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True education reform takes bold actions
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Three events of enormous importance to the future of education came together on two days last week.
• On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings came to the region of the country that she identifies as the national leader in education reform to promote renewal of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The trick, for conservatives, is to retain accountability and choice in a Congress now controlled by the party of teacher unions. That sudden turn of events in one election cycle is a screaming message to education reformers in Georgia: Act boldly and decisively — or return to the throw-money-at-it status quo.
• On the day Spellings announced to the Georgia Public Policy Foundation that in Georgia “you all are already doing the things that are so important to improving our schools, like inventing and chartering new schools,” a committee of the Georgia State Senate passed Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle’s proposals to allow up to five of Georgia’s 180 school districts a year to become charters and to create five career academies — a type of charter for students to pursue job skills. Both the districts and the academies would be largely exempted from some state and federal regulations. Both passed the full Senate on Friday, one 52-3 and the other 53-2.
• On Wednesday, the full Senate passed a bill by State Sen. Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) that would offer scholarships — or vouchers, whichever terminology you would apply to grants for HOPE and pre-k — to parents of special needs children in public schools.
The NCLB law, charter schools and districts, and special needs scholarships are revolutionary in that they begin the essential process of shifting decision-making authority for a child’s education to parents. A terribly important feature of NCLB, as spelled out by President Bush in his State of the Union message, is an offer of Promise Scholarships that would give parents the federal money allocated to educate their children, money that they could then use to buy better education services from other public school districts or from private schools.
“There has to be a day of reckoning,” Spellings said in an interview after she spoke Tuesday to the conservative think tank. “When kids get to five or six years of being trapped in chronically underperforming schools, something more drastic has to happen.”
The president, she said, “has answered the question in three ways. … The three things on the president’s agenda are real private school choice, the opportunity for real chartering where it has been impeded now — like in New York and Illinois and Michigan, among others. And the opportunity to put our best educators in our most challenging places.”
Georgia is on the right track in developing and testing a standard curriculum. Public schools are being upgraded. The best thing the rest of us can do is to give state School Superintendent Kathy Cox and other education experts time and resources to do their jobs.
The point is that we have no reason to be gloomy about public education or to look at competition as retreat. The reality is that the traditional reforms — lower class size, better pay, bigger or smaller schools — are all approaches based on a world that existed 50 years ago when a pent-up demand existed, when education had a virtual monopoly on the talents of women, when two-parent families provided schools with children reasonably prepared to learn and supported teachers in that effort.
That’s not the world today. There’s no pent-up demand for education. Educators are chasing parents trying to get them to recognize its value. Some parents are better educated than their parents were, but are more adversarial with the children’s teachers. Other parents are producing children who pose greater academic challenges, including an inability to speak English. Children, too, have short attention spans and a frightening number are from broken or never-formed unions.
About 70 percent of black children, almost half of Hispanic and 25 percent of white children are born to unmarried women. Imagine the baggage they bring to school. It’s impossible to create a single model, whatever the pay or classroom size, to address the voids or the damaged lives.
Time is of the essence. Every child has one shot at the sixth grade — and every majority is eventually lost, as the nation just saw in Congress. Don’t be timid with reform.
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By WootenDull
February 4, 2007 08:51 AM | Link to this
I’m prepared to give Biden a bit of a break. He wandered into a thicket of racially charged code words, proving once again that Americans —- even “mainstream” pols such as Biden —- are hardly colorblind. He couldn’t resist, for example, using the word “articulate” to describe Obama, as if even moderately liberal whites are still pleasantly surprised when they come across an educated black person who speaks well. Queen Pinko, 2/5/07 Urinal
Some condemnation that was.
So, correct me if I’m wrong, racist remarks are not abominable but instead are understandable.
Got that?
Let’s not be naïve, Madame Dullard has two institutions to protect here, one being the democratic party, which to the liberals is “almighty god,” their source of life giving governmental power, and then the race baiting industry.
Using the standards that the democrats hold the rest of us to, Biden would rightfully be road kill this morning and Cynthia in Wonderland would be piling on his corpse with all of the other vultures.
But since this “incident” has encroached upon the Pinko Nation, the world of hypocrisy, we have to pooh pooh what Biden said, lest it not harm the party or our blessed claim to fame, race baiting.
Just like if a democrat was in charge of Iraq, America would be winning the war hands down, it would be the right decision to bring freedom and democracy to the region and not finding WMD would have called for giving the CIA a “bit of a break,” to paraphrase^^.
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By Ok, on topic, schools
February 4, 2007 09:24 AM | Link to this
A kindergarten teacher comes to class and says, “Today class I am going to give you a letter of the alphabet and I want you to give me a word that begins with that letter.” She begins with the letter “A” and all the kids raise their hands. There is one kid in the back named Johnny that is real eager to answer the question, but the teacher knows that he is always vulgar and likes to use obscenities so she chooses on little Mary to answer. Mary stands and says, “A…Apple” The teacher replies, “That’s great, Mary, good job.” So she moves on to the letter “B”, and again Johnny is still eager to answer the question, but the teacher is sure that he will probably say “B***” or something like that so she calls on Todd. Todd says, “B…Baseball.” And the teacher replies, “Good Job, Todd.” So they start going through the alphabet and the class’ attention dwindles, except for Johnny. The teacher comes to the letter “R” and no one, except for Johnny, is raising their hand so she is forced to call on him. “Okay Johnny, what starts with R?” she says. “R…Rat” Johnny replies. “Rat, …that’s it…rat?” the teacher questions with astonishment. “Yeah,” says Johnny, “Big-a* mother-f***’ rat with a dick 12 inches long.”
By Dear John
February 4, 2007 09:25 AM | Link to this
John invited his mother over for dinner. During the meal, his mother couldn’t help noticing how beautiful John’s roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between John and his roommate and this only made her more curious. Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between John and the roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom’s thoughts, John volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Julie and I are just roommates.” About a week later, Julie came to John and said, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I’ve been unable to find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. “You don’t suppose she took it, do you?” Julie said, “Well, I doubt it, but I’ll write her a letter just to be sure.” So he sat down and wrote: “Dear Mother, I’m not saying you ‘did’ take a gravy ladle from my house, and I’m not saying you ‘did not’ take a gravy ladle. But the fact remains that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.” Several days later, John received a letter from his mother which read: “Dear Son, I’m not saying that you ‘do’ sleep with Julie, and I’m not saying that you ‘do not’ sleep with Julie. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the gravy ladle by now. Love, Mom”
By Nursing Home Reform
February 4, 2007 09:27 AM | Link to this
An old lady in a nursing home is wheeling up and down the halls in her wheelchair making sounds like she’s driving a car. As she’s going down the hall an old man jumps out of a room and says, “Excuse me ma’am but you were speeding. Can I see your driver’s license?” She digs around in her purse a little, pulls out a candy wrapper, and hands it to him. He looks it over, gives her a warning and sends her on her way.
Up and down the halls she goes again. Again, the same old man jumps out of a room and says, “Excuse me ma’am but I saw you cross the center line back there.” “Can I see your registration please?” She digs around in her purse a little, pulls out a store receipt and hands it to him. He looks it over, gives her another warning and sends her on her way.
She zooms off again up and down the halls weaving all over. As she comes to the old man’s room again he jumps out. This time, he’s stark naked and has an erection! The old lady in the wheel chair looks up and says, “Oh no…… not the Breathalyzer again!”
