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Category: “Teh Stoopid”

  • More “Sanity” from Public School Leadership

    Seems as if a high school senior in Georgia decided to check up on his school’s Principal.  You know, to see if the individual had really been a “goody two-shoes” back in the day, and still was.  So this being 2013, he used the Internet.

    Much to his delight, he found a mug shot of his Principal.  So, this being 2013 – he posted the mug shot photo on Instagram, along with some later comments.

    Seems the Principal found and didn’t like that.  So the Principal called the young man into their office.

    The Principal then told the young man that they “knew the law” and called police.  When Police arrived, the Principal asked the Police to arrest the young man.

    Apparently the Police didn’t “know the law” like the Principal did.  They gave the Principal a “WTF?” look, refused to arrest anyone, and left.

    The Principal nonetheless decided to suspend the student for “disrupting school” and being “belligerent”.  The suspension letter further said student was suspended for “spreading misinformation”.

    (In fairness, when questioned about the photo, the student posted on Instagram that he thought the mug shot was from a DUI arrest.  However, his comment clearly stated that to be his opinion vice a documented fact.  It turns out the arrest resulting in the mug shot was actually for missing a court date for a speeding ticket.)

    The student’s suspension was originally for 4 days, but later was reduced to 2 days.  It seems that “spreading misinformation” isn’t listed as a prohibited action in the school’s student handbook.

    Looks like the Principal really “knows the rules”, too.

    The Principal also reportedly threatened to suspend several other students for having a copy of the mug shot photo on their cell phones. I guess it must have been a “dirty” enough photo to qualify as pr0n.

    No, I’m not kidding above.  This lunacy actually happened.

    The incident occurred at Riverdale High School, in Riverdale, Georgia.  Per the linked article, the moron “esteemed and level-headed” Principal at that school appears to be a Ms. Jamille Miller Brown.

    Frankly, it sounds more to me like Ms. Jamille Miller Brown is nothing more than a childish, petty tyrant and control freak who’s now butt-hurt.  I think her “widdle feewings” were hurt when her past record of misconduct was made known, and she’s now just desperately trying to limit the spread of information about same.  But I could be wrong.

    IMO she’s also a freaking idiot who deserves and needs to be fired for terminally bad judgement and abuse of authority.  Then she could move to NYC, get a job in city government, and work for a like-minded control-freak.  But maybe that’s just me.

    Riverdale High School seems to be part of the Clayton County School System.  The contact information for the Clayton County Board of Education seems to be available here.  According to their map, Riverdale seems to be in District 3.

    Contact information for the Superintendent of Education for Clayton County can be found here.

    Perhaps the Board of Education President and members would be interested in hearing what others think about this matter.  Ditto the Superintendent of Education.

  • Um, What?

    Thanks to ROS for this little piece of illiterature;

    Um, what

    I have no idea what he’s trying to say. If you can translate this for me, I’d appreciate it greatly.

  • Huckabee thinks Obama will driven from office over Benghazi

    Politico reports that former Arkansas governor and perennial Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee thinks that the scandal of Benghazi as it’s currently emerging will drive the President from office;

    “I believe that before it’s all over, this president will not fill out his full term. I know that puts me on a limb,” the former Arkansas governor said on “The Mike Huckabee Show.” “But this is not minor. It wasn’t minor when Richard Nixon lied to the American people and worked with those in his administration to cover-up what really happened in Watergate. But, I remind you — as bad as Watergate was, because it broke the trust between the president and the people, no one died. This is more serious because four Americans did in fact die.”

    Huckabee, however, said his predication about Obama “will not happen” if the Democrats seize control of the House and retain control of the Senate next year.

    Yeah, good luck with that. Hasn’t he been paying attention the last twenty years or so? Democrats don’t have to pay for any of their activities in office. I remember in 1998 when the Republicans were foolishly convinced that they could remove Clinton from office. In fact, they just took it for granted and quit reforming the government and started acting like a bunch of Democrats. Yep, won’t work, no matter who is running Congress. You’d have to change the American culture overnight – they couldn’t change the culture enough to get Romney elected, they won’t change it enough to impeach this President. And what would you impeach him for anyway? Do you honestly thing people are going to sacrifice their cell phones and food stamps because of four dead Americans? Fat chance.

    Besides, Jay Carney already told them it happened a long time ago and it doesn’t matter.

    Sorry, Republicans, you let Candy Crowley bully you into sitting down and shutting up when you had your chance. It’s kind of late. How about just rallying the troops to stop the Obama agenda instead of betting the farm on something that’s never going to happen.

  • Julie Frein, two year Air Force vet offers Arlington grave site to terrorist

    A couple of you sent this link to us about a two-year veteran of the Air Force, Julie Frein, has offered the space she thinks that she’s earned at Arlington National Cemetery to the family of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. And, you know, she says that if we’re upset about that, we should “get over it”.

    She goes on that “nobody, nobody deserves to rot above ground”. Actually, when I heard that no one wanted to take his body, my first thought was to put his rotting corpse on a stake in the ground and let the buzzards take what they want.

