Thursday, September 7. 2006
Academics soft on fascism? Isn't that an academic tradition? (h/t, Instap.) Somebody pulled down Move-On's pants, and people do not like what they see. Israpundit Do these "top professors" really believe this crap? I doubt it. I think they are just spreading disinformation, in the classic Marxist manner. Atlhouse Tolerance for me but not for thee. "Tolerance" is always a one-way street. In fact, "tolerance" is always intolerance. Samizdata Germaine Greer is pleased with Steve Irwin's death. But she doesn't much care for men in general. Dust my Broom Do we need any more evidence that Special Counsel Fitzgerald is a rogue prosecutor? Thge NYT wants to "keep hope alive" that the story will continue, at least for two more months. Just one Minute
 The blogger-commentator David Warren caught a bit of flak for raising questions about the behavior, and the "conversions" to Islam, of the two newsmen last week. He has written a reply to those who criticized him, here.
I have to say that I had similar reactions to Warren's as I saw the events unfold. I suspect that I would have done exactly what the two men did, but I would not have been happy about it. Renouncing your beliefs and your traditions, even at gunpoint, is not something to feel good about, even if the gunpoint renders the "conversion" invalid. This is a better topic for our Dr. Bliss, because this is not my brief on this blog, and maybe I can extract a comment from her before I post this, but the story reminded me of the impossibility of getting through life without accumulating a dump-truck load of things to feel shame and guilt about. No matter how careful and mindful we are, if we have a working conscience, we will accumulate that load. The offer of forgiveness from God is a miraculous blessing, but many of us find it impossible to forgive ourselves of such things - and I don't think that is a bad thing. Similar to survival guilt, if I were Steve Centani I would find what I had done to save my skin to be a source of embarassment for many years. But I hope I would have had the fear, practicality, and appropriate contempt for my captors, to do the same thing, and get home to my family and my warm bed. Is it possible to get out in the world and to do things without accumulating shame and guilt? I doubt it. I think it's part of the burden of being human.
Wednesday, September 6. 2006
Everyone has the Bush speech news, but check out our pals at Wizbang. To mix metaphors, is this check, or checkmate?
Dr. Wayne Fenton dedicated his life to taking care of the sickest of psychiatric patients - the chronically psychotic, the most difficult patients to whom to be of help, and was killed by one of them. Thankfully, it is a rare event in our work. But it is entirely unpredictable, like suicide. In medicine, unpleasant surprises happen. It's part of the job, and there is no way to be prepared. Wayne was doing God's work. Like any sort of chronic patient in medicine, these folks never really get better, but they have reasonable hope to function in the world, to a degree, if they take their medicine, stay in the shallow end of the pool, and if they follow advice. Big "ifs." Psychotic people can be dangerous, and not just dysfunctional. It's a damn shame. Oddly similar to Steve Irwin's tragic death. Whoever this patient was, I know Wayne cared about him a great deal, and wanted him to have a life. However, he has proven himself to be too dangerous to be out in the world.
 We all need someone we can feed on
And if you want it, you can feed on me
Take my arm, take my leg
Oh, baby, don't you take my head
Rolling Stones, Let it Bleed I see Praying Mantises all the time, motionlessly stalking bees and bugs in my rose bushes and raspberries. Huge bugs, but very well-camouflaged. Lady Praying Mantises are known to take the concept of giving head a bit too forcefully. They begin with the guy's head, then, once well-fertilized, end up consuming the rest of him. Maybe they get too excited. Or perhaps it's a feminist thing, and it makes the charming Lorraine Bobbit (Hey, lonely guys! She is still looking for a date!) seem tame by comparison. NYT Science News
Atlas reminds us of the "stench of Soros." Yes, he is trying to buy America, but his name should be a dirty word. Let's make it one. The man hates America, and American traditions, and he likes anything that leads towards world government...controlled by him, no doubt. The battle of freedom vs. empire never ends. People who seek power because they "mean well" are the creepiest of all. Hey, George: "If you're so rich, how come you ain't smart?" I did not realize this, (but how many Americans know anything about Mexican history?). Mexican democracy is facing yet another crisis: To get a sense of the danger hovering over Mexican democracy, consider these numbers: In the 681 years between the founding of the Aztec empire in 1325 and the present day, Mexico has lived for 196 years under an indigenous theocracy, 289 years under the absolute monarchy of Spain, 106 years under personal or party dictatorships, 68 years embroiled in civil wars or revolutions, and only 22 years in democracy.
