tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80316592025-10-01T08:55:15.838-07:00<strong>"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings."--- Lewis Carroll</strong>EdWonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487951830278757474noreply@blogger.comBlogger3227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031659.post-34810640807746854872022-11-29T19:40:00.000-08:002022-11-29T19:40:04.533-08:00

&nbsp;This is a Test !

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Has anyone out there also noticed that Hillary, (She who gets to break the law at will.) NEVER wears a United States Flag on any of her outfits? Is she ashamed of our country's flag ????? That's right. I almost forgot. She doesn't believe in America as we have understood it for some 240 years. She is a "globalist" who is for so-called "free" trade, open borders and unlimited immigration. I wonder

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President Obama has finally promised to give us his vision of a plan to increase employment in this country. Only problem is... his vision will not be forthcoming until the end of summer. The question is, will the Republicans kill the plan by blocking it in the House or will they kill it by use of the unconstitutional fake filibuster in the Senate? One way or the other, any program proposed by

EdWonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487951830278757474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031659.post-44893411053892407162011-08-14T22:27:00.000-07:002011-08-14T23:23:25.616-07:00

Well, the good people arrogant yokels of Iowa, who feel like it's their God-given right to be first in the presidential nominating process each and every four years, have murdered the candidacy of Tim Pawlenty. It's sad that folks in the 47 states who for decades haven't hadn't a say in who the Republican nominee is, (Like it or not, the truth is that those few who live in Iowa, New Hampshire,

EdWonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487951830278757474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031659.post-48416413571997586622011-05-19T23:33:00.000-07:002011-05-19T23:38:59.231-07:00

Have you heard about Leroy Fick?A Michigan man who won $2 million in a state lottery game continues to collect food stamps 11 months after striking it rich. And there's nothing the state can do about it, at least for now. Leroy Fick, 59, of Auburn won $2 million in the state lottery TV show "Make Me Rich!" last June. But the state's Department of Human Services

EdWonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487951830278757474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031659.post-37095554124675930732011-03-26T21:44:00.000-07:002011-03-26T21:56:46.396-07:00

Even though my take-home pay as a public school classroom teacher has gone down for each of the past four years, (soon to be five) Time Warner Cable continues to increase their fees every six months or so. It's now gone up another 5%.Long ago we gave up our H.B.O. and all other so-called "premium" services.We're now down to Time Warner's basic package, which they have the nerve to call "Classic

EdWonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487951830278757474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031659.post-3228949551332123312011-01-26T21:54:00.000-08:002011-01-26T22:07:35.355-08:00

Once again, the wingnut birther conspiracy idiots are hollering about President Obama's alleged foreign birth.Isn't it funny how these same birthers never have anything to say about the fact that their hero John McCain really was born overseas? It's true. You can look it up and see for yourself.You can bet your last inflated paper dollar that if John McCain had been selected president by the

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So. Here we go yet again.While working folks all over our country are experiencing losses of income not seen since the Great Depression, the world's bankers, financiers, Wall Street types, and others who don't work for their money but whose money works for them, are traveling to Davos, Switzerland. It's time for their annual convention of back-slapping and mutual admiration amidst the type of

EdWonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487951830278757474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031659.post-8861678977553714342011-01-02T19:23:00.000-08:002011-01-02T19:46:22.673-08:00

In our latest instance of Political Correctism run amok, we have the government of the People's Republic of California outlawing the dear old traditional 100 watt light bulb.This needless new regulation has been brought to you by the same folks who also took it upon themselves to outlaw letting kids ride in the back of pick-up trucks but allows employers to require people to work on Christmas Day

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Did you hear the one about the school where the students are in charge and the parents pay $6000 for the privilege? The thing about students not taking standardized tests kinda hit me right between the grade books.

EdWonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487951830278757474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031659.post-73381005725294055792010-12-05T19:54:00.000-08:002010-12-05T20:00:13.440-08:00

A train has set a world speed record in --- you guessed it--- China:BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour (486 kilometers per hour) Friday during a test run of a yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai, state media said. The Xinhua News Agency said it was the fastest speed recorded by an unmodified conventional commercial train. Other

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Amen!

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President Obama has indicated that Federal Employees will now have a two-year wage freeze.Apparently, the freeze also includes the traditional "automatic" cost-of-living increase that was to have been 1.4% this year. (As always, this freeze won't include the U.S. Congress, they'll get their COLA.)Teachers in our school district never get a "cost of living" increase.Welcome to our world, federal

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*Sniff*Sometimes, when I go over and visit the Almighty Federal Website, I miss checking out the hijinks (and low jinks) of former U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings...We had soooo much fun with her.The Current Boss of the Federal Bureau of Education Truth just doesn't seem to offer the same sort of inviting target.

EdWonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487951830278757474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031659.post-13304889766978235132010-08-09T18:05:00.000-07:002010-08-09T18:24:43.396-07:00

In yet another sign that our country is in serious trouble, some municipalities are turning-off street lights while others are allowing paved roads to revert to gravel:The lights are going out all over America — literally. Colorado Springs has made headlines with its desperate attempt to save money by turning off a third of its streetlights, but similar things are either happening or being

EdWonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487951830278757474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031659.post-18080943757447609492010-08-06T17:39:00.000-07:002010-08-06T20:41:38.198-07:00

Now we've seen it all.A jet-powered school bus that can reach speeds of 367 mph.Will the Wonders of this Modern Age never cease?

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The California Teachers Association, which forcibly withholds money from each of my paychecks, now has an authorized website to help me invest gamble what remains of my ever-declining teacher salary.This union legalized syndicate has some nerve.

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CNN has a little story about how a variety of people will be spending this year's bonus. Including this clown who's getting somewhere between $50,000 - $70,000.Meanwhile, your EdWonk, who has spent years in the classroom, received a 1% pay cut and increased state income and sales tax rates. The result will be that my take-home pay will be about what it was in 2003.Even though I never knew that

EdWonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487951830278757474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031659.post-57234222479110027792009-11-18T18:09:00.000-08:002009-11-18T18:25:02.563-08:00

When it comes to rightwing militia movements, some folks make it a family affair.

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The other day, we received a letter from Citibank. Their latest missive read, in part, as follows:Dear Ms. Wonk,We are making changes to your account terms.These changes include an increase in the variable APR for purchases to 23.99% and will take effect December 20, 2009.This lastest rate increase comes on top of one that was foisted upon us about six months ago. For years, the interest rate had

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Half of all kids in the United States will be on food stamps at one time or another in their young lives: Half of American kids will live in households receiving food stamps before age 20, according to a study reported Monday in Archives of Pediatrics &amp; Adolescent Medicine.Although one in five children rely on food stamps for years, many more live in families who turn to food stamps during a

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And now President Obama is going to Wisconsin, of all places, to talk-up public education. ABC News has the story: Tomorrow, on the anniversary of his election, President Barack Obama heads to Madison, Wisconsin to speak at a local middle school. He’ll address education policy, with a focus on the ‘Race to the Top’ initiative. That $4.35 billion dollar program, funded through the Recovery Act, is

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This just in from our Upstate New York Bureau: when, thanks to the interference of outsiders such as Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, Tim Pawlenty, and Glenn Beck, Republicans fight among themselves, Democrats will take advantage of the opportunity.And who can really blame them?Ed's Note to Cut-and-Run former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin: Since you saw fit to pull the rug out from under a duly

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"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." -Henry FordIndeed.

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Heh.Secretary Arne Duncan of The United States Department of Education says "Colleges of Education must improve for reforms to succeed." U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today called for America’s colleges of education to dramatically change how they prepare the next generation of teachers so that they are ready to prepare their future students for success in college and careers.Noting

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