Every year teachers must turn in their requests for field trips for the school year.  For each field trip the teacher must list how that particular field trip fits in with the standards and objectives for that grade level.  Teachers at Randolph College have come up with some very unusual ideas about field trips.  The students traveled ACROSS THE COUNTRY to visit the Chicken Ranch in Nevada - a famous brothel - to study American culture.  Really, foks, is a house of prostitution “representative” of American culture?  Don’t you know the parents of these students are proud to know how tuition money is being spent.Here’s the story:

Randolph College Students Take Trip to Chicken Ranch Brothel

A group of Randolph College students took a field trip to the Chicken Ranch, a Nevada brothel, which drew a lot of controversy.

The group from Randolph College, which is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, travelled across the country to go to the Chicken Ranch as part of their American Culture program curriculum.

Each semester the course examines a strain of American culture and ends with a class trip. In the past, classes have visited post-Katrina New Orleans, Walt Disney World and the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Ala.

This year’s focus on Nevada started with a professor’s interest in water rights and conservation. That focus broadened to include the wedding, entertainment and prostitution industries.

Nevada is the only state where prostitution is legal. Brothels are allowed in 10 Nevada counties, though not in Las Vegas.

The Chicken Ranch is located 60 miles outside of Las Vegas

Really folks, what does eating at McDonald’s have to do with gay rights?  Why would a McDonald’s Vice President decide to join the board of directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce?  McDonald’s is typically seen as a good place for children to be.  Maybe not nutritionally speaking, but certainly a place to get food that kids like - a playground where children can play.  Now, it seems, that McDonald’s is jumping into radical political issues.  Speaking for myself, I will never give a penny of my money to McDonald’s. I’m definitely NOT lovin’ it.   This is ridiculous.  Here’s part of the story:

Last month, the vice president of communications for the nation’s largest fast-food chain joined the board of directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), an organization dedicated to expanding the economic opportunities and advancements of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual (LGBT) business community.

“I’m thrilled to join the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team and ready to get to work,” Richard Ellis said regarding the move in a released statement.

“I share the NGLCC’s passion for business growth and development within the LGBT community and I look forward to playing a role in moving these important initiatives forward,” he added.

Teenagers trying to make their mark via YouTube have taken it too far.  Eight teens attacked a girl when she arrived at a friend’s house.  They then proceeded to beat her - taping the whole thing in order to gain fame by posting the video on YouTube.

Teens Arrested Over Taped Beating

CBS News

Eight teenagers have been arrested after filming the beating of another teen and threatening to post the video on the Internet, sheriff’s officials said.

Victoria Lindsay was attacked on March 30 by six teenage girls when she arrived at a friend’s home, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said.
Two girls confronted Lindsay when she walked in, yelling and threatening her, an arrest report showed. Another girl struck her in the head several times and then slammed her head into the bedroom wall, knocking her unconscious.

“That is animalistic behavior. It’s pack mentality. They lured her there to beat her,” Sheriff Grady Judd said.

When she woke up, she was on the couch in the living room surrounded by the six girls. The teens blocked the door, held Lindsay down and began beating her, the report said. Two teenage boys waited outside the home as lookouts.

Portions of the video were released by the sheriff’s office and posted on CBS affiliate WTSP-TV.

All eight were charged last week with battery and false imprisonment, which are third-degree felonies, the report said.

Lindsay was taken to the hospital by ambulance and treated for a concussion, damage to her left eye and left ear, and numerous bruises, the report said.

Lindsay’s father said the teens’ motivation for the attack was to produce a video that would become popular on YouTube, a video-sharing Web site.

“I want stiffer punishments for these shock Web sites that entice kids to make these videos so they can be famous on the Internet,” Lindsay’s father, who declined to give his name, told The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla. “That is the motive, I am sure of it. It’s crazy and it’s terrible and they’re gonna pay.”

But the mother of one of the girls said that Lindsay had provoked the other teens by threatening and insulting them on MySpace, a social networking Web site.

After the girls were arrested, Christina Garcia told the newspaper she looked at Lindsay’s MySpace page and saw the message: “hahaha all in jail.”

“A lot of people think, ‘I can say whatever I want on here and nobody’s gonna say anything,’” Garcia said. “A fight is a fight, but this was a beatdown. She did not deserve what she got, but I don’t know how she’s that messed up and able to get on the computer and talk about that.”

It’s not immediately clear if the video was ever posted on the Internet.

RT was driving toward Hohenwald, TN this past Saturday morning to get lumber to do some repairs at the log cabin.  He was cruising along a country road, and to his right was a sheer rock wall that rose straight up for about 25 feet with a ditch between the road and the wall.  As he drove along, out of the corner of his eye he caught sight of a large shape plummeting down the cliff.  His immediate thought was that a boulder had broken loose from the rock ledge at the top.  As he swerved to the left to avoid being hit,  he caught a better look and realized that it wasn’t a boulder.  A large black angus cow was falling down the wall.  In his rear view mirror he saw the cow land in the ditch, lie there dazed for a couple seconds, and then get up and walk off. Now THAT is not something you see every day!

Ha!  Just look at this graphic I found!  It’s perfect!

My Cotillion friend, Beth, told about this article.  Read it and weep for the sorry state of parenthood - at least some of the parents.

Melanie Engle was trying to just pluck the stray hairs here and there. She was trying to deliver an age-appropriate eyebrow wax to her client. It was hard, though, because there was a foot tapping next to her, and a voice shouting in her ear: “No! Not like that — like a supermodel’s. I want them arched.”

After years in the beauty biz, Engle had seen her share of crazy ladies demanding perfect, Glamour-cover-worthy brows. But this Crazy Lady wasn’t talking about her own brows. The brows in question belonged to Crazy Lady’s daughter. Who was eight.

