More on One of My Pet Peeves: Why Most Educators Are Ignorant.

I was a teacher, I married a teacher, her father was a teacher, and one of my daughter's was a teacher and in some respect, still is an educator.  So don't tell me I don't know anything about education and the usual line, "until you walk a mile in their shoes, don't criticize".    Sorry folks, done that, been there -- in reverse order, of course, to be more correct.

For some time now, I have been pointing out the stupidity of educators.   But less I be totally misunderstood -- it's not always teachers I am after.   Usually it's mainly bad teachers and those from that group that get promoted to the ranks of administrators (because they're not so hot in the classroom).

Oh well, you decide for yourself.  Read the story along with other similar ones people share along this line.  Then ask yourself, "why is it that we're seeing more and more stupidity from the education sector these days?"   Is there really a plot to make us all stupid?

Seems to me I remember an old adage that goes like this:  Those that can do; those that can't teach; and those that can't teach, teach others how to teach.   I think it's still applicable.   

Reading Frederick Douglass in Rochester - By Kevin D. Williamson - The Corner - National Review Online

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The Insanity of latest report on Iran's Nuclear Plans.

Please feel free to read the the article in the attached link and if you believe it, I am sure there are a number of good real estate agents that really do have a deal for you in Florida.

Here is a new report that says, "all is well; don't worry; Iran isn't interested yet in building nuclear weapons". Really. How stupid do they think the average North American reader is?

First of all the report was sponsored and paid for by a grant from the U.S. Institute (now get this) Of Peace. Why would they pay or want to lead the world to believe that Iran wants anything but peace?  They wouldn't.  As sponsors of the report, they got what they wanted.

But here's the part I love. The article quotes from the report: "Although Iran is engaged in nuclear hedging, no evidence has emerged that the regime has decided to build nuclear weapons."

Wait, what this is saying is this: When Iran decides it will build a nuclear weapon it will publish it on Facebook or what have you. How stupid would that be? It's to Iran's advantage to keep threatening they will, and secretly actually doing so.

Here is more insanity in the very next paragraph of the article.

"Such a decision (that is to actually build a nuclear weapon) may be unlikely to occur until Iran is first able to augment its enrichment capability to a point where it would have the ability to make weapon-grade uranium quickly and secretly. . ." So what does this seem to be saying? Well, let's see, I think it says, "we'll know they've made the decision to build a nuclear weapon when they are capable of, get this now, "secretly" making weapon-grade uranium quickly (and secretly)." Ah, of course, they're not going to tell us they can 'secretly' make weapon-grade uranium (quickly) and thus we'll never know that they made the decision to make nuclear weapons. How stupid. How insane. Yet our western governments, especially Obama's, swallow it hook, line and sinker.

I don't make this up. It's right here. . . take a look. And then scream.  This report is all linked in to re-electing Obama.   But worse than that, if it is believed -- civilization may not be around to debate it's accuracy afterwards.

ISIS report: Iran won't move tow... JPost - Iranian Threat - News:

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This Man is Arrogant, Deaf, Blind, and/or Reality Challenged (my kids won't let me say 'stupid'). Guess Who?

Can you really believe this? It is stretching my confidence in mankind.

Obama: “All the choices we’ve made have been the right ones” � Hot Air


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Ethics and "Females vs. Perverts" Controversy

More ranting by yours truly as I find things in the news today that just irk me.  Like these next two stories.

Ethics

The Palestinian "envoy" to Canada is going home.  Why you ask?  Because we (Canada, that is) caught her tweeting a link to a video which we felt was offensive to Jews.  The Palestinians agreed to recall Linda Sobeh Ali after our Foreign Affairs Minister gave her a "dressing down" according to the Toronto Star.

What was offensive about the video of a poem being recited?  Well, apparently the poem was calling people "to a war that (raze) the injustice and oppression and destroy(s) the Jews" -- or so said the English subtitles.

Good for Canada.  More countries should take more stands like this.  But the envoy herself? -- Well, she gave a most lame excuse while expressing regret about the video.  She said, according to CTV via the Toronto Star, that she had "not actually viewed the video before tweeting a link to it".  Now, that's stupid.  And because she should know better and be aware of her position and anything that would be considered offensive, it was also a matter of ethics.  Recall was the least we could hope for.  She's lucky.

