DeKalb school board has forfeited right to office
Two rules of good governance:
Rule No. 1) It is never a good idea to let unelected people sit in judgment of and even remove officials who have been put into public office by the vote of the people. The practice contradicts the entire concept of self-government and undermines accountability. If voters elect bad officials, they ought to live with the consequences of doing so.
Rule No. 2) In case of a true emergency, Rule No. 1 can and must be broken.
The DeKalb County School Board is the perfect case study of why Rule No. 2 exists. The board and the district that it is supposed to oversee are not merely dysfunctional; they have been dysfunctional for years. Superintendents have come and gone, often walking away with nice payoffs and in one case with a corruption indictment. Studies and audits have been authorized, conducted and then buried. Pledges have been made that this time, things will finally change, and time and again the change has been for the worse.
Millions of dollars in taxpayer money have been wasted. Precious years have been wasted. More important, tens of thousands of students have passed through a school system that did not treat their education as its top priority. There is too little sign that is changing.
Quite the contrary. Since December, when the DeKalb school system was notified that its repeated misbehavior had put its accreditation in danger, board members have made it more clear than ever that their top priority is maintaining their own power and authority. They have hired outside legal counsel, at considerable taxpayer expense, to protect their own jobs. They have filed state and federal lawsuits, again at considerable expense, challenging the state’s right to remove them.
Had they shown similar initiative and energy in fixing the district’s problems, they would not find themselves in this situation.
In another step to deflect criticism, the board has hired former state legislator and labor commissioner Michael Thurmond to serve as its interim superintendent. Thurmond is a good man and is generally well respected by both Republicans and Democrats. By nature and experience, he is well-suited to bridge the geographic, racial and economic divides that make DeKalb such a complicated place to govern.
In a marathon meeting of the state Board of Education on Thursday, Thurmond committed himself to changing the district’s direction and leadership.
“This is the job of a lifetime,” he said to the state board, telling them that he would not have been lured out of his private law practice by anything less than than the opportunity to solve a major crisis.
Thurmond also vouched strongly for the current DeKalb board’s willingness to help him. The problem is, as an employee of the DeKalb board, he cannot fix the board. His own competence, reputation and experience have no real relevance to the board’s fate. Furthermore, it is unfair and inappropriate for the board to use Thurmond as a mouthpiece to plead publicly on their behalf. His job as interim superintendent is to improve the education being offered to DeKalb students, not to preserve the jobs of the board members who hired him.
Last night, the state board voted unanimously to recommend removal of most of the DeKalb board. Sadly, the district’s issues are too profound to be solved by that step alone. But if Gov. Nathan Deal ends up following that recommendation, and if the courts decide that he has the authority to do so, progress can begin.
– Jay Bookman
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Dawg Man
February 22nd, 2013
11:43 am
It finally happened!!! Jay & I agree on something. Miracles do happen.
Great column Jay!
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:43 am
I wasn’t here yesterday – must have been in your nightmare.
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
11:45 am
Whatchu talkin’ about, Willis? LOL! (But yeah, I do love dictionaries and thesauri!)
And look at what states are numbers 12 and 15 on that list I provided earlier!
And one of my very favorite lists:
The top 10 schools in total Academic All-America® honorees
University of Nebraska 294
Notre Dame 222
MIT 181
Penn State 173
Stanford 165
Augustana (Ill.) 136
Emory University 124
Bucknell University 122
Texas 121
Nebraska Wesleyan 118
Sure, we had to bail hay and get the harvest in and crush teams on the gridiron. But only after we kicked ass in the classroom too!
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:45 am
Obama FINANCIALLY supported Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts with his vote – no matter what his motives were. Can’t flip flop your vote – on the record – google it – I did.
комиссар (Occupation)
February 22nd, 2013
11:46 am
Seriously folks:
Here is an idea. Education is NOT a partisan issue. Period. This isnt about being a Dem or a Rep….”
But isn’t it the case that education is one of those areas where there persists a perverse sort of agreement between the two parties, where the two parties happen to be in almost perfect lock step? Namely, both parties are in perfect alignment on the neoliberal corporatization/privatization of the nation’s entire educational system.
