Schoolhouse Rock.....The Modern Version....

I have posted quite a few "Schoolhouse Rock" video's on my blog. and the most popular one is"The Bill", this one explains how a bill can become law.  Schoolhouse Rock was a staple when I would watch cartoons on Saturday morning.  it is a fond memory that I have of my childhood, as most people have.

     Original version

    But since we have entered the modern age of Obama, the traditional ways that have worked for over 200 years are no longer being used for legislation. 

Apparently NBC blocked this on "Copyright law's"..I wonder how much pressure the Present regime put on NBC to pull it since it was unfavorable to the Messiah.

      Our founding fathers had designed a system where they believed that they had formed a system of government that would support the ideals of Freedom and individual liberty.  They also knew that as long as the people were educated, that the ideals of freedom would flourish.  But in the modern age of Obama, the people are no longer educated on the ideals of freedom, they are educated on what free stuff they can get from the government, and all it would take is to support the policies of the government.  The people have sold out their birth-rite on the promises of free stuff.  As long as they get "their stuff" they will give their loyalty to the government.  Here is the danger of slavery, not the physical kind, but the more insidious slavery of spirit.  Once enslaved as such, the person sees everything as a "race to keep the free stuff coming".  They no longer have hope of their spirit being free, to pursue their dreams....their hope is replaced by the hope that their EBT card gets loaded at the beginning of the month.  Their spirit is crushed by the slavery that they willingly signed on for with the promise of "Free Stuff."  They have sold their soul into bondage and the bondage will consume them.

      I am a fan of the show "Babylon5"  and the character of G'kar played by the late Andreas Katsulas made a speech of freedom that resonated.  It is one of the favorite clips from the fans from that 5 year run of the show.

5 minute clip

More Schoolhouse Rock!!

I am behind the power curve.....again.  Seems to be a regular condition.  I want to do more ranting but don't have the time to put it on blogger.  I will try tomorrow perhaps...So I decided to go with"Schoolhouse Rock.  I liked those things when I was a kid and learned a lot from it.

                                       Conjunction Junction.....What is your Function



Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, videos) that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network ABC. The topics covered includedgrammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. The series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1985, and was later revived with both old and new episodes airing from 1993 to 1999. Additional episodes were produced as recently as 2009 for direct-to-video release.

Schoolhouse Rock! began as a commercial advertising venture by David McCall, half of the Madison Avenue advertising agency McCaffrey & McCall. The idea came to McCall when he noticed one of his sons, who was having trouble in school remembering the multiplication tables, knew the lyrics to then-current rock songs.

The first song recorded was Three Is a Magic Number, written by Bob Dorough. It tested well, so a children's record was compiled and released. Tom Yohe listened to the first song, and began to doodle pictures to go with the lyrics. He told McCall that the songs would make good animation.

When a print workbook version fell through, McCall's company decided to produce their own animated versions of the songs, which they then sold to ABC (which was already the advertising company's biggest account) based on a demo animation of the original "Three Is A Magic Number" for its Saturday morning lineup. They pitched their idea to Michael Eisner, then vice-president of ABC's children's programming division. Eisner brought longtime Warner Bros. cartoonist/director Chuck Jones to the meeting to also listen to the presentation.

The network's children's programming division had producers of its regular 30- and 60-minute programs cut three minutes out of each of their shows, and sold General Foods on the idea of sponsoring the segments.

The series stayed on the air for 12 years. Later sponsors of the Schoolhouse Rock! segments also included Nabisco, Kenner Toys, Kellogg's, and McDonald's. During the early 1970s, Schoolhouse Rock was one of several short-form animated educational shorts that aired on ABC's children's lineup; others included Time for Timer andThe Bod Squad. Of the three, Schoolhouse Rock was the longest-running.

Thirty-seven episodes were recorded and produced between 1972 and 1980. The first season of Schoolhouse Rock, "Multiplication Rock," debuted in 1973 and discussed all of the multiplication tables from two through twelve, with one episode devoted to powers of 10 (My Hero Zero) instead of multiples of ten. This original series was followed in short order by a new series which ran from 1973 to 1975, entitled "Grammar Rock," which discussed nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech (such as conjunctions, explained in "Conjunction Junction").

"How a bill becomes law..."

   Remember the "schoolhouse Rock that was around when I was a kid.  they were corny but they helped us kids remember some stuff like multiplication rules and of course "vowels".  I wonder what kids today use...?

"I'm Just a Bill" is a Schoolhouse Rock! segment, featuring a song of the same title written by Dave Frishberg. The segment debuted as part of "America Rock", the third season of the Schoolhouse Rock series, in 1975. The song featured in the segment is sung by Jack Sheldon (the voice of the Bill) and his son (the boy learning the process). It is about how a bill becomes a law, how it must go through Congress, and how it can be vetoed, etc.
The Bill is for the law that school buses must stop at railroad crossings. In the song, the Bill becomes a law. In reality, such a bill has never been approved by the United States Congress (traffic laws are typically handled at the state legislature level, and several states have such a law).
The song was covered by The Folk Implosion as "Deluxx Folk Implosion" for Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks in 1996.