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I know I did.

Couldn’t use any of them.

Vandalism in Mahanoy Area High School boys’ bathrooms has resulted in toilet paper being issued by request as needed, a policy that one parent believes is embarrassing for students.

Karen Yedsena, Mahanoy City, spoke during the public portion of Thursday’s school board meeting, asking about the policy.

“I’m asking about the high school and why the boys are not allowed to have toilet paper except if they go to the nurse or the office to get it,” Yedsena said.

The boys’ bathrooms in the high school do not have toilet paper due to vandalism. Any boy needing the bathroom tissue must ask for it and sign it out.

It seems that the drains have been repeatedly stopped up with paper.

I’m thinking, switch suppliers. Maybe give the kids newspaper.

The classified section would seem appropriate.

All seriousness aside, administrators seem to be desperately punishing everyone for the sins of the few.

Not that persons in charge have ever done anything like that before.

Clearly, students have the administrators on the runs.

Via the Tampa Bay Times.

Oh, my.

Ellwood City (Pennsylvania–ed.) police have cited a 15-year-old boy with harassing a 26-year-old female teacher in the Lawrence County town’s Lincoln High School.

The Ellwood City patrolman who filed the citation reported he had “never seen a student that was so infatuated with a teacher.”

She vas only followink orders.

A 67 year old woman from Belgium drove for two days, and over 900 miles in the wrong direction, ending up in Zagreb, Croatia, before she noticed something was wrong. What’s worse is that her intended destination was only about 90 miles away from her home.

Via GNC.

Mango Cremes, a new addition to one of the world’s most expensive brands of cookies,* is not what its name implies.

If only Mango Crèmes were healthy. If only they were made with mango. That’s right, the ingredients include sugar, corn syrup, coconut and a cocktail of concentrates—cranberry, pomegranate, orange, grape, strawberry and shitake mushrooms—but no mango.

Aren’t mushroom cookies your fave?

Comparing Mango Crèmes with a comparable portion of Peanut Butter Sandwich cookies shows Mango Crèmes have more calories, more fat, more sugar, and less protein. Healthy indeed.

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*Just for giggles, figure out the “per cookie” price sometime.

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I used to work for a company that manufactures RFID identification and tracking systems. They make for very convenient business and industrial security systems by doing away with the need for keys and ensuring that employees have access to areas where they belong, but not to areas they do not.

Using them to track persons in their daily activities, though, is a step beyond that. They may not be the “mark of the beast” (I certainly don’t think so), but they may easily be the mark of the beastly.

I can see a time when we will all be micro-chipped “for our own good.”

Relative to the previous post, whaddya bet these kids were tumblng on Tumblr?

Two Placer County teenage girls were arrested for allegedly using drugged milkshakes to knock out the parents of one of the girls so they could log on to the Internet, Rocklin police said.

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The parents drank about a quarter of the milkshakes but didn’t finish them, saying they tasted funny and were grainy, Milka said.

But the shakes – loaded with prescription sleep aids allegedly provided by the friend – were effective, and the parents quickly fell asleep.

A child therapist (watch me avoid the obvious pun) is quoted as saying that drugging (druggng?) one’s parents is not “a healthy level of rebellion.”

Afterthought:

I suspect therapy and therapists would be saner if the concept of “adolescent rebellion” were replaced with the more accurate concept of “getting away with stuff.” The concept of “rebellion” implies a goal of some sort.

I know that, when I was a kid, I really wasn’t rebelling against anything.

I just liked getting away with stuff.

The teacher was disciplined and apologized, but that wasn’t enough.

The lawyers are now involved.

The parents of the Charles Carroll High School student ridiculed and told by her teacher to remove a T-shirt supporting Mitt Romney in this year’s presidential campaign sued the teacher and the School District on Friday, claiming the act violated the girl’s civil rights.

Filed in federal court in Philadelphia, the suit says the district ignored Samantha Pawlucy’s right to free speech, let other students threaten and harass her and subjected her “to emotional distress, simply because she exercised her First Amendment rights.”

DuFresne bills his company, Tattoo Art Inc., as creators of “the world’s most popular tattoo designs.” So popular that a Grand Rapids, Mich., company, TAT International, and its tattoo parlor, TatStore, bought a license to market Tattoo Art’s designs.

Tattoo Art sued TAT for copyright infringement and breach of a licensing agreement after finding that TAT had altered some of its designs and were marketing them as its own, according to the court filings. (TAT had agreed to pay additional royalties but never did.)

Tattoo Art was awarded over half a mil.

