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Autistic high school boy wins homecoming king
Tyler Morris is autistic and loved by his fellow students at Fernandina Beach . He was pumped up this Friday night, one of 12 male students nominated to the homecoming court .
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As he was introduced at halftime , Morris and his escort got a huge ovation from the student body. And just a few minutes later what seemed like the inevitable, Morris was announced as the King of the court.
"I think it is awesome, it is the awesomest time I have ever had in my whole entire life," said Morris as his fellow students chanted "Tyler, Tyler, Tyler!!""
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Rob Meeks, a guidance counselor and faculty sponsor of the Student Government Association, said Morris had the highest vote total of anyone in the ten years he has been running the homecoming event.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/294048/3/Autistic-student-at-Fernandina-Beach-High-School-is-King-for-a-night
"Post-Funny" - A Fine bromance
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It's hard to describe what we're dealing with here. This is far, far too funny to laugh at. This is post-funny. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/338142/are-frat-brothers-natural-conservatives-betsy-woodruff …
Fine bromance
By Doug Galt January 27th, 2013
This is amazing, even for the National Review (via):
JANUARY 26, 2013 4:00 A.M.
Are Frat Brothers Natural Conservatives?
For many, the Greek system may offer a respite from liberal academia.
By Betsy Woodruff
As college students head back to school for spring semester, most will enter largely anti-conservative atmospheres. But for many, the Greek system may offer a respite from the typical environment of academia — or at least a safe and non-judgmental place to believe in limited government and free enterprise.
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It’s an interesting phenomenon — if that’s the right word — and it’s reflected, to an extent, in students’ spending habits. Madison Wickham is one of the founders of TotalFratMove.com, a website of dubious literary and educational value that provides content targeted at members of the Greek community. He tells National Review Online that merchandise pitched to conservatives — such as shirts that say “Mitt’s the Tits” and “Back to Back World War Champs” — sells briskly, suggesting that the Greek system contains a strong contingent of young people who lean unabashedly right.
https://twitter.com/jim_newell/status/295400515251089411
Ganesh? I thought it was McConnell
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-ganesh-review-20130126,0,5876410.story
While Our Politicians Quibble, The Gun Manufacturers Are Literally Aiming For Our Children
BEARING ARMSSelling a New Generation on Guns
Threatened by long-term declining participation in shooting sports, the firearms industry has poured millions of dollars into a broad campaign to ensure its future by getting guns into the hands of more, and younger, children.
New Hampshire Police Chiefs Hold a 31-Gun Raffle for a Training Program (January 27, 2013)
The industry’s strategies include giving firearms, ammunition and cash to youth groups; weakening state restrictions on hunting by young children; marketing an affordable military-style rifle for “junior shooters” and sponsoring semiautomatic-handgun competitions for youths; and developing a target-shooting video game that promotes brand-name weapons, with links to the Web sites of their makers.
The pages of Junior Shooters, an industry-supported magazine that seeks to get children involved in the recreational use of firearms, once featured a smiling 15-year-old girl clutching a semiautomatic rifle. At the end of an accompanying article that extolled target shooting with a Bushmaster AR-15 — an advertisement elsewhere in the magazine directed readers to a coupon for buying one — the author encouraged youngsters to share the article with a parent.
“Who knows?” it said. “Maybe you’ll find a Bushmaster AR-15 under your tree some frosty Christmas morning!”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/us/selling-a-new-generation-on-guns.html?_r=0
Tyranny in chart form courtesy of New York Magazine.
President Obama Has Issued Fewer Executive Orders Than Any President in Over 100 Years
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/obama-executive-orders-guns.html
McConnell: ‘We Beat The Liberals’
‘We Beat The Liberals’: McConnell Campaign Brags About Defeating Filibuster Reform
The email, subject line “We Beat the Liberals,” bragged that President Obama was “furious” after liberal senators and left-wing groups failed to pass their “dangerous scheme” to break down the checks and balances in the Senate.
Dear Patriot,
Barack Obama and his allies are furious.
