July 12, 2004
Conspiracy theorist extraordinaire
Oh, yeah, THIS is the kind of guy who should be elected as the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction:
I, David Blomstrom, a candidate for state office (Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction), hereby declare my belief that President George W. Bush deserves and should receive the death penalty, after the appropriate legal or quasi-legal formalities. I urge other patriotic Americans and foreign nationals alike to openly call for Bush’s execution. Furthermore, I sent my first press release announcing my position to Al-Jazeera in symbolic gesture designed to call attention to the corruption that runs rampant in America’s media.
Rather than link to the actual, repellant site (which uses Nazi imagery, from what I understand), I linked to the Peeve Farm's hilarious rejoinder. If you've seen Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie, the joke becomes even funnier (on the right in this photo is one of the aliens-that-we-weren't-supposed-to-know-were-aliens).
And don't miss the list of shocking "facts" that Blomstrom lists on his education reform site. My favorite is "Education reform is an international conspiracy," although I suppose it's also interesting that Blomstrom sees nothing inconsistent with listing these two "facts": "Mental illness is probably far more prevalent among teachers than among the general population" and "Teacher bashing is a national epidemic." I guess he's infected? Of course, nothing is provided to support these "facts;" that's something Blomstrom will comment on at a later date. Much later, I'm sure.
Googling him leads to the impression that he is much more obsessed with President Bush than with improving education, but don't assume he's anti-war; he's quite in favor of war. And the Seattle Post-Intelligencer redeems itself in my eyes by ignoring Blomstrom's campaigns. Seattle Weekly didn't ignore him, though.
The following sentence appears at the bottom of one of his websites:
"Feel free to use this image or the Education Revolt logo in the top left corner of this page for linking to this website."
Okay!
is the logo of a website run by a man who is either insane, an idiot, or both.
(No, I'm not going to activate the link. Give him two links in one post? Yeah, right.)
Posted by kswygert at July 12, 2004 05:28 PM