January 30, 2014

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— Gabriel Malor

Happy Thursday.

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1 DAY 452 1,013 to go (1,086 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, McAuliffe's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 02:45 AM (olDqf)

2 Mike Lee's response to Preezy Schikelgruber was amazing. He's damned good.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 02:47 AM (olDqf)

3 Video: "Noah" Super Bowl Spot (2014) http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/01/video-noah-super-bowl-spot-2014.html

Posted by: Steve at January 30, 2014 02:47 AM (wk+th)

4 Happy Thor's Day Hammer to Y'all Today, we've been promised the return of moderate weather here-abouts.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 02:48 AM (MhA4j)

5 And Bob Bennett, Orrin Hatch and the rest of the sell-outs are lining up to defeat him.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 02:48 AM (olDqf)

6 Good morning, y'all.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 30, 2014 02:48 AM (GufPw)

7 4 Posted by: Gran at January 30, 2014 06:47 AM (mw0FO) David Opatoshu was a mainstay of the Yiddish theatre and film industry.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 02:49 AM (olDqf)

8 Looks like mid to upper 40's and cloudy for the Super Bowl.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 02:50 AM (olDqf)

9 Well you just knew this was coming:

http://bit.ly/1lErrdA

And Good Morning everyone!

Posted by: Nighthawk at January 30, 2014 02:50 AM (OtQXp)

10 J.J. Sefton and by "sell-outs" that means US sold down the river Hatch's self sanctimonious power mongering white washed elitism NEVER impressed me.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 02:53 AM (MhA4j)

11 12 Hatch's self sanctimonious power mongering white washed elitism NEVER impressed me. Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 06:53 AM (MhA4j) The only thing that I ever admired Hatch for was his stalwart defense of Clarence Thomas. That's it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 02:54 AM (olDqf)

12 Eh. Shrug.

Posted by: Atlas at January 30, 2014 02:55 AM (fDIxi)

13 U.S. officials have reportedly acknowledged that Russia has tested a new ground-launched cruise missile, in apparent violation of a 1987 treaty banning the testing, production, and possession of medium-range missiles. However, The New York Times reports that White House officials are not yet ready to formally declare the tests to be a violation of the treaty signed by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The Times reported that Rose Gottemoeller, the State Department's senior arms control official, informed NATO about the tests at a closed-door meeting in Brussels earlier this month. The paper also reported that the Russian tests may have begun as early as 2008, but U.S. officials did not have enough information to consider the missiles a compliance issues until much later Putin rick rolling obama and the USA again. Oh how the mighty have fallen and hey as an extrta bonus obama is going to try and cut the shit out of our Nuclear Forces. Drink up

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 02:56 AM (t3UFN)

14 Great documentary about Yiddish films just before World War 2. "Almonds and Raisins." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086875/

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 02:56 AM (olDqf)

15 Mmmm, more global warmening here in Texas this morning.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 30, 2014 02:58 AM (KlVdw)

16 If Amnesty passes will the GOP split? Should it have done so long ago? Or should more Conservative states start backing the idea of a peaceful separation into their/our own country.

Posted by: southdakotaboy at January 30, 2014 02:58 AM (yh4lQ)

17 Someone actually won at EVE. CFC now has no one that can step to us

Posted by: The Dude at January 30, 2014 02:59 AM (bStrg)

18 Morning! 

20 degrees here.. it's a heat wave!  Sing it, Martha!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 30, 2014 02:59 AM (b/lt+)

19 13. Yes. But had Thomas not been black, Hatch would have not gone out of his way. Orrin had to prove how non-racist he is.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 03:00 AM (MhA4j)

20 If Amnesty passes will the GOP split? Should it have done so long ago? Or should more Conservative states start backing the idea of a peaceful separation into their/our own country. Posted by: southdakotaboy at January 30, 2014 06:58 AM (yh4lQ) What we have to do is stop Amnesty in it's tracks NOW. A split Republican party only ensures a Democratic White House for the next 8 years.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:00 AM (t3UFN)

21 Putin rick rolling obama and the USA again. Oh how the mighty have fallen and hey as an extrta bonus obama is going to try and cut the shit out of our Nuclear Forces. Drink up

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 06:56 AM (t3UFN)




Putin knows that Barry is a pussy and won't defend this country so Vlad will kick sand in Barry's face all day knowing Barry won't go to Charles Atlas. Unless it's to beat off over pictures of guys

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 30, 2014 03:00 AM (FE/sZ)

22 mornin' folks....finally get temps above zero and now we are getting 4-6 inches of snow....

Posted by: wing.....and a prayer at January 30, 2014 03:01 AM (dLNm7)

23 This Legal Insurrection video of a bunch of Chicago black peoples' reaction to the SOTU address is quite surprising. Check it out:
 
http://tinyurl.com/os7do84

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 30, 2014 03:02 AM (wNF3N)

24 "Schools experiment with universal mental health screenings" http://tinyurl.com/kv525wd 'Cause we do so well predicting global temperatures fifty years into the future it must have seemed like a good idea to someone to predict which four-year-old will grow up to be a mass murderer. Talk about early intervention!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 03:02 AM (iDRox)

25 18>> Cfuk the GOP. That is all I got. The Tea Party needs to take over the GOP and excise its parasitic leadership. I don't see a third party being a successful alternative. If it ever comes to dissolution of the union, it will not be peaceful. That is not an alternative in my opinion.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 30, 2014 03:03 AM (60Vyp)

26 So I took a big ol honkin' dump this morning.
Steamer of massive proportions.
Tapered on both ends,

And moments after pulling the handle, I thought back on that fecal filled tubular torpedo and realized that in many ways it...
really is Obama's story.
 

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 30, 2014 03:05 AM (kFCo1)

27 26 "Schools experiment with universal mental health screenings" http://tinyurl.com/kv525wd 'Cause we do so well predicting global temperatures fifty years into the future it must have seemed like a good idea to someone to predict which four-year-old will grow up to be a mass murderer. Talk about early intervention! Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 07:02 AM (iDRox) ....Between this, kids now being allowed to decide what bathroom they want to use based in how they "feel" (or say they feel), and boys being treated as defective girls....America will be producing the most completely screwed up generation in history. They will curse us. With good reason.

Posted by: Hawkins1701 at January 30, 2014 03:06 AM (7aJyE)

28 DNI Clapper has admitted to the Senate that Iran has all the necessary pieces in place to build a nuclear tipped ICBM.
 
In other words, they have reached breakout ability.
 
This won't end well.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 30, 2014 03:06 AM (wNF3N)

29 DNI Clapper has admitted to the Senate that Iran has all the necessary pieces in place to build a nuclear tipped ICBM. In other words, they have reached breakout ability. This won't end well. Posted by: GnuBreed at January 30, 2014 07:06 AM (wNF3N) Time to start building those back yard bomb shelters again or clean out the old ones.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:07 AM (t3UFN)

30 Good morning morons. Recovering from 2 overnights in the ER with the new electronic health records that staff was woefully unprepared/undertrained for. When as the ER doc I move only 1.5 patients per hour and staff thinks I'm the Second Coming, things are off to a rocky start. Still, been through this twice before, it will improve in a month or two.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at January 30, 2014 03:07 AM (R+XDI)

31 Running late today


Good Morning Morons.  Today is Thursday, January 30, 2014.  On this day in 1649  King Charles got a haircut.  He probably didn't like it but he never complained. 


Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:08 AM (T2V/1)

32 Need help with your taxes?  DonÂ’t call the IRS.


http://tinyurl.com/m6ftg2z

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:08 AM (T2V/1)

33 Wall-to-wall Brokeback Mountain opera pimping on NPR last night and AGAIN this morning. Good times!

Posted by: Caliban at January 30, 2014 03:08 AM (DrC22)

34 ""Schools experiment with universal mental health screenings""

Sure, like the Teachers Union is really going to let teachers be screened for mental health issues.


Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 30, 2014 03:08 AM (kFCo1)

35 Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, delivered a 30-page package to all 232 House Republicans on Wednesday that offers a point-by-point rebuttal to the expected standards that House Speaker John Boehner and other leaders plan to circulate this week among GOP members.



Too bad I don't live in AL so I can vote for him.  I am sure asshole Graham will vote FOR amnesty.


http://tinyurl.com/l5nyrbk

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:09 AM (T2V/1)

36

Sorry, everyone.  Slept through my alarm - I mean really slept through - and left all my notes on my desk.

 

Today is the 98th anniversary of the death by tuberculosis (and drug abuse) of Barbara La Marr, the silent star known as "The Girl Too Beautiful to Live."  A persistent rumor is that Chaplin - whose fondness for barely pubescent girl flesh was well known - molested her when she was a child.   Like many silent rumors, the provenance of the story is nearly impossibly to check, and it probably belongs in the same Hollywood Babylon trash bin as the whisper that sisters Lillian and Dorothy Gish were lovers.

 

Here's La Marr:  http://tinyurl.com/pm9pkrc


 

And just for the hell of it, here are the Gishes (Lillian on the left):

 

http://tinyurl.com/q4hlnls


 

Hope you have a wonderful day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 30, 2014 03:09 AM (zF6Iw)

37 Required reading in Cal Polly.  And yes, it is what you would expect from America Haters.


http://tinyurl.com/k4b4gky

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:09 AM (T2V/1)

38 Good news of the day. Fire fighters lay child hero to rest.  Hard to see to type tight now.


http://tinyurl.com/pkc7b2v

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:09 AM (T2V/1)

39 More good news.  Egg yolks will get you pregnant???


http://tinyurl.com/lmalsbr

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:10 AM (T2V/1)

40 Bitch McConnell finds a little bit of tongue.  When his job is threatened.  


http://tinyurl.com/lmwf8dt

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:10 AM (T2V/1)

41 AC blasts the stupid RNC in an article worthy of the Moron hoard.


http://tinyurl.com/ko5yk8u

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:11 AM (T2V/1)

42 This edition of "Top Headline Comments" is really the story of Obama.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 03:11 AM (QFxY5)

43 Holder to issue new guidelines for the DOJ to prosecute members of the MFM who do not suck Obama hard enough.  What, no first amendment?  Hahahaha


http://tinyurl.com/kpknl2t

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:12 AM (T2V/1)

44 IL Nazis shut down evil cancer girl's oven.  Hell she's 11 years old she has plenty of time to get all those licenses and permits.


http://tinyurl.com/n3tr4h5

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:12 AM (T2V/1)

45 Dumb Americans voted for a smirking Biden over a smart serious Ryan.

Posted by: redenzo at January 30, 2014 03:12 AM (WCnJW)

46 The hackers who stole 40 million credit- and debit-card numbers from Target Corp. appear to have breached the discounter's systems by using electronic credentials stolen from a vendor. WSJ http://tinyurl.com/ltnqwsd Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 06:51 AM (oGrEy) He probably had his username and password on a Post-It under his keyboard. They needed to make it sound more high tech (and less Keystone Kops) by calling it "electronic" credentials.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at January 30, 2014 03:12 AM (QR7wx)

47 CNN says 30% of Americans want a dictator.  No word as to whether they are citizens or not.


http://tinyurl.com/lpksmbd

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:12 AM (T2V/1)

48 21 13. Yes. But had Thomas not been black, Hatch would have not gone out of his way. Orrin had to prove how non-racist he is. Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 07:00 AM (MhA4j) Did he fight as hard for Janice Rogers Brown? I don't think she even got out of the gate and withdrew. Too bad. She's everything that Ruth Baader-Meinhoff, Kagen and Wiseass Latina ain't.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 03:13 AM (olDqf)

49 Boner to reveal the death sentence to the RNC today at 4 pm.


http://tinyurl.com/l76udal

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:13 AM (T2V/1)

50 So the big news is that Cheerios will have an interracial family in an ad? 

What will the Super  Sugar Frosted Corn Flakes people do in response??

