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The First Modern Terrorist
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You Mean the sla?
That's right.
the sla.
the symbionese liberation organization.
they're the first modern terrorist
organization.
Was Our Graduate Student's Organization
a terrorist organization ?
No. Our Graduate Student's Organization
was not a terrorist organization.
Our Graduate Student's Orgnization
was a peaceful and APPROPRIATE Organization.
Our Graduate Student is
a very APPROPRIATE person.
He PEACEFULLY sat at a keyboard
and composed Newsletters,
just like Martin Luther King did.
Did He Advocate Violence
In His Writings Or Speech ?
No. Our Graduate Student
did not advocate violence
in his writings or his speech.
Our Graduate Student is civilized.
Like Thoreau, Gandhi, and MLK,
Our Graduate Student
believed in peaceful, nonviolent resistance
to evil and violence.
When the shallow, FAKE, white women's libber
viciously yelled in Our Graduate Student's face,
"White Men Have It Coming To Them !",
the shallow, FAKE, terrorist white women's libber
was making a violent threat.
When the crazy, violent white women's libber
went into a sacramento suburban bank
with a loaded shotgun
and shot and killed a church lady
who was there to make church deposits,
THAT was a crazy, violent, terrorist act !
You get it ?
You get it ?
You get it ?
It was NOT a brilliant, grand, inspiring act.
It was a crazy, violent, terrorist act !
It was a crazy, violent, terrorist act !
It was a crazy, violent, terrorist act !
You get it ?
You get it ?
You get it ?
You get it ?
What's The Matter With You Today, Friend?
teaspoons.
Huh?
teaspoons.
I'm movin' Mount Everest with a teaspoon.
That's what's the matter with me today.
Oh.
I upset because Dr. Ravitch
is GUSHING about this "brilliant, grand, inspiring"
90-plus years white female
who's explaining how Captain Ahab of "Moby Dick"
was the "first modern terrorist."
Why Does That Upset You So Much?
Because Dr. Ravitch is all I had.
I mean, she was the only
sane, intelligent, honest one out there.
I mean, sure, there's Dr. Sowell, the economist.
But he's committed his whole intellectual life
to free market capitalism.
They've given him a home there
at The Hoover Institute.
You know, Friedman and all that.
Now, over the past decade or so
with Enron and Worldcom and Tyco
and the 2008 financial meltdown
and the bailouts for the banks and Madoff
and all the frikkin' golden parachutes
for the executives who ran their corporations
into the ground like flight 95 in pennsylvania,
it's pretty clear that capitalism's BAD
in a lot of ways.
Greed, for want of another word, SUCKS.
Greed is not good.
Greed is bad.
So, other than Dr. Sowell,
Dr. Ravitch was the only one worth reading.
It gave me comfort to know that I wasn't alone.
She was sane, intelligent, and honest,
just like Dr. Sowell...
and me.
And Now ?
And now she's gone crazy !
I just can't take it any more !
I just can't take it !
There's no hope for the world !
The world is just this rock hurling aimlessly
through the infinity of space
going nowhere
off into the cold, dark abyss.
And it's fully of CRAZY people.
CRAAZY people, I tell you !
You ever talk to crazy people ?
It isn't pretty, I'll tell you.
They delight in their lunacy.
They simply delight in it.
They tell the most ridiculous tales and myths,
and then they believe in them.
They believe in their own myths
and they live in this crazy
fantasy world of their own making.
And the crazier and loonier the myth
the happier they are with it
and they more enthusiastic
they and their friends are about it.
I've already gone through this stuff
about liberals and their FAKE MYTHs
in a previous chapter.
What's the use ?
What's the use !?
So, You're Upset Because
Liberals Believe In Their Own FAKE, nonsensical MYTHS ?
No, you fool !
No, that's not it.
I've reconciled myself to that.
I'm not trying to save liberals.
I'm just looking for a patch of sanity
on this crazy rock hurling through the abyss !
Just one square inch !
Just one square millimeter !
Just a POINT even !
Even one dimensionless, unmeasureable, untestable
point of sanity and common sense
on this rock of madness !
THEY'RE DRIVING DR. RAVITCH CRAZY, I TELL YOU !
She's starting to believe their nonsense !
It's hopeless.
It's hopeless !
IT'S HOPELESS !
we're doomed !