By Curious Observer
February 4, 2007 09:29 AM | Link to this
So the ignorant rednecks who created the current education mess in Georgia are to be given the decision-making power when it comes to the education their children receive? Some ignoramus with no respect for or acquaintance with education is to decide whether his child is to attend a “career” academy or prepare for a college education? That’s a great way to perpetuate rednecks, but a very poor way of raising the abysmal floor of education in the state.
Most Georgia parents have little understanding of even the concept of education. But the wingnuts are dead-set on giving those parents the power to determine what kind of schooling their children are going to receive. Little Johnny might have made an outstanding scholar, but his parents decided his calling was going to be engine repair.
I don’t buy in to this mania about giving parents the power to decide what kind of education their children are going to receive. Many reasonably educated parents will make the proper decision on their children’s behalf, but most parents will make decisions that will prove disastrous for their children. I would hate to see where I would be today if my 8th-grade educated parents, morally good though they were, had been empowered to decide what kind of education I was to receive. I’m thankful, in fact, that my classmates and I all received an educational basis that allowed us to make reasonably informed decisions about future educational choices.
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 09:31 AM | Link to this
How do you not put discipline at the forefront of any education discussion when 190,000 teachers are physically assaulted every year? How do you not mention discipline when 1/2 of all teachers say they are verbally abused by students? (Forget the fact that we consider this acceptable for teachers to be treated this way; school is the de facto “workplace” for students. This is how we want to “train” them to behave when they enter the real world?)
Remember, this is the party of “rule of law” and “personal resonsibility”, the one that always accuses liberals of being “weak” or “making excuses”.
What’s their excuse for their absolute spinelessness on not addressing the behavior in public schools? In terms of their “rule of law” and “personal responsibility” mantra they have no excuse. And thus, they have no “reform”. They have facade.
And what do you get when you expose the underbelly of facade? A state among the bottom in test scores and a nation that lags behind other nations in test scores.
And let’s not forget these “conservatives” have authorized the single biggest intrusion of the federal government into our education system in our nation’s history.
Hypocrisy, thy name is No Child Left Behind.
By Have you talked to a Ga high school graduate
February 4, 2007 09:50 AM | Link to this
Last year I was traveling thru Rome, Ga and I stopped at a fast food place for a quick lunch. At checkout, the girl rang up the charges based on a 20 dollar bill, but I had some change to get rid of so I switched to a ten and some coins. Since the machine had already calculated my change based on a 20, she was at a loss to make the necessary adjustments for a ten an change. I suggested she use pen and paper, and she said not only could she not make such calculations, but nobody in her graduating class from high school could either! I honestly made the calculations for her, and she accepted my numbers on blind faith! This is the future not just here in Georgia, but all across this country, as reading, writting, and math fall by the way side of no child left behind. I bet the chimp-in-chief could not make that simple calculation in his head either.
By Have you talked to a Ga high school graduate
February 4, 2007 09:53 AM | Link to this
Paying teachers more money is not the answer, they are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Teachers have very soft lives compared to the other professions. I know teachers who moved into 12 month positions at higher pay who ran back to the classroom because the stress was just too much. Those long vacations have become too much of a way of life for them, thee months off in the summer, two weeks at christmas, one week at thanksgiving, one week in fall break, one week in spring break, plus all the other holidays.
By Rooster
February 4, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this
Farmer Brown goes out one bay and buys a brand new stud rooster for his chicken. The cocky young rooster walks over to the old rooster and says: “OK, old fellow, time to retire.” The old rooster says: “You can’t handle all these chickens, look what it did to me!” The young rooster replies: “Now don’t give me a hassle about this old man. It’s time for the old to step aside and the young take over, so take a hike!” The old rooster says: “Aw, c’mon, just let me have those two old hens over there in the corner. I won’t bother you.” The young rooster snarls: “Scram! Beat it! You’re washed up! I’m taking over!” The old rooster thinks for a minute and then says to the young rooster: “I’ll tell you what, young fellow, I’ll have a race around the farm house with you. Whoever wins the race gets full domain over the chicken coop.” The young rooster smiles: “You know I’m going to beat you, old man. So just to be fair, I’m even going to give you a head start.” The two roosters line up in back of the farm house; a hen clucks “Go!” and the old rooster takes off running. About 5 seconds later the young rooster takes off after him. They round the front of the farm house and the young rooster is inches behind the old rooster and gaining fast. Farmer Brown, sitting on the porch, hearing the commotion looks up and sees what’s going on. Quickly, he grabs his shotgun and BOOM! The young rooster is blown to smithereens! Farmer Brown sadly shakes his head in disgust: “Damn! That makes the third gay rooster I bought this week.”
By Buy Danish's Accident
February 4, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this
Buy Danish and her husband were in a terrible accident where the woman’s face was severely burned. The doctor told her husband that they couldn’t graft any skin from her body because she was too skinny. So the husband offered to donate some of his own skin.
However, the only skin on his body that the doctor felt was suitable would have to come from his buttocks. The husband and Buy Danish agreed that they would tell no one about where the skin came from, and requested that the doctor also honor their secret. After all, this was a very delicate matter.
After the surgery was completed, everyone was astounded at the woman’s new beauty. She looked more beautiful than she ever had before! All her friends and relatives just went on and on about her youthful beauty! One day, she was alone with her husband, and she was overcome with emotion at his sacrifice. She said, “Dear, I just want to thank you for everything you did for me. There is no way I could ever repay you.”
“My darling Buy Danish,” he replied, “think nothing of it. I get all the thanks I need every time I see your mother kiss you on the cheek.”
By Jeff Cranston
February 4, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this
McCain on “This Week” at 11am.
By GodHatesTrash
February 4, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this
Ah, yes, put filthy illiterate superstitious stumpbroke trash in charge of their children’s educations.
Moronic.
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this
Re: “More pay is not the answer” You’re right. It’s not. Given the teachers the authority to enforce “accountability” in terms of academics and behavior is.
Re: “Teachers have very soft lives…” 190,000 teachers physically assaulted yearly. 1/2 of all teachers verbally abused. All teaching under a mindset that to it’s their fault when they are physically assaulted or verbally abused because parents no longer want to parent and administrators don’t want “incidents” reported.
Tell me any other profession where one can be where you can be routinely verbally abused and/or physically assaulted with no consequences to the offending parties. THEN tell me it’s an “easy job”.
By Teachers have very soft lives
February 4, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this
190,000 physical assults is a made up number, you may have pulled it up off the internet, but someone made it up. What do you count as a physical assult, a bump in the hall? As for verbal assult, I have heard how the teachers talk to their students, and if that is not verbal assult, then what is? Lets talk about the sexual molestation of students by teachers, the abuse of power by high school football coaches who confront teenage girls in the hallway about how they are dressed (your bare belly is sexually provoking my players). Just try that one in the business world, and see how fast you get sued and fired for sexual harrassment. Teachers are spoiled cry babies who under perform in the classroom everyday, while blaming the parents for not teaching the children at home? Hello, isn’t that what the teachers are being paid to do, not the parents?
By Redneck Convert
February 4, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this
It’s just like a librul to not want me to be in charge of my kids education. I say let me decide.
I’d have my kid out of that school and working to get a trailer and a pickup real quick. Education don’t mean nothing. I never made it past 5th grade and it never hurt me none. I got a good job driving a beer truck without all that education. All the libruls are the way they are because they went too far in school and got their mind twisted.
