so, men with uniforms badges and guns waited for other men with uniforms, badges and guns to come to the rescue?
do you know the children's rhyme
of the old woman who swallowed a fly
then swallowed a spider, a bird and a cat
a dog and a goat, a cow and a horse after that?
children of Texas learn drills to escape shooters law-makers profit
Mauripol children learn Russian curriculum teaching at gunpoint
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n.b. In the USA the elephant in the classroom carries a gun because of a constitutional change way back in 1791. Surely it is time for a review of that blood-stained document?
In Ukraine the elephants are cancelling school holidays and forcing children to learn a new history, this time from a Russian perspective. This is according to Petro Andryushchenko, a city official of Mauripol, The Guardian news publisher in London reports.
Like Dunblane, the horror Little children trapped, shot With their teachers A single man with all the hatred a heart can muster You can't buy a beer when you're eighteen in Texas But you can buy two guns Walk into an elementary And murder twenty-one
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n.b. For the editorial that spawned the headline above, check out Le Monde, the Parisian daily news publisher. We can only ask, how many more?
this lives somewhere within and between us exists not without, cannot survive alone forms around us, surely not beyond us fear not the performance, fear not the act does time and place and circumstance persist to permit retrieval of such gentleness?
crossing road, stops, waits leave, or carry it over? hedgehog prickles sharp
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n.b. It’s been some time since I have seen a hedgehog alive. Their natural defence is to stop, curl into a ballthen hold still until the perceived threat passes. They have yet to work out that this doesn’t work when approached by motor vehicles.
This beauty stopped right in the middle of the street as I was passing last evening, so I lifted it with barehands and placed it behind a low wall on some grass on the side it was heading.
A few moments later three police vehicles rolled by very slowly and quietly. They turned left and pulled up to make a raid. The hedgehog would have had no chance against that convoy.