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SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS SHOULD NOT PROCREATE, THIS TYPE OF WOOLY THINKING IS WHY!!!

New use for schoolbooks: Stopping bulletsSuperintendent candidate wants old texts used as shields
Posted: October 21, 20068:24 p.m. Eastern
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With school shootings a growing concern across the country, a candidate for state superintendent of schools in Oklahoma is running on a platform of defense.
His idea? Storing old textbooks beneath the desks of all public school children for use as shields from gunfire.
In a videotaped experiment, Bill Crozier even went so far as to test various books and various firearms.
Crozier, a Union City Republican challenging incumbent Democrat Sandy Garrett, said he would put thick used textbooks under every desk for students to use in self-defense.
Crozier's experiment began with shots fired at a calculus textbook from an AK-47 Russian-style assault rifle. The shot penetrated two textbooks at once. Shots from handguns were generally stopped by thick books.
"We need to look at protection of young people that sometimes people may think you are a little smarter than everybody else or a higher IQ or whatever," Crozier said. "They need to look at what the end result would be.
"This would be to protect the children in an immediate situation. This is something that any student, any classroom in the country could do immediately," he said.

Walmart being sued over the action of stupid parents

Courts are now acting as enablers for fools that procreate.

Wal-Mart sued over dive sticks

St. Petersburg, Florida - Lawyers representing a Bay area child are in a St. Petersburg courthouse…..taking on corporate giant Wal-Mart, and a product supplier seeking millions in damages.
The case centers around swimming pool toys known as dive sticks, supplied to Wal-Mart in the 1990's by a Clearwater based Florida Pool.
When Marcus Zunner was just three, he was hospitalized with a severe accident from a divestick.
Kimberly Zunner, Marcus' Mother:
“He slid into the pool on the slide and he landed on it and it went into his rectum.”
Justin Johnson, Marcus' Attorney:
“He suffered a rectal impalement of about an inch and a half. And he had open abdominal surgery, with a cholostomy.”
WalMart and Florida Pool, are expected to argue the dive sticks were safe, but that that the family misused them, by allowing the child to jump on the sticks in a shallow, inflatable kiddie pool.
The stick's are weighted to stand perpendicular to the bottom of the pool, and when they are three to seven feet underwater, kids often dive after them in order.
But in shallow water, they may stand just inches below the surface which was apparently what happened when Marcus jumped in.
In 1999, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ordered Florida Pool to recall 9,000,000 dive sticks.
The company responded in a news release.
Florida Pool, 1999 news release:
"Dive sticks are fun and enjoyable when used properly but are not to be used in shallow water."
That recall came after six known injuries were reported to the CPSC, and one year before Marcus' Zunner was hurt landing on a dive stick.
Justin Johnson, Marcus Zummer's Attorney:
“It subsequently was banned as a hazardous product.”
Those close to Marcus worry he will need a lifetime of medical care and multiple surgeries as a result of the dive stick accident at a young age.
Marcus Zunner is now nine, and according to his lawyer, is doing as well as can be expected.
His lawyer says Marcus will be here at points during the trial, but is not expected to testify.

Definetly in this case government tells private industry "do as I say, not as I do"

NOTICE THAT THE FEDS CAN DISCRIMINATE IN THEIR RULES BUT NO ONE ELSE CAN.

