Therefore, I think it is obvious that we should outlaw trees, hills, and creeks. I'm quite certain that a look at the statistics will prove that each of these things causes at least a few deaths every year.

Maybe the problem has something to do with adequate supervision. Parents have a lot more distractions these days.

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Sorry, you are right, but during this dark time for our country sometimes I need a little nonsense.

Please knock off this kind of nonsense.

Take a look at what Hillary's kid has done with her life so far.

Then take a look at what Bush's kids have done.

"nuff said.

Outside the Beltway has the nauseating story....

It'd never happen, but just once I'd like to see one of these suits defended with something along the lines of "Your honor, members of the jury, the plaintiff was clearly being stupid. Please don't hold the defendant responsible for the plaintiff's stupidity."

What point are you trying to make? That we shouldn't put risks in perspective? That the school boards were over reacting or that they were right?

Responsibility would include looking at how the injuries and deaths occur. Having been a boy, I can tell you kids do some stupid things on a play ground. I have a fake front tooth to prove it. How much of the problem is kids being kids and doing stupid things? How much is a lack of supervision? How much is parents not getting it through the kids skulls about the danger of doing stupid things? How much is just plain old bad luck?

I received a call from the bus driver about a month ago asking me to pick my son up from the bus stop. I figured he had gotten into a fight and they wanted parental notice to be taken. I got there to find my son with blood running down his face, large amounts of blood on his shirt and his head wrapped in a large bandage (he looked sort of like the fife player in the revolutionary war picture of the three guys with fife,drum and flag). I took him to the doctor and my son got 6 stitches. The cut on his forehead was deep enough that you could see the bone.

Talking to my son, it turns out he bumped his head on the emergency door handle when the bus went around the corner. Knowing my son, I take his protestations that he was just sitting in his seat with a grain of salt.

I had several people suggest a law suit (and yes more democrats that republicans made the suggestion). Something bad had happened so the American legal system must be brought in to right the wrong. My wife and I didn't even consider suing. When the school district transportation supervisor called to find out how my son was doing we told him, thanked him for his concern and asked that he let us known if there is anything we should know about as parents (like our son contributing more than he should to the normal chaos of an elementary school bus in the afternoon). Shortly after, we had the school bus driver call to see how the boy was. We again thanked him for bandaging up our boy and calling me.

Should we get rid of emergency door handles on all the school buses? Plan bus routes so they don't go around corners? Or recognize that a certain amount of injuries are part of growing up? My son getting bonked on the head was not done malignantly, rather was an accident of life. It is just part of life. And yes, if he had died from it I would feel the same.

But it does disturb me that so many people thought that any and every injury must result in a legal solution. I had one person who thought I was crazy for not at least threatening to sue. He saw the injury like a lottery ticket that I wasn't even going to check to see if I had won any money from. Now I do admit that I see a connection between the trial lawyers overwhelming support for democrats, democrats rhetoric for nanny state paternalism and the reactions I saw to my son's injury.

p.s. My son's doing fine. He has a cool scar above his eyebrow that may or may not stay. His brains aren't scrambled any more than usual and he scored a 100 on the standardized math test he took a few days later that lets him graduate from 5th grade.

Wasn't it your favorite Bi**h Hilly Mae who said "It takes a Village to Raise a Child" That says it all when anything comes up about raising kids. I don't suppose that you know about this unless you had your children raised and watched over by your friendly village idiot working for a Democrat bureaucrat.

At any rate Anjin, were you ever a kid or were you born and raised in closet and provided for by those who thought your parents were just to stupid to bring you up. Only your friendly neighorhood democrat can give you the answer.

But the again, I guess you did suffer a failing of your parents because look how you turned out, A bleeding heart left wing liberal, who seems to always be in a sour puss mood disenchanted with everything folks write on OTB and about as anti American as one can get.

There now LJD & Herb can have the day off.

After all we would not want to blame the parents of all those little chubsters, that would imply resposibility, and that is out of fashion right now.

... the pussification of America is in full swing.