Rarely do I like to comment on politics as it usually boils down to which set of lies or colored truth you prefer. For the record, I am an independent who does not care for either Obama or McCain for a variety of reasons that I will keep to myself.

However there are times when a politician or devoted person to either one side or the other makes a passionate statement that leaves a person like myself trying to figure out if the speaker ever listened to themselves. In the article, Bush urges Congress to lift offshore drilling ban there were a grouping of comments that made you scratch your head. When you went back to it later in the day, it is noted that the article was corrected.

What was corrected was a numerical claim and a large segment was removed from the article for questionable purposes.

To quote the first one: “Obama also said there is "no way that allowing offshore drilling would lower gas prices right now. At best you are looking at five years or more down the road." “

For Obama’s statement, the statements are truthful but when used in the context of the now truncated article they were used as justification to not do offshore drilling. That is a flaw in logic that has created this mess. For over 30 years nothing was enacted on an energy policy. If a candidate is going to make a position statement, 5 years from now would be the 1^st year of their proposed second term. In business you set up 5 year goals. Doing nothing is not a goal it is continuing the problem of doing nothing.

But that wasn’t the doozy that wins the Are You Thinking? award.

"“New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, energy secretary during the Clinton administration, called it "another bad idea."

"You know this president, all he wants to do is drill, drill, drill. There is very little on conservation, on fuel efficiency for vehicles. Just last week the Congress failed to pass a solar tax credit — give more incentives to renewable energy, solar and wind. A one track mind — drill drill drill — that's not going to work," Richardson said.”

We do use oil for many more products and uses than just fuel for vehicles. It is factored into 128 non-fuel products that are in common use so the demand for it will not be tamed down just by focusing on consumer’s fuel tanks. So focusing on conservation and fuel efficiency is a misleading statement. Even if we drive cars that run on water, there will be a significant demand for oil that we could provide for ourselves. So don’t push that faulty logic. However, that is not the award winning line.

The claim of “this president, all he wants to do is drill, drill, drill” is unsubstantiated by his example of Congress failing to pass a solar tax credit. First, it is highly doubtful those in DC can ever try to pass a clean bill without some ugly unrelated item amended to it. Most importantly though is the really bad part in the comment. The Democrat party controls the majorities in the House and Senate. So it is the height of a horrid example to blame the inaction of a Democrat controlled Congress on a Republican President.

So for uttering those lines, Gov. Bill Richardson gets an Are You Thinking? award. For the AP writer and Yahoo, why did you remove it after it was published? Improper fact checking perhaps?

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Whenever a blogger adds an entry to their blog, the term is called posting. The past tense of that word is posted. An example of that is “Yes dear, I posted that article already.”

Now this entry is about the word “posted” but in a different sense. And yes, this is an Are You Thinking? award as well. Now how do those two things blend together? Well, we have to throw in the Green Bay Packers as well. Also, let us throw in a group of two burglars into the mix to complete the recipe.

Running back Noah Herron of the GB Packers was sleeping in his home when some burglars decided his house was next. He heard them trying to break in and called the cops. He also unscrewed his bedpost so he was armed should one of them come into his bedroom.

Well, one of them did. So if you add a bedpost swung like a baseball bat by a tough NFL running back to the head of an unsuspecting burglar that equals one nasty headache. Do I have sympathy for the burglar with a concussion? I absolutely do not.

If a person breaks the law (provided the law follows the Constitution as outlined by the Founding Fathers), they get what is coming to them. If you break in to take something that is not yours and put the lives of others at risk, yah get what is coming. This is why criminals of this nature often land in my Are You Thinking? column.

However, I believe it would be safe to conclude that the burglar in the hospital is thinking now. That is provided he can focus past the pain or the pain meds. I wonder if they have managed to get their bail posted.

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Yes, this is true. The donkey, the symbol of the Democrat party, is in lock up. No amount of braying at the guards will help spring the burro from the pen. It will be staring from behind the bars for its evil deeds for some time to come.

For some unreported reason, the cousin of a horse became enraged and attacked to men. One guy got bit in the chest while another took a hoof to the ankle which then fractured. What made this donkey so angry? Could it be that it found out 31,000 scientists are in signed opposition to global warming? Dang, there go more taxes.

