Just a quick reminder, courtesy of Sean Hannity.

This brings new meaning to sex education doesn’t it?

The summary of the story is that in a shop class at Raymond Park Middle School, two 6th grade students engaged in sex.  The shocker was that they did it IN CLASS.

The teacher was reputedly there, but apparently they managed anyway.  The story has some inconsistencies depending on who you talk to, which is not helped by the fact that school officials refuse to comment on the story, which has outraged parents.

School officials refuse to comment on sex incident

Indianapolis - The Warren Township school district is gaining national attention after a 13 Investigates report confirmed young students engaging in sexual activity during class time.

School officials are refusing to comment publicly, prompting concern and outrage among township parents.

Two days after 13 Investigates uncovered hidden facts about two Raymond Park Middle School students engaging in sexual activity during shop class, Warren Township School administrators still aren’t talking. The report is raising questions nationwide. Nearly a half million viewers heard about the incident from the Drudge Report online.

Parents in the district are outraged.

And they should.  Whose kids were involved?  Was it consensual?  Is this habitual?  Shouldn’t parents know what their 12 year olds are doing?

“It just upsets me because it sounds like they’re trying to make excuses. It doesn’t matter to me how long it was, you know, 30 seconds, 30 minutes; it’s too long. I want to know where the teacher was and how this was able to happen,” said Laura Pliquett, who has a nine-year-old possibly headed to Raymond Park.

Troy Weber has a fifth grader and he’s also concerned. “How could it have been kept quiet for that long and still to us kind of being swept under the rug?” he questioned.

Everyday so far I have posted Al Gore Cartoons.  Why not make a week of it?

Believe me, there is more then enough material…

The liberals dismiss the popular notion of Vietnam vets being spit on and called names as just wishful thinking and urban legend.

Slate seems to believe otherwise, at least in one case.   I know what you will say, leftist critics:  One case is not proof it was habitual or even common.  Granted.  But I had a commenter demand I provide even a single name.

Here ya go.  Decide for yourself if it is anecdotal or proof it happened.  Either way I don’t want Iraq Veterans treated thusly.

 Pickett’s Charge:  In a 1971 CBS News clip, Vietnam vet Delmar Pickett Jr. describes an airport spit incident.

 

Were veterans spat upon as they returned from serving in Vietnam? When Holy Cross College scholar Jerry Lembcke studied the allegations for his 1998 book Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, he found no evidence to back the claim.

Since 2000, I’ve been using this column to track Vietnam vet spit allegations as they appear in the press, and have found nothing that contradicts Lembcke’s basic assessment. On Jan. 30, when I wrote a column criticizing a current Newsweek story that offhandedly asserted that vets had been spat upon as if it was established fact, I asked readers to forward to me accounts from the Vietnam era they found reliable. On Feb. 5 and Feb. 12, I published pieces that looked at newspaper stories everybody’s research had unearthed.

The news stories undermine Lembcke’s belief that the spat-upon-returning-vet meme didn’t really start circulating until about 1980, but none documents a spit incident with any specificity. I still believe the stories deserve the “urban legend” status assigned to them by Lembcke.

But a spit tip offered by reader Kevin Bowman proves difficult to dismiss. Bowman sent me a link to the Television News Archive at Vanderbilt University that describes a segment about returning veteran Delmar Pickett Jr. from the Dec. 27, 1971, edition of the CBS Evening News. The abstract to the segment reads:

^{Note: School location corrected, mybad.}

Normally the Establishment clause is used to keep religion out of schools, but in this case, a group of kids who wanted to pray before school were suspended and driven off campus because they didn’t want to organize, they just wanted to pray together.

Suspended Heritage students move prayer group

A group of students met to pray Monday on a sidewalk just off the grounds of Heritage High, where a dozen students were recently disciplined after ignoring warnings to move their prayer group out of a well-trafficked area so they wouldn’t disrupt education.

It was a common area, and it was before class.  What’s the problem?

Ann Sosky, principal of the school, said she didn’t know how many students were in the group Monday or who they were, but that they came into the building when the bell rang at 7:20 a.m.

Sosky said she was already at school when an arriving teacher notified her of the group outside. Because the students were on a public sidewalk, Sosky said she told the teacher they were within their rights.

How gracious.

No problems were reported during the school day, she said.

Darn those religious people for being so peaceful.

For the past two weeks, a group of students had been meeting in the school commons before class to pray. Other students questioned the group’s failure to comply with rules for all students and clubs, and tensions began to mount in the 2,400-student school, which is in the Evergreen Public Schools district.

The group was told numerous times it could meet for prayer but had to form a club with a staff adviser and meet in a classroom. When they ignored the rules, they were told they could be disciplined.

Again, appreciate the irony:  They were being forced to organize when so many schools suppress religious clubs.

No links or trackbacks on this, just a few observations.

Overall, I think he got hosed.  The more I read of the trial the more concerned I get that he is just the scapegoat.

For all the gloating liberals, a reminder.  He did not get nailed for leaking Valarie Plame’s identity, the not so covert CIA babe.  Armitage did that, and faces no charges because revealing her identity was not a crime.  Please give it a rest.

In fact Fitzgerald knew from day one who leaked the name, yet he fished for a sucker to take the rap for months.  He searched for months for a person who he knew didn’t exist that committed a crime that wasn’t a crime.  A waste.

Too many people had conflicting testimonies and such for me to be satisfied as well.  The trial was a sham and I hope the defense wins a new trial or an appeal.

I hate presidential interference with legal matters, preferring to trust the system, but I am almost tempted to jump on the pardon band wagon.

To all the lefties hoping for Cheney and Rove to be found guilty, sorry.  The story of the decade that led the Wilson’s into a multi million dollar book/movie deal continues to be a non starter. 

Now Hollywood can have fun with it, as the fiction it always was.

Many people have noticed how well fleshed Al Gore was at the Oscars, among wihich is PETA.

So it comes as no real surprise that PETA has finally bridged the gap between environmentalism and vegatarianism.

 http://drudgereport.com/flash2.htm

PETA TO AL GORE: YOU CAN’T BE A MEAT-EATING ENVIRONMENTALIST

The Most ‘Inconvenient Truth’: According to U.N., Animals Raised for Food Generate More Greenhouse Gases Than All Cars and Trucks Combined

Norfolk, Va. — This morning, PETA sent a letter to former vice president Al Gore explaining to him that the best way to fight global warming is to go vegetarian and offering to cook him faux “fried chicken” as an introduction to meat-free meals. In its letter, PETA points out that Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth—which starkly outlines the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming and just won the Academy Award for “Best Documentary”—has failed to address the fact that the meat industry is the largest contributor to greenhouse-gas emissions.

In the letter, PETA points out the following:

· The effect that our meat addiction is having on the climate is truly staggering. In fact, in its recent report “Livestock’s Long Shadow—Environmental Issues and Options,” the United Nations determined that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined.

There could be something there.  After all cows fart methane, a greenhouse gas.

But they eat grains, which means increase crop planting, which absorbes excess CO2, so maybe not.

· Researchers at the University of Chicago have determined that switching to a vegan diet is more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard American car to a Toyota Prius.

PETA also remiinds Gore that his critics love to question whether he practices what he preaches and suggests that by going vegetarian, he could cut down on his contribution to global warming and silence his critics at the same time.