June 09, 2006

Someone needs a clue bat.

Jordan persuades 'MySpace' girl to go home

DETROIT - A 16-year-old Michigan girl who authorities say tricked her parents into getting her a passport and then flew off to the Mideast to be with a West Bank man she met on MySpace.com headed for home on Friday. [...]

Katherine disappeared Monday after talking her family into getting her a passport by saying she was going to Canada with friends, sheriff's officials said. She apparently planned to visit a man whose MySpace account describes him as a 25-year-old from Jericho, Undersheriff James Jashinske said. [...]

Shawn Lester told The Saginaw News that her daughter has "never given me a day's trouble. ... I just don't understand with all these new laws protecting America how a 16-year-old kid could get out of the country." [...]

[Emphasis mine] Well, let me explain--it might not have occurred to you to think about it, but none of "all these new laws" [? Ed.] make it illegal for someone to LEAVE THE COUNTRY. Second, you didn't help yourself when YOU WENT AND GOT HER A PASSPORT! That meant that not only could she LEAVE this country, but she could also GET INTO ANOTHER COUNTRY.

However, if you wish, since you somehow think it the responsibility of the government to keep your children within the United States, I will have our Congressional delegation sponsor new legislation requiring that the children of dimwits cannot leave the country.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 9, 2006 03:32 PM
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You mean we have to take responsibility for our own children and the government won't do it all for us? Hmph. Hilary promised me that it took a village and I wouldn't have to do all the hard stuff like paying attention on my own.

Posted by: Jordana at June 9, 2006 03:51 PM

Well, it IS your responsibility, until we can get some more great laws passed to make sure it's not!

Next new law I will propose will be the Comprehensive Omnibus Americans Shouldn't Have to Pay Attention Act.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at June 9, 2006 04:07 PM

Um - wouldn't it make more sense to LET the children of dimwits leave the country? If we make them stay here, they will breed here, and we have a problem as it is.

Posted by: Diane at June 9, 2006 06:52 PM

Well, you might think so, but it's not really the kids that are the problem--it's their stupid parents. Part of my package of legislation would require automatic deportation of anyone who thinks we passed a law that keeps 16 year olds from leaving. Also, it seems the kids aren't all that dim, at least in this case, in which she managed to very nearly do what she set out to do. Then again, when you examine the mindset of her gene donors, it probably wasn't too hard to get away with it.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at June 9, 2006 11:18 PM

I read somewhere that her parents thought she was going to Canada. Like that's a better place for a 15 year old to be running off to alone!

"Mommy, can I have a passport?"
"Why?"
"So I can go to Jordan"
"What??? NO!"
"Just kidding, I need to go to Canada"
"Well that's different. Here you go!"

Posted by: skillzy at June 12, 2006 09:26 AM

I'm just glad she didn't go to Kentucky.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at June 12, 2006 12:07 PM