Wonkette
- HERE’S A FUNNY SENATOR JIM DEMINT QUOTE THAT HAS EVERYBODY GOING NUTS! “Parents tell us … if they are sending their kids off to [D.C.] public schools, the chances are very good that they are going to end up in a gang rather than graduating high school.” The Washington Times originally kept out this “Parents tell us…” bit and attributed the full… thought?… to DeMint, which made DeMint very angry, and now the Times has TAKEN DOWN THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, which is kind of insane. But the point is, it’s factually wrong and parents are worrywarts so why he is paraphrasing their dumb whining? [NY Post, Raw Story, Institute for Southern Studies]
Everybody knows that Americans are stupid and stuff — see the guy who put up that HUSSEN sign down in Florida if ya don’t believe me — so why are we all getting pissy?
Pass the bong, will ya?
Seriously, only 56% of South Carolinian high school students graduate? Senator DeMint, you are the rightful leader of a confederacy of dunces.
Why can’t kids do both? Graduate HS and join a gang? You have to have good experience at lots of different things to make it these days.
If this is the case, Sen. DeMint, if that is your real name, then why don’t you get off your fat fucking dumb ass and do something about it? Like cut taxes. Because, you know, that solves every fucking problem ever in the universe. DC is run by Congress, so by default any criticism of DC is criticism of Congress.
Why are you hitting yourself, Sen. DeMint? Stop hitting yourself, Sen. DeMint. Stop hitting yourself Sen. DeMint.
Someone needs to give Sen. DeMint a Hertz Donut in the taint. Or maybe just a good ol’ fashion cockpunch.
And it’s not like South Carolina is cranking out Rhodes Scholars with your stellar school system, DeMint. In fact the entire south is one big FAIL High School, dumping out illiterate crackers dumb enough to believe wingtards like DeMint.
Back to the cockpunching. Someone please do this to DeMint. With a horse.
Senators are also worrywarts. Far more so than the non-political population, in fact.
Although chief amongst their worries is “oh no, what if this loses me precious votes amongst some ill-defined socio-economic group or another?” rather than anything about personal safety or making the world a better place or anything sissy like that.
Well Mr. DeMint, you seem very concerned. Perhaps as a constituent you should take the issue up with your esteemed colleague, the Honorable Senator from D.C. Mr. Doesnotexist.
Skull & Bones is a gang with yachts. I think the victims of Bush’s bloody Iraq massacre would rather face members of the Bloods & Crips than the likes of that haughty, murderous ivy league arsehole.
South Carolina, DeMint’s home state, has a graduation rate of almost 56%, making it far worse that D.C., and the fourth worst in the country. (from Washington Monthly)
DeMint’s home state of South Carolina has a graduation rate of 56% - the fourth lowest in the nation.
DC’s graduation rate? 59%
When I was in high school no gang would have me. I cried all the time and wore a black trench coat and that was back in 1965.
I made them all sorry, very sorry.
ph7: Yeah, so? Like it takes a high school education to run a meth lab.
Obama will overturn Bush’s ban on stem cell research on Monday! Throw the Culture Wars into overdrive!!
I’m going to buy me some of them stem cells while they’re still cheap.
The kids are “going” to end up in a gang? Come on, it is DC. All kids pack heat from kindergarten on.
And what is wrong with that? At least the Crips are run better than GM.
DeMint reminds me of my high school principal — anytime he had something critical to say, he’d always start, “A parent told me the other day ….” I hated that bullshit then, I hate now, and I’ll hate it tomorrow.
DeMint is also one of the politicians who appears most frequently on Glenn Beck’s radio show, if that tells you anything you didn’t already guess. I’m sure the two of them have had some late-night sessions reading to each other from The Turner Diaries between heavy petting interludes.
He’s DeMinted, that’s why.
Demint = demented, dementia… nuf said.
chascates: I gotta credit default swap for them stems. I’ll throw in some collateral benchmarks, too, for some extra fees.
DC standards must be on the low end. In NYC you don’t just ‘end up in a gang’; you have score really well on the city-wide aptitude test just to be considered, and there’s a 3-year waiting list for the really good ones.
Jim DeurinalMint
A kid attending the DC public schools will automatically end up in a gang? Absolutely false-o-mundo, Senator DeMinty Fresh.
First a kid has to pass the initiation test (which involves pushing some wailing grannny in front of a Metro car), and then there is the probationary period (must hijack at least one [occupied] grey Volvo every two weeks for six months) and then he has to enroll in prison, jump a guard, and get contract Hep-C and, upon release, pimp out his crack-ho, 12-year old cousin.
Gangs in DC won’t take just anyone. Unlike the Republican party, they’re a bleedin’ meritocracy.
S.Luggo: omit ‘get’.
DC charter school vouchers: an earmark Jim Demento can get behind.
DeMint can put his DeLips on my DeButt. Also.
WickedWitch: At least here, in Socialist Europe, people really thought all the Americans would stop being ignorant the minute Barack Obama was elected. It’s like in some medieval fantasy: the Good King replaces the Bad King, and that instant the whole country was blessed.
(Well, it hasn’t worked in the EU, either.)
“The office of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), who chairs the Senate committee that oversees education and fought hard against the original vouchers pilot program, refused to respond to requests for comment.”
So, it’s the office which chairs the committee. Never underestimate the power of oak furniture.
DoctorCulturae: Star.
“Parents tell us…” is just a variation of the old “The British Government has learned…” gambit. It’s an easy way to get plausible deniability.
In my mind, I’m goin’ to Carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine?
Can’t you just drink the moonshine?
And ain’t it just like a friend of mine
To take it in the behind?
Yes, I’m going to Carolina in my mind.
(waving internet paper) HEY I JUST HEARD THAT SOUTH CAROLINA’S GRADUATION RATE IS… nevermind.
A friend’s brother and his family moved to South Carolina. Their youngest son is 4 years old and barely knows his ABC, I don’t think he’s potty trained yet either, last I heard.
However, this kind of stupidity happened BEFORE they moved to SC. My friend’s sister-in-law is one of those 28% percenters. One time when she visited, my friend’s younger brother asked her to back in the driveway so the neighbors won’t see her Bush/Cheyny sticker, as he said, “advertizing her stupidity.”