Where are we going ?
… and why are we in this handbasket ?
Drop the Weapon! Drop the Weapon! *BANG*
From Gothamist:
Just how little tolerance is zero tolerance? A Staten Island fourth-grader was reprimanded and almost suspended yesterday when the principal spotted him playing with a LEGO policeman and a two-inch-long toy gun during lunch, the Advance reports.
Under the city’s no-tolerance policy regarding guns in schools, PS 52 Principal Evelyn Matroianni brought 9-year-old Patrick Timoney to her office and called his mother to say the boy might be suspended for carrying the miniature toy gun to school, pending the approval of the Department of Education’s security administrator. When contacted, the administrator reportedly said the toy should be confiscated and returned to the boy’s parents, however no other punishment would be necessary.
How much would you pay for this kinda crazy ? Wait, don’t answer yet, there’s more …
From the NYDailyNews:
A Michigan kindergartener’s make-believe gun -- which he created with just his fingers -- got him suspended, the Grand Rapids Press reported.
Mason Jammer, 6, who attends Ionia’s Jefferson Elementary School, pointed his finger-gun at a fellow student Wednesday and got kicked out of school till Friday.
School officials said they had given Mason numerous warnings over several months, and his gun play created discomfort for other kids.
Now how much would you pay ? If you order this insanity in the next 5 minutes we’ll throw in this beautiful piece of shit:
a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises,” the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.
Sometimes its hard to even joke about this shit.
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Hey, don’t worry – the road ahead is paved with the dimocraps’ good intentions!
I sometimes wonder if Rome ever got this silly and absurd before it fell. We’re WAY passed the horse-in-the-senate stage now.
Okay, where to begin?
The shit with the make-believe guns is absolutely asinine. I played cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, gi’s versus nazis, and many variations on the theme. Not only did we have “pretend” guns, we sometimes had real toy guns as well.
To the best of my knowledge, no kid was ever traumatized, not even when the “bad guys” were “shot” and they acted out their death.
I imagine if you took one of the nanny-stater libs back to the school playground of my youth, they would have a fucking coronary or stroke and fall down dead right on the spot, they would be so horrified.
Speaking about the salt issue, I don’t get why all the restaurant owners don’t band together and make a unified declaration that they will not abide by the provisions of that bill if it’s passed. Then, their loyal customers should also get in on the act, and on the day that the bill should take effect, have everyone take the day off, and get in the street and surround each and every one of the restaurants and dare the motherfuckers to come and try and shut the establishments down.
Shit like this requires immediate and total disobedience on the part of the public.
Being New York, though, I’m not sure there will be enough people outraged enough to make a difference.
Fuck, but this shit pisses me off.
I’m right there with ya. I’ve never been the civil disobedience kinda guy, but the shit is getting a bit … surreal.
I hear ya, I would prefer that things be more orderly and reasonable than “taking to the streets.”
However, when government starts getting this fucked up and crazy, I thing we have a duty to stand up to it.
What’s really ironic, though, is that much of this shit is being supported and promoted by the very individuals who were part of the revolution of the sixties, who fought “against the man”, because they thought the government was tyrannical and oppressive.
The very definition of irony.
Want to talk irony re: the salt bill? Mayor Bloomberg is notorious for piling salt on his food. Refuses to even consider cutting back on it, too. Yet he will demand that there be no trans fats, and now, no salt?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/dining/23bloom.html?_r=1&hp
And thinking back on elementary school…. I remember the only “Barbie” I had growing up was a hand-me-down from a cousin, and it was The Bionic Woman. I was so thrilled with it, I took it to school, and bent it in half so I could pretend it was a gun while playing cops and robbers. And though this was in PR, and the robbers had a 50/50 chance of getting away with it, we still won most of the time
If my kid took a Barbie to school and did that, she would live in Juvie until 18.
Dump trucks.
I’m sure there are enough restauranteurs in the state to pay for say 100 truckloads to be dumped on the State House steps before a vote on this inanity takes place.
A good anti-salt-ban ad campaign might look like this:
“Salt. If it’s good enough for the roads, it’s good enough for your baked potato.”
Toy gun ban? My post of 3/9 over at Red State Witch had pictures of the kind of guns I played with in grade school – M-16s and M-2 belt-fed machine guns (full-size):
http://redstatewitch.com/wordpress/?p=394
I even carried a de-militarized but otherwise authentic Vietnam-era hand grenade on my belt to play with at recess when I was 11. Nowadays, suspension would be the least I’d be afraid of. They’d probably call in SWAT and haul me off in handcuffs.
Heck, in the little hamlet we live in, out here in the hinterlands of northern Illinois, 40 years ago or so, the boys used to bring their rifles to school during deer season. I know this because I have had any number of the “old timers”,who are my customers, tell me about this.
As I grew up a bit closer to “the big city”, we didn’t have that option (or at least no one talked about it). Still, it was not uncommon to find us “playing war” out side on warm summer days.
And if I still had them you might find any number of “detailed drawings” in my school note book(s) of imaginary battles, on land, sea, and air (and space!!). The “enemy” bleeding profusely, the ships (air,space, and sea) blowing up with mad abandon. Not that my attention wondered away from the teaching going on at that time … no not me … must have been some other kid.