Cajun Anything Disaster Vindaloo

Posted on 02/25/2009 at 11:07 am by admin

by Lee Stranahan

I’ve been saying for a while that Bobby Jindal is clearly NOT the ‘Republican Obama’ and boy, did he prove why last night. Bob already touched on my favorite part – volcano monitoring. Jindal talked about monitoring volcanoes like it was some wacky made-up thing…you could hear it in his voice.

People from Louisiana tell me that he was unusually stiff and horrible last night so maybe he still has a future there but it seems to me he just ended his national political aspirations. Anything can happen, but between turning down help for his citizens and his ‘Americans are MAGIC!’ performance last night, Jindal had a bad week.

The bigger issue for the GOP is that they still haven’t figured out exactly how Obama is outflanking them. They don’t really understand him or his appeal so they currently have no effective way to counter them. It’s fun to watch.

Also, just to note – Jindal for all his crazy beliefs is a product of the public school system.

And a reminder : Bob Cesca and I will Agree To Disagree tonight at 10 pm east / 7 pm west on our weekly radio show:

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  • http://www.coalregionvoice.blogspot.com/ Edward

    Volcano monitoring is a useful tool. If a volcano is erupting there maybe a thing that triggers an earthquake or possibly a tsunami. We know the record with the Republicans and natural disasters.

  • GIthePotato

    Lee,I apologize for using your post to get this onto the GDAB.Yes, our President has back tracked on his campaign promise to end the war in Iraq within 16 months. It is now 19 months.I personally have spent over 21 months of my life in that shithole. Soldiers are tough. We can take 3 more months of fighting. Hell, I was extended for 3 months on my second tour.Can any of you imagine what is it like to go to war deployment after deployment and never know when it is going to even slowdown let alone end?Yes, those 3 months will produce American and Iraqi casualties. This can’t be ignored and our President will bear the full responsibility for those casualties because it was his decision. I love my country and I am very proud of my HONORABLE service in Iraq. I can sleep at night because of the moral and ethical decisions I made while engaged in combat. I just want it to end. Our Army is broken. We have soldiers that should of been removed for many severe offenses but haven’t because of retention.Please rally around your President’s decision and remember that this isn’t his war and he promised to bring it to a RESPONSIBLE END. I believe him and I am asking you all to do the same.Thanks

  • rottnkid

    Yes, our President has back tracked on his campaign promise to end the war in Iraq within 16 months. It is now 19 months.———————————————-Dude he’s been in office for 37 days. He just found out what it’s going to take to get our girls and boys out of Iraq.Also yeah for Jindal to come in after Obama was not a good move at all for him. It is funny watching the Republicans trying to figure Obama out. Seems like they just can’t win..lol

  • gypsy

    >>>Also, just to note – Jindal for all his crazy beliefs is a product of the public school system.leeeeeee…are you implying only people such as jindal come from the public school system?! and that people such as jindal could not come from home schooling as well?!

  • Lee Stranahan

    Well, the wider point is that I don’t think there’s much relationship between what school you go to – public, private, charter, homeschool – and your belief system about things like religion or politics. I think it’s a minor co-factor at best.I feel the same about parental involvement, too. I think a lot of parents who are really involved with their kids in a public school would be great homeschoolers ….and vice versa….good homeschoolers would be involved no matter where their kids went to school.

  • Lee Stranahan

    Oops, so – yeah – actually most people like Jindal DO come from public schools. That’s just a fact. But I’m not blaming public school – like I said, minor co-factor.

  • rogect8

    Personally, I don’t think the republicans will ever “figure out” Obama. Not only is it much easier to make political maneuvers when you’re actually correct on something, but stack on top of that the HUGE discrepancy between the levels of pure political talent.

  • gypsy

    a minor co-factor which you saw need to point out?!a majority of homeschooled kids are kept out of public schools based on the parents wish to omit certain realities, cherry picking which knowledge they want to instill. that’s just a fact.

  • Redmond

    Lee, I would disagree with you because, at least here in Pennsylvania, home schooling = religious nut-jobs protecting their kids from secular lies. (Read: Science.) So, in that scenario, Bobby Jindal would most likely be the product of home-schooling.

  • Kyle W.

