WTF Case #4,567,092
It started with the Grim Reaper in tennis shoes, bouncing into classrooms before "the accident" and choosing random students to act as corpses, killed by a drunk driver.
Involving fire engines, the Jaws of Life, police units and a bevy of makeup artists to apply fake blood and realistic looking wounds, Palm Desert High School's Every 15 Minutes program drained the tax coffers with its "Reality TV Meets Public Service Announcement" Nanny State theatrics.
In the latest effort to scare teenagers straight (no offense to gays! -- none taken), teachers staged a mock traffic accident, complete with wrecked cars, students playing victim (an important lesson in the Nanny State playbook), and police, fire fighters, paramedics, parents, and teachers all taking part.
The program backed up the morning's traffic for hours, and parents were asked to write obituaries for their own children! The program, like all Mommy Knows Best state funded tax-dollar sinkholes, is designed to somehow teach students about "real life experiences" without putting them in real life danger, which is akin to teaching CIA undercover agents how to face life and death situations by dragging them to a James Bond movie.
"Oh, yeah -- *whew* . . . I know what it's like to stare down the barrel of a loaded gun. I just saw Octopussy!"
Let's hope this time blowing, tax-dollar spending, government and community resource wasting idea doesn't get picked up by Nanny State City Councils across the country.
Oops! -- too late.
WTF #4,567,093:
Barbara Boxer introduces an ammendment into the Senate urging Saudi Arabia to allow women to vote and run for office.
I'm sure the Saudis will get right on that, now that Ms. Boxer has voiced her personal concern. Better yet, maybe someone can convince Senator Boxer to clamber aboard the next Saudi Arabian Airline flight out of D.C. and agitate for the downtrodden women of Saudi Arabia from the streets of Riyadh . . .