​A 24-year-old female teacher seduced a 13-year old boy, got pregnant by him, but - boy, oh boy, let’s tread softly here, let’s not joke...let's not JUDGE her, despite their disparate age differences and despite her knowing of the fiduciary obligation she had, and despite her missing morals, manners, and ethics.

​We gotta give her a pass - why?
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Because she, as we all know, being female, according to the main stream media rules, is not bad or deviant. Only males, unless homosexual or transgendered, are bad and disordered - and that, therefore, a female, even in a power position, a position of trust, honor and respect,  could toy with a boy thinking - knowing - he’d be deemed guilty, after dark steamy nights, by the societal, skewed, light of day.

She’s a victim!

The media's agog. One reporter, Marla Carter, linked/affiliated to 13-eye-witness-news wore an umbrella as protection against the glorious southern USA sunshine. Academia, for its part, has got to figure out how to slot this middle-school carnal anomaly into the whole male-American-university "rape culture" meme.
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No, making jokes would be improper – but the whole story is a riddle. Actually it’s a bad joke - especially the part about the boy’s parents consenting to the relationship. Can that really be true? Are they complicit in the explicit?

Well, maybe. More about that in a sec.

Here’s an even more incredible fact. Texas is a state like no other. Bigger and better in some respects, a little further, far out, in others. Where you classify the following is open to debate, but the fact is an eye-opener: If Alexandria Vera, our teacher, is found guilty of “continuous sexual abuse of a child” her jail sentence would be, AT MINIMUM, FIVE TIMES the length of that if she had simply murdered the eighth-grade boy - without the sex angle, an angle they dangled FOR NINE MONTHS.

She’s just 24 She could face a few hundred years in the slammer. (Why on earth take the risk? She must have had some acquaintance with Texas laws respecting minors.) She’s been released on a $100,000 bond and, oh no, there is another innocent involved, or let’s put it this way, more of an innocent than her paramour boy - for she’s got a four-year old daughter from an earlier relationship.

So now the toddler’s life will be uncertain at best, and in reverse at worst.

And hopefully the child was a deep sleeper, for Vera told officials most of the action happened at her house.
 
Boys hit their sexual peak at around 17. Couldn’t she wait if she truly loved this guy – or was it just lust at first sight?

No. Not. According to DomisLive NEWS, the teacher grew concerned when the lad did not turn in one assignment. So educational concerns lead the way to the coupling.

Now that that's out of the way – what’s the deal with the parents? How could they approve of this? Was there sexual abuse in either of the parent’s backgrounds? And if not, how could they approve of this? That’s as far as one can delve without getting too deep into slime and muck...
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And what’s the story about the school: Stovall Middle School? A look at their official website shows a mission statement that is a wordy boilerplate piece of bunk – but the “Title 1 – Parent’s Right to Know” has three points. Point three would appear to have been mangled – for how did Ms. Vera slip through the cracks, get hired in the first place? Then again, despite her boudoir proclivities, she may have been a fantastic teacher...Anyway, here’s point 3: Timely notice if the child has been assigned for four or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified.
Supposedly, the boy was taking an English course she taught. So, as mentioned, it wasn’t a love kindled from corridors or the cafeteria that brought the pair to bumping uglies - almost DAILY - it was summer school in 2015 where, presumably like most summer schools, things are more laid back...
 
Would a person who wanted to prey on young people for sex, enter teaching, or does teaching young folks turn some teachers into sexual predators? Whatever the correlation, apparently Instagram got the, no pun intended, ball rolling.
 
The only saving grace to this story is (and let’s for the moment stick with birth gender as actual gender and not the gender you feel you are that day) she’s a female and he’s a male – but can you imagine the horror if a guy teacher seduced an impressionable young female? Phew. Thank god that wasn’t the case otherwise social media would blow a gasket and god-knows-what-else would ensue...

Who broke open this sordid story? Child Protective Services – the Texan variety.

