hoppin' through the forest,

scoopin' up the field mice

and boppin' em on the head.

And down came the Blue Fairy, and she said:



Little Bunny FooFoo

I don't want to see you

scoopin' up the field mice

and boppin' em on the head.



And now I'll give you one chance, and if you keep it up, I'll take care of you for sure.



Little Bunny Foo Foo

kept hoppin' through the forest,

kept scoopin' up the field mice

and boppin' em on the head.

And down came the Blue Fairy, and she said:



You disobeyed me!

So she smacked him and his brother over the head with a shovel until they were dead

But it's okay, y'all. She's been cleared by the district who ruled that smackin' bunnies on the head is accepted veterinary practice. Some of her students thought it was a bit wierd and she's still facing two civil penalties for animal cruelty. She's vowed to fight them, though.

Back off the Blue Fairy, y'all. It's just part of farming. Besides, Bunny FooFoo was asking for it.

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District's stance against transgender policy threatens budget

The Westminster School District is taking a costly stand against the State of California. They have chosen not to comply with mandated changes in their anti-discrimination policy and this threatens their state and federal funding. As a consequence, Bank of America has rejected their application for a $16 million credit line that was to be used for upcoming facilities improvements.

Three of the five members of the school board twice voted against new language for the district's discrimination policy that would allow students to file complaints if they were discriminated against based on their gender or "perceived gender."

Preceived gender? What in the world is that? Apparently it is confusing PC-speech for transvestites and/or transexuals. So if a girl dresses up as a boy I'm guessing that this California law protects her rights to use the mens room and allows her recourse to cry discrimination if somebody treats her like a girl.

School board trustee Judy Ahrens said she and the other members who voted against the change are "standing up for morality."

In this case standing up for morality is going to cost funding amounting to half of their annual budget as well as the money needed for fixing and expanding their infrastructure. Personally I couldn't agree with them more.

(Cross posted from Zero Intelligence)

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Students suspended over pornography

Twenty male students have been suspended from Murray Bridge High School for accessing pornographic video clips on personal computer files at school.

That first paragraph alerted me that the article was going to be frustrating and have huge holes where necessary information should have been. Articles where technology is a central topic really must be written or at least edited by somebody familiar with the technology. The terminology used by this author shows that she clearly does not grasp the concepts involved.

An Education Department spokesman yesterday confirmed the Year 9, 10 and 11 students were suspended for up to a week after a "routine audit" by an Information Technology technician uncovered the files. The school is investigating how the students obtained the material.

"The school will be looking at the possibility of the material being accessed outside of the school and brought to the site in the form of a CD-ROM," the spokesman said.

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Guinness bubbles really do sink!

(Hat tip to Dopple-G)

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Do I believe in Capitol Punishment? Damn in-deedly-deed-I-do! Pull the lever, flick the switch, hit the button, squeeze the trigger, repeatedly bludgeon with a blunt object, whatever it takes to kill this fucker.

Prince William County Circuit Judge LeRoy Millette Jr. made the decision after reviewing a jury's recommendation.

Millette said the jury correctly found that Muhammad, 43, would be a "continuing, serious threat to society" if allowed to live.

Millette said he looked at other cases in Virginia for comparison, and "there simply are no other crimes" of the same magnitude.

(I will return to a non-bloodthirsty state tomorrow.)

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Arleen Mathers (23) got a tad angry when her boyfriend Brad Pulaski (27) erased her pirated stash of songs off her iPod. So mad that she beat him to death with the violated MP3 player.

According to law officers, Mathers was hysterical when police arrived and told them that she killed her boyfriend only after he accused her of illegally downloading music and erased about 2,000 of her MP3s. Mathers complained that it took 3 months to build her music collection.

See? Those people who download pirated music really are criminals!

According to AppleÂ’s website, the iPod is partially made of a hard metal plate thatÂ’s been praised for itÂ’s resistance to regular wear and tear, like drops and coffee spills.

Drops of blood and brain matter? I wonder how well the iPod worked after this. Did this count as inappropriate use and void the warranty? Inquiring minds want to know.

“It took him a while to die,” Dr. Klamut said. “She must have stabbed him 40 to 80 times with that iPod. His death was not instantaneous, that’s for sure”.

This is why I stay very far away from Lovely Wife's MP3 player and never so much as click near one of her files or folders. Safety first, know what I mean?

(Disclaimer - Don't bitch at me, I know it's a horrible thing that happened and a life has been lost and another effectively ended. It's also highly ironic and odd and I'm not going to be the first or last person to poke fun at it. In the words of somebody more famous than you: We laugh at the absurd and the morbid for our only other options are anger and tears.)

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Student handed out potent, and potentially fatal prescription drugs

An unidentified female student is accused of giving the students high doses of Zoloft, Thorazine, Seroquel, and Trilepital.



KRQE News 13 has learned the drugs were prescribed to the girl and brought to school from home. Pharmacists say those drugs in the potent quantities involved could do serious damage to an average person.

First, how in the world is a middle schooler diagnosed as being so fucked up that they need four, count them - four, powerful medications? An anti-depressant (Zoloft), TWO anti-psychotics (Thorazine and Seroquel) plus anti-seizure medication (Trileptal). Seroquel is a 2nd generation anti-psychotic. We don't even know why or how it actually works. I also can't find any reference that it would be used concurrent with a first generation anti-psychotic like Thorazine. Most references seem to indicate that it is used instead of older drugs. The first stop here is the kid's doctor to find out just what the hell he's up to. more...

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Bush is at it again. He has driven the leader of a foreign nation from his office and punctured the fragile sovereignty of a country's borders with American troops. Of course, as you would expect, he did this without following International Law, without UN approval and without a coallition of countries supporting his decision.



Now US Marines are off in foreign lands, the only thing holding a fragile country together. Occupiers who are now responsible for putting a shattered land back together. It goes without saying that companies like Halliburton are going to get the contracts to do all of the rebuilding.



Who does Bush think he is? Alexander the Great? Who will stop the rampaging imperialist American forces?

or...

Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide has resigned his position and fled his country. With US assistance he has taken exile in a central African country. US Marines were dispatched to Haiti to restore order as Port au Prince erupted in violence following Aristide's departure. The UN authorized a joint peacekeeping force several hours later.

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