A Rundown Of The Most Egregious “Zero Tolerance” Episodes Of 2014

Here Are 10 Outrageous ‘Zero Tolerance’ Follies Of 2014

 

 “The war on childhood gets stupider with each passing day”

 

 

” Are your children safe at school? That depends on if you’re worried about bullies or administrators.  Here are 10 of the most infamous “zero tolerance” punishments handed down to kids—and even some adults—this year.

1. Student, 13, shares lunch, gets detention

  A 13-year-old boy at Weaverville Elementary School in California shared his school lunch (a chicken burrito) with a hungry friend. For this, he got detention. Superintendent Tom Barnett explained, “Because of safety and liability we cannot allow students to actually exchange meals.”

2. Sunscreen not allowed on field trip—kids might drink it

  A San Antonio, Texas, school forbid students to bring sunscreen on a field trip. Why? According to spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor, “We can’t allow toxic things to be in our schools.” The children, “could possibly have an allergic reaction (or) they could ingest it. It’s really a dangerous situation.”

3. Kindergarten cancels its year-end show to allow more time for college prep

  A letter home from the Harley Avenue Primary School in Elwood, New York, read, in part: “The reason for eliminating the Kindergarten show is simple. We are responsible for preparing children for college and career with valuable lifelong skills and know that we can best do that by having them become strong readers, writers, coworkers and problem solvers.” “

 

Read the rest from Lenore Skenazy at Reason

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Liberals Make Excuses For Obama

Nobody’s Fault

 

 

 

 

” All of a sudden, people have noticed that we are in trouble, and many are saying it isn’t the president’s fault. All the bad news, from Iraq to Ukraine, from Libya and Syria to the Mexican border, just seems to have happened: Obama was standing there, golfing or shaking hands with donors, and, like a burst of bad weather, the winds blew, the skies opened, and things went to hell. Mysterious forces conspired against him, terrible setbacks occurred for no reason, and we were left with effects without a cause. His supporters commiserate with him and note his bad fortune at being in office at a time when events make his life difficult.”

 

 

    Now that the fact that the world is heading to hell in a hand basket can no longer be denied and the “blame Bush” card has expired the Obama sycophants must resort to the old standby , bad luck in finding excuses for their failed “leader” .

 

 

” The reasons offered for why bad things aren’t his doing fall into three different categories: (1) The system is broken, the country is polarized, and the Republicans have become too insane to deal with; (2) stuff happens, and no one at all can do much about it; and (3) people think that the president ought to be Superman and solve all their problems, which is really expecting too much.”

 

 

Read the whole thing from Noemie Emery and see the newest ploy to shield their boy from any hint of responsibility .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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NFL’s Daniel Defense Ad Ban … Hypocrisy Or Marketing Genius ?

NFL Responds To Rejection Of The “Offensive” Daniel Defense Superbowl Ad

 

 

The Federalist Papers reports:

” Two months ago, Georgia-based firearms company Daniel Defense made headlines when the NFL rejected their conservative commercial for the upcoming Super Bowl. Well, this week the NFL responded to that controversy publicly, saying the whole thing is made up.

“ This is a completely bogus story,” NFL Vice President of Communications Brian McCarthy said to CBS Sports.

  McCarthy says the league had no knowledge of the spot and does not sell advertising for games, including the Super Bowl.

  The network broadcasting the game, which is in line with Daniel Defense’s claim, handles all sales. This year’s bowl network, Fox Sports, never received the spot according to the representative. That the spot was not submitted properly.”

But was this just a manufactured controversy ?

” The NFL has numerous categories of prohibited products that it will not allow networks to advertise during its games. These range from flavored malt beverages (unflavored is fine) to tobacco products to firearms.

  Specifically on firearms, the policy states that “Firearms, ammunition or other weapons; however, stores that sell firearms and ammunitions (e.g., outdoor stores and camping stores) will be permitted, provided they sell other products and the ads do not mention firearms, ammunition or other weapons.”

  The commercial that Daniel Defense, which does operate a storefront, submitted to Fox Channel WJCL in Savannah as well as outlets in Houston and other stations, did not mention firearms, ammunition or weapons other than an image at the end of the spot that showed one of the manufacturer’s DDM4 model AR-15 style rifles in profile.

  Even after dropping the image, Daniel Defense advised that the Fox affiliates still rejected the spot, citing the NFL policy.”

Perhaps it was just a clever marketing ploy on the part of Daniel Defense . If so it succeeded marvelously .

” This did not stop the company from posting the ad on YouTube and garnering much publicity from the ban, regardless of whether the denial came from a local affiliate, Fox Sports, or the NFL proper.

  Rather than have to pay up to $4 million in advertising space to run the spot in the Super Bowl, the company was able to market it for free through social media. Today there are over 40 YouTube videos online that reference the Daniel Defense NFL ad saga, with nearly 3 million combined views.

