I can't believe what I hear today about the President's address to the nation's school children. At first I thought that the matter was overblown and benign. But the more I have looked into it the more distressed I am. This is sinister stuff.
I get the horrible feeling that this morning in the White House there is a task force meeting to discuss what they will call the re-education camps. "How about Mental Therapy Clinics?" some young hot shot is asking?
If my children were in public school they would not be going to school on the 8th. They would somehow have to get by without the wise, paternalistic expressions of concern from Chairman Obama. They would not be writing themselves letters about what they could do to help the President; letters for the teacher to collect and hand back to them later in the year so that they can be accountable to their commitments.
As it is, I'm going to go to Barstow that afternoon to clean my rooms and everything, but I'm thinking about doing it in a countercultural way. I want a t-shirt with a big smiley face on the front. The grin on the smiley face is loopy and the head is bandaged. On the back of the t-shirt are the words "Since my l-Obama-tomy I feel so much better!"
I wonder if they'll let me wear my t-shirt on the bus to the Mental Therapy Clinic.
And now the countdown starts. We'll see how long before my wiser-than-I-am wife makes me remove this post.
4 comments:
How much do you think you might have to pay for a L-Obama-tomy? Good post, Joel, even though Chairman O probably would not approve.
Burden the children with responsibility for the failures of government and you will effectively muffle dissent in the future.
"Ladies and Gentleman of the court, I have here in my hand a copy of State's exhibit A. Do you recognizer this document, Mr. Tate?"
"Um...yes, it appears to be a blog post I wrote in September of '09."
"I see."
To me, the letters offering ways that students could help the president were not the most distressing part, I could have given Bowden some helpful suggestions on what to write- it was the suggestion from the president that students read books ABOUT HIM!!! Oh my! I've seen those books. I believe the term you used was hagiography. I asked the principal of the school her ein Idyllwild if they would be showing the video and he said not on the 8th, but probably sometime thereafter. It is the policy of our school district not to show anything live to the students, but rather to record and show it later. Sarah speculates it may stem from the Challenger disaster. Live is too risky perhaps.
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