Romberry,
I think you’re on to the game. The day before Pelosie’s statement, she & Boner (aka,Boehner) met with Obama in the WH to “talk about the debt ceiling.” Boner also came out with his debt ceiling statement that raising it should come from spending cuts & tax reform.

The president & Boner can play good cop/bad cop in July by pretending to fight over the debt ceiling. After the election, they’ll come to a “compromise”. Wanna bet Social Security “reform” is part of the gradn plan?

I don’t believe anything they say publicly.

Bawahahahahah! Emanuel is surely dickless and he’s soooooo happy bulling Illinois teachers into subsidizing his banksters with their pension money. I guess dicklessness has it’s advantages.

http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2012/05/rahm-is-soooo-happy.html

Coaches do not shower with their athletes.

Torture. I’d rather cut myself than tune in to these blowhards. (excluding Chris Hayes)

Damon understands exactly what is going on in Obama & Duncan’s edu-movement (I will not call it reform as none of Arne’s RttTop bribe has any scientific evidence to support educational efficacy).

Duncan is a tool for corporate take-over of the last public service sector not tied to the corrupt public/private “partnership” model that has given us: the military industrial complex, the health care system, the energy and power supply companies, and many other sub-sets of services the population depends on.

Further, the Dems have their own Corporate think-tank that spews fake science to convince the public of educational changes that have NO basis in improving outcomes for children. Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) publishes educational junk science:

AND, they buy legislators with checks written directly to them:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/political_stile/94802689_Well-off_education_PAC_eyes_Democrats_.html

“I haven’t identified our top 10 legislators who are for us and our top 10 legislators who are being detrimental,” said Kathleen Nugent, the group’s New Jersey director…
The national group now has chapters is six states and is stacked with executives of hedge funds — Anchorage Capital Partners ($8 billion under management), Greenlight Capital ($6.8 billion) and Pershing Square Capital Management ($5.5 billion).”

Damon understands exactly what is going on in Obama & Duncan’s movement (I will not call it reform as none of Arne’s RttTop bribe has any scientific evidence to support educational efficacy).

Duncan is simply a tool for corporate take-over of the last public service sector not tied to the corrupt public/private “partnership” model that has given us the military industrial complex, the health care system, the energy and power supply sector, and many other sub-sets of services the population depends on.

The Dems have their own Corporate think-tank that spews fake science to convince the public of educational changes that have NO basis in improving outcomes for children. Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) publishes educational junk science

AND, they buy legislators with checks written directly to them:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/political_stile/94802689_Well-off_education_PAC_eyes_Democrats_.html

“I haven’t identified our top 10 legislators who are for us and our top 10 legislators who are being detrimental,” said Kathleen Nugent, the group’s New Jersey director…
The national group now has chapters is six states and is stacked with executives of hedge funds — Anchorage Capital Partners ($8 billion under management), Greenlight Capital ($6.8 billion) and Pershing Square Capital Management ($5.5 billion).”

One more thing about Duncan and his idea of school reform.
New York’s Democratic Governor, Andrew Cuomo and Independent NYC Michael Bloomberg agree that untested, unproven, excessive testing experiments on kids are fine provided they are profitable for their cronies.

Here is one of the clearest examples of our pols corrupt, bipartisan fealty to wall street and the financial industry:

http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2011/06/another-super-mugging-ny-state.html

Don’t trust Duncan, he’s a tool for the billionaire boys club and public school privatization. Obama needed to placate his donors in the financial industry so he sold out teachers and poor children, gave Murdoch, Gates, Walton et al., access to public school coffers via Duncan. The education community wanted instead the progressive Linda Darling-Hammond, but she was too interested in actually improving schools, not selling them.
You need look no farther than what CEO Arne did in Chicago and at the states that “won” the initial Race to the Top bribes for explicit examples of the education-industrial complex.
Duncan’s plan is to coerce states with a promise of death by hanging or death by lethal injection:
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/06/duncan-to-americas-public-schools-give.html

Science has been co-opted to serve the powerful for at least 50 years. Economists are not immune from corporate money exploiting their credentials to advance their agenda. The “liberals at CAP, Roosevelt, and EPI might deny that Peterson’s patronage has no influence on their research, but history doesn’t bear this out.

The playbook to buy and manipulate public opinion through scientific studies originated from oil & tobacco industries. This history and framework is chronicled in “Merchants of Doubt” by Oreskes & Conway. Read this interview with Oreskes. “The Invention of Lying” at the American Prospect. It’s exactly the same game Peterson is playing with the think tanks.

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_invention_of_lying

bawahahahahahahaha!

Don’t count the GOP out in FL. They are masters of deception and fraud. If they can steal an election, they’ll do it.

Where was/is the DNC? The republicans have been suppressing votes for 40 years and the Dems have failed to develop a long term strategy to counter it.

Sam Houston was governor of Tennessee and Texas. While in TN his marriage to a woman from a very well connected family lasted less than a year before ending in divorce. Neither party spoke about the reason for the divorce and there are no diaries or written accounts left explaining reason for the scandalous divorce. His ex moved back to her family home and secluded herself from polite society and Houston retreated to live with the Cherokee. He cohabitated with a Cherokee woman for years before migrating to Texas.

Tex Ritter did run for Senate as a Republican but lost badly in the primary to Bill Brock (of the candy fortune) who unseated incumbent Sen. Albert Gore, Sr. Pro-war Tennesseans couldn’t forgive Gore, Sr. for his vote against the war in Vietnam and his support of civil rights for blacks.

I think, yes- the Galileo controversy is ongoing in Rome. The College of Cardinals are terrified his heresy will spread.

Bwahahaha- The bill’s sponsor might just jump- the fool. I’m embarrassed to admit that the dull bulb sponsor of this antediluvian bill is my state rep, Bill Dunn. He’s a Pre-vatican II Catholic, was previously president of Tn Right to Life, and wants to defund guvmt schools. The cloning thing is an arcane preoccupation the fundamentalist Catholics have with female egg tampering or man-on-dog sex.

Both parties are spending time decimating public services so they can privatize the last vestiges of public workers jobs and pensions. The Dems are privatizing schools via Arne’s Race to the Top corporate subsidy and the Repubs would privatize the air we breath, is they could meter our lung capacity.