Ron Fournier takes on Ezra Klein and declares Obama to be the 'Superhero of Excuses'. Which provides an excuse for a song about "some insects called the human race".
As a practical matter this will force all high school to be vo-tech since you cannot have just the low skilled or poor on Career Pathways. Ga has already done this and Big Business and public institutions just adore having public ed to the training assuming the industries that exist are all that will ever be.
The Republicans truly are the "we'll just graze from the other side of the trough of public money" party if this goes through.
It also came out when I decided I was capable of raking my yard given what someone wanted. I think in terms of books sold to get the amount after tax and put on my gloves.
There is a classic example of the Swedish doctor and the house painter. The idea is quite simple -- a Swedish doctor needs his house painted. The income tax rate in Sweden is 90%. The doctor's choices:
1) Doctor earns kr660,000 (~$100,000). Doctor pays kr594,000 in taxes to have kr66,000 left, which he pays to the painter. Painter pays kr59,400 in taxes to end up with kr6,600 (~$1,000)
OR
2) Doctor takes a couple of weeks unpaid leave and paints the house.
As long as the doctor gives up less than $100,000 in pay for the unpaid leave, doctor is ahead with option #2. The painter is screwed. And so is the government revenue...
True story: On average, Swedish doctors work approximately half the hours each year that doctors work on average in any other western country.
Nobody says they wish McCain had won the presidency.
And, I wouldn't be surprised that lots of people are happier with a president who fails in his quest to form a "New Society" than anything else.
Plus, the negative reviews don't give the republicans any bounce.
Over in India, with Modi's win, I saw a country with 1.5 billion people, actually sweep out their entrenched government. And, the new guy doesn't even have to compromise with coalitions.
Maybe, ahead, Modi will help Americans rewrite our political practices book?
Yep, Captain. He ought to still be in jail and for a long, long time. My guess tho' is that if they're going all out to resurrect Nifong I think there's also got to be a campaign in the works to try to resurrect the career of anti-gun fraudster Michael Bellesiles, and his lying book "Arming America".
It's also depressing to me, since I go to so many used bookstores in my travels, to see how many copies of bogus books are out there for sale that you can tell from looking at have been well read. Two that spring to mind are Greg Mortenson's "Three Cups of Tea", and James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces."
I had the chance to attend the dedication of Kenefick Park next to what is now Omaha's baseball stadium for the collegiate World Series. They spotted a Big Boy next to a DD40X (6900 series) there. Never crawled around a steamer, but did ride a 6900.
My namesake uncle wrenched on NP steamers in Spokane, but nothing that big. His uncle was a Div. Engr. on the NP.
I know about a health care system that has been highly successful in containing costs, yet provides excellent care.
One of the things about this argument that the VA uses 20% of its resources to care for 90% of the patients, and 80% for 10% of the patients is that it's really easy to find spectacular success stories in the 80% of the VA that doesn't have a lot of work to do. All it takes are some dedicated interested people who have to luxury of the basically unlimited resources that are in the 80% of the VA that doesn't have much to do.
Or as somebody said last night -- in the old Soviet Union you had a fabulous supply of left shoes and no right shoes and not much of anything else. If you keep a tight focus on those left shoes it all looks marvelous.
suzy, Walker is tied in a Marquette poll of registered voters. He is up by 6 with likely voters.
Pretty sure the HotAir analysis noted that the poll sample (32D/24R) was 6 points more Democrat than the last Marquette poll sample two months ago (27D/25R) in which Walker led by 7 points among registered voters, 48-41.
FWIW, I know we are all a bit gunshy about being too skeptical of polls after 2012. But that is a significant change in sample *in the same poll* which I think merits mention. And Walker still enjoys a healthy lead among likely voters even with that changed sample.
CR--just sent my young partner an email saying I attribute my children not growing up to be entitled brats--my biggest fear in life at the time-- to the fact that I had them clean ALL of the bathrooms every week when they lived under my roof.
Made the guys great shots as well.
