A group of Virginia third graders composed a song about the spiritual emptiness of greed, which they sang for their fellow public school students at an assembly — good on them, right? Except, UH-OH TIMES A HUNDRED, they included the term “99 percent” in the lyrics. Since when are children allowed to use SOCIALIST PROFANITIES in school, Every Conservative Blogger in America now demands to know. Or maybe the real question is, who let these kids pay attention to the world around them like that?
Let’s first enjoy an excerpt from the children’s lyrics, shall we?
Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more money
A faster ride
They’re not content
Never satisfied
Yes — they’re the 1 percent
I used to be sad, now I’m satisfied
’Cause I really have enough
Though I lost my yacht and plane
Didn’t need that extra stuff
Could have been much worse
You don’t need to be first
’Cause I’ve got my friends
Here by my side
Don’t need it all
I’m so happy to be part of the 99
And now here is one randomly-selected outraged dingbat of many (which you can Google search, if are you a masochist, but we won’t link to them all here) from BigGubermint.com, who is FEEUREEUS with this group of intellectually superior nine-year-olds:
Remember, these are third graders. The simplistic left wing economic nonsense of this ditty boggles the mind. But to an impressionistic third grader, it plants poisonous seeds at odds with long egalitarian American traditions that disdain class hatred. It mocks American traditions of industry, hard work and accomplishment. It teaches the young to distrust and dislike, which of course is a tactic employed by thug cultures and governments throughout history.
(The literate person’s version of the word is impressionable, by the way.)
Can we at least Blame the Teachers? Not really, says the school board, according to a newz report from some local CBS affiliate:
The song was written and performed by third graders on October 21, 2011 at Woodbrook Elementary School during a Kid Pan Alley program.
Kid Pan Alley is an organization that helps kids write and perform their own songs. Their mission is to inspire kids to be creators.
Students write the songs and school officials are standing by the lyrics.
“They don’t censor what the kids write. They don’t shape what the kids write. It all comes out of the kids own mouths and the kids own words,” said Albemarle County School Board Chair, Steve Koleszar.
Oh THERE’S the problem, we spotted it… they’re encouraging creativity. NONE OF THAT NOW. [Newsplex.com]
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Needs more:
Baby baby stick your head in gravy,
Wrap it up in bubble gum
And send it to the navy.
Kid Pan Alley = Soshulizm!!!
Virginia third graders should be at home and taking care of their husbands and not singing in school.
Even the little boys?
Nope, they should be working in the coal mines.
Or doing janitorial work at the school.
Having been a former Virginia third grader, I would have preferred staying home and taking care of my pretend husband…he was a cutie!
So who turned these kids on to Joe Hill? Huh, huh????
Wherever you can look, wherever there's a fight, so third-graders can sing Wobbly hymns, I'll be there.
"Why aren't these children mopping floors?"
–Newt Gingrinch
I think you mean Cleaning Toilets? It depends….are they brown? If so- then Why the hell arent they????
Obviously they're being mind controlled by nanites Obamacare put in their peanut butter and HFCS-fruit sandwiches.
And the fluoride! They should check for the ones with good teeth and throw their parents in jail!
I'm in full-scale panic over the size of peoples' asses in this country.
I spit out my coffee when I saw that photo, and I wasn't even drinking coffee.
#Occupy3rdgrade
Or #OccupyRecess or #OccupyNaptime or #OccupyPlayDough or #OccupyPaste or #OccupyPhonics (do they even teach that anymore?) or #OccupyCuteTeacherMrs.Carpenter
I loved 3rd grade, can you tell?
Ten thousand dollars says BigGubermint.com is the blog of an obese, edentulous, disabled, middle-aged, white douchebag with fantasies about what he'd rather be doing with a third-grader of two if he had a dark room and enough Rohypnol.
Check the linked video footage. Around 0:58 you'll see the visual equivalent of your description up to "douchebag" — only he is a She.
Holy Shit! I think she ate a third grader or two!
I had to look up the word "edentulous," and I live in Tennessee!, Mr. Fancy-Schmancy Big Words man!
Vocab word of the day, courtesy of your neighborhood English teacher. ;-) (Female, btw!)
All apologies Mz. Mort, Fancy-Schmancy Big Words Lady!
And that nice art teacher, Ms. Lafarge, is teaching them to knit, too.
