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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Gay Marriage Ban Defeated in House

The vote Thursday was 117-50 for the gay marriage ban, but as a constitutional amendment, it needed a two-thirds majority, or 120 votes, to pass.

It goes back up for reconsideration on Monday and reps can change their votes. Lobbyists will be all over the place trying to swing the more wishy-washy representatives.

Seven of the 180 members of the House were present but did not vote, and five others had excused absences. Those 12 lawmakers can be expected to be targets of intense lobbying over the next few days.

It'll probably border on frenetic lobbying with the Christian Coalition of Georgia and Georgia Equality battling it out for the attention of the politicians.

Every Republican in the House except Rep. Jill Chambers of Atlanta voted for the gay marriage ban, along with most white Democrats in rural and South Georgia. "I voted to represent the people that put me office," Chambers said. "[My] district is very diverse."

Good on ya, Jill. Right action, not necessarily the right reason. Anybody remember the right reason? Say it with me: It is not the purpose of a state constitution to single out a minority group for the purposes of exclusionary legislation.

Also, putting your special interest crap in the Code of Law is bad enough. Adding it to the Constitution of Georgia is an abomination.

(Hat tip to Phillip Coons)

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Is there some contest I haven't been made aware of? Is there a competition between the various State Houses to see which one can pass the greatest number of superfluous and ridiculous laws? If so, Georgia just leapt into the lead with this beauty:

A bill introduced in the Georgia House Wednesday would require twice as many toilets in women's restrooms as in men's rooms.



The measure would apply only to government buildings built after July of this year. But the sponsor hopes it would send a message - women shouldn't have to wait so darn long to use the bathroom.

Tommy "Ain't my nickname cute" Smith is a flaming jack-ass and should be ridden out of the House along with the three female reps who co-sponsored this idiocy. And every fuck nut who voted to pass it, too. Don't these people respect their oath of office at all? Don't they have even the slightest iota of a clue of what laws should be and what laws should do? They are passing a law that will mandate twice as many toilets in female rest rooms as in male restrooms but only for government buildings and only those government buildings built after July of this year.

First, you don't make a law regulating the number of shitters in the ladies room. Second, you don't pass legislation specifically designed to not apply to anything currently and designed to apply to next to nothing in the future. Third, the legal code is not the proper vehicle for you to "send a fucking message".

The law is not a place for Tommy boy's potty jokes and his flippant remarks make it clear that this is what his intent is. Here are shit boy's brilliant rejoinders:

"Anytime you have a toilet or - what are them things called? - urinals, you know, for the men, you should have twice as many for the ladies."

"It's not good for the females that they can't go to the bathroom."

"And it's not good for the men because we have to wait on 'em to get out."

"This is serious, a serious problem," he said. "If you talk to any woman, she'll tell you it's a serious problem."

Damn I hate politicians.

(Hat tip to Phillip Coons)

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Because they do shit like this.

A 14 year old boy is the victim of statuatory rape. Over a decade later the mother wants him to pay child support for the child that he unwillingly fathered. The court says that he must. You see, it did not matter that she committed a crime by seducing a minor. Child support is about the needs of the child and the circumstances of the impregnation do not matter at all.

So if a woman breaks into a sperm bank, fills up a turkey baster and blasts away, 9 months later she could sue for child support. If a chick has a crush on some fella and slips him some scopolamine, screws the hell out of him in his confused state and drops him off at his house with no memory of the event she can pop up after the kid is born and demand child support.

After all, the circumstances of the impregnation do not matter at all. The biological father is required to support his issue. It's all about the children, y'know.

(Hat tip to Phillip Coons)

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Vatican Weighs Reports for Abuse Rules

Most people have probably forgotten about the huge kerfuffle over Catholic priests putting "The Spirit of the Lord" into their charges in an improper manner. And the coverups by the church and shuffling around of these naughty priests to different parishes that had only one real effect and that was to keep them supplied with fresh targets.

Well the Church has not forgotten about it. In fact, they commissioned several reports from external agencies to analyze the problem and suggest solutions. These don't agree on much except that the policy of the US Church to defrock priests who have sodomized children is wrong.

