ditch skool!

Well of course the Republicans oppose this speech. The absolute last thing they want is a bunch of smart well educated kids. If it spread very widely, that would guarantee that they never win another election ever again.

If I kids I’d let Obama watch them before Rush or Lou but alas, I think I might be barren.

The utter unkindness and contempt of Rush is a continuing shock to the conscience…..what does it say about us as a people that he continues to have fans and followers. Very discouraging.

hypnobama! hey lisa

Meant to say “IF I had kids.” Where the hell’s the edit?

I was hoping he’d explain who Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy really are!

Rush making some sort of statement about the girth of anyone else, indicates just how vain and out-of-touch he is. You could fit three Baby Kim’s into Limbaugh’s circus-tent like slacks. There’s some serious psychological repression involved here.

I think this is their theme song. Or maybe this.

serious psychological repression

I would say that is the least of Rush’s manifest problems.

My children didn’t get the opportunity to hear the POTUS this morning because the f’ing principal of their school decided the entire school would skip it. We weren’t even given the opportunity to opt out. No one was told ahead of time. Why does some old, white, republican asshole get to decide what I’d like my children to see or not? I am pissed that my children missed out.

Indeed-Rush has been on a speciai==he wpnt describe it beyond mentioning a couple mea;s here and there

Then he’d have to tell them what “menage a trois” means and boy-howdy that would get the wingnuts knickers in a twist.

Indoctrinate them to do what exactly?

Rush, Dobbs, Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity, Boortz, do not want Obama to indoctinate the children of their racist and bigoted fans to accept black Americans as equals.

Racism must be taught. Children do not judge people according to skin color. Adults do and thus teach children to hate.

Well, I know we can count on Rush Limbaugh to know a pot-bellied dictator when he sees one. After all, he looks in that mirror every morning right before he pops his first Oxycontin.

Actually, my Dad has said that the reason the California education system collapsed is that politicians (generally) didn’t want a smart, reasoning electorate.

Limpballs shouldn’t say much as he is a druggie and has to be a sex tourist.

Dodds’ world is the inside of a TV set.

Truer words were never said.

Aw, hell, they’ll flip out just at the mention of the words menage a trois. That sounds suspiciously French, you know.

Freedom Fries damit!!!!!

It’ain’t just California.

Republicans think taxes for the public good count only if it is for their good. That is what Prop 13 was.

I dunno, didn’t Bush say the trouble with the French is they have no word for “menage a trois?”

LOL

I suspect it is why we have the lowest per student spending on higher education here in Montana. All that there book larnin’ spoils dem youngins.

Well, we know that at least Jacques Chirac had no word for “the kind of braindead religious fanatic who takes the Book of Revelation as a work of fortune-telling.”

Fuckery. and censorship. and teh stoopid.

Hasn’t Gingrich apologized to the Rushbo yet? It’s been hours.

The Constant Weader at RealityChex.com

Home schoolin’ is best, ’specially when they gets to the sex-ed, OOO-WHEEE!

I say tell them all to go bury their heads in the sand and STFU. These people are all Racist,Time we let the American People just what kind of demented racist people are running the show in the Republican Party. SHIT!!!

REally. The Talibangelicals seem to base their entire theology on the writings of a couple of guys who never even claimed to have met the Rabbi Yeshua and were seriously hallucinatory. I really do not want to know what St. John the Batshit Crazy was taking, but it makes the brown acid look like a mellow trip. St. Paul the Misogynist ain’t no great shakes neither.

I wasn’t really happy to have to explain why the principal of their school wouldn’t allow them to watch the address this morning. They actually asked me if the principal hated the President.

Smart kids. What a great teaching moment.

Your children are wise and astute beyond their years. The same cannot be said of their principal.

And, really, what could you say to that except ”Looks like it to me?”

