Crabby Blogging Lady

If you don’t think we’ve entered some kind of wacko police state, read this:

Girl, 6, Handcuffed, Committed Because Of Classroom Behavior

A Port St. Lucie first-grade student was handcuffed and committed to a mental health facility because of her classroom behavior, and her parents are furious that the school took such extreme measures.

…Deputies said his daughter, Haley, got upset and stormed out her classroom when her teacher asked her to do something. The report said it then escalated into a temper tantrum in the principal’s office.

According to the incident report, a deputy said Haley was out of control. It said she “kicked the wall, went over to the desk and threw the calculator, electric pencil sharpener, telephone, container of writing utensils and other objects across the desk.”

She was then handcuffed. …Even worse is what happened the next day, Haley’s parents said.

A deputy was called to the school again after Haley had another tantrum in the classroom and principal’s office.

The sheriff’s report said she was yelling, throwing things and hit the principal, who is eight months pregnant. This time, she wasn’t handcuffed. She was committed to a mental facility.

The kid had a TEMPER TANTRUM. Isn’t handcuffing the poor girl and shipping her off to an insane asylum a LITTLE too harsh?! What the heck is happening in this country? If they’re not dosing the kids with sleeping pills anti-tantrum meds, then they are sending them to mental looneybins!!

Anyone remember the story of Helen Keller? She was blind and deaf at 18 months, from a sickness. Her parents coddled her out of pity and spoiled the kid rotten. By the age of 6, she was a frustrated, raving, holy terror. Back then, a hundred years ago now, adults realized that young children needed GUIDANCE, needed DISCIPLINE. Not handcuffs, a not tasing, not mental health drugs. Thank God a devoted teacher (Annie Sullivan) with some backbone helped Helen.

I feel so sorry for kids today, because they live in such a selfish, violent society where, if they survive the saline solution from Planned Parenthood and Chester the ******* down the street, they are thrown in brick-sided dungeons where police patrol the halls. No one cares for them, no one understands.

I’m reading this very good book called Christ on the Jewish Road. It’s a book about an atheist man of Jewish heritage living in Romania during and after World War II, who discovers salvation in Christ. The author, Richard Wurmbrand, then relates numerous stories of the struggles that he and other Romanian Christians experienced after the War– during the anti-Semitic pogroms from the Nazis, the Orthodox churches, and other groups; then he relates the Fascist and Communist upheavals of Eastern Europe (they were all right in the middle of everything). Oh my gosh, what these people went through! It’s scathing, just scathing. Half of the stuff these people go through is so totally and mind-bogglingly (wow, that word passes through spell-check!) foreign. And the other half is all about comminity and love and how these people banded together despite vicious persecution. This mindset of community coupled with the atrocities that Christians and Jews went through (and did to each other) is foreign to an American mind.

The news media here in America rant On and ON about how AWFUL we Americans are: racist, violent, undiversified! (that word did not pass spell-check) But we can’t hold a candle to the nasty, nasty people over there in Europe, especially during the 1930s to 1990s. Good God, for the sake of humanity!! HOW can people be SO wicked to each other?? There was one story where a young, fresh, open-hearted young man by the name of Friedmann (a Jew) became a Christian. He was such a happy young man- a whole fresh life ahead of him– but he was born during an unfortunate time, when Jews and faithful Christians were being crammed into cattle cars to be shipped off for slave labor and eventual murder. Friedmann was with a crowd that had been rounded up, and the soldiers stuffed men into a cattle truck. Young Friedmann peeped out through a little window, and it was told later that his face shone like the face of an angel. But a German soldier spotted him and fired at him, killing the lad.

