Damned liberals indoctrinating children in public schools:
Kicking off with a hard rock performance, it was clear this was not to be your average assembly.
At first students at Dunkerton High School, Iowa, seemed grateful for this musical break from the norm – albeit with Christian-themed lyrics denouncing the evils of drugs, alcohol and violence.
But things took a turn for the worse when the event veered into an impassioned and unfocused rant against homosexuality, abortion and sex before marriage.
After his band Junkyard Prophet left the stage, drummer and preacher Bradlee Dean took the microphone, separating the crowd into boys, girls and teachers.
Mr Dean is the president of the ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, which is listed by civil rights organisation the Southern Poverty Law Center as an active anti-gay hate group.
Here’s the video. Rocking hate in the name of God. Good times.
(via LGF, who asks a really solid question: “Why the hell was a christian rock band the center of an assembly at a public school in the first place?” BECAUSE SHUT UP, THAT’S WHY!)
WyldPirate
Fucking bunch of Talibangelical assholes…
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
No fucking way; you’ve got to be kidding me. For crying out loud, why don’t they just up and start calling themselves Einsatzgruppen for Jesus while they’re at it? How much more obvious does this stuff have to get?
David Koch
Obama just doesn’t get it.
He keeps hanging out with right wing teabillies.
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/04xE12R4YKdHo/610x.jpg
WyldPirate
FYWP! i can’t believe I got snagged in the mod filter for what i just posted…
BGinCHI
I’m all for fighting back with metaphorical weapons, as Doug advocated yesterday, but this guy? Maybe actual weapons. At least a nice knee to the crotchular region.
Suffern ACE
South Park probably did this episode in season 4. It sounds familiar.
Skippy the Wondermule
I went to Jr high school in Davis, California in 1978, a place that once tried to out-Berkeley Berkeley.
We had a band named Freedom Jam play for us, and they told us how their belief in God made their success possible.
Iowa is nothing new, just more in tune with local fanaticism.
To quote the great Twain: For practice, God made an idiot. Then he created a school board.
Roger Moore
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
Because the people they’re appealing to don’t want their hate in weird furrin languages. They want it in English, just like Jesus spoke. The question I want to ask is who thought this was a good idea? And who actually let a rock band separate the teachers from the students? WTF?
Mike in NC
So they decided against calling themselves “Love Thy Neighbor International” because it sounded too … Christian?
Zifnab
This is a classy guy. I like how he’s throwing up pop stars to vilify. Nothing wins over teenagers by pulling the old foogee “When I was your age, the hip hoppers used to sing about brushing your teeth and hitch’n up the plow and drinking buttermilk! Now they’re all about doing spit balls and dancing with their pants down too low!”
The backwards baseball cap and the super baggy clothes are totally hip and with it, too. I’m pretty sure Limp Biskt wore the exact same outfit when I was in high school, back in the 90s.
Comrade Javamanphil
Let’s not over-react. After all, we all know that the christian right would be perfectly fine with a Muslim Brotherhood hard rock band performing at a public school assembly in America.
Spaghetti Lee
Offered without comment: http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/Bradlee-Dean.jpg
This guy’s also buddy-buddy with Michele Bachmann. They travel in packs.
Comrade Dread
Depends upon the lyrics to the songs they played. If they were just playing anti-drug, anti-booze, and anti-violence songs, without specific religious lyrics, then I can see how an administrator would clear them.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike in NC:
Well, the name they did choose sounds more fascist, so there is that, after all.
Villago Delenda Est
@Comrade Dread:
It’s called “divine deception”. The Moonies do it all the time. Sell yourself as X, then present Y.
These people are vile.
muddy
This shit is not new. I lived in NC in the 90’s and my son went to HS there. I protested a teacher who had Jesus posters on the wall, she said it was just decoration. I said it is right next to the Periodic Table of Elements, is that just for decoration as well? And how do the kids know the difference? There were times that he got into trouble with another kid, that kid had to “talk it over with his pastor”. My kid got suspended for 3 days and missed exams.
