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Erik buck

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High-School Student Suspended for Riding a Horse to School (Pawnation OLD)

Nov 4th 2010 10:17AM It is a crime that we force, by law, our children to attend schools run by idiots. What good educational goal is promoted by the principal's actions? Sit down, shut up, and obey authority no matter how irrational that authority might be.

SmackDown: Should Body Piercings Be Allowed in School? (ParentDish)

Sep 15th 2010 10:28AM "I don't believe the schools allows anyone to wear anything that expresses their religious faith or belief. Therefore, there should be no exception to the rule if that is the school policy. "

Where did those school administrators get the right to set such a policy? "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof:" What do they not understand about free exercise of religion?

SmackDown: Should Body Piercings Be Allowed in School? (ParentDish)

Sep 15th 2010 9:51AM The problem is that attendance at school is compulsory. If it were a private school, they could have any rules they want. When it is a public juvenile detention facility (if you can't walk away, you are in prison) that the child is legally required to attend, how can they suspend her for having a piercing? Is education not compulsory if one has a body modification?

FBI Tells Wikipedia to Remove Its Seal, Wikipedia Says It Would Rather Not (Switched)

Aug 5th 2010 8:24AM If we cannot see what the FBI seal looks like, how will we recognize the genuine article, or not, when some con-man flashes a badge and says he's from the FBI?

Living on a cul-de-sac may make you fat (WalletPop)

May 17th 2010 8:53AM The professor should have looked at earlier studies. Cul de sacs are safer, with lower crime rates. Connecting them with walking/biking trails increases crime. Garages facing the street are safer. The city planners seem to advocate arrangements which encourage crime. Perhaps they live in apartements where drive-by shootings aren't a problem, and they drive to the park, rather than walk and get mugged.

Sweet Tooth Gets Girl, 10, a Week of Detention (ParentDish)

May 13th 2010 8:29AM This used to be the land of the free, but we have a generation of power-mad bureaucrats and legislators. Not only does the US have the most felons in prison, we imprison our children, too. If you cannot walk away, and there are armed guards to pervent it, and you can't carry candy (is diabetes an excuse?), and you must obey all the arbitrary instructions of the guards (teachers?), then you are in prison. Our schools are more intent on teaching obedience, how to sit still, be quiet, and accept authority unthinkingly, than they are concerned with reading, writing, math, critical thinking, generosity and tolerance. Clearly, the administrators are cognitively impaired and unfit to teach.

To Fly or Not to Fly? (AOL Travel News)

Apr 28th 2010 8:50AM I was asked why it was that German Jews were loaded into box cars taking them to death camps, and they didn't fight back. My response: just look at Americans in airports.

11-Year-Old Fights for Health Care Reform After Mother's Death (BV Black Spin)

Mar 12th 2010 8:16AM First of all, the figure of 46 million Americans is bogus. At least a third of those are illegal aliens, not "Americans." Many of the rest are eligible for medicare, etc. or are wealthy enough to self-insure.

We are told every other advanced country has universal medical care, yet Congress refuses to learn from the experience of others. Instead of looking at the best features of other health care systems: Canadian, British, French, German, Swiss, Swedish, etc., they want to invent something new, which seems on the face of it to have been written by insurance company lobbyists and may be unconstitutional. The Democrats should have figured out what they wanted before demanding something, anything, right now, compounding the problems we have.

Massucci's Take: Can a fat tax fix our health care system? (Daily Finance)

Dec 10th 2009 8:53AM So it's my fault I got type - 2 diabetes? I was in the military, met the weight and physical fitness standards, and got diabetes, anyway. Does anyone really know what causes it? How about a virus?

I took an oath to defend the constitution. Can anyone explain which constitutional section permits the government to choose what I can eat?

I can see it now. We wait on the corner for a big yellow bus to take us to the government nutrition center, where we eat what the government cook thinks we should eat. We can't eat as a family, because of the need for diversity. Failure to adhere to the government mandated diet leads to a "truant officer" and a fine. Isn't that the logical conclusion of "food police" thinking?

Career Changers Choose Teaching (Careers Articles - Online Degrees)

Sep 30th 2009 8:36AM 27 years in the military, work as research scientist, several years teaching experience, permanently certified in math and science, but I can't find a job. Surely schools don't practice age discrimination! The problem seems to be that I am overqualified, with too much education and experience. By the union scale, the school would have to pay me about twice what a beginning teacher gets, even though I would take less, so they hire the inexperienced youngster. They are not sincere when they say they want good science teachers.