Via Billy
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Clarksville Schools Poised To Arm Staff Despite AG Opinion
Via WiscoDave
The Clarksville school superintendent said Monday that trained teachers and staff still could be armed when school starts since he has determined that an attorney general’s opinion unfavorable to the program is “erroneous.”
Superintendent David Hopkins said that after consulting over the weekend with the school district’s attorney, he has concluded that Attorney General Dustin McDaniel was wrong to say in an advisory opinion last week that school districts are not permitted under state law to act as private entities able to hire private security guards or train their employees to provide armed security.
The district recently spent about $68,000 training about 20 employees to serve as armed security guards. Hopkins said Monday the district is waiting on word from the Arkansas State Police as to whether McDaniel’s opinion means the district has to cancel the program — and that unless the agency indicates that it does, the program will be in place when classes start Aug. 19.
The Clarksville school superintendent said Monday that trained teachers and staff still could be armed when school starts since he has determined that an attorney general’s opinion unfavorable to the program is “erroneous.”
Superintendent David Hopkins said that after consulting over the weekend with the school district’s attorney, he has concluded that Attorney General Dustin McDaniel was wrong to say in an advisory opinion last week that school districts are not permitted under state law to act as private entities able to hire private security guards or train their employees to provide armed security.
The district recently spent about $68,000 training about 20 employees to serve as armed security guards. Hopkins said Monday the district is waiting on word from the Arkansas State Police as to whether McDaniel’s opinion means the district has to cancel the program — and that unless the agency indicates that it does, the program will be in place when classes start Aug. 19.
More @ SW Times
Dog eats paralyzed man's testicle
Via Bill "The moral of this story is: no matter how bad your day is going, somewhere, someone is having a WORSE one."
A Trumann man awoke Monday morning to find his dog eating one of his testicles.
The man, who has not been identified, is paralyzed and told police he has "no feeling from the waist down."
Around 7:45 a.m. Monday he was awakened by a "burning pain" in his mid-section, according to the initial police report.
A Trumann man awoke Monday morning to find his dog eating one of his testicles.
The man, who has not been identified, is paralyzed and told police he has "no feeling from the waist down."
Around 7:45 a.m. Monday he was awakened by a "burning pain" in his mid-section, according to the initial police report.
More @ WAFF
A Rebel Yell for the Colonel
Via WiscoDave
Trayvon. Bernanke. The Colonel. America is buffeted by blustery winds of change these days, yet who among us would have thought even they could disquiet the solemnity of the buffet table?
Recently it was announced that the venerable gentleman in the white suit and string tie would be phased out of our collective consciousness. KFC, formerly Kentucky Fried Chicken, is erasing the Colonel from its advertising and some establishments. Has there ever been a greater corporate betrayal? (Well, yes; but probably nothing similar where chicken breasts are concerned.)
Harland Sanders has always been something of a hero of mine. Not because he managed to hit on just the right blend of essential herbs and spices, but because as far as sheer tenacity and the grit of making it through life goes, he is a model for us all.
The Colonel was born not in 1790, as producers of Little House on the Prairie would have you believe, but in 1890 to a dirt-poor family in rural Indiana. During his infancy his father was severely injured, ending their farming life. The patriarch became a butcher for a few years but soon caught fever and died. Eldest child Harland became man of the house (at age 5) until his mother married a stepfather who beat him. By 12 he left school and subsequently left home.
Trayvon. Bernanke. The Colonel. America is buffeted by blustery winds of change these days, yet who among us would have thought even they could disquiet the solemnity of the buffet table?
Recently it was announced that the venerable gentleman in the white suit and string tie would be phased out of our collective consciousness. KFC, formerly Kentucky Fried Chicken, is erasing the Colonel from its advertising and some establishments. Has there ever been a greater corporate betrayal? (Well, yes; but probably nothing similar where chicken breasts are concerned.)
Harland Sanders has always been something of a hero of mine. Not because he managed to hit on just the right blend of essential herbs and spices, but because as far as sheer tenacity and the grit of making it through life goes, he is a model for us all.
The Colonel was born not in 1790, as producers of Little House on the Prairie would have you believe, but in 1890 to a dirt-poor family in rural Indiana. During his infancy his father was severely injured, ending their farming life. The patriarch became a butcher for a few years but soon caught fever and died. Eldest child Harland became man of the house (at age 5) until his mother married a stepfather who beat him. By 12 he left school and subsequently left home.
More @ TAKI MAG
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Vietnam: “It was the Alamo” William P. Collier recommended for MOH
Via LH
Then-Maj. William Collier, center, with his translator, Mr. Long, left,
and then-Air Force Capt. Joseph Personett look out over the burm of Mo
Duc District Headquarters, Vietnam, in 1972.
In 41 years, Col. Bill Collier has never talked about his experience in Vietnam.
"I didn't want to talk about it," he said. "When you lose as many guys, those are painful memories. That was 41 years ago. What's the point? I put all this stuff in a box. Sealed it up. Sealed up my mind, too."
It wasn't until he started a combat veterans support group at Northeast Presbyterian that he opened up. Initially, he wanted to help the younger veterans.
"I'm convinced helping these guys means a combat vet talking to a combat vet," said Collier. "There's an understanding there that's hard to explain."
That understanding allowed Collier to dig out a dusty old recording of a debrief of a mission no one had read about, and one Collier's fellow veterans couldn't believe.
"We all just sat there, across the board, and said, 'This is a medal of honor,'" said Col. Steve Vitali.
It was 1972. American combat troops were gone and peace talks were going on in Paris. Collier, then a Major, was a U.S. Army advisor to the Mo Duc district of Vietnam.
"It was a farming community," he said. "100% farmers. They were peasants, Third World peasants."
Around 120 were under his command, part of what was basically the South Vietnamese national guard. Collier was one of only two Americans at a district headquarters that was no bigger than a football field.
North Vietnamese, wearing sashes that read Liberate Mo Duc, attacked just before sunrise. There were hundreds in that first attack. But hours later, there were thousands.
Collier knew he wouldn't make it.
In 41 years, Col. Bill Collier has never talked about his experience in Vietnam.
"I didn't want to talk about it," he said. "When you lose as many guys, those are painful memories. That was 41 years ago. What's the point? I put all this stuff in a box. Sealed it up. Sealed up my mind, too."
It wasn't until he started a combat veterans support group at Northeast Presbyterian that he opened up. Initially, he wanted to help the younger veterans.
"I'm convinced helping these guys means a combat vet talking to a combat vet," said Collier. "There's an understanding there that's hard to explain."
That understanding allowed Collier to dig out a dusty old recording of a debrief of a mission no one had read about, and one Collier's fellow veterans couldn't believe.
"We all just sat there, across the board, and said, 'This is a medal of honor,'" said Col. Steve Vitali.
It was 1972. American combat troops were gone and peace talks were going on in Paris. Collier, then a Major, was a U.S. Army advisor to the Mo Duc district of Vietnam.
"It was a farming community," he said. "100% farmers. They were peasants, Third World peasants."
Around 120 were under his command, part of what was basically the South Vietnamese national guard. Collier was one of only two Americans at a district headquarters that was no bigger than a football field.
North Vietnamese, wearing sashes that read Liberate Mo Duc, attacked just before sunrise. There were hundreds in that first attack. But hours later, there were thousands.
Collier knew he wouldn't make it.
More @ WISTV
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