Then there was a winter holiday concert at the grade school, there was call to keep it to non-religious songs, and they *agreed* to this. Then they had the kids sing the songs anyway, breaking their deal. To make it even better the other parents shouted terrible insults at the non-Christian family and threw things at their car when they tried to leave.
Happy Birthday Jesus! I think it is pretty sad that I am a better Christian than they are and I am an atheist. fk
Cat Lady
His name is Bradlee. Projecting much?
Sammi
Shame on the adults in the room for not pulling the plug on the mic and video.
the fugitive uterus
they paid $1500 for that
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
Yeah, because everyone knows Jesus by his nickname, the Father of Lies.
YellowJournalism
I read the name of the school aas “Drunkertown High School,” which would explain a lot.
TenguPhule
Voting, Consequences. SATSQ.
The Ancient Randonneur
This just adds balance to all the indoctrination being done by liberals who believe in mathematics and science.
Ripley
Say what you will about Stryper, they were pleasant young men who didn’t beat you about the head and neck with their Bibles or call you names.
Virginia Highlander
Dean rocked out our local high school, here in backward, rural Virginia a few years ago. I wrote the editor of our local rag, informing him that actual news might be fomenting in his community, and his silence was deafening.
There was some small outrage at the school itself and that was met with a deafening silence as well. To the school’s slim credit, the principal did not know Herr Dean was a Christian propagandist until the loud and talentless pithecine was in full rant.
Villago Delenda Est
Well, at least there’s no dark sarcasm in the classroom…
freelancer
I saw this a few days ago. Psycho’s ministry is in Michele Bachmann’s district, and she has supported him in the past.
Gravenstone
@Zifnab: Actually, one of the scariest things I ever witnessed was an assembly at a summer camp on campus. The Brethren National Youth Congress took place there during the summer of 1984. One of the speakers they brought in were the Peters Brothers, an evangelical act from MN. I happened to be working as part of the support crew in the auditorium during that camp, so I got to witness their act up close and personal. Over the course of their hour or so spiel, they turned what had been 1300 average teens and tweens into a bunch of mindless, slavering zombies. I mean, the difference in how those kids interacted with the campus staff before and after that assembly was like night and day. It taught me a valuable lesson of just how dangerous charismatics can be with an impressionable audience.
asiangrrlMN
I’m so sorry for this guy. Yes, he’s a Minnesotan. He also advocated putting homosexuals to death and railed against President Obama for not being a real Christian in front of the MN legislature. Oh, and he’s suing Rachel Maddow for slander.
So so very sorry.
middlewest
And let’s all remember what happens to the the kids who dare to speak up for their first-amendment rights.
Steeplejack
@Virginia Highlander:
This is part of what I don’t get. If I were the usual timorous, controversy-averse school principal, I would run a quick Google search–and probably a lot more than that–on anybody that someone wanted to drag across the threshold of my school. Which leads me to believe the school administration was probably down with it.
BGinCHI
@asiangrrlMN: Don’t come back till you get your knee in that guy’s groin.
Ben Franklin
@Steeplejack:
Ya think?
Gravenstone
FYWP. Actually, where I was going with that mess was to talk about how the Peters Brothers attacked basically all the contemporary acts. I remember they took a particular dislike to Prince (just as Purple Rain was hitting). That was also the first time I saw the European cover to Virgin Killers, interesting.
The boys also had literature available, I perused one of their offerings, and proceeded to get into an argument with one of them over the claims. The one I most took offense to at the time was their claim that Lie Down With Dogs by Alan Parsons Project promoted bestiality.
/facepalm
Really? You clowns have never heard the expression used to describe having to deal with the consequences of your actions?
