Saturday - June 07, 2008

Great Game For The Kiddies

via IMAO:

Aussie Web Page Designed To Mess Up Your Kid’s Head






No, this is not a parody. This is for reals. Go on, take the test. Just see if you can ”deserve to live” to a decent age by acting anything close to a normal person and not some Turd World Aborigine. Because we all have the same “share” of the earth’s resources you know. Money, effort, technology have nothign to do with it. Um, I noticed there wasn’t anything in there about burning wood, coal, camel dung, etc., for all kinds of heat and cooking. Because, you know, most of those heat resources are free. No, they just want to know how much you spend, you eeeevil capitalist. And there isn’t anything in there about burning down the rain forest, or increasing the world’s deserts because of you and your damn crop destroying goats either. No questions about how many dozen children you and your wives churn out either. Biased much against the west?

   Saturday - May 17, 2008

Damn Straight Skippy

This quotation is inscribed on the base of the

First Statue of Margaret Thatcher in the U.S.
Dedicated at Hillsdale College

Hillsdale, Michigan — In the midst of commencement activities last weekend, Hillsdale College unveiled the first statue in the United States of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College, said in his remarks: “Lady Thatcher’s courage was mated with prudence, a moral and intellectual virtue together, the combination making a character fit to govern itself and other free beings. She is here to remind us that we must go about our examination of the most elevated things in an urgent spirit.”

John O’Sullivan, a former Special Adviser to Prime Minister Thatcher and author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, delivered the official dedication remarks. “When Lady Thatcher revived the British economy,” he said, “she was reviving profound social virtues that the British had once exemplified to the world—the Thatcherite ‘vigorous virtues’ such as self reliance, diligence, thrift, trustworthiness, and initiative that enable someone who exhibits them to live and work independently in society.”

Sculpted by Bruce Wolfe, the statue is over six feet in height and depicts Thatcher sitting in a pensive posture.

The statue was made possible by a gift from the Patricia and William E. LaMothe Foundation. It is the third in a series of statues that will form a “Liberty Walk” on the Hillsdale College campus. A statue of George Washington was dedicated in 2003, and one of Winston Churchill in 2004. A statute of Thomas Jefferson will be dedicated later this year.

A most gracious hat tip to Because I’m Right who first posted this story.

I’m glad at least one college in the US has it’s head on straight.

   Saturday - May 03, 2008

Dhimmi University, India

Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Alleged insult to the prophet sparks off violence in Ranchi

The University of Ranchi Thursday hurriedly cancelled its post-graduation history paper after thousands of Muslims took to the streets protesting against a reference to Prophet Mohammed they said was derogatory. “A five-member committee has been constituted (to probe) the question paper. The examination has been cancelled,” Vice Chancellor A.H. Khan announced, shortly after his meeting with Chief Minister Madhu Koda.

The question in the history paper referred to Prophet Mohammed’s life. The examination took place Wednesday.

On Thursday, Muslim organisations organised a march and ransacked the university office to protest against the offending question. The police used force to control the mob.

The university then held an emergency meeting of its top officials.

Chief Minister Koda said: “We have asked the vice chancellor to probe the matter and take suitable action against the person who prepared the question. We appeal to people to maintain calm.”

Violence sparked off in Ranchi following agitation by the students of Muslim community to protest against the alleged insult to the prophet in a question asked in the exam on Thursday.

Muslim students of Ranchi University alleged that one of questions in the History paper was an insult to Prophet Mohammad as it had put him in bad light.

The students appearing for the exam took out a protest and attacked the property in the University.

The police resorted to baton charge to control the situation.

RoPMA. Even asking a question is forbidden. What a bunch of mindless violent zombies. I wonder what the question was anyway? What kind of question would you put on the exam that would be sure to start a riot? Mwahahahaaaa!

Meanwhile, protesters in Ranchi remain in jail, and the food riots may be about to begin.

Over [one] hundred BJP activists were arrested here this morning for protesting against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visit to Jharkhand. Fifty BJP workers were arrested outside the Birsa Munda Airport during a black-flag demonstration. Over fifty BJP activists and some displaced villagers seeking rehabilitation from the Centre, were arrested in Bokaro ahead of Dr. Singh scheduled visit to the Bokaro Steel Plant.

