1 Whoopee.

2 Know how to break the teachers' unions?  Deregulate the industry.  No more franchise-protecting requirements like an Ed degree to get a teaching certificate.

Anybody can walk into a damned K-12 classroom and teach.  It ain't rocket science.

3 Dear Dave, Any chance Texas can invade and liberate Wisconsin? Thanks, The People's Front of Wisconsin

4 The real fucking problem with unions is the source:  The Wagner Act.

Rescind that, and our troubles with them will be over.

5

Those poor teachers in WI are getting crushed.  They only average about 90 grand a year and have their summers off.  I don't know how they are able to make it.

6

Yup, that and Kennedy's EO allowing public sector unions.

I'd like to see a national right-to-work act myself.

7 From the sidebar:

"Toussaint's lawyer, Aaron Rugh, said his client is considering appealing the decision, as Toussaint wants to serve with the SEALs."

"Toussaint remains in the running for one of the Navy's highest awards, a Silver Star, for saving the life of a Navy SEAL in a firefight with insurgents in Afghanistan in 2009. The award has already been presented to Toussaint's dog Remco, who was killed when the pair charged an insurgent's hideout."

Clearly this man has no place in our armed forces. He allowed "minor" hazing under his command.

Don't these fucking idiots realize that aggressive behavior that builds unit cohesion, and success on the battlefield may not be mutually exclusive?

8 Anybody can walk into a damned K-12 classroom and teach.  It ain't rocket science.
Posted by: FUBAR
-----
Really.  How come it's so easy for anyone to home school their kids?  But if you send them to a public school, the "teacher" is required to have an Ed degree (useless) and who knows what else?

And how come computers ain't doing most of the work anyway?

9 Yay Egyptian democracy!

Muslim Brotherhood Preacher Insists EgyptÂ’s Revolution Has Only Just Begun

10

A teaching certificate should simply certify that you've taken basic classes in first aid, discipline laws, requirements for parental notification and liability, etc.  It should really be no more than about 20-30 hours.  Maybe require a bachelor's degree or completion of Journeyman level training program and successful passage of a state's standardized tests.

 

11 "Pirates hijack 4 Americans; US mulls responses"

12 And how come computers ain't doing most of the work anyway?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 19, 2011 10:08 AM (Do52

They are. That's why most high school graduates don't know who won WWII or when Lincoln lived. And ask them to name the three branches of government and you might vomit.

13

3 We would come and liberate our besieged Cheeseeater cousins up north, but there is a problem: we are in need of liberation ourselves.

Signed,

The even more besieged people of the LoL

PS. Maybe if you guys pushed south, and we pushed north (and we could get the Hoosiers in on it) then we might be able to catch the dirty hippies in a pocket...or they'd just escape to Iowa, but that's what watchtowers are for.

14 We are all Chesseheads now. Mmm! Cheeeeeese...

15 Posted by: curious at February 19, 2011 10:09 AM (p302b)

Oh, just wait. We'' be sending a sternly worded letter soon.

16 Regarding the Democratic pond scum's antics in Wisconsin: why doesn't the governor declare them obviously either dead or disabled, and appoint their (Republican) successors to the state legislature?

17 5: My internet searches said 46 and 48K. I understand that suddenly losing 4K take home out of that would feel harsh but hello in a 10% (more like 20% actual) unemployment era crying about having to contribute 13% to your insurance and and 6% of salary into a pension account is pretty whiny. Any non-public union employee getting 100% free insurance or employee only funded pension?

18 Abe Vigoda - Still Alive

19

Florida Homeless Man Set On Fire During Fight.

Fucking amateurs. Everybody here knows you cook them after you catch them.

20 Why does an amendment to the U.S. budget mention one, and only one, foreign country by name?

21 "Pirates hijack 4 Americans; US mulls responses" Posted by: curious at February 19, 2011 10:09 AM (p302b) The US could surrender?

22 Posted by: Chuckit at February 19, 2011 10:12 AM (HpYj9) Give up, shitass.

23 19 5: My internet searches said 46 and 48K. I understand that suddenly losing 4K take home out of that would feel harsh

Posted by: Palerider at February 19, 2011 10:11 AM (FYUWS) 

Don't forget the median household income in Wisconsin is about $49k.

I'll bet some of them could work in titty bars during the summer to make up the lost income.

24 As soon as you cross over the border into Wisconsin from the Illinois side,  there are tons of cheese shops.  And one of the most popular items sold are "cheese curds", which are just goblets of cheese.  They batter dip these and deep fry them too!  Mmm mmm mmm..  heart attack heaven.

25 So how is that new "civility" doing out there ?

26 Why does an amendment to the U.S. budget mention one, and only one, foreign country by name?

Posted by: Chuckit at February 19, 2011 10:12 AM (HpYj9)

I think you know why:

Joooooooooooooooos!

27 Wpuldn't it be sweet if several male wrestlers insisted on joining a girls' wrestling team and won every last title? I think that girl wrestler in the news is stuck in a 1970's Brady Bunch timewarp.