Whoever posted the link to the Navy Seal commander's UT commencement address--thank you. Outstanding.
they gave Bellesiles another book contract, about the year 1876. no obvious fraud, but who really knows. there was another book by Olivia Wilde's parents, the Cockburns, which you can see in some libraries, it was the same tale that Gary Webb embellished on, a decade later,
greetings from Normandy, spent 2 days in Monfleur thus far... Omaha/Utah beaches tomorrow with a brit military history author as guide. he gave us a lecture tonight...eccentric. Norman culture -- and weather-- is very different from provence and northern Italy alpine culture. but the food is great and medieval towns always interest me. Bayeux sat, giverny sunday, mont st Michel Monday. bit hectic, but lovely. Hey did JEF fix the A, ObummerCare and the Debt in the 2 days I've been gone?
NK, it's a bit hectic but those places aren't the most far flung areas of the world distance wise. Mt St Michel is nice because you can take everything in during the course of a day or so.
It wasn't until I was reading Gibbon that I realized that the Normans were a bunch of transplanted Vikings (I'm not so good at connecting dots sometime) that weren't your garden variety surrender monkeys. No wonder it was a Norman woman who stabbed that asswipe Marat while he was pampering his oozing psoriasis sores that were an external manifestation of his internal rot.
Yeah, my grandmother's maiden name was Montague, and she had her ancestry traced back through the Normans to some Norsemen of the third century. After they came down to what is now Normandy (so named because of their roots) one of them, Sir Drogo de Monteacuit (Dragon of the Mountaintop), crossed the Channel with William the Conqueror and set up shop in Old Blighty.
Benedict Cumberbatch is going to play Billy Bulger in Johnny Depp's movie. I guess they can have him walk around in a trench like the Scott of the Antarctic sketch,
that's just silly, Dave, nearly at that Python level, I note how the Departed was much more satisfying an ending,then how the Bulger saga ended up, which another series, Rizzoli and Isles has breached.
4,000 signatures....supposedly
Does anyone check if the online signatures are valid?
Posted by:
Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself |
May 22, 2014 at 07:04 PM
BTW, the big Barrett-Jackson Car Auction from Palm Beach is this Friday thru Sunday - 6 separate sessions - on Fox Sports for you guys and gals with cable or satellite.
NK, glad you are having fun and enjoying Normandy. One of my favoirte parts of France. My B-I-L has a beach house in St. Malo and my S-i-L lives in Bourdeaux and Dax. Dax is meh because of all the Basque separtists terrorists who use it as a hide out but Bordeaux is pretty special. Maybe the most conservative part of France.
Now lets all go to Netflix tonight and watch "The Longest Day" just for NK:)
Did you ever have people who came to you for advice and could not piece it together and you explained how it fit because it matters so much for this "free nation" as Janet put it swirling in the toilet?
anonamon:
I salute you in your efforts to have your kids clean the bathrooms while they were growing up. During our vacation I read the riot act to my 2 young adults about what I wanted the bathroom to look like when I returned from vacation. I was pleasantly surprised.
Also Rse: 2 comments. I was shocked and appalled to read the newsletter of the high school I first worked at in the 70's has gone to Common Core.And yes, I have a daughter who says Mom... in a drawn out way and repeats it ad nauseum. I am glad I am not alone.
Janet: We are not quite doomed yet. I see things changing and the false mask dems wear slipping as they try to convince voters that they have solutions and are capable of governing. The folks just aren't buying it anymore.
CH. and Matt:
I have seen that big train engine you are talking about. I saw some trains in St Louis and in Cheyenne Wyoming. They are massively impressive. as the daughter of a railroad fireman and then engineer, the Collinwood yards always fascinated me. My husband was a gandy dancer during his summers in his college years. He worked for B& O as well.
I never knew how great the New Deal was until I read what they're teaching my son in 11th grade. Why, if only everyone worked for the government, there'd be gleaming new parks in every town and we'd all be rich!
