Awesome analogy
The guest column "Midnight in garden of good and devious" (June 26), by Tripp Jeffers, president of the N.C. Association of Educators, was an awesome analogy. It compares the N.C. educational system to a garden.
We do have gardeners (teachers) who nurture each student so that all may attain their fullest potential. We also have weed whackers (legislators) who indiscriminately pull all voice and support from educators.
The gardeners are left without their tools; the flowers get tossed out with the weeds; and our politicians continue to pretend they know what is best for us.
MAUREEN MIDDAUGH
Lewisville
Hostile Congress
The writer of the letter "Placing blame" (June 26) must be joking.
President Obama is to blame for not getting along with Congress? The Republican members of Congress have encouraged every lie, misconception and wacko theory about the president from his being a socialist to not being a citizen of the United States ever since before he was elected.
Obama has shown the patience of Jackie Robinson in the face of accusations of arrogance (aka "being uppity") and of wanting to destroy the country.
There has never been a Congress as hostile to the commander in chief. They've blocked votes on his nominees, refused to consider his jobs bill, they've done everything they can to sabotage the economy, hoping they can then blame it on Obama and knowing that many in America will believe them. They've got their propaganda TV channel, Fox News, blaring lies about him 24/7.
Even when he does things they would do themselves, they condemn him.
The Republican Congress is graceless, bitter and lacking in respect for anyone who disagrees with them. They can't even get themselves to call the Democratic Party by its proper name.
If Mitt Romney by any chance wins the next election and is treated the same way by Democrats in Congress as they treat Obama, they'll have no right to complain.
BETHANY PARE
Winston-Salem
A green oasis
Hanes Park is a green oasis in town. From the hilltop at Wiley Middle School, looking over the park, the view is of fields and trees. A two-foot diameter wild-cherry tree grows on the Wiley hill. This summer it is loaded with a bumper crop of cherries, as it was most recently in 2010.
Birds fly in, fill up on cherries and fly out. The arrivals and departures are non-stop while the fruit lasts. The cherry tree will likely be lost if the Reynolds football stadium is built where proposed.
It's only a tree, and only wildlife eat the cherries, so what have we lost? In the big picture, probably not much. At a smaller scale, at the scale of a city park, people who regularly use the area and who appreciate the cherry tree and natural beauty lose proportionally more. The birds certainly lose more.
If the students truly needed the stadium for their education, it would be one thing, but this seems like a luxury purchase during lean times.
If the school board adopted a frugal approach, the field below the Wiley hill is flat and large enough for football and the fans could sit on the grassy hillside and watch the Friday night games. The only additions needed are lights and two goal posts. This would preserve the green space, and the cherry tree, it would let the Reynolds team play at home and save us millions.
JOHN WOODING
Winston-Salem
Self-defense
In the June 16 Journal is the headline "11th groping attack occurs in Ardmore."
For years I have been pushing for the school system to at least offer a one-semester exercise-training program on self-defense. I am pretty sure that when the groper comes up behind a woman and grabs her bosoms, a well-trained woman would elbow the man in the gut.
It should be a required course. A lot of women who suffer physical abuse from their husbands would be able to defend themselves. If the schools won't offer this, parents should enroll their children in such a program. This is also the answer for the bullying in the schools.
My son was bullied in school. I entered him into a self-defense course, and the bullying stopped.
CATHERINE W. PITTS
Winston-Salem
Monstrosity
The monstrosity that is Obamacare has passed the Supreme Court. That means it's up to We, the People to get rid of it and implement free-market solutions.
I can't think of a better reason to elect Mitt Romney for president — not to mention every other conservative we can.
GREG R. MORRISON
Winston-Salem
Where's the voter corruption, Democrats ask?
