The Kiplinger Business & Financial magazine has published a top ten list of “Worst College Majors for Your Career”:
One wonders if there’s a high correlation between “Angry Radical Leftists” and “Folks Who Don’t Get Math” ?
The Florida State Board of Education has passed a new strategic plan:
For reading at or above the grade level, the goals are as follows:
– 90 percent of Asian students
– 88 percent of White students
– 81 percent of Hispanic students
– 74 percent of Black students
For math at or above the grade level, the goals are as follows:
– 92 percent of Asian students
– 86 percent of White students
– 80 percent of Hispanic students
– 74 percent of Black students
Proponents bearing the soft prejudice of low expectations have won. Game over.
The Ontario Liberals aren’t necessarily the most competent of public officials but they are really good at one thing: Wasting taxpayers’ money … endlessly.
Energy Minister Chris Bentley will now be heading to a Legislative committee on contempt charges where he could face jail time if found guilty.
An acquaintance of mine on Facebook, a woman in San Francisco, posted a link to this article.
I politely asked her why it was wrong for Mitt Romney to tell the truth, namely that Spain’s spending is completely out of control. I also added:
While I was visiting Germany earlier this year, the Greeks were really angry at Angela Merkel because she told them that they were spending too much. They were and they are. Does that make it wrong for her to tell them the truth?
As a Canadian, I will openly tell you all, my American friends, that you’re spending way, way too much. Your debt has grown to astronomical levels. Every country in history that has had such high debt compared to what it produces, has suffered a terrible crash with devastating results afterwards. Does me saying this make me undiplomatic and insulting of you?
A quick question you need to ask yourself is this: If Barack Obama had said the same thing as Romney had, would you have felt the same way?
She responded thusly:
Obama hasn’t gotten us into this mess, which is the worst recession since the 1930’s, and based on the fact that much of the collapse revolved around lack of regulation in the housing loan business, there’s no quick fix. Once people started losing their homes, it has a domino effect. George W. Bush is the one who got us into two wars, gave tax cuts, and added medicare benefits without EVER including them in his budget. Obama got the hand he was dealt. And I can tell you that the Republicans have done absolutely EVERYTHING they can to stop every effort he makes to get the economy back on track.
Just curious, how would you respond to this?
Universities in Gaza have sent us the lists of what they need. To order books or to see if you might have them already, please check U.S. COMPILED WISH LIST or the U.K. COMPILED WISH LIST.
h/t Scott
“All teachers are heroes.” At least, that’s what we’re constantly told by pundits on the Left. That must go a long way to explaining this:
More here.
James Glanz has a fascinating & detailed story about what’s required to enable you to read these very words on SDA, to view a YouTube video, to send an e-mail, or to use Facebook or Twitter. It ain’t free!
The next time an environmentalist chastises you online about over consumption, don’t hesitate to refer them to this article and point out what hypocrites they are for being online … ever!
The NY Times ain’t happy. Greenland is about to strike it rich. Vast new mineral deposits have been discovered but here’s how Elizabeth Rosenthal, a medical doctor and environmental writer, described things:
But the rapid transition from a society of individual fishermen and hunters to an economy supported by corporate mining raises difficult questions. How would Greenland’s insular settlements tolerate an influx of thousands of Polish or Chinese construction workers, as has been proposed? Will mining despoil a natural environment essential to Greenland’s national identity — the whales and seals, the silent icy fjords, and mythic polar bears? Can fishermen reinvent themselves as miners?
Side note: If you can find it, I would highly recommend you watch Mine Your Own Business as it’s very apropos to how outsiders will likely go to great lengths to prevent Greenlanders from achieving prosperity through mining.
Find an anti-Semite.
Not to be outdone by the Durham Regional School District, the “educators” in Portland, Oregon are placing some of the blame of their failed system on … PB&J. Charles Adler discusses the issue with Matt Shelby, public information officer with Portland Public Schools.
The following is a recompilation of postings by ‘Stephanie F.’, a writer from New York State. Her comments were originally posted onto the private message boards at DennisMillerRadio.com and are being republished with permission.
There was a time when teachers might have been paradigms of self-sacrifice. Underpaid, underfed–look at Mr. Chips–they were often bachelors and “spinsters” because they couldn’t afford to raise a family on their dreary pay, and their loyalty to their “boys and girls” was akin to a parent to a child. (Even the monstrous Jean Brodie loved her charges.)
This is a part of folklore these days, and though it might have been true at one time, it’s no longer the case. Today, I see teachers as sacred cows who are milking the system, and are untouchable and protected by favorable media bias. (How many TV shows and movies still portray teachers as floundering economically, just a step above poor church mice!)
