During the Bush years, dissent was the highest form of patriotism.
Not anymore.
Surely it was obvious that eventually dissent would become the highest form of racism.
Brian Dunn in an email to Instapundit
If President Obama stepped up to the mic at his next press conference and said quite calmly and plainly “Kill Whitey”, you and I would be called the racists.
Tis a lovely world we’ve let them create, tain it?
Washington State got rid of a learning assessment test called the WASL this year.
You can read more about the WASL here, but to make a long story short, the majority of kids dislike taking tests, the majority of parents dislike hearing their kids whine about having to take a test and finding out that little Johnny and Suzy aren’t learning, and the majority of teachers don’t like having their competency as an instructor questioned, so the test went buh-bye with the arrival of the new state schools Superintendent.
They should have run a check before doing that
It may be the most hated test in Washington history. But the Washington Assessment of Student Learning also has contributed to student achievement and has helped teachers focus on state education goals, according to a study released Wednesday.
An in-depth exploration of six school districts across the state by the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Education Policy found that the WASL and the standards on which the statewide test is based have had a significant impact on what is being taught in Washington classrooms.
Teachers think the extended-response format of the WASL has helped students do a better job of explaining the thinking behind their answers and become better writers, the study says. They do not believe the WASL has stifled their creativity.
The teachers also credit the WASL with bringing extra help to students who may have been ignored in the past, like those learning English for the first time and kids in special education.
Many of the study participants would like to see state education officials improve the WASL rather than replace it with a new test, as schools Superintendent Randy Dorn has promised to do.
Most pro-teacher’s union types will rail against anything coming out that says anything positive about anything they oppose. Yes, the CEP leans right most of the time, but they are not being the least bit unreasonable here.
In the Obamanation, success will be punished if it doesn’t make Glorious Leader (or his campaign financiers) look good.
Or should it be “Work Weak”.
Portland, Or is seeing some of those Stimulus jobs take effect.
And shortly thereafter seeing them stop taking effect.
How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy? In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months.
But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, or about one work week. After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data. By the state’s accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours, three days, three months, or a lifetime.
And you were wondering how the Obama Administration was going to get to that “Save or Create” number? They’re going to create the same job 200 times for a week at a time.
The only fuzzy part of that math is the mold it has growing on it.
Found via SayAnything
Well, not so much really.
Woman in store with a pizza cutter. Slashing murders do not ensue.
Because she was too busy digging through her wallet for the ID the clerk was demanding from her before she could take it out of the store.
A shopper was astonished when staff at Marks and Spencer demanded that she prove her age before she bought a pizza-cutter.
Jenny Palmer, 28, was asked for her ID at the checkout after she went to the retailer’s Derby store to buy the £1.50 item.
“I’m only two years off my 30th birthday and hardly look like I’m going to go out and physically harm someone,” she said.
“I told the checkout woman I was buying it because I was moving into a new house, but she said her screen was telling her to ask for ID. I think she could have used some common sense. I can’t believe I had to go through all of that just to buy a pizza-cutter, of all things.”
M&S insisted its employee was right to demand proof of age from Ms Palmer under the ‘Challenge 25’ policy.
Staff are required to ask for identification from any customer who tries to buy alcohol or a bladed item and appears younger than 25.
Once again, I’m astonished that the British Isles haven’t fallen beneath the waves un the weight of all that stupid.
Found via RTftLC
The MSM is reporting on the beer selections for the picnic table gathering between President Obama, Professor Gates and Officer Crowley:
Obama will have a Bud Light
Gates will have a Red Stripe
Crowley will have a selection from the Blue Moon Brewing Company (probably their Honey Moon Summer Ale)
Now I know with absolute certainty that the only trustworthy one in the bunch is Officer Crowley. BHO will be drinking the liquid from The Devil’s Own Kidney Machine and Gates will be swilling Jamaican greywater.
Personally, just so the NYT would have to print it, if I were Crowley, I’d ask for an Arrogant Bastard Ale (probably the Oaked selection, since Obama is picking up the tab).
Remember not so long ago when the left declared that wanting to have a President who you wanted to have a beer with was a stupid idea?
Haven’t checked in with the Specialty Pistols board in about a year. Here’s a nice pic of my friend Slim demonstrating how not to get scope cut.
From the Specialty Pistols web forums, this is member 7STDUBBERU’s .50 Alaskan (!!) Encore pistol.
As drool-worthy as the handgun may be, I linked the pic mainly because of the background — it’s “about 2/3” of his backyard 3D course (no those are not live deer).
Kewel! I want a backyard 3D course….
A Lovecraftian tale for the modern age: a noted Provincetown writer dies. His last work-in-progress: a multivolume investigation of the Personified Nature of Modern Evil. His desk is preserved as he left it, untouched. In the middle of the desk, a copy of an obscure book, not known to the public (#253,253 on Amazon). The book’s very title lures the unwary within its pages by the promise of explaining that Evil Personified, much like the dangerous secrets of the legendary Necronomicon. Is Ron Rosenbaum the new Abdul Alhazred? It’s said the horrid truths of this tome utterly demolish the very foundation of the writer’s multivolume effort. Did they demolish his reason, too — or, 
perhaps, his very life?!!!
The “revolution” will not be televised. Because it will be bloodier than even the “revolutionaries” thought it could be. Are you ready?
Indulge me in some historical determinism. We, the peasants, are failing to rise up and embrace the need to change. We will not choose to give up modern life, with all its polluting seductions. Our intransigent refusal to choose green will be met by a new militancy from those who believe we must be saved from ourselves. Ultra-green states cannot arise without some form of forced switch to autocracy; the dictatorship of the environmentalists.
The old two-cow analogy is a useful one. You have two cows. The communist steals both your cows, and may give you some milk, if you’re not bourgeois scum. The fascist lets you keep the cows but seizes the milk and sells it back to you. Today’s Green says you can keep the cows, but should choose to give them up as their methane-rich farts will unleash hell at some unspecified point in the future. You say, sod it, I’ll keep my cows thanks. Tomorrow’s green, the Bolshevik green, shoots the cows and makes you forage for nuts.
Antonia Senior – Blunt warning about greens under the bed
Best to cut off their nuts now so as to make them unable to take yours.
Found via Some Poor Schmuck
