Somebody's Watching Me

I always feel like somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy
Oh oh oh
I always feel like somebody's watching me
Tell me is it just a dream
Oh oh oh (Who's watching me)

Who's watching
Tell me who's watching
Who's watching me
Who's watching me

Well who'd-a-thunk it.  Our friends in academia have sunk to an all new low.  They have found a way to invade our homes through the guise of learning and security.  For those of you who haven't heard the story yet here is a link and excerpt:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20100218_Lower_Merion_School_District_sued_for_cyber_spying_on_students.html

Lower Merion School District sued for cyber spying on students

By DANA DiFILIPPO
Philadelphia Daily News

difilid@phillynews.com 215-854-5934

Lower Merion School District officials brag that they give every one of their 1,800 high-schoolers laptop computers to "ensure that all students have 24/7 access to school-based resources."

Instead, they ensured they got a 24/7 sneak peek into students’ private lives by secretly monitoring webcams embedded in the laptops to spy on teens and their families at home, according to a federal, class-action lawsuit filed this week in Philadelphia.

Also for those of you who don't know Lower Merion is on the Main Line and an affluent suburb of Philadelphia.  So he school district bought and issued 2,300 laptops to it's high school students.  Which is patent waste of tax payer money considering that Lower Merion is one of the most affluent school districts in the country and I am sure that the students parents can afford to buy their children laptops.  FYI Kobe Bryant attend Lower Merion.


What brought this to light was the an Assistant Principal Lindy Matsko called the student into her office to reprimand him for "improper behavior at home".  WTF?  This is a tenth grade boy I wonder what he could have been doing that was improper at home????  Of course the first thing you are thinking is masturbation right?  Me too, but for a tenth grade boy that doesn't seem improper.  Maybe it was drugs or underage drinking...again while illegal not improper.  Now you may argue and say that drugs and alcohol are improper but I say no.  No because even if it were, and this is pure speculation on my part, it was in his HOME so it was not improper.  What is improper is for this pedophile of a teacher/school administrator to be looking into peoples house.  It is an illegal search.  Neither she nor the school district nor the government have any business looking into our homes.  

FOURTH AMENDMENT

                           SEARCH AND SEIZURE

                               __________


  The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated; and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported
by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Our homes are OUR homes, they are sacrosanct.  Our homes are the one place that we should have no cameras looking in on us (unless we put them there).  My friends we have gone far beyond George Orwell's 1984.  Everywhere we go we are videoed and tracked.  Our cell phones track us.  Our credit/debit card transactions track us.  Our EZPass and transit passes track us. 

This breech is so egregious on so many levels it makes me sick.  According to the school district the ability to remotely activate the webcams in the laptops that they issued were for security purposes to take a screen shot and still picture to try to recover lost or stolen laptops.  They only activated the webcams 42 times since they issued the laptops.  42 times!  Wow I wonder what they saw 42 times.  Was it 42 separate laptops?  Was it two students 21 times?  What time of day did these activations occur?

If the student was in a compromising position, say stretched out on his bed looking at porn and taking care of business and he is under 18 years of age that is child pornography!  This Lindy Matsko is not the only one involved.  The whole IT staff are her accomplices.  Didn't they install the spy software?  Aren't they the ones who activated it on someones orders?  Will they try the Nuremberg defense, I was just following orders?

Know whats really scary?  How many other school districts do this.  Better yet, does your company supply you with a take home laptop?  Does it have a built in webcam?  Smile you're on candid camera!  How about our friends in the intelligence community.  Do you think that maybe someone in the NSA can dial in your webcam and see whats going on in your house.  Am I just being paranoid?  I think not.

Let's get back to this obvious idiot Lindy Matsko.  There is no doubt in my mind that she has a very high opinion of herself.  She probably struts through the halls of the school like a peacock for she is a learned person.  A person of letters, well educated and arrogant.  Who the F*^k does she think she is?  How dare she.  What was she thinking?  What temerity!  To call a young man to her office then berate him for improper behavior in his own home!  Can you imagine.  I wondered what this stupid sorry excuse for a teacher looked like so I looked her up on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Lindy-Matsko/313163668649?v=wall&ref=search

I am not sure who put the page up but I believe that is a picture of her.

