February 21, 2014

NYC Politician Proposes Mandatory Parenting Classes for Parents; If Parents Don't Attend, Kids Won't Graduate from the 6th to the 7th Grade
— Ace

So here's the algorithm.

1. Identify some problem. In this case, sure, it's true that some parents are genuine dumbasses and are close to legally unfit to raise a child (though not actually legally unfit).

2. Propose state action and state compulsion for all to take care of this problem.

They run this algorithm for each and every "problem" they see in society. And Step 2 is always the same: We need a law; we need compulsion; we need to empower the State over citizens.

As Vonnegut said of each death in Slaughter House Five, so we too can say of each freedom newly dead: And so it goes.

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1 There will, of course, be waivers.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 21, 2014 10:15 AM (659DL)

2 Am I covered if I send the Nanny in my place?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 21, 2014 10:16 AM (tf9Ne)

3 I've said before... almost in a whisper lest someone who will take the comment seriously hears me - "it's amazing we let anyone have a child".  We have a society that licenses barbers because of all the terrible hurt a bad haircut might cause.  How much more damage comes from a bad parent?

Posted by: david_shane at February 21, 2014 10:16 AM (CVVLU)

4 My parents taught in the inner city for over 30 years each. Bottom line, most of the parents should have never had kids in the first place. And yet.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2014 10:16 AM (olDqf)

5 Don't make waves about this, guys.

Posted by: John Boehner at February 21, 2014 10:16 AM (v6YdM)

6 1...uhhhh, uh-oh....ummmmm, looks like you're on to me.  But ummmmm, fortunately for me I have the, uhhhhhhhhh,  MSM!

Posted by: TEH WON at February 21, 2014 10:17 AM (f2013)

7 The left isn't afraid of images of crying 6th graders who can't graduate. The right, however, fears images of crying children being deported. This might be why the left wins all the time.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 21, 2014 10:18 AM (v6YdM)

8 I love you all. Serious, you guys!

Posted by: Big Brother at February 21, 2014 10:18 AM (Ua6T/)

9 It is evident that some parents are incompetent. It would be unfair and judgmental to single them out. Therefore, ALL parents must be "educated." The lefties follow that paradigm a lot, don't they?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2014 10:19 AM (dfYL9)

10

New York would vote to pass this. 

 

Let them.  10th Amendment and all that.  Every census shows people hemorrhaging out of New York.  Math will eventually conquer all.   

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 21, 2014 10:19 AM (fwARV)

11 *bounces into thread* Hi guys! Is this thread safe? I need a happy place!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 21, 2014 10:20 AM (ELs9k)

12 This would have nothing to do with teaching competence and everything to do with political control.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 21, 2014 10:20 AM (v6YdM)

13 I am shocked that a NYC politician proposed something stupid.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at February 21, 2014 10:20 AM (+lsX1)

14 State Sen. Diaz reminds me of one of my favorite PJ O'Rourke quotes: "Sorry [ ] for repeatedly calling you an intellectual dolt and fascist twinkie. It's nothing personal. I just think you have repulsive totalitarian inclinations and the brains of a King Charles spaniel." J.J. Sefton - you have a point. I think an awful lot of society's ills stem, ultimately, from shitty parenting. Not all but most. I think we agree that state-compelled solutions are a terrible way to help, unless you mainly want to maximize the power of the state.

Posted by: JPS at February 21, 2014 10:20 AM (Oe6bs)

15 I have long said, since I was about eight years old, that there should be a license you have to get before you can be a parent, something more than a marriage license.

I have also known since I was about eight, what that would mean.

Just face facts, there will never be a perfect world, a utopia where everything is for the best. It will never happen. Deal with it.

Posted by: Tieloan Ruginold at February 21, 2014 10:21 AM (4HuBJ)

16 10 New York would vote to pass this. Let them. 10th Amendment and all that. Every census shows people hemorrhaging out of New York. Math will eventually conquer all. Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 21, 2014 02:19 PM (fwARV) Count me in, er, out too. Soon.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2014 10:21 AM (olDqf)

17 Margaret Sanger wanted a license required to have each child.

Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2014 10:21 AM (zqvg6)

18 *bounces into thread* Hi guys! Is this thread safe? I need a happy place!
No bouncing with proper certification.

Posted by: Big Brother at February 21, 2014 10:22 AM (Ua6T/)

19 So deBlasio is saying up front, "All youse guys are serfs, hence too stupid to do anything without guidance from the enlightened like me."

Tovarich!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 10:22 AM (gOmB2)

20 Seems like a point and laugh moment to me.

Elections have consequences; screw those guys.

Posted by: Clownf*cker at February 21, 2014 10:22 AM (RQDhf)

21

Let them. 10th Amendment and all that. Every census shows people hemorrhaging out of New York. Math will eventually conquer all.

 

 

The only problem with that is they start polluting the places they move to with the same lib crap.

Posted by: Infidel at February 21, 2014 10:22 AM (cojT9)

22 14 Posted by: JPS at February 21, 2014 02:20 PM (Oe6bs) And let's just say that the kids they taught and their putative parents are all products of the Great Society.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2014 10:22 AM (olDqf)

23 A bureaucrat must bless everything. Life can exist without government, and they hate this.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 21, 2014 10:22 AM (v6YdM)

24 So why wait until 6th grade? You get 12 years to fuck a kid up, THEN you're going to be a responsible parent because a bureaucrat teaches you?

Posted by: --- at February 21, 2014 10:22 AM (MMC8r)

25 If Parents Don't Attend, Kids Won't Graduate from the 6th to the 7th Grade

If parents refuse indoctrination, then their kids will be refused further indoctrination?

Posted by: JeanQ at February 21, 2014 10:22 AM (82lr7)

26 17 Margaret Sanger wanted a license required to have each child. Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2014 02:21 PM (zqvg6) Was that for mongrels only, or pure breeds too?

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2014 10:22 AM (YEQ2h)

27 When all you have is a hammer...

Posted by: Saber Alter at February 21, 2014 10:22 AM (DNu5Y)

28 Pretty soon they'll propose taking babies away from parents and raising them in state-run facilities. Then they'll propose state-issued licences for those who want to have children. Approval after the State determines you are fit to pass your genetic code onto offspring. All for the good of the CHILDREN.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 21, 2014 10:23 AM (ELs9k)

29 It takes a village ya' know...

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 21, 2014 10:23 AM (GjPnA)

30 Odd how entitlements never come with strings attached? And yet the gov't never has a problem with imposing "strings" on free citizens.

Posted by: Bob at February 21, 2014 10:23 AM (xkSSa)

31 Margaret Sanger also called the children of the poor weeds.  So there  you have it.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 10:23 AM (gOmB2)

32 17 Margaret Sanger wanted a license required to have each child. Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2014 02:21 PM (zqvg6) Over at CNS News: NYC: More Black Babies Killed by Abortion Than Born

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2014 10:23 AM (olDqf)

33 29 It takes a village ya' know... Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 21, 2014 02:23 PM (GjPnA) Village of the Damned.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2014 10:23 AM (olDqf)

34 26 For everybody,though of course she wanted the "undesireables" rendered incapable of having any children in any case.

Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2014 10:24 AM (zqvg6)

35 Want to get the libs organized against it? Let a Republican propose it.

Posted by: --- at February 21, 2014 10:24 AM (MMC8r)

36

Odds that this pol doesn't have kids, without checking on it?

Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2014 10:24 AM (VndSC)

37 Who was the scrunt that basically said children belong to the community? Was it Tampoon-Ears?

Posted by: Clownf*cker at February 21, 2014 10:24 AM (RQDhf)

38 35 Want to get the libs organized against it? Let a Republican propose it. A Republican proposed the lightbulb ban. The left loves it.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 21, 2014 10:25 AM (v6YdM)

39 I find it funny that these idiots think that the kind of people who this bullshit is aimed at are the kind of people who give a shit if their kid makes it through school.     All they care about is   getting the kid born so they can get more money from Uncle Sugar.   After that they do not give     two   fucks.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:25 AM (4df7R)

40 Oh brave, new world..........

Posted by: JeanQ at February 21, 2014 10:25 AM (82lr7)

41 Students should be prepared to report their parents to the education committee if they overhear subversive language.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at February 21, 2014 10:26 AM (+lsX1)

42 Liberals, Helping you until you can no longer help yourself.


Posted by: dananjcon at February 21, 2014 10:26 AM (NpXoL)

43 Too bad Breitbart has passed away.  His reaction to this concept would be epic.  He would probably have a news conference and explain in simple words how this would really put the government camel into every New Yorker's apartment.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 10:26 AM (gOmB2)

44 39 I find it funny that these idiots think that the kind of people who this bullshit is aimed at are the kind of people who give a shit if their kid makes it through school. This is aimed at conservatives and christian parents. It's 'soft' state terror.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 21, 2014 10:26 AM (v6YdM)

45 Liberals, Helping you until     so that     you can no longer help yourself.


Posted by: dananjcon at February 21, 2014 02:26 PM (NpXoL)



FIFY

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:27 AM (4df7R)

46 Odds that this pol doesn't have kids, without checking on it?

You don't have to have kids to know that this sort of shit is wrong.
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/invisible-child/


But "government-mandated parenting classes" are just gonna be another jobs program for credentialed proggs and another way to enrich the connected with money confiscated from people who do useful things.

Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 10:28 AM (ZKzrr)

47 A Republican proposed the lightbulb ban. The left loves it. Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 21, 2014 02:25 PM (v6YdM) But it didn't gain Dubya any more cred with the Commies than Medicaid part D or No Child Left Behind. Dubya never did understand that appeasing the Commies was pointless. They were bound and determined to destroy him not because of who he was, but so they could get a clean sweep in '08. Which they did.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 21, 2014 10:28 AM (7ObY1)

48 Anna Puma - yeah I really miss Breitbart. Don't see anyone now who comes near to filling his shoes.

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2014 10:28 AM (YEQ2h)

49 Can I send my pets in my place? I would say something like mixed, but I know better

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 21, 2014 10:28 AM (HVff2)

50 Ein Volk, Ein Furher, Ein Vaderland.

Hard to do that when people can still take their children out of the public school system and actually teach the children.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 10:28 AM (gOmB2)

51 We have a new law, all children's parents must do X. If they fail, we'll punish the children with Y. Because punishing the people who actually commit or fail to commit the actions in our laws doesn't mean we should punish them, we'll punish people unrelated to the violation of the law. When did I become LEGALLY LIABLE for the actions of someone else?

Posted by: gekkobear at February 21, 2014 10:29 AM (2zHxV)

52 Liberals: Helping you into the mass grave since 1913.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2014 10:29 AM (olDqf)

53

I've said before... almost in a whisper lest someone who will take the comment seriously hears me - "it's amazing we let anyone have a child". We have a society that licenses barbers because of all the terrible hurt a bad haircut might cause. How much more damage comes from a bad parent?

 

------------

 

I get what you're saying, but consider that licensing of barbers/hairdressers is less about safety and more about putting up a barrier to entry into the market. 


With a restricted supply of barbers, the prices those barbers can charge increases.  And a licensing scheme restricts the supply of barbers.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 21, 2014 10:29 AM (eytER)

54 #24 has got it right. This is an idiotic proposal even granting the assumptions of the sponsor. If the parents actually "needed" the classes, they'd need them long before the kid reached the 6th grade.

Posted by: Simon Oliver Lockwood at February 21, 2014 10:29 AM (9N6OT)

55 I guess this means in the near future that a lot of NYC citizens will have only a sixth grade education.


Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 10:30 AM (GQ8sn)

56 Aldous Huxley, call your office.

Posted by: AmishDude at February 21, 2014 10:30 AM (T0NGe)

57 Is this that same jackass NYC politician that seriously thinks that Benedict Cumberbatch owes her something because 5 generations ago his relative owned her relative? Or is this a different jackass?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 21, 2014 10:30 AM (YbyjT)

58 All they care about is getting the kid born so they can get more money from Uncle Sugar. After that they do not give two fucks.

But you can't take the kid away so they might have a real chance to grow up and not repeat the cycle, because that infringes on the fuckers' "parental rights."  And racism.

Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 10:30 AM (ZKzrr)

59 This is my favorite part of the article, btw:


Employers would be required to provide one day a year of paid leave so working parents can attend classes.


We'll just throw that in there. 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:30 AM (4df7R)

60

Who was the scrunt that basically said children belong to the community? Was it Tampoon-Ears?

 

-------------

 

I believe it was Melissa Harris-Perry.

 

Whomever it was, I'm disappointed because "the community" isn't helping kid #1 with his homework or changing the diaper on kid #3.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 21, 2014 10:31 AM (eytER)

61 As if taking a class will make parents who don't give a shit enough to figure out how to be decent parents suddenly give a shit. The problem with bad parenting isn't a lack of knowledge or available training - it is not giving two hot shits about your kids, and no amount of compulsory parent training is gong to change that fact. ALso, I'll note that this is once again catering to the lowest common denominator. Punish good parents because there are bad parents, and you can't single out bad parents or it will hurt their feelings. Third, who wants to bet that this class doesn't actually teach good parenting skills, but the current, en vogue child management methods that don't work and have been discredited but won't die because they "feel" good to the right people? Dr. Spock's son killed himself because he was so messed up, and yet Spock's stuff is still widely disemminated as the "way" to raise kids. No punishment, no rules, no boundaries - all things that kids crave and MUST have in order to be healthy, well-adjusted kids.

Posted by: Goober at February 21, 2014 10:31 AM (QvJr9)

62 "Pretty soon they'll propose taking babies away from parents and raising them in state-run facilities.

Then they'll propose state-issued licences for those who want to have children. Approval after the State determines you are fit to pass your genetic code onto offspring.

All for the good of the CHILDREN.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 21, 2014 02:23 PM (ELs9k)"

Well, we ARE talking about a group of people who read cautionary fiction about totalitarianism and actually LIKE the dystopias of 1984, Brave New World, etc..  Mainly because they always delude themselves into thinking they'll be the ones in charge rather than the first of the purges. It's almost as if they're ignorant of history or something...

Posted by: Saber Alter at February 21, 2014 10:31 AM (DNu5Y)

63

So, the parents are found by the state to be substandard, which means that the *children* can't graduate.  Awesome idea.

Posted by: ** at February 21, 2014 10:31 AM (NLETy)

64

40 Oh brave, new world..........


Relax baby! Just a little bit of me and everything will be groovy!

Posted by: Soma at February 21, 2014 10:31 AM (Br2K9)

65 I tried to raise my children without the guidance of government public sector union members and I ended up with two fiery conservatives. I denounce myself and will sharpen my hoe before I report to the camp.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at February 21, 2014 10:32 AM (lzdTZ)

66 Relax baby! Just a little bit of me and everything will be groovy!

Posted by: Soma at February 21, 2014 02:31 PM (Br2K9)



What about banging all the hawt beta chicks?



Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 10:32 AM (GQ8sn)

67 I guess this means in the near future that a lot of NYC citizens will have only a sixth grade education.


Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 02:30 PM (GQ8sn)



Proving me right once again when I refer to so-called progressives as   "regressives."  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:32 AM (4df7R)

68 I guess this means in the near future that a lot of NYC citizens will have only a sixth grade education.

Much like it was back in 1890.  But back then they still had real reading, writing, and arithmetic drills.  Along with teaching such values as morals.

So in the Twenty-Teens it will be more Lord of the Flies with iPad apps.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 10:32 AM (gOmB2)

69 Employers would be required to provide one day a year of paid leave so working parents can attend classes.

Employer?  Paid?  But they'll lose their benefits!

Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 10:33 AM (ZKzrr)

70 61 As if taking a class will make parents who don't give a shit enough to figure out how to be decent parents suddenly give a shit. I really doubt this is about improving the quality of parents. I think it's nakedly about forcing parents to bow to the state.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 21, 2014 10:33 AM (v6YdM)

71 And yet...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2014 02:16 PM (olDqf)[/i\

And yet you learned a marvelous pearl of wisdom that you were kind enough to share with us last night....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2014 10:33 AM (QFxY5)

72 how long before it is revealed that the classes are being taught by acorn members?

Posted by: pep at February 21, 2014 10:33 AM (h4+mT)

73
But you can't take the kid away so they might have a real chance to grow up and not repeat the cycle, because that infringes on the fuckers' "parental rights." And racism.

Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 02:30 PM (ZKzrr)



Especially if the    kid is black and the potential family is white.   Fuck no.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:33 AM (4df7R)

74 http://tinyurl.com/kze78pg


Article by Ruben Diaz, Jr.

WHO ARE THE REAL EXTREMISTS?

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 21, 2014 10:34 AM (KQp38)

75 "Pretty soon they'll propose taking babies away from parents and raising them in state-run facilities." Over my dead body.

Posted by: Goober at February 21, 2014 10:34 AM (QvJr9)

76 Will they be providing heroin or should the parents bring their own?

Posted by: ryukyu at February 21, 2014 10:34 AM (C6XFd)

77 So what would be the criteria for judging parental competence? Teaching global warming? Worshipping Our Lord and Savior Obama? Oh, there's absolutely no way this proposal could be abused for totalitarian purposes!

Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2014 10:34 AM (RD7QR)

78 Dr. Spock's son killed himself because he was so messed up, and yet Spock's stuff is still widely disemminated as the "way" to raise kids. No punishment, no rules, no boundaries - all things that kids crave and MUST have in order to be healthy, well-adjusted kids.

Posted by: Goober at February 21, 2014 02:31 PM (QvJr9)



Heh.  I saw a used copy of one of Dr. Spock's books in a used book sale the other day.   I bought it and promptly threw it away.    Better in the     garbage than   poisoning some    kid's future.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:34 AM (4df7R)

79 27 When all you have is a hammer... Posted by: Saber Alter at February 21, 2014 02:22 PM (DNu5Y) Then there's usually a sickle somewhere nearby.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 21, 2014 10:34 AM (hXDld)

80 The senators provide a dozen direct questions for the FBI director to answer. "To explain the details of these routine reviews and provide context to those who may be skeptical of the origins of this investigation, please provide answers to the following questions regarding FBI's regular review of campaign files: 1. It appears from U.S. Attorney's Office comment that the FBI conducts regular, perhaps random reviews of campaign filings. Is this correct? If so, what methodology does the FBI use to conduct these reviews? 2. Please identify and describe all methods by which a review of campaign filings may be initiated. 3. Please identify all other government entities involved in the FBI's review of campaign filings and describe their involvement. 4. How and why was this particular review initiated? 5. What criteria involved in this particular review led to the suspicion that warranted further inquiry? 6. What the guidelines under which the FBI conducts its review of campaign filings? 7. Please describe how the FBI's reviews of campaign filings are conducted. 8. How many campaign filings has the FBI reviewed in each year from 2008 to the present? 9. On average, how long does it take to complete a review of a campaign filing? 10. How many agents are assigned, per case, to review campaign filings? 11. On average, how many man hours are spent reviewing campaign filings? 12. When did the FBI begin routinely reviewing campaign filings ?

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at February 21, 2014 10:34 AM (e8kgV)

81 Employers would be required?

How about if the employer wasn't in the State of New York?