    I know 6 different kids (adults now) who were home-schooled, each of them is hyper-religious and frightened of any science that conflicts with the bible (in other words, most science). While I’m sure there are exceptions, the rule tends to be that home-schooling serves the purpose of depriving children of certain knowledge that the parents know will be taught in public schools.

  • Lee Stranahan

    Those nutjob parents who choose to homeschool their kids to keep them away from science – where did THEY go to school?Public school – not homeschool. (There just aren’t many second generation homeschoolers – hasn’t been around that long.)Religious parents tend to pass their beliefs on to their kids, no matter where they go to school. And the NEW tactic is to take control of school boards. So, have fun with that.The broad brush bullshit about the ‘majority’ of homeschoolers is different from the reality I know from years of experience. People homeschool for different reasons; in my families case, we want a better education for our kids. Plenty of people like us. Plenty of religious people in public schools.

  • gypsy

    awesome…now we are defending nutjobs who brainwash their kids just because they “might” have attended a public school!second generation homeschoolers? are you serious?! what’s folklore?! you think homeschool is a “new” concept?i think religious parents can do a bang up job of instilling their beliefs on the children when the kids are kept from encoutering various opinions.i did say “majority”. as in not “all” homeschooled kids are being taught the crazy. i know “some” are going to turn out better for the education they are receiving from intelligent educated parents or tutors. i hate to take it personal with you lee but a “better education” like “whenever [math] comes up it comes up. i don’t force it”?

  • Lee Stranahan

    Take it as personally as you want – my 16 year old is getting As and Bs in college in classes like philosophy and public speaking. He was getting As and Bs (including in math) and was in AP classes when he went to public school for 6th, 7th and 8th grade.So any problem you have is just in your head. I don’t have a single regret about homeschooling.I think you’re so caught up in the prevailing education-industrial commplex idea that teaching young children rote memorization and constant testing is ‘learning’. I don’t agree.I think the educational system’s primary job is to turn out good little workers who will do their jobs, keep their heads down, and STFU. I don’t have any interest in subjecting my kids to it. If you do, great…

  • Eruleptanero

    I don’t think anyone here should be over-generalizing or making statements about the majority of people in any kind of school. Crazies like Jindal will be found everywhere, no matter what type of schooling they had. Conversely, there are people who have gotten a good, grounded education from each type of schooling.Personally, I’m glad I went to public school, but that’s just how I feel.

  • gypsy

    no, my fucking problem lee is that you suggested public schools only produce “jindal’s”…what are you a product of do tell?!show me one word that suggested if i had kids i would only consider a public school?!

  • Lee Stranahan

    I never suggested public schools only produce Jindals…I said that I think where you go to school is at best a minor cofactor in your belief system. And I said it applies to whatever school you want.I think on any parenting issue, people tend to feel very strongly about the choices they have made – those are the ‘right’ ones, to them.

  • camel54

    I don’t want to get too much in the middle, but I would like to point out that my wife is a teacher, her sister is a teacher, both in public schools and their mother home schooled a family of children (acting as both nanny and schooler) and none of those three women have ever encouraged anyone to keep their keep their heads down and shut up. In fact, all the teacher we know agree that if they had fewer kids per class and could manage the group a little more personally, the kids could have much more fun while learning. When the group is too large, there’s always some punk who disrupts class constantly so the teacher has to waste everyone’s time trying to make that one kid STFU. Those types of kids never do, though, and their parents encourage them and reward that behavior.A person could be the best home school teacher in the world and still not be able to control 30 kids whose parents threaten lawsuits every time their kid is looked at sternly.Also, we know plenty of great people who were entirely homeschooled–completely normal, intelligent, contributing citizens. The problems with education are so much more complex than the style of school a person goes to. It simply can’t be reduced to any generalizations that are always true or always false.

  • Lee Stranahan

    Camel – I agree with everything you said. I also should note I said “The educational system” – not teachers. I had some great teachers in public school – like you said, their hands are really tied.

