John Oliver on Parkland

[tomhagen]

[NJCher]

1. Slightly OT from guns, but

one of the funniest parts in the show last night was a compilation of Trump impersonations from nations all over the world. I am going to have to watch it again, just for that.

I loved the way Oliver skewered the babbling anti-gun control fools.

[RoBear]

2. "Prayer in schools" MY ASS!

I grew up in a small rural community in south central Kansas and was in school between 1946 and 1958.

NOBODY PRAYED!

We were a mixed community (Catholic and Methodist mostly) and if anyone had dared to pray in school our parents would have been at the school raising holy hell (no pun intended)!

Of course, those were the days when Catholics were more or less forbidden to pray with others not of the faith. We even were supposed to get permission to attend a non-Catholic church service of any kind. Somehow, though, invocations and benedictions were no big problem at major events like graduation, etc.

But that WHEN WE PRAYED IN SCHOOL line is pure bullshit as far as I'm concerned.

[Stargleamer]

5. unless he went to a religious school as

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Engel v. Vitale (1962), Schempp v. Abington School District (1963), etc., etc. abolished such nonsense in public schools several years before he was born

[smirkymonkey]

3. I love John Oliver.

BTW, when I grew up, we had no school prayer and no Andy Griffith Show (a bit before my time) and no corporal punishment, yet somehow, somehow we managed to have NO school shootings and NO school violence whatsoever. Imagine that!

[underpants]

6. Lawn darts and kids dying in old refrigerators

I've taken to reminding people of the health risks of my childhood. Lawn darts were outlawed and it became against the law to set an old fridge outside without removing the door.

Oh and a lot of people actually believed that there was a triangle in the Caribbean that sucked boats and planes into it.

Just saying.

[dameatball]

4. I watch Andy Griffith reruns a lot. Great show, usually with a life lesson.

The show usually portrayed the use of firearms as unnecessary and usually a recipe for barney to shoot the floor or the ceiling. That show taught a lot of good lessons. A subtler point to be made was the episode where a townsperson was chiding the mayor for purposefully steering the new highway in front of his brother's gas station. Even back then they had a basic idea of what the Emoluments (sp?) Clause was about.......not these days.