A ninth grader who snapped a picture of a snoozing substitute teacher with his cell phone camera and posted it on a social network is in hot water with his school district.

The unnamed student, who attends Mustang Mid-High School in Mustang, Okla., was suspended, according to ABC affiliate KOCO.

The picture shows a "close-eyed man reclining behind a desk", The Oklahoman reported.

Mustang Public Schools denied ABCNews.com's request for an interview but issued a statement acknowledging it had conducted an internal investigation into the actions of the student and the substitute teacher.

"Appropriate follow-up action has taken place," Mustang Public Schools spokeswoman Mary Leaver wrote to ABCNews.com.

Leaver said it was against school policy for students to use their cell phones during the day.

One parent told ABC News' affiliate he felt the school had overreacted.

Instead of commending the student for exposing the waste of tax dollars that is a sleeping teacher in front of him, they suspended him for phone use.

Nice job killing the messenger there, assholes.

After months of financial turmoil, an Energy Department-backed lithium ion battery company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The company, Ener1, received a $118 million grant from DOE in 2010 as part of the president’s stimulus package. The money, which went to Ener1 subsidiary EnerDel, aimed to promote renewable energy storage battery technology for electrical grid use.

But despite generous federal support for the company, Ener1 was racked by problems last year. In October, NASDAQ delisted the company due to non-compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission filing requirements. A month later, the company’s president, chief executive, and top financial officer were fired.

On Thursday, Ener1 announced it will initiate a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan as part of an agreement to restructure the company’s debt obligations.

Just add it to the list at this point.

ALBANY — The campaign arm of state Senate Democrats is using office space in a building owned by the city’s powerful teachers union.

Revelations of the cozy arrangement come as Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg are warring with the union over implementing a rigorous teacher evaluation system.

The United Federation of Teachers has provided the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee work space inside its building at 50 Broadway — right next door to the UFT’s headquarters.

Senate Dems acknowledged the rental agreement by reporting a $4,483 in-kind contribution from the union.

“We make contributions — this is just another way of making a contribution,” UFT boss Michael Mulgrew said.

Mulgrew picks up the tab for the office, phone, Internet and utilities and writes it off as a donation to the Dems, who moved in the day after Labor Day.

Whenever you hear about money and politics, it's always corporate money, proving that the leftists who argue about it most aren't really interested in getting money out of politics; they're just interested in getting the money out of politics when it promotes something they don't agree with.

And I'm sure the UFT members in the City of New York who haven't had a contract in well over two years at this point (and have worked without threat of strike, unlike the scumbags at the TWU) are thrilled that the UFT is doing this while they should be pushing for a new deal with the city.

Even if it came from a parent, teacher, boss, or older sibling, some advice just doesn’t hold up over time. While you might have been employing the following five moves in the kitchen, you shouldn’t. Follow these tips instead. Lining the oven with foil Placing aluminum foil directly on the bottom of your oven can trap heat and throw off oven performance, and might even void the manufacturer’s warranty. The foil can also melt, which can damage the oven or even cause a fire. Instead Use a sheet of heavy-duty foil (a few inches bigger than the cooking pan) on the rack below the one you’re using. It will catch drips and allow heat to circulate.

A few more at the link, but this one really caught my eye. No one that understands how an oven works (ie: air convection, etc) would think that putting anything in an oven that isn't holding food while you're trying to cook something is a bad idea.

Anyway, a few more tips at the link. How many of them do you do? Be honest...

Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a "Reasonable Profits Board" to control gas profits. 

The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set up a board that would apply a "windfall profit tax" as high as 100 percent on the sale of oil and gas, according to their legislation. The bill provides no specific guidance for how the board would determine what constitutes a reasonable profit. 

The Gas Price Spike Act, H.R. 3784, would apply a windfall tax on the sale of oil and gas that ranges from 50 percent to 100 percent on all surplus earnings exceeding "a reasonable profit." It would set up a Reasonable Profits Board made up of three presidential nominees that will serve three-year terms. Unlike other bills setting up advisory boards, the Reasonable Profits Board would not be made up of any nominees from Congress.

The bill would also seem to exclude industry representatives from the board, as it says members "shall have no financial interests in any of the businesses for which reasonable profits are determined by the Board."