And the paradox is that when the two parties are in such close agreement on an issue, that’s when you really have to look out, as there is no incentive for the parties to go before the people and compete against each other.
Paul
February 22nd, 2013
11:46 am
Well, gee, RB from Gwinnett, as I don’t live in the Atlanta region, let alone Georgia, it appears you little condescension with
““Some of us don’t need Jay Bookman to tell us what’s going on in the world outside of this blog. Some of us pay attention to the news from lots of sources and know the ethnicity of the school board without that information being spoon fed to us by Bookman. ”
is…I was going to say ‘misplaced’, but on second thought, I’ll just say ‘par for the course for you’.
F. Sinkwich
February 22nd, 2013
11:47 am
Here’s some better information on gas prices, Jackie:
Price now $3.79 at the local Kroger, and rising.
O’bozo is winning his war on fossil fuels…
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
11:47 am
Fred
Damn, I should gone.
Would’ve beat the hell out of kneeling on the roof cleaning the gutters
GT
February 22nd, 2013
11:47 am
I truly think all Republicans have some bigotry in their thinking. As the minority lynching you condoned in your presidential debates. For some reason your side thinks just because you are white you can own the facts. That show you put on in South Carolina and in Fla. was a disgrace of ignorance and now you want to have it all forgotten. Ha.
George W. Bush
February 22nd, 2013
11:50 am
Trivia question of the day:
Who created “No Child Left Behind”? Did any children get “left behind”?
Paul
February 22nd, 2013
11:50 am
“O’bozo is winning his war on fossil fuels…”
Hey Sinkwich! I remember when you wrote the very same thing when gas prices experienced that steep decline!
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:51 am
If it had a plan to expand the reach of the Fed gub’ment SOCIALIST social programs Obama voted for it – even if it included funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. You can call it a “sell out” or “payoff” if you wish – I call it D.C. politics as usual. time for TERM LIMITS in Congress and a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. to slow down this reckless, insane Congress from destroying the FISCAL future of the USA.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:51 am
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:43 am
I wasn’t here yesterday – must have been in your nightmare.
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So my question is this. Is he really so stupid that he doesn’t remember posting here yesterday? Or was he so drunk it didn’t register? Or does he think WE are so stupid that we’ll say, Oh you weren’t? Or is he just such a habitual and compulsive liar that he just tells lies everytime he writes something? What do you folks think. As for yesterday?
Morality?
February 21st, 2013
2:33 pm
Are you talking about the unfunded wars that Obama voted for?
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
11:51 am
@Sinkwich
You did not read the two links that show why and how the prices have risen.
Wonder how prices manage to increase when the supply of crude is so plentiful, they do not have any place to store it.
And, by a sheer coincidence, 7 refineries have been taken offline because of “maintenance.”
Don’t you find it strange that all these things happened because there was a need to export more gasoline to China?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
11:52 am
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:43 am
I wasn’t here yesterday – must have been in your nightmare.
Really?
Morality?
February 21st, 2013
2:33 pm
Are you talking about the unfunded wars that Obama voted for?
In the middle
February 22nd, 2013
11:55 am
GT – I truly think ALL people have a little bit of bigotry inside. Some are malicious and some are not. You tend to see less when dealing with an individual and more when dealing with a group. People do have tendencies to try and define a group by what “THEY SEE” as opposed to what “THEY KNOW”. Plus if you can marginalize a group by using either racial accusations or stereotypes than it make it easier for the pea brains to comprehend issue that are usually more complex than stupid raced based accusations.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
11:55 am
Obama doesn’t control gas prices – “W” didn’t control gas prices – Arabs control gas prices. Two exceptions to this rule : #1 gas taxes and #2 Regulations.
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:55 am
Beat ya to it Kam
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
February 22nd, 2013
11:56 am
O’bozo is winning his war on fossil fuels . . .
