I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
AGAIN?!??
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greedy!
Talk to teachers all over the country - they'll tell you how they feel about the NCLB program.
Unfunded, undiciplined, unfocused.
A bunch of crooks -- no surprise!
Nothing to see here, move along!
oops, lost gravy for a minute there.
*gasp*
no dollar left behind!
They is all a bunch of crooks.
I wrote about this earlier: I will repost that in a moment. Did ya'll catch this bit from the link to the Wall Street Journal at Josh's place?
In exchange for supporting the bill, the local congressman, Rick Renzi, a Republican, insisted on something in return: He wanted Resolution to buy, as part of the land swap, a 480-acre alfalfa field near his hometown of Sierra Vista, according to documents and people involved in the deal.
Resolution executives refused. For starters, they thought the land was overpriced, people close to the deal say. More troubling, they discovered it was owned by Mr. Renzi's former business partner, these people say.
Resolution wasn't the only party troubled by the congressman's demands. His chief of staff resigned and began cooperating secretly with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to witnesses and others close to the case. The FBI began a preliminary inquiry that was first reported in October, just before Mr. Renzi was elected to a third term.
That investigation has now become a formal public-corruption probe by a federal grand jury in Tucson. On Thursday, the grand jury authorized a search warrant of a Renzi family business. Investigators have uncovered evidence that Mr. Renzi received a cash payment from his former business partner, funneled through a family wine company, after a second investor group pursuing an unrelated land swap agreed to pay $4 million for the alfalfa field, according to people contacted in the course of the two-year investigation.
Mr. Renzi denies any wrongdoing and says that he intends to cooperate with the investigation. The search of the family business, he said in a statement Friday, is "the first step toward getting the truth out." His lawyer says the cash payment he received was to settle an unrelated debt.
The case could add fuel to the firestorm over the Bush administration's firing of federal prosecutors late last year. Paul Charlton, the U.S. Attorney who had been overseeing the case, was among those dismissed at the behest of the White House. A spokesman for Mr. Renzi dismissed as "a political hatchet job" the suggestion that Mr. Charlton's firing was connected to the probe of Mr. Renzi. On Thursday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told Congress that none of the dismissals were politically motivated, and said the Justice Department is committed to battling corruption.
"See! See! DOJ is investigating No Child Left Behind! The U.S. Attorney 'scandal' is phony! Fake! Drummed up by leftist lefty leftists!"
/wingnut
I'm about to make gravy, or so they say.
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"'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'" -- GK Chesterton
"My Attorney General, weak or idiotic" doesn't even reach this standard.
Considering the degree to which the entire initiative was touted by Bush, this should really come as no surprise.
Does this have anything to do with Neil Bush and his "educational" software?
Moonbootica..
Is there a yang to your yin?
*gasp* corruption in the Bush Junta, colour me stunned
Billion dollar program?
Million dollar skim?
Not just corrupt: corrupt and incompetent -- that's only 1%.
Thanks for the sheetz notice.
I'll go do it.
Neil "Silverado" Bush is in the mix shouldn't that tell anyone it's corrupt?
Does this have anything to do with Neil Bush and his "educational" software?
First thought that entered me cranium.
Well, that and "can someone get me another cup of coffee?"
Yes, the Bush family has ties to the family who own McGraw-Hill that go way back.
It was McGraw to whom the business was being steered.
Back when I was working for Harcourt, McGraw was the only one of the big textbook companies (only 4 of them now, thanks to rapacious corporate takeovers) that wasn't updating books and coming out with new editions. You can't sell books if you don't do that - school systems don't want to buy the same thing they bought 5 or 6 years ago.
Seems McGraw knew that the money would keep flowing, even if they didn't bother with trying to compete.
Unfunded, undiciplined, unfocused.
Conservatism in a nutshell.
I gotta go and see a man about a problem with his 250k dollar house.
You just gotta love the building industry.
I've said it before, but --
There isn't a single figure in the Bush administration who isn't corrupt, crazy, incompetent, or a combination thereof.