After sweating through the kid’s eyebrow wax, Engle, today an aesthetician at the Adolf Biecker Salon/Spa outposts in the Rittenhouse Hotel and Strafford — and, it should be noted, one of the most sought-after eyebrow specialists in the region — was directed to give her pint-size client a … bikini wax.

Engle was, predictably, extremely uncomfortable with the idea. But she sent the girl next door to the spa to have it done anyway. “It was clear that this girl was getting a bikini wax no matter what,” she says. “Better for her that we did it, instead of her mother dragging her off somewhere else to get it done.”
There’s more, but it’s almost more than I can stand to read.

Poor Barack Hussein Obama (I love to include his middle name - just to drive liberals crazy).  I was just listening to CNN, and it seems that Barack is getting it from both sides.  He buddies up with a racist pastor for twenty years and has nothing but high praise for this pastor who he calls his mentor, but then the pastor’s sermons are broadcast outside the church and there is an uproar at the blatant racist and anti-American sentiments that the pastor spews from the pulpit to the obvious delight and agreement of the congregation.  So Barack denounces somewhat belatedly what the pastor said and gave the excuse that he wasn’t in attendance during those particular sermons, and my goodness, he had no idea the pastor felt that way. 

Now it appears that he’s getting some flack from others in the “black community” saying that he shouldn’t have denounced the not-so-reverend Wright’s words because these particular folks in the black community feel that Wright’s views are mainstream and represent the views of most blacks.  Really?

Is it really a mainstream belief among African Americans that the United States government created the AIDS virus in order to kill off blacks? Is it really the view of most African Americans that the U.S. is responsible for 9-11? Do the not-so-reverend’s followers truly believe that the U.S. government is made up of “rich white men” whose sole goal in life is to keep blacks “in their place” and to deny them their basic rights and privileges? Does the not-so-reverend’s flock truly believe that blacks should sing “God damn America” instead of “God bless America.”

Interesting, isn’t it?  I guess many of us believed Dr. Martin Luther King and felt that we had “overcome” the worst of those hateful stereotypes.  We believed that, while there were a few racists on all sides, the vast majority of Americans - of all colors and creeds - had moved beyond the racial hatred.  According to the not-so-reverend Wright,  however, racial hatred is alive and thriving and encouraged - in the black community at least.  And the darling of the Democratic party, Barack Obama, has been a strong supporter of this racist “pastor” for twenty years.  Even the church’s website is racist.  I studied it for quite awhile the other evening.  Everything is about the “black” experience.  No doubt the church does a lot of good, and their outreach program is extensive.  However, it is exclusionist and racist.  And that’s about as un-Biblical as you can get.

The whole “God damn America” is irrational.  The not-so-reverend Wright and Barack Obama and the members of Trinity United Church of Christ are all part of America - and yet they believe God should damn America - and thus they are asking God to damn themselves as well.  Barack’s ability to serve as president should be immediately brought into question by his support of this racist pastor (and I use the term “pastor” loosely) of marginal intelligence.

If the un-reverend Wright’s beliefs are mainstream for our country’s African-Americans, our country is in deep trouble.

What is wrong with people?  First we have the woman who sat on the toilet for over TWO MONTHS at one time - and thus her butt was stuck to the toilet and had to be surgically removed.  That was after spending the past two years in the bathroom.  Her boyfriend brought her food and water - which she consumed in the bathroom.  And her boyfriend says that otherwise they had a “normal relationship.”  Yeah sure.

Then there’s ex-NY Governor Spitzer’s favorite hooker who aspires to be a singer and thus is hawking her recording for all she’s worth - which, according to the newspaper, is a very lucrative hourly rate.  Her MySpace recording is getting record breaking hits.

Then there’s the Sudan man who married a goat.  Yes, you heard that right.  Reminds me of the guy who married a dog last year.

 Rounding out the weird stories for the day is the couple who had EIGHT HUNDRED dogs in their mobile home.  That isn’t even counting the caged birds.

This is hilarious.  People are falling in droves for Barack Hussein Obama (Oh, I’m so intolerant for including his middle name!) who is inspiring and uplifting, but who doesn’t really say anything of substance.  But, hey!  He makes ‘em feel good.  Yes we can!  So go vote for him.  I wonder if all the little sheep are really paying attention to what he says.  No they don’t care - they’re merely sheep.   Click the link above - this is funny.

Tiara tip to Holly.

I saw this video at Hot Air, and I had to share it.  Just put the footage of two loose cannons together, and you get this:

Video: Hillary Linked To Scientology!

It’s going to be a long, long wait for the election to be over in November.  RT and I’ve been watching CNN and their coverage of the South Caroline Democratic Primary.  Lord help us!  They’re bringing in every Tom, Dick, Harry and Soledad to give their opinions and analysis of what’s going on. 

They’re giving us information/opinions on:

How the black vote might go.

How the white vote might go.

How the female vote might go.

How the Hispanic vote might go.

How the lower income vote might go.

How the affluent vote might go.

What the racial break down might be.

Whether a particular candidate might “over-perform” or “under-perform.”

They explain what they mean by “exit polls.”  It’s such a difficult concept, you know.

They have a countdown clock for when the polls will close and they will start getting numbers to put on the boards.

They tell us about each of the candidates - about their goals, their dreams, their tactics, their biographies.

The worst folks to give opinions couched in “reporting” are Roland Martin, Gloria Borger, Candy Crowley, Donna Brazile and Jeffrey Toobin. 

Jeffrey Toobin had the ultimate patronizing and inane comment:  ”Let’s not forget that John Edwards is a human being with a distinct story. . .  This IS his life - to be a presidential candidate.”  What an idiot!