The other day my three year old son came home with a note from his daycare. It’s a pretty good daycare: the teachers are nice and well trained, the facility is well maintained, and it’s not what I would consider overcrowded by today’s standards. His note had to do with him bringing a weapon to school and said that he was not to bring it any more. When Mrs. Jarhead read the note in the vehicle on the way home she couldn’t stop laughing for at least five miles. Here’s the note:
You don’t encourage the use of weapons at school? You mean my little card carrying member of the NRA can’t bring his Gat to school? He’s not going to be getting rifle lessons after his noon-time nap?
Now having read the note I thought I’d show you the weapon he brought to school:
Ok, I thought it was pretty silly and just let it go, but then I read this story about a deaf three year old who signs his name in such a way that it looks like he’s making a gun with his hand and fingers – and the school asked him not to do it because it looks like a weapon!
Seriously??
Folks, if you’re offended or scared by that you really need to get a life. Political correctness in this country has reached a fever pitch of absurdity if you ask me. With people fighting over stupid things like this, and MSM reporting daily on how Snooki and Kim Kardashian are doing, it’s no wonder our country is going to hell in a hand-basket.
At some point folks we have to remember where we came from and put all this silliness behind us. We’ve got serious problems facing us and we don’t need these kinds of distractions taking away from the real issues such as a lousy economy, high unemployment, a steadily worsening environment, wars, crime, and politicians so afraid to say the wrong thing that nothing gets addressed.
C’mon America. Dig deep, find your courage, and let’s face these issues head on instead of tap dancing around to some gleeful mainstream-media reporter trying to raise ratings.
I’ll let George Carlin tell it like it is:
I’m going to spend a day just saying it like it is folks and I encourage you join me. Instead of saying, “There is a possibility of a societal decline due to financial factors brought on by suboptimal lending practices and a high incidence of negative cash flow in today’s Americans,” I’m going to say, ‘The shit’s gonna hit the fan because we greedy Americans couldn’t stop borrowing and got ass deep in debt.”
What do you think? Have you had enough?
-Jarhead Survivor.
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Amen, Amen. Check out Jim Kunstler’s blog for a guy definitely not afraid to tell it like it is. There are days when I really feel as if I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole.
this is way beyond stupidity
Man, that is pretty silly alright. I think I remember reading earlier this year of an elementary school kid being suspended for DRAWING a handgun and getting caught by the teacher (snitch! 8^).
Times are way different. PC is afraid of words, names and inanimate objects becoming dangerous – just put them out of your mind and they don’t exist!
Talk about ostriches sticking their heads in the sand . . .
Jarhead,
What do you mean “gettin” crazy? You’re just now being exposed to what’s been going on since at least the 90s.
My son will be 16 on Labor Day. When he was in Kindergarten he wanted to show the other kids his Sponge Bob underwear. My wife and I were called into the office because my son “was behaving in a sexually inapproiate manner” I’m like “you’ve got to be kidding me! My son, or for that matter any 5 year old, wouldn’t know “sexual behavior” from sushi! Talk about brain-dead bureaucrats! And this isn’t the only instance of similar stupidity we either heard about or personally witnessed of this type. And BTW, this was a Christain School to boot. It seems they hire a lot of the same PC Libtards as the Public Schools.
“they” couldn’t have gotten things this far, if “mainstream” Christians weren’t going along with it. (and don’t get me started about the liberal “cafeteria Catholics”)
It’s probably a good thing I don’t have any children. I’m not sure how angry I could get if I had to deal with this level of stupidity.
You deal with it by homeschooling, ‘natch.
I’m actually surprised there weren’t more repercussions. After all, most liberals would assume that toy could actually hurt someone…
Or at least, make him feel bad about himself or scared, or bullied, or whatever.
So sad when some of us can remember the fifties which is my standard for normalcy. Perhaps because that was when I was a child and what’s normal when you’re young tends to be the set-point for interpreting what comes later.