I'll go do it.
Tena | Homepage | 04.21.07 - 11:00 am | #
no one ever reads my comments.
Moonbootica..
Is there a yang to your yin?
Neill Naughtse | 04.21.07 - 10:59 am | #
lol actually yeah, sort of, he is a PhD student
This is what they are talking about: With the passage of the NCLB law schools such as mine were enticed (nay, ordered) into a program called READING FIRST. Reading First dictated not only how reading would be taught but more importantly, WHAT materials would be used to teach reading. The materials were to be purchased by vendors out of the State of Texas. Their first requirement (the one that has really and truly pissed me off) was that all other materials by other publishers be removed from the classrooms. The districts were then given money by the Feds to buy ONLY this material. (Whether it was any good or not.) There was no choice as to whether we would participate in the program or what materials we would use or not.
They actually provided money to hire administrators to make certain that the districts (that did not have a choice) were adhering to the dictates of the grant.
So, here it is: the government allocated money to pay for a CERTAIN reading program that was manufactured by their friends. They prohibited the schools from choosing anything other than this material (They made certain that this would be a continuing expense by dictating that the consumable portions were actually used ensuring an income stream for years to come) They used Federal monies to enforce their scheme.
I thought it stunk. In the upper elementary we had a choice to particpate or not, I gave a passionate speech and we opted out.
Strib this morning:
Former state Attorney General Mike Hatch said Friday that he didn't take court action last summer on allegations against an autism center because the center had links to state GOP chairman Ron Carey. At the time, Hatch was the DFL candidate for governor, Carey was an antagonist and Hatch feared a lawsuit might look like retaliation.
Instead, Hatch referred the case to the U.S. attorney's office, and it was taken up by an assistant who recently sought an appointment to a judgeship from Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose, who once did legal work for the Republican Party and is a former party delegate, recused herself from the autism case when it arrived at the federal courthouse.
These developments demonstrate the political intrigue and complications that surround the investigation into whether the Minnesota Autism Center overbilled the state millions for medical assistance payments at a time when the GOP's Carey was also the Autism Center's chairman.
Hatch said he didn't pursue court action last year against the center because it would look bad.
"I looked at it and thought, 'If I sued that out, I guarantee ... you would have said, 'That ... Hatch is abusing the system.' "
Your GOP powerbrokers....steaming men at work.
Well, that and "can someone get me another cup of coffee?"
watertiger | Homepage | 04.21.07 - 11:00 am | #
would you like some irish creme in that?
I hollered s h e e p s below!
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The Ethics of Labor Struggle: A Free Market Perspective
I hollered s h e e p s below!
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Jeffraham
Ok Ok I was wrong - I missed the calls. Sorry.
the government allocated money to pay for a CERTAIN reading program that was manufactured by their friends. They prohibited the schools from choosing anything other than this material
ah, the invisible hand of the free market.
watertiger:
Posted below, in case you didn't see it --
Can't make the festivities this evening, but that just means I get to be surprised and delighted when you post the video.
Love to everybody there....
The Next Big Miscarriage of Justice
Moonbootica..
Is there a yang to your yin?
Neill Naughtse | 04.21.07 - 10:59 am | #
lol actually yeah, sort of, he is a PhD student
Moonbootica, Jog On!
Have you introduced him to Tena yet?? Does she approve if his jib?
Oooooh! Are we getting another installment of Atlas Juggs this weekend?
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I guess this is going to be another one of those mornings where you have just enough time to read the link and think of something to say about it before there's another thread and everybody runs upstairs. Time to do a bit of tidying up until the dust settles.....
Have you introduced him to Tena yet?? Does she approve if his jib?
Bad Art
O calm down - Moon has had the same damn stalker I've had.
If I'm protective, it's because I care.
Bad Art its cool
Does this have anything to do with Neil Bush and his "educational" software?
jk
Why yes, yes it does. The Bush family really excels at criminal activity, they are unbelievably corrupt,
These comments are all dried out already. Post again, Atrios.