In other news, Budweiser will do an ad featuring two gay horses.  And Go Daddy will be shocking viewers by featuring Danica Patrick wearing too much clothing!

Oh, and apparently some football game will be going on too. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 03:13 AM (BeSEI)

51 That BS PPP poll I talked about a few days ago had some shit in it they tried to hide.


http://tinyurl.com/mshcs6r

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:13 AM (T2V/1)

52 The Daily deals


http://tinyurl.com/n3m9lwu



That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:14 AM (T2V/1)

53 33 Running late today Good Morning Morons. Today is Thursday, January 30, 2014. On this day in 1649 King Charles got a haircut. He probably didn't like it but he never complained. Posted by: Vic at January 30, 2014 07:08 AM (T2V/1) "That so good a man should be so bad a kingÂ…"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 03:14 AM (olDqf)

54 Great hymns of the Faith, "I know that my redeemer lives" with words by Samuel Medley who was born in Chestnut, England and died in 1799: "It is said that Samuel Medley wrote 230 hymns. His hymns are marked by the spirit of praise and worship. It was to an oilman in London that he was apprenticed, which work he disliked and left. In 1755 he served aboard His Majesty's (George II) ship 'Buckingham' and was transferred to the "Intrepid" under Admiral Boscawen. He was severely wounded in the leg at the Battle of Cape Lagos against the French in Aug. 18th. 1759. He left the Navy and went to live with his grandfather, a Mr. Tonge, a pious man, who sought to lead Samuel into a different kind of life and a better one. One Lord's Day evening Mr. Tonge remained at home with him and read to him in the hope of reaching his heart, a sermon by Dr. Watts on Isaiah 42:6-7. By faith in the One preached, he had his eyes opened and was brought into liberty from the prison! After a restoration of health he listened to the word as preached by George Whitfield Hwe became a Baptist pastor on England... When near his death, a friend remarked to him, "Sir, Christ is your Centre". "Yes, yes" he replied, "He is, He is." Later he added, "I am now a shattered bark, just about to gain the blissful harbour, and oh how sweet will be the port after the storm." Again he said, "Dying is sweet work, sweet work! My heavenly Father! I am looking up to my dear Jesus, My God, my portion, my all in all!" He continued "Glory! Glory! Home! Home!" and then departed in peace on July 17th 1799. ^^ from website "Stem Music" The music: http://tinyurl.com/pyglc5s. Grace and peace be with you today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2014 03:14 AM (7kkQJ)

55 <<Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday that there’s a “general consensus” in his party that something big needs to happen on overhauling the country’s immigration laws and that more specifics would be unveiled this week at House Republicans’ annual retreat.>>

I am, for the moment anyway, simply a Republican.
I am not any type of “extremist”.
I am not xenophobic.
I am not a bigot.
I am not even a member of the “Tea Party”.

I am simply a pragmatic person whose family immigrated to this great country and is tired of seeing my neighbors and friends economically suffering.

There is no “consensus” on immigration. But there is on jobs- what about that Reince?

Mr. Priebus is a bumbling, incompetent liar and he has shown that during the last election. How he remains in a party position of authority is stunning.

It is also why I, like thousands of others, are just about finished with the Republican Party of Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, McCarthy and Cantor.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2014 03:14 AM (R9JP4)

56 I had to cuss out the Tea Party Patriots last night. They call no less than three times a day. I've asked them nicely not to call, so now I had to tell them not so nicely. This is the result of donating directly to candidates. Pisses me off.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 30, 2014 03:14 AM (x1L8S)

57 52 Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 07:13 AM (BeSEI) Meh. Kirk fucked Uhura back in '67.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 03:15 AM (olDqf)

58 Boner to reveal the death sentence to the RNC today at 4 pm. http://tinyurl.com/l76udal Posted by: Vic at January 30, 2014 07:13 AM (T2V/1) THIS is the hill to fight on, as a matter of fact, this is the LAST hill left. If we lose this one, we're gonna have to take to the hills, forest, back woods, and swamps and fight on as an insurgent squad.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:15 AM (t3UFN)

59 49 CNN says 30% of Americans want a dictator. No word as to whether they are citizens or not. Well, Obama's already got the Dick part going - so I guess the 30% is 50% of the way home.

Posted by: ScoggDog at January 30, 2014 03:16 AM (6/+vz)

60 Speaking of the Republicans helping the dems out with immigration surrender, on a related note, the Yankees are discussing a contract extension for A-Rod .

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:21 AM (t3UFN)

61 62 "Schools experiment with universal mental health screenings"

I approve. From my reading (and educated guess) the students took common 'empathy' tests that revealed a propensity toward autism or asperger syndrom. Most schools have a mental health professional or two that should spend some time with these individuals to score highly and report to parents the findings.

Believe it or not, some tiny percentage of parents raise (either wittingly or unwittingly) little psycho's and unleash them on the world. Or the local mall or movie theater.

My wife has dual degrees in both teaching and psychology and can spot the warning signs. Not many teachers can afford the expense of one degree, much less two. Giving the students a common test? Not an outrage, imho.

Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 07:19 AM (oGrEy)

 

The problem is that their biggest red flag question is probably going to be "Are guns bad?"

Posted by: buzzion at January 30, 2014 03:22 AM (LI48c)

62 59 -

Sure, but that was set in the future.   This is cereal!  Right now!! 

Those little round tasteless circles  ARE America! 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 03:22 AM (BeSEI)

63 Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 07:21 AM (t3UFN)

As what?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 03:23 AM (QFxY5)

64 U.S. official: North Korea nuclear reactor restarted Jan. 29, 2014 - 09:14PM | By Matthew Pennington The Associated Press FILED UNDER News Congress & DOD WASHINGTON — North Korea has followed through on its threat to advance its nuclear weapons program, the top U.S. intelligence official said Wednesday, while a research institute pointed to signs the communist country is preparing to launch bigger rockets. Boy this guy obama is on a roll ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:24 AM (t3UFN)

65 Could we please stop with the implication that most kids with Apsbergers are likely "little psychos"? I think most of the people who shot up malls had schizophrenia, not high functioning autism.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2014 03:25 AM (7kkQJ)

66 20F in Chicago?   Hell it hit 12.2F here in SC.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 03:25 AM (T2V/1)

67 THIS is the hill to fight on, as a matter of fact, this is the LAST hill left. If we lose this one, we're gonna have to take to the hills, forest, back woods, and swamps and fight on as an insurgent squad. Posted by: Nevergiveup
............
Amen.

WTF reason is there to even consider this shit at this point in time?

We've got Barky and his minions on the run with Obamacare, no jobs and NO JOBS!

So, what does the GOP want to do?  Offer to bring in 20 million illegals to take even more of our jobs away!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 30, 2014 03:25 AM (b/lt+)

68 Two things: 1) cimprehensive immigration reform does not make sense economically, culturally or politically so of course GOP-e is going to do it no matter what the base has to say about it. 2) with regards to the sidebar about the sycophant reporters wife, how does a cnn producer go from being the assistant for the transportation secretary to #3 at the faa?

Posted by: Kreplach at January 30, 2014 03:25 AM (aKkNH)

69 As what? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 07:23 AM (QFxY5) Cleaning up the dog shit outside Gate 2

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:25 AM (t3UFN)

70 So MSNBC smears me as a racist for future-hating a cereal ad I haven't even seen yet. There's something deeply wrong over at that clown academy.

Posted by: --- at January 30, 2014 03:25 AM (MMC8r)

71 64 -

Yeah, it does pretty much depend on how they go about doing it.  A good screening could be valuable at identifying some of the conditions that tend to manifest themselves in early/late childhood.

But it will get  misused.   The same  way most things that happen in public schools get  misused. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 03:27 AM (BeSEI)

72 She's everything that Ruth Baader-Meinhoff, Kagen and Wiseass Latina ain't.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 07:13 AM (olDqf)

----------

 

I prefer Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg, but Badder-Meinhoff is acceptable.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 30, 2014 03:27 AM (KlVdw)

73 "That so good a man should be so bad a kingÂ…"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 07:14 AM (olDqf)

And his predecessor was called, "The wisest fool in Christendom."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 03:29 AM (QFxY5)

74 Vic @ 33 On this day in 1661, Oliver Cromwell got his posthumous revenge haircut.

Posted by: Gran at January 30, 2014 03:30 AM (mw0FO)

75 72 So MSNBC smears me as a racist for future-hating a cereal ad I haven't even seen yet. There's something deeply wrong over at that clown academy. Posted by: --- at January 30, 2014 07:25 AM (MMC8r) ....We are deeply offended and troubled by this comparison.

Posted by: Clown's International Union Local LOL2 at January 30, 2014 03:30 AM (7aJyE)

76 FYI A nonprofit has sent 10,000 deep-dish pizzas to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Kuwait and Oman for Super Bowl Sunday. Pizzas 4 Patriots provided the pizzas, and DHL Express donated the shipping services. Since the pizzas are going to many forward operating bases in Afghanistan, they left the U.S. about two weeks ago, said Robert Mintz, spokesman for DHL Express. Pies will be delivered to Camp Bastion, Bagram Air Base and Kandahar Air Field, as well as the various forward operating bases. Pizzas 4 Patriots and DHL Express has sent more than 132,000 pizzas to troops overseas since 2008. “Since starting Pizzas 4 Patriots six years ago, we have gotten letters of appreciation from the military as well as from friends and family of those stationed overseas,” said the charity’s founder, retired Air Force Master Sgt. Mark Evans, in an announcement about the deliveries.“These are really heartwarming and make it all worthwhile.” The charity also donates pizza to wounded and returning vets through efforts at Veterans Affairs Department hospitals and veterans events.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:30 AM (t3UFN)

77 62 regular moron From the article: "In the wake of the recent Arapahoe High School shooting, itÂ’s hard not contemplate how things might have turned out differently if Karl Pierson had gotten mental health services long before he was capable of pulling the trigger." If this is the justification for screening and instituting 'mental health services' I am definitely opposed to this type of nanny-statism. Do you have any idea how few competent children's mental health professionals there are?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 03:31 AM (cAUYo)

78 75 I prefer Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg, but Badder-Meinhoff is acceptable. Posted by: Darth Randall at January 30, 2014 07:27 AM (KlVdw) Do a side by side comparison of Ruth with the skeleton of Norman Bates' mother. Just sayin'.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 03:31 AM (olDqf)

79 Do you have any idea how few competent children's mental health professionals there are? And the waiting time to see them is now up to year unless there's a cancellation. This was before Obamacare kicked in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2014 03:33 AM (7kkQJ)

80 But it will get misused. The same way most things that happen in public schools get misused. Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 07:27 AM (BeSEI) Yes, and some kid might get wrongly labeled by it and be treated accordingly by teachers and parents as they grow up. Will it go on their "permanent record" There are too many people with psychology degrees who have no business psycho analyzing anyone, except the person in the mirror.

