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It is that time again. Time for The Bull to post an update of the scum bag sex offenders still breathing our air near “The Pasture”.

Right off I’d like to challenge my fellow bloggers to go to the Family Watchdog web site and find the listing of any or all offenders living in their neighborhoods and list those scum, complete with pictures, on their blogs. The more bloggers that are doing this, the more pressure we can put on these bastards. That makes every child that much safer. It takes only one post every couple of months to get the job done.

It has been too long since my last update on these perverts so The Bull personally verified all of the addresses of the scum in this update. As I mentioned in a past posting, I also have managed to start other Good Citizens to watching the monsters that live in their neighborhoods. Action has begun to escalate as we push my ‘Locate, Educate, and Move ‘Em Out’ Program in this area. As concerned and committed parents we are dedicated to moving these child-hunting scumbags out of our neighborhoods at least, (and out of the gene pool, if possible).

In past comments on this topic I have been reported as being an extreme Right-wing Christian anti-sex nutcase. Please, let me clarify:
Yes, I do stand to the Right of center, steadfastly defending the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign or domestic. I vote as an Independent with the thought of my Country first and never a political party. Secondly, if you have read this blog for very long, or even bothered to ask, then you would know that we are Pagans. Our older children have chosen to follow the Christian path and we wish them health & happiness. Finally, being very happily married and with six children between us – and hopes for a 7th – neither Lady Beth or The Bull can be considered ‘anti-sex’. How silly!

NOTICE! In order to save space & download time, the photos of these perverts can be found on our Local Scum page.  Now, on with the update!

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  • We have to start with Karen Ann Baldwin, DOB: 10/14/1963. Convicted of Sodomy 1st four (4) counts. This bitch committed this horrid act upon a six year old little girl. See? Monsters are sometimes women female. No real woman would do such a thing!
  • Next is Dustin Wayne James, DOB: 7/21/1985. This ‘thing’ was also convicted of Sodomy 1st – also four (4) counts! Further details were withheld on the ADPS website. As of this posting I’m still looking for the truth of his offenses. Alabama law defines sodomy to include “deviate sexual intercourse with another person by forcible compulsion“. No telling the horrors this bastard inflicted.
  • Here is Thomas Earl Dickens, DOB: 08/29/1959. This scum was convicted of several counts of Sexual Abuse in the 1st Degree. Why the Registry withholds the details of some of these perverts is beyond me…
  • We have here one Jeremy Gene Woodham, DOB: 02/10/1973. Mr. Woodham here sodomized a 3 yr. old baby girl! Instead of the death he deserved, he served time only for Sexual Abuse in the 1st Degree. Sick bastard. Come to think of it, death is too good for him!
  • Meet Dennis Glen Thomason, DOB: 07/08/1957. He’s another one caught with materials in violation of the Alabama Child Pornography Act. We must demand more severe punishment of this offense and demand punishment of those that make and distribute child porn as well.
  • Another new on on my list is Eddie Lee Holt, DOB: 10/26/1963. Ol’ Eddie here was convicted of Rape in the 1st Degree, and Sexual Abuse in the 1st Degree. His victims? One of the girls was 8 yrs. old and the other was 11 yrs old. I’d better not comment further or I’ll get sick.
  • Avrahom Yeshuron Kaiser, DOB: 08/08/1963.  Wouldn’t you just love to know the history of that name? This puke was convicted of violations of Alabama’s Child Pornography Act.
  • Then we have Francisco “Frank” Olguin Mejia, DOB: 07/28/1950. “Frank” here was convicted of many counts of Indecency with a Child & Sexual Abuse in the 1st Degree. (& should have been shot…)
  • Ronald Lee Rifley, DOB: 10/11/1951. Convicted of Sexual Abuse, 1st Degree. Look at the smile on this worm’s face! They say this one is a commercial fisherman by trade. He’d best be glad that this father – or the father of his eight year old victim – isn’t on the boat with him. That would be some 175 pound of free fish bait!
  • Ralph Herbert Leek, Jr., DOB: 04/29/1930. Convicted of Possession of Obscene Matter / Person(s) Under 17. Looks like someone’s grandpa, doesn’t he? Just goes to show how careful a parent must be these days.
  • Gary Thomas Harris, DOB: 06/05/1964. Convicted of Sexual Abuse 1st in an attack on a fifteen year old girl. Makes one sick, doesn’t it? When will this Nation stand up and put an end to this sort of act? I know that we will never completely end such behavior, but we most certainly can make sure that these nut-jobs never re-offend.
  • Edward Berger Bolton, Jr., DOB: 05/23/1961. Mr. Bolton was convicted of Sexual Abuse in the 1st in his attack on a five year old little girl. Makes one wonder where the wiring got screwed in this monster’s head, doesn’t it?
  • And here’s Edward Louis Botta, DOB: 01/28/1976. Edward here was convicted of Sexual Abuse in the 2nd Degree. His victim was a 15 yr. old girl. There are those that say that sexual contact with a fifteen year old girl is hardly criminal. To those I have need of but one reply: “It is the law! If you don’t like it, try to get it changed.”
  • Finally, for this update at least, Kenneth Richard Bates, (alias: Kenneth Richard Flanagan), DOB: 01/04/1976. Convicted of Child Molestation 1st (2 counts). This pervert is a boy-hunter, (and a potential NAMBLA member). His victims include 11 and 14 year old boys.

