Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and, as Dorothy Parker once said, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.”

I’ve kept the champagne on ice and, ah! Here come some delicious beignets, hazelnut filled. Yes, a bit indulgent but this is the Sunday before Valentine’s Day and I’m really a romantic at heart, dears. Tuck in and let’s get to it.

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Oh look! An advertisement for home schooling

At the risk of sounding like a broken-record — oops, I’ve dated myself again! — the only positive to come out of the unconscionable lockdown of schools was, via online classrooms, parents getting to see what really went on. And while parents are still working to change schools (despite Biden’s personal lapdog, Merrick Garland, labeling parents ‘terrorists’) too many schools have not gotten the message that child abuse is not acceptable policy.

A mom I know posted on Facebook last week that her daughter received detention at school for talking during lunch. I kid you not.

The offending 4th-grader was cited for “excessive talking” after a boy asked if she wanted his fruit snack. The girl responded with a simple “no,” which was enough for the lunch supervisor to slap her with her first detention. Another parent responded to the post, saying that when she visited the school to have lunch with her kids, she was shocked to learn that they were forced to put their heads down on the table after they finished eating. Not only that, but at this school, the children are forced to sit in rows facing the front of the room and are not even allowed to choose their lunchmates. This is utter madness — and abusive.

These are children, not prison inmates. Of all the insane hate and derision heaped on homeschooled kids, there’s this charge that such children don’t learn social skills. And yet here we have children made to endure their non-classroom time in enforced isolation.

The schools have excuses. Bogus ones that would insult the intelligence of a titmouse.

If our law enforcement officers operate with dashboard and body cameras, time to require cameras in the classrooms.

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Sitzpinkler comes to New Hampshire school district

Some ten years after German feminists argued to get rid of urinals and forcing urging men to pee while sitting in the enduring demand for public potty parity, an American school district banned them. This time because of “transgender”. Props to the students refusing to take this ::ahem:: sitting down.

The school board decided a few days before the Friday walkout to prohibit students at Milford Middle School and Milford High School from using urinals or shared spaces in locker rooms.

The ban in a town of about 15,000 people roughly 35 miles (56 kilometers) from Concord, New Hampshire’s capital, was the culmination of a long debate about district rules about bathroom use and gender identity. District procedures say students can access the bathroom that “corresponds to their gender identity consistently asserted at school.”

A board member whined that they have to let boys-who-pretend-to-be-girls use the bathroom or locker rooms of their choice so banning urinals was his compromise so everyone would be in a stall.

There is so much wrong with this kind of braindead Leftism, but this report comes from AssPress who digs in for a little partisan sniping.

Republicans across the country have been pushing anti-transgender legislation.

Sure, dears, if being for the right of 12-year-old girls not to be forced into getting naked in front of boys, or demanding that children and teens not be surgically mutilated and sterilized, makes me “anti-transgender”? Oh, let me stand up and wear it as a badge of honor!

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Is this Biden’s ‘wag the dog’ moment?

I certainly don’t remember CNN carrying this much water for BillyJeff.

CNN reporting UFO shot down over Alaska may have been an alien spacecraft: “When they looked at the object they could identify no identifiable propulsion system and they did not know how it was actually staying in the air.”

Man they’re getting desperate…pic.twitter.com/s20k9myv46

— Michael P Senger (@MichaelPSenger) February 12, 2023

Oh.dear.lord. Can we get another bottle of champagne over here, please?

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Your Sunday smile

Memphis officer saves suicidal teen on I-40 bridge https://t.co/cahQ7TBh1K

— Darleen Click ♦ ❤️ (@darleenclick) February 12, 2023

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Valentine’s Day

May I offer some advice? Gentlemen, ladies … the best gift you can give each other is one of the most precious, and that is time. That doesn’t mean whisking away to distant shores or trying to score dinner for two at the local *in* restaurant. It doesn’t even have to be a lot of it. It just means spending time with the person you love without distractions. A time of calm and real intimacy. Find out more reasons why you love him or her, or rediscover the reasons you said “I do” years ago. We can’t escape traveling along the river of time, but how we choose to live each moment of it is within our grasp.

Love and be loved. I will lift another flute in your direction come Tuesday.

And until next Sunday, Cheers!

featured image, original graphic by Darleen Click