139 responses to “Sandbox – 27nov16”

1. 

   Russ

   27 November 2016

   Federal agencies push ‘midnight’ rule-making flurry under Obama
   With less than two months before US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, federal agencies under President Obama are pushing for a final flurry of new rules – despite the high likelihood that many will not survive.
   http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2016/1127/Federal-agencies-push-midnight-rule-making-flurry-under-Obama

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   Gregory

   27 November 2016

   Accepting GR’s invitation to copy this over to the fresh litter…
   I was hoping for a Royal Flush over at His Majesty’s, with all five of the indexed comments Jeff talking to himself but, alas, that was ruined by the Keachie himself. As a consolation prize, I commend him for yet another post on Education by a Real Retired Educator that gets it all wrong. He wrote,

   Common Core has several objectives. First the notion is there that all students, in a world where parents may have to job hop across the country often in order to stay employed. deserve to at least have instruction in the key subjects of English and Math. locked down to goals for each grade level, regardless of text or teacher,
   This avoids situations in which, for example, students learn fractions twice, and miss decimals altogether.

   So far, it has mostly created situations where students avoid ever really learning how to manipulate fractions or perform long divisions.

   The second area of importance is the redesign of teaching some areas, such as elementary math. in ways that will lead to much easier teaching and comprehension of complex concepts of advanced math. What appears to be unnecessary obfuscation to parents who learned old math and then found Algebra and Caculus [sic] “too hard,” is in fact the royal “easier” road to success in STEM subjects later on.

   The obfuscation readily apparent to those skilled in math is core to the constructivist, or “discovery methods” preferred by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards; the NCTM represents math teachers and education departments who loved whole math and whole language. These set California back ten years when a guy named Phil Daro poured them into California’s 1992 Mathematics Framework for the state’s Dept of Ed. Daro, who entered UC Berkeley in the early 60’s intending to become a physicist, then changed majors to math but ending an English major, doesn’t have the education required to teach math at NU or Ghiddotti, yet the State trusted the document (a veritable paen to the NCTM) on how to teach math to all kids in California Public Schools.
   The ’92 Framework was mute on what math kids needed to learn but spent 200 pages on how it should be taught. Hint: lots of drawings, groupwork and calculators on the shared worktables even for the 1st graders; actually doing the math, not so much.
   Fun! and Mathematical Power! were the rallying cry. My son entered the 1st grade at Hennessey the year MathLand was introduced across all grades in the GVSD, and entered 2nd grade at Grass Valley’s own St. Sensible a year later because of MathLand. By the standardized test our St. Sensible gave (identical to the initial STAR exam chosen by the state two+ years later), he was already significantly behind in math, despite doing two years of MathLand.
   Fast forward to 2008 when something like $300 million of Bill & Melinda Gate’s money started towards pushing the Common Core brainchild of a couple of progressive 501c3’s in Washington DC. Untainted by any real state involvement until they were finished, the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics needed a real expert to chair their drafting, and they hired a real gem to do it: the same Phil Daro who so damaged California’s math education, the same Phil Daro who still lacked any degrees in mathematics… just the BA English he managed to escape with when he found writing sonnets to be more enjoyable than doing physics or math.

   One has to remember that the later decades of the 21st century are not going to be your grandpa’s Global Economy.

