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This is a must read. Francisco.
There’s a man named Francisco in my Speech class. He barely speaks English, he’s about 5′7”, and around 50 years old. Francisco came here from Mexico 3 years ago and sits exactly two seats behind me to my right.
A few weeks ago, our speech instructor asked each of us to […]

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I found this on Ohioans for Concealed Carry:
Indiana to Illinois: Don’t pass CCW (humor)
Date: Wednesday, March 14 @ 23:32:16 EST
Topic: Pro-CCW
This is copied from the Daily Illini, an Illinois newspaper:
To the editor:
As your neighbor, I strongly encourage Illinois not to allow the concealed carry of handguns. You see, we allow concealed carry here in […]

Technorati: abortion, planned parenthood, moobats, wackjobs, nutcases
No comment. Just look here. Hat tip My Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.

House Speaker Boehner responded to the Democrats’ “national security” platform (stop snorting!) and really, what’s left to say?

A landmark for the last 107 years the Loop, The Berghoff, closed on the last day of February. I understand the beer is still being made and sold, but the restaurant is no more (whimper). Click on the image to go to the Berghoff Memorial Blog.

Technorati: toftrees, state college, penn state, steak house, down under steak house
We went to the Down Under Steak House at Toftrees (that’s the ritzy golf resort here) last night. And no, it isn’t a steakhouse. I’m not sure what’s going on here, if it’s a local, state, or east coast block, […]

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Technorati: moonbats, wackjobs, nutcases, Democrats, liberals, idiotarans, nasdaq, stock exchange, economy
It’s all Bush’s fault!
Stocks shrugged off Tuesday’s interest-rate increase like yesterday’s bad news, led by a powerful rally in the technology sector that lifted the Nasdaq Composite Index to a five year high.

Technorati: protectionism, dairy states, milk, liberals, paleoconservatives
Well folks, this is what happens when you have protectionists, like Democrats and paleocons (think Pat Buchanan) pushing legislation:
Giant Eagle customers who have been filling their gasoline tanks by filling themselves with milk will not have that option beginning Saturday.
The region’s dominant grocer no longer […]

Technorati: liberals, Democrats, mandate, moonbats, wackjobs, nutcases
You’ve heard liberals — some of them, like Pelosi and Reid, elected officials — claim that Bush has no mandate because he didn’t get enough of the popular vote. Indeed, Pelosi, Reid, Leahy and the other Democrats were calling for Bush to “unify the […]

Technorati: leftists, pacifists, moonbats, wackjobs, nutcases, liberals, Democrats, idiots, morons, idiotarians
For the past several weeks Mr. Abbasi has been addressing crowds of Guard and Baseej Mustadafin (Mobilization of the Dispossessed) officers in Tehran with a simple theme: The U.S. does not have the stomach for a […]

Technorati: Democrats, Republicans, sex
Transcript here. Hilarious.
She has a line in here about Republicans. They understand that foreplay is about sex and lots of it. Democrats are too busy checking if the condoms you keep by the bed are good for the environment.

Yesterday’s My Word:
Why we’re so different than France, part umpteen.
We have a massive demonstration on Saturday in Los Angeles. Half a million people protest.
First, it’s peaceful.
Second, it’s about working. The half million illegals and their supporters do work and want to work. They want legal status.
You can argue about whether we should or shouldn’t do […]

Technorati: steak, food, bloomington, indiana university, penn state, state college, steakhouses, restaurants
Bloomington is not a great restaurant town (most college towns aren’t), for two reasons. One, it’s full of people who would order and eat dogfood at a restaurant if it was cheap; and two, it’s full of […]

Technorati: talk radio, pakistan
The next time you hear liberals complaining about talk radio, send them here, then ask them how bad they think it is here.

