Look Who’s Coming Back – Winnie-The-Pooh!

SunnyChanel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:00 GMT

What started as a simple children’s tale by A.A. Milne in 1926 is now a huge money generating franchise for the Walt Disney Group. This lovable honey hued bear and his pals rake in a reported sum of about 1 billion dollars a year. With this kind of money making icon, it’s seems totally natural, and actually a little slow in the makin’, that a new Winnie-the-Pooh book will be published.

The brand new adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh will be released in a volume entitled Return to the Hundred Acre Wood and it is the very first authorized sequel to the originals by Milne. The book will come out on October 5th and will be published by Penguin Book here in the states. Since A.A. Milne has long ago departed our mortal realm, the new wordsmith assigned to Pooh-dom is the playwright David Benedictus and it will be illustrated by the British artist Mark Burgess.

Let’s just hope they don’t modernize Pooh too much, the last thing I’d want to see if Pooh getting on his cell phone.

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5-Year Old Boy Shoots Bear, Grandpa Calls Davy Crocket A Pansie

makeitadouble — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:00:00 GMT

As our children grow up, there are firsts and milestones we parents can look forward to experiencing with our hearts swelling with pride, our blubbering eyes welling with tears and with $1500 state-of-art digital video cameras held in our hands capturing the monumental achievement to thereafter broadcast to the world on our personal blogs or YouTube if it’s humorous in any way.

Their first tentative steps, first intelligible words, first time they use the potty, their first shaky pedals on a bike without training wheels and of course the first time they bag a black bear 12 times their size with a youth rifle.

Tre Merritt, a 5-year old from Arkansas who has been handling firearms since he was 2 ½ years old, shot and killed a 445lb Black Bear while hunting with his grandfather last Sunday. According to Mike Merritt, the boy’s “paw-paw”, Davy Crocket, the legendary coonskin cap sporting pioneer, is Tre’s 10th great-grandfather. Incidentally The Ballad of Davy Crockett implies that he killed his first bear at the age of three to which “paw-paw” scoffed, “I really doubt if Davy killed one when he was three.”

If you will excuse me a moment, I just need to get my soapbox set up before I continue. OK, now I’m ready. Ahem. Putting aside my opinions about the egregious misinterpretations of the Second Amendment, my objections to what I perceive as the cruelty of hunting, the troubling number of recent school shootings and the tragic Omaha mall shooting massacre, to let any child whether they be 2 ½ or 5 handle firearms and hunt for carnivorous animals even under the supervision of an adult warrants an investigation by child protective services and is an indication that the child’s home is an unsafe place for minors.

Teaching gun safety and putting a gun in the hands of a 5-year old boy who doesn’t have the emotional maturity to fully comprehend the dangers of hunting, the consequences of mishandling a weapon and the permanence of death is irresponsible and borderline abuse. Isn’t it bad enough children are already exposed to excessive violence in the media and in video games like World of Warcraft, although the latter may help kids survive a moose attack.

The boy’s father said the family plans to get a life-sized mount of the bear, but is still unsure where they’re going to put it; Might a recommend looking for space towards the back of the trailer or perhaps near the stenographer in Family Court.

~~And can someone tell me why I can’t find this story on YouTube?~~

Found it.

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Look Who’s Coming Back – Winnie-The-Pooh!

5-Year Old Boy Shoots Bear, Grandpa Calls Davy Crocket A Pansie