A Pretzel Salad and the Observer

Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is Thursday, October 20, 2011. Our beloved alien friend Scotty, the Observer, is back from a fact finding mission about a new proposal before the Senate. He wants to discuss some things with us but not on an empty stomach. In his travels he came across a recipe for a Pretzel Salad and he has respectfully requested that we prepare one this morning.

You will need 2 and 2/3 cup crushed pretzels, 1 large container of Cool Whip, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 small packages of strawberry jello, 3/4 cup butter, 2 and 1/2 cups boiling water, 8 ounces of cream cheese, 1 cup sugar and 1 pint frozen strawberries.

Cream togetheer 2 tablespoons sugar and butter. Add pretzels. Press mixture into a 9 X 13 baking pan and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

Combine cream cheese and 1 cup of sugar. Add Cool Whip and spread mixture over cooled baked pretzels. Mix Jello and water and strawberries. Allow mixture to partially set and pour over cream cheese. Chill until firm. Gather up your breakfast and head for my home. Scotty and I will greet you at the door. He will relieve you of your Pretzel Salad and I will thank you with a delicious Banana Daiquiri. See you soon.

Welcome my adored earthling family. Sen. Tom Harkin a Democrat from Iowa has taken it upon himself to give education in your nation a facelift. He has produced an enormous proposal totaling a mere 860 pages that rewrites the No Child Left Behind program. Because I am capable of reading a document such as this in a few seconds I can tell you positively that it is chock full of new regulations and lots of red tape. Your local school districts would be buried under this paperwork and Washington D.C. will be able to maintain a a stranglehold on education K-12.

Sen. Harkin is pulling a" Nancy Pelosi". He wants your Congress to pass the legislation without investigation and discussion. In other words he doesn't want any one to read it. He is also pulling a "Hillary Clinton". He doesn't see the necessity of bringing in educators like teachers, principals and superintendents to see their reaction to the proposal. Remember when Hillary Clinton pulled together a group of people to discuss her healthcare proposals without iinviting any doctors onboard?

I must say you earthlings have a most peculiar way of doing business. Forgive me when I say it really is ass backwards! Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, feels the same way about this "bum's rush" to passage. I have to say I admire the Senator. He is going to slow down this process by introducing at least 100 amendments, one of which is the repeal of the entire program. He has the novel idea that actually reading the bill and discussing it is the way to go. I do too.

May I offer a piece of advice. I think that you should do all you can to kill this proposal. Write to your representatives and urge them to get the federal government out of the business of education. Let's face it, my earthling friends, their interference has produced dismal results. Your system is broken. Your children run the risk of ending up like the Wall Street protesters, sleeping on the ground and producing nothing but garbage.

Take back the reins of education. Don't let the federal government dictate standards. Let the states make their own decisions according to their needs. Your children deserve better than what they are getting. Get the long and intrusive arm of the federal government out of your children's lives. Their future depends upon it. NA, NU, NA, NU... SCOTTY...NU, NA, NU, NA...POP...