And it wasn’t just the impersonal soldier stuff, either– Wurmbrand was arrested twice: once for holding church meetings without a license (the governments changed so many times– some gave permits, some didn’t), and another time for refusing to submit his church congregation to the Communist (atheist) regime. He and his wife were imprisoned… for FOURTEEN YEARS. And prisons in Communist Romania in the 1950s aren’t like the slick, Club Med cable-TV-McDonald’s-burgers-3x-a-day prisons of Palm Beach. They were HOLES in the ground. So while the fatcats of Communist Russia secretly enjoyed their Disney vacations and penthouse apartments while preaching “equality” to the peasants, they were devouring and arresting the very people (like Wurmbrand) who brought the message of REAL equality and love: Jesus Christ the Saviour.

The stories go on and on…. it would be too painful to rehash some of them…

This stuff just breaks the crustiest heart, I tell you. WHY must people be so so evil to each other?! Idiots blame God for all the suffering in the world, but you know what? It’s not God’s fault! It’s MAN’S fault! Isn’t just like a man to pass the buck and blame somebody else?? If anything, the mere fact that there is still LOVE in the world amongst all this evil is proof that God exists. The book is filled with many instances of when Christians reached out with love to their oppressors. You can’t tell me that this kind of love just bubbles up out of nowhere.

I bash my head against the wall. WHY oh WHY are people so wicked! It’s one thing to complain, to argue, to disagree, to hash things out while seeking for truth– but to TORTURE and MURDER people because they are different? Or because they won’t do things YOUR evil way? Good God.

By the way, how’s that health care bill coming along, hmm?

Pet Peeves. We all have them. I just happen to have more of them than the average bear. It’s part of my crabby charm.

• Coming up with AMAZING ideas for blog posts while I’m in the shower. I have no way to write them all down! And by the time I’m done, I’ve completely forgotten all that greatness! GAH
Magazines with naked women on the covers, their bare arms hiding the tiny bits that the law won’t allow them to expose. I HATE this. Dear magazine editors and starlets: Maybe you think everyone wants to see your bare skin with you covering only the tiniest of strategic places… but no, I really don’t. Keep it under a paper bag, honey. And get a life.
• Those STUPID uneven floor tiles at the entrance/exits of WalMarts. When you wheel a grocery cart full of bags of groceries over the floor, everything in the cart bounces up and down a couple of feet. Not to mention that when I’m leaving WalMart, I want to get out of there in a hurry. But NOOO they make it so that your eggs crack and your celery splits apart from wheeling over those idiotic floor tiles! Not only that but you have go through a military-grade obstacle course, dodging the massive influx of people coming in the Exit doors. THUMBS DOWN for WalMart.
• Liberals, who, in losing an argument, resort to name-calling, character slander, or changing the subject, because they feel they must have the upper hand. Someone recently accused me of not being “intelligent” because I ‘dissed’ a stupid TV show, and Bertrand Russell, AND used CAPS TO PROVE MY POINT in the same blog post. Since he/she/it had no answer to my brilliant reasoning and deductions, he/she/it complained about my USE OF CAPS and said I couldn’t hold an intelligent conversation. Like, big whoop– like, that accusation was supposed to make me feel inferior?! See, the problem with atheists and liberals is that, to them, truth is irrelevant; what matters to them is if a point makes them FEEL superior or not. For me, truth and the pursuit thereof is EVERYTHING, and how I feel is irrelevant. It is so difficult to have conversations or debates with liberals because of this. Not all are this way, but perhaps 98% of them are.
• By the way, thAT CAPs lock is preTTy dARn aNNOYing, too. I’m aLWaYs hitting it aCCIDentaLLY. gAH1111

So those are my pet peeves for the week. Huzzah. Until next time!

UPDATE: Just thought of another one!!

• Carefully crafting a post, hitting publish, then going back to see ALL these typos and mangled grammar! GAH!!! I hate that!