Whatever triggered the foul mood of this donkey south of the border in Mexico left it joining the company of a dog and a bull who were previously incarcerated for their evil deeds.

“TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - A donkey is doing time in southern Mexico for assault and battery.

The animal was locked up at a local jail that normally holds people for public drunkenness and other disturbances after it bit and kicked two men near a ranch in Chiapas state, police said Monday.

Officer Sinar Gomez said the donkey will remain behind bars until its owner agrees to pay the men's medical bills.

"Around here, if someone commits a crime they are jailed," Gomez said — "no matter who they are."

The owner, Mauro Gutierrez, told The Associated Press he would try to reach a friendly arrangement to pay the men's bills, estimated at US$420 (euro270).

The victims said the donkey bit Genaro Vazquez, 63, in the chest on Sunday and then kicked 52-year-old Andres Hernandez as he tried to come to the rescue, fracturing his ankle.

"All of a sudden, the animal was on top of us like it was rabid," Hernandez said.

Police said it took a half-dozen men to control the enraged burro.

Chiapas police have thrown animals in the slammer before, including a bull that devoured corn crops and destroyed two wooden vending stands in March.

In 2006, a dog was locked up for 12 days after biting someone. His owners were fined US$18.”

All this though begs a question or two. As Officer Sinar Gomez is quoted as saying “Around here, if someone commits a crime they are jailed no matter who they are.”

Question #1: Since when did a donkey, bull and a dog attain personhood?

Question #2: If a rooster gets loose and takes a poop on the head of the police, would he go to jail for a fowl bowel?

Question #3: Are all of the residents vegetarians? If a donkey, bull and a dog are considered a “who” worthy of jail then how can any residents eat meat unless it is deemed a murder?

Inquiring minds want to know. So for setting such a steep legal precedent the constabulary of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico gets an Are You Thinking? award.

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Just when guys were starting to figure out the field of women’s lingerie, the environmental movement has to go and come up with new mind altering ways of using women’s lingerie in particular their bras.

So where does the title come in and why the Are You Thinking category?

Let us review the products promoted in this piece and ponder the ramifications of if they went into production or encouraged similar development in other undergarments.

“Solar Power Bra”

Description: “It features a solar panel worn around the stomach” and “The bra is also equipped with pads designed to hold water, resembling mini drink pouches, in order to reduce the usage of cans and plastic bottles. It doesn't hurt that the pouches also help fill out certain chest areas.” There is this minor detail that it can’t be washed or allowed to be rained on.

Comment: Even as a demonstration of new ideas and not designed for being on the market, what is the point? An undergarment that cannot be exposed to water (electrocution potential?) which does not get exposure to the sun is quite a pointless creation. So let us add to an electrical generating bra some pouches of water which you have to hope will not break because it will ruin the bra or cause electrical shocks. How in any way is this idea good? So is the purpose of the bra to reduce the carbon emissions of a person by electrocution when their water breaks?

The Braticon

Description: “A bra that turns into a reusable shopping bag”

Comment: Now if you can automate the transformation of this bra, you will have a brand new cast member to the Transformers 2 movie coming up. Toss in a touch of the All Spark and you are good. Or was it inspired by the new look Bumblebee has? Seriously though, how are you supposed to get this into a shopping store, hold much of anything without getting an indecent exposure charge to take it off and use it? It truly would be one item that is “more than meets the eye.” So much for that “No bags in the fitting rooms” sign. If it supports shoplifting, then it must be a Decepticon.

Chop Chop

Description: “one (bra) that featured metal chopsticks to promote the use of reusable chopsticks”

Comment: Now that would be attractive on a date in a restaurant. ‘Please wait while I pull my chopsticks out of my bra.” So when you are done eating, do you need to take the chopsticks in back so they can be cleaned and sanitized before reinserting them into your bra? Otherwise, that bacteria and food particle build-up may make for some nasty smells from the bra. This would be a hand wash only too as having metallic chopsticks flying around in a washing machine or dryer may not be that kind to the machines.

I can only wonder what the new uses for panties, negligees and panty hose will be. There are limitations to the practical usage of items. So from the sheer basic standard of practicality, those who make transforming multi-purpose unusable undergarments get the award for Are You Thinking?