Svensker
Because they’re oppressed!
beltane
I am starting to sympathize with those Roman emperors who considered Christians to be a dangerous pestilence. They had a point.
asiangrrlMN
@BGinCHI: I’ll do you one better. ::waves rusty pitchfork™ wildly in the air as if she just doesn’t care::
Martin
@muddy: Dude, if God wanted the kids to listen to non-religious music, then he wouldn’t have inspired people to write religious music. Duh.
Jesus, logic just is a foreign concept to some people.
BGinCHI
@asiangrrlMN: I’d hate to see you accidentally poke yourself.
Wait. That didn’t come out right.
Raven
Fuck deeze punks.
Zifnab
@beltane:
That all went out the window once Constantine realized you could use them to maintain authority. :-p Coincidentally, this was about when the Roman Empire fell apart.
MikeBoyScout
Another closeted nut struggling with his own identity.
jeebus.
Roger Moore
@BGinCHI:
I think her usual response involves a rusty pitchfork. Is that good enough?
JPL
@Raven: Amen
BGinCHI
@Roger Moore: As long as she aims it carefully. See above.
Gravenstone
Oh yes, and we had to endure crap like this when I was in HS back in the dark ages as well. We had one cretin (whose name has long since passed from my mind) come to speak to our assembled student body during my junior year. One of the wive’s of a school board member apparently foisted him off on us. The fact she sat in the front row during said assembly, and kept genuflecting was something of a giveaway. That assembly was the first time I’d ever had someone tell me to my face that I was going to Hell because of my taste in music (the Beatles in this case).
Then this fucker proceeded to have another presentation before the board member’s church congregation that evening. There, he went on to proclaim our school as the “most knowledgeable about the occult of any he’d visited”. As a result, we ended up losing a whole slew of English classes based on specific literature genres, such as horror, the supernatural, fantasy and sci fi. Also our class on understanding mass media and how they present things. I’ve never forgiven that cocksucker (or the school board) for that happening.
DFS
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: I like to think that if he were alive, Joe Louis would kick this guy’s ass.
Virginia Highlander
@Steeplejack: Even in a small school, a principal is unlikely to have the time for such luxuries. I have no use for the woman, but she’s a steady Methodist, and by no means an evangelizing zealot for Jeebus. She was incompetent, but was as shocked as everyone.
Ben Franklin
Yup. The Council of Nicea is who we have to thank for Christmas being celebrated 3 months after the fact; December 25 “Anthem of the Sun”
Litlebritdifrnt
Bringing up a point from downstairs, isn’t it about time that the men who rather enjoy having sex with women, free from worry about pregnancy, started their own organization protesting these RWNJ bills targeting contraception? I mean lets face it, if a woman has no access to the pill then the onus will then be on the guys to buy boat loads of condoms or its no sex for you!
Villago Delenda Est
@Raven:
With a rusty, unlubed, no governor chainsaw.
With wobble action.
D0n Camillo
Well it sure was a learning experience for the students in its own way.
Ben Franklin
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Condoms are the next best thing to no sex at all, at all.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Gravenstone:
You know the glory of growing up in England and being educated there I NEVER had to endure any of that crap. I took Religious Education because the subject interested me and I had the most brilliant teacher in that class Mrs. Lawrence. She was a devout Christian (did the flowers for the Church every weekend type of thing) and yet she had the most brilliant open mind, one of her most famous examples was explaining that the parting of the Red Sea by Moses was more than likely the parting of the “Reed Sea” several miles to the south and a more direct route, which was tidal, and was probably just a matter of Moses hitting it at the right time. Unfortunately in my final year she retired and was replaced by a devout Methodist (and wife of a minister) who tried to teach me that everything in the bible was the truth and Jesus actually turned water into “grape juice” but not wine. My encounter with her was really the only time I came up against religious ignorance.
BDeevDad
I thought lying was a sin?
The Ancient Randonneur
This also seems to be the appropriate place to wish everyone a happy Pi Day!
Southern Beale
Remember when all those good Christian folks were OUTRAGED about Obama;s 2009 speech to school kids?
