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    FUN WITH DICK & JANE

    By Richard Day on Sat, 10/30/2010 - 9:51pm |

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        FUTURE TERRORISTS

    A Manhattan judge ruled Thursday that a lawsuit against a 4-year-old girl for negligence can continue. Juliet Breitman, 4, is being sued by the estate of an elderly woman, Claire Menagh, whom she hit while riding her bicycle. The woman suffered a hip fracture and died three weeks later; her estate is suing Breitman, a 4-year-old playmate named Jacob Kohn, and the children’s parents, who were supervising them. The judge stated that a “parent’s presence alone does not give a reasonable child carte blanche to engage in risky behavior.” No verdict was made on Breitman’s liability in the case.

    Read it at The New York Times

    And the AP wire reported this update since this initial story broke:

    A Manhattan Grand Jury has issued an indictment against Juliet Breitman for Manslaughter in the first degree. Manhattan D. A. Vance had sought the indictment after his own brief investigation of the death Claire Menagh.

    It appears that there had been some disagreement between Ms. Brietman and Jacob Kohn. Jacob Kohn had evidently called Ms. Brietman:

    Poopy Pants! You are nothing but a poopy pants, repeated Mr. Kohn.

    Ms. Breitman was heard to respond:

    You are the real poopy pants Jacob. And what I am about to do is all your fault.

     Mr. Vance made the following statement:

    The angry exchange between Ms. Brietman and Mr. Kohn demonstrates to me—as well as the Grand Jury—compos mentis, malice aforethought and a reckless or at least careless disregard for the safety of others in the children’s immediate area.  

    The scatological nature of the oral exchange between the two actors in this tragedy indicates an intent on the part of Ms. Breitman to do harm to people or property.

    It seemed clear that Ms. Brietman’s parents had spent hours and hours attempting to teach their daughter proper comportment in a modern day society and that the child just refused to listen. On one occasion which was related to me by Homer Brietman, a distant cousin of the perpetrator of this dastardly crime, Juliet was instructed to eat all her broccoli prior to receiving her pudding and that in a moment of extreme rage, she threw her vegetables on the floor and ran into her room screaming:

    I WANT MY PUDDING, AND I AM GOING TO GET MY PUDDING ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

    Read more at this thread: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatalogical

    As well as here: http://www.quantumjumping.com/lp/subconscious?sr=1&gclid=CIDVo4ew-qQCFQod5wodG35RkQ

    In a related story:

    The principal of a Cincinnati Catholic school has apologized to parents after Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) discussed abortion during a speech to kids as young as 6.

    Schmidt, a conservative, brought up the controversial matter while talking about the connection between moral issues and legislation during a question-and-answer period, the Daily News reported.

    The following exchange between some of the students and Ms. Schmidt was recorded during the discussion:

    Repersentative Smitt, is it twoo dat when a mommy and a daddy wov each other berry berry much dat dey makes a baby? Inquired a member of the audience.

    Nonsense little one. Sex is how babies are made and sex usually begins when some man—usually a liberal—has his way with some poor naïve girl out of pure prurient greed for self pleasure while the girl reacts in a numbing fashion; afraid to strike back out of pure timidity; responded Representative Schmidt.

    Following the lecture and the exchange all of the children received  jello shots with  a miniature flag pole centered in the plastic mold, graced with a GOP banner.

    http://www.house.gov/schmidt/contact.shtml

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoc8_aJLpes

    Previous version can be found at:

    http://onceuponaparadigm.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/fun-with-dick-jane/#comments

     

    Comments

    Sex and Jello shots????    Kids like cabbage patch stories and jello jigglers.  Boy...are the republicans out of touch with kids in the primary grades.   Doesn't Schimidt realize that she is teaching them to be liberal.


    by trkingmomoe on Sat, 10/30/2010 - 10:15pm

    hahahahahaahahahah

    I do not understand this Schmit at all. ahahahah

    I cannot believe that tots are supposed to be the object of these idiot's propaganda. hahahahaha


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/30/2010 - 10:16pm

    Boy...In the schools I went to his ass would be grass in short order for that. Those kids would not put up with jello by any stretch of the imagination.


    by cmaukonen on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 12:49am

    Jello shots for Hallowe'en? WICKED!!!! 

    As for this Claire Menagh chick, doesn't she realize she's painted a bull's eye on her back? I mean, after they send Juliet & Romeo up the big house, there's gonna be one hell of a power vacuum open up in NYC.

    And while I abhor a vacuum as much as the next man (dude named Raymond, who apparently REALLY fucking hates vacuums), NOBODY abhors vacuums like sugar-freaking PlayStation-mashing ankle-biting 3 year-old bike bandits.

    They're gonna be lining up to run down old Mrs Menagh, and as the blood runs out her ears, they're gonna gather round and snicker... as they drip ice cream over her corpse, just to watch the steam rise of it.

    Someone shoulda told her to just leave well enough alone, pay her dues to the Juliet & Romeo mob, live to fight another day.

    Or maybe - if she's feeling particularly frisky, and lucky - get a good hefty walking stick.

    And jam it in their fucking spokes. 

