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Other World Alert - My kids watch a bit of "The Disney Channel". Tonight, they were promoting a made-for-Disney-Cable movie ("Cadet Kelly", not that it matters), where a young hippie girl is sent to a military school.

In a scene in a promo for the "movie", a girls drill team is seen, flipping rifles around in that drill-team-y sort of way. The scene in the promo was subtitled: "No Real Guns were Used in This Movie".

Whew, that's a releif. Disney exposes kids to sex ("Boy Meets World"), mockery of parents (too many of their programs to name), valuing athletics over doing schoolwork ("Double Team", "Totally Hoops"), rabid self-centeredness and plenty of other lousy influences - but by jinkum, there are no "real guns" in that movie! Woo Hooo!

It's a great era for sarcastic people.