On Bullying
New Jersey's anti-bullying law went into effect. This is in the wake of an incident at herpes colony Rutgers University where a student was unknowingly webcammed to a select few while being engaged in some sort of gay encounter. When word of this got out, the student did a cannonball off the GW Bridge. From that we have more laws. The Nanny State has felt the need to, again, step into people's lives.
New Jersey residents should feel proud of their legislature. They have done such a good job at getting the state's affairs in order that they have the time to go make intrusive, overreaching laws that will bloat the bureaucracy even more. No kidding, folks. This law establishes bullying counselors and anti-bullying teams, and anti-bullying in curricula. It also allows for police intervention for anonymous complaints, or even for something, literally, as small as someone cutting in line in a school lunch room. Schools have reasons to cry for more tax money as they protect the little lambs, and police will have time taken from tracking down criminals who are actually a menace to going to school to follow up about someone taking a juice box from someone else.
In my day, we solved bullying issues after school on the playground or in the parking lot. I had 10 anti-bullying counselors on a two-fisted team. I wasn't bullied, and I never had a seat at the cool table, but if I had a problem with someone, I asked them to call their dogs. If they didn't, I did it for them. This was back in the good old days of the pre-pussified America.
For years, we've been sold a bill of goods for being emotional, and trying to love, understand, and respect others. It doesn't work. "Turn the other cheek." "Go tell a teacher." How does that help when one is being forced to fight for oneself. If more people had self-respect, there'd be less bullying. We've essentially been castrated by Oprah-like thinking, and getting touch with our feelings, when the only feeling there should be is a fist hitting a face.
Here's an example of emotional teaching. When my nephew was in grammar school, his teacher brought the whole class outside for Earth Day, and made them kiss the ground while giving thanks to the Earth. I wonder if the teacher knew that people at the first Earth Day were carrying signs saying an ice age was coming.
That's what it's come to; no rational thinking. We've come to a point where people are committing suicide because someone across town either flames them in a chat room or says something about them on-line, and there are pointless and shallow candlelight vigils held for the person. When the polluted mainstream media shows up for the human interest dog and pony show, people start talking about what a "tragedy" it is that someone was driven to this point. The real tragedy was that someone could've stopped this by developing self-esteem.
This will continue because we let it continue as we suck down Starbucks, watch scripted reality shows, watch porn on tablet computers with high-speed Internet access, and update our status to "Slaughtered."
New Jersey residents should feel proud of their legislature. They have done such a good job at getting the state's affairs in order that they have the time to go make intrusive, overreaching laws that will bloat the bureaucracy even more. No kidding, folks. This law establishes bullying counselors and anti-bullying teams, and anti-bullying in curricula. It also allows for police intervention for anonymous complaints, or even for something, literally, as small as someone cutting in line in a school lunch room. Schools have reasons to cry for more tax money as they protect the little lambs, and police will have time taken from tracking down criminals who are actually a menace to going to school to follow up about someone taking a juice box from someone else.
In my day, we solved bullying issues after school on the playground or in the parking lot. I had 10 anti-bullying counselors on a two-fisted team. I wasn't bullied, and I never had a seat at the cool table, but if I had a problem with someone, I asked them to call their dogs. If they didn't, I did it for them. This was back in the good old days of the pre-pussified America.
For years, we've been sold a bill of goods for being emotional, and trying to love, understand, and respect others. It doesn't work. "Turn the other cheek." "Go tell a teacher." How does that help when one is being forced to fight for oneself. If more people had self-respect, there'd be less bullying. We've essentially been castrated by Oprah-like thinking, and getting touch with our feelings, when the only feeling there should be is a fist hitting a face.
Here's an example of emotional teaching. When my nephew was in grammar school, his teacher brought the whole class outside for Earth Day, and made them kiss the ground while giving thanks to the Earth. I wonder if the teacher knew that people at the first Earth Day were carrying signs saying an ice age was coming.
That's what it's come to; no rational thinking. We've come to a point where people are committing suicide because someone across town either flames them in a chat room or says something about them on-line, and there are pointless and shallow candlelight vigils held for the person. When the polluted mainstream media shows up for the human interest dog and pony show, people start talking about what a "tragedy" it is that someone was driven to this point. The real tragedy was that someone could've stopped this by developing self-esteem.
This will continue because we let it continue as we suck down Starbucks, watch scripted reality shows, watch porn on tablet computers with high-speed Internet access, and update our status to "Slaughtered."