Columbine High is under lockdown because of a series of threats written in graffiti. The article does not state what the exact threats were. Some may find it a bit extreme, but can you blame them after what happened?
The article also goes on about how the warnings of the Columbine massacre were ignored. It also says that the “juvenile diversion” programs that Harris and Klebold were placed into also failed. Check out this quote…
District Attorney Dave Thomas said many youngsters in juvenile diversion programs made remarks similar to those of Harris. “We do have failures,” Thomas said. “Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were two of those.”
And there we have today’s winner of the “No shit Sherlock” award. Maybe if they were treated like criminals that they were instead of being given a slap on the wrist, Columbine might not have happened.
Well, well, well. It looks like that someone in the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Dept. is guilty of a little skullduggery. I love that word. It seems that some crucial documents have turned up missing and probably shredded, such as an affidavit for a warrant to search Harris’ home a year before the shootings. Also, all the files and notes that concern the affidavit.
The affidavit was prepared after the sheriff’s office was told that Harris was building pipe bombs had made violent threats on the internet. It seems like John Kiekbusch, a former administrator in the sheriff’s office, may be behind it. According to the article…
Kiekbusch thwarted efforts in 1999 to find the files and in late 2000 asked an assistant to shred a large pile of copies of Columbine related reports, the grand jury’s report said.
Sounds like somebody’s hiding something to me.
As usual, Brian Rohrbaugh puts it best…
Brian Rohrbaugh, whose son Daniel was among those slain, said the report was too narrowly focuses and much more could have been investigated.
“It does confirm that documents were shredded. That’s something that should not be taken lightly,” Rohrbaugh said. “Clearly Columbine never should have happened and they don’t want the public to know that.”
I couldn’t agree more with a headline. I actually heard about this before from a fellow blogger (Joanne, where did you go?) but I kept forgetting about it. Which is a great disservice to people because it is a problem that people need to know about.
Basically, what the article states is that there are pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia websites that encourage these dangerous eating disorders as a “lifestyle choice” instead of the disease that it is. Think I’m joking? Think this is just an urban legend or some internet hoax? Think again.
I happened to find one of these sites and look what they say…
This is a pro-ana website. That means this is a place where anorexia is regarded as a lifestyle and a choice, not an illness or disorder. There are no victims here.
“Pro-ana” thus becomes short for proactive, volitional anorexia. It refers to actively embracing the concept of anorexia as a lifestyle choice rather than an illness.
There are other equally disgusting things as the “tips and tricks” section that spell out exactly how to go about encouraging eating disorders. There is also poetry that extols the “benefits” of anorexia and bulimia.
Obviously, I’m not going to provide a link, but this is sick of the highest order.
Before everyone jumps all over me about free speech, I’m all for free speech. But encouraging dangerous and deadly eating disorders as a lifestyle choice is beyond free speech. If someone you love had a gun held to their head, and you had a chance to stop them from being shot wouldn’t you take it?
UPDATE: Ok, I’m going to do something I don’t normally do. Any more comments that are pro-anorexia or from people trying to find these pro-anorexia sites will be deleted. I am not going to contribute to people willingly engaging in dangerous and more than likely fatal behavior.
So this kid from a little Podunk town in North Carolina attends college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He buys two confederate flags at a Virginia gift shop. He displays one in his window and then says that he didn’t think it would be a problem? In the essence of fairness, here is his argument.
The flag’s owner says it’s about pride.
People don’t get upset about the Rebel flag in King, N.C., he says.
The town of about 7,000 people, and “about 97 percent white,” Montgomery says, are used to seeing it hanging in front of neighbors’ houses.
The flag comes second – after the American flag, before the state flag – in the town’s annual parade.
To Montgomery, the flag means rolling hills and lush Carolina valleys. It means King, where he knows everyone and everyone knows him.
It’s collard greens, grits with butter and a friendly wave from a front porch as you drive by, he says.
It’s the South he knows and loves.
“When I look at it, I think of home.”
First off, I think flying the Confederate flag before the state flag of North Carolina is doing a great disservice to North Carolina. Basically, what you’re saying is that a defunct, anti-abolitionist, segregationist and some would even say a seditious country is better than what North Carolina is today.
