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.”

October 08, 2011

CampusReform.org has more on the story.

(Hat Tip: Augustine25 Tweet)

September 12, 2011

Sadly, the noble search for truth is now being hijacked by a growing army of conspiracy theorists. A few of these skeptics make a responsible effort to sift through the mountain of information, but most ignore all but a few stray details they think support their theories. In fact, many conspiracy advocates demonstrate a maddening double standard. They distrust every bit of the mainstream account of 9/11, yet happily embrace the flimsiest evidence to promote their wildest notions:

...Don't get me wrong: Healthy skepticism is a good thing. Nobody should take everything they hear -- from the government, the media or anybody else -- at face value. But in a culture shaped by Oliver Stone movies and "X-Files" episodes, it is apparently getting harder for simple, hard facts to hold their own against elaborate, shadowy theorizing.

Hat Tip. Instapundit.

September 02, 2011

No doubt the Libyans can help him with extra credit in several categories: Biology, Civil Liberties, Womens' Rights, Political Science, Religious Studies, etc.

But it doesn't appear he planned the trip very well:

It is not clear who would be funding his trip home as he revealed he had spent all his money on the $800, one-way ticket to get there, and his parents wouldn't be dishing out the cash, because they don't know he is there.

He said: 'I didn't buy a round-trip ticket in case I got captured or something. I don’t want to waste another $800. (Souce)

Yeah, I wouldn't want to see another $800 wasted. Fortunately for Chris, Darwin Awards are free. I hope he wins one.

(Hat Tip: IHateTheMedia)

August 13, 2011

The ROP has an interesting box score they are keeping.

I have several problems with this, first and foremost is not distinguishing between violence in the name of Islam and violence in the name of Islamism. Given that the language of Islamists is the language of doing everything in the name of Islam, I get that this isn't always easy to do. But I think if we are to be accurate then we need to make that distinction any way.

And I'm pretty sure their methodology isn't scientific. That is to say, since they scan the headlines and news stories for acts of Islamist terrorism then it would be pretty easy to miss acts of violence done in the name of other religions or political ideologies.

The reason I bring this up is because even though I disagree with their terminology and their methodology isn't perfect, the statistics they are trying to get at would be interesting. What they are trying to get at is a good start.

To what extent does Islamism, as a political ideology, lead to violence? And to what extent does this extremist ideology lead to more/less violence than other political ideologies?

Since the questions above are easily answerable, the results empirically verifiable, and the results relevant to several current crises then I'm left to wonder why no academic (that I'm aware of) has ever done the study?

I think I could do the study with minimal funding and with a minimal time commitment.

I can't speak for other academics, but I can tell you the reason I won't do such a study: Fear.

Fear of being labelled an Islamophobe -- even though the vast majority of the victims of Islamist terror are Muslims. Fear of jeopardizing my career -- even though the academy pretends to protect academic freedom. And even fear for my family's safety.

And I think that just about sums up the expected results of such a study and why no one in academia will do it. Not even me.

UPDATE: I chose the title because I thought it was catchy, I didn't mean to suggest that the guys over at TROP were "lying". So, sorry if that was misleading.

The whole point of this was to suggest that it was a good start but that I'd like to see an actual rigorous study done. A study I could easily do myself, but which I'm too big of a coward to do.

August 08, 2011

Obama Administration Exempting Schools From Federal Law’s Testing Mandate

(AP) - State and local education officials have been begging the federal government for relief from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law, but school starts soon and Congress still hasn't answered the call.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he will announce a new waiver system Monday to give schools a break.

The plan to offer waivers to all 50 states, as long as they meet other school reform requirements, comes at the request of President Barack Obama, Duncan said.

August 02, 2011

Hijab Shampoo Ad

A new product has hit the Pakistani market – Hijab shampoo. It’s meant for women who cover their heads tightly in hijab that leaves their faces exposed.[…]

The people who are marketing the new hijab shampoo are capitalizing on what say that is the excess production of oils, build-up of scalp dirt etc.

July 27, 2011

Just might be when you find that you have the Unibomber as one of your heroes.

If you experience this symptom, please off yourself and only yourself now before you really hurt someone.