Posted by: spypeach at January 30, 2014 03:37 AM (10H0T)

81 But it will get misused. The same way most things that happen in public schools get misused. Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 07:27 AM (BeSEI) Yes, and some kid might get wrongly labeled by it and be treated accordingly by teachers and parents as they grow up. Will it go on their "permanent record" There are too many people with psychology degrees who have no business psycho analyzing anyone, except the person in the mirror.

Posted by: spypeach at January 30, 2014 03:37 AM (10H0T)

82 But it will get misused. The same way most things that happen in public schools get misused. Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 07:27 AM (BeSEI) Yes, and some kid might get wrongly labeled by it and be treated accordingly by teachers and parents as they grow up. Will it go on their "permanent record" There are too many people with psychology degrees who have no business psycho analyzing anyone, except the person in the mirror.

Posted by: spypeach at January 30, 2014 03:37 AM (10H0T)

83 My other question is this: how many five-year-old kids with behavioral issues don't go on to shoot up a school fifteen years later. I defy anyone to show me reproducible evidence that this type of intervention correctly identifies a shooter and prevents an action fifteen years in the future.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 03:39 AM (PoUe9)

84 My other question is this: how many five-year-old kids with behavioral issues don't go on to shoot up a school fifteen years later. I defy anyone to show me reproducible evidence that this type of intervention correctly identifies a shooter and prevents an action fifteen years in the future.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 03:39 AM (PoUe9)

85 My other question is this: how many five-year-old kids with behavioral issues don't go on to shoot up a school fifteen years later. I defy anyone to show me reproducible evidence that this type of intervention correctly identifies a shooter and prevents an action fifteen years in the future.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 03:39 AM (PoUe9)

86 28

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 28 days until spring training at January 30, 2014 03:40 AM (u8GsB)

87 I can't trust the public school system to teach my grand-kids basics like English, Math, and Civics. 


Why should I trust them to give children mental health tests?  Especially since the outcome will go in a permanent file on a government computer inaccessible to their parents, unavailable for review by their parents, and possibly preventing them from getting jobs in the future.  What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 30, 2014 03:40 AM (o3MSL)

88 Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 07:39 AM (PoUe9) Yeah, the "little psycho: with with ADD will definitely grow up to shoot up a mall 15 years later/ sarc.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2014 03:41 AM (7kkQJ)

89 Don't worry guys, I'm sure these tests won't be used improperly. Like, I'm sure no psychologist will diagnose a child and then have the state move in to confiscate the parents'guns or anything.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 30, 2014 03:42 AM (Lo5Rt)

90
Meanwhile:

A California legislator is trying to put an end to the pollution with a law that, if passed, could change the way cigarettes have tasted and looked for six decades.

Under the proposed regulation, introduced this month by Assemblyman Mark Stone, D-Monterey Bay, the state would ban all cigarettes with filters designed to be discarded after a single use. A person or store caught selling or giving them away would be fined $500 per violation.

Stone's law wouldn't outlaw cigarettes per se. But if his proposal becomes law, cigarettes would have to be sold in California without filters, leaving smokers the option of buying reusable filters. "The filter's not really a necessary piece to the cigarette at all," Stone said

http://tinyurl.com/lsc5vfs

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2014 03:42 AM (kdS6q)

91 @85 But if you can prevent just one incident don't you have too? /sarc

Posted by: Kreplach at January 30, 2014 03:42 AM (X9npt)

92 Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 28 days until spring training at January 30, 2014 07:40 AM (u8GsB)

What about pitchers and catchers?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 03:42 AM (QFxY5)

93 >>>Believe it or not, some tiny percentage of parents raise (either wittingly or unwittingly) little psycho's and unleash them on the world. Or the local mall or movie theater.


Well there you go. All rules, laws and practices should be aimed to the lowest denominator. Targeting the general public in order to punish or correct the very few has always been prudent.

No possible way these generalized psych evals could come back to haunt anyone.

Posted by: typo dynamofo eater of worlds, destroyers of big tents at January 30, 2014 03:43 AM (IVgIK)

94 Friend had an high functioning ADHD boy child.  By age 30, he had sold his first company and cleared 10 mil for himself.  I wonder if that test would have prevented this?

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 30, 2014 03:43 AM (o3MSL)

95 Anyway, some food for thought. Y'all stay safe out there today.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 03:45 AM (8lE3e)

96 I wonder if that test would have prevented this?

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 30, 2014 07:43 AM (o3MSL)

I certainly hope so. Income disparities such as this are the cause of much of the violence in America.

Posted by: Valerie Jarrett's hand puppet at January 30, 2014 03:45 AM (QFxY5)

97 Mike Lee's response to Preezy Schikelgruber was amazing.

He's damned good.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 06:47 AM (olDqf)



Levin played part of it last night and remarked that the establishment Repukes in Utah, including Romney and Hatch, are doing what they can to replace him with a squish.  Reagan appointed his father, Rex, to Solicitor General; so of course he's an apostate to the GOPe.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 30, 2014 03:47 AM (7FFZz)

98 Drug abuse? Srsly? If Barbara LaMarr made it to age 94 despite pneumonia, I'd say she was using her drugs pretty efficiently. Lindsay Lohan, on the other hand ...

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at January 30, 2014 03:48 AM (a5ljo)

99 Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 07:27 AM (oGrEy)

Ok, I took the test. It says I'm crazy. What do I do now?

I can take the test again and change some of the answers, would that help?
because some days I feel like a nut, and some days I don't.

 (Peter Paul Almond Joy ampersand Mounds)



Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 30, 2014 03:49 AM (j/kO4)

100 Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 30, 2014 07:42 AM (Lo5Rt) Yes, that is likely what will happen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2014 03:49 AM (7kkQJ)

101 What about pitchers and catchers? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 07:42 AM (QFxY5) Asking for a friend?

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/i][/u][/s] at January 30, 2014 03:49 AM (6T8Ay)

102 Asking for a friend?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 30, 2014 07:49 AM (6T8Ay)

AOSHQ: simultaneously scaling the heights and plumbing the depths since 2003.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 03:53 AM (QFxY5)

103 Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 07:50 AM (oGrEy)

That "people are individuals" kind of thinking has no place in a utopian society, comrade.  You are cattle to be branded by the state and used as necessary!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 30, 2014 03:53 AM (o3MSL)

104 AOSHQ: simultaneously scaling the heights and plumbing the depths since 2003.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 07:53 AM (QFxY5)


SSDD.

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 30, 2014 03:54 AM (o3MSL)

105 97 -

Heh, well there you go.  What it all comes down to.

All I know is, if you are trying to predict the "little psychos" of the future, whatever starting point you have, diagnosis-wise, is likely wrong. 

However, if you have somebody who goes  crazy and shoots up schools or  theaters or whatever, you can go back and recreate  some things from their childhood that will  start to  make sense. 

The "warning signs"  will be there, but then, those same warning signs will have been exhibited for a zillion other kids who managed to turn out well...  or at least well enough that they didn't evolve into serial/spree killers. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 03:55 AM (BeSEI)

106 Oh, and as long as John Profumo wasn't littering the streets of London with his own clones, you'd have to call him discrete. Which is not to suggest that the man was discreet. Funny that Ian McKellen played him in the best movie version (Scandal, with Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler).

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at January 30, 2014 03:56 AM (a5ljo)

107 Asperger's and schizophrenia are as closely related as Maseratis and washing machines.

Posted by: --- at January 30, 2014 03:56 AM (MMC8r)

108 Seems the Feds and the Local Cops are giving the all the Hookers flooding into NY/NJ for the SuperBowl a hard time. What ever happened to good old fashion capitalism?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:56 AM (t3UFN)

109 Psych screenings in the public schools?? Are you crazy ??

Posted by: grammie winger at January 30, 2014 03:57 AM (P6QsQ)

110 I don't know that I;d call it 'head in the sand' You might understand if if the tests cost multiple thousands of dollars you didn't have and wasn't covered by your insurance, couldn't afford tuition of 55.000 a year for private school and the help the public school offered consisted mostly of some "classes" with a mental health professional on "how to play well with others" and being shadowed by an aide everywhere you went.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2014 03:57 AM (7kkQJ)

111 You are cattle to be branded by the state and used as necessary! Posted by: Hrothgar at January 30, 2014 07:53 AM (o3MSL) Oooooh! Sounds hawt!

Posted by: Miley Cyrus[/i][/i][/u][/s] at January 30, 2014 03:58 AM (6T8Ay)

112 CDB http://www.springtrainingonline.com/reporting-dates/ it varies

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 28 days until spring training at January 30, 2014 03:58 AM (u8GsB)

113 Posted by: Hawkins1701 at January 30, 2014 07:06 AM (7aJyE)

I really think the only question is what language will they curse us in.

Posted by: Dandolo at January 30, 2014 03:59 AM (0XBx+)

114 One of the hardest-working competitors to hit the field at the Super Bowl this weekend isn’t a football player — she’s a stunning Seahawks cheerleader who is also a first lieutenant in the US Air Force. Rookie “Sea Gal” Alicia Quaco, 25, works long days as a contract manager for the Air Force before rushing to evening cheerleading practice, where she trades camouflage fatigues for tiny shorts, glittery makeup and pompoms. “It’s a lot of costume changes. I don’t get to wear normal clothes very often. And I have hardly any free time,” she said. Before taking on the demanding double life, she first had to convince her military higher-ups in a formal presentation to let her moonlight as a Sea Gal after trying out for the squad last year, she said. “I told them it’s good for recruitment. It shows that the Air Force is well-rounded, that we can do other things, too. It’s great for women recruits to know that,” said Quaco. “Ultimately, they ended up agreeing.” The San Diego-born blond bombshell was inspired to become a service member by her Green Beret brother — but her mom insisted she first go to college. So Quaco enrolled in the Air Force Academy, where she also took up cheerleading. Graduating in 2010, she moved to Mississippi, then Seattle, where she tried out for the Sea Gals — a job that requires tricky midair splits, choreographed dancing and endless enthusiasm. Outstanding

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 04:00 AM (t3UFN)

115
And:

A race previously thought to be safe for Republicans is now looking like a toss-up in Georgia, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey. The poll shows likely Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn leading four of her potential Republican opponents.

Nunn, a non-profit CEO and the daughter of a former longtime senator from the state, currently holds slight leads over elected Republicans, three House members and a statewide official.

NRO



Looks like that Lugar/Warner money is being put to good use.  Go Team Rino!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2014 04:01 AM (kdS6q)

116 Oh the Air Force Gal: Worth a look http://nypost.com/ Go on take a peek

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 04:01 AM (t3UFN)

117 Friend had an high functioning ADHD boy child. By age 30, he had sold his first company and cleared 10 mil for himself. I wonder if that test would have prevented this?

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 30, 2014 07:43 AM (o3MSL)



Those tests, like everything else in the oxymoronic social science, are merely indicators rather than hard and fast rules which happen 100% of the time.  When you say that children of single parents are operating at a disadvantage, that doesn't mean that all of them will be failures and end up in jail; but the odds are higher that they will.  That and correlation is not causation are among the bigger misconceptions that the left promulgates.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 30, 2014 04:02 AM (7FFZz)

118 Gabriel - I am impressed with the depth and extent of your comment-inspiring content this morning. I only would argue with two words of yours... chortle cough need coffee Good morning. The dawn did not come up like thunder, but the sky is lightening.

Posted by: webworker at January 30, 2014 04:02 AM (VV7s1)

119 Shame on you sailor no pic


http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/alicia_87961001.jpg

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 04:03 AM (T2V/1)

120 79 - I hope the pizzas don't get thrown out for being made in non-union cupcake making kitchens.