ReplyDeleteIt's well known that people from the Dominican Republic travel by sea and air to Puerto Rico. There, they become 'citizens' of the United States by obtaining false or fake Puerto Rican documents, and then they are on to the mainland of the United States. After arrival, typically in large cities like New York and Philadelphia, they revert to their own nationality, because there is no interior border enforcement. Many, however, continue to use their fake Puerto Rican documents to go about their everyday business, including obtaining driver's licenses. Remember, those wonderful voter motor laws Democrats pushed?
Rep. Charles Rangel's (D) of New York, who is part Puerto Rican, congressional district was redrawn before the most recent Democratic primary election. However, Rep Rangel won by 802 votes. Instead of it consisting of primarily African Americans as before, now it consists of primarily of Latino, including Dominican voters.
A rub has surfaced and Rep Rangel's opponent, a Dominican American, is challenging the authenticity of the election. Why? Because some 3,000 votes are still not counted because the 'voters' were not on the eligible voter rolls.
Any bets on how many votes/voters are from illegal immigrants? Let's hope we find out shortly as they review the ballots. And who says voter corruption is not an issue in U.S. elections? Democrats of course!
Holder, the infamous Obama Attorney General, is fighting states tooth and nail to eliminate voter I.D. laws.
Fast and Furious, Immigration, voter I.D. laws...what more will Obama and his AG screw-up?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/30/ballot-issues-arise-after-rangels-apparent-primary-win/
“We have witnessed disturbing allegations of voter suppression and lack of transparency in the 13th Congressional District election,” said Maria Teresa Montilla, president of the Dominican American National Roundtable. “We are calling on the United States Department of Justice to take immediate action to monitor the Board of Elections’ proceedings.”
DeleteRead more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/02/rangels-victory-now-in-question-amid-lawsuits-more-vote-counting/#ixzz1zU8YkwL4
witness an allegation, that's a new one.
DeleteSee the quotation marks. Dunce is not responsible for any grammar/syntax problems, nor is he responsible for factual errors...it's always somebody else's fault.
DeleteI've pleaded with Stab to get me some new liberals, but he won't. So I'm stuck with you two. GREAT!
Deleteno you're not, you're free to leave this site at your pleasure
Deleteand as Oscar Wilde once said:
Delete"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." and I know your life's mission is create as much happiness as possible.
:-D
DeleteLa Sombra....I meant to thank you for taking down the picture of that scary woman you were using. I know you were just playing a joke by pretending that it was you. But that really wasn't funny. It caused me to have nightmares all night that night.
DeleteAgain, thank you.
:-D
DeleteThat was, and is, a picture of the real me.
Oh Lordy, I'm going to have bad dreams again tonight!
DeleteAnd just for the record, I'm still not Tim.
Lte1...once politicians tribe together under one roof, when have they Ever not automatically known what is "good for us"?
ReplyDeleteHostile Congress? Mr Obama earned a "hostile Congress". In 2010 we sent people there to stop him, not get along with him. It looks like, with the tragedy of ObamaTax being approved, 2010 is going to be replayed come November. What do you mean we don't call his party by its proper name? We call them Democrats....sounds better than "Marxists, Statists, socialists etc. "If" Romney wins in November and his party takes both houses of Congress, he won't have to worry about malcontent mouthy Democrats....he will feel the heat from his own side because the fuse is lit.
ReplyDeleteA green oasis. Leave Hanes Park alone.
ReplyDeleteSelf defense. Not a bad idea from this writer because it must be unnerving for women to know there is a person like this lurking about. Caution though-- after that well placed punch to the gut, another skill needs to be improved on--run like hell. A gut punch only works for a brief time.
ReplyDeleteJust knee 'em in the fascia lata along the Ilotibial band located laterally on either thigh, and they will be sent to the ground writhing in pain.
DeleteMonstrocity. That it is. Classic bait and switch. It was denied as a tax the whole time in 2009 and into 2010. This was because Dems knew the bill would never pass through Congress as a tax--thus the coordinated and media orchestrated sales job as "not a tax". The voters knew better in 2010 and the SC just stamped it as a tax. Now we have a full plate election coming in November.