Well, I got to agree with Sinkus here, much as I hate to. I think we got a right to mercury and a little benzene in the air and water if we want it. Like I said many times before you can’t even throw your used motor oil down the sewer drain these days without somebody wanting to put you in jail or fine you big-time. Besides, when it comes to coal and oil, I want it cheap, even if it kills a few folks.
weetamoe
February 22nd, 2013
11:56 am
There was a time when the DeKalb school system had an excellent reputation. One of the reasons national publications recommended several DeKalb areas in their best places to live articles was the school system.. There should be a thorough investigation of what has caused the decline, including a complete history of changes over the years. As is frequently claimed in these pages, we can’t *go forward* until we understand the past.
Inspector G
February 22nd, 2013
11:56 am
Matthew Stafford could fix Dekalb County Schools in 10 minutes with a pitchfork and some Silly Putty. Then he would take all of the new school board members to Amici’s in Athens for some wings and garcheemar, which will be delicious…life changing even.
GT
February 22nd, 2013
11:57 am
As long as fuel is a commodity with a world wide market the price is never coming down, again. You could nationalize the stuff which would cut the gravy train off for Texas which is sucking in the high prices and redistributing it to the Republican Party. In a sense the Republican Party is supported by the economic success of China.
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
11:58 am
Fred – “So my question is this. Is he really so stupid that he doesn’t remember posting here yesterday? Or was he so drunk it didn’t register? Or does he think WE are so stupid that we’ll say, Oh you weren’t? Or is he just such a habitual and compulsive liar that he just tells lies everytime he writes something? What do you folks think. As for yesterday?”
Apparently it’s all of the above. However, when you live in an alternate reality such as our friend Morality?, I can understand how the passage of time in his world may not gel with those of us here on Terra Firma.
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
11:58 am
…that one ain’t right in the head…
Too funny.
Other than for the white wingers obvious disinterest in justice and freedom for all, another major reason that American Jews have been so disgusted with the GOP is the misnamed conservative’s widespread and stunning lack of intellectual curiosity. To the point where even basic respect for science, grammar, the humanities, logic and civics is now tenuous.
The intellectual downfall since the Nixon administration has been truly amazing.
Peadawg
February 22nd, 2013
11:58 am
Fred ™
February 22nd, 2013
11:51 am
That wasn’t him. That was OBVIOUSLY a namejacker.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 22nd, 2013
12:01 pm
Don’t worry about gas prices.
I’m sure Obama will fix it.
Took a playbook from “W”…………….lol
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The progressives realized “make love not war ” wasn’t getting the job done….so they took it 180.
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effing hypocrits.
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lol
Look before I leap...
February 22nd, 2013
12:02 pm
Off topic, but have a question:
Jay is there an email address you can post so we can write to the powers that be that the new blog software sucks BIG TIME.
Once your column switches over, I gotta tell you I am gonna be far less inclined to read and post.
Galloway’s post rate is WAY down and I think yours will suffer too.
If enough folks complain, maybe this goofy decision gets reversed.
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
12:04 pm
Looks like Morality? has slipped through the wormhole to the Delta quadrent.
getalife
February 22nd, 2013
12:05 pm
Another slow news day but we have our cons to laugh at.
Thank you for staying the course cons.
Look before I leap...
February 22nd, 2013
12:06 pm
“Looks like Morality? has slipped through the wormhole to the Delta quadrent.”
I had a similar thought but with a completely different hole in mind.
комиссар (Occupation)
February 22nd, 2013
12:08 pm
Morality? ” time for TERM LIMITS in Congress and a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution”
As has already been said here umpteen times, a balanced budget amendment — which already has come within a hair of passing, two decades ago — would simply be a disastrous move for the nation, a fiscal straightjacket that would have terrible destabilizing effects both economically and socially, but would also be based on an outright lie: the notion that getting the nation’s budgets in order is the same as a household at the kitchen table getting its checkbooks in order.
getalife
February 22nd, 2013
12:08 pm
Look,
It is a software upgrade to connect new mobile devices so I doubt the decision would get reversed.
