The ‘message’ from Dearest Leader to the kiddies may be toned down to the simple advice to wash your hands.
Like we need a President to send such an obvious bit of advice to the kids.
The radical cartoonist R. Crumb created a similar public service message under the title “Tommy Toilet Sez” in which a talking toilet advised its users to make proper use of TP after dropping a BM. It appeared on the back page of an ‘underground comic’ and then was sold as a poster that was commonly seen in bathrooms of frat houses, bachelor pads, and group homes. It has never been seen in a public toilet.
It showed how a person who fails to follow this simple advice can end up as a social outcast.
Crumb’s masterpiece may not sit well with some on the Left. Hack in Black H. Lee Sarokin was appointed to the Federal Judiciary by Jimmy Carter and promoted by Bill Clinton. In one of his more infamous decisions, he ruled in favor of the litigious and malodorous bum Richard Kreimer. Kreimer shunned the sage advice of Tommy Toilet and did not wipe — or bathe at all. When ejected from a New Jersey library for stinking out his fellow patrons, Kreimer sued and got his rights restored as well as a six-figure settlement for his troubles. The bum has blown his easy money and is still a pest. Judge Sarokin decided to retire after he became a poster hack for Liberal judges.
The younger Miss Pico missed her German class today to hear President Obama’s speech, and she said it was “very, very generic.” The most controversial thing he said was that “if you fail yourself, you fail your country.”
I will take lame and generic over flat out brainwashing any day. I don’t every want to feel this uneasy over any President speaking to the student population, and yet I do. Tuesday was just another part of the Obamafication of America. I can only hope that it was to a lesser extent than originally intended.
I will take lame and generic over flat out brainwashing any day. I don’t every want to feel this uneasy over any President speaking to the student population, and yet I do.
Uh-huh.
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Fantastic reference, Phoenician! I hope Tim and like-minded individuals on here read it, because it contains insight they need to have.
It is beyond me how anyone, and I mean anyone, even wingnuts, could feel uneasy about the President’s message to our children. It is all about their accepting responsibility for their education and for their growth into responsible adulthood.
Isn’t this exactly what Conservatives stand for as a basic. Of course, most of the rest of us agree, regardless of our political leanings.
Can anyone guess how Democrats reacted to the elder President Bush addressing school children?
Too much bathing just opens the pathway to germs.
Can anyone guess how Democrats reacted to the elder President Bush addressing school children?
Did large numbers of the liberal populace run around screaming about “fascist indoctrination” and pulling their kids out of school, Dana?
Ooops – no. Some politicians took the easy jibe of dinging Bush about money spent.
Would you like to compare, say, a Democratic filibuster to the Civil War next? Perhaps you can pass off the invasion of Poland as something similar to ACT UP protesting in a church, perhaps?
Dana, your link is not working!
Perry:
Dana, your link is not working
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2009/09/08/that-was-then-this-is-now-how-democrats-treated-ghwbs-speech-to-schoolkids/
Perry, you should know me better than that. In fact I believe your reaction to my comments puts you in the same category you would put me in.
right, so my question to you is: why weren’t you against that? is indoctrination just groovy when it’s coming from the side you agree with? if so, doesn’t that strike you as a bit, y’know, phony?
Thomas Tallis:
Can anyone guess how Democrats reacted to the elder President Bush addressing school children?
right, so my question to you is: why weren’t you against that? is indoctrination just groovy when it’s coming from the side you agree with? if so, doesn’t that strike you as a bit, y’know, phony?
OK, no computers then, partisan bickering low, talk radio just starting, if you didn’t have kids in school that told you, and the Washington Post, and Congress complained and if it didn’t show up on the news that night, or read a paper from wall to wall, it was a non-event until this happened and one found out there was a history.
The 24/7 news cycle, the hyper partisan bickering, the one upmanship, the divide of right and left, the 10,000 blogs, instant look-ups, and cable news generally leaning left or right might be the answer.
It is all about their accepting responsibility for their education and for their growth into responsible adulthood.
Why do we need the POTUS telling our kids this? Aren’t they told this by parents and teachers already?
For the record, I didn’t really care about the speech and saw nothing wrong with Obama giving it or my children hearing it (they didn’t). So, I find the hypocrisy of Democrats complaining about GHWB speaking to children but not concerned about this president’s speech to be a little much.
Were those complaining about GHWB’s speech racists?
This piece by Art, about a (God forbid “Liberal”, or so they say) judge that didn’t think a less than well groomed person shouldn’t get kicked out of the library, is the same as all the hub-bub about Obama speaking to our children, high drama, but much to do about nothing!
blubonnet, as always, is missing the point. Civilization consists in part of observing small “civilities” that appear to be invisible or trivial to some people. Perhaps one stinky guy is a non-issue. But how would people react to libraries being overwhelmed with bums (I mean, “street people”) who camp out in libraries? In a real example, how about the library who had its collections ruined by people urinating on the shelves? And, yes, there were public bathrooms available.
Interested in what happens when, bit-by-bit or one catastrophe at a time, Civilization collapses? Stay tuned, blubonnet. Hope you enjoy.
Well, of course, Theo, but is it really that relevant to all out condemn a judge for it?