SP and I are unusual in that we can be cooped up in a car and motel rooms for eight grueling days and not kill each other. But we did get our mission done, and as a side bit of fun, got to see mexican sharpshooter and eat at a very Lebanese restaurant. We’ll be home tonight, with luck. And with a pile of wine.
Tales From The Woke, left over from last week: One of our staff rushed in, and with breathless panic announced that the night before (Halloween), there had been a group of people dressed as Klansmen spotted walking around campus. Several of the other staff gathered around, gasped, and all agreed how horrible this was and that something needed to be done about it IMMEDIATELY. They turn to look at me for affirmation. Rather than say the obvious (“You’re in a firmly left wing Northeastern town with a highly woke vastly international student population and a long history of abolitionism. If you took all the actual Klansmen among the 330 million population in the US, you MIGHT be able to fill a high school auditorium. Do you remember Jesse Smollett or the blanket-walk of shame incident from Oberlin? What do you think the chances are that this actually happened? Zero?”), I nodded gravely and merely asked, “Did you actually see this?” “No, but the school sent out an email that they take this seriously and they’re investigating it!” Oh, OK.
My hope is that some years down the road, this lad (an actually nice kid but… delicate) will remember that simple question and have an Aha! moment.
Hope, not expect.
Birthdays today include an interesting guy who was hungry, hungry; the true hero of the Civil War; a brother who was a better actor but a worse shot; a guy who presciently wrote, “I used to think meanly of the plumber, but how he shines beside the politician!”; a liberal from when that term actually meant something; a guy who was a total bastard, but our total bastard; star of one of only two exceptions to my rule of “all movies that end in a number will suck”; a guy who elevated trolling into fine performance art; one of the last of the honest TV journalists; a guy whose career jumped the shark; a bullet we dodged; proof that success in Hollywood demands brainlessness; and yet more proof, a guy far dumber yet more successful than his erstwhile partner.
Anyway, here’s some Links.
Following the tradition of my first wife, who was an enforcer for the Lady Badgers.
Team Blue, totally not antisemitic.
“I have bad news and worse news.” Nonetheless, she’s our next president, because Team Red is even more moronic.
Our fine educational system. Delicate flowers too tired to do their job.
Sullivan gets it right. Now, Andy, try applying the same thing to your virulent anti-Israel ranting.
Old Guy Music is a sieve. A minority of you will have ever experienced this. A minority of the minority will remember the name of the band. And a minority of those will know the actual identity of the band.
“she’s our next president”
Maybe but there are a couple halfway decent Republican governors who could mop the floor with her if they can just get Trump to hang back.
They won’t. The personality cult is strong here.
I think he’ll do the kingmaker thing but his ego might get the better of him. He could designate whoever and be vindicated if they won and could blame it on them if they lost. He has been making noise about running again but he’s also bullshitting half the time he opens his mouth.
Half the time? Oh, he’s breathing, eating or drinking the other half.
Bingo.
He will run. His ego won’t let him do anything else.
I don’t see CommaLa being elected. There’s not enough fortification in the world.
After seeing Biden get 81 million votes, I won’t underestimate the productivity of Team Blue ballot factories.
Do you ever stop to consider how many of those 81 million were absolutely nothing but get-rid-of-Trump votes?
Why else would they have printed them in bulk? ?
As though no real human has a distaste for Trump; TDS is the bizarre affliction of a tiny fragment of America. Everyone else just LOVES him.
Exactly this. The only Team Blue wins in 2024 is if Trump runs.
If Trump or a fighter like him doesnt run, America loses.
I still laugh when people on here mention hating Trump. I guess I missed the reason why he was a bad president.
There were plenty of get-rid-of-Trump votes. The lingering question is, how many of those votes were cast by real live citizens qualified to vote.
Every single one of the 81 million was to get rid of Trump. I can’t imagine any outside of Delaware that were cast with enthusiasm for Joe.
A couple of Delawareans I know thought he was an asshole. But he was their asshole.
