JM Bell PODCAST BROADCAST #1 = Vouchers: Worst Case Scenarios
Posted By JM Bell on November 5, 2007
Well, two months late, but here it is, the first in what will hopefully become a long list of Podcasts. This one is important, I think, because of what’s happening on Tuesday. Anyhow, take a moment and listen, will you?
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JM Bell Podcast Broadcast #1 Transcript
Figuring out Worst Case Scenarios is basically what I do for a living, and with that in mind, I am troubled by the entirety of the voucher program that the chuckleheads from Amway and WalMart have foisted on Utah by buying off Republican legislators.
So, why do these billionaires from out of state want Utah to spend their time and money giving Utah the voucher? I have a clue. They think that you’re all Sheep. I mean, one look at your legislature, and you can kind of see where they’re coming from.
It’s troublesome, it’s dishonest, and, to date, I’m having a hard time finding someone in the Mainstream Media that has followed the hypothetical dollar to its figurative end.
There are not enough private schools in Utah to deal with a mass influx of new students, where, oh, where will we find them?
This is pretty simple math. 93% of Utah Students are in Public Schools. They’re packed in pretty tight, too. With low teacher salaries, archaic school planning by the UBOE, goofy behavior by elected school boards and Republicans running the show up on the hill with no chance of actually having to be accountable for their voting behavior, it’s little wonder that people are desperate to fix stuff.
ith this is mind, my head snaps to the weird behavior of certain Republican legislators who made policy on Charter Schools and then went into business building them. Totally unethical, in my view, but, alas, they stayed in the legislature until they had business plan ready to go and all legal and stuff, and them drifted away and made a boat load of money.
I have no doubt that the PCE / Amway / WalMart cabal will do he same thing. They’ll build crappy school after crappy school with slick brochures and ignorant alumni all on the backs of the taxpayer. It’s like having your pyramid scheme insured by the FDIC.
Private School Thoughts
I have nothing but respect for almost every private school in Utah RIGHT NOW. Most of them are stellar institutions of learning and wish I could afford to send my kids there. I really do. And that’s not a reflection on Public Schools, but on my laziness as a parent. I want my kids at a private school so that there’s a tighter degree on their moral behavior. Something about the image of a nun in her habit smacking my son upside the head with a yard stick for making out with a girl in the hall appeals to me.
Accreditation / College Degrees and Teacher Accountability
This is where I drift into possible freaking out. I brought up this subject with everyone’s favorite on-air voucher whore, Ethan Millard from Salt Lake City Spin. I talked through the simple fact that the voucher bill, as it is currently written, is so full of holes that anyone, for any reason and with any agenda can open a school. Anyone. With ANY AGENDA.
There’s no oversight, see? Pretty Cool, huh? I’m looking forward to the day when the doors to the JM Bell Academy For Militant Progressive Gifted Children.The scenario that pops like a nightmare into my head is a school roster made up of freaks and weirdos from across these United States.
Imagine David Koresh teaching comparative religion. Imagine Curtis Allgier as teacher’s aide to David duke’s Diversity studies. Warren Jeffs can teach Home Ec and Women’s studies and Joe Stalin can coach the football team.
Ethan and his ilk, though, have a plan. A mighty and fool proof plan. Are you ready? If something like this happens, the legislature will make a law against it.
Never mind that this very bill will violate the hell out of the Utah Constitution by giving money to religious schools. Never mind that the State will face millions in court costs that, if I figure correctly, they’ll pay for it all out of education funds. Now, on top of it all, the state will add more grounds for law suits by discriminating against whatever screwball religion, hate group or Militant Progressive School decides to open it’s doors to take advantage of the state’s larder after we pass this damaged and indecipherable piece of legislation. If this voucher bill passes, no only will we see schools kind of like this, but when the legislature makes them against the law (and I think Ethan is showing entirely too much faith in the legislature there) they’re all going to sue us.
With that happy thought, remember, you’re vote on Tuesday is more important than you think. So take the time, and vote.
JM, just listened to your podcast. What studio?
It was a little choppy, but overall pretty good quality.
Question, You used music throughout your podcast, have you purchased the rights to use this music?
Just wondering
MT
As to your lack of oversight, what parent would send thier child to a school where “David Koresh teaching comparative religion. Imagine Curtis Allgier as teacher’s aide to David duke’s Diversity studies. Warren Jeffs can teach Home Ec and Women’s studies and Joe Stalin can coach the football team”
Also, what community would put up with such a school?
Thomas,
Are you seriously saying you don’t think whackos exist out there? And you’re right – Warren Jeffs wouldn’t teach Home Ec, he’s got plenty of wives to do teach that.
‘It was hard to listen to Jane Doe IV describe her marriage without hearing the sounds of a terrible crime.