Glad to see the fellas telling good jokes. That’s the kind of education we need. It’s a lot more important to have a sense of humor than to get ready to go to colledge.
So I hope me and my dotter get to decide what kind of schooling little Sonny Zell George gets. My answer is “not much.” If I wanted him to grow up a librul I woulda moved up north. Long as he can pass the air brake test for his commershell drivers liscence, he don’t have to know much.
By hollie a. ryder
February 4, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this
It is very burdensome to realize that so many idiots have reached adulthood and, seemingly, have the ability to read and write. Teachers’ “long vacations”, are unpaid days as most public school teaching contracts call for from 175-185 days of service. None of these so called vacation days are paid. School boards set the scheduling of those days of service. If you think this is untrue check with a local public school districts’ administrative offices. When you do ascertain that this is true and remain convinced that teachers should be required to work more legally contracted days, be prepared for the substantial increase in your direct and indirect public school taxes when “vacation days” are eliminated and replaced with additional school days.
By WootenDull
February 4, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this
If you thought Joe Biden was the only one the PC crowd was ignoring, guess again:
Imagine the Archbishop of Canterbury or any senior Anglican clergyman giving a sermon which suggested that homosexual men should be thrown off a mountain; that they were no better than filthy dogs. Imagine another priest rising in another church to preach that children should be hit for not praying, that women were deficient, should walk behind men and only go out with their man’s permission.
So all you libs go ahead and rant about all the supposed harm that the Christian Church does to the world, all the while you turn your blind hypocrite eye to the real Evils, like we won’t notice.
It’s safer that way, ain’t it?
It’s amazing the courage you libs can summon when you know your target won’t saw your head off.
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By getalife
February 4, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this
No funding for education, it went to Iraq.
“Anti-War GOP Hagel: McCain’s Iraq Plan “Intellectually Dishonest”
Mmmm, where have heard “intellectually dishonest” from.
From me of course, I rule.
Condi picks the Colts, since she is wrong about everything and a miserable failure, I will take da Bears.
By Teachers have very soft lives
February 4, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this
Yo hollie a. ryder, strange why teachers always compare their pay for 175 days work to everyone else’s 260 day work year. You can’t have it both ways. Either tell the truth about your short work year, or stop complaining about low pay. Frankly, teachers are being paid for a full years effort, but they are only being required to give 175 days, not 260 days like everyone else. I say make the teachers work 260 days per year at the same pay they are now getting. If they don’t like it, they can quit and try to get a job elsewhere. I doubt they will be successful, and they are not qualified to do much (engineering is out, so is medicine, nursing, pharmacy, business - no MBA’s). I guess they can dig ditches or drive a garbage truck.
By Yo: hollie a. ridings
February 4, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this
What are you hiding Gina? Visited Rene lately?
By Markus
February 4, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this
Here comes more global warming communist garbage from the left. This time, from France. You know, France. The nation that candyassed liberals can’t do a damn thing like wipe their own @sses without the approval of that nation first.
Surrender monkey Chirac wants the U.S. to sign a Euro pact on carbons or face an international tax. Someone needs to tell Chirac that until he says the same to China and India ala Kyoto who produce a HELLUVALOT more pollution than we do per capita these days due to our increased emissions technology, he can shove that global warming pen right up his @ss.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/world/europe/01climate.html?ei=5090&en=718095d16a7c2e7f&ex=1327986000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
Man-made global warming is a liberal cult ala Jim Jones. Nothing but a bunch of anti-capitalist, anti-success neocommunist garbage. Jackasses.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=156df7e6-d490-41c9-8b1f-106fef8763c6&k=0
Phuck Phrance and the horse Napoleon rode in on.
By Markus
February 4, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this
Oh yeah, and GO COLTS! Have you ever seen a horse b!tchslap a bear? You will tonight.
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this
1/2 of teachers verbally abused. 190,000 physically assaulted yearly. Teachers do not have a “soft schedule”. But why do they whine about pay? Because they themselves are a major part of the discipline numbers stated above.
They whine about “pay” because it’s “safe” to whine about pay. They don’t stand up for acceptable working conditions because they fear retaliation. Unfortunately they, not unlike victims of Stockholm syndrome, have forgetton how to assert themselves on issues like discipline that could make a difference, and could restore faith in public education. So, rather than make a real difference in the lives of children, they whine about “pay”.
With the utter and complete spinelessness on the part of all sides, I’m coming to the conclusion that we ALL are getting the public education system we richly and fully deserve.
By getalife
February 4, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this
macaca,
The global warming debate is over. You look like an idiot, as usual, denying global warming.
It has moved to action so stop spewing like an idiot.
Geez.
By Thanks MarkASS, I will now back the Bears
February 4, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this
Die Colts, Die
By getalife
February 4, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this
Zell Miller statue
I will dual you!
What a freaking disgrace.
Geez.
By Thanks MarkASS, I will now back the Bears
February 4, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this
Its a crap shoot, but I bet Florida dies first from global warming. and why not, as the fat cats from the northeast who contributed heavily to global warming over the decades have now retired to beachfront homes in florida. The idiot gov of florida now wants national catastropic insurance, so florida can pass on the cost of insuring thier beachfront homes to everyone else in the country. Refuse to fall for that line of bull. Florida by and far collects the bulk of federal and private insurance dollars, and I for one will be gawd damned if I will pay one cent more on my homeowners or auto insurance here in Georgia to bail out the fat cats in florida.
By Thanks MarkASS, I will now back the Bears
February 4, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this
Zell Mill and MarkASS may be one and the same idiot?
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 12:03 PM | Link to this
There is indeed a lot of trash here in Georgia, as evidenced by posts made by a sewer rat who is using various names (and it’s not even noon yet):
Ok, on topic, schools, Dear John, Nursing Home Reform, Rooster, and Buy Danish’s Accident.
I betcha this disease-infested vermin thinks of himmself as being a member of the educated “elite”, and is a proud promoter of liberal causes.
Go Dems!
Oh, and then there’s Getalife who thinks a duel is a dual.
Absolutely pathetic.
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
Teachers have very soft lives: Let’s say the 190,000 is wrong (Harris poll). Say it’s off by a good 50%. Glad to know that you think it’s perfectly acceptable that perhaps 95,000 teachers are being physically assault yearly.
As far as “verbal abuse” let me ask you this: Is it ok at your job to tell your boss “f-ck you b-tch” or “watch your back, my cousin’s got a Glock?”. If you think that it doesn’t happen in the schools it’s because most likely you lack the critical thinking skills to realize that “zero tolerance” is a facade to make the public think discipline is under control.
About teachers “underperforming” and asking parents to teach their kids. I have never heard a teacher say that. What I have heard is that teachers would like to have parents parent their kids, so that they can teach them.
Like so many others who bash teachers, you claim teachers don’t want accountability. Not true. What they don’t want is accountability without the authority to enforce the rules needed to succeed. How would you like to be held “accountable” for the sales figures in your department when several of your employees where allowed to not work, cuss you out, and throw chairs and desks when you tried in instill accountability. And then, rather that fire them, your manager said it was your fault? You’d whine about pay too
You obviously have no clue of what it is like for many teachers today (no it’s not all schools, and it’s not all kids…but it only takes a few apples to spoil the batch…especially when the manager refuses to let the chef remove them from the recipe)
But like so many others who bash teachers, when confronted with the true dynamics of what teachers are confronted with, you resort to a tired old mantra of “overpaid, underperforming” teachers, because you lack the courage of your convictions to defend your words.