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Now That Takes the Cake

In this category I have lampooned a variety of actions of others. But this is my first set of prosecutors to roast. This is one of those cases where one can conclude the prosecutors are overreacting to a minor infraction.

This Are You Thinking? award will be going to the prosecutors from this story found here:

“MCARTHUR, Ohio - A judge in southern Ohio must decide whether to send a man to prison for sharing a Little Debbie snack cake. The case involves 21-year-old Timothy Caudill, who last year was held in a residential community corrections program in Nelsonville for breaking into a bar.

While there, prosecutors said he bought the oatmeal creme pie from a vending machine and shared it with a fellow inmate who was on restriction and wasn't allowed access to snacks.

Prosecutors in Vinton County have asked Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Simmons to revoke Caudill's probation and put him in prison for nine months.

Caudill's attorney Claire Ball said that's outrageous. Ball says keeping Caudill out of a state prison would leave cell space for a more serious offender.”

Okay, Timothy Caudill should have followed the rules better. Rules are rules especially when you are incarcerated but the punishment should equal the crime. I am one that believes in the death penalty. Life for a life is the rule of thumb on that. But 9 months in jail for sharing half of a Little Debbie oatmeal crème cake sounds very excessive to me.

From a basic standpoint, does half an oatmeal crème pie count as a snack? It may be just a tad bit more filling than a Hostess Twinkie with about the same amount of nutritional value. There isn’t much to either.

If the prosecutor really wants an appropriate punishment for this massive crème pie crime, have Mr. Caudill do community service in a soup kitchen handing out food that actually does have nutritional value.

If the prosecutor does get this guy to sit in jail for 9 months because of half a crème pie, what are the punishments for speeding, graffiti, or murder? They make Sharia Law look tame.

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This past weekend brought us the NFL Draft and all of the other events of the weekend. The standard thing happens where many fans watch the Head Coach and General Manager of their respective team make selections then react to it.

After all, the fans are always the better General Manager than the General Manager. Some fans get upset about a draft selection the GM makes that doesn’t fit who they thought should be drafted instead.

Well, I live in Wisconsin the home of the Green Bay Packers. In our division, we also have the Bears, Vikings and the Lions. Speaking of the Lions, let us all share a song to revel in the harmony of the moment that is the NFL Draft.

Let us sing the refrain together again shall we as we read the comments of a fan.

“You stupid jack***!!” – s.a.m.2004

“And can you feel the love tonight, It is where we are” - Refrain

“You call me an idiot when you sit here and defend the most stupid pick ever???” – s.a.m.2004

“It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer, That we got this far” - Refrain

“You are the one that knows zip about football.” – s.a.m.2004

“And can you feel the love tonight, How it's laid to rest” - Refrain

“You are just a stupid @#$% moron and you need to shut your pie-hole now!!!!!!!!“ – s.a.m.2004

“It's enough to make kings and vagabonds, Believe the very best” - Refrain

Ah, that makes you feel better. As we give out our “Are You Thinking?” award to s.a.m.2004, we have but one question. When you are calling others stupid, an idiot, and a moron, wouldn’t it be best to use proper grammar and use the words ‘stupidest pick’ as opposed to the grammatically incorrect “most stupid pick ever”?

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This broadcast of “Are You Thinking?” comes to you all the way from Singapore just to show that I’m an equal opportunity awarder.

Over in Singapore at a prison lauded for its tight security, a suspected Islamic militant named Mas Selamat bin Kastari managed to escape from custody. The entire article can be found here. But the centerpiece of the article that underlines it all is here for your reading. The photo is from here.

“Wong Kan Seng, Singapore's deputy prime minister, told parliament that Mas Selamat bin Kastari flipped his trousers above the cubicle door before escaping through a window.

"The guard had assumed that the urinal cubicle was a secure facility and that Mas Selamat could not escape from it. This assumption was wrong," he said.”

Singapore must not have been reading my blog especially those prison guards. Assumptions are a bad thing!! Rarely are they ever a good thing. But I digress from my main point.

Singapore is a strong US ally and houses a lot of Western business. Naturally, they are subject to the primary export of the USA and that is Hollywood and our entertainment. So this is where the prison guards and the prison itself deserve an award. Of all of the ways to escape a prison or capture, going through the window in the bathroom is one of the most classical and often mocked methods in our entertainment.

