From Thomas Sowell:
There is a lot of talk from many people about bullying in school. The problem is that it is all talk. There is no sign that anybody is going to do anything that is likely to reduce bullying.
When politicians want to do nothing, and yet look like they are doing something, they appoint a blue ribbon committee or go to the U.N. or assign some Cabinet member to look into the problem and report back to the President — hoping that the issue will be forgotten by the time he reports back.
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If there is anything worse than doing nothing, it is doing nothing spiced with empty rhetoric about what behavior is “unacceptable” — while in fact accepting it.
Might educators abuse their power, if the courts did not step in? Of course they could. Any power exercised by human beings can be abused. But, without the ability to exercise power, there is anarchy.
When responsible officials are prevented from exercising power, then bullies exercise power.
President Barack Obama has joined the chorus of those deploring bullying. But his own administration is pushing the notion that a disproportionate number of suspensions or other punishments for members of particular racial or ethnic groups is discriminatory.
In other words, if a school suspends more black males than Asian females, that is taken as a sign of discrimination. No one in his right mind really believes that, but it is part of the grand make-believe that pervades our politics and even our courts.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – Equal rights for all, but special rights for none.
Bob;
Perhaps I’ll catch ya’ at a Tea Party rally. I’ll look for the guy wearing a pro-gay t-shirt. I’ll even say “hi” to you and smile.
Take care.
Bob, Most people learn in childhood that it’s rude for a guest to insult his host. You appear to have missed that lesson. I assume little Bobby was too busy plotting bold resistance against the original two-party duopoly — Mama’s authoritarian War on Candy and Daddy’s fascistic lawn-mowing gulag. Regardless of the reason, I will grant that you are admirably… Read more »
After contemplating this most of the day, on second thought, let’s release the hounds…
Let that be a lesson to me in topics I might want to bring up in future.
#157
I feel new puppy’s eyes on me now.
#155 TT
Yeah, it’s off-key. For one thing, a mother has HER child, not ITS child.
For those who need to keep track of expenses/mileage, etc, Sweetie found a great app for that called Expense Report. You take a photo of a reciept, it reads it, asks you for a category and emails it to you. It tracks your mileage for you as well, she loves it so far.
#134 Darren
Good catch! i.e. you got in ahead ‘a me
Made my day to see D. Trump rip one of the chief prOpagandists of our time, George Stiff-forObamaopoulos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lD2NcW_zzQ
She finally gave up and silently left the room.
Barf Kitty is using the “glacier maneuver” to verrrryyyy slowly worm her way onto my lap. I’m avoiding eye contact, but in my peripheral vision I can see her looking up at me every few seconds for the cue that she may continue on her way. Back paws on the floor, front paws on my leg, and the occasional glance… Read more »
Delete my acount !
Man, I just don’t know what to do with this. What a creepy prayer.
But then, I remember the source.
Somebody’s got a disappear Bob button and ain’t sharin’.
Squawk is in rare form tonight. Happy days is here!
“A$$ like a hoss, waist like a wasp??”
NO WANT
Hamous #148; Did you see the related article about Latino groups protesting Slutty Gaga? The groups are “Chicanos Unidos Arizona,” “Take Back Aztlán” and “Nuestros Reconquistos.” “Why can’t Lady Gaga pretend to be Muhammad?” said Cecilia Maldonado of Chicanos Unidos Arizona, according to Examiner.com. “Now, that would be very brave! Talk about left wingers! And they’re protesting Gaga. I guess… Read more »
Sqauwk #147;
😆
Hamous #144;
Perhaps they travelled with the Creek nation for a time?
7th generation, wow. My younger two kids are first generation Texans. That is if you don’t count me as the first. Although I was born in Texas, it was at Fort Hood. Does that count?
So should we look for Catholics worldwide to start rioting and decapitating all non-Catholics? Maybe a few Mackerel Snapper Suicide Bombers?
