Last week was the first week of my kids two week spring break. I know, what was the school district thinking? Giving kids two weeks off from school and then expecting them to be enthusiastic about returning is not the best of ideas. But we live in a small town and I guess the school system here has more control over their school schedule. To any of them who might read this post: Please change spring break to one week like most other schools. Also, get rid of the two week fall break. Kids need to spend more time learning instead of dreaming of what they are going to do on all these breaks.
Ok, now on to the pink stuff
Pink Eyes
Right at the beginning of last week, my daughter in first grade was saying how some girl in her class kept rubbing her eyes and that she had pink eye. I was skeptical at first because usually if a student comes down with pink eye, they are not allowed to return to class for a specific time, allowing them to become non contagious. I wondered why she had mentioned this seemingly out of the blue. Then that day she said her eyes were really itchy. They were red, i presumed only because she kept rubbing them as we told her not to. She kept talking about getting pink eye. My wife and I dismissed their claims. She was just being a kid and thinking if someone in her class had an illness, that she would contract it.
The next morning, her eyes were all swollen, crusty, and very pink. I guessed she was right. She had gotten pink eye from her classmate. But my wife was more skeptical. We waited another day, and then there was no doubt that something was amiss with her eyes. The doctor confirmed my daughter's claims. She indeed have pink eye. I felt bad for not believing my daughter, but as any parent knows, you can't always believe what your young child says about things like that. After a few days of drops, she is pink free. In the future, we will believe her when she says she has pink eye.
Pink Slime
Last week I saw a news piece about something called Pink Slime. When I first heard that term, I imagined Ghost Busters getting slimed by a female ghost. I imagined Dan Akroid with pink stuff all over him and the funny lines the writers would have him spout off. But as I watched the piece, that was definitely not the case. I am sure that by now, most of you have heard of it. A meat byproduct made from all of the leftover pieces ground up with chemicals added to kill e-coli and other bad things that can inhabit meat. Apparently a lot of schools used it in their school lunches mixed with regular ground beef, I assume to make it go farther and to "protect" the kids. The news said that schools were buying twice as much this year as last. Yummy. School lunches are not very good in the first place, I can't imagine how good it would be with a bunch of Pink Slime in it. The school food police want to reject lunches from home, but force kids to eat this pink stuff? Michelle Obama needs to sit down and have a big helping of it and see how she likes it.
Pink Underwear
For years, the toughest sheriff in America has been making the inmates, wether convicted or not, in his jail, wear pink boxers. Sure, the inmates complain, but there was nothing they could do about it. I thought it was a good thing, just like having them wear black and white striped outfits and for lesser crimes, live in military tents during their incarceration. Embarrassing to some, angering to others. A deterrent if you will. But recently, along with a slew of others, private and government, a lawsuit has been brought against the good sheriff. A man was arrested for suspicion of burglary and taken to jail. He was then forced to dress out in the standard inmate attire, including the pink boxers. A few weeks later, he was riding with his mom when she was involved in an accident. Officer on scene told the man had an outstanding warrant for spitting on an officer. The man then took off running for five miles. The next day he died of a heart attack. The family said in the lawsuit that the man was so traumatized the first time when he had to wear the pink underwear, he couldn't bare the thought of having to wear them again and took off. So, the fact that he was forced to wear pink underwear was the cause of this man's death. Some say it is cruel and unusual punishment, and others say it is punishment without adjudication. I call it cool.
This lawsuit gave me a good laugh. The guy died from his own actions, not because he had to wear pink underwear. This is a ridiculous law suit and should be thrown out. The only reason it hasn't been, is because the government is trying everything it can to bring sheriff Joe, the toughest sheriff in the country, down for his policy of upholding state and federal law, especially with respect to illegal immigration. If only more law enforcement agencies would uphold our immigration laws, maybe we wouldn't have such a problem with illegal aliens.
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