Almost looks like a school notebook.
Except there are no papers to rip out from the spiral wire.
“A few earrings.”
Image courtesy of http://www.hahastop.com/pictures/A_Few_Earings.htm.
We regret to inform you, there has been a death in the family.
Scrambled eggs will be served to all grieving.
“Broken Egg.”
Image courtesy of http://www.hahastop.com/pictures/Broken_Egg.htm.
Wish you could visit New York’s Metropolitan Museaum of Art? In about two minutes? Now you can.
April 10, 2010
Yes. You can listen to the president in this public restroom. Or just opt for the paper towels and scurry away. Fast.
“Press the button.”
Image courtesy of http://www.hilarious-pictures.com/picture/press-the-button.
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Fun with Teabags! Tammy Bruce.
A clever new way to display your fondness for the beverage. Or the political brand.
Hat tip, IOTHW.
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Dogs, Cats & Squirrels, Oh My: Pet-Friendly Offices. WSJ.
First and foremost.
“You have to run your business first, and the core of your business is still your people.”
Once the priorities and other little things are set straight, there can be an added bonus with clients.
“The first and last thing they wanted to do was play with the dogs,” …adding that his firm won over the client.
Seems well enough. But what does one do when the employee wants to bring tarantulas, snakes, or goats to work?
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Texas Sheriff Warns Residents Near Mexican Border: ‘Arm Yourselves’. Fox. An interview between Greta Van Sustern and Sheriff Arvin West of Hudspeth County, Texas. Hudspeth borders Mexico for approximately 1200 miles. Topic is the rampant bloody and murderous violence in Mexico primarily associated with drug cartel activity.
VAN SUSTEREN: Sheriff, typically law enforcement protects citizens. You are telling citizens they need to arm themselves. Is that an admission that things have changed drastically?
WEST: Greta, what I’m telling my farmers and ranchers to arm themselves. They are out in the fields working doing an honest day’s work trying to make a leaving. While they are out there, they are really vulnerable. People come up behind them, and like the rancher in Arizona. I don’t know the details of what happened out there, but I don’t want the same scenario taking place out here.
VAN SUSTEREN: I take it the border is absolutely porous there, is that correct?
WEST: Yes, ma’am, it sure is. It is wide open.
Wide open for sure. But is it just a lot of hype, or is what t his man is seeing, portends things to come?
VAN SUSTEREN: Is it spilling over into your area yet or is it still contained in Mexico?
WEST: The killing is still contained in Mexico. There’s not any killing taking place on the American side other than the rancher that I know of and the incident in El Paso where they kidnapped a guy and took him into Mexico and killed him.
But the fact of the matter is citizens from Mexico have moved to our side of the river, whether it be El Paso, Fort Hancock, they’ve moved here for safety reasons to get away from that. And the fact that some of these people may be involved in the drug cartels, they may be trying to come here and get them.
Yikes!
Armed and Dangerous: Confronting The Problem of Border Incursions. Page 30 through 38 of the PDF, and page 30 through 34 of the document.
A little background on the work West has done in the past. This is testimony given before the Subcommittee of Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 7, 1996. An incident where Mexican government appeared to accompany and facilitate drug cartel loads crossing into the United States.
The man certainly does have a lot of work.
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Which direction is the sphere spinning?
From Mighty Optical Illusions with fascinating explanation.
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Texas city revives paddling as it takes a swat at misbehavior. WP.
Talking back to teachers or administrators. Being late to class. Talking or passing notes in class. Violating rules of the classroom. Wearing clothes that can range from borderline indecent to a fashionista conundrum. In effect, disrespecting authority by disrupting class routine and the ability for everyone to learn in an environment free from distractions in an environment conducive to learning for all.
Parents are fed up with increasing lack of regard and sometimes flagrant contempt in the classroom that may spill out to the real world, and believe paddling is just another option in the role of encouraging positive behavior.
Residents said restoring paddling is less about the punishment and more about the threat.
“It’s like speeding,” said Bill Woodward, a graphic designer. “Are they going to give you a speeding ticket, or . . . a warning? I’d speed all day if I knew it was going to be a warning.”
Has it worked so far? Remember, parents and students have to give consent before it happens.
Since paddling was brought back to the city’s 14 schools by a unanimous board vote in May, behavior at Temple’s single high school has changed dramatically, Wright said, even though only one student in the school system has been paddled.
“The discipline problem is much better than it’s been in years,” Wright said, something he attributed to the new punishment and to other discipline programs schools are trying.