When’s the last time you asked a school board representative how they intend to address the discipline problems in the schools? Your local state representative?
That’s what I thought…like I said, you get the school system you deserve…you pay the taxes for it that you deserve…and when then take even more of your tax dollars to appease teachers, because they (and you) won’t deal with the root of the problem, your lighter wallet will be what you deserve.
By Delta First
February 4, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this
Three ladies were on a flight when suddenly the captain announced ” Please prepare for a crash landing “. The first lady put on all her jewelry . Surprised by this the other ladies questioned her actions. The first lady replied, well when they come to rescue us they will see that I am rich and will rescue me first. The second lady not wanting to be left behind, began to take off her top and bra. Why are you doing that the other ladies questioned, well when they come to rescue us they will see my great t** and will take me first.
The third lady who was African not wanting to be out done took off her pants and panties. Why are you doing that the other ladies questioned, well they always search for the black box first ?
By Teachers have very soft lives
February 4, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this
Yeah, I got the school system I deserved, both my children are engineers, graduates of Ga Tech, not that cow college school of education in Athens. If you teachers can’t do the jobs we are paying you so well for, then I suggest you find another line of work. I suspect you have taken all education classes in college, and you have very little idea about the real world. Education majors party thru all their many undemanding years of college, then expect a free ride as public school teachers for the rest of their natural lives. Wrong, I won’t pay.
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this
Re: Delta first and “Three ladies on a plane…” Where in the h-e-double hockey sticks are Courtney and Joseph and those others that said I was “off topic” the other day? LOL
By Corky Cobb
February 4, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this
Ya, we know France Markus.
“You know, France. The nation that candyassed liberals can’t do a damn thing like wipe their own @sses without the approval of that nation first.”
These wimps have one thing in common with Markus. Both are candyassed cowards afraid of the war in Iraq.
You afraid Marcus?
By getalife
February 4, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this
Oh, and then there’s Getalife who thinks a duel is a dual.
I went to skool in Gawga.
By TW
February 4, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this
Jim - So, you are going to let the products of the last fifty years of moronic education make an educated decision when it comes to our future? The uneducated making an education decision. This may just be the cherry on the insanity sundae that is the right wing’s attempt at reforming education. I really thought throwing out the Bell Curve and abandoning the idea that teacher-student ratio meant something were tops, but you may have found the winner.
By I forgot to buy my liquor yesterday, I'll have to huff some freon
February 4, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this
Wooten: May I ask a question, out of the 36 posts so far, how many of them came from one person?
And if it’s possible, cartoon boy has a little vote counter installed on his webpage, where you can give a thumbs up or down to his newest “Bush Sucks” “masterpiece,” I was wondering, could we get one of those here?
The very first topic we could vote on “Should Polly and all it’s attendant filth be booted from this blog forever?”
Put me down for a yes.
Surely you agree?
By getalife
February 4, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this
No.
By Yes, boot Buy Danish and Markus Now
February 4, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this
Be gone evil spirits!
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 01:00 PM | Link to this
Make that “himself”.
Children, too, have short attention spans and a frightening number are from broken or never-formed unions.
I’m not sure what Jim Wooten means by this. Is he acknowledging that it is natural for children to have short attention spans or is he blaming it on their parents?
I blame the bureaucrats who try to cram far too much academic time in each day, with overly long classes made worse in some cases by a ridiculous fad known as “block scheduling”.
teachers have very soft lives,
If you get 2 weeks vacation you work 240 days a year, not 260.
I do not want my child spending one extra day in these schools, I do not want to pay for more than 180 student/190 teacher days, and I certainly don’t begrudge the teachers their time off.
it is a perfect job for someone with kids, in part because they do get all that time off to spend with their children when they are on vacation.
That is a win win for the children and their parents.
By This one is for you I forgot to buy my liquor yesterday, I'll have to huff some freon
February 4, 2007 01:03 PM | Link to this
A man and his four year old son are talking, when his son asks him “Dad, what does a p*** look like?” The Dad confused, asks him ” before or after sex?” The kid says “Ummm before sex” So the dad says to him “Well have u ever seen a beautiful red rose with soft red peddles.” “yeah” says the son.”well what about after sex” he says to his dad. His dad replies ” Have you ever seen a bulldog eating mayonnaise” IS THAT A UGA JOKE?
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 01:13 PM | Link to this
Sewer rat at 1:03,
peddles?
That would be “petals” trash boy. Apparently you’re so used to “peddling” profane garbage that you don’t know the difference.
By This one is for you I forgot to buy my liquor yesterday, I'll have to huff some freon
February 4, 2007 01:17 PM | Link to this
That’s profound Buy Danish not profane, apparently your a* is so tight you sshhiitt pencils!
By Buy Danish's Long Tall Son is a Retard
February 4, 2007 01:19 PM | Link to this
Who needs special eduction.
By Buy Danish's Long Tall Son is a Retard
February 4, 2007 01:21 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish’s retard son says about his moma: Yo mama’s soooo fat dat she wers a king size matress for a pad
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 01:29 PM | Link to this
Teachers have it soft: Don’t think for a moment I’m defending teachers as “the best and the brightest”. I’m not. Terry Schiavo could pass most education courses. I have never seen so much pseudo crap as I have seen come out of the mouths of educators (excuse me, that should be real crap).
The “dirty little secret” is that it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to be a good teacher. And though teachers may hate to hear this, increasing pay isn’t going to do a damn thing to improve the education system. But it does take an environment where there is respect for adult authority figures.
And that’s what teachers don’t have today. And I still say you are paying for that. When you pay taxes to incarcerate 1 and 3 minorities, (who “learned” in school following rules is acceptable, and thus a judge had to “unlearn” them)
When you go to a store and get rude customer service, or a cashier who can’t make change without calling the manager, you “pay”.
You pay, in the terms of all the social services for a large segment of society that is virtually unemployable in the global economy, because they were allowed to slide through school with poor behavior, and poor work habits.
You pay in taxes for an entire industry of educrat “experts” and “trainers” who make a living directly off of your wallet
I can’t argue for those who make the case that teachers are not the “creme of the crop”…unless I want to look like a damn fool. But, I can make the case that the single biggest cause of “failing schools” is the failure to support teachers in making students accountable.
Until you address that root cause, you aren’t going to get “the best and the brightest” because as you say, they can do other things and soon tire of systemic incompetence.
You restore discipline and you’ll be able to seperate the “wheat from the chaff” in teaching. But blaming teachers right now makes as much sense as blaming soldiers in Iraq for the systemic failure of Bush (No Insurgents Left Behind?)
By Buy Danish's Long Tall Son is a Retard
February 4, 2007 01:31 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish’s retarded son got a job in the sales promotion department of a co cola soft-drink company. When he asked about his duties, the manager explained. “Oh! It’s an easy job! All you have to is call on ten women buyers every day, and knock Seven-Up!”
By Buy Danish's Long Tall Son is a Retard
February 4, 2007 01:36 PM | Link to this
Tarzan had been living alone in his jungle kingdom for 30 years with only apes for company, and suitably shaped holes in trees for sex. Jane, a reporter, came to Africa in search of this legendary figure. Deep in the wilds she came to a clearing and discovered Tarzan vigorously thrusting into a jungle oak. She watched in awe for a while.