" The simplistic left wing economic nonsense of this ditty boggles the mind."
Um, not of third graders it doesn't. "Boggles" is only for the minds of Teapublicans. Oh, and bobble. As in, We had a good economy, and the Teapubicans bobbled it….or boggled. Whatever.
Bungled it. Or bungholed it. Or like you said, whatever.
Evidently Mr. FEEUREEUS has a mind that's easy to boggle.
He couldn't play Boggle™, the Word Game.
This is Reason #1547 in "Why do Wingunts have no artistic ability?"
How do the crab apples feel about that hippie pinko Pete Seeger?
This land is our land…the rest of you, fuck off.
The wingnuts have always preferred Second Amendment solutions to First Amendment ones.
The funny thing is that these little tykes probably know how the Virginia primary works. I'm talking to you, Newt! You need 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot. That's the same number of times Callista has signed charge card slips at Tiffany's, duh!
Next thing you know the kids will be shaking their hips to that n***ger music.
SHAME on you! In PC parlance it's known as "jungle music," mister.
God forbid they ever get "Bieber Fever."
Indeed. Got to keep young 'uns away from that lesbian music.
kd lang. Bieber. Canada is going to scissor us to death.
Isn't the message something like love is better than things? No wonder wingtards are so wigged out; you'd never catch Jesus saying that kind of crap.
At least, not Republican Jesus.
Love can never be better than a 82" HDTV bought at Sam's Club connected to an Xbox (also bought at a Sam's Club).
Those "impressionistic" kids need to be taught a healthy, patriotic hymn to the homeland, you know, something like "Tomorrow Belongs to Me."
The Internationale is actually about how our exceptional Republic is justified in striding the world like a drunken colossus.
See also the Wobblies' Little Red Songbook: http://www.sacredchao.net/iww/
Fucking HTML.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
OhmiDarwin, you just raised a long-hidden memory from the depths of my mind, of us kids sometimes singing that song in elementary school first thing in the morning in place of America the Beautiful or the Star-Spangled Banner. Of course that was in sochulizt Warshington, D.C., back in the ultra-liberal Kennedy administration.
Our music teacher would have us listen to (and sing along to) show tunes. Clearly it was a case of trying to convince all the boys to become homosexuals. In my case, it worked. Thank you Mrs. Vandergriff!
Bob Dylan: This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen.
Needs moar "I Am America".
Let the Eagle Soar!
Gah!! Off with your head.
SOCIALISMIST!!1!!
You have a Gulfstream? Elitist!
I always remember kids adding in bits about how "it is not your land" and "I got a shotgun, and you ain't got one."
/sob
"If you don't get off
I'll blow your head off
'Cuz this land was made for me not you".
Ah, innocence.
Are you sure it isn't
From Bonavista, to Vancouver Island
From the Arctic Circle, to the Great Lakes waters
….?
Could my teachers have been lying to me all those years?
Not according to Rick Perry.
Or, as Jon Stewart once said: "I was asked by a friend what Americans think about Canada. I said, truthfully, we don't, but as soon as we run out of something you have, we'll be over the boarder."
This Song Kills Fascists
The Wingnutties would rather they sing this song…
As sung to the tune of the Oscar Meyer Weiner song
I wish I were a 1%er Koch whore
That is what I truly wish to be
cause if i were a 1%er Koch whore
everyone would just envy
oh everyone would just envy
everyone would just envy meeeeee
Kids these days shouldn't be singing songs about farcical socialist Utopias. They should be going out doing it and getting pregnant because nobody taught them about condoms (soshulism) and then they shouldn't be able to get the morning after pill (sluts) to rectify their poor decision choices, can't get an abortion (jeebus) so they are forced to have the child at a young age and then have their Medicaid "privatized" (destroyed) so they can't feed them and have to work 3 jobs and their kids will go to school and do the same thing and the cycle will repeat. It's what the Founders would have wanted.
Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Good GOD will the Socialist songfest never end!!
And to think, that is a Country & Western song. What has this country come to?
Tennessee Ernie Ford = secret Socialist?
OMG, you may be right. That would make me weep with homegirl pride.
You see me coming, better step aside
A lot of men didn't and a lot of men died
it plants poisonous seeds at odds with long egalitarian American traditions that disdain class hatred. It mocks American traditions of industry, hard work and accomplishment. It teaches the young to distrust and dislike, which of course is a tactic employed by thug cultures and governments throughout history.
