Meanwhile, Back In The Lake Wobegon School District...

Hillarity!:

'I Wouldn't Keep Any School Open That Wasn't Doing A Better Than Average Job'

Math mavens will immediately wonder whether our once and future Queen was contemplating the mean, median or mode as a method of averaging. Half the schools will be below the median level by definition. As to mean and mode, that will depend on the distribution of whatever the heck we might be looking at on these hypothetical school report cards. In any case, this is all very hard to conceptualize - a Democrat threatening to close schools? Pigs will fly to algebra class first.

Well. Imagine that 90% of the schools grade at 80 and 10% grade at 50. The mean will be (no peeking!) less than 80 (77, for those who care), so 90% of schools will not be threatened with closure. Whether a wildly non-normal distribution like that is representative of reality is a question for brighter minds than mine.

And what happens in subsequent years when the low-scoring schools have been closed and the average of the surviving schools has (presumably) risen? Have the Hunger Games come to public education?

All very thought-provoking. I do hope Hillarity!'s spokespeople tell us she is serious, instead of hiding behind their pro forma "She was hitting the Nyquil again, pretty hard" excuse.

 

Comments

[matt]

ersties!

[matt]

LA, Chicago, Detroit, DC, New York, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas...

Where would you like to start Ms. Clinton?

[FF]

Average or Median? If there was only one really, really, really crappy school it may be the only one needed to be shut down.

[maryrose]

Hil knows nothing about education
Arne Duncan Obama's stooge knew.nothing about it either
Abolish the Department and let states handle it

[henry]

The example by TM used average (mean).

For Kim and other math mavens, with a bit of p chem tossed in (absorption spectra). this paper found solar radiation decreasing in China. Our lurking friend and I have been speculating on what they measured and how, but that is short of actually reading the paper. We will get to that as beer supplies allow.

[Art in Newport]

Hmm. So, her first year in office she closes half the schools.
Then she notices that half of the remainder are still below average. So, ...

[Dave (in MA)]

That moment when Don Lemon and his guests realize that he just accused Kurt Schlichter of "a low blow" when he was referring to the Little Rock p-hound's behavior when Hildabeast stood by him.

[Dave (in MA)]

http://howiecarrshow.com/watch-howiecam-live-streaming/ Schlichter is on now.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

As I stated in the other thread, Schlichter knows how to deal with a shrieking Nancy boy like Lemon by concentrating on facts regarding the predator husband of Pantsuits DeFarge. He hadn't even gotten to Epstein Island.

[buccaneer morgan]

Well he's a former lt. Col, so he knows about aiming at the right target. That unctuous ad red queen made me gag.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Shocking that Rodham's not good with numbers; didn't see that coming...

[the same raccooon was waddling in my garage towards me1]

I follow Schilchter on Twitter. He is currently catching it from the left.

Sample comment:

"Your wife and mother are ho's."

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

A fellow moron made the excellent point that the performance by the Secret Service started smelling like poo right after it became part of Homeland Security.

[buccaneer morgan]

Ewok with the singed fur again, sounds like deroy Murdock circa 2009

[Jack is Back (but On Alert)!]

More C's than F's, works for me.

[Dave (in MA)]

I guess I'll care more about whether the Secret Service is doing its job properly in oh, 394 days or so.

[buccaneer morgan]

We didn't really start noticing this problem until 2009.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

The ewok providing an early Christmas gift of illustrating why I don't comment there any more.

[anonamom]

Re: post--progs so don't get even basic math, do they?

Mary Katherine Ham's Christmas card. (If she can do Christmas, none of us have any excuse to not make it happen.) Sweet little girls:

https://www.instagram.com/p/_nDTQOiwCI/

And for whoever asked--Star wars definitely worth whatever you have to pay.

[Dave (in MA)]

Trump shouldn't be so quick to criticize Rodham.

When has he ever had to try to wriggle back into his burlap horse blanket fast enough to get back to the podium after going backstage to pinch one off during an ad break?

[Buckeye]

CH

Shrillary is real good with numbers that have $$$ in front of them.

[henry]

Trigger warn any Star Wars spoilers... my nieces are taking me Christmas morning. :)

[buccaneer morgan]

Crikey Mandy patinkin sounds like his character George on alien nation.

[buccaneer morgan]

Well I've been as oblique as possible.

