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ONLY GOVERNMENT

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Neal Boortz
@ April 30, 2009 8:08 AM Permalink | Comments (26) | TrackBacks (0)

You are not going to believe this. Only government would come up with something like this ....

FEMA has caught a lot of flack for creating a coloring book for children. The coloring book was supposed to inform children about disaster-preparedness. So there are pictures to color of various disasters - hurricanes, floods, etc. Then you come to a page where there is a picture of the World Trade Center twin towers. One of the towers has fire coming out of it while an airplane is shown heading toward the other tower. Download a pdf of the whole thing here.

Isn't this great! Give our children some crayons and a nice picture of the a plane running into the World Trade Center to color! Did they put any bodies falling to the streets below in the picture? Well ... probably too small to color. Maybe they could have put that in an insert.

Folks, this has to be a joke. I can't believe that someone would actually think that this is a good idea. Then again, we are dealing with FEMA employees, so maybe my expressions of surprise are absurd.

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What others are saying

  • @ Forrest
    Still afflicted with BDS? Just wait until your Obamessiah gets through reducing national security to an unrecognizable pulp. Mybe he's just PRETENDING to be a kowtowing milksop.
    What a crafty guy.
    By sfcmac @ 05/07/09 06:56:50 PMreport abuse
  • Kids book not for kids
    I've studied child development, and I really don't think kids think "is this my fault" and "why" at the ages where this book is intended.

    I think the kids that are traumatized are affected by their parents' reactions to the disasters. They are worried because kids typically trust their parents when they're under 10. Want to help out kids in a crisis? Educate the parents.
    By Rainer @ 05/04/09 12:51:25 AMreport abuse
  • S9
    Sorry, I am a little late with this...but I have to comment that S9 has pulled the Kindergarten playground argument that is so commonm these days. Lets pick on Bush so that we cant have a real discussion together. Take note people....this argument is getting used more and more these days...its shows the real intelligence in this country.
    By Bitter Gun Clinging American @ 05/01/09 08:03:09 AMreport abuse
  • It is Copyright 2003, did you notice that?
    Why is this an issue now? Isn't this something on the order of six years old? I'll betcha that someone thinks this is (or should be) Obama at work again. That sly time-travelling President! I'll bet he was also responsible for not including 'emergency' military spending during the Iraq war in the standard Congressional Budget, thereby making it look like we had a much more manageable deficit. That silly, crafty Obama!
    By Forrest @ 04/30/09 04:41:40 PMreport abuse
  • S9
    "There probably should just be one big picture of Dubya to color. After all, he is one of the biggest disasters ever to hit the US."

    Wait....
    By Joyce M/Blythe @ 04/30/09 02:33:29 PMreport abuse
  • preparing?
    I see a couple of comments here that this is somehow in the interest of preparing our kids for something like this or worse. In this same interest, I contend that a coloring book full of pictures of aircraft carriers, fighter jets, cruisers, and a myriad of other fine machines is much better preparation for the kids who don't march off to feed Landru at 5 o'clock every day when the gong goes off.
    Picture a nice aircraft carrier on page 1 with the caption underneath
    "90,000 tons of diplomacy!"
    By shuttin down @ 04/30/09 02:32:24 PMreport abuse
  • The Problem
    My objection -- and I think Neal's -- is that this is a coloring book, something that's supposed to be, you know, fun and stuff. I have no problem with a pamphlet or something, but -- for reasons I can't identify -- a coloring book rubs me the wrong way.
    By MikeS @ 04/30/09 11:13:08 AMreport abuse
  • @Huh
    Do you not remember 9/11? The second tower crashing was caught live on TV.

    That is what is being depicted.

    And FYI, this is something published during the Bush era. So bringing in Obama references is pretty silly.

