This is what a high school education gets you nowadays. And to think: it’s likely these two particular drones-in-training were part of a private school class helmed by an academic leftist that was dragged into the middle of a TB-infested Occupy Denver movement so disorganized and scattershot in its message that its leadership decided to protest at least 2 times a conference on new media whose message it is to promote free and competitive speech.
In short, an the students were being coached to protest an anti-indoctrination conference.
“What do you think we learn in school?” That to be edgy and hip, you have to promote the destruction of your own liberties and the unchecked growth of a Leviathan nanny state. That protest for protest’s sake is some sort of political involvement — even if you don’t have any idea what you’re protesting for or who you are really protesting against. That the educational system in this country — even in the private academies — has been overrun by leftists in their long march through the institutions, the fruit of which is seen in these two earnest but confused children: they are marching for crony capitalism, for regulations that prevent energy production, for a bureaucratic state that is stifling job creation and driving away business and commerce; they are protesting those who wish to protect their very freedoms and who champion individual autonomy of the mob rule mentality that chants “this is what democracy looks like” without once recognizing the irony that yes, democracy is precisely mob rule — which is why we live in a republic and are endowed with unalienable rights that no mob, be it them or the government, can take away.
It’s easy to say that our teachers are failing the children. But the truth is, these two kids recognize a success, from the perspective of the leftists whose job it to indoctrinate and embitter.
All quite so sad — and all quite so neatly illustrated in a few choice phrases spouted at an organized criminal trespass.
Catholic school has sunk awfully low in the last few decades.
Effing futurefuckers.
Wait, did you hear that from their leader? Might have been a rogue op.
OMG. Like…you guys are like.. fucking up our future for realz.
Whateverrr. I’m outie
This is the specific mold into which this particular bint is stuffing these particular young minds:
The little girl on the right .. the one that acts like a escapee from Village of the Damned, busy taking video, then decides she doesn’t want to be filmed and tries to stick her hand over your camera …
Real courage of your “convictions”, chicky-poo.
Sometimes I think how surprised little girls like these will be when, or if, they ever encounter the genuine richness of thought laying underneath all that they scorn, and how angry they’ll be then, thinking to themselves why it was no-one offered to show that richness to them. And then I laugh in sadness.
“Economic Inequality and its Consequences”
QED…as to trash…but converted to productive compost by a good mulcher! Anyone need an old Gatling Gun?
There’s a feedback form at St. Mary’s of Denver (they’ve no Twitter account) that one could use to leave, you know, feedback. It’s probably open to non-Catholics, since I was able to do so without any problems (hell, St. Mary’s is probably run by non-Catholics…and really, how many real Catholics are left in Denver anyways, if they would send their children to this school without vetting it first?).
@3…that’s one of the best rogue Twitter accounts I’ve ever seen. Hilarity! I wonder who’s running it?
I also went to private Catholic school. When we had days off in high school they handed out a list of the senior citizens or disabled in the church who could use a hand around their house. It was fully expected that you’d organize amongst yourselves to figure out what needed doing. I remember taking pride in it. As in, they recognize I’m a man now and can be useful in the manly arts of cutting down tree limbs or cleaning gutters.
At lunch periods during the winter from the age of about 12 onwards boys were expected to go out and shovel snow. Again, we took pride in this. They don’t ask the useless 5th graders to do this, do they?
Maybe they should poll the parishioners who could use a hand at St. Mary’s and ask them who’s fucking up the future.
Just looking around their website, you’d have no idea that it’s a Catholic school aside from the name. Their sole preoccupation seems to be diversity.
Me, I’m wondering where the Sunday NFL predictions open thread is, because I’m absolutely certain that my Oakland Raiders will defeat the San Diego Chargers, and I want to get tat one posted before the games start. Heck, I’ll even go out on a limb and predict the final score, 24-17.
You know, I have no problem at all with these girls being brought to this kind of protest. None. Provided their parents gave permission, and all. I mean, how else are they supposed to see what democracy looks like?
But it appears they’ve formed some really stupid conclusions rather early in the process. Someone should really point that out.
One does wonder just what this school is teaching the students about their own families. Read the course description on Social Justice, on page 10 of the course catalogue.
If the tuition for these young ladies is really $14,000 a year, then they have to come from rather high-income families, the very people whose lifestyles and occupations are being protested and denigrated by the fleabaggers.
bh wrote:
yet your gravatar is of a little kitten . . . . :)
bh is man enough to have the kitten as his avatar. Also, I think he brought it back by popular request.
