Canine Body Language
On the teat
Something to keep in mind the next time you hear teachers unions complaining that classrooms are overcrowded due to underfunding:
Between fiscal year (FY) 1950 and FY 2009, the number of K-12 public school students in the United States increased by 96 percent, while the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) school employees grew 386 percent. Public schools grew staffing at a rate four times faster than the increase in students over that time period. Of those personnel, teachers’ numbers increased 252 percent, while administrators and other non-teaching staff experienced growth of 702 percent, more than seven times the increase in students.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
It’s Probably Nothing
Study Shows More Americans Are Raiding 401(k) Accounts To Pay Bills
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
Via email: “What sort of precedent is this going to set? In addition to the 117,000 acres, the Algonquin’s will also receive $300 million. This has been pushed through with no reporting (at least that I’ve seen). At the information session my brother attended, it was presented as a done deal.”
More information and dates of the remaining Public Information Sessions can be found at the Algonquin Land Claim website.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
‘This man is worrying me on the bus’
h/t meatriarchy
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Reader Tips
Tonight, we take enormous vicarious pleasure in the actions of Homer’s Father. Go, dad!
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
A compilation of train snow plows.
This Is Awkward
You’re ‘Standing Here Today Like a Modern Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’
In a mere 13 hours, Rand Paul accomplished something that McCain and Graham have failed to do in over 6 months of trying – get a straight answer from the Obama White House.
Scratch a Leftist
The decision to honor Ibrahim reflects poorly on the State Department, which is either incapable of doing the minimum amount of research required to find out who she is, or does not care that the secretary of state and First Lady are about to honor an anti-Semite who longs for violence against Americans. It’s understandable that now with Islamists having come to the fore after all the hope that the Egyptian uprising inspired, American policymakers are looking for the good guys, real liberal activists that deserve U.S. support. Samira Ibrahim is not one of them.
Surely They Meant “Arrested”
Baby Boomers
Now, be sure to blow up the candles…
David Cameron’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and Monty Python is the new Nostradamus;
Hundreds of pom-poms and knitted items have been strung from trees and lampposts to help reduce the fear of crime in an area of Leicester.
Don’t ever let them take your guns.
You’re ‘Standing Here Today Like a Modern Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’
Midnight Bump: #StandWithRand is trending #1 on Twitter worldwide, and has been #1 in the US for several hours. The Senate chamber, near empty when Paul began to speak, is filling with Senators as the political fallout becomes apparent to both sides of the aisle.
Update 2: After 12 hours, 52 minutes Rand Paul yields the floor, at 12:39am EST
The Rand Paul filibuster, live on C-SPAN. With guest appearances from Ted Cruz and others.
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Oh, Shiny Pony!
Reader Tips
It’s not lupus, it’s Hugh Laurie’s version of Buddy Bolden’s Blues.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Roll On
Sometime around ’92, I was aboard HMCS Saskatchewan and we were doing a refueling and resupply at sea. As we came up to the resupply ship, this was played over the loudspeakers.
Roll on, Tom, roll on.