What kind of coercion could these fucking Nazis exert on an out-of-state employer?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2014 10:35 AM (QFxY5)

82 50 Ein Volk, Ein Furher, Ein Vaderland. Hard to do that when people can still take their children out of the public school system and actually teach the children. ---------------- For now, maybe. This will soon end.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 21, 2014 10:35 AM (oMKp3)

83 You elect a commie for mayor and the rest of them in office apparently start unfurling their freak flags.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 21, 2014 10:35 AM (YbyjT)

84 *Promiscuity is a citizen's duty*

Hmmm, maybe BNW does have a tiny bit of appeal............

Posted by: JeanQ at February 21, 2014 10:35 AM (82lr7)

85 ...for the children.

Posted by: garrett at February 21, 2014 10:35 AM (vsrOi)

86 This is all because they do not see individuals. They only see the collective managed and maintained by Parent Government. All is fair. All shall be punished.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 10:35 AM (IXrOn)

87 So, the parents are found by the state to be substandard, which means that the *children* can't graduate. Awesome idea.


Posted by: ** at February 21, 2014 02:31 PM (NLETy)




First they came for my "substandard" health plan, and I said nothing, for I had voted for Obama...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:36 AM (4df7R)

88
The problem with bad parenting isn't a lack of knowledge or available training - it is not giving two hot shits about your kids, and no amount of compulsory parent training is gong to change that fact.

Posted by: Goober

All irrelevant as you know.

It's about more DotGov workers to be unionized. It's about empowering bureaucrats and academics. It's about more social control.

The Left isn't concerned with results because poor results allow for more Government Solutions™.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at February 21, 2014 10:36 AM (xrX4n)

89 Poo-tee-tweet? New Yorkers can't really be surprised by this intrusion, can they? Although many probably welcome it.

Posted by: Pigilito at February 21, 2014 10:36 AM (AW99N)

90 Article by Ruben Diaz, Jr.

WHO ARE THE REAL EXTREMISTS?

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 21, 2014 02:34 PM (KQp3



Will be called a "mongrel" by the NAACP by day's end and booted from office.


Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 10:36 AM (GQ8sn)

91 is this the same ny politician that called for new safety rules for driving, and then promptly broke them all, even after saying that these rules are for the government too?

Posted by: sound awake at February 21, 2014 10:36 AM (pk/NG)

92 "Pretty soon they'll propose taking babies away from parents and raising them in state-run facilities."

Not any time soon.  They'll hurt the feelings of the deadbeats they need to shore up their power.


Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 10:36 AM (ZKzrr)

93 Are we there yet?  It's getting awfully warm.....

Posted by: Handbasket at February 21, 2014 10:37 AM (DErq5)

94 I really doubt this is about improving the quality of parents. I think it's nakedly about forcing parents to bow to the state.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 21, 2014 02:33 PM (v6YdM)




Of course it is.   But it's done under the guise of making parents better at parenting.   Since the people who need parenting help are    generally the fuckheads who don't care about their children, it's a futile and purely statist solution to a problem that the state cannot solve and does not WANT to solve.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:38 AM (4df7R)

95 But you can't take the kid away so they might have a real chance to grow up and not repeat the cycle, because that infringes on the fuckers' "parental rights." Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 02:30 PM (ZKzrr) Nor should you be able to. The bar should be really really fucking high to justify the stripping of parental rights.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 10:38 AM (da5Wo)

96 Coming soon to the remaining middle class neighborhoods of NYC - NYPD SWAT called in to forcibly remove children from sub-standard parents. 

And Elian Gonzales is still a puppet for communist cuba.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 10:38 AM (gOmB2)

97 “If the Alliance can offer social and medical advancements to the independents, why would they fight so hard against them,” the teacher asks the class. “Because they meddle,” River responds. “People don’t like to be meddled with – tell them what to do, what to think, don’t run, don’t walk. They are in their homes and in their heads, and they haven’t the right. The Alliance is meddlesome.”

Posted by: RD Walker at February 21, 2014 10:38 AM (ImpgP)

98 68 I guess this means in the near future that a lot of NYC citizens will have only a sixth grade education. Much like it was back in 1890. But back then they still had real reading, writing, and arithmetic drills. Along with teaching such values as morals. So in the Twenty-Teens it will be more Lord of the Flies with iPad apps. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 02:32 PM (gOmB2) The wife just quit teaching middle school math. Lord of the Flies is now. School was nothing but poverty kids, black and white, because everyone else had fled. Gangs, sex in the bathrooms, and on the buses. She got physically attacked twice in two years. Cops in the halls. Parents threatening teachers to the point of teaching with doors locked. In a town of less than a hundred thousand. Utopia, my ass,. Thunderdome.

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2014 10:38 AM (YEQ2h)

99 Run like 'Common Core?'

Posted by: RWC at February 21, 2014 10:38 AM (fWAjv)

100

And the first question on the 'Are You a Good Parent' self assessment is...

 

1. Do you own a gun ?

Posted by: McCool at February 21, 2014 10:40 AM (nCSwS)

101 You know what would also be fair, then, if we are going there? The parents use the same time/resources to form a group to make sure the teachers are well prepared and able to teach appropriately, monitor THEM, and fire them if they cannot. Using taxpayer money against the parent? Should be the same against the teachers, then.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 10:40 AM (IXrOn)

102 is this the same ny politician that called for new safety rules for driving, and then promptly broke them all, even after saying that these rules are for the government too?

Posted by: sound awake at February 21, 2014 02:36 PM (pk/NG)



No.   This is a state     senator.       That was the mayor of NYC.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:40 AM (4df7R)

103 Funniest line in the story: that the education commissioner and the board of regents should stick to what they are good at, that being educating kids. bwahahahahaha how about siphoning off taxpayer funds. 

Posted by: Dandolo at February 21, 2014 10:40 AM (0XBx+)

104 99 Run like 'Common Core?' Posted by: RWC at February 21, 2014 02:38 PM (fWAjv) Don't even get me started on that shit. My first grade daughter came home with some of that crap. That shit is so fucked up that not only is not teaching the kids the skills they need to learn, it's detrimental to the kids themselves. My daughter was so frustrated she was crying and yelling how she hated math and she just wasn't any good at it and her brain didn't wrok that way. At 6. Fuck CommonCore.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 10:41 AM (da5Wo)

105 Albany, the other communist sinkhole in New York.  Cuomonistas.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 10:41 AM (gOmB2)

106 "Pretty soon they'll propose taking babies away from parents and raising them in state-run facilities."


They already do   that.    "Child Services."  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:41 AM (4df7R)

107 Somebody needs to tell this guy... "Dude, just because graduating from 6th grade is YOUR highest level of achievement, don't take it out on everyone else, see?"

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 21, 2014 10:41 AM (UeZGr)

108 Employers would be required to provide one day a year of paid leave so working parents can attend classes. Did I read this right? Dictate to the employers of the parents? f* me

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 10:41 AM (IXrOn)

109 10 New York would vote to pass this. Let them. 10th Amendment and all that. Every census shows people hemorrhaging out of New York. Math will eventually conquer all. Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 21, 2014 02:19 PM (fwARV) The problem is that it doesn't. These fleeing foolsjust end up polluting everywhere else.

Posted by: BuddyPC at February 21, 2014 10:41 AM (jfUIE)

110 Is is safe to come back?

Posted by: RoyalOil at February 21, 2014 10:42 AM (VjL9S)

111 So here's the algorithm. 1. Identify some problem. In this case, sure, it's true that some parents are genuine dumbasses and are close to legally unfit to raise a child (though not actually legally unfit). 2. Propose state action and state compulsion for all to take care of this problem. The one that drives me craziest here in San Francisco is: 1. A very small percentage of thoughtless people litter with the plastic bags they get from liquor stores, and the wind blows the bags around. 2. Solution: BAN ALL PLASTIC BAGS. Which is now the law. Left out of this equation is that plastic bags exist and are popular for very good reasons. So many that I won't waste your time listing them here. But we all must suffer, permanently, daily, in many aspects of our lives, because some winos litter. Because GOVERNMENT. A simpler solution would be to actually enforce the anti-littering laws, but that would be discriminatory or something. So suffer. Mr. and mrs. law-abiding American. Suffer so that bad people don't have to.

Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2014 10:42 AM (+cx5n)

112 f* me

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 02:41 PM (IXrOn)

What's your number?

Posted by: typical disgusting Moron at February 21, 2014 10:43 AM (QFxY5)

113 110 Is is safe to come back? Posted by: RoyalOil at February 21, 2014 02:42 PM (VjL9S) Not really.

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2014 10:43 AM (YEQ2h)

114 there's a recent English movie about parenting on Netflix--  "Broken"


if yer a parent, it will scare the shite out of you.  Seriously, man

Posted by: Garry Glen Ross at February 21, 2014 10:43 AM (omBWL)

115 They already do that. "Child Services."

Except most of the time, they don't.

Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 10:43 AM (ZKzrr)

116 I actually did get a license to parent. First as a foster parent, later to adopt. Had to take classes (beyond lame), have a background check, was fingerprinted & the health dept inspected my home (checked the temp in my frig, where medication was stored, if my dogs were properly vaccinated). My neighbors were interviewed, my boss was called. One case worker randomly opened drawers in my kitchen & bedroom, looking for what I couldn't say.

Posted by: kqb29 at February 21, 2014 10:44 AM (3w6fp)

117 would they have to pass it before we get to know what's in it?