Finally, overcome by this display of animal passion Jane came out into the open and offered herself to him. As she reclined on the wild grass Tarzan ran up to her and gave her a big kick in the crotch. In pain she screamed ‘What the hell did you do that for?’ Tarzan replied, ‘Always check for squirrels.’
By Jeff Cranston
February 4, 2007 01:39 PM | Link to this
Chicago 27, Colts 17
By Teacher Turned Preacher
February 4, 2007 01:41 PM | Link to this
Ol’ Fred had been a faithful Christian and was in the hospital, near death. The family called their pastor, former teacher now turned preacher Buy Danish to stand with them. As the pastor Buy Danish stood next to the bed, Ol’ Fred’s condition appeared to deteriorate and he motioned frantically for something to write on. The pastor lovingly handed him a pen and a piece of paper, and Ol’ Fred used his last bit of energy to scribble a note, then he died. The pastor thought it best not to look at the note at that time, so he placed it in his jacket pocket.
At the funeral, as he was finishing the message, he realized that he was wearing the same jacket that he was wearing when Ol’ Fred died. Buy Danish said, “You know, Ol’ Fred handed me a note just before he died. I haven’t looked at it, but knowing Fred, I’m sure there’s a word of inspiration there for us all.”
She opened the note, and read, “A*****, you’re standing on my oxygen tube!”
By Teacher's r stupid
February 4, 2007 01:44 PM | Link to this
The first grade teacher was starting a new lesson on multi-syllable words. She thought it would be a good idea to ask a few of the children examples of words with more than one syllable. “Jane, Do you know any multi-syllable words?” After some thought Jane proudly replied with Monday. “Great Jane. That has two syllables, Mon……day. Does anyone know another word?” Johnny from the back of the room yells, “I do! I do!” Knowing Johnny’s more mature sense of humor she picks Mike instead. “OK Mike, what is your word.” Saturday says Mike. “Great, that has three syllables…” Not wanting to be outdone Johnny says “I know a four syllable word. Pick me! Pick me!”
Not thinking he can do any harm with a word that large the teacher reluctantly says, “O.K. Johnny what is your four syllable word?” Johnny proudly says, “Mas…tur…ba…tion.” Shocked, the teacher, trying to retain her composure says, “Wow, Johnny. Four syllables! That’s certainly is a mouthful.”
“No Ma’am, your thinking of ‘b*****’, and that’s only two syllables.”
By YO: holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 01:46 PM | Link to this
What do you want, permission to beat the brats? Permission granted, provided you follow the rule of thumb, you may beat them with a stick no larger than your thumb. In all fairness, the children in return may beat you with a stick no thicker than their arm.
By Buy Danish can't count
February 4, 2007 01:51 PM | Link to this
“If you get 2 weeks vacation you work 240 days a year, not 260.”
WRONG STUPID, GO BACK TO SECOND GRADE.
By Buy Danish can't count
February 4, 2007 01:51 PM | Link to this
“If you get 2 weeks vacation you work 240 days a year, not 260.”
WRONG STUPID, GO BACK TO SECOND GRADE.
By Buy Danish can't count
February 4, 2007 01:55 PM | Link to this
52 WEEKS TIMES 5 DAYS PER WEEK = 260
No vacations counted, since many american workers don’t get a vacation: Part time, temporary, self employed, fast food workers.
lets break it down buy danish dummy: 50 times 5 = 250 2 times 5 = 10
250 plus 10 = 260
Why would anyone listen to a dummy who cannot even do simple math? Buy Danish, your reputation here is blown, worthless. Go away, you are too stupid to post.
By Buy Danish can't count
February 4, 2007 01:58 PM | Link to this
52 weeks per year times 5 days per week = 260
By Buy Danish is a Dummy like her Retard Son
February 4, 2007 02:04 PM | Link to this
DUMMY DUMMY DUMMY
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 02:06 PM | Link to this
Teacher’s R Stupid? What if they are? Is “being smart” gonna do a teacher a damn bit of good when you have inmates like Johnny running the asylum? (Like you, his parents think his words are “cute”)
We don’t need teachers with Roads scholarships in tow to fix education (yes I know it’s Rhodes scholarships…just wanted to get a laugh by watching the neocons make themselves feel superior…opps, didn’t work…they thought it was “Roads”)
Give me a teacher with desire, an average amount of intelligence, and a can of whup@ss at their disposal, and I’ll give you an educated child.
The neocons don’t get this, (the liberals don’t either, that’s not even up for debate). But the neocons deserve what they get, because when it comes to addressing discipline, they are as chickenhawk as they are when it comes to war.
What do you get when you put a neocon in as a substitute teacher in a class with a couple of “Johnnys”? A neocon standing at the blackboard, in a pool of his own urine, sobbing uncontrollably, “I thought this wasy easy”
By Just sayin'
February 4, 2007 02:08 PM | Link to this
What we have ^^^here ^^^ folks is a bad case of liberalitis. How pathetic.
By Buy Danish Cuts and Runs
February 4, 2007 02:16 PM | Link to this
Show her math ignorance, and like all nasty little chicken hawks, it cuts and runs.
By holdingAJCaccountable YOU SOUND LIKE A UNION ORGANIZER
February 4, 2007 02:18 PM | Link to this
A LITTLE DISCLOSURE PLEASE: ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A UNION ORGANIZER? _YES __NO
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 02:21 PM | Link to this
Yo: I’ll take that deal in a heartbeat, if you’ll allow stem cells to be harvested in order to grow backbones in the torsos of spineless school officials.
No useless a* pay raises for teachers, cut out the layers of bureaucracy making a living off of your tax dollars (thank George Bush and NCLB) no “consultants” with jargon programs taking even more of you tax dollars.
Just paper, pencil, blackboard, the “3 R’s” and a can of whup@ss. Relatively simple enterprise if we develop systemic backbone…
I knew the liberal “social engineers” would never get on board with this. But conservatives? I expected better…
By Huge
February 4, 2007 02:26 PM | Link to this
bigot, you are hereby put on permanent notice as an inveterate liar. Do you honestly believe that the good and decent people here can’t see your chronic dishonesty.
You spin and twist and lie, but nobody is fooled or amused, other than a couple of your stuntingly slow, sociopathic neo-con pals.
By Buy Danish
February 3, 2007 04:28 PM | Link to this
Huge Charlatan,
I was looking for a link to LD and “depravity”. I didn’t think you could provide it.
So after you yet again make another of your stupid and mistaken assertions, this one that my observation about depravity was directed at RW, I do provide the link proving that the response 11 minutes later was to curly (after telling you to take your head out of your a$$):
February 3, 2007 05:52 PM | Link to this
OK, retarded bigot. One more time I’ll hold your hand and help you see the friggin obvious.
By WootenDull
February 3, 2007 02:52 PM | Link to this
Are you against happiness?
By Huge
February 3, 2007 03:03 PM | Link to this
No, just stupidity. Especially, as in your case, when it’s combined with depravity…
But when you get caught tripping over your tongue, rather than act like an honest adult and admit you once again misinterpreted, misread and/or intentionally misconstrued other people’s words, you do the predictable.
In true gutless neo-con fashion you merely change the question from, where is the link to LD to, “You call that “depravity”?????????”.