Of course, why we even bother with a Palestinian envoy beats me, but hey, let's play nice.   Unlike the author of the next story who wants it all her way.  Take a read . . .

"Females vs. Perverts" Controversy

Columnist Heather Mallick is a little excited.  She's angry at the police.  If it was a video account, I'm sure some of us would see venom coming forth.   The story has to do with the fact that two girls claimed some pervert on the subway was trying to look up their short private-school skirts (or kilts).  In trying to protect the girls and maybe the school, the officer who investigated the matter tried to suggest that perhaps students may wish to change at school before venturing unto Toronto's subways to head home and vice-versa in the mornings.  The principal took the suggestion to heart and relayed the message to parents as a precautionary action.  And now Mallick has him in her sights as well.

Look, there is no excuse for perversion.  Absolutely none.  But here's the bottom line for me as a parent and now a grandparent.   I accept the fact that there are perverts out there.  I accept the fact that we can't afford a guard on every bus or subway car.  I accept the fact that those young girls look very seductive to the kind of guy like the one who was stalking Shania Twain lately.  In short, they would appear pretty attractive to all perverts and maybe some of us who aren't and know better.   (By the way, Mallick in her eagerness to use every word she was allowed in the column to go after the police and the perverts, neglected to tell us how old the girls were.)  Yes, I know they're students -- but they don't always act, dress, talk or look like just students.  Of course, Mallick's point is that none of that should matter.  Perverts should keep their hands to themselves.

And I agree with her on that last point -- that perverts should keep their hands and their thoughts to themselves.  But not on her previous point -- that none of that should matter.  Oh, yes, I promised you the bottom line for me.  Well, here it is:

I would rather ask my grand-daughter to change her clothes at school before coming home on the subway and have her alive and untouched, than, like Mallick, insist that police are wrong with their suggestions.  Or worse still, demand that all perverts "avoid attacking people in order not to be arrested" and have my grand-daughter attacked, molested, sexually assaulted, or even dead.  Her argument only shows that Mallick just does not understand our society; she leaves no room for the fact that every pervert can't be watched every minute; and she knows nothing about the psychology of a rapist and a pedophile.  I don't care what other part of her body she chooses to cover or not, but I would strongly recommend that she get a nice mask for her mouth.  The woman is so out of touch with what we call "balance".

If you really want to read her side of it, go ahead.  Here it is:

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1072165--mallick-why-dress-down-for-perverts

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Bullying first and then Stupid Rules

As I read today's paper, I thought I might just rant a little about some of the news it contained.  I find some of the things people and organizations do so insane.  Here are two more of my targets tonight . . .

Bullying

Another young teenager takes his own life because other kids were bullying him.  That's criminal.  The 15 year old was tormented by others for being gay.  In other societies, people get stoned or otherwise killed openly for such activities.  Here it seems we just shame them or get them to the point where they feel life is not worth living any more and they kill themselves.  Both approaches are just out and out wrong -- wickedly, immorally, and feloniously wrong.  Have I made that perfectly clear.  I say track these bullies down and make them never forget what they have done and force them to pay a heavy and memorable price (perhaps of service or loss of privileges) to society and/or the victim's family.  Maybe it's time we started forcing them to wear a scarlet letter "B" for bully on all their clothes, and if their victim ended up committing suicide, we need to add an "MA" to designate "murder abettor" to the B.

I still believe practicing homosexuality is wrong and moral sin against God.  You don't have to agree with me.  But you need to know that I believe no teenager, no adult, has the right to take a person's life because of that or to cause the person to take their own life because of the agony caused by the bully.  For me, the task is to love that kid and to show him/her that God loves them and so do I.  And instead of condoning his/her behavior, I honestly share with them that I distinguish them from their actions.  In short, I love the sinner, but condemn only the sin.  He/she doesn't have to accept it, but he/she should know beyond a shadow of a doubt by my words and actions, that I do indeed love him/her.

And as for the bullies, there is a sure way to cure them from their bad habits.  I remember being a young kid and a newcomer to Canada with a long funny and difficult-to-pronounce last name.  When the kids also heard my parents call me by my Greek first name, "cool-eee", that even made matters worse.  It was easy and great fun picking on me.   I remember one day I came crying all the way home after school, screaming because a considerably older boy was chasing me and kicking me -- right up our driveway.  Only to be met that day by my father as we rounded the corner of the house.  Dad went after him with the broom he was holding and gave him a few good hits (lightly) across the legs.  He then grabbed him and almost shook the living daylights out of him, giving him the sternest of warnings which included being dragged both to his parents home and to the police if this ever happened again.  It didn't.  And to boot (no pun intended), this young man became my protector at school.  Go figure.