Now that the arrogance of this idiot and the stupidity of the school district has been exposed the FBI and the District Attorney are investigating and investigate they must.  These people have to be found, every one of them not just this poor excuse for an Assistant Principal.  Heads should roll.  They should be made an example of.  They have committed a horrible crime.  They have violated the sanctity of peoples homes without a warrant.  They are no better than the burglar who sneaks into your house and rummages through your private things.  Ask anyone who has suffered from a burglary and they will tell you they feel sick to their stomachs and violated because some piece of human garbage invaded their space.

 

Global Warming

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow.

I was a little amazed today when I read "how come the parking lots are cleared of snow so fast and the streets aren't" on a Facebook post today.  So I explained to the author that it was a simple matter of economics.  Most parking lots are cleared by private contracting companies.  They get paid to shovel and plow away snow.  The more lots they can clear the more money they make.  As for streets, well most of them are cleared by government workers.  Their motivation is somewhat different.  They get paid by the hour.  So the longer it takes them to work the more money they make and because snow clean up does not occur during their normal work hours, government workers get paid overtime!  Cha-ching!

Now I don't fault either party in this situation.  The private guy is doing his best and the government guy is doing his best.  We all win because they in-turn spend their earnings making their life better and more money flows through our economy.  Of course we get more productivity from the private guy.

What we should fear is a future scenario where there are no more private contractors and the snow must be cleared solely by government workers.  A future where it is one of your assignments as a member of the collective working for the greater good to clear the snow.  It may sound crazy but the chorus that sings "the good of the many out weigh the good of the few" can be heard if you listen carefully.  I have heard to low din of the chorus.  The choir is warming up and the orchestra is getting ready.

This is not a new tune to dance to.  It has been sung in different countries and in different languages all over the world.  They are still signing loud and strong in Cuba and North Korea and the song is being sung in China and hummed loudly in Russia.  There is only one song that can counter that song.  Only one song that can drown out the din of despair that it portends, and that song is our national anthem.

You think you know the anthem? I beg to differ.  Very few of us know all of it's words.  Read on my friends and dwell on its words.

Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In fully glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution!
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust":
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. 


O'er the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE and in God we trust.  Those are the words of true American's.  Whether they be black, white, yellow or red.  Whether they be Christian, Jew, Muslim or Hindu.  We are losing our freedom everyday.

Soon we will be paying extra taxes (carbon reparations) because we have been "irresponsible" as a nation by using so much of the worlds natural resources.  Our industrial revolution and all of the successful spin off businesses we have created have caused the world to suffer from global warming and now global cooling.  Our poorest fellow Americans live better than most of the world citizens and should we apologize for this?  Absolutely not!  We should be proud that we live in such an industrious and prosperous country thanks to the efforts of our fore fathers (yes I said fore fathers no offense to you mothers).

So here we are, resource wasting, air and water polluting Americans living recklessly.  Spending our falling dollars on all things globally.  Supporting families all over the world with our dollars, which thanks to the Chinese who buy all of our debt are still worth something.  Speaking of the Chinese by the way, as well as the Indians (not native Americans, India Indians) who will no way in hell reduce their carbon foot prints.  These are the two most populace nations in the world and they are like locusts consuming all in their path.  Shouldn't they ease up on the over use of the earth natural resources if we have to? Of course not, only evil American Capitalist should have to pay the freight for the rest of the world.

We the Americans are going to save the world by the use of schemes and gimmicks like Cap and Trade and buying carbon offsets.  Paaaalease give me a break!  Talk about arrogance we are nothing to this planet.  We are ants.  If and when our species becomes extinct 10,000 others will take our place.  How dare we pretend to know how the cyclical nature of this planet or how it works. 

There will be another Ice Age and our Poles will reverse.  That which is desert now will become fertile land and that which is fertile will become desert.  This is out of our control.  There could be a killer asteroid on the way right now that will vaporize us and this planet and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.  Did you know that our scientist believe that the earth is about 4.55 billion years old and that mankind has existed between 100,000 to 200,000 years. 