28 I joined Literacy Volunteers many years ago to teach adults to read. I figured they would just do some quick orientation and then match us up with folks and we would get started. Oh no, we had to be trained. It seems there is just one approved way to teach someone how to read. We learned that from a video made by some pee ache dee in Linguistics Bullshit (she was cute, though). They provided booklets on how to follow their procedure and told us we absolutely must not deviate from The Plan. I never went back.

29 I'll bet some of them could work in titty bars during the summer to make up the lost income. Posted by: FUBAR at February 19, 2011 10:14 AM (McG46) What are trying to do, run titty bars out of business? What are you, UN -American!

30 Anybody can walk into a damned K-12 classroom and teach.  It ain't rocket science.

Posted by: FUBAR at February 19, 2011 10:03 AM (McG46)

It ain't even rock science.

31 Joe Klein must be off his meds ...

Wisconsin: The Hemlock Revolution
I mean, Isn't it, well, a bit ironic that the protesters in Madison, blocking the state senate chamber, are chanting "Freedom, Democracy, Union" while trying to prevent a vote? Isn't it ironic that the Democratic Senators have fled the democratic process? Isn't it interesting that some of those who--rightly--protest the assorted Republican efforts to stymie majority rule in the U.S. Senate are celebrating the Democratic efforts to stymie the same in the Wisconsin Senate?

32 I think that girl wrestler in the news is stuck in a 1970's Brady Bunch timewarp. Posted by: CoolCzech at February 19, 2011 10:15 AM (tJjm/) I think the male kid showed a lot of class by withdrawing. If it had been me, I'd have wrestled and tried to cope as many feels as I could. But then I'm a pig

33 Wpuldn't it be sweet if several male wrestlers insisted on joining a girls' wrestling team and won every last title?

I think that girl wrestler in the news is stuck in a 1970's Brady Bunch timewarp.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 19, 2011 10:15 AM (tJjm/)

She actually went on to win a match in the tourney.  Speaking as a former high school wrestler, that is unbelievable.  That state is full of wimps.

34 Its Debka, but...

Israel on high alert for Iranian warships' Suez transit. Kharg brings missiles

Cairo's approval Friday, Feb. 18 for two Iranian warships to transit the Suez Canal on their way to the Mediterranean has brought Israel and Iran closer than ever before to a naval collision at sea. debkafile reports: Israel has learned that the Iranian cruiser Kharg is carrying long-range missiles for Hizballah which it plans to unload at a Syrian port or Beirut harbor.

35 And one of the most popular items sold are "cheese curds", which are just goblets of cheese. Would I drive north three hours for some poutine? Yes, I would.

36 Cairo's approval Friday, Feb. 18 for two Iranian warships to transit the Suez Canal on their way to the Mediterranean has brought Israel and Iran closer than ever before to a naval collision at sea. debkafile reports: Israel has learned that the Iranian cruiser Kharg is carrying long-range missiles for Hizballah which it plans to unload at a Syrian port or Beirut harbor. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at February 19, 2011 10:18 AM (9hSKh) Actually from what I read this AM, there is still some confusion as to whether the Egyptian Military has yet given permission for those Iranian War ships to pass. And if they do pass, what does Israel or the USA do? Board them in the Med? Attack the shipments as they enter Lebanon?

37 Union antics are scheduled to begin Monday morning in Indianapolis.

If we work this right,  we could drive them into Lake Michigan.

38 @36: I wonder if the boy she beat wasn't on the team because it would hurt his self-esteem to be told he sucked as a wrestler. How did being beaten by a girl help his self-esteem?

39

Since my timing is shitty, I'll repost this from the other thread.

Well, if that story about the Navy Doghandler in the sidebar doesn't clue in the clueless about the newest protected class in the military, I don't know what will do it.  Only a matter of time before it's codified. 

It was never about any so-called "right to serve".  Ever.

40

Police were setting up barricades around capitol square about 7AM. Were supposed to lock the capitol building,too. Walker called in over 300 police and sheriff deputies from around the state last night. If I remember the 60's right you must have a certain number of targets, I mean participants, before you're allowed to call it a riot in Madison.

You aint in Madtown until you smell the tear gas.

41

When I see stories like this, I'm reminded of the movie A Few Good Men.  I always sympathized with Col. Jessup.  War is not a pleasant thing, and by it's very nature it hardens the men who must fight it.  Initiations, low level harrassment, deprivations during basic training, are all ways of weeding out those who don't have the internal fortitude to handle the stresses of combat.  I don't intend to justify torture or a significant case of harassment, but the low level stuff is almost ritual in nature, and generally goes away when a soldier develops the appropriate thickness of skin, or the ability to give as good as he gets. 

Stories like the one about the Navy chief are why I'm getting out.  The military leadership today is simply incapable of standing up for the warfighters.  It reminds me of a story I read late last year, about a battle in Afghanistan where nine soldiers died.  The LT who was in command was cleared, but the Army decided to do another investigation after the parents of the fallen soldiers threw a fit.