Btw, did Hoover ever use the term "trickle down economics?" Maybe JimmyK knows.
narciso:
McConnell is just saying that to get re-elected. We will keep the nuclear option when we retake the Senate. When A repub wins in 2016 we will then put Sup[reme Court Justices with conservative views on the SC when Ginsberg goes.Grassley first mentioned this ploy when Hairy Reid went nuclear. What goes around,comes around...
Special Report says Benghazi- Bammy goes to Vegas Veterans Hospitals -he goes fundraising. He doesn't give a --it.
Just listened to a 27 year old woman - voted for Obama, thought Obamacare was just a wonderful thing - on talk radio to tell her horror story about her Obamacare insurance coverage under Covered California.
Needed tendon surgery on her hand - turned down by ALL doctors (48-50 of them) on her Silver Plan list (insurer Anthem Blue Cross), saying: 1) they were not in the network; 2) had opted out of the network; 3) were in the process of opting out of the network; or 4) were once upon a time in the network, but no longer and the list was old.
Big news for soccer fans. Klinsman leaves Landon Donovan off the US world cup team. Terrible decision. You need an experienced leader not a bunch of rookies. Unbeliebable.
Not sure JiB. Consider the group of death. Nigeria: big, physical, fast. Portugal: fast, delightful ball skills. Germany: big, physical, great ball movement. Donovan is small and slowing. The US needs to go big & fast to survive here, although Donovan would be fine in later rounds he can't get the team to later rounds. I love Landon's game, but it doesn't fit against that group. Kinsman will take a lot of flack for this, but it makes sense to me.
What about leadership? It has its place. And his experience and accomplishments on stage are impressive. The young guys respect him. Sometimes physicality must take a back seat to the intrincis skills.
Chuck Todd on the VA scandal this morning just stammering for an answer! That harridan Cutter red-faced and stuttering this evening! Obama is going to feel like that little boy dumped on his grandparents again pretty soon.
"Needed tendon surgery on her hand"
Even before Voxcare, Good hand surgeons didn't participate in insurance plans. You don't want to go to the ones that do (she could have at least been treated before though).
JiB, yes leadership is a big intangible. They were without Landon in the early CONCACAF rounds and learned they could depend on other leaders-- Bradley may surprise you there. Landon's creativity would be great in a different WC group, this one needs physical pounding and speed to get through. Very different from CONCACAF.
well, daddy, I imagine most of those books are read by expats or kids on their jr year abroad. Do you imagine these types to be looking for books that praise the US?
Do you imagine these types to be looking for books that praise the US?
Nope Clarice. Over there, even tho' Obama's books are now bottom of the shelf and not prominent as previous, anti-American stuff (coast of Normandy excepted) still seems to be the current popular attitude over in Paris and Cambridge, the overseas places I hang out at in Europe.
I'm guessing stateside that the reason I see so many of the 3 Cups of Tea and One Million Little Pieces trash is because both were pushed by Oprah and her Book Club.
Yeah, the President came to Cooperstown today. His helicopter parade went right over my house both times, since AF1 landed at the former Griffiss Air Force Base (known best for being an alternate Space Shuttle landing site and the first Air Force base to get the Air Launched Cruise Missile in the 80's). His speech was scheduled to be 45 minutes, so I reckon he spent twice that on the chopper between Griffiss and Cooperstown, and another four times that flying from National to Griffiss. And how we're supposed to make tourism into a working concern when people can't take vacations because they're unemployed is utterly beyond me.
OK so a seminal part of the controversial School to Work ed fiasco/industrial policy legislation of the Clintons is to be renewed in a bi partisan effort. http://www.jff.org/news-media/long-sought-compromise-unites-parties-improve-us-workforce-development-system
As a practical matter this will force all high school to be vo-tech since you cannot have just the low skilled or poor on Career Pathways. Ga has already done this and Big Business and public institutions just adore having public ed to the training assuming the industries that exist are all that will ever be.
