Kinda makes you want to shoot an educator, doesn’t it.
I hate diaries that don’t have much in the way of author commentary, but really, there’s not much left to be said.
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Saturday, July 25th at 9:24PM EDT
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Kinda makes you want to shoot an educator, doesn’t it.
I hate diaries that don’t have much in the way of author commentary, but really, there’s not much left to be said.
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I Probably Shouldn't Comment
Swamp_Yankee Saturday, July 25th at 9:33PM EDT (link)Although highly educated and a professional, my diction is punctuated with colloquialisms and a freakin wicked bad yankee accent from all the yeeahs spent livin in Boston with all these Democrat bastids and these Hahvud liberals.
Not Dead Yet!
She's not all that dumb. She said George W. Bush was good -nt-
LJ "Beaglescout" Miller Saturday, July 25th at 9:44PM EDT (link)“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
Listen To This Clip of a Real Boston Politician
Swamp_Yankee Saturday, July 25th at 10:00PM EDT (link)At least she’s just a citizen. This is how our pols sound:
Not Dead Yet!
That must be fake
bk Saturday, July 25th at 10:05PM EDT (link)How could he speak for over a minute without once using “wicked”?
I read a study about local pols
LJ "Beaglescout" Miller Saturday, July 25th at 10:18PM EDT (link)It turned out that almost 100% of popular local pols had extremely strong local accents. It’s a marker for authenticity.
“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
For Instant Laughs Everytime: The Menino Soundboard
Swamp_Yankee Saturday, July 25th at 10:25PM EDT (link)I guess accents can be authentic, but just being illiterate is bad. Check this Mayor Menino sound board. Its not even an accent. He doesnt even speak english.
Some of my favorites from the “mumbkling section” like:
How Portant It Is, Education Is
I Wanna Get Invited To Be The Graduation
Barney Franks Twang
http://www.mumblesmenino.us/
Not Dead Yet!
It's not just California - it's a coast to coast disease
bk Saturday, July 25th at 9:55PM EDT (link)Remember Congresswoman Corrine Brown, who has some sort of a Master’s Degree from the University of Florida, reading her prepared remarks about UF winning the BCS? One can only wonder how illiterate she sounds when speaking extemporaneously.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N2uQ7Fg_Uk
And there were the NYU “consensus process” protesters upset that it wasn’t NYU of Palestine. They were some real geniuses as well, weren’t they?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q6KAg6qEGY
That was painfully bad to hear
aesthete Saturday, July 25th at 9:56PM EDT (link)“The food’s free”? That’s around the point where my brain exploded.
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
-Ayn Rand
“I am a freeman in a free state!”
-Last words of Dumnorix, chieftan of the Aedui, 54 BC
Well, like, the food's free, all you have to do is, like,
mbecker908 Saturday, July 25th at 10:16PM EDT (link)pay the farmers and pay for the land. But the land is, like, free…
I guess it would be appropriate to post "California Girls" satirically
aesthete Saturday, July 25th at 10:53PM EDT (link)right about now
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
-Ayn Rand
“I am a freeman in a free state!”
-Last words of Dumnorix, chieftan of the Aedui, 54 BC
Mail Order Brides
Raven Tuesday, July 28th at 10:43AM EDT (link)Still a big business. I wonder why…
“Unlike cruel liberty that requires you to stand and take responsibility for your choices, kind tyranny requires only that you kneel and surrender your choices.”
"this one time at band camp"...
DONTREADONME Saturday, July 25th at 10:01PM EDT (link)“I personally believe”… Its irregardless of what I say? Sheesh, that is one babbling brook.
“The UN is right? you can’t be any more “un”; Than you are right now, the UN is undone, Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun, The threat is real, the Locust King has come, Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done, Just give me ammo for the UNITED AbomiNATIONS”-Megadeth
So, becker, do you agree or not? nt
Vladimir Saturday, July 25th at 10:02PM EDT (link)There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
I agree with Franz.
mbecker908 Saturday, July 25th at 10:18PM EDT (link)He listened to her and noted that were she ground up and sold as dog food, dogs would go hungry first.
Like, um
Neil Stevens Saturday, July 25th at 10:06PM EDT (link)California is totally not all like that. We are so diverse, and like we all have our own ways of, you know, speaking?
Want to run for conservatives? Give.
There Is No Crisis
Moon Unit's High School BFF? (nt)
blooch Saturday, July 25th at 10:22PM EDT (link)“I have to admit that Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a smart man. He was, in many ways, a psychologist.”–drealoth
Wow
E Pluribus Unum Saturday, July 25th at 10:25PM EDT (link)Oh.
My.
God.
