Really. Reaching. If not downright prissy

Post #272,133 by Ashton 11/3/06 9:18:53 PM Reply	Really. Reaching. If not downright prissy So then, for 'rudeness' you lose a job. Period - no details needed. Not surprised; don't want you on my jury, either. Or was it an "expression of disapproval of the performance of a politician, while he is actively soliciting votes, at a time nearing polling?" Where lies the First Amendment, amidst the debris of so many others? That linked brief summary is so stark, the conclusion you leaped-to is about >you< - not about any of the circumstances which you know nothing of: Imagining that a gesture [was it momentary? or sustained for 5 city blocks?] is "endangering" your progeny! implying that both hands must steer 100% of the time: I'll bet YOU don't have both hands on your steering wheel 100% of the time the car is moving. And I'll bet that when you remove one to pick your nose: the car [hasn't crashed yet or we'd have heard.] Just pure Authoritarian sophistry of the control-freak kind - to imagine.. that her gesture endangered anyone, or that these '06 kids were :-0 SHOCKED..! SHOCKED..! SHOCKED..! Oh, the HORROR (I'm sure they don't see any dead Iraqi kids on their tube, either.) If, in fact - the kids looking at the Prezmobile could even see the gesture (?) But even if they could, it is purest hypocrisy to consider the scale of 'rude gesture to a pol' at the end of his campaign <==> equivalent to any snap-judgment of loss of livelihood. ie I demur. By All Means: Do sit idly by. More often.
Post #272,151 by bepatient 11/3/06 11:39:50 PM Reply	There you go, assuming again. Safety? That was a red herring brought by someone else. It was about behavior and appropriateness. And you, my friend, will be the among those rewarding...proving that no action (as long as it suits you, regardless of timing and placement)...proving to these children that no act comes with consequence and that no person shall be respected if he holds a view somehow different from mine. Fuck everybody. Yep...that will bring everyone to the Valhalla you seek. You see, if my KID points his finger at another kid and goes "bang"...he's suspended. Must be better to be a grown up, huh. You can shout "its my RIGHT" and point YOUR finger and its "an expression of disapproval." Gotta love it. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #272,156 by Ashton 11/4/06 12:52:27 AM Reply	Concur entirely, about the BANG No kid in my charge would be playing with cap-pistols or hyper-realistic AK-47s with notches and fake blood spatters: either. Or listening to Kill-the-Bitch CDs, or.. But the medial digit has become as common an expression as, "so's yer old man". Now, if you had 900 mSec to indicate to a passing glad-handing pol, your disapproval (of his platform? himself? whatever), as I see it you have two universal options: 1) Thumbs down. 2) Middle finger up. Both the Pres and the Veep appear to make liberal use of #2, while you'd think that the refined folks in positions of Power.. might opt for the former, wouldn't ya? See what happens when the Top is as corrupt as this particular assortment? They reinforce the tawdriness of the unwashed masses. (Personally my choice would have been: to take Both Hands off the wheel and position my fingers in a Cross.. while Shrub wouldn't get it, maybe someone else in the car would. Might even decipher ~~ blood-sucker and -spiller! if imaginitive. OK forget that last.) I see your point about the cheelrun and about a patina of civility to delay the warping of their malleable jelloware.. for a little while. So I'd say to the frustrated driver with a busload of kids waving at the bling-bling aspect of Celebrity: "This gave bad impressions to your charges; impressions of adult contempt for a putatively contemptible figurehead. You should have stifled that natural urge. You're docked x-days and get a reprimand." I hope the union prevails. Loss of employment demands a more severe rudeness than this common digi-signal IMO. And one needn't be an anarchist to turn the other cheek, as some ancient guy used to say to an earlier flock of sheep. (But then his messages got passed through corp HR and committes) and, well - today we gots Prezs and Veeps who swear.. by the guy They Say, but still Lie A Lot, in between finger raisings. And invitations to an unnatural act, in the latter case. So then.. ya want this driver should do better than The Rulers.. or starve next? Guess I need to send you my Gooder Book.
Post #272,182 by Simon_Jester 11/4/06 12:20:52 PM Reply	curious again... didn't you bring up safety? In fact, didn't you argue that it was the bus driver's drive to teach...and that was her most important function?
Post #272,198 by bepatient 11/4/06 2:41:18 PM Reply	Re: curious again... and while not teaching a subject, it is my expectation that all representatives of the school to conduct themselves appropriately in front of my children. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}

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