MooPig Home School Department :: "Teachers Say: ..."

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 3, 2013 | Bryan TX

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13+ Things Your Child's Teacher Won't Tell You | Reader's Digest: "4. Kids used to go out and play after school and resolve problems on their own. Now, with computers and TV, they lack the skills to communicate. They don't know how to get past hurt feelings without telling the teacher and having her fix it."

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Go to this site to see how the teachers have responded to our NEW ERA of postmodern techno barbarism.



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http://www.rd.com/slideshows/slideshow-13-things-your-childs-teacher-wont-tell-you/?trkid=outbrain-all#slideshow=slide4
http://www.zeroto60andbeyond.com/?p=678

MooPig Report from the Middle :: "TV Trends"

Meet Your New TV
by Pat Darnell | Dec 15, 2012 | Bryan TX

Cutting the Cable: Pay TV Subscribers Turn to Internet - ArkansasBusiness.com: "Between 2008 and 2011, an estimated 2.65 million people, or 2.6 percent of U.S. pay TV subscribers, cut their TV subscriptions to rely solely on online content or watch broadcast television with the use of an antenna, according to an April report from the Convergence Consulting Group Ltd. of Toronto, which studies the trend. Of that number, 1.05 million did it in 2011, and it is projected that by the end of this year the number of cord cutters will reach 3.58 million, the study said."

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In three years, 2.6% of US TV end users cut off their Cables. That means in 2098 no one will be connected to Cable TV. I think Cable will become something else before that happens. With Netflix, Hulu, and dozens of other streaming companies, Cable will just be replaced with these. It is already happening... duh?

Technology companies like Apple, and Micro soft have consoles that satisfy all your streaming TV needs. For instance Microsoft makes the XBOX360 console that can be made wireless, and movement synchronous, so you login, and wave your hands, and up pops your programs on Hulu or Netflix, YouTube or Blockbuster...

So middle America can now dance with Rocky and CeCe on Shake it Up! while making dinner. Or you can watch all the YouTube presentations of recent UFO activity on UFOTV, on YouTube.

Cutting the cable, one "doesn't regret the decision, even though some TV shows aren't available, such as the ones involving the Kardashian clan or sporting events. (Mark Friedman. Posted 7/16/2012. LINK)"

Much of the middle society will witness the death of television as we know it on Aug 29th, 2045. Why that date? I just made it up, because that day I will be 90 years and two months old. HA!

So in our lifetimes we will not see that much happen that isn't happening today. Tech companies have become more careful about releasing the next big thing quickly as it comes available. That is why there hasn't been an upgrade from XBOX-360 to say the XBOX-terabyte, like one would expect happening by now.

Essentially, corporations would go bankrupt if they introduced new tech just as their older tech stuff was peaking globally. You will have to depend on tech elite to bring you the bigger better consoles as we move into Techno-barbaric Climate Change Age. We have exhausted the term Post-Modernism... so we come up with a new name for today.

That's our Report from the Middle -- where the men are good looking, the women are strong, and the children are above average.

MooPig Architectural Summary :: "Post Modern Architecture?"

Post Modernism ... Yes?

MooPig's Fact-Checker Department :: "Harry Reid"

Public Record is not so Public, is it?!
Picked up by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 28, 2012  |  Bryan TX

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It doesn't matter now, Romney got shellacked in the election, but did he or did he not pay income taxes for ten years? I still would like to know how far old Mitt went in his money grubbing years with Bain Capital.

It looks like this is something a member of the citizenry of the USA is not meant to know. DRAT!

Another factchecking fiasco : CJR: "A week ago, The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein and Ryan Grim published an article repeating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s claim that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes for ten years. Though Reid provided no evidence other than hearsay about what he was told by an unnamed Bain investor (which HuffPost clarified in the ninth paragraph of the story), the story set in motion a controversy that exemplifies how partisans and ideologues exploit the structural weaknesses of journalism and factchecking." (Brendan Nyhan. Wednesday, November 28, 2012. LINK)

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Read entire article HERE ...