The predictions in Revelations described events which were supposed to happen in the NEAR future. Most of the early Christians who received the text dismissed as rubbish. Unfortunately, it would seem that many of their descendants are not so perceptive.

i would call the principal tomorrow and ask how to answer that question

Thanks, mary and DrDick. They will grow up to be wise progressives too.

Great idea!

I think we can thank Constantine for that, RF.

File a FOIA and ask for all emails and any documentation irt POTUS. Then print it.

From McClatchy: Few students opt out of Obama’s nationwide pep talk

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In Florida’s Manatee County, about 150 students didn’t view the speech, out of the county’s 43,000 enrollment. Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer had been one of the chief critics of the speech, until he was able to read a copy of the presentation on Monday and pronounced that he’d have his own children view it.

At Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Ky., 15 of the school’s 2,100 students opted to spend time in the library, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. The paper quoted Anne Marie Kirk, 17, a senior and president of the Young Republicans at Henry Clay, as saying she liked Obama’s call for individual responsibility.

In Anchorage, where the school superintendent said last week that she’d been deluged with e-mail protests, there were few students who didn’t show up for the speech, which took place at 8 a.m. Anchorage time. In one high school class of 25, only one student opted out. In a grade school class, the count was one out of 49.

The biggest “opt-out” may have taken place in Texas, where the Arlington school district, between Dallas and Fort Worth, refused to show the speech at all. About 100 people gathered at a local Baptist church to watch the speech and to question the district’s plans to bus fifth graders to an event at Dallas Cowboys stadium Sept. 21 that will feature an address by former President Bush.

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and ask other parents of students there to make similar calls.

the principal took the action and has to bear the consequences of said action.

I absolutely plan on it. I am outraged that an elementary school would play politics in this way. I want to know why the right tards opinion holds more weight than mine? I also want to know why we didn’t have the option of having the children watch or not. One person should NOT decide for the entire school.

Good evening firepups.

My students and I caught the speech in 10 second bursts. Blame the internet (lack of infrastructure) and lack of captioning and/or Spanish translation of the speech. Both are STILL a problem.

These whackjobs seem to want everybody’s kids to be uneducated, unsophisticated Fox-watching mouth-breathers…

Had to laugh recently when, while watching “Aliens vs Monsters” — in the President’s situation room someone suggests, “Get our top scientific minds on this! Call India!”

After laughing, I sighed and nodded sadly.

It didn’t sound like L Dobbs.

Exactamente.

Ask the school board what patriotic American would deny school children the opportunity to listen to the President of the United States make a speech especially to them.

That had always been my take but I got involved in a discussion about it with someone last year who appeared to have more of the historical record on their side who suggested that Constantine’s role (in regard to inclusion of Revelations in the Bible) was negligible.

I’m afraid I’ve forgotten the details.

It won’t solve the problem but have a Saucer Size Oatmeal Raisin Cookie anyway.

Lisa, I know one HS student who walked home at 10:30 this morning (with parental permission) to watch the speech, then went back to school for the afternoon.

Truth.
They’d all not be reelected.

yup… cause an uproar. create disharmony. pit them against themselves.

It’s always surprised me that Revelation made the cut, since so much of it is anti-Roman screed and the New Testament was assembled after Romans became the “good guys.”

Constantine convened the Council of Nicea, which gave us the Nicene Creed (better for music than the Apostle’s Creed IMO) and chose the canonical texts. I don’t think Constantine himself had a lot to do with the Council — he left it to the sky pilots, as I recall.

So, I’ll blame him for convening the Council and instructing them to select the canonical texts. That ought to be responsibility enough.

Lisa !

I think the last Preznut said it best … “Is our children learnin’ ?” … the wingnuts don’t think any more needs to be said.

I am going to run with all the above suggestions.

Don’t forget, “Are we putting food on our families?”

The wingnut response to that question is, “They damn well better not be or there is gonna be hell to pay!”

Learning? We don’t need no stinkin’ learnings!