Indeed, TISD OKs corporal punishment. But what if a parent disapproves?
The district will allow parents to request that their children not be administered the punishment, although they will face other discipline measures consistent with the offense.
“It’s not the school’s job to spank my kids,” said Rolanda Smith, who has three children attending schools in the district. “Whose job is it to decide when the kid is acting up to the point that they deserve a spanking? That’s my job as a parent.
It IS a parent’s responsibility to mete out disciplinary measures when their child is misbehaving. The problem seems to be parents who do not actively encourage following the rules already in place, to effect a child’s proper behavior at school.
Just like watching a tree growing a wayward trunk or limbs is not going to straighten the tree out to maturity. One must sometimes actively prune, shape, and tether a tree to realize its full potential. Knowing the parameters of acceptable behavior and the spectrum of disciplinary measures awaiting those who transgress, should help prevent aberrant behavior.
Works for schools in Temple, Texas.
Some interesting comments in the Houston Chronicle.
Tigerdave wrote: I can ATTEST ,when that PADDLE MEATS [sic] the BUTT there is a definate change in ones MIND set.
notobamafriendly wrote: This is refreshing. As a criminal psychologist I have worked with a number of youth that could have used a good paddling. It is the liberal NEA and irresponsible parents that send these children into the system. Have 4 kids and never spared the paddle. They have never been in trouble. I hate the excuses…bipolar, ADD, and now autism. Wake up people!! Drugging your child to behave is not the way to go. We all face the consequences sooner or later.
cardiac01 wrote: Should kids be paddled in school? Absolutely, and on a as needed basis with regularity…..and should be done by people who aren’t afraid to get their point across….meaning, send them to the coaches’ offices. I was paddled, and more than once. My friends were paddled and more than once. Nevertheless, we grew up to be one of these well adjusted, very well educated members of society who today are considered MAJOR contributors to the Internal Revenue Service to support those who (unquestionably) DID NOT receive the discipline they needed to get a good education and obtain a sense of responsibility…….consequently, they aren’t able to support their illegitimate children, let alone contribute to the society they leach from…..so YES, bu[s]t their butts and bust them HARD.
Fontenot6 wrote: Texas teacher, Thank you for working to educate our future despite the road blocks society puts in your way.
I have lots of family that are teachers and I’m young enough (25) to remember what really went on in schools so I can vouch that Texas teacher speaks the truth. Many of the failings in schools are due to discipline problems and parents who expect the teacher to raise their child without allowing the teacher to enforce consequences. What is both funny and sad is that my sister, a high school teacher, sent out slips requesting from parents whether their child could be spanked. The behavior problems brought back notes where the parents not only said no but threatened to sue the school if the child was even threatened with a paddle. The well behaved children came back with notes saying that not only should the school paddle the kid, but please let the parent know as well so that the parent can finish the job at home to reinforce the punishment. Sad but true and displays that most of the problems in our schools start with irresponsible parents at home. Not having the support of the parents makes it very hard on teachers and it really only takes one heathen to disturb the learning of a class of 30 students.
And for the psychologist and promoters of positive reinforcement, what at school are we going to take away as punishment. After 5th grade, there is no recess to revoke. You can take away sports but that will also take away them learning about working as a team and self sacrifice for group goals, something very positive. Maybe you’d take away their lectures or their homework, but that would only reinforce the bad behavior as the problem student would see it as a positive consequence of poor discipline. I doubt you want to take away their bathroom privledges or lunchtime. Someone give me a realistic and effective model of taking away privledges at school, but until then, lets stick to what’s proven effective, corporal punishment
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Email in circulation.
Over and under 30. The generations have something to toss about here. Either you lived it, or you are about to hear it.
If you are 30, or older, you might think this is hilarious!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning…. Uphill… Barefoot… BOTH ways (& IN THE SNOW—even if they grew up in the deep South!) … yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it!
But now that I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today. You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter – with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our butt! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3′s or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favorite tape and “eject” it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that’s how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that’s it!
There weren’t any freakin’ cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn’t make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your “friends”. OH MY WORD!!! Think of the horror… not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there’s TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent… you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn’t have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘Asteroids’. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen… Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were out of luck when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I’m saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!
Also, we didn’t have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
And our parents told us to stay outside and play… all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside… you were doing chores!
And car seats – oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the “safety arm” across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling “shot gun” in the first place!
See! That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!
Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd
(Send this to someone you’d like to make smile)
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Stress Reduction Kit. Bang Head Here.
