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Teacher Sues For Right To Assign Failing Grades

From the Courthouse News Service: BATON ROUGE (CN) – A fourth-grade teacher sued her principal, superintendent and school board, saying they prohibited teachers from giving students Fs, even if they deserved it. She claims the principal told fourth-grade teachers “they could not, under any circumstances, assign any student any grade lower than 60 percent when [...]

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Why Carrying A Gun Is A Civilized Act

Here’s another great one I just got from Dad via email Plenty of people still give me grief for carrying a gun.  Granted, I do so openly – it’s in a holster on my hip – as I haven’t had the money to get a concealed weapons permit yet.  OK, so I also have it [...]

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Awesome Video From Nutnfancy – Lessons of My Father: Depussification

Folks, I can’t say how much I love this video.  I may not live up to these standards all the time, but I do try.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people freak out because of something like a power outage or a cut finger for example.  They have no idea how [...]

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Re-Post – Picture(s) A Day – 26 September 2009 – Un-Elect Harry Reid Rally

Editorial Note:  We’ve come a long way since 26 September of last year   I figured it would be fun and interesting to re-post this entry considering all the posts today about yesterday’s Tea Party   Make sure to click here to read all the comments in the original post So today was the Un-Elect [...]

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Re-Post – The Constitution And The “Individual Mandate” Contained In The Proposed “Health Care Reform” Plan

I am re-posting this entry due to recent events. Here’s hoping someone out there gets it. Originally posted 27 September 2009 ————— Barack Obama was on the news the other night and this exchange took place: I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve got more than a few problems with this vision of our sitting [...]

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Re-Post – Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You…

I am re-posting this entry due to recent events.  Here’s hoping someone out there gets it. Originally posted 14 September 2009 ————— I’m currently re-reading a Tom Clancy book called Executive Orders.  I’ve loved Clancy ever since I saw The Hunt for Red October in the movie theater after which Dad bought me the book.  [...]

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Picture(s) A Day – 19 February 2010

I’d like to start off this post by thanking everyone for their support in the past week along with their continued understanding when I’m slow to post during times like these.  Today (20 February 2010) was largely spent resting up after a stressful week.  Aside from that, I helped out Ulises with some technical issues [...]

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Last Post of the Day – Mary Smich’s Guide to Life for Graduates

Enough with the stress and strain.  Enough with the money problems.  Sometimes it seems like most of what money does is create problems, but like I said, I’ve had enough of those.  Enough with problems in general. It’s time for something a little better – a bit of my philosophy for life   No, it [...]

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Explosives Containers Punctured, Locals Show Good Common Sense

I got a kick out of this story   No, it wasn’t because explosives were involved or anything like that.  It was the reaction of the locals to the news that a container of explosives had been punctured. From foxnews.com: Locals said there was no sense of panic. Drew Hall, who answered the phone at [...]

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Ya Know, My Day’s Not Going Quite That Bad After All

I found this little gem of a video over at Weasel Zippers last night and thought I’d post it myself while I had a few seconds Life’s going pretty well for me lately as I’ve said.  Still, some out there may not be quite so fortunate so I figured I’d do here what I often [...]

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