I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
1st
2nd
3rd
4th & sheets
stop tom whatever!
That's so sad - I bet it was the "cheerleading" vlog.
my French cousins want to go out and hassle some American tourists!
leibnitz- I stopped myself & called sheets
McCain won't invite her to the dance.
maybe she can set up a seperate, but equal dance where she's the belle of the balle
McCain has had enough ping-pong girls.
tomdurk,
You'll never get ahead in America with that kind of attitude!
McCain has a thing against ping pong balls.
speaking of crashing guitars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i...h?
v=igwhzOSSoAI
i am morally certain that McCain will flip and allow her in. All she needs do is tantrum. McCain has no absolutes left. He will pander if there's any microscopic amount of pressure exerted.
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This simply gives malkin for her new book, "I'm a WATB. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!"
Surely Alex Witt must be sucking up to Pat Buchanan by now!
That's just strange that McCain would ignore Malkin.
Odd, odd, odd. But, then, I guess that just because they're both batshit insane, that's no reason for them to like each other.
It's too nice a day to look at that bitch.
If you'll excuse the expression.
McCain's on SNL tonight. He's already said he won't wear a dress -- I'm betting "apricot pant-suit."
Clearly, old white men need to be placed in interment camps for this outrage.
McCain has a pretty thin skin, and Ping Pong has said some harsh things about him. Some are quoted in the comments in the link:
Jan. 14, 2008:
“Mr. Shamnesty-Short Fuse almost walked off the stage during a campaign event with the AFL-CIO in Michigan. Audience members didn’t like his soft-on-illegal immigration blather. They booed. He pouted.”
January 23, 2008:
“Not all of us have forgotten how the short-fused Arizona senator cursed good-faith opponents in his own party (”F**k you!” and “Chickensh*t” were the choice words he had for Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn during a spat over enforcement provisions)…Straight talk? Try hate talk.”
January 25, 2008:
“Shamnesty peddler John McCain taps former Mexican government official/shamnesty advocate Juan Hernandez as his presidential campaign Hispanic Outreach Director…Remind me again which party’s presidential nomination John McCain is running for?”
McCain's on SNL tonight. He's already said he won't wear a dress -- I'm betting "apricot pant-suit."
McCain strikes me as a lace man, too.
I'm sort of liking Vista, I have to say. Maybe its problems will become clear to me later, but for now it seems okay.
That's just strange that McCain would ignore Malkin.
She's not full-blooded Merkin like he is.
She looks like a petulant teen.
Does anyone have the sure fire cure for a hangover headache? I've tried all that I know.
Wow, it's Thers who mines the right blogosphere, so I miss a lot of this. "Shamnesty"?
McCain: "I am not going to let some slant-eyed c*nt interrogate me again!"
Dolphin Lady has a rare moment of awareness.
But fuck her. Really.
She helped create the state we're in.
Clearly, old white men need to be placed in interment camps for this outrage.
i do NOT want to know how many Goops want to play 'Prisoner of the Hot Hanoi Hilton' with Michelle as the sadistic yet horny camp commandant.
Blech.
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Good luck with Vista, Molly. I haven't the courage.
camelot,
Drink lots and lots of water.
I'm sort of liking Vista, I have to say. Maybe its problems will become clear to me later, but for now it seems okay.
I had no trouble with Vista, other than it not being compatible with my sound card.
I hear Vista for the Mac is excellent, actually. That's what my students tell me.
By and large, conservative pundits are invited to the conference call. It's no surprise that an independent media critic isn't on the list.
I have had zero problems with Vista myself. I have had it up and running about 2 months, never needed to reboot the puter.
Also eat calming things, like buttered toast. Ginger ale helps too.
'dick' the prick morris laying down the mccain winning stratergy
Meanwhile, McCain's likely rival, Barack Obama, has raised such doubts among voters that their concerns momentarily energized even Hillary Rodham Clinton's sagging campaign. With the help of the incendiary comments of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Obama's negatives have been rising even as he nears the finish line.
Still, voters are tending heavily toward the Democratic Party. Normally, party preferences are about even, but recent national polls give Democrats a decided edge. In last week's Post-ABC poll, 53 percent of Americans identified themselves as Democrats or leaned toward the party, compared with 39 percent who were Republicans or tilted to the GOP.
To sum it up: A candidate who cannot get elected is being nominated by a party that cannot be defeated, while a candidate who is eminently electable is running as the nominee of a party doomed to defeat.
In this environment, McCain can win by running to the center.
o'really? so you are saying that the fascist rightwing way of dumbya and reagan has kind of soured on uh-mericans?
"bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran"
Sure, I'm gay, but why hasn't HSN noticed I never buy big ugly costume jewelry?
plantsman
What I positively don't understand is why she gets so many hits. I seem to remember reading that her viewership is hight than Eschaton's. Makes no sense.
American Chicken Hawk, you are Kevin Drum's troll. You haven't earned your right to troll here yet.
Sure, I'm gay, but why hasn't HSN noticed I never buy big ugly costume jewelry?
Hope springs eternal!
camelot,
Chinese medicine says anything with strawberries.
Greet booby, woot!
I like OS X 10.5 ( i forget the feline euphemism) and can't afford another OS, so I'm good.
i do NOT want to know how many Goops want to play 'Prisoner of the Hot Hanoi Hilton' with Michelle as the sadistic yet horny camp commandant.
Set up the webcam!
leopard
Wow, it's Thers who mines the right blogosphere, so I miss a lot of this. "Shamnesty"?
Heh. Grahamnesty too.
Greet booby, woot!
That was a good one, but I'm still waiting for the equivalent of the Kerry motorcycle booby. Something with the audacity of boobies.
Dolphin Lady has a rare moment of awareness.
It happens occasionally. Of course the nasty traits she now sees in the GOP were all easily discernible 25 years ago...to some someone Who Didn't Have Their Head Up Their Ass.
this will surely solve the problem in the ME:
Israel's UN mission is seeking to outlaw use of the term Nakbah, according to a statement issued Thursday night by a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon.
Palestinians commemorate "Nakba"
Deputy head of Israel's UN mission, Daniel Carmon, complained that the word Nakba is meant to undermine the legitimacy of Israel's founding and, therefore, use of the term should be should be forbidden.
Ban telephoned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday night and expressed empathy with the Palestinian people in honor of Nakba Day.
Also Thursday night, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that when there is true peace with the Palestinians, they will no longer observe Nakba Day to mourn the creation of the State of Israel.
www.jpost.com
nice to see that the 'liberal' LA Times still digging for tubers on the wright story...such a meaningless and stupid story would only catch fire in this dumbfuck and rightwing controlled corporate media environment
I'm sort of liking Vista, I have to say. Maybe its problems will become clear to me later,
One of my collection of family IT support clients I switched to, Yoda like, to Vista, kinda inadvertently. She needed a laptop to replace a desktop, and the machine with the Vista bundle was the best deal.
It's worked out well. She doesn't care about the boot speed, or the wakeup speed (which is awful). And the UI is easier, more Mac-like (yes, I suggested a Mac) for her.
I'm not saying MS did a good job here. But the front end part of it is an improvement, if this user is any indication.
(Me, I had the DOS box open again this morning.)
It happens occasionally. Of course the nasty traits she now sees in the GOP were all easily discernible 25 years ago...to some someone Who Didn't Have Their Head Up Their Ass.
She had her head up her ass while blowing Reagan? That requires rethinking the karma sutra with string theory.
What I positively don't understand is why she gets so many hits.
Like COulter, she has a cult following of middle aged, yet immature, males who think she's very hot. YMMV.
leibniz funny.
Really.
Nooners just woke up to this shit.
Of course the nasty traits she now sees in the GOP were all easily discernible 25 years ago...to some someone Who Didn't Have Their Head Up Their Ass.
Given human nature, i wonder which GOP maven turned those traits against her for the first time in her experience, recently.
Human beans not noticing such things until their own arse gets bitten, generally.
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In a just world that cheerleading vid would be prosecutable as a crime against humanity.
HRC has a TV ad with a very earnest Joe and Valerie Wilson that almost moved me.
That's why I got it too, Jay. Cheaper.
And now Father Ivors is here and we're going to put some pergo down in the guest room.
Mike Huckabee Also Has a Dream
Well maybe Peggers can go back to the antiwar movement and start all over again. Compared with the crowd she's in bed with now, the people waving VC flags 40 years ago were superpatriots.
Joe and Valerie Wilson are not liberals or progressives.
That Noonan column is quite something, especially in contrast to what's-her-name's dreck at the WaPo today. But I'm sure this is good for the republicans, somehow.
HRC has a TV ad with a very earnest Joe and Valerie Wilson that almost moved me.
