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Archive for January, 2006Boo-hoo! The police state is here! Hat tip to His Highness.
Major melt-down on Dilly Kooks:
Well, well, and why am I not surprised?
Moonbat challengers in red states? Woo-hoo, what fun!
It’s an evil corporatist rethuglican CONSPIRACY! And speaking of evil conspiracies:
Can’t you hear the organ music?
Methinks this one is still swilling the vodka. And speaking of:
Kind of hard to do if you’re spending all your money on vodka, then swilling it night and day.
Oh no! Not that! Anything but that! And the moonbats are going to be out in full force tonight, too, with their lethal pots and pans!
It must suck to be a liberal today.
Heh. (The moonbats are losing it at Dummycratic Underwear, too.) Linked to Don Surber. What is this, a kinder, gentler 24? This week we had a whole hour go by, and Jack didn’t kill any terrorists — and if that’s not bad enough, he and Audrey “shared their feelings” (though thankfully, that was a short scene). And then there’s the leftist drivel that got slipped in — the mole on President Bed-Wetter’s staff was in on the nerve gas thing, so the terrorists would set it off in Central Asia and then we could go in and take their oil. Hey, bozos: how many leftists do you think watch 24, anyway? What planet are you on? And speaking of moles and writers, these folks think they can’t write a season without a big mole somewhere, probably in CTU. Yes, we had Chloe’s boytoy, and the slimeball in President Bed-Wetter’s staff, though neither one was really a bad guy (staff guy was just an evil neocon trying to get blood for oil, and he hired boytoy to spy on CTU). So that leaves the question: Who is going to be the big mole revealed at the end of the season? My first pick is Audrey, Jack’s squeeze from last season: 
Second is Agent Hobbit: 
But what would really be cool would be First Lady Bed-Wetter as the mole: 
They’ve established her as a sympathetic character, and a friend of Palmer’s (right there we have a problem). She’s supposedly unstable and medicated. Who would suspect her of helping the terrorists? Since I’ve already done the-glass-is-half-empty, I thought I’d balance it with something a bit more cheerful. The leftists are in major melt-down — leftists being the Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, MoveOn and Atrios loons who have been driving the Democratic agenda since before the 2004 elections. From the howling they’re doing now, it looks like one of two things could happen:
The first would obviously be good for us. It would be Ralph Nader all over again — though the left was far less nuts, far less vocal, and far less aggressive before the 2000 elections than they are now. And now, of course, they have George Soros and his money. If they got Soros to throw his weight behind third-party candidates, Dim chances in the elections go through the floor. The second would be almost as good — and it’s already happening (for examples, see here and here). The further to the left and the more nutty the Demorats get, the more American voters they’ll lose. If they keep stepping up the rhetoric and the obstructionism, they’ll hang themselves. What I don’t see is the leftists howling for a few days, then going back to business as usual. And that’s a Good Thing. Is it because of all his idiotic statements? Why, of course not!
Check it out on Drudge. Hat tip to Maggie’s Farm.
The DU moonbats are losing it. Here are some of the nuttiest threads over there:
I am not responsible for any side pain, hernia or any injury due to laughter.
The thing about TiVO is that it really points up the difference between quality in television shows. First, I watched 24. Then, I watched Surface. What about this show isn’t crap? First, we have the cheesy “critters” that don’t even come up to the standards of bad claymation. Then we have surely some of the worst acting on TV. Then there are the characters: a “violence never solved anything!” heroine matched with a good old boy insurance agent, a fourteen year-old kid who’s been bitten by one of the critters and is turning into … well, we don’t know yet, but he gets those Rosemary’s Baby eyes and his hands get slimy, and the critters seem to want to cuddle with him (while they’re eating everybody else). Then we have a scientist in his 100s (we don’t know if he’s really still alive or not) and another guy who seems to be in his 100s, though he doesn’t look a day older than he did sixty years ago. The whole thing is like the worst of the X-Files: a storyline that punches holes rather than tying up ends, and the sense that the writers have no overall plot or story, but are just coming up with storylines on the fly every week. Next week is the supposed conclusion, yet there’s 18 different subplots they have to explain. If you’re going to conclude next week, you really should be tying these things together and explaining them now, guys. Surface is the stinker of the season. It couldn’t get any worse than this. No way. Even Prey was better than this.
God knows I don’t want to dampen anyone’s enthusiasm, and we have every right to be enthusiastic now that Alito will be confirmed today. But. First, we should wait and see how Alito — and Roberts — rule over the next year or so. One or both could turn out to be another O’Connor or Kennedy and move to the left. Second, even if neither does move to the left, we still have a 5-4 liberal SCOTUS. Certainly, that’s better than a 6-3 court, but Kennedy will be the swing vote, and Kennedy is more liberal than O’Connor. We need one more judge. There have been rumors flying around that Ginsburg is thinking about retiring. I doubt that. She and Breyer are the two most ideological liberals on the court, and I doubt either would retire during a Republican administration. I have also heard a rumor that Stevens may retire, which strikes me as slightly more probable. It’s true that the addition of two stellar jurists, Roberts and Alito, to the constructionist wing of the court could affect the swing vote. However, that swing vote is now Kennedy, who is more inclined to vote with the liberals than O’Connor was. So we’ll just have to wait and see.
