Pension and Health benefits for public sector workers are causing a dramatic budget crisis. Lets eliminate the health and pension benefits for the most egregious hogs slopping at the trough, Politicians.
Mar 022011
Feb 182011
If you want education reform then turn off the TV and take away your child's cell phone and video game systems and make them do their homework and study. The Buck stops with you! You children are not miniature adults so get over it and act like a parent.
Once again they missed the point
WTF!
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Sep 032010
Wouldn't our tax dollars be better spent educating our children rather than teaching them to pass a yearly exam? School buildings that are well maintained and comfortable. Improved salaries and benefits for teachers so that the best and brightest are recruited. Music classes, art classes, etc..
Mar 302010
It’s a very stupid game for the iPhone, but fun and very addictive.
iLaunch - Sheep flinger
Mar 222010
I married Elizabeth Ann Morgan today at the San Bernadino Hall of Records. The witness was a kind face from the crowd. Lunch after-wards at an India Clay Oven.
Elizabeth Machado
March 22, 2010
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Libra (9/23-10/22)You have every right to smile that smile for as long as your facial muscles can stand it -- especially if you happen to be in the vicinity of someone who's wearing a matching expression. Don't feel obligated to share your secret with anyone else, and don't even try to tear your eyes away from the object of your affection. The rest of the world may be a bit jealous, but they're also happy for you.
Welome to the monkey house
Doh!
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Mar 132010
A pair of cows were talking in the field.
One says, “Have you heard about the mad cow disease that’s going around?”
“Yeah,” the other cow says. “Makes me glad I’m a penguin.”
testing in schools
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Mar 092010
I’ve been reading many articles lately from across the United States that deal with under-performing schools as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act. One thing that stood out for me is that the majority of the schools being targeted have a large population of ESL students.
Is it fair to hold teachers and schools to the same standard for these students? Questions that I feel should be asked are many. Among them are; How many ESL students in K-12 schools are American citizens, How many of the ESL student’s parents are illegal immigrants? Are the resources needed to teach students that are not native English speakers having a detrimental impact on the education of American citizens?
Think about it!
Elizabeth in Pismo Beach
Doh!
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Mar 092010
Elizabeth in Pismo Beach
Forgot this photo was on my iPhone. 
Saving K-12 schools in California
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Mar 072010
My proposal: first, consolidate all administrative activities and responsibilities carried out by individual school districts in the county office of education of each county . There are over 1000 school districts in the State of California and only 58 counties. Staffing needs at the county level would increase, but there will be many qualified candidates from the closed district offices looking for work, and the net savings will be substantial. Second, sell all properties that were used as district offices.Use the funds to repair, refurbish and upgrade schools statewide. Lastly, centralize the purchase of text books, technology and internet, office supplies, etc.
WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY, AND HE IS US (w/thanks to Walt Kelly, via “Pogo”)
The Second Amendment
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Mar 052010
The second amendment states, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
American law is based on English common law. The English Bill of Rights of 1689 included the following, ""That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law."
Again this right is reinforced in Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England written during the eighteenth century:
The fifth and last auxiliary right of the subject, that I shall at present mention, is that of having arms for their defence, suitable to their condition and degree, and such as are allowed by law. Which is also declared by the same statute and is indeed a public allowance, under due restrictions, of the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.
A pre-revolutionary newspaper editorial in 1769 Boston objecting to the British army suppression of colonial opposition to the Townshend Acts gives insight into how the founding father felt about the citizens right to bear arms:
Instances of the licentious and outrageous behavior of the military conservators of the peace still multiply upon us, some of which are of such nature, and have been carried to such lengths, as must serve fully to evince that a late vote of this town, calling upon its inhabitants to provide themselves with arms for their defense, was a measure as prudent as it was legal: such violences are always to be apprehended from military troops, when quartered in the body of a populous city; but more especially so, when they are led to believe that they are become necessary to awe a spirit of rebellion, injuriously said to be existing therein. It is a natural right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the Bill of Rights, to keep arms for their own defence; and as Mr. Blackstone observes, it is to be made use of when the sanctions of society and law are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.
The Second Amendment is a right guaranteed to the citizens of the United States of America and not its government. To interpret it any other way is fallacy based on a mistaken understanding of our forefathers intentions and semantic quibbling on the meaning of the word, "militia." The second amendment is the final bulwark against tyranny. As long as it exists we have no excuse for servitude and oppression. We must always err on the side of Liberty. We must stop the war against ourselves and stop making criminals of our countrymen.