    The only way Frein is eligible for burial at Arlington is because her husband is a retiree from the Navy, otherwise, she’s not eligible, according to the regs. In my mind, her gravesite isn’t something she can give away. I wonder how her husband feels knowing that he’s going to be planted alongside a murderer for eternity.

    So glad I left Maryland and these weeping do-gooders behind.

  • A Novel Way of Supplementing Income

    Everyone knows that junior enlisted guys and gals don’t make all that much.  But it seems as if one soldier found a . . .  creative way of supplementing his income.

    Anthony Pirone was unemployed.  He was drawing unemployment compensation in CA.

    He finally got fed up with being jobless.  So in May 2011, he enlisted.  He’s currently serving in Afghanistan.

    There’s only one tiny problem.  It seems Pirone didn’t notify the state of California he was employed after he enlisted.  In fact, according to the state of California he filed false affidavits at least 10 times stating he had no job after he’d enlisted.  He also cashed the unemployment checks he received between May and Decembeer 2011.

    Since Pirone is currently deployed, his trial will be delayed until after he returns from deployment.  But then he’ll have to answer a few rather pointed questions.

    By the way:  if you’re thinking you’ve heard the name “Anthony Pirone” – you just might have.  Pirone is one of the BART cops that was involved in the 2009 New Year’s Day shooting incident in Oakland.  He was later fired for his actions that night, which reportedly were recorded on video and included striking the guy who later was shot, yelling racial epithets, and in general contributing to the escalation of the incident.  Nice guy.

    Oh, and I’m guessing Pirone was pulling in a fair chunk in unemployment – which explains why he might have been reluctant to give it up.  At the time he was fired by BART, he was making in excess of $100k a year in salary and overtime.

  • Just the Thing to Do When Money’s Tight

    From an article in the Washington Times:

    “In March, Gevo entered into a contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to supply the U.S. Army with 3,650 gallons of renewable jet fuel to be delivered by the second quarter of 2013,” Gevo announced this week in its first quarter financial report. “This initial order may be increased by 12,500 gallons. All shipments will be at a fixed price of $59 per gallon during the initial testing phase. These shipments are in addition to the renewable jet fuel supplied to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and the U.S. Navy (USN).”

    Conventional JP-8 jet fuel costs $3.73 a gallon, according to the Defense Logistics Agency.

    Yes, you’re reading that correctly.  During the financial squeeze imposed by sequestration, DoD is going to spend up to $952,000+ to buy something “green” when they could buy the conventional equivalent from standard commercial sources for just over $62,000.

  • Student arrested for building toy guns in his dorm

    James sends us a link to the New York Post in regards to a 20-year-old NYU student who was building Airsoft guns in his dorm room and selling them on the internet. A couple of maintenance works saw the realistic looking toys in the youth’s room and called police.

    NYPD cops arrested Goal at 2:30 p.m. Monday and hit him with six misdemeanor violations of a local law that prohibits the possession or sale of air rifles and replica firearms, according to a law enforcement source.

    Nice going, NYPD. Gun control extends to harmless toys now? You probably solved all of the world’s problems with that bust. Proud, you should be.

    “It’s very scary to know there were guns one floor below me. I had no idea,” said one of Goal’s co-workers, who described him as pleasant and a hard worker. “But knowing Bernard I’m not scared.”

    Yeah, scary to know that there were toys just one floor away, huh? So, I guess the war on terrorism is over now, we can all sleep peacefully in our beds tonight because the NYPD has made the world safer by shutting down a toy manufacturer.

  • Herson Torres; duped into felony

    Scott sends us this link to the story of Herson Torres. It seems Mr. Torres was convinced by a pretty face, belonging to Carolina Villegas, to take up the offer of an invisible man on a cell phone to engage in a venture that could pay Torres $25,000. Sounds good, huh? well, the venture included robbing banks;

    Villegas introduced Torres to the man on the phone, Theo. He didn’t offer a last name. Theo said he worked for the government and was recruiting Torres to test the defenses of Washington-area banks. The plan was simple: Theo would tell him which bank to target, and Torres would give a manager a note demanding money. Armed security officers, threats to call the police, or a wait that exceeded five minutes would be cause to flee. If he left with money, he’d be paid $25,000. Successful or not, he was guaranteed $2,500 for taking part. Torres would deliver any money recovered to a location near Richmond. If arrested, Torres should stay silent. Federal authorities would get him out in 24 hours.

    So, to make a long story short, Torres made three failed attempts to rob banks, finally getting himself arrested. He told the incredible story to police, who checked and verified that he had been doing these bank jobs for Theo, who turned out to be Joshua Brady in Matoaca, VA, who police woke when they raided the house where he lived with his mother and grandmother and charged him with “impersonating a government official and three counts of attempted bank robbery”.

    Neither Villegas nor any of the other robbery participants were ever charged. In October state prosecutors dropped the case against Torres without explanation. Vickery said it was because police were convinced Torres was tricked.

    Brady, on the other hand, made a deal for three years of supervision in his mother’s home. I’m sure he’s learned his lesson [insert eyeroll here].
    Torres, on the other hand has probably learned the lesson of his life and shoudl feel rather fortunate that he wasn’t shot by a bank guard.