[Texas Eagle]

You know, the more I think about it the more astounded I become that there any children at all who grow up to be Conservatives.

These poor kids are subjected to all sorts of mind-rotting ideas from pre-school to elementary school, to junior high, to senior high, to college and also from the entertainment world, the media establishment and the workplace.

How is it that so many people are able to fight through all that crap and become productive citizens?

[ViLaLuz]

Check out what the anti-family folks are saying about parents' objections to having their kids participate in "Bat Boy"...

April 19, 2005

Bat Boy 1, Focus on the Family 0

Sweet Jesus! I just got an insider update on the Bat Boy situation in La Cañada (see entry below). The Board has officially supported the drama department's decision to put on the play.

Even though, as my source tells me,

Bob Waliszewski showed up.  He is on the staff of Focus on the Family.  He flew in from Colorado Springs to ask the Board to cancel the musical.  He said Dr. James Dobson was horrified when he heard about the musical.

Apparently the drama students at the meeting were quite eloquent in defense of the freak (Bat Boy, not Dobson). God bless the little perverts.

My thanks to drama teacher Gale Caswell, administrators and staff of the school (this time, even the principal is on the side of the angels), the Board, and of course the students. They're all standing up to quite a lot of pressure, and I admire the hell out of them.

UPDATE: Another source who was at the meeting writes:

There was about an hour of public speaking, most on behalf of Bat Boy. Focus on the Family flew in people from Colorado Springs.

At the end, each school board member said a little piece in support of putting on the play as planned. For the most part the speakers on both sides were well spoken and intelligent. The guy from Focus on the Family quoted Keythe Farley saying the play was PG-13 or R-rated but conveniently didn't quote the next paragraph where he explained that the play could be modified to be appropriate for high school.

Normally I'd say it was over but the Focus Folks have a lot of cash behind them and evidently Dobson is "outraged."

To be continued, I'm sure.

 

This is a school board in a conservative area standing up for their students' right not to be treated like babies. As Dan Rather would say, Courage.

From what I gather, the board views this as an issue of academic integrity, and they're right.

10:59 PM

"Bat Boy"

[Puppage]

My niece & nephew in California were go to see Annie Get Your Gun, until my sister n law saw that there was to be no gun, and many of the songs were banned.

Songs like You Can't Get A Man With A Gun, too scarry

I'm An Indian Too It's Native American now, ya see.

How have I lived to 43 without the PC fanatics help??

[Richard Kimball]

It was a liberal prof at the University of Texas, Janet Boettner, who turned me into a conservative. She was teaching Introduction to Government, and spent the entire semester ranting about a 1950's Oklahoma civil rights case. She totally ignored the syllabus, and used the entire class session as a screed for her view of the world.

She was the most hateful, foul instructor I ever encountered, including the fire training instructors I encountered (and some of them could be pretty interesting).

I wasn't sure what I believed at the end of the class, but I knew that whatever that hateful old b!tch stood for, I was against it.