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Nice Planet 2011

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Is it any wonder way too many of our children can't read, write or do their sums, when PC morons appear to be infesting our schools? A ten year old in Georgia is punished and threatened with expulsion for waving around a piece of pizza that evidently looked like a gun (seems doubtful anyone was actually convinced, it was a piece of pizza for cripe's sake!). The equally moronic lawyer for the district (the moron principal wouldn't defend his actions on camera) suggested the principal acted out of "an abundance of caution." Yeah, those pizza injury statistics will curl your hair!

http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=110271
 
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I can remember, even before Columbine and Zero Tolerance, being told by my first grade teacher circa 1993 that we weren't allowed to brandish finger guns on the playground.

The pussification of America isn't anything recent; it began years before my time.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I can remember, even before Columbine and Zero Tolerance, being told by my first grade teacher circa 1993 that we weren't allowed to brandish finger guns on the playground.

The pussification of America isn't anything recent; it began years before my time.
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Perfect word, "pussification." As a kid in suburban Chicago, we had massive snowball fights during recess. And if they weren't actually encouraged by faculty and staff, nobody minded. And no effort was made to stop them. I'm guessing no such tolerance is in evidence at that same school these days. Note: we also used to have a bon fire at Halloween (or Fall Festival or whatever it's being called nowadays).

What's may be different now is the punishment "pizza boy" is recieving and the threat of far more draconian punishment if his "crime" is repeated.
 
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We used to play king of the mountain on mounds of snow in elementary during recess. Until we got yelled at. Our solution?

We rolled giant (and I mean GIANT) snowballs that were well over 5' probably closer to 6' tall about 300-400 ft away from the playground. We would put three or four of these together and pack them in with more snow. These were taller than we were and it took a small army to push them even when we were in 5th and 6th grade. We resumed playing because the paras never ventured out into the snow that far. :D

I can't believe we played king of the mountain on these things. So dangerous and I'm surprised no one broke an arm but it was fantastic.

We also played smear the queer at recess with the football. Full tackle. That was fun.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
We used to play king of the mountain on mounds of snow in elementary during recess. Until we got yelled at. Our solution?

We rolled giant (and I mean GIANT) snowballs that were well over 5' probably closer to 6' tall about 300-400 ft away from the playground. We would put three or four of these together and pack them in with more snow. These were taller than we were and it took a small army to push them even when we were in 5th and 6th grade. We resumed playing because the paras never ventured out into the snow that far.

I can't believe we played king of the mountain on these things. So dangerous and I'm surprised no one broke an arm but it was fantastic.

We also played smear the queer at recess with the football. Full tackle. That was fun.
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Sounds like it. Half of my gradeschool lot was paved, the other half grass. The grass half was surrounded on three sides by flagstone terracing (which may have been as much as four feet high) with heavy shrubbery. Perfect, absolutely perfect, venue for king of the hill. Holding the high ground on those terraces, protected by the plantings, was wonderfull. My specialty was to come flying down off those terraces to smash into the kids below, sending them scattering. My arm and aim sucked, but I was really good at running over people. And never a peep from faculty and staff. Not even the obligatory "be careful." Nobody ever got hurt. And weenies who couldn't take a "Ralphie" shot in the face were excused. Looking back, the teachers were probably knocking back boiler makers in the lounge. Hard to imagine you and I and our friends would be permitted to take part in this "violence" today. After all, they've outlawed dodgeball, four square, bounce or fly and probably hop scotch, all in the name of safety and avoiding hurting the little feelings of kids who can't compete. "Let's not keep score in soccer games, so the kids down 12-0 won't realize it." Yup. That'll work.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
We used to play king of the mountain on mounds of snow in elementary during recess. Until we got yelled at. Our solution?

We rolled giant (and I mean GIANT) snowballs that were well over 5' probably closer to 6' tall about 300-400 ft away from the playground. We would put three or four of these together and pack them in with more snow. These were taller than we were and it took a small army to push them even when we were in 5th and 6th grade. We resumed playing because the paras never ventured out into the snow that far. :D

I can't believe we played king of the mountain on these things. So dangerous and I'm surprised no one broke an arm but it was fantastic.

We also played smear the queer at recess with the football. Full tackle. That was fun.
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Also did both of these (KotH and STQ). Although STQ was played on the blacktop parking lot. Sure, not the smartest thing, but oh well. And I went to a private school for K-8, which kind of destroys the whole "smarter school" stereotype. ;)
 
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We also played smear the queer at recess with the football. Full tackle. That was fun.
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We NEVER played smear the queer, honest! Though we did manage to end my friend's promising running career by blowing out his ACL playing touch football. Yeah, touch football, mom - really!

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Bradley Manning, the little punk traitor who provided Wikileaks with thousands of classified documents, says he suffers from "gender identity disorder," that he can't differentiate between his male and female identities. I don't see that as a problem. Convict 'em both. And put both in prison for the rest of their lives. Let 'em set up housekeeping for all I care. This is pure, unadulterated, legal B.S. As if being confused about your sexual identity "causes" anyone to commit treason on such a massive scale. Who was it who said: "Go peddle crazy somewhere else?"



http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111218/D9RMJI680.html
 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/science/debate-persists-on-deadly-flu-made-airborne.html?_r=2

****ing scientists.

“This research should not have been done,” said Richard H. Ebright, a chemistry professor and bioweapons expert at Rutgers University who has long opposed such research. He warned that germs that could be used as bioweapons had already been unintentionally released hundreds of times from labs in the United States and predicted that the same thing would happen with the new virus.

“It will inevitably escape, and within a decade,” he said.
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