    Little pricks.


    by quinn esq on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 11:23am

    There is an evil out there for sure. They try to bring this up on our movie screens with Children of the Corn and all those Omen movies; but we are told this is all fantasy.

    Tonight hundreds of thousands of those little tykes will don pagan outfits and threaten, yeah terrify older folks in an attempt to extort treasures from them.

    WHAT IS A MOTHER TO DO?


    by Richard Day on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 11:36am

    Talked to my nephew last night. He's three and about three feet tall. Asked him about tonight:

    - what are you gonna be for halloween, kiddo?

    - a giant

    - I thought giants had to be big...?

    - Silly, I'm going to be a little giant.

    - um, buddy, isn't that a ... dwarf...?

    - haha, stupid, dwarves have beards! 

    my three-year old nephew thinks I'm a moron. Or is just screwing with me. In short, Kids, devious bastards.

    happy halloween Dick!

     


    by Obey on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 11:54am

    Happiest of All Hallow's Eve to you also Obey!!!


    by Richard Day on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 11:58am

    Hey Dick. Do you realize that if Obey has a nephew, then that means he has.... siblings!!!!!

    I'll bet we can probably sue them for doing such a shit job of raising him. 

    Didn't he run you over that one time on his bike?

    I smell money.

    Enough to keep you in Danishes for 3, mebbe 4 months.


    by quinn esq on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 12:21pm

    Dude, you don't know the half of it! But given this here blog, I think i'm just going to go ahead and sue my nephews. All three of the little bastards. In playfighting, they've discovered uncle O's ...uhm, 'weak spot'. I keep warning them, that if they keep it up, they aren't gonna get any cousins. It's not having much of an effect...


    by Obey on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 1:37pm

    My take on this:

    The creepy old woman deserved what she got for trying to intimidate a child.

    The bratty kid deserves to get hung out to dry (with her parents)for having absolutely no manners and for not being taught any concept of empathy.  [the "poopy-pants" thing is a red herring, supposedly making her and the old lady both seemingly childish and innocent}  Someone died here, and even if that had not been the case, this child is toxic and so is the old lady

    Ahhh, Representative Schmit, whoc wants parents to be the sole arbiter of what children should learn {no matter how stupid their parents are -- I mean, are facts something we VOTE on?]

    The other option is to just let kids find out on their own.  That has worked out so well in the past.  Just ask Sarah Palin, who got pregnant before she was married, and her daughter, Bristol, who is a single parent.  Her other children fit the pattern of children who don't finish their schooling and end up in bad marriages.

    I could go on, but I need my beauty sleep.  I loved going tot the Rally to Restore Sanity, BTW!!!  I would post my pics here, but am not sure how to do it.  Check out my FaceBook:  Jan Knaus.

     

     

     

     

     


    by CVille Dem on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 9:34pm

    I shall check it out CVille.

    This Schmitt is a bad person. Scarier than Karloff. ha


    by Richard Day on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 9:53pm

    D.A. Vance's narrative:

    ....Poopy Pants! You are nothing but a poopy pants, repeated Mr. Kohn.

    Ms. Breitman was heard to respond:

    You are the real poopy pants Jacob. And what I am about to do is all your fault.

    [....]

    The scatological nature of the oral exchange between the two actors in this tragedy indicates an intent on the part of Ms. Breitman to do harm to people or property.

    It seemed clear that Ms. Brietman’s parents had spent hours and hours attempting to teach their daughter proper comportment in a modern day society and that the child just refused to listen. On one occasion which was related to me by Homer Brietman, a distant cousin of the perpetrator of this dastardly crime, Juliet was instructed to eat all her broccoli prior to receiving her pudding and that in a moment of extreme rage, she threw her vegetables on the floor and ran into her room screaming:

    I WANT MY PUDDING, AND I AM GOING TO GET MY PUDDING ONE WAY OR ANOTHER....


    Sounds less like it has anything to do with "Fun with Dick & Jane"

    and more like it was directly inspired by watching this movie:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxisjomvvSY


    by artappraiser on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 12:07am

    P.S. Some quotes from the film from imbd.com

    Christine Penmark: Rhoda, what happened to old Mrs. Post in Witchita?
    Rhoda: There was ice on the steps and I slipped and fell against her, and that was all.
    Christine Penmark: That was all?
    Rhoda: No. I slipped on purpose.

    -----

    Christine Penmark: You hit him with the shoes, didn't you? You hit him with the shoes, that's how he got those half moon marks on his forehead and on his hands. Answer me Rhoda. ANSWER ME!

    -----

    [How murderers are executed]
    Leroy: They got a little blue chair for little boys and a little pink chair for little girls

    ------

    Hortense Daigle: Children can be nasty, don't you think?

    ----

    Leroy: [to Rhoda] I thought I'd seen some mean little gals in my time, but you're the meanest. You wanna know how I know how mean you are? 'Cause I'm mean. I'm smart and I'm mean, and you're smart and you're mean. And you never get caught and I never get caught.


    by artappraiser on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 12:23am

    Well the clips bring back memories. hahahaha

    I wonder how this film got past the censors back in those non free speech days. ha


    by Richard Day on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 1:01am