Cruel Wife told Hacker-Boy that he needed to get ready for bed.
His scowl, closed fists, set jaw, and head lowered – it was man language – I felt a need to translate for CW.
I said (sotto voce): “You bitch.”
She looked at me, shaking her head.
“You know that’s what he was thinking about you… he just didn’t have the words.”
Which gave us both a good hearty laugh because it’s true.
We’re not so old we don’t remember being kids ourselves.
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While we’re on that topic… right hand to God, this was my pre-pre-bedtime-story discussion with Lemurita…
She was complaining about how pizza is ruined. She says “It tastes like garbage. Miss Obama really messed up our pizza.”
Of course she is referring to Michelle O’s crusade to decide what is best for our children, as if we couldn’t decide. And here.
I asked her “You do know why mom and I are conservative, right?” We’ll leave the concepts of conservative, libertarian, republicrats, liberal, commies (oops, already said liberal, didn’t I?), and the merits of each for when she’s older.
“What does that mean?”
“Well, for one thing – among many – it means that we believe that in this country we should have the right to choose what we do and don’t want to eat, that it isn’t up to our government to decide those things for us. We tell them what to do, not the other way around.”
She said “Well, I think if people are brave enough, they should write to the government and tell them they want our food back.”
“I agree absolutely, Lemurita, with one teensy exception. You know what that is?”
“No. What?” she asked.
“I believe that we should never have to be brave to exercise our rights. If you want to stand on the corner and shout out your opinion or go to the Mall in DC then you have that right because we live in a free country. A lot of people in the world don’t get to do that, but we do. It is just a matter of people getting off their butts and saying and doing things and voting. That’s why we vote, so we can pick the people we want to go to Washington who will do what we want, not – for example – the unelected wife of our President. Someday we may have a woman President and I’ll say for her husband what I say for the First Lady now – if you want to get involved in our government, run for office and get elected. Don’t assume because your spouse was elected that it makes you special.”
Lemurita said “She sure ruined our pizza.”
She may be nine, but she’s been given a priceless lesson by the Obamas, which is rule of the people is far less palatable than rule by the people.
The kids take lunches to school now. No way are we going to be a part of this ridiculous program.
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Fox News is getting stupider by the day, I swear. They posted this pic with the caption:
Emmy Style: Hot or Not?
Seriously? This is the equivalent to saying:
Ribs: Hot or Not?
I mean, great googley moogley… just LOOK at them.
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And here is a real live Public Safety Announcement from Lemur King (really really).
It was pointed out by my late mother-in-law, a chemist, that cooking the dish will not get rid of all the alcohol that you add to it for quite some time. I was curious and damned if she wasn’t absolutely right. So if you have a thing about exposure to ethanol in quantity, give it a think before you go tipping up a bottle of vino in your dish or flaming those pears with brandy.
I love the way you & CW are raising your kids. Raising them to THINK FOR THEMSELVES. And I think “She sure ruined our pizza” is a delightfully quotable bit of wisdom – one of those precious bits “from the mouths of children”, of course. Needs a cartoon to go with it.
Bravo, LK.
How to do such a cartoon, I wonder….
I hope I succeeded with the graphic.
Truth be told, I really feel for the people in the school lunch food service business. They have to figure out how to mass-produce these meals while having to follow the rules, and abuse is being heaped upon them by kids because it tastes bad, or isn’t enough being enough served. I worked in the cafeteria as a middle schooler – I heard it all. Heaven forbid, should anyone ask for seconds. (It was an option if there were left overs back then. Whatcha wanna bet they aren’t allowed now?) At least we had chili and cinnamon rolls every other week. Up until this year, our kids enjoyed the pizza and pizza sticks. Now they are served sticks with “pizza-flavoring”.
Lemurita started out the year wanting a home lunch most days (I print the calendar and let them pick which days they want hot lunch, and which they want cold, i.e. home lunch.) Hers were almost all cold lunch days, while Hacker-Boy’s were almost all hot. You should have heard the absolute outrage when one of her few favorites was changed to the “healthier” stick version. If Mrs. NO were standing right there, Lemurita would have told her off. lol
Hacker-Boy still chooses hot lunch more often than not. I’m not sure why… Maybe he just doesn’t want to bother. Maybe its because they are still allowed chocolate milk. I have told him that I would make him a cold lunch any day that he wants it.
My mistake. I thought he didn’t like them either.
I think you hit on it though. Take away choco-milk and his tune would change. You heard him last night when I said “straight milk tonight”. You would have thought I was stomping on puppies for all the whining.
Speak Truth to Power! In other news, a ranting 54 year old woman vows terrible retribution on the public if Romney loses: http://thehill.com/capital-living/in-the-know/258491-madonna-strips-for-obama-offers-profanity-laced-endorsement
Oh good heavens, Mitchell. This is HORRIBLE news. Doubly so, if Romney loses. Her threats are so… threatening… it chills my blood.
Good heavens, Romney has to win – For the children.
First off, I *heart* the bow on the Lemurita’s tail
It is a bit worrisome that Lemurita believes we have to be brave first. I do wonder where she got that notion.
The ribs look uber hawt.
Also, is Madonna trying to sink the Black Muslim™ campaign?? Because I’m all for that.
I thought the bow was a nice touch. Thank you for noticing.
Can you blame a kid in these ages for thinking the government has many powers and nearly unchecked punitive capabilities?
I’m working on convincing her that we have rights no matter what our Feds seem to think. If she leaves home convinced that states are supposed to retain power and the federal government should only get the power allowed it, there is a chance. Too many people don’t even know that much. Gotta start somewhere.