Posted by: AE at January 30, 2014 04:03 AM (HYceo)

121 116 -

Perfect.  The Air Force, which, unless you are flying planes and dropping bombs on people, isn't  REALLY the military, now has cheerleaders. 

I'm sure she's a lovely girl, but good gravy, does this make them look even more wussified than they already did. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 04:04 AM (BeSEI)

122 Ooops posted too soon.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 04:04 AM (T2V/1)

123 Looks like that Lugar/Warner money is being put to good use. Go Team Rino!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2014 08:01 AM (kdS6q)



That NE Ohio tub of shit, Steve LaTourrette, is working hard to maintain the herd of RINOs.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 30, 2014 04:05 AM (7FFZz)

124 Posted by: Vic at January 30, 2014 08:03 AM (T2V/1) Pretty obvious there are pointy elbows under those sleeves.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 30, 2014 04:06 AM (659DL)

125 Got it so not thinking it's the governments job is 'head in the sand'

Posted by: Buzzion at January 30, 2014 04:07 AM (vLswq)

126 Perfect. The Air Force, which, unless you are flying planes and dropping bombs on people, isn't REALLY the military, now has cheerleaders. I'm sure she's a lovely girl, but good gravy, does this make them look even more wussified than they already did. Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 08:04 AM (BeSEI) Ah cut her a break. She went to the Academy and she has a full time AIr Force Job. Looks good in Uniform also. And as far as the Air Force, at least I can stay in their Berthing sometimes and enjoy the good life

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 04:08 AM (t3UFN)

127 The GOP is not committing suicide - they're murdering our country.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 04:09 AM (chqG9)

128
Ragnarok!:

California Republicans scarce in 2014 statewide races

The lack of competition for attorney general and other down-ticket contests, political consultants of both major parties say, underscores the partyÂ’s shallow bench and tarnished standing as it copes with the stateÂ’s rapidly shifting demographics.

With spring filing deadlines approaching, those closely monitoring statewide campaigns also see gaps for the GOP in the upcoming contests for lieutenant governor, treasurer and controller.

Ron Nehring, former chairman of the California Republican Party, has spent the last week warning that the party risks a drubbing up and down the 2014 ballot. “This is a real challenge in that we are two steps away from a nightmare scenario where the statewide ticket appears so weak that some Republicans simply give up and throw in with Jerry Brown, creating chaos for Republicans running in competitive seats around the state,” Nehring said.

In the last election alone, California Republicans surrendered supermajority control of the state Legislature, lost decisive congressional races and saw their voting ranks drop below 30 percent statewide.

http://tinyurl.com/k2gqlsr

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2014 04:10 AM (kdS6q)

129 The GOP is not committing suicide - they're murdering our country. Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 08:09 AM (chqG9) Those 2 are not mutually exclusive

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 04:10 AM (t3UFN)

130 130 -

I know quite a few Air Force folks, and for the most part it's good natured ribbing, but yeah, they're civilians in uniform.  Generally nice, hard working, and very patriotic, but still.  Civilians. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 04:10 AM (BeSEI)

131 http://psychology-tools.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/

Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 07:27 AM (oGrEy)


If it is helpful or not is not the question: This is not a responsibility or job for the government.

Posted by: Dandolo at January 30, 2014 04:11 AM (0XBx+)

132 The first Twitchy link in the sidebar is a jpg, not the article. Just sayin!

Posted by: Jay in Ames at January 30, 2014 04:11 AM (i2Lsf)

133 Mrs. Crank is supposed to have a cameo on local am show this morning, Fox28 in Columbus--the instructor at the cke studio asked her to be in the segment. Very proud!!

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at January 30, 2014 04:12 AM (R+XDI)

134 133 The GOP is not committing suicide - they're murdering our country. Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 08:09 AM (chqG9) Those 2 are not mutually exclusive All those guys will go back to their gated communities and cushy jobs.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 04:12 AM (chqG9)

135 It's not head in the sand. It's the state really doesn't need to know. If the state was giving the test but never saw the results but they were sent directly to the parents, then maybe it would be okay. But, if the state gets the results and then gets to play "let's fix the kids" this will be a disaster. Eventually, there will be all sorts of political things that will need "fixed." Does the kid think killing animals (i.e. hunting) is okay? Then we better "correct" that.

Posted by: Chris at January 30, 2014 04:12 AM (crkWb)

136 98 Posted by: Captain Hate at January 30, 2014 07:47 AM (7FFZz) Biggest mistake Ronald Reagan made was selecting one of his biggest enemies, George HW Bush, to be his VP. Should've picked Paul Laxalt and used as much influence as he could to kneecap the Rockefeller Republicans. Instead, 20 plus years later, look what happened. Should've kept the Berlin Wall up and concentrated on eradicating the Soviets within our own borders.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 04:15 AM (olDqf)

137 137 -

One of the things that will never be addressed by this type of testing is the fact that for many many many many MANY (did I use enough manies?)  of these kids, the problem  is PRIMARILY their parents/guardians. 

All the interventions  the schools  try won't change the fact that when these kids go home and night, they go to the hell holes  from which they were spawned. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 04:15 AM (BeSEI)

138 "California Republicans scarce in 2014 statewide races"

California needs to go their own way. They're big enough, with enough population to be their own country. If Singapore can be an country, so can California.

Go California, go in peace, go with God, Have a nice life, and a great future.

Independence for California!

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 30, 2014 04:15 AM (j/kO4)

139 My 'head in the sand' was not directed at you. It is directed at people who would rather not know, not have their child tested. I don't see an advantage. I'd rather intervene early, as a parent, and find some strategies to help them to the best of my ability. Test any kid, and they will find a problem with him.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 04:16 AM (chqG9)

140 143 Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 30, 2014 08:15 AM (j/kO4) We need the San Joaquin valley for food. Let LA, SF and SD detach. And take the border-jumpers with them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 04:16 AM (olDqf)

141
And another cut from that article:

The new voter-approved primary system, in which the top two vote-getters regardless of party advance to the fall runoff, may only exacerbate RepublicansÂ’ problems here.

Given how the primary field is shaping up, it appears inevitable that at least one statewide race will be an intraparty contest between Democrats, said Garry South, a Democratic strategist.

Republicans will not be able to find eight candidates that will finish first or second, he said. ThatÂ’s a far cry from 1970, when the party held almost every statewide elected office and majorities in both houses of the Legislature. Many of the statewide posts havenÂ’t been held by Republican in more than a decade.

“Republicans have to envision a world where they don’t just have some sacrificial lamb who gets whacked in November,” South said, “but where they don’t even have a candidate on the ballot.”



Well, Amnesty ought to turn that right around.....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2014 04:18 AM (kdS6q)

142 Test any kid, and they will find a problem with him. ------------ Especially if the tester is given extra federal/state funds for each problem they "find."

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 30, 2014 04:19 AM (eytER)

143 Biggest mistake Ronald Reagan made was selecting one of his biggest enemies, George HW Bush, to be his VP.

Should've picked Paul Laxalt and used as much influence as he could to kneecap the Rockefeller Republicans. .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 08:15 AM (olDqf)



I understand the politics of selecting Poppy Bush, since the country clubbers, unlike conservatives, will vote for the donk in a fit of spite against a Reagan or just stay home.  But the real problem was letting that tub of goo, Rove, who declared Reagan unelectable, assume a position of responsibility in the GOP.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 30, 2014 04:19 AM (7FFZz)

144 Well crap.
I need to go to the store today.

But now it appears that I need to be home to sign for Mrs VIA's ammo when FedEx gets here.

I guess it could be worse.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 30, 2014 04:19 AM (w3OHe)

145 We need the San Joaquin valley for food. Let LA, SF and SD detach.

And take the border-jumpers with them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 08:16 AM (olDqf)



145  Thanx to the CA Commies the valley is a desert now. But the Delta Smelt are doing fine.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 04:21 AM (T2V/1)

146 Mike Lee's response to Preezy Schikelgruber was amazing. He's damned good. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 06:47 AM (olDqf) J.J. Sefton, Mike Lee is very impressive, I watched response from sidebar yesterday. BTW, Good Morning Horde.

Posted by: Carol at January 30, 2014 04:21 AM (z4WKX)

147 All the interventions the schools try won't change the fact that when these kids go home and night, they go to the hell holes from which they were spawned.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 08:15 AM (BeSEI)



This times a gazillion.  Again it's not a hard and fast rule but usually fucked up people produce fucked up children.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 30, 2014 04:21 AM (7FFZz)

148 Independence for California! I think we should do this. The country needs an amicable divorce - the left needs to go its own way.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 04:22 AM (LnQr8)

149 @137. So limited government is all well and good unless it's my particular pet project in which case it's okay for someone else to pay for the 'services' that I desire in order to let me feel that I'm being a good parent? Or am I misreading what you wrote?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 04:22 AM (g4TxM)

150 Test any kid, and they will find a problem with him. Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 08:16 AM (chqG9) Indeed. Furthermore, the state has often found insane reasons to take children from parents (While letting meth heads keep their kids!) Although the idea sounds incredibly practical, the power dynamics with the state make it a bad idea. Anything that can be weaponized will be. Progs accuse SoCons of trying to "legislate morality." Perhaps, but the progs are just the other side of that coin, they want to legislate their own "morality." And they'll use the state to force you to accept it.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 04:23 AM (GaqMa)

151 I would like to punch Dana Perino right in her smug face.

Posted by: CPAC Welcome Committee at January 30, 2014 04:24 AM (Cs2tJ)

152 "...the valley is a desert now. But the Delta Smelt are doing fine."

Posted by: Vic at January 30, 2014 08:21 AM (T2V/1)

It is unbelievably bad in most of the Central Valley. My guess is that it is approaching the conditions of the depression.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 04:25 AM (QFxY5)

153 This times a gazillion. Again it's not a hard and fast rule but usually fucked up people produce fucked up children. Posted by: Captain Hate at January 30, 2014 08:21 AM (7FFZz) HEY!!

Posted by: Stanley Dunham at January 30, 2014 04:26 AM (fWAjv)

154 What was your experience as far as MH professionals in the schools?

Show your work.
Kidding. Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 08:04 AM (oGrEy)

Considering that you noted that you were discussing your wife's PRIVATE school, I rather think the burden is on you to demonstrate how that parses to public schools writ large.  Noting that your wife's private school is shifting monetary burdens to the taxpayers of Pennsylvania does not precisely buttress your argument.  Neither does your position that I should be forced, via the power of the state, to pay for someone else's child's evaluation.  You are right.  It is truly, truly cheaper to have someone else pay for my shit.   That doesn't make it proper. 


That being said, you want to play anecdata?  Okay.  I can play that game. 

My professional experience from assisting in pro bono representation of families in PA who were fighting tooth and nail with school districts over IEPs and the concomitant necessity of reading, at rough guess, over 100 mental health evaluations, including review of the underlying test results, is that those performing such evaluations on behalf of the Pennsylvania Department of Education are full of complete and utter shit.   I would estimate that maybe, maybe 15% of those evaluations were performed accurately and with an eye towards assisting the child.  The rest?  Not so much.   Not only were the diagnoses incorrect, sometimes wildly so, but many of the children were being harmed, not helped, by the measures put in place to "assist" them.   As a result, I am rather cynical about the ability of schools to use such test results as anything other than a way in which to diagnose more kids as having significant problems in order to drive up the amount of funds they receive for "assisting" those poor troubled souls.