[Jane]

Just had dinner at the Moose with my neighbors. Really interesting conversation about Trump and Cruz. We were talking about entitlements and who would have the guts to cut them - and I had to agree that it would be Trump if anyone.

I'm concerned about how Obama has gutted the constitution. The only person who would bring us back is Cruz.

[Dave (in MA)]

For years, narciso. ;)

[Jack is Back!]

henry, Enjoy Star Wars. Forget all your intellectual response mechanisms, be a kid again and enjoy. Remember it replaced westerns.

[Stephanie]

Stole the Teabaggers comment cheerleader...

[henry]

I like westerns.

[Jack is Back!]

Meant to mention I am sitting outside on the back porch listening to Brenda Lee Christmas music in the South Fork of Long Island in December.

Long live global warming.

[buccaneer morgan]

Yes but more recently more than most, and he is ignoring the overseers.

[buccaneer morgan]

Civility is a trait common to the Bezos post, save.

[Jeff Dobbs]

'I Wouldn't Keep Any School Open That Wasn't Doing A Better Than Average Job'

Would Hillarity shut down and federal program that wasn't doing a better than average job?

[jimmyk]

Jeff, I'm sure she'd say they're all better than average.

[Daddy on the new iPhone]

Crikey Mandy patinkin sounds like his character George on alien nation

What can u expect from a guy that Barry Manilow wrote a song about

[Jeff Dobbs]

You're right, jimmyk. Dangit.

[henry]

Not all jimmyk. Just the union controlled public ones. Private or charter are toast.

[buccaneer morgan]

And in the end it doesn't mean anything because they can't master the 3 Rd or the big T.

[jimmyk]

buccaneer, where are you seeing Mandy Patinkin?

[jimmyk]

henry, I was responding to Jeff re government programs.

[buccaneer morgan]

Its a repeat of his Charlie :I don't know who Obama is' rose appearance.

[jimmyk]

Please don't tell me Mandy's an Obama lover. He's very good in Homeland.

[Dave (in MA)]

He didn't write that one. When you're married to a "Fanilow" I guess you pick up trivia.

[buccaneer morgan]

Probably, but that wasn't his most recent schtick.

[Jeff Dobbs]

henry:
Trigger warn any Star Wars spoilers... my nieces are taking me Christmas morning. :)

We're going with the seven cousins next Monday. Who wouldn't want to see Star Wars in Rexburg, ID?

Rexburg, ID is where it's at.

[lyle]

Hard to find a beer in Rexburg, Jeff. Not impossible just hard. But then you knew that.

[buccaneer morgan]

Louisiana proves sometimes you have to vote for the monger over the ostensibly honest democrat.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Heh, lyle, we don't go to Rexburg for beer. We hit up Broulims in Driggs for that. We have to go to Rexburg for a big screen and stadium seating for the movie.

Rexburg is 45 minutes from here. Driggs is 10...

Star Wars is actually playing at Pierre's Playhouse in Victor (also 10 minutes from here). But Pierre's is tiny and wouldn't give the whole theater experience.

[henry]

Jeff, I agree the big screen experience makes sense. The nieces (youngest just turned 21) selected a venue with big screen and hostesses who bring beer! Beer, a WI staple.

[Jeff Dobbs]

henry:
The nieces (youngest just turned 21) selected a venue with big screen and hostesses who bring beer!

Wait. What?

My life is so incomplete without that.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Long live global warming.--

Heh. We should finish off four or five straight days of rain tomorrow morning just in time for a winter storm warning Thursday and Friday;
cue Der Bingel...

[Dave (in MA)]

buccaneer morgan | December 22, 2015 at 07:47 PM, after a 7 year moratorium it's once again socially acceptable to monkey imagery in a political context?

[henry]

Jeff, I learned of this nirvana when my nieces took me to a Bond film a couple years ago. I figured Bond movie and popcorn can't be all bad. Then we go in and get a menu handed to each of us -- with a fine beer selection! I now believe movies without a beer and big screen are uncivilized.

[Jeff Dobbs]

henry:
I now believe movies without a beer and big screen are uncivilized.

I am a convert to this point of view.

Allineeda Akbeer!

[lyle]

I've never been one to burden JOM too much with the travails and viccissitudes of my life on the earth but my niece is having brain surgery as I write to hopefully stop her epileptic seizures. A prayer or two would certainly be appreciated. The seizures have thus far been fairly mild--no grand mal or anything that severe. She's the only progeny of my batshit crazy sister, a detail I add only because I'm afraid that even with a successful outcome tonight, the niece is showing signs of becoming just like her mom.

