Tag: Current Events

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Good grief

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School bans tag, other chase games

Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they’ll get hurt and hold the school liable.

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Another Willett parent, Celeste D’Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. “I’ve witnessed enough near collisions,” she said.

Oh no! Not a “near collision” on a playground! Whatever shall we do to protect our fragile little lambs? You gotta be kidding me. Of course, this is from the same school district that outlawed dodgeball a few years ago.

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Disgusting

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CNN has been on at work all day, and I have to say I am completely disgusted at everyone that is trying to turn the Hurricane Katrina issue into a political/racial fight. Not to mention the apparent glee with which they keep rebroadcasting the New Orleans mayor saying “G_d D__n” over and over again.

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Convooooooy

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Driving to work today, I saw at least 15 “cherry picker” trucks heading south on I65, one after the other. I wonder if they were heading to the region affected by Hurricane Katrina….

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The REAL Election Results

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Thanks to BTR for the image 🙂

Seriously, things were a little tense for a while, but thankfully Ohio didn’t turn into another Florida. And my (admittedly little) respect for John Kerry has grown significantly considering the way he handled it. He could have contested Ohio if he really felt like it, but thankfully common sense got the better of him.

Local elections went well… Maury County overwhelmingly (87%) voted *not* to have a county sales tax. Who thought this would ever pass? Tennessee already has the highest sales tax in the nation, and they want to *increase* it? Riiiiight.