But this suspect manages to escape a prison through a bathroom window and a double perimeter fence with no pants on and evades capture for going past 2 months? Razor wire on the top would make Mas Selamat a little concerned about little Mas Selamat. He went through a weakness in the fence? Did open a door and walk out or crawl through a hole while mooning the prison? Do they have any dogs to track his scent? The suspect kindly gave them his pants.

For all these reasons and more, the prison and its guards receive their “Are You Thinking?” award. They have truly been caught with their pants down.

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For this last installment for today, we turn to a brilliant man in Germany. This winner of an Are You Thinking? award helps to demonstrate that idiots come from anywhere.

Now commenting about the education system in Germany is a tad out of my area since I do not have many connections to that country. But we can safely conclude this 36 year old failed in acquiring his street education.

“BERLIN (Reuters) - Three days after stealing a rare collection of coins, a thief in Germany took them to the bank for safe keeping -- and delivered them into the hands of the man he had robbed.”

There are a few points where you wonder where his thought processes took him. Did he somehow conclude taking stolen coins to a bank was a good idea? Perhaps those interested in having a collection of coins might possibly work at a bank? Since when is it a good idea to put your name and contact information down on paper for a safe deposit box for stolen goods?

Lastly when casing out the places to steal such easily traced items from, did it ever cross his mind to know who the owner was so he could avoid him when trying to pawn off his stash?

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There seems to be a common refrain with a large portion of those of the criminal element. Many of them are not all too bright. You can usually tell this when they try to do or say something ‘smart.’ What ends up happening though is they get listed on my Are You Thinking? topic.

This latest entry demonstrates that this 33 year old guy really didn’t pay attention in science class. Let me clarify which level that is. He didn’t pay attention to basic science in the elementary school level. My daughter already knows this at age 7.

” MAGNOLIA, Ark. - Magnolia police say it wasn't the fried chicken in Savalas Vantoli Stewart's car that gave off a funky smell. Instead, officers say they found a side dish of marijuana that Stewart hid inside of a recently purchased box of chicken during a traffic stop Friday night.

Police say officers smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the car and found it after Stewart consented to a search.”

I’ll grant the police this one as this is a tad off on a detail. But Mr. Stewart really should have thought this one through if he wasn’t under any chemical influence.

The key words are “recently purchased box of chicken.” In other words, the chicken was hot. Marijuana already gives off a fairly unique odor on its own. Putting the marijuana in with the hot chicken ignored some basic science. Heat added to molecules makes them move faster and expand. Remember the lesson on how water changes from ice to liquid water to water vapor? You need to add heat which makes the molecules spread around changing it from one state to another.

So by placing his marijuana in with his hot chicken he sealed his fate. He heated the molecules the marijuana gives off making the odor that much stronger. Maybe he can read up on it during his time in jail.

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I know, I know. The phrase is Do Not Feed the Trolls. But for this once, I’m going to have to break that Internet rule of thumb because this troll exemplifies the epitome of the Are You Thinking? category.

Anyone who has read my blog knows I’m happily married to my wife who is from the Philippines. I’ll always stand in the gap to defend my wife and awesome daughter like a husband and a man should. My wife is a smart and tough gal having gone through things that would give a number of Americans a nervous breakdown. That was life in the Philippines. You get tough quick or die. So she can handle her own with the normal trolls of the world.

However, normal trolls on the Internet attack a person’s stance on a topic. You don’t cross the no-no line and use the Internet to make a personal attack. Most of the trolls know why you don’t do that. Knowing the rules and how to act civilly is beyond this troll though. Let us analyze the insults to see just how dumb the insults are.

The main insult was:

all this wonderful information coming from a person who wouldn’t even be in this country if it wasn’t for some looser who had to buy a wife…lol…

From this insult we can discern the following:

Punctuation – Largely absent

Capitalization – They didn’t bother.

Spelling – If you are going to insult me, spell it correctly. “Looser” is not a noun. It is an adjective that describes what your pants are if you lose weight.

Generally, an insult has a bit more impact if your grammar can exceed that of my 1^st grade daughter. Lazy on the international display of your skills or didn’t do much while in K-12 school? Usually a person should demonstrate mastery of his or her only language before they attempt to attack a person who can fluently read and write 7 languages.

Now the content gives us more clues. “who had to buy a wife”

If you are going to sling a racial slur, do not pick a time when Martin Luther King Jr. is getting a lot of press for making advances against racism. Also, the reference to mail order brides demonstrates a profound amount of ignorance of the world. Those have been banned a long time ago by the USCIS. Wives are not to be purchased as if they were slaves on the black market. Try and join the rest of the world in this millennium.

In a collection of other attacks, this ubertroll demonstrated a profound lack of knowledge of the world and a questionable learning curve. Every country has something that is their trademark specialty. Americans are known for their love of sports especially the big 3. Switzerland is known for their high quality merchandise, banking system and Swiss chocolates. For the Philippines, their specialty is music. I’ve already written on this before though so go here. Telling someone they should sing on Filipino Idol when most of the past 7 seasons of American Idol contestants would never make it on the show is a compliment. Trying to declare they can’t sing well but saying they should go on a very difficult show is contradictory and demonstrates blatant ignorance. Saying a person who has won several singing contests in a city of 400,000 by singing many of the Disney movie theme songs is a bad singer makes a troll either ignorant or tone deaf.

Lastly, it has long been shown that a gifted and talented individual takes 1-2 repetitions to learn a topic. The average person takes about 4-6 times. The slow learner is usually in the 7-10 range. But after reading 2 years worth of blog entries over the course of many hours and seeing the word Filipino hundreds of times, this troll managed to misspell the word Filipino (proper noun) as “phillipino.” Failure after a massive amount of repetitions is off the charts in the wrong direction.

Oh well, a miserable person lashing out at people in personal attacks really needs to focus on getting their own life straightened out first. Knowing what the letters TOS stand for would help too. But you can’t expect trolls to learn. That is why this troll is the epitome of the Are You Thinking? award winners. I may not be able to top this one.

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Tomah High School in Madison, WI a short 1 ½ hour drive away from our place has 2 award winning staff members.

Who are these winners? Art teacher Julie Millin and assistant principal Cale Jackson are the recipients. Why? They haven’t learned the law related to student rights yet.

The senior student in this case identified by the initials A.P. was told he could not include a cross and the words “John 3:16 A sign of love” in his drawing.

His teacher, Julie Millin, asked him to remove the reference to the Bible, saying students were making remarks about it. He refused, and she gave him a zero on the project.

Millin showed the student a policy for the class that prohibited any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs in artwork. The lawsuit claims Millin told the boy he had signed away his constitutional rights when he signed the policy at the beginning of the semester.

The boy tore the policy up in front of Millin, who kicked him out of class. Later that day, assistant principal Cale Jackson told the boy his religious expression infringed on the other students’ rights.

Of course, both Millen and Jackson informed the student, his stepfather and pastor that the cross infringed on the rights of other students.

Well, Jackson and Millen must have missed a few lessons in Social Studies and the law especially recent cases. They should review this issue and especially this issue.

What wins them the award is the concept of an art department’s policy somehow having power over the US Constitution. Had they paid attention in Social Studies class they would understand the progression. The top legal dog is the US Constitution, then case law, Federal laws, Dept. of Education regulations, then State laws, State Dept. of Public Instruction regulations, school district policies, then school policies as dictated by the Principal then the policy of the Art teacher.

To review, they should look at the 1^st Amendment, Morse v. Frederick 2007, Tinker v. Des Moines 1969, and if they care about their federal funding they should take a hard look at the Dept. of Education Guidelines issued in 1995 and updated in 2003. In particular:

“Students may express their beliefs about religion in the form of homework, artwork, and other written and oral assignments free of discrimination based on the religious content of their submissions.”

Nowhere is the infringing on the rights of other students mentioned. If the other students do not like it, then that is just too bad. Don’t look. Yes, you can restrict artwork and other displays that support illegal activity but not religion. Tsk, tsk, where was the Social Studies teacher when they needed the teacher?

Oh yeah, the teacher was busy passionately pushing Buddhism and Hinduism. So much for the “separation of church and state” crowd, you can’t have it be selective especially with a Hindu deity on display in the hallway.