June 18, 2011

It could be worse, she could have said ant colonies

[Emphasis mine]

We're raising young people who are, by and large, historically illiterate," David McCullough tells me on a recent afternoon in a quiet meeting room at the Boston Public Library. Having lectured at more than 100 colleges and universities over the past 25 years, he says, "I know how much these young people—even at the most esteemed institutions of higher learning—don't know." Slowly, he shakes his head in dismay. "It's shocking."

He's right. This week, the Department of Education released the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress, which found that only 12% of high-school seniors have a firm grasp of our nation's history. And consider: Just 2% of those students understand the significance of Brown v. Board of Education.

Mr. McCullough began worrying about the history gap some 20 years ago, when a college sophomore approached him after an appearance at "a very good university in the Midwest." She thanked him for coming and admitted, "Until I heard your talk this morning, I never realized the original 13 colonies were all on the East Coast." Remembering the incident, Mr. McCullough's snow-white eyebrows curl in pain. "I thought, 'What have we been doing so wrong that this obviously bright young woman could get this far and not know that?'"

Also, a phony accusation from a unknown at Nutroots against Andrew Breitbart. Wow, they must really be p*ssed they tried so hard, pardon the pun, to cover for Weiner sexting his junk.

Well I kinda got off track with the videos but you get my meaning and if you don't then...you don't.

June 04, 2011

Carrie Shafer

As a result, Shafer was sentenced to three years of probation, during which she is prohibited from teaching. According to the plea agreement, Shafer will not have to register as a sex offender. She will be placed on diversion, meaning her case will be dismissed when she completes the terms of her probation.

I'd suggest that a male teacher facing the same circumstances would not have been treated as leniently. (More….)

May 13, 2011

The drawing? A United States flag:

From 22WWLP:

A civil rights controversy is brewing at an elementary school in the Town of Orange, and it all surrounds an11 year-old's drawing of the American Flag.

The family of Frankie Girard is claiming that their son's civil rights were violated after a teacher allegedly told him that hanging his picture of the American flag would offend another student.

The school denies the claim, stating the reason the flag drawing wasn't displayed is because Frankie drew it when he should have been doing other work. This may be true, but I have my doubts. I don't believe an 11 year old would make up a story about the American flag "offending" other students.

However, I do believe our liberal school systems which employ a disproportionate number of liberal educators would view the American flag as offensive. And I do believe that in our politically correct educational environment, the sensitivities of foreign students would supersede any right to expression of American patriotism.

May 11, 2011

First, you infiltrate their universities. But if they're still not buying what you're selling then write the college a big fat check. The rest will follow.

May 09, 2011

Its hard to joke about cancer, its serious business. That's why Rusty and Vinnie are getting scoped today.

More gay men reported being cancer survivors than straight men in a new study from California.

That suggests they may need targeted interventions to prevent cancer, the researchers said, but more studies are needed to answer lingering questions. For example, are gay men more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than straight men? Or, are they just more likely to survive if they do get cancer?

"A lack of hard data" on how sexual orientation affects the risk of cancer is "one of the biggest problems we have," said Liz Margolies, executive director of The National LGBT Cancer Network. Margolies, who was not involved in the research, told Reuters Health, "It's critical that we know that for funding and for program planning."

April 11, 2011

Some Chicago schools ban some lunches brought from home.

March 31, 2011

Or, where was Rusty all last week anyway?

With the Trojans locked out of the BCS for yet another year what else is there to do on campus?

March 22, 2011

Did I mention there is a Neo-Commie in the White House?

Protein Wisdom:

What we’re witnessing is an organized attempt at initiating a soft coup in the United States by way of a socialist cabal. Michael Medved might not like to hear this; Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg likely won’t, either — concerned, as they both are, about the “rightwing” “bash Obama” industry (which isn’t helping “the folks”); Jeb Bush surely doesn’t, if such a revelation means that his standing on stage with Obama in the swing state of FL to burnish his “pragmatic centrist” bona fides then looks like either betrayal of conservative principles, or a real lack of discernment and judgment; and of course, the establishment GOP, who has built its entire political strategy on the idea that Washington is and always will be business as usual (and it is — for them) probably want to skip this as well.

But those of us who met the election of Barack Obama with cries of opposition knew what was coming — all one had to do was bother to look — and we reluctantly pushed the GOP back to power in November to fight the attempt by the left to finish its takeover of our country.

