IGNORANCE

Just found out my old school district will not be letting students watch The President's address on the 8th.

Here is the e-mail sent to the teacher's from one of the principals -

From: Ernie Salazar
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:37 PM
To: - North Campus High School
Subject: Presidential Address


We have been instructed not to show the live broadcast of the President’s address to the students on September 8^th, 2009 at 1:00 pm.   Please line this off your calendar for this month.  We plan to record the event, after which, we will evaluate the message and where best to use it, if at all.  Some parents may opt their children out of a lesson, with the understanding that there may be an alternate assignment.

Again, please do not show the live broadcast.  Thanks 

Ernie Salazar
Principal
Deer Park High School-North
832-668-7300

hey!

i can post to blogger from my phone now!

LEAGUE OF MELBOTIS: The League (Finally) Watches: Watchmen

LEAGUE OF MELBOTIS: The League (Finally) Watches: Watchmen: 

"I won't belabor what is a lengthy post here with a plot synopsis, but in re-reading Watchmen and seeing the movie, its fascinating to note that we should be starting our second generation at this point who has no concept of the Cold War as a fact of life, and how and why it influenced so much of culture. I, for one, fully believed I would be nuked at some point in my life, probably before I was old enough to drink. The very specific fear of a terrorist driving a plane into my office building seemed rather small in comparison. I do not know if the Cold War means anything to those in their twenties or younger."

TomPaine.com - E. Coli Conservatism

TomPaine.com - E. Coli Conservatism: 

"The Associated Press studied the records and found that between 2003 and 2006 the Food and Drug Administration conducted 47 percent fewer safety inspections. FDA field offices have 12 percent fewer employees. Safety tests for food produced in the United States have gone down by three quarters—have almost ground to a halt—in the previous year alone. What does that mean, in practical terms? Consider the peanut butter."

Let's hear it for the strong moral principles that lead to the poisoning of the American people and their pets!

GO CONSERVATIVISM!!!

Daily Kos: Not Quite Liveblogging Glenn Beck

Daily Kos: Not Quite Liveblogging Glenn Beck: 

"50 mins or so: Well, I have no idea what the overall 'plot' of Beck's little program is supposed to be, other than John Galt Pity Party."

ok...  who's ready to form another band?

John Galt Pity Party - Live at Super Happy Fun Land...

The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly: 

"A group of people are working diligently to put out a raging fire, and the failed minority party, which helped set the blaze, can't imagine why no one is taking their more-lighter-fluid agenda seriously."

perfect.

Mutual Assured Destruction - the 80's and the world of The Watchmen

Watchmen Review: Watchmen Proves The Cold War Is An Alien World

Watchmen Review: Watchmen Proves The Cold War Is An Alien World
This article is pretty right on.
I'll be 39 at the end of this month.The 80's were all about Reagan and AIDS.

Reagan never of course said the word,but it was there.
When people today think about Reagan they think about economics (FAIL) 

or maybe Bedtime for Bonzo

 but Reagan was all about the cold war.

I remember having nightmares about nuclear war.

Reagan escalated the rhetoric.

The Evil Empire.  

Dr. Strangelove became War Games.

Things were out of control.  

Matthew Broderick could've killed us all with a 300 baud modem.

Then we would have never been blessed with Project X.  

Anyway, yes - as this article states - the cold war was madness - as is the war on terror... it is rhetoric used to scare and control us. To make us accept the ever growing police state.

But in the mind of a teenager in the 80's (or at least this teen), the threat of nuclear destruction seemed very real.
I believed, like Sting, that the russians loved their children too - but if a crazy general or a teenager with a commodore 64 could start a nuclear holocaust then what did that even matter?  and then there were people like Kissinger and Reagan.  

We've outlawed the soviet union - the bombing starts in two minutes.  

80's nostalgia is weird to me.

Sure we listened to The Cure -but we were also full of fear

in a world out of control...

We were crazy.

We are crazy.