I, too, went to a Catholic HS..and service like this was actually a requirement. I was dreading my first assignment which basically all it was for us to go to a school for physically handicapped kids and help the staff help the kids move around. In all seriousness, I loved it. Being the genius that I was, I was actually surprised that there were kids my own age. I made some long-lasting friendships.
My HS was Jesuit, so we did get the requisite lecturing about the awesomeness of Liberation Theology which was the rage at the time.
They were only programmed with one side of the argument; I’ll warrant Ms. Celia Bard had no kind words for the opposition’s take on matters. If she even addressed the opposition at all.
Btw, I’m certain that if any of us were videotaped dropping f-bombs and disrespecting adults we would have been suspended. If we mentioned this was what we learned in school? Expulsion.
I’m not kidding. It was constantly drummed into our heads. While in public, you’re representing this church and school. Simply not referring to adults as Sir or Ma’am would have warranted an hour long lecture.
From the girl’s school catalog:
Wot?
This cultural turd is a flabby turd, yet a proud flabby turd.
And:
Historicism made moronic. Yet these are the grounds upon which all else will follow.
That kitten is teh bombardier.
Could be much worse; he could’ve selected something wild and furry. )
I bet they’ll add a “what happens when your teacher and you are caught on Youtube?” component to next year’s syllabus.
Ms. Bard, like most teachers, is just passing on what ed schools programmed her to. I mean, students are vulnerable to what their teachers plant in their heads because they’re young and naive, just as aspiring teachers are vulnerable to what ed schools plant in their heads because they’re flipping morons. Let’s be honest, most teachers are stupid. They’re only nominally white collar in any meaningful sense, and anyone who has had the bad fortune to spend years hanging out on a beach where they summer by the hundreds knows that overhearing their discussions is enough to make you want to go into the ocean and drown yourself.
Asked if she would take her students to a TEA Party event, she said she’d “consider it.”
I took that course in HS!
Of course, we then called it ‘advertising’.
That “kitten” is CEILING CAT.
Though why bh would be watching me do that is best left for him to explain…
From further down the catalog, filed under US Government and Politics:
Heh, it is a little kitten of strange and scary abilities though, Dana.
Yeah, I had some similar experiences, beedubya. It was all upside. There was one guy who I used to help out after he ruined his back who ended up tutoring me in math (this was before there was an AP program). First guy who suggested I look into what eventually became my career. Kept in touch with him until he died a couple years ago.
And we will do that by protesting against those most adamant about shrinking the size and scope of government so that it can’t harass us — those whose entire movement is dedicated to breaking the attempted socialist takeover of the US so that we are all given an equal opportunity to decide the course of our own lives.
Haters.
If I were a (no doubt wealthy) parent of a child attending that school I’d make arrangements to send her elsewhere post haste, and until that occurred I’d secure all sharp implements before retiring for the night.
And here I thought it was the Kentucky Fried Kitten mascot.
Spot on Abe, though we ought perhaps to consider the political analog. Most politicians are morons too, but they may be fortunate enough — in admittedly rare instances — to work within wise Constitutional confines designed by non-moronic lawgivers. Colleges and Universities might think on the lessons to be had there.
Girls, you’ve got a long way to go before you become Nancy Pelosi clones, maybe about 3 more years of AP Presbyophrenia and some blink twitter = haut!
“A mental condition often seen in old age, consisting of defective memory, loss of sense of location, and confabulation.” Then there’s the old bod.. But, fwiw, girls, I’d prefer heavy drinking = rad!
I’d go easy on these young ones, personally. They’ve plenty of time to realize the error of their ways, after all. As opposed to, oh, Teddy Kennedy.
Probably they haven’t learned about Mao and Stalin yet. Or Pol Pot.
That the objective of Socialism is to impose a mechanism that can effect socialism, which as a bonus feature can get those at the top of the power structure of said mechanism pretty much anything they want. Including: young, relatively untainted girls!
The pretty girl with a fat annoying friend by her side is bringing back all kinds of memories.
Ha!
“The teach you at school that bloggers are fucking up your future?” was fucking brilliant, Jeff. They should spend the next week, at least, pondering that one. There should be an essay assigned.
Which girl was fat, Abe? I thought the short blonde next to the taller brunette looked decently proportioned.
“Socialistic constructionism” and, btw Gyrlies, Hear me roar!
You know which one would end up drinking all your strawberry wine-coolers and puking in your car.
As long as it leads to apology sex, bh.
Speaking purely hypothetically, I mean
Don’t get technical, slart. “Fat chick” is shorthand for undesirables who cling to desirables in social settings. She hasn’t had her “freshman 15” yet, but she’s a viable prospect.
guinspen, stop criticizing Chinese food restaurants!