    There probably should just be one big picture of Dubya to color. After all, he is one of the biggest disasters ever to hit the US.
    By S9 @ 04/30/09 11:09:02 AMreport abuse
  • Twin tower coloring book
    This may not be a bad idea. I think it is best to keep events such as 9/11, the Holocaust, etc fresh in people's minds. You do this by reminding them. As Holocaust survivors are dying off, more and more deniers are becoming vocal. The stupid flyover in NYC while led to some people wetting their pants, hopefully did what this goverment did not intend at all, that is remind people that we are still very vulnerable to an attack from an organized and determined enemy. I think a healthy reminder of what happened is needed much more often than a yearly memorial.
    By Alex @ 04/30/09 11:04:27 AMreport abuse
  • Outrageous!
    I'm appalled by the quality of art! Is that what passes for a coloring book these days? I guess it's good enough for government work...
    By Stochinblockin @ 04/30/09 10:53:53 AMreport abuse
  • Missing pages?
    Add a page of our Messiah smiling and shaking hands with Kim Jong Il as a North Korean mushroom cloud vaporizes California.
    By AVI8OR @ 04/30/09 10:19:04 AMreport abuse
  • Not FEMA
    Not FEMA, but a county authority in Minnesota.
    By Mas Futbol @ 04/30/09 10:10:27 AMreport abuse
  • ?
    What’s the problem? It is a book to help kid prepare, not a comic book.
    By 2nd law of thermodynamics @ 04/30/09 09:38:05 AMreport abuse
  • Incomplete!
    Where's Barak's picture to color in this? (I don't know if that was a racist comment or not. I just don't know!)
    By Jim @ 04/30/09 09:34:43 AMreport abuse
  • FEMA
    Neal, you wrote, "Then again, we're dealing with FEMA employees." Shouldn't that be "government employees'?

    Why do so many Americans demand and wait for the "gubmit" to take care of and save them? I weep at the loss of the American spirit.
    By Scrap Iron @ 04/30/09 09:25:03 AMreport abuse
  • Picture caption
    Here comes President Barack "Maverick" Obama, buzzing the tower, making sure everyone is safe. He wants you to know, he's on the job!
    By Totalkaosdave @ 04/30/09 09:19:31 AMreport abuse
  • wrong approach
    Parents should be the ones addressing these terrorist attacks (they are NOT disasters) with their children, not the government. This could be a tool to be used by parents, that would be fine, but I would rather answer their questions instead of a government teacher.
    By Joyce M/Blythe @ 04/30/09 09:18:18 AMreport abuse
  • It happened, let's not forget
    I see bumper stickers about how we will never forget. I think its okay to let kids know what happened. What I really was scrutinizing the book for was to whom it suggested the kids talk to: parents and your favorite teacher. I would be worried if they left parents out of the picture. Stuff happens. Its how the government wants you to react is where we need to stay vigilant.
    By Greg @ 04/30/09 09:12:14 AMreport abuse
  • Neal, I don't get it
    What's the problem with the book as a whole, and particularly the 911 pic (besides that it's a government production)? Aren't you the one who says we shouldn't forget and become too complacent? Isn't it likely given present foreign policy that kids will go through something way too much like 9/11? we'd better get them ready for it. Yeah, I had nightmares of mushroom clouds in 1962, and I survived.
    By Jeffrey Quick @ 04/30/09 08:58:23 AMreport abuse
  • and we wonder
    why kids are scared
    By Joyce M/Blythe @ 04/30/09 08:51:56 AMreport abuse
  • FEMA
    GD-it. September 11 was not a disaster. It was a massacre...an atrocity...an attack. What an Orwellian world we live in.
    By Tom Schaffner @ 04/30/09 08:48:26 AMreport abuse
  • Coloring Book
    If they wanted to depict the real threat they should have just included a pic of Obama lighting 17 TRILLION DOLLARS afire.
    By Randy @ 04/30/09 08:44:29 AMreport abuse
  • Huh?
    If the kid can see the towers falling on the television and outside of her (I'm guessing the kid's a girl) window, then that means what is happening is in real time. How is it that it is already in print and that she is looking at a picture when it is currently happening?
    By Jineane @ 04/30/09 08:42:48 AMreport abuse
  • FEMA coloring book
    Is there another current government publication that references ANYTHING about 9/11? Doubt it. Good on you FEMA, how else will the next generation know about the twin towers.
    By Brian @ 04/30/09 08:42:03 AMreport abuse
  • Clarify, please
    What, exactly, is Neal's problem with this? Should children not be exposed to "Bad Things Happening"--in which case, he's against the idea of having a disaster-preparedness book at all?

    Or shouldn't a terrorist attack be treated as another type of disaster that kids need to know about to stay safe?
    By Copyleft @ 04/30/09 08:35:33 AMreport abuse
  • Respectfully disagree
    When I read about this on foxnews.com last night, I had the opposite reaction. I think that perhaps the AF1 fly-by in NYC was a catalyst for part of the reaction to this book, because it has been around for more than 5 years without comment or incident. It seems to me that this approach is far healthier: teaching children to face trauma head-on rather than coddle them and allow them to pretend that they just don't happen.

    Personally, I don't subscribe to the philosophy that children aren't resilient enough to handle this sort of thing. I find it far better for them to be taught to deal with these things given the tools they have (they are better at drawing their emotions than attempting to talk them out) than for the typical knee-jerk "counseling" approach that seems to have become the default.
    By drscar @ 04/30/09 08:31:34 AMreport abuse
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