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Comment on Mississippi Representative Andy Gipson: Put gays to death by doktorzoom

doktorzoom — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:36:59 +0000

Dear Rep. Gipson,

Where do I report brides who I suspect of not being virgins, so that they can be stoned to death? Deuteronomy 22.20-21 is pretty clear on this. Also, I understand that many Mississippi police departments and hospitals may actually provide help and treatment to rape victims, instead of stoning them to death as prescribed by Deut. 22:23-24. Please bring an end to this un-Biblical treatment of rape victims, and kill them as God wants.

Comment on Romney on How To Fix Edumication by unbound

unbound — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:08:02 +0000

McKinsey has a long history of doing very shallow analysis to support their reports. Unfortunately, business’ love them.

Comment on Romney on How To Fix Edumication by magistramarla

magistramarla — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:39:13 +0000

I used to teach, and I know that the more kids I had in that classroom, the more difficult it was to meet all of their needs. The policy of having all skill levels in one class does not help, either. I think that the old system of “tracking” would help a lot.
Since I taught Latin, I did have fewer students than the Spanish teachers, but that didn’t mean that I had only the best students. The counselors would randomly place students in the “other languages” – Latin, French and German – when the Spanish classes became outlandishly huge. Also, if the IEP of an emotionally disturbed kid said that he needed a smaller classroom, they would send him to me. So, I might have the future valedictorian sitting next to an avowed gang member, sitting next to an emotionally disturbed child, and I was expected to meet all of their needs, as well as those of the other 20 kids in the class.
I begged for tracking in level I. I wouldn’t have minded teaching an extra class if I could divide them into separate groups. Then, I could challenge the class of capable students and slow down and have some fun with the lower level group. I was told that this idea was “too elitist”.
We did offer an Honors class for level II. One year, I found two football players in my Honors class who had barely passed level I (mostly because I was required to “make sure” that they did). It turned out that my regular class met at the same time as football, so I was told to “tailor the program” for them in the Honors class. Those two did not do Honors level work, barely passed again, and yet were given credit for an Honors class. Since they were star football players, I was not allowed to flunk them or even to complain.
In Texas, administrators care only about “the numbers”. They want to make it look like they have a high graduation rate, a low drop-out rate, a high rate of passing state tests and oh yes, the champion football team. The quality of the education that the students actually receive is not important.

Comment on Romney on How To Fix Edumication by Bob Allen

Bob Allen — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:20:50 +0000

Since some in a number of threads within the X-blog series – HAVE taken me to task for spelling errors – I LOVE the title of this thread !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on The Harvard Masonic AntiChrist Commands You… by F

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:46:29 +0000

Yes, Lord Greg.

Not because you pointed out the option to do so, but because I’m a mindless zombie slave. The power of Antichrist compels me.

Comment on The earliest known example of Godwining a converation by smrnda

smrnda — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:00:23 +0000

The situation was more dire in the UK than the US (read Orwell’s essays that discussed rationing during the war. He wrote during almost the entire time so you get a pretty good feel for what was going on) but wasting resourced during a total war does weaken a nation’s ability to fight.

As for the idea that there must be plenty of fuel if it’s on the market – read Orwell’s essays again on that about how the problem with capitalism is that you can end up with shortages of things that are necessary to fight a war or keep the civilian populace fed while a handful of wealthy schmucks consume as much as ever. Under capitalism or at least a least sufficiently deregulated capitalism a nation can be straining to fight a war and the capitalists can go on selling fuel to the government at a price high enough to make waging a war difficult. Or they can do what some US businesses did and actually sell things to the Nazis. In a war against the Nazis, do you really want to leave businesses free to say, sell fuel at a profit so that some civilian idiot can take a Sunday cruise rather than selling it at cost to the government so that they can actually fight a war against Hitler?

Comment on Mississippi Representative Andy Gipson: Put gays to death by Randomfactor

Randomfactor — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:14:36 +0000

They’ll have to nuke the gay inmates’ straight parents from orbit as well. Only way to be sure.

Comment on Mississippi Representative Andy Gipson: Put gays to death by jnorris

jnorris — Wed, 23 May 2012 22:08:56 +0000

Note to Gibson: the same scripture that tells you to kill gays (side note: you have to kill the gays, you can’t contract it out) also says to kill people who eat catfish. I’m sure your supporters in Mississippi believe it too.

Comment on Mississippi Representative Andy Gipson: Put gays to death by M Groesbeck

M Groesbeck — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:10:50 +0000

Gipson looks awfully clean-shaven for someone who insists on Leviticus as a source of law…

Comment on Mississippi Representative Andy Gipson: Put gays to death by sumdum

sumdum — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:56:23 +0000

These American Taliban are so outrageous..