ReplyDeleteLTE #4 - Some self defense training is a good idea for anyone. I wish that everyone could take the unarmed combat course that I took at camp Pendleton on the way to Viet Nam. It wasn't about hurting the opponent; it was about killing him. If everyone took that course, we would have very little violent crime.
ReplyDeleteBut the biggest problem with sex crimes is that there are millions of jackasses (I could name one) who are always spewing their hatred of women into the air...that hate infects young men, who get the impression from the broader society that it is OK to harass and assault women.
A female friend of mine sent me this list, which might be a good start. It's funny, but it's not funny:
1. Don’t put drugs in women’s drinks.
2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone.
3. If you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, remember not to rape her.
4. If you are in an elevator and a woman gets in, don’t rape her.
5. When you encounter a woman who is asleep, the safest course of action is to not rape her.
6. Never creep into a woman’s home through an unlocked door or window, or spring out at her from between parked cars, or rape her.
7. Remember, people go to the laundry room to do their laundry. Do not attempt to molest someone who is alone in a laundry room.
8. Use the Buddy System! If it is inconvenient for you to stop yourself from raping women, ask a trusted friend to accompany you at all times.
9. Carry a rape whistle. If you find that you are about to rape someone, blow the whistle until someone comes to stop you.
10. Don’t forget: Honesty is the best policy. When asking a woman out on a date, don’t pretend that you are interested in her as a person; tell her straight up that you expect to be raping her later. If you don’t communicate your intentions, the woman may take it as a sign that you do not plan to rape her.
Only a foolish nitwit would write something like that.
DeleteThe good thing about your nonsensical musings is that it helps me make my point that you're a typical, psychotic liberal.
Keep up the gibberish.
This is something like you would do:
DeleteNaked man steals car
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/us/2012/07/01/naked-car-thief.cnn
Ha, ha! I didn't even mention his "pseudonym", yet he knew exactly who I was talking about.
DeleteThat's encouraging. Maybe he is beginning to see what a lowlife he is. Could he change and become an actual civilized person? Don't hold your breath.
It's official, a fox goes to FOX!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/story/2012-07-01/hiestand-erin-andrews-bob-costas/55966654/1
A perfect situation...yet another airhead for the airheads.
DeleteIt's official, the new Mexican President and his wife are both CALIENTE!!!!!
DeleteLaureen Harper is a pretty good looking babe as well...so we've got a North American trifecta of attractive first ladies
DeleteRomney Adviser: Individual Mandate is a Penalty, Not a Tax
ReplyDeleteNot a tax
Romney team agrees with Obama, individual mandate not a tax
Start Rowing because Romney's Top advisor, Eric Ferhnstrom, took the wind out of that sail.
DeleteHe and Romney are fools if they stick with that position.
DeleteBetter to eat the Mass tax issue, and ram the Obama one, IMO.
Leave out the conditional clause and you would be 100% correct.
DeleteRasmussen: Obama gets polling bump from high court health ruling
ReplyDeleteApproximately 2%...that'll last a long time.
DeleteOne of my friends, who's a die hard Obama lover, is breaking down. He's starting to say Obama is hurting the country, and he may have to go another route this time. He was a RR Democrat.
You see, all Democrats aren't complete fools.
I agree, polls are just snapshots and mean nothing until November, but I knew I could get a response from you out of it, especially since it is a Rasputin Poll.
DeleteOK, that's it. It's bad enough when Dunce parrots lies from Limbaugh & Co., but now he's claiming to have a friend???
DeleteGet out the polygraph...
:-D
DeleteLaSombra, remember when your Journal posts were not showing up but we were getting the facebook notifications that you had commented? This is happening to a few others now. What did you change to make your posts visible?