GT
February 22nd, 2013
12:08 pm
In the middle you have a party that looks like someone’s family album. You bring the maids and hired help into the picture to spice things up but you and your party have filtered all control of you party to white males. Now who in their right minds, another problem your party has, would think if it looks like a white guy and acts like a white guy and quacks like a white guy there is not a white guy’s party.
What overwhelms me is your defense of your position in public and I am sure you side comments to your other GOP friends in private. You lie including to yourselves, your comments here would lead me to believe you do. That is what makes you people so crazy, you have this closet agenda and then you have this public denial or public agenda you try to structure to cover your immoral thinking. Like a man having an affair and can’t keep his lies straight until it finally drives him crazy. Sound familiar?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
12:08 pm
I had a similar thought but with a completely different hole in mind.
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
12:09 pm
@Thomas Heyward
You don’t seem to pay much attention to world affairs.
We have a national security interest int he Middle East and Northern Africa, therefore, we have to deploy our diplomats and military personnel to areas that are causing turmoil in the region.
Having knowledge of how things are done proactively would suggest news reports of events occurring anywhere in the world is “old news” to our government.
The major problem we are having is not the response but the size of the party and action taken, based on the availability of money needed to carry out critical missions.
F. Sinkwich
February 22nd, 2013
12:10 pm
“As long as fuel is a commodity with a world wide market the price is never coming down, again.”
Not intended to be a factual statement. **
** KammieSpam. All rights reserved.
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
12:11 pm
Looks like Morality? has slipped through the wormhole to the Delta quadrent.
More like he passed out after he ate the worm at the bottom of the bottle.
Peadawg
February 22nd, 2013
12:11 pm
“Once your column switches over, I gotta tell you I am gonna be far less inclined to read and post.”
Agreed. I’ll still read but won’t make an account to post comments.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 22nd, 2013
12:12 pm
Look before I leap…
February 22nd, 2013
12:02 pm
Off topic, but have a question:
Jay is there an email address you can post so we can write to the powers that be that the new blog software sucks BIG TIME.
Once your column switches over, I gotta tell you I am gonna be far less inclined to read and post.
Galloway’s post rate is WAY down and I think yours will suffer too.
If enough folks complain, maybe this goofy decision gets reversed.
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Give it up Leap………….Your concerns fall upon State approved Deaf ears.
In the state-sponsored Media………………
A)…………one may critizie the State-approved Republican party.
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B)………….One may critisize the State-approved Democrat party.
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C)………….And the State welcomes State-approved class and/or ethnic divisions critizisms.
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But…………..D) One may NOT critisize the State.
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Welcome to the USSA.
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
12:13 pm
@Sinkwich
What event/action will force crude oil prices to fall?
Look before I leap...
February 22nd, 2013
12:16 pm
“Agreed. I’ll still read but won’t make an account to post comments.”
It’s not the account – I already have one.
Its the look of the damned thing – hard to read. I know white space is a cardinal no-no when it comes to mobile devices, but other blog sites have mobile enabled versions that don’t affect the main site’s appearance and functionality.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 22nd, 2013
12:16 pm
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
12:09 pm
@Thomas Heyward
You don’t seem to pay much attention to world affairs.
We have a national security interest int he Middle East and Northern Africa, therefore, we have to deploy our diplomats and military personnel to areas that are causing turmoil in the region.
Having knowledge of how things are done proactively would suggest news reports of events occurring anywhere in the world is “old news” to our government.
The major problem we are having is not the response but the size of the party and action taken, based on the availability of money needed to carry out critical missions.
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That’s what they said back in 1965 in IndoChina.
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Even worse……….that’s what they said back in 1952 about Korea.
(although the “official washington lie” has been rebuked).
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It’s only lives.
alex
February 22nd, 2013
12:17 pm
@ “in the middle”, system 1 vs. system 2, you would enjoy reading Daniel Kahneman.
2 jam, I agree with you that there is a lack of intellectual curiosity on the right , but your sweeping stereotypes suggests a lack of curiosity on the left , also. Since the Jewish distaste for the right is not absolute(30% voted for Romney in 2012),what do you suggest is the reason why these jews voted for the GOP candidate? It’s too easy to generalize with a basically split country, you would have to denigrate 1/2 the country……by the way Emory may have had only 120 academic all americans, we are undeafeted in football and we only have had 120 “athletes”…..
