ATTENTION:

The idiot watch takes me to John Eaton Elementary School where:

• School officials canceled today's classes so that workers could finish cleaning up the cafeteria where more than 500 cats were spayed or neutered over the weekend.

You read correctly,  this was no ordinary case of the “cats got your tongue?” it was more to the tune of  “cats got your tongs”   Assistant D.C. Schools Superintendent Dale Talbert told parents of students with asthma and other allergy-related illnesses that "We have partnerships with many organizations within our community, and it's our effort to work with our community. We try to reach out and be supportive," Mr. Talbert said. "We won't do this particular project again."   Well Dale ole Sarge in his best drill sergeant voice says “IT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE…HERO NOW DROP!” To make matters worse the city’s top health official did not understand what the so called fuss was about   "These aren't diseased cats that are here, and I don't see any public health threat whatsoever," said Dr. Gregg A. Pane, D.C. health director. Well Mr Gregg A. Payne (G.A.P to represent that space in your head.)  Ole sarge thinks that this could have been done in lets say a classroom setting instead of a cafeteria. As I recall my school days I  believed I did my all my dissecting of animals in the classroom NOT IN THE CAFETERIA! Although half the stuff we ate in school needed to be dissected. BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT GREGG!

LINK (Washington Times): Cat clinic cleanup closes school

CATS IN THE CRADLE WITH THE SILVER SPOON UPDATE:

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

After a thorough cleaning, a Northwest Washington grade school that was turned into a veterinary clinic reopened Wednesday. But a number of parents -- particularly those whose children have asthma and allergies -- were unconvinced the school was satisfactorily scrubbed. Absenteeism ran about five times higher than normal. "Sometimes well intentioned people do stupid things," Mayor Anthony A. Williams said of the weekend project in which some 500 cats were spayed and neutered at the John Eaton Elementary School. The mayor has barred similar programs from schools in the future.

I was about to recruit the Mayor of D.C to my Idiot Army but he gets a pass this time. As the article states  “Officials from an animal welfare organization received encouragement from the District of Columbia Department of Health to hold the clinic. Many of the animals that underwent surgery and inoculations were feral cats, considered vital to the city's rodent control efforts.”

Well ole Sarge says to the D.C. Department of Health “Although you may feel that the feral cats are vital to the rodent control effort…. I DON’T GIVE A RATS ASS HERO…NOW DROP”

The bottom line is that this should have never took place inside an elementary school cafeteria.

Well I am about hit the belt-way again and continue to recruit people and enlist them in the Idiot Army.

Ole Sarge wants you!

DISMISS: