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American Idol Outranks Navy: NCIS During Storm Coverage
It seems American Idol even outranks storm coverage here in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area.
While watching the NCIS season finale on the CBS affiliate WUSA Channel 9, the program was interrupted by severe thunderstorm and tornado alert coverage. One cannot argue that this is not important news, but I don’t see why a news ticker scrolling across the bottom of the screen could not suffice. Apparently, a modified version of such a warning was sufficient Friday night during the JAG season finale when the picture was shrunk half the size and a weather map placed off to the side.
No doubt as a result of getting numerous complaints, meteorologist Topper Shutt snapped the show just had to be interrupted pursuant to public safety and FCC licensing requirements and that the popular military crime procedural would be rebroadcast at a later time or date. Channel 7 WJLA with Doug Hill and Channel 4 WRC with Bob Ryan followed suit with the same overkill.
Channel 5 WTTG, the local Fox affiliate, at first did not alter their feed but eventually split the screen with a severe weather icon and a scrolling ticker. However, their regularly scheduled programming did not come to a screeching halt in favor of “the sky is falling and its the end of the world” style coverage.
Guess the management at Channel 5 would rather take their chances with a tornado than incurring the wrath of disgruntled American Idol fans. Given my recent run-ins with Idol worshippers, can’t say I blame Channel 5 for their decision.
Copyright 2004 by Frederick Meekins
Simpsons’ Episode Assailing Patriot Act Will Rank Among Program’s Classics
The Simpsons is a series at its wittiest when it pokes fun at issues with broader social implications. Classic episodes that come to mind include the ones spoofing the Masons, the UFO cult, and Homer’s Drudge-style webpage. Joining these will no doubt be the one alluding to the Patriot Act.
The episode begins with the Simpson kids off to get their inoculations. Bart unexpectedly goes deaf from his and Homer inadvertently signs a waiver forbidding him from holding Dr. Hibert legally responsible. From there, the Simpsons become town pariahs as it is assumed a deaf Bart deliberately mooned the flag after a donkey ate his gym shorts.
Things get considerably more hilarious when ATF-style shocktroops raid the church and arrest the Simpsons for violating the Government Knows Best Act. The Simpson gang is sent packing to a prison camp euphemistically referred to as a “reeducation center”.
Though a poignant, timely episode in light of the danger posed to American liberties by certain governmental provisions claiming to fight the war on terror such as the Patriot Act and various executive orders making toilet paper of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, the episode’s primary drawback stemmed from the fact that those interned were depicted as leftists of various stripes when in reality there are probably even more Conservatives and Libertarians opposed to such systematic infringements of our civil liberties. Yet even this skewered presentation was not without humor.
One inmate whined all he did was drive a truckload of explosives over the Canadian border. One old coot claimed he was the last registered Democrat. He then blathered, “Tax and spend. Tax and spend”, a clear indication he was out of his mind.
The Simpsons escape and are rescued by a French freighter whose captain remarks upon the irony of the French hatred of America despite being saved by the United States in two world wars. After living in Paris for a while, the Simpsons return to the U.S., observing that if there’s one group America will let in its immigrants without identification.
For years, Conservative interest groups have castigated The Simpsons as inappropriately subversive. Instead, Conservatives ought to look to the show as a source of satire occasionally allied with their movement exposing in a humorous manner the folly and stupidity regularly gaining an upper hand throughout society as a result of misguided policies and faulty assumptions inherent to the liberal way of life.
Copyright 2004 by Frederick B. Meekins
Quotas Command Society Elite's Answer To Everything
Leave it up to liberals to create new problems in their attempt to solve others of their own making.
Throughout the course of contemporary educational history, the phenomena of grade inflation has come to plague the assessment of students as academic standards are relaxed and professors grow reluctant to be overly critical of students for fear of various kinds of reprisals --- be they administrative, collegial, or even violent in nature.
Instead of applying a solution inspired of the rigors of the free market and the glories of individual achievement where professors increase the quality of their courses and where students must actually apply themselves to earn the grades they receive, leave it to a bunch of half-wit educators mired in untenable theories to devise a solution as devoid of commonsense as the useless courses most of them teach.
To combat the issue of grade inflation at Princeton, it has been proposed that the number of “A’s” be capped at 35% in any undergraduate course. Seems some people can’t get over the thrill of imposing solutions from above.
Like the socialism upon which the proposal is modeled with its appeal to centralized authority to solve all of life’s problems, grade quotas will be a flop in real life.