  As Yahoo Sports columnist Jay Busbee notes, “Of course, getting ads ‘banned’ is a badge of honor; the message gets out at a fraction of the cost of actual airtime. GoDaddy built an entire industry on this practice with its allegedly-too-hot-for-the-NFL campaigns.” “

 

    Whatever the truth may be , the fact is you will have to view the ad online because it is not going to appear during Super Bowl XLVIII

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Jeff Berwick Interviews Josie The Outlaw

Anarchast #106

 

 

Published on Jan 13, 2014

” Jeff interviews Internet sensation Josie the Outlaw on the politics of self defense, selfishness vs selflessness, how the state interferes in our natural compassion and on our personal responsibility for our own personal safety.

http://www.josietheoutlaw.com

http://www.youtube.com/user/JosieTheO…

http://www.anarchast.com

http://www.dollarvigilante.com“

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rob Lowe Talks Personal Responsibility With David Gregory

     Rob Lowe had some unusual words , from a Hollywood dweller anyway , in support of individual responsibility and “broken government” when he appeared on Meet The Press with David Gregory . Give a listen . It doesn’t amount to a sea change from the usual Leftists in Hollywood but it is a small crack in the dike and very much welcome .

 

 

 

The concept of “person responsibility” , remember that ?

 

 

HT/IJR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Issue Parenting Licenses

83% Believe Bad Parenting Bigger Factor Than Gun Laws in Public Shootings

 

 

 

” A recent NBC/WSJpoll shows that more people blame bad parenting and Hollywood for mass public shootings than guns themselves. The results display that the massive public relations campaign to convince people that inanimate objects or society are more to blame more than individuals or their particular family backgrounds has not been very successful.

The wording of the question, polled of 1000 respondents (300 by cellphone):

Now, I’m going to list several items and would like you to tell me how much responsibility — if any— each item might bear for the mass-shootings that have taken place over the last year or two in Tucson, Arizona; Aurora, Colorado; and Newtown, Connecticut – a great deal, a good amount, not too much, or none at all? ”

 

And where did guns figure in the poll respondent’s mind ? 

 

” Most importantly, guns themselves were blamed the fifth most at 59 percent, the rate of people who agreed that “assault and military-style firearms being legal to purchase,” and “the availability of high capacity ammunition clips” contributed to the occurrence of mass public shootings.”

 

Related articles

• NYTimes Buries Own Poll Findings Showing Support for Armed Guards in School, Blaming Hollywood (newsbusters.org)
• Mike Huckabee: Gun Violence Push Shows Obama Has ‘Nothing But Contempt For The Constitution’ (huffingtonpost.com)
• WSJ/NBC Poll Shows Continuing Support for NRA (blogs.wsj.com)
• CNN/Time Poll: Slight dip in support for gun control measures in last month (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
• Obama Protects Hollywood (papundits.wordpress.com)
• NRA’s Anti-Hollywood Strategy May Be Working, Poll Finds (theatlanticwire.com)
• Poll: NRA more popular than Hollywood (upi.com)

Personal Responsibility …

 

 

… An Idea Who’s Time Has Come … Again

 

 

It’s The Notion Of Independence And Personal Responsibility That Gun Ownership Conveys

WHAT IS IT ABOUT GUNS THAT MAKES PEOPLE CRAZY?

 

 

 

” But here’s the thing: can you imagine another context in which anyone would think it appropriate to publish a map showing the names and addresses of residents, along with anyinformation about them? Suppose a newspaper published a map that identified all the homes where no adult male lives, so that thieves and rapists would know just where to go. Or a map showing how many television sets belong to each homeowner. Or how about automobiles? The Department of Motor Vehicles collects information about the automobiles that belong to each household. Can you imagine the outcry if a newspaper obtained that information from the DMV and published an online map identifying by name and address the occupants of each house, and describing by make and model all of their motor vehicles? That, too, could be of great value to thieves, but beyond that, is there anyone who wouldn’t consider such an act an outrageous invasion of privacy?

And yet somehow, the liberals who publish the Journal News thought it was perfectly acceptable to publish a map identifying local gun owners, with names and addresses. The fact that anyone tries to defend this action illustrates how the mere thought of a firearm sends some people around the bend. “

 

 

Related articles

• Outrage after NY newspaper publishes gun holders’ names, addresses (cbsnews.com)
• Newspaper Hires Armed Guards After Publishing Gun Owner Addresses (townhall.com)
• Ex-Burglars Say Newspaper’s Gun Map Would’ve Made the Job Easier, Safer (foxnews.com)
• Ex-Burglars Say Newspaper’s Gun Map Would’ve Made the Job Easier, Safer (conservativebyte.com)
• A Map Of Burglar Friendly Households (youviewed.com)
• Upping The Ante … (youviewedblog.wordpress.com)

Once Again The Statists Scale The Remains For Political Gain

Stopping Gun Violence Starts With Obama

 

 

 

 

 

” This morning, children – young children – were killed in their elementary school by a gunman in quiet, suburban Connecticut. Three days ago, holiday shoppers were killed in a mall in suburban Portland. Two weeks ago, an NFL linebacker murdered his girlfriend and then killed himself at his team’s stadium.