I've got to wash every single damned thang I can wear to work in the coming week, btw. Life. Feh.
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Neil Bush is peddling something to do with an Educational Tools product
So, on the front page of our daily, above the masthead, in ink the color of dried blood, it says:
Sodom and Gomorrah weren't married? Americans are flunking religion
Boo-hoo-hoo!
Police are calling for charges to be brought against two of Tony Blair's closest allies in a file handed to prosecutors following the " cash-for-honours" investigation.
It is understood that Lord Levy, the Labour Party chief fundraiser, and No 10's director of government relations, Ruth Turner, have been singled out in the 216-page dossier. A further 6,300 pages of supporting documents have also been sent by the Metropolitan Police to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
It follows a 13-month inquiry by Scotland Yard into the alleged awarding of peerages to Labour-supporting businessmen in return for secret loans.
The investigation has cast a shadow over Mr Blair's final months in power and threatens to blight Labour's campaign for the 3 May council elections in England, Scotland and Wales.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
uk...icle2469297.ece
Ignite turns to Mexican company
Austin Business Journal - October 25, 2002
by Stacey Higginbotham
Austin Business Journal Staff
Neil Bush's e-learning company has laid off 42 percent of its workforce as it prepares to sign a $15 million deal to outsource software production to a Mexican telecommunications giant.
Austin-based Ignite Inc. plans to seal the deal — expected to be at least a two-year partnership — with Mexico's Grupo Carso Telecom SA before the end of the year, says Ken Leonard, chief financial officer of Ignite.
Leonard says terms of the deal are being negotiated, but Grupo Carso would assume all nuts-and-bolts production of Ignite's educational software, take an ownership stake in Ignite and be licensed to sell the software in Mexico. Ignite would lay out the curriculum behind the software.
Ignite employs 29 people after laying off 21 designers and programmers Oct. 18, Leonard says.
The startup, founded in 1999, produces multimedia software for middle schools in Texas, Georgia and Florida. The software replaces traditional textbooks. Ignite's founder, chairman and CEO is Neil Bush, younger brother of President George W. Bush.
Grupo Carso is a conglomerate that owns a majority stake in CompUSA Inc. and Teléfonos de México SA and oversees MSN Latin America. Its chairman, billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, sits on the board of San Antonio-based SBC Communications Inc.
Leonard says outsourcing production will help Ignite's bottom line as well as give it the resources to develop additional course software more quickly. Now, it takes one year to develop its only course offering — early American history. The company wants to develop an entire middle school curriculum featuring the basics of language arts, math and science.
The current deal arose after earlier talks with Grupo Carso to form a joint venture had fallen through, Leonard says. The talks collapsed because of Ignite's precarious financial position and the shaky equity markets, he says.
Leonard declines to name the amount of money Ignite has raised from undisclosed investors or when it might achieve profitability. Filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicate the company raised $7.1 million from 53 investors in 2001.
Bryan Menell, president and CEO of Austin-based e-learning consulting company Fusion Learning Systems Inc., says he hasn't heard of any e-learning companies shifting production to Mexico. He says some e-learning companies have set up production centers in India, where labor is relatively cheap and English is commonly spoken.
Menell says the design of e-learning course materials should be done in the United States, with outsourced work focusing on basic programming and graphics.
I remember about six weeks ago on one of the rare occasions I watched a couple minutes of Scarborough, a Democratic Congressman was quoted as saying...
"Every tree we've barked up has had a cat in it"
Still happening.
OFF-TOPIC, but Chicago, I can understand you wanting a newer, bigger skyscraper.
But surely you can design one that doesn't require giant batteries?
It kind of speaks to the severity of their corruption that they didn't even bother to can the US attorney who was conducting this investigation. I guess they had even worse scandals to cover up.
blerb 
I stand by my traditional metaphor of feeling like a pack of leashed dogs being dragged along on walkies before one gets a chance to really sniff an interesting spot. 
Neil Bush is peddling something to do with an Educational Tools product
The software Barbara Bush insisted her post-Katrina "donation" be used to buy.
