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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.     

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Steps Down from Congress

Uploaded by giffords2 on Jan 22, 2012

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced her plans to step down from Congress Jan. 22, 2011.
Transcript of video:
"Arizona is my home, always will be. A lot has happened over the past year. We cannot change that. But I know on the issues we fought for we can change things for the better. Jobs, border security, veterans. We can do so much more by working together. I don't remember much from that horrible day, but I will never forget the trust you placed in me to be your voice. Thank you for your prayers and for giving me time to recover. I have more work to do on my recovery so to do what is best for Arizona I will step down this week. I'm getting better. Every day, my spirit is high. I will return and we will work together for Arizona and this great country. Thank you very much."

MegaUpload Shut Down

  I checked out MegaUpload a year or two ago for some reason.  I think I had a large file that I wanted to send to someone and it would not fit via eMail.  So I used MegaUpload.  So I looked around their sites. 
  I saw that you could download movies.  Some of the movies were just out in the theaters right then.  But everything I saw about how the site operated sent warnings to me.  They had the feel of not being honest and being a hacker site.  I felt that you could not use their site for long without getting a virus or something worst on your computer.  I never went back to them.   I forgot about them.

  Well they got taken off line and all of their sites were taken off line.

  “Megaupload is an online Hong Kong–based company established in 2005 that ran a one-click hosting online service of the same name, along with its sister services. The site was shut down by the U.S. Justice Department on January 19, 2012 during an investigation into alleged copyright infringement,[3][2][4][5] leading to what activist group Anonymous calls "the single largest Internet attack in its history"…”

   

  Well yesterday Russ came into my room and was upset and mad.  I said what is wrong and he said they shut down MegaUpload.  I did not know he knew about the site or used them.

  Here is Boogie2988 from YouTube  and what he has to say about the MegaUpload shut down.

 

  I think MegaUpload needed to be taken down.  I know Russ will not agree with me and I know that many of you will not agree with me.  I could tell from a very little bit of time looking at MegaUpload that they were dirty.  In fact after I looked at their site I made a special point to do a complete virus scan.  I never make a special effort to run it I let it do it in the background.  But after looking at that site I ran it special.

Mitt Romney Got Arrested

  I check out the right wing hate site RedState just about everyday.  It is good to know what the dark side is saying. 
  They got a post about Mitt Romney being arrested.  No big deal. Hell I was arrested two times.
  But I did not know the information about Romney and he attempted to hide the information. He had the court case dismissed.  He got them to seal the records so the public would not know.  He threatened to sue the officer and department.
  His arrest was in 1981.  An officer told him not to launch is motorboat and Romney, of course, when right ahead and launched it.
 
  The post also tells about other times he has encounters with law enforcement and other little people and told them to fuck off and let them know that he was someone that was a VIP.
  That is just the sort of thing we all feel about him and we all knew that was the sort of person he was.  He is rich and we are all just little people to him.

  I guess RedState wanted to get the information out and try and give it a good spin.
The only real spin they could give it was to say… Yes.. Romney is an elitist but so is President Obama.

  One thing RedState is like the other right wing Republicans they do not want Mitt Romney.  A large number of writers for RedState came out for Gingrich if I remember correct.  The head guy at RedState came out for Rick Perry.
  
  A lot of people right now like Santorum.  I do not like him. I think that his problem is that he is a player just like the rest of them that have been in Washington.  I also do not like that Santorum is bring up God (Jesus Christ) and his religion ALL the time.  I did not find out until about a week ago that he is a Catholic.  Unlike John F. Kennedy it seems that Santorum is saying that his Catholic religion would effect his actions as President of the United States. I am a Catholic but I do not want a President of the United States that is going to attempt to force Catholic teachings and belief on my fellow Americans.
  But I also see that he does not follow all Catholic teachings.  So he picks the teachings that he likes. 

West FL boy critically wounded by celebratory gunfire

“(CNN) -- A west Florida boy is in critical condition after a bullet apparently fired skyward during a New Year's celebration went into his head, authorities said Sunday.

The 12-year-old boy, Diego Duran, was sitting in the front yard of his Ruskin, Florida, home watching fireworks around 1 a.m. Sunday when he fell to the ground, bleeding from the nose and eyes, Larry McKinnon of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said Sunday in a statement…”

Gun shots start 2012

  I live on the west side of Fort Worth (TX).  I went to bed at 11:30 PM and I woke up at 3 minutes after midnight on January 1st to the sounds of gun shots.  For the next 10 or 15 minutes I heard gun shots from different types of guns and in different directions.
  I did hear what sounded like fireworks one or two times.
 
  I hope and pray that no one was hurt.  I did not tune into the police department to see what they were doing at the time.
  Last year I went out side with my digital camera to make a video and get the sound for the video but a police officer pulled into the apartment complex and I decided I better go back inside without making a video.  Did not want some sort of error to take place.  Did not want the police officer to see me pointing a digital camera and thinking it was a gun.
 
  This year I did not get out of bed. 
  What a shame that Americans have to fear being hit by a stray bullet at the start of a new year.