How about historical?   Up until 1976 or maybe into 1977, I don't quite recall when the last procedure took place, the state of NC was still involuntarily sterilizing people.   While the commission that oversaw the program was disbanded in 1977, the laws permitting such sterilizations were on the books until 2003.


How about personal?  1973.  


How about academic?  If I turn my head, I can see the shelf that holds the various versions of the DSM that have been in effect over the years.   Reading through what is and is not considered a mental illness is remarkable.  


Of course there are proficient and caring and capable mental health professionals out there.  Of course there are.  But you, the very personal you, are being disingenuous in the extreme to act as if you are unaware and unappreciative of the dangers inherent in the state using mental health evaluations, let alone ones of children.


If a parent has concerns about their child, by all means, have the child tested.  But get your hand out of my pocket to make me pay for it. 

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 04:27 AM (Gk3SS)

155 " Stone's law wouldn't outlaw cigarettes per se. But if his proposal becomes law, cigarettes would have to be sold in California without filters...." Things that twenty years ago were thought up by college students on recreational drugs, then dismissed in the sober light of morning as the silly ideas of drunken fools, are. nowadays proposed as actual legislation! And like the foolish lawsuits that judges allow, this kind of idea is seriously considered instead of simply being mocked for the tyrannical foolishness it is. ((PS It's just the idea of the petty intervening nannyism drives me nuts. I never had much interest in tobacco, especially filter cigs, so personally I don't care one way or the other, but I despise tyranny in all its forms. Hope those who think we should only focus on Important Syrias Matters disdain my ranting on this.)

Posted by: webworker at January 30, 2014 04:29 AM (i5xnd)

156 I'll tell you exactly what those public school "professionals" (cough cough) will find: Normal boy behavior is abnormal. Normal cis-normative behavior is abnormal. Normal religious behavior is abnormal. Normal dissent is abnormal. Normal human behavior is abnormal.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 30, 2014 04:29 AM (P6QsQ)

157 I don't know. I really, really believe in early testing and intervention. Because sometimes that really helps. Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 08:24 AM (oGrEy) And this makes perfect sense. But on the other hand you have everything outlined in Foucault's Madness and Civilization and while I disagree with his final conclusion regarding the idea of "normal." (i.e. that there is none) the history of the state crafting mental illness to benefit it's own power structures is fairly accurate and inarguable.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 04:29 AM (GaqMa)

158 59 52 Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 07:13 AM (BeSEI)


Meh. Kirk fucked Uhura back in '67.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 07:15 AM (olDqf)


Which is not actually remarkable because Kirk probably fucked the Gorn too.

Posted by: joncelli at January 30, 2014 04:30 AM (RD7QR)

159 Anyone know what Chick Fil A's special shake is this season/month? We're gonna get us some for supper now that it's going to be above 40 degrees.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 30, 2014 04:30 AM (x1L8S)

160 Normal boy behavior is abnormal.

They're ALREADY doing this one.  It could get much worse.

Posted by: GMan at January 30, 2014 04:31 AM (sxq57)

161 Looks like mid to upper 40's and cloudy for the Super Bowl.

Snow and rain over the Dakota's ... hope it hits NYC Sunday.  Then they can fire Goodell  for being an idiot.

Posted by: Paladin at January 30, 2014 04:32 AM (WujO7)

162 The teacher needs to maintain order in the classroom. Kids are better off not learning from them. It has been my experience that once a child has been recognized as difficult The school I went to wanted me to enter a 'special' program because I would pretend I was sick to go home when I was five. I talked to a bunch of psychiatrists who all said I needed to go into the program. My parents, thankfully, told the school to f*ck off. I'd be a sub-moron if I'd gone into their 'special' class.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 04:32 AM (BNuW6)

163 But the real problem was letting that tub of goo, Rove, who declared Reagan unelectable, assume a position of responsibility in the GOP. Posted by: Captain Hate at January 30, 2014 08:19 AM (7FFZz) Captain Hate, Rove is a media whore & pushed for Romney. I had an email fight with him over Rick Perry. I told Rove that we wanted to pick our nominee ourselves in 2011, right after Perry announced & rose to the top of the list of ABR (anyone but Romney.) RP said something about Bernanke prating money & Rove slammed him all over FNC saying it was a treasonous response. Karl & I used to exchange emails. I sent him one to say that those gay dem men in Chicago hated W only because he was a republican. Then they had a change of heart after Fort Hood & they wrote that the Bushes had more class & did more for AIDS than amy president, etc & one vowed to go to Dallas & personally apologize. I emailed Rove about it & then he asked for link. Last time I looked that website is old with nothing new in years. I canÂ’t remember name of site, it was gay men in Chicago that hated TFG but loved Hillary & Sarah Palin. They also started to appreciate Dick Cheney at the same time they apologized for their treatment of Bush. Now its going to drive me crazy trying to remember name of website. I had it saved but deleted it when I saw it had nothing new. HillBuzz!

Posted by: Carol at January 30, 2014 04:33 AM (z4WKX)

164 I'll tell you about the day we pulled Little Winger out of public school. That was the day the principal recommended a psychiatric evaluation for our son because he and the other boys in his class had a dirt clod war on the playground at recess.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 30, 2014 04:33 AM (P6QsQ)

165
Surprisingly, not a story from The Onion:

Obama's high school pot dealer who he thanked for the 'good times' was beaten to death with a hammer by his gay lover after fights over flatulence and drugs

Raymond Boyer, known as 'Gay Ray' to Obama and his pot-smoking 'Choom Gang', had his brains beaten out with a hammer on Honolulu, Hawaii.

DailyMail

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2014 04:33 AM (kdS6q)

166 147 Test any kid, and they will find a problem with him. ------------ Especially if the tester is given extra federal/state funds for each problem they "find." Yep. Reminds me of the story about the Brits paying the Indians a bounty on cobras. And the Indians suddenly found raising cobras a very profitable venture! When the Brits uncovered the operations, they cancelled the bounty. Result? Releasing all of the cultivated cobras into the wild. Win - Win!

Posted by: The Mongoose at January 30, 2014 04:34 AM (Bps3R)

167 This is anecdotal and feel free to correct me but I know that Pennsylvania has a long history of having mental health professionals in schools. My memory of that goes back 30 plus years. Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 08:01 AM (oGrEy) We have a MH program here in certain schools. Medicaid reimburses for the cost of the counselors. Students are referred by teachers and administrators to the program. It seems to work well at the lower grades but not the upper grades. Older students have figured out that it's an easy way to get out of class by saying they feel like they need to see the MH counselor.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at January 30, 2014 04:36 AM (nj9sX)

168 Posted by: The Mongoose at January 30, 2014 08:34 AM (Bps3R) Of course a rational populace would see this as an argument for school choice. Being able to choose a particular school to fit the particular needs of your child (which may not even be related to mental illness, but something as simple as learning style) might help reduce some of the problems. All? Of course not, that's impossible, but enough to make it a good idea.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 04:37 AM (GaqMa)

169 So the school has to hire a wraparound aide to sit next to the child all day. Expensive. There sits a child with no identified problem, wasting his/her life. Learning nothing, but costing a fortune. ---------- What, expulsion is not an option? Look, is it a waste of a life if a kid has parents who don't give a shit? Yes indeedy. But that doesn't mean it's somehow better to give the State lots of powers to step in. At some point parents need to be parents. It isn't, or at least ought not, be the job to rescue every single person from bad decisions.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 30, 2014 04:37 AM (eytER)

170

Oh fuck me to tears. Just boil this Regular Moron bullshit to it's essence ... "I want to psycho-analyze kids in school, and it'll be OK, because my wife will keep everything on the up and up".

 

Pretty much nail it? Your wife perchance employed by Pennsylvania Public Schools? Maybe even as a shrink ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at January 30, 2014 04:38 AM (nrgSm)

171 "He probably had his username and password on a Post-It under his keyboard." Which is where 98% of all usernames and passwords are, from housewives to the nuclear launch codes, because of the ass-licking techno-nerds who run "security" on programs. These people need to realize that you can't keep a dozen unique names and passwords that change every 60 days or so in your head. People need the freedom to make their passwords whatever they want for as long as they feel comfortable with them. Password Freedom. The new big thing.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 04:38 AM (u2a4R)

172 38. MP4 La Mar's photo illustrates the Western Romantic preoccupation with the "exotic" fantasy as "the" beautiful. The artistic fetish yet remaining for the novel film industry to exploit, having gone through a variety of 19th Century phases, still presented as fantasy - sophistry for the naive public, early 20th Century. (Chronologically, Western investors monopolized development of the MidEast oil fields. Recall 'the yellow belt' line of truce crossed, Day of the Falcon) http://tinyurl.com/mau7je6 Were Western leading ladies today to recreate the moment, they'd be scorned. Beyond the nuance of sensuality lost as bygone, the tragedy of female life yet persists where faithful compliance in conformance to patriarchal demands was depicted well in the foreign film, "Khamosh Pani" aka Silent Waters. http://tinyurl.com/lwuye28 La Mar's era barely witnessed American suffrage for the woman's right to vote. It wasn't until the Progressive Party produced its film "Cimmeron" (1931) that a woman leader made film headway from rough settlement. Beauty v. the Brunhilda. http://tinyurl.com/47gj9l8

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 04:38 AM (MhA4j)

173 Which is not actually remarkable because Kirk probably fucked the Gorn too.
Posted by: joncelli at January 30, 2014 08:30 AM (RD7QR)


Once upon a time, and I'm not saying that alcohol was involved but I'm not saying it wasn't either, I was at a party where a whiteboard got hauled out and a list was started named People/Species/Things Kirk Did Not Fuck.


The first item was tribbles.  This was met with unanimous agreement. 

A huge fight then erupted over whether or not he fucked the captain's chair.   (I was in the of course he did he fucked EVERYTHING but tribbles because what no)

It's possible that the conversation then got sidetracked into a debate about Uhura in a Orion slave girl outfit and thus the list was abandoned.  

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 04:39 AM (Gk3SS)

174 This is anecdotal and feel free to correct me but I know that Pennsylvania has a long history of having mental health professionals in schools. My memory of that goes back 30 plus years.

In that period of time I can not recall one incident of a mall or theater shooting or any mass killing/shooting of that ilk, any mass carnage by a young male.

================




And you are drawing what kind of conclusion here exactly? 

Posted by: grammie winger at January 30, 2014 04:39 AM (P6QsQ)

175 163 Which is not actually remarkable because Kirk probably fucked the Gorn too. Posted by: joncelli at January 30, 2014 08:30 AM (RD7QR) As Chekov said, "In my country, Gorn fuck Kirk!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 04:39 AM (olDqf)

176 This tablet, however, turned out to be one in a million. The cuneiform was a sixty-line passage from the ancient Babylonian Story of the Flood. This story had been well known since the 1870s, when George Smith, a brilliant decipherer who worked at the British Museum, first identified the story known from the Book of Genesis in a seventh-century cuneiform tablet from Nineveh. The two accounts – Babylonian and biblical – were closely related. The new tablet, however, written in about 1750 BC, has startling new contents.