Whole piece at WaPo. Chimpanzee crossing guards. Cool. "I know the material - I just don't do well on exams." Right.... Betsy Debtors could make a difference in the election? Why? The economy happens to be excellent. If you go into debt, it's your own damn problem. Ankle-Biting Marketing made very simple. This is good. Reasoned Audacity Sometimes you just have to trust the pilot: (stolen from Mr Free Market) 
Tuesday, September 5. 2006
 Superb short piece at Rhymes with Right on the subject of gun rights, highlighting a surprisingly frank NYT editorial on the subject, in which the gun control advocate declares that too much individual freedom is too risky. One quote:
I've always wondered if the anti-gunners are simply folks who are too scared of individual liberty to permit the unrestrained exercise of the rights protected by the Constitution -- or even to permit the crabbed, limited exercise of such rights. But rarely have I seen such a frank and startling admission of this reality by an anti-gunner. But the NY Times' Verlyn Klinkenborg makes it clear that such a fear of liberty is exactly what animates some anti-gunners in today's lament that even "progressive" Minnesota allows for "concealed carry".
Dare I ask what is "progressive" about limiting rights and freedom, especially one so basic as the human right to self-defence? I too have always suspected that gun control has been just one piece of a left-tilting anti-individual rights process. Whole piece here. Image: The Minuteman statue in Lexington, MA., where our farmers forcefully confronted the Brit imperial tax-collectors.
Summer is done. The beaches begin to be deserted, and school, work - Real Life - takes over. The leaves will be turning soon, and another hunting season will soon be upon us. Ye olde blogge has a minor change: We have added a Food and Drink category, and we tried to collect, in there, most of our past posts on those subjects. One comment on the evolution of blogs: We are seeing more blog-and-news aggregators, sites that combine the professionals with the amateurs, and blur the distinctions. Places like Pajamas, Powerline News, Town Hall - we like them very much, and visit them, and admire their ambition, but they aren't much fun. I realize that is a deeply silly criticism, and we are in favor of blurring the pros from the people. Those sites seek visibility, eyeballs, importance, and maybe even income. That's well and good. Maybe 8 million Americans visit blogs regularly - not a huge number. World-wide, who knows? Still, a tiny number. Thus far, we have declined to get on board with these organizations. We do want more readers, but we do not really want ads, and our eclecticism doesn't really fit. We occupy a niche. If you enjoy us, please bookmark us, send our site around, and, if you have a site, blogroll us. We will just "do our own thing" for now. Maggie's Farm: always surprising. Or we try to be. Thanks for reading us. We appreciate it.
Jeff says it more succinctly and precisely than I can: The boutique multiculturalism that the West has dabbled in with such self-satisfaction, then, is dangerous insofar as it appears to promote the principles of a multicultural worldview that, when push comes to shove, it cannot—and should not—actually support. That is to say, by promoting the idea that individual cultures are the province of those who belong to them, rendering outside judgments about the beliefs and practices in those cultures at best presumptuous and at worst colonialistic (after all, in a world where “truth” is contingent upon the consensus of given interpretive communities, there are no immutable laws beyond those made by fallible man), Western culture has set the stage for its own inevitable hypocrisy when it is forced to draw the line at a point where Otherness is truly, rather than superficially, defined. Honor killings are one such point. Female circumcisions are another. And both, in my estimation, show up the folly of building a social organization around a principle that must, at some point, be arbitrarily subverted by those who have claimed all along to promote it—else the host culture be forced to surrender to the cultures it has claimed selflessly to accomodate. At which point boutique multiculturalism is replaced by strong multiculturalism, which is the only multiculturalism that carries any real force to begin with. And strong multiculturalism is, in certain respects, very much akin to the will to power I’ve talked about in terms of interpretive communities and identity politics: for instance, once sharia law is “accepted,” that ascendency would snuff out the rights of those who don’t wish to practice it and would then set itself up as the dominant social narrative. Which is why the Pandora’s Box of strong multiculturalism should never be opened—and why people like myself are wary whenever we see boutique multiculturalists playing around with the latch.