Yes, but that's enough about the Republican party platform…
How could those kids possibly come up with lyrics like that? It's not like the mommies and daddies in this country are losing their jobs, homes and healthcare in droves, while an unfeeling government and oligarchy responds with a "Let them eat cake" response…oh wait.
WTF, "long egalitarian traditions"? Such as slavery, Jim Crow, racism of anybody darker than Jesse Helms, misogyny, women not voting until 1920, homophobia etc etc. So the "long egalitarian tradition" dates from when, Ron Paul's hated Civil Rights Act in the 1960's?
Than again these 'baggers didn't like Woody Guthrie's great "This Land Is Your Land"…..
They'd have been okay if the lyrics were,
This land is my land,
That land is my land,
Getcher commie hands off it
You pinko bastard
This land is my land, This land ain't your land,
I got a shotgun, And you ain't got one,
If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off,
This land was only made for me.
This land is my land,
This land was your land,
Sucks to be you,
and you, and you…
Perhaps their definition of egalitarian has more to do with flying bald feathered creatures than with people.
Fuckin' Communist pinko Marxist Socialist creative little Kenyan bastards! Quarantine the school.
Better yet, ship 'em to Gitmo!
Also, if the wingnuts think this is bad: back when I was in the fourth grade I was blessed with a teacher who used "Free to be…You and Me" in the classroom (God bless those who never gave up on hippie 60's idealism.) Thank God none of the righties heard about that–they would have sent the storm troopers…
Yes, because the typing tumors and teabag tagalongs are so much smarter than third graders.
It teaches the young to distrust and dislike, which of course is a tactic employed by thug cultures and governments throughout history.
Has this been a problem for wingnuts before?
"It teaches the young to distrust and dislike, which of course is a tactic employed by thug cultures and governments throughout history."
Yes. Tis far, far better, and much easier, to just teach the little bastards how to hate.
ETA: and fear. I forgot to mention fear.
and surprise. And ruthless efficiency. And fanatical devotion to the Pope
Ninety-nine bottles of Marx on the wall,
Ninety-nine bottles of Marx…
Take one down, but don't pass it around, it's mine, you hateful, jealous soshulists,
Ninety-nine bottle of Marx on the wall.
♪ ♫ Whistle while you work,
Gingrich is a jerk,
Sean Hannity bit my wienie,
Now it doesn't squirt ♪ ♫
I know it's off subject, a bit, but MSNBC just reported that the Republicans are not excited about ANY of their candidates. What's up with that?
huh. who'd have thought it.
How can that be???
I'd have thought that they would be willing to march into the gaping maw of hell and smile all the way for inspirational leadership like Mittens or Santorum. They'll get more riled up when they winnow down the selection a bit. With the exception of Pawlenty, none of them have had the good sense to get along with living once it became clear that they weren't the annointed one.
A waste of perfectly good pepper spray. Isn't there a toilet that needs to be scrubbed?
Remember, it's only "class warfare" when the 99% start to fight back.
And it IS! The only thing that unites the 99% is class, whereas the 1% are all white, fat, old republican leaning men.
I don't get the lady-teafreighter interviewed in the video clip when she voices alarm. If my body mass occupied 99% of my seat, or of the room, or even the videocamera's viewfinder? why, I'd think I could relate to this ditty's lyrics.
oh peg i can't unsee that.
that chin is going to haunt me for days.
Thanks for reminding me why I've never watched local news. ZOMG, the double chin mullet is hardly worse than concrete, predictable, banal delivery of those "journalists."
*gack*
Been awhile since I've seen such a large-scale femullet.
That is truly a magnificent one.
"lady-teafreighter"
I cannot fist you upward for that one enough.
How dare these children learn to be emotionally balanced and satisfied with that station in life to which economic disparity and political disadvantage has condemned them? What is the point of being rich if one cannot relish the suffering of the poor??
(The literate person’s version of the word is impressionable, by the way.)
Not so fast, Kirsten Boyd Johnson. Those children could have been properly called 'impressionistic' had they all been created in the style of Degas, or perhaps Monet for example.
Then they would have had to sing,
♪ Here she comes now, say Monet, Monet,
Hey she give me love and I feel all right now. ♪
Teatards woulda had no truck with that, neither, also, too.