I'm not sure moving in this housing environment is a good idea.
Thanks everyone. Got the water, got the Ginger Ale, ate the toast. The strawberries will have to wait until I can get to the store.
I missed the PBS shows last night; anything exciting? Bill Moyers?
I said "almost." I didn't say I had already marked and mailed my ballot, which I had.
I was a sucker, and paid for Times Select. I will not pay to read Peggy Noonan.
if Liberal is the BAD word, then i proudly call myself Ultra-Liberal...if being Liberal is bad, i don't wanna be good!
vista, a 64-bit mac clone of a 32-bit extension of a 16-bit front-end of a 8-bit operating system made for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company
WSJ was subscription only for so long, that I forget you can get into free now. That's the problem with that model, readers don't develop the habit of clicking on your site. For instance, even now I don't remember to read the NYT OpEds as often as I did before they put up the firewall.
For instance, even now I don't remember to read the NYT OpEds as often as I did before they put up the firewall.
And this is a bad thing?
American Chickenhawk STILL hasn't duly reported the MOS he held during his imaginary service in Vietnam.
Mike Huckabee Also Has a Dream:
(CNN) – During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.
“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
HuffPo put up an ad in Flash 9 the other day. Flash 9 demands payment, and sent my machine into a tizzy. By the next day, the ad was gone.
Noonan proves the adage that anyone can be right once in a while, in the same sense that a broken clock tells the correct time twice a day.
I was a sucker, and paid for Times Select.
Never found out if I was that kind of sucker, because I get the paper.
But I did pay money to Slate. And I got an umbrella. Which utterly failed in a huge rainstorm on a day where I was scheduled at a client site.
Ohh did they laugh at me.
Oil - the new refuge of our asshole speculator-class who fuck our economy every time:
Oil stocks climb as crude prices surge
MarketWatch - 1 hour ago
By Carla Mozee, MarketWatch LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- US-listed shares of overseas companies gained ground Friday, paced by an advance in oil issues as crude futures gushed to another record high.
Fuckabee thinks joking about assassinating a Presidential candidate is hilarious.
Typical Christian. Typical Repuke.
Maybe somebody should take a potshot at Fuckabee. I bet he craps his pants and wets himself at the same time.
Ha ha ha.
American Chickenhawk STILL hasn't duly reported the MOS he held during his imaginary service in Vietnam.
11-Cluster
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vista, a 64-bit mac clone of a 32-bit extension of a 16-bit front-end of a 8-bit operating system made for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company
that can be represented by a tape printed with zeroes and ones.
I still say that it is better for DFUs than XP.
And I got an umbrella. Which utterly failed in a huge rainstorm on a day where I was scheduled at a client site.
My current brelly is a screaming yellow and black jobbie that I got when son and I showed up for a Pirates game on get-a-free-umbrella day. Mostly, I'd rather get wet.
Noonan's column is nothing but a pity party for republican politicians. How about the realization that the republicans have contributed to death and misery in this country and around the world. Totally absent. She's concerned about the republican "brand" and salesmanship. That's it. It's pretty disgusting.
The Wall Street Journal is free online now?
Oh boy, I can't wait to read the latest news on Hanna Montana and see the Page Six Bikini Girl.
And this is a bad thing?
Well yeah, bad for the Times, if they lost readership during their Times Select experiment. I cancelled my Sunday dead tree edition in 2001, because it was just too much pressure to have that big pile of paper to read.
When Hammacher Schlemmer had a "wind-proof" umbrella for ten bucks less than Amish-oriented Lehmans, I bought it there.
Animatronic pseudo-pets, not so much.
“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
i see this has few leg; but if someone wrote that mcsame was a withered old man both in thought and spirit; they would be denigrated
USA!
Fuckabee thinks joking about assassinating a Presidential candidate is hilarious.
We've got a white southerner joking about shooting at a Black man.
It's incredibly disgusting.
For instance, even now I don't remember to read the NYT OpEds as often as I did before they put up the firewall.
Karin Hussein
Don't bother. Seriously. The people who write the columns there are truly and irrevocably ignorant and proud of it. In fact, if you go there right now you will see the normally somewhat intelligent Bob Herbert being absolutely stoopit beyond fucking belief.
(Umm, Bob, this is DWD. I am an elementary teacher. Since you have just said that the problem with our educational system is in the HIGH SCHOOLS, will you please explain how you are going to PREPARE students to accept HIGH SCHOOL information without improving the ELEMENTARY educational experience that has been SUFFERING woefully at the expense of SECONDARY for DECADES?)
BTW, new Pittsburgh ball park is really nice. Phillies park too, but it's in a parking lot while Pirates are on the river with a nice view of bridges and downtown.
Bush will be meeting will Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the PLO, today in an effort at appeasement.
I cancelled my NYTs subscription when I realized all I was doing were the crosswords on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and throwing out everything else.
The Wall Street Journal is free online now?
Not all of it, and I don't think you can get into the archives, but you can read a lot of it.
I read a story yesterday about some asshole who claimed he was a Marine gunny (well only the Marines have gunnery sergeants so that is redundant)
I think he's been arrested. Good.
We've got a white southerner joking about shooting at a Black man.
It's incredibly disgusting.
But he, like McCain, has accumulated a lot of media affection and won't ever be properly scrutinized for the things he says.
I cancelled my local dead-tree when I realized the letters from rat wang hoo-haas were driving me nuts.
One more Vista note. Appalled at the price of MS Office, I set the machine up with Open Office.
She hasn't noticed any difference. I think this will be common with most undemanding users.
This is the stuff that makes me less proud of my country than I ought to be:
94 WYSP's Kidd Chris fired over guest's racist parody song
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/
...arody_song.html
What made someone think these lyrics were funny:
"Coloreds steal your wallets and coloreds have pink feet. Coloreds are loud and obnoxious, when they watch movies. Sticky fingers, what they are, Always try to jack my car, Schwoogies! Or shines, you can call them anything you like. Schwoogies! Watch out, jigs will rob you, day or night.
I'm going back to bed not because I'm tired, but because I'm disappointed.
Even with record-low approval ratings, still, IOKIYAR.
She's concerned about the republican "brand" and salesmanship. That's it.
I have no problems with that. If the Goopers want to spend the next 30 years of minority status obsessing over their advertising that's totally OK by me.
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch
The ballpark is much better than the team.
Of course, the Pens are great, and the Civic Arena is a nightmare.
And I see the WSJ, along with the Times, is using the word "rebuff" to describe the Saudis' response to the Twig's visit.
The biggest let-down in Open Office for dorks like me is the limited Avery Label support.
DWD, Agree completely about the need for investment in elementary education. But I am appalled at what passes for education training at my university. Seems like the reward system for teachers should be set up so that education attracts more smart people, y'know?
Michelle gets slammed for some offhand remarks.
but Cindy was a junkie who stole pills and got away with it.
Double standard. IOKIYAR.
Fuck the Repukes. They all deserve a noose.
Bush will be meeting will Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the PLO, today in an effort at appeasement.
Little Boots has taken a page from McCadaver's book and is playing to the crowd.
I guess I was lucky with that Times Select thing.
I got gifted subscriptions the whole time it was on.
The NYTimes teevee critic pissed me off about 10 years ago and I haven't bought the paper since.
The ballpark is much better than the team
True. But I was impressed that the fans were very supportive of the players, while really, really pissed at the ownership. The people I talked to had their priorities straight.
the normally somewhat intelligent Bob Herbert
Herbert doesn't do much for me. His best columns, on the criminal "justice" "system" belong on the front page. Otherwise, he's predictably conventional.
The page is bad right now. The conservatives are idiots, or operatives. And the "liberals" are tools. 'Cept Krugman. It says something when a mainstream neo-classical economist is the Times most reliable liberal.
I was watering my two big pots yesterday morning and realized I was talking to my plants -- that's when I knew my depression was lifting somewhat.
I went to a grad school at a teaching university (it was the old State Normal School)
Even back then (25 years ago, my god) it was generally known that the ed school was easy and you could take 18 or more credits a term, no sweat.
With the low salary teachers get (half of what I get for inspecting their schools) it is no surprise that schools cannot attract and keep high quality teachers. There just aren't that many out there.
Hell, we still have corporal punishment out here, so some principal is getting his rocks off by spanking kids. Fucking barbarians.
Monica_A-you just know that this year's election is going to drag a lot of ugly shit in America's subconscious out of the closet.
I see the WSJ, along with the Times, is using the word "rebuff" to describe the Saudis' response to the Twig's visit.
Anything about the enriched uranium the US is giving the autocratic fundamentalist Islamic regime (aka Saudi Arabia)?