Posted by: concrete girl at February 21, 2014 10:44 AM (LhAqq)

118 39 I find it funny that these idiots think that the kind of people who this bullshit is aimed at are the kind of people who give a shit if their kid makes it through school. All they care about is getting the kid born so they can get more money from Uncle Sugar. After that they do not give two fucks. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 02:25 PM (4df7R) Saw the briefest smidgen of St Elmo's Fire last night while channel surfing. The yuppie social worker (Mare Winningham) was chattering away at a young single mother with child in tow about how she was there to "help her get a job, perhaps in the janitorial services field", and all the mother would say was, "I want my check; give me my check." The YSW sighed and... gave her "her check".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 21, 2014 10:44 AM (HsTG8)

119 Funniest line in the story: that the education commissioner and the board of regents should stick to what they are good at, that being educating kids.


Posted by: Dandolo at February 21, 2014 02:40 PM (0XBx+)



Like that public school in... was it Queens?   Where there was no curriculum and the kids just watched movies all day and the principal never showed up?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:44 AM (4df7R)

120 One case worker randomly opened drawers in my kitchen & bedroom, looking for what I couldn't say.

Posted by: kqb29 at February 21, 2014 02:44 PM (3w6fp)


Looking for a dildo. She probably downgraded you for not having one.

Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2014 10:45 AM (RD7QR)

121 Fuck CommonCore. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 02:41 PM (da5Wo) This should brighten your day then. http://tinyurl.com/mygpjeb (Not sure if it is Common Core, but it is on the approved reading list for 4th graders.)

Posted by: RWC at February 21, 2014 10:45 AM (fWAjv)

122 But remember, it's the Right politicizing everything. So we can add Your Parenting to The Air You Breathe, The Food You Eat, The Things You Read, The Phone Calls You Make, The Car You Drive, How You Light Your Home, and How You Flush Your Toilet to the things the left is politicizing. Where am I supposed to go to get away from this, or am I supposed to just let this madness continue unchecked?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 21, 2014 10:45 AM (YbyjT)

123 Suffer so that bad people don't have to.

Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2014 02:42 PM (+cx5n)

Nicely put.

You should start a blog.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2014 10:46 AM (QFxY5)

124 (How stupid do you have to be if you can't figure out how to masturbate?  FFS.)

Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 10:46 AM (ZKzrr)

125 They get a paid day off too. Woo Hoo!

Posted by: RWC at February 21, 2014 10:46 AM (fWAjv)

126 This is what they voted for. Anyone left in NYC that has no interest watsoever in the leftist bullshit needs to get out of there, now.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at February 21, 2014 10:46 AM (AQTz3)

127 They already do that. "Child Services."


Except most of the time, they don't.



Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 02:43 PM (ZKzrr)



At least not in places where they    should.



"Keep your kid chained up in the closet without food?  No one's seen them for three years?   No problem."


"Post a picture on facebook of you and your son holding hunting rifles?   ANNIHILATE THE INFIDEL!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:46 AM (4df7R)

128 124 (How stupid do you have to be if you can't figure out how to masturbate? FFS.) Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 02:46 PM (ZKzrr) Heh.

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2014 10:46 AM (YEQ2h)

129 Just like guns. Almost 100 million legal gun owners who never have and never will commit a crime with their guns. A handful of nuts misuse guns so ban all guns!!!

Posted by: Adam at February 21, 2014 10:46 AM (Aif/5)

130 Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2014 02:45 PM (RD7QR)

...I got nothing...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2014 10:47 AM (QFxY5)

131 Allright, I'll entertain the idea.

Who gets to determine what is taught at these parenting classes?  Given that the most stable students appear to come out of two parent households with a strong conservative religious background, I say the curriculum should be primarily generated and regulated by conservative groups.

There.  That should kill this fucker dead in it's tracks.

Posted by: Emperor Norton II at February 21, 2014 10:47 AM (MlqTY)

132 http://tinyurl.com/mygpjeb (Not sure if it is Common Core, but it is on the approved reading list for 4th graders.) Posted by: RWC at February 21, 2014 02:45 PM (fWAjv) I'm not clicking. It's the How To Masturbate book, isn't it?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 10:47 AM (da5Wo)

133 Posted by: HR at February 21, 2014 02:46 PM (ZKzrr)

Well, when you are being pushed to masturbate and have sex before you feel like it and want to and are ready to, lessons are needed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2014 10:48 AM (QFxY5)

134 This should brighten your day then. http://tinyurl.com/mygpjeb ---------- This is (one of the many reasons) why I'm not having children.

Posted by: Adam at February 21, 2014 10:48 AM (Aif/5)

135 You know nothing of my work!

Posted by: Kurt Vonnegut at February 21, 2014 10:49 AM (AXDnw)

136 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 02:47 PM (da5Wo)

Home school.

[You'll have to learn how to read first, but that shouldn't take you more than a few years. Maybe your wife could teach you and your daughters?]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2014 10:49 AM (QFxY5)

137 Our poop.

Let us let them be in charge of monitoring that.  Everybody send theirs to them. Daily. Or twice a day, as the case may be.

Be sure to label the date and time of each dump.   The government loves accurate record keeping.  Be a good citizen and doo doo your part.

Posted by: eureka! at February 21, 2014 10:50 AM (xiXna)

138 Brainwashing come full circle. And, growing the government in every nook and cranny they can find with tax payer dollars. How many more voters can they add by placing government workers for this program into every NY school district?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 10:50 AM (IXrOn)

139

Seriously, there are rights left they haven't attacked yet?

 

Forcing parents to take a state legislated class smacks of desperation.

Posted by: Gmac-Pondering...ah fvck it at February 21, 2014 10:50 AM (4pjhs)

140 Well, when you are being pushed to masturbate and have sex before you feel like it and want to and are ready to, lessons are needed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2014 02:48 PM (QFxY5)




"But I don't WANNA read the book about touching!    I wanna play with my GI Joe!"



"You will sit and you will   READ,   Jonathan.   And give me that GI Joe, you patriarchal little heathen.   I told you you're only allowed to play with Barbie dolls in this classroom!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:50 AM (4df7R)

141 How many lefties will it take to fill NY to the point of implosion?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 10:51 AM (IXrOn)

142 I'm not clicking. It's the How To Masturbate book, isn't it? Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 02:47 PM (da5Wo) Yep

Posted by: RWC at February 21, 2014 10:51 AM (fWAjv)

143 Well, I heard kids don't really belong to their parents, anyway.

Posted by: Soothie at February 21, 2014 10:51 AM (AXDnw)

144

O cmon the Right does the exact same thing!

 

A coupla forest fires and BAM! they want to make all forests into parking lots!

Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 10:52 AM (3ZtZW)

145 I know anything of import I've needed to learn could be taught in a one day class.

Even assuming the most benign of intents, the entire premise is utterly stupid.

Posted by: Clownf*cker at February 21, 2014 10:52 AM (W2YA6)

146 In all seriousness, I think a large part of the country's problems would be resolved by the offer of free sterilization along with a cash payment of $5,000 to every American of child bearing age.  Those that would bite are those that should not procreate.   

Posted by: eureka! at February 21, 2014 10:53 AM (xiXna)

147

@111 The one that drives me craziest here in San Francisco is:

1. A very small percentage of thoughtless people litter with the plastic bags they get from liquor stores, and the wind blows the bags around.

2. Solution: BAN ALL PLASTIC BAGS. Which is now the law.

Left out of this equation is that plastic bags exist and are popular for very good reasons. So many that I won't waste your time listing them here.

But we all must suffer, permanently, daily, in many aspects of our lives, because some winos litter.

Because GOVERNMENT.

A simpler solution would be to actually enforce the anti-littering laws, but that would be discriminatory or something. So suffer. Mr. and mrs. law-abiding American. Suffer so that bad people don't have to.

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They did that down here in LA County as well (my own city of Pasadena enacted it slightly sooner than the rest of the county did).  And not only did they remove the convenience of plastic bags, but there was also a large facility in the county that made these kinds of bags.  But what do the County Supervisors care about a few more added to the unemployment rolls?

 

Personally, I suspect that the *real* reason this nonsense went through is to appease the enviros.  There's been a big push to get people to use canvas bags instead (Pasadena forces supermarkets to charge ten cents for each paper bag you get at the supermarket) to save the environment.  But I'm guessing that the politicians thought "anti-littering" would go over better than "save the landfills".

 

Posted by: junior at February 21, 2014 10:53 AM (UWFpX)

148 oh, and Legalese It! it's a stupid name for an internet radio show, but not as stupid as their first choice Hear Ye, Hear Ye! (yeah, I'm not letting that one go )

Posted by: Soothie at February 21, 2014 10:53 AM (AXDnw)

149 6th to 7th? The die has been cast by then. Too late by far to change things.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 21, 2014 10:54 AM (aDwsi)

150 You can bet they will ask if you own a Gun in these Classes

Posted by: Patrick Fom Ohio at February 21, 2014 10:54 AM (b6koZ)

151 Home school. I've said lots of times, I know a lot of people who homeschool the kids and I get the reasoning and I respect the choice, but it's not what the wife and I would choose. It would be an ultimate last resort. [You'll have to learn how to read first, but that shouldn't take you more than a few years. Maybe your wife could teach you and your daughters?] Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2014 02:49 PM (QFxY5) No man, I have a JD. It's math that I can't figure out.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 10:54 AM (da5Wo)

152 You can bet they will ask if you own a Gun in these Classes

Posted by: Patrick Fom Ohio at February 21, 2014 02:54 PM (b6koZ)



This.


It's for the children, see?



Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 10:55 AM (GQ8sn)

153 Washington Nearsider, need another 1/32d scale model?
http://www.squadron.com/1-32-Revell-USA-Bell-X-1-RM5862-p/rm5862.htm

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 10:55 AM (gOmB2)

154 A bit OT, but taxpayer school related: Want to Have Sex? Sign This Contract. Now, for the first time, this standard may be codified into law--not criminal law (as yet), but law regulating sexual assault investigations on college campuses. SB-967, a bill proposed in the California state legislature in response to the "crisis" of campus rape, would establish "affirmative consent" as the standard for disciplinary proceedings for sexual assault complaints. The bill allows that "willingness to participate" in sexual activity can be conveyed through "clear, unambiguous actions" as well as words, but also cautions that "relying solely on nonverbal communication can lead to misunderstanding." http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2014/02/want_to_have_sex_sign_this_con.html Basically, this will scare men off of the campus, or, cause celibacy amongst the men and women on campus. They'll look elsewhere. This is really crazy.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 10:55 AM (IXrOn)

155 So, here's a question.



In NY, the legal age to   dropout of school is 16.      If you dropout before that you can be picked up for truancy, blah, blah, etc.  



So they're talking about kids not being allowed to go   from 6th to 7th grade   if their parents don't take these four   courses, which sound like they'd be required to take once a year for, like, four years.   Right?



Are the kids retained in 6th grade?  Or do they go into a kiddie version of the infamous "Rubber Rooms," where indigent teachers go?     Or do they just not go to school?   Because if it's  the latter, I'm pretty sure the    state can pluck a kid out of a home for       excessive truancy.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:55 AM (4df7R)

156 I actually did get a license to parent. First as a foster parent, later to adopt. Had to take classes (beyond lame), have a background check, was fingerprinted & the health dept inspected my home (checked the temp in my frig, where medication was stored, if my dogs were properly vaccinated). My neighbors were interviewed, my boss was called. One case worker randomly opened drawers in my kitchen & bedroom, looking for what I couldn't say. - Yeah, I went through the same thing. In class they taught us Disciplining with Love and Logic which I thought was pretty good. http://tinyurl.com/ldh4eta

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 21, 2014 10:55 AM (Hx5uv)

157

>>>You can bet they will ask if you own a Gun in these Classes

 

If you say No will they out you? Is that a violation of privacy or 2A rights? If they've got records but those records are in error, can you sue for defamation?

Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 10:56 AM (3ZtZW)

158 Are the kids retained in 6th grade? Or do they go into a kiddie version of the infamous "Rubber Rooms," where indigent teachers go? Or do they just not go to school? Because if it's the latter, I'm pretty sure the state can pluck a kid out of a home for excessive truancy.


They haven't thought that far ahead yet.

Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 10:56 AM (GQ8sn)

159 Basically, this will scare men off of the campus, or, cause celibacy amongst the men and women on campus. They'll look elsewhere.

This is really crazy.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 02:55 PM (IXrOn)



Men have already abandoned college in droves.    I think current college   enrollment figures are something like 70% female to 30% male.   It's just going to get worse.


Fuck the feminists.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 10:56 AM (4df7R)

160 Are the kids retained in 6th grade? Or do they go into a kiddie version of the infamous "Rubber Rooms," where indigent teachers go? Or do they just not go to school? Because if it's the latter, I'm pretty sure the state can pluck a kid out of a home for excessive truancy. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 02:55 PM (4df7R) Yep, bottom line, the kids are the ones punished.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 10:57 AM (IXrOn)

161 And probably a majority of the remaining males on campus would resemble what was left of English manhood after the Sommes. 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 10:58 AM (gOmB2)

162 Fuck the feminists. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 02:56 PM (4df7R) Not even with Dildo's dick.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 10:58 AM (da5Wo)

163 The people who actually need it most will be waivered.  Everyone else will learn the ultra-PC way to parent.  That means shaming same-sex couples who procreated, teaching parents not to interfere or influence in the sex lives of their minor children, and reminding parents not to intrude on their children's social media space.

Posted by: MacGruber at February 21, 2014 10:58 AM (XxAYS)

164 Men have already abandoned college in droves. I think current college enrollment figures are something like 70% female to 30% male. It's just going to get worse. Fuck the feminists. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 02:56 PM (4df7R) Notice this was California, too.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 10:58 AM (IXrOn)

165 Goodman: There are a lot of little tricks to it, things you should have learned a long time ago. Such as, if you leave milk out, it can go sour. Put it in the refrigerator, or, failing that, a cool wet sack. [much later] And put your garbage in a garbage can, people. I can't stress that enough. Don't just throw it out the window. Marge: This is so humiliating. Homer: [writing furiously] "Garbage in garbage can"...hmm, makes sense.

Posted by: RWC at February 21, 2014 10:58 AM (fWAjv)

166 Small potatoes. Did you hear what Ted Nugent said???

Posted by: maddogg at February 21, 2014 10:59 AM (xWW96)

167 And probably a majority of the remaining males on campus would resemble what was left of English manhood after the Sommes. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 02:58 PM (gOmB2) They'll all be wearing pajamas and sipping hot cocoa.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 21, 2014 10:59 AM (IXrOn)

168 Haven't the places with plastic bag bans seen an increase in elderly deaths due to food borne diseases from dirty reusable bags?

Again, when you're a hammer...

Posted by: Clownf*cker at February 21, 2014 10:59 AM (RQDhf)

169 Is it constitutional to punish a minor for the "offense" of an adult? Will the IRS next start throwing kids in debtor's prison if the parents don't pay taxes?

Posted by: Votermom at February 21, 2014 11:00 AM (GSIDW)

170 NYC Politician Proposes Mandatory Parenting Classes for Parents; If Parents Don't Attend, Kids Won't Graduate from the 6th to the 7th Grade

Feel free to Horn Out of our lives, O ye braying Jackass....

Posted by: backhoe at February 21, 2014 11:00 AM (ULH4o)

171 If you say No will they out you? Is that a violation of privacy or 2A rights? If they've got records but those records are in error, can you sue for defamation?

Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 02:56 PM (3ZtZW)


I have been asked this question (do you own guns)when I took my infant son to the DR,really pissed me off.

Posted by: Patrick Fom Ohio at February 21, 2014 11:00 AM (b6koZ)

172

@153 Washington Nearsider, need another 1/32d scale model?

--------------------

 

That reminds me...  I need to go dig up that on-line paint equivalency chart to figure out what spray primer can substitute for Vallejo's Brown Violet (#887).  I need to start painting my 15mm Vietnam-era Armored Cav company.

 

Posted by: junior at February 21, 2014 11:01 AM (UWFpX)

173 "the offer of free sterilization along with a cash payment of $5,000 to every American of child bearing age. Those that would bite are those that should not procreate." Nah, those that you're thinking would bite know enough math to know that a one-time payment of 5K doesn't remotely compare to the decades of government payouts that our system provides for procreating.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 21, 2014 11:01 AM (YbyjT)

174

If the classes are online - which is really the only sane logistical way to go about it - does it open new avenues for hackers? What about the poor who have no PCs? Will they get waivers or be provided PCs?

 

Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 11:01 AM (3ZtZW)

175 Is Ewok a form of mongrel?

Posted by: eleven at February 21, 2014 11:01 AM (fsLdt)

176 And probably a majority of the remaining males on campus would resemble what was left of English manhood after the Sommes.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 02:58 PM (gOmB2)



That,   or a mix   of that    and   all the   dick-waving manwhores who see the opportunity to fuck lots of women in an environment where there aren't a lot of men.     So basically the   weak   ones    and    the   assholes.    And the decent weak ones won't    get a second glance from the   fucking ditz   bitches.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:02 AM (4df7R)

177 The Commies are beginning their final putsch, but hey, let's all obsess about something some over-the-hill rocker said.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 21, 2014 11:02 AM (7ObY1)

178 Even the worst parents are probably better at the job than the New York school    system. 

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 21, 2014 11:02 AM (/i3Yt)

179

@154 Basically, this will scare men off of the campus, or, cause celibacy amongst the men and women on campus. They'll look elsewhere.

This is really crazy.

---------------------

 

Even this won't really work.  It sounds like an attempt to get around the extreme lengths that the date rape crowd is going to these days.  But given that alcohol is the primary excuse for why "Yes" doesn't really mean "Yes", signing on a dotted line first won't help matters.

 

Posted by: junior at February 21, 2014 11:02 AM (UWFpX)

180 I wonder if the "abandoning colleges" thing is counting online colleges?

Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 11:03 AM (3ZtZW)

181 Will they get waivers or be provided PCs? Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 03:01 PM (3ZtZW) iPad Airs

Posted by: RWC at February 21, 2014 11:03 AM (fWAjv)

182 Damn, Cochran has a JD and can't figure out math? How do you and Amishdude get along??

Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 21, 2014 11:05 AM (YbyjT)

183

@171 I have been asked this question (do you own guns)when I took my infant son to the DR,really pissed me off.

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iirc, they have to ask that now.  It was in the Obamacare legislation.

 

Posted by: junior at February 21, 2014 11:06 AM (UWFpX)

184 "And probably a majority of the remaining males on campus would resemble what was left of English manhood after the Sommes" They already do.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 21, 2014 11:06 AM (YbyjT)

185 >>>> 162 Fuck the feminists. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 02:56 PM (4df7R) Not even with Dildo's dick. I think the feminists would prefer Dildo's dildo.

Posted by: L, elle at February 21, 2014 11:06 AM (0xqKe)

186 If you want a cheap book on Pompey, only $9
http://www.squadron.com/Pompey-SC-Osprey-OS6323-p/os6323.htm

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 11:07 AM (gOmB2)

187 Modern feminism seems to believe heterosexual women are 'sick' and need therapy.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 21, 2014 11:07 AM (bxKJf)

188

@168 Haven't the places with plastic bag bans seen an increase in elderly deaths due to food borne diseases from dirty reusable bags?

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There has been an increase in deaths due to the reason that you describe.  But I haven't heard that it was restricted to the elderly.

 

The only mention of age that I've heard so far is a girl's high school team that got sick from one particular bag.