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Here is what you, my Dear Readers, can do to help protect our children…

Start a Neighborhood Watch! This is a huge help. Neighbors helping neighbors. Get the locals involved. Only people you can trust to stay calm, though. Just remember, Do Nothing Stupid!!! I know how frustrating this can be, but you must keep a cool head and play by the rules. Just be sure to use the rules to your full advantage!

Usually these creeps fade off into the background when they find that pickings are going to get slim because people are watching. It’s those eyes on them constantly that makes them uncomfortable enough to leave. It takes time.

Friends, check those registries! Check them regularly and often. The Alabama Registry is found at this link. Then call your local Sheriff and make sure the info on the site is up-to-date.Here in Mobile County, Alabama our LEOs have failed us miserably in this respect over the years in violation of State Law. The Bull has been informed, though, that a volunteer group is being formed in the MCSO to deal with address & work confirmations as well as neighborhood notifications. I’ll be volunteering my time immediately!

Another good idea is to scout the addresses and see if the people living at the address are indeed the people listed on the registry. If they are, and if they are in your neighborhood, don’t go and get yourself arrested for something stupid like attacking them. Do NOTHING illegal!!! I can not stress that enough. Do not become a criminal over a criminal! It isn’t worth the loss you will suffer. Print out the registry page with their photo on it, make many copies, and post them everywhere possible in the neighborhood. Every utility pole should be covered. Place signs along the road. Go door-to-door with handouts. Make sure everyone knows who they are and what they did.

Buy a gun and learn how to properly and safely use and store it. (A shotgun chambered to 20, 16 or 12 gauge will do. I prefer the Mossberg 500A in 12 gauge & the legal minimum barrel length. In handguns you can’t go wrong with any caliber that starts with “.4″. The Bull prefers the ol’ reliable .45 Colt.) Ask your trainer about quality ammunition for protection. Here in Alabama, and an increasing number of states, we law abiding citizens have the right to protect ourselves, our children and our property by what ever means or force required. Use that law to your advantage! Tolerate no pedophile or other sex offender to survive entering your ‘castle’ with the intent to do harm!

Get a dog, too. Preferably a big dog that tends to “nanny” children. I recommend Great Danes (we have two), but Doberman Pinschers, German Shepherds, and Bouvier des Flandres will do quite nicely. Our Great Danes have proven themselves as absolutely remarkable child protection dogs. The Bull figures that all he’ll find of some pedophile meeting my dogs will be a few tatters of bloody clothing and rather large and greasy piles of dog crap in the back yard. Suits me right down to the ground! When not watching the kids the Danes simply sleep. NOTE: My big male Great Dane, Bruiser, was put to the test, and passed with flying colors,  since my last ‘Scum Update’. Not against a pedophile, but a would-be thief eager to steal my tools and bikes. Bruiser can cross the yard to the back fence in under two seconds. Even with only a five step distance to cover to said fence this illegal alien type thief only made the top of the chain-link fence when his right leg suddenly became 150 pounds heavier and six fangs punctured  his boot. (Yes, Danes have a rather unique tooth structure.) Poor bastard had a rough ride with his crotch being dragged some ten feet down the ragged top of the chain link. (Ouch! Must have been like riding a chainsaw!) The perp eventually tore himself loose and fell on the other side of the fence. Police followed a bit of a blood trail but lost it in the back of the neighborhood. No charges were filed against my dog as per the Castle Doctrine.