I hate to sound callous, but soldier die.  It's a fact of warfare: sometimes you make a bad call, sometimes the enemy gets lucky, or sometimes the universe throws a curveball.  If a leader demonstrates a significant pattern of recklessness or blatent disregard for their duties or the care of their men, then they should be relieved.  Otherwise, the benefit of doubt should always be given them.

 

42 When I hear 'Iranian Navy' I get an image of a dozen johnboats.

43

Isn't the Tea Party planning counter-protests up there?

Heh, dueling bullhorns. Hope they get lots of pics from the union protesters with all the hate on them.

And The Vapid One's® goonish action in all this is reprehensible. It just goes to show how much he's degraded the Office.

FU 52.

44 Damn, these teachers make more than most service members and they only have to work 2/3 of the year and not deploy to some of the world's shittiest places where they just love American's.

No service member has to teach classes year after year in Detroit.

45 On what grounds do they board them? Posted by: CDR M at February 19, 2011 10:22 AM (5I8G0) Yeah that's issue. But: 1) because of the sanctions against Iran 2) transport of illegal weapons to Hezbellah by virtue of the UN Resolutions preventing their re-arming 3) just because

46 The Goddess Irony says there is only a tiny chance Breitbart will forget his camera.

47 With the Reverend Jackson showing up in Madison, and the churches of all faiths declaring solidarity with the unions and offering sanctuary to the Democrat senators who are being hunted like animals by the despicable Republicans, I think we are seeing a preview of how all these public employee union struggles will play out in future.

Remember that great scene in the movie Beckett, with Peter O'Toole as Henry II and Richard Burton as the Archbishop of Canterbury?  Henry's words, "who will rid me of this damned priest," dispatch four nasty and heavily armed knights, who viciously murder Beckett in the cathedral.

In today's depiction, those knights are state troopers, the nasty king is Governor Walker, and Beckett is the unionists, the children, the sick, the poor, the illegals, the blacks, the college students, all wrapped up in one.

It's gonna be tough to win this.  I'm not even sure it can be won.  Obammy's got a lot of people working on this, and everyone is invested in keeping power and staying in office, no matter what.

They've got a lot of allies.  The media, Hollywood, GE, silicon valley, everybody under 30, unions, and a whole lot of those mindless ninnies calling themselves independent voters.

48 Dear Dave- It hurts when I do this. What should I do?

49 If you have a chance, listen to the beginning of kudlow when they put out the podcast.  He said it all regarding the wisconsin union folks. 

his audience is livid about this.

50 They've got a lot of allies. The media, Hollywood, GE, silicon valley, everybody under 30, unions, and a whole lot of those mindless ninnies calling themselves independent voters. Posted by: I-wuz-too-hip-now-I'm-just-cynical at February 19, 2011 10:27 AM (4sQwu) Except according to all polling the majority of the American People think the Public Unions are way out of line, over payed, and been to long sucking on the public tit. And with taxes sky rocketing and normal people losing jobs and going bankrupt, wellI'll put my money on Gov Walker

51

8 Whoa, before you go making that jump -- I've seen some atrocious examples of home schooling (not all of them are glowing success stories), and no, not everyone can teach -- obviously.  People like to say: those that do, don't teach, but teaching in and of itself is a bit of a skill.

I'd like to see people who are really knowledgeable in an area plus some outside life experience for the older kids, and teachers who know how to deal with young kids and have a classic liberal arts education (old school meaning) for the early grades.  You have to know stuff and you also have to know how to handle different development stages of kids -- it isn't easy.

Biggest issue I see with today's teachers: they won't do anything beyond "what's in the contract" and they have been highly politicized by the pedagogy used on them...and it's only getting worse with each new graduating class.

Plus, a lot of the teachers that do care about what they are doing are probably keeping their heads down right now (to speak out against the union is the kiss of death). They will probably catch hell if they don't go even. So please don't generalize teachers.

52 On what grounds do they board them?
Posted by: CDR M at February 19, 2011 10:22 AM (5I8G0)

I don't think that there is any need to board them. If they launch missiles against Israel that is war, and they will be destroyed. If they try to enter port to unload weapons that is war and they will be destroyed. If they try to transfer weapons at sea into small boats, the Israelis may simply destroy or capture the boats rather than provoke a confrontation.

This seems to be a show of force without a purpose. And that smacks of Iranian stupidity, not planning.

53 Posted by: I-wuz-too-hip-now-I'm-just-cynical at February 19, 2011 10:27 AM (4sQwu)

I disagree, independents aren't "mindless ninnies".  They are people who have decided that the dems seem to have gone so far to the left as to be more comfortable in the FORMER soviet union and the republicans have gone with them.  Maybe the independents recognized a long time ago that we need two new political parties to better reflect the nation.

