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May 14, 2007

Teachers Make Up Fake Gunman Attack to Scare Elementary School Students - and It Works - WTF Were They Thinking??

Rant filed under Human Nature, Legal Matters, The Nation by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
I was absolutely *stunned* today to read this headline: "Teachers Stage Fake Gunman Attack on Sixth-Graders" It happened in Murfreesboro, Tennessee The gist of it, according to CNN, was this: Staff members of the school in Murfreesboro TN convinced nearly 70 children that there was a gunman on the loose, while they were out on a field trip. Not only did the teachers stage this mock attack, but they told the children that "it was not a drill," as, and I quote, "the children cried and hid under tables." Accoring to CNN, "parents of the sixth-graders were outraged." Outraged? OUTRAGED??? I should (more...)

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April 27, 2007

Four U.S. Citizen Children Deported Because of Lawyer’s Misdeeds

Rant filed under Legal Matters, Politics, The Nation, The World by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
You know, 98% of the lawyers out there... make the rest of us look really, really bad! Here's just one more example - a heart-wrenching one. A couple in Palo Alto, California - Isabel Aguirre and her husband Pedro Ramirez - a couple who had lived there for more than 20 years - having moved from their native Mexico in 1985, were deported following a Federal raid. Because of this, their four children, all U.S. citizens, were faced with being deported with their parents, or going into foster care. The kicker? The parents had all the necessary paperwork and were (more...)

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February 11, 2006

A Nation of Intellectual Pygmies

Rant filed under Politics, The Nation by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
I originally drafted this rant a few years ago, but as we head into another presidential election round, it seems nothing has gotten any better: Listening today to the candidates for the upcoming presidential election, George W. Bush and John Kerry, each driveling their lackluster verbal pablum, it suddenly hit me as to just why our choices for President have been increasingly disheartening, disillusioning, and demoralizing. We’re raising a nation of intellectual pygmies. People no longer choose the best candidate - they choose the least bad candidate. It’s like the junkie channel surfer, clicking desparately from channel to channel, hoping to find that (more...)

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Only the Homeless and Blind Need Apply

Rant filed under Human Nature, The Nation by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
Have you noticed lately the trend for advocacy groups to employ those for whom they advocate? Isn't that nice of them? For example, I hear on the radio all the time about "homeless advocates". What? You mean, they aren't homeless? You mean that they are advocates for the homeless? But that's not what they said. They said that they are "homeless advocates". Similarly, in the news today I read that a "blind advocacy group filed a class action lawsuit this week against Target." To what is the group blind? (Other than, clearly, proper use (more...)

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February 9, 2006

Why Is Hitler Not Ok, But Jim Jones Is? Kool it with the Jonestown References!

Rant filed under Business, Human Nature by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
Here's a question. Why is it that every time someone invokes Hitler's name (Godwin's law, we in the geek Internet circles call it), everyone goes "OoooOOoooOooh! You can't say that!" But it's perfectly ok to invoke the Jonestown tragedy, in all sorts of situations, and nobody lifts an eyebrow?? My gawd. During the Jonestown tragedy *parents* gave their CHILDREN poisoned Kool-aid, knowingly killing their own children! WHY is it ok to compare people's actions to that horrific event? It isn't. And the most recent offender is none other than a very high profile executive at a very high profile company, aimed (more...)

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February 6, 2006

A Rant About Operation Amber

Rant filed under Legal Matters, The Nation by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
This is a rant which has been a long time in coming. That's because I see it nearly every day. You see, I subscribe to the Operation Amber mailing list, and so I see each and every one of the Amber Alerts which go out. That's pretty amazing to think about, isn't it? That there are Amber Alerts every single day. And that's the issue. And that's what this rant is about. Perhaps even the average citizen could notice it, but being a former father's rights attorney, I particularly recognize it. The vast majority..I mean the VAST majority of "abductions" being announced (more...)

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February 5, 2006

The Toilet that Needed a Colonoscopy

Rant filed under Customer Service by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
Being homeowners, from time to time we suffer the slings and arrows of home ownership, namely something breaks and needs to be fixed..NOW! Such was the case with our main sewer line, which, as confirmed by two independent authorities, really needed to be replaced if we wanted the brown, foul-smelling slurry to stop backing up into our shower and bathtub, and onto our floors. The work completed, and water turned back on, we joyfully put our new plumbing to the test. And the master toilet promptly backed up, venting its spleen and bile, as it were, all over the bathroom (more...)

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January 30, 2006

WTF Are You Wearing?

Rant filed under Human Nature by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
Have you noticed that there is a new trend to wear house clothing outdoors? By "house clothing" I mean bathrobes, fuzzy slippers, and jammies. What the heck is up with that? Here is a perfect example. What the hell is this broad doing?? Here's what she has on: way-too-big jammie pants, with the top rolled down to the point of proving that she is majoring in plumbing in school, with... spike-heeled sandals (click "more" to see the pictures"). I mean, sometimes you just have to say "WTF?" (more...)

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January 28, 2006

Are We a Nation of Pussies?

Rant filed under Politics, The Nation by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
What's wrong with youth today?? No matter where you stand on the issue of Iraq - and I'm not saying where I stand on it, as it's not germane to the issue at hand - you have to admit that there are a lot of people who are strongly opposed to our involvement with the war in Iraq. In particular, there are a lot of young adults - or even not so young adults - adults between the ages of say 18 and 30, who are very opposed to the Iraq war. So where the hell are they all? Why, in (more...)

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January 27, 2006

Would You Like Chemo With That? Chicago Gets Nation’s First Upscale Tobacco Lounge Courtesy of RJ Reynolds

Rant filed under The Nation by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
Welcome to the Marshall McGearty Tobacco Lounge, the first tobacco lounge in the nation, but sure not to be the last. The Marshall McGearty Tobacco Lounge is where you can have a smoke while enjoying a cup of coffee and reading the morning paper. It's designed to appeal to all those disaffected smokers who can no longer ... well, have a smoke while enjoying a cup of coffee and reading the morning paper, because of anti-smoking laws. Now they can go to have their coffee and smoke at the Marshall McGearty Tobacco Lounge. But not just any smoke, (more...)

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January 23, 2006

Suing the U.S. Government is “An Act of Faith in America”

Rant filed under Politics, The Nation by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
Two Muslim brothers from Brooklyn, Yasser and Hany Ibrahim, who were detained immediately following 9/11, then deported to Egypt on immigration violations and never charged with anything related to terrorism, are back in the states this week, in 24-hour Federal Marshall custody. Why? Yasser and Hany Ibrahim are here to give evidence in their lawsuit against the U.S. government. According to the lawsuit, Hany and Yasser Ibrahim, along with several other detainees, were detained, abused, and denied due process solely on the basis of their religion and national origin, which ordinarily would violate the constitutional prohibition against, well, (more...)

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January 18, 2006

Warn Me Before You Make Me Download a PDF!

Rant filed under Technology by She Devil

Anne P. Mitchell is the Chief Ranter at IndigNation.org, and is the driving force behind such diverse sites as DadsRights.org and The Internet Patrol. She also barely maintains a personal blog at MangeMerde.com.   Register to rant like She Devil now!
You know what I really hate? I really hate it when someone puts a link up on their site, a link to more information about something, or a page about something in which you are interested, and it turns out that it's not a link to another page or another site at all, it's a link to a !@#$%^&*! PDF file, which downloads to your drive with no warning! HOW RUDE! Now sure, it's sometimes easier to offer up information in PDF format. Sometimes you don't want people to be able to monkey with your text (not that it's difficult (more...)

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