DOOMED, I tell you !
DOOMED !
doomed...doo...
All Right, Mr. Scully
It's All Right.
Why Don't You Just Lie Down
And Take A Little Rest.
Then You Can Come Back
And Tell Us All About It,
How Dr. Ravitch Is Dooming The Earth.
Just Take A Little Rest, Mr. Scully.
I Want To Hear ALL About It !
you won't even feel this little needle in your arm...
there, there now. just rest, just rest...
rest...rest...I must rest...
rest...rrrrzzzzzzz...
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Are You Feeling Better Now, Mr. Scully ?
Yes, yes. I'm feeing better.
It was very thoughtful of you
to stick me in the arm like that.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I'm very grateful.
Very.
That's Quite All Right.
That's What We're Here For.
Anything To Make You Happy.
Anything At All.
Well, if you really mean that,
there is just one little thing...
What's That, Mr. Scully ?
Well, if you have any pull with Dr. Ravitch...
If you think you can influence her in any way.
Apparently, she IS rather easily influenced.
I mean, I didn't think so.
I thought she was a diamond
in the vast charcoal bed of humanity.
You know, "among them, but not of them."
That's what I thought.
I mean, I had this dream...this plan...this goal...
this...
This Hope ?
Yes, that's right ! a hope.
A hope, a dream, a plan, a goal...a thought.
Call it what you will.
I thought, "What will I do with the rest of my life?"
Our mental powers stay with us
until we're 90-plus years, you know.
And, if I have a decade or two or more to go,
well, why not keep on fighting for life ?
If they're hell bent on keeping me down,
at least I can keep getting up
and spitting in their faces.
Yes, Yes.
That Sounds Reasonable.
That Sounds Like A Good Life Plan.
Well, I'm glad you like it.
Well, you know,
I've encountered so many nitwits and halfwits
with masters and doctorates,
it's incredible.
You encounter many of them
on the pages of Dr. Ravitch's writings.
You can just see her rolling her eyes
as she reveals their penchant for pedagogical jargon
and their absurd mythologies,
their lack of common sense,
the way they so unreasonably dig in their heels
to some extremist position
like whole word or phonics or whatever.
I love it when she rolls her eyes like that.
She's so beautiful.
I can actually see her rolling her eyes, you know.
She does it between the lines, you see.
But, if you have trained eyes like mine,
you can actually see her eyes go up and dramatically pause
as she sorts of gasps and sucks in a short breath.
Then her eyes slowly and dramatically roll to the right
as she audibly exhales with exasperation
until her eyes get all the way down to the bottom
and then back up.
She gives her reader a knowing look of comradeship,
as of fellow soldiers suffering in battle,
and then a confident wink
and she resumes her work.
It's elegant. It's sheer artistry.
And only the very select and few can see it
I See.
So, Dr. Ravitch Talks To You
When You Read Her Books, Does She ?
Oh, yes !
Yes, of course she does !
But now she's saying crazy things.
Now she's saying that Captain Ahab
was the first modern terrorist.
And I know what that means !
She REALLY means that Bush and Cheney
are the first modern terrorists.
It's all THEIR fault.
Terrorizing all those nice muslims !
That's right.
And the little boat is America.
And Bush and Cheney each are
"determined to sacrifice everyone's life,
including his own,
in pursuit of vengeance."
See, she just doesn't want to be
BFF with Lynne Cheney any more.
See, but the REAL first modern terrorist
was mary jane olson
who blew a Christian lady to bits
in a sacramento suburban bank
and then she said that
the loaded shotgun that she brought into the bank
and pointed at the nice Christian church lady
making church deposits
went off
ACCIDENTALLY
and I guess it's not really HER fault
if the loaded shotgun that she brought into the bank
and pointed at the nice Christian church lady
went off
ACCIDENTALLLY
Probably Bush's fault.
And Cheney's.
They probably owned stock in that gun company
and planned the whole thing
just to get the nice sla in trouble,
just like they did with the Twin Towers,
gettin' all the nice muslims in trouble.
It was Bush and Cheney
what brought them Twin Towers down, you know !
That's a scientific fact !
You know about the melting point of steel !?
Ask Rosie O'Donnell.
She'll tell you !
OK, Mr. Scully.
This is all VERY interesting,
I can assure you.
