No surprise that American children is becoming stupider.

[LynnTheDem]

Education Secretary Demands Removal of Vermont from Nation’s Textbooks

Washington, January 31– Following on her protest last week against a PBS cartoon character’s visit to Vermont, where he encounters a lesbian couple, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced at a press conference today that her department was not engaged in a “trivial” or “merely symbolic” campaign against a children’s television program.

“Buster Bunny is not the problem,” said Spellings. “Though I note with some dismay that Buster travels the country accompanied only by his father because his parents are divorced, and I do not see why our children should be subjected to yet another glamorization of the divorce lifestyle. No, the problem is Vermont itself. It is Vermont to which I object. Christians everywhere should be outraged that it was represented in this children’s program.”

Spellings proceeded to unveil the Department of Education’s proposed map of the “forty-nine God-fearing United States,” with the “territory of Vermont” represented by a lightly shaded area. “Until such time as Vermont sees fit to rejoin the rest of the nation in condemning gay ‘civil unions,’” Spellings said, reading from a prepared statement, “we propose that Vermont be visually expelled from the heterosexual Union. We further propose that the nation’s students be instructed that Vermont is no longer a real state, and that they will not be responsible for remembering its capital, which is not only obscure but French-sounding as well.”

http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/education_secretary_demands_removal_of_vermont_from_nations_textbooks/

*satire!

[Cha]

1. Right! Look at who the

president is!

[SmileyBoy]

2. This is satire, right???

This really has to be satire. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, tell me this isn't real.

If this isn't satire, I probably should just pack all my shit and head to Canada right now.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

3. I think it is.

Read the last paragraph.

[SmileyBoy]

5. Thank GOD.

That was almost as bad as that fake story someone showed me about a year ago of a large asteroid expected to collide with the earth in a period of 9 days. I had to take Xanax for a week after that.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Satire except for 1 quote

Sorry! You can unpack for now. :D

[zmdem]

6. Normally I don't complain about good usage

but in this case, please look at your subject line.

[Sinistrous]

7. The subject line could be a play on that infamous bushism:

"Is your children learning?", coupled with an improper comparative ala any number of bush-butcherings of the language.

[zmdem]

8. LOL, I missed that (n/t)

[LynnTheDem]

11. Thanks but my subject line is fine. Or have you not heard the President

of the United States say:

"Is our children learning"?

;)

*By the way, it's "proper" or "correct" usage; not "good" usage. :D

[bookfreak]

9. Are these people smoking crack???

Really, are they?

How could anybody come up with something so asinine and keep a straight face unless they were on drugs or insane?

And why just Vermont? MA has <i>legal gay marriage</i>, not just recognition of civil unions and they weren't on the list to be banned.

The right gets nuttier by the hour....

[hfojvt]

10. Congress has already abolished Vermont

It was New York land illegally sold to New Englanders by the governor of New Hampshire. Congress officially abolished it, but General Washington refused to carry out the order because in the 1780s you did not mess with the Green Mountain boys.