You put your kids in car seats and buckle them in, don’t you? If you would take the time to do that to protect your children from car accidents, would you not take the time to protect them from the predators walking our streets? The simple fact that there are so many of these creatures living among us proves that our Government – at every level – can not, or will not, protect us and our children. Police are proven to be useless until after the damage is done.

It is up to you – the parent. Are you ready?

Bull, out.  End of Article

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Yes, it is true. (…and perhaps the world is coming to an end…).

The Bull and Barack H. Obama, (or at least his Inaugural Committee), agree that – despite the objections falling from the foaming mouth of the rabid Alabama NAACP leader, one Edward Vaughn – the Mobile County Azalea Trail Maids will make a wonderful, not to mention beautiful, addition to a truly historic Inauguration.

Azalea Trail Maids on Parade
[Azalea Trail Maids on Parade]

Vaughn, in one of his more pitiful attempts at continued relevancy, made the comment that the Trail Maids should stay home on Inauguration Day, claiming the group reminds him of slavery. “These are not just regular costumes.” Vaughn said, “These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind.” Vaughn went on to say the group would be the laughing stock of the Inauguration.

Other folks, both black and white, seem to disagree with the Alabama NAACP leader. “I don’t see what the dresses have to do with racism. I don’t see it. It’s just a regular dress to me. Just a dress they wore back in the day,” said Carolyn Tius of Montgomery. Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine said, “We want everyone to know that these young ladies do not need to be identified with slavery.”

This year’s 50 Trail Maids number 38 Caucasian young ladies with the remaining number being minorities. With that ratio I am hard pressed to see how someone, (even someone as deranged as Vaughn), can possibly find this wonderful organization in any way “racist”.

Since the 1920’s fifty young women from High Schools around the county are chosen to represent Mobile. Thousands of young women of all races apply each year for the 50 positions. They design and make their own intricate dress, costing between $3000 and $5000 each. They wear these beautiful, yet exceedingly heavy and hot costume dresses for a year, traveling around the county and even the Country representing Mobile and dealing with the tropical Mobile heat & humidity. It is challenging, expensive, and yet rewarding for the girls and their families. How does The Bull know? Because my beloved bride, Lady Beth, was a Trail Maid in 1994-95.

Lady Beth as a Trail Maid 1995
[Lady Beth as a Trail Maid 1995]

Yep, The Bull is a very fortunate man – as the above photo proves. But I digress…

Though they were caught by surprise by the invitation to the Inauguration, the Azalea Trail Maids will parade in Washington D.C. on January 20th. The Azalea Trail Maids show all that is good and proper about Mobile, Alabama, and the South. They show hospitality, civility, kindness, and consideration for others. They welcome distinguished visitors to our fair Home and guide many on tours of our land and explain our deep-rooted traditions. Indeed, to have the Trail Maids meet you at your arrival is considered a great honor.

It seems that Barack H. Obama understands that honor, and perhaps some of those traditions, even though he is not a Southerner.

It is a real shame that the Alabama NAACP and Edward Vaughn do not.

Bull, out!  End of Article

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I hate to re-enter my blogging after my self-imposed vacation from the keyboard with such a sad story, but what can you do? The scumbag pedophiles never stop their disgusting pursuits. So, The Bull believes that he must never stop his hunt of these real-life monsters. I must also do my very best to keep you informed of what is stalking your children.

This case is particularly disturbing as I had recently become acquainted with the female child involved through a friend of my very own daughter. This hit far too close to home, my Dear Readers! I’ll admit to a momentary lapse of reason when I was informed of the following detailed events. I found myself wishing for a few moments alone with each of the scum involved. My Gods! One was a female teacher at a local school! The Bull shall relent from his momentary madness and let, as is my rule, the legal system deal with these perverts. I remind my Readers, we are a Nation of laws. (Though I do truly desire that We turn to being a Nation of Justice…)

On with the story so far, straight from the Mobile Press-Register

By Robert McClendon, Staff Reporter January 08, 2009 9:11 PM
MOBILE, Ala. – A former teacher from Chickasaw has been arrested on allegations that she traded child pornography with a Florida man and tried to arrange sexual encounters for him with two children, one of them a family member, authorities said today.

