Posted on 09/02/2009 6:10:12 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
There's quite a buzz going around about Tuesday, September 8th.
That's the day President Obama will address PreK-12 students via televisions and screens in public school classrooms, auditoriums, and 'cafetoriums' across the nation. This is a feat never before attempted by a sitting president.
Reactions are mixed, no doubt in part because our nation is politically polarized. While some parents think it is a good idea for the president to reach out to school kids, others disagree. Why? Many prefer to be the gate-keeper of social and spiritual influences and want politics and religion kept out of schools.
Some parents view the president's move as over-reaching and suspect that propaganda will be forced on a young, impressionable, captive audience. Many of these concerned parents are rallying to keep their children home on September 8th. There are movements at work to boycott public schools on that Tuesday.
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After oh, age 15 or so, the student’s desires deserve
a hearing. Not necessarily acceptance but a hearing.
On December 16th, 1773, “radicals” from Marlborough, Massachusetts, threw 342 chests of tea from three British East India Company ships into Boston Harbor in protest of oppressive taxation and tyrannical rule. They wrote of their actions, “A free-born people are not required by the religion of Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their ... liberties.” That event, of course, was the Boston Tea Party.
Since you asked, I do have some recordings performing at Gazzarri’s in Hollywood in 1981 and some others. To qualify our progress at the time, I will say that our band practiced about 1 year and a half together before we started doing gigs.
Our playing was just getting real tight, but sometimes we could still get out of tune, sometimes we miss our cues and such. I could post up a couple of clips on Youtube and let you decide if we sounded O.K. I was the “sound engineer” of our band, using high quality home recording equipment where possible. You know, the perfectionist.
Also, we were gigging in and around Downey, CA around the same time that James Hetfield of Metallica was at Downey High School. My brother’s wife went to school with him. I have always wondered if James was any one of our gigs.
Yeah, post em, that’s be cool!
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