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Doe first encountered Jeffs not as the prophet but rather in his earlier days as a teacher and then principal at her private church school, the Alta Academy, in Salt Lake City. He had been a top student, something of a computer geek, who trained as an accountant and liked to sing and write songs. But he was a stern headmaster, canceling an annual snow-sculpture contest because it smacked of idolatry. Doe recalled his lessons about proper conduct. Girls and boys were to treat each other “as though they were snakes,” she said. “There was nothing permitted romantically.” Leaving the matchmaking up to the prophet “frees you completely from all the terrible mistakes girls can make,” Jeffs said. His motto: Perfect obedience produces perfect faith, which produces perfect people.’
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1663839,00.html
What community would put up with it? Is that a serious question????
Yes, Mark, my ASCAP is all up to date. Leave it to you to come up with a dipshit question like that. And I apologize about the goofy sound. One of my kids spilled Kool-Aid on my good mic, so, I did it all with a cheap headset mic and the flu.
Thomass – I’ll ditto Misty’s answer.
From one Dipshit to another JM, good for you. ASCAP can be a real pain in the ass.
MT
Any by the way, you never explained how an airplane that has landed could retract it’s landing gear. I didn’t land gear up, so please explain?
MT
Militant Progressive!?!? You sound more like a late night NPR host, you know the guy with good ideas but is more effective at putting people to sleep than actual punditry.
While I like your ideas, I expect more excitement from JM Bell, Militant progressive.
Other than that, sounds good. Where can I subscribe so I don’t miss an episode.
Thomas, I think you are missing a key step in the “worst case scenario” Jeff is describing here:
See, you don’t know it’s David Koresh teaching your kids until after the school is established easily through the gaping holes in the voucher bill.
It’s not a matter of “what community would put up with it” but rather which community will fall victim to the “surprise” first and fastest, thanks to this ill-thought bill.
And as for Ethan’s faith in our legislature, it is very quaint. Cute almost. Methinks he hasn’t been reading Chris Cannon’s Blog
Jon Can – I’m not giving advice on investing your money, so I feel no need to scream. Fire up Heartbreak Ridge on your NetFlix and you’ll see, ala Clint Eastwood, that you can can be flinty AND militant all at the same time.
Towner – Someday you’ll find a glimmer of the delightful nuance of the written language. When you do, go read the FAA report, look at the shitty grammar and you’ll find the funny. As to ASCAP, what the hell is hard about ASCAP, aside from the annual payments?
Mark is confused, see he isn’t used to original content being on a blog, he thinks copying and pasting is what blogging is all about.
Bell – Are you referring to the FAA report itself?
I did not fill out anything. The person who filled out the FAA report was the Instructor who was PIC.
I was under the hood at the time, and had landed the airplane and we were rolling out.
Are you familiar with where the landing gear lever is on a Beech Baron? It’s right above the left knee of the instructor.
So I ask you again as a former pilot, how does one retract a landing gear after you have already landed?
Here we go again!
Great Job Jeff!
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Oh, for hell’s sake Mark, could you maybe stay on topic? If you want an answer, try emailing me. You stupid “newsletter” still does, so, give that a try.
I figure you could bounce your landing and toggle the retract mech while you were still pranging? I was making fun of the report language, you tool.
And, no, I don’t know where it is in a Beech, my twin time is in a Cessna 310.
You stupid “newsletter” still does? oops
Actually no Jeff, My newsletter is 100% opt-in. I have no idea what your email address is. I’d be happy to have a side bar anytime, just provide me with your email address, or you can send me one at thespyglass@sent.com
Mark
See … that smells of a trick. If I send to you there, you’ll consider it an opt-in and we start all over. I only get it at one email address now, instead of three, so, thank you very much, I’ll pass.
Jeff, I extend a reasonable offer but you think otherwise.
OK, since this is the only place I seem to be able to communicate with you, here is what we think happened with Baron N13RJ
As you well know, the squat switch on the landing gear prevents the intentional or accidental retracting of the landing gear once the plane has landed. We think the instructor’s knee board may have hit the landing gear handle as he was putting his gear away. If you have landed at Ogden airport before you know there are many dips and humps. On one of the humps the aircraft raised up enough to release the squat switch on the mains and the nose gear actuated for a fraction of a second overcoming the over center lock. The nose gear just retracted when I applied the brakes. The mains stayed up throughout as we slid down the runway on the nose. Then the left prop got a real good bite and pulled the plane to the left. Even with full right braking I could not keep the plane from turning left. Then the right landing gear folded in, but the left stayed up. This all happened in maybe 5-8 seconds. The concern was a fuel leak and a fire, but luckily we were spared. The damage was nearly $150,000 and almost 1 year to be repaired. It crippled my little 135 operation plans, and 9/11 killed it.
You can make fun of me if you wish on this issue, but I find nothing funny about it.
This was not a gear up landing, I did nothing wrong, and was completely cleared by the FAA.
Ok, Mark, for the last time …
I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE FAA REPORT GRAMMAR.
Sorry for yelling, but, you keep missing the point.