Carthago delenda est
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I hope she's not the next Nancy Pelosi. nt
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Worse - She'll Be The Next Rep. Lynn Woolsey (nt)
IJB Sunday, July 26th at 12:21AM EDT (link)Actually, I have a harder time understanding what Pelosi...
Britcom Tuesday, July 28th at 6:36AM EDT (link)goes on about. All I can hear is that awful noise that ally cats make.
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” - Rollo May
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Ouch.
George Claghorn Saturday, July 25th at 11:04PM EDT (link)I probably shouldn’t have watched that all the way through, but it’s like the car crash you can’t look away from.
“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.
For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.
You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline
I Have The Perfect Job For Her
Skanderbeg Saturday, July 25th at 11:07PM EDT (link)She’s clearly a perfect one for Prime Minister of Canada:
Damn you Skanderbeg.
mbecker908 Saturday, July 25th at 11:14PM EDT (link)I turned off Vivaldi’s Concerto in F Major to listen to that.
Now I need Pitor… and loud. Fortunately, I have all of him.
Stockpile
Skanderbeg Saturday, July 25th at 11:16PM EDT (link)Stockpile that one. It comes in handy all the time.
I miss ol’ Jean Chretien (a.k.a., “Johnny Cretin”). He was always reeling off gems like that one. And he could do it in BOTH official languages….
Awesome Tune
OccamsRazor Saturday, July 25th at 11:31PM EDT (link)Albiet overused…I thoroughly enjoy Pachabel in Cannon D. Good Fun.
Skanderbeg, I still don't how the Canadians handled him for 16 years nt
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Westminster System
Skanderbeg Sunday, July 26th at 9:29AM EDT (link)That’s one of the joys of the “Westminster system” that the Brits and most of their old colonies use - the party picks the head of state as head of the party first.
If we had the same system, our head-of-state would be…. Nancy Pelosi…. (ugh)….
It's a scary thought
Richard Mullins Monday, July 27th at 11:38AM EDT (link)Thank goodness that our fore fathers worked on a better way than the old system that the brits have for centuries.
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Wow, Skanderbeg, that one brings to mind
janis Monday, July 27th at 10:11AM EDT (link)the theme song from “Mr. Ed, theTalking Horse”.
“A horse is a horse, of course, of course…….” I dare not try to remember more of it lest it be playing in my head the rest of the day.
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course.
Raven Tuesday, July 28th at 10:47AM EDT (link)“And no one can talk to a horse, of course, unless, of course, that horse, of course, is the famous Mr Ed!”
I loved that show.
“Unlike cruel liberty that requires you to stand and take responsibility for your choices, kind tyranny requires only that you kneel and surrender your choices.”
Like Totally
OccamsRazor Saturday, July 25th at 11:48PM EDT (link)gnarly post, dude. ya know, ya know, free. free. /snark off
I’d be angry if I didn’t already know California is imploding due to their ideological mindset.
“Democracy truely is a Government in which the people get what they deserve”.
With that typed, we all know that it’s difficult to admit, the very fact that California is a state upon our Union. Democrat (pardon my language) it.
The weak bring down the strong again.
I quit listening at about the 2-hour mark,
Flagstaff Saturday, July 25th at 11:53PM EDT (link)when she started talking about vegetable trees. How long did it go, anyway?
Pluto, the Ninth Planet - Forever!
You went that long? nt
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I'm trying to figure out how she gets dressed and goes out in the world.
penguin2 Sunday, July 26th at 12:10AM EDT (link)I hate to say if of my own kind, but that is one dumb bunny and she needs to return to her rabbit hutch. Located somewhere on the “free land” and eat her unending supply of vegetables from the veggie trees.
I guess the saying is true the Lord watches out for…
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
Hey, penguin...
TNJim Sunday, July 26th at 12:26AM EDT (link)This young woman may have single-handedly started a new genre of jokes.
Instead of “dumb blonde” we now have the “dumb brunette”
Apologies to blondes like Ann Coulter and brunettes like Michelle Malkin.
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give her credit for trying to be involved :)
mom2oneson Sunday, July 26th at 10:38PM EDT (link)Maybe she was nervous and that is where all the likes and ummms came in? I use like too so I can’t really comment but maybe she was nervous and it made it worse?
Ok, Mom2, I see your point. Maybe she was nervous,
penguin2 Sunday, July 26th at 11:00PM EDT (link)and it is difficult to speak in front of a crowd. I actually believe she may have been using drugs or on medication. Just some of her statements seemed out of touch with reality.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
Nervous? OK, I can see that, but...
TNJim Sunday, July 26th at 11:08PM EDT (link)…vegetable trees??
C’mon!