The primary concerns that arise are if the course content remains the same, what happens to students falling outside the 35% limit and how will it be determined on what side of the divide a student happens to fall if by objective assessment criteria more than 35% of the students actually deserve an “A”? Will it be alphabetical with tough toenails to those further down the list towards the middle and the end?
Even worse, those addicted to quotas in addressing other contentious social issues might apply their same specious reasoning to the matter of scholastic evaluations.
To get around growing opposition to minority preferences, the University of Texas has gotten around the issue by factoring race in what administrators characterize as a “holistic approach” in determining whether an applicant is worthy of matriculation.
In the minds of those favoring such nonsense, Blacks and other minorities are “more whole” because of the hardships these groups have endured and enjoy harping about to no end, thus making them more worthy of academic spoils than your run-of-the-mill White person. But why anyone thinks Bill Cosby’s or Jesse Jackson’s brats have overcome more adversity than an Appalachian hillbilly is beyond me.
Such an asinine train of thought could be utilized by professors constrained by the grading quota and with a penchant for social manipulation.
Since there would be only so many “A’s” to go around, race mongering academics might argue that no longer can they be dispersed solely on the basis of objective epistemological effort. Instead, high grades must be dispensed holistically to students from deprived and underprivileged backgrounds (code words meaning non-Whites of courses, primarily Blacks and Hispanics).
It’s holistic all right; those advocating this nonsense --- be it in reference to admissions, grades , or Affirmative Action in general --- are full of a whole lot of you know what.
Thanks to big government interference in America’s system of higher education, a college degree isn’t what it use to be with subsidies making such a credential available to almost anyone ---- whether they deserve it or not --- making a degree little more than a glorified high school diploma and next to worthless in setting the individual ahead of the pack in terms of employment prospects. It’s doubtful the nation’s colleges and universities could withstand anymore misguided tinkering.
Copyright 2004 by Frederick B. Meekins
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Bay Bridge Walk Another Exuse To Corral Sheeple
In a satirical look at the future on one episode of the Simpsons, American citizens were whipped by giant robots reminiscent of the Sentinels in X-Men comics as they were herded past memorials to liberty such as the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument. While things are not yet quite that bad, they may be very well on the way in light of the so-called security measures being taken that don’t have so much to do with actually preventing acts of terrorism as conditioning the American people to pliantly do as they are told by those claiming to wield authority.
One Sunday each year, hearty perambulators are given the opportunity to walk the Chesapeake Bay Bridge connecting Maryland’s Western Shore with Kent Island in the middle of the famed estuary. In 2003, the event was cancelled over concerns of “homeland security”. This year, our overlords granted dispensation to hold the event; however, to be deemed worthy of the pilgrimage supplicants had to pass through a litany of new security precautions.
Frankly, these have little or nothing to do with actual preventive security, but rather are just another round of Pavlovian conditioning designed to manipulate the American people to the point where they will let those holding the reigns over them work them over while thanking them for doing so. Where will it all end; at the point where the government will no longer let you own your own home since it has been suspected that terrorists conceal themselves in these structures away from surveillance? After all, only those with something to hide would want to lock themselves behind the privacy of their own doors every evening.
Common sense reveals that if Bridge authorities were really concerned about security they’d have to do more than screen knapsacks and picnic coolers. One doesn’t have to sit on the National Security Council or be Tom Clancy to realize that a car or truck bomb would inflict more damage to the Bay Bridge than a single homicidal maniac on foot. Are they going to pull over every single vehicle for inspection at the height of the pending tourist season?
Better yet, if a diaperhead really wanted to blow up the Bay Bridge, wouldn’t he circumvent the watchful eye of police all together and launch a rocket from a secluded boat on the Bay rather than sneak on to the Bridge itself? But then again, the matter is not so much about actually saving lives but rather about stifling the individuality of the American people and furthering the grand dream of getting us all to think alike without question.
Government officials are free to appear as cowardly as they want to be erecting nonsensical barriers such as snow-fences and black trash-bags around buildings and installations throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area and around our most sacred sites located there that will do little to stop the fanatics bent on doing the nation appalling harm. Just don’t be surprised when the American people grow so disgusted they no longer see the point of visiting these structures embodying the values and ingenuity once valued by this great nation land if they have to be made to feel like slaves to do so.
Copyright 2004 by Frederick Meekins