When the gods decided to wipe out mankind with a flood, the god Enki, who had a sense of humour, leaked the news to a man called Atra-hasis, the ‘Babylonian Noah,’ who was to build the Ark. Atra-hasis’s Ark, however was round. To my knowledge, no one has ever thought of that possibility. The new tablet also describes the materials and the measurements to build it: quantities of palm-fibre rope, wooden ribs and bathfuls of hot bitumen to waterproof the finished vessel. The result was a traditional coracle, but the largest the world had ever dreamed of, with an area of 3,600 sq. metres (equivalent to two-thirds the area of a football pitch), and six-metre high walls. The amount of rope prescribed, stretched out in a line, would reach from London to Edinburgh!

... so the Ark was round ?!?

Posted by: Noah at January 30, 2014 04:40 AM (e8kgV)

177 The problem with mental health testing in public schools is similar to the Constitutional problem of prayer in public schools. The problem is not the prayer or the mental health testing per se -- the problem is the "public" part of the schools.

Posted by: webworker - has it on good authority at January 30, 2014 04:41 AM (i5xnd)

178 174 So the school has to hire a wraparound aide to sit next to the child all day. If the aide was teh hot, every moron-in-training would be a basket case!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 30, 2014 04:41 AM (Bps3R)

179
I have to step away before I lose my mind.



Posted by: grammie winger at January 30, 2014 04:41 AM (P6QsQ)

180 Tribbles a la ACA

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 04:42 AM (MhA4j)

181
Wal-Mart in China will reimburse customers who bought the tainted 'Five Spice' donkey meat after it is found to contain fox meat instead.

DailyMail




If I found fox meat in my donkey meat, I would be SO pissed off!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2014 04:42 AM (kdS6q)

182 In that period of time I can not recall one incident of a mall or theater shooting or any mass killing/shooting of that ilk, any mass carnage by a young male **** And my tiger prevention scarecrow is working well. I haven't seen a tiger here in western Colorado for thirty some years.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 04:42 AM (g4TxM)

183

..at House RepublicansÂ’ annual retreat

 

It seems the GOP is constantly in retreat

 

Posted by: McCool at January 30, 2014 04:42 AM (nCSwS)

184 Thanks for the comments, Carol.  Shouldn't Hillbuzz be amping up now as the HMS Pantsuit starts breaking wind again or are they all horrified by her treatment of Chris Stevens?


Btw, is the pushback by the Searchlight Pederast against the JEF's dumbfuck trade demands the first sign that the donks are about to shift in emphasis to whomever they nominate in 2016?  And that they're worried about November this year?

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 30, 2014 04:42 AM (7FFZz)

185 when my oldest was in 2nd grade, we went to the parent teacher conference and we were told that he needed to be tested for add....she strongly suggested this because he didn't seem to be able to follow along during her math instruction and asked too many questions about things that she felt she covered EXTENSIVELY and the rest of the children (including the dim ones) had all grasped with ease..... so we gently sit our prince down one evening....and we ask him what's going on during math...his teacher felt he wasn't understanding it....my little 7 yr old informs me that he doesn't hear what she's saying....now we are really concerned....our darling is "hard of hearing"? so we ask why he can't hear her....it's because he's in the bathroom....taking a dump....same time every morning....math time....the nit wit teacher failed to notice that she was giving him a bathroom pass EVERYDAY AT THE SAME TIME sending him out of the room as she begins to explain the math lesson and then the kid comes back and has the AUDACITY to ask questions when he comes back....

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 28 days until spring training at January 30, 2014 04:43 AM (u8GsB)

186 79 FYI Nevergiveup I never spent one day in a forward area, but I did spend many at sea, including Christmases and super bowls. Something about this simple gesture, pizza, I know offers a thread of connection to back home and will be appreciated almost more than anything else. Short of being home.

Posted by: traye at January 30, 2014 04:43 AM (HPVEw)

187 I have to step away before I lose my mind. ---------- The MH professional will now let you know this is evidence of anger management issues and you should really think about going to therapy. Medication is also effective in treating such issues. We as a society just want to encourage treatment of cases that would otherwise slip through the cracks, and in the long run is much better for us - it saves taxpayer dollars, it helps you out more effectively, and society as a whole benefits. Are you available Friday at 10:00 for your consultation?

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 30, 2014 04:44 AM (eytER)

188 It seems the GOP is constantly in retreat Posted by: McCool at January 30, 2014 08:42 AM (nCSwS) el GOP es francés?

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 28 days until spring training at January 30, 2014 04:45 AM (u8GsB)

189 119 Oh the Air Force Gal: Worth a look http://nypost.com/ Go on take a peek Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 08:01 AM (t3UFN) Off we go, into that wild pink hoo-hooÂ…

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 04:45 AM (olDqf)

190 Scarlett Johansonn Rejects Oxfam because of anti-Israel bigotry.

http://tinyurl.com/k945axs

I used to assume that she was just another idiot actor, but now I have revised my low opinion of her and will allow her to call me for a date.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 04:45 AM (QFxY5)

191 ' seventh-century cuneiform tablet from Nineveh' I don't like those people from there....

Posted by: Jonah at January 30, 2014 04:45 AM (Bps3R)

192 194 It seems the GOP is constantly in retreat Posted by: McCool at January 30, 2014 08:42 AM (nCSwS) It isn't retreat if you're on the same side.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 04:46 AM (g2ldK)

193 As a wee child in first grade, I apparently had some educational issues.

And I don't remember the event, but apparently I went through some type of testing/screening.

The only thing I have an actual memory of is being told that there was a medical reason why I was doing poorly in school.
Even at that young age, my take away from that was that failure was not my fault, I had a reason for failure.

And every time I chose not to do homework, and chose to read a S/F book in class behind my math book, and every time I would read a dictionary behind my Social Studies book rather than pay attention to the things I found boring, I blamed it on my "Medical Condition.

They didn't cure me, they gave me an academic Get-out-of-jail-free card.

And I used it knowingly.
Even at that age.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 30, 2014 04:46 AM (w3OHe)

194 196 Scarlett Johansonn Rejects Oxfam because of anti-Israel bigotry. http://tinyurl.com/k945axs I used to assume that she was just another idiot actor, but now I have revised my low opinion of her and will allow her to call me for a date. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 08:45 AM (QFxY5) You'd think liberals swallow all of the dogma for fear of being "not of the body" if they disagree one iota. Good for her. ANDÂ… I'd hit it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 04:46 AM (olDqf)

195 this morning's am radio news soundbite re: public schools purchasing tazers to use on students. THAT following the public demand to call in the police per student misbehavior because the paddle is cruel and unusual punishment ...or something goes to show the insanity of what the public seems to think sanity requires -- by degree, always jumping from the frying pan into the fire escalating tensions as if to cure a problem

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 04:47 AM (MhA4j)

196 198 194 It seems the GOP is constantly in retreat Posted by: McCool at January 30, 2014 08:42 AM (nCSwS) It isn't retreat if you're on the same side. Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 08:46 AM (g2ldK) THIS x infinity.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 04:47 AM (olDqf)

197 I don't like those people from there.... Posted by: Jonah at January 30, 2014 08:45 AM (Bps3R) lolz. Nicely done. There's a shady tree over there, why don't you go sit under it for a while.

Posted by: Mainah at January 30, 2014 04:47 AM (659DL)

198 Where is your vote? Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 08:39 AM (oGrEy)


Get your fucking hand out of my fucking pocket and get that fucking gun away from my head to make me pay for your fucking child.


Was that clear enough for you?


I reject your premise that the state should be paying for this in the first place.   I further reject your premise that the state will handle such testing in a reasonable manner.   You have evinced absolutely no argument to counter such a position.


By the by, trying to run but but but the children by me is as hilarious as someone calling me heartless and thinking I would consider that anything other than a compliment.


You want other people to pay for your child's shit.   I decline.


Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 04:48 AM (Gk3SS)

199 Mornin', hordelings. I wonder if this guy was breaking any HOA covenants? http://tinyurl.com/mehfa8m

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 04:49 AM (LSJmV)

200 RM... mandatory state mental health screening, that's some scary shit right there boy.

No government agency has ever abused its powers , never , never... so we can like totally trust them I'm sure.


Posted by: ET at January 30, 2014 04:49 AM (uGlk8)

201 Looks like that Lugar/Warner money is being put to good use. Go Team Rino!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2014 08:01 AM (kdS6q)



To be fair, I'm endorsing the Democratic Senate candidate in Georgia too, but only because my little sister lives there and I'm trying to reverse-psychology her into voting Republican.

Posted by: The Lost Dutchman at January 30, 2014 04:50 AM (9F2c1)

202 The GOP is not committing suicide - they're murdering our country. Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 08:09 AM (chqG9) Those 2 are not mutually exclusive Posted by: Nevergiveup Like many mass murders, y'always wish those psychos would just off themselves, not take out a bunch of others first, right?

Posted by: webworker - armchair psychoanalysis, 25¢ at January 30, 2014 04:51 AM (Ynbgq)

203 the insane are running teh Asylum empress, there is no effective allowable system of discipline, they all acknowledge children as autonomous individuals, head desk

Posted by: leonard pinth garnell at January 30, 2014 04:51 AM (Jsiw/)

204 Where is your vote? Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 08:39 AM (oGrEy) How bout, sending the unruly kids home, and let the parents be parents. Where does it say that a teacher has to put up with a disruptive kid (mentally impaired or not)?

Posted by: spypeach at January 30, 2014 04:52 AM (10H0T)

205 If children were angels we would have no need of mental health professionals. If mental health professionals were angels we would have no need to place restraints on mental health professionals. And therein lies the great problem. With apologies to James Madison.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 30, 2014 04:52 AM (g4TxM)

206 You want other people to pay for your child's shit. I decline.

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 08:48 AM (Gk3SS)

Good, now extend that logic and decline to pay for their little brats' education.

Please, someone explain to me why it is my responsibility to educate somebody else's kids.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 04:52 AM (QFxY5)

207 Nielsen reports the 2014 SOTU got a 21.8 or 33,299,172 viewers , the lowest in at least 20 years.
The 2009 SOTU, ObamaÂ’s first, got a 32.5 or 52,373,000 viewers.

Hope & Change.

BushÂ’s best was 2003 with a 38.8 or 62,061,000 viewers.
ClintonÂ’s best was 1993 with a 44.3 or 66,900,000 viewers.

Posted by: Eric "Otter" Stratton at January 30, 2014 04:53 AM (e8kgV)

208 Here.  A chew toy for the Horde.

The best original Trek costumes for certain values of best since we are discussing original Trek costumes:


http://bit.ly/1a3C3Qz

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 04:53 AM (Gk3SS)

209 If a parent has concerns about their child, by all means, have the child tested. But get your hand out of my pocket to make me pay for it.

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 08:27 AM (Gk3SS)


AtC - That was all you had to say right there.

Everything else was ceding ground in the argument to a progresssive idea.

Posted by: Dandolo at January 30, 2014 04:54 AM (0XBx+)

210 208 Posted by: The Lost Dutchman at January 30, 2014 08:50 AM (9F2c1) Just tell her the Nunn family are descended from nuns. Anti-pro choice! Heh!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 04:54 AM (olDqf)

211

Alex ... I too thought I was heartless. But that little missive stirred feelings inside me I didn't even know I had.