I may just be a “Yankee transplant” but I love North Carolina, and I’m damn proud to make it my home. And it’s all these rebel flag waving hicks that make it look bad to the rest of the country. And if you want to bring something with you that reminds of you of home, bring a banner from Duke or N.C. State or God forbid…Chapel Hill.
Now the opposing opinion, which I happen to agree with.
The “Southern Cross” rose to post-Civil War prominence around the turn of the 20th century, at the same time many Reconstruction-era reforms were being eroded by Southern state governments, he says.
It rose again during the 1960s, when those opposing the Civil Rights movement used it as a symbol of defiance against the federally mandated integration of schools.
The Strom Thurmond-led Dixiecrat party adopted it when it broke from the Democrats during the early stages of the Civil Rights struggle.
So have countless white supremacy groups, including the Ku Klux Klan.
“As a historian, I find it difficult to untangle the symbol from racial inequality,” Jones says. “To say this flag isn’t linked to slavery – That’s a historically inaccurate statement if we’re honest about it.”
And let’s not leave out that the Confederacy lost. Now, this kid has every Constitutional right to display the flag if he so chooses. However, common-sense dictates that if you do choose to display the flag, there is going to be controversy.
Personally, I think the south has every right to be proud. I love the south. I extol its virtues on almost a daily basis. What they should not be proud of is the Confederacy. If you want to have a universally recognized flag of southern pride, then maybe y’all should get together and design a new one. Because the old one is nothing to be proud of.
I am facinated by Eric and Dylan…it just amazes me how people can despise them so much…ever think about how many bombs are droped on countries full of innocent people but thats suposedly is what has to be done…why? eric and dylan were also doing what had to be done to all those people that put them through hell for all that time…what would you have done in there situation…people smashin you into lockers and constantly being di*ks to you…..revenge is everywhere…war is revenge, war is power, eric and dylan were revenge and for once they had the power.
Comment by Jema — Tuesday Sep 7, 2004 @ 1:27 pm
It amazes me how you mutants can worship these two cowards. While no one likes war, sometimes it is necessary and does have a purpose. Usually, a country is defending itself from an invading force or one country is helping to liberate another. What those scumbags Harris and Klebold did served no purpose. I have yet to see any proof that Harris and Klebold were bullied, but I’ve seen more evidence that Harris was, in fact, a bully himself. They had no power, only cowardice.
Hi i hope you don’t mind if i had my say when i was in high school i was picked on so badly. I was so angry and upset i ran away from home a few times and i was thinking about suicidal at the time. I know what Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are comming from i’ve been thru to much the same situation that Eric and Dylan been thru
Comment by Queen Marilyn — Saturday Sep 11, 2004 @ 5:54 am
While I can sympathize with what you went through, it is still no excuse to kill 13 unarmed people. And again, I have yet to see any evidence that Harris and Klebold were bullied. Even if they were, it still doesn’t justify killing unarmed random people. Your sympathy for them is idiotic. Why not have sympathy for their victims? Or for the families, they’ve torn apart with their mindless killing spree? You don’t because you’re selfish. Just like your cowardly scumbag heroes.
Today’s healthcare pet peeve du jour is diagnoses and the coding of your medical claim.
A lot of our patients come in just for a routine check-up, a cancer screening, or they have a family history of some disease. In all 3 of those cases, an office visit or procedure is considered “routine” because an actual disease has yet to be treated, and no other complaints have been presented. In some of those cases, health insurance companies do not cover routine services. So, let’s take a look at a little hypothetical situation, shall we?
The patient comes to see the doctor for a cancer screening.
The doctor uses the diagnosis code on the claim for cancer screening.
Insurance company denies the claim because they do not cover routine procedures.
The patient gets a statement from the insurance company saying they are not paying for the visit.
Patient calls the insurance company to ask them why they didn’t pay.
This part is important, so pay attention…The insurance company tells the patient that they do not cover routine procedures, but if your doctor had coded it as non-routine, then it would have been covered.
What the patient hears is, “Your doctor coded it wrong.”