54 Wouldn't it be sweet if several male wrestlers insisted on joining a girls' wrestling team and won every last title?

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 19, 2011 10:15 AM (tJjm/)

What they did to that male wrestler (by forcing him to have to wrestle a girl) was really despicable - pushing their perverted vision of the world on an innocent high school kid during his chance at states.  He handled it like a real gentleman with his forfeit.  He had no other choice, really.

I have really had enough with these idiots who like to pretend that males and females are "the same".   Perhaps all of the liberals screaming about how biological evolution is law ought to actually take some biology classes, since they don't seem to understand the different roles and physiologies of the two genders.  If they want everything "equal" then get rid of all men's/women's leagues and let them all compete "equally".  There will never be another woman on the medals stand in track and field.  No woman will ever break into the tennis top 200.  Women in golf will disappear (even though men who drive as short as women seem able to place highly in men's events).  Kiss women in swimming good-bye ... 

It's one thing to have a girl competing on baseball team with guys.  If she's good enough, let her at it.  But for contact sports - and especially something like wrestling - it takes a real pervert and nut to not recognize simple reality (and to have even the smallest amount of compassion for the guy they are putting in that position). 

Title IX was sheer insanity, as usual from lefties, our pathetic courts, and our cowardly reps in Congress.

55 Actually from what I read this AM, there is still some confusion as to whether the Egyptian Military has yet given permission for those Iranian War ships to pass. And if they do pass, what does Israel or the USA do? Board them in the Med? Attack the shipments as they enter Lebanon?

The latest I've read in the Jerusalem Post is:

Egyptian military has not approved transit of 2 Iran ships.

So I'm guessing the Iranian ships are just shy of the canal, awaiting further approval to cross. 

56
53    Posted by: I-wuz-too-hip-now-I'm-just-cynical

A most excellent game analysis.

57 Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees.

58

She actually went on to win a match in the tourney.  Speaking as a former high school wrestler, that is unbelievable.  That state is full of wimps.

Posted by: FUBAR at February 19, 2011 10:18 AM (McG46)

Are you sure>>>>>>

DES MOINES, Iowa -- An Iowa high-school wrestler who became the first girl to
win a state tournament match when her opponent refused to face her was
eliminated from contention after losing both her matches yesterday.

59

They've got a lot of allies.

Yeah, but they're still outnumbered by the working stiffs who see them as the whiners they are. This may be the unions' undoing, as poll after poll shows the people are tired of incessant union demands in the face of a shitty economy. They scream and cry about having to pay one penny for their bennies while the rest of us wish we had it that good and realize we're paying for them. And then, the unions take the dues (taxpayer monies) and contribute to the Dims campaigns against the will of a lot of members.

The unions are slitting their own throats, to borrow a phrase.

60 Woo hoo Charlie Gasparino calls a spade a spade "what you are seeing there is thugs at work, they are holding that state capitol hostage"

61 That Navy dog handler story - all I could get out of it was NavHiCom (just made that up...) rolled over for some scorned little bitch. When challenged NavHiCOM said,

"SHUT-UP!,

That's why."

62 I don't think that there is any need to board them. If they launch missiles against Israel that is war, and they will be destroyed. If they try to enter port to unload weapons that is war and they will be destroyed. If they try to transfer weapons at sea into small boats, the Israelis may simply destroy or capture the boats rather than provoke a confrontation. This seems to be a show of force without a purpose. And that smacks of Iranian stupidity, not planning. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at February 19, 2011 10:32 AM (LH6ir) Not so sure it is that easy. Once they are in a Syrian port and start unloading missiles for Hezbelah, your gonna attack them in a Syrian port? Or are you gonna have to track them till they get to Lebanese territoty and then attack them?

63

Well, if that story about the Navy Doghandler in the sidebar doesn't clue in the clueless about the newest protected class in the military, I don't know what will do it.  Only a matter of time before it's codified. 

It was never about any so-called "right to serve".  Ever.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 19, 2011 10:23 AM (A/oSU)

Between having the Indonesian Imbecile as CinC and shit like this, I'll be amazed if any of their recruiting targets are met.

64 It is funny, a federal judge declares DADT unconstitutional, and that is it-game over. It is such a big deal that the congress has to pass legislation to end the policy without even waiting to seat the new members elected during the last campaign, and the purges begin immediately (remember the captain of the Enterprise?).

On the other hand a federal judge declares Obamacare unconstitutional and it really has no effect. The Feds are not even going to slow down implementation and the administration expects the judge that issued the ruling to tell states that were a party to the suit that it doesn't count.

One begins to suspect that whole "government of laws, not men" thing is just a bunch of hooey.

65 I'll be amazed if any of their recruiting targets are met. Posted by: Captain Hate at February 19, 2011 10:35 AM (eh+ki) 1) economy sucks 2) no one is getting out 3) targets are being met

66
After all the *unprecedented & historic* amendments passed by the House this week, guess how the Make Believe Media is summing it up for The People.

a) Republicans voted to de-fund pollution cleanup and public television
b) Republicans and Democrats pass bills to reduce billions of dollars in government waste.

That's The News^tm for you.

