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Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring
An anonymous reader writes Nine-year-old Aiden Steward has been suspended by officials at a Texas school after he allegedly threatened to use his magic ring to make another boy disappear. His father says the family had watched The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies last weekend. His son brought a ring to class and told another boy his magic ring could make the boy disappear. "I assure you my son lacks the magical powers necessary to threaten his friend's existence," Aiden's father wrote in an email. "If he did, I'm sure he'd bring him right back." Principal Roxanne Greer declined to comment on the school's zero tolerance policy on magic rings. It may seem easy to make fun of Principal Greer in this case, but it does make one wonder how many elves could have been saved if someone took a hard line with a young Sauron.
I think that's pretty much the Texas state motto. At least judging by who they elect into office.
Hehe it's so trendy and clever and witty to observe that a state has lots of people who don't politically agree with you, and then assume they must all be drooling idiot cavemen with large brow ridges who can barely say "unga bunga" while clubbing their lunch to death. I mean obviously whatever you believe is the definition of intelligent enlightenment, leaving no room for anyone to legitimately disagree with you. I wish I could be all smarmy like you, and I regret that I have not yet attained this state of being, and none of this post is sarcastic at all, nosiree.
The kind of folks who would lose their shit over calling a dark skinned person "black" instead of the SJW approved term of the week aren't the ones who would lose their shit over teaching evolution.
They're people like YOU.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Well, when you mix left wing Political Correctness, with Fundamentalist Christianity, you end up with the worst kinds of stupid. Unfortunately, nobody wants to listen to rational adults when politics is involved.
Which is why Libertarians all seem crazy. Okay, so Libertarians tend to attract all kinds of crazy, but not all of us are insane.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Yes, the source of police brutality is really the rich white communities that complain to the police, and the police listen to them preferentially because they're so white, and rich.
Change the laws so that selling "loosies" like the guy in New York who was killed is legal. But someone complained to the cops to get them to enforce the ban, and someone got the ban legislated in the first place. There's where the battles should be fought: change the law, stop listening to the rich pasty white mofos who are really behind draconian injustice.