I fucking give up on this country, I do. I’m moving to Norway.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Gravenstone:
“The one I most took offense to at the time was their claim that Lie Down With Dogs by Alan Parsons Project promoted bestiality.
/facepalm”
Well, now, the first track to that album *is* titled “Lucifer.” Ya just gotta know how to, uhm, listen between the lines. Or somesuch.
MariedeGournay
Someone’s never left the anal stage.
Gravenstone
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn: Actually, funny story. I was listening to said album in my dorm room freshman year. My roommate (who was something of a delicate flower)actually felt compelled to leave the room when Lucifer came on. He claimed it made him feel uneasy and scared.
Omnes Omnibus
@Litlebritdifrnt: Hey, I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, Connecticut and central Wisconsin, and this kind of shit never happened to me. It is not universal.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Gravenstone:
I just lolled in my mouth a little.
Roger Moore
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Do we really need separate men’s and women’s organizations? Shouldn’t Planned Parenthood be good enough for everyone?
chopper
@muddy:
one of that advantages of being jewish even if you live in a red state. if this happens you can threaten them with a lawsuit and they’ll actually realize that they’d lose. if you’re an atheist then you’re fucked.
Chris
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Somewhat similar story here. I was Christian growing up (actually increasingly so) largely because all the Christians I knew were like your Mrs. Lawrence – actually went to the teenage version of Sunday school all the way through high school because the people running it were so good.
That was my youth, in the French-speaking expat community around Washington. So when I went to college in the American school system, I naturally sought out the local Christian groups… where I met the people like your Methodist pastor’s wife. The more time I spent in American religion, the more I found that people like her had completely cornered the God market, which largely explains my losing interest.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Gravenstone:
I worked with a girl when I was in the Navy in Hong Kong. She was a born again Christian who claimed to have been exorcised from the demons who were in her prior to her conversion. When she learned that I was a Pagan she refused to ever be in a room alone with me, she claimed that she could not in good conscience be alone in the same room with “that witch” as apparently I would attempt to have the “devil” re-enter her soul. Good thing I was her superior, and had input into her performance evaluations noting that she left her post every time someone else left the room.
Joel
This guy’s mullet is all sorts of awesome.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yeah, I grew up in Denver. No such encounters for me, either.
However, my sixth grade crush did pass me a note in class once. “Oo! A note from the cute girl! Wonder what it says?” What she’d written to me was that those who did not accept Jesus, yadda yadda, were condemned to BURN IN HELL.
That was weird. Maybe that was her way of showing she cared?
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
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Steve in DC
I never had to deal with that nonsense here growing up. We did have stupid bands come and play when we were young, but that was mostly songs and acts about fire and electrical safety.
beergoggles
I really hope some kid sues the school district into bankruptcy. That’s one thing I like about the gay civil rights movement – we know how to use lawyers.
Omnes Omnibus
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn: She probably wouldn’t have put out anyway. Or she would, but then she would want to get married right away.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Roger Moore:
I was trying to say that so far the majority of voices against this bullshit have been female. The wonderful male posters on this site being the exception. The fact is women don’t get pregnant on their own. For every pregnant woman, or sexually active woman who is not pregnant, there is a guy (or perhaps another girl) who is having sex with her. Perhaps we should have a campaign that states that if we can’t have sex with guys without the risk of getting pregnant then we should just have sex with ourselves (either with another woman or with a battery operated device)? You think that might have an effect on the male population?
Sammi
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I say this all the time. The males should be just as afraid of forced parenthood. Yes, the women have to carry the babies but the males are on the hook for 18 yrs of child support. That alone should make them organize to fight the forced parenthood movement. Also, too, don’t they have daughters, sisters, wives and girlfriends who they should support?
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Omnes Omnibus:
Meh. I was a virgin till 19. Hell, I didn’t get to any of the bases before then. Mr. Swing-And-A-Miss, that was me.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Limbaugh would demand online videos. He’s like a one-man Rule 34; he can take any topic and squick you out with it.