Technorati: illegal immigration, illegal immigrants, deportation
I have so far kept away from this issue, because both sides are about half wrong. However, I’d like to ask the proponents of deporting illegal immigrants one question, simply because I have yet to see anybody bring it up.
Currently, each deportation takes about six months of court […]

Technorati: education, mathematics, university, high school, nea, aft
Yes, I posted this some time ago. However, the questions are not rhetorical. I really would like an answer from my colleagues in the primary and secondary school system — particularly those in the education union establishment. And I’d like an answer because […]

Technorati: illegal immigration, crime, criminals, moonbats, wackjobs, nutcases, Democrats, liberals, leftists, progressives, idiots, morons, idiotarians
Rarely do I link to, or comment on, a comment thread on another blog. But I’m going to do it today. On an immigration article by Gay Patriot, we […]

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You should head over to Dummycratic Underwear, then, and read through this thread, full of liberal tolerance and sensitivity. It will warm your heart, really it will. It’s not unlike being at one of those “teacher […]

Today’s weirdest story comes to me by way of Blue State Conservatives. It seems that Right to Life Michigan is withdrawing their support of a candidate because, well, he’s just too right-to-life:

This is the best news I’ve seen in a long time, at least from the Antique Media. Let’s hope states across the nation start passing laws like this (hat tip to The Skipper):

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Welcome to the Carnival of Education — and, oddly enough, happy birthday to me! There are some really good, thought provoking articles this week. I hope you enjoy!
Our first topic? Curriculum, course content, and pedagogy.
I love reading about what other people are doing in their classes, no matter what the topic. This week, […]

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Earlier, I mentioned that rubrics are a useful tool for dealing with grade inflation, specifically, the “I barely satisfied the requiremens so I deserve an A” type of grade inflation.
Where did this idea start, that barely satisfying the minimum requirements entitles one to an A? That is, by definition, C work. […]

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When liberals aren’t whining and moaning and wringing their hands and being afraid, they’re slandering conservatives with those oh-so-chic nasty names, like fascist or Nazi. The one thing liberals never do […]

Technorati: moonbats, wackjobs, nutcases, liberals, leftists, progressives, Democrats, idiots, morons, idiotarians
Beth at Blue Star Chronicles makes some excellent points in this piece that questions why liberals are illogical. But the piece misdiagnoses — or understates — the problem when she gives examples (emphases and additional commentary […]

Yesterday, Mr. Miller the math teacher asked me (on his blog) if I had taken into account standard of living differences in my pre-proto-preliminary analysis of per pupil spending and reading and math proficiency. I had not, because I didn’t have the data. I still don’t. However, I did find something that gave intriguing results.
I […]

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Technorati: war crimes, treason, sedition, moussaoui, terrorism
Obviously, Moussaoui isn’t very bright, since at his sentencing trial he not only insisted on testifying, but testified that he was supposed to fly a plane into the White House. After the blunder of the prosecution a couple of weeks ago, that’s welcome news.
However, there’s […]

Technorati: bed-wetters, moonbats, idiotarians, leftists, liberals, wackjobs, nutcases, hippies, Goths, dreadlocks
Since all these geeky codes are going around, I thought I’d be my ever helpful self, and create one for the moonbats. Here are the bed-wetter codes.

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Would it be too insensitive of me to ask why a high school — an institution of learning — would even contemplate asking somebody who produced a worthless documentary to speak in the first place? Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to pay a scholar to speak at an institution of learning rather than a pop […]

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review doesn’t have much local news (I live about 200 miles from Pittsburgh), but conservative papers are so rare these days that it’s my favorite paper now. Today’s Sunday Pops:
Hillary Clinton decries as “mean-spirited” legislation to be considered by the Senate this week that would make it a felony for illegal aliens to […]

You won’t even believe this

I’m a complete math geek. I love data, any data, just so I can analyze it. So when I was reading Joanne Jacobs and saw a link to these data, I exported them to Excel and analyzed the data. And the results are not good for the "we need more money!" education folks (the Excel file is here)

A lone voice cries out in the liberal wilderness

So the frogs who aren’t working are still rioting for the right to continue not working. And you wonder why I don’t want more socialism here?

is my birthday. Not a good one, either. I may not blog. Then, I may be on a roll.
We’ll see.
Don’t know where we’re eating. Either Toftrees (haven’t been there yet, and they have the long sought-after ribeye) or Kelly’s for the prime rib.

is here, just a simple Excel Monte Carlo simulation.