The facts that would exonerate or validate the income tax dodge "went by way of misleading half-truths and strategically ambiguous language to promote agendas."

" ... No one, including Reid, has seriously contested the claim that his accusation is unsubstantiated. Instead, Romney opponents and critics of factchecking organizations have relied on a series of semantic maneuvers to try to change the issue. This approach has often been successful—in part, it seems, because the GOP nominee has breached a norm in not releasing more tax returns, creating an impression among reporters that he has something to hide. ... "

" ... The highest ranked Democrat in Congress, Reid is known more as a back room brawler than a public flamethrower. So his willingness to throw this private conversation into the media frenzy over Romney's taxes underscores the low opinion he has of the Republican candidate. (HUFF POST. 07/31/2012. LINK) ... "

BLIMEY!

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http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/another_fact-checking_fiasco.php?page=all
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/harry-reid-romney-taxes_n_1724027.html?view=print&comm_ref=false
http://www.rightspeak.net/2012/11/romney-and-obama-to-meet-in-white-house.html
http://www.newser.com/article/da2r2j9o0/white-house-obama-to-meet-privately-with-romney-on-thursday.html

What it means to think like a postmodernist :: Bill Gaines

Above: a 1963 photo of Bill Gaines entering the MAD offices. Poking their heads out of the door are (from top to bottom): Nick Meglin, John Putnam, Al Feldstein, Leonard Brenner, Nelson Tirado, and Jerry De Fuccio.

MooPig's Favorite Post-Modernist is Bill Gaines
by Pat Darnell | June 16, 2011 | Bryan TX

What it means to think like a postmodernist - National cognitive science | Examiner.com: "Godel’s incompleteness theorem)."

1952

Bill Gaines knew that the man who would edit MAD had to have a brilliant sense of humor as well as a groundbreaking visual sense. He had to be a man who could see through the phoniness of popular culture. And he had to be a man who could take a little 10-cent comic book and transform it into the premiere satirical force of the 20th century.

Unfortunately, that man was busy, so Gaines hired Harvey Kurtzman.

Also, in 1952...

The second issue of MAD goes on sale on December 9, 1952. On December 11, the first-ever letter complaining that MAD "just isn't as funny and original like it used to be" arrives.

1954

The storybook marriage of baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and tinseltown bombshell Marilyn Monroe soon goes sour due to MAD's corrosive influence. Joe becomes enraged as he watches Marilyn film a movie scene standing over a subway grating, her dress flying high in the breeze. Insiders assume DiMaggio is outraged because hundreds of drooling onlookers are ogling his wife's exposed thighs and buttocks. But what REALLY infuriates the Yankee Clipper is that his wife would debase herself in public by reading MAD.

July 1955

MAD Magazine is born (#24). Gaines and Kurtzman turn MAD into a bi-monthly, black-and-white magazine. More importantly, they get to raise the price from 10-cents to a quarter! Although it will be another year before he's named and adopted as MAD's official mascot, Alfred E. Neuman makes his first appearance on the border of MAD (#24) as the "What, Me Worry" Kid

Also, in 1955...

Not all the legal news is good for Bill Gaines and MAD. Without video games or rap music to pick on, Congress is forced to hold hearings on the dangers of comic books. This poses a direct threat to Gaines' varied line of titles: Tales from the Crypt, Crypt of Terror, The Terrible Crypt, The Terrorizingly Terrible Crypt Tales, and MAD. Gaines volunteers to testify before a Senate committee. It does not go well:

Also in 1955, MooPig's Founder, Pat Darnell, is Born in Ft Worth, TX ... June 4th .... during a tornadic thunderstorm.

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http://www.examiner.com/cognitive-science-in-national/what-it-means-to-think-like-a-postmodernist
http://www.dccomics.com/mad/about/?action=about1

http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-1977-25-years-of-mad-magazine.html