Posted by: ScoggDog at January 30, 2014 04:54 AM (nrgSm)

212 That my state has a long history of having MH professionals in schools. Early testing, early referrals. Parents decide what to do or not do with the information. We have an extremely, almost non-existent issue with children becoming mass murderers. And not a single scientologist has been a mass murderer. I guess L. Ron figured it all out too.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 04:54 AM (u5ozF)

213 Please, someone explain to me why it is my responsibility to educate indoctrinate somebody else's kids. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 08:52 AM (QFxY5) FIFY

Posted by: RWC at January 30, 2014 04:54 AM (fWAjv)

214 Never once got the damn 'strike' thing right.

Posted by: RWC at January 30, 2014 04:55 AM (fWAjv)

215 And guess what FedEx just brought to the door.

Damn....that was early.
So I no longer have an excuse to keep me from shopping.

Shop..hang out with the Horde....shop....hang out with the Horde?
Decisions, decisions.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 30, 2014 04:55 AM (w3OHe)

216 "I wonder if this guy was breaking any HOA covenants? " This guy was obviously in one of those "Mad Max" free-for-all neighborhoods that doesn't have an HOA. Those who rely on HOA presidents to keep them safe know the security of living in a snake-free environment. We walk the wall alone - and all we demand is total obedience.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 04:56 AM (u2a4R)

217 And not a single scientologist has been a mass murderer. I guess L. Ron figured it all out too.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 08:54 AM (u5ozF)



SOON.

Posted by: Tom Cruise, finally snapping at January 30, 2014 04:56 AM (9F2c1)

218 Gallup: Number of Blue States Shrinking, Down Four Over Last Year, Number of Red States Jumps ThreeÂ… Weasel Zippers: And yet we are about to cave and bend over on Amnesty? What the fuck?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 04:56 AM (t3UFN)

219 What AtC said. In fact. Whatever she says. (I don't want that type of evisceration) (or boot stomp)

Posted by: traye at January 30, 2014 04:56 AM (HPVEw)

220 Do not google for Pennsylvania school shootings. You'll find nothing. Swearsies.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 30, 2014 04:56 AM (L2I78)

221 Politico:
Democrats: Cede the House to save the Senate

Posted by: Frankie Goes To DC at January 30, 2014 04:57 AM (e8kgV)

222 And yet we are about to cave and bend over on Amnesty? What the fuck? ---------- The Establishment GOP has to ram it through before the rest of the party and the voters notice that they could tell them to go fuck themselves.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 30, 2014 04:57 AM (eytER)

223 Good, now extend that logic and decline to pay for their little brats' education. Please, someone explain to me why it is my responsibility to educate somebody else's kids. Amen. My wife and don't have any kids and yet we pay huge taxes for the local school palace so rich liberals can feel good about themselves and their future criminal offspring.

Posted by: Blacksheep at January 30, 2014 04:58 AM (bS6uW)

224 Levin pointed out last night that Dodd Frank, which created this dogshit Consumer Protection Agency, the head of which is cocksucker Richard Cordray who was one of the non-recess appointments that McRINO caved on, has prevented any congressional oversight of the agency which has tons of private financial information on every fucking one of us through data mining.  Thanks again, McRINO.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 30, 2014 04:58 AM (7FFZz)

225 My solution:

1. Do nothing. No testing. Kick the MH professional(s) out of the school. When the class becomes unruly, hire a wraparound aide at minimum $20,000 per school year for salary and benefits bring in the woodshop teacher with his paddle for a few minutes. at a cost of a small annual bonus to the woodshop teacher. Repeat as necessary, year after year. Do not notify the parent. Parents, if upset, can pay out-of-pocket for testing. 

Posted by: Jean at January 30, 2014 04:59 AM (4JkHl)

226 And you are drawing what kind of conclusion here exactly?

That my state has a long history of having MH professionals in schools. Early testing, early referrals. Parents decide what to do or not do with the information.

We have an extremely, almost non-existent issue with children becoming mass murderers.

================



SO DOES MOST EVERY OTHER STATE IN THE UNION.  BECAUSE IT IS A RARE OCCURENCE.


I gotta go get me some more Lithium.  My rage is overtaking my psychological well-being.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 30, 2014 04:59 AM (P6QsQ)

227 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 30, 2014 08:52 AM (QFxY5) The argument that basic education is a benefit for all of society does actually carry some weight. However, a lot of that weight was lost when the schools went down the shitter and became little more than free babysitting. Consider for instance that school recently profiled in the NY Post (or wherever) as the "Worst school in the nation." Where the kids watched Disney videos all day because they hadn't bought textbooks yet. I suspect we'd be having less of this argument if schools were successful at getting 90% (or heck even 80%) through 8th grade with a basic reading, writing, math background. But they aren't doing that, which makes your point much more salient.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 05:00 AM (GaqMa)

228 I have no problem burning up the phone lines calling Congresscritters, emailing them, etc. after they come out with their presumably shitty plan. Immigration is the kind of issue that can get millions to take the small step of contacting their Rep. It does help sometimes, maybe this can be one of them.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 30, 2014 05:00 AM (ZshNr)

229 Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 08:39 AM (oGrEy)

I am not a regular commenter here, but lurk a lot.....
But are you effing serious, nice straw man there.

How about option C, when little kids act bad discipline them.
If they continue kick them out of school.
I know radical idea.

Posted by: Dandolo at January 30, 2014 05:00 AM (0XBx+)

230

Fuck it. For now on, I cede all personal liberties ... as well as the liberties of my children ... to my bettors.

 

Especially if they have two degrees. That's the clincher right there.

Posted by: ScoggDog at January 30, 2014 05:00 AM (nrgSm)

231 WASHINGTON — North Korea has followed through on its threat to advance its nuclear weapons program, the top U.S. intelligence official said Wednesday, while a research institute pointed to signs the communist country is preparing to launch bigger rockets.

Boy this guy obama is on a roll ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 07:24 AM (t3UFN)



Barry: I'm sending Ambassador Rodman (not Hillary) over to straighten things out

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 30, 2014 05:01 AM (1Jaio)

232

Good morning, all!

 

Why are we discussing school shootings this morning? 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 30, 2014 05:01 AM (4df7R)

233 speaking of biracial cheerios anyone know whatever happened to Obamas sister?

Posted by: Avi at January 30, 2014 05:02 AM (p/izY)

234 Posted by: grammie winger at January 30, 2014 08:59 AM (P6QsQ) Freedom is mess, freedom is dangerous, freedom is good in spite of all this. No matter how strong you build the panopticon some will still fall through the cracks. The idea that building it stronger will prevent that is a lie. Instead we should be fostering freedom, because freedom is better than imprisonment.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 05:02 AM (GaqMa)

235 215 Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 08:53 AM (Gk3SS) Funny comments. Funnier considering the costumes never struck me as weird when I watched the show. And the costumes are all the work of William Ware Theiss.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2014 05:03 AM (olDqf)

236 Posted by: ScoggDog at January 30, 2014 09:00 AM (nrgSm) Hi there, you can send over your medical power of attorney any time you'd like. .

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 05:03 AM (GaqMa)

237 There is an interest, both personal and public, in guaranteed education. The issue is what is being taught. IMO, it should be the 3 Rs and American History with a focus on the Founding Fathers in elementary, with more hard science (not Gore-esque Gaia worship masquerading as science) in middle and high school, along with more history.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at January 30, 2014 05:04 AM (R+XDI)

238 It should be obvious by now that only new, state of the art facilities can provide the environment that children can learn in. And surely one can not expect them to play in a sub $50,000,000 football stadium. What a bunch of heartless bastards.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 05:04 AM (LSJmV)

239 ...seems that Regular Dufus wants  the state to test all our kids and depending on the test outcome and depending on if the parents are tea party members, or gun rights advocates , or any other conservative idea ... would then require state approved treatment ...
What could go wrong

Posted by: ET at January 30, 2014 05:05 AM (uGlk8)

240
The best original Trek costumes for certain values of best since we are discussing original Trek costumes:http://bit.ly/1a3C3Qz
Posted by: alexthechick




And now we realize that one of the few things to show up in the real future is the baby halo from "The Corbomite Maneuver".



Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2014 05:05 AM (kdS6q)

241 Why are we discussing school shootings this morning? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 30, 2014 09:01 AM (4df7R) Mandatory mental health testing in schools.

Posted by: RWC at January 30, 2014 05:05 AM (fWAjv)

242 Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at January 30, 2014 09:04 AM (R+XDI)

You should go start a school. I'll contribute to it.

Posted by: Dandolo at January 30, 2014 05:05 AM (0XBx+)

243 Phil Collins (nasal vocals) But before he went all Disney-movie wimpy, he was a damn good drummer for not only Genesis but the excellent UK jazz-rock group Brand X, not to mention guest spots on groundbreaking albums by Brian Eno. In the 70s, Collins masterfully straddled the commercial (yet still artistically valid) side of things with Genesis while simultaneously keeping a foot in the more experimental/artsy camp.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 05:06 AM (7ObY1)

244 HillBuzz still online? I have not checked them in a long time- Kevin was having health issues last time I did.

Posted by: backhoe at January 30, 2014 05:06 AM (ULH4o)

245

TSR ... thanks !!! Why Hell, you've got THREE DEGREES !!! A Better Better, so to speak.

 

What. A. Bargain.

Posted by: ScoggDog at January 30, 2014 05:06 AM (nrgSm)

246 Mental health testing: I believe this is the same testing my son's school did this year but I threw out the forms after it was done so I can't confirm or deny. It was run by a non-profit. The disclosure and waiver forms had too many concerning items. First off, they were official OMB forms. Second, parents were not allowed to see the test questions. Third, the results of the test were "for the researchers only with no disclosure to teachers, any school personnel, or parents." What could go wrong? My son (12) was the only kid in his homeroom that was not allowed to take the test. With a "hell no" on the forms.

Posted by: SacredCow at January 30, 2014 05:07 AM (L8S77)

247 You know, if we kicked more unruly kids out of school, then our business community wouldn't be bribing our Republican leadership to provide amnesty to their low cost workforce.  We could provide incentives to schools to drop the disciplinary hammer when the labor pool down at the chicken factory got tight.

Two problems, one stone.

Posted by: Jean at January 30, 2014 05:07 AM (4JkHl)

248 251 Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 09:05 AM (oGrEy)

Well, then lets fight the battle there. Not on progressive ground.

Posted by: Dandolo at January 30, 2014 05:08 AM (0XBx+)

249 Obama's high school pot dealer who he thanked for the 'good times' was beaten to death with a hammer by his gay lover after fights over flatulence and drugs

Raymond Boyer, known as 'Gay Ray' to Obama and his pot-smoking 'Choom Gang', had his brains beaten out with a hammer on Honolulu, Hawaii.

