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11-Yr-Old Suspended From School For Merely TALKING About Guns

Martin Di Caro
WMAL.com

OWINGS, MD -- The father of a middle schooler in Calvert County, Md. says his 11-year-old son was suspended for 10 days for merely talking about guns on the bus ride home.

Bruce Henkelman of Huntingtown says his son, a sixth grader at Northern Middle School in Owings, was talking with friends about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre when the bus driver hauled him back to school to be questioned by the principal, Darrel Prioleau.

"The principal told me that with what happened at Sandy Hook if you say the word 'gun' in my school you are going to get suspended for 10 days," Henkelman said in an interview with WMAL.com.

So what did the boy say? According to his father, he neither threatened nor bullied anyone.

"He said, I wish I had a gun to protect everyone. He wanted to defeat the bad guys. That's the context of what he said," Henkelman said. "He wanted to be the hero."

The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff's deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said. "He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the deputy said] he's going to have to search my house. Search my house? I just wanted to know what happened."

Giant gargoyle penis raises ire.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/06/05/dnt-kpnx-gargoyle-controversy.kpnx.html

Oh, help me Rhonda. Well, I guess they gotta do that. Cuz if we stop talking about guns, maybe we'll stop thinking about guns, and then we'll forget all about guns, so no one will manufacture guns, so no one will get shot, and then we can start really doing something about knife control!

theblacksphere.net/2013/06/high-school-valedictorian-refuses-to-cower-to-anti-freedom-of-speech-bullies/

A high school valedictorian from Pickens County, South Carolina, became that light as he stood in defiance of those seeking to shut down freedom of religion and expression. Despite the ACLU demands to remove all references to faith and religion in graduation ceremonies statewide, Roy Costner IV refused to allow his testimony of God’s faithfulness to be suppressed.

To the amazement of his graduating class, faculty and parents, Costner stood before the podium and defiantly ripped up his state sanctioned speech. He then spoke openly about his faith in Jesus Christ:

A ">chunk of what he said

Corrected link:
http://youtu.be/z6_Xr3tJNwQ

The dipping stick always made my tongue feel burnt.

Dipping stick? You were lucky! We had to lick the stuff right off of our palms! Our nasty, sticky palms, which already tasted like copper from the pennies we'd been clutching in our grubby hands.

I always preferred Pixy Stix, anyway.

Right...Pixy Stix! Those were the things I remembered. Pure sugar, in a straw!

The only trouble with those was, if you tipped one into your mouth, the paper tube would become damp with saliva, and the pixie dust would clump up at the end, trapping the rest of it inside.

Oh, the horrors of our childhoods!

I remember people buying dipping sticks, but I don't ever remember having one. Just one of those things I never got around to, I guess. But I remember the first thing I did once I got my braces off was get a great big gumball to chew!