However, what may have been the biggest travesty (and for those perpetually offended by sarcasm, or an off-beat attempt at levity, or a poor, paltry try at humor) shield your eyes, close your ears, shutter your kids to this - this 59-word bureaucratic introduction by another involved official:

I, J. Gonzales, am a certified peace officer employed with Aldine Independent School District Police Department. I have reason to believe and do believe that Alexandria Vera committed the felony offense of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child on or about September 30, 2015 through January 30, 2016 in Harris County, Texas. I base my belief on the following:

That’s the fine, not so fine, print. Could have said it in 26 words:
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I, Mr. Gonzales, officiate in such matters. I believe Ms. Vera broke the law, around September 25th, 2015 – a law concerning: Sexual Abuse Of A Child. 
Ok, diction, nit picking, and editing ain’t the deal here, but still, 59 versus 26 words begs all of us to: be precise.

Unfortunately, precision is missing in one key question. Is Alexandria a member in good standing of any Texas Teacher Union, such as the Aldine AFT Local 6345, for example? Because if she is, and if this union is like other teacher unions who stand behind their members no matter (almost) what the crime a teacher is accused/convicted of, it sure would be fun to read of their arguments on Ms. Vera’s behalf.

Yet, yet, one must wonder, however, what her father thinks, he being a former Houston police officer and all!

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Randi Love is not a stripper, but clearly her persona is being peeled alive, and her name does have a burlesque-risqué-like quality to it. In fact, Ms. Love worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police when not selling cocaine, or maybe it should be said: Randi dealt coke whilst working for the RCMP.
In any event, Randi’s in a heap of trouble. She’s facing three counts of trafficking in nose candy from deals made last June. During that time she had been on medical leave from the RCMP. She was later suspended from duty August 7th.

CFJC’s Anchor, Bill O’Donovan, looked serious, so let’s assume for his sake a pun wasn’t intended when he described the doings “...as a blow to the reputation of the Kamloops RCMP department...”
What would motivate Love to even contemplate selling coke?

Dissatisfaction with her job? That seems a tad unlikely, given that she was on that aforesaid medical leave from the force. Could have been boredom, perhaps tired of sitting around, but that seems a tad unlikely too, for she would have had a good job to go back to, what with being the local media relations officer. Disrespect? Can’t see that either, given that she received full pay while suspended, much to the disappointment and dismay of many of her former co-workers. Thrill of adventure, of walking that, ahem, fine line? Maybe. Blackmail? Possibly.

A drug habit? Maybe a more-than possibly; could be likely. The need to sell cocaine (and sell, thereby, one’s soul and sense) to support his or her use and abuse of cocaine isn’t far-fetched.
Far from it.

Look at all the rich and famous folk such as Whitney Houston, Tim Allen, John Belushi, Kate Moss, heck even Sigmund Freud – who fell prey to the white-powder predator.

What about a mid life crisis, could it have been that? Many of us do succumb, in this existential phase, to do stupendously stupid things - and she is north of 40...yet she’s a pretty 40-year-old. She shouldn’t have had trouble meeting friends and keeping companions. A shrink could have told her she was A-OK.

And she’ll have more time to meet lots of officials, both medical and legal, to help or hinder her, in being A-OK. She does have time to either clean up her act, or go off the deep end, hog wild, given that she now is retired from the RCMP as of October 2015.

She had worked for the Kamloops RCMP. Kamloops, on its official website, touts itself as “Canada’s Tournament Capital.”

It's not the greatest claim to fame, but the town of some 85,000 - nestled in the interior of British Columbia - is also home to bears, cougars, the types of animals that claim humans as carcasses, and is also, alas, home to the type of creatures that cook and sell nasty drugs like methamphetamine when not engaging in organized gang criminality.

The Hells Angels are thought to have a presence there. And either the Kamloops RCMP is, outside of Randi’s machinations, incredibly efficient or is a totally on the tripping-tripped-out side, given that a hyperlink on their website titled:
“Marijuana Grows / Labs”
Search
leads to: “We could not find that web page.”

So there either aren’t any more drug dens, or the Mounties don’t always get their man, or men, woman, or women, as it turns out.

Oh, well...

As for reaction to Randi’s alleged escapades, it ranges from A to Z and beyond - from the Kamloops RCMP detachment - all 118 officers and 60 civilian staff - keeping quiet about it all, to one commentator recommending she be shot in the ass, to her being accused of being a disgrace to the uniform, to others opining she was “set up”, to yet others looking at her case with leniency and sympathy, depending on how much cocaine was involved.

