At 9:05 AM Yesterday, My Son's Middle School Had A Moment Of Silence For 9/11

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He told me about it when he got home. I told him that what they SHOULD have done was, at 9:05, sit and silently read "My Pet Goat" for 8 minutes with blank expressions on their faces.

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1. By The Way, I Just Noticed The Sign Behind Bush's Head There

"Reading makes a country great." Yeah, reading things like............oh, I don't know............daily briefings warning us of impending terrorist strikes on our country, maybe?

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2. When the repukes put "Dumbya" up as their candidate to be pResident

I thought that we had hit the bottom of the barrel... there couldn't be anyone worse... and we even called them the Bush Family Crime Syndicate, etc.

But then comes Trump... and he makes Shrub look like a normal President.

WTF is wrong with our nation?

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4. But didn't we need a Government outsider? One with business experience?

You know...to come in, run Government like a business, straighten things out, drain the swamp. All of that.

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3. I remember a teacher being upset

that many of the children in my daughters 4th grade class were not being sufficiently somber during a 9/11 moment a few years back. I was about to say something when another teacher reminded her that none of those kids had even been alive when the attack took place.

It’s strange to feel such immediacy about an event that took place nearly two decades ago.