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Anyone else reminded of this little gem:
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"Sisters," forever.
Flagstaff Sunday, July 26th at 7:06PM EDT (link)At least the teenager has something of an excuse–she’s younger.
But enough picking on an innocent.
Pluto, the Ninth Planet - Forever!
Nobody that dumb is "innocent". nt
mbecker908 Sunday, July 26th at 10:27PM EDT (link)not fair
mom2oneson Sunday, July 26th at 10:34PM EDT (link)She was in a situation where she wasn’t ready, I think she didn’t hear, and then she was forced to say something within a time limit, and she was just spitting out something. That isn’t a fun situation to be in.
To add one more thing, even the coherent responses of these pagaents are often full of non thinking answers. These girls have to pretend to be stupid or else they could not answer. I’m sure they want to say, do I look like a dumb ___ what young lady with very little experience can solve poverty, war, education, in a 2 minute instant response?
yeah, I don't buy it.
randy streu Monday, July 27th at 10:04AM EDT (link)When you compete in a pageant, you get ready or you get out. She was representing her whole state — clearly, she’s done this before. Not only that, but it’s not as though she was just thrown into the situation. She asked to be in it.
If she can’t answer a simple question (she wasn’t asked to solve poverty, war AND education — perhaps you, also, should have listened to the question) with a coherent, if not informed, opinion, that’s honestly not my problem. It’s part of the competition. People prepare to get on Jeapardy — I’d think some minimal preparation (beyond hair and makeup) would be called for here.
Perhaps it’s appropriate that the real answer to the question is that there’s an utter failure in the educational system to prepare students for life. Even so, she asked for it; so “fair” or not, she’ll have to own her stupidity. That’s life.
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maybe it was
mom2oneson Monday, July 27th at 10:13AM EDT (link)having to give an answer quickly? Have you never been in the situation where you had to speak but something happened and you weren’t prepared? I’ve said stupid things to customers because I knew I had to speak quickly and at the same time was afraid of saying the wrong thing and and I wasn’t prepared with the information they needed. She said later on she didn’t hear the question and I am sure it jut snowballed with the pressure of needing to say something.
:sigh: whatever.
randy streu Monday, July 27th at 11:28AM EDT (link)I could sit here and point out all the reasons that’s not a good argument, but honestly, it doesn’t matter. It happened two years ago, and I only posted it as an amusing comparison to the video above.
It makes you feel good to defend this kid for being clueless, that’s aweome. Honestly (and sincerely), it speaks very well of you as a person to come to the defense of this person you don’t know. Maybe I’m old and jaded. I just honestly don’t care, except about what this clip (and the statistics the clip is referring to) says about the state of education in this country.
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mom2oneson Monday, July 27th at 11:38AM EDT (link)Sorry didn’t mean to keep at it until you were sighing.
I agree with you on education. I’m a huge fan of homeschooling.
If you read any of the DC voucher threads my POV is take them out, get books from the library and homeschool them, regardless of their parent or guardians education, the will learn more at home with good books than in PS.
Now that, there, i agree with. nt.
randy streu Monday, July 27th at 11:40AM EDT (link)nt.
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Relatively few young people can speak coherently
Achance Monday, July 27th at 11:45AM EDT (link)in standard English because they have so little experience at it. Unless they get it at Church, home, or in some extracurricular activity, they don’t get any experience in speaking to a group other than small personal groups of other young people. Almost no teachers call on students to answer questions aloud or to memorize poems or literary passages and recite them. This is the product of the self-esteem garbage since some do this sort of thing better than others, they don’t want anyone to feel bad, so nobody ever gets any experience in talking to groups or speaking in any language other than teenage patois.
In Vino Veritas
However poor their speaking is, it's better than their writing!
bk Tuesday, July 28th at 4:23AM EDT (link)Kids today need to take ESL classes because their primary language is “texting”. I’m sure I’d commit suicide if I were an English teacher.
And BTW here’s one I learned recently from my wife, who works at a local high school - a typical middle class suburban one. All these kids who don’t know how to write English also don’t know how to read a regular analog clock. The only clocks they see are the digital ones on their phones, iPods, or computers. None of them wear watches any more - at least not for the purposes of telling time with them. I swear to God I am not making this up.
bk that is so true lol
mom2oneson Tuesday, July 28th at 8:04AM EDT (link)I wouldn’t blame the kids though..unless someone sits down and practices with them consistently through the years or buys them a watch or keeps a clock in their home, they will not learn it becuase analog clocks aren’t around for them to pick it up after a few lessons in math class.
Usually time is taught in first and second grade math - sometimes third but it ends there. Children don’t have continued practice with beyond there since these clocks are so scarce now.