DailyMail

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 30, 2014 08:33 AM (kdS6q)




Barry wouldn't go to Thatcher's funeral but I'll bet he goes mincing off to that one

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 30, 2014 05:08 AM (1Jaio)

250 Never once got the damn 'strike' thing right. Posted by: RWC RWC, just s. No trike.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 05:09 AM (xZxMD)

251 Kevin was having health issues last time I did. Sure he wasn't trolling for dollars again? Like the time he collected funds for a "trip to DC" for some protest or another and then, strangely, refused to report on it or post a single picture? Or the time he vanished for several months and some of his longtime commenters got concerned and tried to find out if he was okay by contacting some of the people and places he always wrote about? None of them had ever heard of him. Dude's a scammer. Has been for years.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 05:10 AM (7ObY1)

252 196, 200 Oxfam seems to be organized to aid refugees around the world. http://www.oxfam.org/ I gather that Oxfam is opposed to all trade from settlements which are illegal under international law, particularly those interests which enhance racist favoritism one way or the other. Genetically, whether descended of Judah or any of the tribes of Jacob/Israel, or even from Abraham, the Semitic peoples of Canaan include all indigenous peoples sharing genetics and similar language today, regardless of current tribal/sect name or nationality. From first glance at their website, it certainly doesn't appear that Oxfam is racist at all in providing humanitarian aid. Oxfam provides equal standing for the refugees displaced from homelands, globally. And were Jews to be forcibly removed from their nation Israel, Oxfam would aid the displaced refugees regardless of religion or ethnicity. Of course, its every person's right to hate according to prejudice, and to claim one's own prejudice as the only legitimate prejudice -- just so long as you don't tread on your neighbor. /See trans-cultural Golden Rule

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 05:10 AM (MhA4j)

253 Good morning, all!

Why are we discussing school shootings this morning? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 30, 2014 09:01 AM (4df7R)


Because Reasons.


I want to discuss original Trek costumes, what drugs were used in the creation thereof and where I can find them.   Asking for a friend.




Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 05:10 AM (Gk3SS)

254 Dump up!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 05:10 AM (xZxMD)

255 To be fair, SCOAMT had a special relationship with his pot dealer. The country we stood with against fascism? Not so much.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at January 30, 2014 05:11 AM (R+XDI)

256 Barry wouldn't go to Thatcher's funeral but I'll bet he goes mincing off to that one All the gay men in Barry's life die sooner or later.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 05:11 AM (u5ozF)

257 RWC, just s. No trike. Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 09:09 AM (xZxMD) Thanks. I've been told that before but am just so used to writing out the whole word. Who knew Minx 0.7 Alpha would have a working shortcut?!?

Posted by: RWC at January 30, 2014 05:11 AM (fWAjv)

258 And not a single scientologist has been a mass murderer. I guess L. Ron figured it all out too.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 08:54 AM (u5ozF)

==========

"It has been conclusively proven in numerous demonstrations that the beating of tom-toms during an eclipse will restore the sun to the sky"

- Sir Francis Bacon

Then there is this whole "permanent record" thing.  Remember: by today's standards Thomas Edison would have been considered ADD.  If that fact had been part of a public record that followed him around and turned up whenever he tried to get financing for his various inventions we would be living in a different world today.

Kind of makes me happy that I grew up in the days of paper records that were locked away in filing cabinets at private schools that no longer exist.

Posted by: Nighthawk at January 30, 2014 05:11 AM (OtQXp)

259 If the left wants mental health testing, lets demand they bring back firearm safety, the manual of arms, and marksmanship for the students and mental health screening of teachers.

Posted by: Jean at January 30, 2014 05:12 AM (4JkHl)

260 Posted by: ScoggDog at January 30, 2014 09:06 AM (nrgSm) Disclosure: I have 1.5 degrees. Random aside rant though I am always stunned by how few people in my field have the same number of degrees as I'm heading towards (2) but even when they have more none of those degrees are in a hard science. Public health...MAYBE. Put differently, consider this: CNN's Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen's highest degree is a Masters in Public Health (undergrad in Journalism or something.) Or as I call it "The Dictator Degree." All power grabbing, no actual factual content.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 05:12 AM (GaqMa)

261 The problem with calling the woodshop teacher is that no one will be there to pick up the phone. Our education industry betters decided that there is no need for vocational training any longer and now industry is seeing those chickens coming home to roost.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 05:12 AM (LSJmV)

262 Answered my own question- yeah, HB is still there- with annoying autoplay videos. I sure wish websites would quit that sh*t- I will leave, every time. I cannot abide such junk.

Posted by: backhoe at January 30, 2014 05:13 AM (ULH4o)

263 Maybe in the future Hillary administration. But here's a sample of one of the tests if you're curious of what is asked.
http://psychology-tools.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/

Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 07:27 AM (oGrEy)

 

Interesting.  According to that test, I have some autistic traits indicative of Aspergers.  It could just be my introversion and social anxiety, though.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 30, 2014 05:13 AM (DrWcr)

264 268 If the left wants mental health testing, lets demand they bring back firearm safety, the manual of arms, and marksmanship for the students and mental health screening of teachers. Teachers should have mental health evaluations. And the results should be public record.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 30, 2014 05:13 AM (u5ozF)

265 Mandatory mental health testing in schools. ... No moral code tolerated in curriculum or in conversation. Wanted: Authoritarians public education IS the freeway to serfdom

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 05:13 AM (MhA4j)

266 More from Barry's gay drug dealer's story:

Boyer, 30 at the time, lived the archetypal hippy existence, sleeping in an old bus with two pet monkeys, and enjoying in full the promiscuous and hedonistic lifestyle of the gay community on the Pacific island.

He also dealt drugs to friends  - and it was through supplying marijuana that he came into contact with the young Obama, known as Barry, who was attending Punahou school nearby.

Obama, 18, who was only just beginning to explore his black roots – having been brought up by his white grandparents – was a leading member of a group called the Choom Gang.




I'll bet that wasn't all that Barry was exploring


Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 30, 2014 05:14 AM (1Jaio)

267 Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 09:12 AM (LSJmV) I don't think my high school had woodshop either. Although we had a 30 table pool hall and a rifle range stocked with .22s. Does that make up for it?

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 05:14 AM (GaqMa)

268 Mooch Tells Hollywood Libs To “Write A Big Fat Check. The Biggest You Can Possibly Write”… Weasel Zippers: I never, and I mean NEVER, remember Laura Bush being political at all. Mooch has no class what so ever

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 05:14 AM (t3UFN)

269 But I bet you alexthechick could recite a couple hundred court decisions, off the top of her head, that make those options unpossible. Posted by: Regular Moron at January 30, 2014 09:05 AM (oGrEy)


Not off the top of my head but, yes, I could within minutes bring to hand hundreds of rulings that make those options impossible.


However, if you are intending to imply that I would agree with such rulings, well, actually that would be fully in line with the intellectual integrity and rigor you have displayed thus far. 

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 05:15 AM (Gk3SS)

270

Shit TSR ... I've got one degree, you're only my better by 50%.

 

I'm holding out for a Better Better.

Posted by: ScoggDog at January 30, 2014 05:18 AM (QryZ9)

271 tah dump

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 30, 2014 05:19 AM (T2V/1)

272 270. yes. Ounce of prevention v. Pound of cure. Schools sell student accident insurance which would of course cover accidental injury to the carelessly unobservant student in shop. It would be a frivolous lawsuit, imo, were a parent to sue the school district because their child/student refused to follow instructions. Personal responsibility. Without it, no one learns a damned thing about maturity and wisdom, or why the wise virgins couldn't share with the foolish who failed to collect their own oil. In one ear, out the other.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 05:20 AM (MhA4j)

273

>>>Amen. My wife and don't have any kids and yet we pay huge taxes for the local school palace so rich liberals can feel good about themselves and their future criminal offspring.

 

Every time we pass this one high school, wife is amazed with the *theatre auditorium* which rivals some NYC venues.

 

http://is.gd/3C4ni0

 

They are not known for producing career theatre professionals, so far as I know. But the artistic director is getting a new, more professional/powerful/higher paying gig now...

Posted by: Bigby's Jazz Hands at January 30, 2014 05:21 AM (3ZtZW)

274 I'm holding out for a Better Better. Posted by: ScoggDog at January 30, 2014 09:18 AM (QryZ9) It's a PhD, in healthcare ethics. And it'll be done eventually I promise . (I'm going to the new thread now)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 05:21 AM (GaqMa)

275 You want other people to pay for your child's shit. I decline.

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 08:48 AM (Gk3SS)

So, so hawt.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at January 30, 2014 05:21 AM (fwARV)

276 I have 3 degrees, none of them in education, and I wager I can come up with a better curriculum than most teachers. I'm guessing my father, with no degrees, could come up with a better plan than most in education.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at January 30, 2014 05:21 AM (R+XDI)

277 Its the short bus for me: 38 "Scores in the 33 - 50 range indicate significant Austistic traits (Autism)." 

But, I used to sit in the back of class, ignore the teacher, and use a slide rule to see which random combinations of numbers (from the clock, book page, whatever ... (pagenumber)log - time(min)*(date) ) would equal soemthing interesting (a prime, pi multiple, etc.) The teachers left me alone, esp. when I started writing papers documenting the errors in the text books.

Posted by: Jean at January 30, 2014 05:25 AM (4JkHl)

278

213: "Please, someone explain to me why it is my responsibility to educate somebody else's kids."

 

It's not. Just be prepared for the logical consequence. Lots more LIVs.

 

But then I guess that isn't much of a difference nowadays after all.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 30, 2014 05:25 AM (OJn3e)

279 Posted by: Regular Moron 5 cents at January 30, 2014 09:22 AM (oGrEy) You better hope she's left this thread, because throwing out the "extremely low empathy scores" is...uhh...wow. But it's OK, let's roll with the liberal response of "empathy is determined by how much government cheese I vote to spend." Let's get real, this boils down to "don't gore my ox." Or in this case your wife's ox.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 05:27 AM (GaqMa)

280 "Every time we pass this one high school, wife is amazed with the *theatre auditorium* which rivalssome NYC venues."

At my kids Catholic school, I help setup the bleacher stands for events.

Posted by: Jean at January 30, 2014 05:28 AM (4JkHl)

281 Posted by: Regular Moron 5 cents at January 30, 2014 09:22 AM (oGrEy)

wow. 

Good luck with that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at January 30, 2014 05:28 AM (fwARV)

282 Oh goody.

An epic beat down coming!

Dude, nice knowing you.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 30, 2014 05:31 AM (w3OHe)

283 Interesting. Many savants with Asperger, with extremely low empathy scores like you display, have eidetic memories. Also they are drawn to the legal profession.

I guess you weren't tested early enough or you'd know that.

/ half-kidding
*blocks throatpunch* Posted by: Regular Moron 5 cents at January 30, 2014 09:22 AM (oGrEy)



Yeah.  The person who owns an entire set of the DSM has never been tested and is wholly unaware of the joy that people take in playing Wheel!   Of!  Autism! with her.   Yuppers.  Got it in one there, sport. 


Also you are not kidding in the slightest.  The only one it insults when you try to hide behind the White Goodman just kidding but not really schtick is you.

Posted by: alexthechick - We besearch thee of great SMOD at January 30, 2014 05:34 AM (Gk3SS)

284 282 I grew up while those in the fine arts were also the highest academic ranking students, top ten kids in the class of 600 as the rule, everyone in the top 10%. It was a matter of pride, of being a "complete" student and staying in shape. As for getting parts in the annual musical theatrical production, the competition was so fierce, aside from personality favoritism, often the deciding factor depended on whose grades were better. Given TV "Glee!" as today's popular model, scholastics are abandoned even as "scholarships" no longer apply to academic excellence but redistributed awards to the minority "poor".

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 05:35 AM (MhA4j)

285 6am low of 29 degrees Just looked out the window hoping for sunshine. Sigh, the high won't happen until 3pm partly cloudy 61. The dog likes the crisp air. I'll do my best to keep up. Later.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 30, 2014 05:42 AM (MhA4j)

286 He's a scammer. Has been for years. I got banned at Hillbuzz years ago for having the temerity to mock Hillarity!, their patron Cankles. Once a libtard, always a libtard.

Posted by: RickZ at January 30, 2014 06:20 AM (PpAf4)

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