Indeed, if she was selling kilos, that’s a far cry from selling a gram to a girlfriend for a night out on the town. The Indictment lists the three charges but does not give amounts for each...
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On a, no pun intended, larger scale, the RCMP - itself - is no stranger to scandalous crime. The world knows the Mounties best for its iconic red serge outfits but many also have followed the course this force has taken with bemusement at best, shame at worst. And their crimes run the gamut from killing sled dogs, to the burning of a barn, from allegations of widespread sexual harassment - a “crisis”, to stealing dynamite, from illegal break-ins to excessive use of force (pepper spray, tasering, strip searches, manslaughter) from a pension fund scandal – of its own members, to interfering with judicial processes, from improperly sharing classified, confidential details, to ticket fixing, from falsifying evidence...to you get the idea.  

And Randi’s ex-boyfriend, Trent Wessner, also has had a brush-in with law, being charged for fraud, albeit of the small-time variety. He bilked Costco for $400. Randi’s testified against him. And get this, he also had worked for the RCMP as a constable.
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Things come a cropper for Randi June 16th when she appears in provincial court.

Angelina Jolie dislikes Trump’s idea to temporarily ban Muslims from the USA. To be fair to the actress, when talking of America’s origins she qualifies her statement, saying “to me.” Certainly she’s entitled to her opinion of America, and of Trump’s role in it, and of Muslims in it - or out of it - and now that that’s out of the way, let’s tear a strip off her thoughts.

First (favorably for her) she nails it when she says many come to the States for freedoms. No argument here. She then stresses the freedom of religion to practice as being a main impetus. Maybe yes, maybe no, but for sake of argument let’s say no argument here either.

When asked about Donald’s plans for the ban, she first looks downward and shakes her head, reasonable enough reactions for someone who believes that a temporary halt to Muslims immigrating or visiting the States, some no doubt as terrorists in hiding, is the wrong way to go - given that her raison d’être is publicizing the plight of refugees forced to flee their homes.

She seems to equate all religions as equal in all aspects. If Buddhists can immigrate or visit America, why can’t Muslims continue to do so?

Does she not read? Or hear? Or see? The news? To be fair again to her, she does have a marriage and six kids to tend to (and contend with.) Maybe her brain is scrambled. Eggs. Or fried. Take your pick.
Because she’s laid a huge one in being disappointed in a solution, that while not perfect or permanent, would allow cooler heads to prevail and wiser heads to give counsel to a problem with Islamists, Jihadists, and (not my wisecrack) Religion-of Pieces persons and their predilection to blow stuff up and bomb people to kingdom come, whether they be infidels - or Muslims of the wrong discipline.

Oh, well.

Jolie is upset about Trump – and while she is probably very well respected as a mother, actress, UN Goodwill Ambassador, and as a sympathetic shoulder to lefty-liberal booster, Mr. Brad Pitt, he a follower of the Democratic Party – she’s bonkers in her opinion about Trump’s take on – to use Obama’s politically correct euphemism – “man caused disasters – no matter that - as of a few days ago - she was appointed as a professor at the London School of Economics...

Many feel that Muslims will be alienated if they are temporarily banned from the US. Let’s say that is true. Many of us feel alienated at one time or another but we don’t react violently to our feeling(s). So why should Muslims be any different? In fact, they probably aren’t. The inference is that those alienated from that religion may turn violent, or not cooperate with officials looking for terrorist cells, but that seems to be more of a slur on Muslims than it does a wise prediction. (And, if it so happens that some do turn to terror citing Trumps’ proposed ban as their spark, this will more than ever prove his policy-to-be makes eminent sense.)

Which is why Trump’s plan to enact the temporary ban makes sense - despite Ms. Jolie’s disapproval and despite her feeling that his sentiments are hard to hear, hard to bear...

Of course what may be hardest of all for globalist Angelina Jolie to accept is that, not only will nationalists like Trump willfully ignore her statement that “Nations have to pull together” but is knowing - and admitting -  that her world view doesn’t even extend to her dad. Father Jon Voight, backs The Donald in his presidential fight.
 

$62.8 million for a 12,000 seat-football stadium sounds chintzy, especially since it’s for a Texas high school.  Come on, is Texas still really serious about high school football, or not? Goodness gracious, McKinney HS is, embarrassingly, going skinny, skimping with such a poor, paltry effort to erect their monument to boys’ gridiron greatness.