The arrest of 29-year-old Melissa B. Gray at her home Wednesday pre-empted plans for her and Milton resident Jonathan Daniel Bervig to have sex this weekend with one of the children: the male family member’s friend, an 8-year-old girl, authorities said.

Gray worked at Little Flower Catholic School in midtown Mobile between August 2005 and March 2008, according to a statement from the Archdiocese of Mobile Office of Catholic Schools.

Gwen Byrd, superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of Mobile, declined comment beyond her statement released today, according to her secretary.

It states that Gray was a certified teacher and that state and federal background checks were performed.

Gray will be held at Mobile County Metro Jail until at least Monday, when a federal magistrate judge will decide whether to grant her pre-trial release.

Melissa Grey: Child Molester
[Melissa Grey, in custody.]

Bervig, who was arrested Tuesday, met Gray in an online chat room and discussed sexual fantasies involving children, according to an affidavit filed by an Alabama Bureau of Investigation agent.

According to the affidavit, Bervig had visited Gray’s house several times, including an initial visit in which the two had sex. About a month ago, the affidavit alleges, Gray tried to set up a sexual liaison with Bervig, a 7-year-old family member and a female friend of the child.

The affidavit states that Gray gave Benadryl to the two children at her house, then told Bervig to come so that they could “play” with the children. Benadryl is an antihistamine that can cause drowsiness.

The affidavit indicates that Bervig told investigators that he drove to Gray’s house, but left because the children were still awake. He told authorities that Gray was angry that the children had not fallen asleep, according to the criminal complaint.

After Bervig’s first attempt to have sex with the girl at Gray’s house, the affidavit states, he and Gray set up another rendezvous. That was to have been this Saturday at her house, and Bervig told investigators that he was to have brought Percocet to drug the girl, according to the criminal complaint.

Percocet is a prescription painkiller that includes acetaminophen and oxycodone, which can cause drowsiness and confusion.

Following Bervig’s Tuesday arrest, investigators began questioning him about his relationship with a woman he knew as Melissa in real life but as missykisses4u@yahoo.com during online chats, the affidavit states.

That same day, an investigator from Florida assumed Bervig’s identity online and contacted Gray. She told him during the instant messaging chat that she wanted Bervig to come to her house, according to the affidavit.

During that conversation, Gray said that she had let a male friend masturbate over the 7-year-old boy the night before in exchange for 60 Percocet pills, the affidavit states. She also sent several images of child pornography over the Internet to Bervig’s account, according to the investigator’s report.

Alabama authorities, following Bervig’s statements, obtained a search warrant for Gray’s home on Tuesday. She initially said she had not had any chats about engaging in sex with children, according to the affidavit, but then admitted that she had after officers confronted her with chat logs.

Both Gray and Bervig face child pornography charges in connection with the case.

A Web search for missykisses4u@yahoo.com showed several accounts set up on various sites dedicated to facilitating liaisons between adults.

On plentyoffish.com, the Web site on which Bervig and Gray first met, according to the affidavit, part of missykisses4u’s profile reads: “First date: Truth or Dare, Always MY turn. Hehehe.”

On another site, adultfriendfinder.com, the bio associated with Gray’s e-mail address says: “I wanna … dig deep into our darkest taboo fantasies and make them a reality. …”

The 7-year-old boy’s father, who lives in Baldwin County, said he awoke early Wednesday morning to a call from authorities saying that his son was in the hospital and unresponsive and that Gray had been arrested.

When he got to the hospital, the father said, he discovered that his son had been drugged.

Considering the circumstances, “He’s doing fantastic,” said the father, whose name is being withheld by the Press-Register to protect the child’s identity. “I feel like I’m blessed” Gray was arrested when she was, he said.

“I feel like Jesus put some protection down on him,” he said. (Remember, The Bull is a confirmed Pagan, but even I agree with that statement. I think the proper word is “Amen!”)

