Important Stuff -- Or Not: Insanity in New Mexico

Monday, December 04, 2006

Insanity in New Mexico

What is this country coming to?

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A high school principal could be in trouble for taking one of his students to a barber shop -- without permission of the pupil's parents. "Students should not be taken off of campus by any staff member without parental permission," said Rigo Chavez, district spokesman. Rio Grande High School Principal Al Sanchez said he thought Fidel Maldonado Jr.'s hair style -- the number "505" and a Zia symbol shaved into the back of his head -- was a gang haircut. Sanchez said he thought he was doing Maldonado, 15, a favor by taking him to a barber instead of suspending him. "I said, 'Do you want to just go to the barber and cut it off?' He said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'Let's go,"' Sanchez said. Fidel Maldonado Sr. said the law was broken when the principal took his son off campus. He said he is considering legal action. "For him to take my son and take him out of school without my consent, against his own will, is wrong," the elder Maldonado said.

In New Mexico, a minor can have an abortion without notifying the parents. Once again, the will of the people was thwarted when a judge overturned a parental consent law that was passed by the legislature.

2 comments:

Mark said...: Wait. A child can get an abortion without her parents permission, even knowledge, but a child can't be given a haircut without permission?

And why would his father object to getting gang signs removed unless he is a gang banger himself?

Instead of prosecuting the principal, they should be arresting the father for neglecting his little gangster.; 11:28 AM
Tonto said...: Well Mark and LR that's easy if he were a she...he would get over an abortion with or without Dad's permission...so no need for Dad to know...but teachers cannot go around giving kids BAD HAIRCUTS...it may grow out in two weeks but the psychological damage to junior is a lifetime...just something parents will not stand for.

Due to the fact that the some of the best and worst supreme court decisions have involved allowing the law to work...then someone like the ACLU....taking the situation and turning it into a case...I am now waiting for the case where a parent who had a child get an abortion and find out about it after the fact, sue the the abortion givers and all parties who didn't disclose to the parents...the arguments for notification would be so compelling we woudln't be voting on it anymore. But it would be a reverse situation and makes the argument stronger...like playing on your home court...rather than hearing about the poor girl who had to tell her mean old dad.

The argument I hear against it is...these kids don't have good parents that should be told they are having an abortion...they could be thrown out of the house for being pregnant. Funny I have never heard that actually happening at least for the reason of getting and abortion or being pregnant.

So that is the compelling argument...you will take the right of average parents who this will predominately affect.

If we keep adding fundamental rights into the Constitution "the right to parent" should be up there with the "right to privacy"...with all the other crap they have added.

RIGHT TO PARENTING should be equal and unfettered as the RIGHT TO DE-PARENT. and if your kid is just 16 then your right to parent overrides your child's not yet fully formed rights.

Honestly if common sense were required like the rule about balancing the budget...government would have to shut down.; 3:44 PM

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1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.