The Department of Homeland Security has unveiled a new program to encourage families to plan for emergencies together. Similar to the old "Duck and Cover" drills of the fifties but hopefully cheerier, it is called the "Ready Kids" campaign.Unfortunately, its website says it will help you prepare "for many different kinds of unexpected situations!" Unexpected situations!?!?! Well, what are we supposed to do if a major category five hurricane--accurately forecast for several days in advance--hits? Die? More importantly, do we really be telling our children that they should be prepared to die some sort of prolonged horrible death at any moment?
But perhaps what is most disturbing about this Ready Kids thing is the mascot, Rex the mountain lion. Quite frankly, he looks like he might be a character out of Disney's upcoming animated musical, "Brokeback Mountain Lion."
Forget the death thing; Is Rex really something we should exposing our kids to?
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