But my ’83 Datsun will still smell like fruity lip balm and bile for a couple weeks, Slart. That’s no fun.
I miss that car.
oops, didn’t see Start’s #36. But still trying to assist the sickly nubiles:
Apparently lacking even a Head Start, Gyrlies, first you’ll have to learn to echo more complicated segments of noises, like “learn we much” then maybe, “fire bad…food good”?
Slart, Slart, Slart
Socialism is not what democracy looks like.
Mostly because not everyone wants to be a socialist. So they must be forced.
Ahhh, I had the ’78; with the 5-speed and fruity lip-balm – bile extraction devices as standard equipment.
But no A/C, dammit.
Completely OT, this tickled my funny bone.
Speaking purely hypothetically, I mean
And, you know, back in the day when we weren’t old enough to be her father’s boss…
I had an ’82 310. Best go-kart ever. I loved that car. 300K+ miles before I just got tired of dicking around with little stuff, and it still ran like a champ.
Keeping these girls down is simply what their school does. The thought of liberating them must be too scary. The wonder is, are the teachers acting from malice, or kindness? But either way, it’s fucked up.
(Wow, while both having fine days, first McGahee goes down, then Moreno. Broncs can’t catch a break.)
Heh, my first car was a CJ with the Dauntless V6. No safety glass, and the gas tank was in the passenger compartment under the driver’s seat. Puke was never much of an issue.
I wish I never sold it.
Well, duh. You had fun dancing all night though, right?
Celia Bard needs to be fired from St. Mary’s. But that only happens if the parents complain.
Oh, I’d imagine Basement Cat has ol’ Teddy and he’s learned the error of his ways. Too late, but he’s learned.
Oh yes, please resist. Please. ‘Cause the police can call in reenforcements faster than you can, ya silly twat, and by now they’re probably fed right up to here with your bullshit.
And here I thought it was the Kentucky Fried Kitten mascot.
Father: “What’s our little skeptic doing today?”
Mother: “She’s frying the cat, in pure Nesson oil.”
General Assembly now: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mpapaya
I gotta pop some corn.
First order of business: Acknowledging what a great victory they had last night and how they changed the world. Not as much as the Portland PD changed their world this morning, but still…
It’s good to see the Portland people have learned to eschew the human microphone, so they don’t have to look purposely retarded, but only accidentally retarded, owing to their miseducation, which we can justly blame on other causes than themselves.
Second point: Forming an Operations Committee. Target: achieve normalization.
Advice: Good luck with that. Start with a shower and some clean clothes.
oops, spoke to soon I see. heh
You had to say it, didn’t you, sdferr? They’re now repeating the guy with the bullhorn. Oy.
The horses approached slowly.
Oh, god this is funny.
They apparently have never heard the old “Won the battle but lost the war” saw, aside from their rather odd view of victory.
Jonah Goldberg had a great related take:
What happens when they get wind of the action of the Lysistrata?
Oooh! They’ve got one treed!
But they’re peaceful!
http://occupyportland.org/livestreammedia/
This one’s still working. Arrests may be imminent.
I was once smoking a cigarette on the sidewalk in front of the Portland City Municipal offices while a friend was inside obtaining a building permit. A disembodied voice boomed out, “You cannot smoke there! It’s against the law. Move on!” Turned out to be some guard dude watching me from the lobby. First and last time that ever happened to me.
The other one is back up. They’re clearing the last tents, but she’s getting run off.
Man, the Bills don’t seem capable of doing anything right today.
The Titans seem to have overcome the Panthers quite handily. At 5-4, they are well on their way to their usual 8-8 finish.
I still maintain that this was a trial run. Destined to be shut down by cold weather if the police didn’t do it. Come the warmth of Spring and the hot Summer of the conventions these locusts will be back and the “leaders” will be full of new tactics having spent the winter hashing over the events of this Fall.
She doesn’t want impact weapons. Smart girl. Will she go where they won’t be used? Stay tuned to find out! ha.
Not quite shut down yet.
Shit, that’s funny.
I think tear gas, flashbangs and pepper spray are on today’s menu.
It’s really hard to resist fantasies about screwing with these people. You know, rolling bags full of marbles a la Animal House sort of mischief.
Nope. Lots of posing…and lots of backing up. Beating a victorious retreat as it were.
Oooh! Maya says “I’ve gotta figure out how to get back to tree guy.”
Please do!
You mean I can’t order a la carte?
The Livestream video just hit 4400 viewers.
