process or Equal Protection Clause have robbed the States of their traditionally recognized power to run their school systems in accordance with their own best judgment as to the appropriate length of hair for students.” _1_

It would seem to me that requiring haircuts would be more intrusive than clothing requirements, and so other courts have held over the years. _2_

Nevertheless, by threatening and actually filing costly lawsuits, the ACLU has been effective in quelling discipline in public schools, hampering the in loco parentis authority of teachers to the point that the inmates are pretty much running the sanitariums, now… (Well, between students who know that teachers have little or no authority and administrators with no balls-and even fewer brains to back up their eunuch state-it’s no wonder our public schools are in the toilet… but that’s another topic.)

Just ask the question the ACLU doesn’t want you to think about:

Is wearing suggestive clothing really a First Amendment right?

If so, does it apply to minors in a public school environment where the pubschool acts legally *in loco parentis*?

Only in the minds of the Loony Left Moonbat Brigade, the Mass Media Podpeople’s Army and their Felow Travelers and Useful Idiot Cohorts in the courts… Thanks to the Amerikan Communist "Liberation" Union and their ilk.

See also this post on ACLU vs. civilized dress codes in school at Stop the ACLU-Oklahoma

Crossposted from Stop the ACLU-Missouri

Found this over at Soliloquy… one writer’s thoughts

You are a Black Coffee

At your best, you are: low maintenance, friendly, and adaptable At your worst, you are: cheap and angsty You drink coffee when: you can get your hands on it. (Ain’t that the truth!) Your caffeine addiction level: high

Yeh, yeh, everybody does this from time to time...

I finally decided about an hour ago to look into this “RSS Feed” thingy. heh Yeh, yeh, I have a ton of feeds I subscribe to. After all, Opera makes it almost painless—just click on the lil RSS/Atom/XML tag in the address bar and I’m subscribed. But I’ve never pinged any of the places that (sorta) track RSS feeds or done anything to maintain or promote my feed, so…

…Read a coupla articles, pinged a couple servers, whatever. So, what happens next is in the hands of the server widgets (they’re kinda like brownies, only ya don’t have to put milk out for ’em).

Now, if only I could figure what’s making blogger change my fonts as I upload a post… I see the changes in the html made AFTER I upload, just can’t figure what’s doing it. The file stays the same on my computer, just changes somewhere between there and blogger… stranger and stranger…Still haven’t caught the culprit. Let’s see if editing the html directly using the blogger “crappy interface” works…

A Precision Guided Humor Assignment from The Alliance of Free Blogs: How can you tell if someone is a terrorist?

Now, admittedly, I’ve modified this a bit to exclude waning IRA terrorists and others by narrowing the assignment further to islamofascist murdering savage SOBs, but I think I may be forgiven for that. If not, what’s the Alliance going to do? Send a splodydope to America’s Third World Countyâ„¢? We’d welcome one or twelve. There are always stumps to clear from fields, you know, and some fish just won’t bite and need to be persuaded to “come to papa”—heh. The idea that an islamofascist murdering savage SOB terrorist could slip by the Third World Countyâ„¢ detection system is laughable.

The Third World Countyâ„¢ Profiler’s Politically Incorrect Guide to Detecting an Islamofascist Murdering Savage SOB Terrorist.

See a suspect? Maneuver to get the wind on ’em. (Scent’s your first clue apart from the fact that the guy looks like an Ay-rab.)

Step 1.) Does the goober smell worse than… well, Goober? If so, he’s either a Loony Left Moonbat or a islamofascist murdering savage SOB. Bag ‘im either way.

Step 2.) When you perform a “cranial echo test” (whack ‘im on the head with an axe handle) does a “thunk” or no sound at all procede from his pie hole? If a “thunk” then it’s a Loony Left Moonbat and good for catfish feed or for bait for wild boar. If no sound at all issues, then there’s nothing inside (sound doesn’t travel in a vaccuum, you know) and you have a splodydope. Remove any useful explosives and see uses for Loony Left Moonbat, above. If the critter attempts to bite the axe handle, it’s an osama and should be doused with gasoline and burned (after removing any useful explosives for later use fishing or blowing stumps).