[henry]

Added to prayers Lyle.

[daddy]

Please don't tell me Mandy's an Obama lover. He's very good in Homeland.

JimmyK,

Rush did a segment on him today in I think Hour 1. I've never seen the Show Homeland so I don't know who he is or his character, but the overall point is that Mandy says he's learned all sorts of compassion form playing whoever he's played and therefore he hates Dick Cheney and Ted Cruz.

Here's the transcript: Mandy Patinkin Ruins Homeland!

[the same raccooon was waddling in my garage towards me1]

lyle,

I will certainly offer prayers. May the Great Physician heal her. God bless them both!

[Threadkiller]

Prayers offered, lyle.

[Dave (in MA)]

The Fair Game WaPo Cruz Monkeys have been pulled down.

Best wishes, Lyle.

[Jack is Back!]

Lyle,

Every creature is God's perfection some a bubble or two off but still his best effort. Even Iggy's and OL's siblings. We are a blessed people. We are alive and healthy (maybe?) but alive. Prayers plenty for your niece and for all out there who think no one cares. I do.

[Stephanie]

Prayers, Lyle.

Jeff:

https://www.studiomoviegrill.com/Locations.aspx

I suspect a drive to Charlotte is a bit far.

This is the only way to do movies and they usually have a Groupon for the weekday showings for $6, so we either eat and go for dessert and some booze or we eat there for dinner and booze. The food is standard bar fare, but good.

We are going to SW tomorrow night on the Dinner and a movie pass my brother gave us for Christmas, so we will have to confine it to Longhorns and the AMC with no booze. Thems the occasional breaks...

[daddy]

Trigger warn any Star Wars spoilers... my nieces are taking me Christmas morning. :)

Posted by: henry

MAN JAILED AFTER STUDENT THREATENED OVER "STAR WARS" SPOILER

A Montana man is charged with threatening to shoot a boy for sharing information about a subplot of the new "Star Wars" movie during an online conversation.

Arthur Charles Roy, of Helena, was charged with felony assault with a weapon Monday during an appearance in Lewis and Clark County Justice Court. He remains jailed with his bail set at $10,000.

I think the guy who gave the gun to the dead Tsarnaev Brother got off lighter.

[daddy]

BTW Henry,

Please don't click on my 09:14 spoiler link or I'll have to shoot you you'll have to shoot me.

[lyle]

Thanks, everyone. Surgery is in Seattle and apparently lasts 5 hrs. Should be wrapped up within the next one.

[henry]

Thanks for the trigger warning daddy! I will avoid the link and thus my trigger.

[daddy]

Maybe Trump was watching Young Frankenstein?

[buccaneer morgan]

Prayers for you, Lyle.

[jimmyk]

Prayers for your niece, Lyle.

Surprised there aren't more Homeland fans here, especially after that clip Janet (I think) posted of Quinn speaking the truth about ISIS, and the lack of any strategy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct3BsyF64gM

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Best wishes to your niece, lyle.

[the same raccooon was waddling in my garage towards me1]

jimmyk,

I believe that series is on HBO, which I don't subscribe to. Sounds interesting, but I will wait until it shows up on Netflix.

[buccaneer morgan]

In the third season, saul took the man behind the murder of 200 or so colleagues at langley, and turned him against the mullahs, of course there was that gambit in pakistan, which enables a benghazi attack in islamabad, clever little games in berlin where he nearly permits a chemical attack in berlin, in part because of the Russian mole he was sleeping with. So tell is of the great and kind saul berenson again.

[buccaneer morgan]

Showtime actually, it hasn't made it there in give seasons.

[buccaneer morgan]

I have seen some dvds through the library and when they have a free preview like last thanksgiving weekend.

[daddy]

Mandy Patinkin, What did your character on Homeland teach you about Republicans?

"They should all be dead."

"Terry Garr, what did your character in Young Frankenstein teach you about Donald Trump?"

Voof!"

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

So does the Bezos Post having cartoons depicting Ted Cruz's five and seven year old daughters as monkeys mean that the GOP can point out that The Omen was an entitled incompetent train wreck and hated by everyone at NBC? Or is she still hands off?

