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Sesame Street Muppet Pitches Government Dependence: Free Food at School
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Posted on 12/09/2011 10:51:59 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: Buckeye McFrog

My mother used to put us to bed early. I would be in bed and the trumpet charge announcing F-Troop would play. Me and my sister are still laughing at 8:00. They’d be telling us to go to sleep. Who can sleep with the cannon knocking the tower over?


21 posted on 12/09/2011 11:35:54 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

My mother used to put us to bed early. I would be in bed and the trumpet charge announcing F-Troop would play. Me and my sister are still laughing at 8:00. They’d be telling us to go to sleep. Who can sleep with the cannon knocking the tower over?


22 posted on 12/09/2011 11:36:08 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sub-Driver

Television is all about teaching children the correct ‘Worldview”.

The sodomites and Marxists now have complete control over MSM. They don’t even try to HIDE their propaganda anymore-—public schools have created stupid parents through behaviorism and propaganda and lies (Heather has two mommies).

Your children—if they watch their programing—will be indoctrinated. Their perceptions and ideas are imbedded permanently—and to change their perceptions later with reason and logic and even biological facts-—will be nearly impossible.

Cultural Marxists call is cognitive dissonance and it removes rational thinking and conditions people into a Skinnerean One Way to respond—that Marxist way. Homeschool and destroy the TV. Preview programs before your children absorb their sick messages which destroy reason.


23 posted on 12/09/2011 11:38:49 AM PST by savagesusie
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To: massgopguy

Get Smart and Gomer Pyle, USMC were also popular in our house (though I am now ashamed to admit I was probably 7 or 8 before I realized that US Marines actually did things besides raking gravel and entering singing contests)


24 posted on 12/09/2011 11:42:35 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sub-Driver

Which Muppet is it? Miss Piggy? Gotta get everyone on the public teet. God forbid that anyone support themselves.


25 posted on 12/09/2011 11:42:50 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: PGR88

It is good to know that there was one other young person in the 70s besides myself that didn’t like Sesame Street.


26 posted on 12/09/2011 11:42:50 AM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

WWW, Perry Mason, Kojak, Barnaby Jones, Quincy, and Rockford were my preferred kid TV shows.

I also picked up on Brit TV at a very young age too. The Goodies, Reggie Perrin, Monty Python, and Fawlty Towers were probably a big influence too.


27 posted on 12/09/2011 11:46:13 AM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: wally_bert

Yep. Loved Fawlty Towers and Monty Python, along with Canadian import SCTV. My mom was NOT a fan of the edgy, scatalogical humor we saw on Monty Python.


28 posted on 12/09/2011 11:54:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: wally_bert
It is good to know that there was one other young person in the 70s besides myself that didn’t like Sesame Street.

No one I knew actually liked it! I think most kids (and parents) never thought about it, and simply assumed it must be popular if it was on TV.

Hell - it's PBS after all, so it was just bland, Politically-correct pap that the educrats assumed would be helpful in forming young minds. The same thinking applies most PBS programming anyway.

29 posted on 12/09/2011 12:00:06 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Sub-Driver

Big Brother is not always an angry large man stomping on your face with a boot.

Sometimes Big Brother is a brainwashing muppet.

Sesame Street: Your Big Brother since 1970.


30 posted on 12/09/2011 12:13:42 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: edpc

It’s too bad that the only thing kids get at school these days is free food


31 posted on 12/09/2011 12:14:33 PM PST by molson209
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To: RightGeek

Depending where they live, the kid also may get after schools snacks, and possibly dinner too.


32 posted on 12/09/2011 12:15:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Yardstick
“And is Lily obese?

It would be interesting to know how many of those classified as food insecure are also overweight.”

I thought all muppets were stuffed.

33 posted on 12/09/2011 12:17:06 PM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: ctdonath2

Thank you for that post about your blog. I have been wanting to do an experiment on my blog about the kinds of food people ate in the 50-70 years ago, when people were in better shape. Not the same as your blog, but it is for the same reason. Always looking for cheap and nutritious ways to feed the family.


34 posted on 12/09/2011 12:23:53 PM PST by HungarianGypsy
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Every week night, my children can be found watching the old tv reruns on METV. Saturday nights it's British comedy reruns. Least they stopped watching the Lawrence Welk Show. I swear I am raising little old men and an old lady, if you judged by their viewing habits. Not to mention the science, Bob Villa, and cooking shows. All their own ideas.

When someone makes an old tv reference they get it and are confused that other kids don't.

35 posted on 12/09/2011 12:29:05 PM PST by HungarianGypsy
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To: HungarianGypsy

Link?


36 posted on 12/09/2011 12:43:09 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Sub-Driver
“Sometimes we can't always afford to buy all the food that we need,” Lily said.

Get Lily some food--so she can learn some English!

37 posted on 12/09/2011 12:56:47 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
For a real treat you have to get the DVD of "Classic Sesame Street" from Netflix. It is SO different from today. In fact it shows really irresponsible things, like a little girl meeting Gordon on the street, and Gordon takes her home, for "milk and cookies". They also show a clip of children playing all over an unattended construction site.

The DVD has a disclaimer at the beginning saying: "This program is for historical purposes only." Still brought back a lot of great memories. I didn't know Oscar was orange originally.

38 posted on 12/09/2011 1:08:56 PM PST by boop (I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. ...Ernest Borgnine)
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To: ctdonath2

Http://thecompostheap.wordpress.com Just started the idea. Going to research more next week. Not as easy as I first thought.


39 posted on 12/09/2011 1:12:56 PM PST by HungarianGypsy
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To: ctdonath2

Http://thecompostheap.wordpress.com Just started the idea. Going to research more next week. Not as easy as I first thought.


40 posted on 12/09/2011 1:13:08 PM PST by HungarianGypsy
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