How very sad. 🙁 😥
(H/T Matt)
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Here is hoping that this guy gets the help that he really needs:
TACOMA, Wash. – Army Sergeant Joshua Tabor was sentenced to 60 days in jail this morning after investigators say he “water boarded” his three-year-old daughter.
Police said 27-year-old Tabor punished his daughter last January in their Yelm home because she did not know her ABC’s and was having trouble learning to use the bathroom. Authorities said he pulled his daughter’s head backward into the kitchen sink.
Yelm Police Chief Todd Stancil said Tabor knew she was afraid of water and thought it was an appropriate punishment.
At first Tabor entered a not guilty plea to the charge but then entered no contest please in August.
Tabor will not be allowed to see his daughter for the next five years.
Tabor’s attorney said his client suffers from post traumatic stress disorder after serving tours as a helicopter mechanic in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Another JBLM soldier, Ruben Colon, is awaiting trial for allegedly waterboarding his foster son as punishment last year.
via JBLM soldier sentenced for waterboarding daughter | NWCN.com Washington – Oregon – Idaho.
I will accept the argument that he is a sick soldier and need some medical treatment; I get that. But something is wrong with someone who does this sort of stuff….to a damned kid. 😡
Sorry, but this one brings my Fatherly instinct out. 😡
Cross-posted @ Alexandria
I remember watching a little of the video over on HotAir and I had to stop, I just could not take watching the video.
This is such a heartbreaking video:
I hope Rush Limbaugh is damn satisfied. 😡
Thank goodness our Death Panels will be all American, so there’s no nasty Russian judge like at the Olympics. Hey, Paula Abdul’s available! Plus, Dick Cheney tortures himself over what to reveal in his new book. Uncle Jay explains it all!
It is stories like this here, that make me think that there is still hope for this Country of ours:
God Bless that little man…
Synopsis: For 8 years, George Bush was Hitler. But thanks to America’s stable transfer of power, now Barack Obama gets to be Hitler. Join the cheers, or boos, or whatever you call that behavior at those “WWE Town Meetings.” Uncle Jay explains its all!
Synopsis: Happy Birthday Mr. President, even though you were really born on the International Space Station with the covert help of the people who shot JFK from the off-site branch of Area 51 beneath Loch Ness. Also, Cash for Clunkers becomes Crash for Flunkers. Uncle Jay explains!
This week: Attention! Health care reform bill to Emergency, STAT! Obama makes a casual comment about Barbarians at Henry Louis Gates, and suddenly all health breaks loose!
Synopsis: Sorry if this week’s news seems a little late. By about 40 years! Everybody kept talking about Walter Cronkite, plus the historic landing on the moon (wink wink). Maybe they’re just trying to get us ready for next month, when they won’t shut up about Woodstock.
Yeah, I forgot him too…. 😀 😛 😉
Synopsis: Michael Jackson may be gone, but those unforgettable, familiar and spectacular lawsuits will be with us forever. Speaking of spectacles, here’s how to tell the Sotomayor hearings from the latest UFC match: there’s no theme music in the Senate. Uncle Jay explains what he can!
Synopsis: It’s time to sing America’s praises for the Fourth! Unfortunately, Uncle Jay sings about the news instead. Ever since last December’s year in review, fans have been screaming for Uncle Jay to be singing. So by popular demand, here’s 2009 in singing review. The first half, anyway.
Here’s Both; I forgot to post last weeks show. Ooops! 😛
I somehow let this one slip past me… ooops! 😮
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One big judging spectacle ends, another one begins. No Simon Cowell this time, just 100 Senators calling the tune. Plus, GM punches out and Kim Jong Il punches out the UN. Uncle Jay explains it all!
The future and the past boldly go where I’ll be back! If you’re not sure what day, year or planet you’re traveling through, the news will confuse you even more. But Uncle Jay explains it all!
What is the “Deficit?” Some kids at school take Deficit to help their attention, is it like that? No, in the news it’s about grownups who don’t pay attention to their money. That is, OUR money. Uncle Jay explains The Deficit!
This is absolutely amazing and quite disgusting.
Via the AP:
FINDLAY, Ohio – A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.
Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High School’s prom Saturday.
Frost, a senior at Heritage Christian School in northwest Ohio, agreed to the school’s rules when he signed a statement of cooperation at the beginning of the year, principal Tim England said.
The teen, who is scheduled to receive his diploma May 24, would be suspended from classes and receive an “incomplete” on remaining assignments, England said. Frost also would not be permitted to attend graduation but would get a diploma once he completes final exams. If Frost is involved with alcohol or sex at the prom, he will be expelled, England said.
Frost’s stepfather Stephan Johnson said the school’s rules should not apply outside the classroom.
“He deserves to wear that cap and gown,” Johnson said.
Frost said he thought he had handled the situation properly. Findlay requires students from other schools attending the prom to get a signature from their principal, which Frost did.
“I expected a short lecture about making the right decisions and not doing something stupid,” Frost said. “I thought I would get his signature and that would be the end.”
