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    #16
    Re: 4th grader suspended for taking the One Ring to school

    "referring to a child's skin color" is so vague, and there are so many valid ways that could come up in conversation...like "why isn't there ever a crayon that matches Johnny's tan skin?" Chickadee refers to her two friends with the same name as "the one with tan skin and blond hair" and "the one with brown skin and black hair" (and apparently she's the "S_____ with white skin and rainbow hair"). I mean, if the kid was using racial slurs, say so and I'd not take issue with it...but unless he was using their skin color as an insult, the article is so effing ambiguous as to be laughable (if the school hadn't already show itself to have no sense of discernment).
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      #17
      Re: 4th grader suspended for taking the One Ring to school

      Originally posted by habbalah View Post
      Satan made the One Ring.
      One of his servants actually. That setting's Satan was Morgoth and he wasn't really making anything when the One Ring was forged.
      life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

      Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

      "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

      John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

      "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

      Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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        #18
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        I spent a week in Texas for job training in 1990. While I was there, Stevie Ray Vaughan died, so that was a pretty big deal since he was a Texan. It was a completely different planet, overall. Stuffed jackalopes, cow skulls everywhere, etc. I did get to pet a live longhorn steer, who was kept in a large paddock outside a steak restaurant (uh-huh) and had some excellent Mexican food including my first goat meat.
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          #19
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          I think we should give Texas back to the Mexicans. But I'm biased because...you know. Because I'm hispanic.
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            #20
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            ^^^ When I got home to NJ, and people asked me how it was, I was singing "Home, home on the Strange..." I did like the goat meat, though. Not sure why it isn't more popular elsewhere.
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              #21
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              The world is clearly going to hell in a handcart. At least, that particular area is. I do hope they've banned the Bible meanwhile because, you know, it contains accounts of incest, uses naughty words like virgin, and also curses (the seven cursing psalms are a good place to start, but there are curses in the New Testament too. St Paul seems to have been fond of them.)

              God knows what htey would have made of my eldest who took a test tube full of turmeric into class one day (he was about seven) and informed everyone he was going to kill them with it. All we got was a bit of eye rolling and 'Your boy's been overacting again.' How things change...
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