So this dipshit President Assclown, and his lackeys at the NRA, are suggesting that teachers should be armed as well as locked and loaded in case of some crazed demented male with a tiny tallywhacker decides to shoot up a school.

This is not a good idea. Please read Arthur Goldstein's take on why it is stupid. Think about it. We as teachers keep on hearing how we are no good. But, we are to be trusted with handguns and other weapons in case an active shooter comes into our school to destroy the lives of the children we keep on being told we are destroying anyway.

Law enforcement are the only ones with the training and capabilities to protect the children and take down an active shooter. Yeah, dumbass Trump says to train teachers. But law enforcement does not get trained just once, they keep on getting trained and re-trained.

My son's school district has a Harrison police officer at each school. That is who I trust. I also, God forbid, believe that if there is an active shooter in his school that his teachers will shield the students to the best of their abilities. But not all school districts and police departments can afford or have the manpower to have an office in each school.

This is not perfect, but this is what we have until more is done to limit the sales of guns and military style weapons. But in the meantime something needs to be done. The Crack Team got together and came up with some ideas that are better than arming teachers and hopefully will appeal to the Cheeto Face president and his sycophants.

Lightsabers

Yes, lightsabers. Arm all teachers with lightsabers. As Obi Wan told Luke in Star Wars Episode IV...

Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

Yes, each teacher will be assigned a light saber (color of their choice). As Rey has shown in Episodes VII and VIII one does not need to be trained in the ways of the Force to use one. And let's not forget that Finn was proficient with a lightsaber.

Vulcan Nerve Pinch

Each district will send several teachers from each school to the Vulcan Science Academy for intensive instruction on the practice of using the VNP. What's that you say? Only Vulcans have the ability to perform the VNP? I don't think so.

In Star Trek: TOS episode "Omega Glory" after Spock uses the VNP...

Kirk tells Spock "Pity you can't teach me that" (i.e. the Vulcan Nerve Pinch), and Spock replies "I have tried, Captain."

And lest we forget, Mr Data, Odo, Jean-Luc Picard (because he is way more cool than Kirk), Jonathan Archer, and the useless holographic Doctor have all used the VNP. It can be done.

General Order 24

Yes, we more Star Trek: TOS! In "A Taste of Armageddon" Captain Kirk while he and the landing party were being held hostage ordered Mr Scott to implement General Order 24, An order to destroy all life on an entire planet. But Scott was trained well. He did not want to follow in the footsteps as Captain Garth did on Antos IV. Scott had the Enterprise wipe out all power and weapons systems on EminiarVII.

Trump can commission, or use his billions, to build a star ship orbiting the earth. When an active shooter situation happens in a school the local principal can give General Order 24.

Batman Style

No, come on. Let's be real. There is no such thing as Batman. But, we can train teachers, one teacher per school, in the style of Batman.

Each summer every school district selects one teacher (of course by seniority) to travel to Bhutan and be trained by The League of Shadows and Ra's al Ghul. After an intensive 8 week session the teachers travels back to their schools and are in essence each school's Dark Knight. When an active shooter (hopefully never) situation arises that teacher can take care of the shooter Batman style.

The Crack Team worked hard at coming up with these inane ideas. Much harder than Trump and the NRA did coming up with their dumbassity. It's time to be realistic. Want to end the Active Shooter curse. Don't give them something to shoot with.

Oh, and get rid of Trump and all the blooducking NRA Republicans.

So many times the following has happened to me. I am driving into the work in the morning and as I
get off the ramp from the Cross County Parkway onto the southbound Thruway in Yonkers traffic is backed up to either Yonkers Raceway or the Cross County Center.

I turn on Sirius traffic and here that there is an accident somewhere along the northbound Deegan and that traffic is backed up to Yankee Stadium or the Triboro Bridge. Worse, the cause for the southbound traffic is none other than Rubberneckers. People love just love to see a car wreck.

So of course there was that natural voyeuristic tendency to stop, look, and share the clown car wreck emanating from UFT when this email was passed to someone...(Click to enlarge)

The email claimed that the presumptive UFT president was no longer running under the more banner. OK, what to do?