Court: UPS Discriminated Against Deaf
Oct 10 5:51 PM US/Eastern

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that UPS Inc. violated anti-discrimination laws by automatically barring the deaf and hearing-impaired from driving parcel delivery trucks.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson's 2004 ruling that the Atlanta-based company's practices breach the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Henderson, in a class-action case representing as many as 1,000 would- be drivers, ruled that the hearing impaired should "be given the same opportunities that a hearing applicant would be given to show that they can perform the job of package-car driver safely and effectively." The San Francisco federal court order was stayed pending appeal.
On appeal, UPS maintained its hiring practice was a safety issue and it was not discriminating.
"UPS strongly disagrees with the court's ruling and we are evaluating our options, including an appeal," company spokesman Norman Black said. "We believe this case is about safety. It has nothing to do with disability or discrimination."
The appeals court, however, said UPS had no right to automatically disqualify deaf or hearing impaired drivers.
"While UPS offered anecdotal testimony involving situations where a driver avoided an accident because he or she heard a warning sound, the company ... failed to show that those accidents would not also have been avoided by a deaf driver who was compensated for his or her loss of hearing by, for example, adapting modified driving techniques or using compensatory devices such as backing cameras or additional mirrors," Judge Marsha Berzon wrote for a three-judge panel of the appeals court.
The case was litigated by Disability Rights Advocates who represented current and former employees who were passed over for driving positions, and other potential employees who consented to what the group dubbed UPS's "deaf-need-not-apply" policy.
"We are obviously ecstatic over the ruling," said attorney Todd Schneider, who worked with the Berkeley-based plaintiffs' group on the case.
"Each deaf person has to be assessed individually to make a determination, just like a hearing person, as to whether they can safely drive a UPS truck," he added. "That's all we ever asked."
The dispute centered on UPS's custom of denying hearing-impaired workers jobs operating delivery trucks weighing under 10,000 pounds.
Federal rules demand that trucks exceeding 10,000 pounds be staffed by those meeting certain vision and hearing requirements. But the government leaves it up to companies to decide who is qualified to operate lighter vehicles.
The U.S. Postal Service and FedEx Corp. allow some deaf drivers to operate delivery vehicles under 10,000 pounds.
In 2003, under a $10 million settlement, UPS agreed to track promotions and ensure that hearing-impaired employees and job applicants have access to certified interpreters. The company also agreed to provide text telephones and vibrating pagers to alert poor- hearing employees to emergency evacuations.
That settlement resolved all issues in the case except the truck driving dispute.
The case is Bates v. UPS Inc., 04-17295.

The fact that this is news is a sad comment on society

Why should it be big news that a person defends their home?
Are we so sissyfied that it is rare?

CORPUS CHRISTI TEEN KILLS BURGLAR IN HOME


CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - A 14-year-old boy shot and killed a man who broke into his family's home Monday and threatened to kill him and his mother, Police Chief Bryan Smith said.Smith said the man, whose name was not immediately known, confronted a woman as she was carrying groceries into her home shortly before 1 p.m.The man forced her inside and tied her and her son up. Smith said the woman was able to loosen the binding and free her son, who got his father's revolver from a security box beneath a bed.As the man tried to break into the room where the two were and threatened to kill them both, the teen fired a shot through the door and hit the intruder in the head, Smith said.

So the Psycho has a nuke huh?

Everyone is all abuzz about the Nuke test by the dictator of N. Korea (Kim Jung Il) of a nuclear device equal to the Hiroshima device.
Curiously not one nation has called for a real solution to the problem of the rogue nation.
That solution being a complete isolation of the country.
Yes the population will suffer that is true. BUT since military action is out of the question then an all out blockade will be the way to go.
Kim Jung won't use his new device on the Chinese because he knows they are just looking for an excuse to flatten them.

I know that those who read this will be thinking "oh how cruel, you would starve those poor people", why yes I would. They dug the hole they are in and it is their responsibility to dig themselves out of it.

Rights are relative now in some states apparently

So as a parent you think you have absolute rights? I would not be too sure
BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
'Gay' groups: We have rights to your children!
Brief filed in lawsuit over school promotion of homosexuality
Posted: October 6, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
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A collection of 'gay' organizations has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a Massachusetts lawsuit, claiming they have every right to teach their doctrine to grade-school students.
Parental rights, according to the brief filed this week, "have never meant that a parent can demand prior notice and the right to opt a child out of mere exposure to ideas in the public schools that a parent disapproves of."
That includes, according to the brief, religious or any other ideas.
The new brief was filed in a Massachusetts District Court lawsuit by Lexington parent David Parker, whose civil rights case is pending, by the Human Rights Campaign, the ACLU, Massachusetts Teachers Association, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and others.

"The amici organizations urge this court to grant the school defendants' motion to dismiss because the scope of the rights of religious freedom and parental control over the upbringing of children, as asserted by the plaintiffs, would undermine teaching and learning in the Lexington public schools," the brief alleges.

