Congeries of cross connected concepts
Boy Two had to write an essay at school on the subject “a dream you have for improving the lives of children in the world”. His dream?
I wish that there was no war, no guns, and that everyone is safe. There will not be any assassinations or dead. I wish that everyone is happy and healthy and enough money. I wish that everyone will be eco friendly, no fossil fuels and litter. I wish that we won’t kill any animals. And the world won’t be a wasteland. I wish school was only 5 seconds long. I wish earth wasn’t the only habbital [sic] planet.
While reading this, keep in mind that his self proclaimed role model is Dogbert and when I asked him about this he just gave me his “I am getting away with something” smile. He’s learned to work the system at 9. I’m so proud.
| erp Thursday, 18 February 2010 at 09:14 |  |
Well written and concise. He got in all the major points, but the closing is puzzling. Is it the NEA position that the earth is the only habitable planet?
| Peter Thursday, 18 February 2010 at 09:47 | |
My wife teaches grade four and I was shanghaied into giving a talk on government to them during our last federal election. At the end, I asked them who they would vote for. There were two conservatives who had obviously been pumped by their cold-hearted, fascist parents, but all the others were solidly behind the Green Party on the basis that trees are really nice and pollution is yucky.
But let’s admit it. If any of us had a nine year old who wrote that his wish was for low taxation and strong national defence, wouldn’t we worry? I would.
| Barry Meislin Thursday, 18 February 2010 at 14:32 | |
And without a teleprompter.…
There has got to be a place for that young man in the current administration. (Is there a Rocket Czar, yet?)
| Peter B Thursday, 18 February 2010 at 16:32 | |
Hey Barry, how’s tricks?
He doesn’t need a teleprompter, but AOG is too embarassed to admit that he wrote no fossil fuels and liter on his hand.
Woops, that was my typo. It’s spelled correctly on the original.
| Annoying Old Guy Thursday, 18 February 2010 at 17:05 | |
Peter;
Well, I wouldn’t put it past Boy Two. He was trying to get SWIPIAW to have more babies so he could sell them on the black market to get money, so I think he’d be in favor of the government getting a smaller cut. I almost suggested that he order a Russian bride for Boy One as a source but it was already a sufficient surreal family dinner conversation.
Beyond that, here’s a recent drawing by Boy Two. Note that shop signs, one “cheap long bow rental” and the other “best genuine M11-87s in the USA”. On the other hand, despite all of my efforts, he still supports the uncivilized rebels against the forces of law and order under Emperor Palpatine. It’s those Hollywood propagandists yet again…
Hmmm. You’re right, I do worry.
| Peter B Thursday, 18 February 2010 at 18:12 | |
He was trying to get SWIPIAW to have more babies so he could sell them on the black market to get money
Conservative though I am, AOG, I’ve never totally trusted Junior Achievement types. I’ve always believed that conservatism is based upon thirty-something, disaffected types who learned the painful way that social justice and environmental activism won’t get you the girl after all.
| Hey Skipper Thursday, 18 February 2010 at 18:36 | |
At the risk of being a nit-picking critic, I would have loved to see this in there:
I wish that everyone is happy and healthy and enough money and above average.
That might amount to gilding the lily, though.
| Annoying Old Guy Thursday, 18 February 2010 at 20:22 | |
My favorite part was school being only 5 seconds long, sneaked in at the end as if it would slip by in all the other political correctness.
