Destroying Public Education Turned Off All Remaining Burgler Alarms....

[Junkdrawer]

Still Undetermined:

What will the new "owners" do, exactly, with what they've stolen? Seems the act of turning off the alarms changed the value of the spoils.

[DiverDave]

1. bugler alarms?

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[WinkyDink]

2. Nobody expects the Spanish Reveille.

[Junkdrawer]

8. A real wakeup call, that....

[Junkdrawer]

3. Reminder: Never post at 2:44 AM without reading glasses....

[reddread]

4. or spellcheck.

burglar.
b-u-r-g-l-a-r
burglar.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Spellcheck, when aided by an initial misspell (burgler).....

turned "burgler" into the well-spelled "bugler", missed by Mr. Magoo here.

[reddread]

6. maybe Bugler would be a better analogy?

Plenty of burglar alarms that dont work so well out there.
thanks to telecommunications act and outfits like Brinks.
two doors, a motion and a yard sign advertising "two doors and a motion"
and some REAL scary commercials.

[Junkdrawer]

7. I guess one way of reading the initial headline....

is that No Child Left Behind is also destroying the modern, high tech military. I have no first or second hand evidence of that, but it does logically follow and is probably true, were one to look.

[reddread]

9. what do we need a modern high tech military for?

let alone murderous drones?
inflicting extrajudicial death?
wouldnt want soldiers with any relationship to civilized mores for that sort of work.
i think youre on to something there!

[Junkdrawer]

10. The GI Bill and the lavish freedom given the teachers of the Baby Boom....

seems to have injected a one-shot dose of steroids into our military.

As we're witnessing, nothing lasts forever.