Oh, hey! I'm on a roll.
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stoney321I sent in another letter to the editor about school vouchers, and they're printing it tomorrow. \o/ Snark phasers set to HIGH.
Original Letter From An Idiot
Re: "Vouchers are just welfare" by Beverly Rigsy and "PBS vital to democracy" Letters Feb. 14
It never ceases to amaze me that some people think that my taxes should be used to pay for PBS and public schools. But, should I want some of my taxes to pay for private schools or non-liberal TV, it is considered welfare and I am not entitled to it.
Vouchers are a way for me to get some of my tax funds back. I have paid for public schools to propagandize one of my kids and now am trying to limit it on the other.And if PBS is so necessary, it needs to stand on its own or be paid for by the people who want it.
~ [Name of jerkwad, My City]
My response:
[Name of Jerkwad], who despises the "liberal" PBS channel and its programming-- wait. What's liberal about PBS? Is it Masterpiece Theater? NOVA and that hog-wash Nature? Nope, must be Sesame Street, ooooh that's liberal stuff right there! With its letters and feelings and songs! They just let all those puppets PLAY together! And they're not the same color, and you know what I'm talking about there. (Personally, I'm a little iffy on that whole Bert and Ernie living situation.)
This response brought to you by the letters W, T and H.
~signed, my real name
"If PBS is so necessary, it needs to stand on its own, or be paid for by the people who want it." HEY! IT DOES! A small portion of government funding isn't making or breaking it, bub. They provide 15% of the CPB's funding. (Which translates to a larger portion for small towns. You know, where people who don't have a lot of money tend to be, and probably NEED free educational TV.)
Also, Arthur is a show about brown people. And Reading Rainbow? Mmm hmmm. It's all subterfuge for Gay Pride. That's how they getcha! EYE. ROLL.
PEOPLE. It is in YOUR BENEFIT to have an educated populace. As one wise woman said about her son to another woman (and I'll never forget) "I can train him up now, or he can be robbing you in five years."
Original Letter From An Idiot
Re: "Vouchers are just welfare" by Beverly Rigsy and "PBS vital to democracy" Letters Feb. 14
It never ceases to amaze me that some people think that my taxes should be used to pay for PBS and public schools. But, should I want some of my taxes to pay for private schools or non-liberal TV, it is considered welfare and I am not entitled to it.
Vouchers are a way for me to get some of my tax funds back. I have paid for public schools to propagandize one of my kids and now am trying to limit it on the other.And if PBS is so necessary, it needs to stand on its own or be paid for by the people who want it.
~ [Name of jerkwad, My City]
My response:
[Name of Jerkwad], who despises the "liberal" PBS channel and its programming-- wait. What's liberal about PBS? Is it Masterpiece Theater? NOVA and that hog-wash Nature? Nope, must be Sesame Street, ooooh that's liberal stuff right there! With its letters and feelings and songs! They just let all those puppets PLAY together! And they're not the same color, and you know what I'm talking about there. (Personally, I'm a little iffy on that whole Bert and Ernie living situation.)
This response brought to you by the letters W, T and H.
~signed, my real name
"If PBS is so necessary, it needs to stand on its own, or be paid for by the people who want it." HEY! IT DOES! A small portion of government funding isn't making or breaking it, bub. They provide 15% of the CPB's funding. (Which translates to a larger portion for small towns. You know, where people who don't have a lot of money tend to be, and probably NEED free educational TV.)
Also, Arthur is a show about brown people. And Reading Rainbow? Mmm hmmm. It's all subterfuge for Gay Pride. That's how they getcha! EYE. ROLL.
PEOPLE. It is in YOUR BENEFIT to have an educated populace. As one wise woman said about her son to another woman (and I'll never forget) "I can train him up now, or he can be robbing you in five years."
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:18 pm (UTC)You go, girl.
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-23 08:19 pm (UTC)I love you a very whole lot for smacking down the jerkwads.
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-23 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-23 08:23 pm (UTC)Bert is a dirty bastard, and you know it. Hahahahaha. <3
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:24 pm (UTC)Also, I MISSED 30 ROCK LAST NIGHT. I weep. I mourn. I flail.
Also #2, I cracked up at one of the sentences in your last post. GUESS WHICH ONE. Heeeeeee! :DDDD
Also #3, have you seen the pictures of Harry Potter's penis? OH MY LAWD.
Also #4, I'm. . . flummoxed by last night's Office. Awesome, awesome episode, but MAN. ROY. It was that uncomfortable feeling you get sometimes watching Michael but SO MUCH WORSE. *flails*
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:26 pm (UTC)#2: I cannot guess because EVERY SENTENCE WAS A GEM. Hahaha.
#3: !
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!!!!!! LINK ME NOW NOW NOW NOW!!
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:27 pm (UTC)"PEOPLE. It is in YOUR BENEFIT to have an educated populace." Word.
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:29 pm (UTC)Make them go away. Or remind them again that public school is free for everyone, supported by The People. The People are then given the choice of taking advantage of that public school or finding the funds for private. That is not liberal bias holy god!
Seriously. Make the stupid people go away?
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:31 pm (UTC)And... it's like they've NEVER TURNED THE CHANNEL ON. Oh, wait. *checks numbers for Deal or No Deal* They probably haven't. :(
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-23 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-23 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-23 08:35 pm (UTC)Awww, fat peen! HAHAHAHAHA. <-- going to HELL. In a handbasket.
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:36 pm (UTC)Also, when you get links to DanRad's peen? Link me up, baby!
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:37 pm (UTC)*cries and cries*
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:38 pm (UTC)Also, if I ever married Harry Potter, that's all I would ever call him. No Daniel Radcliffe, no Dan, nothing. Just Harry Potter.
And then I would laugh at his wang.
I need a *facepalm* icon. Woe.
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:40 pm (UTC)I only ruin childhood MUSICALS. Not childhood EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING.
*sings the theme song with tears in my eyes* hahaha.
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-23 08:44 pm (UTC)But, you, you are awesome for working to supply me with UNDERAGED PEEN!
<333333333
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:45 pm (UTC)Thank goodness you're on the case, now that Molly's gone. :( You should write a column, you should. You SHOULD.
::hugs you and misses you::
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:45 pm (UTC)I just do NOT get the anger over having to pay for public schools. So you (not YOU you) aren't having children, okay. You still need to kick in money! Who is going to care for you when you are older? Who will your police force be? Your nurses? Your firemen? Your NEIGHBORS? I just have never gotten this argument.
Vouchers are simply a way for rich white people to pull their kids out of schools filled with brown kids and have the govt pay for private school, PERIOD. I'm a HUGE fan of Head Start and after school programs, too.
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:46 pm (UTC)Hi, sweetheart! I've been all germy lately, so be sure to wash your hands after hugging me. :D
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Date: 2007-02-23 08:47 pm (UTC)This really really REALLY wrong fic.