The Republicans truly are the "we'll just graze from the other side of the trough of public money" party if this goes through.
Posted by: rse | May 22, 2014 at 03:41 PM
1) Doctor earns kr660,000 (~$100,000). Doctor pays kr594,000 in taxes to have kr66,000 left, which he pays to the painter. Painter pays kr59,400 in taxes to end up with kr6,600 (~$1,000)
OR
2) Doctor takes a couple of weeks unpaid leave and paints the house.
As long as the doctor gives up less than $100,000 in pay for the unpaid leave, doctor is ahead with option #2. The painter is screwed. And so is the government revenue...
True story: On average, Swedish doctors work approximately half the hours each year that doctors work on average in any other western country.
There is a classic example of the Swedish doctor and the house painter. The idea is quite simple -- a Swedish doctor needs his house painted. The income tax rate in Sweden is 90%. The doctor's choices:Posted by: cathyf | May 22, 2014 at 03:42 PM
Blows against the new Evil Empire:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/22/adam-carolla-says-he-called-out-nprs-attempt-to-ambush-him-in-truly-epic-fashion-well-see-if-he-has-the-balls-to-air-it/
Posted by: Captain Hate | May 22, 2014 at 03:43 PM
Nobody says they want Mitt Romney!
Nobody says they wish McCain had won the presidency.
And, I wouldn't be surprised that lots of people are happier with a president who fails in his quest to form a "New Society" than anything else.
Plus, the negative reviews don't give the republicans any bounce.
Over in India, with Modi's win, I saw a country with 1.5 billion people, actually sweep out their entrenched government. And, the new guy doesn't even have to compromise with coalitions.
Maybe, ahead, Modi will help Americans rewrite our political practices book?
Posted by: Carol Herman | May 22, 2014 at 03:44 PM
"If you like your physician, you'll be able to keep your physician."
Actually, what Obama says has "staying power."
Posted by: Carol Herman | May 22, 2014 at 03:45 PM
Interesting that Anonamom at 3:04 uses "NPR" and "Fertilize" in one sentence.
Posted by: Old Lurker | May 22, 2014 at 03:46 PM
Oh, Threadkiller!!!
Look what C-SPAN is promoting!
HAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: Miss Marple | May 22, 2014 at 03:46 PM
Yep, Captain. He ought to still be in jail and for a long, long time. My guess tho' is that if they're going all out to resurrect Nifong I think there's also got to be a campaign in the works to try to resurrect the career of anti-gun fraudster Michael Bellesiles, and his lying book "Arming America".
It's also depressing to me, since I go to so many used bookstores in my travels, to see how many copies of bogus books are out there for sale that you can tell from looking at have been well read. Two that spring to mind are Greg Mortenson's "Three Cups of Tea", and James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces."
Posted by: daddy | May 22, 2014 at 03:49 PM
http://www.jff.org/blog/2014/05/22/federal-request-information-opportunity-public-and-private-stakeholders-contribute
Departments of Ed, Labor, and HHS working together for Career Pathways for all youth.
Now O'care will not help in the least in this view of our economic future.
Posted by: rse | May 22, 2014 at 03:53 PM
French welfare state:
http://www.cbn.com/tv/3255110732001
Posted by: Danube on iPad | May 22, 2014 at 03:59 PM
Matt,
I had the chance to attend the dedication of Kenefick Park next to what is now Omaha's baseball stadium for the collegiate World Series. They spotted a Big Boy next to a DD40X (6900 series) there. Never crawled around a steamer, but did ride a 6900.
My namesake uncle wrenched on NP steamers in Spokane, but nothing that big. His uncle was a Div. Engr. on the NP.
Posted by: Man Tran on iPhone | May 22, 2014 at 04:05 PM
Did Obama eat his dog before or after it ate his homework?
henry. Ezra Klein says your expectations are just way too high.
Posted by: Porchlight | May 22, 2014 at 04:14 PM
Or as somebody said last night -- in the old Soviet Union you had a fabulous supply of left shoes and no right shoes and not much of anything else. If you keep a tight focus on those left shoes it all looks marvelous.
