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The First Modern Terrorist Group

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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.

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OK

Very Easily.

OK

Very Easily.