   Yes, but the Common Core is the Royal Road to ruin, not science and math. Even CCSS-M co-chair and co-lead author, mathematical physicist Jason Zimba was careful to note that the Common Core was only meant to be a minimum for entry into non-competitive schools (like our community and state colleges), not the sort of colleges parents wish to be open to their children. Not the Cals, not the CalTechs. Not even the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. “STEM”? Common Core Math delays Algebra for a year, to the 9th grade, and that’s for a watered down algebra loaded with inductive lessons, eschewing the deductive approaches that have long been the standard for college preparatory sequences, not to mention general education sequences. What discovery methods most resemble are remedial education methods and one of the Common Core texts dating back to the beginnings of the NCTM Standards in 1989 is the wretchedly misnamed “College Preparatory Math” (CPM) from a company in Davis, not a part of the UC in town.
   CPM was actually formulated to be a remedial program for kids who had fallen far behind… no, it doesn’t prepare them, or anyone else, for a college and beyond career in math and the sciences.
   I know of some math professors at rather good schools who are fully expecting Common Core to have created a slow motion collapse in American education and, after years of grappling with the beast, have come to the conclusion that only a collapse will lead to a real reform, sweeping out the entrenched incompetence in K-12. One shining light on the horizon is that a bright fellow from the Hoover Institute, Williamson “Bill” Evers, a founder of HOLD of Palo Alto, the first parent’s group protesting whole math and language circa 1995, has been leading the Trump transition for the Education department.
   We live in interesting times.

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3. 

   fish

   27 November 2016

   This is the best election outcome ever…..not for the country or for policy prescriptions……for the laughs!
   

   “And Democrats have responded to their recent electoral defeat with riots, arson, and Alex Jones–level conspiracy theories. Progressives have just raised $5 million to press for a recount in several states. Clinton sycophant Paul Krugman, sounding exactly like every well-mannered conspiracy nut you’ve ever known, says the election “probably wasn’t hacked,” but “conspiracies do happen” and “now that it’s out there” — (who put it out there?) — “an independent investigation is called for.”

   Remember this the next time a Frisch, Koyote or Porkline calls the right the party of “Konspiracy Korner” dwellers!
   We’re getting back to Christic Institute level Krazy from the progressive left!
   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442474/democratic-party-lost-governors-state-legislature-seats-2016-election

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4. 

   Steve Frisch

   27 November 2016

   I am an equal opportunity de-bunker of conspiracy theories and have spent quite a bit of time this cycle going after the conspiracy thinking of the left—not to mention not supporting either rioting or a recount, nor disputing the election result. America decided. They decided wrong, but they decided.

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5. 

   Todd Juvinall

   27 November 2016

   The correct outcome was achieved in this election. We have a smart businessman defeating a lying flawed democrat caught with her panties down. What a great country!

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6. 

   Don Bessee

   27 November 2016

   How about dem Raiders? 😉

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7. 

   Bill Tozer

   27 November 2016

   Have to stand as a character witness to Steve Frisch’s 4:20 PM. Mr. Frisch has a proven track record of going head to head against the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory as well as the Chem Trail Theory (as he ably exhibited over at the FUE’s blog) after the a Nevada City Councilperson’s embarrassing Facebook Debacle. Nor did Mr. Frisch show any support for the erroneous wack job idea that law enforcement were under directives to go out and kill black folk for some sinister political, societial, or racial plot….hatched by an unnamed puppeteer behind the dark wall. No, I have to bear witness to the truth on this one. Mr. Frisch is an equal opportunity debunker of conspiracy theories. He just happens to believe AGW is a real and we need to be debunked. That is one nutty conspiracy theory he still hangs on to. 🙂
   We all have a past which includes past screw ups. I think it’s time we drop the failed business venture against Mr. Frisch and debate issues….whenever possible….if possible. In case nobody has noticed, there have been 2 business failures for every start up as residue of the Great Recession. Life in the fast lane has its drawbacks. But, then again, I have been wrong before. “Risk taking is risky” a wise man once uttered.
   Sure, I blamed Steve for turning that river into an Orange Julius contaminating (briefly) river and lake water that supplied 4 states with thirst quencher.. Then I caught a lucky break when the EPA sent the Navajo potable water in barrels contaminated with oil. That was fun, but most of my outrage was feigned to tell ya the truth. Good for a poke in the eye. Timing was great.
   Moving forward, the truth has set me free. Don’t know about the rest of you deplorables, but I feel good. It’s nice to be irredeemable.

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8. 

