State School For The Blind

Why are we all constantly exposed to the drone of "you better buckle up, or we are going get you". And parents are chatised and publically scorned for not buckling up their children, in these safety chairs that look like something out of Buck Rogers, that cost almost as much as a small space ship. Control and coercion at every turn. And yet the school buses are devoid of safety belts. What is all that about?

I just got an email from a good friend (down in Katrina hit Slidel - which is a community of some 100,000 just North of New Orleans) who's children are now being bused to over crowded schools, three abreast in the buses. How safe can that be? How come our children are safe in school buses, but not safe in automobiles? Where is the rationale in that?
And what happens to all those steel grab bars when the buses do a roll over and children inside are floppying around all over the place? I think these should be rubber coated too.

I say we petition the public fool system to install seat belts in school buses and pay for it with a reduction in salaries from the higher up mucky mucks. Refuse to have them bus our children, until the environment is as safe as the cars we drive.
Actually, there is a better idea to all of this. Don't bus a child under 12 years of age. That would be a simple solution and would keep the state away from out children and out of their and our lives!

I don't recall reading anything in the state or federal Constitution regarding bussing children to school or cradle to the grave state care, do you?

I have been saying that for years. I would not let mine go on the bus for field trips due to the lack of seatbelts. It just shows they make a law to make money off the tickets. If they really cared about the kids safety, the buses would be well equipped.
They say expense? What about the expense of the bill they passed over a million taxpayer funded dinners and golf games?

2006-08-25 17:22:51 by jeeveswantstoknow

Clips from the 2008 SAVE Awards in Columbus, OH on April 17, 2008 at the Southern Theatre.

I am 45ys old with macular degeneration and I can no work in the jewelry industry or drive a car. I have always wanted to go into to massage therapy but my counselor at calif state voca rehab said they won't cover the school because it is considered self employed. I have checked into some other states, (i.e. new mexico, texas) and they do. In fact the society for the blind in new mexico said it is a typical field for low vision or blind to work in and calif not covering was a surprise. Any help or advise that you can give will be appreciated. I am single, and I have had to make alot of adjustments alone and I am eager to get pointed in some direction.

good question, not sure

2006-12-12 13:12:05 by sue

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was towards hitler and his threat. this new threat is much greater, but wait 30 years till you grow up!
why is is this important to anyone with a brain?
'In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe?'

Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem.

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin. The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majo

This situation is true and I hope it's actually exaggerated, but it's very sad and alarming because Europe is a place of countries from the "old world" - where people originate from and where it is naturally homogeneous. That is why there is tension in the first place, and why immigration and multiculturalism doesn't work in old world countries and societies. Old world countries and societies cannot be compared with new places like the United States. Although, places like the U.S. are now older and has had their people for a long time now, so that is why there is some kind of tension with immigration there as well.

However, it is the fault of those European countries because they are the ones who let the muslims in in the first place. Today is not like in the old ages when there were no airplanes, no border control and no immigration laws and immigration/visitor customs, but for many decades it has been modern with borders, definite boundaries and airplanes, which requires checking in with customs. So there really was no excuse for Europe to have let this happen.

2010-01-31 20:09:11 by Jenny

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I'm not looking for politics, gun control crap or how we think the incident could have been prevented or who did the wrong thing. None of that really matters to a thinking, mature adult anyway. What I am looking for what you think was the root cause of his behavior: Did his being bullied in school play a large or small role in his crossing the line between dark fantasy and causing physical harm? There is no evidence thus far that he was clinically psychotic, so that leaves environmental factors. Given the fact that many of the little rats in state schools are given to insensitivity and bullying, combined with the lack of supervision it is small wonder this type of thing doesnt happen more often. Some schools are better than others, but where I attended the student/staff ratio was WAY too high, and you either learned to fight or took some crap from the bullies while teachers and principles turned a blind eye or arrived too late. Maybe clamping down on these animals would help?

I agree... but what ever happened to a good old fashioned fight? I mean, I was bullied, we've all been bullied... I never wanted to kill anyon though. You know, pop him in the mouth, you may have to take a whoopin afterward but atleast you stood up for yourself. Heck you usually ended up being friends after it was all over. This attack... it was cowardly and un-justified... how do poeple get the idea that this is the answer to their problems? Have we failed as a society to give our children the basic tools for having mature social contact with other individuals and how to resolve problems without killing each other?

2007-04-19 13:24:55 by ABL

Jeez...Florida International on Sept 1, Buffalo on Sept 15 and Temple on Nov 10...granted, the Lions do play Notre Dame sometime, but that can't even make up for these cupcakes who rank at or near the bottom of Div 1...Never woulda thought Joe Pa could have sunk so low in search of "W's"...If I was a Penn St fan, I would be outraged...Who's next?...The Sister's of the Blind Orphan School and Pittsburg Barber College?...Shameful

Hawaii

2007-08-29 09:51:56 by AnswerMan