I had the misfortune of seeing the very first few episodes of the TV show, Lost. How long has this show been running? A couple of years? I can’t believe it didn’t die after its first season, that any intelligent American would watch this show!
Ah, that explains the popularity of the program…

Lost is like a cross between Gilligan’s Island, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and values clarification lessons I was taught (and adamantly rejected) in school. When I was in high school, values clarification was just becoming vogue. In my senior year, we got a new Spanish teacher– she was 21 years old, fresh out of Colgate University, and therefore knew NOTHING. For most of the year, she had us cook AND eat gazpacho (I will never forgive her for that); she told us “funny” stories of her trip to Spain (oh, the depths of the Spanish language she learned in those 3 weeks there!); and she had us complete and discuss values clarification, in which I refused to participate and caused a big stink in class. Oh, and we did learn a little Spanish– in the last month before graduation– when Miss Wet-Behind-Her-Ears realized she hadn’t completed her Scope & Sequence, and dumped on us a 300-page AMSCO book which we had to complete for graduation. Needless to say, we couldn’t keep up and never finished the stupid book (it was pitifully boring, anyway).

So where was I?

Oh yes, values clarification. In a nutshell, it’s a type of “situation analysis” or moral relativism. You judge what’s right and wrong based on your personal assessment of the moment or time. In my Spanish class, for example, we were told that a nuclear explosion had wiped out all the population but 20 people, and destroyed all the food supply save for a small amount to feed 10 people for a year. Who is most worthy to live? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker?

Real educational stuff, that public schooling. Mmmm.

My classmates, predictably, chose the young doctor, the young man and women (for future procreation), the farmer, the scientist… and ditched the preacher, the baby, the person with the flu, and the old folks. (Sounds eerily like the Health Care Reform Bill, eh?) Me, I loved throwing a wrench in the works– I always chose the preacher because there would have to be SOMEONE who had to knock everyone’s self-centered heads together and preach morality, heal the sick, and whip the evildoers. Heh heh. I didn’t need to pass that class to graduate on time, anyway…

ANYWAY. That TV show–Lost– as I watched it, it SO reminded me of those old values clarification classes. Yeah, you’ve got a guy with a hunk of shrapnel in his chest, he’s using up the scarce supplies of medicine and water, he’s only going to die– somebody shoot the dude and put him (and all of us) out of his misery… what drivel.

Plus, I just hated the behavioral psychology thrust on the viewer. Someone tell me for WHAT purpose we needed to see the main actress half naked, standing on the beach in her Victoria’s Secret?! And the women who dressed like ho’s with their miniskirts and super-tight tank tops… and let their bikinis flap in the wind?? RRRRRIGHHT!!! Well, I guess the producers have got to think of SOMETHING to keep the men watching…. but it made me want to puke. Not to mention the HORROR everyone had when it was discovered that someone had something DANGEROUS— a GUN! And then, KNIVES!!! Oh, the tragedy!! Suuuure, like all these Californians are going to PEACE and LOVE the snarling wild boars to death, and eat coconuts until they are rescued!!

On the other hand, the acting was actually pretty good. I mean, how hard is it for a Hollywood person to dress in skimpy clothes, complain about their breaking fingernails, and communicate with the Mount Shasta-like psychic monster in the jungle? Oh yeah– some guy who’d been paralyzed MIRACULOUSLY now walks again, and another guy is MIRACULOUSLY led to a water source by his dead (resurrected??) father whose coffin was in the crashed plane… but Jesus Christ is stupid because He isn’t as old as the beloved and mysterious Backgammon game!!!

Who watches this stuff?!? THIS is what people dump into their brains religiously EVERY WEEK?!?! I felt my IQ drip out of my nose as I watched it! And it’s not “harmless” entertainment, either– it’s behavior modification with a heck of a lot of that values clarification in it.

People, PLEASE! Have some self-respect!!!

*THROWS UP ARMS IN DISGUST*

Did you know that the word “holiday” comes from the term “holy day”? A day that is honored and sanctified above others? July 4th is Independence Day, a “holy day” to us, granted from our holy rollers, the Founding Fathers. They didn’t see it as a time for us lazy, beer-burping baseball spectators to rah-rah the home team or run to grab all the sales at the stores (as wonderful as that is).