I agree. I’m only curious how many of those votes were cast by people qualified to vote and how many were manufactured.
The lingering question is, how many of those were single votes
wereverifiably cast by real live citizens qualified to vote.Yeah, I don’t think she’s our next president unless she becomes a placeholder before 2024. No way she wins an election.
-placeholder before 2024
Yeah, wait until shortly after the midterms. Biden’s going to be moved aside or they’ll try at least.
Elections ain’t what they used to be. Maybe they never were.
a very Lebanese restaurant.
So Lebanese they didn’t have any electricity?
They even had hookahs.
The diners around us were almost 100% Arab. I checked my food carefully.
Did you foreign types say “Way oh, way oh”?
+1 ringtone.
They even had hookahs.
Excellent. I enjoy relaxing with a twenty dollar hookah after a good meal.
Why does the FBI think the Jews want a race war?
a brother who was a better actor but a worse shot;
Prince of Players is an interesting little movie, although I think the last time it was in the FXM rotation, it was panned-and-scanned. 🙁
star of one of only two exceptions to my rule of “all movies that end in a number will suck”;
The other being the original version of The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3? Or Dinner at Eight?
Or The Magnificent Seven?
And if you want the number not to be a reference to time, try Edmund Gwenn as a quantitative easer in Mister 880. A lot of people would also go for The Magnificent Seven, even though it’s not an original.
It ought to be. That movie is fantastic.
Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three is another good one.
It isn’t a bad book either.
There was a terrible remake in the mid-’90s. A made for TV treat starring Edward James Olmos, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Donnie Wahlberg. It makes the John Travolta remake look rather good.
I haven’t seen that one but the later one was awful.
Saturn 3
Buffalo ’66
Ah, good choice.
Oooff… Now that is how you set up a vid for us.
Well done, sir.
I worked in the Bronx with a guy who could have been Vincent Gallos identical twin. Single fireman with those looks—needless to say the guy was crushing it and probably still is.
Yeah, you right! When the truck full of on-duty FDNY rolls up to the grocery store and they start wandering the aisles in their tight t-shirts and giant turn out pants, you can see the ladies positively swoon.
Surf II, you philistines!
I know I keep bringing up Apollo 13, but…
Ooh… Stalag 17
I like the neanderthal girls in that video. Going to check pornhub to see if that is a category.
I guess he didn’t realize that “kids WILL speak”.
I didn’t know the song or the band but I liked it.
Kamala Harris — a 2024 problem for Biden and the Democrats
She garnered zero delegates in the primary and is generally dislikeable. Idk who thought she was a good idea as vp.
I thought it was kind of hunny that Jimmy Kimmel was saying her popularity is low because of racism. The freaking Democrats wouldn’t vote for her either, they voted for Biden mostly despite her. She has all the shrillness and ruthlessness of Hillary without the intelligence and it shows.
I don’t pay the slightest attention to what that idiot has to say but that seems stupid even for him.
I pay a little bit of attention because I’m a Carolla fan and find it interesting that they still get along.
Maybe someone really close to Biden looked at her as insurance, just like Obama looked at Joe. You know, get rid of me and this is who you’re stuck with.
That is always the case with VP’s.
What I find amazing is that someone thought Poopie Joe, Obama’s life insurance policy, was a good choice for president.
He does look better than the current alternative, no? The system works!
Didn’t see Joe as Obama’s “life insurance policy.” If the fear was that white supremacists would assassinate Obama, then having a white v.p. would be the icing on their cake.
Re: Old Guy Music – that seems to have been a banner year for the less highly evolved among us.
my first wife, who was an enforcer
A licky boom boom down.
Administrators acknowledge the last-minute schedule changes are forcing parents to scramble their own plans, and it’s the latest obstacle for students trying to make up missed learning following widespread pandemic school closures. Experts say missing more school means some kids, particularly those from low-income families, will fall even further behind their peers.
Remove your kids from public school and buy them online courses. Perhaps a neighbor can observe and monitor several children if most parents are unable to do so because of work. Stop feeding the “education” racket.