Republicans should keep their heads up. Crime is nothing to be ashamed of. America's best families have proved it for a hundred years.
will the faith based initiatives to be investigated too?
s h e e p s
a g a i n
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GWPDA has me singing "It's only a slanty in old slanty town." 
Republicans should keep their heads up their arses;
less damage is done that way.
OT--Corzine is off the ventilator, but I'm betting he's still doped to the gills on painkillers
Over a week with 11 broken ribs and a ventilator pumping his chest--ouch
Fasten your seat belts
But surely you can design one that doesn't require giant batteries?
attaturk
It's a breathtaking symbol of what the Bush Crime Family and its plutocratic enablers has done to the US of A.
How da scoot?
One of the things that really pissed me off about the NCLB scam (besides "teaching to the test" & the obvious temptation for everyone to cheat - i.e., faculty & staff as well as students) was that the Bushies conned Ted Kennedy!
Corzine will be a long time healing, he's lucky the internal injuries weren't worse.
Will Corzine become a seatbelt advocate?
I've got to wash every single damned thang I can wear to work in the coming week, btw. Life. Feh.
me too.
Over a week with 11 broken ribs and a ventilator pumping his chest--ouch
Fasten your seat belts
Draco
yep. his driver walked away. it's not just the ribs, but his sternum, a leg, collarbone, and a vertebra in the crash
The new Portfolio magazine looks good, not so much though the profile of T-Bone Pickens, the medium rare sagebrush philanthropist and $3-million contributor to Swift Boat derring-do, wbo got his geology expertise and low-flying sophistication from Oklahoma State, and who, as a family man, comes close to rivaling Brit Hume.
what about Neil Bush™'s "educational materials" scam?
remeber when Babs Bush™ stipulated that her Katrina donations had to spent on Neil's program?
Good old raving racist Marty Peretz, always willing to lend a hand to a fellow traveller:
I've had a feeling all along that Wolfowitz's new troubles were hatched by his political enemies in the World Bank because he has been trying to make it more effective, more honest, and less politicized. These are complicated matters, and he has addressed them clinically with the intention to get results and not only install new procedures. You can imagine how a bloated and pampered bureaucracy would resent a truly practical person who makes practical judgments being at its head. The resentment of him within the Bank also derives from his role in the Iraq war.
the entire Bush administration is a criminal enterprise. That's why it's called The Bush Crime Family.
"I regret the perception of conflicts of interest," said Kame'enui, former chairman of the committee, who now works at the department as commissioner of the National Center for Special Education Research. "But there was no real conflict of interest being engaged in."
IOKIYAR.
Remember the incoming Bush administration said it's first duty after Bush took the oath of office, would be for all appointees to take an oath that they would not just avoid impropriety, but the appearance of impropriety. The adults were now back in charge.
You can imagine how a bloated and pampered bureaucracy would resent a truly practical person who makes practical judgments being at its head. The resentment of him within the Bank also derives from his role in the Iraq war.
I had a bellyfull of Wolfie's 'practical' decision-making when he lied this country into a disastrous war costing hundreds of thousands of lives. Nothing but a corrupt, ideologically-driven fantasist.
Why would the mean old bank staff dig up something so trivial to hold against the poor little man?
The Daily Show said it best.
"Here is Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the Iraq war, apologizing....for something else."
One can always depend on Republicans placing their own personal greed, and making a buck, over helping our nation's children.
Some Democrats do it, but Republicans are the masters at doing it, consciously, consistently, especially during the dark years of the Bush/Cheney administration, the most corrupt mammon-worshipping administration in American history.
Thank God Democrats won back Congress in November 2006. Maybe now we can start undoing the outright evil visited upon our nation and the world by the Republicans, including reversing the utterly evil ruling recently by the Republicans on the Supreme Court. (I hadn't realized that Justice Kennedy was an al Qaeda-kisser, doing the bidding of his religious terrorist master hiding out in a cave in Pakistan, at last report).
Have Junior and his pals done anything whatsoever that is not criminal?
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