 Michael Caine is sick of modern movies. Me, too.
Arrested for stealing garbage? Dumpster-diving is a fine American tradition. These cops goofed. Being a public atheist is not fun. Life is tough. Anti-faith writers: Newsweek Iranians love America. I have said it here many times. Their leaders are just nuts. I do not wish to bomb these good folks. Powerline Healing faith. Dr. Bob Life is not an alcohol deficiency. Psychiatry and AA try to get it together. The government can raise kids better than you can. Of course they can. They are so wise! They do studies! Did the Brits ever read Brave New World? Or did they like it? SDA We offer a Guernsey cow today, to get the fall off to a good start. Most American Guernseys are descendents of the original six imported to the US in the 1840s. Good buttermilk.
Monday, September 4. 2006
The thing about tennis is: no matter how much I play, I'll never be as good as a wall. I played a wall once. They're ... relentless. Mitch Hedberg (h/t, Owner's Manual)
Editor's Note: Our Aliyah Diary author (see the Aliyah Diary category on the left to find out about it) has applied to the IDF, and should find out by today whether he has been accepted. He is in his fifties, but is in good shape.)  9/4/06
For all the 535 km. biked from Jerusalem to Eilat, for all the landscape, for all the blazing desert, which felt as if at times heat blasted from earth's core, roasting us ventrally, for all this and more, but a few moments remain scorched into memory, and a few people, in fact, two, remain memorable.
By day three, we are cleared by the military to ride the Philadelphii road, the coarsely gravelled road parallel to the Egyptian border. We are warned. If you need to piss, face away from the Egyptians, as they may take a forward-facer as offensive and shoot in return. But, facing northwards, the pisser contends with the prevailing southerly winds. Warning. We will climb 400 meters to Qadesh Barnea, where Abraham and Sarah paused on their route to Egypt, where Moshe paused with tens of thousands of ex-slave Jews on return from Egypt, waiting to hear from the dozen spies' (a prince from each tribe) report on the land of Canaan from which these Jews had been absent for four hundred years. Then, we will descend slightly to begin the one kilometer ascent to Mount Harif (Mount Spicy), highest point in the Negev. I feel my heart would burst as I snake the last few meters to Qadesh Barnea. But I also know that if I dismount, I won't remount. I do not look upwards, but keep nose to wheel, occasionally slaloming to make the upward ascent less steep. This ascent gives new meaning to aliyah. Oddly, it is the terribly bad, unmusical tom-tomming, of the crew above that gives me impetus, if not hope, that I can arrive. I stand on Qadesh Barnea, looking downward and north, into Israel, a
landscape not so different than what Moshe saw: shaley shoulders descending to the baked, barren desert, of multiple soft, pastel hues, dead to the eye. No life. To imagine a land flowing with milk and honey takes much imagination, much hope, or at least a belief in a certain G-d. Perhaps, it also took Moshe's belief in this rag-tag passel of people that they could find or create such a land. No, from here, after a heart-bursting climb, I see more a land that consumes its inhabitants. I am no Moshe at this moment, certainly no Caleb nor Joshua.
Continue reading "Guest Author, Aliyah Diary: Two-wheelin' the desert"
 Have a good holiday, readers. I am visiting friends in Rhode Island, and hope to meet the lovely miss on the right at the beach today. I could not find her yesterday, and I have to be back in Pittsfield by Tuesday morning. Cherchez la femme. I once met a Swedish gal like this in Riverside Park, but was too timid to proffer the appropriate invitation. "Let's get something to eat and go back to my place and have some fun." No more. Life is short. Hey, Jude. Carpe diem and all that. Nothin' to lose but your pride and self-esteem, and the agony of rejection: part of the challenge of being a guy: guys have to learn to suck it up. (?)
Jay Tea does religion - an agnostic takes on the faiths of the world. Rick takes on restaurants, and wants the fattiest, most delicious stuff he can find. Climatologists moderate their predictions. Am Thinker A good senior moment joke: Lib Leanings The death of the First Amendment, thanks to McCain-Feingold. From the DC Examiner (via Polipundit) Something almost without precedent in America will happen Thursday. That’s the day when McCain-Feingold — aka the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 — will officially silence broadcast advertising that contains criticism of members of Congress seeking re-election in November. Before 2006, American election campaigns traditionally began in earnest after Labor Day. Unless McCain-Feingold is repealed, Labor Day will henceforth mark the point in the campaign when congressional incumbents can sit back and cruise, free of those pesky negative TV and radio spots. It is the most effective incumbent protection act possible, short of abolishing the elections themselves.
