It’s a very busy day for me with one of our dogs in the vet hospital (for Meatbrain, that’s “veterinary” not “veterans” ), two appellate issues to analyze and brief and prepping to spend a week on the water in San Diego with the family Hounds! But some light social commentary is always in order.
It irritates the hell out of me when I hear a Muslim spokesman (they don’t typically allow spokes-women so forgive the non-gender neutral appellation), responding to the most recent atrocity be it a beheading, suicide bombing or simple honor killing, that the perpetrators are not “true” Muslims and that they have “corrupted” the real teachings of Islam.
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I consider myself your average American guy. When I wake up I head out the front door to grab the paper and then sit down with a cup of java to read the Sports, Metro, front page and Business sections…usually in that order. I therefore know about the (alleged) dogfighting Michael Vick, that median home prices have gone up a tad lately in the O.C., that there was an earthquake in the Bay area yesterday and that the stock market is at a record high.
Barack Obama is for “age appropriate” sex education for kindergartners.
The spin on this is that Obama was talking about teaching these children about how to recognize sexual predators, etc and that parents can opt their kids out from the instruction. Thank you, but I think it’s best to leave discussions with 5 and 6 year olds about what is “inappropriate touching” to their parents, and it’s a sad reflection on our times when there are things being taught in kindergarten classes that parents might rightfully want to exclude their children from.
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