Jeff's Stuff

I saw this and my jaw dropped! A couple in Richland County, South Carolina were expelled from school for "sexual misconduct". The reason for this YEAR LONG EXPULSION from school... They were kissing on the school bus.

Someone save us all from this egregious display! How can we have our kids doing something as vulgar as kissing on a school bus! This must be stopped at once. They clearly should be drawn and quartered. While we are at it, we might consider boiling them in oil and then maybe putting them each in prison for 20 or 30 years just for good measure.

What is the school district thinking? Oh, wait... I know. THEY AREN'T THINKING. Of course, when asked for comments from the media, they do what schools always do when they are pressed to rationalize their blunders... They cite privacy laws and say that they cannot comment. Clearly the students are talking, so the schools should be free to explain their actions. I'm sure that would be very amusing indeed.

What's next? Suspension for holding hands? Perhaps a detention for steeling a glance. Passing love notes? Hmmm that probably warrants the death penalty in Richland County. What a progressive place South Carolina must be!

In another example of how government likes to waste time and money, New Jersey is in the process of passing a resolution to officially apologize for its role in slavery.

Let me start off by saying that I am not a racist. I do not believe that any person is better than any other person by virtue of their race. I do not think slavery should be accepted or condoned by any person or government. I think it is important to study this period of our history so that practices of this nature are not allowed to happen again.

But would somebody please tell me why I should apologize for something I had nothing to do with? Why should my state apologize? I've never owned a slave? I've never benefited from slave labor. I've never been a slave. So why should an apology be made?

The thing that angers me about this is the fact that our government is wasting its time and resources in discussing it. Why is it an issue? No former slaves are still alive. No children of former slaves are still alive. Likewise, no slave owners are still alive and neither are their children. So who is apologizing? To whom?

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