Sunday Funday: Back To School 2025 Edition

From way back but still so relevant (1:40). A great song written by Tom Paxton in 1964. Here it is sung by the great, great Pete Seeger.

There are many parallels between when that song was written. At that time the US was in the process of scaling up the Viet Nam war. But today those in power are doing so many bad things on so many fronts. From our governor trying to dismantle Iowa’s once admired public schools to the MAGAs in Washington invading American cities and dismantling democracy.

As if all that isn’t enough we still have the crazies with their guns waiting for some slight that will justify them shooting up a school. And the guns are still very easily available thanks to cowardly MAGA congress members. I am sure glad I am not in school these day especially in places like Oklahoma. Well,  hell, Iowa sure ain’t the greatest anymore

Once again our glorious leader, El Oranji, will be referred to as the FIWH {the Felon In the White House}

A) Oklahoma? Why what strange rules did they put in that might affect learning in that state last week?

B) Once again the FIWH is threatening to break the law by firing Lisa Cook. What position does Lisa Cook hold?

C) The Atlantic hurricane season got off to a roaring start with a close call from what named hurricane this week?

D) Friday morning: What former FIWH foreign policy expert was surprised as the FBI searched his home at 7AM?

E) Some school questions: Why do we have summer vacation from school anyway? 

F) This week’s insanity has the FIWH wanting to do away with what election process on the recommendation of Vladimir Putin?

G) What Democratic politician has become a social media star with his mockery of the FIWH?

H) In what appears to be a test case for invading US cities, Iowa’s congressional delegation came out unanimously in favor of the FIWH’s invasion of what city?

I) Following the lead of the FIWH last January, what retail giant ended their DEI program leading to the resignation the CEO who made that decision as sales plummeted?

J) During what decade did high school become a normal path for American youth?

K) That special glow! Walmart may have sold some shrimp last week contaminated with what?

L) MAGAs go nuts as what corporation they identify with changed their logo last week? (MAGAs claim the new logo is ‘woke’) 

M) How many K-12 school teachers are there in the US?

N) Well, the Texas legislature passed the law to do what to their electoral map?

O) What other state is in the process of doing something similar in response to Texas actions?

P) In Iowa, what city passed a resolution to protect the rights of LGBTQ citizens in response to the removal those rights by the Iowa legislature?

Q) In Iowa, what city passed a resolution celebrating traditional (heterosexual) marriage?

R) That darned Canada! They had a work stoppage by what group and then settled that strike quickly?

S) An article in the New Yorker estimated that the FIWH has made about how much OFF the presidency since he has returned?

T) Finally, where the heck did the Cyclones play football yesterday?

Overtime:

U) Is he addle-pated? The FIWH said he hoped that peace in Ukraine might be enough to get him what?

V) What man who tied religion to Republican politics died Thursday?

History teachers: “Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.”

Republicans: “We’re counting on it.” – Middle Age Riot

Answers:

A) Teachers from “woke” states (currently California and New York) will have to pass a loyalty test

B) She is a governor for the Federal Reserve. The President is banned from firing them

C) Erin

D) John Bolton

E) It goes back to when children helped on the family farm

F) Mail in voting (another diversion from Epstein)

G) Governor Newsom of California

H) Washington DC

I) Target

J) The 1930s

K) radiation 

L) Cracker Barrel

M) about 4 million

N) super gerrymandered redistricting

O) California

P) Iowa City

Q) Ottumwa

R) Flight attendants

S) $3.4 billion – I don’t believe that includes the airplane bribe

T) Dublin, Ireland

Overtime:

U) no- not a Nobel Peace prize but enough to get him into heaven. Apparently he thinks he is a few tokens short for that ride

V) James Dobson – beater of children and dogs.

Trump is mad that the Smithsonian is talking about “how bad slavery was.” That’s where we’re at. – Brian Tyler Cohen