Thanks for sending me to see the Dolphin. For the first time in a long time, Noonan is worth reading. However, I doubt this article will be cited by Brian Williams.
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch
McClatchys are much better at newspapers than baseball.
The NYTimes teevee critic pissed me off about 10 years ago and I haven't bought the paper since.
Ohhh, I hope you never get mad at me.
Mostly, I'd rather get wet.
Yeah Gromit that was yesterday. But when you're playing the pro from Dover, dripping wet distracts from the effect.
Noonan stops by Morning Joe often when she writes something of note; too bad Eugene Robinson discounted the "Republican Brand" just the other day.
Morning, all. I have to say, if McCain's team doesn't think Michelle is a good-faith blogger, that's a point in their favor.
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It says something when a mainstream neo-classical economist is the Times most reliable liberal.
Kind of like the fact that some of the least biased commentary comes from a comic (Stewart)?
Seems like the reward system for teachers should be set up so that education attracts more smart people, y'know?
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch
Yes. Most teachers - particularly elementary teachers - are not what I consider to be smart. And considering what we are paying them now, would you sign up to be mistreated, underpaid, and abused?
But when you're playing the pro from Dover, dripping wet distracts from the effect.
I guess I would tend to pay a dry professional in a suit more than a wet golden retriever.
I thought the "Republican brand" was what Bush used to burn asses at Yale.
"Michelle" is now an ambiguous reference because of Michelle Obama. I would stick with Malkin, or Wingnut Cheerleader.
"I stalk lobbyist poontang. You stalk 12 year old boys"-McCombover to Veronica's mommy
& second the cheer for Open Office & Neo-Office for Macs. They do most of what I do better than Windows Office, & with less bloat.
Chimpy is giving the Saudis uranium?
Enriched uranium that goes BOOM??
I misunderestimated Chimpy's stupidity.
I thought he was a brain-dead knuckle-dragging chimp whose mother tried to abort him with martinis and failed miserably.
I was wrong. Chimpy has the intellect of an inanimate object, such as a pile of shit. I wonder if he even breathes.
G'morning to yall, as I ready for bed...
I had forgotten just how lame that video was. Totally lame on toasted lame bread with lame sprinkles.
The latest build (and patches) of Neo Office boot up much more quickly than they used to.
"Rebuffed" is not the right word, but what is?
i mean, Dubbyah goes to the Saudis and, with great mugging and winking, askes them to lower oil prices. They say "Shaddap, houseboy!", and keep the prices high, thus maintaining the wealth gains of Dubbyah and all the Bushco doyens as well as their own. Then they all laugh uproariously, in a show of comradely solidarity.
You can't call that a 'rebuff'. But what noun encompasses it?
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For the first time in a long time, Noonan is worth reading.
She's not a stupid person, just overly impressionable. She was so turned off in her youth by what she regarded as the excesses of the New Left that she ended mistaking the real Bad Guys for the Good Guys.
I was watering my two big pots yesterday morning and realized I was talking to my plants -- that's when I knew my depression was lifting somewhat.
plantsman
That is hopeful news. Let someone know if the plants start talking back, OK?
I'd rather have a Michelle (Malkin) who is proud of her country and trying to preserve what makes it great, than a Michelle (Obama) who claims never felt patriotic until Obama ran for president.
(Note to driveby media - someone, anyone please ask her why she felt no patriotism after 9/11).
The New York Times does a good job explaining ONE possible reason:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/1...gin&
oref=slogin
"Refusal"
How did Chimpy ask the Saudis to pump more oil when his mouth was full of Saudi penis?
That's the only pumping Chimpy got. And it wasn't oil either.
Speaking of lame, hi TCB
Yes. Most teachers - particularly elementary teachers - are not what I consider to be smart. And considering what we are paying them now, would you sign up to be mistreated, underpaid, and abused?
Just to be clear to teachers out there, I know that there are a remarkable number of incredibly dedicated and talented teachers who do things that I could not possibly do under conditions that I could not tolerate, and do so for long, productive careers. (blerb, I'm looking at you).
Blessings to all of you. You deserve more support, financial and otherwise, than our govt seems willing to provide.
Hey, kids, if Steverino comes around later, could someone point out to him that the complete Rolling Stone is now available on DVD-ROM?
He was looking for a particular Stone reviewer last week and couldn't track him down... if one of his elitist rock critic buddies doesn't have the DVD, he might get it at his local library...
(The plants don't talk back, but their robustness and vigor tells me all I need to know.)
She was so turned off in her youth by what she regarded as the excesses of the New Left that she ended mistaking the real Bad Guys for the Good Guys.
Even if that's the case, you'd think she might have learned the difference by now.
mean, Dubbyah goes to the Saudis and, with great mugging and winking, askes them to lower oil prices. They say "Shaddap, houseboy!", and keep the prices high, thus maintaining the wealth gains of Dubbyah and all the Bushco doyens as well as their own.
Again, this may just be us funky Michiganders but the family was discussing this (both of my boys and my wife) and they all said, before I even had a chance to, that we should tell these people to take their fucking oil and shove it up their asses. We will do without it and develop alternatives. All the government has to do is ask and Americans will find a way. Whether it is mass transit, no transit, car pooling, or other ways: they need only ask.
But that would never do, would it?
I am bi-platform. Our lecterns are set up for us to plug our laptops in. On days I am not using some PC only software, I use the Mac. On days I need to show the software, I use the Vista laptop- & show up 5 minutes earlier.
I read somewhere that the average teacher leaves teachign after only 5 years. That is bad turnover for a profession. No wonder schools cannot attract quality teachers.
I'm reading the local pennysaver and it has four ads from different rural school districts looking for teachers.
The pennysaver. Advertising for teachers.
Yes. Most teachers - particularly elementary teachers - are not what I consider to be smart.
DWD - S☮S
I disagree.
What made someone think these lyrics were funny...
Monica_A: Dammit!
This was funny.
The white race cannot survive without dairy products.
Herbert Hoover
Texaschilibean | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 9:31 am
I see the T3 to the Fucktardo Universe is still up and operational.
Pizza without cheese is just lacking.
With the low salary teachers get (half of what I get for inspecting their schools) it is no surprise that schools cannot attract and keep high quality teachers. There just aren't that many out there.
I am all for more challenging ed. programs and better salaries for teachers. But so much more than those things are needed.
My grandmother was a teacher in those days when most women stopped if they got married -- in some districts that was still a requirement. But he retained lots of teacher friends -- overwhelmingly female -- all her life. On their skimpy salaries these single women traveled all over the world during there summers off and were, for the era, some of the most sophisticated members of the community. They had genuine status and were viewed with reverence.
I'm not saying within their closed circles they didn't have the normal amounts of pettiness and frustrations, but in their public lives they garnered great respect.
We need to figure out a way to get back some of that.
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Even if that's the case, you'd think she might have learned the difference by now
True, but consider the fact that the Purported Good Guys who were actually the Bad Guys were also the Winning Side and Peggy's meal ticket for several decades. Somthing that Upton Sinclair once wrote comes to mind here...
You can't call that a 'rebuff'. But what noun encompasses it?
Shine on?
As in, "the Saudis shined him on about raising oil production"
Again, this may just be us funky Michiganders but the family was discussing this (both of my boys and my wife) and they all said, before I even had a chance to, that we should tell these people to take their fucking oil and shove it up their asses. We will do without it and develop alternatives. All the government has to do is ask and Americans will find a way. Whether it is mass transit, no transit, car pooling, or other ways: they need only ask.
Back in Iraq War I, during the Deseert Shield build-up, the CNN mentioned that the build-up was costing a billion dollars/day. Billion with a 'B'.
At that time, i said "You know, if we spent $1 billion/day finding an oil substitute, we'd find one. And these guys would return to being sand bandits, ignored by the civilized world."
None at the time disagreed.
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I'd rather have a Michelle (Malkin) who is proud of her country and trying to preserve what makes it great, than a Michelle (Obama) who claims never felt patriotic until Obama ran for president.
Here you have it folks - the hard right in all its glory.
What abject stupidity.
Slightly connected to topic: I wonder how long it will take Mr. "I'm a student of history" Matthews to comment on McCain's revisionist history of Iran-Contra...????? He smugly thinks he's done a wonderful job with the jerk conservative talk show host he had on this week by bullying him into saying "I don't know..." (despite the fact that if you watch the tape it was pretty clear he was saying he didn't know "what the president" meant when he called Chamberlain an appeaser)...our media is a frigging JOKE!!!