My son is way past the age to know how to do this and a few weeks ago I ordered a Judy Clock and an analog clock stamp to practice with him. I guess buying him a watch or analog clock might help too.
I dunno, bk, as bad as their writing is, they get
Achance Tuesday, July 28th at 10:40AM EDT (link)more practice writing than speaking. My best example is a History class I took at the U here a few years ago. It was a 400 level class with several hours of History as a prerequisite called Seminar on the Holocaust. It was an elective, so nobody had to be there. There were thirty and change students; myself and a couple of other adults and the remainder were upper division college students in their late teens, early twenties. Not half of them could have put the Holocaust in WWII, WWII in the right century, nor told you who the major participants and leaders were.
The tasks were to choose a theme, read three books consistent with that theme, write a not less than twenty page paper on that theme, and give a ten minute precis of the paper to the class. Most of them spent more than half the semester trying to come up with a theme and a proposal that the professor would accept (and he was anything but a demanding professor). No more than three or four of them could actually do the ten minutes precis in any organized and articulate fashion. None of them really had a true beginning, middle, and end. The young men mostly mumbled and hemmed and hawed for three or four minutes and sat down. The young women sang their disorganized messes much like the young woman in the video. The Ed Majors, male and female, all came equipped with graphic aids and note cards then went on and on for fifteen or twenty minutes until the prof put them out of their misery for lack of time. All were colloquial and ungrammatical. It was one of the more painful things I’ve ever witnessed but I sat through it out of morbid fascination all the while thanking my stars that I don’t have to rely on Social Security and these people’s earning power in my old age.
In the later days of my career with the State, most of my subordinates were young lawyers. Even they had a terrible time with hearings because they weren’t particularly articulate or quick on their feet. They knew the law and were good at analysis and writing, but they’d had little or no training in oral argument or in conducting adversarial hearings. They could write you a nice memo on relevance or probative value, but they couldn’t quickly make a relevance objection and then explain why they did it. I spent a LOT of time making them do mock hearings before they got sent into real ones.
In Vino Veritas
That is incompetence
Raven Tuesday, July 28th at 10:55AM EDT (link)Saying something incorrect because you didn’t have the info and were afraid of saying something wrong is just plain incompetence when it’s on the clock.
“Do you know how to work the paint mixer? Then please match this paint.” And then the guy wanders off down the paint aisle to find the paint that matches the card.
You tell the truth. That’s what customers want to hear.
“I don’t have the information right now, but if you’ll give me a minute, I can get the information or someone more knowledgeable on that specific item for you.”
And then you Get That Info or person.
THAT is what your customers want.
“Unlike cruel liberty that requires you to stand and take responsibility for your choices, kind tyranny requires only that you kneel and surrender your choices.”
That isn't what the "effeciency/quality" markers want
mom2oneson Tuesday, July 28th at 11:35AM EDT (link)First in those situations I was not allowed to say I don’t have that information. Secondly I was in a situation where I had to say a scripted response and the question did not fit any appropriate response I could use. Third is where my sympathies to the young lady come in is where I had to respond with something or else be marked down for that. The anxiety alone right there is bad.
There are companies that give you more room to even say I need to check that but not every company is like that. Even doing that though puts you at a risk for a write up for not meeting the effeciency standards becasue it takes longer. It’s a no win situation. I think the effeciency standards drive many of the good employees away who are responsible and take ownership for anything that may come up and the people that could care less (like I’m sure we have all spoken too) stay because they don’t have that inegrity and could care less. What you said is what customers want but it may not be what the company wants. Here is a true story, with a company I work part-time for, a customer my supervisor to compliment me, so I escalated to my supervisor, the same call got me write up because it took to long because of the time he was on with my supervisor. LOL Now some people just won’t follow directions, want to do their own thing, want it their way, are lazy, I am not talking about those quality markers, but some things just make no sense even as far cost wise because the company ends up paying for more customer service when things are messed up. So please don’t say I’m incompetent because I didn’t say what you thought should be said.
Ah, policy enforced incompetence.
Raven Tuesday, July 28th at 7:58PM EDT (link)I just love companies who do business like that.
“Unlike cruel liberty that requires you to stand and take responsibility for your choices, kind tyranny requires only that you kneel and surrender your choices.”
Shut up...California is the leader in vegatable trees...
$peciallist Sunday, July 26th at 10:22PM EDT (link)cause it’s food and stuff…
lol $pecialist nt
mom2oneson Sunday, July 26th at 10:36PM EDT (link)Yes! We need more of the federal gov't in local education!!
nessa Tuesday, July 28th at 3:54AM EDT (link)no text needed.
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