   Steve Frisch

   27 November 2016

   Posted by: Bill Tozer | 27 November 2016 at 06:13 PM
   …and head to head with the Alt-Left on GMO’s, vaccines, the “Hillary Stole the election from Bernie” meme, the “Hillary murdered the DNC staffer” meme, and Ben’s ridiculous business conspiracies (not all of which are conspiracies), and the lefts magical thinking on monetary policy debt and deficit, and Fukushima, and the meme that we can eliminate fossil fuels overnight, and cold fusion and HAARP…and the list could go on 🙂

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9. 

   fish

   27 November 2016

   Posted by: Steve Frisch | 27 November 2016 at 07:46 PM
   Wow……that blurb was reminiscent of the convergence between “real” news and The Onion.
   I can’t tell who’s responsible for what.

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10. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 November 2016

    BTW, Alex Jones (Inforwars) is ok to read again. I got turned off when I discovered he was into that 9/11 conspiracy thang. But, he was been right on during this election cycle on many things. Besides, who has time to download every Wikileaks and connect the dots? It’s a group effort from many sources. Each site pulls out what is deemed revelant to their readers. It takes a village of Deplorables. So, no more disclaimers when posting Alex Jones stuff from me until further notice.

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11. 

    Russ

    28 November 2016

    Joel Kotkin: The Corbynization of the Democratic Party.
    The Democratic Party’s current festival of re-examination is both necessary and justified. They have just lost to the most unpopular presidential candidate in recent memory. Lockstep media support and a much larger war chest were not enough to save them from losing not only the presidency, but also in state races across the country.
    Since President Obama’s first election, Democrats have lost control of the House and Senate, as well as a dozen governors’ houses and roughly 900 state legislative seats. Republicans have control of all levels of government in 24 states, while Democrats have total control over six. Overall, the party seems incapable of reaching out to the middle part of the country, white and middle-class voters.
    This contrasts with the 1990s, when a group of party activists consciously rebuilt the party to appeal to middle-class Americans. Groups like the Democratic Leadership Council — for whose think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute, I worked for several years — pushed notions of personal responsibility, welfare reform, tough crime policies and economic growth that, embraced by Bill Clinton, expanded the party’s base in the Midwest, the Appalachians and even the Southeast.
    Such a shift to the middle is unlikely today. Progressives generally see Hillary Clinton’s loss as largely a rejection of her husband’s neoliberal policies and want to push the party further to the left.
    This parallels developments in the United Kingdom, where, following their defeat in 2015, the Labour Party promoted a far-left figure, Jeremy Corbyn, as its leader. This was driven by grassroots progressives — deeply green, multiculturalist and openly socialist. Many, including several high up in Labour’s parliamentary party, believe the party has little chance to win under such leadership.
    Democrats face a similar dilemma. Driven by their dominant academic and media “thought police,” any shift to the middle on issues like crime, climate change or regulation now seems unimaginable. Self-described progressives who now dominate the party generally adhere to a series of policies — from open borders to draconian climate change policies — that are unlikely to play well outside the coastal enclaves.
    Lurching to the left does not seem to be winning strategy in a country reexamining populism as a governing philosophy.

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12. 

    fish

    28 November 2016

    Curse the luck…..wrong color, wrong faith, wrong creed…….AGAIN!
    

    “Law enforcement officials told NBC News the suspect’s name is Abdul Artan, an 18-year-old student at the university. He was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident of the United States, officials said”.

    Stay strong guys……I’m sure one of these days you leftards will have another white guy shoot up the place in spectacular fashion!

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13. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 November 2016

    http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/28/dnc-chair-candidate-keith-ellison-proposed-making-separate-country-african-americans?ref=yfp

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14. 

    George Rebane

    28 November 2016

    fish 107pm – not to worry Mr fish, when the non-Muslim finally strikes the lamestream will just make up for it with additional column inches. It all works out in the end 😉
    BillT 114pm – Mr Tozer, I wish you wouldn’t be bringing up all these other examples of Americans fomenting a Great Divide. The one-size-fits-all contingent already has a hard time rationalizing their nostrums for society.