March 08, 2011

In 2006, a science teacher at a Paducah KY high school, Tericka Dye, lost her teaching job after it became known that she had previously been employed as a porn star named Rikki Andersin. Subsequently, Dye apparently married and moved to Missouri under a new name, Tera Myers.

As Tera Myers, the former porn starlet was hired as a science teacher by Parkway North High School in St. Louis County. Last Friday, while surfing the Internet, a student discovered Myers' XXX-rated past.

As a result, Myers quit her teaching job.

March 04, 2011

Wow, Iowahawk gets serious. And trust me: when it comes to statistics, Iowahawk can run circles around Paul Krugman.

March 02, 2011

The News Tribune:

Nine sixth-grade boys were expelled from Stewart Middle School Monday after officials at the Tacoma School learned about their suspected participation in a so-called “fight club.”

Tacoma Public Schools spokesman Dan Voelpel said it came to light when a relative of one participant spoke to television station KCPQ. The station aired video Sunday from one boy’s cell phone showing two boys – their faces blurred – engaged in a fight.

School officials watched the video Monday morning and deduced the identities of some of the boys. Voelpel said they were apparently friends who would set up after-school fights – staged in a boys’ restroom at the South End school or at the youths’ own homes – to see who was the toughest.

The events were timed and had their own rules, such as “no hitting your opponent in the face,” Voelpel said.

The TV station reported that one boy had recorded at least 15 fights.

Hat Tip: Carlin.

February 23, 2011

(Brooklyn, New York) French teacher Cindy Mauro, 34, and Spanish instructor Alini Brito, 30, allegedly involved in a lesbian classroom sex romp, are suing the city of New York for $2 million claiming their good names were besmirched and they were wrongfully terminated from James Madison High School, locally known as "Horndog High."

A two-page summons with notice, filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, says the two romance language teachers are victims of "wrongful termination, libel and slander."

"They've had to deal with these false allegations of engaging in lesbian sex," said Michael Valentine, a lawyer for the classroom cuties. "It's been painful.

"Aside from losing their jobs, their reputations have been ruined."

Alison Musacchio --- Cindy Mauro --- Alini Brito

Then another female teacher, Alison Musacchio (31), was accused of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a male student.

School authorities are investigating. I'd suggest they also might want to review what they are telling new hires during orientation.

February 22, 2011

One of the few men left in the Britain - hell, in all of Europe.

February 16, 2011

Oh, really?

....The definition is listed in a document called, “The Principles of Community.” It defines “Religious/Spiritual Discrimination” as “The loss of power and privilege to those who do not practice the dominant culture’s religion. In the United States, this is institutionalized oppressions toward those who are not Christian.”

“This is radical political correctness run amok,” said David French, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. The conservative advocacy group has written a letter on behalf of more than 25 students who object to the policy and want it revised. He said it’s absurd to single out Christians as oppressors and non-Christians as the only oppressed people on campus.

A spokesperson for UC-Davis directed comments about “The Principles of Community” to Raheem Reed, an associate executive vice chancellor. Reed did not return numerous phone calls.

Chip, chipping away...

Update: Sunlight is the best disinfectant

The University of California at Davis has backed away from a policy that defined religious discrimination as Christians oppressing non-Christians after more than two dozen Christian students filed a formal complaint[...]

Raheem Reed, an associate executive vice chancellor at UC-Davis, said he received the letter and removed the definition Wednesday afternoon.

“I certainly can see how a Christian student reading that definition might feel and that’s why it was immediately disabled and taken down,” Reed told Fox News Radio. “This is not how we define religious discrimination.”

However, one student said they complained to administrators last November about the policy and nothing was done. “Christians deserve the same protections against religious discrimination as any other students on a public university campus,” French told Fox News Radio. “The idea that a university would discriminate against Christians is a very old story, unfortunately, and one that we see played out every day.”

One student, who asked not to be identified, said university officials asked her to reaffirm “The Principles of Community” last semester. She refused to do so when she realized that Christians were not protected under the policy.

January 27, 2011

A study in England conducted by researchers at the London School of Economics found that attractive men and women generally have higher IQs. (Source)

Let's see what pearls of wisdom this beauty contestant has for us:

(Hat Tip: IHateTheMedia.com)

January 26, 2011

This kind of reminds me of the time Bart's class visited Fort Springfield only to be turned away because they couldn't afford the admission price. Then when they tried to peak over the wall, the guards yelled, "Stop them, they're learning for free!"