 

Posted by: junior at February 21, 2014 11:07 AM (UWFpX)

189 "USA loses 1-0."

In many ways, that's the story of Obama.

Over and over and over . . . .

Posted by: RoyalOil at February 21, 2014 11:08 AM (VjL9S)

190 186 If you want a cheap book on Pompey, only $9
http://www.squadron.com/Pompey-SC-Osprey-OS6323-p/os6323.htm

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 03:07 PM (gOmB2)


Best to specify that it's Pompey the Great, not the city of Pompeii.

Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2014 11:09 AM (RD7QR)

191

@187 Modern feminism seems to believe heterosexual women are 'sick' and need therapy.

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Of course!  They're voluntarily agreeing to rape!!!  Like Friday in that novel by Heinlein!!1!

 

Posted by: junior at February 21, 2014 11:09 AM (UWFpX)

192 How about mandatory classes teaching classes for teachers? In which teachers can learn important stuff like Why It Is Wrong To Have Intercourse With Students.

Posted by: Soothie at February 21, 2014 11:09 AM (AXDnw)

193 You don't eat the bag.  There needs to a mandatory class for that.

Posted by: eleven at February 21, 2014 11:09 AM (fsLdt)

194 Just because California was mentioned here are it's a beautiful state despite it's wacky leftist policies: California in Spring, I know that a lot of CA is experiencing drought so no offense was intended if some parts of the state don't look like this now: http://tinyurl.com/lcaz258

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2014 11:10 AM (XyM/Y)

195 "Modern feminism" is populated by aggrieved, demanding, vengeful Harpies. Neither of my lost wives wanted anything to do with them.

Posted by: backhoe at February 21, 2014 11:10 AM (ULH4o)

196

>>> I have been asked this question (do you own guns)when I took my infant son to the DR,really pissed me off.

 

I haven't been asked [yet]. Probly my overly trusting lib wife said yes already

Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 11:10 AM (3ZtZW)

197 *rests head on MWR's shoulder* Now I'm all throat punchy because the other side on something finally stopped being an idiot and that's good for our client but I was really really really looking forward to the guy getting yelled at by the judge. *sniffle*

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 21, 2014 11:11 AM (VtjlW)

198 OT: Writer from the Rolling Stone defends the Venezuelan government on Twitter: I'm a communist. But Venezuela has been a rare site of progress over last decade of global horrors. Yep. Venezuela is becoming a Marxist paradise.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 21, 2014 11:11 AM (Hx5uv)

199 176 And probably a majority of the remaining males on campus would resemble what was left of English manhood after the Sommes. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 02:58 PM (gOmB2) As cadets, we used to roll into places like that as marauding Vikings. They're all feminists before they meet the dress whites.

Posted by: Jean at February 21, 2014 11:11 AM (WoyGL)

200 I have told my kids to say "I don't know" if any one asks them if there are guns in the house. When dr asks me, I smile & shake my head. They seem to think that means "no" rather than me just shaking my head at the statism. Weird.

Posted by: Votermom at February 21, 2014 11:12 AM (GSIDW)

201

@198 Venezuela is becoming a Marxist paradise.

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The youths aren't TPing houses anymore.  Sounds like a win to me!

 

Posted by: junior at February 21, 2014 11:12 AM (UWFpX)

202 Hi, has anyone brought up Patty Murray yet?

Her origin story was that she was a Parenting Class teacher at a community college.  The college wanted to shut down the class because of lack of interest.  She approached some nameless politician about her problem who told her she couldn't do anything about it, she's just a "Mom in tennis shoes".  And that loon still uses that in all her ads today.  Not the part about trying to save her phoney baloney job, just the Mom in tennis shoes part.

So this suggestion, should it be implemented, will be staffed by an army of Patty Murrays.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 21, 2014 11:12 AM (8ifMA)

203 Mandatory classes for politicians first.

Posted by: Waterhouse at February 21, 2014 11:13 AM (t8ySh)

204 Relax, it's just another Common Sense measure from a Centrist Public Servant.

Posted by: nanNY state at February 21, 2014 11:13 AM (0rpqu)

205 And by "classes" I mean cattle prod therapy.

Posted by: Waterhouse at February 21, 2014 11:13 AM (t8ySh)

206 Let me guess - this is some Christer Socon trying to tell us how to live, right? That's why we never win. Dems are smart enough to not try to do this, so they can keep winning.

Posted by: blaster at February 21, 2014 11:14 AM (4+AaH)

207 The yutes can't TP because the country is out of TP.

Senor Cornholio hardest hit.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 21, 2014 11:14 AM (gOmB2)

208 Damn.  My kids would have been screwed if this had been around when they were in school.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 21, 2014 11:14 AM (XxAYS)

209 200 I have told my kids to say "I don't know" if any one asks them if there are guns in the house. When dr asks me, I smile & shake my head. They seem to think that means "no" rather than me just shaking my head at the statism. Weird. Posted by: Votermom at February 21, 2014 03:12 PM (GSIDW) My wife was distracted when we drove into Canada last year, after we pulled away. My kids were shocked Daddy lied to the policeman about owning guns. Hoped they learned something.

Posted by: Jean at February 21, 2014 11:14 AM (WoyGL)

210

"Oh he just leaves 'em lying around like they're paperweights or art objects. He said the kid will figure it all out sooner or later"

 

"No I don't think he has any locks"

 

"I'm not sure. Whatever has 4s in it. The ammo is just everywhere"

 

"Oh we're home alot. Did you need to come by?"

 

"What do you mean by a 'safe word'?"

Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 11:14 AM (3ZtZW)

211 How do you and Amishdude get along?? Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 21, 2014 03:05 PM (YbyjT) There's an assumption there...

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 11:14 AM (da5Wo)

212 Heck, the left already owns 52% of those who voted. Now, I realize this percentage has to include those voters who voted more than once, and those dead voters, and guilty white people, and stupid people, and of course evil bastards. But hey, it's like Soylent Green, just throw in what you have for filler, right.

Posted by: Erowmero at February 21, 2014 11:14 AM (OONaw)

213 Yep. Venezuela is becoming a Marxist paradise. Posted by: WalrusRex at February 21, 2014 03:11 PM (Hx5uv) Only 6 dead so far. They have a ways to go.

Posted by: RWC at February 21, 2014 11:15 AM (fWAjv)

214

“The bill states one of the courses would be related to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of children.

Employers would be required to provide one day a year of paid leave so working parents can attend classes.

Some parents and non-parents we spoke with think it is a good idea.”

---------------------------------------------

What useful parenting skills are they going to learn in one day a year?

Posted by: jix at February 21, 2014 11:15 AM (emTP6)

215 Grocery stores used to have paper bags but the tree-huggers stopped that. Plastic bags became the standard of holiness......until the new revelation from on high. It's like our 1992 Subaru. Great car and still running like a top, but it has those damned automatic shoulder harnesses, the ones that the safety freaks mandated so people would be FORCED to wear a seat belt. Except the waist belt was not automatic and people were garroted by the harnesses. Oops! More dangerous than no restraint at all. Eh. They just go on to the next cause.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2014 11:15 AM (dfYL9)

216 *rests head on MWR's shoulder*



Now I'm all throat punchy because the other side on something finally stopped being an idiot and that's good for our client but I was really really really looking forward to the guy getting yelled at by the judge.



*sniffle*



Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 21, 2014 03:11 PM (VtjlW)



Awwww.  *soothes*   There there, AtC.  I'm sure    you'll have another chance to see some richly deserving asshole get his/her ass handed to them by a judge sometime in the very near future, and it will be all teh sweeter.


http://bit.ly/1bu29wI

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:15 AM (4df7R)

217 To be fair, this guy represents the South Bronx, home to some of the worst parents in the world. His district supplies New York State with a good chunk of its incarcerated persons. (I live here) Not saying this is the proper role of government, but at least this guy acknowledges what the problem is in his old neighborhood. (Old neighborhood because Bronx pols usually live outside their districts in Westchester County.)

Posted by: Oschisms at February 21, 2014 11:16 AM (y9dfJ)

218 Election-stealing and stifling of free speech and dissent = Progress.

Posted by: Soothie at February 21, 2014 11:16 AM (AXDnw)

219 I have been asked this question (do you own guns)when I took my infant son to the DR,really pissed me off. I haven't been asked [yet]. Probly my overly trusting lib wife said yes already Luckily, my doctor want to compare chl carry pieces.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2014 11:16 AM (GjYxB)

220 oh, and private property confiscation..

Posted by: Soothie at February 21, 2014 11:17 AM (AXDnw)

221
My wife was distracted when we drove into Canada last year, after we pulled away. My kids were shocked Daddy lied to the policeman about owning guns. Hoped they learned something.


They asked you that???

I have never heard any Canadian customs agent ask me anything about guns whenever I made the trip.  This must be new.

And yes, I would lie like TFG to their faces too.

Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 11:17 AM (GQ8sn)

222 Cuba must be the most progressive country ever. oh wait, it is

Posted by: Soothie at February 21, 2014 11:18 AM (AXDnw)

223 While they are at it, can they include some curriculum to make sure everyone knows the exhaustive list of words that could possibly be construed as racist? Because we need to preserve the ability for people to just assume someone is racist whenever one of those words is used.

Posted by: grognard at February 21, 2014 11:18 AM (/29Nl)

224 What useful parenting skills are they going to learn in one day a year?

Posted by: jix

They will learn 'Why Republicans suck, and Why you should vote Democrat.' 5 minutes of that and 6 hours of punch and cookies.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at February 21, 2014 11:19 AM (xrX4n)

225 OT, and I know this is old news in the sidebar, but:



NASA: Black widow pulsars
They eat their companion stars.