I went back to my elementary school, and the current teachers I knew from my childhood were all the B- and C students. The students with higher grades mostly became lawyers and doctors and PhDs. I used to have a drinking buddy who was not the brightest person. She eventually finished her B.A., got a teaching credential, and is now teaching elementary school. I also know a few very bright and dedicated el-hi teachers. But this society all but denigrates their profession. Somewhere there is a scene at a cocktail party where a person asks Wally Shawn what he does. He says iirc that he teaches at Boston Latin or teaches Latin in high school. I don't recall which. The person murmurs something and turns away.
Yes. Most teachers - particularly elementary teachers - are not what I consider to be smart.
DWD - S☮S
I disagree.
portia | 05.17.08 - 9:34 am | #
El/ed students are learning what they have to teach.....the TEST. (Praxis)
I disagree.
portia
Portia, the K-12 teachers who I consider the smart ones seem to be experienced professionals who taught themselves most of what they know, especially how to do a good job with the kids, and how to handle parents and administrators effectively.
It's my bias, but I don's see that they learn much that's useful in their Teacher Education training, with the exception of mentored practice teaching.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.", I'm guessing?
(I had to look that up.) 
Just to be clear to teachers out there, I know that there are a remarkable number of incredibly dedicated and talented teachers who do things that I could not possibly do under conditions that I could not tolerate, and do so for long, productive careers. (blerb, I'm looking at you).
Blessings to all of you. You deserve more support, financial and otherwise, than our govt seems willing to provide.
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch
I know and I knew what you meant. It just burns my ass when someone decides that the SECONDARY schools - where they still have libraries and music and art and other special classes and counseling and other people to work with students - need more money is just sickening.
Jay Krugman has lost some of his cred in left blogsylvania because he's an HRC supporter.
Don't know how he feels about her after the "economists are elitists" crack.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.",
Bingo!
Chimpy is giving the Saudis uranium?
Enriched uranium that goes BOOM??
This the DAY AFTER bushMccain tells us how bad we are for Israel.
Again, this may just be us funky Michiganders but the family was discussing this (both of my boys and my wife) and they all said, before I even had a chance to, that we should tell these people to take their fucking oil and shove it up their asses. We will do without it and develop alternatives. All the government has to do is ask and Americans will find a way. Whether it is mass transit, no transit, car pooling, or other ways: they need only ask.
Talk is cheap, I used to get those emails about bogus one day "boycotts" of Exxon or whoever, but how many people really make it a priority to conserve energy, or vote to fund mass transit?
DWD, agree. To a first approximation, our educational system seems to be one that drops 10% of the students by the wayside every year. I was appalled to see that by second grade, teachers knew with a high degree of confidence which kids were gonna be the academic stars ten years later. And they were right. If elementary kids can't be turned on to curiosity in the world around them, all is lost.
"If he’s willing to take questions from hostile liberal bloggers, why not take some from conservative bloggers who represent substantial readerships with dissenting views on how best to make this country “safe, prosperous, and proud?”"
IMHO, even McCain realizes a police state with concentration camps run by whorish looking cheer leader types may be bad for his image.
Or maybe Cindy doesn't want John in near proximity to whorish looking cheer leader types.
It's a toss up and a mystery.
Both Honda and GM are doing "image advertising" for fuel-cell vehicles that do not exist.
This used to be called "vaporware."
Chimpy is giving the Saudis uranium?
As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.
http://afp.google.com/article/
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I was appalled to see that by second grade, teachers knew with a high degree of confidence which kids were gonna be the academic stars ten years later
Of course the Mark Steyns and Herrnsteins and Murrays of the world love this. No need for Head Start! No need for special programs! Everything is pre-determined! Those inner city kids are inner city kids because they are dumber than suburban kids! Social Darwinism!
Two stats about my university:
The good one: Our varsity athletes have a better GPA than the student body as a whole. (Disclaimer: No football team)
The bad one: Students coming into our College of Education have the worst admission profiles (SAT scores and rank in HS class) on campus, yet they graduate with the highest GPA of any unit on campus. Now what does that tell you?
Chimpy is giving the Saudis uranium?
Enriched uranium that goes BOOM??
This the DAY AFTER bushMccain tells us how bad we are for Israel.
i speculated yesterday thusly:
the clear winner of Bush's War is Iran. Chances are, the Shiites of Iraq will join with Iran- taking the oil in their provinces with them. Result, vastly stregnthened Iran that now has the biggest reserves in OPEC, making them, not the Saudis the OPEC Big Dawgs.
What to do? Give the Sunni/Whaabi Saudis nukes whilst enforcing the hell out of Shiite Iran to ensure Iran doesn't get them. Result, Iran has a distractor from Israel, and the Saudis remain the Big Dawgs of OPEC.
This is, of course, a plan so fraught with utter stupidity that it must be a Bushco Special. "No one could have anticipated...", etc.
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McLame is smart to keep his distance from that psycho Pinay.
Michelle Malkin is the anchor baby (her dad was an undocumented worker) who hates illegals. She also thinks that the unconstitutional internment of 100,000 American citizens during WW2 without habeas or due process was okay.
Paul Krugman has lost some of his cred in left blogsylvania because he's an HRC supporter.
Only among the batshit insane.
Who were surprisingly silent at Eschacon when confronted with the man in person.
The same group are bitching now about Digby. Who was also at Eschacon and also escaped unscathed.
I smell grade inflation.
I'd rather have a Michelle (Malkin) who is proud of her country and trying to preserve what makes it great
Umm, like, racism, nativism and pandering to the lowest common denominator?
If he’s willing to take questions from hostile liberal bloggers, why not take some from conservative bloggers who represent substantial readerships...
That "substantial readership" is there for only one of two reasons: to watch the car wreck or to jerk off.
Maybe both...
. I was appalled to see that by second grade, teachers knew with a high degree of confidence which kids were gonna be the academic stars ten years later. And they were right. If elementary kids can't be turned on to curiosity in the world around them, all is lost.
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch
I would say it is even more definitive than that. I would say by grade two we not only can identify the academic stars we can also identify the future prison inmates, the young women most like to conceive by the end of high school, the young people most likely to have a police record by the age of 16 and those most likely to have even more serious problems.
The problem is NOT in identifying the conditions, it is doing something about them. And we have no money, no resources, and no societal will to change.
I have often called being an elementary teacher akin to having the curse of Cassandra. We see the future, but no one believes us.
(And Portia, you have not sat in very many elementary school teachers' meetings, have you?)
McLame on SNL is proof that they've hit bottom and are a piece of crap.
I stopped watching SNL after the early 90s cast left and was replaced by hacks.
The first cast was excellent. The second cast sucked. The third cast, with Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman and Mike Myers, was excellent.
The current cast, except for the fat guy who does a decent Chimpy impression, is full of shit.
And putting McLame on? Bullshit.
"Now what does that tell you?
Gromit, chalk-stained wretch"
Actually the way you stated that is a bit confusing.
At 45 I am back in school to be a secondary (sorry DWD) school teacher. The plan is to have my PhD before 50 and remain teaching in high school.
In college classes with 19-22 YO, I have found how much the "testing" issues have changed a generation. Students freak-out, bitch, meet with profs because they absolutely cannot deal with the different style of teaching/learning.
"I need structure." "Can you just tell me what is on the test? I'll study and do fine."
Critical thinking is gone. I had a professor tell the students that their grade would be argued, proven and written in a short essay by them. They got together and requested strongly a formal final.
That "substantial readership" is there for only one of two reasons: to watch the car wreck or to jerk off.
Maybe both...
dave™© | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 9:47 am
So I wonder what other batshit insane warmongers have been blocked by the McCain crew. Chuckles???
I shouldn't jump into this "elementary teacher/smart" discussion because I haven't had all my BP meds today...but, as usual, the denigrating comments come from some who haven't spent time in a classroom (except for parent conferences perhaps) and, I'm betting, have some other biases providing that point of view. I did notice some relevant and insightful comment about the fact that there were "some" teachers who had "taught themselves" despite the poor quality of their teacher training...see, that alone demonstrates there there is little awareness of how the education process works. Teaching is an ART and requires immersion and continued assessment in order for one to improve and grow (much in the same way that teachers SHOULD expect their students to improve and grow)...of course these days it's about learning "HOW TO TAKE A TEST" so some administrator can "cover their ass" and show learning is taking place...HA!!! It's a JOURNEY...but one that I find fewer and fewer interested in taking...Just tune into the MSM and some blogs for your inspiration and information and consider that LEARNING...
McCain claims he's best bet for gun rights
Honolulu Advertiser - 2 hours ago
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Courting his sometime critics within the gun lobby, John McCain told the National Rifle Association yesterday that Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton would both undermine the rights of gun owners.
once again, only in the DUMBEST of countries would this be important
Talk is cheap, I used to get those emails about bogus one day "boycotts" of Exxon or whoever, but how many people really make it a priority to conserve energy, or vote to fund mass transit?