Dude, you’re not Catholic.
Of course. Catholic priests diddle little boys.
From yesterday.
Man who flew to space last month with William Shatner dies in Cessna plane crash…
I sent this to a fellow libertarian friend who is a private pilot. He had two things to say – Thread winner: “He shouldn’t have worn red” and that the other person in the aircraft was Tom Fischer, owner of Fischer Aviation flight school. He’d used the school to regain currency. He noted that he like the staff, but that they didn’t spend a nickel more than they needed to on the equipment. His example was that one of the aircraft he flew was so old that shoulder belts weren’t required and they had no desire to go to the expense of retrofitting it.
This case involving a semi-famous person notwithstanding, there is a tendency to report airplane crashes more frequently and with seemingly more urgency than other accidents like automobile crashes. Certainly it is because of the relative novelty and infrequency of air crashes (even though the risk is higher for air crashes, many more cars crash daily than airplanes); it is the relative rarity and unfamiliarity that makes people pay attention.
I’d say it’s pretty common for some training orgs to maintain an older fleet. Properly maintained, that’s not a problem–airplanes can last a very long time given proper care.
Our local flight schools contract with the county community college and have an agreement that all their aircraft must be no older than 15 or 20 years, so the training fleet at our airport is relatively fresh.
I used to work for firm that adjusted aviation claims. What I find amazing is just how “open” even densely populated areas are. Usually people on the ground aren’t injured are killed.
I have no issue with older aircraft flying. Given the stagnation in certificated aircraft in GA the first and last versions Cessna 172 ain’t that much different. Hence the popularity of “experimental” aircraft.
His point was more for something as basic as shoulder belts you might want to go beyond and above the minimums. And my friend has flown lots of experimental aircraft and ultralights so he understands what risk you deal with depending on the aircraft. For something like a 172 such a “modification” seems reasonable.
That is accurate. Most private aircraft accidents are caused by the pilots.
As far as the difference between the first and latest 172 being very similar. I’m not so sure. There are a decent amount of structural changes. The engines is fairly different and the new 172s have a glass cockpit. The 172 has been flying a long time — first flight in 1955.
I agree with doing more than the minimum. Anything related to safety probably should be done. And shoulder belts are a safety modification.
Sure, the newer 172 models have some nice upgrades from previous, including a nicer interior, all LED lighting, and a glass cockpit. They come with a Lycoming IO-360 engine that cranks out 180hp, giving it a cruise speed around 120 knots and good climb performance. It’s a nice plane.
It’s also $415,000 for the base model.
I’m sure it’ll have everyone ro-tapping their feet in no time.
When All The Media Narratives Collapse
In case after case, the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong.
I don’t think they are getting it wrong. I was able to piece together what happened with KR by scouring the internet for every bit of video I could find the next day. And the likes of CNN/MSNBC/etc. are still lying about what observably/apparently happened and about testimony in the trial. It is deliberate. They want rioting, violence and chaos.
⬆ ?
Violence leads to viewership. The only thing that’s worse than how mendacious they are is the incuriosity of their audiences. They want to be lied to, reality be damned.
“Are you not entertained!”
+1 If it bleeds, it leads.
https://youtu.be/h_TUP2vuaDs
A minority of the minority will remember the name of the band.
They also sang this song.
Sure, go ahead. I’m sure it will cost zero dollars.
Not thinking today would be a great day for President Biden and Vice President Harris to #CancelStudentDebt.
That does seem to be his hobby horse. He wears a custom mask with that slogan on it. ? Well, for the cameras.
If Halloween is about dressing up as something scary, Klan hoods should be all the rage in these college towns at Halloween.
Democrats dont like to be reminded that the KKk was started by democrats.
They want you destitute: Biden Climate Czar John Kerry: “By 2030 In The United States, We Will NOT Have Coal Plants”
Yeah, about the COP26 going overtime because it is so super serious!