Or
♪ The camptown ladies sing this song — Degas, Degas♪
There you Gauguin…
You're missing the pointillism.
Yes, if we have to name those children after an artistic movement, it would have to be Theatre of the Absurd. Because they're like that main character in Ionesco's Rhinoceros, watching in horror as the people in view turn into huge creatures weighing a ton or more.
With or without Hoverounds?
Ionescu, please. He only changed the spelling after finding the ending from his native Romania means badonkadonk in French.
Ah, so that explains it. “cu” = “cul” as it is pronounced in French. I had actually spelled it “Ionescu”, him being Romanian and all, and then something nagged at the back of my mind that he has some weird ending, and so I looked it up. But I figured it was from some village with a funny dialect.Thanks for the quality info, HD—
"impressionistic" third graders? Next thing you know they'll be drawing nude ballet dancers and a-cuttin' off their ears and influencing Cubism with those crazy lopsided faces and I don't know what all. Dang Socialist sing-alongs! I blame "Sesame Street."
Cubism? I knew that Castro was involved in this somehow!
These lyrics clearly have the Obama Oval Office written all over them.
I dunno, the workhouses children live in seem a bit too cushy these days. Songs, I ask you, that's not very productive. Next they'll be asking for more gruel!
The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play.
– Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, 1917
Any relation to Foghorn Cleghorn?
Someone appears not to know what "egalitarian" actually means. But it sher sounz gud.
Just wait until they find out about all those "theories" they teach in 3rdGrade Science Class…
well to be fair, the president IS a near.
Can you sue your parents for your home-skooling? This might be the only remedy left.
It's not a real diploma if it's printed on a Canon.
Via RightWingWatch:
On The 700 Club today Pat Robertson said that God again communicated to him that financial problems and partisan politics are going to bring America into decline. Unsurprisingly, Robertson said God is no fan of President Obama: “Your president holds a radical view of the direction of your country which is at odds with the majority, expect chaos and paralysis.” Robertson claimed that the country would be devastated by an “economic collapse” and “the country will begin disintegrating.” He also claimed that God revealed to him who the next president will be, but that he is “not supposed to talk about that.”
Did God also tell him that this message has been delayed about 4 years?
Did God also tell Pat Robertson what he can do with regard to his lips and my butt?
When Robertson first started his broadcasting empire he said God told him to by, not just any transmitter, but an RCA transmitter!
Pat saw Red Planet Mars a few too many times when he got back from his ordeal in Korea.
Ha, that lying scumbag at least knows to keep mum, so after the election he can say "Yup, that's who my buddy God told me would win." regardless of the outcome.
Robertson didn't need God to tell him who would be the next Prez. He could've just asked Michele, non-santorum Rick, or santorum Rick.
I'm guessing he was just talking to Ned Beatty: http://youtu.be/BqEcLlp_Big
Of course Go doesn't like Obama. He's a Muslim, after all.
Of course God doesn't like Obama. He's half-a-Black.
fixed.
Sounds exactly like a horoscope. Maybe Pat's moon is in his anus.
Hopefully his anus's a Cancer.
In related news, Pat Robertson is off his meds again.
It's a good song. They should be recorded and the song should be played on the TV and radio all the time.
I prefer…
…The ring leader of the circus of worthless pawns
Sent to lead the march right up to the steps of Congress
And piss on the lawns of the White House
To burn the casket and replace it with a parental advisory sticker
To spit liquor in the faces of this democracy of hypocrisy
Fuck you Ms. Cheney
Fuck you tipper Gore
Fuck you with the free-ness of speech this
Divided states of embarrassment will allow me to have
You hear that noise? The one that sounds like a cross between fabric ripping slowly, walnuts cracking, and mud splattering? That's the sound of my own head tearing itself in half to escape the pain caused by the sheer stupidity. Seriously, this is some Fist of the North Star shit going on.
I blame Sesame Street. Big Bird needs some fucking ads now.
"Hey kids, have you been forced to listen to Evangelical clap-trap? Call our 1-800 number for free information on how our team of lawyers can guarantee you money for having your IQ lowered!"
Don't worry, Rethugs, if Newt squeaks out a victory, these anti Job Creator kids will be cleaning up after their 1% betters, not wasting our time thinking or being creative.