We read the British newspapers on-line for additional insight into foreign affairs and actually once read “The Daily Mail” which is depressing since it’s the British version of “The National Enquirer”, although it’s even more sensationally tawdry. Yes, I wonder what happened to Britain of the stiff upper lip, the same way I wonder what happened to the U.S. of earlier years. It’s certain neither country would have made it through either of the wars or The Great Depression with today’s lack of moral character and with today’s leadership.
Before you make any maternal decisions, you might consider trying to ferret out Snooki’s position on the matter or the positions of the Kardashian family on child-rearing. Failing that, base your actions on decisions made affecting Suri Cruise, or ask George Clooney. He doesn’t have any children, but am sure he knows more than you do about everything. After all, you’ve never made nor sold a sex tape (at least I haven’t seen one for sale on any of the conservative sites) and I’m pretty sure that precludes anyone taking your opinion seriously. That, and no implants, and no rich, rap star as a boyfriend. Our culture is so disgusting.
Thanks for the Carlin post. It was, like most of his later work, insightful and accurate.
Questions about the squirt gun incident. Did you pull your son out of that daycare business? If not, why would they care if you and I or anyone else thinks their position is silly? The Grand Island school board folded as soon as they were faced with the fact that they would lose under the ADA if the National Association of the Deaf followed through with helping the Spanjers file a lawsuit. It is the risk of loss, economically or politically that causes the self-righteous to change, not criticism.
By the way, the people at the daycare center are not “teachers”. You don’t have to have a teaching certificate to work in daycare. They are baby sitters that provide services to consumers. By giving them greater professional credentials than they deserve, you increase their power while weakening your own.
PC, the new language, I have a retarded brother, we were working together at the barn and he did something stupid and I yelled man are you retarded, and he said yeah, of course I felt like a whale blob sinking to the bottom… but he didn’t cry, tell mom to sue me, call an alaphebet support group to boycott me, all he said was “show me”,,,,,, so I smiled at him and said sure, and helped him learn something. Yeah, name calling is usually meant to hurt anothers feelings, it also point’s out a situation, relieves your stress so you don’t blow up from holding it all in until you go ballistic and have a meltdown, and causes you to reflect on what you said and why,,, as a kid we had so many yo momma jokes and polish jokes and farmer’s daughters jokes, yet today all of America has become a joke, just ask anyone from a different nation….but do we not see how far we have come, there is way less hate, more tolerance, acceptance then ever before, but now with PC, they are making us draw a line in the sand and it will send us back 50-100 years because we have to hold it in…… I am losing the right, to be me !
I used to work at a group home where adults with developmental disabilities lived, which could sound like a PC term for “retarded,” but what it really is a more specific and accurate term for the residents. Anyway, there was one resident with a bit of temper and when she’d get mad at me she’d call me a retard. I thought it was rather funny.
I can’t stand the phrase “Mentally Challenged.” A puzzle is a mental challenge. And, a challenge implies that with enough work and determination, it can be overcome. Retarded simply means something is wrong. Yes, it can be used as something bad. But, hey, I’ve heard “big dick” can be also be a good or bad phrase!
Jarhead;
While I applaud the relative “equality” that has been obtained between different groups of North Americans in my lifetime, I abhor the Orwellian slide into political/civil liberty tyranny that has accompanied said equality. This being said, time sure has changed things, for example; when I attended high school (in a extremely rural area of the desert southwest) I rode a horse to school and as a consequence of riding a horse to school through desert high country, was required by my ranch where I was employed, to carry a lever-action Marlin 1894 rifle to deter predators such as mountain lions, bears and coyotes, since horses and employees were valuable to my employer. This being said, when I would ride up to school first thing in the morning after securing the horse, her tack and saddle in the school stable (we had a awesome FFA/4-H program at the county high school), I would then have the rifle secured in the school office, where there was a rather large gun safe, since I wasn’t the only student who rode a horse to school armed. This was considered necessary by the local school board, considering that many of it’s members where either ranchers, or the spouses of ranchers and knew the reality of living in the rural desert southwest. Today, I don’t know if procedures have changed, haven’t been back since graduation, but knowing their independent spirit, it’s more than likely the same due to the economic driver of the community, meaning cattle and its sale to the beef industry. I hope that your son can understand that while water pistols are toys and to be treated as such, sometimes people who are different regard water pistols as something dangerous and thus use their clout to prohibit them from childhood activities like recess. This will provide him with the knowledge that one people are different and two, when he is of majority perhaps he won’t condemn young people for wanting a little innocent fun with children’s toys such as his water pistol.
