Comments on: An Open Letter to the Prior Lake/Savage School District Superintendent https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:58:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Jason Sexton https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544194 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:58:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544194 Greg, this appeared on the school website this morning. What a bunch of BS.

http://www.priorlake-savage.k12.mn.us/plsas/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=298868

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544193 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:43:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544193 I don’t even like Obama and this just irks me. Parents who don’t like it, should read a transcript or listen to it, then discuss it with their child at home. Great opportunity for a teaching moment about authority – if of course they can find something that actually works out as objectionable.

I suspect that the slightly saner people who object, object because they’re afraid that he won’t say anything that is actually objectionable. They don’t want their children to hear something from an edumacated “liberal,” that they can’t turn around and rip to shreds based on their non-liberal values. Because gods forbid that their child hear something from someone they perceive as the antithesis of their ideological posturing, that they can’t then scream and stomp their feet about.

]]> By: Break the Terror (Evan) https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544192 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:57:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544192 Sue, if they ARE returning to a separatist state of mind, I really wish they would just do it already. Go.

As Newell @ Wonkette put it the other day, in response to that ridiculous secessionist rally in Texas:

“Our favorite is the second speaker â?? a Paultard lady â?? saying, â??We are aware that stepping off into secession may in fact be a bloody war.â? Yes, there will be much blood when a few F-18s utterly obliterate your new countryâ??s infrastructure and murder most of its population before lunchtime.”

Exactly. And that’s why these bedwetting cowards aren’t fucking going anywhere. They, led by their sad little overlord Glenn Beck, are all about talk, but they don’t have the courage or brainpower to pull off anything of the kind.

Here’s the Wonkette link: http://wonkette.com/410843/middle-aged-secessionist-lady-from-texas-will-launch-bloody-war-for-her-freedom

]]> By: sue https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544191 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:28:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544191 I’ve been a bit out of the loop…….I’ve been attempting to find a unbiased report of exactly what President Obama is planning on discussing in his speech…..is there a way to google a history of previous Presidential school addresses, so that a comparison can be reached between this particular incident or previous Presidents? Why is there such a huge comspiracy theory on everything this particular President either does or utters? Are the people of this once proud country truly returning to a separatist state of mind?

]]> By: Gerry L https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544190 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:26:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544190 Just found this in a Wall Street Journal story dated 5 Sept 2009:
Some conservatives say the furor over the speech by the right threatens to discredit Republicans as they battle with the White House and Congress over health care, the budget and other important policy issues. “People should chill out a little — they don’t have to criticize [Mr. Obama] for everything he does,” said Frank Luntz, a onetime strategist for Republican candidates. Conservative critics, he said, need to “pick your battles,” or “at some point the public will stop listening.”
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We can only hope.

]]> By: melissa sexton https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544189 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:12:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544189 Badger3k
I also thought the same thing. The school wants to censor what they want the kids to hear. What happend to freedom of speech.

]]> By: Lee Haakenson https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544188 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:11:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544188 Thanks for posting this letter. I will be sending something similar. In addition, I will be taking my kids out of school so they can view the speech at home. I would encourage others to do the same thing. The school district needs to understand that we simply cannot tolerate this kind of censorship because a few uninformed people demand it. It is inexcusable.

]]> By: Badger3k https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544187 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:44:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544187 I just found out that my school district is doing the same thing. The speech will be recorded and teachers can use it, but must let parents opt out if they want. I hope the district had the same policy when the first President Bush spoke, or else maybe the might be open to charges of discrimination. Or something. It’s really pretty disgusting.

]]> By: itzac https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544186 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:00:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544186 Is it still McCarthyism if the person being vilified is the president? That sounds more like sedition or treason to me. Or at least that’s how it would be branded by the right if the left were to complain like this.

]]> By: Melissa Sexton https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544185 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:33:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/04/an-open-letter-to-the-prior-la/#comment-544185 Mike,
Thats a very good question.Unfortunatly there are people out there that still believe that Dinosaurs and humans lived together like the flinstones. There are alot of close minded people, and not much can be done unless people are willing to educate themselves and others.Maybe people should turn on a sciene show or History show now and then instead of reality shows that depict the morons of this country.I think with time, hopefully the youth of our nation will show the way to those who are lost.

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