Politically correct paranoid bureaucratslose their minds and run amok.
The Toronto Sun reported Saturday that Jesse Sansone was arrested and strip searched by authorities after his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a man with a gun in her Kitchener, Ontario, kindergarden class.
Sansone, a father of four, said the picture was supposed to be of him getting “bad guys and monsters.”
The school, however, had a different opinion, and contacted the Family and Children’s Services.
When Sansone arrived to pick up his daughter, Waterloo Police arrested him for possession of a firearm.
But the “firearm” turned out to be a plastic toy gun that shoots foam darts.
That, however, did not stop authorities from strip-searching Sansone. Meanwhile, the couple’s infant daughter was taken from them and handed to a social worker as Sansone’s pregnant wife waited for over two hours, wondering where her children were.
Jesse Sansone was arrested and strip-searched after his 4-year-old daughter drew a picture of a toy gun in school.
As it turns out, all of the couple’s four children had been at Family and Children’s Services, being interviewed by social workers, the Sun reported.
“So, my wife was really panicking at that point,” Sansone said. “So her and the detective drove down to children’s services. They questioned each of my children.”
“At that interview, I wasn’t there, my wife wasn’t there, but my boys, all they know right now is: ‘Daddy and guns, guns and Daddy’ – my kids knew all the police were at the school because of me. Now I have to explain to them how much of a mistake this is,” he added.
All this over a picture of a toy gun drawn in crayon by a four-year-old girl.
“So many people dealt with this situation in the wrong way,” Sansone said.
“I know the principal really well, how could he judge my character in this way? I drop off and pick the kids up every day, I always say hello, I sign every report card, I go to every parent teacher meeting, I am an active parent at that school,” he added.
“The family is trying to decide what to do next, and they are finding a new school for their children to attend,” the Sun reported.
The school and the authorities defend their actions, saying that when a child draws a picture of a gun, they have a responsibility to act. But in this case, their action ended up slandering an innocent person and damaging an entire family.
“From a public safety point of view, any child drawing a picture of guns and saying there’s guns in a home would warrant some further conversation with the parents and child,” said Family and Children’s Service executive director Alison Scott.
Now, the Sansone’s are left to pick up the pieces after educators have turned their lives upside down.
“The first thing my daughter said when I saw her was, ‘Daddy are you mad at me?’” Mr. Sansone said. “That sums it up to me.”
The rock posters below speak for themselves. Many of the artists were more than likely influenced by the omnipresent mind stimulants of the 1960′s and 70′s like acid and mescaline. The truth seekers (and just plain indulgent hedonists) of the period tried many psychedelics. It influenced the music and the art of the era. Undoubtedly the music and the poster art was greatly enhanced for the observers themselves when they were under the influence of the mind-blowing hallucinogens.
ABC News’ David Muir, Michael Falcone and Emily Friedman report:
DETROIT – Standing on the 30-yard line of Detroit’s Ford Field, Mitt Romney delivered what was billed as a major economic speech before a crowd of about 1,200 supporters on Friday.
In his crucial home state of Michigan, Romney reiterated his new tax plan to applause from an audience dwarfed by the scope of the stadium that seats up to 80,000 spectators.
The Romney campaign promised an economic policy speech on filled with major new policy initiatives, but as it turned out, the venue may have been too big for his message. The supporters, sitting in folding chairs on the field of the indoor football stadium that is home to the NFL’s Detroit Lions, were surrounded by tens of thousands of empty seats.
“I want to thank the folks at the Ford Field for making this space available for us,” Romney said. “I guess we had a hard time finding a large enough place to meet and this certainly is.”
Humanity can keep its space-junk problem under control by removing about five big pieces of orbital debris every year from the huge cloud surrounding Earth, experts say.
Such an active remediation effort, combined with more passive measures like draining fuel from defunct satellites, would likely keep space-junk levels relatively constant for the next 200 years or so. And there’s more good news: We probably have a decade or two to figure out how to do it, researchers say.
“Orbital debris is a serious issue, but at the same time, the sky is not falling,” J.-C. Liou, of NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office in Houston, said during a presentation with the agency’s Future In-Space Operations working group Wednesday (Feb. 22).
“I think we can continue to manage the current environment for some time — maybe 10 years or 20 years — before we have to consider debris removal to better preserve the environment for future generations,” Liou added.
In the Republican debate held on Washington’s Birthday the candidates were asked to describe themselves in one word. Santorum chose the word courage. If fits after a week of dancing with the national news media over the issue of Satan. Does he exist? Santorum says yes. The media says no.
It all started Monday when Matt Drudge posted audio of Rick Santorum speaking at Ave Maria University in Florida four years ago. Matt Drudge often relies on tips, and campaign opposition research operations have worked overtime this year dishing him dirt for posting.
The nuggets revealed show a Rick Santorum who is concerned about what Christians call Spiritual Warfare. The concept is derived from Ephesians chapter 6: 11-13 where St Paul warns: “Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].”
Belief in Satan is pretty standard theology amongst Christians. Only the liberal, secular media finds it surprising that professing Christians hold such a belief.