Seriously, the school is roughly 35 miles north east of Dallas and is certainly a million miles north east of everything sane and sober.

Or is it? Consider this. Remember the movie: Friday Night Lights? It was based on Texas’s Permian high school 1988 football season. Anyway, Permian plays out of Ratliff stadium and it seats over 19,000. Granted, Odessa High Bronchos plays out of there too, but even back when it opened in 1982 it cost 5.6 million to build – so maybe 62.8 million, given inflation and wage and materials escalation some 34 years later, is, pun intended, ball park.

But what is way out in left field is the intensity to win at nearly all moral and ethical costs. At John Jay high school, assistant football coach, Mack Breed, as USA Today reported “...is alleged to have told players to target umpire Robert Watts during a Sept. 4 game against Marble Falls. Breed initially admitted that he had directed the players to make Watts pay for missed calls and racial slurs.” Now Watts says he didn’t make racial slurs, but even if he did, and let’s assume he botched some plays, these transgressions in no way deserved targeted retribution. Watt’s lawyer, Jay Downs says the umpire has a concussion.

Maybe Texan football should sit back, sip a Long Island Iced Tea, and, you know – chill. Gary Gutierrez, Head coach at John Jay was, however, put on the hot seat and had to explain Texas high school football competitive culture. (The two players that did the hit job were exiled to an alternative high school for 75 days.) Hopefully Gary’s football plays are more imaginative than his boilerplate, off the rack, response.

“I’ve looked at the man in the mirror. I took ownership in this as well as being the leader, but at the same time, this is not reflective of the program or the coach I am or the coaches on our staff or the kids in our school and community.” You’ll be glad to know that principal Robert Harris still thinks Gutierrez is the right guy...

Let’s move on, back to the bigger picture of HS football in the Lone Star State. Head coaches get paid to produce. No big insight there but here’s a financial fact a bit outta sight. Even in 2011 the average salary for 46 of the head honchos was at $88,420 with Steve Lineweaver of Euless Trinity raking in $114,413 – making him the most well compensated of coaches “...in the area.”

To put the importance of football and “production” in perspective as compared to the importance of math, sciences, or English, say – other teachers in the North Texas region pulled in about 51,452 annually.

For public high schools the best, academically, nationally, from Texas was Austin’s Westlake High School, coming in at a not-so-hot 21st. That school, however, was pretty darn hot in football in 2015, losing to the North Shore Senior High Mustangs, 21-14, in that year's State championships 6A Div1. So North Shore has pigskin bragging rights – but it didn’t finish in the top 50 schools in the nation. In fact, only Westlake made the top 50. Not a good result for the second most populous state. (Most populous, California had 6 schools in the top 25!) And Newsweek had only 31 Texas high schools in its top 500 list.

But in matters of football, of the top 25 schools for football 2015-16 as tabulated by Kenneth Massey, a stats-math whiz, Texas’s Katy was number 1 (and was named national champions, however that works) and Lake Travis came 12th, with George Ranch in 24th.

Just a bit more with the numbers. Know that 55% of voters decided a new stadium for Katy was needed and approved one to cost 58 million and seat some 12,000.

So wow and why? Sigh. Football is a religion. Ever heard of immaculate conception? Well, down there, they’ve got something called immaculate deception and it has been witnessed by thousands. Way back in 2012 Eagle Stadium was born. It could hold 18,000.

So good, so far. Don’t get your cows runn’in. It only cost 60 million. But a not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Despite household incomes in Allen, Texas coming in at a swanky 95,000 annually – and despite all the hoopla everyone felt at this new pigskin pedestal - there was, um, one flaw.

The concrete cracked and the facility closed shop in 2014. Kind of like being clotheslined when running back a kickoff. Head comes off and plenty of blame goes around.  Despite the fact that it doesn’t work, it sure looks splashy and fancy. Lookee here!

It did, however, reopen in 2015 after having fixed “an unfortunate set of circumstances...”

So it appears Texas high school football ain’t going away. Heck, even in Allen, with the literal faults in that structure the sentiment is...next time, it’ll be bigger! In Texas, they don’t talk through their hat often – and this feeling for football is no idle/idol boast but is, in fact, one we should keep our eyes on.
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Oh, this just in. Texas high school championship games are returning to the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium – the one that cost 1.2 billion. Seat capacity? 101,000...