A group of the Senate’s most liberal Senators, fueled by left-wing groups like Move On, have been pushing a dangerous scheme to change the rules of the United States Senate and fundamentally alter the checks and balances of our system.
You see, they had been pushing a plan to end the filibuster, allowing Harry Reid and the Obama Democrats to pass their agenda with a simple majority.
Well, Mitch McConnell stood strong and stopped that scheme dead in its tracks.
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more:
http://pageonekentucky.com/2013/01/25/oh-look-its-mitch-claiming-liberals-are-beat/
Teachers should focus on lessons, not firearms
In the aftermath of recent school shootings, some have questioned whether teachers in schools should be armed.
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Most police chiefs and sheriffs disagree with arming teachers, and as the experts in lethal force, they have valid reasons for doing so. Police officers, who must qualify at a pistol range on a regular basis, still hit their human targets only about 17 percent of the time, a nationwide statistic that does not vary much from year to year.
I believe I am one of only a few college professors who have shot another human being. As a narcotics agent with the California Department of Justice in my previous life, I had the occasion to shoot a suspect who was trying to kill my partner and me. The suspect missed — I did not. I later taught handgun training at a pistol range, and despite my 21 years of law enforcement and my so-called expertise with handguns, I still do not want to carry a gun as a professor.
What pro-gun advocates fail to consider is the role of mindset — the kind of mindset that is required for one to be proficient with a weapon. As an on-duty cop, I was able to fire my weapon almost without thinking. My actions were a result of years of training and a state of mind that put me on alert. That mindset is not the mindset of a teacher and never should be.
We ask our children’s educators to enrich their minds and help them find their way in the world. I, for one, think that doing that job well requires a mindset of a very different focus. My own experiences as a cop convince me that most Americans prefer to give teachers the freedom to teach — without their having to worry about being ready to kill.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130125/OPINION03/301250089/Teachers-should-focus-lessons-not-firearms?nclick_check=1
Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
January 25, 2013 By Hemant Mehta
A group of Arizona politicians — all Republicans, of course — have proposed a law (House Bill 2467) requiring public high school students to recite the following oath in order to graduate:
To quote Comedy Central’s Ilya Gerner: “Nothing says ‘I take this obligation freely’ quite like a state law that withholds your diploma unless you swear an oath.”
Kevin Bondelli adds:
It’s bad enough the Republicans are demanding loyalty of the kind normally reserved for members of Congress and beyond — but there’s also no way I would say those last four words, and the current text of the legislation does not allow for any alternatives.
In other words, if this bill were to become a law, atheists would either not be allowed to graduate… or they would be forced to lie so they could graduate. Neither option is acceptable.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/01/25/arizona-republicans-propose-bill-that-would-not-allow-atheists-to-graduate-high-school/
TAIBBI: GOP Worst Week Ever: Like Watching 3 Stooges Perform Liver Transplant On Roller Skates
Conservatives Have Their Worst Week Ever
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
24 January 12
Watching America's political conservatives try to counter-maneuver opposite Barack Obama's re-inauguration over the course of the last week has been an incredible comedy - like watching the Three Stooges try to perform a liver transplant on roller skates.
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But after Sandy Hook, the Democrats have skillfully painted the Republicans as the party of scary-looking and scary-sounding white maniacs like Tennessee security-company CEO James Yeager, a shaven-headed, soul-patched anger-sick white loony who posted a video promising to go ape if gun laws are enacted. "If this goes one inch further, I'm going to start killing people," Yeager said.
Conservatives could have dealt with this post-Sandy Hook political curveball in a number of ways, from simply shutting up and working quietly behind the scenes to scuttle gun control efforts (that always worked before) to announcing willingness to engage in some extremely mild compromise (like maybe prohibiting schizophrenics from carrying machine guns near kindergartens).
Instead, they decided to piss all over Martin Luther King Day and then shoot themselves by the half-dozen in the process.
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MUCH MORE:
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15691-conservatives-have-their-worst-week-ever
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