We are pleased that Santorum stood his ground, saying to CNN, “If somehow or another because you’re a person of faith and you believe in good and evil is a disqualifier for president, we’re going to have a very small pool of candidates who can run for president.”
In his speech, Santorum explains his beliefs this way: “This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country – the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age. There is no one else to go after other than the United States and that has been the case now for almost two hundred years, once America’s preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers.”
We couldn’t agree more with Santorum, and he should challenge Obama, who claims to be a professing Christian, if he also believes in the Devil. This would not only put the controversy in perspective, but would shine light on whether Obama believes in Lucifer or if he is a Christian heretic, far outside the mainstream of Christian thought.
However, we won’t hold our breaths waiting for a reporter in the White House Press corps to ask Obama if he, like Santorum, believes that the devil exists.
Santorum expounded his belief on why America is declining, saying,” … Satan has done so by attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.”
It is not common that an important new Bigfoot photograph, such as that on the facing page, comes to our attention.
This photo deserves to be the object of study, for it is part of a complex case that has been playing out for decades.
An investigation of the photograph means a trip back to the birth of Bigfoot in 1958 and a brief glance into the most holy of Bigfoot artifacts — the Patterson Bigfoot film. The photograph was sent to Strange Magazine contributing editor Mark Opsasnick, accompanied by a letter from Raymond L. (Ray) Wallace of Toledo, Washington, dated September 21, 1993. Ray Wallace wrote the following about the photograph:
“Here is a picture of a female Big Foot… I bought it, the negative, from a photographer who was up near Mt. St. Helens in March taking pictures when he saw this giant sized female sitting on a log asleep as she was so heavy with a baby inside of her that she could not move very fast, he said she would have [been] easy to capture while sleeping on this log on an old abandon[ed] loading site where they loaded out logs several years ago. He said she was just sitting out in the warm sun and went to sleep.”
I have spoken to Ray Wallace and he will not divulge the name of the individual from who he claims to have purchased the photograph. Wallace has said in conversation with the author that he purchased all rights to the photograph for $10,000 1. In a letter dated “January” (postmarked January 13, 1994), however, Wallace writes: “I just sent [Ray Crowe]… a picture of a pregnant female sitting on a log asleep on a warm sunny day that I took in 1990 west of Mt. St. Helens on an old abandoned logging road…”
I contacted Ray Crowe, director for the Western Bigfoot Society based in Portland, Oregon, asking about the photograph that Ray Wallace sent him. As a result of my inquiries, Ray Crowe has provided Strange with the negative that Wallace sent him and it is indeed the negative of the photograph that Wallace sent to Mark Opsasnick. This is all the contextual information that we have at this time.
Telltale signs of optical or computer compositing are not apparent. Therefore it is most probably not a model, painting, or composite. This would mean that the photograph is of a full-size “creature” photographed in its surroundings. The question then becomes: is the “creature” in the photograph a “real Bigfoot” or a “guy-in-a-suit?”
In a dark shot like this one there is little detail to make it possible to determine from the photograph alone if the entity depicted is a creature or a person in a suit. Therefore, the context becomes particularly important. We do not know a great deal about the photograph and have little expectation of learning much more. From what can be seen in the photograph and from what we know of its source, however, it would be prudent to focus our lens on Ray Wallace.
There at the Birth
In August 1958, the Wallace Construction Company — owned and operated by Ray Wallace — subcontracted to clear roads near the borders of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, California. The company was creating a new road in Northern California, along the western wall of a valley that surrounds Bluff Creek, which was to be the location nine years later of the famous Patterson Bigfoot film.
A bulldozer operator named Gerald (Jerry) Crew claimed to have found a series of footprints that led to his tractor, circled it, and walked away from the machine. The 16-inch-long prints were of naked humanoid feet with a 46- to 60-inch stride — almost twice that of most people. Later print discoveries and other odd events led to the story being carried across the country via the wire services and Bigfoot was “born” and named.2,3
The connection between the case that gave birth to Bigfoot and Ray Wallace is largely ignored in Bigfoot circles. In his book Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life and his article on the case in True magazine, Ivan T. Sanderson mentions Wallace in connection with the original Bluff Creek case, portraying him as the skeptical, pragmatic contractor. John Green, in Sasquatch: the Apes Among Us, devotes hundreds of pages to obscure Bigfoot-like accounts, but manages to ignore Ray Wallace completely! In Dr. Grover Krantz’s book Big Footprints, Wallace is not even mentioned. Since 1958, however, Wallace has claimed to have seen Bigfoot — and many members of his clan — numerous times, and has allegedly filmed the creatures repeatedly. He also has a collection of footprint casts. Why would Wallace, the owner of so much Bigfoot footage and so many footprint casts — not to mention being an eyewitness to many alleged Bigfoot encounters — have been excluded from, or downplayed in, most of the official Bigfoot histories?
Ray Wallace: Bigfoot’s First Cinematographer?
