Hi, Lisa – noticed this post at the end of the Kennedy funeral post.
Amazing decision – and we see again how Bush policies extend into the next admin, and are just not that easy to cancel overnight.

So sad. I wonder sometimes if, had I been taught 2 decades later with the incredibly boring, dumbed down, “grade-level” vocabulary reading textbooks and workbooks (!) of modern schools, if I would have developed the passion for reading I did as a small child.

If I were rich, I’d give RR the money it needs right now. Sigh.
Oh well, gotta go return my library books. *g*

Thnak goodness for MediaMatters.org!

Beck: “Eye kan haz blackbored.”

Thank you, Lisa :-)

No, no…Beck would be doing this:

“I am so smart!
I am so smart!
S-M-R-T
I mean, S-M-A-R-T”

Glenn participated in a conference call from Hell with Jerry Falwell, who informed everyone listening that the whole Rainbow Reading thing was indoctrinating kids in Teh Gay. Hellboy Jerry said they probably got Tinky Winky ooo-ing and ah-ing some kinda queer penguin book…

Falwell redux: Not enslaved to Gawd™ = teh Gay & Hitleresque.
But we already knew that.

I can haz whiteboard

Don’t haz credence for blackboard

besides chalk black
from where sun don’t shine

There’s paint you can buy to paint walls which turns them into a blackboard–great for part of a kid’s room

I wish somebody would ask Jerry if it’s okay to have a man-crush on Jeebus? I’ll bet his hair always smelled terrific…

Didn’t the Stones write a song about that?

Forgot my manners. thanks for the post Lisa, don’t comment much but always enjoy reading them.

given the foregoing, one should not be comforted by Obama’s appointment of Alan Bersin to the post of Border Czar. Bersin served as Superintendent of the San Diego City Schools, which system he basically destroyed with his zealous commitment to implementing shrub’s rote reading regime (while at the same time trying to destroy the teachers’ unions)… philosophies he later brought to the entire state, when our extremely literate governator appointed him to the state superintendency. Of course, Bersin served as border czar one before, in the 90s, when he militarized the US-Mexican border while making speeches about the corruption of white American culture broguht on by all those Mexican emigres.

Beck is a very special variety of unhinged, IMO.
If he spewed forth with the typical expanded version of the GOP’s BlackBerry-fed talking points, he would be just one of the crowd.

I’ll bet his mama is so damned proud of her boy’s independence – blazing his almost singular crazy-trail. If it weren’t for Malkin and Bachmann, he would truly be in a class of his own. Just ask the sponsors who have seen fit to bail on his ass.

… which all begs the question of just what it will take for our country to purge from the land these orcs and their thuggish ways, whether in how we educate our children or how we govern our country.

Beck is a freakin loony ,no shit !

Glenn’s ma has a right to be proud, he’s done quite well for a boy who wasn’t potty-trained until his 30s (whoops! better make that 40s).

I wonder how Jesus would be recieved by the Repukes if was a current figure. How would they deal with his long hair , his associating with the poor , lepers and the other lower classes ? Preaching about peace love and understanding .
Damn dirty friggin hippy!

Q: Would is be irresponsible to suggest that the idea of diapering terrorist suspects arose from secret studies of the first 35 years of Beck’s potty-training?

A: No.

Hence, his whole show persona.

If Jesus returned tomorrow and said he was in favor of the public option it would only be a matter of minutes before wingnuts started carrying posters of him with a Hitler mustache.

Careful… he might start crying.

Plus he dresses in robes and sandals. He must be a terrorist too!

He is also very dangerous, a tool to whip the ignorant into a frenzy like those in Germany doing the bidding of their keepers without thought, yes it is happening in a town near you, welcome fascism as it rears it’s ugly head.

Given the Wingnuttia path of ignoring the new testament, they would probably ask, “Jesus? Who-dat?”

He is a stranger to them, and they prefer a vengeful motherfucker to a pacifist.

Sorry to hear that Rainbow is leaving. I always enjoyed watching with my granddaughter. The crazy wingnuts don’t understand that it doesn’t much matter that CAN read if you don’t WANT to read. Dummies.

He overturned the tables of the money-changers in the temple, he musta been some kind o’ SOCIALIST or sumpin’.

Since I don’t watch his show, I prefer to think of Colbert when Beck’s name comes up.
Seldom has batshit crazy been better defined.

In the wingnut pop-up edition of The New Testament Jesus looks sorta like Rambo.

mmmmmm….prell.

You sure Vitter didn’t have something to do with that?

That’s very good.
Throw DFH’s from the Train.