It is really bad in the schools and gets worse every year. I had a kid in middle school and they are not allowed to high-5 each other because that is considered PDA (personal display of affection). Are you kidding me? Also, last year a kid got suspended for bringing a butter knife to school in his lunch box to cut his food. Of course, a butter knife is considered a weapon, and the family was told that if it happens again, he will be expelled. The kids can only take plastic wear to school for eating.
Amen, Brother. Preach it! I’m so sick of having to think through every word I speak for fear of “offending” some precious soul. I remember talking to a female co-worker years ago and saying “I can understand someone getting pregnant as a teen and needing help. Everyone makes mistakes. My problem is with the one who keeps getting pregnant.” She then told me that she had four children with 3 different dads while out of wedlock before the age of 20, and I felt guilty. WHY SHOULD I FEEL GUILTY? She’s the one who should be ashamed of her inability to control herself.
I had had enough years ago when Ms., Hispanic and *****-American came onto the scene. Why do we let small minorities like atheists, vegans and homosexuals dictate to the vast majority of us what we can and cannot say and do. Like Clint Eastwood said last night “We own this country”. If people find America so verbally and socially offensive they should take advantage of the many flights and cruises that are continually heading to other countries on one-way tickets. Ah, venting is such a good thing.
I hear ya brother !
yeh, Clint gave a great speech. then they all tried to back away from him because they were afraid he might have offended someone. time for Republicans to have some backbone. (and some perspective)
i’m an atheist. i’m rather sick of christians dictating things. since so many christians are interested in using my tax dollars for their own ends, i rather think it’s ok for me to tell you all to fuck off.
you first, you disordered numbskull.
your problem is You, not Us.
Funny thing about atheists – they can take a very strong anti-Christian position while they themselves believe God does not exist. Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Incidentally Sam, what tax dollars are they using exactly to perpetuate “their cause” over and above another religion & since we live in a democratic society, where is it is a disproportional amount?
Wow. Sam, did someone put piss in that gun and squirt it on you?
Never had a conservative Christian demand my tax money for religious purposes.
HAVE seen lots of people who spend half their lives screaming about keeping religion out of government spend the other half demanding that government impose THEIR religion.
(I was unaware, for example, that Christian charity was to be conducted at gunpoint. And don’t get me started on Greens…)
Lets play this forward to it’s obvious conclusion:
It’s 6 months into whatever shtf situaton played out and folks are going door to door for food. The conversation would go something like this-” Sir we havent eaten for a few days can you spare something? My kids are lactose intolerant and they don’t eat meat.”
“Ok honey we”l give you some for the kids” …”DON’T CALL ME HONEY YOU !@#$%
Thats not quite the finish I wanted but you get the idea.
Not quite the ending I wanted but you get the idea.
if you aren’t a pro-abortion holophobe, they may not allow you in the clique. you may even be shunned. you wouldn’t want your precious children to be shunned would you?
Jarhead , you are damn lucky they didn’t call the cops and throw you,the wife and the kid in jail. Then call social services and take your kid(s).Down here in the Neo-commie dumbocrat paradize that is Jefferson county Kentucky , that is exactly what would have happened.That is if they had’dent locked down the school(s) and called out the swat team. (they did that for a kid with a super sowker). After 20+years of Bloomberg worhiping “Mayor for life” Jerry Abramson (He’s now Lt. Gov. Yeh!) It now ilegal to be a kid in jefferson county.(no kidding thanks to “zero tolerance” if a kid had a water gun its an automatic permanant expultion and VERY likely felony charges. even in pre-school) I’m SOOO glad we moved.
Operational exhaustion …. I laughed out loud with that one! George Carlin was/is brilliant & right on the money with this one.