Yah, that's right. They think that it's wrong to defrock a priest just because they buggered an altar boy. Seems that might send a bad message that the Church thinks said individual can't be rehabilitated. And firing them might just lead to more assaults because the individual isn't under supervision.

Hello? Vatican? Get your heads out of your asses (or your prepubescent toys' asses as the case may be). If a priest fucks a kid that should most definitely be a "Go directly to layman. Do not pass the altar, do not collect ablutions". What parishoner is EVER going to trust a priest who nailed a kid? And why should they? Or are you planning to quietly move the kid fuckers around to other parishes like you were doing before all of this blew up in your faces?

Defrocking the priest says nothing about the person not being capable of rehabilitation. It means they defied the laws of God, Church and Man and have lost any claim to the cloth. It might lead to other assaults? Only if you protect the bastard. The courts take a dim view of adults who screw kids and they are set up to "rehabilitate" these worthless pieces of shit.

When Jesus said turn the other cheek he wasn't talking about our kids' rear ends.

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You'll hear about this in 3 days everywhere else.

That terrible bathroom policy in that New Jersey school that's being commented on all over the blogosphere? The one nobody except me and the readers of ZeroIntelligence.net new about when it popped up on Monday? The one that is finally getting press today?

Well, it was changed on Tuesday. Everybody is commenting and reporting on a 2 day dead phantom. Boo-ya! I win! (Happy Dance)

The policy limited students' in-class bathroom trips to 15 per month, with another 15 trips for locker visits and other assorted uses.
However, the school administration announced a change late in the day Tuesday, and now students will be permitted to leave class 30 times per month for any reason.

Take THAT Opinion Journal!

If Mr.Taranto should happen to read this post I would just like to explain that by "Take THAT Opinion Journal!" I really mean that I love your work and read it every day and one day I aspire to such greatness.

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Mad Cow Disease? Pshaw! Meat's good for what ails you. Now veggies - those things will kill you. Why there are two rampant viruses in onions alone!

Alex Csinos, a plant pathologist at the university's Coastal Plain Experiment Station [said] "How extensive it is, we don't know. How debilitating it will be, that also is unknown."

I say Hah and Hah again!

(Hat tip to Lovely Wife)

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The iGrill, from George Foreman.

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Pictures of "Nasty" girl Janet Jackson's well rounded right breast are plastered all over the place with commentary ranging from outraged to "yummilicious". My only comment is this:

How can you end up as a pedophile when you grow up with such awesome boobage around?

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1 Yeah - someone just told me about the pics on drudge. The pastie thing appears to have been a piercing... yuck

Posted by: Clancy at February 02, 2004 12:48 PM (EGVPL)

2 Because, doing just like wittle bruvver Michael, Janet's boobage was bought at the plastic surgeon general store.

Posted by: MommaBear at February 02, 2004 02:08 PM (82jr1)

3 Looks like she's got a much better surgeon though!

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2004 02:10 PM (IOwam)

4 "How can you end up as a pedophile when you grow up with such awesome boobage around?" Umm... keep it in the family? Incest is best? Think about what you're sayin' Jim... you're creepin me out...

Posted by: Mike the Marine at February 02, 2004 02:20 PM (UJiSP)

5 Then you should stay far away from this post, Mike.

Posted by: Jim at February 02, 2004 02:24 PM (IOwam)

6 This is just what I needed. A post with that Title ought to get googled-up good sending your site meter to about .1 million by, approximately February 18th. yea baby.

Posted by: Shameless Point Whore at February 02, 2004 07:30 PM (E+LQu)

7 Oh WEAK! I hadn't even thought of that! Now I need to stop coming here and driving up your hit count! And Jim.... ewwwww...

Posted by: Mike the Marine at February 02, 2004 10:50 PM (r8Ldc)

8 I wouldn't worry about it. As far as I can tell there hasn't been a single hit from a Janet boob search. Better keywords than mine have to be on half of the blogs out there.