And this will not stop until Republican *get out in front of the issues* and communicate with the people what they're doing and why they're doing it before the Democrats create the misleading narrative.

*correct answer: a

67 I can not believe it. Fox actually has a bunch of dunce's on their panel defending the unions in WI.

Teh stupid, it is epic.

68 Not so sure it is that easy. Once they are in a Syrian port and start unloading missiles for Hezbelah, your gonna attack them in a Syrian port? Or are you gonna have to track them till they get to Lebanese territoty and then attack them?

Probably the latter. 

69 The faster the Governor of Wis. fires the teachers the better.

And what about the permitorium. How much longer can Salazaar flout the law before someone goes to jail for contempt?

70 Posted by: nevergiveup at February 19, 2011 10:34 AM (7wmOW)

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant Gaza. If they go to Syria then of course they will simply track the weapons and destroy them in place.

Israel has fairly good intelligence in Syria, and excellent intelligence in Lebanon (weird, they use people not computers!), so the odds are good that they will know what is coming in. And...Israel will go into Lebanon to destroy anything that's big enough and accurate enough to be a real danger.

71
The fiscal battle in Wisconsin is being summed up thusly:

"Republican lawmakers in WI are trying to cut teachers' pensions and pay and take away teachers' collective bargaining rights. Some say the measures are aimed to strip unions of their power."

72 Smashing public sector unions is a critical move to shifting electoral demographics.

This would massively defund the Left and their campaign money-laundering (extorting from tax payers to pay union members fat benefits, confiscating from union members, then funding Democrat politicians to continue the whole process over again).

Begin choking off the redirection of tax money into (re)electing Democrats, and they will wither away...

Combine this with Republican advantage in redistricting this go 'round, and there's a real shot to marginalize the Left for decades to come.

73 Not so sure it is that easy. Once they are in a Syrian port and start unloading missiles for Hezbelah, your gonna attack them in a Syrian port? Or are you gonna have to track them till they get to Lebanese territoty and then attack them? Probably the latter. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at February 19, 2011 10:38 AM (9hSKh) Yeah I agree, but Hezbellah has been rearming for the last 4 years and Israel hasn't done all that much to stop them it seems? Or the US for that matter. It's so fucked up

74 Speaking of Faux (repeat)

And what does Fox's own Chad "the liberal commie" Pergram say about the CR passage (aided by AP)

Changes rammed through the House on Friday and Saturday would shield greenhouse-gas polluters and privately owned colleges from federal regulators, block a plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, and bar the government from shutting down mountaintop mines it believes will cause too much water pollution, siding with business groups over environmental activists and federal regulators in almost every instance.

75 I don't think that there is any need to board them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at February 19, 2011 10:32 AM (LH6ir)

Forget the boarding.  I think that North Korea showed that you can just torpedo ships and no one will care.

76
oh, and this:

"This teacher is not too happy that the Tea Party showed up in Madison. [Teacher speaks] 'The Tea Party is here for one reason: to provoke us into violence.'"

See? That's called covering your bases preemptively. Any violence happens, it is the fault of the Tea Party.

77 Their fearless leader said "12/5 million union members" stand with them yesterday.  If you give each of those union members a spouse and 2.5 kids who vote then they a still a huge minority, thank God, with a huge mouth, unafraid of having public tantrums and embarrassing themselves.  Kudlow called this "a european style socialist revolt".  That's exactly what it is.  Bunch of spoiled brats having a tantrum cause their cushy jobs might garner them less of our cash.  The private sector people have either lost their jobs or, in order to keep it, have had their salary reduced and they are paying their own benefits and retirement is self funded for the most part now.  You are an "at will" employee and you are damn thankful to have the job.  Friends with sibs are saying their sibs, right out of college are taking twenty to forty grand in NYC and they are happy to have it and happy to have a job.  Their sibs, my friends got sixty grand out of the box so they started out with a pay cut.

It's not medicare or medicade or social security bankrupting this country it's public sector workers and our legislators are held hostage by them cause their entire staffs are public sector workers.  So they give themselves great raises and benefits, they give their staff great raises and benefits and we, the serfs, the working stiff, who kept their jobs (no more 9 to 5, everyone working late and coming in early and some on weekends and everyone doesn't get the european style vacations that the public sector union folks get, people cobble together 5 days using monday holidays and keeping in touch with the office by email)

Ordinary Americans are quietly admitting everywhere that the age of entitlements for the public employee needs to be over, yesterday.

78 71 And their budget is getting cut, so there's that. 

79

Combine this with Republican advantage in redistricting this go 'round, and there's a real shot to marginalize the Left for decades to come.

After the Round Mound of Fiscal Soundness in NJ, this makes the second GOP governor to shake the foundations of the left. I remain hopeful, as I have pudding at the ready.

