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Then he’s perfectly qualified….

“It’s easy being vice president — you don’t have to do anything.” Joe Biden

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A lesson in logic…..NOT!

Ok, I’ve got it. He didn’t have health care, so he shot a couple of kids, and it’s the fault of the GOP, and they’re anti-American. Yikes. One of us failed the class. And I don’t think it was me. … Continue reading

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Hiatus

Due to family emergency I will be on hiatus from now until March 8th. I may get a post or two in, but that’s about it. Uncle Bob will fill in as he see’s fit. Chris

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The Nuclear Option

Hey,guess the Reconciliation shoe is on the other foot now. Bet their stories have changed!

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Directing their own learning

good grief… It was the last straw. I liked Cedric, who was obviously bright. I forgot I was meant to be an observer and confronted the teacher. Instead of sending children out, I said, why not improve discipline and concentration? … Continue reading

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The primal voice of “No”

The Tea Party movement. “If elected I promise to vote “No” on any bill that proposes to expand government power for any purpose. I promise to vote “No” on any bill whose net effect does not reduce government spending. I … Continue reading

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Net neutrality

Solving a problem that doesn’t exist.

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It’s a good day…

ACORN ‘dissolved as a national structure’

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An invitation to Keith Olbermann

Time to take a step out into the real world Keith.

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Math Wars: The Heat is On

The dumbing down of math just continues. Scientific American has a report on the math wars… Numbers Wars: School Battles Heat Up Again in the Traditional versus Reform-Math Debate GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO?: Debate continues on the merits of … Continue reading

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Big Teacher…

watching you. I find this disturbing. Perhaps the lesson is not only “don’t take gifts from strangers” but “don’t take gifts from your local school district” as well.

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Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer

Wow!More pictures here.

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Math: Exposure or Mastery?

That IS the question. The answer… I’ll take mastery for $100. In the war over school math — in which a judge recently ordered Seattle Public Schools to redo its choice of high-school math — Schmitz Park is a redoubt … Continue reading

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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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