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/581261-latest-climate-summit-draft-agreement-waters-down-fossil-fuel
“Life is haaaaard,” says schoolteacher Barbie.
Every time I see Kamala Harris I hear the Wicked Witch music from The Wizard of Oz.
Introducing the Icelandverse
“His opinions were, according to legal scholars, some of the “greatest defenses” of freedom of speech and the right to privacy ever written by a member of the Supreme Court.”
Brandeis would be thrilled with this institution which bears his name:
https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/brandeis-university-expands-list-of-words-phrases-to-avoid-using/
Freedom of speech, for sure.
The new additions also include “whipped into shape,” which PARC says can evoke “imagery of enslavement and torture.”
I guess this is hate speech.
A new collection of “violent idioms about animals” contains “more than one way to skin a cat,” “killing two birds with one stone” and “beating a dead horse.”
“These expressions normalize violence against animals,” the PARC says.
Better choices, respectively, are “multiple ways to accomplish the task,” “feeding two birds with one seed; taking care of two things at once” and “refusing to let something go,” it says.
You understand that sayings are just sayings right?
I’m not modifying my language to suit the delicate sensibilities of these woketarded cuntes.
Some day some one is just going to have to beat some sense into those idiots.
Apropos
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-history-ideological-purity-spirals-rarely.html
Such a brave new world!
Brave is good, right?
Brave Sir Robin?
What if in 2024 Harris is the incumbent president either through an unspeakable event or because Biden resigns for “health reasons” to give Harris an electoral advantage? Anything can happen between now and 2024.
An unspeakable event like being droned by Afghan refugees?
It’s Saturday, must be time for Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/the-week-in-pictures-inflated-edition.php
Not one of their better weeks IMO
Finally, it appears the American people are just not that into Harris. She rubs many voters the wrong way — branded as an uninspiring leftist and weak leader — although she’s credited with a historical gender and race breakthrough.
The straw that broke Affirmative Action’s back?
Haha, just kidding.
That’s an interesting way to put it, given what actually happened.
Credit, gifted due to a senile asshat painting his entire political party into a corner,…
Tomatoes.
Apparently you can be “credited” for just showing up.
Like public education?
My kid bombed his freshman year on Zoom. I thought, “No problem, we can just hold him back a year and he can repeat it.”
That’s a big fat nope. They don’t allow that. He can make up courses in the summer, but there is no other mechanism for getting them put back together again.
It’s as if the more Donald Trump accused the MSM of being “fake news” the more assiduously they tried to prove him right.
Fucking cause and effect- how does it work?
I’ll try to press on.
The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting.
I like it!
Poll: I’m well aware of the inherent folly of “time travel assassination” to make the future a better place. That being said, if one was forced to do such an act and decided to kill someone within the last two hundred years solely based on the legacy of the death and misery their philosophy inflicted upon the world over the long term, who would you kill first?
Mao
Stalin
Hitler
Paul Ehrlich
Marx?
…Paul Ehlrich just might place as a solid third.
I’ll take a page from scruff the other day…
Candy Lightner
While I’m not exactly a fan of her either that seems like a bit of a stretch if we’re talking sheer numbers.
…this was in response to the Guardian Climate Change article.
If we’re talking Climate Change, I’ll take Nicolaus Otto.
Just in general. I mentioned Ehrlich because a good deal of his ideas are based on his belief that humankind isn’t capable of adapting to whatever environment it may or may not create for itself.
Imply the inability to innovative and adapt, then apply that to ridiculous predictions about how quickly the environment will change…
Profit and human suffering!
If you’re going to limit me to the last 200 years, Woodrow Wilson. But if my window is more open, Rousseau and Plato.
That said, I don’t doubt that my altered timeline would end up all that different – not the same incidents, but the same behavior just arising in different people. It’s humans that are the problem.
We are, at heart, pattern-seeking/tool-making, tribal apes with a very strong in-group preference. IMO, this trends to conflict and tyranny over the long term regardless of the individual actors involved. Humans gonna human.