What kind of citizens can we expect a school to produce when the school staff doesn't follow or understand the basics of the law themselves?

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Sometimes in this world things just do not go according to plan. When you want to get a leg up, they tell you to sit your butt down. When you argue about it, they will tell you to just shut your hole.

Well a lady in Germany was the butt of a bad game of switcheroo.

Woman Goes for Leg Operation, Gets New Anus Instead

Thursday, March 20, 2008

A German retiree is taking a hospital to court after she went in for a leg operation and got a new anus instead, the Daily Telegraph is reporting.

The woman woke up to find she had been mixed up with another patient suffering from incontinence who was to have surgery on her sphincter.

The clinic in Hochfranken, Bavaria, has since suspended the surgical team.

Now the woman is planning to sue the hospital. She still needs the leg operation and is searching for another hospital to do it.

We have all heard of malpractice cases of errors on the part of the medical community but this is taking it to an extreme. How on earth can any surgical team make such a minor booboo of giving the wrong patient a new butt hole?

Why am I getting flashbacks of Beavis and Butthead talking about toilet paper and The Great Cornholio? Needless to say, this entire surgery team has won the Are You Thinking? award.

The photo is from here.

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But the worst was when the Principal made an error with the public address system and broad casted her morning announcements to everyone outside which included me. Her main line threw me for a loop. I couldn’t believe a person that ignorant and uneducated was put into a position of guiding the education of hundreds of children.

She had gone on the PA system and declared which student found out the name of the first black Congresswoman in the US Congress. No problem there. Her next line though was “It will truly be a wonderful day when Congress will reflect the population of the USA.” Wow, that’s sad. She didn’t know a few minor details found in the USA Census and the Wisconsin Census.

Before any statement can be made, you need people who are willing to run for those offices. That cannot be quantified. But population figures can be. Also, census numbers for a state do not reflect the other key factor involved and that is the population distribution in the district of a given Senator or Representative whether it be on the State or Federal level. In Wisconsin, 90% of the population is white. The black population is only 6% and most are concentrated in the Milwaukee as are the Asian (2%), Hispanic (4.7%) and others. That makes the highest percentage chance of a Latino female Representative coming from the same district as the Asian and black populations as well as still a large percentage being white.

So if we look at this Principal’s wish on a federal level we would have a Congress that is:

20% High School Drop-Out
25% College Educated
55% High School Grad only

By ethnicity as I refuse to call them races (we are all part of the human race just different shades of skin & hair):

80% White
15% Hispanic
13% Black
4.5% Asian
1% Native American

That is if we choose to ignore details on where the populations are in corresponding districts. Obviously, some identified themselves in multiple categories. We also have to ignore that the vast majority of those in Congress are college educated lawyers so there goes any chance at balance in career distribution too.

With great leaders like these at the helms of schools, no wonder skills in Math, Science and logic suck.

So why do we homeschool? Do I really need to say more?

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The answer to this question comes down to a few basic answers for us. They are as follows: Federal Dept. of Education, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction, West Bend Curriculum Director, and the Principal of our daughter’s Kindergarten school. All four have taken a stance of trying to dictate to the parents versus realizing they are Public Servants whom answer to the parents.

The Federal Department of Education starts off the list as it controls the choices of the remaining three. First, the DoE should not even exist if we were to follow the Constitution of the United States. Second, the DoE is subject to the whims of select special interest groups that do not have the best interests of the children at mind regarding true education. Instead, it is all about control of what the masses are instructed to believe not proven facts.

The Wis. Department of Public Instruction or DPI takes its guidance and sets further detailed standards for the local school districts to follow. Whereas you can count on them a little for resolving some issues, little research is done on sources chosen to listen to for guidance on the curriculum structure. This lack of vigilance in the defense of educating children on proven facts versus what some special interests want taught is the core reason we found this governmental unit wanting. Also, I was licensed under them so I know their operations fairly well.

Next up is the Curriculum Director who thought it was a good idea to give all Kindergarten children regardless of parental consent instruction on the location and name of all of their private parts. After all, they had a study that showed….you know the line. That ended up failing as it outraged many parents. Add in numerous other off-base concepts of what is good to teach children and we had to pull our daughter for the sake of her education. Left to the devices of this crackpot going on the other crackpots’ ideas, my daughter would be a victim of their incompetence.

