Posted by
Too Tall in Texas on Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:44:13 AM
Well, we've got our first big crisis under our belt since B.O. was elected, and he hasn't mucked this one up. Then again, they've done a great job of hiding Joe "the VP" Biden. He's almost as absent as Cheney. (Maybe they're sharing the secret underground lair that Bush had built for Cheney right after 9/11?) That mess in India was a nice little wake up call to our nieve young POTUS-elect. We'll have to see how things shake out with this terrorist being a Pakistani. Who knows, we may invade Pakistan yet.
Then there's the 8 yr. old who shot his dad and another guy. WTF?! Maybe the parents didn't teach him what they taught that kid in "A Christmas Story" who wanted the BB gun...."You're gonna put out someone's eye with that!" That is what is missing more and more these days. Good ol' common sense. I mean, I'm not against giving a kid a gun, but you have to be responsible enough to teach them safety and proper use (like only use it at the range or when hunting - otherwise it stays locked up). Now unless I'm mistaken (and I've been known to make a few), the dad spanked the boy before. It either wasn't hard enough to put the fear of "god" into him or it was way over the limit. I think the dad didn't do the pre and post talk with the boy. "This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you."..then "What you did was wrong, but I still love you and you need to know that punishments come with breaking the rules."
What do y'all think?