SPIDERS ARE EVERYWHERE SAVE ME.


*hides behind Nearsider and shoves him at    spider*



Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:19 AM (4df7R)

226 75. That's the general idea.

Posted by: Your Betters at February 21, 2014 11:20 AM (p6fMt)

227 Again, when you're a hammer... Posted by: Clown ---------------- I just want to be loved!

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 21, 2014 11:20 AM (aDwsi)

228 While they are at it, can they include some curriculum to make sure everyone knows the exhaustive list of words that could possibly be construed as racist? - And they're supposed to keep up with that with only one day a year? I think they need at least one day a week.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 21, 2014 11:20 AM (Hx5uv)

229 Man, there is some kind of epidemic of boating accidents going on down there.

Posted by: Canadian Customs Agent at February 21, 2014 11:20 AM (t8ySh)

230 Yes, children should absolutely pay for the sins of their parents. I read that somewhere.


Posted by: West at February 21, 2014 11:20 AM (1Rgee)

231
And by "parenting classes" he means "re-education camp".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 21, 2014 11:21 AM (n0DEs)

232 I just want to be loved!

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 21, 2014 03:20 PM (aDwsi)



Your cat loves you!  No matter WHAT it types on message boards when you're not looking.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:21 AM (4df7R)

233

I'm just glad SOMEBODY is finally looking into all this excess breeding by the subhuman mongrel untermensch.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 21, 2014 11:22 AM (1RhAL)

234 50 years ago: Father Knows Best Today: State Knows Best In the latter version, "Kitten" grows up to be a drug-addled whore. oh wait..

Posted by: Soothie at February 21, 2014 11:22 AM (AXDnw)

235 Afraid of spiders? Just the thing: http://www.sciplus.com/p/BUG-VACUUM_47203

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 21, 2014 11:22 AM (aDwsi)

236 Awwww. *soothes* There there, AtC. I'm sure you'll have another chance to see some richly deserving asshole get his/her ass handed to them by a judge sometime in the very near future, and it will be all teh sweeter. http://bit.ly/1bu29wI Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 03:15 PM (4df7R) Well. That was a noise I just made. Yes, yes, it was.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 21, 2014 11:23 AM (VtjlW)

237 And by "parenting classes" he means "re-education camp".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 21, 2014 03:21 PM (n0DEs)



"Make sure your children do their homework and encourage them to read.   But not the Bible.   Reading or discussing the Bible as anything other than a     primitive text of    anachronistic    patriarchal    dogma      is child abuse."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:23 AM (4df7R)

238 194 Just because California was mentioned here are it's a beautiful state despite it's wacky leftist policies:

California in Spring,

I know that a lot of CA is experiencing drought so no offense was intended if some parts of the state don't look like this now:

http://tinyurl.com/lcaz258

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2014 03:10 PM (XyM/Y)


Like I always say, California is a beautiful place that has been afflicted by an infestation of Californians.

Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2014 11:23 AM (RD7QR)

239 222 Cuba must be the most progressive country ever. oh wait, it is Posted by: Soothie at February 21, 2014 03:18 PM (AXDnw) ------------------- Almost --- but N Korea is even better!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 21, 2014 11:23 AM (dfYL9)

240 The little bastards are generally ruined for life long before sixth grade.

Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 21, 2014 11:23 AM (/lyxQ)

241 Well. That was a noise I just made. Yes, yes, it was.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 21, 2014 03:23 PM (VtjlW)



It's the eyes.   You can't look away.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:24 AM (4df7R)

242 *hides behind Nearsider and shoves him at spider* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 03:19 PM (4df7R) *hides behind you* *assists with shoving*

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 21, 2014 11:24 AM (VtjlW)

243
*hides behind you*



*assists with shoving*


Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 21, 2014 03:24 PM (VtjlW)




*thumbs up!*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:24 AM (4df7R)

244 Headline   you never see:

Politician proposes getting rid of useless laws that infringe upon citizens' God-given rights.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 21, 2014 11:25 AM (/i3Yt)

245 Mandatory classes for politicians first.

Posted by: Waterhouse at February 21, 2014 03:13 PM (t8ySh)



Hells yes!!!!!!


Anyone running for office must take and pass a class on knowing their own asshole from a hole in the ground.  Passing score would be 100%.



Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 11:25 AM (GQ8sn)

246 OT: CAUTION!!! Pet cuteness overload! http://tinyurl.com/pkhbukh

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 21, 2014 11:25 AM (Hx5uv)

247 *assists with shoving* Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 21, 2014 03:24 PM (VtjlW) You will assume?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 11:25 AM (da5Wo)

248 I think that's a mongrel arachnid. They're the worst.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 21, 2014 11:26 AM (1RhAL)

249 Again, when you're a hammer... Posted by: Clown ---------------- I just want to be loved! Posted by: Mike Hammer Well played.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2014 11:26 AM (GjYxB)

250 *assists with shoving* Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 21, 2014 03:24 PM (VtjlW) *thumbs up!* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 03:24 PM (4df7R) Oh come on.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 21, 2014 11:26 AM (da5Wo)

251 Man Charged In Supermarket Sword Attack


http://cbsloc.al/1bSDNgK




I'll give you three guesses where this happened, but you're only going to need one.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:27 AM (4df7R)

252 Then again, could be an unterspider. Tough to tell.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 21, 2014 11:27 AM (1RhAL)

253 251 must be Japan

Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 11:28 AM (3ZtZW)

254 Your cat loves you! No matter WHAT it types on message boards when you're not looking. Posted by: MWR, --------------- * suddenly realizes that it is quiet in the house..., too quiet *

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 21, 2014 11:28 AM (aDwsi)

255 I'll give you three guesses where this happened, but you're only going to need one.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 03:27 PM (4df7R)



There can be only one!


Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 11:28 AM (GQ8sn)

256 Pretty sure this is racist.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 21, 2014 11:29 AM (ZPrif)

257 50 years ago: Father Knows Best Today: State Knows Best In the latter version, "Kitten" grows up to be a drug-addled pole dancing whore. oh wait.. Fixed.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2014 11:29 AM (GjYxB)

258 So... did the charge work? Always want to know what tactics to use against a guy with a sword...

Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 11:29 AM (3ZtZW)

259 Like I always say, California is a beautiful place that has been afflicted by an infestation of Californians. Posted by: joncelli ----------------------- Florida, by Blue State retirees. I'm sorry, but there it is.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 21, 2014 11:30 AM (aDwsi)

260 So... did the charge work? Always want to know what tactics to use against a guy with a sword... - Did you ever see Raiders of the Lost Arc?

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 21, 2014 11:31 AM (Hx5uv)

261 must be Japan It says cbslocal...I'm going to guess Florida...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at February 21, 2014 11:31 AM (naUcP)

262 Always want to know what tactics to use against a guy with a sword... Gun. Every. Time.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2014 11:31 AM (GjYxB)

263 Soo, question.   Does  Jimmy Fallon think he's going to get MORE viewers by constantly hosting   the Preezy, his consort, and   their    various toadies from miscellany cabinets?    Because that's fucked in the brain.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:32 AM (4df7R)

264 It's the eyes. You can't look away. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 03:24 PM (4df7R) AtC & MWR - did you see him in this week's ep in "hacker" get up. Gel & eyeliner. I wish I had a jpg.

Posted by: Votermom at February 21, 2014 11:32 AM (GSIDW)

265 Always want to know what tactics to use against a guy with a sword... Crossbow

Posted by: garrett at February 21, 2014 11:32 AM (skhB8)

266 Yeah, either "Kitten" or the eldest daughter on the show turned into a real mess. Same with Buffy.

Posted by: Soothie at February 21, 2014 11:32 AM (AXDnw)

267 I think that's a mongrel arachnid. They're the worst. Posted by: Scogg -------------------- Ah yes, the Wolf/Recluse hybrid. Nasty little buggers. Poisonous as hell, and aggressive.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 21, 2014 11:33 AM (aDwsi)

268 Always want to know what tactics to use against a guy with a sword...


Gun.
Every. Time.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2014 03:31 PM (GjYxB)



LOL!

Posted by: Wade Wilson at February 21, 2014 11:33 AM (GQ8sn)

269 So... did the charge work? Always want to know what tactics to use against a guy with a sword...

-

Did you ever see Raiders of the Lost Arc?


Posted by: WalrusRex at February 21, 2014 03:31 PM (Hx5uv)


This sounds like it should be followed up with,   "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:33 AM (4df7R)

270 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 21, 2014 03:32 PM (4df7R) Bread and circuses administration. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED! History will likely look back upon this time as the beginning of the American Dark Ages.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at February 21, 2014 11:33 AM (hq5sb)

271 I guessed Florida... what do I win?

Posted by: jewells45 at February 21, 2014 11:33 AM (l/N7H)

272 NOOOOOOOOOD!

Posted by: Soothie at February 21, 2014 11:34 AM (AXDnw)

273

Pet cuteness overload!

http://tinyurl.com/pkhbukh[/i]

 

 

Those Maine Coons are huge.

Posted by: eleven at February 21, 2014 11:34 AM (fsLdt)

274 AtC & MWR - did you see him in this week's ep in "hacker" get up. Gel & eyeliner. I wish I had a jpg.

Posted by: Votermom at February 21, 2014 03:32 PM (GSIDW)



Noooo!   I have the last few weeks DVRed but I haven't watched them yet.  I like to watch in big chunks so I can get my KU fix.  ^_^


But I NEED to see him in eyeliner.  That is some   liquid awesome right there.  lol!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at February 21, 2014 11:34 AM (4df7R)

275 Fuck the asshole who embiggenized this place. Yeah fuck you

Posted by: NativeNH at February 21, 2014 11:34 AM (Vc6WT)

276 Pretty sure this is racist. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 21, 2014 03:29 PM (ZPrif) You can't possibly be sure, if you're as uneducated as I am.

