A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert,
The child left to die in the desert was 3 years old. International rights groups are upset… about the harsh punishment of the rapist, of course.
The only thing I would change is that I would crucify him first and let him hang around in the desert for a couple of days, then I would behead him and then crucify him again.
I heard this Tom Waits bit on KACC radio Friday afternoon and thought it was great. Had to look it up so I could figure out what all the words were and found this story board someone put together with the words on Youtube.
Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases.
Too old? Too sick? sorry. Here’s a hospice referral
I don’t have any extra money laying around right now but in the event of ObamaCare I’m thinking stock in hospice companies will be an excellent bet.
Way too many. I used to have a lot of respect for police officers but now I think the cops are out of control, drunk with power derived from the oppressive Madd Mothers and the failed War on Drugs. I’m convinced the vast majority of America would be better off with about 70% fewer cops. If the types who are drawn to being cops feel they absolutely must be a cop, they can transfer to a Mexican border town or to the inner cities where they are really needed and will definitely earn their pay. I bet a dollar the vast majority would choose to find work in another profession.
Homeowner shot by police alleges conspiracy to cover mistake
Tony Arambula is seeking $5.75 million in damages for himself and his family after he was shot by police on September 17, 2008 when officers responded to a call about an intruder inside his central Phoenix home.
Arambula called 911 and told police he was holding the intruder at gunpoint.
As officers arrived, Arambula’s wife Lesley said she told them her husband was inside the house holding a gun on the intruder.
“I told them my husband was inside, he was the one with the gun,” she said Tuesday.
The officers entered the house with a shout of “Police!”
Almost immediately afterward, Phoenix police Officer Brian Lilly shot Arambula in the back.
And for good measure Lilly shot him again once he was on the ground with a gunshot wound to the back. Fucking moron. Coward. How does such an imbecile get to be a cop in the first place and how many imbeciles such as Brian Lilly are there on every police force in America? A lot I am thinking. When you are talking to a cop there is a good chance you are talking to a fucking moron who would shoot you in the back the first chance they got.
Lets start getting rid of some cops and require that every citizen own and be able to use a firearm. If you can not afford a gun, one will be issued to you. And let’s quit wasting so much money on cops.
This audio/video clip must be a fake or some kind of joke. Liberals never tell the truth about the outcomes of their leftist policies.
“We’re going to have to, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive…so we’re going to let you die.”
A six year old sent to reform school for bringing his cub scout utensil to school? An Eagle Scout suspended for 20 days, diminishing his bright future, for having a survival kit locked in the trunk of his car? What nonsense is this? Obviously a wide-spread attack on the Boy Scouts.
Lets have a National Bring a Knife to School Day so we can see how serious these fuckwit school administrators are about zero tolerance. School administrators are a bunch of damn bullies with no common sense whose little socialist agendas are more important than the kids they are supposed to be educating. Schools would be safer if every kid was given a knife and 80% of the administrators were sent to reform school, then fired.
“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee said. “In the past year Obama has been a key person for important initiatives in the U.N. for nuclear disarmament and to set a completely new agenda for the Muslim world and East-West relations.”
It’s was purely symbolic choice since Obama was nominated for the prize only two weeks after taking office. They could have just as easily awarded the poster.
By nominating Obama prior to Feb 1, the Nobel committee was hedging just to be sure they had the Obama option available come award time. Astonishingly, in the face of failure on every front they give the prize to him anyway. Why? Nothing tangible, only ideological.
Rather than recognizing concrete achievement, the 2009 prize appeared intended to support initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.
…and health care. If the truth were to be known, the award was probably bought and paid for, fair and square, Chicago style, a la Blagojevich.
Because of his Marxist ideology, time will prove that Obama either failed or made worse every issue he tries to address. For one his policies are way to left-wing for America and two, his extraordinary arogance makes him inept at his job, and finally his ideology has been proven a failure historically.
The iWatch program will have a handy-dandy toll free number you can call and report your neighbors. In case you are a retard, here is the list of suspicious stuff of which you should be wary:
If you smell chemicals or other fumes.
If you see someone wearing clothes that are too big and too heavy for the season.