In reality, the benefits of teaching far outweigh anything that might be considered difficult or challenging. Each teacher’s workday is shorter than most other occupations–plus there is a lunch break and class breaks that fit into the abbreviated schedule. The entire summer is off, as well as every weekend, national holiday, and Jewish holiday (if it’s New York or New Jersey based). Additionally, there are spring breaks and winter breaks to coincide with Easter and Christmas (or whatever Wiccan ritual might also occur at that point).
No one is saying that teachers don’t have affection for their students, or work during their employment hours, but the notion of self-sacrifice and a hard-scrabble existence is bygone.
Teachers get paid a huge amount for their hours worked (even taking into consideration paper grading or class prep)–and then there are the benefits down the road: pensions and health care for life. Currently, community banks offer discounts on mortgages for teachers, and many stores run “teacher appreciation” discounts and sales. If a teacher races through his or her annual salary and is devoid of pay during the summer, then figure out a better savings plan. Or get a summer job. The compensation for the 9 months worked is so much higher than the average family’s 12-month salary. How can a teacher be devoid of cash come June and July? Not good arithmetic and division.
The notion of a teacher (or any other unionized public employee) being a public servant is long gone. There still is public servitude: but it’s us–the public–who are in service to these union workers.
Whether you’re for or against gay marriage, the next frontier of “progressivism” is just downright weird . . . isn’t it?!
The narrative of the “Progressive” Democrat Party in America appears to be that everyone should get a 4+ year degree at a college or university. They won’t offer any qualifiers beyond that because, after all, that would be “judging”. So, if a young person were to borrow $40,000 or $80,000 to obtain a Bachelor of Arts in sociology or anthropology or queer studies or women’s studies, that’s considered to be an “intelligent” choice by the intellectuals of the DNC. It doesn’t seem to bother them that such graduates often end up working as baristas at Starbucks. A noble job, to be sure, especially amongst the caffeine challenged citizenry but one wonders if the same people wouldn’t have been qualified for these positions prior to racking up such enormous debts?
Enter Mike Rowe. 4 years ago he wrote an open letter to Barack Obama about encouraging young people to open their eyes to the possibility of pursuing careers as skilled tradespeople. Skilled labourers endure much more physically demanding work than any white collar worker will ever experience but their contributions are absolutely necessary for every society to function. And they pay well. Often, very well.
Obama ignored him.
Now Rowe is trying again. He has sent a similar letter to Mitt Romney. And surprise, surprise, Romney read it. Let’s hope he acts on it if he’s elected president.
h/t Lance
P.S. Mike Rowe and Adam Carolla discuss the value & importance of hard work:
National Review Online has an interesting article up about how Romney schools Obama on science.
tldr; Romney wins. But don’t take my word for it, read what our non-conservative friends at Slate have to say.
But, then, like I said earlier, more special needs than Harvard grad.
Actor Jason Biggs is very unhappy with everyone who disagrees with him politically and has decided to repeatedly lash out against them publicly with some overt sexual fantasies. He also happens to provide the voice for a character in a children’s cartoon. Michelle Malkin’s Twitchy.com has more.
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When did peculiarly named progressives decide they must hunker down in a defensive crouch to fend off an unfamiliar future? Hoover Dam ended the lower Colorado River as we knew it. Rockefeller Center ended midtown Manhattan as we knew it. Desegregation ended the South as we knew it. The Internet ended . . . you get the point. In their baleful resistance to any policy not “as we know it,” progressives resemble a crotchety 19th-century vicar in a remote English village banging his cane on the floor to express irritation about rumors of a newfangled, noisy and smoky something called a railroad.
Given Democrats’ current peevishness, it is fitting that Sandra Fluke will address their convention. In February she, you might not remember, became for progressives the victim du jour of America’s insufficient progress. She was a 30-year-old-student — almost half way to 62, when elderly Americans can begin collecting Social Security — unhappy about being unable to get someone else (Georgetown University, a Catholic institution) to pay for her contraceptives.
Say this for Democrats: They recognize a symbol of their sensibility when they see one.
Bonus: A clear, succinct analysis of America’s financial problems by Dr. Ian Lee.
The ongoing meme of the Democrat Party is that their political opponents are constantly waging a war on women. The inference is that Democrats, in contrast, are supportive of women.
It’s therefore confusing to read this story:
Five women who worked for Vito J. Lopez, the assemblyman at the center of a broadening sexual harassment scandal, described in interviews an atmosphere of sexual pressure and crude language in his office, with frequent unwanted advances by him and others, requests for provocative dress, personal questions about their boyfriends and fears of reprisals if they complained.
By their accounts, Mr. Lopez, 71, a Brooklyn Democrat, told some women not to wear bras to work. He requested they wear short skirts and high heels. He gave them cash to buy jewelry and complimented them on their figures, giving special attention to those he called “well endowed.”