Gang Stalking – Happy St. Paddy’s Day, everyone.

Four leaf clover (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

St Patrick’s Day Parade, NYC, 2012 (Photo credit: specialoperations)

English: this color is orange (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Wikipedia Saint Patrick’s Day (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It’s  St. Patrick’s Day already.  How time flies when we’re having fun, fun, fun.

But I remember St. Patrick’s Day being a fun day.  I used to attend Catholic school and we always had the day off.  We would make a point of  ticking off the public school kids because they had to go to school.  The public school kids had a lot more days off then we did, and they would shove it in our faces when we had to go to school on their holidays.  It was all in fun, though.

I also remember at work, everyone wore green, no matter what race, religion, color, we all became Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. (The only color that got someone in trouble on St. Patrick’s Day was wearing orange.  It has something to do with the British. If you’re ever in New York on St. Patrick’s Day, don’t wear orange. It’s not a good thing.)

And I loved seeing  the green line painted down Fifth Avenue for the parade.  And the food was green, green bagels, green beer, green everything, and eating corned beef and cabbage (the best) was the food of the day.

The restaurants were “Standing Room Only.”  It was hard to find a restaurant to eat in. Every restaurant had people standing in line waiting to get in.

I have fond memories of St. Patrick’s Day in New York.    Since I left New York, I haven’t found too many cities that celebrate St. Patrick’s Day as they do in New York.

Memories of the past…

Anyway, happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone.  Eat some corned beef and cabbage, and wear the “green.”  No orange, please.  And carry a four-leaf clover for luck.

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Gang Stalking – Off Topic – PostaDay 2011 – Do you think they’ll find the God Particle?

Image via Wikipedia - God?

Image via Wikipedia - Higgs Peter

Image via Wikipedia – Higgs Boson particles

Scientists claim they may have discovered a particle called Higgs Boson, which if found, may explain more about how matter in the universe works.  Do you think it will be found?

Well, I’ve never been good with science.  I went to Catholic school and science was not taught.  You know, the Adam-Eve thing would not have held water, so  to keep us stupid, science was not in the curriculum.  Of course, now it’s taught.  I don’t know if the Adam-Eve thing is still taught.

I read the Higgs Boson theory, and I think I understand it.  This Higgs Boson particle  gives mass to electrons.  The electrons attract other Higgs Boson particles. But they don’t stay too long at one place and keep moving attracting other particles. The original particles falling by the wayside. I probably have it all wrong.  I can’t even understand what I wrote.

So the question is:  Will we be able to find the God Particle? I don’t  think so.  If this Particle keeps moving from place to place and not staying in any one place for too long, it will be hard to study.  If it stayed put long enough to be studied, then we might find an answer.  The particle is like a homeless man.  How easy is it to find a homeless man you’re looking for?  Not very easy.  And if you do find the homeless man, he’s usually dead.  So my instincts tell me the God Particle will never be found.  And that depends on whether you believe in God or not.

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P.S. To the government flunkies, the same thing I said to you yesterday.

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Gang Stalking- Off Topic – PostaDay 2011 – If you could change how schools work…

what would you change?

What is wrong with how public education for kids is structured? What works well?  What specific things about school do you remember good or bad?

I went to Catholic school until 8th grade.  While in Catholic school, the nuns were very strict. It was either listen to them, or  get some sort of punishment: sit in the hallway; write 500 times of something I said; miss going on an outing; or spend months sitting in detention.  We all knew that it was better to go with the flow, or have to put up with some punishment from the nuns.  Mean, they were.  But you know what, I learned a lot.  And I wouldn’t trade what I learned from the nuns for all the gold in China.

Having so much discipline in grade school, made me not want to go to Catholic high school.  I didn’t even take the entrance exam to get into Catholic high school.  I knew I didn’t want to spend another four years with the nuns.  Eight years of being in their presence was enough for me.

So I decided when I became a Freshman, it was going to be in  public school.  Was I in for a shock!

In Catholic school, I wore a uniform and so did everybody else.  Wearing the uniform made me feel part of a group; like I belonged somewhere special.

When I entered public school, everybody wore what they felt like wearing.  There seemed to be no unity among the students.  There were so many cliques, it was hard to tell what was what.  The public school kids were meaner.  And there was no one in charge who seemed to know what was going on.

The subjects taught were things I’d learned in my classes in Catholic school.  In the four-years I spent in high school, there were very few things that hadn’t been taught to me by the nuns.  I got bored.  I thought high school was going to be more interesting, but  the teachers all seemed bored.  They were all there to get a paycheck and the  hell with the kids.  The only thing they would get upset about was if I  missed a day of school.  If I missed a day of school, that meant that the school wouldn’t get paid for me that day.  There were teachers who cared and it showed.  But most were there for the paycheck and nothing else.

The positive side of public education, is  diversity of the student body.  In Catholic school, all the girls were Catholic and believed in the same things I did.  In public school, there were people of all races and religions.  All, somehow, getting along. But, however, the discipline from Catholic school was non-existent.  Students answered  teachers back without any punishment.  The students seemed to controlled the teachers.  In Catholic school, we knew the nuns were not to be messed with.  And it made a difference in how we learned.  We knew we better get with the program, or we be out on our asses.

My experience in high school was a feeling of just there being too many students for too few teachers.  There were so many kids in every class that the teacher barely remembered the students’ names.

To change how schools are structured, I’d have fewer students in a class.  There be more discipline in the classroom.   And teachers would not have tenure.  If the teacher is not a good teacher, she’s fired.  I believe in unions, but not at the cost of the students.  Some people are not meant to be teachers.

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