80 Posted by: nevergiveup at February 19, 2011 10:40 AM (7wmOW)

An Israeli general spoke last month about the next war in Lebanon. He said that the hands-off approach that got so many Israelis killed last time was not going to be in evidence. He spoke of "unrestricted warfare." Whether that is true is the big question, but Israel is aware of the problem and has excellent intelligence on the locations of those 45,000 rockets. Many of them will be destroyed before becoming operational.

81 I tutored for many years, and most of the time the problem with the kids was actually the teacher/curriculum.  They never taught the students the basics of anything.  They never taught the kids to concentrate on one thing.  They never pushed the kids to be proud of their best. How can a kid do fractions correctly if he doesn't know that 1 + 1 = 2?

The first two weeks of tutoring a new 'hopeless student' was spent retraining his brain.  We would do nothing but a puzzle for an hour.  Then we'd do nothing but color for an hour, etc. We'd do very basic, mundane, boring things until he followed my directions correctly, did it without bitching, did it to its completion, and was proud of his work. Every student was the same.  You had to teach him how to do one thing, concentrate on one thing, and be proud of that one thing.

Then, we'd do nothing but basic add/subtract problem (up to 20) and spelling of basic words (cat, dog, etc.).  No matter what the child's problems were currently (tutored 3-6 graders) their problems were based in the basics.

When I was a kid we had to do 100 basic math problem in 2 minutes.  We had to be able to spell/define (in our own words) basic words.  We had to do 'brain teasers' until we learned the value of common sense.  We had to learn to follow directions (tests that said read last page first, and then on the last page it said to answer every answer with a smiley face).

Kids aren't taught this stuff anymore.  It really pisses me off. 

82

Or the Israeli commando's can dress up like pirates and do it that way.

Posted by: CDR M at February 19, 2011 10:42 AM (5I8G0)

They could do it as women wrestlers!

83
Any NY'ers around?

When's the special election for Chris "Muscles" Lee's seat? And who's running?

84

"Yeah, but they're still outnumbered by the working stiffs who see them as the whiners they are."

Hell, just look at the comments section of the Union ball-licking articles that Yahoo's been putting up.  50k+ comments and the people telling the unions to fuck themselves are in the clear majority. 

85 Whether that is true is the big question, but Israel is aware of the problem and has excellent intelligence on the locations of those 45,000 rockets. Many of them will be destroyed before becoming operational. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at February 19, 2011 10:43 AM (LH6ir) Yeah I hear ya, but as someone with friends and family in Israel, lets just say I have my concerns.

86 Posted by: iknowtheleft at February 19, 2011 10:41 AM (N49h9)
Posted by: CDR M at February 19, 2011 10:42 AM (5I8G0)

Can you imagine the uproar? Hell, if the Iranian ships started lobbing shells into Tel Aviv, and the Israeli Navy sank it would result in an immediate security council resolution condemning the "warmongering Zionist entity."

87 They could do it as women wrestlers!

Don't cross the memes.

88 An Israeli general spoke last month about the next war in Lebanon. He said that the hands-off approach that got so many Israelis killed last time was not going to be in evidence. He spoke of "unrestricted warfare." Whether that is true is the big question, but Israel is aware of the problem and has excellent intelligence on the locations of those 45,000 rockets. Many of them will be destroyed before becoming operational.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at February 19, 2011 10:43 AM (LH6ir)

What Israel really needs to learn ... someday ... is that they need to take land in every single war or skirmish they have with arabs and never give it back.  Every single time.  Once arabs realize that they are going to keep losing land if they start shit (and not to be negotiated for anything - just lost to Israel) they will calm down pretty damn quickly.

89 88 This is very true.  I'm appalled by the lack of basic skills.  And no, the teachers are no longer taught how to teach it (and any sort of imaginative, outside the box style teaching is severely frowned upon, that's also a problem, and the lack of rapport between teachers and students sucks anymore, and...).

90
No service member teacher has to teach classes serve year after year in Detroit Iraq.

Fixed!

91 Or the Israeli commando's can dress up like pirates and do it that way.

I like this idea, .

Or the Israelis can sink both ships quietly with one of their submarines.  Either way, threat neutralized. 

92 Can you imagine the uproar? Hell, if the Iranian ships started lobbing shells into Tel Aviv, and the Israeli Navy sank it would result in an immediate security council resolution condemning the "warmongering Zionist entity." Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at February 19, 2011 10:46 AM (LH6ir) If an iranian warship lobed any shells into Tel Aviv, I assume, and certianly hope, that Israel would hit Tehran with a large salvo of Surface to Surface missiles.

93

50k+ comments and the people telling the unions to fuck themselves are in the clear majority.

_{*looks inside pants*}

Guys, be patient, the pudding's coming soon...

94 With all this union talk, didn't they just OK the unionizing of TSA workers?

95 Posted by: nevergiveup at February 19, 2011 10:45 AM (7wmOW)

We have a dear friend who owns a farm on the Golan, and who has kids in the army. And tons of family all over the rest of the country. I understand your concern, but as you know, they aren't Jews from the upper west side or Boca Raton. Israelis still know how to fight.