"This is as wacky a combination
as anyone might dream up," said Dr. Ravitch.
She used to say good stuff like that
before she went crazy
and the liberals got her.
"Something is terribly wrong here."
She used to say stuff like that
and she used to mock the educationists
for their revisionist history.
I already gave you extensive quotes about that
in the last chapter.
Diane used to talk of Lynne Cheney
with a glowing, choice of heroic words,
"Cheney attacked the standards
for their negativism",
"blasted them as politically biased"(Left Back, p. 434)
Now (in DLGAS, p, 18) Diane BLAMES Cheney because
"Cheney RAISED A RUCKUS about the history standards"
and made the subject of standards and curriculum
"radioactive".
(like the 60's radicals, I guess; you know,
mark rudd, bill ayers, the weathermen,
mary jane olson and the
symbionese liberation army.
That's what them radicals were always doin',
RAISIN A RUCKUS)
Why The Fuck Did They Call It
The Symbionese Liberation Army, Anyway ?
Who The Fuck Knows.
They're Just Brats, That's All.
You're wasting your time trying to figure them out.
They're just full of shit. Brats, full of shit.
Like mark rudd (PUT IN QUOTE)
Like bill ayers (PUT IN QUOTE)
Playin' like bonnie and clyde.
Playin' like they're black panthers.
They picked the word "symbionese"
because it SOUNDS cool,
just like the word "critical"
in "critical thinking".
They don't even know what the fuck it means, themselves.
They're just children.
They have the mentality of children,
just like the liberal public school teachers.
Dr. Ravitch ridicules them about that
somewhere in "Left Back", I think.
She cites research that states
that adults won't use words
if they don't know what those words mean,
but children will.
Children will happily, gloriously,
use words even when they don't know what they mean.
Educators are like that, explains Dr. Ravitch
again and again.
They constantly babble nonsense
eduspeak and gobbledygook
just because it SOUNDS cool.
Like "symbionese"
and the "critical"
in "critical thinking?"
That's right.
Like "symbionese"
and the "critical"
in "critical thinking!"
So, Now You're Against Dr. Ravitch ?
And What Was That "One Little Thing"
You Wanted Me To Do For You?
No. I still think she's the best.
I'm just having an intellectual crisis.
And I think she's still working out her's, too.
It's just that a couple of years ago,
when I was blogging about Obama and Me
and ayers and rudd
around the time of the presidential election,
Dr. Ravitch said she'd be my informal advisor
if I got into the NYU Doctoral Program.
Well, I've decided to apply
and to get a Doctorate through NYU
in Education History,
just like Dr. Ravitch.
That's my dream, my plan, my hope,
my goal, my thought.
It's all about my life, you see.
That's why I'm telling this whole story.
It's just that now we're both
going through these intellectual crises.
I mean, I was just very happy
to just bash the hell out of educators.
I think most teachers are idiots,
spoiled, entitled, liberal brats.
I could care less about "traditional"
public education.
That's just one of those loaded words,
like "symbionese" and "critical".
Let charter schools or voucher schools
carry on the traditions worth keeping.
If its the beautiful, traditional buildings
that Dr. Ravitch loves
(and we all do)
what difference does it make
what the financial and administrative structure
of the school is ?
You like the traditional buildings ?
Keep the traditional buildings !
The destruction of public education AS IT IS TODAY
and has been for decades,
is well-deserved.
It's not Betty Crocker and Mrs. Ruby Ratcliff
and Dorothy with the Ruby Red Slippers,
and Opie's and Beaver's teachers we have.
The wicked witches of the West and the East
are sucking the money out of the education corpse
like vampires on a virgin
and training evil, self-esteemed monsters.
There's a doctoral thesis for ya -
follow the education money,
including scandals, unpunished crimes,
and bloated salaries.
Do a content analysis of
"white man bashing" since 1968.
They want diversity of ideas in education ?
They have to have me.
I got limbaugh started.
And, by the "butterfly effect",
I got D'Souza and Ravitch started too.
I'm tired.
Yes, You Are.
Take A Rest And Come Back
And Continue Your Chronological Narrative.
All right.
I'll start out with sac city college.
that sla hideout.
sac city, sac state, uop, subbing, Victory '88
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OK
Very Easily.
OK
Very Easily.