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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPoor Kids Sweeping and Doomsday Weeping
The guy above is Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, and while he looks like that amiable meteorologist on the 10 oclock news who once gave you an autographed selfie at the Hair Club for Men, his forecast is a little stormy. Jack admitted this week to putting pressure on the Secretary of Agriculture to start charging poor kids for their school lunches, which, he suggests, they can earn by cleaning their schools during recess. You know, just to learn em the value of a dollar and. perhaps, let them know that poor kids have no business on the playground until theyve earned their keep. Because its their fault that theyre poor. Or something.
Call us crazy, but we have a sneaky suspicion that the poor kids already have a better understanding of the value of a buck than anybody.
In more uplifting news, the world is safe again! Thats right, Harold Camping, the 92-year-old religious leader who made a fortune predicting the end of the world (September 6, 1994; May 21, 2011; October 21, 2011; sometime in March 2012 ) died this week. And you didnt.
Lester & Charlie can only hope that he had a chance to make a Rapture Survival Kit before the angels got him:
(Original post at http://lesterandcharlie.com/2013/12/19/the-week-in-politics-47/)
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Poor Kids Sweeping and Doomsday Weeping (Original Post)
bondwooley
Dec 2013
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IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)1. The first tragic, the second hysterical.
Now maybe the first fella will follow the second.
bondwooley
(1,198 posts)2. Well put! nt
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)3. So where... *ahem*... is the gnashing of teeth?