ReplyDeleteI assume you're speaking of Ms. Carolyn What's-Her-Name, the overtly zealous xenophobe. I suspect her writing style has gotten her blocked by the online editors of the liberal rag Winston Salem Journal, and I also suspect that is what has happened to my online persona Misty Navarro. My writing style is not like Ms. Carolyn What's-Her-Name's and it does not violate fb's terms and conditions ie name-calling, bullying, threatining, etc. but I was pretending to be someone I wasn't. What both our writing styles have in common is that it R-E-A-L-L-Y ruffled the feathers of the readership and I assume the online editors at JournalNow.com, one of whom I suspect is Deb Phillips. The comments of my online persona disappeared only when Deb's righteous feathers were ruffled, and if you notice her comments are now very rare and succinct since my online chat with Ann Johnson at the Journal. I would advise O.T. to have a chat with her as well. I have since changed the name on my multiple personality's fb page to match the name of the host personality mostly to archive comments that I think I may want to refer to in the future (see this comment from myself to Wes) as an example. The name change baffled the online editors for awhile; a few online comments of the "host" personality disappeared but has since "self-corrected".
DeleteBTW, Phargo: you've subscribed to Misty's comments; feel free to "friend" her, and her host personality, on fb.
DeleteGoogle makes move to limit access to 2nd Amendment rights:
ReplyDeleteWeapons
As highlighted on our new policy page http://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/ApI7UWRj6OCZpd, in order to comply with the Google Shopping policies you need to comply first with the AdWords policies http://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/StQ08jAzM4fVtG.We do not allow the promotion or sale of weapons and any related products such as ammunitions or accessory kits on Google Shopping. In order to comply with our new policies, please remove any weapon-related products from your data feed and then re-submit your feed in the Merchant Center. For more information on this policy please visit http://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/GbBNIGHOribLzf.
Google is, let's see, a PRIVATE company and can set it's own policies.
DeleteThat's what some people said about the Boy Scouts, but that wasn't good enough for some people. They still tried to ram gay Scout Masters up the organization's butt.
DeleteBob?....are you still there?
DeleteAnderson Cooper: I'm gay, always have been.
Deletehttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57464948-10391698/anderson-cooper-im-gay-always-have-been-always-will-be/?tag=stack
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Well, what a surprise!? Especially since you work at CNN!
So sue Google.
DeleteSo Bucky, where do you read the Journal?
DeleteI know where you're going with that question. You know I'm going to twist anything you come up with and verbally spank you with it.
DeleteAre you sure you really want to go there?
Last time Dunce spanked anybody it was a big, hairy bear down in the ABCs...
DeleteTambú
spank me, big boy. Bucky, you're lucky because like Mae West I only like two types of men, foreign and domestic.
DeleteAlmost 5% of Florida residents are CCW holders.
DeleteThese Gang Bangin wanna beeees better look out.
Wasn't Anderson Cooper just talking about how he played sports and what goes on in men's locker rooms re: the Sandusky case, not long ago. Now, he comes out and says he's gay. Isn't that bit odd?
DeleteI thought it common knowledge that Cooper is gay, so that isn't news, and never was news anymore than his hair or eye color. He's a good reporter.
DeleteExactly.
DeleteAs to what goes on in locker rooms, when I was in high school, it was a lot of very innocent hazing. The standard initiation to JV and varsity sports was a nice gob of A-Bomb in your jock. Running to the shower won't do any good...if anything, it makes the burning worse.
What do you learn from this? Two things:
1. Once you've endured it, you are an accepted part of the team.
2. You will never put on your jock again without inspecting it first.
Oh yes. In my early elementary school years, an acquaintance was afflicted with chiggers in that most sensitive of areas. We suggested putting Testor's model airplane glue on his besieged scrotum. He did. Then he started stepping high, running around the house yelling and bitching, finally ran into the bathroom and splashed water on the fire. He later rose to CEO of a company whose shareholders may have wished to reward us for our prank.
