Calling All Freedom Fighters: Fascism in Public Schools

It seems that our local Cortland High has implemented a new lunch policy, in which students must sit at a table immediately after recieving their daily regimen of sewage from the lunch line. You cannot stand up from your table until the bell without a pass from a teacher. Not even to use the bathroom. No changing tables. Just sit down. Until the bell. That's 40 minutes, folks. Once you sit, you can't get up. They have had to call in more substitute teachers to assist in the enforcement of this policy. This clearly fascist attempt at indoctrination of young people (that's you) must be stopped; as fascism has no place in public schools. I am at a loss for ideas, as conventional petition and protest seem to affect the administration very little. Please post your idea as a comment (or a new post if you'd like) for all to see. We need help, folks, as fascism isn't an easy thing to combat.

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I'm posting this from my attic cause it's the only place to get wireless internet these days, and my hands are pale from the ambient 38 degrees. Oh well, I just felt like posting. I wish there'd be a snow day tomorrow... not cause tomorrow will be particulary bad, but Friday and the weekend have been quite crappy and I really don't feel like going in tomorrow. By the way, you might've noticed a lack of pictures posted recently, because Hello Bloggerbot refuses to be Mac-friendly. It's sad how people don't give a damn about anything besides Bill Gates' poor excuse for an operating system. Oh well, I've re-procured web-based image hosting, and it seems to run better than the "filesave.com" piece of crap that I used originally. To that point, here's a picture of our sidewalk taken by yours truly yesterday:



Yeah, now there's 18 inches of snow in our driveway... damn Canadians should keep it to themselves. Well, I should be off to shovel... peace

Thank-you letters simplified

If you have recieved gifts from friends/relatives last holiday season, and your parents are like mine, you will probably be forced to write some sort of letter back telling them thank you I appreciate it blah blah blah... kind of tedious huh? Well, your problems will be simplified if instead of having to write a different letter for each person, you can just print out a generic letter to send to everyone. Read on for a simple 3-step process:

Directions for thank-you letter

1. Copy the following text into the word processor of your choice:

Dear Valued Friend and/or Relative:

You have been selected to recieve a personal letter of thanks from [your name goes here]. This is regarding any physical and/or monetary gifts that you have given us over the Holiday Season. We express our deepest appreciation for your generous effort(s). Rest assured, the product of your generosity will remain unopened and be efficiently used as a gift to others during the next Holiday Season. If you have neglected to give [your name goes here] any physical and/or monetary gifts, kindly disregard this letter.

Many Thanks,

[your name goes here]

2. Insert your name in the [your name goes here] brackets

3. Print off as many copies as you need and send!

Hint: to reduce future holiday costs to almost nil, follow the letter's advice and re-gift old gifts. You know you'll never use them anyways, so just save yourself some trouble.

-Chris a.k.a. The Grinch

Hey Matt

I am writing this post form my new iBook G4 (yay!) as I will subsequent posts. The main purpose of this entry, however, is a plea. According to my wireless card, somebody who lives near me named Matt has a 802.11g wireless network on a Belkin router. I don't know who you are, Matt, but I would very much like access to your network, as all I have is dial-up. I would pay a small fee if you wish. I don't use the internet for evil or perverted purposes; just for stuff like posting to blog, e-mail, eBay, etc. I am a 14-year-old student at a local high school. Please contact me at atomicbartbeans@yahoo.com or IM me at atomicbartbeans and we'll get this resolved. Thank you for your time Matt!