High-speed rail boss: We don't dare mess up (ocregister)
California High Speed Rail Authority Chairman Dan Richard injected a solemn
note into a love fest for the 220-mph train Monday. "If we screw this up," he
said at the U.S. High Speed Rail Association conference in Los Angeles, "we're
going to set...
NRO's Charlotte Allen: Sandy Hook Tragedy Could Have Been Averted If Men Taught There (crooksandliars)
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There are stupid right wing things, and then there are really stupid right
wing things. An example of stupid would be Charlotte Allen jonesing for Sarah
Palin to be the Great Savior of the Republican Party. Yes, that was stupid.
But here's a really stupid thing, something she actually let loose from her
keyboard so the Internet could suffer her stupidity right alongside her:
> **There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting
occurred. In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were
undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K–6 school), all the personnel
— the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school
psychologist, the “reading specialist” — were female. **There didn’t even seem
to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza’s knees. Women and
small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers. The principal, Dawn
Hochsprung, seemed to have performed bravely. According to reports, she
activated the school’s public-address system and also lunged at Lanza, before
he shot her to death. Some of the teachers managed to save all or some of
their charges by rushing them into closets ...
High-speed rail boss: We don't dare mess up (ocregister)
California High Speed Rail Authority Chairman Dan Richard injected a solemn
note into a love fest for the 220-mph train Monday. "If we screw this up," he
said at the U.S. High Speed Rail Association conference in Los Angeles, "we're
going to set...