The problem that I have with the people who are pushing this is two-fold;

First, I have a problem with the intellectual dishonesty; they want Evolution taught as a theory. Which it is, so no problem there. The problem is that they want "Creationism" taught. Which is, if you'll pardon my saying so...a myth!!! What the hell do they think that's going to get taught as in a science class? I have less of a problem with teaching "Intelligent Design" which certainly could be an interesting discussion that'll never happen in our public schools, but at least it's an actual general theory.

Secondly of course, I have a problem with the blatant bullshit. You know, after all, that the people pushing this are not talking about teaching the "creation" of the universe, as say, the one involving Shiva...or Thor...or the Great Spirit, they're talking Jehovah, garden of Eden, yadayadayada. I think that the school districts should agree to teach the "Theory of Creation" and go ahead and teach all the different ones. That'd shut these fundy pinpricks up. After all, do you really think they'd be cool with their kids being taught about Thor and Ragrarok, and all? Ha..Ha...Ha.. Yeah...they'll buy that, the program would be yanked so fast, you'd think there'd been a Great Flood.

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So...the daughter is reading now. She's been making stabs at it, and of course we leaned on it to encourage it (J was starting to get stressed *hah!*), but I took her to her "Wizarrd of Oz" rehearsal on Saturday, and we went to the library in Winthrop.

I found a couple of books on drawing she had been wanting to get more of, and I came back to find her sitting on a chair, with a book propped open reading it. She got through most of it there (It was "Dog Food" a book with puns using pictures of dogs made from food.) and finished it shortly after we got home.

Now, she's been trying to read to me at bed-time for the past couple of nights, and last night she was trying "Fox in Socks" which she hadn't wanted to try, since it had tongue teasers. She discivered that reading them slowly makes it a lot easier.

Of course, what makes this extra-cool is the whole home-schooling thing. She learned this herself. You really don't wrap your head around this until you see it in action. She never would let us do the "tricks" like running your finger along the words and stuff, although I certainly tried, sometimes. She certainly got aid and advice from us, in that we would spell out words for her, and write them out so she could see them, but...damn.

This gets even cooler from here on in.

Neat last note: She reads stuff twice. First time to get the sounds, and then second time to say it in a "flowing" way. J thinks that this is thanks to the theatre stuff she's been doing.

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The Incredibles Review: Mission Accomplished.

So the daughter and I went to go see "The Incredibles" over the weekend, and it was just In...
the theatre, and was simply, the best thing Pixar has done to date.

Interestingly, I've read a couple of reviewers who didn't understand the "PG" rating that the film received. I chalk this up to the critic not understanding the state that Kid's cartoons are in nowadays.

The number one thing I can think of is simply this: people die in this. Not obviously, or noticably, and gosh..maybe they don't, but A) not only are people referred to to having died, B) those crashes that the "GI Joe"'s of the world always have end with the enemy pilot bailing out or crew jumping out just before their craft blows up. Nu-uh. Hellooooo "PG"!

This is not to say this is a violent (as in nasty) movie. I find the underlying "reality" to be one of the hints that Brad Bird did this, the man who brought us the wonderful "Iron Giant" (A movie that still chokes me up at the end).

"The people we're dealing with are not like the people you see on your morning cartoon shows - they will not hesitate to kill children...." - Elastagirl

Welcome to the World of the Real

Well, as real as you can get when it's a superhero movie using CGI, anyways. *grin*

Go see it, it's beautiful, intelligent and funny.

Oh, the daughter liked it too. :) In fact, every time I looked at her, she was sitting on the edge of her seat, leaning forward.

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