Posted on 01/08/2010 7:11:54 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
The national census tour rolled into town this week, circus style, and put on quite a show at the biggest high school in Silicon Valley. "I didn't bring any census music," said a professional dancer known as Ja'Niah. "But I think I can do a census dance."
Clad in black tights and leather chaps, she jumped on an outdoor stage at Independence High in East San Jose just after the lunch bell rang Thursday and began to whirl like a go-go girl freed from a nightclub cage. Hundreds of students gathered around Ja'Niah, enjoying her act and mingling with census workers offering brochures, pens and decals. When you have only one shot every 10 years to get America's attention, this is the sort of stuff you do in the tech-savvy, mobile 21st century. The government's $340 million promotional blitz of the 2010 census, called the Portrait of America Road Tour, began this week. Over 100 days, a 46-foot trailer and 12 cargo vans will crisscross the country, racking up more than 150,000 combined miles.
The tour will hit glitzy events, including Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the Super Bowl, and dozens of seemingly ordinary places like Independence High. The Northern California leg started in San Francisco, stopped in San Mateo and visited a Sharks hockey game earlier this week in downtown San Jose.
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Okay, Obama. Tells us some more about restoring fiscal sanity.
Lead up to universal voter registration.
Too bad no one is spending that kind of coin promoting the Constitution.
whirl like a go-go girl
Thats what they will be doing after I tell them just 2 adults live here, now beat it.
Obviously the census is very cool.
Unfortunately, you are wrong.
Every single citizen does NOT know that the census is done every decade. They should, but there is an appalling lack of knowledge about government and history in this country, in both adults and young people.
And, as far as I’m concerned, it’s fine for those people to duck the census. Frankly, and I know this sounds harsh, I don’t want them counted or represented.
It’s going to cost them a little more than 340 million because it’s going to take several “visits” to my home to realize they aren’t getting any more information out of me than the number of people living in my house.
I was at the Sharks game on Wednesday when the Census-mobile showed up to give away all kinds of goodies (pens, canvas bags, bag clips, etc.) to the incoming masses.
Wanted to barf when I heard one of the Censu-clones telling some teenager who looked like a gang-banger wannabe how “important” it was for people especially in his age range to be sure to register. He was spewing some crap about lost revenue to the state if he didn’t get counted. I even heard a comment to nobody in particular how California could LOSE a Congressional seat (horror of horrors!) in the 2010 census.
I know. I think a lot of people are going to be minimally cooperative this year. I understand that.
On another level, I don’t like it. In digging through my genealogy, it’s been a pure delight to read the details of my ancestors’ households as described on census forms from past years. (They aren’t released to the public for 70 years.)
By refusing to cooperate this year, we are denying our descendants that pleasure.
how to complete a census
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XtuPvwBa2U
good one. but i’ve got more than a bobcat hiding behind my door....
I’ve got a cougar named mrs wobbly.
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