Hugh Manatee Wins: you'd better sit down for this one

[NewKid]

<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.wonkette.com/politics/general-dynamics/fun-with-the-militaryindustrial-complex-180503.php" target="top">www.wonkette.com/politics/general-dynamics/fun-with-the-militaryindustrial-complex-180503.php</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[professorpan]

For some reason your link didn't work, but this does:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.wonkette.com/politics/general-dynamics/fun-with-the-militaryindustrial-complex-180503.php">www.wonkette.com/politics...180503.php</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I have to say, Tread the tank is <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>so cute!</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Most corporations put out appalling propagandistic crap like that, from McDonalds to Lockheed Martin and everything in between. There's nothing new or unique about this particularly banal coloring book.<br><br>Now if Tread the Tank and Orb the Satellite got their own Saturday morning cartoon, I'd be raising hell! <p></p><i></i>

[NewKid]

Hmm, weird, link works for me. <p></p><i></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Now if Tread the Tank and Orb the Satellite got their own Saturday morning cartoon, I'd be raising hell!<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Militainment is everywhere in media dumped in front of kids on TV and in movies.<br><br>That's what the History channel (the 'Hitler channel') has been and last year the Miltary Channel started up showing 'cool' big boy toys to America's children.<br><br>Militainment is so omnipresent that many parents don't even see it anymore, <!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">hidden in plain sight.</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Look at all those children now wearing military camouflage-colored clothes.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Because they see it on TV and then on each other. 'Saving the world' as <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>a secret super-hero</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> is a theme everywhere with 'The Incredibles' being a prime example of a male-centric force with female support.<br><br>The boy=blue/girl=pink programming begins from day 1 of a child's life, imprinting values in the same way nationalism is using red-white-and-blue for the marketing of 'USA, Inc.'<br><br>The gender identities of Warrior or Princess is now being adjusted to bring girls into the CIA and Pentagon fighting culture by adding the combined role ofWarrior Princess like Zena, Buffy, etc.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://kidstvmovies.about.com/od/hannahmontana/ig/Hannah-Montana-Photos/Miley-and-Lilly.htm">kidstvmovies.about.com/od...-Lilly.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>caption of photo below-<br>Miley (MILEY CYRUS) and her best friend Lilly (EMILY OSMENT) meddle in their friend's dating life in <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the new Disney Channel series</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> "Hannah Montana"<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://z.about.com/d/kidstvmovies/1/0/6/2/hannahlilly113.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 6/14/06 11:06 am<br></i>