According to the bill, a windfall tax of 50 percent would be applied when the sale of oil or gas leads to a profit of between 100 percent and 102 percent of a reasonable profit. The windfall tax would jump to 75 percent when the profit is between 102 and 105 percent of a reasonable profit, and above that, the windfall tax would be 100 percent. The bill also specifies that the oil-and-gas companies, as the seller, would have to pay this tax.

Holy sweet mother of Christ. I don't care how much you hate oil companies; if this sort of thing doesn't scare the hell out of you, nothing will.

And honestly, how is it that members of this board who don't have interests in the market or the businesses involved will be able to make a rational determination of what a "reasonable profit" is?

And also notice it talks about gas and oil. What about the entertainment industry? Sports teams?

Nope; this isn't about reasonable profits or anything of the sort. It's about knee-capping oil companies.

Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and Colorado, have long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their own properties because, according to officials, that rain belongs to someone else.

As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from “diverting” water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western states. Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners started butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for personal use.

This is absolutely ludicrous, and needs to be fought at every turn. When you don't even have the liberty to collect the rainwater that falls on your land, you seriously are screwed.

The idea that "collecting" rain water "diverts" it is so idiotic it warrants a special class of smacking across the head. If I set up a cistern in my yard and I live in the middle of a desert, where am I diverting water from?

In Australia, a country continuously plagued by droughts and water shortages, cisterns have become standard issue on new homes. Many other water-poor countries are following suit because it's an effective way for homeowners to get the water they need for their use without taxing the limited water supply.

In this country, however, if we can't tax it, we want it banned, and that's exactly what's going on here.

I'm horrified by the idea that the government could claim ownership on something that falls from the sky and lands on your property, but then again, if doing so is illegal, let's talk about another thing: if that water causes damage, is the government responsible?

After all, if they're going to claim they own the rain, when it washes out my driveway, can I file a claim because something they own damaged my property?

Yeah... Ponder that one, bureaucrats.

Solyndra LLC failed to attract any bids on Tuesday from buyers who could have restarted production, brought back some laid off staff and kept the bankrupt solar panel maker operating, according to a company adviser.

Solyndra, which owes more than $500 million to the U.S. government, has said a turnkey buyer is the best hope for getting the most money for the government and other creditors. However, no turnkey bids were submitted by a Tuesday deadline, said company adviser Eric Carlson of Imperial Capital LLC.

Court documents suggest that auctioneers who have already been retained will soon begin a piecemeal sale of the remaining production equipment and real estate.

They can't sell the company. Astonishing. The company that took more than half a billion of your hard-earned dollars is so toxic no one will buy it.

Says a lot for venture socialism, doesn't it?

The former speaker made that claim Jan. 16 in a Republican debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and his campaign organization quickly inserted the snippet in a new 30-second TV ad that began running Jan. 18 in South Carolina.

Gingrich would have been correct to say the number now on food aid is historically high. The number stood at 46,224,722 persons as of October, the most recent month on record. And it’s also true that the number has risen sharply since Obama took office.

But Gingrich goes too far to say Obama has put more on the rolls than other presidents. We asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition service for month-by-month figures going back to January 2001. And they show that under President George W. Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Nothing before comes close to that.

And under Obama, the increase so far has been 14.2 million. To be exact, the program has so far grown by 444,574 fewer recipients during Obama’s time in office than during Bush’s.

It’s possible that when the figures for January 2012 are available they will show that the gain under Obama has matched or exceeded the gain under Bush. But not if the short-term trend continues. The number getting food stamps declined by 43,528 in October. And the economy has improved since then.

So yeah Newt, you're totally like 100% wrong and not even in the ball-park of being right. President Obama in 3 years has added 14.2 million food stamp recipients, while former President Bush added 14.7 million in 8. You're totally wrong, Newt. Totally. Like you're not even close and you should be ashamed and be forced to eat premature babies with sriracha.

Honestly, if Fact Check weren't so disingenuous with this criticism, it would be laughable. Yeah, Newt got the number wrong, but that being said, is he so wrong that it required a few hundred words of debunking in a separate column? Half a million recipients fewer in less than half the time of the prior guy... Is that something to be crowing about? I think not, no matter how much the "economy has improved."

I'm sure Fact Check will go back, when Obama surpasses Bush's number in a few months (and don't worry it will happen) and say "Yep; maybe we made too big a deal out of this number."

I just won't be holding my breath waiting for it.