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
12:17 pm
Just another chart that shows the Repubs will have future difficulties in selling their brand.
http://news.yahoo.com/predict-presidential-elections-by-demographic-interactive-widget-225441066.html
Thogwummpy
February 22nd, 2013
12:17 pm
There are black members of that school board…and thusly, Jay Bookman is a racist! (See how it feels to be on the receiving end of a standard liberal default argument? LOL!)
stands for decibels - Friend of Hamas!
February 22nd, 2013
12:18 pm
So, whiny, bigoted, thin-skinned douchebags are still whiny, bigoted, thin-skinned and douchebaggy, I see.
Steve
February 22nd, 2013
12:18 pm
Ever want to wonder if racism is alive today in the South? Just read these types of forums.
Look before I leap...
February 22nd, 2013
12:19 pm
@Thomas H, Jr
I don’t know what you are smokin’, but you really need to share.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:19 pm
I guess I should change my screen name while I still can…
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
12:19 pm
RC, we don’t need no stinking clean air or unpolluted water and children’s playgrounds!
They sure as hell didn’t need no stinking regulations at the Love Canal elementary school.
Look at 12:02…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sti_tuBiv5g
Steve
February 22nd, 2013
12:20 pm
“What overwhelms me is your defense of your position in public and I am sure you side comments to your other GOP friends in private. You lie including to yourselves, your comments here would lead me to believe you do. That is what makes you people so crazy, you have this closet agenda and then you have this public denial or public agenda you try to structure to cover your immoral thinking. Like a man having an affair and can’t keep his lies straight until it finally drives him crazy. Sound familiar?”
BINGO
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:20 pm
I guess our Uncle Samantha would THINK THIS IS SUPER COOL.
On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Common Education committee considered HB 1674 — a House bill that would prevent teachers in science classes from penalizing students who contest evolutionary principles with untestable, faith-based claims.
It passed, 9-8.
Paul
February 22nd, 2013
12:21 pm
Hiya Sinkwich!
You know one of those principles of how to do thing, right? Follow-up? Closing open items? That kind of stuff?
You kinda hadda leave before you could answer. So in the finest spirit of finishing one topic before going on to another, remember this?
“Sinkwich, as you said you’re fine with corporations who have profits of billions of dollars paying zero tax because they’re following the tax law and should not pay one bit more than required. are you also fine with ‘the 47%” who pay no federal income taxes because they, too, are following the tax law and should not pay one bit more than required?”
I hope you’re gonna be here a while, ’cause I’m really interested in hearing your consistency in views regarding corporations earning billions paying no federal income tax and getting subsidies on top of that and people and families earning, say, $20k or $25k or $30k a year paying no federal income tax and getting subsidies on top of that, too!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 22nd, 2013
12:21 pm
See how it feels to be on the receiving end of a standard liberal default argument
Oy vey, these cons are have lost all grey matter and like any black hole they are trying to suck more from those around them.
Standard liberal default argument = I got nothing so let me make up something and claim liberal strawman.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
12:22 pm
KammieSpam. All rights reserved.
Awwwwwww witchie-poo, aren’t you just so — special.
In the middle
February 22nd, 2013
12:23 pm
GT – Wow, what fantasy world are you living in. You obviously don’t know me and are making things up as you go along.
What side comments. I am calling you out for being completely full of it. You haven’t a clue….. If you disagree with me fine, that is called debate, to just make accuations against me without any clue other than what you make up in your own mind is m*****bation.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
12:24 pm
Dekalb’s School Board should be on “Saturday Nite Live”.
Generation EBTer
February 22nd, 2013
12:24 pm
DeKalb clowns validate I made the right decision to quit school and get on Sister Sam’s payroll.
F. Sinkwich
February 22nd, 2013
12:25 pm
“What event/action will force crude oil prices to fall?”
An administration that gave a sh*t would be a good start.