:shock: Are you sick yet? I was when I read this and then was told by Lady Beth who the little girl was.

By Brendan Kirby, Staff Reporter January 12, 2009 6:36 PM
MOBILE, Ala. – A federal judge today sent child pornography distribution allegations against a Chickasaw woman to a grand jury.

But U.S. Magistrate Judge William Cassady delayed a ruling on the prosecution’s request that Melissa B. Gray be jailed pending trial. He asked for more information about a recent law that makes it harder for such defendants to get out of jail before charges are resolved.

Gray will remain in jail at least until Cassady rules.

Spencer Traywick, an Alabama Bureau of Investigation agent, testified that Gray’s computer had at least 30 to 40 images of child pornography as well as incest stories involving young boys. He said experts from the Department of Public Safety in Montgomery were still analyzing the hard drive.

Traywick testified that Gray, 29, also had a small amount of marijuana and a prescription for Percocet when law enforcement officials searched her home last week.

Authorities accuse Gray of planning to use Percocet to drug two children in her house so they would offer no resistance while a man Gray met on the Internet molested them.

Many thanks to Robert McClendon and Brendan Kirby for the excellent reporting. The paper promises us a more detailed story in today’s Mobile Press-Register.

What, exactly, do we have to do as a society to rid ourselves of these vermin :?:

It is my position that, as in many of today’s societal ills, being a pedophile is not so much a disease as it is a personal choice. Therefore, I can see no reason for any decent Society to continue to tolerate the existence of such scum. Once again I call on America to rise up, get mad, and demand that child molestation be made a capital crime and punishable by death on the first offense :!:

Meanwhile, I’ll be watching this case closely and will report future developments. In fact, I think this case will require The Bull’s presence in the Court House. Also, check back with Us for an update on the local perverts. I’m overdue for the post and will have it out by the end of the week.

Until next time I have the Honor to remain Your Most Humble Servant,
Bull, out.
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After having a fine, (though artery-clogging), breakfast at my favorite Waffle House here in Mobile County, Alabama with my eldest daughter, I had opportunity to stop in at a local Shell station to gas-up the mini-van. While inside I joined in with a group of locals discussing the election. The group consisted of both blacks and whites as well as Democrats, Republicans, and with my addition an Independent voter. It seems we all were in agreement this morning. That surprised me somewhat considering the demographics of the group, but it was a very nice surprise.

What exactly were we all in agreement on?

First off, that the election process – at every poll represented – went extremely smoothly with everyone in attendance acting like Americans should be expected to act: polite, considerate, and genteel in the fine Southern tradition. Sure, we had widely varying political positions and voted for very different candidates. Above it all, though, we were – and remain – Americans first. Apparently no one witnessed any of the silliness &/or violence reported in other States. I bet a lot of folks will find that strange since we Southerners are considered by most of the Country as knuckle-draggin’, moonshine-drinkin’, skin-head racist if we are white -or- as knuckle-draggin’, uneducated, welfare state junkies if we are black. Just proves true what The Bull has said all along: Southerners are the finest people that America produces – regardless of race.

Secondly, we agreed that the Republican party failed itself and the Conservatives here in America miserably by failing to even try to get out a clear statement of position. I was surprised to hear the Democrats in the group say that they wished that their side had only done moderately better and they wish that more details had been given as to how the plans of the incoming Administration would be implemented. We also agreed that the Republican party as it has existed since the end of the Reagan era is all but dead. The Dems have a chance here to prove themselves and their policies – but only one chance. There is still a heck of a lot of distrust out there for politicians of both stripes.he Republicans will waste no time in rebuilding themselves, and if they are smart they will do so in the image of the Reagan coalition, basing themselves on principles rather than politics. Only time will tell. Agreed it was that far too much money is being spent on these elections. To the point of where it appears that folks are buying their way into office.