One of the things about this argument that the VA uses 20% of its resources to care for 90% of the patients, and 80% for 10% of the patients is that it's really easy to find spectacular success stories in the 80% of the VA that doesn't have a lot of work to do. All it takes are some dedicated interested people who have to luxury of the basically unlimited resources that are in the 80% of the VA that doesn't have much to do.Posted by: cathyf | May 22, 2014 at 04:18 PM
Anyone notice that the excuse that the presidency is too complicated for just one man only surfaces when an Democrat is in office?
Obama's just not that smart.
Posted by: MarkO on the road, closeted in a Marriott in Newark. | May 22, 2014 at 04:27 PM
170 rounds of golf and counting.
How complicated can it be?
Posted by: Old Lurker | May 22, 2014 at 04:35 PM
Somebody needs to remind me how enlightened these vermin are: http://www.timesofisrael.com/radical-islamists-take-hammer-to-syrian-artifacts/
Posted by: Captain Hate | May 22, 2014 at 04:38 PM
Anyone suppose Paul Krugman has ever set foot in a VA hospital?
Posted by: Danube on iPad | May 22, 2014 at 04:46 PM
suzy, Walker is tied in a Marquette poll of registered voters. He is up by 6 with likely voters.
Pretty sure the HotAir analysis noted that the poll sample (32D/24R) was 6 points more Democrat than the last Marquette poll sample two months ago (27D/25R) in which Walker led by 7 points among registered voters, 48-41.
FWIW, I know we are all a bit gunshy about being too skeptical of polls after 2012. But that is a significant change in sample *in the same poll* which I think merits mention. And Walker still enjoys a healthy lead among likely voters even with that changed sample.
Posted by: Porchlight | May 22, 2014 at 04:48 PM
CR--just sent my young partner an email saying I attribute my children not growing up to be entitled brats--my biggest fear in life at the time-- to the fact that I had them clean ALL of the bathrooms every week when they lived under my roof.
Made the guys great shots as well.
Whoever posted the link to the Navy Seal commander's UT commencement address--thank you. Outstanding.
Posted by: anonamom | May 22, 2014 at 04:56 PM
My great-nephew was in the UT Class of '14; he and my nephew were there, and said it was inspirational
Can you imagine McRaven ever whining about anything on this earth?
Posted by: Danube on iPad | May 22, 2014 at 05:11 PM
they gave Bellesiles another book contract, about the year 1876. no obvious fraud, but who really knows. there was another book by Olivia Wilde's parents, the Cockburns, which you can see in some libraries, it was the same tale that Gary Webb embellished on, a decade later,
Posted by: narciso | May 22, 2014 at 05:13 PM
greetings from Normandy, spent 2 days in Monfleur thus far... Omaha/Utah beaches tomorrow with a brit military history author as guide. he gave us a lecture tonight...eccentric. Norman culture -- and weather-- is very different from provence and northern Italy alpine culture. but the food is great and medieval towns always interest me. Bayeux sat, giverny sunday, mont st Michel Monday. bit hectic, but lovely. Hey did JEF fix the A, ObummerCare and the Debt in the 2 days I've been gone?
Posted by: NKinNormandy | May 22, 2014 at 05:16 PM
Nah, NK - Preezy is out fund raising and playing golf - not fixing nuttin'.
Posted by: centralcal | May 22, 2014 at 05:21 PM
But he's vowed to fix them, and he's really angry about it all.
Posted by: jimmyk | May 22, 2014 at 05:27 PM
Good, what harm can he do playing golf.
Posted by: NKinNormandy | May 22, 2014 at 05:27 PM
He is really mad that they are not fixed. Really mad. Honest.
Posted by: Old Lurker | May 22, 2014 at 05:31 PM
Everybody sees us as a mark, can't blame them;
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/05/22/rouhani-the-u-s-should-probably-pay-iran-reparations-for-all-the-damage-inflicted-on-us/
Posted by: narciso | May 22, 2014 at 05:39 PM
He just read about those in the papers, NK. Have a great time!