Do bury any remains of an osama in pig manure and turn the compost frequently. Use this compost to kill kudzu.

Short shrift day

John Stossel notes the “open mindedness” *cough* of so-called “liberals” over at Townhall.com (and even hangs a John Stuart Mill quote around their necks. Heh).

Also at Townhall.com, Victor David Hanson pegs the liberals as reactionaries as only Victor David Hanson can.

And Ann Coulter, as vitriolic a polemicist as ever, nevertheless makes some clear legal arguments in layman’s language about the Rove/Plame kerfuffle.

Meanwhile, a contributor to Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor Current Mail page notes some interesting mortality rates… followed by an observation from Dr. Pournelle about National Guard mortality rates.

Discovery a No-Go. NASA: job security for government bureaucrats. Space exploration? Nu-uh! (We need more than Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites space efforts, folks, but NASA ain’t the answer… )

London bombers noted noted here and here and here, among many places.

And oh, wahhh! Poor baby! (Anyone find the world’s smallest violin? If so, break it into splinters before playing a sympathy tune for this loser.)

Pope Benedict XVI pulls a rabid rabbit outa his mitre with his complaint against Harry Potter. Will someone give the guy a wedgie? Cancel that. His knickers are already in a twist over nothing at all. Lighten up Bennie.

Joe Wilson, serial liar (see Ann Coulter article above for a few of Wilson’s lies), calls on Bush to fire Rove. *YAWN* And this just in: Sun rose in the east today and somewhere dog bites man.

And, in answer to Joe Wilson and his ilk, I’d like to point you to an essay by George J. Esseff, Sr that Alan Woody has posted at Woody’s News and Views. (Sorry this didn’t go in this post earlier, and thanks, Woody, for showcasing this essay! Prime cut.)

It’s a wild, wild, wild, wild world out there folks. Y’all be careful now, y’hear?

Apparently, the explosives used in the London bombing came, just as so much of the low quality junk you get at WalMart, from… China.

(h.t. Cao’s Blog where you can find much more on the London bombings)

The story, out of the German paper, Bild am Sontag leads with:

German newspaper: Explosive material used by British terrorist who blew himself up on Tel Aviv beachfront in 2003 very likely the same as that used by terrorists who staged London attacks last week, Mossad tells Brits.

Then it goes on to explain that

The Mossad was also able to determine the substance was developed and produced at the Chinese ZDF arms factory, located about 65 kilometers (about 40 miles) from Beijing

Hmmm… Made by slave labor in China for the convenience of Islamofascist savages. Always low prices.

Will even the bloody terrorist attacks in London put a stop to the media’s hand-wringing because they don’t think we have been nice enough to some of the cut-throats who are locked up in Guantanamo? The media have never shown any such interest in how prisoners are treated anywhere else on the island of Cuba, such as in Castro’s prisons.

al-Qaeda Attacks: 1998—2005

Back now? Comments?

Can there be any doubt that savages who seek to primarily attack unarmed civilians have no justification for either their acts or their continued existence?

I had my head all tied up in the London bombings last week and neglected to post this. It’s great comfort food any time, though.

A fav memory from Me-Ma’s kitchen or from Momma’s. Being a kid and “getting” to clean the chicken off the bones or drop the dumplings in the stock is one of those priceless memories that warm my kitchen today from time to time. And then, of course, there was the eatin’.

Vary the ingredients, amounts, etc. in the chicken part freely. The dumplings are essentially drop biscuits. Fee free to substitute your fav recipe for drop buscuits there, too. Essentially, Chicken and Dumplings is just a decent chicken stock, chicken and drop biscuits. But if you want the guideline I mostly follow, here it is:

Chicken and Dumplings

Chicken:

• 1 or 2 whole chickens (depends on size of bird, how much chicken meat you want, etc.)