Sir Darrenotalot 😉
Sir Squawksalot
Heh
Sir Hamsalot
Yup. I’m 7th generation on one branch. My dad’s people started out in southwestern Georgia in the early 1800s but ended up in Florida, prolly trying to lose Andy Jackson.
hoss 1815, representing U.S. dialectal variant pronunciation of horse. Sounds like how Hamous’ family would speak. Does the bulk of your family come from Florida? Just curious. Mine come from the midwest rural/small town communities. Dad was the first that I know of to move out to the big city. Grandma and Grandpa absolutely hated driving out to see us.… Read more »
#139;
Exacly what I was hoping you’d say.
Had no idea you’d say that. 🙂
What’s a “hoss”?
Two weeks ago, former federal district judge Vaughn Walker, who ruled last summer in Perry v. Schwarzenegger that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, publicly disclosed for the first time that he has been in a same-sex relationship for the past ten years. A straightforward application of the judicial ethics rules compels the conclusion that Walker should have recused himself from… Read more »
As my grandpappy used to say: “A$$ like a hoss, waist like a wasp!”
…and I cannot lie.
Hamous likes big butts!!!
#130 Beyonce’s always been “bright-skinned”. She could turn purple as far as I’m concerned as long as she maintains other attributes.
Swearing can help relieve pain, study claims Scientists from Keele University found that letting forth a volley of foul language can have a powerful painkilling effect, especially for people who do not normally use expletives. To test the theory, student volunteers placed their hands in a bucket of ice cold water while swearing repeatedly. They then repeated the exercise but,… Read more »
Syria lifts emergency law — for first time since 1963
Dayam. That was one long emergency. Guess the Assad family couldn’t let a crisis go to waste, eh?
mharper #132;
Read my post right before your and behold my great brain power. 😉
Even though Rand, an Objectivist, was an ultra-pro business libertarian and the vast majority of film critics are left-liberals, in this case the critics are right. In fact, it’s worse. Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 (save us from 2 and 3) is an amateurish enterprise of embarrassing proportions that I strongly suspect would have had Rand herself running for cover. (I… Read more »
#128 Darren
I think it was the stolen baby who was considered kidnapped.
My number 128;
Aha! Coy was charged with murder and in addition to that charge, was charged with kidnapping a minor, ergo; the baby. Got. I’m smart!
Beyonce is obviously pulling off a Michael Jackson skin color reset:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1378673/Beyonce-blonde-bombshell-touches-Paris-husband-Jay-Z.html
Bleached hair/blonde wig is the easy part. Someone once said that MJ had changed from a black man into a white woman, right in front of our eyes.
Just sayin’…
What da’…
Did Jerry Garcia just peek in?
Tedtam #105; Situations like that are reason enough for me to support the death penalty. But this is curious: Detective Chad Winn, speaking during a preliminary hearing in Warren County District Court, said Kathy Michelle Coy told 21-year old Jamie Stice they were going shopping for baby supplies but took her instead to a wooded area with plans to kill… Read more »
Just poking my head in….. OOOPS I see I best be goin’ now.
mharper;
With a stable family including a stay home mother I was greatly comforted growing up knowing my parents were always there and I knew there was nothing I could get away with. At least not for too long. Again, because my parents were always there.
What a blessing!!!
#124 Darren
Yep, we once just took it for granted. Now we can’t, and the decay of western societies has revealed the dark side of all that libertinism that some crave.
fat albert #65; Very well said, sir. Let them argue that a society in which a ten-year-old girl must wait once a month to see her father, if his new bedmate doesn’t get in the way, is a better place than one in which it never occurs to her that her mother and father may ever part company. Awesome. I… Read more »
#50; Any miniscule amount of credibility you may have had just sublimated into thin air. Don’t ever again ask or demand anyone to provide evidence on these pages. Glad to see Hamous the Hammer come out. Does bob even realize how double standard he is in his arguments? Is he that intellectually vacant as to not even realize how inconsiderably… Read more »
#27;
😯
Lawrence #14;
Outstanding!
A Message From Bully Darren:
Ya’ll better give me your lunch money or I’ll slap you with my baby arm. 🙂
Re: o/c pic:
That’s one tough kid I wouldn’t mess with.