Celebratory Gun Fire

  Please everyone this is not a third world nation.  Please this New Years PLEASE do fire off guns.  I heard gun fire here last New Year’s night.  In fact I think I have pretty much heard gun fire here each New Year’s night and on the 4th of July.
  It is stupid to fire off guns into the air.  Pretty much stupid to fire off anyplace but at a range or hunting.  In Kansas City last year some guys were firing off guns into a pool or lake in an apartment and one of the bullets killed a young girl in her back yard.

  Please do not be a stupid ass hole and fire off guns.  Plus you should not be drinking and then going and getting your guns.
  If you are around someone … this year stop them from firing off guns… If you know of someone doing it please call 911.

 

Grandson walked into Air Jordan frenzy

  My grandson is 22 years old.  He has never been in trouble with the police.  He is working.  He works at a mall. 
  My grandson is biracial (half black). 
  When he got home from work he told me what happened today about 0530 hours.  He was walking towards the mall to go to work and a police officer took his arm and pulled him hard back away from the mall.  The officer demanded to know where he was going.  My grandson told him he was going to work.  The officer demanded to see his employee ID card and Russell did not have it with him.  The officer then asked him how he was going to get into the mall and he told the officer and the officer then let him go into the mall and go to work.
  From listening to the RadioReference archives of Fort Worth police calls for that time it appears that there was a very large group of blacks that were inside the mall running around.
  From reading CNN it appears it was happening all over the United States.
  A new version of the Michael Jordan athletic shoes sent fans to malls across the United States to get the shoes!
 
  
  I am not saying the police did anything wrong.  I am not even saying it was racial profiling. They were dealing with a group of blacks.  So it makes sense they would be checking blacks.
  But I love my grandson and I hate to see something like that happen to him.
  I am also glad that nothing bad happened. 
 
  I am not sure if the feelings that I am having are normal.  Some other grandfather might be mad or upset or in a rage.
  But I have been a police officer.  I have was a security officer from 1971 to 2000 in Kansas City.  During that time I worked part-time security at a shopping mall.
  After 2000 I worked security in Orlando (FL), Dallas (TX) and Miami (FL).  For one year, in Miami, I worked full time doing mall security.   So I can see both sides of events like this.

  My grandson was not upset or mad about anything.  He did not come home angry.  He just wanted to tell me about it. 

  I am thinking how stupid of people to go nuts about shoes.  Then I think hell I have seen women going nuts over sales and wedding dresses.  People get crazy over thing they want.

  When things like this happen both sides need to calm down and use good sense.  Things can get out of hand.

Gingrich would arrest judges!

“WASHINGTON -- With just weeks to go before the Iowa Caucus, Newt Gingrich has turned his presidential campaign into a veritable megaphone warning about the dangers and elitism of America's judicial system. The former House Speaker held a half-hour phone call on Saturday during which he pledged to abolish courts and eliminated activist judges he believed were either outside the mainstream or infringing too deeply on the commander in chief's authority.

On Sunday, he followed that up by saying he would be willing to arrest a judge who he thought was out of line.

"If you had to," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation" when asked if he would send a Capitol Hill police officer to round up a judge, "or you would instruct the Justice Department to send the U.S. Marshal." His preference, he added, would be to impeach the judge in question…”    Huffington Post

 

    I been talking about Newt Gingrich for years.  In the past I said some good things about him.  Recently I been saying how bad he is now. 
    But until now I did not think that Newt Gingrich was insane.  He suffers from bad mental problems.

    I guess yesterday he said he would do away with entire courts, if he was President of the United States, to get rid of judges that he did not agree with!
   So you expect him the next day to pull a Cain and say it was a joke or come up with something to correct the very stupid an un-American thing that he said… But Newt doubles down!  The next day he says that he will send the Capitol Police or United States Marshals to arrest judges! 

  He is crazy and scary.  He is very scary.
  I think even the corn famers of Iowa know how un-American what he is say would be.  So it will be interesting to see how he does in the polls now and in the vote in Iowa. 

Sheriff Joe Arpaio

“(CNN) -- Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, under the leadership of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has engaged in systemic discrimination against Latinos with practices that violate federal law and the Constitution, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.

A comprehensive investigation found the practices include "unlawful stops, detentions and arrests of Latinos," according to a Justice Department statement.

It also noted that the sheriff's office has discriminated against "Latino inmates with limited English by punishing them and denying critical services."

It further blames the office for allowing "specialized units to engage in unconstitutional practices" and for a lack of oversight and deputy training…”

 

  Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a hero of the right wing.  The Republicans love him. 
This report out by the U.S. Justice Department will be attacked by Fox News and the right.  No matter what the facts the right wing loves Arpaio.
  It is sad that Republicans that pretend to love law and order and the Constitution always end up with a hero that is anti-American and anti-Bill of Rights.

 

“…Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez said the office's "systematic disregard for basic constitutional protections has created a wall of distrust between the sheriff's office and large segments of the community."

"The problems are deeply rooted in (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office) culture, and are compounded by (its) penchant for retaliation against individuals who speak out," added Perez, who said authorities were also looking at allegations of excessive force and a deliberate failure to provide law enforcement services in select communities…”

 

  Sheriff Joe Arpaio refused to cooperate with the U.S. Department of Justice in their investigation.  That tells you something.  A local “law enforcement” officer failing to work with the Department of Justice.
  Authorities are also still investigating reports of excessive force by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.