[the same raccooon was waddling in my garage towards me1]

Well, I don't pay for any of the premium channels, so wouldn't see it on Showtime, either.

Like I said, sounds really interesting, but I'm not paying extra no matter how good it is.

[the same raccooon was waddling in my garage towards me1]

Captain Hate,

You know better than to ask that question. Democrats will attack BABIES (Trig Palin) but should you criticize an adult child of a democrat, you are worse than scum, because they are SPECIAL and must never be talked about!

[the same raccooon was waddling in my garage towards me1]

My raccoon skirmish today wore me out.

Nytol!

[buccaneer morgan]

Its still an interesting show, but from the examples I pointed out, no one should get on their high horse. Earlier in the third season, Carrie the high strung bipolar protagonist recruits a nephew of a haqquani manque, who was believed to have been killed in a stone strike.

[daddy]

Sorry Lyle,

Just caught up to the thread, so excuse my unserious nonsense above and I'm pulling for her and you and for her momma. God Bless and good luck.

We're still allowed to say "God Bless" in this country, right?

Amazing to read of efforts in this country to ban as Racist a song, written by a penniless immigrant Russian Jew, that became the best selling Holliday song of all time.

Can't have that in America.

[jimmyk]

Watching Patinkin now on Rose. Not sure why actors think they are experts on national security. Or why Charlie Rose thinks they are.

[buccaneer morgan]

Republicans are unpeople, as everything to so with the huntress including last fall showed.
Although I'm nonplussed about her second oldest life choices, the dauphins marriage into a family of grifters, should be of note.

[jimmyk]

Patinkin says if only we took care of everyone there would be no more terrorism. But we're addicted to a "class system," war makes more money than peace. Poverty drives people to terrorism.

Never mind that most of the leading terrorists have come from comfortable backgrounds.

[buccaneer morgan]

Everytime they give someone the benefit of the doubt as with Brody the bergdahl with initiative, innocent people have died

[daddy]

Here's the Washington Post Cartoon of Ted Cruz's daughters as monkeys.

Apparently the WaPo has now pulled it.

[buccaneer morgan]

Yes the late abbaoud was accepted into Belgian society, even given a shot at one of the best schools, yet he chose to steel and then murder.

[buccaneer morgan]

So I won't hyperventilate at trump, even though it puts him at the same level as npr in 2011.

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

lyle - Prayers for successful surgery for your niece.

I sympathize with your hope that she doesn't take after your sister. One BSC relative is enough for *any* family.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--We're still allowed to say "God Bless" in this country, right?--

I believe Inshallah is the preferred form these days, daddy.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Patinkin says if only we took care of everyone there would be no more terrorism. But we're addicted to a "class system," war makes more money than peace. Poverty drives people to terrorism.--

Inconceivable.

[buccaneer morgan]

Lol, as usual if Charlie were more familiar with the series, he could actually raise a withering question or two.

[sbw]

Lyle, there is room for more than one prayer. Glad to help.

[GUS]

Henry, is that the MAJESTIC??? I'm thirsty.

[GUS]

Daddy, did you say WAPO had Obama's daughters as monkeys???

[daddy]

Narciso,

Speaking of "Withering" adjectives, this is what Ted Cruz tweeted:

“Classy. @washingtonpost makes fun of my girls. Stick w/ attacking me--Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.”

Here's the News Media using adjectives to describe Cruz's response:

That response, as described by
1) Politico: "Cruz Lashes Out"

"Lashing out" should be made of firmer stuff.

2) CNN: new ammunition Tuesday to shoot at his favorite bogeyman

3) CBS: Uproar from Candidate Ted Cruz

4) Daily Caller: Cruz GOES OFF On Washington Post

5) SUNTIMES: Cruz quickly condemned the cartoon

6) MRC News Busters Cruz responded in the following tweet:

Teams of Editors over eager thesaurus embellishers.

Nice Job to MRC News Busters. Seems to me that the smaller the publication, the closer they get to valid description and the further from hyperbole.

[daddy]

did you say WAPO had Obama's daughters as monkeys???

No GUS, But I'm willing to if it'll help:)

[buccaneer morgan]

There are no standards anymore 'cry havoc and slip the dogs of war'

[daddy]

.

[GUS]

Imagine Chelsea's kids being portrayed as monkeys.
Then imagine her response being characterized as "lashing out".