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15. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 November 2016

    1) 1:07. When the radio first said that dead piece of human debris was from Somalia, I said “that don’t sound right.” Don’t fit my mental profile. Aha!!!! There it be. He was in Pakistan from 2008-2014. Bingo!! Come to papa. 95% of the Pakistanis belief Sheria Law should be the Law of the Land. About the same percentage for Afghanistan. BTW, the Turks are the lowest, with only 6%. agreeing Shira Law should be the Law. So, Mr. Dozer has a nice Turkman friend. He was right, I was wrong. Probably a fine fellow.
    Anybody heard from Obama about this? Anybody heard from the Obama/ Hillary Campaign concerning the recount? Maybe Jill is pissed she only got 30,000 votes in Wisconsin. But the polls said she had 2%! Think WI has a state law that a political party has to get 1% to stay certified. Or was that MI? Or, that’s how rumors start. 🙂
    2). Dr. Rebane. Sorry Doc, it’s a weakness of mine. Thank you for your longsuffering with me. A rare quality. I am but a lowly clinger. However, I will keep trying until I get it right. We both shall persevere.
    Boy, I hope they have that lunatic Marxist Bernie as the face of the party. He ain’t no Democratic Socialist spouting for more family leave. That’s Sweden stuff. No, he goes straight to Castro in his heart.
    I also hope that the handsome clean articulate Black Muslim becomes the head of the DNC. With him running things and Bernie playing The Old Crumudgeon in front of the cameras, this should be fun. Bernie already has 25-30% of the Dems in his pocket. Maybe Lizzy Cheekbone could break the glass ceiling. Harvard would love it. The media would love it. Soros would love it. They can even bring The Reverend Al out of the mothballs Trump will put him in.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/751089981707893/?type=3&theater

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16. 

    Scott Obermuller

    28 November 2016

    The ‘middle of the road’ AP has decided to define alt-right.
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/28/1604870/-The-Associated-Press-defined-alt-right-and-the-white-supremacists-are-not-going-to-like-it
    It turns out they are all NAZIs.
    Meanwhile there is a coordinated push by the left news media to start calling out ‘white nationalism’.
    Several different stories or political cartoons all were on this topic by total coincidence.
    NPR wanted to let folks know that a white nationalist lost in Montana but the movement has ‘gained a foothold’ in that state. Yeah – losing an election will do that. The local McClatchy rag ran an editorial cartoon about white nationalists.
    The left continues to harangue and name call. It beats having to actually talk to folks or have a conversation.

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17. 

    Gregory

    28 November 2016

    Responding to my 3:38PM yesterday (2nd from top), Pelline (aka Mr. Pink) jumped into action, all his empty rhetorical barrels firing… his cutting criticism? I had one two many d’s in Ghiddotti… it bothers Pelline so I’ll repeat it intentionally so he can be ghiddy at being able to find something wrong with my education screeds.
    Oh, and the straw man ad hominem that I wasn’t “qualified” to teach math at NU… a real howler, because the issue was the man hired to be the Chairman for the vaunted Common Core “State Standards” in Mathematics, writing the standards for K-12 in the entire US, wasn’t qualified to teach mathematics at our big local high school.
    I home schooled my kid in algebra and geometry before he started as a frosh at NU. He turned out OK.
    Checking, one of the ghiddotti math teachers only has a provisional single subject credential that “authorizes the holder to teach the content areas in general mathematics, algebra, geometry, probability and statistics, and consumer mathematics in grades twelve and below, including preschool, and in classes organized primarily for adults”. This person is teaching pre-calculus/trig, apparently above their certification level, from the very CPM textbook I identified as being originally a remedial sequence. No idea what their degree was in.
    The other (only two?) has a BA in Anthropology from Cal and math and social studies teaching credentials from ‘Frisco State.
    Neither of them apparently have the education that NU’s math department required just a decade ago. Even the bottom of the NU barrel, the late Ken McCarthy had a BA Math from Sac State. So it seems that Ghiddotti (looks better with two d’s, Jeff) may be relying on quality instruction from Sierra College for their last year: they require a Masters in the subject though they did let my late wife squeak by with an BS Math/MS Electrical Engineering. Would my very similar BS Physics/MSEE make the Sierra grade? Maybe, maybe not, but Phil Daro got the job to direct mathematics education nationwide with only a BA in English and no degrees in math. That was nuts but because neither California, any other state nor the Federal government was paying the bills for Common Core (that was Bill Gates), we don’t get to be privy to the reasons Phil Daro got the top job. FOIA has no force at a private company.
    The apparently senile Keachie (it’s hard to tell, considering what he was like nearer his peak) focused in on my kid at MIT and wondering if he ever finished, apparently not remembering my kid didn’t choose MIT.