Posted by: grognard at February 21, 2014 11:34 AM (/29Nl)

277 "Red Bill" DeBlasio seems to think he's daddy of the year and should raise your kids too If anyone thinks Red Bill's push for universal pre-schooling at the age of four is to give them a head start in the global economy rather than to indoctrinate toddlers as to the joys of Castro level socialism, I've got a bridge over the East River to sell you

Posted by: kbdabear at February 21, 2014 11:35 AM (aTXUx)

278 It doesn't matter what you say. Who are you? We have your children and soon, you will be gone.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Listening to Nazi Party Official 1936 at February 21, 2014 11:35 AM (JUT3k)

279 Always want to know what tactics to use against a guy with a sword... Gun. Every. Time. Posted by: rickb223 --------------- Heh. Years ago at work, someone was commenting on some martial arts movie or another. The discussion centered of how some guy was a master of Fung Ku or something. Whereupon one of my co-workers observed, "Yeah..., but a rifle from a rooftop gets 'em every time."

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 21, 2014 11:36 AM (aDwsi)

280 259?
Mike?

The GA coast is getting like that, too. The damn fools whose politics ruined their cities migrate here. "It's so much cheaper to live here!"

Then infest our politics with the damn foolery that ruined their last home town. The latest lunacy is bike paths. Cost millions of our money and nobody- no one-- uses the damn things.

Sea turtles are big "cause," too. Any time I see a vehicle with a turtle or manatee bumper sticker my default thought is "great, another Kook...."

Posted by: backhoe at February 21, 2014 11:36 AM (ULH4o)

281 I like the 19th century idea of Australia, i.e.. a place to dump your assholes. We need to pick a country or territory like say....Brazil. Tell all of our welfare assholes that they and their families have won A FREE TRIP TO CARNIVAL IN BRAZIL!!!!1!!! Get them pass out drunk along the way, sail up to port, roll'em out, sail away fast. Australiazation, people! Let's do this!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 21, 2014 11:37 AM (0cMkb)

282 I could give this class in 20 seconds Hi class, I'm joe, I'll be your teacher This is a thick leather belt This is your kid's ass When kid screws up, introduce them Class dismissed

Posted by: Navycopjoe at February 21, 2014 11:38 AM (KpjMV)

283 I like the 19th century idea of Australia, i.e.. a place to dump your assholes.

We need to pick a country or territory like say....Brazil.


Tell all of our welfare assholes that they and their families have won A FREE TRIP TO CARNIVAL IN BRAZIL!!!!1!!!

Get them pass out drunk along the way, sail up to port, roll'em out, sail away fast.


Australiazation, people!


Let's do this!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 21, 2014 03:37 PM (0cMkb)



Peruvia.


Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 11:38 AM (GQ8sn)

284 Of course this is needed! Hard to believe, but there are parents out there who wouldn't want to transgender their children before the 8th grade! These are the parents they are trying to reach!

Posted by: Mooch at February 21, 2014 11:38 AM (611Rk)

285 The Diaz family knows a little something about raising children. http://nypost.com/2012/08/26/daughter-of-bx-state-sen-busted-for-keying-boyfriends-car-police/

Posted by: VKI at February 21, 2014 11:38 AM (qySNZ)

286

>>>the beginning of the American Dark Ages.

 

I think it already is.

If you go by Pournelle's definition, where  Dark Ages are a time when we forget how to do a thing we once could and society regresses as a whole.

 

Like those 5th grade tests that nobody can pass. We can't even fathom 5th graders learning that kind of material, yet they did. We can't teach to that level if we try.

 

And we can't imagine how to have a peaceful, law-abiding society co-exist with machineguns available at hardware stores for 20 dollars and no ID necessary, but a USA like that existed, once.

Posted by: Bigby's Rodeo Hands at February 21, 2014 11:40 AM (3ZtZW)

287 281. I thought we already send them to Philadelphia

Posted by: Navycopjoe at February 21, 2014 11:40 AM (KpjMV)

288 “I will go to the 4-1 and bury your career,” Diaz texted Vasquez, referring to the precinct station where he works, according to cop sources.

“You better come back,” she wrote.

In the most ominous message, she allegedly texted, “If you don’t come back, I will kill you.”




"I'm sorry, baby.  I'll be there tonight.  See you then!"


*runs*


Posted by: EC at February 21, 2014 11:41 AM (GQ8sn)

289 Heh. Years ago at work, someone was commenting on some martial arts movie or another. The discussion centered of how some guy was a master of Fung Ku or something. Whereupon one of my co-workers observed, "Yeah..., but a rifle from a rooftop gets 'em every time."

Early on, when cage fighting was new, people thought some little 130lb Bruce Lee clone was going to show us all some mystical amazing moves.  Not so much.  If you're a 160lb fighter against a bunch of moderately trained guys who rush you, yer going down. 

As to the sword guy, he managed to give the guard a head wound.  Even after being shot several times.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 21, 2014 11:42 AM (IoTdl)

290 Very cute animal photos-and a number of the people were quite cute too. Thx. WalrusRex.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2014 11:46 AM (XyM/Y)

291 YOU ARE A WINNER!!!! Yes, YOU and YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY have WON A FREE VACATION IN PERUVIA!!!!* AT NO COST TO YOU! IT'S FREE!!!!!!! AND ALL THE BOOZE YOU CAN DRINK IS FREE TOO! PLEASE BE AT HOME THIS SATURDAY AT 8:00AM FOR YOUR FREE CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN RIDE TO YOUR DREAMBOAT VACATION!!!!! *Please note - Should Peruvia not be available you will win a free vacation at the Marianas Trench!!!!!

Posted by: Your Free Ticket To Peruvia at February 21, 2014 11:47 AM (0cMkb)

292 287 281. I thought we already send them to Philadelphia

Posted by: Navycopjoe at February 21, 2014 03:40 PM (KpjMV)


Forgot to wall off the city. BIG whoops.

Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2014 11:47 AM (RD7QR)

293 The problem of bad parenting used to be self-correcting when you had to pay for your own mistakes.

Posted by: Socratease at February 21, 2014 12:04 PM (SZUi2)

294 123 Suffer so that bad people don't have to. Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2014 02:42 PM (+cx5n) Nicely put. You should start a blog. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2014 02:46 PM (QFxY5) There's some guy around here who could give you some pointers, if he had a blog, that is. Name escapes me but I think it starts with A.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 21, 2014 12:19 PM (igDix)

295 Already classes at my school its called Emotional Intelligence. How not to harm kids left esteem while parenting. Lib teacher who I want to punch in the face when he opens his mouth.

Posted by: Guido at February 21, 2014 12:23 PM (HsovQ)

296 And then some 20 something edu-idiot with no children of her own, having achieved a C in "the sociology of healthy emotional child rearing" will stand up and lecture people who are 2 decades her senior and have multiple children, including possibly her very age, on how to properly raise crumb crunchers.


Oh I can think of several parents with whom I would love to sit in on that class.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at February 21, 2014 12:48 PM (IVgIK)

297 Y'all are looking at this the totally wrong way. 1. It is the presumed opinion of some "expert" that people don't have enough training or experience to do anything. 2. Experience is only gained from training for 1000 hours (even if that has been disproven by other experts) 3. To prevent the crisis and solve a social ill training shall be made mandatory and shall be required prior to the event. 4. The only people with authority to offer the training is the "expert" who identified the required training to solve the ill. Along with those that he trained. 5. With training when something goes wrong, it isn't the training staff nor.the training itself. Rather not enough training and we need to add more laws to mandate additional sections of training to cover every event under the sun or at least as long as the ill keeps occurring because obviously people are to stupid to apply common sense or knowledge to prevent horrible things from happening. 6. If condition 5 is satisfied then the "expert" can continue to have a job. As well as push their own social agenda to maintain their job and security as well as validate their looting of the treasurer because they are the "expert" These basics apply to the diversity friendship circle industry. The gun grabbers, the folks that want to suppress the marketplace with license and regulations, environmental groups and just about anyone who wants to be in charge but not compete in the election process. Note how it fails for example we have rules about licensed and trained drivers. Yet deaths by car are still a horrid number and a leading cause of non-natural death in this nation. We have training about sex education, but we still have a teen pregnancy rate, we have training for eating establishments but still have food borne illness breakouts that kill or injury many annually. Yet the drum beat is for more training as a cure. Not questions about if the training is effective or that the "expert" is a shill/scammer.

Posted by: Charles at February 21, 2014 01:56 PM (HxuYr)

298 I may be a little dense, but in reading the bill's history it seems that this bill has been submitted annually to the Education committee since at least 2010. It's a stupid idea. Yes. One that won't solve the problem that they identify. But a bill that has failed to pass a number of times already.

Posted by: celtic-cat at February 21, 2014 04:05 PM (MjugG)

299 They don't think it will pass. Yet. But they just keep pushing the boundaries of "respectable" socialism further and further. E.g. they keep droning on the subways that "all packages are subject to random search by the police" Do this long enough, and the population starts thinking of a police state as the new normal The "Occupy" movement gets treated respectfully by the media and craven pols, and soon we need "a national conversation" about "income inequality" and every other idiot is hating "the 1%." They push and push for the extreme agenda, and pretty soon near-Stalinism becomes the respectable "middle way." The end product is every F ing Obama speech ever: "some sayÂ… and right wing nut jobs sayÂ… but I sayÂ…") Wash, rinse and repeat.

Posted by: NYC Parent at February 22, 2014 09:30 AM (w7+Jh)

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