A leader who actually wanted to solve the problem would establish domestic energy exploration and extraction as a national priority.
Thanks for asking.
indigo
February 22nd, 2013
12:25 pm
HDB – 11:11
Many of you “African-Americans” have such a low self esteem that you have to reach far back in time and theorize that the ancient Egyptians were “black”. Even though there is no credible evidence for this, you cling to psudeo-science to make this riduculous claim.
This is pitiful. If you want any pride in yourselves, make something out of your own lives. Reaching far back into time with dubious claims only make you look childish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Race_of_Ancient_Egyptians/Draft
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 22nd, 2013
12:27 pm
Look before I leap…
February 22nd, 2013
12:19 pm
@Thomas H, Jr
I don’t know what you are smokin’, but you really need to share.
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I only meant o explain that the new requirments to post are only……………..Progressive State-Sponsored censorship.
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The poor miserable souls on the wrong side for the fight for freedom………………can not handle the truth, hence they rely on Authoritarian censorship.
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stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:27 pm
Obama FINANCIALLY supported Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts with his vote
Yes, he voted to provide support to the men and women sent to those countries by Cheney and his man-ape. You’d rather he hadn’t?
Look before I leap...
February 22nd, 2013
12:28 pm
@sfd:
“On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Common Education committee considered HB 1674 — a House bill that would prevent teachers in science classes from penalizing students who contest evolutionary principles with untestable, faith-based claims.”
Well these folks think Baby Jesus had a pet T-Rex growing up.
Some folks just aren’t gonna be happy until Copernicus and his whacky ideas on orbital mechanics have been eradicated from the written record.
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
12:28 pm
F. Sinkwich – “A leader who actually wanted to solve the problem would establish domestic energy exploration and extraction as a national priority.”
Which Government owned drilling rig/platform would you like to use for these “extractions”? As of right now, all drilling that takes place is done by private and corporate owned operators. Anything “extracted” belongs to them and not the U.S., hence they are free to sell it wherever they choose. What law would you like Obama to pass to speed up the Nationalization of drilling and exploration here in the U.S.?
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
12:29 pm
30% voted for Romney in 2012
Actually 27% but you’re close.
I usually first look at the people who lead a movement or organization, and why I referred to Nixon. On the runup to his trip to meet the Chinese, I read that he devoured books and information about them and their country and then asked for more.
He may have been a Dick (LOL!), but he was damn smart one who valued information.
And at the polar opposite of the scale? GWB, who it seems could not even get interested enough to learn the heads of states of MAJOR countries around the world in his 2000 campaign.
And go Emory!
alex
February 22nd, 2013
12:29 pm
@ Jam, Kahneman has an interesting take on the Love canal issue, see page 143 to pique your intellectual curiosity, see “availability cascade”.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
12:29 pm
A politician that VOTES YES to financially support a “conflict’ is supporting that conflict. Get that through your neanderthal brain.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:30 pm
What law would you like Obama to pass to speed up the Nationalization of drilling and exploration here in the U.S.?
The Kill Whitey And Steal His Gunz and Oil Act of 2013, if you please.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:30 pm
Get that through your neanderthal brain.
Aw, someone have a boo-boo that only mommy can kiss and make better?
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
12:31 pm
indigo
Don’t hate on the melanin, dude. The cradle of civilization is in the Middle East. The oldest human fossil was found on the African continent. Science has already proven that those of us with a higher melanin content are better suited for living in areas of high sun exposure.
How many White couples give birth to melanin enhanced babies each year? How many Black couples give birth to melanin deficient babies each year? Based on genetics alone, the latter is more likely to occur than the former, just as brown eyes are dominant and blue eyes are recessive traits.
Don’t hate the melanin, just respect it.
alex
February 22nd, 2013
12:33 pm
2 Jam, you didn’t answer the question, my source says nationally 30% (compromise 27-30%), but the question stands, why? did 27-305 OF JEWS VOTE FOR rOMNEY IF ,AS YOU SAY, THE gop IS DEVOID OF INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY WHICH IS ANETHEM(sp?) TO JEWS, no reason for capitals, my fault.