Lastly, the Principal of the school was fresh out of getting her degree. Somehow she felt she could dictate to all the teachers what they had to teach despite it being very poorly researched. Two incidents showed us what this lady had in mind. The first was a school wide education on the holidays in December. In Kindergarten and the rest of the grades, they dove into the details of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, glossed over Christmas as a day belonging to Santa Claus and materialism as opposed its true origins, and heavily indoctrinated the children into Kwanzaa. My question when I saw this on the future curriculum for the month was – What is Kwanzaa? You can read my post on that.

We pulled her out of the Kwanzaa garbage and the teacher and the Principal tried their utmost to use guilt tactics to change our minds. Teaching the religious holidays of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa but not the true meaning of Christmas is a double standard. There is no using the “separation of church and state” argument on that. Somehow the principal thought it was a good idea to teach the concepts of an ex-convict found guilty of committing rape and torture. In most other countries, that would be banned and the guy would have been executed for the cruel nature of his conduct. Here, the principal wanted to celebrate it.

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The phrase is supposed to be “when you gotta go, you gotta go.” Normally that is the excuse to make a run for the bathroom or dash behind a tree, but not on the doorstep of the police department.

That'll teach him to tinkle outside

APPLETON, Wis. - An apparently drunk man picked the wrong place to tinkle. Appleton police arrested the man Friday afternoon after he reportedly relieved himself in front of the police department.

The 40-year-old was cited for public urination and jailed on a probation violation.

A preliminary breath test indicated a blood-alcohol level four times the legal limit, police said.

Information from: The Post-Crescent

Now there is a way he could have had protection from the police. It just DEPENDS on if the dude would use a little forethought before getting blitzed out of his shoes. Given how hammered this guy got the only answer would be the Maximum Protection he could afford.

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Living near Houston apparently hasn’t helped Roger “The Rocket” Clemens learn a thing or two about a game named for his state. Texas No Limit Hold’em is the name of the game which Roger has flopped.

Whether you like reading the sports pages on MSN, Yahoo or ESPN they have all pretty much came to the same conclusion. Roger entered into this with a strong desire to make a big ‘deal’ of it. He ‘played his hand’ ‘in the dark’ with the attitude as if he had ‘pocket rockets.’ (2 aces)

Headed to Congress he tried to schmooze the professionals by acting like a ‘big slick’. (Ace, King) In the end though, they ‘called his bluff’ and sent his reputation down the drain in a ‘royal flush.’ The greater part of wisdom would have followed the advice in Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler.”

“You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money, when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin', when the dealin's done.”

Unfortunately, when it came to Roger’s ‘turn’ he had an Are You Thinking? ‘All-in moment.’ With 5 members of the FBI and an IRS member in the room, Roger Clemens ‘checked’ his ‘down cards’ to find a 2-8 off suit. Perhaps in review, he’ll realize that at the beginning of this ordeal the better option would have been to ‘fold’ and “walk away.” Instead, he may be looking at a trip down ‘the river.’

Anyone want to lay odds on the future outcome?

As a side note, the above clip is cool considering the time it takes for the research and synching it up with the right words in a song. Well done to thewhitewhale70 but to Roger I’d reference him to the last line of Rogers’ refrain. “There’ll be time enough for countin’ (years in the pen), when the dealin’s done.”

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In this time of politics, comments get thrown about by all sides making accusations of this and that. Some are mildly entertaining, some actually make a point. However, sometimes someone chooses to write something down they never should have. For those moments, we may need an alarm in a computer or keyboard that goes off when someone is about to write something stupid. *Whoop, whoop, STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD, you are about to hit enter on something really stupid.”

But then again, I wouldn’t get the ammunition for this Are You Thinking Award. Enough of that let us get to the fun.