Independence Day is about our independence from Great Britain! It’s NOT about immigration! Hello?!

I grew up in the 70s and 80s… and all those stupid TV shows and newscasts were about how wonderful our country is because of all the immigrants we got, and we celebrate it on July 4th, feverishly reciting The New Colossus over and over again. Holy cow, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. July 4th has NOTHING to do with immigration, especially the profligate and unbridled immigration our country saw during the 1800s and late 1990s.

“[Is] rapid population [growth] by as great importations of foreigners as possible… founded in good policy?… They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their number, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass… If they come of themselves, they are entitled to all the rights of citizenship: but I doubt the expediency of inviting them by extraordinary encouragements.” –Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.VIII, 1782. ME 2:118

So while that “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” stuff makes for good poetry, a nation that has not a stable immigration policy with ENFORCED borders isn’t really defined as a nation! And the United States of America does not owe its greatness to the gazilions of immigrants that flooded here from other countries!

P.S. Before you start up on your brainwashed blabber about how xenophobic I sound, please be aware that THIS IS REALITY. So get a life. I’m not xenophobic.

Independence Day is about our independence from Great Britain! It’s NOT about veterans! Nowadays I keep hearing how “We wouldn’t be free without G.I. Joe.” Ummm… sorry, that’s not true. G.I. Joe didn’t go to Normandy or Korea or Vietnam or Kuwait or Iraq to set us free. G.I. Joe went to set Europe, South Korea, South Vietnam, Kuwait, and Iraq free. Oh by the way, the government did a pretty crappy job managing the wars as well as managing the G.I. Joes’ pensions and medical care. :-p Enough said.

Independence Day is about “No King but Jesus.” Yes, a shocker that may come to the brainwashed public school masses, where you learned that the Americans rebelled because our tea was being taxed, and because the patriots were free-thinkers who wanted to be secular humanists and live in a socialist utopia! Ha ha! Have I got an education for you– WRONG.

P.S. Before you start up on your brainwashed blabber about how George Washington was a Deist and etc, please be aware that I am a HISTORY SCHOLAR. Please don’t give me quotes from Thomas Fleming, George Wood, and the other revisionists. Go read the writings of Washington (you can start here), Hamilton, Franklin, Witherspoon, Rush, Webster, and Jay, like I have. You JUST may get an education!

Yeah, I’m feisty today. But there’s something about Independence Day that gets my goat. I have that Patriot blood surging through my veins, and by golly, I hate commie coup d’ etats.

So go out there and eat your hot dog and drink your beer. But remember that it was those God-fearing, Bible-thumpin’, iron-backboned, liberty-loving folks who made it so you could eat and drink in peace and liberty.

WHY don’t they hire HAPPY librarians or post office managers? There should be some sort of happy test that all workers must take, with happy ratings. If you are a nasty, cantankerous old curmudgeon, you shouldn’t get the job. Period.

WHY does my town have flashing yellow traffic lights at 2am in the still-busy commercial district… but run the regular green-yellow-red traffic lights at 2am in empty residential areas? I am baffled why I have to sit and wait for the lights to change on Elm and Park Streets… yet the lights are blinking at WalMart where it’s a dog-eat-dog driving experience!!

WHY will people so readily believe in alien lifeforms, evolution, and Santa Claus, but say they don’t believe in God or in Christ’s resurrection?

WHY do children have so much energy, and not adults?

WHY do rabbits, deer, and insects devour my flowers and vegetables? WHY don’t they eat the stinkin’ weeds?!

WHY do people believe things that are on the HDTV? WHY did people believe Walter Cronkite when he said, “And that’s the way it is.” No, that’s NOT the way it is. WHY was he believed?

WHY is there an “S” in the word “lisp”?

WHY don’t we ever hear father-in-law jokes?