...a uniformed police officer had informed 20 classrooms that several students had been killed in car crashes over the weekend...Should they be hit with exercises like this when they are younger? It would really leave a good mental scar--I mean, impression. What other illegal/immoral activities could we discourage in this way? Extra points for inducing massive emotional trauma in children.
After hours of students' hysteria and uncontrollable weeping in the hallways, chaos broke out after officials revealed that the deaths were all staged. "They were traumatized, but we wanted them to be traumatized," a guidance counselor who organized the exercise told the Associated Press, "That's how they get the message."
(continued at Alternet.)
Cross-posted at the ACLU Blog of Rights.
It’s way better than the old plan our founding fathers set us up with. (You know, the one where warrantless spying wasn’t permitted.)
The FISA Retroactive Immunity Package gives you a sleek new phone, all the free minutes you need and the flexibility the government needs to get around your Fourth Amendment rights. Best of all—NO ROAMING CHARGES, even if you are sent to Gitmo!
One funny thing I heard was Mike Lester's response to people who ask him why he never draws positive cartoons: "Those are called greeting cards."
"There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American."Grover Norquist:
"John Kerry with a tan."
"Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards."