96 Don't cross the memes.

Posted by: peter venkman at February 19, 2011 10:46 AM (GTbGH)

Just wait until I squeeze teaching in, too!

97 What Israel really needs to learn ... someday ... is that they need to take land in every single war or skirmish they have with arabs and never give it back. Every single time. Once arabs realize that they are going to keep losing land if they start shit (and not to be negotiated for anything - just lost to Israel) they will calm down pretty damn quickly. Posted by: iknowtheleft at February 19, 2011 10:46 AM (N49h9) In a normal world, but I guess you never heard of the UN, the EU, or Obama

98 This is exactly how Bill Ayers and co, arranged it, there is no effective curriculum for classroom management, there is no focus on basic skills, politically correct pablum is valued over actual learning

99 The lefturds may regret picking a fight with Walker. As county supervisor for Milwaukee County, he put up with this shit every day for eight years. If anyone is battle hardened, it's him. That is why so many dems voted for his opponent in the Repub primary. And this is only round one. The budget comes up next.

100 We have a dear friend who owns a farm on the Golan, and who has kids in the army. And tons of family all over the rest of the country. I understand your concern, but as you know, they aren't Jews from the upper west side or Boca Raton. Israelis still know how to fight. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at February 19, 2011 10:49 AM (LH6ir) Oh I know that, but unfortunately they also know how to die. I'm far from a peacenic, I wouldn't be in the Navy if I was, but I am just not as anxious to always commit Israel Armed Forces ( or American) to War as some Americans ( not you ) seem to be.

101 What this thread needs is some more Bobby Goldsboro schmaltz!

102 ... and the Congressman went Wu.wu ...

U.S. Rep. David Wu’s behavior grew so erratic in the final weeks before his re-election last November that the Oregon Democrat’s closest political advisers staged two of what some of them termed “interventions” to urge him to seek psychiatric help, WW has learned.

103 Oh I know that, but unfortunately they also know how to die. I'm far from a peacenic, I wouldn't be in the Navy if I was, but I am just not as anxious to always commit Israel Armed Forces ( or American) to War as some Americans ( not you ) seem to be.

We do rely on the Israelis way too much.  They are a small nation and even limited wars like the 2006 Lebanon War take horrendous tolls on their manpower and their economy.

104 In a normal world, but I guess you never heard of the UN, the EU, or Obama

Posted by: nevergiveup at February 19, 2011 10:50 AM (7wmOW)

Israel needs to leave the UN.  Everyone should, since just the idea of an empowered, peerless, competitionless entity is as stupid and unnatural as it gets.  The UN can't even be justified on a theoretical basis.  If Israel left the UN, that organization wouldn't have much left to do.  It would likely lose other countries and finally disappear or be moved to some third world shithole where it belongs.

As far as the EU, Israel has only itself to blame for ever letting that insane quartet take part in anything.  Israel fucked up.  Big time.  That has to be corrected at some point.

WIth Obama ... what can I say?  Israel needs to follow Honduras' lead on dealing with the Indonesian.

Each of these moves is fraught with difficulties, but not doing them is far worse.

105 Everyone Must SacrificeÂ… Michelle Obama Enjoys a Ski Weekend in Vail

106

Egan and 25 or so colleagues commandeered a prime table; noisy feasting ensued, with Egan chowing down on prix fixe quail. But when the bill arrived, he refused to pay it.

It seems the bird wasn't big enough for him -- though he reportedly ate every bit, save for the bones and the beak.

Presently the cops were called and, with arrest imminent, Egan & Co. paid up -- but only after restaurant management shaved a hunk off the top.

107 Something tells me the EU might squawk, but they wouldn't do too much more than that if Israel decided to dunk those Iranians...it was all well and good when wild eyed Muslims were going after Americans and Jews, but now Europeans are starting to feel the heat, and the Med is their backyard swimmin' hole, the Suez is pretty important for them too.

108 Most bans in San Francisco are enacted by the Board of Supervisors, but come November, it sounds like voters will have the opportunity to jump on the ban wagon by deciding whether to ban male circumcision.

109 60 My sons wrestled. We were fortunate that they wrestled for a Catholic High School. The Diocese does not allow male/female wrestling. When other teams brought girls they had to forfeit but I loved the policy. It's creepy enough wrestling guys but making a teenage boy wrestle a girl is just too difficult for a myriad of reasons.

110 Alarm Bells - Radical Union Leader Appointed to Important Trade PostOn February 16, 2011,  Obama  announced the appointment of United Auto Workers president Bob King to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

As U.S. trade positions and data are always  key targets of foreign intelligence services, one would think that appointments to such a body would be subject to thorough scrutiny.

Either this was not done in King's case, or affiliation with far left organizations, is no longer considered any sort of danger to national security in today's Washington.

111 112 Everyone Must SacrificeÂ… Michelle Obama Enjoys a Ski Weekend in Vail

Posted by: momma at February 19, 2011 10:56 AM (penCf)

I didn't click on the link but this is campaigning among the gliteratti and garnering money for the win.

