May 11, 2013

Maybe School managers should spend more time worrying about reading, writing and 'rithmetic than which condiment little Johnny consumes...

(Hat Tip: IHateTheMedia)

I made this new Office of School Food logo for the regional manager behind the email. It's more fitting, I think.

May 03, 2013

A Philadelphia mother wants her son’s high school teacher fired after he bought the teen the novel Fifty Shades of Grey for in-class reading. [...]

Ladson's son, who is a 9th grade student at Eastern University Academy Charter School in the East Falls section of Philadelphia, asked for and was given the book by his teacher and adviser Philip Aidoo. (Source)

April 25, 2013

At Red Hook Middle School in New York during an "anti-bullying" workshop, teen girls were forced to pretend to be a lesbian couple and kiss each other.

Parents of children attending a Red Hook, New York, middle school are outraged after a recent anti-bullying presentation at Linden Avenue Middle School. [...]

Parents say their daughters were told to ask one another for a kiss and they say two girls were told to stand in front of the class and pretend they were lesbians on a date.

"She told me, 'Mom we all get teased and picked on enough. Now I'm going to be called a lesbian because I had to ask another girl if I could kiss her,'" parent, Mandy Coon, told reporters.

Coon says parents were given no warning about the presentation and there was no opportunity to opt-out. Both the school principal and the district superintendent are defending the workshops and advising they will schedule more.

The boys were also forced to attend a workshop. Only in their forum, they were taught to always keep a condom handy and how to spot girls who are "sluts."

And no, that isn't sarcasm. That is actually the workshop presented for the male students.

Contact information:

Linden Avenue Middle School
65 West Market Street
Red Hook, NY 12571
Telephone: 845-758-2241

Principal: Dr. Katie Zahedi, ext. 3256
kzahedi@rhcsd.org

Assistant Principal: Mrs. Jillian Berardi, ext. 3268
jberardi@rhcsd.org

If you contact the school, please keep it civil.

April 22, 2013

In this case, she's both a lawyer and a professor. So, the cards were stacked against anything coming out of her mouth from the get go:

This said, the mortuary pictures of the older brother of the two are extremely disturbing, raising questions as to whether the Boston Police Department captured him with too much force. I understand the explanation offered by Katharine Q. Seelye, William H. Rashbaum, and Michael Cooper. Yet, it does not ring true. A picture is worth a thousand words that will keep our ears ringing as we recoil from this photo. Images have a way of searing themselves into our memory in a way that can’t be undone. We have an emotional memory, not just a rational one that is exemplified by words.

April 17, 2013

More at Twitchy.

Boston is:

1. A Country
2. A Suburb of London
3. A U.S. State
4. A City In England
5. A City In New York
6. Confusing

The irony is that these Twitter dependent teens are apparently clueless on how to Google.

April 04, 2013

If you're not feeling enough white guilt, maybe this wristband will help you.

WAPO:

The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R’s — formerly reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction and recycling. Especially racism. Consider Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction. It evidently considers “instruction” synonymous with “propaganda,” which in the patois of progressivism is called “consciousness-raising.”

Wisconsin’s DPI, in collaboration with the Orwellian-named federal program VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America; the “volunteers” are paid), urged white students to wear white wristbands “as a reminder about your privilege, and as a personal commitment to explain why you wear the wristband.” A flyer that was on the DPI Web site and distributed at a DPI-VISTA training class urged whites to “put a note on your mirror or computer screen as a reminder to think about privilege,” to “make a daily list of the ways privilege played out” and to conduct an “internal dialogue” asking questions such as “How do I make myself comfortable with privilege?” and “What am I doing today to undo my privilege?”

Hat Tip: Prairie Weather.

March 22, 2013

When someone noticed the quote it went viral on the net. Later, the quote was replaced with this: "Sorry, there is no quote of the of the today". Nice sentence structure you have there edumacators. Were you in a hurry or something?

The above "sentence" was replaced by a quote from Abraham Lincoln. That quote is also gone including the slot for the quote of the day

Red face of the day brought to you by the U.S. Department of Education's Little Red Book.

