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The First Obama Term

He'll be assassinated before he takes office.
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He'll be assinated in office.
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He really is the anti-christ and we're all going to die.
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His Presidency will be a failure of Jimmy Carter Proportions.
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His Presidency will be seen by history as mediocre.
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His Presidency will be seen as a success of Reagan proportions.
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He really is the second coming of Christ and GORDON is screwed.
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"Obstruction?" Douche.
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Post by Malcolm »

What the hell?

First line in the article...
President Obama on Thursday highlighted the lag in black students' test scores, saying the gap is exacerbating a wealth divide between African-Americans and white Americans.

What the fuck?

The name of this new initiative...
The president is discussing how his signature Race to the Top program...

"I want teachers to have higher salaries. I want them to have more support. I want them to be trained like the professionals they are -- with rigorous residencies like the ones doctors go through," Obama says.

What the fuck? You don't need to pull a thirty-six hour shift teaching history, dumb-ass.
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If someone would pay me $100k, I'd be a teacher.
It's not me, it's someone else.
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Not me. I've dealt with too many of the students. You couldn't pay me enough to be a teacher, not unless I had the ability to fail students who didn't deserve to pass. And you just can't do that anymore.
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Post by Malcolm »

If someone would pay me $100k, I'd be a teacher.

Still not worth it sometimes. You'd want guarantees, trust me.
...not unless I had the ability to fail students who didn't deserve to pass. And you just can't do that anymore.

Sure you can. It's just a lot more difficult in publicly-sponsored education.
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Malcolm wrote:
...not unless I had the ability to fail students who didn't deserve to pass. And you just can't do that anymore.
Sure you can. It's just a lot more difficult in publicly-sponsored education.
And this is one of the main problems with public education.
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GORDON wrote:
Malcolm wrote:
...not unless I had the ability to fail students who didn't deserve to pass. And you just can't do that anymore.
Sure you can. It's just a lot more difficult in publicly-sponsored education.
And this is one of the main problems with public education.
Eh, the main problem I see is the same problem I deal with at work -- idiots with too many safety nets. When you make bad decisions, one natural way to correct that behaviour is to experience the unpleasant consequences of it. There's not enough negative reinforcement to give folk the motivation to learn useful shit. Someone else always does the heavy lifting.
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Malcolm wrote:Sure you can. It's just a lot more difficult in publicly-sponsored education.
Not here. We'd lose 95% of our students.
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Post by Malcolm »

TPRJones wrote:
Malcolm wrote:Sure you can. It's just a lot more difficult in publicly-sponsored education.

Not here. We'd lose 95% of our students.

Something tells me that would just improve the overall quality of our graduates, not their total numbers, though. The students of this country need to be reminded that, in some important areas, second- and third-world nations are beating them because they've got every incentive in the world to improve their lives.

EDIT : I'm not suggesting forced poverty be inflicted upon folk or anything, but some negative consequence seems necessary.



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I agree. But sadly the system is set up so that if a publicly funded institution tried to do that then they'd either lose all their funding and close down or just have everyone replaced with people who won't try to do that.
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Well now.

Don't I just feel like a huge asshole for putting down 20% on a home I could actually afford.
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Instead of the first Obama term shouldn't this be posted under the second Bush term? Try not to pee on my leg and tell me it is raining. I know the difference.



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Did you read the article at all?
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Post by unkbill »

Yes twice and I see a mess being cleaned up.
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Ahhh, I see.
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Does the application for this relief have field for political party?

What? It's a valid question.
Wadda mean? Other people can read this?!
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"Hey FDA, why don't you go ahead and rescind approval for a breast cancer drug, because it is too expensive in my universal health care plan."

http://hotair.com/archive....oncerns
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Post by Troy »

55k for one treatment that possibly extends life for less than two months and has added side effects that will more than likely kill you anyway.

Holy crap.
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So... the death panel says no?
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