The BJP activists were also protesting against rising prices. Garna Singh, a Ranchi based BJP leader told ANI that DR. Singh had no right to occupy the Prime Ministers chair if he could not control the inflation.
“The entire country is fed up due to rising inflation under UPA regime. The price of mustard oil has reached 100 rupees per litre, flour price 120 rupees per kilogram and sugar 24 rupees per kilogram. Despite of both the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister being economists, the prices are not under control. I believe that the people of the country should unite against spiraling inflation and uproot the Manmohan Singh government,” added Sanjay Seth, another BJP leader.

Yikes. Right now, the Indian Rupee is worth just under two and a half cents. A standard American 5lb bag of flour would cost $6.75 at those prices. That’s nearly 3 times what we pay. The sugar price works out to $1.35 for a 5lb bag, but let’s not forget that American sugar is the most overpriced in the world, thanks to dirty politics. We aren’t allowed mustard oil here because of it’s level of erucic acid. But mustard oil has the lowest level of saturated fat of all the edible oils. Still, 100 rupees per liter works out to $9.34 a gallon. Not cheap.

   Wednesday - April 16, 2008

An Impressive Lecture

Rancino sent me the link ... this is something else again. Wow.

If you’ve got half an hour, go visit Austin Bay and watch an impressive lecture on the whole Iraq situation. He does a review from the beginning, up to today’s situation, with the goal of looking ahead to what a rapid withdrawl of US troops would mean. (Which is what Obama and Clinton are calling for). I don’t know if this is what the old Austin Bay Blog has become, as I haven’t read that site in several years. (no, it isn’t.  That blog still exists and is doing fine.) This is something new, called The Arena.

What you do is log on as Guest using the link, then click the Editor’s Choice ... and you get this, only full size:

It’s a pop-up window with a 22 minute video lecture in one corner, with a coordinated slide show in the other. And a whole bunch of links to background info. And you can take part in a survey and even provide some feedback.

It is a superb lecture that explores 7 scenarios of what could happen. Just as impressive is the delivery vehicle itself. I don’t know if he ginned this up himself or not, but the concept is perfect. This is how the news ought to be delivered. Add a download link for the slideshow as notes, and this is how college classes ought to be given.

You can also access a short piece on Korea.

I’d call this a double winner. Great lecture, great use of technology. Totall worth a bookmark if he churn one of these out every couple of weeks.

Thanks again Rancino!

   Thursday - March 27, 2008

THE LUNATICS NOW RUNNING THE ASYLUM !  A MOONBAT CERTIFIED AWARD.

Schools to be forced to keep quota of problem pupilsNicola Woolcock

Successful schools will be forced to take a share of disruptive pupils to prevent them from monopolising the best-behaved children, the Government announced yesterday.

Ed Balls, the Children’s Secretary, said that schools which excluded pupils would have to accept the same number that had been expelled by another school. This “one out, one in” policy would prevent oversubscribed schools from dumping badly behaved children on to their less successful neighbours.

http://tinyurl.com/2fmywn

Pupils aged 10 monitor teachers’ skills

By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:31am GMT 24/03/2008

Pupils as young as 10 are sitting on interview panels and rating teachers on their lessons as part of Government plans to give them a “voice” in schools.

Teachers have complained of “the lunatics taking over the asylum” as children in thousands of primary and secondary schools have been drafted in to interview new staff.

Teachers’ lessons are also being rated by specially trained pupils who monitor teaching quality. The children are encouraged to give feedback on the classes.

Unions will this week condemn the trend as a “dangerous” attack on the status of the profession.

“The balance of power is bound to be altered if pupils are allowed to go around judging staff,” said Chris Keates, the general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers.

“It is an abuse of the concept of ‘student voice’ and will undermine the relationship between pupils and teachers. Staff are coming to us who have had 15-year-olds sitting at the back of the class and told them afterwards that the ‘pace of the lesson was not quick enough’.”

One case reported to the NASUWT involved a teacher who was offered a post after being interviewed by a panel which included a pupil. Some weeks later, when she reprimanded the child in class, he said: “Don’t forget I interviewed you. You got the job because of me.”

