Monthly Archives: February 2010

Math Fads

Joanne Jacobs weighs in on the repercussions of the Seattle court decision regarding “Discovery” math. She references an Education News article by Barry Garelick and the excerpt below echoes my experience… It is obvious to parents that the discovery programs … Continue reading

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Discovery Math and St. Vrain Valley School District

In Seattle the Key books Discovery Math Series is coming in for hard times. Guess what series of books is used for math in the St. Vrain Valley School District? Yep, that would be the one. From a recent editorial … Continue reading

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What the Supreme Court needs….

a teleprompter. good grief.

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Tom Friedman: Global Warming Hypocrite

You can’t make this stuff up. Do you see any solar panels or windmills in the picture (follow link)? The elite telling the rest of us how to live. Gotta love it. …NOT!

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Competition between the three F’s

Food, feed and fuel. Al Gore prattles on and on about the theoretical deaths that will, someday, supposedly be caused by a climate crisis that exists only in a future predicted by flawed computer models, which are in turn “proven” … Continue reading

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Climategate: The NASA Version

Coverup and data manipulation at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where we will conveniently find NASA scientist and annointed “expert” James Hansen. Read what was found when NASA finally complied with a FOI request by Chris Horner. Here’s Horner’s … Continue reading

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I want you…

I want you, to join the Communist Party. Which one do you trust?

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Record drop of foreign holdings in US. Debt

I say yikes and Instp

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Slow motion on Iran…

not good enough for Saudi Arabia… Prince Saud al-Faisal told a news conference in the Saudi capital that the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions demands a more immediate solution than sanctions. He described sanctions as a long-term solution, and … Continue reading

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Cancer killers: I got the dark chocolate thing down no problem but I’ll have to work a little on the red wine.

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It just keeps on coming….

Another unsubstantiated (BOGUS) IPCC claim. But the science is still valid, right? Right?

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Trust the experts

That’s the continual advice from the editorial page of the Daily Camera regarding global warming. Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995 Trust the experts… how’s that working for ya? … Continue reading

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Corrupt Acorn back in line for your tax dollars

ACORN pulls the old “end around” play. You’d think a group implicated in dozens of electoral fraud cases, theft of funds and, most recently, helping criminals interested in bringing child prostitutes to the U.S. would have been ruled ineligible for … Continue reading

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Doing my part

Did my part this evening to combat the cold weather by cooking steaks on the grill outside for Valentine’s day.

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They never learn do they?

Revenue from raising taxes always falls short of expectations.

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Tennessee vs. Kentucky

The Vols meet #2(or 3) ranked Kentucky Wildcats @ Kentucky this evening. Viewers can watch the game in ESPN. Kentucky has to be regarded as the favorite based on ranking and this being a home game for them. They meet … Continue reading

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Rogue wave…

Well a tiny rogue wave, but it was during a surfing competition. Numerous injuries to spectators. A huge wave swept away spectators watching a Northern California surfing contest Saturday morning, causing broken bones and other injuries to people standing on … Continue reading

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That’s a big increase (part II)

Wellpoint responds to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding their proposed 39% rate increase in California. Brian Sassi, the head of WellPoint’s consumer business unit, said in his letter to Sebelius that the weak economy is leading individual … Continue reading

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Overhaul the IPCC

The Christian Science Monitor asks the question. Boulderites are probably asking “Why?” and a researcher from East Anglia University responds… Over the course of its 22-year history, the IPCC has become “too cumbersome, too bureaucratic, too big, too slow, and … Continue reading

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Another kind of Inconvenient Truth

IPCC mess finally reported by AP. Al Gore, so far as I can tell, is meanwhile remaining silent; I guess when truth is really, really inconvenient it’s better that way. Of course the science is still good and any person … Continue reading

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