Are_grits_groceries
Are_grits_groceries's JournalICE needs to be "marked".
They wear those masks so they can mix back in with society with impunity. If people knew that they were ICE agents their general reception would not be very pleasant.
A bright, indelible “paint” should be sprayed onto their skin. That would probably be their hands or whatever.
The delivery system would have to be small.
Yes, it would be dangerous but everything is at this point.No, it will not be easy. I wish I was smart enough to think this through to the delivery system. Some effective way to mark them would be invaluable IMHO.
"Oh! My little sweetums isn't going to get into Harvard* because of you!" Teaching "the entitled."
"Oh! My little sweetums isn't going to get into Harvard* because of you!" Teaching "the entitled."
"Oh! My little sweetums isn't going to get into Harvard* because of you!"
*Insert any college or university here.
I heard this all the time when I had Parent/Teacher conferences because 'little sweetums' had been punished or had not gotten an A+++++++++++++++.
I remember one meeting which was held because I had given 2 students ZEROES for cheating. One was showing the other his answers. It wasn't even close, and they both admitted it. The parents of the 'show-er' didn't think he was cheating. I never heard from the parents of the 'show-ee.'
They refused to believe it was cheating. I refused to debate the semantics of the situation. They could call it 'out of the goodness of his hearting' for all I cared. He got a ZERO. This didn't compute in their universe because ZERO was a temperature or a nickname for a Japanese plane in WWII, but not a grade.
I was told ad nauseum about what cheating was and wasn't. I was also told I would be held responsible for his failure to get into Harvard or Oxford or whatever ultra-elite school that was the flavor of the month. I told them he was in the NINTH grade and that it was the FIRST month of the school year. He had plenty of time to pull the grade up and make an A. He wasn't doomed, and I didn't require ZERO to be written on his forehead in indelible red magic marker like some educational version of Hester Prynne. They wanted to know if she had gotten a ZERO also.(facepalm ran through my mind)
This was the opening of a new play at Hawthorne High School. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was a major character in this offering. I was hounded for weeks about giving the poor, bedraggled little person a retest. His counselor told me that they did that all the time at the middle school he came from. She didn't agree with it, but that's where a lot of it started.
I finally got so fed up with the almost daily conferences with somebody about it that I told the principal it had better stop. I gave her my written resignation and said that I was leaving if I heard one more word about it. I told her that I didn't have another job, but I thought that blowing grass clippings off medians was preferable to this torture. She said to keep teaching and she would take care of it. I thought she should be able to because she was responsible for 99% of it.
I wasn't sure what the parents thought. I wasn't going to send out a form letter to every school about the incident so the child wouldn't be accepted. Nor did I keep a calendar to remind me in 4 years to find out where he was applying so I could haunt the committee that considered possible enrollees.
These types of children were doomed IMHO. The parents refused to let any type of punishment be given because it would spoil the record of their child. I thought it was better to let them suffer the consequences now which were minor rather than bail them out all the time. They wouldn't be able to bail them out of life later on.
When this topic came up as it inevitably did when parents were running interference, I always wanted to tell them to save up because if they weren't using that cash for Harvard later, they might be using it to post a bond somewhere.
(I know people will now jump in to tell me how their child was unfairly treated in some situation. I'm not against a parent coming to the defense of a child when necessary. I'm dealing with kids who are never wrong no matter what.)
Move the World Cup out of the US now
Move the games that are scheduled to be played in the US into Canada and Mexico.
I do not believe that we can vouch for the athletes safety.
ICE is at this point a law unto itself. If they detain an athlete, the protests will fall on deaf ears. Trump would love to detain an athlete and use and use them for some kind of bargain.
And don’t tell me he won’t do that.
Hope
“History says don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.”
From “The Cure of Troy” by
Seamus Heaney
Growing Up Sideways In The Straight And Narrow South
Growing Up Sideways In The Straight and Narrow South
Growing up in the South can be an odd and peculiar experience. You don't realize how odd until you venture into other places and meet other people. When you are kids, you may think everybody has the same experiences. Hell, I know adults who believe that.
