OBSERVATIONS

WHAT SHOULD GOVERNMENTS AND INDUSTRIES DO TO PROTECT KIDS IF PARENTS ALLOW THEM TO ENGAGE IN HAZARDOUS PLAY? NOTHING. NOTHING CAN SOLVE THE SILLINESS OF HUMAN NATURE. A GOOD IS THE PATTERNED BEHAVIOR OF ANIMALS. TAKE SOME EXAMPLES OF SILLINESS, INSANITY, HYPOCRISY, STUPIDITY - YOU NAME IT - FROM THE NEWS.

IN JAPAN A MAN IS SHOT TO DEATH BY A DISGRUNTLED PERSON OVER DAMAGE TO HIS CAR FROM A POTHOLE.
IN AMERICA, A LIBERAL GOVERNOR, CORZINE, SPEEDS AT 91 MPH IN A POLITICALLY INCORRECT SUV, WITHOUT WEARING HIS SEATBELT.

IN AMERICA, THE 'BAD CONSERVATIVE' VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY IN 2005 GAVE 78% OF HIS INCOME TO CHARITY. IN CONTRAST, IN 1997, THE LIBERAL AL GORE, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT, GAVE ONLY 0.18% OF HIS INCOME.

IN AMERICA, WHO GIVES BLOOD DURING A RED CROSS DRIVE? HIGH-CLASS, SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS, UPWARDLY MOBILE CITIZENS? NO, THE ELDERLY, OBESE, REDNECKS AND THE PERCEIVED 'LOSERS' OF SMALL TOWN LIVING.

WHAT CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING? UNDERGROUND COAL FIRES AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITY, NOT HUMAN ACTIVITY. SO FORGET THE PANIC OVER CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS FROM CARS OR ANYTHING ELSE.

IN AMERICA, DUE TO THE RESTRICTIONS OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, A SPORTS TEAM MUST PLAY WITH THE MONIKER, THE TRENCHERS.

A BOMB THREAT AT VIRGINIA TECH, IMMEDIATELY AFTER THEIR STUDENT MASSACRE, IS ACTUALLY TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

EVEN OUR PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH CANNOT RESIST BOWING TO POPULIST LANGUAGE REFERRING TO THE KILLINGS AT VIRGINIA TECH AS A "VIOLATION OF CLASSROOM SANCTUARY."

LAST BUT NOT LEAST IS A LOCAL REPARTEE BETWEEN A MAINTENANCE MAN FOR A LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (A PAST POLE VAULT CHAMPION IT WAS NOTED) AND HIS INTERVIEWER. ADMIRATION WAS EXCHANGED FOR A NEWLY ERECTED SCHOOL FACILITY WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS (WITH A BACKUP SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCIES) MANAGED BY A COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SCREEN. THE QUESTIONER RECALLED HIS DAYS AS A STUDENT WHEN PAPERS STUCK TO HIS SWEATY HANDS. SUCH CONDITIONS "DIDN'T HELP STUDENTS LEARN OR THINK." ATTENTION WAS ALSO DIRECTED TO THE EXTREME, CONSTANT CLEANLINESS OF THE DISTRICT'S SCHOOLS, WHICH REMOVES GERMS AND BACTERIA SO "DANGEROUS TO THE STUDENTS' WELL BEING." MODERN EDUCATION HAS OBVIOUSLY OBVIATED THE NEED FOR ANTIBODIES. THE TECHNICIAN ALSO DISCUSSED HIS 'LEARNING CURVE" ON THE ONE GALLON URINALS, WHICH WERE EXPENSIVE BUT WORTH IT. THE DUAL CONCLUSION - OF QUESTIONER AND QUESTIONED - WAS THAT THE NEW, MODERN FACILITY WAS DEFINITELY NEEDED TO "IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION."

WHEN THE ERUCTATIONS OF SILLINESS REACH EXPONENTIAL PROPORTIONS YOU KNOW YOU HAVE ENTERED ZONE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

WHEN SCHOOLS THREW OUT THE ABILITY TO THROW OPEN A WINDOW FOR FRESH AIR OR TO GATHER AROUND A RADIATOR FOR WARMTH, (THINK BACK TO A TIME OF RIGID, ACADEMIC EXPECTATIONS ) THEY ALSO THREW OUT THE STUDENT BABY WITH THE BATHWATER OF COMMON SENSE. FURTHERMORE, SELF-EDUCATION HAS BEEN FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET.