Displaying 31 To 60 Of 96 Comments Yep, I understand that. I thought I had one that was released for sharing. I shall keep on this one. » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 16, 2011 @ 10:56 pm Yes, I figured that for the first one I tried. I uploaded a second one that I thought was clear. Thanks for your imput,I will pursue yet another alternative and see if I can’t get the knack of this. » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 16, 2011 @ 10:56 pm Well, try as I may, I couldn’t get that image to show in this post. Abandoned the effort after 40 minutes of trying. Let’s see if I can get it in here… » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 16, 2011 @ 10:36 pm Oh for goodness sakes, what do I need to wear? FM heels and pasties? » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 16, 2011 @ 10:52 pm Jdmn: I don’t think you’re overreacting, as I had much the same experience over the last few days. “It ain’t you,” I would assert. And, for AH, it’s not about politics, as surely her history attests. It is all about the money. And “show me the money” AOL did for her. HP has been setting up the conditions for the site to brew this particular alchemy over the last year or so. It has come to fruition for them. Dear AH: be careful what you wish for… » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 16, 2011 @ 10:51 pm Nothing to forgive, Funk. » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 16, 2011 @ 10:46 pm Well, thank you Funk, I am hopeful, and will stick around for the promise. » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 16, 2011 @ 9:11 pm And, a p.s.: The headlines today were particularly misleading and inflammatory, when indeed there was absolutely nothing to inflame. » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 16, 2011 @ 8:49 pm Well, I’m done with HP. I tried hard to be patient, even kind, about the change of ownership and what it might imply for all that we valued about HP over the last few years. » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 16, 2011 @ 8:47 pm The State of Education in America Congratulations Ghostrider on your first post. I was struck by one segment of your post: I really don’t know who he is, but after reading this article I’m glad I don’t know him. Everybody, if they care at all about education in this country, should investigate this guy. Finally, I will just mention one more thing that occurred to me as I was reading comments on this post: Ok, enough of my diatribe. People like David Horowitz are an insidious cancer on our efforts to straighten out public education, and they work toward the worst, most disingenuous ends. Sad and wholly shameful. » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 9, 2011 @ 7:04 pm Kalima: There is a dictionary for you out there, it’s called “The Mispeller’s Dictionary.” » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 7, 2011 @ 6:48 pm I agree, Chase. He can be quite the ball of good humor. » Posted By ChrisR266 On April 15, 2011 @ 4:12 pm I love it! » Posted By ChrisR266 On April 15, 2011 @ 4:04 pm There’s nothing remotely kosher about this debacle. » Posted By ChrisR266 On April 7, 2011 @ 10:22 pm Ain’t that the truth? » Posted By ChrisR266 On April 7, 2011 @ 10:16 pm Sharks have dead damned eyes. Just look at them. the look just like Kasich’s eyes. » Posted By ChrisR266 On March 23, 2011 @ 8:38 pm Ah, Kes, you may be right to some degree. I am growing quite weary of my growed’ up that way conservative friends quoting to me that so many pundits said “just wait, you’ll hate Kasich for the first two years, then everyone will love him.” » Posted By ChrisR266 On March 23, 2011 @ 8:36 pm Sigh. I am so not surprised by this. No one should be. » Posted By ChrisR266 On March 23, 2011 @ 8:27 pm I actually like the “hope.” » Posted By ChrisR266 On March 22, 2011 @ 7:59 pm I’m sorry to hear you’re not feeling the sunshine, Abby. This probably will depress you more, but thought I’d share my good news with you. » Posted By ChrisR266 On March 22, 2011 @ 7:58 pm What I found most disturbing was the “expert” on CNN talking about how regular people overreact to things like little reports that radiation levels are 1000 times above normal. » Posted By ChrisR266 On March 11, 2011 @ 5:08 pm Oh, enough already! 😉 » Posted By ChrisR266 On March 11, 2011 @ 4:31 pm Hey, 2: » Posted By ChrisR266 On March 11, 2011 @ 4:24 pm LMAO! You people got the weird down last night! » Posted By ChrisR266 On March 7, 2011 @ 11:49 pm Evening, Chase. You have Wise-ness. I like wise-ness. » Posted By ChrisR266 On March 2, 2011 @ 10:14 pm Effin bravo!v » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 25, 2011 @ 9:31 pm Evening, all. Hope all is well with you, abby » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 25, 2011 @ 9:14 pm Hey Abby: » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 25, 2011 @ 8:34 pm Yay! About time. » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 25, 2011 @ 7:55 pm Oh, crap. I ran my arse home to chat in vox populi tonight and it’s on va ca? Sigh. » Posted By ChrisR266 On February 25, 2011 @ 7:54 pmComments Posted By ChrisR266
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LMAO!
It’s been growing for a while now, but all the more intense and frequent over the last week.
You’re tight with me.
I should tell you something, though: I am a female, LOL.
Although I sometimes revel in the reality that most everyone mistakes me for a man, I must confess I am not. I’m trying hard to live the transparent life, so I feel obligated to come out to you.
I am very glad to see you here, too. You very much made my evenings so much more relevant and worthwhile over the last year or so.
May it continue.
Sigh.
Commenting has become nearly impossible. The din of disruptive malicious voices has risen substantially over the last week. The ability to have an engaging, thoughtful conversation with other posters has all but disappeared.
The moderation by paid staff has become Gestapo like–a strong word, I know, but absolutely appropriate to the situation.