Thanks to @webradius

Kinda reminds me of this:

No Comparison! ==> twitter.com/adamsbaldwin/s…

— Adam Baldwin (@adamsbaldwin) May 1, 2012

FORWARD Comrades!

March 21, 2013

When discussions of hair as a sign of white privilege are taken as a serious academic debate, I know it's time to get out.

March 20, 2013

A Massachusetts principal has been criticized for canceling his school's Honors Night, saying it could be 'devastating' to the students who worked hard, but fell short of the grades.

MyFoxBoston.com reports that David Fabrizio, principal of Ipswich Middle School, notified parents last week of his plan to eliminate the event.

"The Honors Night, which can be a great sense of pride for the recipients' families, can also be devastating to a child who has worked extremely hard in a difficult class but who, despite growth, has not been able to maintain a high grade-point average," Fabrizio penned in his first letter to parents, the station reported.

But, apparently, it's okay to devastate the kids who worked hard and achieved academic honors...

Contact Info, in case you want to let this Principal know how stupid and unfair this policy is to the children who deserve recognition:

Ipswich Middle School
David Fabrizio, Principal
130 High Street
Ipswich, MA 01938
Phone 978-356-3535
Fax 978-412-8169

Remember, as always, keep it civil.

Related:
Maryland School District bans birthday invitations at school - uninvited students might have their feelings hurt.

March 05, 2013

There has been a sudden burst of racial hate incidents in Alabama, no wait I mean Ohio.

Oberlin College in Ohio suspended classes Monday after a student reported seeing a person resembling a Ku Klux Klan member near the college's Afrikan Heritage House.

The other incidents have included several posters containing multiple racial slurs and other derogatory statements targeting various student communities placed around campus. Other reports include various fliers placed around campus containing racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic language and swastika graffiti.

"The frequency of these reports is astounding," Gadsby said. "Over the past four weeks, there has been a concentration of bias incidents in such a short period of time.

Been there. Done that.

February 13, 2013

My head, it hurts:

Megan Thode isn't the first Lehigh University student who was unhappy with the grade she received in a course. But she may be the first to sue to get it changed.

The C+ that Thode was given scuttled her dream of becoming a licensed professional counselor and was part of an effort to force her out of the graduate degree program she was pursuing, said her lawyer, Richard J. Orloski, whose lawsuit seeks $1.3 million in damages.

And since I'm not exactly known for my leniency in grading, I'm guessing that in the next few years I'm totally screwed.

February 08, 2013

California college students are vying for butt plugs and fake vaginas:

A public university’s Union Activities Board (UAB) paid $304.69 to purchase sex toys as prizes for a “Dirty Bingo” event, an administrator told Campus Reform on Thursday.

The items purchased as awards include butt plugs, an artificial vagina, vibrators, dildos, lubricant, edible underwear, a book on sex positions, and other items, Lauryn Collier, president of North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) UAB, told Campus Reform in a statement Thursday.

Sometimes I weep for the future of America. What next, the military?

Wasn't this from an episode of "The Office"?

January 29, 2013

I think it's safe to assume most of those attending the event are liberals, and nothing gives liberals a bigger orgasm than screwing the tax-payers.

From Campus Reform:

The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMTC) is set to hold an event this spring designed to help its female undergraduate students achieve more and greater orgasms.

The university's official online description of the event entitled, "The Female Orgasm," describes it as open to both male and female students.

"Orgasm aficionados and beginners of all genders are welcome to come learn about everything from multiple orgasms to that mysterious G-spot," reads the description posted on the school's official events calendar.

The event is listed on the University of Minnesota's events calendar.

December 28, 2012

Mom and Dad know she's slutty because of, you know, the spying.

Twenty-one year old Aubrey Ireland... won a restraining order case against her parents who have taken the idea of being involved to a whole new extreme

Despite her good grades and success in musical shows, David and Julie Ireland often drove 600 miles from Leawood, Kan., to visit their daughter unannounced. They accused her of using illegal drugs, promiscuity and suffering from mental woes.

he parents knew about what they saw as their daughter’s problems because, they admit, they installed monitoring software on her laptop and cellphone, allowing them to see her every keystroke

Update: Totally unrelated link to Big Boob Friday. Why? Why not?