Didn’t the C street a**holes say that Jesus was wrong in his call for peace and love. Hitler, Mao and Cheney were more true to the tenants of Christia….Fascism. (Not to be confused with Liberal Fascism)

Only after he zaps ‘em with his pray-gun.

Jesus eschewed money and mortal power, and embraced the frail and weak.
What a pansy.

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I don’t understand why all of the sections of FDL don’t have the same options. Why doesn’t lafiga have (show text)? mmm?

Jesus was gay? So many apostles, so little time.

well.. we can take some clues about how they may react in PajamasTV’s coverage of the CA kidnapping. While saying that they were gratified about Jaycee’s recovery, they expressed concern that Cal Berkeley’s campus police only took action against rapist/kidnapper/street preacher Phillip Garrido because of their hatred and suspiciousness of Christianity and religion. These orks would apparently choose to take the side of a monstrous pedarest just to score points against liberals.

At their hands, Jesus would have been waterboarded.

I was just thinking the same thing about Edit.

The wingnuts don’t actually want you to read–people who read get uppity ideas. They just want you to be able to follow along well enough to function in your low-paying service-industry job.

Amen.

I think it does have show text..I am testing now

But it wasn’t the religious tracks that peaked the interest of the security guard, it was the way he interacted with the children. The gut instinct of the guards safed three people. Wingnuts have specialized in damping down their instincts and intellect.

Thanks for this, Lisa
What a shame. What else is there to say? I can’t count the number of books I checked out of my public library because I’d seen the Cover to Cover (pre-RR) show!
Heaven forbid kids should actually WANT to read real books.

FWDiva

We loved, loved RR! My then four-year old son, when asked by a great uncle, “what kind of cows do you think these are?” answered: “Holstein-Friesians.” The look on the old man’s face was more than astonished. The book: Milk.

yes, clearly. But orcs seem to have different reality perception filters than the rest of us: good instinct and
policing = liberal hatred of Christians. It’s so obvious.

Teach the little f**kers to read in rote but not to use their will and imaginations to pick out a book and read it.
Rote teaching builds little bots. Teaching the love of reading and books builds minds and critical thinking.
This is the difference between authoritarian thinking and liberal thinking.

MaryMc – don’t you weep, don’t you moan. Jesus had many women who followed him. It’s just not in the all guy version of the documents.
I’m pretty sure.

After all, the Holy Grail is a daughter.

are you sure they want us to read at all?

It’s a damn shame that Reading Rainbow is gone, I grew up on it. :(

The ReDumbicans like their voters Iggorant… easier to sell them the snake oil thataways. Readin’s for Sissies – just ask W!

Precisely so…he rambled on about holding some sort of event…which meant he had to get a permit. So they set up an appointment with the officer that handles such events. He brought the kids along who seemed potentially abused. They ran a background check and only then discovered his sex crime history…then contacted his parole officer and mentioned his “children”. “He doesn’t have children”…bells go off.

Oddly he brought the kids into the meeting with the parole officer…which suggests he was subconciously trying to get arrested. Or see just how far he could take it.

Thanks for this Lisa! As public school teacher I have to say that this is probably just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Bushco tentacles in education. It seems that Obama is happy to extend the conservative, anti-public education policies though and I am very unhappy with him. He campaigned on the promise of ending test-driven education and “fixing” NCLB. We was had.

Arne Duncan, Obama’s Education secretary, announced their big plan to save public education last week and, surprise! surprise!, it has NOTHING to do with ending the punitive stick policies of Bushco and a money funnel to test makers.

It does seem to be less prone to cronyism rewards (the Bushco failed Reading First) and add some carrots (to the state departments of education and district bureaucrats, NOT teachers).

Now, instead of Bushco’s all-or-nothing threats, Arne has proposed a 3-tier threat system. Tier I teachers get fired immediately, Tier 2 teachers get fired next year, and Tier 3 teachers get fired in 2 years. This was Arne’s approach in Chicago that didn’t work. The new teachers they brought in to replace those whom they fired did no better and in many cases did worse when it came to working with the most challenging kids and raising those holy test scores.

Teacher pay is to be tied primarliy to test scores. Since those of us who work with the most challenging poor minority and non-English speaking children are stupid, lazy, and don’t care enough to actually teach our kids, according to the conservative Bush/Obama theory, waving money in front of our noses will change that! And watching our colleagues who teach in all-white, upper middle class schools rake even more dough after working in ideal conditions will REALLY inspire us to stop being so lazy and causing all these poverty effects in our kids’ lives and our money starving schools. The districts will use most of the money to hire more bureaucrats and trainers and test analysts and little will funnel into the classroom like it didn’t under NCLB and Bush.

No change here. More of the same. Good-bye Reading Rainbow and public education. Nice knowing you . . . .