Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I thought he was "Ironman" because he put out so much effort but there is no way to watch it all w/o falling asleep. am i whiffing?

I thought perhaps he looked like Robert Downey Jr.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I thought perhaps he looked like Robert Downey Jr.

My beard is fuller, but yes. Nicely done.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

My beard is fuller, but yes. Nicely done.

I am still confused, however, as to the basis for the accusation you're "commercial." Were you once about the music, but then sold out when the record company made an offer?

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I am still confused, however, as to the basis for the accusation you're "commercial." Were you once about the music, but then sold out when the record company made an offer?

Yes. I started out with art house/Sundance ambitions and ending up taking the first offer from HBO Films. don't you have my website bookmarked?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

Yes. I started out with art house/Sundance ambitions and ending up taking the first offer from HBO Films. don't you have my website bookmarked?

Sundance Channel:

1) 30% Enviromental diatribes
2) 20% Anti Israeli diatribes
3) 28% Romances about homosexual couples
4) 12% reruns of "The Comeback"
5) 8% independant films that do not fall into one of categories 1-3
6) 2 % Cities on speed

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Sundance Channel:

1) 30% Enviromental diatribes
2) 20% Anti Israeli diatribes
3) 28% Romances about homosexual couples
4) 12% reruns of "The Comeback"
5) 8% independant films that do not fall into one of categories 1-3
6) 2 % Cities on speed

I making movies before there was a Sundance channel, but, regardless, it was #5 stuff.

[Penske 2.0]

Bloomberg. He's lucky NYers are only exercising their 1st Am rights, instead of their 2nd Am rights.

Even the Daleys know better than to fuck up the snow clearance.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

People talking past each other:

In May, Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law banning the state’s schools from teaching ethnic studies classes, defined as history, anthropology and literature courses designed to teach the stories, histories, struggles and triumphs of people of color through their own unique perspectives.

Specifically, the law targets Mexican-American studies programs taught in Tucson schools, where 60 percent of the students are of Mexican descent. The bill (HB2281) passed by the Legislature states that schools will lose state funding if they offer any courses that “promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.” This law will cut the Tucson school district’s budget by $36 million a year if they continue to teach ethnic studies courses.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, who wrote part of the law, said the ethnic studies classes were “dividing kids up by race” and teaching students that “the entire governmental system is solely the product of the white power structure”.

Supporters of ethnic studies courses in Arizona told The New York Times that the program does not violate federal laws or promote treason but the courses “offers factual information; for example in the Mexican-American Studies program, an American history course explores the role of Hispanics in the Vietnam War, and a literature course emphasizes Latino authors. The students learn, for example, that Arizona was once part of Mexico, and that in the 1960s Chicano radicals called for reclaiming the land."

PBS

I do not think that public schools should be promoting the overthrow of the United States government. But it's pretty easy to imagine an ethnic studies program that doesn't fit the characteristics in the second and third paragraphs above, e.g., what's described in the fourth paragraph. And I'm not sure where the first paragraph comes from, since what it says is banned is much more than what's in the quote in the second paragraph.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

People talking past each other:

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New board motto?

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I do not think that public schools should be promoting the overthrow of the United States government. .

I don't normally respond to the same post twice, but in this case I will make a special exception......

Does it perhaps split the difference to offer to give Arizona back? win-win? No offence.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

promote resentment of a particular race or class of people...

I hope they don't purchase any of those Texas textbooks. There is a lot of resentment of any number of races and classes coming out of those....