That's where watching the clown car wreck comes in. Everyone wanted to check it out. Hey why not? Come on, anyone would have. Wasn't everyone's favorite scene in The Addams Family was when Gomez crashed his trains head on? Didn't we all get psyched when an episode came on in which we knew Gomez was going to crash his trains?

The email also had a link with a message that more or less had a paragraph added to it every 45 minutes. As if someone was bating (No typo). Kind of reminded The Crack Team of a Batman episode with Frank Gorshin as The Riddler.

Dear Union Brothers and Sisters,  

Our school system is under attack and our union has been compromised. I, XXXXXXX XXXXX, am just a father and educator from Staten Island. I did not know this attack existed because I too wore blinders and had my head in the sand. Now that I now, from being thrown in the fire, I cannot turn my back to it. We cannot ignore it.  

Through my own trials and tribulations and seeing and hearing about many others, I decided something had to be done. For a long time I felt that I could fix things situation by situation by being on the phone with members and exposing their attackers online. The influx was too great. We created groups for people who wanted to help and needed help. One of those groups is UFT Solidarity.  

Although many members told us that our methods helped them, creating blogs and Facebook pages was no real solution to the bigger overarching issues. We have great obstacles and the UFT leadership is one of them. We had to, and have to, change the UFT.  

The only group that opposed the UFT leadership was the Movement of Rank and file Educators (MORE) and they fell very short in representing members. That’s where we came in… UFT Solidarity. A real trade union party about real worker issues.  

To win positions where we can properly support members, we need to “step down” on all those who oppose us.


One, Solidarity was not formed in response to how they fell short of helping teachers but rather many, many issues. As for winning positions, just ain't going to happen

But early Tuesday morning I got several text messages with people commenting on the same source of a posting on the hijacked ATR Alliance Facebook page.

We found a mole in our UFT Solidarity group. History shows we don't do well with moles and we take care of them. Through some creative means we tricked these moles from MORE UFT group into thinking I was stepping down as the UFT Presidential candidate. We sent a fake email to the mole and then had a program track the email. The data shows that the email was bounced around over 358 times today alone! Imagine if that group spent that much energy and time into actually defending members, going after abusive admin, supporting ATRs and the non tenured termination epidemic? Maybe they would actually get votes and their members wouldn't call us for support. 358 responses talking about me stepping down in one day? Nice try, but I'm not going anywhere. This time next year, our team is going to run time UFT the right way and the membership will be better off.

Some takeaways from this rant.  History? Can one year constitute a history? And how are moles taken care of? This sounds as if the author (**wink wink** **nod nod**) has watched one too many James Bond movies or seen too many Batman TV shows. We here at SBSB believe it is the latter.

So it would be safe to assume that the minions you sycophantically are part of UFT Solidarity are like the minions of Penguin when taking care of a mole? Wearing bowler hats, black turtle necks, with silly little names embroidered on the front? Of course, the dude who dresses as Captain Picard doesn't have to get all silly like that.

But, what is disturbing is that the emails were tracked. Now don't worry. That someone felt that their time was best served by tracking if the emails were opened or not? There are programs to see if one read or opened an email, but to know what was written in the body of the email. No. Can't happen. We here can attest to that in some of the email responses what was written was so funny it would make Rodney Dangerfield appear boring.

 But the 358 responses? Sure, probably that many, but that's how many hit on the link, you know, to see the clown car wreck. Just put the StatCounter code on your website or blog and you are good to go.

Sure, why not look? It 99% known it was a spoof. 

And if there were people that were had for a brief moment or two, so what? Big deal. UFT Solidarity keeps being had by itself day in and day out. But keep it coming, everyone enjoys a good joke. 

But what is disturbing is the fact that emails were traced, followed, etc... Think about it. Are members, and there are dissenters, of UFT Solidarity having their email monitored? And if not what is to stop it in the future? Has anyone who has contradicted UFT Solidarity publicly ever been "talked to"?

Better yet, this question should be answered. If anyone dares to speak out, truly speak out, what is the chances that that person can have happen to them what has happened to others who dare not toe the official party line with UFT Solidarity? Can their lives be upended as well?

Was this Nixonian dirty trick approved by the UFT Solidarity social media committee or the UFT Solidarity social media committee? Or was this authorized by a committee of one?

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