Everything goes back to Plato, dammit
But Rousseau was an asshole extraordinaire and spawned the post-Enlightenment, or whatever you want to call it.
‘That said, I don’t doubt that my altered timeline would end up all that different – not the same incidents, but the same behavior just arising in different people. It’s humans that are the problem.’
^
The ideas expressed by the people I mentioned didn’t occur in a vaccum.
Which is why I’d go back to the sources of those ideas.
, Woodrow Wilson – this was my first though but I am one of the weirdos that think if US was completely neutral in ww2 there is a smaaaaal chance things could have turned out some way when communism did not come about
*looks up which side Romania was on during WWII*…
Both. Then my people had to flee Romania. Some of which ended up slaves in Russian work camps after the war.
*throws down victim card*
Embrace the power of ‘and’.
Heh.
one of the aircraft he flew was so old that shoulder belts weren’t required and they had no desire to go to the expense of retrofitting it.
Was this an aerobatic plane? I can see the need for a shoulder harness if you are or can be inverted, But otherwise?
I’m just curious, not niggling.
No.
Just the idea that during turbulence it is one less thing to distract the pilot.
I have a 70 year old plane that didn’t come with shoulder harness when I bought it. I installed them because I don’t want to eat dashboard if I flip the plane over on landing. They do very little to help in turbulence, the lap belt does that.
I really don’t understand anyone that doesn’t want to fit a shoulder restraint onto an aircraft. In an impact without a shoulder belt, you are going to slam into the panel or the yoke face first. It’s not like seatbelts are expensive, particularly when you compare them to everything else in aviation.
“My Heroes in the Media Have Let Me Down, by A Sullivan”
Welcome to Earth, dummy.
Paging Andrew Sullivan
Rittenhouse claims he was acting in self-defense when he fired all of the shots. His guilt will turn on the reasonableness of his conduct that night. Apparently, it never occurred to him that in a country that has experienced mass shootings on a regular basis, on a night when there was chaos in the streets, someone might mistake him for an active shooter and try to stop him.
Honest? Honest as the day is long.
An active shooter…running away…before any shots were fired…?
That’s some mighty fine logic-ing.
To be fair, anyone holding a gun “might be mistaken for an active shooter” in their book.
Just the idea that during turbulence it is one less thing to distract the pilot.
Ah. Thx.
@OMWC if around, a local store took the interesting initiative of contacting vineyards and bottling wine under their own label. Which is not a bad idea. One of them is from the grape Mondeuse Noire bottled in France AOP Bugey . Know anything of this grape?
Spud and I always referred to Mondeuse as “a mean little wine for mean little people.”
In this case, Rittenhouse can argue that even if he provoked others to attack him by openly carrying his semi-automatic rifle at a mob scene, he was still able to use deadly force under Wisconsin law because he reasonably believed he had no other alternatives at those moments to avoid death or great bodily harm.
I, uh…
If you get assaulted by a leftie your only acceptable option is to assume a fetal position and hope they don’t kill you.
You should remain in your house and paint lamb’s blood on the door frame and pray they pass over you.
Or a BLM sign.
Workers of the World, Unite.
Or, as it is now, a Black Lives Matter sign in your window.
Wow, I really need to refresh more often.
when I see someone armed my first thought it to try to punch them
Guns seem to have a very strange effect on some folks.
You must have a helluva time being around law enforcement.
Call me crazy, but it seems to me the object of openly arming yourself is to DETER people from attacking you.
I know, I know…
I know that every time I see a guy with a firearm I want to fuck around and find out.
If that first guy wasn’t self-defense then nothing is. The dude was a goddamn insane and violent lunatic.
Noe of which made it in front of the jury because the defense was so bad on cross-examining that fellow’s fiancé.
“Now, imagine a 2024 election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. It would be MAD[…]Our nation deserves better.”
Are you kidding? This would be the most entertaining campaign *evah*! We deserve this kind of comedy!
Better keep Kyle Rittenhouse away from Silicone Saturday because these are some deadly weapons.
https://archive.md/XJwS6
Oh, and since it has not yet been said,
DOS A CERO!!!