Posted by: Captain Hate | May 22, 2014 at 05:49 PM
He takes full responsibility, but in what form we know not.
Posted by: matt | May 22, 2014 at 05:50 PM
If you keep a tight focus on those left shoes it all looks marvelous.
At least to one legged left footed guys. The rest of us, not so much...
Posted by: GMax | May 22, 2014 at 05:51 PM
NK, it's a bit hectic but those places aren't the most far flung areas of the world distance wise. Mt St Michel is nice because you can take everything in during the course of a day or so.
Posted by: Captain Hate | May 22, 2014 at 05:52 PM
It wasn't until I was reading Gibbon that I realized that the Normans were a bunch of transplanted Vikings (I'm not so good at connecting dots sometime) that weren't your garden variety surrender monkeys. No wonder it was a Norman woman who stabbed that asswipe Marat while he was pampering his oozing psoriasis sores that were an external manifestation of his internal rot.
Posted by: Captain Hate | May 22, 2014 at 05:58 PM
I read that 'Special' Ed Schultz' radio show is going off the air.
Ed Schultz has a radio show?
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | May 22, 2014 at 06:04 PM
Yes, the Great Upheaval has great sketches of all the major figures, Marat, Danton, Robespierre,
Posted by: narciso | May 22, 2014 at 06:04 PM
Yeah, my grandmother's maiden name was Montague, and she had her ancestry traced back through the Normans to some Norsemen of the third century. After they came down to what is now Normandy (so named because of their roots) one of them, Sir Drogo de Monteacuit (Dragon of the Mountaintop), crossed the Channel with William the Conqueror and set up shop in Old Blighty.
Posted by: Danube on iPad | May 22, 2014 at 06:06 PM
Forget it, Jake, it's just Biloxi'
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/05/more-arrests-in-photographing-of-thad-cochrans-wife-in-nursing-home/
Posted by: narciso | May 22, 2014 at 06:09 PM
Very nice one-page summary of the origins of the Normans and their surprisingly slight influence on English culture after the Conquest:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071107112853AAFEcfl
Posted by: Danube on iPad | May 22, 2014 at 06:13 PM
Benedict Cumberbatch is going to play Billy Bulger in Johnny Depp's movie. I guess they can have him walk around in a trench like the Scott of the Antarctic sketch,
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | May 22, 2014 at 06:27 PM
that's just silly, Dave, nearly at that Python level, I note how the Departed was much more satisfying an ending,then how the Bulger saga ended up, which another series, Rizzoli and Isles has breached.
Posted by: narciso | May 22, 2014 at 06:39 PM
So McTurtle wants to hand the filibuster back to the Dems, so they can slap us like a wet mackerel with it.
Posted by: narciso | May 22, 2014 at 06:41 PM
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FIRINGS_TRANSGENDER_COMMENTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-05-22-15-16-41
New York radio hosts fired for transgender remarks
Posted by: Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself | May 22, 2014 at 06:58 PM
Looks like the petition was from Change.org.
http://www.change.org/petitions/mike-danger-remove-kimberly-and-beck-as-hosts-of-the-breakfast-buzz
4,000 signatures....supposedly
Does anyone check if the online signatures are valid?
Posted by: Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself | May 22, 2014 at 07:04 PM
BTW, the big Barrett-Jackson Car Auction from Palm Beach is this Friday thru Sunday - 6 separate sessions - on Fox Sports for you guys and gals with cable or satellite.
NK, glad you are having fun and enjoying Normandy. One of my favoirte parts of France. My B-I-L has a beach house in St. Malo and my S-i-L lives in Bourdeaux and Dax. Dax is meh because of all the Basque separtists terrorists who use it as a hide out but Bordeaux is pretty special. Maybe the most conservative part of France.