The right to self-defence, and the UN, at Willisms. One quote: The UN is most eager to deny that self-defense is a right, because this would obligate the UN to defend the concept of individual self-defense. Since unarmed self-defense in a world full of weapons is too often meaningless, this puts the UN in the position of having to defend the individual right to bear arms. Quelle horror! Is there anything more vulgar to a silk-suited euroweenie diplomat than individual gun ownership? This should not baffle you - the UN and its supporters are proponents of a single world government, under the ludicrous belief that a unitary government would hold a monopoly on all arms throughout the world, thus abolishing violence. Then, once violence is abolished the UN may disarm itself and the glorious new age of peace, love and rainbows can ensue.
Convert or die: The new Al Quaida tape. These guys need a cultural sensitivity program. How come it's always us who need them? The Dem 1864 Party Platform. Astonishing parallels. Gateway Clausewitz on the Iraq war. The politics of war. Dem Project Ernesto wasn't much of a hurricane, but it brought some strong winds to New England. Chris took this in his harbor in CT (more of his storm photos here.) Quite a few boats came off their moorings, despite storm harnesses (heavy cables). 
Sunday, September 3. 2006
Reposted from November, 2005
 Ya gotta leave it to female professors to come up with something like this: MSU Professors link Hunting with Sexual Violence.
This came to me via Bird Dog via a hunting friends of his, and I had to laugh, it was so stupid and ignorant - and yet so earnestly and academically so. But they don't seem to understand guy-talk. As Maggie's readers know, I am an avid hunter and shooter, and know plenty of other women who are, and not one of us is a violent sexual pervert, or even a latent one. While it is probably true that most or all men contain a latent rapist deep inside (along with latent everything else), to connect hunting with rape is the same kind of misunderstanding of depth psychology that views knitting as a masturbation equivalent. There are many hard-wired instincts, and many sources of pleasure and satisfaction, and it is ridiculously reductionistic to connect all pursuits to the sexual instincts...not that there is anything wrong with them. But, on the subject of biological instincts, should I assume that this hunting "sexual perversion" applied during the million years of hunting which kept the human line alive, as well as to our Pilgrim forefathers and their Indian pals? And that it applies to all other species with predatory instincts, including fish and birds? All nasty perverts? Or does it only apply to Michigan bow hunters? I am not going to get into the depth psychology of this - the subjects of the instincts, pleasure, unconscious fantasy, sublimation, etc. I would simply say that obviously these professor gals' Dads or brothers never took them shooting and hunting. Too bad. Guess they'll just miss out on an excitingly twisted form of sexual stimulation. So I'll say to these prof gals - lighten up, work on your senses of humor, and find a better target for your sadistic sexual instincts other than wholesome guys and gals in the woods with their dogs, or bows, or guns, having a good old wholesome and traditional American time in the cool breeze amongst the falling leaves. (Photo is of the famous academic feminist "The Maid of the Marsh," who is doubtless stalking hapless duck hunters in order to sexually abuse and sadistically enjoy them - at gunpoint, if necessary. Please pick me, honey!)