Everything you can expect in a US-Mexico game, including the incompetent referreeing by a Central American.
FOOK YAH
And Canada wins again? We’re in an alternate reality.
I said it last night 😛
But yeah, the Yanks were actually sort of decent. Now watch them lose to Panama or whoever is next.
Seguin and I went to a local pub for dinner last night, which turns out to be the USA Soccer fan club home base. The place was packed and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed watching that game.
Jamaica is next, and yes, if we go down there expecting them to roll over we’ll get our asses handed to us.
Dirty commie: Rashida Tlaib Echoes Communist Talking Points
“‘Stretched too thin’: With staff ‘exhausted,’ schools cancel class or return to remote learning”
Gimme a fucking break. You got used to babysitting distracted kids on Zoom while sitting around in your bathrobe and getting oral sex off camera, and now you don’t want to go back to doing real work.
Then again, I encourage this kind of shit as much as possible. The past year and a half has given government schooling a gut-shot, keep this up and you’ll finish it off completely. You dipshits should see what happened in Loudon County as a shot across the bow but you’re too stupid to realize that the MILFs are in revolt nationwide.
Like all convictions, this one is an uphill battle for the prosecution. The government must prove each element of each offense beyond a reasonable doubt. But this one is an even steeper climb because the government also bears the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Rittenhouse was not acting in self-defense. That means a tie goes to the defendant.
This is the price we pay for a system that is built on the notion that it is better that 10 guilty defendants go free than one innocent defendant be convicted.
The prosecution is also unable to argue that the jury should be concerned about the precedential value of an acquittal. Precedents are for judges to worry about, not juries, which are bound to decide the case before them based on the facts and the law. You will not hear the prosecutor make the argument that an acquittal of Rittenhouse would spark others to engage in vigilante justice, even though it would. People like the defendants who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are watching. So are people like those who allegedly plotted to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in retaliation for her executive orders in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. An acquittal would further embolden them to take the law into their own hands. Rittenhouse would become the poster boy for gun enthusiasts who advocate for open carry of semi-automatic weapons in public places. But you won’t hear about any of that in this trial because it might prejudice the outcome for Rittenhouse.
This is the price we pay for a system built on the notion that it is better that 10 guilty defendants go free than one innocent defendant be convicted. In our criminal justice system, all defendants accused of a crime, including those we find repugnant, are entitled to due process. Prosecutors understand the legal protections that defendants enjoy, and they embrace the responsibility of meeting their burden of proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Holy shit.
“This is the price we pay for a system that is built on the notion that it is better that 10 guilty defendants go free than one innocent defendant be convicted.”
I thought the Left was against the carceral state/prison-industrial complex? Oh wait no, only for their political allies; their political enemies can be shipped to camps tomorrow.
They want differential enforcement and that’s it: free reign for them and the hammer for their enemies. Hell, look at what’s going on with Brannon for further confirmation.
They want Top. Men. to make each and every decision, based on whatever that minute’s progressive stack configuration is.
“the price we pay”
Wow.
Never change, MSNBCCP.
Wtf did I just read?
“I wonder how many irrelevant, dishonest and mendacious connections can I make in a single paragraph.”
Spoken like a true socon.
Pretty sure that’s wrong. Self-defense is an affirmative defense that the defendant must prove with the preponderance of evidence. There’s some variation around the edges, and I haven’t specifically checked Virginia law, but I would be very surprised if if Virginia requires the prosecution to provide beyond a reasonable doubt that there was no self-defense.
I’m going to defer to Branca’s analysis over at Legal Insurrection Here. His language also says that the state needs to disprove self defense beyond a reasonable doubt, and goes into detail on the elements that could be used to do so.
Color me very surprised, then.
And, goddamit, why do I keep crossing up Wisconsin and Virginia?
I’m not exactly sure where Branca is getting the ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ thing for the state. It may be something particular to Wisconsin law. Normally the standard for claiming self-defense is, as Mr. Dean says, the preponderance of the evidence.
