NOTE: This was scheduled as a Monday thread, but due to some scheduling snafu, we ended up with two Monday OC threads. So this one has been reset for Wednesday, since there was already one for Tuesday when I checked. If you see “Monday” posts, that is why. You are not imagining things.
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While arming teachers has faced widespread hostility from gun control organizations and national teachers unions such as the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, allowing teachers to carry firearms in schools was among the recommendations made by several school safety commissions formed in the aftermath of school shootings in 2018.
Arming teachers has had mixed results in the past due to varying levels of participation. A 2020 report from the RAND Corporation found that 28 states already permit armed teachers under certain circumstances, while others, including Texas and Florida, have passed laws specifically encouraging the practice.
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Ohio
A bill allowing teachers in Ohio to carry firearms is headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who has indicated he will sign it.
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Louisiana
In Louisiana, GOP state Sen. Eddie Lambert likewise proposed legislation that would allow teachers to be armed on school grounds. The bill would require teachers to undergo specialized training before they are permitted to carry a firearm on school property.
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Texas
The state where the Robb Elementary shooting took place has had a law on the books allowing teachers to sign up as “marshals” and carry firearms on campus since 2013.
But across the Lone Star State, less than 300 teachers statewide have taken part in the program, Politico reported . The state also maintains a so-called guardian program that is less regulated than the registered teacher marshals, but participation in that program is also fairly low.
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Florida
In the aftermath of the 2018 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, the state government enacted the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which established the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program to arm teachers and staff on school grounds.
According to the Florida Department of Education, 45 counties currently participate in the program, which provides funding to county sheriff’s offices to train and screen school employees interested in participating in the program. Participants are also provided a stipend.
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I am sure there are people upset that Uvalde has triggered a focus on hardening the schools by increasing armed security, rather than weakening the populace by removing one of their rights.
I’m watching Pierce Brosnan in “Love Punch” and a bunch of nuns just walked in front of him and his ex-wife. Made me smile.
Getting close to bedtime again out here. Not certain of the plans for tomorrow. It’s a travel day for my lawn mower parts, so nothing I can do on it tomorrow. Probably need to work a little bit in my flower bed and do some weeding. So far the flowers are holding their own against the deer and the heat… Read more »
I went outside this evening, after my yard was shaded as the sun set to finish some gardening chores. First, I went after the trimming and found one of those bugs from hell caught in my mustard plant tulle again. I tried to spray it, but I don’t know it got away or dropped dead. Tomorrow morning is my intended… Read more »
Adee avatar with a monocle.
Heh.
We’ve had some mist/dust hanging around near the ground most of today and yesterday, though today’s sky early on had some blue patches showing amongst mostly white fluffy clouds. As day wore on they have morphed into a high cloud cover with not much sky showing anywhere and a masked sun barely able to break through it. David Paul on… Read more »
Pretty much, white sauce, onions, garlic and boiled oysters. Very good eating and easy to make.
Well, at least my favorite raccoon Frowny from the turn of this century is still my avatar.
Who is the bib using meat puppet, izzat biden?
Personally, I would think one of mh’s cats could do as well as the current administration.
I managed to keep my Queen. It’s as close as I can get to the real thing.
If only….I think even EG would agree that me, as Queen, could run things better than this bib using meat puppet could do.
The avatars are being randomly assigned if there is not one on file, it seems.
I changed email addresses quite some time ago and I lost the ability to change mine. It was a yellow bench vise, if I recall.
More like saute of phlegm.
Izzat like the chowder of clam?
Is it just me or are some of the avatars kinda’ weird? I’m talking Bsue, Bones and GJT. Also they are different now than this morning.
Oyster Stew, it’s what’s fer supper. I must say that my White Sauce was about as good as it gets. Oh and I think I ate too much. 😉
Wow. I learned something from learning about certain curse words.
Some phrases are not as casual as you think.
Not using the Lord’s name in vain is a good practice. I cringe when I hear my kids using some of these phrases. And Hubby. /sigh
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Federally-sponsored extortion. Period.
Just a snippet on Robert Utley: When did you know you wanted to be a historian? I didn’t think of it as being a historian, but when I was a seasonal ranger-historian at Custer Battlefield National Monument, during my college summers (1947–52), I wanted to write history and did, although it was completely amateurish. A visitor to the battlefield loaned… Read more »
Oh, and I started a household binder, too. All of our appliance manuals are stored in it, in plastic sheet protector pages. Our boiler sometimes requires an electrical panel to be replaced, and I store a copy of an invoice from the supplier there with the manual. Our washing machine had a glitch, and the repairman showed me the code… Read more »
#64 I just got through updating some documents pertaining to our IRAs and other accounts. I keep it all in a spreadsheet with a very vague name. Years ago, when we were applying for loans at the bank, I found it less tedious to create a look alike form in a spreadsheet, and just have background data in related pages… Read more »
I’m confused that a psycho totalitariancrat, so called lib, would try to take out the drunk, kangarooed penguin skcotus judge who always votes with the rest of the totalitariancrat skcotus kangarooed penguins anyway.