Schools Council UK, an independent charity which promotes children’s participation in school decision-making, estimates that 40 per cent of secondary and primary schools involve children in part of the interview process.

It is common for candidates to teach a lesson and for pupils to give feedback to the headteacher. In some schools pupils actually sit in on the interview, while in others prospective teachers will be questioned separately by pupils.

About one in 20 schools allows pupils to rate lessons but the trend is growing.

At George Mitchell School, in Leyton, east London, a group of pupils has been appointed as “consultants” who observe teachers at work, attend departmental meetings and advise on classroom seating and displays.

Children observe lessons in pairs every few weeks, producing lists of teachers’ strengths and weaknesses.

Giving pupils a greater say in how schools are run is part of the Government’s Every Child Matters agenda.

Ofsted inspectors expect all schools to have some form of student council and schools must consult pupils on issues such as behaviour policies. Advocates argue that involving children in decision-making will improve their behaviour and motivation.

Jessica Gold, the chief executive of Schools Council UK, which has trained pupils in a number of schools to observe lessons, defended the trend.

“Teachers value the feedback they get from pupils,” she said. “It is not about inspection-style observations, it is very much a co-operative process. It allows pupils to take a more mature perspective of the lesson.

“Teachers can sit down with pupils and say, ‘How am I responding to gender, do I give you enough time to answer?’ and this can inform how they teach.”

However, a recent discussion on a teachers’ forum revealed that many are far from enthusiastic. One said: “Children need to know who the authority figures are, for their own good, not have the boundaries blurred further.”

http://tinyurl.com/2enccx

   Monday - February 18, 2008

‘pass’ language exam without speaking.

Poor babies ... “too stressful?”
Where’s Drews bat?  I need it here.  Thought I wuz thru for the day but couldn’t resist this one.
Drew ... Please drop that bat in here somewhere.

Pupils ‘pass’ language exam without speaking
By Melissa Kite and Julie Henry
Last Updated: 11:22pm GMT 16/02/2008

Oral tests are to be axed from foreign language GCSE examinations because they are regarded as being “too stressful” for pupils.

The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority will announce this week that teenagers will no longer have to demonstrate they can speak a language in the traditional oral exams that currently account for half the marks at GCSE level.

The decision to replace them with “continual assessment” by teachers was condemned last night as “dumbing down”. Key elements of the language exam have already been eroded under Labour’s reforms. Pup-ils can now pass French GCSE without writing a word of the language. The exam is dominated by multiple-choice questions. All that is required is to tick a box or to link phrases.

Michael Gove, the shadow schools secretary, said: “After being told they could get a pass without writing a word in a foreign language, now pupils are being told they can pass without speaking it. Once again this Government is moving the goalposts on examinations. Instead of proper rigour, we have got a watering down of standards.

“Language teaching is facing severe problems and our children’s capacity to succeed in an ever more competitive world won’t be helped if qualifications can be awarded without their actually acquiring proper skills.”

The decision to scrap tests follows recommendations in Lord Dearing’s Languages Review, commissioned by ministers last year. The report said oral tests were an unreliable measure of capability, and put pupils off taking languages.

It said “the present method was too stressful and too short” to be reliable. “We propose that these parts of the examination should be over a period through moderated teacher assessment.” Prof Alan Smithers, the director of the University of Buckingham’s Centre for Education and Employment Research, said scrapping the test negated the whole point of gaining the qualification.

“The reason we learn a modern foreign language is to be able to speak it fluently and to be able to do so in all conditions,” he said. “Teacher assessment is notoriously unreliable when teachers are then judged in league tables on the exam results their students gain. If this is an attempt to boost results by making the exam more palatable to students, then it is misguided because we will be fooling the pupils, employers and universities.

“One consequence is that students going on to A-level who believe they are good at the subject, then find they cannot cope with higher-level studies.” In the long-established oral test, students converse for about 10 minutes with their teacher in their chosen language.

The exchange is recorded on tape and sent to examiners. In future, oral skills in lessons will be assessed by teachers who will award marks that will be moderated by examiners. It is not clear whether any oral work in class will be taped or how examiners will judge a teacher’s assessment.

