Posted on 11/10/2009 11:14:27 AM PST by JLS
A few weeks ago, Zachary Christie of Newark, in Joe Biden’s Grand Duchy of Delaware, joined the Cub Scouts. In the course of so doing, he acquired one of those combination knife-fork-spoon utensils that come in so useful when you’re in tucking in to a hearty meal round the camp fire. Zachary is only six so he can’t be blamed for not knowing that the Scouts are systemically homophobic and that it’s dangerous to sit round camp fires without wearing protective gear at a distance of at least 200 yards and with a federally-licensed fire control operative supervising conflagration.
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Steyn ping opportunity.
Gosh, I LOVE that guy! Now why can’t someone like HIM run for prsident?
I especially liked the part about the birthday cake. You can’t make this stuff up.
Steyn is not a natural born US citizen. In fact he’s not a US citizen at all.
Indeed, I realized that after I posted. However, someone LIKE him wouldn’t be bad either! :)
The same PC culture that does this to schoolkids does this to all of us - including the unarmed soldiers at Ft Hood who were mowed down like sheep by a Muslim terrorist!
Sad and hysterically funny at the same time.
Exactly.
My boys have an array of plastic, PVC, and wooden weapons, with which they diligently clobber their siblings. When anyone gets hurt, I just shrug and say, "I told you not to swordfight in the house."
Yeah, I could not tell if that story was real or a jest, but it is a very sad commentary on modern life.
Ten years ago one of my then-10 year old sons was suspended (3 days) for taking a ‘knife’ to school. You see, Fairfax, VA is so far ahead of Christiana, DE. It was so absurd, my husband and I challenged it (only to remove from his record, he’d alrady done the time).
As the hearing concluded, he was asked if he had anything to add to the adult deliberations. He said ‘There are too many rules. It’s like a Chinese alphabet. Do you know there are over 3000 characters in the Chinese alphabet? The rules say we can’t gamble. Is bringing pogs to school gambling? ...” and went on and on and on. Everyone nearly fell off their chair laughing, because a 10 year old made more sense than all the D.Ed. drafted regs.
But the suspension stood because those regs didn’t allow for discriminating between a 10 year old carrying a kitchen knife that could barely cut butter and a gang member with a knife, machete or gun.
He's an immigrant who went through the process, and is a genuine American. The fact that he's the best writer on the planet is icing on the cake.
I'd vote Steyn for global dictator.
Yes, he certainly is.
Chuckle. I Love this guy...
When I was in elementary school, all the boys brought knives to school and played mumbly peg at recess. The school system would go nuclear if they did that today.
See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblety-peg
When elementary school kids are smarter (in the real sense) than the educational authorities, we have a real problem.
...There’s a rumor going around, you might not need to prove your a natural born citizen to become president. Can’t think that would be possible. Isn’t that in the Constitution somewhere, Oh yea, Art. 2, sec. 1, para. 5...
...It’s in my copy, anyway...
There are people who like it this way. Remember that jerky little creature who got to be hall monitor in the 4th grade, and wound up yelling "All is wellllll!" at everyone and giving out dozens of detention slips because people had the nerve to run away from a rogue parade float?
That kid now works for the Obama Justice Department and hasn't changed a bit.
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