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Answer: He is pandering to his niche market.
This is the language of the left and we’ve known it for years.
Update: I disagree with Pundit & Pundette this isn’t a new low this is playing to his customer base.
Update 2: Michelle handles it well
Update 3: I think this proves my internet, pc, digital camera point, and reinforces my Rush Argument.
Update 4: After all this is mild compared to what they said about Bush.
Answer: Lawyers and fear.
The reason why School districts end up with “Zero tolerance” policies is not a question of protecting students. It is about protecting school districts and administrators from any kind of lawsuit.
School districts know that if they the actual source of fear in schools, such as gangs and drugs they will get civil liberties objections, they also know that parents are much more likely to back up their kids bad behavior than to stick with school administrations, teachers know a single accusation of any type can finish them professionally.
Much easier to have a broad set of rules that involve no thinking or common sense and let the school committee lessen the sentence.
The seven-member Christina School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to reduce the punishment for kindergartners and first-graders who take weapons to school or commit violent offenses to a suspension ranging from three to five days.
Zachary Christie, 6, had faced 45 days in an alternative school for troublemakers after he took the utensil – a combination folding knife, fork and spoon – to school to eat lunch last month. Now, he could return Wednesday.
Oh he can return WEDNESDAY, so that makes everything all right now.
Tort reform can’t come fast enough.
Update: Michelle misses the point it’s all about fear not idiocracy.
A: The Personal Computer , The Affordable Digital Camera, and the Internet because it makes it impossible to hide stuff like this:
Notice the applause about letting old people die. Amazing how liberals have so much compassion for people who are trying to kill us but not so much for their elders? This was not a cultural norm two generations ago.
But we shouldn’t call them death panels, since Sarah Palin called them that it must be wacko. Can we call it a Tallywacker?
There is a reason why the least free societies have the most restrictions on the net to keep people from seeing/hearing “Those Damn Pictures/video audio clips“
A: The fact that the media keeps asking people if he deserves it. If you can ask if a Nobel prize is deserved then it likely isn’t
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