Mrs. Republicrat just went to Rio Linda Junior High School to see what kind of activity is going on. Well, the school is closed up tight. She observed one janitor going room to room pushing a cart.

People who live across the street from the school were outside. Mrs. R stopped and chatted. They told her that everyone from Rio Linda Junior High went home at about the normal time and that other than A LOT of traffic (people looking at the school), everything seemed business as usual.

I hope for our children's sake this is not the case. That perhaps this person living across the street missed the caravan of cleaners!

I have a child who attends Rio Linda Junior High School. Today my child came home with a letter from Pat Newsome, Interim Superintendent of Grant District. The letter is informing parents that a RLJH student has been diagnosed with the staph infection MRSA.

It goes on to say, and I quote:

Let me assure you that we are taking all the recommended steps and disinfecting all contact surfaces at the school. As a precaution, we are also:

-Disinfecting all contact surfaces at all other Grant District schools and all buses and

-Providing hand sanitizers in all classrooms, music rooms, labs and locker rooms.

The letter goes on to give recommendations on how to prevent the MRSA infection from spreading.

KCRA.com is reporting that Rio Linda Junior High School will be cleaned Tuesday afternoon and evening.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Grant Joint Union High School District said Tuesday that an eighth-grade student at Rio Linda Junior High School was diagnosed with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.

The student was out sick last week and is currently being treated with antibiotics, school officials said.

Rio Linda Junior High School will be cleaned Tuesday afternoon and evening, school officials said.

Other local schools, Rocklin High and Natomas Middle, also have had an outbreak:

Natomas Middle

Administrators at the Natomas campus, which is located at 3700 Del Paso Road, are working on a plan to prevent an outbreak.

Fifty classrooms at Natomas Middle School got a full scrub-down on Monday.

The facility will be sanitized twice more before 800 students return to class on Tuesday.

Natomas staff worked Monday as part of a scheduled in-service day.

Parents of the Natomas students were also notified with automated phone calls.

Rocklin High

Rocklin High School officials received word that a student had contracted MRSA Monday morning, after a parent e-mailed officials over the weekend and notified them of the infection, Principal Michael Garrison said.

The student is doing well, Garrison said.

Four custodians thoroughly disinfected the campus Monday afternoon after school let out for a minimum day.

Custodians also had scoured the campus last week in an effort to prepare for the upcoming cold and flu season, he said.

Parents were notified of the staph case Monday through an automated messaging system.

Ok, a couple of concerns:

-In my personal opinion, RLJH has extremely poor disciplines. So, I certainly hope they take this serious and not just use handy wipes on the door handles.

-Why were the students not let out early? NO!

-Were Parents called? NO!

-My child came home with a letter. Could the MRSA infection be carried by this piece of paper? Can I contract this by simply reading it?

-Why did the school not use the automated telephone notification system? They used it for Back to School Night. Was this not that important?

Mrs. Republicrat and I have not made a decision on whether to send out little Republicrat to school tomorrow or not. I have calls in to both the RLJH Principal Harjinder Mattu and Pat Newsome, Interim Superintendent of Grant District. I will post a follow up when I actually speak with someone.

A man was riding his Harley along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, the Lord said, "Because you have tried to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish."

The biker pulled over and said, "Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can ride over anytime I want."

The Lord said, "Your request is materialistic. Think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking: the supports required reaching the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and steel it would take! It will nearly exhaust several natural resources. I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that could possibly help mankind."

The biker thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said, "Lord, I wish that I and all men could understand women. I want to know how she feels inside, what she's thinking when she gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what she really means when she says nothing's wrong, and how I can make a woman truly happy."

The Lord replied, "You want two lanes or four on that bridge?"

Thought you might like to know what happened in a little town north of Bakersfield , California.

After you finish reading this, please forward this story on to others so that our nation and people around the world will know about those who laughed when they found out about the tragic events in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon.

On September 11th, a Budweiser employee was making a delivery to a convenience store in a California town named McFarland.

He knew of the tragedy that had occurred in New York when he entered the business to find the two Arabs, who owned the business, whooping and hollering to show their approval and support of this treacherous attack.