Posted by: Jim at February 03, 2004 01:30 AM (fkewd)

9 yeah but you haven't been re-indexed yet ... right, theres nothing for it. We'll just have to get you google blacklisted

Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2004 06:46 AM (kXZI6)

10 i love boobies

Posted by: bobby at February 05, 2004 10:53 AM (2afNo)

11 I think it's a little family compatition. It's like i can here janet saying to herself "who's in the news now Michael"?

Posted by: Robert Nicks at February 05, 2004 01:43 PM (hGtIE)

12 if the rich bitch wants to show her titties let her, they're hers

Posted by: latricia at February 05, 2004 10:00 PM (Jleb4)

13 I got a hit off 'Janet Jackson Boob' and it was this site, in fact you were the second on the list... so congrats to ya'll

Posted by: Janet Boob search at February 06, 2004 02:23 PM (W8KZw)

14 Wow! I'm the second hit for JJ's knockers? That's freaking cool.

Posted by: Jim at February 06, 2004 02:26 PM (IOwam)

15 it is a tit, in the words of tony the tiger "THATS GRRRRREAT!!!!"

Posted by: Smile Happy at February 06, 2004 08:36 PM (qEjE+)

16 I think this whole thing is stupid. And why the hell is Justin Timberlake not getting any shit about this. He is the one that ripped her blouse! I mean hell, her boob shows and the world freaks...c'mon give me break.

Posted by: Stephanie at February 07, 2004 12:34 PM (geG2Q)

17 Hey i think yall need to lay off i mean it isnt like she really entended for all this stuff to happen i just think yall make a big deal outta nothing

Posted by: amber at February 07, 2004 07:18 PM (YRELu)

18 stephanie, you are blaming Justin? cripey! her outfit had snaps. she had a pasty on. Everybody knew what was happening.

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David Bradley spent five minutes writing the computer code that has bailed out the world's PC users for decades.

That's right. This is the fellow that wrote the code for the three finger salute (that's 'ctrl-alt-del' for the helmet wearers). He's retiring after 28 1/2 years at IBM and will be teaching at NC State University. Fare thee well oh handler of computers and bring some of that humor to the classroom.

At a 20-year celebration for the IBM PC, Bradley was on a panel with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and other tech icons. The discussion turned to the keys.

"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous," Bradley said.

Gates didn't laugh. The key combination also is used when software, such as Microsoft's Windows operating system, fails.

You can use it for more than Windows crashes? Wow, the things you learn.

(Hat tip to Dopple-G)

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Weakened Parental Leave Bill OK'd

That's "weakened" as in lacking strength, not "weekend" as in Saturday, Sunday. The Georgia House passed legislation yesterday to mandate diddly squat. The original proposal was to allow parents up to 8 hours each year to attend school functions for their children. Things like parent-teacher conferences, volunteer work, etc would have been covered. But in a move that would do Armin Meiwes proud the Senate emasculated it before passing it.

House members approved the bill 158-6, but first they approved an amendment to change the wording. Instead of telling employers they "shall" give the parental leave time, the bill says employers "may" give the leave time.

So legislation has been approved that legally allows businesses to let parents attend their childrens' school functions. Were businesses not allowed to do this before? Another pointless law with no teeth that serves no function except to further clutter up the books. What a joke. more...

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Can you say holy shit?

(Hat tip to Jonny E)

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Gwinnett County, where I live, has passed a no-smoking ban. This will go into effect in April and is causing quite a bit of consternation with some local businesses.

Gwinnett Outlaws Indoor Smoking

Lawrenceville, Ga. (AP) -- Gwinnett County commissioners unanimously approved a broad indoor smoking ban on Tuesday.

The regulation covers virtually all buildings, public and private, except for smoke shops, private homes and designated smoking rooms in motels or inns.

The law, which makes no exemptions for restaurants or bars, will go into effect in two to three months.

It does not exempt restaurants and bars. Excuse me? Let me read that again. "makes no exemptions for restaurants or bars" more...

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You got your chocolate in my peanut butter! Get your power through the phone line.

You got your peanut butter on my chocolate! Get your internet access through the electric line.

(Hat tip to Dopple-G)

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