I hope this community evolves in a way that fosters interesting and educational discussion, respectful inquiry, and a lack of politics among the membership.
I am watching now, and will engage (I hope) when I can see and read the promise.
Keep the faith, all.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/horowitz-teachers-unions-leading-infiltration-islamic-jihadist-doctrines-our-k-12-school-sys)
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David Horowitz has been the single most destructive influence on higher and public education the last quarter century. He couches his dogma in the fluffy yet clearly propagandistic cause of bring “open and free intellectual interchange to our nation’s colleges and universities.” Please reference his web site, http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/ for a taste of this warped approach to couching radical right wing ideology in populist language.
What I find most disturbing about the whole of how we view public education in our country today is the absurdly high and unrealistic bar we hold teachers, administrations, and school districts accountable to in the 21st Century. No Child Left Behind has left the whole nation’s education system teaching to tests, instead of imparting a body of knowledge and the requisite intellectual skills to deal with that knowledge. School Boards and parents have abdicated their responsibilities to participate in the educational process; local and state governments have said “too damned bad” about the funding formulas that leave some wide swaths of school districts wholly unable to compete with districts populated with homeowners of upper middle or upper class incomes. I’m just mentioning the more obvious pedagogical, content, and fiscal problems facing all public school districts today.
I too graduated from public school in the mid 1970s, 1975 to be exact. I graduated with a wealth of knowledge and intellectual skill thanks to the teachers and the curriculum with which they challenged us. I was fortunate to have parents who would not let me think anything other than that I would be going to college, hell or high water, and that I (even though I was a female) would not be considered a success unless I obtained that Bachelor’s Degree. Important to note that, since I was certainly in the minority in my graduation class of 450 plus. I was going to college, and I was a female.
But all of that is secondary to my point. In the 1970s, public schools were the admired schools across the country. Students who attended parochial and/or private schools were considered inferior on all standard measures of educational success. Curriculum was not as advanced, teachers were paid less because they didn’t have to be as prepared, and on all generally accepted measures of educational achievement at the time, private schools produced students who fell short of the achievement levels of public school students.
This reality was manifest in how high school students excelled in colleges during the last half of the seventies and into the early eighties; it wasn’t until the mid to late eighties, when the onerous effects of Reaganomics started raining down on local governments, that public schools began to suffer the ramifications of shrinking budgets and misguided decision making.
You begin by looking up how you think you might spell the word, it then gives you the correct spelling.
I had a copy many years while in graduate school (gift from the spouse). It kept me going until my spelling prowess increased dramatically via practice.
Funny, I was his first wife’s advisor for her Master’s degree project about 12 years ago.
Sandra, remarried but still using Kucinich with her newly acquired name, had some wonderful stories to tell about Dennis. I had met him many years before while a student at Bowling Green. Fond enough still of him she spoke no ill, and was grateful that they had both found ways for their lives to blossom. Their daughter is also an interesting, bright young woman.
Thank goodness for splitting hairs.
I hope she keeps bringing it.
My friends in WI are going crazy with anger.
That this woman was even allowed to run another election is wholly offensive; that she so clearly cannot even explain the mistake with any savvy. Access records changes in data in any form in real time. You have to be one hell of a savvy programmer to change this default aspect of a relational database like Access.
Further, funny how Prosser needed 7500 plus votes to get past the % differential for a recall. Amazing how she found just that number of uncounted votes, yes?
No effin’ way.
Expect Wisconsin to go bat shit crazy in the next week.
I was saying Tuesday evening that something didn’t look right about Waukesha county. Photographic negative of Dane, and although Waukesha harbors a slew of upper middle class paramilitarists, it is not wacky tea party conservative.
I am so sad to see I am right–something is terribly wrong in Waukesha county.
The Feds need to be called in now, and everyone in Wisconsin knows it.
But I also think that some of these stooges actually believe that they are on the side of righteous might (to coin Roosevelt’s phrase from the “war on Japan” speech).
Kasich is enough of an arrogant pr*ck Sto think he actually has this all figured out. So is Christie. Walker and Scott, eh not so much.
What the hell is that supposed to mean? They can’t even make a cogent argument defending what he is doing now–just hang the hell on while he destroys the state? In two years we’ll love him for it?
The worst argumentative strategy I’ve ever heard in my life. And it’s coming from people I care about personally. So damned sad.
We gave up the trip to the beach for countertops…
Kitchen cabinets are getting replaced, finally. Coming to measure tomorrow, and soon we’ll be demolishing this hellhole kitchen. The spouse has been all on board once he realized that if we don’t do it now, we might never get the nerve.
We’re doing a lot of the work ourselves, but we can’t build cabinets or countertops, so those two details will be left to others.
I’ll take pictures along the way.
Hope this makes you smile, it sure does me.
And, as usual, Wolf Blitzer blathered like a fawning idiot over this front for the big industry power producers.
I am so disgusted with MSM right now, time to {{{ spit }}}
We’ll see who’s really got the moves next week…
Glad to hear this, I am very happy this came your way. Enjoy the work, stay safe and well. I for one will certainly be happy for any posts you make.
Congratulations.
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Wonderful essay.
We here in Oh-io have much more respect for western NY than might be apparent to you. You all get the shIt of weather in the fall through the spring, yet the only thing that gets reported about weather in NY is NYC.
OT: did you decide on a painting scheme for those kitchen cabinets?
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