Now lets all go to Netflix tonight and watch "The Longest Day" just for NK:)
Posted by: Jim Eagle | May 22, 2014 at 07:05 PM
We are done as a free nation....
Posted by: Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself | May 22, 2014 at 07:10 PM
daddy--just got an email asking for money to support Sarah Palin for Senate in Alaska.
Keep us updated.
Posted by: anonamom | May 22, 2014 at 07:16 PM
What do we suppose Obama does to Michelle if she serves lentils instead of the goat meat he asked for?
Posted by: Extraneus | May 22, 2014 at 07:19 PM
Did you ever have people who came to you for advice and could not piece it together and you explained how it fit because it matters so much for this "free nation" as Janet put it swirling in the toilet?
And they couldn't even give you a hat tip?
I may become a hermit.
Posted by: rse | May 22, 2014 at 07:22 PM
Or dog meat.
Posted by: Extraneus | May 22, 2014 at 07:23 PM
It's not a real thing, anonamon, she doesn't endorse the effort,
Posted by: narciso | May 22, 2014 at 07:23 PM
I may become a hermit.
We're gonna need a really big island.
Posted by: henry | May 22, 2014 at 07:28 PM
anonamon:
I salute you in your efforts to have your kids clean the bathrooms while they were growing up. During our vacation I read the riot act to my 2 young adults about what I wanted the bathroom to look like when I returned from vacation. I was pleasantly surprised.
Also Rse: 2 comments. I was shocked and appalled to read the newsletter of the high school I first worked at in the 70's has gone to Common Core.And yes, I have a daughter who says Mom... in a drawn out way and repeats it ad nauseum. I am glad I am not alone.
Janet: We are not quite doomed yet. I see things changing and the false mask dems wear slipping as they try to convince voters that they have solutions and are capable of governing. The folks just aren't buying it anymore.
CH. and Matt:
I have seen that big train engine you are talking about. I saw some trains in St Louis and in Cheyenne Wyoming. They are massively impressive. as the daughter of a railroad fireman and then engineer, the Collinwood yards always fascinated me. My husband was a gandy dancer during his summers in his college years. He worked for B& O as well.
Posted by: maryrose | May 22, 2014 at 07:36 PM
Say goodbye, Greg.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2636843/Fox-anchor-taken-heavy-painkillers-drinking-vodka-three-hours-arrested-airport-bar-shouting-f-cops-just-released-rehab.html
Never liked him that much anyway.
Posted by: Danube on iPad | May 22, 2014 at 07:39 PM
Meanwhile back at the ranch
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-94-russian-backed-separatists-launch-attacks-near-donetsk/
Posted by: narciso | May 22, 2014 at 07:40 PM
I never knew how great the New Deal was until I read what they're teaching my son in 11th grade. Why, if only everyone worked for the government, there'd be gleaming new parks in every town and we'd all be rich!
Btw, did Hoover ever use the term "trickle down economics?" Maybe JimmyK knows.
Posted by: Extraneus | May 22, 2014 at 07:40 PM
Ext, maybe trickle down electricity or some dam thing.
Posted by: henry | May 22, 2014 at 07:44 PM
narciso:
McConnell is just saying that to get re-elected. We will keep the nuclear option when we retake the Senate. When A repub wins in 2016 we will then put Sup[reme Court Justices with conservative views on the SC when Ginsberg goes.Grassley first mentioned this ploy when Hairy Reid went nuclear. What goes around,comes around...
Special Report says Benghazi- Bammy goes to Vegas Veterans Hospitals -he goes fundraising. He doesn't give a --it.
Posted by: maryrose | May 22, 2014 at 07:45 PM
We're gonna need a really big island.
How about Greenland? Because if you believe Gore and his ilk it is a going to be a tropical paradise as long as we can find a nice high ground.
I lived there as a young man at BW8 or Sanderstrom AFB. Its great sledding.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | May 22, 2014 at 07:49 PM
Just listened to a 27 year old woman - voted for Obama, thought Obamacare was just a wonderful thing - on talk radio to tell her horror story about her Obamacare insurance coverage under Covered California.