Think I will make an early night of it. Had a long day today. Take care all.

I guess the pukes don’t want the OBGYN’s practicing their “love” with patients either.

The kids in our local school district missed it too, because the district office got so many nutjob crazies calling, they refused to show it.
A couple miles down the road, another school district allowed it and the kids got interviewed on TV. One little boy said he was going to do his homework right away when he got home, and he wanted to be an orthodontist. A little girl said she would study harder and ask questions if she didn’t understand.

Good night, Dick.

He played the “Village Idjit” part well, while Rome burnt …

Good night Dr. D.

We watched it online when we got home this evening, but it really burns me up that it wasn’t shown at school. We weren’t even given the option. And then to find out that the principal of the schools in our district were allowed to decide if their school would watch or not. I am going to be the one to stir up some shit now.

What I had always heard was that there was resistance to it’s inclusion but Constantine insisted, believing the scary apocalyptic imagery would be a useful recruitment and management tool. Claiming to be an instrument of God’s will while demonizing one’s opponents… every demagogue’s stock in trade.

G’nite Sir !

Is everyone in Cali. safe from the fires ?

Maybe all of the calls received from wingnut parents weren’t from parents at all. Just some phone bank thingie in Utah.

i am a little smoky, but safe, thanks for asking

Nighters.

I guess I am safe in wingnutia, AKA central california.

Lisa, it sounds like your kitteh titled this post. What a remarkably gifted feline.

We’re hearing that 60% of the fires are under control … hope all are safe, including the brave Firefighters.

Good night, pups.

G’nite BCT !

I lived in Modesto in 1985. Hated it. I kept getting notes slipped under my door telling me to find a church home. I found another home in Los Osos.
And the neighbors thought my girls were weird cause they not demur enough.
And there is no an exit sign on the interstate to get to Modesto. Hit or miss.

need help.

need some stats that show that school dropout rates are higher in the south. teen prenancy rates & addiction rates would be good. Anyone have that at their fingertips?

Loved the Obama photo as well …

It’s surprising how natural HypnObama looks, isn’t it?

Try here http://nces.ed.gov/

There are some stats here.

http://www.ncset.org/publicati…..art1.3.asp

Go to the Annie E. Casey Foundation and look up Kids Counts. That is their state by state report on children. Or just type Kids Count into google.

Needs a bigger Afro, Daddy-O ! *g*

G’night BCT.

In fact, the piece I read in the Sun on Sunday included a quote from a mom with her kids in private schools. Now what business does she have telling us that our kids can’t hear it? I mean, over the weekend, it was just over the top crazy. Now I live in PG Co, MD. While I do know how Mike Steele voted, just about all the rest of us here went D. That the system had to even make a statement about the whole affair was mind boggling.

Mr Bruce is very talented considering he has no thumbs.

That photo has not been altered. All the pictures you see of Obama WITHOUT hypno-eyes are Photoshopped.

Heading out, splendid evening to all.

LOL … G’nite ratfood !

*waving g’nite to all the leaving sleepyheads*

Thumbs are overrated and besides, I really don’t think kitties should hitchhike.

On the other hand, they can’t very well drive themselves… very well.

good night firepups.

This is what the wingnuts are really worried about.

Indoctrinate them to do what exactly? Go to school? Get ahead in the world?

Not hate Mexicans. And other brown people.

G’nite Betsy !

pain free sleep tex

sleep is your friend

Duck Fobbs.

-G

You said it, Bro.

My base!

All my base!

You gots the original, I’m just back home from 6 daze festin.

Thanks Lisa!!!

WOOT!

Now, we get it on, bang a dong, for healthcare reform.

Vacay’s over, done and did.

Time to get it on, and let’s FUCK the mofo’s.

Full care, now, for all. And more.

Fuck the corporatists.

Fuck ‘em all.

Harumph.

;-)

Larue !

Petro!

Nice Supreme Court shot.

what’s he doing in the background – some sorta sicilian curse?

