[OT] And you thought Ted Kennedy's Children's book was bad.

[Squeaky Bunny]

Sometimes I wonder what is worse, the enemies without or the ones within.

[SolidusRaccoon]

"Mommy, why do you take half my paper route money and give it to the kid next door who sits on his butt and watches TV all day?"

"Why can't I ride in the car with Uncle Teddy?"

[The JAM]

Now that was just................................drat, can't think of the word.

[LoneWolf23k]

*looks at the sample pages from the website*

"Democrats make sure we're always safe, like Mommy does."

...Notice how, in the illustration, what Mommy protects her kids from is an elephant..


...Because, as we all know, the only real threat to people in this country are the EEEEEEVVVIIIIIILLL Republicans....

[IronFox]

*looks at the sample pages from the website*

"Democrats make sure we're always safe, like Mommy does."

...Notice how, in the illustration, what Mommy protects her kids from is an elephant..


...Because, as we all know, the only real threat to people in this country are the EEEEEEVVVIIIIIILLL Republicans....

Curse them and their economic know-how!

[Sun tzu]

Ugh. I'm a liberal, and I still think it's sick.

[Squeaky Bunny]

*looks at the sample pages from the website*

"Democrats make sure we're always safe, like Mommy does."

...Notice how, in the illustration, what Mommy protects her kids from is an elephant..


...Because, as we all know, the only real threat to people in this country are the EEEEEEVVVIIIIIILLL Republicans....

Curse them and their economic know-how!

Did you also notice that there is the same urban outdoorsman in every picture? And the portrayal of Republicans as rich, cigar smoking, snobs?

[Calbeck]

Wow. Just...wow. I remember when the NRA came out with their "Eddie Eagle" program, instantly attacked as propaganda mean to "train kids to kill" (in fact, it taught them to be safe around guns, including "don't touch, tell an adult").

This is far worse than anything Eddie Eagle was ever accused off. It veritably reeks of Pavlov.

[IronFox]

I was at the California Republican Convention this last weekend, and I ran across this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0976726 ... eader-page

I found it highly amusing, but the reasons I didn't buy it were
a) I don't have children
b) I'd already spent most of my money on amusing bumper stickers and a no trespassing sign.

[Squeaky Bunny]

I was at the California Republican Convention this last weekend, and I ran across this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0976726 ... eader-page

I found it highly amusing, but the reasons I didn't buy it were
a) I don't have children
b) I'd already spent most of my money on amusing bumper stickers and a no trespassing sign.

I was hoping this was done purely as a tongue-in-cheek satire, but the endorsements bother me a bit. Using children's books for indoctrination purposes really disgusts me, no matter whose side is doing it.

[IronFox]

I was hoping this was done purely as a tongue-in-cheek satire, but the endorsements bother me a bit. Using children's books for indoctrination purposes really disgusts me, no matter whose side is doing it.

I only read the first few pages, but from the look of it, it seemed to be an explanation of how lower taxes=economic prosperity.

[Rangers]

"Democrats give me little pills to keep me from making too much noise, just like Mommy does."

"Democrats treat all my things as if they belong to them, just like Mommy does."

This is a fun game!

[Tbolt]

Perhaps in the interest of fairness / equal time we could round this out to a trilogy:

Why Daddy is a Republican:

"Because daddy thinks I should be responsible for my actions"

(What kind of picture could we draw here? I can think of several things from meaningful to downright despicable)

"Because daddy thinks that we should be able to work for our living"

(cheap shot, I'll admit...)


And to round it out:


Why Uncle Frobert is a Libertarian:

"Because the Magic Mushrooms can make everyone happy!"

(OK, I'll admit that was probably uncalled for )

[Wanderwolf]

Wow. Just...wow. I remember when the NRA came out with their "Eddie Eagle" program, instantly attacked as propaganda mean to "train kids to kill" (in fact, it taught them to be safe around guns, including "don't touch, tell an adult").

This is far worse than anything Eddie Eagle was ever accused off. It veritably reeks of Pavlov.

More like Julius Streicher, actually:

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/fuchs.htm

There, I've satisfied Godwin's Law.:>

[T.s.a.o]

on the beginning link I got:







so what was it about?

[Squeaky Bunny]

Nazi anti-semitic children's propaganda. Very blatant and repeatative.

[T.s.a.o]

oh, nevermind
btw,
has anyone heard of 'The Giver?' Some radio broadcast menioned I think it was this title as a children's book promoting euthnasia..it was around the time 'Millioin Dollar Baby' came out...so will there be a childrens book to anticipate after the releasing of 'brokeback mountain' now?

[IronFox]

oh, nevermind
btw,
has anyone heard of 'The Giver?' Some radio broadcast menioned I think it was this title as a children's book promoting euthnasia..it was around the time 'Millioin Dollar Baby' came out...so will there be a childrens book to anticipate after the releasing of 'brokeback mountain' now?

It's a pretty old book, I remember reading it in middle school. Basically, the way society works in this book is that at high school, people are set into different professions (pilot, birth mother, teacher, doctor etc), children aren't raised with their biological parents, etc.
In the society, people are euthanized for the following things (if I recall correctly):
1) if you're fired from your job (i.e., removed from your place in society)
2) if someone is too old (about 75)
3) terminally ill
4) if twins are born, the smaller of the two will be euthanized.

[T.s.a.o]

Um, this is before Japan sent to us their cartoons in bulk?

[Wanderwolf]

Nazi anti-semitic children's propaganda. Very blatant and repeatative.

Absolutely right, and I apologize for not giving more warning. Julius Streicher was one of the Nazi propaganda machine's most prolific writers. (Thus the "Godwin's Law" comment... Godwin's Law states:

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

I was wrong to think that constituted a fair warning, and can only plead sleep deprivation as a defense.)

Yours apologetically,

The errant,

Wanderer