The patient then calls me and wastes my time telling me that the doctor coded the claim wrong, and it needs to be recoded.
Here’s where I bust the myth.
The doctor did not code it wrong. In 99% of all cases, the doctor coded it correctly with the information provided from the patient.
With the information that we have received from the patient, we can not recode the diagnosis as anything else in order to get the claim paid. That is known as INSURANCE FRAUD. I am not willing to go to jail just so you can get out of paying your bill. Health insurance is not an absolute. No matter how good your coverage is, you will eventually have to pay out-of-pocket. It’s inevitable.
Do me and yourself a favor. Every year, you get a booklet from your employer that goes into great detail about your health insurance coverage. READ IT! LEARN IT! LIVE IT! And stop bothering me with your assclownic questions.
It’s being reported that former President Clinton will be undergoing heart bypass surgery. While I was not a fan of his administration I do wish him the best of luck in his recovery. Besides, out of all the Presidents who would you rather party with? I think the answer is obvious.
No hate mail this week again, so I’ll be bringing you another installment of The Blacklist. This assclown made the mistake of linking to me. I bring you Cemetery Party of National Socialists. For those of you who may not know, National Socialists is just a fancy name for Nazis. The purpose of the website states…
The Cemetery Party of National Socialists is a National Socialist Organization We work to get rid of all Jewish controlled lands in the United States. Cemeteries are a very easy way to embezzle money which funds many other things then just the Cemetery itself. Mount Elliott Cemetery Association is a Jewish ran cemetery organization that makes millions and millions of dollars a year in money you pay or your parents pay for your relative or whoever the person is to you. These Cemeteries associate with other Cemeteries in the Association which is ran by the same Jew and they send a whole bunch of money out to Jewish Organizations such as in the television and newspaper corporations. On top of that they send millions of dollars to Israel each year in exchange for more Jews and more Jewish propaganda to be sent out to us. Israel is controlling everything that happens here and you are letting it by not doing anything. This is not what are Organization is about. Our National Socialist Organization is backed by the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, the true leader of all true whites everywhere. Our Organization raises money for all White Organizations and the children of those organizations.
That’s some enlightened thinking, isn’t it? Anyway, what they may not realize is that this site violates Geocities TOS.
(a) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
You can report them to Geocities here. I’m all for freedom of speech, but do people who support the extermination of an entire race of people really deserve it?
The parents of Eric Harris have put their house up for sale. The house where guns and bombs were stored. The house where all it would have taken was for Wayne and Kathy Harris to look in on their son and Columbine would have been prevented.
They’re asking roughly $270,000 for it. The realtor does not have to disclose what happened in the house. Two realtors are not allowed to show the property. That would be Rich Petrone, the stepfather of Danny Rohrbough who was killed at Columbine, and Randy Brown, the father of Brooks Brown who was threatened by Eric Harris.
I wonder why they wouldn’t want those two showing the house. Maybe because this way they don’t have to look them in the eye and explain why they failed to prevent their son from killing one of theirs.
If I had FU money, I’d buy the house and have it immediately demolished. Hopefully, someone who does have that kind of money will do the same.
There was a chemical spill inside Columbine High yesterday. It was an accident that injured 3 students and a teacher. While I do not mean to belittle the injuries that happened, this should have been nothing more than a local story in Colorado.
The Denver Post ran with an AP article that treats it as such. Other news outlets didn’t. The Daily camera ran with the same AP article the Post did, but added this little blurb at the end…
Columbine was the scene of the nation’s worst school shooting on April 20, 1999, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide.
You don’t say I hadn’t heard that. The Washington Times was even worse. It ran with a UPI article that started with…
Columbine High School, site of the worst U.S. school shooting, was evacuated after a chemical spill that left a teacher slightly injured.
And ended with…
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide.
This story has nothing to do with the Columbine killings. The only thing they have in common is that they took place at the same high school.
Is it always necessary to bring up Harris and Klebold when talking about a situation that does not involve them in any way shape or form? I think we all know what happened at Columbine High. Apparently, the media thinks we’re so stupid we need reminding.