November 30, 2012

Lesbian Seagull:

SOUTH LYON, Mich. (WJBK) -- A South Lyon performing arts teacher hit a low note with school officials. She was suspended without pay for playing a song about being gay during class.

It was like any other day at South Lyon's Centennial Middle School. Inside Ms. Johnson's eighth grade performing arts class. Last Wednesday, a student asked if he could play a song.

"I asked him a few questions about the song. If it was violent, if there was any profanity, and he said no. And I said this sounds like a great song to go ahead and use for the class," said Susan Johnson.

... This is one of the things in my school that we're trying to practice and we're trying to instill in our students is tolerance to diversity," she explained.

However, another student in class didn't agree with the lyrics, went to the office and complained. Before the school day ended, Johnson claims the principal and assistant superintendent told her she was suspended indefinitely without pay.

November 21, 2012

Finally Obamacare is being implemented.

Your Flexible Spending limits, that is the amount of medical expenses you can exempt from taxes, you know that card you use to pay all your deductibles and prescription co-pays with will be reduced to $2500 per year. Also if you want to pay for your prescriptions with it you now also have to have a "statement of medical necessity" to pay those.

A tax increase and some red tape, that was one of those "popular parts"?

Also the administration is working with doctors to agree on a drug testing regime for tobacco products, no not for smoking, for all tobacco products. The tests will be part of your routine care, along with yearly AIDS testing for everyone. Anyone who receives any subsidy for Obamacare premiums will be required to submit.

Also on the employment side, companies will begin to discriminate against hiring anyone who fails a tobacco test just like current tests for illegal drugs.

We're the government, we're here to help, all we need from you to do that is your freedom.

October 18, 2012

Instead of the scheduled reading and math classes, the teacher spend two days indoctrinating the children with "Islamic hand signs." When one little girl was having trouble, the frustrated teacher twisted the girl's arm, which was cut against a metal wire on a folder.

From The Blaze:

An elementary school teacher in Chesapeake, Va. has been charged with simple assault after a parent claimed her daughter’s hand was cut open as a result of the teacher yanking her arm aggressively while trying to teach students an “Islamic hand sign.” [...]

When Bennett’s daughter was unable to do the Islamic hand sign correctly after two days of instruction, Harris became frustrated and attempted to twist the girl’s fingers to make the Islamic gesture meaning “power and strength.” The way Bennett described it, it sounds like an upside A-OK hand gesture. It is unclear exactly which “Islamic hand sign” was being promoted as the source information comes from children.

“When she didn’t get it right, [Harris] went over and yanked her hand out of her desk and my daughter’s hand got hung up on the metal wire on her file folder and the skin got caught on it,” the mother explained, her voice cracking with emotion. “The other children saw my daughter’s hand dripping with blood after the teacher had gotten so mad that she went to twist my daughter’s hand into an Islamic sign.”

The school involved is Butts Road Intermediate School. Contact information is at the link. Just remember, if you decide to voice your concerns, keep it civil.

If you have children in public schools, you better talk to them. Apparently, none of the parents of these children knew what was happening until this little girl was injured. Find out what teachers are teaching your children.

As for the hand signs, I have to admit I am not familiar with any. I did find THIS Youtube video about Islamic hand signs. The sign in the article is described as an upside down A-OK gesture, which would be similar to the "insha'allah" sign.

October 10, 2012

You may remember Mona Eltahawy as the woman who defaced anti-terrorism ads on the NY Subway. Only in academia do they honor a woman best known for anti-speech activism .... with a banquet in honor of free speech!

University of Missouri School of Journalism:

Free speech, the changing times of journalism, deep investigative reporting and looking into hidden cultures are topics that recipients of the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism will speak about a daylong series of master classes, which are free and open to the public, will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 15, at the Missouri School of Journalism.

The speakers, a group of investigative journalists, photographers, innovative editors and executives, will be honored at a banquet that evening. The reception begins at 6 p.m., with dinner to follow at 7 p.m......