Be careful with Andrew Branca’s analyses – while he’s a smart and capable lawyer who has done some pioneering work in the self defense field, he’s also a hardcore doctrinaire conservative who, IMO, sometimes lets his politics overrun his good sense. That said, Branca’s book The Law of Self Defense is required reading for any private citizen who carries a gun.
Virginia?
Gaige now claims that he was tricked into his answer by Kyle’s attorneys
Doesn’t matter. CNN will carry his water to support the narrative.
He can’t keep his lies straight to save his life, the guy’s just a straight up moron.
So he perjured himself? Sweet. Go arrest is ass.
Too bad the fucking video evidence confirms your original testimony.
Rittenhouse missed the opportunity to create another good Commie. Sad.
He can lie all he wants to the media. Stupid people that think that is more meaningful than sworn testimony deserve to be fooled – right up against the wall.
“a third testimony alleged that Walder regularly raped a 20-year-old woman, his therapy patient, on a regular basis.”
Wrong kind of therapy dood.
Enjoy a song written almost 50 years ago and is solid proof that the quality of musical output is currently in the shitter by comparison, both technically and artistically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCnzDy2tSk0
And props to the vocalist for doing a hell of a job impersonating Gabriel, because that is not an easy thing.
More proof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXatvzWAzLU
Is the singer like seven foot tall or is that guitarist a dwarf?
I think Sylvan is a pretty big dude.
The Great Resignation
This has been building longer than COVID. The county I work in has been steadily losing teachers and support staff and the pandemic just gives the media something to blame that doesn’t include an educational system incapable of meeting the increasing demand of advocates and legislatures. My personal hypothesis is that the current mobile computing and social media society is affecting brain development in a way that is incompatible with the reality of life in the United States. Regardless of the cause, I work with an increasing number of young teachers who have no emotional resilience and adolescent students who truly don’t have the skills needed for effective social reciprocity and problem solving.
Elementary school is a whole different beast. I could write a series of posts about how much time I spend with violent six year olds.
“I could write a series of posts about how much time I spend with violent six year olds”
Please do. As I can only assume from your post that you are a teacher (or administrator), I would love to see posts describing what you see and what you think is to blame.
I spent some time subbing years ago when I was in between jobs. I tried to get high school jobs but sometimes had to go to middle and elementary. So not much experience, but I’ve got some stories.
I remember one psychotic kid in elementary school who was out of control and unhinged. After trying for the upteenth time to get him settled down, he handed me a card to read. The card said something along the lines of “When [name] presents this card, he is indicating he needs time to calm down and is immediately allowed to leave the classroom.” The teacher’s aide confirmed it was legit. Very odd.
I spent time in decent high schools/middle schools and others that were inner city ghetto. They put me on hall duty in one high school during my free period. I sat in a chair next to a couple security guards and was supposed to ask students to see their hall passes. I don’t know why the guards couldn’t do it themselves, but I suppose the admin didn’t want me getting a break. Anyway, I’ll never forget starting to ask one kid, about 16 years old, for his hallpass when the guards told me to stop and nodded to the kid to keep going. They told me after the guy walked by that there were certain students who were never asked for anything because the guards have families and don’t want any visits at home from the gangs. Reminded me a bit of the post office scene in Goodfellas. These were big dudes, could have been linebackers, who were terrified.
“not in my job description”
I could make a shit-ton of cash with just my BA if I were willing to teach in a Kansas City public school. You just have to show you’re working on your teaching certificate (which they will pay for) and then master’s.
I lead a small team of behavior support staff that serves all of the schools in my county. Basically, I’m the person who writes the individual plans, like the one you mentioned for those break cards, and helps schools put those plans into effect.
There’s a lot more to it, but the classroom teachers know me as the behavior guy.
…no emotional resilience…
This, so much this.
Yes.
I have a whole article’s worth of thoughts on this, but it requires me to bare more of my personal life than I’m comfortable with.