"News this week from Los Angeles indicated that the city’s school system acquired a large cache of military weapons under the program. While the district will retain 61 rifles and a heavily armed vehicle, it is prepared to return the three grenade launchers obtained through the Pentagon program."

The SCHOOL SYSTEM.

This was just a snippet at the end of this article.

Well you know, sometimes childer break rules and they need three cops to tackle a 75 lb girl to enforce those rules.

I can see why they might need a grenade launcher to take down a 105 lb girl

It's okay. The grenade launchers are under the control of public school administrators, and they're the smartest people in America.

You trust them with your children, right? So there you are.

Australia flips out, again...

Apparently, no one has noticed that fewer than 3 people can pull off a beheading video, so the nation has to go nuts about it and panic everyone.

This is the logical progression from adopting the public attitude that only the police can protect you.

You filthy non-believers are just going to have to suffer through our insanely loud church services because we're rockin' it for the Lord!

Pastor jailed.

Sean Hannity removes his belt and whips his desk with it and explains how he deserved to be beaten as a child.

Does he work for Jon Stewart? All this free material!

Adrian Petersen's mama instructs us that beating a child is about love, not abuse.

And thus the cycle continues.

This is the logical progression from adopting the public attitude that only the police can protect you. -- Radwaste at September 18, 2014 8:31 AM

You have to remember Australia banned private ownership of most firearms a few years ago. The have to depend on the police to protect them.

Of course, this "beatings" thing has to be extended to children - whom we all know are completely obedient to reason and logic, who pay attention and recognize the wisdom of their elders instantly, especially with regard to orders such as "Don't Touch!"...

Pain works. The child who gets swatted for touching something on the stove doesn't have to be boiled alive pulling the spaghetti on herself.

"Pain works."

Michael Vick's School of Dog Training motto?

☑ Posted by: Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at September 18, 2014 2:00 PM

Mostly, I hate Radwaste's comment at September 18, 2014 5:04 PM.

Y'know, we've heard a lot of that bullshit this week, and it couldn't be shittier. It's been a disheartening week.

Everytime some adult says something like 'Wayull sheeyit, I was pummeled with tire irons and fan blades from a Pratt & Whitney PW6000, and I turned out OK!,' I feel like…

[A.] …I'm being invited out for drinks with a broken teacup of a human being, socially repressed and sexually repressed and God knows what else, who can't wait to talk to some sincere listener about the scars from those who were supposed to love him… But who is too arrogant to admit that his experience of Life on Earth is anything less that the planetary ideal… As if I, finally, am supposed to be the one to carry him over the psychotherapeautic threshold of acknowledging that bad shit happened… As if I'm expected to dance with someone in a wheelchair.

[B.] …Saying "No, you reprehensible little fuckbrain, you DIDN'T turn out OK!!" (See also, Item [A].)

[C.] …Those are really the only scenarios. We're done.

Y'know, when a child's behavior is an imminent threat to himself or those around him, you do what you have to do.

But for the love of a cocksucking Christ in Hell, this is a story about a distant, absentee father of God-knows-how-many bastards who stepped out of the mist to beat a four-year-old boy until his ass was bleeding.

If your first thought, upon hearing a story like this, is "Well, sometimes...", then I will not concern myself with your reasoning.

You're trying to communicate things to people, but are too cowardly to put them in a sentence.

And you ought to be, because those ideas are bullshit.

"Mostly, I hate Radwaste's comment at September 18, 2014 5:04 PM."

Don't care. And when you reply, you actually reply about something else entirely.

Go back on this blog and note the HUNDREDS of posts and comments about uncontrolled children and rude adults.

They are special snowflakes, who have never been taught there are some things you do not do. They get "time outs".

There is a difference between discipline and abuse.

I know you were a genius from your first breath and know better. Right.

"there are some things you do not do"

Like hitting little children, perhaps.

> Like hitting little children, perhaps.

Or summoning blood from their buttocks with the branch of a green tree; In Radwaste's context, because…

…What, they were rude in a restaurant?

Amy's rhetoric & responses never went like that… We'd remember if they had. I don't think any of her commenters ever felt that way, either.

> There is a difference between discipline
> and abuse.

Are you the one to say so? You read words about the latter and imagined the former to be a coterminous topic.

You want us to ask why.

We won't.

"Or summoning blood from their buttocks with the branch of a green tree; In Radwaste's context, because…

Not what I said. I sure wish you would be honest.

It's right there on this webpage… Two hundred words ago!

We're talking about a man who drew blood, from a child he rarely sees, with a branch; You discuss Amy's dislike for misbehaving children in restaurants. We're angered by reckless violence to the defenseless; in turn, you mock "snowflakes."

Could you have been misunderstood? Who could misconstrue?