Karin Hussein
Did my point go right by you then?
I am talking about AMERICA deciding. Not a group of people. Our country deciding to simply stop. That is not the same thing.
I love teachers. School districts out here on the High Plains are the only literate places around. Schools are an oasis of intellectual atmosphere in a vast wasteland of inbred ignorant hicks.
Urgh. Not feeling so good. Back to bed for me, and hope to catch you later.
Good day and good luck
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Who were surprisingly silent at Eschacon when confronted with the man in person.
The same group are bitching now about Digby. Who was also at Eschacon and also escaped unscathed.
Krugman talked about the Big Shitpile and didn't discuss politics.
There were no confrontations at Eschacon that I witnessed.
The best cast can not make bad writing sing. Last years tune with the parody of Ahmadinejad was brilliant, imo.
Who's bitching about Digby? I must have mossed that.
...gaggle of craven, lard-assed ninnyhammers
Gonna hafta remember that one...
I am talking about AMERICA deciding. Not a group of people. Our country deciding to simply stop. That is not the same thing.
DWD
agreed...just as GOVERNMENT ended the Great Depression, and GOVERNMENT went to the moon and won the cold war....GOVERNMENT will HAVE to both combat global warming and energy
the right wing motherfuckers tell us to our faces that they will drown government, and at least 50% of the mindless rube americans agree...that's why important shit NEVER seems to get done: too many fucking idiots
Not every child is academically oriented. For those students there was art, shop, music, sports or something offered at which they could excel and grow into self-assured adults knowing that there was at least one thing they were good at. Take away all those choices and the kids become abject failures. It's a shame.
I smell grade inflation.
In some school systems, it's either that or "social promotion". i.e. moving kids up no matter how badly they do.
there's a great French movie called "Etre et avoir" - To be and to have
it's about a teacher in a French area where the kindergarten to grade 4 students are all in the same class
it's very, very endearing as there is one little kid called Jojo who doesn't even know whether it's morning or afternoon and the teacher has to try to unconfuse him
if you ever get a chance to watch this movie, jump at it! it's absolutely great.
(And Portia, you have not sat in very many elementary school teachers' meetings, have you?)
DWD - S☮S
I'm on my way out the door.
We'll chat later.
At 45 I am back in school to be a secondary (sorry DWD) school teacher. The plan is to have my PhD before 50 and remain teaching in high school.
Camelot,
But if you WANT to affect change, why go to the high school? The best you do there is modify behavior. At the elementary school level you at least stand a chance of changing it.
I would not teach high school for twice the salary. The kids know too much. (or think they do)
Every child is not a success story. Nor is it expected they will be. But your percentage at the elementary level is much higher than it ever can be at the secondary level (even if the kids forget you)
Hello moonbats
ninnyhammers
Isn't that where they had the Winter Olympics a few years ago?
the little kid pictured on the cover of the dvd is little Jojo
these days it's about learning "HOW TO TAKE A TEST"
Chimpy has wrecked our public education system.
Here in Colorado, we have math and reading tests every grade level through 10th. The tests do not count towards the student grade by statute and the students know this. They also know they can "get back" at the school by deliberately doing poorly on the test.
Then administrators and teachers get replaced and if the test scores are bad enough for several years, the entire school is closed down.
This has already happened to several schools here in Colorado.
This is not by accident. Chimpy and the neocons HATE public education and want it destroyed. They would rather you have to pay big bucks to send your kids to a private religious school where they learn "Flintstones science"
(man and dinosaurs coexisting on a 6000 year old planet) and are brainwashed with right wing partisan political bullshit.
The best teachers I ever had had a knack for inspiring the largest number of students to want to learn something.
Not every child is academically oriented. For those students there was art, shop, music, sports or something offered at which they could excel and grow into self-assured adults knowing that there was at least one thing they were good at. Take away all those choices and the kids become abject failures. It's a shame.
Agreed. The focus on standardized testing is evil.
DWD-I'm not sure who you mean by AMERICA?
We are made up of individuals who make decisions that affect energy usage.
Right now consumption is down-so obviously demand is somewhat flexible.
Dancer, Sorry to offend. As you say, I speak from a parent's perspective, and as a person who teaches at university level and has done some administration (incl dean of graduate school). Many relatives (dad, brother, cousins) are teachers, but I have not spent time in the classroom at K12 level except for invited visits to HS and chem classes. My only teaching experience with elementary age kids was teaching sunday school, at which I was utterly unqualified (as an atheist) and sucked.
the little kid pictured on the cover of the dvd is little Jojo
mimi | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 9:55 am | #
Hey Butler -- have you seen my tribute to you over at the homepage?
here's the netflix description:
To Be and To Have
Être et Avoir
(2002) UR
The once-acclaimed French school system is under siege, with overcrowding making it impossible for children to receive the education they deserve. But there's one place that's trying to buck the tide. This documentary by Nicolas Philibert visits a one-room schoolhouse in rural Saint-Etienne Sur Usson, where Georges Lopez teaches his 13 students, ranging in age between 3 and 10, the old-fashioned way ... with effort, attention and encouragement.
So I wonder what other batshit insane warmongers have been blocked by the McCain crew. Chuckles???
Tom - 大肚腩
Shouldn't be hard to find out. The ones who are will cry about it, the ones who aren't will crow about it...
"Not every child is academically oriented. For those students there was art, shop, music, sports or something offered at which they could excel"
Not anymore. No Child Left Behind has destroyed academic programs that are not directly measured on the test.
I have seen this firsthand. Shop and Home Ec classrooms shut down so students can cram for the CSAP tests.
The school gets closed down and all the teachers and administrators lose their jobs if they don't post good test scores, so you can bet they will protect themselves and shut down any program that doesn't directly improve test scores.
over here there was a teachers strike in some parts of the UK
You can do all the conserving you want, make all the required changes in your personal behavior, but it won't make a damn bit of difference until the fundamentals are changed. And those are governmental decisions.
Why were the teachers striking, Moon?
the teacher in the movie was so good with kids, and single, that he received thousands of marriage proposals after the film came out
We have had a rash of pervert teachers here in Colorado - both male and, notoriously with nationwide coverage, female.
That tells me we are not recruiting high enough quality teachers if we are getting the pervs.
DWD-I don't think kids ever forget their elementary school teachers, especially the early years. Mine made a big impression on me.
so you can bet they will protect themselves and shut down any program that doesn't directly improve test scores.
Except athletics, of course.
i've never gotten why it was so cool to be 'thick' and like being clever was a sign your soft or a wimp
like when I was school, if you raised your hand and answered a question correctly they looked at you like you were an alien
so the poor teacher would be trying to encourage the pupils to like put their hands up
Karen,
OK, here's my plan. Since oil prices are ruining our economy (My belief is that they are. They certainly are around here) We should stop this from happening. To these ends the GOVERNMENT of the United States will halt importing oil from Arab Nations and limit our trading in oil with nations friendly to the United States and will only trade in kind. (And if they don't want to, fuck them as well)
That eliminates two thirds of our oil. At this point we establish some sort of rationing for oil and institute Draconian measures to prohibit the use of oil. We then take the money we were using to purchase oil and establish mass transit systems (buses and vans at first - trains or whatever later) We use this money to invest in alternative fuel development, wind and solar development, and everything else.
IF WE all pull together, in a couple of years we can do it.
(But we won't)
GravatarWhy were the teachers striking, Moon?
plantsman, less blue | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 9:59 am | #
I think it was to do with a pay rise, when it was going on a couple of my co-workers were not very sympathetic
is the Beeb on strike too?
I can't reach their server
news.bbc.co.uk
Need to open the downstairs windows and cool the place off. bbl.
steve-see dave's comment @9:32.
Chrysler is selling cars by guaranteeing $2.99 gas. This does not encourage energy conservation.
When they have to bribe customers to get them to buy a car, the cars must not be of very good quality.
Toyota and Honda don't have to do this.
when did ignorance become acceptable?
I don't think it's ignorance as much as the fear of being wrong.
And, of course, the obvious problem that you have an entire generation of children, adults to be, who have never been exposed to any culture outside of what is presented by Madison Ave./Disney World. Classical music, fine art all discarded and derided because of a basic lack of understanding. Again, it's a shame.
IF WE all pull together, in a couple of years we can do it.
Be patient. Jimmy Carter was only advocating the same sort of policy 30 years ago.
But then, he believed in Malaise.
DWD-- you're right. But it's going to take a hell of a lot longer than a couple of years. A decade or two, and that's if the political will is there and sustained.