"Why are all these groups – especially the national groups – so interested in a parent's right to decide what moral issues are taught to his children by adults in elementary schools, especially regarding homosexuality," asked Brian Camenker, president of MassResistance.
That group said it is a "pro-family action center for Massachusetts" which equips citizens to fight attacks on freedoms, constitutional government, children and parental rights.
"This is outrageous and very frightening. They must see David Parker's case as quite a threat to their ability to push their message on children," he said.

He said the "true agenda" of the sponsors of the brief is apparent in the demands that the state has a legal obligation to teach homosexual issues to young children in the public schools – and parents do not even have the right to remove their kids or be notified.

Parker was arrested and jailed in Lexington in April 2005 over his request – and the school's refusal – to notify him when adults discuss homosexuality or transgenderism with his 6-year-old kindergartner. That despite a state law requiring such notification.

The incident made news around the nation and even Gov. Mitt Romney agreed with Parker.
However, in April 2006 the same school presented the book "King and King," about homosexual romances and marriage, to second-graders and again refused to provide notification.
Parker and other parents followed with the federal civil rights lawsuit, alleging school officials and the town were refusing to follow state law.

Just days later, David Parker's now-first-grade son, Jacob, was beaten up at Estabrook Elementary in Lexington, officials said. MassResistance said a group of 8-10 kids surrounded him and took him out of sight of "patrolling aides," then pummeled and beat him.

Joining David and Tonia Parker in the lawsuit were Joseph and Robin Wirthlin. They allege district officials and staff at Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington violated state law and civil rights by indoctrinating their children about an immoral lifestyle, circumventing parental responsibilities.
The school is claiming a state law permitting parents to pull their children applies only to classes in which such sensitive topics are the main focus, and the books promoting homosexuality were not the main focus.

In Massachusetts, the 'gay' groups said: "If a parent chooses to have his or her child attend the public schools, that child has a right to a broad and high quality public education, not one constrained by individual parental beliefs."

David Parker's son brought home the book 'Who's in a Family?' in school's 'Diversity Book Bag' (Image: Article 8 Alliance)

The Massachusetts arguments were remarkably similar to a recent European court's conclusion.
The European Human Rights Court just a few weeks ago concluded in a case involving similar objections that parents do not have an "exclusive" right to lead their children's education and any parental "wish" to have their children grow up without adverse influences "could not take priority over compulsory school attendance."

That court said a German family had no right to provide homeschooling for their children.
In the case that originated in Germany, homeschooling parents Fritz and Marianna Konrad argued for that right because they said Germany's compulsory school attendance endangered their children's religious upbringing and promotes teaching inconsistent with the family's Christian faith.
But the court conclude, "The parents' right to education did not go as far as to deprive their children of that experience."

"The (German) Federal Constitutional Court stressed the general interest of society to avoid the emergence of parallel societies based on separate philosophical convictions and the importance of integrating minorities into society," the European ruling said.

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NYC school WAYYY oversteps its authority

You would never believe such insanity possible.

School gives parents detention for tardiness
Public city school punishes families who drop kids off late
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:36 p.m. CT Oct 1, 2006

NEW YORK - A public school is requiring detention for parents who get their kids to school late.
Under the new rule at the Manhattan School for Children, parents who don’t drop off their children by 8:25 a.m. have to pick up late slips from the principal’s office and go to the auditorium to serve 20 minutes of detention with them.
“The parents need to make the breakfast, get the children dressed and get them to school on time,” principal Susan Rappaport told the New York Post for Sunday’s editions.
Some tardy parents at the school, which has 660 pupils in kindergarten through eighth grade, complained the detention made them late for work. But others approved, saying they felt humiliated and won’t show up late again.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15096891/from/RS.3/

Monopoly Hypocricy

Curiously enough the newspapers are coming out against the merger of 2 government aeronautics contractors and calling it a monoply.
"U.S. antitrust authorities yesterday approved a plan by Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. to merge their government rocket businesses, creating a monopoly in a multibillion-dollar market that the Federal Trade Commission acknowledged will probably lead to higher prices and lower quality."
They had better look for the real monopolies and not these contrivances. Government coerced monopolies exist on campuses nationwide in the form of the Meal & housing plans.

Look back in my blogs for "Coerced Monopoly "for the good of the poor" This is the details on a true coerced monopoly.