The Budweiser employee went to his truck, called his boss and told him of the very upsetting event!

He didn't feel he could be in that store with those horrible people. His boss asked him, "Do you think you could go in there long enough to pull every Budweiser product and item our beverage company sells there?

We'll never deliver to them again."

The employee walked in, proceeded to pull every single product his beverage company provided
and left with an incredible grin on his face.

He told them never to bother to call for a delivery again.

Budweiser happens to be the beer of choice for that community. Just letting you know how Kern
County handled this situation.

And Now The Rest Of The Story:

It seems that the Bud driver and the Pepsi man are neighbors. Bud called Pepsi and told him. Pepsi called his boss who told him to pull all Pepsi products as well!!! That would include Frito Lay, etc.

Furthermore, word spread and all vendors followed suit! At last report, the store was closed indefinitely.

Good old American Passive-Aggressive A$$ Whoopin!

Pass this along, America needs to know that we're all working together!

If you can read this, thank a teacher...

If you are reading it in English.... THANK A SOLDIER!!!

Here is an article with some common sense on global warming.

The most impressive demonstration in Gore's movie is that big graph of temperature and carbon dioxide levels stretching back 650,000 years. Carbon dioxide is thought to amplify temperature increases, but his graph seemed to show clear cause and effect: When carbon dioxide levels rose, so did temperature. It suggested that carbon levels controlled temperature. But a real inconvenient truth is that the carbon increase came after temperatures rose, usually hundreds of years later. Temperature went up first.

I wanted to ask Gore about that and other things, but he wouldn't agree to an interview. According to Gore, the "debate is over."

See the whole article here.

With less than 5 hours to go, bids for the Harry Reid/Rush Limbaugh Smear Letter were at $2,100,000.00 . How high will it go?

The Senate, under Harry Reid's direction sent a letter to Clear Channel's CEO Mark Mays, trying to get him to repudiate Rush for the comments. The letter was signed by 41 sissies in the Senate who have nothing better to do than bully a private citizen for his political beliefs, which were taken out of context in the first place.

Clear Channel did not comply, and now Rush has the original letter up for auction on EBAY. You can actually copy and print out the letter. Link to story.

Here is the link to the ebay auction item.

The bombing of the al-Askari Mosque by Al Queda in Iraq touched off violence and retribution between Sunni and Shiite Muslims that neary escalated into a full blown civil war.

That action in unstable Iraq seriously jeapordized America's ability to contain violence, which has only now shown a measurable drop since the Surge has shown success.

A new threat has emerged that has the potential to set the clock back once again. This time it is being perpetrated by non other than the Speaker Of the House of Representatives of the United States Government, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat.

Speaker Pelosi is planning to bring a resolution branding the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks as "genocide" to a vote in the House. Turkey reportedly killed up to 1.5 million Armenians in the period around World War One.

At issue is not the validity of the resolution, but the timing. Turkey currently facilitates transit of much of the US military's logistic support of the war effort in Iraq, and that hospitality could be in jeopardy in the wake of an affirmitive vote on the resolution. Also at issue is Turkey's desire to invade northern Iraq to counter Kurdish rebels.

Like the bombing of the al-Askari Mosque touched of a cycle of violence, the consideration of this ill-timed resolution may cause the same. The US House of Representatives and Nancy Pelosi do not exist in a vacuum and if they vote and pass this resolution, they will be responsible for the results.

View Rush on Fox News talking about the Senate Smear Letter.

(This is a link to a Windows Media File that will load and display in Windows Media Player).

The Senate tried to misconstrue Rush Limbaugh as anti-soldier by taking comments he made about "phony soldiers" out of context.

In a bizzare turn around, Harry Reid tried to make himself out a patriot and impune Rush's status as a super patriot.

The Senate, under Harry Reid's direction sent a letter to Clear Channel's CEO Mark Mays, trying to get him to repudiate Rush for the comments. The letter was signed by 41 sissies in the Senate who have nothing better to do than bully a private citizen for his political beliefs, which were taken out of context in the first place.

Clear Channel did not comply, and now Rush has the original letter up for auction on EBAY. You can actually copy and print out the letter.

Here is the link.