No greater responsibility
There is no greater responsibility than being charged with the safety of the children of others. Teachers, school administrators, non-teaching staff and others who have children in their care; even for a short time, must make the safety of those children their top priority. In Collinsville, IL, someone failed at this task.
The elementary school students on the bus he was driving called him "Cowboy" and on Monday of last week he pulled the bus over. Allegedly because his passengers were being too rowdy. Some of the children asked to be allowed to walk home and disregarding their safety he opened the door and told them to "go" without another word. Some of the children had phones and called their parents. He did not verify the identity of the parents who arrived to get their kids.
Cowboy has been fired by the bus operator who is contracted by the school to provide transportation services to them. That's not enough. A criminal investigation needs to happen, to determine if what he did constitutes kidnapping, or at a minimum, child endangerment.
* * *
Sing along, you know the words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyIqaw1lycY
Unless of course you're among the "Powers That Be" at the Hallmark corporation. Because then you'd be behind this:
So why did they change the word gay to fun in this Christmas ornament (it's a miniature)?? Because they were afraid someone would be offended by the word, due to its multiple meanings.
How idiotic.
* * *
Professional sports teams have engaged in hazing of rookies for decades, maybe longer. But like anything else, too much of something that is harmless can become harmful. Now it turns out that the Miami Dolphins have a serious problem.
Stealing a rookie's traveling clothes and forcing them to wear something highly embarrassing is standard fare. In 1996, rookie Dodgers pitcher Chan Ho Park probably would have been okay with his suit being stolen from his locker. Except that his teammates shredded it. Maybe if they'd known it was a "lucky" suit given to him by his mother they might not have gone that far. Eventually, all was forgiven.
Now Richie Incognito of the Dolphins has apparently sent racially motivated and threatening texts and voicemails to 2nd year player Jonathan Martin.
The players themselves need to step up and draw a line in the sand as to what is and is not acceptable when it comes to hazing. Forcing rookies to put out tens of thousands of dollars to wine and dine the experienced players is fine. Stealing clothes (as long as they are returned or replaced) is fine. Threats and racial slurs is not fine. It is unacceptable.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Kordell Stewart's ex-wife is now saying she thinks he is gay. This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact she's pissed over finding out via Twitter he was divorcing her, and that a judge sided with Kordell and tossed her out of their house? Bitter, party of one, your bully pulpit is waiting.
In a year that saw the first openly gay United States senator, why does it matter that one of the three major candidates to become governor of Maine is gay? It should have no bearing on the election. Yet one of his two opponents was spreading a "whispering campaign" about this fact. Kudos to Mike Michaud for stepping forward and diffusing the whispers.
BlackBerry Ltd. says it has a plan. Unless this plan involves going out of business, the plan is almost certainly doomed to fail.
If someone is scripting what happens on Jerry Springer and other such talk shows, they're talented writers.
So if you want to be mayor of Toronto, the best path to follow is to drink lots of alcohol and then smoke crack cocaine?
Maybe Chick-Fil-A and Barilla can work together to grow both firms. Chick-Fil-A could add Barilla's pasta products to their menu, while the chairmen of the two companies can continue their agenda of hate.
* * *
This Date in History:
1429 – Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.
1576 – Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).
1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
1780 – Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui aka Tupac Amaru starts his Rebellion on Peru against Spain-
1783 – W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1798 – Beginning of the Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu.
1839 – Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1852 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
1861 – The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
1890 – City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as "brownshirts", physically assault Adolf Hitler's opposition after his speech in Munich.
1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1921 – The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
1939 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein – Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
1944 – World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1956 – Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union, that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
1962 – In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
1966 – The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
1970 – Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: a mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
1993 – A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first half white/half African-American to be elected President of the United States.
Famous Folk Born On November 4th:
Carlo Mannelli
Stephen Johnson Field
Will Rogers
Jozef Rotblat
Gig Young
Walter Cronkite
John Basilone (a man who after being awarded the Medal of Honor, volunteered to go back to the fighting in WWII and died in action at Iwo Jima, earning a Navy Cross for valor in the action that took his life. We salute you, sir)
Ruth Handler
Art Carney
Doris Roberts
Loretta Swit
Linda Gary
Laura Bush
Markie Post
Kathy Griffin
Ralph Macchio
Jeff Scott Soto
Eric Karros (master of the solo home run)
Sean Combs
Heather Tom
Victoria Leigh Soto (RIP, you will always be a true American hero)
Movie quotes today honor Ralph Macchio's birthday, but aren't from a Karate Kid movie, or from My Cousin Vinnie either. Instead, they are from his debut film, Up the Academy, which has a few funny moments, but was one of the biggest blunders ever from the geniuses at Mad Magazine:
Ververgaert: [grabbing the bunk below Chooch] You don't wet your bed, do you?
Chooch: [sarcastically] No, I generally just piss over the side.
#2
Leisman: What did I tell you I'd do if I ever caught you stealing again?
Hash: You said you'd rip my balls off, sir.
Leisman: Say it again!
Hash: You said you'd rip my balls off, sir.
Leisman: Say it again!
Hash: You said you'd rip my balls off, sir.
#3
Leisman: Those glasses that you're wearing make you stand out like a turd in a punch bowl!
