Donuts over Babies
Apparently, that must be the lessons taught to Glen Este students, as well as the Clermont County community. You see, Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby, the assistant principal at Glen Este Middle School, apparently is going to get away with neglect of her 2 year old because others say "she is a good mom." However, as King's Right Site reports, there is school video showing Slaby returning to the car to get donuts she picked up on the way to work as her baby lay baking. These donuts were on the seat next to her child. So, let's see, donuts, or baby? I guess Clermont County Prosecutor Don White thinks donuts. Great work there....I wonder if it would make a difference if Slaby didn't drive an expensive high end vehcile or didn't live in Symmes Township? I hate to bring that card, but come on now. This woman thought more about the damn donuts than she did about the baby.
This is a terrible thing to happen, but it is not an accident. It is neglect, pure and simple. I cannot imagine the heartache this woman is going through, but justice is blind. She needs to face charges. If for nothing else, to truly show justice is blind. And to show the greatest lesson some of those kids can learn: never, ever neglect a child. You would think in the place that prosecuted the Feisel case, neglect is neglect. Evidently not if you are a school administrator.
If I were a parent in the district, I am not sure I could trust Glen Este middle school in the care of my kids as long as Ms. Slaby has a job there. She can't mind her own child, how can she mind a few hundred of someone elses? After all, there might be donuts to distribute.
New Orleans: Instead of a Hand out, get a hammer!
Tom Tancredo is sick of hearing about the need for more aid to New Orleans. He sees it for what it is.....a gravy train.
“The amount of money that has been wasted on these so-called ‘recovery’ efforts has been mind-boggling,” said Tancredo, who is running a long-shot presidential campaign. “Enough is enough.”
Here is what gets me. I keep hearing libs out there talking about the need to rebuild New Orleans, that it is still devastated and not everyone has come back. Has no one stopped to think that might be a good thing? I mean, if I built my house below sea level and a flood wiped it out, I might think about pulling up stakes and getting the hell out. Some might call that a "I should have had a V8 moment." Not libs. We have to get those people back so they can lose everything again, and the people of the US have to pay for it. Then, of course, there is the whole thing about the government of New Orleans and Louisiana with their hands out.
Take some personal responsibility, people. Start rebuilding yourselves. Take that hand you want us to put some bank in and get a hammer and start rebuilding. Some people have done that, and Ray Nagin and some others aren't happy about it. Turns out that vision for a chocolate New Orleans might in reality be a Jalapeno New Orleans. See, whether legal or not (I hope they are legal, if not, throw them out too), some Latinos came in with the rebuilding efforts and decided to stay. They saw opportunties for restaurants and markets and have started businesses. They didn't get a hand out. Now why didn't the people of New Orleans think about that? Why didn't they try to stake out opportunity? The reason--they have been raised on generations of the government teat. They didn't understand what it means to pick up by the bootstraps and take risk.
And lastly, look at the areas in Mississippi that were devastated just as much as New Orleans, like Biloxi and others. They are back, and thriving. People are griping that only half or whatever of New Orleans is back....anyone ask what New Orleans and its citizens have done to fix it on their own? Of course not, because it is all Bush's fault, right? Come on now. Grow the hell up and take some personal responsbility. Quit living off the gravy train of government and get a clue. If you are still in a FEMA trailer waiting for your next hand out, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Which brings me to another ill advised thing President Bush has done:
Housing Bailout
Look, I feel for people who lose their homes. But whose decision was it to get on board that subprime bubble and not fully understand the consequences? Whose decision was it to buy too much house for your wallet? President Bush has decided to bail out people again.
Not a good idea. Bailouts suck. Anyone remember the S and L fiascos of the 1980s. Not a good time. Anyway, again, some personal responsibility. Why do we have to bail people out of this? Why not let them have it as a life lesson--don't do subprime. They can tell their kids and a generation grows wiser. Instead, nope, just wait around long enough and whine real loud, and the teat will come to feed you. Give me a flaming break here.
To me, all you need in this country really to keep you from getting held back is owning a car and a job. Having a car, you are not held back at all. If you own a car, you can go where you want, arrive at work on time, and not be held back by anyone's stuff. Home ownership is something different. It is a privilege, not a right. Rent if you can't afford it.
I mean, did anyone put the gun to your head to go subprime and do the less stable thing? Nope. But by God, the government must protect me from my own choices, that is the mantra of today....and we wonder why our children are so sheltered and fragile.....