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
12:35 pm
The Kill Whitey And Steal His Gunz and Oil Act of 2013, if you please.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:36 pm
you “African-Americans
I keep trying to trade indigo to the conservatives for a box of scuffed baseballs and some used jockstraps. Think maybe I’m asking too much?
indigo
February 22nd, 2013
12:36 pm
Brosephus – 12:31
I know about Africa being the cradle of humanity.
I also think I’m right about Egypt and the rest of my comments.
It’s sad that truthful comments you don’t like get sent to the “hate” heap.
F. Sinkwich
February 22nd, 2013
12:36 pm
“What law would you like Obama to pass to speed up the Nationalization of drilling and exploration here in the U.S.?”
None, Butchie.
I guess either you don’t read so good (sic) or don’t understand the process of leasing or more likely both.
getalife
February 22nd, 2013
12:37 pm
No Friday document dumps with no drama Obama.
indigo
February 22nd, 2013
12:38 pm
stands
While talking about “you white people”.
The only athletic supporter on these pages is you.
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
12:38 pm
12:27 “Yes Obama voted to financially support the Iraq and Afghan conflicts. Would you rather he didn’t?” At least one of you admits the TRUTH. I rather that the Dems would admit that the Iraq and Afghan conflicts could not have taken place without them voting YES. And I would rather they got honest about WHY they voted YES. It was a “compromise” (sell out) between “W” and the Dems. “W” got his funding and in return he “lost” his veto pen when it came to the expansion of the Fed gub’ment SOCIALIST social programs and when it cam to the expansion of the Fed Debt – which is why the Dems voted YES.
Aquagirl
February 22nd, 2013
12:40 pm
Even though there is no credible evidence for this, you cling to psudeo-science to make this riduculous claim.
Followed a citation of a wiki talk page. Now there’s some good edumacashion.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:40 pm
The only athletic supporter on these pages is you.
Well, I schlep my ABD to a bunch of practices and tournaments in a given year, it’s true, but I imagine there are some other athletic supporters here who just don’t like to crow about it.
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
12:40 pm
Morality? – ” Get that through your neanderthal brain.”
Oh no, Morality? has time warped into the past and thinks that he’s in a pre-historic world. Maybe this is where he was yesterday when he “wasn’t” here.
Generation EBTer
February 22nd, 2013
12:41 pm
I will be at DEF 20 DEF bash though
FUN GUY
February 22nd, 2013
12:42 pm
комиссар (Occupation)
February 22nd, 2013
12:43 pm
Jackie: ” We have a national security interest int he Middle East and Northern Africa, therefore, we have to deploy our diplomats and military personnel to areas that are causing turmoil in the region.”
Yes, we have a NS interest, as does the so-called “socialist” heading the current government in Paris.
But who exactly is causing the turmoil in the Middle East? Recall that Mali became destabilized when the government of Gaddafi was toppled by the NATO coalition.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:45 pm
It was a “compromise” (sell out) between “W” and the Dems. “W” got his funding and in return he “lost” his veto pen when it came to the expansion of the Fed gub’ment SOCIALIST social programs and when it cam to the expansion of the Fed Debt – which is why the Dems voted YES.
Anyone else thinking that this is the sort of social studies essay-question answer a Special Ed teacher gets to grade?
Morality?
February 22nd, 2013
12:45 pm
Indigo – If you don’t agree with the P.C. left you are a “hater”. We are no longer allowed to have different opinions – no matter that they are backed up with actual FACTS. History revision and re – defining words to suit your meaning is common day. So goes the times of our 1st Reality Show Prez.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:45 pm
…if so, we clearly ain’t payin’ them enough.
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
12:45 pm
alex, sorry. Maybe I’m going all Sinkwich, td and Morality on ya! You know, NEVER having the balls to even answer straightforward questions in a straightforward fashion.
But first, one very important thing that I want to point out. Your claim IF ,AS YOU SAY, THE gop IS DEVOID OF INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY is a prevarication.
devoid -noun
1. Entirely lacking or free from:
By way of fact, I used the word widespread in my earlier post.
