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When we talk about the stupidity that are school-affiliated zero-tolerance policies, those stories usually revolve around an administration’s inability to marry common sense with their reactions to non-issues. This can produce somewhat varied results, from really dumb stories about children being children and ending up in serious trouble, to a far more angering practice of victim-blaming.
What it all boils down to, though, is an overreaction to certain tragic situations that results in bureaucratic lunacy on a level I never would have thought possible. School shootings and violence are the impetus in these cases, but we see this elsewhere as well. 9/11 resulted in the s#!*-show we know as airport security and NSA surveillance.
The Boston Marathon bombing has resulted in the kind of militarized protection and media-blitzkrieg that would likely have other world nations that deal with far more terrorism shaking their heads. And, in each of these cases, we learn a simple truth that we should have seen coming all along: reactionary policies breed stupidity, corruption, and trouble.
So let’s get back to zero-tolerance policies in schools and witness the logical conclusion they offer: a college professor who had recently been at odds with his school’s administration was just suspended for posting a picture of his child wearing a Game Of Thrones t-shirt.
A popular community college professor was suspended after posting a photo of his daughter wearing an oversized T-shirt bearing a tagline from this season of Game of Thrones—Daenerys Targaryen’s “I will take what is mine with fire and blood.” Francis Schmidt, who teaches art and animation at Bergen Community College in New Jersey, shared the photo on Google+, where it was seen by several of his work contacts. One of them, a dean, decided the shirt was a veiled threat of some kind.
At the meeting, Schmidt explained the shirt in the context of Game of Thrones and showed Miller that the “fire and blood” tagline has 4 million results on Google. The professor asked why his photo had caused such a reaction, and was told that “fire” could be a metaphor for “AK-47s.” Schmidt was placed on administrative leave without pay later that week, and told he would have to pass a psychiatric evaluation before he could return.Now, like me, you should be even more confused. There’s no way you could somehow interpret “fire” to mean “AK-47″ any more than you could interpret “fire” to mean “Easter ham.” They aren’t related. And if you’re thinking that there’s so little sense being made here that there must be something more to this story, there sure as hell is. The head of the school’s administration had just been delivered a vote of no confidence by the staff, including Schmidt, who had also filed a grievance recently for being denied a request for a sabbatical. You don’t need to read between the lines much to understand that this is probably a trumped-up charge serving to punish a member of the teacher’s union.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140418/06395426957/logical-conclusion-zero-tolerance-college-prof-suspended-because-daughter-wore-got-tshirt.shtml
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Heidi Klum is having a topless vacation with 27-year-old Vito Schnabel and naturally every poop-a-ratty is trying to get pictures.
(You might remember that Vito was also banging Demi Moore, or Mrs. Butterworth, or somebody or other, not too long ago!)
Personally folks, your long suffering reporter doesn’t know what the big deal is ………………., Heidi looks just like any other middle-aged woman with a bit of a belly and tiny tits!
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Lindsay Lohan has now claimed she had a miscarriage while filming a “Reality Show” …………………………., or got a migraine, or had a bad hair day!She had something!
(To be honest folks, I’m not sure what the story was because I wasn’t paying attention!)
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Down there in the U.S. of A. president Obama is preparing to ‘Pardon’ thousands of inmates who were unjustly sentenced to ridiculous prison terms during the “mandatory minimum” sentencing spree in the “land of the free!”
There are horror stories of people going to jail for decades after getting nabbed with a couple of joints, or a few grams of meth.
What a wonderful way to totally destroy a life!
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A Canadian pizza place has come up with 6-layer pizza cake.
Canada’s Boston Pizza is holding a “Pizza Game Changers” challenge and asking pizza fans to vote on their new pizza fantasy that they will then turn into a pizza reality, E! News reported.
The pizza place said that most pizza joints make a pizza pie, but they are creating a Pizza Cake, which great for birthdays, bar mitzvahs, weddings, and lonely nights watching infomercials.
- See more at: http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/221268863/scat/71df8d33cd2a30df#sthash.8w0ASctp.dpuf
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Maritime Report!
A Halifax Regional Police officer shot a dog early Sunday morning on Portland Street in Dartmouth.
Police say in a release that officers were doing surveillance on a home in the 300 block as part of an investigation when one was charged by two dogs around 4:30 a.m.Police said the officer fired three times at the dogs. One of the dogs, a bull terrier, was hit and both went back into a residence.
Someone called 911 and said the dog had been shot. Police took it and the owner to an emergency veterinary clinic.
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AND FINALLY: Well folks, if ya ever saw “Planet of the Apes” this might not surprise you.
If and when we blow each other up in a nuclear war, you can bet the apes and monkeys are waiting in the wings to take over!!!!!!!
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