The number of pupils taking modern language GCSEs has been falling since 2002 when the Government made them optional from age 14. Figures show that up to 1,500 secondary schools do not enter any pupils for foreign language GCSEs. At A-level, French entries have dropped by 20 per cent and German by 32 per cent in the past six years, raising fears that the subjects are becoming the preserve of the private sector.

http://tinyurl.com/2fj2yk

updated ... with extra battiness. Peiper, it’s the button that says *Bat on it in the second row, 5 buttons to the right of the blockquote button. This is some article ... no writing, no speaking. Do they even have to be able to read any fwench to pass, or have they lowered the standards so far that if the student can point to some cheese, a beret, or a crappy ugly car two times out of three, that’s french enough? (yeah yeah, if they know how to set the car on fire then they get an “A")

   Thursday - February 07, 2008

ONE IN FOUR BRIT KIDS DON’T THINK CHURCHILL WAS REAL, BUT SHERLOCK HOMES WAS. HUH?

Must thank Drew for this one.
Originally, my wife brought this to my attention when she fainted at the story. OK, I exaggerate. She didn’t really but she was a bit upset, belonging to a generation who (we assume) is a tad better educated.  But I got busy and caught up in stuff and fogot it, when this arrived from Drew.  This version is better due to photos and graphics then the one we originally saw.
I really hope the story isn’t true.  But I have a thought that it might be.

Challenge Churchill! One in four think Winnie didn’t exist (but Sherlock Holmes did)
By REBECCA CAMBER - More by this author »

Never, in the field of human ignorance, have so many known so little about famous Britons.

A quarter of the population think that Winston Churchill never actually existed, a survey suggests.

While a poll recently named him the greatest Briton of all time, the wartime prime minister is seen by many as a mythical figure along with the likes of Florence Nightingale and Sir Walter Raleigh.

This could well have something to do with the TV insurance adverts inviting viewers to “challenge Churchill” and featuring a lugubrious talking dog.

According to the survey of 3,000 respondents, many believe the inspirational Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, Cleopatra and the Duke of Wellington are also characters dreamed up for films and books.

Some think Charles Dickens was himself a character in fiction rather than the creator of David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and Martin Chuzzlewit.

In a damning indictment of the nation’s historical knowledge, many of those surveyed said they believe Sherlock Holmes was a real person, along with the pilot Biggles and even the Three Musketeers.

Almost 50 per cent were certain that Eleanor Rigby existed not just in the imagination of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

here’s more >>> http://tinyurl.com/yrsjwx

   Friday - December 28, 2007

encourage boys to play netball and take dance lessons in the name of equality.

THE ARMY OF PC JUST NEVER QUITS.

Schools told to teach boys netball
http://tinyurl.com/2btr9f

By Jessica Salter and Graeme Paton

Last Updated: 7:54am GMT 27/12/2007

Schools have been told to encourage boys to play netball and take dance lessons in the name of equality.Thousands of schools are being forced to ensure that pupils are more “gender balanced” as part of discrimination legislation introduced this year.

They must also ensure more girls study traditionally masculine subjects such as science, while increasing numbers of boys take options such as drama or dance.

Some single-sex schools have even been warned, wrongly, that they may be breaking the law if their application procedure shows “imbalance” towards boys or girls.

Buckinghamshire county council asks schools to ensure they challenge gender stereotyping.

It advises schools to develop open-minded attitudes in children and promote positive role models for both boys and girls.

Last night, the guidance was criticised by head teachers, who said they were already struggling under the strain of bureaucracy.

Mick Brookes, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: “It doesn’t make any sense to promote things to boys that they don’t want to do, simply so you can tick a box on a form.”

All companies and public bodies have to promote equal opportunity policies under the gender equality duty, which came into force in April.  –end-

   Monday - December 17, 2007

ENGLISH A MINORITY LANGUAGE IN 1,300 SCHOOLS

A brief article in last weeks paper states that police are now taking course in Polish due to numbers arriving here from that country.
I guess maybe Poles can’t learn English first?  Of course they can, as can others.  But what’s the incentive to bother when the host country bends over backwards to learn theirs?  I don’t blame any of em if they don’t try.  And most really do btw ...

English a minority language in 1,300 schools
By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:06pm GMT 17/12/2007

http://tinyurl.com/ynw4po

Children with English as their first language are now in the minority in more than 1,300 schools, according to official figures.
Top 30 areas where English is in the minority
The Daily Telegraph has obtained data from the Department for Children, Schools and Families illustrating the impact of high levels of immigration on the education system.

The figures show that in a total of 1,338 primary and secondary schools - more than one in 20 of all schools in England - children with English as their first language are in the minority.

In 600 of these schools, fewer than a third of pupils speak English as their first language.

The disclosure led to warnings that the rising number of foreign pupils without a decent grasp of English was putting intense pressure on teachers and undermining education standards.

The figures have fuelled demands from teachers’ leaders for more money to help meet the costs of teaching foreign-born children.

Teachers’ unions said educating a single non-English-speaking pupil could cost as much as £30,000 a year.

Coping with large numbers of foreign children risked undermining the quality of teaching given to all pupils, they said.

- More ...

   Wednesday - December 05, 2007

Canadian PSAs

Via Tam this morning.

(Warning: Not for the faint of heart)

Canada - Home of the World’s Scariest PSAs
Greg Gutfeld showed this clip on Red Eye Saturday night. This a Canadian restaurant safety PSA with a horror tale ending.

Day-um.
And here’s a drunk driving PSA from MADD Canada.

   Monday - November 05, 2007

Big Brother - “Our work here is done”

via Alphecca

“Essay winners tackle right to bear arms”

full story here

Do I even need to write this post? The article is about a college scholarship essay. The subject was the Second Ammendment.  It took place on Nantucket Island, just a few miles away from the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport. The rest is utterly predictable.

Samantha Pillion and Stephanie Norris, first- and second-place winners in the annual Macomber Essay contest, found themselves writing about the Second Amendment – the right to bear arms – at an interesting time in our country’s history, given the April 2007 Virginia Tech shootings where 32 people were killed by a fellow student.

“The Second Amendment was never designed to say to a student that you can walk into a gun store in Virginia and buy a Glock,” said former Nantucket District Court Judge W. James O’Neill, who was on-island last week to award the Nantucket High School seniors checks in the amount of $1,000 and $500, respectively.

Oh brother. Here we go again.

“I challenge you children to have the courage to act on the wisdom shown in your essays,” added O’Neill during the presentation. “Semi-automatic handguns were never intended in the spirit of the amendment. We cannot tolerate the amount of violence generated by handguns.”

Anybody got any Dramamine? I think I’m getting seasick.

“I did not realize that so many of our Constitutional amendments are still being debated emotionally,” said [essay contest winner] Pillion, who will be attending Wellesley College this September. “There is a lot of emotional volatility that has to do with gun control laws and rights.”

“For the most part, many Nantucketers are very liberal and have the same opinion,” she added. “I learned through my Internet research, that across America there are starkly different opinions. It was wild.”

How about that? She had to go online and do research to even realize that some people were in favor of the Second Ammendment. Sounds to me like the nanny-staters have done a superb job on that little island. Complete and total brainwashing.

   Tuesday - October 30, 2007

My Name is Osama

Ever wonder what your kids are learning in school?

Here is an interesting lesson plan your child’s teacher could download to help them teach :

• Arts & Humanities
  
    Language Arts, Literature
• Educational Technology
• Health
  
    Family Life, Safety
• Social Studies
  
    Civics, Geography, Regions and Cultures, U.S. History

My Name Is Osama

Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Brief Description:
A short story about a young Iraqi boy opens up classroom discussion about the difficulties some immigrant children face, especially in the days after September 11. Student work sheet included.

Objectives:
Students read the story of an Iraqi immigrant boy named Osama who faces taunts of “terrorist” in his U.S. school after the attack of September 11.
discuss the story.
respond to questions about the story and the dangers of bullying and name-calling.

Keywords: Iraq, Osama, tolerance, bully, bullying, immigrant, immigration, terrorism

So who is this Education World?

Education World’s goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. With 98 percent of the nation’s public schools connected to the Internet, the need for a complete online educational guide is evident.
Education World is designed to be that resource for educators.