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18. 

    Gregory

    28 November 2016

    The left is continuing what they did to lose the past election. National Propaganda Radio is also toeing the “white nationalist” line.
    I guess our top tier journalists are trying to ensure the low esteem average folk have for them now remains well earned.
    “Good plan. Didn’t work.” -Boris the Animal

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19. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 November 2016

    Did someone say Alt-right? Can you say Pepe? Link ain’t that good, but I liked some of its quotes.
    ——Progressive journalists are reporting — desperately hoping it’s true — that Gab is little more than a cesspit for racists,” Yiannopoulos told FoxNews.com. “But Gab isn’t just attracting the alt-right and other social pariahs. Dissidents, mischief-makers, libertarians and conservatives are all discovering it — and remembering what Twitter used to be like before the social justice warriors took over.”
    ——-In the runup to the election, the subreddit was mocked — perhaps prematurely — for its overwhelmingly positive atmosphere (“LANDSLIDE INCOMING!!!” was a popular tag on headlines) amid a slew of news elsewhere suggesting their candidate – whom they fondly refer to as “the God Emperor” – would lose.
    —–posting conspiracy theories and enthusiastic and offbeat subject lines such as “Anyone up for a game of Hungry Hungry Soros?” and “I heard there is going to be a recount. Winning twice! #NeverGetTiredOfWinning.”–
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/28/as-twitter-cracks-down-on-alt-right-aggrieved-members-flee-to-gab.html

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20. 

    Gregory

    28 November 2016

    Jeffy was on it in record time:
    “Gregory Goodknight is a hoot! His passes judgement on others’ credentials, while his “job” is — get this — “independent software engineer at my place.” Other than living vicariously through his wife and son’s achievements, he seems to have little to nothing going on.”
    I gave you a scoop, Jeff. Ghidotti (enjoy the correct spelling while it lasts) is apparently not requiring much math of their math teachers outside of the Sierra College classes. I also have 20 years experience monitoring math education with the Mathematically Correct crowd and had a small role with the original California content standards development. My condolences to your family if your son is being taught from CPM materials.
    Your reliance on argumentum ad hominem continues: Classic bullying tactics. And What I do in my semi-retirement is my business, and making light of my home office and independence is part of it.

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21. 

    fish

    29 November 2016

    Posted by: Gregory | 28 November 2016 at 07:36 PM
    The apparently senile Keachie (it’s hard to tell, considering what he was like nearer his peak) focused in on my kid at MIT and wondering if he ever finished, apparently not remembering my kid didn’t choose MIT.
    Ouch……
    “Gregory Goodknight is a hoot! His passes judgement on others’ credentials, while his “job” is — get this — “independent software engineer at my place.” Other than living vicariously through his wife and son’s achievements, he seems to have little to nothing going on.”
    Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this jeffys entire schtick? Obsessing endlessly about others educational attainment, employing the “royal” we and prattling on endlessly about his kid?
    …..self awareness eludes him yet again.

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22. 