A Florida grand jury has indicted a man on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a teenager following an argument over loud music coming from the teen’s car.

The Florida Times-Union reports officials in the State Attorney’s Office said Thursday they won’t be seeking the death penalty against 46-year-old Michael David Dunn. He was initially charged with second-degree murder.

Dunn is accused of the Nov. 23 shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis.

The brutal truth is this:

I’m certain he never imagined he could be charged for shooting a black kid. After all, it was only a black kid.

As I said, it’s a brutal truth, but I can think of no way to prettify it.

That’s how some folks (still) think in these modern times.

Somehow, I expect that misusing 911 will also turn up in the charges.

Jennifer Melissa Herring, 37, called 911 while being pursued to tell authorities there was no emergency, and that she would stop for $300,000, according to the police report.

When she finally stopped, she was charged with driving while impaired, felony fleeing to elude arrest, driving while license revoked, careless and reckless driving and driving left of center, according to the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office.

Me, grilling lamb chops on the deck in my shirt sleeves (how they got in my shirt sleeves I’ll never know) in December.

Afterthought:

I hope I can put the deck out when I’m done.

At Delaware Liberal, Pandora recounts tangling with a believer in the mystical magical misrepresented Mayan calendar motif. Read it.

My favorite line, a true and absolute gem:

I pointed out that popcorn was a miracle if you didn’t know how it worked.

Tulsa Fox affiliate gives directions to Canada for Tulsans fleeing Obamacare for Canada’s single-payer system.

Listen for the laughter in the background:

Via ABL.

Offered without comment.

A Republican official in Texas called for his state to separate from the United States and the “maggots” who reelected President Barack Obama in a newsletter he sent out this week.

Peter Morrison, who serves as treasurer of the Hardin County Republican Party, wrote in his post-election newsletter that there was a clear solution to the problem of Obama’s re-election.

“We must contest every single inch of ground and delay the baby-murdering, tax-raising socialists at every opportunity,” Morrison wrote. “But in due time, the maggots will have eaten every morsel of flesh off of the rotting corpse of the Republic, and therein lies our opportunity.”

. . . and Santa is already descending on local malls to sell photographs.

At MacArthur Center

Photos with Santa are available for purchase, and an interactive display on the family film “Ice Age: Continental Drift” is featured. Prices for photo packages with Santa range from $21 to $55.

The magic words to explain Santa’s early arrival are these:

$21 to $55

Also, movie sales.

The SPLC rounds up reaction amongst the mongers of hate:

(At Ole Miss–ed) Shortly after midnight, several hundred mostly white students protested furiously, reportedly yelling anti-black racial slurs and throwing rocks at passing cars. An Obama/Biden campaign sign was burned before campus police broke up the crowd in Oxford. There were apparently no arrests or injuries.

The reaction to the re-election of our first black president from the radical right — and that seemed clearly to include some University of Mississippi students — ranged from sputtering rage and name-calling to calls for a new Southern secession, mass emigration to Europe, or even the break-up of the United States. There was one thing large numbers seemed clearly to agree on: The changing racial demographics of our country, expected to lose its white majority by 2050, was key to the result.

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Update: John Cole thinks this story is a hoax.

A business owner in Las Vegas on Wednesday told a CBS radio station that he had fired 22 of his 114 “mostly Hispanic” employees because President Barack Obama had won re-election.

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“I don’t need the labor force coming down saying I laid people off because they are Hispanic, I don’t need the headache. We are in a right-to-work state, but I did inform people that I would possibly had to be making layoffs. I did make the notification 30 days ago. I followed the laws.”

He claims that he won’t be able to afford employees after the coming regulatory Apocalypse. (More details and audio at the link.)

Also, he didn’t like that some of them wore Obama shirts on election day.

Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.

Not. Nice. People.

Via Atrios.

That’s how a Cali school district is defending itself in a civil suit by a woman who, when she was in middle school 18 years ago, was systematically sexually abused by male and female teachers.

The girl was twelve at the time.

Like the honchos at Penn State and in the Catholic Church, the bigwigs in the school district ignored complaints and covered up the conduct while it was going on.

Kristen Cunnane was “careless and negligent” and contributed to her ongoing sexual abuse at the hands of a middle school teacher, the Moraga School District claimed in its first legal response to the UC Berkeley swim coach’s lawsuit against the school district and three former administrators.

(Much more at the link.)

This is comparable to the priest who claimed that little boys were seducing Catholic priests.

The school district and its lawyers claim that this is a “necessary” legal tactic.

These are not nice people.