As you knows, lots of Jews are highly educated and very successful in terms of making money. I have never looked up the ratios, but I would venture that the top 1% in this country has a higher percentage of Jews than the lower 99% does. I believe that most of them vote with their wallets, first and foremost, and not necessarily with their social consciences. Which is where the fascistic leanings of the American right wing are the most distasteful.
Yet, it is illustrative that the GOP HAS NEVER ONCE garnered a majority of the Jewish vote?
Not one single time.
So now, I ask you as to why you think this fact is what it is?
TaxPayer
February 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
Poor cons. They even need the president to lower gas prices for them. They cannot do anything on their own. Pitiful.
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
I also think I’m right about Egypt and the rest of my comments.
Thinking ain’t verifiable fact, is it? You could think that you’re king of the world too. Do some research on genetics. You think you’re right, but I KNOW I’m right. There’s the difference.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
Are there any SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS! on any school board?
HDB
February 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
indigo
February 22nd, 2013
12:25 pm
My self-esteem comes not only from my history….and my ancestry….but my accomplishments…and I’m extremely proud of ALL!! All the hater-aide you’ve been drinking speaks volumes……..
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
preach, Mo-rality! Tell us how de po’, po’ ol’ white man beez opressed by dem coloreds.
Butch Cassidy (I)
February 22nd, 2013
12:47 pm
F. Sinkwich – “I guess either you don’t read so good (sic) or don’t understand the process of leasing or more likely both.”
I understand the leasing process just fine. My family leases our gas rights to the state of Montana. Apparently it’s you who doesn’t understand that the leases allow the product to be removed from the ground, and the product belongs to those who drill it. The U.S. is not in the oil and gas drilling business, and there is no pbligation on the part of the lease holder to even drill. So again, how do you propose the U.S. can just keep the oil and gas that is produced?
HDB
February 22nd, 2013
12:48 pm
Brosephus™
February 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
Like I said before: we can try and teach ‘em….but they don’t want to learn……………
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 22nd, 2013
12:49 pm
As you knows, lots of Jews are highly educated and very successful in terms of making money.
But as a Gentile if *I* say that I get called an ANTI-SEMITE and the prospect of this possibly happening has me all butthurty. wahhh! I’m being oppressed by the fellahz of the Hebrew persuasion.
/moralindigo
Thomas heyward Jr
February 22nd, 2013
12:49 pm
There is hope.
Dekalb county school boards WILL be a thing of the past.
Decent people only have to educate progressives/statists.
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It’s really not hard to do…in that……the majority of Decent people(worldwide) only want peace, love,,,,,,,,,,,,and to be LEFT the Eff alone…….from an increasingly instrusive and violent progressive government.
Dr. Ron Paul’s latest book, NEW SCHOOL MANIFESTO, will delve deeply into one of the most important issues facing us today: the state of education in America. The vast majority of Americans agree that our education system is broken and that action needs to be taken. This book will be a focused guide to Dr. Paul’s position, which centers on a strong support for home schooling and free market principles applied to education. He makes the case for individual freedoms as they pertain to educating our children, and nimbly dissects the most pressing issues that need to be addressed from the libertarian point of view. Ron will also quickly discuss the history of education in this country, along with what has gone wrong, and how we can think about the facts differently. His devoted followers have been waiting for a book on this topic, as nobody yet has really captured education from a Libertarian perspective.
.
Put the violence of the State behind thee.
watch your children grow without war and debt.
Free your mind.
TaxPayer
February 22nd, 2013
12:50 pm
So again, how do you propose the U.S. can just keep the oil and gas that is produced?
I think the cons secretly want Chavez as their leader because he would make their gas cheap for them.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
12:50 pm
It was a “compromise” (sell out) between “W” and the Dems.
Holy crap on a cracker!
Dude/dudette:
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Paul
February 22nd, 2013
12:51 pm
Sinkwich!
I really, really wanna understand why corporations who follow the law are okay but families of lower means are leaches. Will you puh-leaze share the answer with us?