15000 more headed to the border and I bet Abbott let’s every single one of them in. Looks as though he’s graduated from matchbox cars to a whole 17 miles of razor wire and flex seal. Yep that’ll stop all those millions of illegals because they’ve never heard of wire cutters. Abbott does everything but the things he could and… Read more »
Might not matter to most folks, but Robert Utley has passed. Pissibly a more important Popular Historian than Steven Ambrose. Utley wrote extensively on the Indian Wars in an honest “warts and all” style that frustrated revisionists because he revealed that there really were no Good Guys.
#68 – How do they ever expect to get anything done without a discretionary incidental walking around money fund. They just don’t want to part with it themselves, the fund is in there, the pols just don’t want to share it with outsiders. #64 – That’s a good idea, but I’m just too lazy to go to all that effort.… Read more »
Austin County needs a new communications tower in Wallis. They’re ready to go with construction but they need “approval from 13 Indian nations” before proceeding. The Sheriff’s Deputy coordinating the project thinks the Shoshone tribe (based in Utah) may hold out for a $20-30,000 donation. Sounds like extortion to me. The county didn’t build in bribe money to the project… Read more »
#61: Just ask FJB.
Economics 101: Artificially constrict the crude oil supply and increase the money supply at the same time and price inflation will happen every time.
The dramatic price increases in fuel are by design; part of JugEars ‘fundamental transformation’ of the USA. This is no accident.
Skewls out is always a good fallback excuse for whoever mans the controls.
#63 Wagonburner
I never got desperate enough to check. They probably had it at the big box pet stores but I never looked. He sufficed with another brand, flavor and seemed ok with it.
#58 ELG
I finally got a little bit organized and started keeping a drawer for each of my yard tools – mower, chainsaw, etc – also wrote down all the model and part numbers needed and put that in each of the drawers.
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Does chewy.com carry it?
For the anti-free-speech left, the most dangerous man in America today is Greg Lukianoff. The president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education for the past 16 years, the free-speech attorney has now decided to guide the organization, previously focused on free-speech battles within academia, into the broader territory of free-speech battles across the nation. FIRE has been rebranded… Read more »
It seems like gas prices took a sharp jump this past week or so. Was like $4.19 at the local Walmart neighborhood market a week ago. Now I’m regularly seeing like $4.59.
Did something happen that I missed?
MH – I agree, we finally got Buddy’s preferred dog food that has been missing on all the local shelves. They weren’t well stocked at the Dollar Store but at least they had some back on the shelf. At first, I thought it was a Dollar Store thing, yanno, in a cart somewhere in the store, probly aisle 5, not… Read more »
I heard the Kavanaugh story on the radio during my drive back from Kroger. Today was the first time I really noticed prices had gone up on most of my standard items. While I don’t like that, my bigger concern is what will I do to keep my critters fed if it gets much harder to find what they want?
Got the cover off my mower after giving in and watching a YT video. Sure enough, I did not replace the coil last year, and it’s all rusted out and everything, so it’s just simple to replace it, right. Well, first I had to locate the model number of the mower, as well as brand name and such. But it… Read more »
#56
😀
Tedtam
I done scheduled a Thursday open missives. Just so yanno don’t yanno
More Hunter Biden files extracted from the laptop from hell.
And it seems some of these recovered documents involve LGB.
Wow, are they on the back side of the leaves? This moth is not particular about where she lays her eggs, one at a time. They are NOT laid together, but separately. I’ve seen videos where the gardener is showing vbm eggs in a “raft” on the underside of a leaf. Nope, those are squash bug eggs. Another squash killer,… Read more »
Cotton flowers start out as pink buds and fade to white.
Wow, are they on the back side of the leaves?
I’m not anal enough to go spying for eggs and such, let nature do its thing. I do have a soapy water spray bottle I keep in hand for flying things that I see. I was only anal because I was being threatened with losing every squash plant I had. At the peak, it wasn’t unusual to find around 20… Read more »
Cotton starting to bloom in south Austin County.
The rapidity of the response from the so-called president over the assassination attempt surely gives me great comfort.
I was not aware of the assassination attempt either. Checking the news I see a few GOP congressman have called for the president to condemn the attempt. Now FJB has condemned the action, so all is well.
FIFY
Clay & Buck have been discussing it quite a bit; perp was caught outside of K’s house with gun, knife, pepper spray. He wanted to kill Kavanaugh in an attempt to prevent Roe decision from being made official. Most of these gun attacks seem to be from liberals. Gun hating liberals. Maybe we should just ban liberals from owning guns.… Read more »
RTWDT
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=399494
If the apocalypse comes, it may have to knock on my door to let me know it has arrived.
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Didn’t know about the assassination attempt.
I must be getting pretty successful at withdrawing from the world.
I don’t even check CitizenFreePress but perhaps once a day, instead of hourly.