Does it produce food people like to eat? Yup.
But I suppose you’d have a state run resturant system where we’d all eat brocolli.
McEducation. Genius.
Who cares if the product is fat and stupid, as long as the books are in the black, we win.
Concerning The Response:
The real news: Perry has been shilly-shallying about his actual participation in the event. Those hoping for a stirring sermon ending with him revealing his candidacy for President (think Janet Jackson exposing her nipple during a previous event at Reliant) may be disappointed. Also, the stadium’s capacity is 90,000; they’re setting it up to hold a mere 10,000 souls.
From The Texas Observer: Can Ray Carney Put Rick Perry in the White House? Bush the Smarter had Lee Atwater, his son had Karl Rove; Perry has this guy…
For Giggles: Rick Perry at Texas A&M.
Good analogy, actually.
Because a certain amount of teaching does involve making kids do the equivalent of eating their broccoli. Not everyone is going to like to learn arithmetic or spelling or history.
State-run restaurants would be silly for that very reason: you go to a restaurant, not to get the nutrients your body needs, but to have a pleasurable experience involving food. The private sector can provide such pleasurable experiences quite well.
And I’m sure the same would be true of privatized schools. They’d do a good job of providing pleasurable experiences involving knowledge, but I wouldn’t expect them to give your kids the knowledge they need.
I assume you have proof of that?
You DID like LBJ, then! That war on poverty was oh, so, effective. (We are comparing Perry, right?)
BTW, I actually prefer Bachman. Do your worst!
What is it you like best about Bachmann, her pathological lying, her batshit insanity, her creative, alternate history fiction or her 19th century Biblical literalism?
She puts mustard on her bologna sandwich in a smiley face pattern.
How to tell if you’re a Perry supporter:
If you hear about the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, where Perry sacked the committee looking into whether he had an innocent man put to death, and think, “it takes balls to execute an innocent man,” congratulations, you are exactly the type of voter Rick Perry needs. Also, for the sake of humanity, please don’t breed.
Cameron Todd Willingham’s execution was pretty heinous (check out the amazing documentary Incendiary if you are ever able to). I’m not sure how personally culpable Perry was at the time of denying the 30 day execution stay that the Texas governor is allowed. It does look like he’s been pretty interested in burying the follow-up though.
According to the Houston Press, critics & protesters may well outnumber participants. Although the heat will make that protesting hard; Houston Augusts are known to be hellish, but we’re having record temps in a year that’s setting records for drought. Reliant Stadium has AC but the parking lot will be very bad.
Perry is a typical tea bagger if you go by his college transcripts. He was a very bad student with very low grades. No wonder the tea baggers make sense to him.
If he jumps into the race, he might miss.
Wow, the one that really jumped out at me was a C in PE. How the hell does one get a C in PE?
He refused to climb the rope because it made him feel funny.
Marcus Bachmann climbed the rope because it felt good.
I didn’t notice your response until now, but this is perfect.
For-profit restaurants are fine, because the purpose of a restaurant is to produce food people like at a low price. Now, what do you suppose the purpose of a healthcare system is?
So, the speculation was that he’d officially announce his candidacy at his big prayer meeting, which has since come and gone. Did he in fact announce? If not, can we yet say that he’s not running?
Perry did NOT announce his candidacy yesterday. The Day of Prayer & Fasting had gotten a bunch of bad publicity, so he didn’t Come Out.
Attendance was better than had been estimated. However, another Houston event had even more attendees.
Rick Perry gave out school uniforms?
It was free and early on he had 8000 people. They bused them in from everywhere to pad attendance.