Comments on: Alone with oneself. http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alone-with-oneself one writer's daily download Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:51:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LA Mary http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/#comment-241819 LA Mary Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:14:10 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=3459#comment-241819 Gasman, his explanation is so completely disengenuous. He's resigning as mayor, but says he will not resign his city council seat. He claims he was unaware there was anything racist about the watermelon reference. Gasman, his explanation is so completely disengenuous. He’s resigning as mayor, but says he will not resign his city council seat. He claims he was unaware there was anything racist about the watermelon reference.

]]> By: Gasman http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/#comment-241745 Gasman Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:47:20 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=3459#comment-241745 An interesting development to a link in the previous thread. It turns out that Republican Mayor Dean Grose of Los Alamitos, CA has resigned in the aftermath of his e-mail depicting the White House lawn as a watermelon patch. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/03/01/finnstrom.racist.email.cnn The caption read "No Easter Egg Hunt This Year." It seems that no one was buying his story that his intent was not racist. An interesting development to a link in the previous thread. It turns out that Republican Mayor Dean Grose of Los Alamitos, CA has resigned in the aftermath of his e-mail depicting the White House lawn as a watermelon patch.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/03/01/finnstrom.racist.email.cnn

The caption read “No Easter Egg Hunt This Year.” It seems that no one was buying his story that his intent was not racist.

]]> By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one) http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/#comment-241739 Jeff (the mild-mannered one) Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:53:59 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=3459#comment-241739 Single key factor in graduation rates -- if a youth has ONE non-related adult in their life who cares whether they graduate high school or not. You don't need mentoring training or major intervention services: a community just needs to build up a culture where every child, at the corner store or on the bench of their sports team or at the church where they hang out on the occasional afternoon, has a non-related adult who asks with some consistent frequency "hey, how is school doing? are you on track for getting the credits you need? tell me what's up with you . . ." On one level, it's no more complicated than that. Single key factor in graduation rates — if a youth has ONE non-related adult in their life who cares whether they graduate high school or not. You don’t need mentoring training or major intervention services: a community just needs to build up a culture where every child, at the corner store or on the bench of their sports team or at the church where they hang out on the occasional afternoon, has a non-related adult who asks with some consistent frequency “hey, how is school doing? are you on track for getting the credits you need? tell me what’s up with you . . .”

On one level, it’s no more complicated than that.

]]> By: Bill http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/#comment-241732 Bill Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:36:10 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=3459#comment-241732 Here's an article from the St. Petersburg, FL newspaper detailing one school's approach to heping kids improve on the Florida standardized testing. I can't tell if they're more interested in the students' progress or in the school's report card. I guess in the end they are one and the same. For the record, the teacher featured in the article is an Afro-American. http://www.tampabay.com/news/article979812.ece Here’s an article from the St. Petersburg, FL newspaper detailing one school’s approach to heping kids improve on the Florida standardized testing. I can’t tell if they’re more interested in the students’ progress or in the school’s report card. I guess in the end they are one and the same. For the record, the teacher featured in the article is an Afro-American.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/article979812.ece

]]> By: whitebeard http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/#comment-241731 whitebeard Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:35:08 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=3459#comment-241731 Jeff tmmo, with that kind of lack of magazines and living there for six years, your comment is fully justified. Maybe I am colored by Connecticut and New York and the availability of every publication under the sun as well as the darker reaches of society, such as railroad magazines, which do not feature railroad ladies, of course, except in rare circumstances. I have taken some pain elixir for my shoulder spur, so I am feeling more generous at this hour, except toward NCLB and its shenanigans Jeff tmmo, with that kind of lack of magazines and living there for six years, your comment is fully justified.
Maybe I am colored by Connecticut and New York and the availability of every publication under the sun as well as the darker reaches of society, such as railroad magazines, which do not feature railroad ladies, of course, except in rare circumstances.
I have taken some pain elixir for my shoulder spur, so I am feeling more generous at this hour, except toward NCLB and its shenanigans

]]> By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one) http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/#comment-241726 Jeff (the mild-mannered one) Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:07:31 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=3459#comment-241726 Whitebeard, aside from living there for six years, WV earned my comment by the fact that you can't buy Harpers or The Atlantic, let alone any magazines featuring ladies en dishabille, once you get a ways off the interstate. Doesn't strike me as a slam, exactly . . . Whitebeard, aside from living there for six years, WV earned my comment by the fact that you can’t buy Harpers or The Atlantic, let alone any magazines featuring ladies en dishabille, once you get a ways off the interstate. Doesn’t strike me as a slam, exactly . . .

