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Bondage and semen-filled spoons from elementary teacher!

“Los Angeles (CNN) -- A Los Angeles elementary school teacher allegedly took bondage photos of more than two dozen students in his classroom, including some with suspected semen-filled spoons at their mouths, investigators said Tuesday.

The young students "didn't realize they were victimized," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Dan Scott told CNN Tuesday.

"They thought they were being blindfolded and gagged as a game," he said. "And they were rewarded with cookies or spoons full of sugar (but) they did not realize the spoon contained semen."

The photographs also showed "a large 3-inch cockroach that would crawl on their face," Scott said.

Mark Berndt, 61, was arrested on child molestation charges at his Torrance, California, home Monday and is being held pending $2.3 million bond in a Los Angeles County jail, according to Sheriff's Lt. Carlos Marquez…”  

 

    You see these stories and you think it can not be true.  You must have read the story wrong or something.  You have to read it again.  Then you can not believe that someone could get away with doing something like that and you can not believe that someone would be so stupid.
    The guy was a teacher for 30 years!  How many times must he have done this and how many victims over the years must there be?
     You got to wonder how is it that no one found out about this in the past?   You would think that a kid would go home and say the teacher tied me up or something and warning bells should have been going off big time.
    
      There has to be some high tech answer to things like this now days.  How about a webcam in each class room that runs 24/7.  Each parent of a student in that classroom should have access to that video 24/7.  Plus a few others should have access.  School administration and school security.     

Are schools making kids sick?

  CNN has a story “Are schools making kids sick?”  Because of the Republicans schools are cutting staff.  The Democrats and the left is worrying about the lost of teachers jobs.  Many are worried about less school security.  But I do not hear much about the lost of jobs of the people that keep the schools clean and take care of maintenance.
  Hell, you got the Republicans calling for getting rid of the janitors and hire the kids to clean schools!

  It is crazy.  Schools need to teach but they need to be safe and healthy.  They should not make kids sick.
 

  The government, YES the government, needs to be spending money to make schools safe and healthy and places to learn.

  Plus cleaning up schools and building new ones will create jobs.

  The right wing Republicans are pushing us in the wrong direction.

  If we need to increase taxes to keep kids safe and healthy then we need to increase taxes.

   If you been reading my blogs over the years you know I love to go to a casino a gamble.  I buy a lottery ticket from time to time.
   When the issue of casinos and the lottery first came up in Missouri I said “no” to the idea UNLESS the profit could be used for schools.  Well the people that wanted the lottery said that there would be so much money coming in that schools would be made out of gold.   There would be tons and tons of money for schools.  So much money that the schools would not know what to do with the money.
   What happened to all that money?   Just from the lottery money it would seem like it would be easy to pay for everything.

National ‘motel kids’ problem

  I just read California chef feeds children for free on CNN. 
The “hero” Bruno Serato feeds more than 300 children each night in Anaheim, California.  
 
  We should not have hunger in America.  But most of all we should not have children in the United States going to bed hungry.

  NPR has some information on Hunger in America. 
 
  I suspect that politics is part of the problem.  I am sure the evil empire (the Republican Party) will say that we can not afford to feed American children.  I am sure the evil empire will say well they need to get a job.  The evil empire will say that the problem is that we give foreign aid to other nations.  I am sure that the evil empire will say it is all the wet back Mexicans here in the United States. 
  The Republicans will say if we would just cut the taxes on the rich people that somehow that would feed the children. 

  We have so many problems here in the United States that we need to work on.  I just do not see how we can get anything done with the evil empire in Washington.
 
  To tell you the truth I did not think about the problem of “motel kids” but I am sure that is a real problem. 
  Thank God for people like Bruno Serato.

Newt Gingrich wants to do away with child labor laws

  Republicans want to do away with labor unions we all know that…  New Gingrich not only wants to do away with unions he wants to do away with child labor laws.
  Not only do Republicans want to do away with labor unions but everything they have given the United States and the world.  
 
 

“(CNN) - Newt Gingrich proposed a plan Friday that would allow poor children to clean their schools for money, saying such a setup would both allow students to earn income and endow them with a strong work ethic.