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The only adjective that can adequately describe this news from Los Angeles:
Reading down, I see this — which doesn’t surprise me in the least:
I can tell you that “college-level” doesn’t mean what you think it does. Actual college-level math is reserved for math and science majors; non-majors take watered-down, idiotized courses. “Calculus for non-majors” often gets to the concept of derivatives at the end of the semester. Worse, math departments often reserve their most dumbed-down math courses for education majors. Certainly, passing students on is a problem — but why are these education majors allowed to get a degree? Republican and Democratic senators on a 72-25 vote agreed to end their debate Tomorrow: Judge Alito. Hat tip to GOP Bloggers.
The Times reports on a study concluding that English children are less intelligent at age 11 than they were 30 years ago.
I wonder why … Hat tip to Joanne Jacobs Pupils in an East London school have been banned from raising their hands to answer questions in class because their teachers fear it leads to feelings of victimization. Hat tip to Stuck on Stupid.
Mark Steyn on the Canadian election results:
Read the whole thing. Excellent.
If you’re eating or drinking, swallow first. Okay. Cindy Sheehan has decided that DiFi is too right-wing, so she’s going to run against her in the election. I’ll wait for you to stop laughing. Better now? The ludicrous thing here is that she might win, given that she’ll be running in the Peoples’ Republik of Kalifornia. But that would be a good thing. That would encourage the Democrats to move even further to the left, and alienate even more voters. They’re already the Abbey Hoffman party — a significant shift to the left can only make them even more irrelevant. Hat tip Michelle Malkin. I’ve removed several graphics from the sidebar, graphics that often took forever to load. The site should pop up faster now.
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Only if you have a strong stomach. You have been warned. Do these people who want to ban books from schools ever read them first? There is an anonymous petition to have To Kill a Mockingbird banned from Tennessee schools — because:
Mockingbird promotes white supremacy? In what alternate universe? Linked to Bob Krumm and MooreThoughts. Technorati: illiteracy, censorship
The menu (and I seriously hope this isn’t a problem, because people here aren’t very adventurous eaters): Sopa Azteca (Tortilla Soup) 1 qt chicken stock or water
Enchiladas Verdes 8 tomatillos, husked
Black Beans and Chorizo 6 oz. chorizo
Especie Mixteca (Mixtec Rice) 1 small can whole tomatoes, drained
*In Mexico, they prefer true cinnamon (canela) to the cassia bark we get here. If you can find true cinnamon, use it (good luck); if not, our cinnamon (cassia, not really cinnamon) is fine. There is another problem, similar to abstraction: synthesis. Due to the predominance of discrete, linear curricula, and our tendency to construct exams in that same, discrete, linear way, we are giving students a free ride — and in a sense, cheating them in the process. Let me explain. We’ll say that in our decision sciences class, we are doing the unit on optimizations (just for the sake of consistency with my earlier post on abstraction). By having a unit on optimizations, we are telling students that the way to solve this problem we are presenting in class is by running an optimization (as opposed, say, to a simulation). Then on the exam, there is the big bold header that says “Optimization” right above the problem (that, of course, has little to do with curriculum or linearity or even test design, and more to do with organization habits). We are telling them what tool to use — but in the real world, they will have to choose their own tools. Here’s what happens. You give them an integrated project due at the end of the semester, one in which they have to analyze the situation, identify the various component problems, decide which tools to use to solve those problems, and at the end, write up their analysis and turn it in. The students who do reasonably well in your discrete, linear class and on those discrete, linear exams come close to jumping off the roof of the dormitory from trying to tackle that integrated project. You have not broken the situation up into discrete problems for them, and you have not told them which tool they will need to tackle which problem. You’ve cast them into the deep end of the pool and told them to swim or drown. Understand, I’m not criticizing integrated projects — I believe they are the most useful pedagogical tool we have. I also understand why curricula tend to be discrete and linear. But integrated projects are meant to more accurately reflect real-world problem solving, which is more recursive than linear. When doing teacher training, I noticed that new teachers rarely, if ever, refer back to what they’ve already done in the class. They tend to approach each class as if it were independent of all others, and often fail to ground the topic in the context of what they have done previously. This, of course, disconnects each topic from the others and discourages students from synthesizing the information. Another thing that could be useful is to construct curricula that are linear, but not discrete — that is, present information that builds (and depends) upon previously presented information. In some courses, this is mandatory. Consider statistics, where one test is derived from another which in turn is derived from standard deviations and means, and so forth. You cannot present statistics in a discrete fashion. You cannot treat each class independently of all others. But in courses that teach tools that are functionally and not formally related, you need to connect the dots for students. You need to teach them not only what a simulation is and how to set one up and interpret the results; you need to teach them in what kind of situation you would want to use a simulation, and why — and this needs to be presented as crucial, and not incidental, information. Students need the context and the understanding so they won’t jump off the roof of the dorm when you give them that integrated project. Technorati: education, curriculum
This morning’s new blog find is Delmarva Dealings, that pointed me to this NH Insider interview with George Allen. George is my man. Somebody tell him to start getting out there.
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Have you tried veganism and found it isn’t wacky enough? Take the next step: become a freegan. Whereas vegans boycott anything produced from animal sources or that involves testing on animals, a freegan — realizing that all products are steeped in the sins of capitalist oppression — boycotts everything. It’s interesting that if you do a technorati tag search on Dummycratic Underwear, you get this list of related tags: Related tags: Insanity, Islam, cair, Moonbats, communist party, Ted Kennedy, Wicca.
It’s not online yet that I can find (Fox is bad at getting their polls online); I saw this on TV.
Go read this. Now. are the other rational Democrats like this one?
From Dummycratic Underwear, by way of DUmmie FUnnies:
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