If you see strangers asking about building security.
If you see someone purchasing supplies or equipment that could be used to make bombs.
Especially watch: government buildings, mass gatherings, schools and public transportation. It’s all really just common sense, isn’t it?
“It’s really just common sense types of things,” Bratton said.
The only thing that’s not common sense is setting up a government program for stuff that is simple common sense. Someone with some simple common sense might think there is an alternative motive to the iWatch program. Americans are especially sensitive to programs that are designed for people to rat out their neighbors. A bit too Marxist for us.
Common sense also tells most of us that the main threat we face and the one for which everyone is alert is Islamic terrorists. But the most important thing that you must NOT notice is whether your suspicious character looks like a damn Islamic terrorist. There are safeguards built into the program to ensure that this doesn’t happen.
If someone reports something based on race or ethnicity, the police will not accept the report, and someone will explain to the caller why that is not an indicator of suspicious behavior, McNamara said.
I love the part about explaining it to them. I wonder what happens if the suspicious, terrorist-looking character goes on to blow up a building and kills hundreds or thousands of innocent Americans? Remember how bad everyone was trying to hang the blame for the 9/11 attacks on someone, especially someone in the Bush administration? I do. You fuckers are going to get hung out to dry if a suspicious character report isn’t taken due to retards without any common sense working on a common sense hotline.
The few domestic terrorists acting in the Muslim cause are a statistical anomaly. By any measurement the people we are looking for will be young Muslim men with beards and will have a look of hate and disdain in their eyes. They may stink but may or may not smell like chemicals or be seen purchasing bomb-building material.
Nonetheless… do not report these guys unless you actually see them building or planting a bomb.
Most wanted terrorists
The ACLU take the right position for the wrong reason. Of course they are worried about the Muslims:
But American Civil Liberties Union policy counsel Mike German, a former FBI agent who worked on terrorism cases, said the indicators are all relatively common behaviors. And he suspects people will fall back on personal biases and preconceived stereotypes of what a terrorist looks like when making the decision to report someone to the police.
“That just plays into the negative elements of society and doesn’t really help the situation,” German said.
Aren’t you glad Mike German is no longer at the FBI working on terrorist cases?
Seems to me like personal biases and stereotypes are a big part of what makes up what we call “common sense.” Admittedly, some people’s biases and stereotypes are based upon cultural ignorance but I like to think that most are based upon life experiences. But common sense doesn’t apply when the government sets up a program designed for something that is described by the program’s designers as just common sense. Rather than promote common sense it seems as if iWatch were designed to circumvent common sense.
An Indiana woman, Sally Harpold, bought some cold medicine one day for her husband and then later in the week bought some more for her daughter. Four months later she was arrested and taken to jail in a drug sweep because her purchases totaled 3.6 grams, .6 grams more than is allowed in a week.
The morning she was arrested, Harpold and her husband were awakened by police officers banging on the front door of their home at Midway along U.S. 36. She was allowed to get dressed, and was then taken in handcuffs to the Clinton Police Department, where she was questioned about her cold medicine purchases. She was later booked into jail, and her husband had to pay $300 bail to get her released.
Get that? She was taken away in handcuffs and questioned about her cold medicine purchases.
Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.
“Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas,” the president said earlier this year. “Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom.”
Right off the bat Obama’s attitude is so typically nanny-state liberal. I know you don’t want it, but it’s for your own good so we are going to shove it down your throat. Right there you know it’s an agenda-driven initiative not for the common welfare, but for the benefit of the left-wing cause.
But is our international lagging really the premise behind this policy? Let’s parse this lengthy article and see if we can figure out what’s really going on?
Let’s start with the Obama admin’s apparent premise:
Obama and Duncan say kids in the United States need more school because kids in other nations have more school.
“Young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here,” Duncan told the AP. “I want to just level the playing field.”
When a liberal says they want to ‘level the playing field,’ hold on to your ass as it is about to get leveled. But is it really even the truth that the smarter kids from the pacific rim do better because they go to school longer? Well, according to the article no, it’s not.
While it is true that kids in many other countries have more school days, it’s not true they all spend more time in school.
