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Title: Stupidity Starts at Home
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mrcranky.com
URL Source: http://mrcranky.com/movies/stupiditystartsathome.html
Published: Aug 3, 2007
Author: little big girl
Post Date: 2007-08-03 20:16:02 by freepatriot32
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Keywords: stupidity, harry potter, book burning
Views: 129
Comments: 10
Apparently, Harry Potter is teaching kids witchcraft. At least, that's the way the "fundamentalists" (for this essay, read "idiots") are viewing it. These are the same people who feel threatened by other people's private sex practices and the obvious fact of evolution, so it should come as no surprise that a work of pure fiction would make them pull out their "book-burnin' matches". Does it ever occur to these people that religion starts at home? If you want your kids to grow up Christian, then things like government mandated school prayer and the teaching of creationism are not going to advance your cause. Banning Harry Potter is not going to make your kid the goody-two-shoes virgin that you always hoped he would be. That is your responsibility, people, and yours alone. Allow me to offer an analogy. When I was seven and my brother was four, we saw the movie "Hook", starring Robin Williams as Peter Pan. In the movie, he was able to fly. My brother and I thought this was the shit. When we got home, we discussed in excited tones how cool it would be if we could fly, if only there were fairy dust in the world. However... WE DID NOT JUMP OFF A CLIFF IN AN ATTEMPT TO FLY. Do you know why? BECAUSE OUR PARENTS TAUGHT US ABOUT GRAVITY. That's right. They taught us that jumping off a cliff is not feasible in real life. They taught us that movies are movies and reality is reality. Perhaps the fundamentalists should try it. Of course, the fundamentalists are the same ones who, way back in the day, said that gravity was heretical. So my message to the wacko extremists out there is: Don't be surprised if your kids are the ones to jump off a cliff. 'Cuz stupidity starts at home.
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#1. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
makes sense to me! ;)
me too now im goingto file a class action lawsuit agaisnt j k rowling i got a magic wand and pointed it at my enemy and said alla penut butter sandwiches and he didnt turn into a newt i also hopped on a broomstick and said fly andi didnt becomea quiditch master whats up wtih that ?
Why settle for the lesser of two evils, vote Cthulhu!
you musta bought a broken one. ;)
yeah, the other thing that amazes me is......can parents not teach their kids the difference between FICTION and NON-FICTION??? such a simple concept................
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uYulGJiX-zc I read a lot of comic books as a kid. Look what it did to me. I should sue someone, but you know, people tend to bow to my will these days. Not entirely sure why.
Dying for old bastards, and their old money, isn't my idea of freedom.
Tommy! I'm impressed! (Love the craftsman cottage. Nice built-ins. Your place?)
Swimming around in my bourbon highball..... Yep
Dying for old bastards, and their old money, isn't my idea of freedom.
In honor of you, here is some mad robot rock. Live, from one of the Daft Punk shows in Miami.... Swimming around in my bourbon highball..... Here's the link to the actual "Robot Rock" http://youtube.com/watch?v=1RZYthoQMEE "Huuu-MAN....ROBOT!!!"
Swimming around in my bourbon highball..... No kidding...after watching the 'Adventures of Superman' when we were kids; we would take a towel, use it as a cape, and jump off a low stone wall or the front porch, or some such; to imitate that 'flying rush'. We did NOT try to jump off the roof of the house, because we KNEW we would break our f****** necks. After all; we weren't Superman. :-)
#2. To: christine (#1)
makes sense to me! ;)
#3. To: freepatriot32 (#2)
#4. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
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#6. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#5)
youtube
#7. To: PercyDovetonsils (#6)
#8. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#5)
#9. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#7)
#10. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
WE DID NOT JUMP OFF A CLIFF IN AN ATTEMPT TO FLY.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
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