The Education World team works hard to produce this FREE resource for educators. In order to keep the site free for all visitors, Education World is funded by corporate sponsors and advertisers. We hope you find this site useful.

Education World Corporate Headquarters is located at
5471 Kearny Villa Rd.
Suite 310
San Diego, CA 92123

Education World Editorial Office is located at
1062 Barnes Road
Suite 205
Wallingford, CT 06492

Education World’s parent company is EDmin.com. EDmin.com is a leading provider of learning management solutions. The company provides a wide range of sophisticated and comprehensive services and Web-based solutions

Interesting, no?  Ever wonder why we homeschool?

   Tuesday - October 16, 2007

Thought Crimes In Academia

So its come to this.  If a student expresses his opinion and it doesn’t match up with the opinions of his betters, then he is immediately removed from the student population and remanded to a mental health “professional” for “evaluation” before being allowed to co-mingle with the rest of the sheep in the fold.

Unbelievable.

Hamline University Student Suspended After Advocating Concealed Carry for Students
School Orders Psychological Evaluation
October 10, 2007

FIRE Press Release

ST. PAUL, Minn., October 10, 2007—Hamline University has suspended a student after he sent an e-mail suggesting that the Virginia Tech massacre might have been stopped if students had been allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. Student Troy Scheffler is now required to undergo a mandatory “mental health evaluation” before being allowed to return to school. Scheffler, who was suspended without due process just two days after sending the e-mail, has turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help.

“Hamline’s punishment of Troy Scheffler is severe, unfair, and apparently unwarranted,” FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. “Peacefully advocating for students’ ability to carry a concealed weapon as a response to the Virginia Tech shootings may be controversial, but it simply does not justify ordering a mandatory psychological evaluation.”

On April 17, 2007, Hamline’s Vice President of Student Affairs, David Stern, sent an e-mail to the campus community offering extra counseling for Hamline students in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. Later that day, Scheffler responded directly to Stern, arguing that Virginia Tech’s ban on concealed weapons was part of the problem and advocating that Hamline eliminate its similar policies. Scheffler also wrote that the university’s diversity programs may have angered some in the student body, himself included.

On April 19, 2007, Hamline University President Linda Hanson e-mailed the campus community again to address the tragedy at Virginia Tech. Scheffler responded directly to Hanson and again criticized the university’s concealed weapons ban, academic standards, financial policies, and the university’s efforts to promote diversity.

Hanson replied to Scheffler on Friday, April 20, offering him a chance to meet with university personnel to discuss his views the following week. Yet on Monday, April 23, before Scheffler was even able to respond to Hanson’s invitation, he received a hand-delivered letter from Dean of Students Alan Sickbert notifying him that his e-mails to Stern and Hanson were “deemed to be threatening and thus an alleged violation of the Hamline University Judicial Code.”

Sickbert’s letter also informed Scheffler that he was being placed on immediate “interim suspension” that could not be lifted unless he agreed to a “mental health evaluation” by a licensed mental health professional.

FIRE wrote to President Hanson on May 29, 2007, vehemently opposing the sanctions against Scheffler, since neither of Scheffler’s e-mails even came close to meeting the legal definition of a “threat.” FIRE also pointed out that Hamline maintains a “Freedom of Expression and Inquiry” policy that encourages the public expression of opinions and the freedom to examine and discuss all questions of interest. FIRE wrote that “it is difficult to reconcile these admirable commitments to freedom of expression with Hamline’s hasty actions against Scheffler.”

FIRE also informed Hamline administrators that subjecting Scheffler to a mandatory psychological evaluation poses a grave threat to liberty at Hamline. FIRE wrote, “A psychological evaluation, to be overseen by a Hamline administrator, is one of the most invasive and disturbing intrusions upon Scheffler’s individual right to private conscience imaginable. Because Scheffler has shown no proclivity toward violence and has made no threatening comments, this psychological evaluation seeks to assess his political opinions….”

H/T: SayUncle

   Friday - July 20, 2007

Ward Churchill could be FIRED? Be still my heart…

Check THIS out, folks…

Churchill expects to be fired

I saw this story this afternoon while surfing and remembering the many articles on him here at BMEWS, I just HAD to share.
Cheers.

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