On a conservative political blog named Wake Up America, the author mpinkeyes wrote an entry on Ron Paul Blasts John McCain at CPAC Convention. Dr. Ron Paul does not find John McCain to be a true conservative and said so. The same feelings are held by mpinkeyes. Okay, no problem there. The opinions were well stated. But a commentator named Wyomingjohnnie should have heeded the warning from his computer. Dang, it wasn’t installed yet. Well, this is what he wrote:

“Wyomingjohnnie, on February 9th, 2008 at 7:15 am Said:

Bruce Majors, a Washington DC male hooker, is endorsing Ron Paul for his own illegal designs.

Bruce believes sex with minors of the same gender is a right under the Constitution, and is stating this publically

If this is the platform others wish to enbrace for Dr Paul, I will cast my vote elsewhere.

How does a group like this support such a perversion of truith ethis values and the law?”

Yes, all of those spelling errors are exactly as they were posted. Now just a few questions for this brain surgeon in Wyoming. (I would like to give my deepest apologies to the residents of Wyoming for this bad press.)

1) Do you realize the candidate makes the platform for people to embrace or reject? This goes back to remedial Social Studies.

2) Do you realize Dr. Paul is mainly running to get a message out and win re-election of his House seat?

3) Do you realize Dr. Paul is mathematically nearly eliminated from the Republican candidacy so whether or not you cast your vote is meaningless?

4) Do you realize Wyoming has a small population with few delegates and votes on 3/8/2008 by the time when McCain will likely have the nomination locked up?

5) Would you take the word of Charles Manson on a political candidate too? Would Manson the mass-murderer have any say in embracing a platform for a candidate?

6) Why are you listening to the ravings of a male hooker in Washington DC about his desire for legalized homosexual statutory rape in the first place?

7) Who gives a crap what Bruce Majors believes? If Schmo Schmuck endorses Hillary and believes all found guilty of statutory rape should be castrated, would that guide your decision making on Hillary?

8) Congratulations on winning your award. What is the name of the award you ask? Are You Thinking?

Dear Johnnie, Please check back in to school and finish your Social Studies class.

Now some students may not have had the best social studies lesson plans, but everyone should know a thing or two about politics. Understanding how politics has affected US history can help you make informed voting decisions, and there is plenty of online learning resources that can get you informed.

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Yes, you heard that right. This entry marks a 3-for-1 deal of epic proportions of stupidity. This time three awards are given out to three different winners in the same article with comments.

In the article, Ronnie Polaneczky: Oh, brother! “A judge threatened a man with arrest if he didn't pay twin's 17-year-old traffic tix.” Okay, that needs a tidbit of explaining before the Are You Thinking awards start flowing.

“It all started on Aug. 8, 1967, when Edward Stanley Harris and his twin brother, Edwin Shelby Harris, were born. Some might question the wisdom of a mother giving her twin sons, who share the same birth date and home address, such similar names.
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In the fall of 1992, PennDOT's driver-licensing bureau notified Edward that his license would be suspended for nonpayment of tickets. Realizing that PennDOT had confused him with his twin, Edward went to Philadelphia Traffic Court to straighten things out. The court wrote PennDOT, confirming that the tickets belonged to Edwin, not Edward.

Thankfully, PennDOT withdrew the suspension threat. Nonetheless, between November 1992 and June 2007, the routine repeated itself, like a scene from "Groundhog Day":

Every year or so, PennDOT re-discovered those same, unpaid tickets of Edwin's, decided they belonged to Edward, and threatened to suspend Edward's license. Each time, Edward returned to Traffic Court, and the suspension threat got lifted.

So Edward assumed the same annoying scenario would repeat itself last Nov. 21, when he took his latest license-suspension notice before Traffic Court Judge Willie Adams. According to Edward, Adams wouldn't listen to his saga or review the copious paperwork that Edward supplied to support his innocence.”

So award #1 goes to the Penn DOT for doing the exact same screw up 17 years in a row!!

Award #2 goes to Judge Willie Adams for not know he is supposed to be following the law and reviewing evidence!!

But Award #3 goes to a commentator named gr8fuldeadgrl68 who gave the following ever so insightful comment.

“Anyone ever heard of a social security number? Perhaps this is why they were created.”

I’m thinking Grateful Dead Girl had one too many ‘shrooms that left her seeing pretty colors. Let us give a review of how high this ranked on the intelligent post scale.

Uh gr8fuldeadgrl68, Social Security numbers were created so individuals would have their own government run retirement account.

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