Issue 88
News: The Day they Kicked God out of Schools.
In response to one of many disasters that have happened in our schools in recent years, The American Family Association released a video that claimed that the victims were not protected because "[God] is not allowed in schools". They start off claiming that the problem started when, around the same time, Madalyn Murray O'Hair successfully lobbied to ban school-sponsored prayer (The video fails to state that students may still pray so long as it doesn't disrupt classes), and Edward Schempp successfully managed to get Bible reading out of schools, with the video noting that it said "thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbors as yourself," and not noting that it says many more disturbing things, like "Eye for an eye, force repists to marry their victims, and cut off your hand if it offends you." One wonders why it seems to never occur to the people who rant about subjects like prayer in school don't just read the Bible or pray with their kids themselves instead of fobing off their responsibilities to the Public school system. After a brief tangent condemning Benjamin Spock and a briefer return to the topic at hand by rebuking the school boards for not punishing kids who misbehave (apparently they don't know about detentions and suspensions), they completely veer off-topic by talking about permissive attitudes towards abortion and condom use (which conservatives see as encouraging sex, but is really about discouraging unwanted pregnancies and, to a lesser extend STDs), sex (specifically Monicagate in 1998, having nothing to do with the situation in schools whatsoever), kiddie porn (which they believe the government views as protected speech, and still has nothing to do with the situation at hand), and seemingly permissive attitude towards the content in movies and music and claiming that it promotes profanity, violence, sex, rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanism (not recognizing that the Bible also implicitly promotes many of these things, even including profanity in some versions), and ending by noting that "We Reap What We Sow." So apparently, abortion is a more likely cause of these disasters than sociopathic students drawn into a culture which seems to find violence less taboo of a subject than sex (as inferred from the rating system in this country, which gave Mel Gibson's Passion movie an R rating with its more or less constant violence, yet full frontal nudity is likely to be given given an automatic NC-17, despite being arguably less traumatic for kids). Interestingly, many of the things mentioned by the video as being harmful (no prayer or Bible in schools, abortion (esp. for minors), sex and violence in entertainment, sex in general) are even more tolerated in other countries, and yet the disasters occur primarily in America.
Band Name: The Glassless Grannies. The combination of two "bad Fads" related to eyeglasses in the sixties: "Granny glasses" and "glassless glasses"
Film Idea: The story of the Giuliani crime family, as seen through the eyes of Claudio Giuliani, the autistic family accountant turned Don of the family. Based on a true story, albeit not necessarily a true story that takes place in the same time and place as the film.
Film Review: "Dog Day Afternoon". Sidney Lumet presents this film about a true story of a bank robbery committed for the purpose of raising the money for a sex change. As with many films from the 1970s, It will not disappoint you to see this movie, as it is very good, even better than his next film "Network".
Quote: "I mean, at home, if you kill someone, they arrest you. Here, they give you a gun and show you what to do, sir."
___________A soldier in Monty Python's Meaning of Life.
Link: The Bad Fads museum: http://badfads.com/
Ps, Sorry, about the lack of Italics and links in this essay; Blogger seems to work with these things almost entirely on shortcuts now.
In response to one of many disasters that have happened in our schools in recent years, The American Family Association released a video that claimed that the victims were not protected because "[God] is not allowed in schools". They start off claiming that the problem started when, around the same time, Madalyn Murray O'Hair successfully lobbied to ban school-sponsored prayer (The video fails to state that students may still pray so long as it doesn't disrupt classes), and Edward Schempp successfully managed to get Bible reading out of schools, with the video noting that it said "thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbors as yourself," and not noting that it says many more disturbing things, like "Eye for an eye, force repists to marry their victims, and cut off your hand if it offends you." One wonders why it seems to never occur to the people who rant about subjects like prayer in school don't just read the Bible or pray with their kids themselves instead of fobing off their responsibilities to the Public school system. After a brief tangent condemning Benjamin Spock and a briefer return to the topic at hand by rebuking the school boards for not punishing kids who misbehave (apparently they don't know about detentions and suspensions), they completely veer off-topic by talking about permissive attitudes towards abortion and condom use (which conservatives see as encouraging sex, but is really about discouraging unwanted pregnancies and, to a lesser extend STDs), sex (specifically Monicagate in 1998, having nothing to do with the situation in schools whatsoever), kiddie porn (which they believe the government views as protected speech, and still has nothing to do with the situation at hand), and seemingly permissive attitude towards the content in movies and music and claiming that it promotes profanity, violence, sex, rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanism (not recognizing that the Bible also implicitly promotes many of these things, even including profanity in some versions), and ending by noting that "We Reap What We Sow." So apparently, abortion is a more likely cause of these disasters than sociopathic students drawn into a culture which seems to find violence less taboo of a subject than sex (as inferred from the rating system in this country, which gave Mel Gibson's Passion movie an R rating with its more or less constant violence, yet full frontal nudity is likely to be given given an automatic NC-17, despite being arguably less traumatic for kids). Interestingly, many of the things mentioned by the video as being harmful (no prayer or Bible in schools, abortion (esp. for minors), sex and violence in entertainment, sex in general) are even more tolerated in other countries, and yet the disasters occur primarily in America.
Band Name: The Glassless Grannies. The combination of two "bad Fads" related to eyeglasses in the sixties: "Granny glasses" and "glassless glasses"
Film Idea: The story of the Giuliani crime family, as seen through the eyes of Claudio Giuliani, the autistic family accountant turned Don of the family. Based on a true story, albeit not necessarily a true story that takes place in the same time and place as the film.
Film Review: "Dog Day Afternoon". Sidney Lumet presents this film about a true story of a bank robbery committed for the purpose of raising the money for a sex change. As with many films from the 1970s, It will not disappoint you to see this movie, as it is very good, even better than his next film "Network".
Quote: "I mean, at home, if you kill someone, they arrest you. Here, they give you a gun and show you what to do, sir."
___________A soldier in Monty Python's Meaning of Life.
Link: The Bad Fads museum: http://badfads.com/
Ps, Sorry, about the lack of Italics and links in this essay; Blogger seems to work with these things almost entirely on shortcuts now.
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