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skip fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:17 AM
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The mind is a terrible thing to erase. Come CAPTION this teabagging bambino!!!


This young man just finished saying: "My dad says that nobody gave him a whopping much less spanked the tar outta him when he was a kid. Besides, he's black. . . . But if his dad had been around and took the strap to him on a regular basis, he might love freedom like we do. If he'd been beat black and blue by his daddy, he mighta grown up straight. Sometimes it really hurts, but I know I'm growing up straight!"
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:19 AM
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1. I'll caption it: Child Abuse.
n.t.
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Vinnie From Indy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:20 AM
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5. +1000
Filling a kid with hate is simply grotesque.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:24 AM
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9. More than hate. Misinformation, falsehoods, and out-and-out lies.
The hate is a bi-product of the aforementioned.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:19 AM
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2. Child abuse....n/t
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:20 AM
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3. I just find it sad. I am trying to teach my daughters some good values.
Like treating other people they way you want to be treated, that sort of thing. But I would never make them carry a political sign when they don't know what it means.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:26 AM
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10. I find it sad and teach my daughter to use an encyclopedia on words she does not fully understand.
Just about all those words on the kids signs...I can guarantee he does not understand...otherwhise he would see how inapt the labeling is.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:20 AM
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4. 'Ruining lives for generations'
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:20 AM
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6. 'I is home sholard. I ain't been teachd how to read yet. Target practice come first.'
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 10:08 AM
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22. "Is our children learning" ...right up there next to the Gettysburg Address
:shrug: We could do so damn much better.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:21 AM
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7. TeaBagazi Youth
As the mind is twisted, so shall it grow...
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:24 AM
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8.  "You've got to be taught to hate and fear... you've got to be carefully taught..." nt
"You've got to be taught to hate and fear
You've got to be taught from year to year
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a different shade
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be taught before it's too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be carefully taught"
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:26 AM
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11. I'd put money down that this kid is a bully at school (if he's not home-schooled).
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:27 AM
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12. That kid's eyes are scary.
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skip fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:44 AM
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14. What frightens me is that he seems so normal. He even looks a
bit like my son at that age. He looks like a good kid.

But we realize something has been injected into him. Yes the "hard teaching,' the learning that life is meagre, brutal. Probably the strap as well. And the even more frightening part is that he'll look normal or average in 20 years. But his lusts, rapacities, hatred will be snarling in their cage, his twenty-something mind. Then watch out!
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izquierdista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:42 AM
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13. And as a reward for being so straight,
My dad says he's going to take me to see the Vatican!
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:44 AM
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15. A child's mind is a terrible thing to waste
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Morning Dew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:46 AM
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16. I love your caption threads - the pics and signs are funny.
For some reason, this photo just makes me sad.
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skip fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:55 AM
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19. me too
comic-tragic
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whatchamacallit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:51 AM
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17. Later, make sure to thank your folks for preparing you for the 21st century
I see a minimum wage job and trailer in your future.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:52 AM
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18. "I have absolutely no idea what any of this on my T-shirt means."
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 09:57 AM
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20. Look at his dead eyes
Thats a sign something is wrong there.

Don
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skip fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 10:02 AM
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21. I was going to write that many near teens and young teens try to hide.
They mask the potential richness inside with dead exterior. They don't want to be called out, or seen to be caring too much.

So I was going to write that this "deadness" comes with the age often. But then I looked again and saw an aggressiveness to his deadness, a stance and certainty, which is not shared by the "normal" young man, whose deadness has to look casual, uncaring.

Yes, there's a "hard deadness" in his eyes.
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BakedAtAMileHigh Donating Member (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 10:37 AM
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24. very first thing I noticed as well
that young man has been trained to be a psychopath.
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 10:34 AM
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23. "I asked my Dad if McCarthy was that guy from the Beatles who died but, he just said, shutup & wave
that sign."
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skip fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 10:56 AM
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25. "My dad's in charge of the Timothy McVeigh Memorial Fund. Pretty neat, huh?"
Edited on Wed May-12-10 10:57 AM by skip fox
yikes
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