• 1 cup carrots, sliced

• 2 bay leaves

• 2 celery ribs, stripped and chopped

• 1 teaspoon tarragon chopped

• 1 teaspoon thyme

• 1/2 cup flour

• 12 whole peppercorns

• 1 teaspoon red pepper sauce

• 8 or more “grinds” of freshly ground pepper

• 2 cloves garlic, crushed

• 1 yellow onion, diced

• 1 teaspoon coarse Kosher salt

Note: in a pinch (also known as, “Ain’t got ’em and can’t get ’em right now” :-), the tarragon and thyme can be dropped, but at least add fresh chopped parsley or some other compatible herb(s) to the mix if you do. Freely substitute (or even eliminate for super tender palates or if you don’t have any handy) for the red pepper sauce (or for robust palates use red jalapeño sauce as I intend to next time I make this), but DO NOT cut the black pepper. Also note below that for the just plain good eats recipe, you may not even need the ½ cuppa flour noted above.

Lotsa water. Figure and eight-quart or better stock pot, water, chicken, veggies, etc. You’ll end up with a gallon or so of stock.

Wash the chickens (inside and out: you can also “brine” them ahead of time with coarse Kosher salt, then wash them again. If you do, eliminate all the other salt from the recipe) and put them in a stock pot with bay leaves, tarragon, thyme, peppercorns, and garlic, cover with cold water, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer about 30 minutes or until chicken is just short of done. Wash and prepare vegetables, putting trimmings into stock pot. Carefully remove the chickens from pot, leaving stock at a simmer. Note: a couple of large spoons works much better than trying to use tongs. Better: a collander. Simply pour the chickens out (passing the stock to another stock pot). Let the chickens cool slightly and remove the meat from the birds. Check the meat again carefully for bones. Again. heh (I always get the bones I miss in my plate, anyway. It’s tradition. 🙂

Dumplings:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 3 tablespoons olive oil

• 1 cup buttermilk (can make pseudo-buttermilk by adding a couple of tablespoons vinegar to the cup before measuring the milk)

Mix all dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients & mix. Decision tree: prissy, obsessive-compulsive method or just plain good eats method?

Prissy, obsessive-compulsive method:

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough 3 /8-inch to 1/2 inch thick. Cut it into 1 /2-inch squares and set it aside. Strain the stock and save the fat from the top. Use the 1/2 cup of flour I warned you about earlier and enough fat to make a light roux. In a large pot, put the vegetables and 1 gallon of stock. Bring to a boil,add dumplings and 6 tablespoons of roux. Reduce to a simmer, stirring to keep dumplings from sticking. Add chicken meat, red pepper sauce, freshly ground black pepper, and salt. Cook until dumplings are done, about 20 minutes.

Just plain good eats method:

Don’t mess with all that. You have your stuff already. (Bring stock, chicken, etc. back to boil while assembling the dumpling batter.) Drop pinches–large or small, your choice: the large will take a lil linger to cook—into the boiling stock until it’s all in. Back off to just barely above a simmer, cover lightly, not tightly, and cook for about 20 minutes or until the dumplings are done. The neat thing about this method (besides the fact that it’s just plain easier and tastes just as good) is that there’s really no need at all to make a roux to get the semi-gravy texture for the stock, cos the loose balls of dumpling will do that, anyway, and stirring is optional. If you drop your dumpling balls in while the stocks at a nice rolling boil, then back it off to simmer, all the dumplings will cook at the top and form a dumpling layer to dip through when serving. Sticking? Not hardly!

Both methods give the cook the fun of testing the dumplings at around 20 minutes. Just choose a representative sample and have at it. Watch it, though: it’s not only plenty hot, but you also might decide not to share.

heh

Carnival of the Recipes “seekers after good eats” folks, welcome! Sample the recipe(s), mock my grammar, spelling and syntax in other posts, and in general feel free to make a mess of the place in comments.

Y’all come back now, y’hear?

A combo “Free John Kerry’s 180” and “Kipling Tuesday” post

Image: LindaSog.com

(Deserters)
There is a world outside the one you know,
To which for curiousness ‘Ell can’t compare–
It is the place where “wilful-missings” go,
As we can testify, for we are there.

You may ‘ave read a bullet laid us low,
That we was gathered in “with reverent care”
And buried proper. But it was not so,
As we can testify –for we are there!