112

Everyone Must SacrificeÂ… Michelle Obama Enjoys a Ski Weekend in Rash of Yeti Siting Reported in Vail

Posted by: momma at February 19, 2011 10:56 AM (penCf)

FIFY

113 As Obama's chances for re-election fade, watch for Yeti sightings close to all the world's most exclusive resorts. You heard it here first.

114 Who needs alarm clocks when we have telemarketers? 8 am on the dot, rain and shine, even on weekends.

Grumble, grumble, grumble.

115 Putting on my conspiracy tinfoil hat, if King Barky starts to see that he's destined to lose in 2012 he will pick a fight. Iran is the most obvious choice as they have given plenty of provocation.
 
America is going to be pretty damn reluctant to change horses in the middle of a hot war.
 
/tinfoil mode off

116 Anachronda, are you on the no call list? For those charities that call, I make it my business to find out who they are and then call their headquarters on a weekday.Take me off your list. 

117 Posted by: momma at February 19, 2011 11:04 AM (penCf)

OMG it has been proven that women have less cancer if they are with circumcised men. 

some religions require circumcision in their males, are they finding a backdoor way to ban those religions?

also, is it because san francisco is a city of gays, are non circumsized men better than circumsized men?

118

"What Israel really needs to learn ... someday ... is that they need to take land in every single war or skirmish they have with arabs and never give it back.  Every single time.  Once arabs realize that they are going to keep losing land if they start shit (and not to be negotiated for anything - just lost to Israel) they will calm down pretty damn quickly."

Posted by: iknowtheleft at February 19, 2011 10:46 AM (N49h9)

Yeah, right, take that land populated by Muslims, and dilute Israel's population of Jews with more Muslims, and then put apartheid in place. That works for me.  

119 Estimates of 84 killed so far in Libyan protests...
 
None of them were union members.

120 27  And one of the most popular items sold are "cheese curds", which are just goblets of cheese.
-------
Mission Control calls those "squeaky cheese", but she's a Utahn and everyone knows they're nuts.

121 We are a biased community here at Ace, so don't ever sample the comments and try to interpret the sampling as correlating to voters en masse.

In '08, Wisconsin went 56 percent The One versus 42 for McSquish.  Two years later, Walker won with 54 percent of the vote.  It was not the runaway that Obammy got.

It is all about those margins, and as always, it is won in the middle.  The squishy independents, the ninnies, those discussed quite well in Ace's recent posting, are where things get decided as going one way or the other.

Obama, the left, and the unions, allied by the MBM and all the usual suspects, will drag this thing on for weeks, nibbling away every day with whatever new tactic in messaging is seen as working.

I don't see a happy ending. 

122 Well, looks like Borders is going tits up. Pity; I loved to spend time there. The company fell victim to eBooks; it never caught the wave of eReader technology. I hope Barnes & Noble does a better job. Thank God I difn't buy a Kobe reader from Borders instead of the Nook from B&N. I'd hate to see a totally Amazon dominated world, so I wish B&N luck. Still, I fear the bookshop is a thing of the past.

123 Barns and Nobles has something Borders never had, both a web site and brick and morter. Their brick and mortor stories have also partnered with Starbucks so you can buy a book and sit and do coffee in the same building.

124 Shit what bad typing.

125

I've tried to order something from B&N once in the last few years. We have a store here, so I have the membership dealie. They had something I wanted for less than Amazon, so I tried and ended up with a big problem with the membership. Finally, after a couple hours, I got the book ordered.

Few days later they canceled the order with no explanation.

Back to Amazon...

126 I have never had a problem with B&N but then again, we order from them often.

127

...you can buy a book and sit and do coffee in the same building.

But in my bathrobe, like I can with my Kindle, and my own coffee laced with bourbon, in my own house?  And scratching my balls patting the old lady on the rump whenever I feel like it?

I think not.

128 8 Anybody can walk into a damned K-12 classroom and teach.  It ain't rocket science.
Posted by: FUBAR
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Really.  How come it's so easy for anyone to home school their kids?  But if you send them to a public school, the "teacher" is required to have an Ed degree (useless) and who knows what else?

And how come computers ain't doing most of the work anyway?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry

A little conspiratorial. You can find some answers here.

129 135 ...you can buy a book and sit and do coffee in the same building." But in my bathrobe, like I can with my Kindle, and my own coffee laced with bourbon, in my own house?  And patting riding the old lady's rump whenever I feel like it? I think not. FTFY! Posted by: sherlock at February 19, 2011 12:12 PM (thr9V)

130 The Barnes & Noble Nook is an excellent eReader, and I haven't had any problems downloading eBooks with it.

131 I can haz a Starbuck franchise now?

132 118 112 Everyone Must SacrificeÂ… Michelle Obama Enjoys a Ski Weekend in Vail Posted by: momma at February 19, 2011 10:56 AM (penCf)

I would be mighty pissed if that thing interrupted my ski vacation. Even though I have never had a ski vacation.

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