    Todd Juvinall

    29 November 2016

    Victor Davis Hansen rips the left and it made me heer!
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442535/democratic-party-hypocrisy-racism-sexism-homophobia

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23. 

    fish

    29 November 2016

    A Republican back in office and right on cue…….the left takes an interest in civil liberties again! You can set your watch by these guys!
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-29/fbi-and-nsa-poised-to-gain-new-surveillance-powers-under-trump

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24. 

    Bill Tozer

    29 November 2016

    Todd @ 7:30. Good article. I feel personally vindicated. When I finally realized the liberal/progressives had nothing left in their arsenal except calling people racists and bigots and racist bigots, it was a game changer for me. They had zero, nada, nilch, nothing except name calling. That was the moment I stopped defending “us” from their adolescent psychotic rages. I wore the caca they flung as a badge of honor, thus defanging them. They are just toothless dogs. What are they going to do, gum me to death? The emperor has no clothes….and it is a pathetic sight to behold.
    “Progressive outrage should not be taken too seriously because it is not intended to be serious. When Barack Obama invites rapper Kendrick Lamar into the White House and announces that his “To Pimp a Butterfly” is the president’s favorite song of the year — whose album cover shows the corpse of a murdered white judge, with Xs in place of eyes, on the White House lawn, as African-American youth toast his demise with drinks and cash — do we really assume that progressives like Obama believe in stopping hate speech and imagery, or perhaps even believe in anything at all?”
    No arrows in their quiver, out of bullets. They are too stupid to surrender, thus they got nuked.

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25. 

    Bill Tozer

    29 November 2016

    Fish: Is it just me, or is the MSM unusually mum concerning the terrorist attack on our millennials yesterday? Hmmm. Seems like this is just a one day story to me. What, no guns, no white racists, no Trumpsters, no sit down protest on the House floor (catered of course)??? Just seems like they want to make it go away. Where is the cry for gun control and the need for understanding of those different from us? Odd.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/962507740549930/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/962442557223115/?type=3&theater

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26. 

    fish

    29 November 2016

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 29 November 2016 at 09:08 AM
    I know Bill….been a bad November for proglodytes! They did manage to get that guy banned from Delta Airlines though….so there’s that!

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27. 

    fish

    29 November 2016

    Really…..who could have predicted this outcome?! Anyone……Bueller……?
    

    “Australia ceases multimillion-dollar donations to controversial Clinton family charities”

    http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/australia-ceases-multimilliondollar-donations-to-controversial-clinton-family-charities/news-story/219577919ed8dfbd79cf808321234eba

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28. 

    Bill Tozer

    29 November 2016

    Oh boy. The twitter machine is back. I don’t think our President-Elect has much tolerance for the Clinton News Network. Bash their teeth in, Mr. Trump.
    Good move Mr. Trump. You were wise to have Kellyann put it our to us Trumpamaniacs to give Mitt the thumbs up or the dreaded thumbs down. Sure, Mitt is an experienced business and political an, has a passion for foreign policy, has a judicial temperament and is respected outside the US……but the Deplorables give him the thumbs down. Rightly or wrongly, when you said Drain the Swamp, Mitt IS the swamp to my lower companions. Good job KellyAnn and, of course, Citizen Trump.
    http://deadline.com/2016/11/donald-trump-cnn-jeff-zeleny-voter-fraud-1201861018/?ref=yfp

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29. 

