AOTW 6-14-2013
Lots and lots of assholiness this week. As usual, we have Obungler and Holder. Turns out Mueller, the head of the FBI is Sgt. Schultz and knows nuttin’. Clapper lied his ass off.
Bill Cosby thinks we should be more like Mooslimes. Sure Bill. Let’s become 7th Century savages, put our women in burlap bags and treat them like cattle. While we aren’t consummating a marriage with a ten your old girl let’s genitally mutilate her. And then we can strap a bombbelt on and blow ourselves up in a crowd of innocent women and children, or better yet, fly airliners into buildings. Let’s be more like Mooslimes. You first Bill. Thanks to AlphaDelta for the link to that bit of insanity.
Dave suggested Chad Johnson, AKA Chad Ochocinco who thinks that’s how you say 85 in Spanish. He was facing a domestic violence charge. His attorney had negotiated a no-jail plea deal with the prosecutor. It was in the bag until Johnson appeared in court today to finalize his sentence, where he playfully gave his male attorney a slap on the backside in front of the judge. The courtroom broke out in laughter. The judge, a female, was not amused. Deal revoked…30 days in jail. Sometimes one has to pay the price of being a major league asshole.
But I’m gonna give it to Toejam’s candidate.
We’ve all heard of gun buybacks, but how about a toy gun buyback? Strobridge Elementary School in Hayward, California will host a toy gun buyback this Saturday. Children who turn in their toy guns will be entered for a chance to win a bicycle, so it’s less of a buyback and more like an expensive raffle.
Charles Hill, the school’s principal, explained, “Playing with toys guns, saying ‘I’m going to shoot you,’ desensitizes them, so as they get older, it’s easier for them to use a real gun.”
The event, dubbed Strobridge Elementary Safety Day, will feature a Hayward police officer talking about gun and bicycle safety.
While playing with realistic video games where people get shot and blown up does not desensitize kids? Back when I was a kid we played with cap pistols. That didn’t desensitize kids my age. In grade school, on Halloween, we could come to school in costume. We would come as cowboys with toy guns. That didn’t make me or my friends want to run out and kill people for real.
But not everybody is convinced that the buyback is a good idea. “Having a group of children playing cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians is a normal part of growing up,” said Yih-Chau Chang of the pro-gun group Responsible Citizens of California. “While the intentions are obviously good on the part of the school administration, this doesn’t really educate children about guns or gun safety. Guns are used in crimes, but they are more often used in defensive ways which prevent violent crime from occurring in the first place.”
He also points out that toy guns are so visually different from real guns that vilifying toy guns won’t have much of an impact.
Nice to see someone has some common sense.
Hill disagrees. “Some of the guns I’ve confiscated, if they’re stuck down in a waistband, the average person would think it’s a real gun,” he said. “I could easily see one of our sixth-graders wanting to fake out someone at a 7-Eleven by walking in there. They would think it’s funny, but it could turn into tragedy.”
I’ll tell you the real tragedy: We have idiots like this dude running a school. He’s obviously a booger eatin’ moh-ron. He’s also the AOTW.


