<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Agreed.<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div><div><br>On Mar 9, 2013, at 7:06 PM, Paul Rumelhart <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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This is getting a little ridiculous, don't you think?<br>
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Paul<br>
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confiscates third-grader’s cupcakes topped with toy soldiers</h1>
<cite class="byline vcard"><span class="provider org">The Daily
Caller</span> – <abbr title="2013-03-08T21:50:18Z">Fri, Mar
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<p class="first"><span style="font-size:13px;">In the latest
incident </span><span style="font-size:13px;">of anti-gun
hysteria to erupt in a school setting</span><span style="font-size:13px;">, officials at an elementary school in
small-town Michigan impounded a third-grader boy’s batch of 30
homemade birthday cupcakes because they were adorned with green
plastic figurines representing World War Two soldiers.</span></p>
<p>The school principal branded the military-themed cupcakes
“insensitive” in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School
shooting, <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/school-confiscates-cupcakes-decorated-with-toy-soldiers.html" target="_blank" class="external" rel="nofollow">reports</a> Fox
News Radio.</p>
<p>“It disgusted me,” Casey Fountain, the boy’s father, told Fox
News. “It’s vile they lump true American heroes with psychopathic
killers.”</p>
<p>Fountain explained that his wife had made the cupcakes. His son,
Hunter, helped decorate them. The following morning, Fountain’s
wife brought the taboo treats to the school’s front office, where
the secretary reportedly remarked favorably on their appearance.</p>
<p>“About 15 minutes later the school called my wife and told her
they couldn’t serve the cupcakes because the soldiers had guns,”
Fountain told Fox News. “My wife told them to remove the soldiers
and serve the cupcakes anyway — and I believe she may have used
more colorful language.”</p>
<p>“We’re just taking political correctness too far,” the angry
father added.</p>
<p>In a statement to local media, Schall Elementary School principal
Susan Wright Susan Wright doubled down on her school’s bold stand
against little green men that represent American soldiers.</p>
<p>“These are toys that were commonplace in the past,” Wright said.
“However, some parents prohibit all guns as toys. In light of that
difference, the school offered to replace the soldiers with
another item and the soldiers were returned home with the
student.”</p>
<p>“Living in a democratic society entails respect for opposing
opinions,” the principal also said. “In the climate of recent
events in schools we walk a delicate balance in teaching
non-violence in our buildings and trying to ensure a safe,
peaceful atmosphere.”</p>
<p>This incident is the latest in a growing line of apparent
overreactions by school officials to things students have brought
to school — or talked about bringing to school, or eaten at school
— that are not anything like real guns.</p>
<p>At Genoa-Kingston Middle School in northeast Illinois, a teacher
threatened an eighth-grader with suspension if he did not remove
his <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/27/junior-high-teacher-tells-kid-to-remove-marines-t-shirt-or-get-suspended/">t-shirt
emblazoned with the interlocking rifles</a> insignia of the
United States Marines. <strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/27/junior-high-teacher-tells-kid-to-remove-marines-t-shirt-or-get-suspended/">(RELATED:
Junior high teacher tells kid to remove Marines t-shirt or get
suspended)</a></strong></p>
<p>At Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, a student was
suspended for two days because his teacher thought he shaped a <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/02/second-grader-suspended-for-having-breakfast-pastry-shaped-like-a-gun/">strawberry,
pre-baked toaster pastry</a> into something resembling a gun. <strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/02/second-grader-suspended-for-having-breakfast-pastry-shaped-like-a-gun/">(RELATED:
Second-grader suspended for having breakfast pastry shaped
like a gun)</a></strong></p>
<p>At Poston Butte High School in Arizona, a high school freshman <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/02/high-school-freshman-suspended-for-having-a-picture-of-a-gun/">was
suspended</a> for setting a picture of a gun as the desktop
background on his school-issued computer. <strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/02/high-school-freshman-suspended-for-having-a-picture-of-a-gun/">(RELATED:
Freshman suspended for picture of gun)</a></strong></p>
<p>At D. Newlin Fell School in Philadelphia, school officials
reportedly yelled at a student and then searched her in front of
her class after she was <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/24/philadelphia-girl-searched-berated-for-having-a-gun-made-of-paper-at-school/">found
with a paper gun</a> her grandfather had made for her.<strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/24/philadelphia-girl-searched-berated-for-having-a-gun-made-of-paper-at-school/"> (RELATED:
Paper gun causes panic)</a></strong></p>
<p>In rural Pennsylvania, a kindergarten girl was <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/29/hello-kitty-bubble-gun-comment-lands-5-year-old-in-school-suspension/">suspended
for making a “terroristic threat”</a> after she told another
girl that she planned to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun
that bombards targets with soapy bubbles.</p>
<p>At Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Maryland, a six-year-old
boy was suspended for <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/03/maryland-school-suspends-six-year-old-boy-for-making-gun-gesture-saying-pow/">making
the universal kid sign for a gun</a>, pointing at another
student and saying “pow.” That boy’s suspension was later lifted
and his name cleared. <strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/03/maryland-school-suspends-six-year-old-boy-for-making-gun-gesture-saying-pow/">(RELATED:
Pow! You’re suspended, kid)</a></strong></p>
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