Morning Docket: 10.30.09
* Schools warn parents that their children shouldn’t wear scary Halloween costumes. [New York Times]
* Under New York employment law, companies that require a uniform are supposed to provide that uniform for their employees. Apparently that is not happening at Hooters. [Daily News]
* Cancer patients want to put bone marrow on the open market. [National Law Journal]
* Everyone knows that monkeys are funny. But are they service animals? [Courthouse News Service]
* Am Law 200 lawyers are flocking to Chris Christie over Jon Corzine. [Am Law Daily]
* Food racism. [CNN]




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Firsty!
Sweet
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Wow, third, too?
And fourth
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Fifth?
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Sixth also.
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Ok, I'll stop at 7
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AJ Burnett is filthy.
Check you email
I understand the "no weapons" thing . . . but what's up with "no scary"? This is HALLOWEEN for crying out loud. It is SUPPOSED to be scary. People tell SCARY STORIES. People dress up as SCARY CREATURES.
I'd hate to be a kid these days. Parents sapped all of the fun out of it.
You know what . . . I sent my daughter to school today dressed like a dead fairy. She had a white painted face with blood stained lips and dark circles under her eyes. My neighbor sent his son to school as a zombie and a kid down the street went as the grim reaper. I dare anyone to say anything to any of us about it, too. I just dare them.
I hate food racism. Like the fact that Asian people are always eating asian food. It is crazy. Why cant asians just leave asian foodstuffs alone?
10,
You sent your daughter as the deceased David Lat? I guess he's better than the Staten Island ferry but this gay rights thing has gone a bit too far.
Mystal is the WALRUS!
GA bar results come out at 4:30 today. On halloween and Ga/Fl weekend. FML.
If scary's not OK, how about sexy costumes?
Girls in my high school used to dress up as sexy French maids and Sailor Moon every Halloween. It was no big deal.
they are worried about Halloween because it may reinforce sterotypes about certain groups? How about starting with the media and stereotypes in movies and music? That has far more impact than some stupid costume someone might wear.
This is PC gone entirely wrong. I'd probably dress my kid up as Leatherface just to protest these stupid policies. With school districts like these, it is no wonder our kids are falling behind.
I am scared of WALRUSES. Please no walrus costumes. They are too frightening.
Have there been any stealth layoffs or thinning of the herd at Hooters? Also, are the Hooters girls in lock-step compensation mode, or are they compensated based on competency? My guess is that a good waitress with a positive attitude and great body, could make a decent buck.
Food + Racism = MysTTTal
Hey Mystal, why all the race baiting?
This PC crap has gotten rediculously out of hand.
“The purpose for the dance was to allow them a safe place to wear their costumes in place of trick or treating for some of our students,” Ms. Tite said in an e-mail message.
Welcome to the bubble generation. We are just going to make sure absolutly nothing can ever happen to our children. And people wonder why people nowadays expect the government to do everything. They are just trained to not be able to provide for themselves and have mommy and daddy protect them from all the ills of the world.
20- Ad Revenue. He race baits. We explode on the message board. Lat goes and shows his advertisers all of the hits he is getting, charges higher rates. Done and done. For all the people who hate MysTTTal I say we refuse to comment. Ad revenue plumets and Lat is forced to fire him. Then we can all come back and be happy.
check out the camel toe on the hooters girl...nice
Mystal is a racist Walrus and should be in the circus.
Identifying distinct and insular ethnic groups by the kinds of foods they eat is food racism, plain and simple.
Food racism is particularly discomfitting to us walruses. I will not stand, er, recline for it.
I call on the government to take away all of our race-baiting food and feed us the exact same thing every day, three (or in my case seven) meals a day.
EQUALITY SECURE
I believe this link will answer the "monkey" question...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r856_yCHgFg
I have given up with inane public school policies.
You can't dress up as anything scary, because that might offend someone's religion, but a six-year old girl can dress as Princess Jasmine, including the bare-midriff. I guess this is the one exception where schools do prioritize anti-violence over anti-sex.
You can't sing songs of or pertaining to Christmas at a "Winter Pageant," but you can sing songs from any other religion. The last one of these I went to, all songs containing the word "Christmas" were expunged (leaving only Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer intact), but the sole student from the Zulu tribe in the school was able to sing a religious song shared by the tribe. I guess not every culture shared by the student body gets a shot.
Teachers may only teach the following: sex is a horrible, dirty evil that will cause painful, odious diseases like HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, clap, and pregnancy--therefore, it should be saved for the one person you love the most.
And this hypocritical, asinine tripe doesn't just stop at "moral" and religious issues. The same mindless administrators making these decisions also are the geniuses behind zero-tolerance policies, the apex of which was the strip-search-for-an-ibuprofen of recent Supreme Court vintage. Those twisted administrators deserved a public pillory and one hundred lashes apiece for that. Instead, robed FTT hacks gave them qualified immunity. Go figure.
ridiculous.
What purpose would a racist walrus serve in a circus exactly?
Wow 27, you're one angry dude.
On a lighter note, I am a white male who loves burritos, lo mein, and especially fried chicken. Am I doing more than my share to end racism, or am I just hungry?
30,
As the outrageous criticism for our current president demonstrates, there is no end to racism. That hate-mongering President Bush never received such criticism.
Instead, the only solution is for the government to dispose of racist foods (including burritos, lo mein, and especially fried chicken), and feed us MREs.
31 - If you want to take my burritos, lo mein, and especially fried chicken, you'll have to pry them from my cold dead hands.
black taco?
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It's African American Taco. You have to be more careful with what you say. Words can hurt.
32,
Stop clinging to your guns, religion and fried chicken. Food racism is the change we've been waiting for.
34,
Precisely. I commend you for your open-mindedness.