How Twitter Saved My Life and Other Adventures on Social Media
10-10:50 a.m. Fred W. Smith Forum

Mona Eltahawy, columnist and international speaker on Arab and Muslim issues, has been named one of Newsweek magazine’s “150 Fearless Women of 2012,” one of Time magazine’s “People of the Year” and one of Arabian Business magazine’s “100 Most Powerful Arab Women.” Eltahawy’s opinion pieces have been published in The Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune and other media across the world. Eltahawy, who calls herself a proud liberal Muslim, lectures and researches on the importance of social media in the Arab world. She has spoken at the first TEDWomen about the virtues of confusion in breaking stereotypes of Muslim women, and she has received several awards for her writing and leadership.

Hat Tip: Anonymous

October 01, 2012

The idea that censorship is something to be embraced for the common good has been around since at least Socrates, who you will no doubt not remember from your Intro. to Philosophy class, was the first to propose "the noble lie" as necessary to keeping the state well oiled and ordered.

Given the not-such-a-coincidence that his most loyal follower, Plato, named the very first institution of higher learning The Academy, it should come as no surprise that the neo-fascists have found such a welcome embrace in academia.

Your intellectual betters hard at work!

June 09, 2012

If you eat one, it makes you smarter.

What do you think?

Tastes like shit.

See, you're getting smarter already.

The teacher's speech to his graduating class threatened to damage their frail egos. Among other things, English teacher David McCullough Jr. said (emphasis mine):

"Yes, you've been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped," McCullough said in his speech. “Yes, capable adults with other things to do have held you, kissed you, fed you, wiped your mouth, wiped your bottom, trained you, taught you, tutored you, coached you, listened to you, counseled you, encouraged you, consoled you and encouraged you again. You've been nudged, cajoled, wheedled and implored. You've been feted and fawned over and called sweetie pie. ... But do not get the idea you're anything special. Because you're not."

Full text of McCullough's speech can be found HERE.

I bet this teacher did other dastardly things to students, like giving them real grades instead of smiley faces and special awards for trying really hard.

Bastard.

June 08, 2012

Dan Savage, anti-Christian bigot and an approved* school speaker.

Gerald Molen, co-producer of Schindler's List, U.S. Marine Veteran, and now a rejected & uninvited school speaker.

Guess which one is a right-winger and which is a liberal.

*Listed as an upcoming featured speaker at a conference sponsored by American School Counselor Association. ASCA is an authorized provider of school counseling resources currently approved by the Department of Education in at least five states. ASCA's Ethical Standards includes the responsibility to "respect students’ values, beliefs and cultural background and do not impose the school counselor’s personal values on students or their families." Apparently, that standard does not apply to keynote speakers.

June 02, 2012

First grader, Gannon Farley, wanted to go home from school early. So, he did what any inventive 6 year old would do - he forged a note:

Yeah, that looks totally legit to me.

Surprisingly, the school accepted the note and allowed him to leave. In the school's defense, they assumed the kid's mother had a public school education, so such a note from a parent wouldn't be out of the ordinary.

Video:

April 13, 2012

I was listening to Neil Boortz yesterday while I was fishing (caught a bunch of striped bass!) and he kept citing some report in which he claimed that enough Americans are too stupid to know they're even stupid, and this means that maybe we're too stupid to govern ourselves.

So, maybe it's time to bring literacy tests back? That they just got a bad rap because of the way segregationists used them to exclude blacks from voting?

I dunno, I used to be the kind of guy who would be the first to argue against restrictions on voting.

But after 10 years of teaching introduction to American Government at the college level, I'm not so sure anymore. I actually had a few people who didn't know who the Vice President of the United Staes was on the last midterm. I really have to wonder if they should be voting.

I'm giving a midterm as we speak. About 1/3 of the class has already dropped out. But there's at least 25% of the class that should have dropped out, but haven't. And why not? Because they can't do basic math. They don't realize that if you fail the first two midterms miserably that the math doesn't add up to a passing grade.

But is that, as Boortz claimed, the result of stupidity? I don't know. Could it be that these "stupid" students aren't inherently stupid but are just the result of 12 years of social promotion in public schools?

That is, their whole life they've been giving passing grades just for showing up. It's programmed into them. They have adapted their lives to the incentive structure that they are used to.

When asked to "perform" they just don't know how.