I have been in a great number of business meetings with heads of banks (I’m talking with the top management nationwide), White House people & other ultra high people. It was a series of lucky events that got me there but as Mark Twain once said “the harder you work, the luckier you get”.
I was born in 1954 & grew up being how to work like a blue collar guy. Nothing was handed to me except a list of things I HAD to complete if I wanted my $1 weekly allowance. If I missed any of them – too bad, no money AND I had to go back & do the missed item.
Mom gave me 2 rules when I finally got my first job – arrive at least 15 minutes early & never sit & do nothing, find work – clean their toilet, mop their floor – never, ever wait to be told what to do. This became an indelible imprint on my brain so much so that even today, I am the same.
My 18 & 19 year old kids are the same & at their first job they are considered the best employees by many miles. What I consider normal hard working kids, they are considered exceptional. I guess I am a freak of nature to have kids like this ….
When my son was 16 we went to lunch at Subway & arrived at the door the same time as this 75 year old couple. He & I were talking to each other, he grabbed the door handle & not skipping a beat in our conversation, swung the door open, we both naturally stepped back & let them enter first. Normal stuff we’ve always done. As we were finishing lunch the lady made a point to come over & to thank him. She said her grandkids would NEVER consider such a thing. How sad but revealing.
In my business I hear phrases like the below & it drives me absolutely crazy. I will never use such trash words & often times intentionally use the more direct words because I hate waste & wasting time.
“why don’t you reach out to Joe …” Means – call Joe
“Let’s circle back next week” Means – set an appointment for next week
“Give me the tops of the trees or the 10,000 foot view” Means – discuss an overview
“a high level synopsis” – This one is great because it is only a label but implies some secrecy. You write up a business proposal & title it High Level. What a joke
“Go to market” – Love this, means get your ass out there, I mean backside out there and start the real work.
“manage expectations” – Simply means coddle & be a pussy.
“take ownership” Simple – YOU fucked up but we cannot tell them to stand & take it like a man, no because we now need a transgender word.
“get traction” Means – it is working.
“pussification of America” Means – becoming cat like. Ha! We are in deep trouble because we, as a nation, are buying into becoming pussy’s.
It has been my experience over decades that upper management people will spend 70% of their time trying to preserve their job with all of the political horse shit that runs corporate America & 20% of their time actually being productive. The other 10% is spend in sensitivity or sexual harassment training.
As a self-employed, entrepreneur type if you do the complete opposite – spend 80% of your time being out there, giving a real effort & the remaining time analyzing your efforts & making adjustments, you will have more money than you will know what to do with.
Oh by the way Jarhead, about that Toddler Sheet …. the title alone wants to make me barf. This is a little, developing child who does not know jack all – the world is completely without bias to them.
The yellow sticky note simply says to me – bring the squirt gun anyway & explain to the child development monitor (teacher) that the toy does not contain bleach or acid, nor do you need to be 18 to buy it in fact, Rowan picked it out & personally paid the professional money exchanger (cashier) for it therefore, it is not a weapon. Watch the plasticine, nervous smile appear & the eyes spin in her robotic head!
I think we are failing to see the big picture here. You have to think “what if?” I mean we’re talking water pistol—6,7,8 year olds. Just think, what if he shot the teacher and suddenly a wet t-shirt contest broke out, then some 9 yr old brings beer, a 10 yr old calls the local hooker service. See where I’m going with this; it could have went downhill fast and led to pure filth and debachery.
I’ve got a friend that got mad at my son for pointing a toy gun at the friend’s child while they were playing cops and robbers. The friend said, “We teach our children never to point a gun at anyone–toy or otherwise.” I said, “Yeah, we teach our children the difference betweem real and make believe. Funny, you got a problem with pointing toy guns, but no problem with cops and robbers. You know your son was the robber, right?” We no longer visit this friend.
Well, there was that squirt gun massacre back in ’98.
I remember that – 46 people drowned before the SWAT Team tackled, pepper sprayed & finally cuffed the 7 year old boy assassin. He is currently serving 2 life terms at Shawshank.