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From Carter, age 4, after having trouble dismounting a toilet in an Eat’n'Park restroom:

They should have handles on these things!

I’ve got two kids and they say just some of the most hilarious things. In the new ‘Kid Speak’ category I’m going to try and capture some of their unique forms of expression.

Here’s one to start things off:

Stella, just a week shy of third birthday, as we are driving past a broad expanse of recently-fertilized mushroom farms:

Daddy! You’re supposed to say excuse me when you fart!

The IRS has informed a woman in Sinking Springs, PA that she is deceased, and as such, can not file a tax return… in particular receive her tax refund check. This woman has traveled to the local tax office with valid ID documents in hand and still hasn’t gotten anywhere.

Government (in)Action once again costing us time and money, and as usual, what would seem like a ‘cut and dried’ affair becomes a nightmare scenario.

Full Story: TheWGALChannel.com

Death is too good for these bastards… ‘parents’ my ass!

OK, I can understand some people can’t afford electricity, and I can even understand a need for an emergency trip to WalMart but to leave your sleeping kids home alone with lighted candles is an atrocity. Leaving a 2 year old in the care of a 6 year old is close to the edge of insanity in my book. 3 kids paid the price for their parents’ stupidity.

When those three kids went to sleep they didn’t expect for the last thought of the night to be the last thought of their lives. This makes me sick. No one deserves to die this way, especially children. All I can hope for is that these parents suffer every day as a result of their gross disregard, and even that doesn’t come close to paying for a triple dose of infanticide. Reckless endangerment just doesn’t come close, try these people for murder.

How can you not know that mixing children and unattended candles is a recipe for death?

3 children left home alone found dead after fire
By S.K. BARDWELL and MIKE GLENN – Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

The parents of three small children who died in a fire at the northwest Harris County apartment where they were left alone Monday night have been charged with endangering their children.
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A candle left burning in the apartment — where the electricity had been cut off — is believed to have caused the fire that killed Ashlyn Page, 2, Alliaha Page, 4, and Alexis Page, 6, investigators said this morning.

Their parents, Kelvin Rucker, 30, and Royshunda Love, 24, left the children sleeping in upstairs rooms of the apartment to visit a nearby Wal-Mart, said Harris County Sheriff’s Department investigators.

HoustonChronicle.com – 3 children left home alone found dead after fire

LititzPA.com Adopts the Creative Commons License

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Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” copyright.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to pick up a phone book, now Chowbaby.com makes it even easier than the yellow pages to find new places to eat.

Here’s a custom search on Dining in Lititz PA.