Kids in the U.S. spend more hours in school (1,146 instructional hours per year) than do kids in the Asian countries that persistently outscore the U.S. on math and science tests — Singapore (903), Taiwan (1,050), Japan (1,005) and Hong Kong (1,013). That is despite the fact that Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong have longer school years (190 to 201 days) than does the U.S. (180 days).
Wow, we already spend 10-15% more time in school than the smart kids. There goes Obama’s premise right out the window.
But never mind those pesky facts. According to the author of this article, Libby Quaid, AP Education Writer, there is a strong case to be made for longer school years. Lets take a look at her case. First example:
Researcher Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution looked at math scores in countries that added math instruction time. Scores rose significantly, especially in countries that added minutes to the day, rather than days to the year.
Let me get this straight: If you add more instruction time, scores improve? You know that is just simply shocking. Who would have thought it? But hold on. It’s already been stipulated that the leading countries spend over a hundred hours less in school every year and yet they spend more time on math? Now I know I’m just a simple yokel, but common sense seems to say we are wasting several hundred hours a year on something that isn’t making our kids as smart as those we envy. It’s demonstrably not the instruction time, so it must be the instruction material. You education bureaucrats really need to get a clue.
Example #2 of the strong case for longer school years:
In the U.S., there are many examples of gains when time is added to the school day.
Charter schools are known for having longer school days or weeks or years. For example, kids in the KIPP network of 82 charter schools across the country go to school from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., more than three hours longer than the typical day. They go to school every other Saturday and for three weeks in the summer. KIPP eighth-grade classes exceed their school district averages on state tests.
In Massachusetts’ expanded learning time initiative, early results indicate that kids in some schools do better on state tests than do kids at regular public schools. The extra time, which schools can add as hours or days, is for three things: core academics — kids struggling in English, for example, get an extra English class; more time for teachers; and enrichment time for kids.
First of all if there are so many examples of gains resulting from longer school days, why was two very weak cases given as samples? Are there no better success stories?
So, KIPP goes 3 hrs a day longer, every other weekend, and 3 weeks in summer and they can report that 8th grade exceeds the school district average test scores. By how much? And what about the 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades? And do other charter schools that don’t go for longer times also outscore the public schools? Probably in more than just the 8th grade. And how do you know the difference in scores isn’t related to some other factor, like environment?
In the Massachusetts example, the author states some kids in some schools do better on state tests than kids in the non-expanded learning initiative. That’s powerful stuff and really helps make a strong case. Not really. The statement is double talk and statistically means nothing. For example, some kids at the non expanded schools did better than all the kids at the expanded learning initiative schools. Doesn’t tell you anything except that there are some smart kids in public school.
So what’s really going on here? Well, here is a clue: In addition to academics, the extended days can be used for extra time for teachers and enrichment time for kids.
Huh. WTF is enrichment time for kids? Isn’t time spent at home with family and friends enrichment time? And do you really think teachers want more time at school that is designated to give them more time at school? Especially when that time could be spent at home enriching their kids. You education bureaucrats really need to get a clue.
Which brings us back to the leveling of the playing field and the final example cited to make the strong case for longer school years
Summer is a crucial time for kids, especially poorer kids, because poverty is linked to problems that interfere with learning, such as hunger and less involvement by their parents.
A hungry child in America is a victim of child abuse and neglect, not poverty. Some people call it ‘less involvement by their parents’ and some call it poverty. Couch it however you want but it is what it is.
That makes poor children almost totally dependent on their learning experience at school, said Karl Alexander, a sociology professor at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, home of the National Center for Summer Learning.
Disadvantaged kids, on the whole, make no progress in the summer, Alexander said. Some studies suggest they actually fall back. Wealthier kids have parents who read to them, have strong language skills and go to great lengths to give them learning opportunities such as computers, summer camp, vacations, music lessons, or playing on sports teams.
I think we now know the real premise behind Obama’s desire for longer school years: Free day care for the “disadvantaged” and government funded “enrichment time” for all.
Here are some recent examples of the materials being used during enrichment time:
It’s was purely symbolic choice since Obama was nominated for the prize only two weeks after taking office. They could have just as easily awarded the poster.
