Let's throw some money at the bullying problem...

because we all know how well that works.

House to back anti-bullying grants

From The Hill: 

House to back anti-bullying grants

The bill, H.R. 6019, would refine a current law that already allows federal grants for programs meant to boost school safety. But it adds more specificity to this provision, and allows for the grants to cover school safety programs that "may include research-based bullying prevention, cyberbullying prevention and gang prevention programs, as well as intervention programs regarding bullying."

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), the sponsor of the bill said:

"Bullying is not just a schoolyard anymore, it is a crisis that's taking over our nation," she said. In addition, she noted that cyberbullying makes it easier for bullies to torment people outside of school.

"Gone are the days that children can come home and seek solace and escape from their bullies; technological advances have made it easy for young people to be tormented on social networks at any time from any place," she said. "They are never out of harm's reach. This needs to end."

 How about some common sense solutions?

Parents: Keep your kids off off social network sites.  Homeschool if you're able.

Schools: Hold kids accountable for their behavior. Oh, and don't allow prayer or anything else that may foster good behavior, but make sure your school has a "gay friendly" club.  And keep passing them from grade to grade, no never mind whether they can read or not.
 
Society:  Admit that allowing kids to listen to and engage in anti-social behavior is leading to the rapid destruction of any form of rational behavior in our society.  Keep denigrating marriage, hand out welfare to mothers who produce illegitimate children, and teach children that there's no right and wrong.  Make sure 13 year old girls get free contraceptives, and when they fail, make sure they get a ride to Planned Parenthood to abort their child.  Keep telling the children there are no winners and losers so everyone can get a trophy.  And most importantly, keep building up their self-esteem.  

I've got news for all the experts out there.  It isn't low self-esteem that creates monsters.  Quite the opposite.  The bloated egos of these little "Lord of the Fly" wannabes who truly believe the world revolves around them is the real culprit.

And Blacks?  Get off the Democrat plantation.  Quit listening to Jesse Jackson and all the other race hustlers.  Pull your pants up (and your zipper, too), learn to speak English, stay in school, and then get a job. You're more a slave now than you ever were in the Old South.  

Pathology is rampant in government run schools...

turning our children into psychopaths one day at a time.

Anyone who thinks the type of "bullying" that goes on is schools today is what we saw or experienced 50 years ago is living in a delusional world.  I've been following many, many middle school and high school kids on Facebook and I routinely interact with them at our local library.  The level of viciousness, both verbal and physical, these kids can rise to is shocking and it is nothing like even 20 years ago, let alone 50 years ago. 

From Pundette:

Fifth-grader's suicide should be a wake-up call for parents 

A 10 year-old Ilinois girl hanged herself earlier this month rather than face more taunting from classmates at her small public school. The school's policy on bullying, devised no doubt by experts, states: "Tell the bully to stop; if that doesn't work, walk away; if that doesn't work, tell a teacher." It utterly failed her. When Ashlynn Conner did tell her teachers she was accused of "tattling." And the bullying continued.  read the rest

Federal Government Wants to Get in the Bully Business...

I thought they already were.

Early this morning (on what is shaping up to be a slow news day - thank goodness), I ran across an article at Hot Air   Dem Rep wants to make bullying a federal offense.

Rep. Jackie Speier, California Democrat, will introduce a bill that would require schools to report incidents of bullying against children diagnosed with conditions like Down syndrome and Aspergers to the federal government. It would also mandate that any federal dollars that promote anti-bullying programs focus partially on that group. read the rest

 I want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly.  While the economy is in a free-fall, unemployment is at an all-time high, food prices are skyrocketing, gas prices continue to rise, Japan is having a melt-down, and the middle east is on fire, the loony left wants the feds to oversee bullying in schools?  Isn't that something the schools should be handling?

The solution is not vouchers as many believe.  The solution is to shut down the Department of Education and privatize the schools.  These could be smaller neighborhood schools that wouldn't require a "district" stocked full of over-paid bureauroweenies sucking up the education dollars, and where kids would actually be able to read their diploma when they graduated.

Here's a good example of the priorities of the Department of Education:

Bob Belvedere - Oooops!   Bungalow Bill:  Department of Education Asks Schools to Spy on Children on Facebook and During Lunch

 Conservatives on Fire asks the million dollar question:   When is the Next Election for EPA Director?

The EPA is another department that should hit the skids.

Lonely Conservative defends the new Republicans:   Can We Give Then A Little Time Here?

May I join with her by saying it took a hundred years to get in the mess we're in and one election isn't going to fix it (if it's even fixable and I have my doubts on that issue.)  The only way to get rid of the hundreds and hundreds of largely unconstitutional federal agencies is little by little.  In the meantime, expect things to get ugly - very ugly.

Dan Riehl doesn't completely agree with us  The GOP Army Of The Potomac Is AWOL


T.L. Davis has some insights on the present and looming battles  We Are Led By The Most Vile

After you read T.L.'s article, Bob Belvedere has more to say about who we are dealing with  In The Heart Of Darkness

and earns the coveted:

Quote of the Day Award

 There are no restraints on the Leftist’s behavior because he has rejected all the restraints demanded of people with Free Will. There are no ties to the shared beliefs that make a group of people a civilization. The Leftist possesses free license to do as he pleases, however, as with all things in life, there is a trade-off. In holding free license, the bearer finds that he is eternally miserable because when there is no standard to live up to, no nobility to maintain, no honor to preserve, there is absolutely nothing to admire. All the Leftist is left with his self-contempt and self-hatred, like so many Gollums. He sees everyone as a reflection of himself. And he loathes himself and, as TL wrote, ‘then they magnify that to fit their perception of others’. Bob Belvedere

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John Carey, over at Sentry Journal brings us the history of origin of  St. Patrick's Day:  - and we thank him.

Hubby has said that I should stop posting cute kitteh pictures.  He thinks it confuses my readers.  I told him my readers were not that easily confused.   You aren't, are you?