Do you think that perhaps, I am just saying perhaps since we are so relatively new to this planet we should do some more research.  I mean, considering we have only really had the technology and understanding to truly study this planet for oh....100 years or so!

Of course, the environmentalist or "Greens" have been making steady progress over the decades with their indoctrinating us.  I remember as a child we were told about recycling and it seemed like a good idea and it was voluntary.  Then it became mandatory in many places.  I have nothing against it and I think it is still a good idea, but it should not be compulsory. 

But hey, this is a "free" country right.  I have bad news for you.....there is no such thing as a free country.  Don't believe me?  I tell you what, buy a one way ticket to any country in the world.  The go to the airport and try to fly out without a Passport.  You are in your a rude awakening.  You can't leave this country without a passport or in other words you need permission from our government to let you leave.  But I digress,  to prove my point about the Greens indoctrinating us go to the following hyperlink and watch this commercial for Audi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq58zS4_jvM . It was aired for the Super Bowl but even though it is an exaggeration I can see a time in the  future where this may actually be the case.

So enjoy the global warming/cooling and keep your hands on your wallets my friends because the Beltway gang is going to be trying very hard to liberate as much money as possible from you to pay BS carbon reparations to the rest of the world.   By the way those are both Republican and Democrats that are reaching into your pockets.  Don't be fooled by party affiliations.  

Just a Gigolo - John Edwards

Just a gigolo
everywhere I go
people know the part
I'm playing

Paid for every dance
selling each romance
every night some heart
betraying

There will come a day
youth will pass away
then what will they say
about me

When the end comes I know
they'll say just a gigolo
as life goes on
without me

Ok here we go again!  How many times do we have to hear about these immoral idiots.  It seems as if I can't turn on the news and just get the facts without hearing about John Edwards the despicable bastard.  Why are we so caught up in this BS?  Why should we care?

John Edwards is a typical politician.  Not Republican, not Democrat, just a politician.  We should be thankful that he decided to concentrate on screwing one of the taxpayers instead of all of us.  We ought to be more worried about the politicians who didn't make the same choice.

I pity his poor wife Elizabeth and his family.  I pity the child that was brought into this mess by these fools.  I feel sorry for his friends and supporters who he used to cover his lies.  He is an arrogant ass and will pay the piper.  There is even talk of a possible indictment.  Maybe he'll get convicted and take a new lover or two in prison.

Hopefully this moron will fade away into obscurity and just be what he is, a pimple on the ass of our political history.

Enough said.

Dazed And Confused Paxon Hollow Middle School Updat

Dazed And Confused
Been Dazed and Confused for so long it's not true.


On Friday, three days after I emailed my daughter's teacher as to why she wasn't allowing students to ask questions her teacher called me.  Unfortunately, I was in a meeting and unable to answer the call and she left me a quick message.

The call was quick and rambling but the gist of it was that I was right (we already knew that) but that she does allow for questions and answers.  She also said she spoke to Fran (I hate that, her name is Francesca) and told her she could come to ask questions.   This is the message:

Mr. Boukouris,  Hi, I want to clarify a few things and I did speak to Fran this morning and um I totally agree and hopefully this is just a misunderstanding, um there are times when I agree I spend most of my day in a large part with question and answer but learning also involves listening and we work in groups sometimes and have to kind of depend on our groups and then generate questions and then learn form the other groups and if there's still questions um I think we get involved in things like that so I told her to make sure she sees me if she has a problem.  If you would like to call me at your convenience I'd be happy to call you back hopefully this clears it up and I do  health class available Tuesday afternoons  and in the morning but, ah thank you very much.  Bye bye.

As you can see nothing was really clarified in fact her whole message was a weird circular excuse.  I got totally lost at the end of the message and trust me I don't want to ask for a clarification to her clarification.  I am not 100% sure but I think she wants me to attend health class on Tuesday afternoons or in the morning because there is an availability????  Anyway this whole message has me scratching my head and quite honestly I don't think I will call her just yet.  I will wait to see how Fran, I mean Francesca makes out.