#4
Party Guest: Somebody put a turd in the punchbowl!
Chooch: [to Leisman] Help yourself sir.
The elementary school students on the bus he was driving called him "Cowboy" and on Monday of last week he pulled the bus over. Allegedly because his passengers were being too rowdy. Some of the children asked to be allowed to walk home and disregarding their safety he opened the door and told them to "go" without another word. Some of the children had phones and called their parents. He did not verify the identity of the parents who arrived to get their kids.
Cowboy has been fired by the bus operator who is contracted by the school to provide transportation services to them. That's not enough. A criminal investigation needs to happen, to determine if what he did constitutes kidnapping, or at a minimum, child endangerment.
* * *
Sing along, you know the words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyIqaw1lycY
Unless of course you're among the "Powers That Be" at the Hallmark corporation. Because then you'd be behind this:
So why did they change the word gay to fun in this Christmas ornament (it's a miniature)?? Because they were afraid someone would be offended by the word, due to its multiple meanings.
How idiotic.
* * *
Professional sports teams have engaged in hazing of rookies for decades, maybe longer. But like anything else, too much of something that is harmless can become harmful. Now it turns out that the Miami Dolphins have a serious problem.
Stealing a rookie's traveling clothes and forcing them to wear something highly embarrassing is standard fare. In 1996, rookie Dodgers pitcher Chan Ho Park probably would have been okay with his suit being stolen from his locker. Except that his teammates shredded it. Maybe if they'd known it was a "lucky" suit given to him by his mother they might not have gone that far. Eventually, all was forgiven.
Now Richie Incognito of the Dolphins has apparently sent racially motivated and threatening texts and voicemails to 2nd year player Jonathan Martin.
The players themselves need to step up and draw a line in the sand as to what is and is not acceptable when it comes to hazing. Forcing rookies to put out tens of thousands of dollars to wine and dine the experienced players is fine. Stealing clothes (as long as they are returned or replaced) is fine. Threats and racial slurs is not fine. It is unacceptable.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Kordell Stewart's ex-wife is now saying she thinks he is gay. This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact she's pissed over finding out via Twitter he was divorcing her, and that a judge sided with Kordell and tossed her out of their house? Bitter, party of one, your bully pulpit is waiting.
In a year that saw the first openly gay United States senator, why does it matter that one of the three major candidates to become governor of Maine is gay? It should have no bearing on the election. Yet one of his two opponents was spreading a "whispering campaign" about this fact. Kudos to Mike Michaud for stepping forward and diffusing the whispers.
BlackBerry Ltd. says it has a plan. Unless this plan involves going out of business, the plan is almost certainly doomed to fail.
If someone is scripting what happens on Jerry Springer and other such talk shows, they're talented writers.
So if you want to be mayor of Toronto, the best path to follow is to drink lots of alcohol and then smoke crack cocaine?
Maybe Chick-Fil-A and Barilla can work together to grow both firms. Chick-Fil-A could add Barilla's pasta products to their menu, while the chairmen of the two companies can continue their agenda of hate.
* * *
This Date in History:
1429 – Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.
1576 – Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).
1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
1780 – Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui aka Tupac Amaru starts his Rebellion on Peru against Spain-
1783 – W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1798 – Beginning of the Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu.
1839 – Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1852 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
1861 – The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
1890 – City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as "brownshirts", physically assault Adolf Hitler's opposition after his speech in Munich.
1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1921 – The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
1939 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein – Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
1944 – World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1956 – Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union, that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
1962 – In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
1966 – The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
1970 – Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: a mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
1993 – A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first half white/half African-American to be elected President of the United States.
Famous Folk Born On November 4th:
Carlo Mannelli
Stephen Johnson Field
Will Rogers
Jozef Rotblat
Gig Young
Walter Cronkite
John Basilone (a man who after being awarded the Medal of Honor, volunteered to go back to the fighting in WWII and died in action at Iwo Jima, earning a Navy Cross for valor in the action that took his life. We salute you, sir)
Ruth Handler
Art Carney
Doris Roberts
Loretta Swit
Linda Gary
Laura Bush
Markie Post
Kathy Griffin
Ralph Macchio
Jeff Scott Soto
Eric Karros (master of the solo home run)
Sean Combs
Heather Tom
Victoria Leigh Soto (RIP, you will always be a true American hero)
Movie quotes today honor Ralph Macchio's birthday, but aren't from a Karate Kid movie, or from My Cousin Vinnie either. Instead, they are from his debut film, Up the Academy, which has a few funny moments, but was one of the biggest blunders ever from the geniuses at Mad Magazine:
Ververgaert: [grabbing the bunk below Chooch] You don't wet your bed, do you?
Chooch: [sarcastically] No, I generally just piss over the side.
#2
Leisman: What did I tell you I'd do if I ever caught you stealing again?
Hash: You said you'd rip my balls off, sir.
Leisman: Say it again!
Hash: You said you'd rip my balls off, sir.
Leisman: Say it again!
Hash: You said you'd rip my balls off, sir.
#3
Leisman: Those glasses that you're wearing make you stand out like a turd in a punch bowl!
#4
Party Guest: Somebody put a turd in the punchbowl!
Chooch: [to Leisman] Help yourself sir.
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