Imagine my shock when I found out that people didn't know all the battles of 'The Late Unpleasantness' in order and details of the generals’ lives. Didn't everybody have a picture of General Robert E. Lee hanging with all the family pictures. We called him Uncle Bobby for years.
Then there was CHURCH. We had to go to church no matter where we were. For as long as I can remember, I never liked church or any of it's auxiliary activities. I didn't want to be wearing a dress and listening to somebody wail about going to hell if I wasn't good. I figured my place in the Netherworld had been booked for a long time. There wasn't anyway around that. I didn't worry about the afterlife and decided to get my money's worth if I was spending eternity in the tropics.
I wasn't the typical Southern child to say the least. There was a five of us who spent a lot of time growing up together, and none of us conformed to the local norms. We got a good dose of church and local mores, but we never quite stayed in line or kept the right step. Our parents tried, but they wondered if we were changelings.
There were two major factors that moved us away from those norms when we were little. First of all, there was an independent streak in the family. We had a few rebellious role models. The second thing that lead us further astray was 'Mad' magazine. There was little or no access to a variety of views growing up. Rocky and Bullwinkle were great teevee models. Mr. Bunny Rabbit on the Captain Kangaroo was a budding rebel. Beyond that, we were on our on.
Our parents did vary from many in that they bought comic books for us, and they assumed that 'Mad' was just a larger type. Little did they know that it was a veritable gold mine for wayward youths. We learned Phd level snark and mockery from 'Mad'. Nothing was sacred, and that was fine with us. That magazine looked at the world sideways, and we adjusted our sight lines accordingly. They stayed that way.
The five of us were a tribe of independents within a culture of lockstep belief. As soon as we got out from under our parents, we never set foot in church again. We didn't openly rebel earlier against going because it wasn't worth the hassle. We went and listened to the rhetoric and compared it to reality. That honed our sharp view of religion. Our attitude toward it is quite jaundiced.
It is the Bible Belt, but a belt can only support so much.
I have returned from the Land of the Lost.
It is still lost.
Don’t know why I stayed away for so long.
I no longer speak to 95% of my family. I knew some would be MAGAts. I guessed about others. I had no idea that some were so devoid of empathy and had no moral compass. Trump exposed a lot.
That worm Lindsay Graham is still squirming about and is attached at the hip to Trump. The SC legislature wants to pass bills honoring Charlie Kirk and want to name a bridge after him. As you can see, they are still working on important issues.
If I post the word Smedley, they got me.
Grits
High risk level 5 weather moving into SC on Thursday.
It will be in Alabama and moving East. Be careful. This is a very dangerous situation!
Gone get blowed away.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html
Go-Fund-Me (not for me)
I so want to Go-Fund-Me several Space X rockets and shoot GQPers into the sun.
Greetings from South Carolina.
I have returned from the swamps. 2020 was a lost year. I completely lost track of time. It was not relevant.
I also lost most of my family and friends to Trumpitis. They were well on their way and I had already broken off with many but then Q appeared and the rest set up camp on the edge of their flat earth. It was as if I was suddenly surrounded by Klingons or Deatheaters or Orcs(choose your saga.) They shape-shifted into strangers. I still love them but I love who they were and I have fond memories. That is all that is left.
AND contrary to popular belief, I did try to talk to them. I spent time at the beginning working with methods recommended by those who work with cults. Nothing worked. I have come to believe that any change will have to come from inside out. They are impervious to anything from the outside. Without an epiphany, they are gone. I realize that changes do come from the inside but it is impossible to even get them to hold an iota of a different idea. Normally, people will take in some different ideas and mull them over. Not now.
It is tiring being part of major historic events.
Take care!
Grits
Another Russian billionaire bites the dust.
Russian billionaire tycoon, 49, living in Britain is killed in crash involving three cars while walking his dog in Surrey as friend says he could have been 'specially knocked down'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7758987/Russian-billionaire-tycoon-49-living-Britain-mysteriously-killed-crash.html
Hmmmmm.....
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