GENESIS

oh my goodness…

with two days until finals, i truly regret not going to any of the lectures for the whole quarter.

WINTER QUARTER, I WILL DOMINATE YOU (by attending every single lecture…)

i admit defeat…

i am not brilliant and i am not smarter than my professors… :[

/white flag - defeat - sadface

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The president of the University of California system said he was “appalled” at images of protestersbeing doused with pepper spray and plans an assessment of law enforcement procedures on all 10 campuses, as two police officers and the police chief were placed on administrative leave.

“Free speech is part of the DNA of this university, and non-violent protest has long been central to our history,” UC President Mark G. Yudof said in a statement Sunday in response to the spraying of students sitting passively at UC Davis. “It is a value we must protect with vigilance.”

Yudof said it was not his intention to “micromanage our campus police forces,” but he said all 10 chancellors would convene soon for a discussion “about how to ensure proportional law enforcement response to non-violent protest.”

Protesters from Occupy Sacramento planned to travel to nearby Davis on Monday for a noon rally in solidarity with the students, the group said in a statement.

UC Davis said early Monday in a news release that it was necessary to place police Chief Annette Spicuzza on administrative leave to restore trust and calm tensions. The school refused to identify the two officers who were place on administrative leave but one was a veteran of many years on the force and the other “fairly new” to the department, Spicuzza earlier told The Associated Press. She would not elaborate further because of the pending probe.

Videos posted online of the incident clearly show one riot-gear clad officer dousing the line of protesters with spray as they sit with their arms intertwined. Spicuzza told the AP that the second officer was identified during an intense review of several videos.

“We really wanted to be diligent in our research, and during our viewing of multiple videos we discovered the second officer,” Spicuzza said. “This is the right thing to do.”

Both officers were trained in the use of pepper spray as department policy dictates, and both had been sprayed with it themselves during training, the chief noted.

Meanwhile, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi said she has been inundated with reaction from alumni, students and faculty and would speed up an investigation that was to have taken three months.

“I spoke with students this weekend and I feel their outrage,” Katehi said in a statement Sunday.

Katehi also set a 30-day deadline for her school’s task force investigating the incident to issue its report. The task force, comprised of students, staff and faculty, will be chosen this week. She earlier had set a 90-day timetable.

She also plans to meet with demonstrators Monday at their general assembly, said her spokeswoman, Claudia Morain.

The UC Davis faculty association called for Katehi’s resignation, saying in a Saturday letter there had been a “gross failure of leadership.” Katehi has resisted calls for her to quit.

“I am deeply saddened that this happened on our campus, and as chancellor, I take full responsibility for the incident,” Katehi said Sunday. “However, I pledge to take the actions needed to ensure that this does not happen again. I feel very sorry for the harm our students were subjected to and I vow to work tirelessly to make the campus a more welcoming and safe place.”

The incident reverberated well beyond the university, with condemnations and defenses of police from elected officials and from the wider public on Facebook and Twitter.

“On its face, this is an outrageous action for police to methodically pepper spray passive demonstrators who were exercising their right to peacefully protest at UC Davis,” Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said in a statement Sunday. “Chancellor Katehi needs to immediately investigate, publically explain how this could happen and ensure that those responsible are held accountable.”

The protest Friday was held in support of the overall Occupy Wall Street movement and in solidarity with protesters at the University of California, Berkeley who were jabbed by police with batons on Nov. 9.

Nine students hit by pepper spray were treated at the scene, two were taken to hospitals and later released, university officials said. Ten people were arrested.

Meanwhile Sunday, police in San Francisco, about 80 miles south of Davis, arrested six anti-Wall Street protesters and cleared about 12 tents erected in front of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Across the bay in Oakland, police made no arrests after protesters peacefully left a new encampment set up in defiance of city orders.

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ARE YOU FRIGGIN KIDDIN ME? SINCE WHEN WAS THE DAVIS CHANCELLOR A “GOOD PERSON”?

Apparently the White House referred to Christmas Trees as “Holiday Trees” for the first time this year which prompted CBS presenter, Ben Stein, to present this piece which I would like to share with you. I think it applies just as much to many countries as it does to America … 



The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.


My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejewelled trees, Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are, Christmas trees.

It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crib, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her: “How could God let something like this happen?” (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said: “I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”

In light of recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbour as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said okay.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit.

If not, then just discard it…. no one will know you did. But if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in. 

My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein

and those who gave up theirs to save as many as they can.

vicchang:

leinylovessyou:

More Laughs Here

this has been happening quite alot lately………..HAHAHA

then do exactly what i write below.

nooo you dont have to cheat or steal - none of those stuff that makes you be labeled as a cheating cunt or thievin asshole.

heres the list in no particular order:

1. remember their birthday BUT get them the thing the absolutely hate, and write a halfassed “card” on a piece of binder paper and smile like you got them like the best damn fucking present+card in the world.

2. progressively spend less and less time with them until you dont even have anything meaningful to talk to each other about. and when your significant other asks you to spend a bit more time with them, you respond by saying something selfish like “i cant spend all my time on you” when in fact you spend less them 30 minutes with them despite going to the same school and even having maybe or or two classes with each other and then theres also that modern technological innovation to the previous version of the internet by al fucking gore that links everyone with internet access together.

3. christmas? valentines day? your 1st month together? 6th month? nooooo dont get them anything and dont write them anything. hell just tell them “i dont do those kinds of things”

4. your school dance? find a reason to snake out of EACH and EVERY one AFTER promising them that you will “definitely go” the day before the dance

5. take their food every frickin time. and not a little bit but a hugeass portion of their already too small meal. you like it? then you buy the same darn thing and eat it without even offering to share.

6. flirt with people of the opposite gender.

7. talk about a certain person of the opposite gender for most of the conversation you have with them

8. play the nervous game with people of the opposite gender and then TELL your bf/gf how FUN it was when they havent even done that with you

9. complain to them about every little small “hardship” youre going through cuz of your family or that one bitch and blow it up out of proportion and then when they complain to you about shit that happens to them, proceed to tell them to suck it up and grow up

10. lie to them about what really happened to make it seem favorable to you when in fact it was all your fault. what do you do when they find out that you lied? act like nothing happened and staunchly deny everything that they say.

11. refuse going to 99% of all the parties/event they invite you to because the setting or the place “doesnt really go well” with you.

12. dont contact them until like 9 or 10pm because you were busy talking to another person of the opposite gender and then tell your bf/gf you were talking with so and so the whole time from when school ended till now and how great it was while completely ignoring the irritated/angry/upset tone of their text/im

13. be selfish. like by hella expensiveass shit for yourself but dont spend even a booger on them. and go boast about your new $200 jacket or your 4th $70 jeans when you havent bought them shit.

14. if you do happen to give them a SMALL (note the HUGE emphasis on small) gift or something, make a big fuss over it. like act like its the GREATEST SHIT in the world.

15. dont let them go even 5 feet away from you even though youre ignoring them at school while talking to your own friends. every. friggin. time. reel them in. keep em under yer paws

why why why are you taking so dang long to give me my frickin 14K?