My late great local Italian gunsmith, who died a couple of years ago, could machine a new part from a hunk of steel, or build a new walnut stock. He didn't just "fix" guns - he could build one from scratch. Niccola was a grouch ("The customer is always wrong"), he always acted as if he were doing you a favor to do a job, and his English was imperfect for sure, but he became a pal to his customers, and to me. White-collar men have a natural respect for those who can DO REAL THINGS. In time, it got so I would waste an hour of Saturday morning errand-time hanging out in his shop, watching him work, and talking nonsense. He probably wished I would just leave, but the work was very interesting. The very cool but primitive machine tools. The layers of oil and sanding on a fine Turkish Walnut stock. Before he got sick, he told me that he had ads at the High School job bulletin board for years - "Learn Gunsmithing locally, as an apprentice. Expert gunsmiths earn up to 100+/hour". He never received a single phone call - and this High School has white kids, hispanic kids, black kids, poor kids, rich kids, - the works. "College-bound"? Haha. Anyone can go to some college, but most of them are glorified high schools themselves, desperate for bill-paying warm bodies. Foolish kids, not to welcome such an offer. When Niccola died, all of his art and skill and wisdom and knowledge and irreverence died with him. "Another Purdy? Piece of homemade English sheet. I do what I can with thees, OK?, when I finds the time. You wait, maybe 6, 8 month, we feex. Pain in neck, kappisch? No want to work on, but we do." Our schools, and maybe our dopey culture, make everyone feel like a loser if they don't push paper and stare at screens, in a cubicle. This is so wrong, and really so condescending and contemptuous, that it makes me sick. Matthew Crawford of UVa makes a case for manual labor and the trades: So what advice should one give to a young person? By all means, go to college. In fact, approach college in the spirit of craftsmanship, going deep into liberal arts and sciences. In the summers, learn a manual trade. You’re likely to be less damaged, and quite possibly better paid, as an independent tradesman than as a cubicle-dwelling tender of information systems. To heed such advice would require a certain contrarian streak, as it entails rejecting a life course mapped out by others as obligatory and inevitable.
Entirely agree. Whole thing here, Shopcraft as Soulcraft, in The New Atlantis  By coincidence, this week Betsy posted a piece on the same subject, in which CNN reports a resurgence in Vocational Education. It's about time that our kids, and we, remember to respect real honest skilled work. I have never seen a gunsmith who was laid off, or not in control of his destiny, or unhappy with his work.
Images: Top: Gunsmiths building Virginia rifles from scratch at Colonial Williamsburg. Bottom: Carpentry crew of PBS' This Old House.
Ephesians 6: 10-20 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. 11Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 14Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. 15As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace. 16With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints. 19Pray also for me, so that when I speak, a message may be given to me to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, 20for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak.
Saturday, September 2. 2006
Michelle has the numbers to phone 
to complain about their pro-illegal program. It's the job of citizens
to speak their minds. (We are partial to Ballantine Ale, if you can find it. The big glass bottles, which make excellent .22 targets for enjoyable recycling/re-use.) Good wholesome fun for the kids, and you. Ballantine Ale and guns: perfect together.
"I ain't nobody's houseboy.
I ain't nobody's well-trained maid." From this month's Rolling Stone piece on Dylan: "I don't really have a herd of astrologers telling me what's going to happen. I just make one move after the other, this leads to that." Is the voice familiar? I'm sitting in a Santa Monica seaside hotel suite, ignoring a tray of sliced pineapple and sugar-dusty cookies, while Bob Dylan sits across from my tape recorder, giving his best to my questions. The man before me is fitful in his chair, not impatient, but keenly alive to the moment, and ready on a dime to make me laugh and to laugh himself. The expressions on Dylan's face, in person, seem to compress and encompass versions of his persona across time, a sixty-five-year-old with a nineteen-year-old cavorting somewhere inside. Above all, though, it is the tones of his speaking voice that seem to kaleidoscope through time: here the yelp of the folk pup or the sarcastic rimshot timing of the hounded hipster-idol, there the beguilement of the Seventies sex symbol, then again -- and always -- the gravel of the elder statesman, that antediluvian bluesman's voice the young aspirant so legendarily invoked at the very outset of his work and then ever so gradually aged into.
It is daunting to interview a legend. Read the whole thing.
Your brain can return to normal in one year of sobriety. Give it a try!