This is cool. If we couldn’t watch Rachel Corrie get pancaked, this is the next best thing.
Heh. “So. If you don’t have a gas mask, and you don’t like the smell of pepper, it might be a good time to vacate.” Don’t know if that was a cop or not…
“The whole world is watching!”
But how many of us are seeing comedy?
I know I’m watching. Never wished I was a cop before.
Worst. Invitation. Ever.
If this is what the revolution looks like, I think I’m going to rearrange my sock drawer.
Aw. Maya’s battery is dead. The Tale of Tree Guy will have to wait. Meanwhile, the ABC affiliate is running a stream.
Found a better (less choppy) stream from Twitter.
Here.
The revolution will not be twitstreamed.
I saw an actual black person in the crowd!
Did you see the guy carrying a rooster? ABC feed, front row, far right side, facing down a cop.
Did you see the guy carrying a rooster?
Perhaps he’d just been cock slapped.
“that’s the law, this is our right” ??? And?
Okay. These people crack me up.
Perhaps he’d just been cock slapped.
shoot … drink warning, ok, SW??!!!
[bhwahaha]
geez … such BRAVE people with kerchiefs and masks over their faces …
Did you see the guy with a flower? You can’t stick a flower in the barrel of a billy club.
Note that “the whole world is watching,” and it took until just now for one of their chants to be about something other than themselves.
This revolution is crap. I’m going to bed. If anything happens, record it for posterity.
I guess it is true, Portland is full of losers and strippers. Too bad the strippers didn’t show up.
Portland is a San Francisco wannabe. Fortunately, the circus doesn’t come to town everyday.
Poor Owwies don’t even know how to address one another without insult. Some skilz.
It sort of reminds me of scenes in “Soylent Green”. I guess Portland is short on snowplows and front loaders.
A tent in the street? Occupy The Middle Of The Road!
What ever happened to water cannons? Have they no fire hoses?
The newsreaders can’t seem to say enough to express their Owwielove. Not that it’s a surprise. Hugs.
Pablo, I don’t know about you, but cops with tear gas, rubber bullets and full riot gear isn’t exactly my idea of a reason to show up to a protest.
Have the Portland cops raised a hand to deliver a blow the entire weekend? I don’t know, but get the sense from the police that actually raining down on anyone is the last thing they’ll do. The Owwies, in which case, begin to take on the coloration of the Iranian regime “confronted” by the Obama administration, spending most of their time laughing up their sleeves.
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You know, this stuff really is the equivalent of a Penn State game day for these weirdos.
Can someone tell me how an NFL team can hold another to just two completions all day, and still lose?
I guess that someone forgot to tell the Chiefs that signing Matt Cassel didn’t include the rest of the Patriots.
Because…TEBOW~! (You’ll never get rid of him now, Broncos fans!)
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I spent the whole weekend up to my ears in grout so I am just seeing this video —
The part where I felt truly embarrassed for those dumb kids was when the chubby blond college student yelled “I go to university so F*** YOU!”, flipping the bird, and then saying “you’re bloggers for f**** sake”
That’s where I thought.. Oh dear. That poor girl likely has zero useful skills, and has probably never done any real charity work, either. Every good parent I know would be mortified if their idiot kid behaved like that in public.
bachmann can now trash boner. speaker bachmann 2013.
#16 Dana 11/13 @ 10:15 am
commenting that bh’s “gravatar is of a little kitten”
= = = =
You don’t recognize “ceiling cat”? (You must not be familiar with the lolcats at “http://icanhascheezburger.com/”)
“… how to pressure the American political system in an effort to change the rules so that they work better for all of us…”
This is sophomoric beyond words. First you have to KNOW the rules. The left skips that part. It’s the same way they concocted “new math” and “whole language” curricula that threw out millenia of organically evolved ways of learning and expected the students to figure it out for themselves.
One is embarrassed for that trying-so-hard-to-be-hip Catholic school in Denver.
Stick to the basics. I can’t see that private school producing almost the entire Supreme Court bench as we have today (a significant number are the product of Catholic schools).
Good Morning, Occupy Oakland! Y’all have a great day, and be sure to come back when you can’t stay at all. Bye, now!
[…] — And by “observe,” she means have students shout, along with the Occupy Denver group leader (himself very concerned about the precious bodily fluids of Indians and the evils of the Koch Brothers, whom he was told had no connection to the conference), “We! Are! The 99%!” — as well as inform the attendees of the conference that we, who are opponents of big government and controls on speech, are “fucking up their future,” a lesson these kids are being “taught in school”. […]