Yes, it is. Strange little white collar thingie, tho. What is that called? Do you know?

((( demi )))

LOL … that’s prolly the secret salute in Opus Dei …

it’s a jabot, I think. IIRC, O’Connor wore a lace one. Sotomayor’s looks more like the English version.
They’re lucky: no wigs!

FWDiva

Or warding off the eeeeevil eye. You know the brown folk can’t be trusted.

FWDiva

LOL … FWD !

Doing a drive-by as I can 40# of peaches. I’m watching the most incredible music show on KCTV[pbs] out of Seattle. An incredible program of international musicians singing for a better way. “Playing For Change” Performing at the Moore Theatre, Weds. Nov. 18th,7:30. They’re doing the fundraiser now . Spendy[ for us] but worth it. $150 for 2 tickets. But these are incredible voices coming from all over the world to “bring people together through the power of music”.
It would be really good to see the phones ringing off the hook.
Okay, off to harvest. I’m doing Elberta peaches,sprig of mint julep, sprinkle of blackberry. This batch.
Next batch …seriously rum-soaked black cherries.
Peace

His teleprompter is really the one in charge. He is like Mr Lincoln at Disneyland!

“They actually asked me if the principal hated the President.”

My first-grader asked me the same thing, for the same reason (principal not showing the video in school). Kids are more perceptive than we give them credit for sometimes (although in our case it was more because the principal was afraid of pissing off the large percentage of Rush zombie parents).

Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iqsxCWjCvI for the speech and your kids can see firsthand what’s causing all the controversy: a guy telling kids to work hard, take responsibility and stay in school. You’d think that would resonate with the Ayn Rand Cheerleading Squad, but nope.

I don’t trust Presidents who initially prepare lesson plans telling kids to write letters on how they will support him. While speaking to children may have been done before, propagandizing children is something new. Newt may applaud the President. I don’t.

You need to write your school board and cc the principal…

Yeah, DL. The people who like to draw lines where there ain’t no lines and put people on the other side refuse to acknowledge that the problem was in the initial Cult of Personality lesson plan. Had Pres. GWBush done the same thing, the people who support Pres. Obama would have gone ballistic.

Let’s face it. Hypocrisy can be entertaining, though ignorance is just sad.

Ignorance is failing to separate propaganda from fact. The Liar-in-Chief’s propaganda speech last night was no different from his “lesson plan”. The Hypocrisy comes from those on the Left who booed and Hissed President Bush any time he came before the Joint Sessions but try to savage one Congressman for telling the Truth.

Wilson broke the House GOP’s own rules:

Until the 109th Congress, it was not in order to make certain references to the Senate or individual senators. However, at the beginning of that Congress, the House removed the prohibition on making references to the Senate, leaving only the requirement that debate be confined to the question under debate and avoid “personality.” The precedents of the House allow a wide latitude in criticism of the President, other executive officials, and the government itself. However, it is not permissible to use language that is personally offensive to the President, such as referring to him as a “hypocrite” or a “liar.” Similarly, it is not in order to refer to the President as “intellectually dishonest” or an action taken by the President as “cowardly.” References to the Vice President, in spite of his role as President of the Senate, are measured against the standard used for the President rather than prior standards used to govern the Senate.

When the House Rules forbid the telling the Emporer he has no clothes it’s the House Rules that’s the problem–The Emporer is a Liar and He Has No Clothes….

Liar in chief?

weapons of mass destruction – would we lie to you?

we don’t torture. Unless we torture, and then we do it because we get vital information. But I can’t tell you what that was, would I lien to you?

I guess the guy who lets you show up at a debate with guns threating revolution is a fascist, but the man who arrests people for wearing a shirt that hurts his feelings is the great defender of liberty.

if you would like to tell me your favorite sports team I would be happy to send you a cap lined in aluminum foil so you can resist Obama’s mind ray.