Excellent blog entry Draginol. Ive seen alot of these left vs right or right answer this or left answer that, blah blah blah blogs (Ive done similar)... I think someone needs to think through a little something about propoganda and blog about it from a neutral perspective. We all use propoganda to an extent. Understanding it better might help everyone take a clearer look at this Novembers choices. Maybe. Maybe not.
No advice here, just brain storming (which Im certain youve done plenty in the past 87 days)... First, good luck on the job. **Crosses fingers** What kind of articles do you write professionally? Have you considerd branching out into other areas? I took some side work after Wal*Mart (all of this was better than unemployment...), completely out of my area of expertise - instruction manuals. The next time you try to try to understand one of those things and end up confused, blame m
I design telcomm tower sites for a living. AT&T, T-Mobile, Nextel, Alamosa and Sprint are my clients. It's time to start a new quarter, so things are crazy. I plan to be pretty much glued to my computer monitor for the next few weeks as work pours in. Thanks goodness for home coffee grinders, high speed broadband and a killer .mp3 collection. Here's how it goes down every 3 months... First, the work is never whats actually contracted. No, that would be TOO EASY. Minor changes in a singl
SHHH! NO TALKING ABOUT BREAKFAST! (j/j)
I understand where the concept of the IEP came from (roots actually go back to the late 70's and 80' lawsuits against schools, eventually came to pass as IDEA and ADA), good call on that. Implementing our son on a personal IEP was one of the many alternatives available to us, it was NCLB that gave us the funding to help determine what our child needed and the NCLB that motivated the teachers to work with us. I know this because they kept saying, "We have to do this, its law", amongst other
It's been a few weeks since I've joined at JU, and I just wanted to thank everyone for the great responses to my articles. It seems that in under a month I've been able to hit the top 100, and I attribute that entirely to YOU. There are a few things I should probably admit to in case you haven't picked up on them yet... 1.) SOMETIMES I SAY OUTRAGEOUS THINGS. Thats right, just to cause controversy. Notice how abortion is a hot topic the past 24 hours? Thats me basically throwing out
Did you see all that aerosal? Clouds of poison being shot into the ozone...it makes me cringe to think thats only from one guy!
Proof that John Edwards causes global warming! Don't destroy our childrens future - vote Bush/ Cheney in November!
Nice try Blogic, you offer NO PROOF that President Bush has caused this reversal in abortion rates. You just sling mud. Perhaps people don't want to raise children in a post 09/11 world? Perhaps the fear of Kerry being elected has caused the abortion rate to rise? After all, I have as much proof of this as what youve offered us. Here's my situation: I adopted knowing full well that after 8 years of a democrat chances were good that the country would once again have a chanc
Thinking about how something might work is nice, but it cant beat real life experience. You guys arm chair the NCLB act as it is implemented to death, looking for whatever you "THINK" might be an issue. It works for real people, with real students, daily across this country. My son is PROOF of that.
sandy2: The law is wrong. The law can tell me the sky is made of molten lava, it doesn't make it so. My wife has had three children. Obviously whoever made the law hasn't felt a child interact at 5 months, or twins kicking each other in their mothers womb. Here's what we should do, let's pass a law that the enviroment is made of ice cream, because laws are always true. That way, everyone in the world could have ice cream whenever they wanted.
Let's get together and make murder legal. After all, when someone takes a human life, they are only making a choice for themselves. Shouldn't that be a persons right? Think of the man robbing a store, shooting a clerk dead. The poor robber needed the money because of Americas economic unfairness. That robber is entitled to the same nice things other people have, and should not have to worry that someone else might turn them in. Feel for the woman that murders her cheating husband. He
A question for a fellow blogger: Shouldnt you be teaching school today? I know Id be a little irritated if my childrens teachers were browsing online forums... Still, your list is WRONG. Research is key to educating. Republican robot my shiny ass.
No, that actually made no sense at all. Trolling...
Im not a Kerry supporter, but this is ALL he has actually gotten passed, verified by a list I have of Kerry's voting record pulled from .gov info and Factcheck.org: 5 items of legislation that Kerry authored: * S.791: Authorizes $53 million over four years to provide grants to woman-owned small businesses. (1999) * S.1206: Names a federal building in Waltham, Massachusetts after Frederick C. Murphy, who was killed in action during World War II and aw
I received this email, and after checking out it's claims it's pretty much dead on. Would a Democrat care to explain how this works? " I'm Confused I'm trying to get all this political stuff straightened out in my head so I'll know how to vote come November. Right now, we have one guy saying one thing. Then the other guy says something else. Who to believe? Lemme see; have I got this straight? Clinton awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Yugoslavia -
One of the reasons my wife and I know so much about NCLB is because we are involved in all of our childrens educations. We still go over homework every night, read to each child daily. If one of our children needed to be held back, they would be. Notice in my previous reply I said that our childs needs are met without disrupting other students or the classroom. We do NOT want our child given a free pass, or to cause problems for other children. This is what I know from reading a ton of do
I've received an interesting response to this blog entry. Thanks to everyone that has given their time and safety to defend my freedom and the freedom of my children. Each of you has my love and respect, and my prayers and well wishes go out to your safety and your families well being.
Another reply to another blogger that believes No Child Left Behind doesn't work... "You obviously haven't had No Child Left Behind influence your childs education like I have. My son is 8 years old, and was born with ADHD and functional autism. We always knew he was an intelligent child, but a little different than others. This became extremely apparent in Kindergarten as our son started failing every piece of work he did, despite constant tutoring from my wife
alison watkins: You obviously haven't had No Child Left Behind influence your childs education like I have. My son is 8 years old, and was born with ADHD and functional autism. We always knew he was an intelligent child, but a little different than others. This became extremely apparent in Kindergarten as our son started failing every piece of work he did, despite constant tutoring from my wife and I (usually 3-4 hours a night, 6 days a week). Our son taught himself his ABC's when he was
Myrrander: Think about what you just wrote. "we punish a mass murderer by bombing the very people he used to murder" First, lets start with "we punish". Who said we were punishing the Iraqi people? In any liberation there are casualties. Its horrible and one of the many reasons why war is terrible. Yet, there is no alternative in war. The USA has the most precise missle systems in the world, created through years of research because we want to reduce the inevitable inno
Think Saddam was contained? Think he wasn't a terrorist? Do you think, in any fashion, that the Iraq war was a mistake? More Iraqi mass graves "The head of the unit, Greg Kehoe, who has seen more than his share of horrors in places such as the Balkans, couldn’t believe what he saw. "I’ve never seen women and children executed, defenseless people executed in this fashion," he said. "I mean, you look at a y
My voter registration card is valid. I used it 4 years ago to add my vote. And yet, not a single county shows me as registered. Nobody seems to know what to tell me to correct this problem, and honestly I'm getting a little tired talking to these people. My wife, who was registered in the same county as I was four years ago, went with me to vote. We signed in side by side and cursed Al Gores name under our breath as we entered our booths. Now, her registration has been updated to our new county.
brendan: You're wrong.
In Draginols latest blog entry, DesktopX for games, supporting skinners, and more , he discusses a new skinning strategy to produce quality skins for Windowblinds. "the authors of the top 10 new (non-ported) WindowBlinds skins will start getting a percentage of WinCustomize subscription sales", is an exciting step forward for Stardock, encouraging quality skins and once again showing how they support the community. Its so exciting, even I wa
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