Each of these tragedies has spurred calls for a national conversation on America’s culture of guns and violence. It’s a conversation that inevitably never takes place, and it’s one that only President Obama can make happen.

The White House on Friday said it was too soon to talk about gun policy. “There is, I’m sure, will be, rather, discussion of the usual Washington policy debates,” said White House spokesman Jay Carney. “But I don’t think that day is today.”

Yet Washington, and Obama, have had other days. After Jovan Belcher, a linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, killed a woman and then himself on Dec. 1, calls for a renewed gun control discussion came from Jason Whitlock, who writes for Fox Sports, and sportscaster Bob Costas, who cited Whitlock’s column on NBC’s Sunday Night Football telecast the next day. They did not, notably, come from Obama.”

 

 

 

Related articles

• Poll: Was Costas wrong to push for gun control on NFL broadcast? (kdvr.com)
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Sportswriters Do Gun Control (thetruthaboutguns.com)
• SAF Wants Apologies from Whitlock, Costas, Fox and NBC (thetruthaboutguns.com)

Report: Welfare government’s single largest budget item in FY 2011 at approx. $1.03 trillion

Nanny State … We Are Here

 

 

 ” The government spent approximately $1.03 trillion on 83 means-tested federal welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone — a price tag that makes welfare that year the government’s largest expenditure, according to new data released by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee.

The total sum taxpayers spent on federal welfare programs was derived from a new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on federal welfare spending — which topped out at $745.84 billion for fiscal year 2011 — combined with an analysis from the Republican Senate Budget Committee staff of state spending on federal welfare programs (based on “The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government Finance”), which reached $282.7 billion in fiscal year 2011.

The data excludes spending on Social Security Medicare, means-tested health care for veterans without service-connected disabilities, and the means-tested veterans pension program. “

NY APPEALS COURT RULES SHOOTING VICTIM MAY SUE GUN MAKER

So We Can Sue GM and The Government For The Death Of A Loved One By A Drunk Driver ?

 

I guess we can also sue the judge that released the convict that went on to murder my wife . 

 

That’s one slippery slope .

 

 

 

 

” A former high school athlete who was shot in 2003 may sue the companies that made and distributed the handgun used in the crime under an appellate court ruling that gun control advocates say will keep irresponsible gun makers and sellers from taking advantage of a federal law shielding them from lawsuits.

The ruling by the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court reversed a lower court‘s 2011 dismissal of victim Daniel Williams’ complaint, which accused Ohio gun maker Hi-Point and distributor MKS Supply Inc. of Ohio of intentionally supplying handguns to irresponsible dealers because they profited from sales to the criminal gun market.

The appellate panel said the Buffalo man‘s lawsuit should have been allowed to move forward because Williams’ claims fall within exceptions contained in the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a 2005 federal law shielding gun makers from lawsuits over criminal use of their products.”

A Nation of Dependents

Reason 

  “Forget for a moment the flap over Mitt Romney‘s 47 percenters and answer this question: Should we be concerned that 49 percent of households get government money?”

A Fine Sentiment from a Fine Organization

Gun Owners of America

 

Personal Responsibility

100 Percent FED Up

 

Today’s Occupier is Tomorrow’s Teapartier ? …. Hmmm

An interesting take on the similarities and differences between the Occupiers and the Teapartiers .

“In truth, money is not the problem. Restricting the flow of money into politics only redirects cronyism. It doesn’t stop it. The real problem is what is for sale.
Government is force. That is its essential and exclusive quality. Government has the unique capacity to lawfully coerce behavior. When that capacity is unmoored from justice, it becomes
available to the highest bidder. That is what has happened in America. Lobbyists and donors are
lined up to purchase the initiation of force against their economic and political competitors. Winners get to wield a club with which to
bludgeon others into submission. Losers are S.O.L.
That is why constitutionally limited government is so important, and why Tea Partiers are so
enamored with the Founding and all its historical trappings. Limiting the state’s power to strictly
defined roles prevents regulatory capture and other forms of cronyism. ”

I’m not sure that I share the author’s notion that the brighter Occupiers may well evolve into and come to see the wisdom of the Teapartier’s view of power/authority . It seems to me that the fundamental difference separating the two factions is one of personal responsibility .
   Whereas personal responsibility is , to my mind , the driving force for the right/teaparty/libertarian faction as manifested in our founding principles  , the Occupiers seem to feel that everything is someone else’s fault ala Obama . Obama is the perfect example of the left’s facination with collective blame/shirking of personal responsibility . The under-carriage of his bus is mighty cramped right about now .
    This divide would seem to be an unbridgable chasm given the Occupiers desire for entitlements for all and the Teaparty’s goal of entitlements for none . We shall see .

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