You and RW have sunken to new depths of childish idiocy and prevarication. (He couldn’t admit to being proven wrong on a similar boneheaded claim that the mushroom cloud as a smoking gun speech wasn’t an example of W calling Iraq an imminent threat!)
But that is exactly why it is such fun to watch you losers constantly and publicly humiliate yourselves!
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 02:28 PM | Link to this
No…how many union organizers do you know that will come out and say that pay raises are not the answer?
It’s just my position if you are going to hold teachers “accountable” at least give them the authority do to their jobs. Real simple. The teacher sets the rules, and if the student won’t comply we alter the student’s behavior not the teacher’s. Is that wrong? I would think those of you who have your child’s class hijacked by the “Johnnys” of the world would be on board. I would think you’d want the “best and the brightest* to stay in teaching, not leave because they can no longer tolerate systemic incompetence…you find fault with this?
By Dennis
February 4, 2007 02:33 PM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten writes; “The NCLB law, charter schools and districts, and special needs scholarships are revolutionary in that they begin the essential process of shifting decision-making authority for a child’s education to parents.”
If parents want that “decison making authority”, the first thing they need to do is turn off the damned t.v., including stop watching it themselves, and throw away the computer games until their children learn the value of an education.
In the meantime, other than more an d more paper work, and teaching for the test because your job may depend on it, there’s nothing “revolutionary” about NCLB.
“…that’s not the world today. There’s no pent-up demand for education. Educators are chasing parents trying to get them to recognize its value.”
“Imagine the baggage they bring to school.”
Now, Mr. Wooten, you’re beginning to get a small piece of the total picture.
“It’s impossible to create a single model, whatever the pay or classroom size, to address the voids or the damaged lives.”
Yet you have in your columns, Mr. Wooten, attacked the “sorry teachers”.
But maybe, just maybe, you’re beginning to get a small understanding of the total picture. We’ll see.
And in the long run, your private vouchers, your “special needs” program will either cost you more money than you think, or else be a failure.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By WootenDull
February 4, 2007 02:38 PM | Link to this
The question is whether what’s happening now is just the natural give and take of the planet, as Erik the Red and my town’s early settlers understood it. Or whether it’s something so unprecedented that we need to divert vast resources to a transnational elite bureaucracy so that they can do their best to cripple the global economy and deny much of the developing world access to the healthier and longer lives that capitalism brings. But that’s the point: Who knows? You could take every dime spent by every government and NGO and eco-group to investigate “climate change” and spend it on Internet porn instead, and it wouldn’t make the slightest difference to what the climate will be in 2050. However, it would make a dramatic difference to the lifestyle of the “climate change” jet set. Which is why, even before latest new IPCC doomsday scenario was released, the Associated Press was running stories like: “New Climate Report Too Rosy, Experts Say.” The AP’s “science writer” warns that even this “dire report” is the “sugarcoated version.” It’s insufficiently hysterical, in every sense.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 02:41 PM | Link to this
Dennis,
Why is it the “rule of law” and “personal responsibility” crowd who crows about how good NCLB is won’t say one word about student behavior and how teachers are hamstrung in enforcing accountability?
But what else but hypocrisy to expect from “conservatives” who support the largest federal government intrusion into the education system in our nation’s history?
By Just sayin'
February 4, 2007 02:42 PM | Link to this
Huge, quit spamming the board!
You take 500 words to say something that should take 5. k?
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 02:43 PM | Link to this
By Buy Danish can’t count February 4, 2007 01:58 PM
52 weeks per year times 5 days per week = 260.
If you get 2 weeks vacation you work 250 days a year. 50 x 5 = 250. 3 weeks vacation? 245 days. 4 weeks? 240 days.
By Who likes to do math?
February 4, 2007 02:53 PM | Link to this
What percentage of Buy Danish’s posts on AJC blogs over the last year end in the word “pathetic?”
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 02:53 PM | Link to this
Those who want to bash other’s math skills why can’t you understand this equation: Can’t Do + Won’t Do = Doo Doo. That is why the scores stink, not “the teachers”.
By Huge
February 4, 2007 02:59 PM | Link to this
Just sayin’ nothin’,
Well when you can only think through topics that can be “solved” in no more than five words at a time, I see your point.
Perhaps somewhere there is a children’s blog with those topics that is better suited for you. Leave this one to the adults or at least those that are masquerading as such.
But either way, try no to hurt your brain, OK?
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 03:01 PM | Link to this
Huge Dunce,
All pretenses that you are either bright, or grounded in reality, have officially been exposed as an utterly fake facade (just like liberalism - what a coincidence)! Moreover, you of all people have a hell of a lot of nerve calling me a “liar”.
My point, you freaking moron, is that there was nothing “depraved” in that post from LD aka WD.
In a million years I would not have known that you were referring to that post as “depraved” since, hang on for the punch line now - - - - -IT WASN’T!
Ironically you are too freaking blind to see the real “depravity” here.
As for Iraq, the FACT is that Bush never used the word “imminent” threat and the whole point of going into Iraq was to act BEFORE the threat became imminent.
Talk about being a member of the flat-earth society. You must be the Chairman of the Board.
By Just sayin'
February 4, 2007 03:01 PM | Link to this
jeez pofo, you’re an f’ing idiot.
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 03:05 PM | Link to this
Huge Jackass,
You’re an “adult”? Wow. Sure had me fooled.
By getalife
February 4, 2007 03:08 PM | Link to this
This is what your children are learning
As the intellectual coward w blames Iran, the disaster in Iraq continues.
The buck stops with w.
Period.
By Liz
February 4, 2007 03:09 PM | Link to this
Just one question.
this buy danish person.
I take it you’re a she?
I’ve noticed that you spend a lot of time here. A lot of time.
Do you wash your a$$ first?
I smell you all the way through my monitor.
ok, that was 2 questions.
By Huge
February 4, 2007 03:14 PM | Link to this
What percentage of Buy Danish’s posts on AJC blogs over the last year end in the word “pathetic?”
For awhile she was hung up on the word freaking. Blissfully that has stopped. I found that to be freaking pathetic!
Dennis,
I liked how you italicized the word conservative in your 2:41.
I have contended for a long time that the pitiful neo-cons here wouldn’t know true conservatism, if it fell in their laps!
I have asked several, over the many weeks, including Marky Mark and Buy French to define American conservatism, cite examples and how those could possibly apply to them and their strange beliefs.
Take a wild guess how many have responded to that request?!!
They haven’t and I’ll bet they never will. It would be simply too easy to catch them tripping over their tongues and getting ripped to pieces by those, who unlike them, use logic and reason to make their points.
But the offer still stands for you sound-bite geniuses out there…
By RW-(the original)
February 4, 2007 03:14 PM | Link to this
Huge,
You’re a pathetic moron.
See how easy it is to shorten up your posts?
Why the fk are you so stinking miserable all the time? I’m going to pick up some things for a Super Bowl party I’m throwing. Some good friends will be coming by and enjoying life and leisure. Maybe you should try to find a friend instead of b!tching and moaning on here all day every day. I heard Midori is searching for a cagemate, why don’t you give it a shot.
By the way, the next time you back one of your assertions with fact will be the first time. Enjoy your misery, loser. Later and Go Colts!
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 03:14 PM | Link to this
liz,
You’re the one making a stink now aren’t you?