Needed tendon surgery on her hand - turned down by ALL doctors (48-50 of them) on her Silver Plan list (insurer Anthem Blue Cross), saying: 1) they were not in the network; 2) had opted out of the network; 3) were in the process of opting out of the network; or 4) were once upon a time in the network, but no longer and the list was old.
She is not an Obamacare fan now.
Posted by: centralcal | May 22, 2014 at 08:00 PM
Big news for soccer fans. Klinsman leaves Landon Donovan off the US world cup team. Terrible decision. You need an experienced leader not a bunch of rookies. Unbeliebable.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | May 22, 2014 at 08:05 PM
Not sure JiB. Consider the group of death. Nigeria: big, physical, fast. Portugal: fast, delightful ball skills. Germany: big, physical, great ball movement. Donovan is small and slowing. The US needs to go big & fast to survive here, although Donovan would be fine in later rounds he can't get the team to later rounds. I love Landon's game, but it doesn't fit against that group. Kinsman will take a lot of flack for this, but it makes sense to me.
Posted by: henry | May 22, 2014 at 08:20 PM
Donovan is the team. This is worse than when other Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: MarkO on the road, closeted in a Marriott in Newark. | May 22, 2014 at 08:22 PM
henry,
What about leadership? It has its place. And his experience and accomplishments on stage are impressive. The young guys respect him. Sometimes physicality must take a back seat to the intrincis skills.
BTW, new thread where I am the only presence.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | May 22, 2014 at 08:27 PM
Boy that Greg Jarrett video was painful to watch.
Posted by: Jane on Ipad | May 22, 2014 at 08:44 PM
Chuck Todd on the VA scandal this morning just stammering for an answer! That harridan Cutter red-faced and stuttering this evening! Obama is going to feel like that little boy dumped on his grandparents again pretty soon.
"Needed tendon surgery on her hand"
Even before Voxcare, Good hand surgeons didn't participate in insurance plans. You don't want to go to the ones that do (she could have at least been treated before though).
Posted by: Skoot | May 22, 2014 at 08:53 PM
JiB, yes leadership is a big intangible. They were without Landon in the early CONCACAF rounds and learned they could depend on other leaders-- Bradley may surprise you there. Landon's creativity would be great in a different WC group, this one needs physical pounding and speed to get through. Very different from CONCACAF.
Posted by: henry | May 22, 2014 at 08:59 PM
well, daddy, I imagine most of those books are read by expats or kids on their jr year abroad. Do you imagine these types to be looking for books that praise the US?
Posted by: clarice | May 22, 2014 at 09:21 PM
Do you imagine these types to be looking for books that praise the US?
Nope Clarice. Over there, even tho' Obama's books are now bottom of the shelf and not prominent as previous, anti-American stuff (coast of Normandy excepted) still seems to be the current popular attitude over in Paris and Cambridge, the overseas places I hang out at in Europe.
I'm guessing stateside that the reason I see so many of the 3 Cups of Tea and One Million Little Pieces trash is because both were pushed by Oprah and her Book Club.
Posted by: daddy | May 22, 2014 at 10:38 PM
Miss Marple:
Yeah, the President came to Cooperstown today. His helicopter parade went right over my house both times, since AF1 landed at the former Griffiss Air Force Base (known best for being an alternate Space Shuttle landing site and the first Air Force base to get the Air Launched Cruise Missile in the 80's). His speech was scheduled to be 45 minutes, so I reckon he spent twice that on the chopper between Griffiss and Cooperstown, and another four times that flying from National to Griffiss. And how we're supposed to make tourism into a working concern when people can't take vacations because they're unemployed is utterly beyond me.
Posted by: nextcube | May 23, 2014 at 12:15 AM
Next,
Good to see you posting again after a long hiatus. Cheers and please post more!
Posted by: daddy | May 23, 2014 at 01:52 AM
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