Maybe there's a lesson here for the authorities as to how to deal with bullies.  But then again, back in 1953, there were no laws against disciplining a neighbor's kid.  The authorities (and most parents) saw it as "correcting a child" who otherwise would err as an adult.

Stupid Rules

Now, get this.  An 82 year old lady visiting her dying husband in a hospital, is leaving with her adult son to go home.  She falls and actually breaks her hip in the lobby of the hospital and there's blood all around.  And what is she told?  You guessed it (or did you?) -- "no one can help you until you call an ambulance".  Wow.  Stupidity plus.   Top marks for that.  Of course, the hospital said it was poor communication (and I'd add poor training) among staff who were still using old rules.  Really?   Don't get me going.  If you want the details, they're in the link below.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1071790--elderly-woman-breaks-hip-at-niagara-hospital-told-by-staff-to-call-ambulance

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Hunger Strikes

As I read today's paper, I thought I might just rant a little about some of the news it contained.  I find some of the things people and organizations do so insane.  Here is one such story:

Hunger Strikes


Remember that dairy farmer who thought he'd get rich by selling shares in cows to individuals so they can have their own unpasteurized milk?  He is 57 years old and an advocate of organic raw milk.  He is appealing a recent (second level) Ontario Court of Justice decision that found him guilty of several counts related to selling unpasteurized milk -- a no-no in Ontario.  Well, he's prepared to die for the cause.  And right now he's heading into his 20th day of a hunger strike -- down to just water.  I was behind this man all the way hoping he'd fight the system legally as best he can and as far as he could.  I agreed with his position.

But I can't support the use of "emotional blackmail" (which is what a hunger strike) when it comes to matters that are not ones of life and death.   So, I now leave him to his own devices.  He no longer has my sympathy.  A hunger strike over this is either stubbornness or stupidity, and often both.   You can check the story out at:

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1072160--farmer-s-hunger-strike-for-raw-milk-goes-on 

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The Blatant Stupidity & Blindness of the B.O. Administration

This report from the Washington Post is totally on track and totally unbelievable. How blind and how stupid can one set of leaders be?

First they told us not to worry -- these revolutions are good for democracy and don't worry about any Islamic impact -- there won't be any direct impact on politics. Earlier they had told us that Islam is a religion of peace (Bush said that too). Now the B.O. White House is admitting that a number of these Middle Eastern states currently in chaos will end up as Islmaic ones. And they've ordered a study as to how to prepare for that.

Unbelievable. Hello, where have you guys been? How blind can you be? B.O., have you noticed your approval rating laterly?

So they managed to bring it about ever so smoothly. Now you know why they're all talk about going in and helping the Libyans quickly -- doesn't go with the long-term script. They want Islamic powers to take their positions and course naturally.

Accoding to the Post, one senior B.O. administration official said, "We shouldn't be afraid of Islam in the politics of these countries". Really, has this guy (or woman) been watching the blogosphere as to what is happening to Christians in Islamic leaning countries lately? I guess not. Or is it we don't care about Christians in the B.O. administration. I think that's it. Somebody convince me otherwise given all the decisions B.O. has been making lately.

If this is the "new beginning with Islam" that B.O. promised upon taking office, well, congratulations B.O., you've delivered very well. Thanks but no thanks.

And then of course there's that woman who is showing lately that she is now competing with Nancy Pelosi for the dumbest female politician award. On Monday, she, according to the Post, implicitly invited Islamist parties to participate in the Middle East's future elections, and get this "with conditions". Give me a break. Here are the conditions she called for: "reject violence, uphold equality, and agree to play by the rules of democracy." Isn't that exactly what they're doing in Pakistan these days by killing the only elected Christian official in the country? Come on Hillary, get a job you can handle, or understand.

If you weren't mad at the B.O. administration before you read this article in the link below, then you should be afterwards. If not, well "I'm speechless". Please share this with those that are or will be.

Obama administration prepares for possibility of new post-revolt Islamist regimes

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