Failure is Not an Option

This little beauty was just sent to me via email by Chrissytine

LONDON (Reuters) - The word "fail" should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase "deferred success" to avoid demoralizing pupils, a group of teachers has proposed.

Members of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) argue that telling pupils they have failed can put them off learning for life.

A spokesman for the group said it wanted to avoid labeling children. "We recognize that children do not necessarily achieve success first time," he said.

"But I recognize that we can't just strike a word from the dictionary," he said.

The PAT said it would debate the proposal at a conference next week.

Let's just give A's to every body.  No body would have to study, no body would have to learn anything; every body could just sit on the couch, watch TV and collect IOU notes from the government.

That should fix everything.

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Failure is Not an Option

Who Are the Enemies Anyway?

It has gone beyond "uncomfortable"; it has gone beyond "confusing": it has even gone beyond "alarming"; I believe we have reached the point when Americans should be down right panicked.

First, there is Afghanistan.  We have just enough soldiers there to be used as target practice.  The administration has refused to either back them up or pull them out; seemingly content with the increasing death toll of our American men and women serving their country.  And the kicker?  The administration says it will send more troops... only if a new tax is imposed on Americans.

Second, there was Ft Hood.  A terrorist massacred 13 people on a US base right here in this country ~ and the administration blew it off.  They have done nothing but do everything they can to bury the entire tragedy.

Third, there was the decision to not only try the 911 conspirators as if they were American citizens who stole a car, but they decided to have the trial mere blocks from where the towers once stood.  There is a possibility that these terrorists will walk freely out of the courthouse.

And then I awake to actually see this as the top headline of the day;

Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

The three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.

Now who exactly is this terrorist captured by our brave Navy SEALSs?

The source said intelligence briefings provided to the SEALs stated that "Objective Amber" planned the 2004 Fallujah ambush, and "they had been tracking this guy for some time."

The Fallujah atrocity came to symbolize the brutality of the enemy in Iraq and the degree to which a homegrown insurgency was extending its grip over Iraq.

The four Blackwater agents were transporting supplies for a catering company when they were ambushed and killed by gunfire and grenades. Insurgents burned the bodies and dragged them through the city. They hanged two of the bodies on a bridge over the Euphrates River for the world press to photograph.

Intelligence sources identified Abed as the ringleader, but he had evaded capture until September.

And three of our Navy SEALs are being criminally charged for giving the terrorist a bloody lip.

I believe the administration is making it very clear who they think their "friends" are and who they think their "enemies" are.

Now the question remains; who do you think is the real threat?

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Who Are the Enemies Anyway?

And They've Done It; Sort Of

oh look at the joy on their faces

and what pray-tell are they so happy about?

The Large Hadron Collider smashed its first proton beams together yesterday, three days after it was restarted following a 14-month shutdown for repairs.

The particle accelerator’s Atlas detector picked up the first signs of a possible collision at 1:22 p.m. GMT, after its two beams were made to cross and crash into one another for the first time.

now, now; don't get too relieved that we're all still here

While the event involved low-intensity beams and will not reveal new physics, it marks an important milestone in the commissioning of the £5 billion "big bang machine". It will also help scientists to calibrate the atom-smasher’s detectors, so that they are ready to operate when it runs at higher energies next year.

In other words, we had 2 mosquitoes fly into each other and nothing really happened... so a head-on collision between 2 cruise liners shouldn't be a problem either.

Rolf Heuer, director-general of the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, said: "It’s a great achievement to have come this far in so short a time, but we need to keep a sense of perspective. There’s still much to do before we can start the LHC physics programme."

Ummmm.... they've spent how much so far on a programme that hasn't even started yet?

Nice. Real nice.

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And They've Done It; Sort Of

Of Course

Insanity is not necessasrily evil; evil is not necessarily insanity.

The defense attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood reportedly has said his client will probably plead not guilty and that an insanity defense is possible.

Y'know what else is possible?  He was a terrorist.

Y'know what else is possible?  Ft Hood was a shark bump.

But by all means, let's focus on making Nidal Hasan the victim in all this.

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Of Course

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Hey Al Gore, your panties are showing

Now most intelligent people already knew "global warming" was a scam, but it's still fun to see the egg-faces scramble.

I actually wasn't going to post anything about the pant-dropping, but then, well...

Climate Change Advocate Calls E-Mail Hacking Appalling

Stop.  What?

Main Entry: ad·vo·cate
Etymology: Middle English advocat, from Anglo-French, from Latin advocatus, from past participle of advocare to summon, from ad- + vocare to call, from voc-, vox voice
Date: 14th century
1 : one that pleads the cause of another; specifically : one that pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court
2 : one that defends or maintains a cause or proposal
3 : one that supports or promotes the interests of another

I didn't realize "climate change" was a person.  Huh; learn something new every day.

A leading climate change scientist says the leak of documents stolen from a British research institute may be aimed at undermining talks at next month's Copenhagen global climate summit.

I like the word "scientist" better than "advocate", but I digress.  I like the fact that this guy thinks exposing the truth is undermining... and lying isn't.

Kevin Trenberth -- of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Colorado -- said in an interview Sunday that hackers cherry-picked from the stolen data and distributed selected documents to try to undermine scientific consensus on man-made climate change.

Yeah, the consensus being that there is no evidence of "man-made climage change". 

Britain's University of East Anglia said hackers last week stole data from its Climatic Research Unit, a leading global research center on climate change.

Say buh-bye to those millions dollar grant checks.

Skeptics claim correspondence shows collusion between scientists to overstate the case for global warming.

Considering the "correspondence" does show collusion between scientists to overstate the case for global warming. I'm okay with that claim.

Trenberth says the hackers took data out of context.

Good one.  No seriously, is that all you've got?  Do yourself a favor and stop talking; you're embarrassing yourself.

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