I guess the question is: Are thy inherently stupid -- a reflection of low reasoning abilities due to genetics, the Idiocrosy scenario -- or are they the product of a system that rewards them for stupidity and therefore the system is to blame?

I have to believe it's the latter. I hope it's the latter. We can deal with the latter.

Okay, back to class. I'm not looking forward to grading these. No matter what the cause of the low performance of college students who supposedly already passed a high school civics class, I still have to deal with the effects.

And so do you. The worst of them being the current occupant of the White House.

April 10, 2012

(Modesto, California) In mid-February, a 41-year-old business teacher at Enochs High School, James Hooker, left his family and quit his job to live with an 18-year-old female student, Jordan Powers.

Controversy erupted and persists with the school district, the teachers union, parents and the media weighing in.

Hooker and Powers seemingly lived in conjugal bliss until last week when Hooker was arrested for sexual misconduct with a different teen girl 14 years ago. Powers apparently felt betrayed and left, announcing they were through.

Check the video update.

Last Saturday, Hooker was released from custody on $50,000 bond. Latest report indicates Hooker is now trying to win back his teenage paramour.

Tip: Howie

April 05, 2012

Friends and fellow Anglophones, we face a grave crisis that can be averted only through your understanding and informed activism...and of course a little lucre from your wallets (just send it to me and I'll make sure it gets to the proper place).

Words are disappearing from our vocabulary at an alarming rate due to AGW, Anthropogenic Global Witlessness, or Man-Made Cretinism. Some words have even gone extinct. When was the last time you were called a he-biddy?

Don't let another perfectly good word disappear forever due to the stupidity of the lumpen PC proletariat.

Threatened: titter, pianist, poopdeck, balzac, crotchety

Endangered: chink, kumquat, uranus, seamen, titicaca

Extinct: fagot, bissextile, niggard

How stupid do the rest of us have to get in order to avoid offending the ignorant? (Remember, make those checks payable to Bluto).

Many thanks to DMartyr for helping to populate the endangered words list.

As a business model, it's a win-win formula: Two potential partners set out to profit from a mutual transaction. That must be how the three business students from the University of Mannheim in southwestern Germany, who call themselves Oskar, Christopher and Julius, imagined things to be when they decided to offer their services by creating what could best be described as a free brothel.

They offer stressed-out, female students uncomplicated and anonymous one-night stands.[…]

They call their project Bib:Love -- a reference to the first letters of the German word Bibliothek, meaning library -- and the slogans which they have plastered on posters around the university's campus promise "Good Grades through Good Sex."

March 08, 2012

(Oxnard, California) A 31-year-old science teacher at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School, Stacie Halas, has been exposed as having a previous career as a porn actress.

Stacie Halas

Halas has been placed on administrative leave.

February 27, 2012

The audience members who came to hear Nonie Darwish speak violated their right to disrupt and protest the speech! They were ejected from the hall! Oh, the humanity!

From Youtube video description via Jihad Watch:

Halfway through the talk, Arab and Leftist anti-Israel students, mostly from the SJP group, stood up and began screaming and chanting in order to shut down the talk and make a disturbance that their wide network could use against us. They were surprised that people in the audience were angry and went to clear them out of the room.

Video of incident (not the same video where the description above can be found.) Old people beating the crap out of these useful idiots:

This isn't how their leftist/Islamic utopia is supposed to work! Only speech they approve should be allowed! All other is "hate speech" by default! How dare the audience members defend their right to hear an invited guest speaker without interruption!

February 17, 2012

A few days ago, Grand Junction High School student James Harper quit the school choir because they would be singing a song praising the Islamic god Allah. Some lyrics include "The Truth of La ila ha il Allah", which is considered a form of Shahada, a declaration of belief.

Now, James has been forced to leave the school after receiving death threats:

Welcome to sharia America, folks, where, not only is it a hate crime to speak negatively of Islam, but people who refuse to praise Allah face threats and intimidation.

February 05, 2012

(San Luis, Arizona) In the border town of San Luis, local woman Alejandrina Cabrera has been disqualified as a candidate for city council because she lacks proficiency in the English language.

Mayor Juan Carlos Escamilla filed a court action requesting a ruling as to whether Cabrera had the necessary English language skills to be a council member.