Speaking at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the former House Speaker said his system would be an improvement on current child labor laws, which he called "truly stupid."
"It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid," Gingrich said. "Saying to people you shouldn't go to work before you're 14, 16. You're totally poor, you're in a school that's failing with a teacher that's failing."

Gingrich then proposed a system he said would help those students rise from poverty.

"I tried for years to have a very simple model. These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work; they'd have cash; they'd have pride in the schools. They'd begin the process of rising."

Gingrich pointed to successful acquaintances as examples of the benefits of beginning a job early in life…”

 

  He would “allow” poor children to clean the schools.  Yes if you want an education and a lunch at the school you would have to clean the school.
  I am sure sure that kids are going to do a good job of cleaning the school. 
  His plan would also do away with a few good jobs.  That is going to help us all I am sure.  Do away with professional trained janitors and let children used hazardous chemicals.  The children can make sure the floors and stairs are nice as slick with hazardous chemicals. 
  I am sure that children will know about proper storage of chemicals that are a fire hazard.  I am sure little children can run one of those power floor buffers just great.  They will not hurt themselves nor will they damage the floors. Most of all I can not wait to see those kids buffering and tearing the hell out of the gym floors. 

  I know Newt has had three or four wives.  He does not have any children does he?
  I am sure that “poor” kids working as janitors are going to feel a lot of “pride.”  Talk about bullying problems now…Just wait until you got poor kids working at the school cleaning the floors and the toilets.  

  He does not want to improve education.  He wants to get kids to drop out and quit school.
Newt Gingrich could the Republican with the highest IQ, that is running, and he might be the best debater but he is a poor excuse for a human being.
  Shame shame on Newt Gingrich.  Newt go set in the corner with a the dunce cap on your pointed head.

Earth–Time Lapse View from Space

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

 

  I keep having people send me the link to this video so I am just going to post the view here.

 

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan, Satoshi Furukawa
and the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from
August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude
of around 350 km. All credit goes to them.

 

Music: Jan Jelinek | Do Dekor, faitiche back2001
w+p by Jan Jelinek, published by Betke Edition
janjelinek.com | faitiche.de
Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory,
NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
eol.jsc.nasa.gov
Editing: Michael König | koenigm.com
Shooting locations in order of appearance:
1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night
2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night
3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia
4. Aurora Australis south of Australia
5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night
6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean
7. Halfway around the World
8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East
9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East
10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night
11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay
12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night
13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam
14. Views of the Mideast at Night
15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea
16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night
17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean
18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night

Veterans Day

 

 

  When I was in high school (De La Salle) we were a 55 c ROTC school.  We were in uniform every day.  A 55c school did more ROTC than a normal high school that had an ROTC unit.

  We also marched each year in the Kansas City veterans day parade. 
Other ROTC units were taken by bus downtown for the parade and then by a bus back to school.
  Our school battalion (500 students) marched from the school to the start of the parade site and then marched in the parade and then at the end of the parade we marched back to the school.
 
  We carried M1s except for officers that carried swords (they also were issued carbines).

  Before the start of each school day we had formation in front of the school for the entire battalion and the colors were raised with sound to the colors etc.  It sent chills up and down my spine every day.
  Each Friday the second half of the day was for a full dress parade in Parade Park which was across the street from De La Salle. 

  De La Salle was a Catholic all male high school taught by the  Christian Brothers. 

I do not have any video or even still photos of the weekly parade so here is a video from the United States Military Academy to give you an idea of what the weekly parade was like.  West Point however has about 1,300 (college) cadets and we had 500 (high school) cadets.

 

 

 

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New word for me: Haboob

  I am 70 years old and I learned a new word today.  It is haboob.
CNN had a video and it said “Monster haboob rolls into Texas.”  I was thinking what the hell is that?  A band of hobos marching into Texas? 

