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RI boy who made banned toy soldier hat gets medal
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Posted on 06/18/2010 4:02:32 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar
To ban that child with that hat, that teacher would have to be mentally ill.
Seriously.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:37:20 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
...Yeah...and let him drive a tank on the next military parade.....
make him the parade marshal and keys of the city.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:38:25 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(From The One to zero in just 16 months – the myth has ended.)
To: mdittmar
Even the ACLU couldn’t stomach this one.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:41:05 PM PDT
by
Sloth
(Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
To: mdittmar
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:45:16 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Dogbert41
I remember those soldiers. My dad gave me his. My son broke them by accident. I can’t figure out how. I won’t think on it more. It makes me sad.
To: mdittmar
A Challenge Coin? That's GREAT! I only hope the good Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio is around when this kid is old enough to learn what to do with it.
LOL.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:50:23 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Fundamentally Fair
Anyway, I wonder if the General told him how to use it. ;) LOL....that's the first thing I thought as well. This is wonderful on so many levels.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:51:18 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Paladin2
Zero tolerance sees a gun as a gun no matter what. Zero tolerance is the enemy, guns are not.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:52:03 PM PDT
by
w1andsodidwe
(How can you tell when the President is lying? When his lips move, of course.)
To: mdittmar
These cuckoo “less than zero tolerance” high muckety mucks aren’t willing to stop at a obviously toy gun. They aren’t willing to stop at a chicken finger. They aren’t willing to stop at a pointed hand finger. They aren’t even willing to stop at a gun figure which is molded as one piece of a toy soldier in the same color plastic!
They are trying to girlify all the boys while they’re still young, rather than to tell off a few misguided kids when their mischief goes beyond acceptable bounds.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:52:41 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: mdittmar
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:52:58 PM PDT
by
Crim
(The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompitence..)
To: Lurker
Kid’s the youngest member of that militia now!
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:53:50 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: mdittmar
Centracchio said the second-grader should be thanked for recognizing veterans and soldiers.
“You did nothing wrong, and you did an outstanding job,” he said. “We can only hope that kids of your caliber will continue to defend this country.”
The teachers at the school are probably furious and gnashing their teeth at being rebuked like this.
They told the kid he did wrong. Now the kid gets a coin and recognition defying them. And no doubt every kid in school is aware of it.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:54:07 PM PDT
by
I still care
(I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
To: I still care
They must be seething “HOW DARE YOU.” While the National Guardsman and the kids’ parents are proud as punch.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:55:45 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: mdittmar
There are over a thousand comments, one is by a person who’s ten year old daughter was rebuked for a public display of affection because another ten year old had her hand on her shirt sleeve.
I hate zero tolerance. It’s another word for idiocy.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:56:10 PM PDT
by
I still care
(I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
To: mdittmar
And to think back in the late 60’s I wore my loaded cap gun to kindergarten. I also had my Green Beret lunch box depicting violent war scenes.
He does look like a real hooligan though. He most likely has attended some of those racist red neck Tea Parties also.
To: 21twelve
His “choice” of words may have been intentional. ;-)
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:56:40 PM PDT
by
rickb308
(Muslims need to check with Native Americans & ask how that whole cowboys & indians thing worked out.)
To: mdittmar
BB Guns vs. green army men.
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posted on
06/18/2010 4:58:42 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Islander7
“Oh the rifle,
Yes the rifle,
In our hands will prove no trifle!”
I remember singing something like that in music class in a Kentucky pubskewl when I was a kid, in the late sixties, as the teacher gal played it on the piano. That’d give these liberals a heart attack now. They ought to organize Kid Militias after school and rub it in even further.
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posted on
06/18/2010 5:00:38 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: mdittmar
the toy soldiers on it carried tiny guns
The school is right they are lethal weapons!!!
Did you ever step on one of these in your bare feet? They are killers
To: boxerblues
Not the silly soft plastic stuff molded in China today.
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posted on
06/18/2010 5:02:47 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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