State law requires elected officials to know English, but Cabrera's attorneys have argued the law does not define proficiency in the language.

An expert testified that in tests he administered to Cabrera, she did not demonstrate the level of proficiency needed to serve on the council. Yuma County Judge John Nelson said he also based his ruling on Cabrera's failure to respond correctly to questions posed to her.

January 27, 2012

Evidently, the school has a zero-tolerance policy for students using cell phones, but no policy against teachers sleeping during class hours. And I'm sure the OK teachers' union will make certain the teacher receives no punishment.

Your tax dollars hard at work.

Story at KOCO.com

January 10, 2012

Lets face it there's nothing little HS bitches hate more than another little HS bitch that looks better than they do.

18-year-old Sydney Spies wants a future in modeling, and she figured she would make that clear with her senior picture in her high school yearbook.

But the Durango, Colo., prospective graduate found herself embroiled in controversy when her school’s yearbook editors put the kibosh on running a photo of Sydney posing provocatively in a black shawl and short yellow skirt that exposed plenty of skin.

It seems the efforts to ban this girl's slutty pics have backfired on the yearbook staff, making Sydney famous overnight. I bet that really burns their asses.

More research material here.

December 10, 2011

New York University, the second most expensive college in America, will soon be teaching a class on Occupy Wall Street.

November 15, 2011

I think Zip is a bit hard on the First Lady, maybe her fave food is Steak, Arugula, French Fries and Mexican all blended together into a healthy smoothie?

November 02, 2011

I made this checklist to compare the Tea Party to the #Occupy crowds. All conduct listed can be confirmed at the links listed or by simple Google searches.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/209789.php
http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/

October 31, 2011

From MSNBC via Gateway Pundit:

SEATTLE – A day after Occupy Seattle moved to the campus, instructors at Seattle Central Community College planned to begin teaching classes in support of the group.

The classes, scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. Sunday, were to be held on the Plaza at SCCC and include such subjects as "Why We Support Occupy," "Legislative Lobbying," "The Art of the Protest Sign" and "Filming to Document Human Rights Violations."

Classes will continue throughout the night.

October 30, 2011

The reason for #Occpuy Protests:

BRAINS! BRAINS! THEY NEED BRAINS BECAUSE THEY SUFFER SO WITHOUT THEM... Oh, wait, wrong video. I meant this one:

BRAINS! BRAINS! THEY NEED BRAINS BECAUSE THEY SUFFER SO WITHOUT THEM...

It's the lack of brains that cause their suffering. Brains ease the pain, but they have none. That's why they attack conservatives.

October 28, 2011

During the Q&A time following a speech given mby a former Israeli diplomat at Kent State, Professor of History Julio Pinto stormed out shouting "Death to Israel".

You may remember Julio Pinto for his writings on the "Jihadi News Service" which described itself like this:

We are a jihadist news service, and provide battle bispatches, training manuals, and jihad videos to our brothers worldwide. All we want is to get Allah’s pleasure. We will write "Jihad" across our foreheads, and the stars. The angels will carry our message throughout the world.

Related:
E-mails Show Kent State Professor Supporting Terror, Claimed Knowledge of Planned Terror Attacks
Terror Supporter Teaching at Kent State
Kent State Still in Denial Mode About Jihadi Professor
Kent State Prof Praises 9/11 "Martyrs"?
Professor At Kent State Preaches Jihad on Website
Kent State Jihad Professor's pro-al Qaeda Website Down

October 19, 2011

Pajamas Media:

ast week, underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty for trying to murder 289 innocent civilians on Christmas Day 2009: he claimed he is guilty under U.S. law, but innocent under Islamic law. Earlier this month, North Carolina resident and al-Qaeda English-language propagandist Samir Khan met his end in a drone strike targeting al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki, former imam at the Dar al-Hijrah terrorist factory in Falls Church, Virginia.

Both Abdulmutallab and Khan had connections to Awlaki, but they also had one additional tie: they were both former members of the extremist AlMaghrib Institute. (I first wrote about AlMaghrib’s extremist teaching back in February 2007.) With Khan’s death and Abdulmutallab’s guilty plea, the pair join a long line of terrorist operatives who have graduated from “Jihad U.”