DeleteAPNewsBreak: Proof of 'God particle' found
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. We live in a Higgs field. Next questions: Why are the masses what they are, and why is the speed of light what it is?
ReplyDeleteYes, cuz, we live in a fascinating time. And some of us may live to hear the answers to your questions.
DeleteThe question, by then, of course, will be what is the next question?
This is why rearing children is worth all the effort. They are all budding scientists. At first they ask "What's this? What's that?" That is merely the naming phase.
It is when they start asking "Why?" that real science begins and you start doing the heavy lifting. And that is the point at which far too many parents fail, to the extent that by the time their children actually start school, they no longer bother to ask.
Waaaaaay above my pay grade. Sir Isaac Newton I ain't. I'm not even Wayne Newton.
DeleteThere will always be folks who wonder and ask why and look for the next question. When he was 16, Albert Einstein wondered what a light ray would look like if he could race alongside a ray of light. At age 26 he produced 2 answers: 1 - he can't race alongside a light ray; 2 - the Special Theory (fact) of Relativity, followed 10 years later by the General Theory of Relativity.
DeleteHa, ha! Forget the Newtons. And forget the big questions...those answers will come in the natural course of things, for now.
DeletePay attention to the little questions from the three year olds. Because if you don't, there will be no future big questions.
Lest you think such little questions are easy, try this one:
"Why is Kitty smelling the other kitty's hiney?"
Just try answering that one in terms that a three year old can handle. And do not try lying. All three year olds have a built in shit detector that would shame the most sophisticated polygraph machine.
Good afternoon folks! Anything happen while I was away?
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: My brother who accompanied on my Chicago trip is a teacher in VA, and he was talking about how the legislatures up there were making all of these decisions that were "in the best interests of the students" without consulting anyone who was actually in the classroom. The referenced analogy is one of the 0.1% of analogies that is acually applicable. Of course, being that it's from Tripp Jeffers, that should come as no surprise.
LTE 2: When Congress begins its term by stating its mission is to ensure the President only gets one term, that doesn't exactly make for a cordial relationship between the two. Congress has become entirely too partisan to be effective. It's all about what's best for the party and its major donors instead of what's best for the country as a whole.
LTE 3: I don't spend any time in Hanes Park, but if it is truly a green oasis, why add spoil it with a stadium and parking?
LTE 4: I can see self-defense as a part of P-E. Of course, it wouldn't help those who are already out of school. Perhaps I should recruit a woman I worked with in AZ to come down and walk the streets of Ardmore. In addition to being incredibly beautiful (thus perfect bait), she is also an IronMan competitor who could run down and beat the fool out of any guy who tried to grope her.
LTE 5: The bill is indeed very large, but We The People are not universally opposed to it. Even if Romney is elected, it will take 60 Senators to overturn the bill. Btw...haven't we been using free market solutions all the time and still seeing double digit increases, people being turned away due to pre-existing conditions and medical bills being the main cause for personal bankruptcies?
Welcome back Dotnet, sounds like you had a "magnificent" time in Chicago.
DeleteThanks! Chicago was indeed magnificent.
Delete"The Chief Justice said it's a tax. Taxes are clearly what we call reconcilable. That's the kind of measure that can be pursued with 51 votes in the Senate," McConnell said.
ReplyDelete____________
Gov. Scott of Florida has said he, and other Republican governors, will not implement Obamacare which will force the federal government to implement the program according to provisions in the law.
Texas' AG Abbott has promise more legal action against the law.
In other words, it ain't over yet.
McConnell probably knows just a LITTLE more than 'dotnet' about how Congress works!
DeleteI still say participation in this forum is like playing a game of tennis with a group of Democrats armed with badminton rackets.
DeleteWho? Admiral Ackbar "It's a trap" McConnell?
DeleteI wasn't aware that the individual mandate comprised the entire Afforable Healthcare Act.
DeleteEven Chris Wallace on Fox ate Mitch McConnell's lunch. He made a fool out of him.