By Just sayin'
February 4, 2007 03:16 PM | Link to this
Huge, again. 5 f’ing words you could parse your bs!
You come on here calling other bloggers retarded bigots?
You can be smart without boring everyone with some kind of manifesto bs.
Punk.
By Liz
February 4, 2007 03:23 PM | Link to this
is that guy rw your husband or something?
or a member of your group think think tank?
i’ve also noticed that when you run of of silly names to call people, that guy shows up like a trained seal.
is that why you don’t wash?
to keep the fish smell strong so that that guy likes to follow?
you guys sure are an angry twosome, that’s for sure.
By WE LUV LIZ!
February 4, 2007 03:23 PM | Link to this
Liz can stay forever on this blog, but Buy Danish must go back to grade school to learn basic math skills and a lot more about personal hygiene.
By WE LUV LIZ!
February 4, 2007 03:26 PM | Link to this
An old lady is rocking away the last of her days on her front porch, reflecting on her long life, when, all of a sudden, a fairy godmother appears in front of her and informs her that she will be granted three wishes.
“Well, now,” says the old lady, “I guess I would like to be really, really rich.” POOF her rocking chair turns to solid gold. She smiles and says, “Gee, I guess I wouldn’t mind being a young, beautiful princess.” POOF she turns into a beautiful young woman.
“Your third wish?” asked the fairy godmother. Just then the old woman’s cat wanders across the porch in front of them. “Ooh…can you change him into a handsome prince?” she asks. POOF there before her stands a young man more handsome than anyone could possibly imagine.
She stares at him, smitten. With a smile that makes her knees weak. He saunters across the porch and whispers in her ear: “Bet you’re sorry you had me neutered!”
By Liz
February 4, 2007 03:27 PM | Link to this
thank you, we luv liz.
i’ve been visiting this blog for a couple of months now, and that smelly woman and her trained seal needed once and for all to be called out.
By Who likes to do math?
February 4, 2007 03:28 PM | Link to this
“Dish it out!” “Cry foul!” “Intellectual dishonesty” “Sure had me fooled” “You sound like” “My goodness, are you really that dense?” “Gaggle.” “I refuse to wate time debating.” “Your claims” “Your point” “You must be” “Pathetic.”
By Let Liz Live
February 4, 2007 03:31 PM | Link to this
cookie cutter liberal wanker.
By A story about Cobb County Schools
February 4, 2007 03:32 PM | Link to this
Three Walton High School boys received their grades from their female sex education instructor. One got a D+, the second a D- and the third an F. “One day we should get her for this,” said the first boy. “I agree. We’ll grab her…” said the second. “Yeah,” said the third. “And then we’ll kick her in the nuts!”
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 03:32 PM | Link to this
liz,
There are bloggers here like “silver” who post nothing but vile, disgusting, vulgar, obscene trash every day yet you’re complaining about MY posts?
Since Huge Blowhard mentioned RW in his post, it would make sense that RW would respond, right? Or would you like to institute your version of a “Fairness Doctrine” where only depraved Liberals like you get to bubble away in your little Leftist cesspools while we get stuck downwind of you with no recourse?
I’m sure Nancy Pelosi is glad to have someone like you on her team. Go Dems!
By Jeff
February 4, 2007 03:36 PM | Link to this
For those that say teachers have it easy and that Holding is crazy:
I AM a FORMER teacher… keyword being FORMER!!!!
The reason I left? Exactly what Holding describes. I have SIX SCARS on my arm that administration did NOTHING about. I was verbally threatened by at least one student virtually EVERYDAY. (And the “my cousin’s got a glock” could have been a direct quote from one of my SIXTH GRADE students at least once a week, minimum.)
Those that say “teachers have it easy” as far as stress goes have clearly NEVER been in the classroom…. indeed, even I didn’t know exactly what I was getting into, and I’d been working in and around education virtually all my life!
By Married Men
February 4, 2007 03:37 PM | Link to this
Two married buddies are out drinking one night when one turns to the other and says, “You know, I don’t know what else to do. Whenever I go home after we’ve been out drinking, I turn the headlights off before I get to the driveway. I shut off the engine and coast into the garage. I take my shoes off before I go into the house, I sneak up the stairs, I get undressed in the bathroom. I ease into bed and my wife STILL wakes up and yells at me for staying out so late!”
His buddy looks at him and says, “Well, you’re obviously taking the wrong approach. I screech into the driveway, slam the door, storm up the steps, throw my shoes into the closet, jump into bed, rub my hands on my wife’s a* and say, ‘How about a blow job?’ ….and she’s always sound asleep.”
By Bad News About Buy Danish's Man
February 4, 2007 03:42 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish’s old man husband was laying on his death bed. With only hours to live, he suddenly noticed the scent of chocolate chip cookies coming from the kitchen. With his last bit of energy, the old man pulled himself out from his bed, across the floor to the stairs, and down the stairs to the kitchen.
There, Buy Danish was baking chocolate chip cookies. With his last ounce of energy, the old man reached for a cookie. Buy Danish, however, quickly smacked him across the back of his hand, and exclaimed, “Leave them alone, they’re for the funeral!”
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 03:43 PM | Link to this
By Buy Danish and RW are the same pathetic person
February 4, 2007 03:29 PM | Link to this
A guy is walking past a bus stop and says to a Buy Danish “Can I smell your ccuunt?” “FFUuck off, no you can’t smell my c!” Buy Danish yells back at him, “Oh” he replies, looking slightly confused, “it must be your feet then”.
Liz,
You like that^^^? That person is the poster child for Liberalism.
I’m off to a Super Bowl party. You and your depraved punk friends can have this all to yourselves now.
Yay!
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 03:44 PM | Link to this
No idea who Buy Danish is and haven’t read enough posts to agree or disagree with Buy Danish. And I’m not one to complain about displaying some acerbic wit in the overall context of making your point.
But this appears like killing a flea with a nuclear tipped sledgehammer. (although the one about the teacher who became a preacher was funny)
Still, what’s the backstory behind Thinking Right’s version of Rosie and the Donald?
By Bye Bye Danish
February 4, 2007 03:46 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish was on her way home from market was carrying a duck. A drunk staggered up to her and said ,”Hey! where’d ja get the pig?” The woman replied,” You drunken fool, that’s no pig — it’s a duck!” And the drunk said,” Quiet, I was talking to the duck.”
By Huge
February 4, 2007 03:47 PM | Link to this
My point, you freaking moron, was not that there was anything “depraved” in that post from LD aka WD.
bigot, you mental midget! How stupid can you be? The point wasn’t that the post was depraved. Who ever said it was? You fool, the poster, curlyboy, much like yourself is depraved!
You know people, this one is just a dumber version of that idiot in the white house. Al-queda is in cahoots with Iraq. Oops, maybe not. Iraq is trying to get nuke material from Africa. Oops, maybe not. Iraq has vast storehouses of WMDs. Oops, maybe not. Iraq is an imminent threat (Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.). Oops maybe not. Regime change is best for all concerned. Oops maybe not. We must export our version of democracy to the MidEast. There! That one should work for awhile!
But the vast majority of the American people are no longer falling for the lies from W and the Rove machine and nobody here falls for your stupidity, BS and lies either.
All of this useless hopeless and hapless spinning on your’s and RW’s parts just continues to reveal the fact that you are in hopelessly over your heads.
Not that definitions matter to you filthy lying twits, but:
per·il 1. Imminent danger.
