Your government, your friend
In the "creepy, get the government out of my life" category, ...... the nominees are:
The Army's "How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk" program, also called "P.I.C.K. a Partner," for Premarital Interpersonal Choices and Knowledge. Basically, this is a program to "help" soldiers find mates who are more accomodating to the military lifestyle, long deployments, "life altering injuries," and this PTSD euphemism,
"Many come back better people, others worse-off — but either way, very changed from who they were when they wed."
It's filled with useless acronyms, cheesy oversimplicity, and, of course, it was created by an ex-evangelical minister and is pushed by protestant chaplains.
The second nominee is the DHS's new mascot Scaredy Cat who is intended to put a child friendly face on disaster preparedness. Not too bad of an idea until you read some of the literature. Scaredy Cat tells 8-12 year olds everything they might need to know about preparing for disaster with a crossword puzzle and other fun things to help the kids learn how to prepare for life on a charred, post-apocalyptic hellscape. It's fun!!
As a third nominee, I'm gonna reach back three weeks to nominate the Pentagon's utilization of "laugh consultants" to help take the stress out of the war in Iraq. "The guiding principle is to laugh for no reason. And that's one of the reasons it works so well for military families," Scott says. "There's a lot they have to be stressed over, a lot of worries, a lot of concerns."
They're all pretty messed up to me, so take your pick.
The Army's "How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk" program, also called "P.I.C.K. a Partner," for Premarital Interpersonal Choices and Knowledge. Basically, this is a program to "help" soldiers find mates who are more accomodating to the military lifestyle, long deployments, "life altering injuries," and this PTSD euphemism,
"Many come back better people, others worse-off — but either way, very changed from who they were when they wed."
It's filled with useless acronyms, cheesy oversimplicity, and, of course, it was created by an ex-evangelical minister and is pushed by protestant chaplains.
The second nominee is the DHS's new mascot Scaredy Cat who is intended to put a child friendly face on disaster preparedness. Not too bad of an idea until you read some of the literature. Scaredy Cat tells 8-12 year olds everything they might need to know about preparing for disaster with a crossword puzzle and other fun things to help the kids learn how to prepare for life on a charred, post-apocalyptic hellscape. It's fun!!
As a third nominee, I'm gonna reach back three weeks to nominate the Pentagon's utilization of "laugh consultants" to help take the stress out of the war in Iraq. "The guiding principle is to laugh for no reason. And that's one of the reasons it works so well for military families," Scott says. "There's a lot they have to be stressed over, a lot of worries, a lot of concerns."
They're all pretty messed up to me, so take your pick.
posted by mikevotes at
1:58 PM
1 Comments:
Cast my vote for "laugh for no reason." Generally, when a person laughs for no apparent reason, they are in the grips of a specific neurological disease, or suffer from a mental illness. They should have just called the program "Insanity is great way to cope."
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