Chrysler is selling cars by guaranteeing $2.99 gas. This does not encourage energy conservation.
When they have to bribe customers to get them to buy a car, the cars must not be of very good quality.
Toyota and Honda don't have to do this.
HULK
HULK don't think too good. (Have you don't the math? It is a cheap way to garner attention)
Shouldn't be hard to find out. The ones who are will cry about it, the ones who aren't will crow about it...
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 9:58 am
so which ultra liberal uber bloggers are crowing about asking the big McCain questions on his blogger calls?
The Ninnyhammer!
Hey, Steverino - did you ever track down that record reviewer from Rolling Stone you were looking for?
If not, you realize the complete RS is available on a searchable DVD-ROM? If one of those elitist rock critic buddies of yours doesn't have it, I'll bet you can get it at your local library (I recently checked out the complete New Yorker from mine).
Here's an immigrant story to go with the Michelle Malkin thread.
Texas is going to deport illegal aliens who show up needing help at hurricane shelters.
Disgusting.
Moe Szyslak, cold,
Maybe you are correct but the kind of money we are talking about 800,000,000,000 can buy a lot of alternative . . . .
DWD-I don't think kids ever forget their elementary school teachers, especially the early years. Mine made a big impression on me.
Ain't that the truth.
First Grade: Mrs Elizabeth Weare: 
(even though she sent me on an errand to the principal's office and took the class on a field trip while I was gone. Oops)
Fifth Grade: Miss Gilday 
(Nightmares)
Teachers everywhere deserve a pay raise.
We pay braindead athletes millions of dollars to play childrens games in front of drunken hooligans.
Our society is upside down. Our values are in the toilet, so it is not surprising that our country is in the toilet too.
After three years, two ed degrees and a minor, (student teaching remaining) I do not have the years to change now. I have a natural connection with teens that after years, I realize they have with me. I also feel that the pressure from a sell out generation of parents is to get the best QPA, be the best athlete, show the world how great their parent's parenting skills are, volunteer because it looks good on the college application, and on and on, is confusing kids about what a "real" education is and what "real" intelligence is, and what real success is. AFAI can see, their parents think it is the biggest SUV, leaf blower, fake boobs, paycheck on the cul de sac.
Gromit, NOT OFFENDED...just weary of those who so quickly criticize teachers in general, and demean elementary teachers in particular at times. Love the references to art, music, PT, etc in schools...as a kindergarten teacher in the 60's we WERE the art/music/pt/library teacher until some ENLIGHTENMENT began in the district where I taught...then when my husband and I retired in the late 90's with decades of experience between us things had evolved to a place where those critical elements of learning were available to all and it was SCHEDULING them into the school day/week/year that was the challenge! I had a period of HOPE during my career that we had learned somethings and moved education down the road on the journey...that HOPE IS GONE!!! Of course our present administration likes the schools destroyed...so much easier to "manage" people who have lost the ability to think critically...just open up their heads and pour in what you want them to know/think...enter OUR MEDIA...HOORAY
Krugman talked about the Big Shitpile and didn't discuss politics.
There were no confrontations at Eschacon that I witnessed.
I think there was an unspoken agreement to stay away from the primary campaign, for the most part, because there are beloved Atriots on both sides. I didn't see anybody wearing HRC or Obama pins.
change that lead to "immigration story"...
Hulk, note the emphasis in my post.
For those students there was art, shop, music, sports or something offered at which they could excel
(Have you don't the math?
(MORE COFFEEEEEE)
actually it is based 12,000 miles a year. If the car you buy gets thirty miles per gallon that is 400 gallons per year. At current prices that is $400 off per year. Not a big deal but it does draw attention. If gasoline goes up another dollar, it is $800. Still not a big deal for a rebate.
"Texas is going to deport illegal aliens who show up needing help at hurricane shelters."
Hey, they can go back to Mexico and have their own Hurricane.
Toyota and Honda don't have to do this.
IIRC, both Toyota and Honda are offering rebates -- just not the gas guarantee gimmick.
Toyota sales in the US are down over 20%.
1st grade at Antioch School in Overland Park KS (1956-57): Louise Gilbert.
Fantastic teacher.
in an away certain sections in government probably are fearful of encouraging free thinking at such an early stage because omg they won't turn into servile plebs to be chewed up and spat out
i mean fucking hell they might start asking questions!
the chinese relief effort seems to be well organized - generators running just so that people can re-charge their cell phones, checks of the hundreds of dams in the area, cell phone emergency towers deployed, etc
easier to manage a population who are knackered and tied to a new form of serfdom
800,000,000,000 can buy a lot of alternative . . . .
DWD
Figure a billion dollars to replace every operating power plant. That's ballpark of course. My city, which is relatively small (400,000), just put in place a five year transit plan at $155 million. It's a pathetically weak plan, so figure to do it right, another billion, again as a ballpark figure. Just to bring a good transit system to all of the states would be, say ten trillion dollars. Power plants maybe another ten trillion.
We're talking real money here.
corporations see the benefits as well from having people chained
such a sad world
"Toyota sales in the US are down over 20%.
Toonscribe "
Supposedly the Tundra Factory here is producing less vehicles. They haven't laid anyone off, diverting them to other duties. But it still shows something is happening.
The problem with the rebate is that it subsidizes inefficient vehicles.
Chrysler only made one car worth a damn, the Neon. They stopped making it and only make the larger Caliber which doesn't get as good mileage.
Chrysler used to make their minivan with a four cylinder too. And they imported cute little pickup trucks with 4 bangers
but not anymore.
Mostly they advertise big gas hog trucks to inbred braindead rednecks.
Yeah, dumbass, it's got a Hemi. That's why it is costing you $150 a week to run it, you fucking moron.
You all continue to have fun and play nicely...WAIT, WAIT DON'T TELL ME on my satellite radio soon...best hour in radio (best two hours = A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION)...
The very odd thing about education in this country is that it is very much a part of the nation's infrastructure, and the corporations of the country depend heavily on that infrastructure, more than other resources.
And yet, the bastards do everything they can to avoid taxes and starve the school systems so badly that the systems will plaster corporate logos all over the school in exchange for a few band uniforms.
Most states use the federal tax system as the basis for income establishment at the state level, and right now, 94% of this country's corporations pay less than 5% tax on profits, and 60% pay none at all, according to the GAO.
Combine that with stealth programs to destroy public education such as NCLB, environmental policies that say, 'hey, kids can tolerate a little more lead in their diet,' endemic entrenched poverty in 15% of the population, and there's a prescription for a country that won't know whether to shit or wind its watch when the big institutional problems whack it upside the head.
Of course, looked at another way, thats $20 trillion in new economic activity.
OK, here's my plan. Since oil prices are ruining our economy (My belief is that they are. They certainly are around here) We should stop this from happening. To these ends the GOVERNMENT of the United States will halt importing oil from Arab Nations and limit our trading in oil with nations friendly to the United States and will only trade in kind. (And if they don't want to, fuck them as well)
That sounds kind of nativist to me. All "Arab Nations" are automatically unfriendly? And who is left that has oil? Russia is not exactly a democracy. Venezuela is, despite the talking heads you see all the time calling Chavez a "dictator". Plus, oil is fungible.
And who is left that has oil?
Alberta.
i find it appalling that businesses are being allowed to run schools because at least when schools (and hospitals) are under government control they can be held to account whereas where is the accountability when a corporation runs things like schools and hospitals?
my female friends from grade school and HS used to tease me about being in school so long because they only have their HS diploma. With the years, however, they have begun to regret their choice as they don't have the freedom of choice in which jobs they can do.
Moon, At least you have servile plebs. We just have morons
Of course, looked at another way, thats $20 trillion in new economic activity.
Talk about stimulus!
Moon,
Yes, Yes, and yes.
"My only teaching experience with elementary age kids was teaching sunday school, at which I was utterly unqualified (as an atheist) and sucked."
This made me LOL and my hangover must be lifting, since the laughing didn't hurt too much.
"With the years, however, they have begun to regret their choice as they don't have the freedom of choice in which jobs they can do."
Should everyone have a college degree?
Toyota's sales were down TEN percent in March, numbnuts.
Ford was down 19%. Not surprising, since their new designs with those nasty fender vents are BUTT UGLY.
And they keep pushing gas hog trucks.
Bye, Dancer. Have fun
"Should everyone have a college degree?"
Hell, no. The world needs plumbers too.
And they make good money.
no, not necessarily a college degree but they don't know how to operate a computer, or to type or to do bookkeeping and were afraid of learning anything new.
I attribute it to the fear of finding out that one is stupid, which is how school is taught.
Here's my 1st grade teacher.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/924...N05/1077502278/
Should everyone have a college degree?