]]> By: Gasman http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/#comment-241721 Gasman Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:40:15 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=3459#comment-241721 This will likely be the last thing I care to say about the NCLB act for the near future. Los Alamos High School was going to get dinged a couple of years ago for failing to meet Annual Yearly Progress measurements. It turns out that it was due to a statistical error, counting something like 2 or students too few. On that basis they would have been deemed a "failing" school. Once it was realized that indeed, the students had been tested, just not counted, they went from "failing" to one of the best high schools in the country. On the basis of such statistical compilations, NCLB is driving education in our country. It is absolute bullshit. This will likely be the last thing I care to say about the NCLB act for the near future. Los Alamos High School was going to get dinged a couple of years ago for failing to meet Annual Yearly Progress measurements. It turns out that it was due to a statistical error, counting something like 2 or students too few. On that basis they would have been deemed a “failing” school. Once it was realized that indeed, the students had been tested, just not counted, they went from “failing” to one of the best high schools in the country. On the basis of such statistical compilations, NCLB is driving education in our country. It is absolute bullshit.

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/#comment-241720 brian stouder Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:29:07 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=3459#comment-241720 Dexter - thanks for the link; that was enjoyably refreshing! KVH got Rove raving a bit; he really seemed angered there for a few moments. It is just so pleasing to see the boilerplate and talking points get stopped cold and responded to. And to be fair, Karl Rove is infinitely more worthy of respect for at least going into that forum and facing a contested dissussion, as opposed to the rightwing's supply of radio lip-flappers and their amen-corners of carefully culled callers, nodding in agreement with all the stupid canards they care to spout. And for a total non sequitur, Pam and I made our first oscar-related rental, and snapped up Vicky Cristina Barcelona; and we give it two thumbs down. Scarlett Johansson is the best thing in it (despite what Oscar says!) - and aside from that, I cannot stand movies that rely on a narrator to tell us what the movie should be showing us...and it's even MORE annoying when the narrator is actually telling us what we are already watching. I cannot decide if it is a more a reflection of how stupid Woody Allen thinks we are, or how lazy he has become Dexter – thanks for the link; that was enjoyably refreshing! KVH got Rove raving a bit; he really seemed angered there for a few moments.

It is just so pleasing to see the boilerplate and talking points get stopped cold and responded to.

And to be fair, Karl Rove is infinitely more worthy of respect for at least going into that forum and facing a contested dissussion, as opposed to the rightwing’s supply of radio lip-flappers and their amen-corners of carefully culled callers, nodding in agreement with all the stupid canards they care to spout.

And for a total non sequitur, Pam and I made our first oscar-related rental, and snapped up Vicky Cristina Barcelona; and we give it two thumbs down.

Scarlett Johansson is the best thing in it (despite what Oscar says!) – and aside from that, I cannot stand movies that rely on a narrator to tell us what the movie should be showing us…and it’s even MORE annoying when the narrator is actually telling us what we are already watching.

I cannot decide if it is a more a reflection of how stupid Woody Allen thinks we are, or how lazy he has become

]]> By: del http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/#comment-241719 del Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:17:23 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=3459#comment-241719 ' influence. ‘ influence.

]]> By: Dexter http://nancynall.com/2009/02/27/alone-with-oneself/#comment-241716 Dexter Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:38:47 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=3459#comment-241716 any of yas catch Katrina vanden Heuvel hand Rove his ass on "This Week" this morning? Hit the link and click on the roundtable tab... http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek any of yas catch Katrina vanden Heuvel hand Rove his ass on “This Week” this morning? Hit the link and click on the roundtable tab…

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek

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