  • http://muchrejoicing.net Jeremiah G

    Hmmm…You said this:”Also, just to note – Jindal for all his crazy beliefs is a product of the public school system.”But then clarified with this:”I think it’s a minor co-factor at best.”I was with you on the other post about asking if people wanted Bush to fail. The whiners were just being whatever. But this time, I think you should have maybe been more clear in your statement. I took it as an insult. I’m a product of the public school system and I’m not him. I think he’s politically an idiot.Your clarification was fine, I’m just sayin you might wanna make things clearer in the original post :) As far as people talking about homeschoolers: I’ve seen a LOT of homeschoolers. Yes, the majority are what you think they are. But there is a good 35% at least that are VERY intelligent and got a very good education from their parents. And they aren’t crazy.I’m personally a public school fanatic, and I can’t believe I’m the one (besides Lee) defending it, but seriously. Don’t paint everyone with the same brush.

  • gypsy

    reason for my original comment…>>>Also, just to note – Jindal for all his crazy beliefs is a product of the public school system.it was only after this sweet little nugget, that probably offended half of the commenters here, that you started with the “minor co-factor” spin…again i would love to know what your childhood education consisted of.

  • thruwithbuzz

    I think Lee’s original point was that crazy can come from any type of schooling.But Lee, wtf is up with this statement?”I think the educational system’s primary job is to turn out good little workers who will do their jobs, keep their heads down, and STFU. I don’t have any interest in subjecting my kids to it. If you do, great…”Wow, way to be a condescending prick.

  • Lee Stranahan

    Condescending to who?The system?I don’t even view this statement as controversial and it’s certainly not directed at anyone. (Well, John Dewey, perhaps.)

  • thruwithbuzz

    It’s condescending to all those who went to public school (like me) that don’t “keep their heads down, and STFU” And how about the teachers, principals and other educators that don’t just “turn out good little workers who will do their jobs, keep their heads down, and STFU”That’s who it’s condescending to.

  • http://muchrejoicing.net Jeremiah G

    A majority (now I’m generalizing! Darnit!) of people who say things about the system teaching kids to “keep their heads down, and STFU” either went to a crappy public school, OR were homeschooled. I have heard that a lot from homeschooled people.But honestly there are quite a few public school districts that need help. We know it.

  • http://www.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Yeah, Lee. That’s a really unfair statement. I get where you’re coming from but still – it, like the “most homeschoolers are religious nuts” thing – is an unfair gross generalization. Should we get statistics on where entrepreneurs went to school?QT

  • Lee Stranahan

    I read a lot of business stuff and most entrepreneurs say more or less exactly what I said…maybe NICER but often not. The educational system – not the teachers, the system as a whole – doesn’t teach thinking, creativity or originality at all well…I went to public school, btw – good ones, actually.

  • http://www.flarnflarnfilth.wordpress.com vinceneilyoung

    Seriously, people?I interpreted the line in question as merely a comment on generalizations, not on public education.Not to worry, Lee, this public schools product (and employee) gets it.In the real world, public schools don’t have any more to do with Bobby Jindal’s nuttiness than his status as a Rhodes scholar. Let’s all agree not to be so easily offended.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    good little workersevery onehad some cracked dreamthis thread is id unleashedThe system?You mean the conspiracy…right?Good little workers, eh?As if the bell curve of humanity would be somehow altered if we no longer required bodies to man the garbage trucks.Home schooling? Unless your Mom is a double masters in education and (insert science here), education is best left to a well directed program designed by those most qualified in any discipline and administered for the common good by the common purse.Piffle. I am drunk and ranting. Very drunk, and not at all interested now in anything i had to say before this. I will most likely be willing to defend any drunken bullshit I spewed up there…booze doesn’t make me stupid, just less pleasant. And for that consequence alone, I am going to go inspect my sofa about matters of horizontitude.

  • Lee Stranahan

    VNY – right…it was a comment on generalizations…

  • gypsy

    lee, generalization? co”bullshit”ugh

  • thruwithbuzz

    Ok, maybe using the word “prick” was a little much…maybe.

  • gypsy

    >>>Ok, maybe using the word “prick” was a little much…maybe.i giggled thruwithbuzz! but lee and i have a love/hate relationship…well, hate/forced kindness relationship. =)

  • D. C.

    Redmond, my experience with homeschoolers in PA is about the same as yours.However, keep in mind that Jindal was raised Hindu and only converted to Catholicism in high school. His family doesn’t fit the profile of nutbars who want to keep their kids away from science because everyone knows that no scientists will be raptured up when the time comes.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_jindal