Mowmow has about 30 college degrees by my count.
"She's" had five or six jobs this year alone.
where I come from, plumbers go to community college to get their certificate.
welders, bookkeepers, word processors, etc. too
"i find it appalling that businesses are being allowed to run schools"
You'll be really appalled when you find out the Pentagon is running schools...PUBLIC schools.
Not just JROTC. The whole fucking school. The Marines run a charter school in Chicago and there are several others.
I would not want my daughter being taught by brain-dead jarheads.
"
I attribute it to the fear of finding out that one is stupid, which is how school is taught."
I would actually agree with that to some extent.
My only teaching experience with elementary age kids was teaching sunday school, at which I was utterly unqualified (as an atheist)
I dunno, aside from the Jesuits, most of my best religious education came from people who openly admitted they had no fracking idea who was right in the whole God debate.
There's value to the outside perspective.
A.
One of the top 10 things the new congress needs to do (the new president needs to encourage this) is get rid of No Child Left Behind.
It's a fraud.
"She's" had five or six jobs this year alone.
Does working the bathrooms at the airport Holiday Inn really pay that well?
Should everyone have a college degree?
EkCenTriK
I think it should be a goal we work towards. Less than 100 years ago in the US, huge numbers of people couldn't even READ.
A liberal arts education also gives people a sense of cultural and historical perspective that we are sorely lacking.
That picture brings back so much.
Looking back at those classrooms makes a person think "conservative" or "conventional," yet compared to today it was revolutionary.
In case you missed it this morning, here's my garden expansion project.
I am actually doing 4 courses online at the moment
- ABAP programming, which is part of SAP
- Russian language
- Websphere from IBM
- computer security at university of Liverpool online
and it's a quiet semester for me.
so which ultra liberal uber bloggers are crowing about asking the big McCain questions on his blogger calls?
Tom - 大肚腩
Good kweschin, I haven't heard of any. Hiding their lights under a bushel? Or is Meeshell mebbe pulling our leg?
"Yesterday, I learned that several far left-wing blogs were invited to participate..." Doesn't say if they accepted.
like when I was school, if you raised your hand and answered a question correctly they looked at you like you were an alien
When I was in public school (sooooo long ago)it was the opposite; kids who didn't know the answers were looked on with scorn.
Either way, it's a damaging classroom dynamic.
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"where I come from, plumbers go to community college to get their certificate."
Would that be close to a trade school tract despite the fact it is handled by a community college?
Does working the bathrooms at the airport Holiday Inn really pay that well?
It does if you are a PhD engineer that moolights as a supermodel.
Toyota sales - April 2007 194,350
April 2008 - 184,462 Change –2.7%
Whoever said Toyota sales are down 20% is full of shit and probably a Repuke.
Although I am happy to hear that their V-8 gas hog Tundra truck is not doing well.
Toyota and Nissan committed automotive sacrilege by introducing V-8's.
They became successful over the last 40 years precisely because they DIDN'T have V-8's.
Honda still doesn't. I like Honda.
I dunno, aside from the Jesuits, most of my best religious education came from people who openly admitted they had no fracking idea who was right in the whole God debate.
There's value to the outside perspective.
A.
Athenae
I think Goddess digs the questioners...
oops, track not tract.
"Yesterday, I learned that several far left-wing blogs were invited to participate..."
Okay, seriously, WHO DO I HAVE TO BLOW TO GET A DRINK AROUND HERE?
First Draft gets no love from McCain.
A.
Without Yahoo, Microsoft Has Little for Advertisers
Wall Street Journal - 7 hours ago
They could sell space on the BSOD.
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dave™©:
Was I being an asshole last night?
If so, muy apologies...I was in a foul mood and had just gotten extremely irksome news...
I got a message this week that Swisscom wanted me to do a small contract for them - 2 days!!
but no, I've only had one job in 2008, but am looking for another to start in September - there is a 3 month lead time here in giving your notice/getting hired.
computer security at university of Liverpool online
You should be taking that from NTodd
We're talking real money here.
Moe Szyslak, cold
But that figure I cited was for ONE year. In five years that if 4 trillion dollars worth. As I said, you can do a LOT of alternative for that kind of money.
Whoever said Toyota sales are down 20% is full of shit and probably a Repuke.
Heard it on MSNBC a few days ago. I shall investigate.
I may sometimes be wrong, but I am never a Repuke. So fuck you, asshole.
A fancy pants literary journal asked me to write a book review. Just a hundred bucks tho.
i think you have to start with the basics i.e. an ability to read, add up etc.
then everything else will follow
what I find it sad is that some of today's children's parents equally do not read or have lost parental instinct's and then this gets passed on and it perpetuates
If Malkin really does enjoy
"Substantial readership,"
It's largely due to those who like
To watch a wacko flip.
I doubt that more than ten or twelve
Find her remotely serious,
It's more to laugh at someone who's
Amusingly delirious.
First Draft gets no love from McCain.
Not the fault of First Draft. By "far left" she meant the studiously centrist TPM.
"Yesterday, I learned that several far left-wing blogs were invited to participate..." Doesn't say if they accepted.
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 10:20 am
and what qualifies as far left-wing blog for the malkintents? balloon juice? rat wing nuthouse morans?
I'm with you, DWD. Where do I sign up? Of course, it takes a lot to turn an economy...
Was I being an asshole last night?
Oh, deary deary dear... sounds like someone woke up in a place they couldn't remember ever seeing before...
And who is left that has oil?
Alberta.
Oh, the oil sands, right?
And I agree with you that government has the most influence over energy usage decisions, but there first has to be an awareness at individual and local levels. A lot of land use and road/mass transit decisions get made there. Maybe it's a chicken and egg argument.
well i hated my time at secondary school and was glad i left to do my sixth form at college
its such a fucked up environment
Athenae, I would pay good money to see you interview McCain. More if I could be in the room with you.
Later, 'bats
Been lovely for the most part
Peace to all. (And I BELIEVE we can, if asked)
My best religious education was when we went to a Unitarian church.
We read a book about Amon Ra. The teacher didn't talk down to us.
And I didn't have to wear a coat and tie. It was great.
We're not even so much far left as we just cuss a lot.
A.
More if I could be in the room with you.
I'd pay good money for that, too!
Oh wait - she's interviewing someone?
Cancel...
Oh, the oil sands, right?
Damn right. The oil sands can, and probably will, replace all "Arab" oil. Which will cause the end of the world, but who cares about that?
I think the Dems could go a long way with huge projects to overhaul infrastructure. Starting with education, transportation, health, from which everything else follows.
I know a lot of mechanical engineers who are scared of computers, and vice-versa.
It's a question of learning the concepts in each field, and the type of logic, and voilà.
A woman who bought a baby boy in Nigeria for £150 and smuggled him to the UK in an attempt to get a free council flat was sentenced to 26 months in prison yesterday.
Peace Sandberg, 40, a housing support worker, was called "manipulative and a stranger to the truth" by the judge at Isleworth crown court, west London.
After buying the child Sandberg used a forged birth certificate to get a visa for him from the British high commission in Nigeria, her native country.
Within hours of landing at Heathrow airport Sandberg, a support worker at Kensington Housing Trust who had been living in a hostel, was at Ealing council's homeless persons unit, cradling the child in her arms. She claimed she had returned to Africa in December 2006 to give birth and needed a flat for herself and her "son".
But the court heard she was immediately recognised by Lizette Reddy, a housing officer. Reddy remembered Sandberg, who has joint Nigerian and Swedish nationality, as not being pregnant when she saw her two months earlier.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/
200...ernationalcrime
Moon, I have no idea what leaving in sixth form means, but I am sorry that people weren't nice to you.
OK, kids, gotta fly... a mysterious assignation in lovely downtown Oakland awaits (to coin a phrase)...
I love working for the war machine... they bring in a catered lunch every day.
And today is all golden time!
I think Goddess digs the questioners...
I hope so. Otherwise I've got some splainin' to do.
I had a friend kind of halfheartedly try to get me to become Jewish for a while. He said I'd fit in well since all I wanted to do was argue with God.
Catholicism's like the army. You shut up and obey orders. I like my saints and miracles, though.
A.
Oh, deary deary dear... sounds like someone woke up in a place they couldn't remember ever seeing before...
dave™© | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 10:24 am | #
No, I was at home, but I had just learned I have a funeral to go to tomorrow. It's going to be out of a bad Tennessee Williams play.....
We have two choices: We can vote for "the way things OUGHT to be" and possibly lose, or we can
accept the fact that America is a terribly racist country, and run our white candidate and possibly win."
My bad. It's profits -- not sales. Still looking for those.