DeleteBill shows Republicans are compassionate!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wxii12.com/news/local-news/north-carolina/NC-legislature-approves-bill-to-expunge-felonies/-/10622650/15372434/-/1kqnehz/-/index.html
Democrats' favorite song!
ReplyDelete"Taxman"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzLe8R1bL4c&feature=related
So Bucky, do you read the Winston-Salem Journal?
ReplyDeleteBob, don't turn into Bobby on me.
DeleteHe literally devours the Journal every day, then lies about it..."haven't read the Journal in months, hrrrmph!"
DeleteOnly the people who love me call me Bobby. Your non-answer is answer enough. Thanks.
DeleteBobby, do they have mechanical bulls inside of gay bars, or the real ones?
DeleteI rode a mechanical bull once at the Stratosphere in Las Vegas.
DeleteDunce knows all about what they do and do not have in gay bars.
DeleteI wonder if they have a mechanical bull in El Gato Negro.
Bobby Jindal compares Health Care to Mardi Gras. Well I suppose there are a lot of people who become anesthetized at mardi gras.
ReplyDeleteBucky July 2, 2012 6:18 PM
ReplyDeleteAlmost 5% of Florida residents are CCW holders.
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"The Daily News found that FBI background checks for gun purchases have risen 14 percent in 2012. As of March, there are 919,831 concealed carry permits statewide -- equal to 6.5 percent of adults in the state."
Naples (FL) Daily News, April, 2012
Hmm...that's a 30% reporting error on Dunce's part...actually better than his usual hysterically outrageous numbers.
Tambù...
Nitwit......check your numbers. Risen 14%, not the percentage of people that have CCWs. 6.5 is the actual number you've quoted. Which is also wrong depending on the population number you use for Florida!
DeleteYou just can't help yourself, can you? You love having 'FOOL' written across every post you make, don't you?
Geeez! Stab.....MORE LIBERALS .....PLEEEEASE!
I'm starting to think Jerry Sandusky is smarter than you are. However, you two are two peas in a pod, when it comes to intellect.
DeleteCheck this video out.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/12/03/sports/100000001205338/an-interview-with-jerry-sandusky.html
As always, Dunce has serious reading and comprehension skills. The 14% number has nothing to do with anything...it is merely a part of a quote.
ReplyDeleteThe operative number is 6.5%, which is the percentage of adult Floridians who currently have CCW permits, as reported by the Naples Daily News and other Florida newspapers, not by the Dunce News Service.
The difference comes out to a 30% error on Dunce News Service's (a division of Fox Lies)part.
That percentage is based upon the only legitimate figure for the number of adults currently living in Florida, 14.15 million, as provided by the US Census bureau.
"...depending on the population number you use for Florida"
You don't get to choose that number like you do so many other bullshit numbers that you just make up...that is the only legitimate number available.
I should add that 6.5% is a very small number, within the margin of error of most studies.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, the latest TPCSS study shows that the typical holder of a CCW permit is a limp-dicked sissy who is terrified of leaving his abode without packing his substitute dick. The study concludes that such losers should live in their parents' basements and let Mommy go out and do their errands for them.
I don't know what population number they were using. At any rate, I know my number is right.
DeleteSo, I really don't care.
You can call people names because they might wish to exercise their 2nd Amendment right if you want. However, if you ever get into trouble, and you start crying like the little boy you are, for help, don't hold your breath that someone will help you. Particularly, if they know you personally. I know I wouldn't.
Gotta give Dunce credit...he never gives up...like that twitty Energizer Bunny, he just keeps on goose stepping around making noise.
DeleteHow does he know that his number is right? Because Limbaugh/Beck/FoxLies told him so...that or it just appeared out of nowhere like Trayvon Martin did, from the inner vacuum of his so-called "mind".
If I ever have to depend for my life on some gun packing sissy, I am already dead.