I hear "impressionistic" and "freedumz!11!!" together, and I end up here.
Yes, they are right. We need to be going back to educational programs such as this one described by Blake, so that America can be properly productive again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC4Dq2scQDI&fe…
Not long after this was reported, Ann Coulter offered to pay for a former Penn State coach to visit the school.
First words out of his mouth?
"Now if all you boys will follow me to the showers, I'll show you how to properly use soap."
I assume they would not object to the kids singing "Please Don’t Vote For a Democrat" which features the third-grade reading level lyric:
"Now we're trying to win a war and wipe out the terrorists,
We're not fightin' for oil we got plenty if we drill it.
But the liberals and the media are spreading their lies,
Get the hell out of our way and let our soldiers fight."
Fight doesn't rhyme with lies. But die does. Hmm.
"The one who has the gold makes the rules". That Golden Rule?
Occupy-Themed School Song Angers Conservative Bloggers
So, now it's newsworthy when conservative bloggers get angered? That won't leave much space in the newshole for water-skiing squirrels or slideshows of DWI mugshots.
They used to tell me I was building a dream
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow or guns to bear
I was always there right on the job
They used to tell me I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread
Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime
I am kind of surprised the Big Stupidity crowd is feeling manly enough to try to pick on nine year olds myself. Andy must have been even more drug and booze addled than usual.
Victoria Jackson approves picking on third-graders since they seem to copy her, fashion-wise.
Edit: Nevermind, third graders actually have better fashion sense than her.
I'd like to teach those kids this song. Because, fuck those teabaggers. Seriously, fuck them.
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie
Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
As I was walkin' – I saw a sign there
And that sign said – no tress passin'
But on the other side …. it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
Chorus
In the squares of the city – In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office – I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.
Chorus (2x)
©1956 (renewed 1984), 1958 (renewed 1986) and 1970 TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (
BMI)
http://www.metrolyrics.com/taxes-on-the-farmer-fe…
We worked through Spring and Winter,
through Summer and through Fall.
But the mortgage worked the hardest and the steadiest of us all
It worked on nights and Sundays, it worked each holiday
Settled down among us and it never went away
The farmer comes to town with his wagon broken down
The farmer is the man who feeds us all
If you only look and see I know you will agree
That the farmer is the man who feeds us all
The farmer is the man, the farmer is the man
He buys on his credit until Fall
Then they take him by the hand
And they lead him from his land
And the merchant is the man who gets it all
Fucking kids…. speaking their mind and shit…
Kids only say what they know… well there is the Santa Claus thing… but they KNOW that to be true.
Update from the totally bogus 'Drudge Caucus'"
READERS FROM IOWA VOTED IN DRUDGE CAUCUS:
PAUL 33.55%
SANTORUM 20.96%
ROMNEY 20.5%
GINGRICH 10.25%
PERRY 7.3%
Those elementary school kids have produced a clear and concise statement, something the Occupy folks…bless their hearts…haven't been able to do after months and months.
Little known fact that "The Internationale" was written for and won a dance competition in the Paris Commune.
Could somebody who's better at anagrams get something with "Acorn" in it out of "Kid Pan Alley"?
…from the mouths of babes.
Slightly OT but I hear that Megyn is coming out with a line of feminine hygiene products based on spicy food spray.
Now for a hurried vote to drop the National Endowments For The Arts. Not 'nuff Nascar.
Have them instead recite the pledge of allegiance as the four fathers intended, the pre-1954 version to exclude the "under God."
Yikes – some of those kids belong to my neighbors. I'll need to report this to the Loyalty Oath Committee right away.
I wouldn't be so seurat all about that….
And Red Zone Cuba and Invasion USA. He should have watched the MST3K versions!
Typical of the toxic climate of discourse these days. Commenters will cézanne any little thing and pissarro all over you. Sheesh.
Is that because the moderators' standards are Toulouse?
Some people choose the high road, and others take the low trek….
They Rousseau sure of themselves.
At first I didn't believe they could be so awful, but the Morisot, the more I realized they could.
Cassat's the way (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it (uh-huh, uh-huh)
A "scissor sister" death is preferable to the death we'd get from any of the current GOP candidate clowns. A clown death is truly awful. Example: John Wayne Gacey.
Ok, now this is just unRaveling.
Yeah? Well, screw you and the horse you Rodin on!
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