Typically the agent gets that sort of info from the author. Yet, we have a picture of a birth certificate from Hawaii. Both can not be correct.
I said after the Bush Nat'l Guard memo that the next leftie photoshop would be flawless.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 7:01 am
by thibodeaux
I have heard people say (on the internet, so it must be true) that the birth certificate is a 'shop job.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 7:12 am
by TheCatt
The article you linked pretty much says: Obama was born in Hawaii, but probably bent the story this way to make himself seem more dramatic or something. Then accuses him of constantly bending the truth, etc.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:22 am
by thibodeaux
TheCatt wrote:The article you linked pretty much says: Obama was born in Hawaii, but probably bent the story this way to make himself seem more dramatic or something. Then accuses him of constantly bending the truth, etc.
In all seriousness, that seems like an extremely likely explanation. Sort of like how this blond-haired-blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren person is a Cherokee Indian.
First it attacks the "Obama didn't increase spending" bullshit... then there's this part
Cutter also hammers Romney on classroom size, saying, “Mitt Romney made some more ridiculous claims and assertions this week, this time on education policy. He even had the nerve to tell a group of educators that: ‘It’s not the classroom size that’s driving the success of those school systems.’”
The problem is that Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, has also suggested classroom size isn’t as important as some necessarily think.
“We spent billions of dollars to reduce class size. As a parent, we all love small class size,” Duncan told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “But the best thing you can do is get children in front of an extraordinary teacher. So other countries have higher class sizes but extraordinary talent in those rooms.”
Leonie Haimson, the executive director of Class Size Matters, recently wrote an open letter to President Obama that appeared in the Washington Post, saying, “If you disagree with what Romney said, you should rein in your own education secretary and ask him to take back his erroneous statements on the subject.”
Here's a bit from Superfreakonomics about the impact of women entering the workforce, and not just being teachers.
As a consequence, the schoolteacher corps began to experience a brain drain. In 1960, about 40 percent of female teachers scored in the top quintile of IQ and other aptitude tests, with only 8 percent in the bottom. Twenty years later, fewer than half as many were in the top quintile, more than twice as many in the bottom. It hardly helped that teachers' wages were falling significantly in relation to those of other jobs. "The quality of teachers has been declining for decades," the chancellor of New York City's public schools declared in 2000, "and no one wants to talk about it."
Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 2:03 pm
by thibodeaux
You know what nobody really wants to talk about? The quality of the students. The fact is, 50% of students are below average...AND ALWAYS WILL BE. It doesn't matter how much money we shovel into the rathole of "education."