We agreed that the time is right in America for the formation of a truly viable third party. Provided, of course, that they start now. The failing on all third parties up to this point is that they go into ’stealth mode’ between election cycles rather than making themselves and their position widely known for the years when others are resting on their laurels. And finally, we agreed that the election is indeed over and that we should all give the partisan crap a rest for a while and see what happens. Four years from now a change can be made should it be warranted. All-in-all, not bad for a bunch of knuckle-draggin’ Southerners…

Bull, out!  End of Article

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It is time for another installment of E-Mail Funnies! You know, those ‘occasionally’ (very ‘occasionally’) gut-busting funny letters you see forwarded to 10.3 million email addresses and complete with 47 sets of headers by the time it gets into your mailbox. Sometimes they are made all the more funny simply by being completely true. Such is the case with today’s offering. It touches on grabs & shakes like a rag doll a topic near to everyone on the Gulf Coast this time of year – Hurricanes. Some folks will cringe at making fun of such events. Question is: What else are you going to do? Hurricanes are a force of Nature. There is nothing we mortals can do about them so we might as well get a laugh.

Today’s entry was submitted by a friend and local dog trainer, Frances Dauster CPDT. If you live in the Mobile, AL area and own a dog you just may want to contact her at P’s & Q’s Dog Training, LLC, or via email at this address.

Here we go…

We’re in the peak of the hurricane season, which starts June 1 and ends November 30. Any day now, you’re going to turn on the TV and see a weather person pointing to some radar blob out in the Gulf of Mexico and making two basic meteorological points:
(1) There is no need to panic.
(2) We could all be killed.

Yes, hurricane season is an exciting time to be in Mobile County.

If you’re new to the area, you’re probably wondering what you need to do to prepare forthe possibility that we’ll get hit by ‘the big one.’

Based on our experiences, we recommend that you follow this simple three-step hurricane preparedness plan:
STEP 1. Buy enough food and bottled water to last your family for at least three days.
STEP 2. Put these supplies into your car.
STEP 3. Drive to Nebraska and remain there until Thanksgiving.

Unfortunately, statistics show that most people will not follow this sensible plan.

Most people will foolishly stay here in Mobile County.

We’ll start with one of the most important hurricane preparedness items:
Homeowners’ Insurance: If you own a home, you must have hurricane insurance. Fortunately, this insurance is cheap and easy to get, as long as your home meets two basic requirements:
(1) It is reasonably well-built, and
(2) It is located in Nebraska.

Unfortunately, if your home is located in Mobile County, or any other area that might actually be hit by a hurricane, most insurance companies would prefer not to sell you hurricane insurance, because then they might be required to pay YOU money, and that is certainly not why they got into the insurance business in the first place. So you’ll have to scrounge around for an insurance company, which will charge you an annual premium roughly equal to the replacement value of your house. At any moment, this company can drop you like used dental floss. Since Hurricane Frederick, I have had an estimated 27 different home-insurance companies. This week, I’m covered by the Bob and Big Stan Insurance Company, under a policy which states that, in addition to my premium, Bob and Big Stan are entitled, on demand, to my kidneys.

Shutters: Your house should have hurricane shutters on all the windows, all the doors, and – if it’s a major hurricane – all the toilets.

There are several types of shutters, with advantages and disadvantages:
Plywood shutters: The advantage is that, because you make them yourself, they’re cheap. The disadvantage is that, because you make them yourself, they will fall off.

Sheet-metal shutters: The advantage is that these work well, once you get them all up. The disadvantage is that once you get them all up, your hands will be useless bleeding stumps and it will be December.

Roll-down shutters: The advantages are that they’re very easy to use, and will definitely protect your house. The disadvantage is that you will have to sell your house to pay for them.

‘Hurricane-proof’ windows: These are the newest wrinkle in hurricane protection: They look like ordinary windows, but they can withstand hurricane winds! You can be sure of this because the salesman says so. He lives in Nebraska.

Hurricane Proofing Your Property: As the hurricane approaches, check your yard for movable objects such as barbecue grills, planters, patio furniture, visiting relatives, etc. You should, as a precaution, throw these items into your swimming pool (if you don’t have a swimming pool, you should have one built immediately). Otherwise, the hurricane winds will turn these objects into deadly missiles.

Evacuation Route: If you live in a low-lying area, you should have an evacuation route planned out. (To determine whether you live in a low-lying area, look at your driver’s license; if it says you live in Mobile County, you live in a low-lying area.) The purpose of having an evacuation route is to avoid being trapped in your home when a major storm hits. Instead, you will be trapped in a gigantic traffic jam several miles from your home, along with two hundred thousand other evacuees. So, as a bonus, you will not be lonely.