29 August 2006: Counterterrorism expert Juval Aviv spoke with FOX Fan Central about what Americans can do to protect themselves in case of a terror attack. "Juval Aviv is a former Israeli Counterterrorism Intelligence Officer and President and CEO of Interfor, Inc. Mr. Aviv has also served as a special consultant to the U.S. Congress on issues of terrorism and security and is the author of 'Staying Safe : The Complete Guide to Protecting Yourself, Your Family, and Your Business." Do you believe another terrorist attack is likely on American soil? I predict, based primarily on information that is floating in Europe and the Middle East, that an event is imminent and around the corner here in the United States. It could happen as soon as tomorrow, or it could happen in the next few months. Ninety days at the most. What advice do you have for individuals that have the misfortune of finding themselves in the middle of a terror attack? Since mass transportation is the next attack, when you travel to work have with you, a bottle of water, a small towel and a flashlight. What happened in London is exactly a point to look at. Those people who were close to the bombs died, then others were injured or died from inhaling the toxic fumes or getting trampled. The reason you take a bottle of water and a towel is that if you wet the towel and put it over your face, you can protect yourself against the fumes and get yourself out of there. Don't be bashful. If your gut feeling tells you when you walk onto a bus there is something unusual or suspicious, get out and walk away. You may do it 10 times for no reason, but there will be one time that saves your life. Let your sixth sense direct you. Try to break your routine. If you travel during rush hour every day, try to get up a little earlier and drive to work or take the train when it’s still not full. Don’t find yourself every day in the midst of rush hour. Terrorists are not going to waste a bomb on a half-empty train. What portion of the American infrastructure do you believe is at the greatest risk for a terror attack? We have put all of our emphasis, right or wrong, on the aviation area. What has happened, in the last two to three years, based on information we have, is the terrorists have realized that they cannot hijack a plane in America soon because the passengers are going to fight back. So they realize what they have been very successful with over the last 50 years in Madrid, London, Iraq, Israel: demoralizing the public when they go to work and when they come back from work. What they’re going to do is hit six, seven or eight cities simultaneously to show sophistication and really hit the public. This time, which is the message of the day, it will not only be big cities. They’re going to try to hit rural America. They want to send a message to rural America: 'You’re not protected. If you figured out that if you just move out of New York and move to Montana or to Pittsburgh, you’re not immune. We’re going [to] get you wherever we can and it’s easier there than in New York.' (Which is probably why DHS spread its funding around to smaller urban areas earlier this year)
What more do you think the government can do to protect the public? Number one, and this is the beef I’ve had with Homeland Security for the last four years, is educating the public on how to deal with those types of events. There’s no education. We’re raising the color code alert and that means nothing to anyone. Whether it’s green, yellow, pink, no one ever educated the public how to identify suspicious items or people. In Israel, so many of them [terrorists] have been apprehended just because people have phoned in. We don’t have that training on campuses, schools or kindergarten. In Israel, it’s very popular right now [amongst terrorists] to put one device to explode and time another one for five minutes later when it’s all calm, people are getting up and the rescue teams have responded. You need to know all those things and think about those things. The government must pursue that. Law enforcement will never have enough people on the street to detect things. We don’t have that kind of manpower. That’s why the government must enlist the public.
Only in Lebanon. Photo borrowed from Big Pharoah: 
Frank Furedi in Spiked: How long before British adults will need a licence to parent their children? UK prime minister Tony Blair and his colleagues believe that the solution to society’s problems is to get their hand on the nation’s toddlers before their parents get a chance to ruin them.
Is Maryland ready for a transgender lawmaker? WaPo. I don't get what it is in the first place. Everybody's confused, if they think too much about it. Miller beer sponsoring march for illegals. Michelle ""Border War" does not portray illegal immigrants as economically desperate people who break the law by sneaking across the border then often go on to renew the American dream with their thrift, enterprise and hustle while filling back-breaking jobs that few citizens want." Taking the Cause to the Big Screen
Friday, September 1. 2006
Will launch on Sept. 6. Amazing photo borrowed from Calif Yank 
 Two good hunting pieces for Sept 1: What and how do deer see? And a short profile on the Duck Commander.
An alternative view of the war on terror, by Paul Rogers at Open Democracy New lightbulb. Instapundit Is the sky falling? More on the global warming (absence of) debate. Volokh Munch's Scream found intact. Synthstuff Remember this one from last year? Iowahawk's back to school letter, beginning thus: Dear Parent or Guardian: On behalf of the faculty, staff, administration, and grief counselors of Rockwood District 603, please let me extend a warm welcome to you and your student for the upcoming 2005-6 school year at Rockwood Public Schools. In the enclosed information packet you will find your student's classroom assignment and schedule, a calendar of important dates, staff contact information, and a handbook of detailed first aid tips. Please read and review carefully. Your cooperation will help insure that your student enjoys an enriching and survivable year of educational opportunities.
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