John Napier, in Bigfoot: the Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality, devotes one paragraph to Wallace, noting that it is claimed that Bigfoot has been filmed three times, initially by Ray Wallace, who says that he took his film of the creature in 1957 (prior to the first “Bigfoot” case in 1958).4 Napier points out that Wallace’s claim to have filmed Bigfoot so early in the game was only announced to the press in late November 1970.
These films — if taken when claimed — predated the famous Patterson film by ten years. If some still exist, they are important visual documents in the cultural history of Bigfoot.
Ray Wallace says that he has shot thousands of feet of Bigfoot film footage. Figures have varied from 6,000 to 15,000 feet of 16mm film. This amounts to hours of footage, which includes Bigfoot throwing stones, eating frogs, and so forth. Wallace maintains that his films, photos and tapes are authentic.
The Patterson Connection
In Bluff Creek, California on the afternoon of October 20, 1967, a rodeo rider named Roger Patterson and his partner Bob Gimlin filmed a Bigfoot, an event hailed by many as the single most important event in Bigfoot history and proof that the creature exists. This footage is one of the pillars of belief for the existence of Bigfoot. Ray Wallace, in conversation with the author, has said that he told Roger Patterson exactly where to go to shoot his film on that fateful day. Did Wallace, who was held in high esteem by Roger Patterson, know of Patterson and Gimlin’s agreement that they would not shoot at a Bigfoot if they found one! 5
The superficial resemblance of the Bigfoot in the photograph to that in the Patterson film should be of some interest. Both the Patterson Bigfoot and the Bigfoot in the Wallace photograph are said to be females, both are rather bulky (as opposed to the “creatures” in most known hoax footage), and both have a head that is somewhat pointed.
A Role Worthy of Attention
Ray Wallace, now 75, prefers to stay behind-the-scenes these days. He is not out to make money on his photographs or films, or to get publicity. A successful and generous individual, he has given away hundreds of Bigfoot photographs and posters to students internationally and has owned a free petting zoo full of rare animals, for the benefit of children. Ray’s association with Bigfoot is a big part of his life — enough so that Bigfoot put in an appearance at his fiftieth wedding anniversary party. Raymond L. Wallace is an interesting and unusual individual who has been marginalized out of the generally accepted history of Bigfoot.6Yet he was not only “there at the birth” but also believes that he may have taken the first Bigfoot movie footage. The facts that “Bigfoot’s birth” and the taking of the Patterson film were both in Wallace’s “backyard” are worthy of our attention.
Bigfoot expert Mark Opsasnick, author of The Bigfoot Digest, opines that, “If one does objective research into the origin of Bigfoot, it is obvious that the role Wallace played in the creation and development of Bigfoot cannot be ignored. He was there when the term ‘Bigfoot’ originated in 1958 as an important player in the case surrounding Jerry Crew, and Roger Patterson consulted with him repeatedly. This is a fact ignored by the contemporary Bigfoot investigators.” Opsasnick concludes that, “It is quite conceivable that if there had been no Ray Wallace, there would be no Bigfoot as we know it today.
We look forward to seeing other Bigfoot photographs and films taken by Ray Wallace, a man who has had a pivotal behind-the scenes role in the unwritten history of America’s favorite hairy man- monster.
We all know by now how much Muslims worship their holy book The Koran. So why was it that American soldiers tossed a bunch of copies into the garbage heap? It happened at Bagram air Base northeast of Kabul in Afghanistan. The Muslims can be very touchy. After all Bin Laden declared war on the United States because it helped Kuwait evict an invasion force from Iraq. Don’t add fuel to the fire. Double check all titles on books before they get incinerated. Don’t burn holy books, don’t urinate on dead holy warriors.
The best remedy for this type of thing is for all western forces to get out of Afghanistan. Let the Afghans sort it out. These people are living in the dark ages. Don’t mess with them.
Thousands of enraged Afghans have taken to the streets for a fourth day, after US soldiers inadvertently set fire to copies of the Koran.
In the deadliest day of unrest so far, at least 12 people died across the country, as mobs charged at US bases and diplomatic missions.
More than 20 people have been killed since the unrest began, including two US soldiers who died on Thursday.
President Barack Obama has apologised for the Koran-burning incident.
In a letter to his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai, Mr Obama said the books had been “unintentionally mishandled”.
US personnel apparently put the books into a rubbish incinerator at Bagram air base, near Kabul.
Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid Emits Light Beam in iPhone Photo
“As the Maya exploited the patterns of power in time and space, they used ritual to control the dangerous and powerful energies their [pyramids and structures] released.”
- Linda Schele and David Friedel, A Forest of Kings
“I took three pictures of the pyramid trying to get lightning. In number one, nothing happened. In number two, nothing happened. In the third picture is the beam and lightning.”
- Hector Siliezar, on vacation tour near Kukulkan Pyramid, Chichen Itza, Yucatan
This looks too much like something out of a fantasy comic book. I think some wily human is behind this. If this actually happened, the U.S. military would have swarmed that pyramid so fast it would have made laser beams look slow.
“We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won’t allow them to write “fuck” on their airplanes because it’s obscene!”
Colonel Kurtz
Apocalypse Now