Hurricane Supplies: If you don’t evacuate, you will need supplies. Do not buy them now! Mobile County tradition requires that you wait until the last possible minute, then go to the supermarket and get into vicious fights with strangers over who gets the last can of SPAM.

In addition to food and water, you will need the following supplies:

  • 23 flashlights.
  • At least $167 worth of batteries that turn out, when the power goes out, to be the wrong size for the flashlights.
  • Bleach. (No, I don’t know what the bleach is for. NOBODY knows what the bleach is for. But it’s traditional, so GET some!)
  • A big knife that you can strap to your leg. (This will be useless in a hurricane, but it looks cool.)
  • A large quantity of raw chicken, to placate the alligators. (Ask anybody who went through Fredrick; after the hurricane, there WILL be irate alligators.)
  • $35,000 in cash or diamonds so that, after the hurricane passes, you can buy a generator from a man with no discernible teeth.

Of course these are just basic precautions.

As the hurricane draws near, it is vitally important that you keep abreast of the situation by turning on your television and watching TV reporters in rain slickers stand right next to the water’s edge telling everybody to stay away from the ocean.

Good luck and remember: It’s great living in paradise! Those of you who aren’t here yet, you should come. Really!

Seriously, you could do much worse than living in Mobile County, AL. Take California for example… Or Massachusetts.

Hope it lightened your day! :lol:

Bull, out!
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There are good ideas when it comes to teaching kids. There are bright ideas when it comes to how to discipline kids, too.

There are, however, NO good, decent, or bright ideas when it comes to segregation of kids in the public schools. None, what so ever. Segregation was a bad idea when we did it by race and it is a bad idea when we do it today by sex.

In my son’s middle school, Hankins Middle School of Theodore, AL, (a suburb of Mobile, AL), the principle has taken it upon herself – without any form of notice to the parents drom either the school or District offices – to segregate the students by their sex – males in one set of classrooms and the females in another set of classrooms. Moreover, Ms. Cheryl Wittner has the full support of the Mobile County School District.

Or maybe she only thinks she has… The District would not discuss it with The Bull save to say that in their opinion “children have no ‘rights’ and that it is entirely a school-by-school decision to be made by the principle of the school“.

OK, since when do Americans, middle school age or not, “have no rights“? :shock:

I know that there are plenty of folks that will say that students will likely study better without the distraction of members of the opposite sex sitting within arms reach. Some of those same people will say that discipline in the schools will improve if the sexes are separated. To those people let me answer with the following:

Looking back through the last hundred years I can find no evidence of American students failing to learn just because a member of the opposite sex was sitting nearby. In fact, let us not forget that that those non-sexually segregated students gave us all the modern marvels we use in our daily lives. They even sent men to the moon. Not a bad record. As for discipline, there is also no evidence that behavior failed during all of those decades. No, discipline failed when corporal punishment and strict parenting fell out of favor. It had nothing to do with the sexes being mingled.

All of this, of course, is merely The Bull letting off steam and no one will care. So let’s look more closely at this trend of sexual segregation.

In the more modern times, indeed, until the year 2000, such sexual segregation was outlawed in America. However, laws have been relaxed to allow the “experimentation” with this sad, out-dated mode of education. Since that date several states have looked into the implementation of sex segregation including Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and now Alabama.
(Do you see a geographical trend?)
The Education Department issued final rules in 2006 detailing how it would enforce the Title IX landmark anti-discrimination law. Under the change, local school leaders have discretion to create same-sex classes for subjects such as math, a grade level or even an entire school. The idea being “separate, but equal, education“, (We’ve heard that before here in America, haven’t we?), for all of the ghost-reasons listed above – and others that you won’t believe!

The problem is that the education received may be separate, but is rarely equal.

Enter, the ACLU, stage left. (…and it is killing The Bull to write this. :cry: )

Note: Folks, I physically had to leave the computer at this point for several hours. This entire subject, the ACLU, & the fact of just how liberal I think I’m sounding here made me physically ill. It is now after midnight and I will try again to made my case against this “new” idea in education. The writing here does not, and will not, live up to my usual standards simply because of how upset I am over the entire topic. No words can describe the disappointment I am feeling that my beloved Nation that struggled so long over segregation would so willingly start down that path again.