Southern Beale
Fucking Germans. They like to crush things under their boots … like POLAND:
kdaug
@Skippy the Wondermule:
Never heard of ’em.
Nicole
I remember a Christian band visiting our high school back in the 80’s. They weren’t obnoxious about it, though. In fact, I can’t remember any of the songs being about religion. Probably because I can’t remember any of the songs. I do remember the guys were cute, what with their mullets back when Bono had one, too.
Why can’t guest bands just sing songs about useful things, like this guy?
Fix the Light
Seriously, that’s what it’s about. It’s not a metaphor or anything.
muddy
@Zifnab: I had a guy tell me that it proved Christianity was true and factual because Constantine said he’d convert if he won that battle, And Then He Did! I said without reviewing battle history that could be a 50/50 bet. He also said that Christianity was factual as it had not been dis-proven, no one even argued about it back in the day. He had previously bragged to me that he had graduated college in only 3 years but it turned out to be ITT. Nothing against that, but thin on the Humanities, I would think.
Then he was surprised that I would not go out with him another time. “You seem different”, um yeah, I just found out you are a poorly educated loonie.
S. cerevisiae
I don’t remember a school assembly with this kind of crap in the rural MN high school I attended, but some of the local churches would schedule crap like this. I never got roped into going to any, but man you should have read some of the tracts they handed out. I read one once and concluded my musical taste had definitely damned me to hell – too bad.
Ozymandias, King of Ants
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
This made me spew coffee all over my monitor.
Chris
@muddy:
Kind of reminds me of “my lord Cresus, if you go to war, you will destroy a great empire!” There you go… wait, he went and lost the war? Just tell him we meant HIS empire.
Bullshit oracles are a time-honored religious tradition.
Is he freaking high? Why does he think the Jewish religion, non-Jesus and all, survives to this day and remains the dominant religion among the Hebrew people to whom Jesus originally preached? Of COURSE people argued about it back in the day! The guy was crucified BECAUSE people argued about it back in the day!
beergoggles
I do remember dancing my ass off to a certain christian band’s music in my late club years – granted it was remixed by junior vasquez so it wasn’t like anyone was going to revoke my pink card.
Jars of Clay – Flood (Junior Vasquez Remix) fast forward to 2:00 for the good part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Kxiz5XCEs
muddy
@Chris: The worst part was he thought he was super smart and well-educated.
SiubhanDuinne
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
Awesome.
Geoduck
Add me to the list who made it through an American high school without any of this crap ever happening. This was in a relatively podunk district north of Seattle.
bemused
It’s not the first time Dean and hate band have gotten into school assemblies under false pretenses. There’s probably not a legal basis to sue his ass but I’d love to see some parent’s groups or some group give them some grief.
SiubhanDuinne
@Southern Beale:
Wait, there’s an earless rabbit named POLAND?
muddy
@beergoggles: I wanted to like that song when it was on the radio because of the line, “Slowly I become one with the mud,” which is my vocation. But then I listened more closely and it wasn’t what I had in mind.
ruemara
@Skippy the Wondermule: You should come back for a visit. They still are trying to out Berkeley Berkeley, only with a hefty dose of glibertarian, IGMFY, moderate RepubLite decisions. And bikes. Have to have the bikes.
As a fundie kid, I never listened to anything younger than ShaNaNa until I was in my teens. But even I would forgoe the christorock. They usually sucked. Unfortunately, I was walking past a tv with the devil channel MTV, heard some David Bowie and Duran Duran. It was all over, my aural purity. Thank goodness, I mean, Bennie Goodman rocked and all but, I rather like not having the listening habits of a 70 year old.
nellcote
When I went to grade school in San Francisco they never had religious shit like this. They took us to the Opera for musical entertainment.
MGB
As a Unitarian, who went to Catholic school for 12 years (grew up in the city of Detroit, and the schools were that bad in the 80’s that my parents figured they could de-program me at home), we never had to deal with this crap. Yeah there was religion class, it was Catholic school, but considering 80% were Protestant Detroit kids whose parents were scared to send them through the DPS, they could only do so much. But still, my IHM nun principal would never even think to bring someone like that into the school. Guess it was the Jesuit thinking thing or something.