    Gregory

    29 November 2016

    Regarding living vicariously through one’s child, I expect Pelline is “projecting”. He’s reported on the family travels and all the universities he’s taken his kid to see… even in Cambridge… when said kid was still in elementary school.
    Let’s see, how many colleges did I drag my kid to while in elementary school? I think the total was zero. How many did we visit when he was in high school? One…after he decided to apply for admission.
    I’m the laid back dad who was there to give my kid guidance and support as his sole surviving parent. If anything, I gave him permission to do less… except in math. I wanted him to graduate from high school without any impediment to a math or science path if he so chose, which, in today’s world, means having an introduction to single variable calculus while still in high school. His idiot NUHS guidance counselor told him he should plan on AP Statistics his senior year, as Stats was the crowning glory of Nevada Union mathematics. I did counsel him to get Stats out of the way as a bloody dead end, and plan on AP Calc his senior year because if he majors in math or a science, he’d be needing that Calc fresh to hit the ground running. That worked just fine, so AP Stats in the 10th grade it was.
    By my contacts in real math education, Stanford’s math department (as opposed to their fake Math Education department) considers an introductory Calculus class to be remedial; they provide it but they would really rather not have to. My alma mater, back in the dark ages of the 1970’s before AP Calc became common, sent all entering students a theory-free instructional paperback on differentiation and integration, along with a promise that the theory behind it all will be well covered in the mathematics classes to follow but for your chemistry, physics and engineering classes you will all be taking as frosh (everyone took the same core classes until 2nd semester 2nd year) you’ll need to know how to do this. That worked fine.
    The Common Core “State Standards” in math do not align with Calculus in high school… mainly because it takes longer to get to calculus with discovery methods of teaching, and students are not as good at it when they get there.

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30. 

    Gregory

    29 November 2016

    “In other words, voters got tired of being accused of thought crimes from a party led by wealthy people who made them poorer while adding insult to injury.”
    I think that’s the money quote in the Victor Davis Hansen piece Todd links above.

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31. 

    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    29 November 2016

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/29/1605190/-Here-s-what-the-resistance-looks-like-We-block-f-n-EVERYTHING

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32. 

    Gregory

    29 November 2016

    scenes 1207
    That plays right into Bannon’s lap, and they’re missing something… the Dems can’t stop a united majority Republican Senate from giving consent to a Republican President’s SCOTUS nominee.
    All it takes is the “nuclear option”… removing the need for 60 votes to call for a confirmation vote. That’s a Senate rule change and they can get that the same way Harry Reid rammed it through for lower court nominations three years ago:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option#Events_of_November_2013
    I expect McConnell will be able to do a Harry Reid imitation to get the job done.

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33. 

    George Boardman

    29 November 2016

    Congratulations, boys. You may have been unwilling stooges in Russia’s attempt to undermine faith in American democracy:
    http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article116925848.html
    I recall numerous comments here about Hillary’s health, many of them citing dubious online sources. Russ seemed particularly concerned about her welfare. There were even a couple of references here to the pedophilia nonsense.
    “Useful idiots” indeed.

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34. 

    fish

    29 November 2016

    Posted by: George Boardman | 29 November 2016 at 01:58 PM
    Funny that the “newsmen” have their panties in a bunch over fake news! Nobody said you guys (the domestic MSM) would have a forever lock on bullshitting the American people…..we can have foreigners do it now for much less!

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35. 

    fish

    29 November 2016

    Oh George…….
    

    “Six months of fake news stories about Hillary Clinton didn’t doom her election chances; two decades of real news stories did. But the fake-news meme provides Democrats with an excuse to avoid self-reflection; it clears Clinton (and them) of any responsibility for the loss”.

    http://reason.com/archives/2016/11/28/the-liberal-postmortem-on-2016-is-not-go
    Well worth reading.

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36. 

    Russ

    29 November 2016

    Blue State Regulates Cow Farts
    Not only are we a Blue State, but we also live among 60% of the citizens with a severe mental illness, called liberal progressivism. Here is one of the visible symptoms, the desire to regulate cow farts.
    GALT, Calif. (AP) — California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm.
    The nation’s leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gasses produced by dairy cows and other livestock.
    Despite strong opposition from farmers, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation in September that for the first time regulates heat-trapping gasses from livestock operations and landfills.
    Cattle and other farm animals are major sources of methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas. Methane is released when they belch, pass gas and make manure.
    http://www.fox5ny.com/news/220448846-story
    Soon we will see cows in the field with backpack methane collectors like these used in Argentina:
    http://www.agriculturenewsnetwork.com/2014/04/21/argentina-scientists-now-attaching-backpacks-collect-cow-farts/

