tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post2084809114090248730..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Humanity comes full circle.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-50640999251564555362007-07-01T11:56:00.000-04:002007-07-01T11:56:00.000-04:00I have faith in those little kids. A little piece ...I have faith in those little kids. A little piece of Og the caveman lives in them and instructs them how to use the pointed stick and one day, the boom stick.Doc Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04729937010174363543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-34627505679769742812007-06-24T00:17:00.000-04:002007-06-24T00:17:00.000-04:00The most frightening thing about this is that our ...The most frightening thing about this is that our children, our nation's future, are being educated by people who are themselves unable to discriminate between an object and a mere representation of that object. What does that mean that they are teaching our children?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-68951864033482586982007-06-21T17:45:00.000-04:002007-06-21T17:45:00.000-04:00So, do you think that principal went through all t...So, do you think that principal went through all the history textbooks with a black magic marker to make sure no child might accidentally see a musket pictured during that chapter on the Revolutionary War? Or the rifles in old photos from that pesky chapter on the Civil War? Etc. Etc.<BR/><BR/>Oh wait, she wouldn't have a magic marker. They have a sort of pointy tip and might be considered a weapon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-86353255833018562412007-06-21T15:12:00.000-04:002007-06-21T15:12:00.000-04:00Sorry for double-commenting, but I found the threa...Sorry for double-commenting, but I found the thread in question, in case anyone is overcome with boredom:<BR/><A>http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=617957</A><BR/><BR/>Apparently, they cut the guns off with an exacto knife and painted the Army men red so they could be firefighters instead.Sabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13746486966764162127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-91485412911580971012007-06-21T13:16:00.000-04:002007-06-21T13:16:00.000-04:00Reminds me of a man on another website who posted ...Reminds me of a man on another website who posted a thread about "Why the Police Have Guns". He'd already explained to his son that the military has guns because they exist only to kill people, but wasn't sure how to explain away the police. (I told him to just make something up, as he obviously wasn't too concerned with the truth.) If memory serves, he cut the guns off the army men someone had given his child, & was planning to throw them away after a day's worth of play.Sabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13746486966764162127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-13241551046516590782007-06-21T11:18:00.000-04:002007-06-21T11:18:00.000-04:00I dunno about the flintlocks, Tam. But Mass' stup...I dunno about the flintlocks, Tam. But Mass' stupid gun laws just state that Black Powder weapons may not be stored loaded. And "loaded" was recently re-defined as Primer + Charge + shot/ball. Used to be BP hunters needed to compleatly empty their guns when the laws warrented it as such...now they just pull the primer.<BR/><BR/>My real point was when I read about primitive man and his beliefs that his minor actions effected the entire world might reflect on this whole Global Climate change junk-science.<BR/><BR/>"OMG!!! The Climate isn't EXACTLY how it was in 1960! IT MUST BE SOMTHING WE DID!!!"<BR/><BR/>Tools the 'lot of 'em!<BR/><BR/>-Weer'dWeer'd Beardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528978001340070552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-53027933092493075022007-06-21T10:52:00.000-04:002007-06-21T10:52:00.000-04:00Rumor has it that the Revolutionary War era musket...Rumor has it that the Revolutionary War era muskets in the MA statehouse have trigger locks on them.<BR/><BR/>The sad thing?<BR/><BR/>I find that eminently believable.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-71920513539074089532007-06-21T10:46:00.000-04:002007-06-21T10:46:00.000-04:00Next thing you know, they'll want representations ...Next thing you know, they'll want representations of the Minutemen to be holding brooms instead of flintlocks.BobGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405172215849046373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-21996935041878947012007-06-21T09:46:00.000-04:002007-06-21T09:46:00.000-04:00Don't forget, they gave the kids SCISSORS to cut t...Don't forget, they gave the kids SCISSORS to cut the little WEAPONS off with. <BR/><BR/>ClueBat. Administrators. Some Assembly required.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65572057438939338112007-06-21T09:35:00.000-04:002007-06-21T09:35:00.000-04:00Next, those psycho twits will ban pencils, pens, o...Next, those psycho twits will ban pencils, pens, or other manual writing instrument, claiming that they too look like weapons. Finger painting for all! (But don't point those digits menacingly at anyone - lest they be whacked off). It makes my brain squirm to know that these people share MY oxygen!lizbeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17537367947220373331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-3514004504395885772007-06-21T07:38:00.000-04:002007-06-21T07:38:00.000-04:00Deeply disturbing, but what do you expect from the...Deeply disturbing, but what do you expect from the sort of barbarians who would hold a 5th grade graduation ceremony?<BR/><BR/>As Paula Poundstone said:<BR/>"It's not that I'm not proud that you graduated in the 8th grade, honey, it's just that I kinda hoped you'd go farther than that."Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15824445546892392815noreply@blogger.com