RW GFY. Ditto bigot. And try not to drink so much Busch Lite this time that you puke all over your demented little neo-con parties.
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 03:47 PM | Link to this
Liz,
Before I go. How about you “call me out” on some facts instead of behaving like a toddler with Tourettes.
I’d be happy to give you some more stinky poopy words if you’re running out of intellectually stunning responses.
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 03:49 PM | Link to this
Jeff, Even through all the bashing you got at Get Schooled, I could relate to the frustration of actually giving a damn and not being able to make a damn bit of difference because of the spinelessness of the system.
Now that you’re out, how does it feel to return to a semblance of normal stress levels, and a life where everything isn’t your fault?
Would you go back Monday if they asked? I think I know the answer to that one…the one I don’t know the answer to is why aren’t conservatives jumping on the discipline issue in the public schools?
By it's all that
February 4, 2007 03:59 PM | Link to this
gawd huge!!
stop it.
You’re going to insite pofo in a min.
Man, you should write a novel about nothing.
By Huge
February 4, 2007 04:10 PM | Link to this
Insite? Is that similar to incite?
Man, you should write a sentence about something!
By it's all that
February 4, 2007 04:24 PM | Link to this
Huge, you’re read like an open book.
ewwww, the english teacher got me, oh wise one. Hurts so good. ROTFL!!
I guess the other 100 posts by the liberal wanker here constitutes correct english, huh teach?
By Huge
February 4, 2007 04:32 PM | Link to this
Don’t know and don’t care about the other 100 posts, curly.
All I know is that you are a blooming idiot that tries to pretend otherwise. You have consistently demonstrated that you can’t even master standard written English, my little neo-con.
But unfortunately for you, the problem is much worse than an occasional misused and misspelled word here and there. It is an overwhelming lack of reason and logic that just kills your ability to persuade or convince.
And you expect anyone to take any of your “writings” seriously? Guess what? They don’t!
By holdingAJCaccountable
February 4, 2007 04:34 PM | Link to this
A duck, a pig, and a turtle go online to slam BuyDanish. The duck asks, “Why are we slamming her?” The pig says “Heck if I know; we’ve been doing it so long I forgot the reason”. The turtle says “Too bad we didn’t include the elephant; he never forgets.” And then the three of them wrote yet another post…
By RW-(the original)
February 4, 2007 04:36 PM | Link to this
Blowhard,
President Bush chose the wrong word and it’s obvious from the entire quote as well as many other speeches that he was always saying we couldn’t allow Iraq to become an imminent threat.
Now Jay Rockefeller, there’s someone that said Iraq was an imminent threat. You can look it up while you’re pouting over here wondering why everyone else is enjoying themselves and all you’ve got is your unduly inflated ego to keep you company.
Later loser and Good For You too!
By it's all that
February 4, 2007 04:41 PM | Link to this
Huge, when the lib degenerates^^^^(i.e. you) clog the blog with all this bs, it’s hard to take you serious.
just sayin’
By jm
February 4, 2007 04:50 PM | Link to this
” world that existed 50 years ago” - assuming of course, you were white.
By Huge
February 4, 2007 04:51 PM | Link to this
RW,
President Bush chose the wrong word?!!!
That is just priceless!!
And on so many levels!!
Like yourself the guy has a very large penchant for doing just that! Both of you have one helluva time admitting any mistakes. And just like him, you then show your true colors and try desperately to change topics or cover your tracks with red herrings and strawmen.
Unfortunately for you, you’ve got no Karl Rove to help!!!
Must not be much of a party…
By getalife
February 4, 2007 05:04 PM | Link to this
I was wrong.
Intellectual dishonesty, nope.
Intellectual cowards, yep.
Blaming Iran for Iraq is intellectual cowardice in the highest degree.
By Huge
February 4, 2007 05:14 PM | Link to this
Aw curly. Just because you’re a bit of a mental midget, doesn’t mean that your cutting and pasting ad nauseum isn’t a real example of clogging the blog.
Why aren’t you over at ricky’s? Sounds like that shindig could use a loose cannon like you to liven things up!
By it's all that
February 4, 2007 05:21 PM | Link to this
look at Huge jackass talk to himself..
too funny
wanker
By Buy Danish
February 4, 2007 06:02 PM | Link to this
depravity - noun: a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
Blah Blah Blah Blowhard,
Can you demonstrate who is depraved here?
Huge Hint:
While there are vitually endless examples of depravity right here on today’s blog, WootenDull/LuckoDull most definitely is not. Moreover, you cannot provide any evidence anywhere to substantiate your false lies, err, claims that either he or I are.
Time to get back to the party…
P.S. Say “hi!” to your fowl-mouthed depraved parrot, MidoriLIZ.
By Buy Danish
February 5, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this
Don’t know and don’t care about the other 100 posts, curly.
Huge Bubble,
How can you accuse him of “depravity” if you don’t know and don’t care about other posts?
By Charles
February 5, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this
Any time we make references to African Americans with respect to education, marriage and the family, Sophia Stewart, Wachowski Brothers, and ultimately Neo comes to mind. If Neo takes the blue pill that he is being offered, he will forget about the matrix and go back to his illusory but relatively safe and predictable life. Take the red pill, however, and he will see the world as it really is. The tradeoff is clear: comfortable fantasy or harsh reality? Americans tend to opt for the blue pill which will not allow us to see the world as it is. There is also money to be made by keeping people plugged in and confused. Why should African American children compete in school? Give me one good reason that makes sense. The motivation for competition has been taken away by the integrationist and politicians. What is the golden pot at the end of the rainbow? Is it to use our educational accomplishments to assist others in their quest for power? If so, that will only mentally stimulate African Americans at the lower end of the spectrum. African Americans who prefer the red pill are aware that education has the potential to transform many of them into a Bill Cosby or an Oprah Winfrey or others with similar dispositions; a bootlicking, butt-licking, buck-dancing, bamboozled, some half baked and half fried, punky-fied, sissified, pasteurized, homogenized, N…..
Americans should come to realize that every African American child needs to enter school conscious of the need to succeed in order to build a system of power for themselves which is vital for their survival. That can’t be done absent of education. Instantly hatched in the child’s mind would be the ability to understand education as a friend propelling them toward becoming producers, and not an enemy, reducing people to weird assistants, second class citizens, and mere consumers of goods produced by others. Should they fail under these circumstances, then criticism of African Americans in regard to education, out of wedlock births, marriage and the family, can be justified outside of the matrix.
By Devastator
February 5, 2007 03:49 PM | Link to this
Charles,
You are the biggest idiot I’ve ever seen on this blog. This is the real world you viral infection! You cannot base a real life problem with our youth on a movie and its political contents.
Its sounds like you need a job and a life.
By Apocalypse
February 5, 2007 03:50 PM | Link to this
Charles: You need desperately need to leave the drugs alone.
By ICEMAN
February 5, 2007 03:52 PM | Link to this
Anyone that needs to know why America is in the shape that its in, read the most drug induced blog ever written @12:45 by Charles.
By Charles
February 5, 2007 05:19 PM | Link to this
Ladies and gentlemen please, you can run that game on some deceived integrationist in the audience. We are definitely not the one you are accustomed to deceiving. You folks will never succeed in denying us the right to live or think in the real world as a decent human being. My last comment for the day is one that my grandfather said, I hope you like it, “Son, a hit dog will holler.”