Starting with education, transportation, health, from which everything else follows.
Gromit
I would like to see the kind of effort that we put into space/science in the 1960s directed towards perfecting alternative energy sources.
For some small fraction of what we have spent on the last two oil wars, we could have emphasized science & engineering in K-12 education and provided scholarships and research grants to universities.
Still could be done. Really, HAS to be done.
More if I could be in the room with you.
I'd pay good money for that, too!
Heh. I've mentioned this before, but at Eschacon I was chatting with Athenae and Dr Mrs Gromit swooped in from across the room with that "My husband is falling under the spell of a beautiful and treacherous woman" look on her face that I hadn't seen in about 20 years.
BAGHDAD, 13 May 2008 (IRIN) - The problem of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and Iraqi refugees in neighbouring countries is likely to grow into a regional and international problem because the government appears to have no clear policy to tackle it, a member of parliament (MP) said on 12 May.
"The government's obvious inability to solve the problem of IDPs and refugees could lead to serious regional and international problems, as there is no clear and comprehensive policy to get them back into their homes," MP Abdul-Khaliq Zankana, head of parliament's Displacement and Migration Committee, said.
"These problems will hit Iraqi security and society. The absence of support and appropriate solutions will leave them easy prey to militias and armed gangs inside Iraq and [make them into] possible recruits to intelligence services outside Iraq," Zankana said.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m4410...&hd=&size=1&
l=e
"I think the Dems could go a long way with huge projects to overhaul infrastructure. Starting with education, transportation, health, from which everything else follows."
Do you think this will happen? While I know this country will not survive any more years of Republicans, I am very afraid that Dems will take a calm, slow approach to change. I find myself holding my breath, and not letting my expectations get too high.
Moon, I have no idea what leaving in sixth form means,
mimi | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 10:28 am | #
You mean growing up in the Georgetown Alps you didn't have that whole public/private school thing?
NToad† teaches 1 course in computer security. I am getting a specialization in it. So there's a difference in what would be taught.
what is also worrying is the number of bright graduates who are going to work for the City rather than go into being scientists and so forth
that there is a brain drain into the financial services
Heh. I've mentioned this before, but at Eschacon I was chatting with Athenae and Dr Mrs Gromit swooped in from across the room with that "My husband is falling under the spell of a beautiful and treacherous woman" look on her face that I hadn't seen in about 20 years.
Gromit | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 10:29 am | #
Good thing you weren't talking to Echidne.
Swoon...
McCain won't invite her to the dance.
That's a rare example of good judgment on McStain's part.
Gromit, hee. I protest. I am not treacherous. I am far too clumsy to be treacherous.
I think the Dems could go a long way with huge projects to overhaul infrastructure. Starting with education, transportation, health, from which everything else follows.
So long as we kick it off in New Orleans I would be so down for this. One of the things I loved about Dennis Kucinich was when he talked, way back in 2004, about reopening some of the steel mills to rebuild the inner cities.
Can we just dig up FDR and run him again already?
A.
I was at home, but I had just learned I have a funeral to go to tomorrow. It's going to be out of a bad Tennessee Williams play.....
Oy gevalt... my sympathies, to be sure.
Did you see my earlier comment about the complete Rolling Stone DVD-ROM? I think I've got a friend who has that... if you haven't located your mysterious record reviewer, I could ask him to check for it...
Catholicism's like the army. You shut up and obey orders. I like my saints and miracles, though.
A.
Athenae
I have been around a few Jesuits let's just say. They were a little different, in my experience.
that there is a brain drain into the financial services
Moonbootica, Latitude 2008 | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 10:30 am
That's been going on in the US for over two decades - just one of the reasons we've become a backward nation.
Sixth form
Noun
(in England and Wales) the most senior form in a secondary school, in which pupils over sixteen may take A levels or retake GCSEs
http://www.thefreedictionary.com....com/
sixth+form
I gotta go do shit. Later.
Can we just dig up FDR and run him again already?
Think that would give the TV make-up artists fits.
The Jesuits are interesting. Mr. A and I were married by one who was a Buddhist scholar. Nicest guy you could ever hope to meet; we hadn't talked to him in almost a year but when my grandfather died and we couldn't find a priest he dropped everything and came over to the hospital to be with Grandma.
A.
you know, I find it amazing how many people have been affected by bullies in their lives. I have so many close friends who have had that experience. I never saw any bullying in school to me or anyone else so I didn't think it even existed.
and what qualifies as far left-wing blog for the malkintents? balloon juice? rat wing nuthouse morans?
Tom - 大肚腩
Andrew Sullivan?
Think that would give the TV make-up artists fits.
montag
Have you seen McCain lately?
Dr Mrs Gromit swooped in from across the room with that "My husband is falling under the spell of a beautiful and treacherous woman" look on her face that I hadn't seen in about 20 years.
My lovely wife used to be extremely jealous of a woman I worked with and was pretty palsy-walsy with (since before my wife and I got together).
It both amused and frustrated me when it came out. I love flirting, but there's a big difference between "flirting" and "hitting on", in my book, anyway. Plus, I was dating my (then-future) wife, so why would I be trying to "play the field," too? I realize I'm an idiot in many ways, though...
That picture brings back so much.
Looking back at those classrooms makes a person think "conservative" or "conventional," yet compared to today it was revolutionary.
I grew up in the country, and I remember the teachers used to take us on little walks in the woods behind the school and teach us the names of trees and plants. We also had a bird feeder at the window, and learned to identify all the birds. I never see a pipsissewa or a rose-breasted grosbeak without flashing on my 2nd grade teacher.
Can we just dig up FDR and run him again already?
I prefer Eleanor. Either way that would make a lot of Roosevelt years in the white house.
A sixth form college is an educational institution in England and Wales, where students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels.
for instance I went to do my sixth form at New College Swindon
so technically I left school at 16 lol but did contiue my education
Karin, I loved that picture.
Have you seen McCain lately?
Yup (well, not up close). Doesn't look a bit like Roosevelt.
OK, outta here for sure...
Did you see my earlier comment about the complete Rolling Stone DVD-ROM? I think I've got a friend who has that... if you haven't located your mysterious record reviewer, I could ask him to check for it...
dave™© | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 10:32
Actually, I found out who it was over at rockcritics.com. J.R. Young.
Who, if Google is to be believed, has fallen of the side of the world. There's absolutely no indication he or she ever did anything subsequently.
Very strange...
Time to get the funny looking clothes out of the attic and head to the ceremony. I'll be the one with the grey gown and red stripes.
"Can we just dig up FDR and run him again already?"
No picture of the Pope or W on the wall here, but I pass my framed picture of FDR (grandmother's)every morning on the way downstairs to start my day.
I should move it to the entry and watch all the neighborhood neo-con's heads explode.
People were smarter in the old days. John Adams enrolled in Harvard when he was seven years old.
owls!!!
Don't know how this got dropped out of my earlier post:
Though its overall performance last year would be considered a stellar achievement for any other automaker, Toyota's 28% profit plunge in the fourth quarter of 2007 points to an expected 27% drop in annual profits in 2008. If Toyota's revised forecast proves accurate, 2008 would break a nine-year stretch of profit growth. In addition to the slowing U.S. market, Toyota also cites high material prices, the worldwide credit crunch and a strong yen as contributing factors in its mild downturn.
and from another site:
"Earnings growth in Asia has become a key driver for our company," said Toyota senior managing director Takeshi Suzuki.
Sales in North America gained just 0.5 percent to 2.96 million vehicles, led by the new Camry and Prius cars. Other markets, including the Middle East, South Africa and Australia, saw an increase of 17.9 percent.
I think some of your ex-profs at Swansea might be on a BBC site, Moon. The BBC site for history. I can't reach it now, as the servers seem to be down.
Also, you should check out www.eurotrib.com and contact In Wales, who is a PhD student at Swansea.
She is a very nice person (unlike me). Maybe you two could become cyber friends.
Sales in North America gained just 0.5 percent to 2.96 million vehicles, led by the new Camry and Prius cars.
So it's not my imagination that there are more Prius's on the road.
I found out who it was over at rockcritics.com. J.R. Young.
Success!
You should email Ben Fong-Torres to see if he knows what happened to J.R. ...
I would like to see the kind of effort that we put into space/science in the 1960s directed towards perfecting alternative energy sources.
Including public transportation systems.
I'm with DWD, ration and retool is the way to go.
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If not, you realize the complete RS is available on a searchable DVD-ROM?
I was raving to Simels about that set in Philly. It's truly stunning to read through the 70s issues and realize that Joe Klein was once actually a truly gifted writer. Esterhaus, too...
I don't see how the Penguins can afford to keep Malkin.
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