My boys were watching Christmas cartoons while I was wrapping a few presents. A commercial came on that basically says: kids, ask your parents what to do if your house or town is attacked by terrorists.
This seems rather odd to me. I found myself explaining that the chance that our house or town is attacked by terrorists is much smaller than the chance that we are struck by lightning or a tornado.
Clearly I was irritated by the commercial and the boys asked me why. I explained that I didn't think the government should be scaring kids about low probability event that kids could have little control over. It reminded me of the call to buy duct tape and plastic for windows in case of terrorist attack.
He said: It's kind of like reverse terrorism.
Out of the mouth of babes.
Would anyone be willing to help lobby to stop this Department of Homeland Security website from posting a special "ready kids." section? Seems like putting an advertisement on cartoon network on Christmas eve is a bit extreme.