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By: Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:39:49 +0000

I love how the positive sloganeering that plagues school administrations is still on the walls — “Excellence Starts With YOU”, etc.

Excellence starts with you — so help yourself. Start with the copper pipes.

By: Kafkaz

Kafkaz — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:29:09 +0000

If you ever wondered where High Tech Trash goes, here’s one answer.

Meanwhile, I’m a few days behind in my reading (I’ve been outside, without a keyboard, reacquainting myself with nature), but Nancy (and all) I wanted to say how sorry I was to learn about the death of your friend, Ashley.

By: Harl Delos

Harl Delos — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:24:01 +0000

OK, mean liberals. Cranky liberals?Don’t-speak-to-them-before-their-second-cup-of-coffee liberals?

How about “not liberals at all” liberals?

John and Sam may be liberals, but if the “one laptop per child” project were a liberal thing, it would be the government paying for the things. It’s not. It’s charitable individuals that are paying for OLPC. Private charity is a VERY conservative notion.

And in practice, conservatives actually outgive liberals by a considerable margin. I imagine that is due to the fact that the neo-con movement is tied to fundamentalist churches which are pretty strict about tithing.

The seven sisters, those liberal Mainline Christian churches, emphasize giving your time and talents instead of simply writing a check. That wouldn’t get counted in the statistics. They also emphasize that gifts of cash and property should be anonymous or else they aren’t really charity. Those don’t get counted, either.

But most of it, I think, is that liberals think most people are stingy stinkers who need to be forced to give, hence government programs. And if the government is handling charity, they figure they don’t need to.

Or not.

By: nancy

nancy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:30:24 +0000

OK, mean liberals. Cranky liberals? Don’t-speak-to-them-before-their-second-cup-of-coffee liberals?

By: Danny

Danny — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:35:35 +0000

I know, jc. I read that and chuckled a little. Sorta like a pat on the head, eh?

By: jcburns

jcburns — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:21:19 +0000

“nice liberals”!?

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:47:33 +0000

Guys, way OT, but I’m just getting my morning started and came across this story about Kenny Loggins’ son, Crosby Loggins. Great picture of him. Man, he looks like Kenny.

He says something at the end of the article about his father repecting him for trying to disassociate from him until he made a break-through on his own, but from his spitting-image looks, I’d say that has probably been very difficult for the young man.

Anyway, just something for a Saturday morn. We’ve seen Kenny a few times in the last 10 years. He is still amazing. What a talent. I hope Crosby is good to and gets a break. We need more Yacht Rock.

By: michaelj

michaelj — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:54:26 +0000

Wow, Dexter. I’m cynical, but the idea of the American voting popilace being stupid enough to vote for incurious George three times is hard to comprehend. Oh wait. They didn’t vote for nim the first time. That was the Scalia election where Cheney appointed himself Mr. Interlocotur. And damn, they didn’t vote for him the second time when Kenny-boy Blackwell hijacked Cuyahoga County. So there’s been a coup. Snouldn’t concerned citizens have exercised their actual 2nd Amendment rights and raised armed rebellion against the clear usurpation of the government and subsequent serial subornation of the Constitution?

And if Ken Blackwell wants to shoot skeet, couldn’t he stand in front of Cheney’s lady 20 gauge gun and save taxpayers money? Alan Drury was making stuff up, but these bastards have stolen the government. Their guiding principle is, if the Pretzeldent does it it’s legal, a syllogism so plainly illogical and undemocratic that representative democratic systems would abhor it more than nature abhors a vacuum. (And I swear that’s exactly what Dick Nixon said.)

But you’re right. People are nothing but reliable. Confronted with self-government, they appoint themselves and choose democracy, because they know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. Worst? Sure. When Dante makes another round, he might find a 10th circle.

By: The Mighty Favog

The Mighty Favog — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:19:06 +0000

I’ll see you Detroit and raise you Baton Rouge.

Check out some of these posts dealing with my old high school. The pictures — most of which I took last fall during a visit home — are of a school which HAS NOT been abandoned or vandalized.

You’d just *think* it has.

http://revolution-21.blogspot.com/2007/10/home-is-where-heartbreak-is.html

http://revolution-21.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-scenes-from-americas-next-great.html

http://revolution-21.blogspot.com/2007/10/disbelief-in-omaha-or-no-frame-of.html

http://revolution-21.blogspot.com/2007/10/when-we-let-our-kids-schools-turn-into.html

http://revolution-21.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-reminder.html

http://revolution-21.blogspot.com/2007/11/unfit-for-bums-just-fine-for-your-kids.html

FORTUNATELY, after much hell-raising and the 10-year renewal of a penny school-construction sales tax, Baton Rouge High is slated to be fixed in a couple of years. The historic main building will be renovated . . . and the rest of the campus will be torn down and rebuilt.

Thing is, BRHS is far from the only school down there in this kind of shape.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:18:08 +0000

mj…Ken Blackwell and his wife come to Edon, Ohio (very near me) to shoot skeet. His misdeeds which probably ensured Kerry’s defeat in 2004 may have lost the statehouse for the Republicans, but they gave four more years in the White House to a president who bungled his first term so horribly he turned the world against us and committed us to a never-ending war presence in The Region.
Now the economy has collapsed and the job market is spiraling downward.
Many call W Bush the worst president in the history of the Republic.
Still…he is incredibly popular in huge states like Florida.
Many are saying a McCain administration is a Bush third term.
Many say either Democrat can beat McCain.
Don’t count on it. If the electorate returned a goober like W after a disastrous first term, even with low popuarity poll numbers, he’d probably be elected to a third term if it was legal for him to run.
As far as lying? My god! Bush lied and took us into the worst disaster in our history, (WMD lies) and got re-elected! People believe what they want to hear, lies or not.