Arm The Homeless
@beergoggles: I see your JoC, and raise you a Creed.
I’m sorry for that folks
Schlemizel
Back around 69 or 70 my High School in St. Paul, MN was visited by one of these stealth preachers. They played a little innocuous soft rock & then gave us a very soft sell. The were called “New Hope” & they played off the whole hope thing. They were not obnoxious but I don’t think they won any souls that day.
The dipshits from “You can run but you can’t hide” are a special breed of shit heels
Chris
@muddy:
The worst part IMO is that plenty of them are super-educated. But it doesn’t seem to do much for their rationality. It’s what someone on this website calls the “high misinformation” voter, as opposed to “low information.”
SiubhanDuinne
@The Ancient Randonneur:
Cleek has a filter for that.
PurpleGirl
@muddy:
fixed that
(I don’t consider what people get at ITT to be an education. It’s vocational training, maybe of a high order, but training.)
AxelFoley
@asiangrrlMN:
Uh-uh, you don’t get off that easy, missy. You owe me, er us.
Roger Moore
@Chris:
IOW, they got a lot of quantity but not a lot of quality, at least in the learning how to think rationally department. It seems to me that this goes along with the observation that educated wingnuts tend to come from areas like engineering and medicine where the education tends to focus on specific job skills rather than ones like liberal arts and the hard sciences that focus more on reasoning.
Dave C
When I was in highschool in southwestern Minnesota, the principal invited the Minnesota Viking’s mascot to come give a talk. Two thirds of it was normal stuff…and then the rest of the talk was about how Jesus saved him and how we needed to be saved as well. It was odd, to say the least.
muddy
@PurpleGirl: But finishing “college” in 3 years sounds so impressive! I guess not having to write papers is a time-saver.
PurpleGirl
@muddy: LOL.
muddy
@Dave C: Did he talk about worshiping false idols?
beergoggles
@Arm The Homeless: I just can’t see myself dancing to any of that no matter how much drugs and alcohol people pile on me.
Chris
@Roger Moore:
Huh. The ones I was thinking about are people I’ve met in my field – public affairs/international relations. They get a decent education in college, but they also keep themselves “informed” on the side from sources like the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and just conservative groups getting together to pass around bitching and gossip about the liberals. A formal education can only do so much when they’re mingling it with that much crap.
bemused
@Sammi:
Damn that false religion of science that gave us paternity testing, ha.
nellcote
So they invite these thugs into the school to show off their fetus pix but Donnesbury is removed from the comix page because “think of the children!”
Daniel Thomas MacInnes
It’s too bad those YouTube videos have disabled the comments. I was really looking forward to heckling this joker. Heck, I may just steal his stoopid videos and record my own MST3K-style wisecracks on top of it. It would definitely be fun.
I really love how Dean denies that his show had anything to do with gays…and then he uploads the video from the show, bashing gays. Oookay. Smart guy there. I can see how his career as a roadie for Stryper got derailed.
beergoggles
@muddy: When u said it was ur vocation my first thought was “omg u drive a bobcat”.. because well squeee. But then I started second guessing that…
gelfling545
As I read this it sounds like this person separated the students from the teachers and the students were left unsupervised by anyone connected with the school. In my experience this does not happen and there are rules about requiring supervision by faculty/staff regardless of who else is there even if it’s Officer Friendly, much less someone who looks like he’s auditioning for the role of deranged serial killer. Secondly, I’ve never heard of anyone coming to a school to give any kind of presentation not being asked to specify exactly what that entails and if someone who was coming to play music suddenly started unexpectedly separating people into groups questions would, again in my experience, be asked. For these reasons I’m not buying that the principal (or whoever arranged the “performance”) didn’t know exactly what would go on.
muddy
@beergoggles: Potter.
beergoggles
@muddy: Oh do u sell online?
muddy
@beergoggles: No, I’m afraid I don’t. Enough to keep up with as it is.
toujoursdan
Good to read that both students and parents were outraged by the assembly. It’s easy to write off these parts of the country as redneck but they are changing too.
