Saturday, June 26, 2004
This afternoon I was contacted by an impressive sounding young man. Why impressive? First of all, he's 11. Considering what he's doing and the nature if his writing, I almost find it difficult to believe. This fellow is working on starting a Republican newsletter called Republican Voices, "a vehicle for a two-party state in our Bay State and a national home for intellectual conservatism." Sounds ambitious - particularly in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where conservatives generally live lonely, anonymous lives of quiet desperation.
But that's not really what this post is about. I checked out The Editor's blog (he blogs anonymously to avoid retribution from teachers and school-mates). His very first post had me shaking my head. Go take a look. I don't remember any of my teachers discussing politics in the classroom. Have I just blocked it out, or were teachers just wiser in those days (the 70's/80's!)?
In Language Arts, people who have a brain simply call it English, we have been reading two books. One of the books is a fiction book about segregation against people of color in the 1960's and the other is also a fiction book about a socialist utopian community and how good it is...
...You might think this is all but now we have music. Our instructor composed a brilliant song entitled, "Children of the World" which I will copy and paste.
"George Bush's decisions are really, really bad
What he's doing in Iraq is making me so sad
Many innocent people are getting killed each day
War is not the answer, there is another way
Children of the world, we sing for peace
With one voice we offer this song of love.
Our economy is diving right off the high board
People drowning, living lives they just can't afford
We've got to work together and try not to drift apart
Let's be one big family, coming from the heart
Children of the world......
There weren't many cows in the Middle East
Until we helped the cow population increase
All of us united, as we took a stand
Then we wrote this song and formed a way cool rockin band
Children of the world......"
Does anyone have any ideas what the cow part means?
And I'll be looking forward to the first edition of the newsletter.
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I think he means "herding cats" not "hurting cats" (see EDS super bowl commerical from a few years agao).
Yeah, I caught that. That's one of the pitfalls fo being 11 - you haven't heard all the expressions, yet. Still pretty damn good, though.
I meant "hurting cats".