The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog: “a 17 year old baseball pitcher, received a $52,703 verdict for the right arm fracture he suffered while throwing a pitch in a baseball game.” He claimed the pitcher’s mound was too high and deep. It only took the idiots on the jury one hour to find the company that built the mound liable.
Associated Press: “The Senate unanimously passed a bill late Wednesday to require television stations and cable companies to keep commercials at the same volume as the programs they interrupt.”
Nothing, absolutely nothing is as inefficient and wasteful as the government spending other people’s money. Case in point – the Los Angeles City Controller said, “I’m disappointed that we’ve only created or retained 55 jobs after receiving $111 million.” For those who want the nanny state to have complete control over our lives and provide government controlled healthcare, LA spent $2,000,000 for EVERY JOB CREATED! How is that even possible? The LA city officials responsible for this insanity live in a bizarro world completely out of touch with reality. How can such idiots retain their jobs?
More evidence that many educators are complete idiots, if not downright dangerous and harmful to children. NBC Miami: “The 8-year-old boy hasn’t been in school for a year and will likely miss another year if the Broward County School Board has its way. Burgos was suspended from school in November after a teacher found a toy gun in his backpack.”
Why not make the kid write 100 times on the blackboard “I will not bring toy guns to school?” or suspend him for a few days? Is it really such a terrible thing to bring a toy gun to a school? Why can’t the educators distinguish the difference between a toy and the real thing – the former is a toy and the latter is a dangerous weapon. Do we really want educators to teach our kids that toy guns are bad? Shouldn’t that be the responsibility of the child’s parents? Why aren’t the educators concerned about the adverse affect the child will suffer for missing two years of school and then being two years older than the other kids in the class when he does return?
Boston Herald: “The family of the Dover High School student shocked in his electrical trades class last school year has filed a lawsuit alleging negligence on the parts of the teacher, school district and City of Dover.”