“A haboob (Arabic:"هَبوب", "strong wind") is a type of intense duststorm carried on an atmospheric gravity current. Haboobs are regularly observed in arid regions throughout the world. They have been observed in the Sahara desert(typically Sudan, where they were named and described), as well as across the Arabian Peninsula, throughout Kuwait, and in the most arid regions of Iraq.^[1] African haboobs result from the northward summer shift of the inter-tropical front into North Africa, bringing moisture from the Gulf of Guinea. Haboob winds in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Kuwait, and North America are frequently created by the collapse of a thunderstorm, while haboobs in Australia may be frequently associated with cold fronts. The deserts of Central Australia, especially near Alice Springs are particularly prone to Haboobs with the sand and debris reaching several kilometers into the sky and leaving up to a foot of sand covering everything in its path. The arid and semiarid regions of North America – in fact, any dry land region – may experience haboobs. In the USA, they are frequently observed in the deserts of Arizona, including Yuma and Phoenix,^[2][3] as well as New Mexico and Texas.^[4] During thunderstorm formation, winds move in a direction opposite to the storm's travel, and they will move from all directions into the thunderstorm. When the storm collapses and begins to release precipitation, wind directions reverse, gusting outward from the storm and generally gusting the strongest in the direction of the storm's travel.^{[5][6][7]…”}

Video about De La Salle

  Here is a video about De La Salle my old high school.  I was in the class of 1959.

Friendly Persuasion

  This Wednesday a great movie is going to be on Turner Classic Movies.  The movie is "Friendly Persuasion" and I love the movie.  The movie will be on at 10 AM on the east coast and it will be at 9 AM for me here in Texas. 
   Now if you watch "Friendly Persuasion" make sure you watch the 1956 one with Gary Cooper.  I will set my alarm and be watching the movie.  I think it is one of the all time great movies.

  This is the first time I have been to TCM (Turner Classic Movies) web site.  It is a great web site.  Since I get TCM movies with my cable TV service (Charter) I am going to start checking out the TCM web site.
  I see at 0230 hours (EST) and I guess that would be then on the September 15th they are going to have on one of the worst movies of all time and that is "The Hoodlum Priest" which was made in 1961.   

  The truth is that I do not remember much of the movie. So it might not be a bad movie.  My problem is that movie is a "true" story about a real Catholic Jesuit priest.  The movie is about Father Charles Dismas Clark.  
  My high school De La Salle (1955-1959) had him come and preach and talk to us for a retreat.  I went to Confession to him.   

   

"Brief Synopsis

Father Charles Dismas Clark, a Jesuit priest in St. Louis, dedicates his life to the rehabilitation of delinquents and ex-convicts. By meeting them on their own terms and talking their language, he wins their confidence and their trust. He is primarily concerned with a young thief, Billy Lee Jackson, recently released from the Missouri State Penitentiary. Father Clark helps clear the boy of some trumped-up charges and then gets him an honest job with a produce market. Billy's rehabilitation is further encouraged by Ellen Henley, a young socialite with whom he falls in love. Meanwhile, aided by Louis Rosen, a successful criminal lawyer, Father Clark raises enough funds to open Halfway House, a shelter for ex-convicts readjusting to civilian life. All goes well until Billy's employer fires him for a theft he did not commit. Embittered, he and a friend, Pio, attempt to rob the produce market. They are caught by one of the owners, and he attacks Billy with a crowbar. The panic-stricken boy grabs a gun and kills him. The police chase Billy to an abandoned house, and he hides there until Father Clark persuades him to surrender. Tried and convicted of murder, he is sentenced to death. Before Billy dies in the gas chamber, Father Clark reassures him by telling him of Dismas, the thief who died on the cross, and of how Christ promised him eternal life. After the execution, Father Clark returns to Halfway House and finds his first client, Pio, drunk and repentant." TCM

 

  I am not sure what year he was at DLS.  I think it was 1955.  But I was just a young dumb high school kid and as I watched and listened to him talk and mostly cry I was saying to myself this guy is crazy!  I was wondering why the brothers would allow a crazy guy to get up in front of us and carry on like that.  
   My problem with him was his emotional crying and holding up photos.  
   I am sure the problem was in me.  I try and control my emotions. I always want to be in control of them and see a guy crying and carrying on like that was a big turn off for me.