Only in the Simpsons, no one went to jail.

Thanks to Carey

January 14, 2011

Who are they? The Typographers. That's who.

I'd argue that one space is OK. Then again, I don't know WTF I'm doing.

But really anything not ending with a blockquote, video or image should end with period, carriage return. Two carriage returns though really annoy me, but none at all is most Haram.

Can I call it carriage return?

December 27, 2010

if not delicious.

Personally it sounds to me like this kid is rayyycyyyst against ham.

[Update by DMartyr:] The prosecutor has thrown the case out.

The Children’s Prosecutor of Algeciras, Juan Cisneros, described the complaining pupil’s attitude as ‘abusive, sectarian, capricious and inadmissible’ and ordered the denouncement to be archived.

He said: “There is not even the minimal indication of any type of crime.”

(Hat Tip: Jihad Watch)

December 18, 2010

(Pine Grove, Pennsylvania) Sad news! Former guidance counselor Heather N. Cook, 33, facing multiple child corruption charges, was found dead at her home from an apparent suicide.

Death was pronounced at 4:21 pm Thursday. Cook reportedly left a note. According to Schuylkill County Coroner Joseph Lipsett, the note didn't explain why she took her own life.

Cook has been charged with multiple counts of misdemeanor corruption of minors.

Disturbingly, no clarification has been provided to explain why such an outrageous betrayal of trust coupled with an extended series of child sex crimes are classified as misdemeanor offenses.

Cook was booked and released on $25,000 bond. (More ....)

Meanwhile in Tennessee, a tenured female teacher, Lucia Carico, has been given her dismissal notice for going ballistic and stabbing a boy with a pen after he "passed gas and started singing." Heh.

November 30, 2010

Click for Amazon.com

NPR:

Kristen Mulvihill was married to the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent David Rohde for two months when she received a call in 2008 from David's brother, Lee.

Lee told Mulvihill that David never returned from his last interview in Kabul — a meeting he had arranged with a Taliban commander. It was a meeting Mulvihill knew nothing about.

Rohde was abducted — and for seven months, he and his translator and driver were prisoners of a hard-line Taliban faction that operated out of Pakistan's ungoverned tribal areas.

And in June 2009, Rohde and his translator mounted a daring escape.

Anyway, David Rohde's NYT's article of the same name is here.

I thought the most interesting quote from David was that even though he'd been in Afghanistan seven years, when he found himself kidnapped in the tribal areas of Pakistan he found the Taliban was more radical that he possibly imagined.

Rohde says he was surprised at how radical the Taliban were that he faced.

"I think there arguably are some moderate Taliban," he says. "I was in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the most hard-line Afghan and Pakistani Taliban are based there. They worked hand-in-hand with foreign militants and al-Qaida members. I was held in the same place where Faisal Shahzad, the young man who failed to set off a bomb in Times Square, was trained. It's North Waziristan. The U.S. has asked the Pakistani army to go in there, and they have not to date."

November 19, 2010

According to a CBS poll an overwhelming majority of Americans want TSA to employ the new backscatter x-ray machines:

Eighty-one percent think airports should use these new machines -- including a majority of both men and women, Americans of all age groups, and Democrats, Republicans, and independents alike. Fifteen percent said airports should not use them.

November 17, 2010

Dude is fecking crazy:

FNC

Students long have complained about teachers with eyes on the backs of their heads.

A New York University photography professor is going one further by implanting a camera in the back of his head.

The project is being commissioned by a new museum in Qatar. But the work, which would broadcast a live stream of images from the camera to museum visitors, is sparking a debate on campus over the competing values of creative expression and student privacy.

Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi assistant professor in the photography and imaging department of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, intends to undergo surgery in coming weeks to install the camera, according to several people familiar with the project.

Thanks to DMartyr

Update: Read ...and Counting plus Domestic Tension. Wafaa Bilal home page. He has a count down clock with image of camera in back of his head titled 3rdi.ne. Click image above (thanks to DMartyr) for link to his background.

His YouTube channel. Wish he didn't sport a keffiyeh....PLO symbolism. Makes me nervous to see donate a 'dollar' on one of his sites that supposedly goes for scholarships to families of killed Iraqi & American soldiers. Distrust, your money could go to Hamas

November 16, 2010

Dude, you're supposed to wait 'til finals week. Dumbass!