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    fish

    29 November 2016

    “Man in the Netherlands euthanised due to his alcohol addiction”

    Pfffft…….Euroweenie! Man Up and drink yourself to death like an American!
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-holland-netherlands-dutch-euthanised-alcohol-addiction-alcoholic-netherlands-a7446256.html

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38. 

    fish

    29 November 2016

    Hey Steve……looks like your “New Soviet Man” project is coming along nicely!
    http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8455

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    Russ

    29 November 2016

    Mr Boardmand@01:58
    Now you know why I do not read the Sac Bee, it is filled with stories that to do not make sense in the real world. With all the “fale news stories” this article did not produce one and clearly show the links to the source. It was just another ” couda, mita, maybe ” bull shit story. Talk about “fake news.”

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    Russ

    29 November 2016

    Mr Boardman.
    Here is fake news story we can sink our teeth into from the Dailykos. In a story about higher than normal Arctic temperatures the Dailykos posted a picture of a Penguin on an ice flow. Outside of the fact there are no penguins in the Arctic or the North Pole, they used the same ice flow that was used in a previous fake story in Science about polar bears.
    Photos are HERE.

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41. 

    Bill Tozer

    29 November 2016

    Gregory: CA high school education:
    http://www.theunion.com/opinion/thomas-elias-will-lawmakers-deep-six-exit-exam/

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42. 

    Scott Obermuller

    29 November 2016

    Poor Mr Boardman – got it all wrong and comes out of his post-election stupor swinging wildly.
    We didn’t vote for Ms Clinton because she’s a lying crook, Boardman.
    Got it?
    What part of the ‘real’ news from AP (Boardman’s word-of-God) don’t you get, Boardman? She’s a lying crook. Her tech guy that set up her server in her home took the fifth.
    She lied over and over about why she set up the server and what was deleted and what wasn’t. I could go on and on, but what’s the point?
    Don’t worry about ‘fake news’ – trying reading the NEWS, Boardman. The Clinton Foundation was a scam from start to (hopefully soon) finish. The Clintons are lying crooks – have been for decades.
    Who’s the useful idiot?

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43. 

    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    29 November 2016

    Fake news? Fake everything. Blast from the past.
    https://wikileaks.org/hbgary-emails/emailid/39681

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44. 

    Todd Juvinall

    29 November 2016

    Pelline is always claiming Boardman writes fake news. So which is it. And if there are useful idiots in the mix it is the losers who backed Hillary and that includes Bpardman.

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45. 

    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    29 November 2016

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKUU4l1TmJU

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46. 

    Bill Tozer

    29 November 2016

    I could be wrong, but the reason Trump won and Hillary was sent to the Gates of Political Hell was a direct result of……of….drumroll please…….the voter. Even the dumb voter couldn’t bear to hear that voice of hers for one more minute.

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    Scott Obermuller

    29 November 2016

    SFTA at 6:11 – Sooo, another officer involved shooting death of a ‘person of color’.
    When do the riots start?

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48. 

    Walt

    29 November 2016

    News for our Lefties, since their news sources won’t tell them,, Trump is already saving American jobs, and he’s not even in office yet.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/business/trump-to-announce-carrier-plant-will-keep-jobs-in-us.html?_r=0

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    Gregory

    29 November 2016

    Boardman 1:58, let me know when they have evidence of Russian involvement that would be admissible in court.
    And, how much of any Russian information was true and which was false. So far NONE of the wikileaks have been properly denounced as fakes. If the bloody Russkies ruined Clinton’s chances by being more truthful than the NY Times, I say let’s give them medals.

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50. 

    Todd Juvinall

    29 November 2016

    O would like to see a vociferous denouncement of the rigged democrat party shenanigans from Boardman. Maybe a column?

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