SiubhanDuinne
@nellcote:
I think you’ve captured the Think.
SiubhanDuinne
@muddy:
Really? How cool!
@beergoggles:
Seconded. Would love to see some of your work.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Oh, sorry Muddy, just saw you don’t sell on line. Well let us know when you do. We’re about due for another Clever Crafty Juicers Made This Neat Thing thread, I think.
muddy
@SiubhanDuinne: I should have a page, just for occasions like this. But when I wash up I just end up commenting in here instead of making one, priorities.
asiangrrlMN
@BGinCHI: I poke myself all the time! Oh wait…. ::Carefully aims rusty pitchfork™ at Dean’s hindquarters:: That doesn’t have the same ring to it.
@Roger Moore: Exactly. In the hindquarters. Repeatedly.
@AxelFoley: I’ll make it up to you, boo. ::smiles sweetly::
Gravenstone
@Geoduck: Well, my school district did include a town formerly known as Podunk (until it was rebuilt after being destroyed by a tornado in the 1800s). So maybe that explains our susceptibility to fucktard speakers.
Darkrose
@ruemara: You left out the eternal self-righteousness of the rich white liberal.
RalfW
@asiangrrlMN:
Yeah, that Bradlee Dean thing at the MN Capitol was such a f*up that the House decided to literally call “mulligan” and re-start the day’s session with a new prayer.
It looked for about a day as if he so screwed the pooch that the pet gay-bashing anti-marriage amendment almost got derailed.
So yeah, good job booking this asswipe for a highschool assembly. Criminy.
Joey Maloney
@muddy:
Dunning-Kruger effect. Or maybe Creutzfeldt-Jakob, I can never keep them straight.
Nemesis
In case you havent noticed, all sorts of christian activities go on at public schools.
My kids are in college now, but several years ago I recall a local resident, who quit his job to focus solely on writing a book about his personal journey in
st timmy of tebowjesus christ, was allowed to speak to the entire elementary school about his writings. For nearly an hour. I was there. I heard it. I was pissed.Paul in KY
Would have been cool if one of the kids had requested the XTC song ‘Dear God’. I’d like to think I would have…
DFH no.6
The only controversial official assembly thing that happened when I was just a lad at my old public high school in Cleveland occurred in 1970, or maybe it was ’71.
Russell Means, the noted Native American activist, was brought in by somebody to address the students and faculty, no doubt regarding Native American civil rights (kind of a hot topic in those halcyon days).
Whatever Means was saying (I remember no specifics on that) apparently did not sit very well with (at least) one of the more fascist assistant principals, so said fascist assistant principal pulled the plug and had Russell Means moved off the stage and then off the school property. Most everything from that far back no longer exists in my (fading) memory banks, but of all things I pretty clearly remember that assistant principal.
Don’t recall other details of this incident at all, other than a lot of booing by the students at Means being ejected. Most of my fellow students were (as I was) anti-Viet Nam War and pro-civil rights (sadly, a large percentage of them are probably Tea Party dipshits now).
We didn’t have school security guards of any kind in those days, so I don’t have any memory of how Means was actually removed from the stage – he was a pretty feisty guy back then (look up Wounded Knee in ’73) so I can’t imagine the fascist assistant principal did it on his own, nor that Means went quietly.
Anyway, IOKIYAR pertains, as always. No way anyone from the left could ever get away with what the fascists get away with all the time, like these assholes at Drunkertown High, aided and abetted by the cowardly school officials. Makes me think of Patrick Swayze in that great movie Donnie Darko.
Oh, and I loved Russell Means in that Curb Your Enthusiasm episode a few seasons back. Fucking hilarious.