England acknowledged signing the form but warned Frost there would be consequences if he attended the dance. England then took the issue to a school committee made up of church members, who decided to threaten Frost with suspension.
“In life, we constantly make decisions whether we are going to please self or please God. (Frost) chose one path, and the school committee chose the other,” England said.
The handbook for the 84-student Christian school says rock music “is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people’s hearts and minds.”
England said Frost’s family should not be surprised by the school’s position.
“For the parents to claim any injustice regarding this issue is at best forgetful and at worst disingenuous,” he said. “It is our hope that the student and his parents will abide by the policies they have already agreed to.”
The principal at Findlay High School, whose graduates include Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, said he respects, but does not agree with, Heritage Christian School’s view of prom.
“I don’t see (dancing and rock music) as immoral acts,” Craig Kupferberg said.
Of course, the liberal Blogosphere is going crazy over there. But here’s the little problem. The boy’s parents knowingly signed an agreement; stating that their kid would not partake in any activities that the school found to be unacceptable. I have news for the Liberals; this sort of thing is absolutely normal for most Christian schools. As someone who basically grew up in those sort of schools, I ought to know this. The media also goes out of it’s way to mention the fact that the school is run by a group of Fundamental Baptists. That’s more of the Liberal attack on Christians.
The point is this; the child’s step father is now complaining about something that the parents signed an agreement to uphold and the School, legally has the right to tell the kid, that he will get into trouble, if he breaks the agreement. If I were this school, I would expel this troublemaker and further more; I would sue, in court, the step father of the senior in question.
This is nothing more, than another attack by the Liberals on Christians. I trust that Bill O’Reilly will be featuring this on his show. I am also surprised that other Conservative bloggers are not standing up for this school.
The list Liberal Bloggers attacking this poor Christian School: Lance Mannion, Alan Colmes’ Liberaland, Comments from Left Field, Pharyngula, Washington Monthly, Liberty Street and The Huffington Post
Kim Jong Il launches back into the headlines, reminding us that the dangerous nuts out there aren’t just pistachios. And the world’s economic powers gather to solve the crisis of Michelle Obama’s wardrobe. Uncle Jay explains it all!
President Obama obviously has been watching Uncle Jay, because he’s started doing online videos to answer your e-mailed questions. Uncle Jay is flattered, and will reciprocate by spending trillions of dollars.
Funny line of this Video. “Yeah and the Republicans said, “I bet that teleprompter does not pay it’s taxes either!” 😀
Just when you think things are at their worst, we get a bonus! Its so backwards that Rihannas on Nightline and Barack Obamas on the Tonight Show. Uncle Jay explains why basketball is the only news that’s NOT madness.
Ah, spring. Our lawns turn green as our money turns brown. The days get longer, patience gets shorter. But thank goodness, Lindsay Lohan and Anna Nicole Smith are back in the news! Uncle Jay explains it all.
The Video:
Sure, the new stimulus package may seem hard to figure out. Uncle Jay will explain it all, just as soon as he figures it out.
This is President Barack Obama’s idea of economic revival?
The former lieutenant governor of New York is warning that the $50 billion that President Obama expects to spend in the next few years on a nationwide digital health records system for every individual easily could, and probably will, result in rationed medical care.
WND recently reported on a little-discussed provision in Obama’s plan that would demand every American submit to a government program for electronic medical records without a choice to opt out, raising alarms for privacy advocates.
Privacy advocates said patients might be startled to discover personal information could be shared electronically with, perhaps, millions of people, including documentation on abortions, mental health problems, patient non-compliance, lawsuits against doctors and sexual problems.
Sue A. Blevins, president of the Institute for Health Freedom, said unless people have the right to decide “if and when” their health information is shared, there is no real privacy.
Now Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York and an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, has released a commentary warning about the likelihood of rationed care – or a health care system that simply provides treatment when it determines the cost-benefit ratio for the treatment and the patient meets its guidelines.
Obama plans to spend $50 billion “over five years” to create a system of electronic health records for every person who sees a doctor.
“Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion,” wrote McCaughey. “These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.”
“If the Obama administration’s economic stimulus bill passes … in its current form, seniors in the U.S. will face … rationing. Defenders of the system say that individuals benefit in younger years and sacrifice later.”
Other nations that utilize such programs typically deny costly treatments to patients who are senior citizens, and McCaughey warns that would be the case in the United States, too.
If this report is even remotely true; this would be the same thing as what happened in Germany during World War II and to certain extent here in the United States as well. The very idea of rationing medicine to children who need it most, is about the most despicable thing I ever heard. I think that this would be good time to stand up and call your senators and demand that this provision be removed from the bill.
I will also say this, that if this stimulus bill fails to deliver all the “Pie in the Sky” promises that Obama is say that it will. He will be a one term President. The people will not be lied to, as I blogged about last night, the far left is already angry over the Obama continued use of Bush tactics, when it comes to trials of the terrorists. So, watch what happens with this Stimulus, if it flops, so will Obama’s approval ratings.