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You hired good folks, believed in them and let them do their jobs.
You would not let Wal-Mart or anyone else-not even the school board- run your school, much less have their way from behind a curtain. You would have seen through the merit pay proposal as an attempt to set teacher against teacher in the scramble for crumbs and undermine collective bargaining and pay scale-steps with the district. See, Purchasing the Right to Secrecy by Delphi. You knew that undermining the AEA's wage increase pressure keeps taxes lower for the fat cats who can send their children to private schools, but undermines public education.
You would know that “. . . evaluators will figure out a way to group test schools against the right grouping of other schools to make the numbers look good. . . they won't explain the underlying numbers alchemy by which they come up with their formulas for comparison. And they won't study for cheating. . . . . they won't explain how a supposedly numbers-based ‘objective’ criterion can be applied by principal's whim to support staff who aren't in the classroom. And in time, the Trojan horse will take over the school and the education world will be driven by tests, not learning, and everything and everyone will be diminished by it, not the least teacher pay." BREAKING: Mystery solved. by Max Brantley.
We miss you Greer. Maybe its better that you didn’t live to see this. You would not have survived as superintendent in this climate. There’s no room in management for a former Steel Worker with the blood of United Mine Workers in his veins. The business of public schools has become business. Too damned bad for everybody.
"Its simple. Most people who can't afford health insurance also are too poor to owe taxes, BUT if you give them a deduction from the taxes they don't owe, they can use the money they are not getting back from what they haven't given to buy the health care they can't afford." Stephen Colbert
Arkansas Republicans are equally concerned for the poor.
Virg died on June 13, 1917 leaving Clyde with a young son and, probably unknown to them both, pregnant with another.
“Vice President Cheney said yesterday that the administration has achieved "enormous successes" in Iraq . . . ‘There's problems’ in Iraq, he said, but it is not a ‘terrible situation.’ And congressional opposition ‘won't stop us’ from sending 21,500 more troops, he said, it will only ‘validate the terrorists' strategy.’" Mr. Cheney, ignoring the constitution, sacrificing more lives & treasure, and ignoring reality will not help your legacy or W’s. Say goodnight Dick.
"So, why is this latest attempt at corporate welfare necessary? The timber industry might take their trees and relocate elsewhere. The electric companies might build their nuclear plants elsewhere and spew their coal emissions in some other state. To keep these wonderful citizens, we must give them tax breaks and corporate welfare amounting to $162, 000,000 a year. Screw the minimum wage workers and the grocery tax relief they deserve." Delphi at his or her best.
There are still athletes & coaches who are don’t have multimillion dollar salaries, love the game, respect their opponents, play hard, are not self absorbed, don’t take themselves too seriously, and don’t threaten to take their balls and go home if things don’t go their way. The NWA Rollergirls appear to be in this elite group. They are also willing to take time out to give autographs or have their pictures taken with fans, young or old, without additional compensation (See, Bad News Bailey with fan pictured here) May they remain, pure and campy.
I hope Delphi is not mixed up in this.
"If you're not with me, you're my enemy.” Anakin Skywalker
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes." Obi-Wan Kenobi
I reckon Obi-Wan wouldn’t have any more luck with W. than he did with Anakin.
See, Bush the Empire Slayer
Virg is rooting for them because (1) of Katrina (2) friends and kin are for them (3) Bill McClard, who kicked the old fashioned way played for them and (4) sentimental reasons. On December 21, 2003 he saw his first professional football game alive-Saints v. Jaguars and witnessed the River City Relay the most exciting football play he has ever seen. Brooks to Stallworth to Lewis to McAllister to Pathon. Virg was getting a beer for the overtime and missed the missed extra point, and the overtime.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
1876
“Your miserable life is not worth the reversal of a Custer decision.”
G.A. Custer to Jack Crabb
2007
“Your miserable lives are not worth the reversal of a Bush decision.”
G.W. Bush to The United States Armed Forces
We miss you Goose. You thrilled us, made us laugh & died too young. Sorry that you didn't get a shot at playing either sport at the University of Arkansas.
On a semi-related note, Virgil misses the days when there was more versatility, like Goose had in two sports, in one sport-football. When players went both ways, they were smaller, faster, and healthier. If kids are going to emulate athletes, better that they not have force fed behemoths as models.
On another semi-related note, Virgil highly recommends the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City and the contiguous American Jazz Museum.
"More than 120 scientists across seven federal agencies say they have been pressured to remove references to "climate change" and "global warming" from a range of documents, including press releases and communications with Congress."
You hired good folks, believed in them and let them do their jobs.
I was a day late last year, so I thought I’d be a day early this year to make it up to you. You made our mouths water with your Address To A Haggis and inspired Groundskeeper Willie to share the joy. You could rouse us to battle with Scots Wha Hae, make us sentimental with Auld Lang Syne, make us think with To a Mouse, or make us do or feel danged near anything you wanted with yer verse. Then, the second time around, you pleased our ears and made and made us laugh with yer Bazooka. God Bless ye.
“Near on four years after Mission Accomplished, and you're still kissing this moron's ass. . . Just because George Bush continues to lie to the American people, it doesn't mean that you have to lie to the press and to your constituents . . .” Delphi Blasts Boozo Again.
There are still athletes & coaches who are don’t have multimillion dollar salaries, love the game, respect their opponents, play hard, are not self absorbed, don’t take themselves too seriously, and don’t threaten to take their balls and go home if things don’t go their way. The NWA Rollergirls appear to be in this elite group. They are also willing to take time out to give autographs or have their pictures taken with fans, young or old, without additional compensation (See, Bad News Bailey with fan pictured here) May they remain, pure and campy.
Huckabee’s ass may be skinny now, but it still took all of the State’s emergency money to cover it.
We miss you Goose. You thrilled us, made us laugh & died too young. Sorry that you didn't get a shot at playing either sport at the University of Arkansas.
“. . . Saddam Hussein is Dead. So are Three Thousand Americans. The regime in Iraq has been changed. Yet victory will not be declared: not only does the war go on, it’s about to escalate. Obviously the turmoil in Iraq is worse than ever. . .We have been in Iraq for 45 months. Many more Americans have been killed in Iraq than were killed in the first 45 months of our war in Vietnam. I was in the U.S. Air Force in 1965, and I remember well when President Johnson announced a troop surge in Vietnam to hasten victory. That war went on for another decade, and by the time we finally got out 60,000 Americans had died. God knows we should have gotten out ten years earlier. “Troop surge” meant serious escalation.” Ron Paul
