Hillary… what gives?

Last night, Hillary Clinton ”gave the worst performance of her entire campaign” in the Democrat debates, according to Politico Web site. For some reason, I thought she would be on top of her game in late, late October. Go figure.

Hillary was relentlessly attacked by John Edwards, Barack Obama and Tim Russert for not clearly stating her positions. Dennis Kucinich was a tad proccupied with ET to join in the bashing. To help her out, I decided to hone her talking points into clear, concise promises:

• I promise to protect a woman’s right to choose to kill her child, her dog and her spouse; but not her healthcare coverage.
• I will raise minimum wage to executive-wage level, so that everyone in America can live in comfort.
• Any company that does not pay its workers the same as its high-level managers will have to pay a tax penalty to the government.
• Every child to be born in American — at least the ones who don’t have a needle injected into their skull, get torn apart by metal instruments, then sucked out of the womb by a tube — will receive a $5,000 savings bond, or a $1,000 grant, or something like that. Whatever you people want.
• We shall raise the Social Security taxes so that every working American pays 90 percent of their check to take care of their grandparents. Their grandchildren can return the favor to them when they’re old. Unless they’ve been killed before they were born — which is well within a mother’s constitutional right to do.
•  There are no terrorists except for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. I promise to protect America from these threats.
• America needs illegal immigrants. I propose every immigrant be given a driver’s license, high-management-level wages by their employers, and of course a constitutional right to kill their children pre-birth.

Okay. You can add your own. It’s kinda fun. And, frankly, I’m not witty enough to do this…

Big Brother’s Big Brother…

Apparently, public schools are trying to take the place of TV as a place where kids can get more than their fill of sex and violence (see post below, and think Columbine, VA Tech, etc.). So I say why not combine the two?

What’s a Web cam cost these days? They’re typically thrown in free with a computer, right? Well, what’s the problem with mounting them on the wall of every public school classroom?

Watch your kid learn. Listen to his teacher.

Think it’s invasion of privacy? Well, not me. What if I can’t afford to send my kids to private schools? Do I owe the government time alone in a room with my kid six hours a day, with no way to find out what information is disseminated?

The thought makes my skin crawl.

Ideas?

reading, writing, and fornication

This will brighten your day. Maine schools no longer can look the other way when minors have sex with each other at school. Well, that is, unless those minors are 15 or older.

This from the Portland Press Herald:

Portland’s school-based health centers have not been reporting all illegal sexual activity involving minors as required by law, but they will from now on, city officials said Thursday.

Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson questioned the health centers’ reporting practices after the Portland School Committee decided last week to offer prescription birth control at the King Middle School health center.

The King Student Health Center has offered comprehensive reproductive health care, including providing condoms and testing for sexually transmitted diseases, since it opened in 2000. The school serves students in grades 6 to 8, ages 11 to 15.

I don’t know what’s more sad, that school administrators didn’t think this a big enough deal to report in the past, or that parents would be so uninvolved as to know who teaches their kids.

It shouldn’t be the government. Let’s call this Example Number, oh what are we on now, 48,322?

Thank God for private schools and home schooling. No matter how costly or time consuming, they’re worth it. Let’s hope when Hillarycare comes we’re still allowed to have some kind of private health care…

In the mean time, pray for our public schools.

To get things started…

If you want to know about me, here are the few things I can tell you. Oh, let’s make it an even 10…

1. I have enough common sense to rule the world — with enough left over to organize my sock drawer in a way in which I will never separate a pair of dress socks.

2. I will never rule the world. And I don’t care for dress socks.

3. If you’re a liberal, I should have no problem getting along with you. I don’t like you’re ideas and I’ll spend a lot of time telling you why, but I won’t hate you. Unless you’re an evil supervillian. I hate evil supervillians.

4. I like brevity.

5. I was begged by a thousand people to start this blog.

6. Okay, a thousand may have been an exaggeration… but read on. I won’t disappoint.

7. I am highly educated in the art of seeing through BS. Each time I read a newspaper, for instance, my blood pressure creeps up 35 points and I start frothing at the mouth.

8. Still, I’ve not bit anyone yet.

9. I said yet.

10. I often enjoy the ravings of lunatics — so long as their hearts are in the right place. Hope you do too. Stick around.