So, the Bush Administration opened the door to this horror from the past. (Not one of Dubya’s better moments, for sure!) But why? Why would anyone even consider such an act? Where is this educational horse-shyte coming from? Here’s a clue…

Charlotte Allen, (author of an op-ed in the Washington
(com)Post on Sunday, March 2, 2008
) wrote:

The theory that women are the dumber sex…is amply supported by neurological and standardized-testing evidence. Men’s and women’s brains not only look different, but men’s brains are bigger than women’s (even adjusting for men’s generally bigger body size). The important difference is in the parietal cortex, which is associated with space perception. Visuospatial skills, the capacity to rotate three-dimensional objects in the mind, at which men tend to excel over women, are in turn related to a capacity for abstract thinking and reasoning, the grounding for mathematics, science and philosophy.

Then we have Michael Gurian, (the author of Boys and Girls Learn Differently!, & founder of the Gurian Institute). He wrote in the Teacher’s Guide that accompanies his book:

Girls have difficulty learning some math, perhaps because they are not called on as much but also for biological reasons. Adolescent males receive surges of the hormone testosterone five to seven times a day; this can increase spatial skills, such as higher math. Increased estrogen during the menstrual cycle increases female performance in all skills, including spatials, so an adolescent girl may perform well on any test, including math, a few days per month.

What the hell? :shock: THIS is what we shall use as our guidelines toward training our young? We have just been set back several centuries in our gender roles. But wait! It gets worse!

A guy named Leonard Sax, a family physician and the founder of the National Association for Single-Sex Public Education, states that biologically, girls’ brains perform worse under stress, while boys’ brains perform better, and thus girls should never be given time limits on tasks, while boys’ classes should be structured around competition.

As it was asked on an ACLU website: “Who do you think will perform better in a demanding work environment after receiving such a gender-typed education?”

Let me ask this as well: What about the social skills that are being lost? How can children learn to behave around the opposite sex if they are not allowed to interact in any way without threat of punishment, such as what is happening at Hankins Middle School? How will this play out in the future lives of these children? It is too big of a gamble in my book.

The ideas proposed by the supporters of this segregation of children are fortunately NOT without their detractors. Many studies show that it is much better for male and female children to be together during the educational process. Prof. Analia Schlosser, from Tel Aviv University, wrote that boys and girls may learn differently, but American parents should think twice before moving their children to sex-segregated schools. Let me quote from the AFTAU webpage on the topic:

“Being with more girls is good for everybody,�? says Prof. Analia Schlosser, an economist from the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University. “We find that both boys and girls do better when there are more girls in the class.�? She investigated girls and boys in mixed classrooms in the elementary, middle, and high-school grades of the Israeli school system.

In an unpublished paper, Prof. Schlosser concluded that classes with more than 55 percent of girls resulted in better exam results and less violent outbursts overall. “It appears that this effect is due to the positive influence the girls are adding to the classroom environment,�? says Prof. Schlosser. She carried out the study while on a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University, and will study the effects of gender in higher education lecture halls next.

This is one of few studies of its kind to use scientific data to address the question of gender effects in school.

Pulling out my best Master Yoda voice I have to say “Interesting, that last line was”.

It appears, from the research The Bull has done so far that most school districts starting sex-segregated programs today are doing so on the based entirely on these theories. The rest are using the simply stupid idea of improved behavior. There are a thankfully small number, (mainly in Canada), that are sexually segregating their students in order to conform to Islamic (Sharia) law. I pray that is never the case here. However, considering the attitudes in the Mobile District offices, who can be sure?

I wish assure my readers that it sickens me to have to agree with so liberal a bunch as the ACLU, NOW, and others. However, this idea of gender segregation is one that should be, must be, stopped. It is as vile as the idea of racial segregation and should be treated the same. To that end The Bull has contacted the ACLU of Alabama and have requested their help in this matter. I am now awaiting their response. There has been success in striking down this foolishness in other states.
I pray that this is squashed in Alabama soon.

Please, leave your comments and let me know just how far off-base you think I am. There will be follow-ups to this post. No doubt at all. Now I need to hurl… :oops:

Bull, out.  End of Article

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