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Imagine Schools: Teacher turnover isn’t a bug, it’s a feature
July 25, 2012
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by David Safier NOTE: This is the eleventh in a series of recent posts examining Imagine Schools. (Here are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.) If you have ideas or information to add, please leave comments at the end of the post or email me at safier@schooltales.net. I keep all … Read more
TUSD “un-banning” of MAS books fails.
July 25, 2012
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by David Safier So much for my predictive powers. Yesterday I wrote, "most probably the book ban will be lifted." Today I read Stegeman pulled his proposal to lift the ban because he knew he didn't have the support. Members on both sides of the MAS aisle, Adelita Grijalva and Michael Cuevas, opposed the measure. … Read more
Plugging Chris Hedges
July 24, 2012
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I was all set to propound my views on gun control (like anyone really cares what some pseudopundit in bloggerland thinks), but took a detour to read Chris Hedges' latest column: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_careerists_20120723// I'll get back to the gun control issue in my next post, but this post is just a nod to Hedges' extraordinary insight, … Read more
Matt Heinz at Drinking Liberally Tucson 7/25
July 24, 2012
Dear Liberals, Come join us this Wednesday night starting at 6pm at the Shanty on 4th Avenue. This week our guest host is Matt Heinz. Matt is challenging Congressman Ron Barber for the Democratic Party nomination for the new CD2 seat. Come learn about Matt and his campaign, and share a beer with him and … Read more
Sugar Ray Goes Off on Rosemont!
July 24, 2012
By Michael Bryan
I respect any politician, or either party, who speaks truth to power, especially when they are doing so to stand up for their community.
Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll is bound to get some flack for his recent comments at a Save the Scenic Santa Ritas meeting (hat tip to Sonoran Alliance). He was lamenting the fact that local newspapers are raking in cash for running Rosemont's propaganda ads, causing a financial conflict in covering fairly the issues involved in the controversial mine project. He said he wished that those news outlets would put stock in their community and "stop selling out to those pricks".
Hells to the yeah, Sugar Ray! This is one Republican who is not backing off what he believes because some Tea Party wackadoodles have gotten it in their heads that Ray's not conservative enough for them. Some think that Ray is insufficiently on board with the plan for some foreign corporation to bust in here, hose our views and our water supply, leave us with another toxic mess to clean up, and blow town with the profits.
Well, Ray's ::gasp:: representing the concerns and views of his constituents in the district on this matter. Rather than rolling over and showing belly to every multi-nat that rolls in, like every other Tea Party dupe is begging to do these days, Ray's actually fighting for the people he represents. I didn't even know that Republicans were still allowed to do that.
See Ray proving me wrong after the click…
Obama campaign ad: ‘The Choice’
July 24, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
On Monday, the Obama campaign released a new ad featuring Obama appealing to voters to make this election a choice between two competing sets of policies to secure our economic future and bring down the deficit. It is a true comparison and contrast ad. We can either move "Forward," or we will go backward with Willard Mitt Romney's Policies Are George W. Bush 'On Steroids' – Business Insider.
Video below the fold.
Stegeman’s clever, but not terribly consequential, proposal
July 24, 2012
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by David Safier TUSD Board member Mark Stegeman cleverly outflanked MAS supporters, probably for the first time since he stepped into the controversy that led to the disbanding of the MAS curriculum. Stegeman is proposing that the ban on MAS books be lifted. Given the local, national, even international furor over the book banning, this … Read more
Jon Kyl: the middle class should idolize their betters
July 24, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The door cannot hit this embarrassment to Arizona in his ass on the way out soon enough.
Did you hear about this? "President Barack Obama should stop talking about the middle class because it turns people against rich Americans, who should be embraced as the Michael Jordans of the U.S. economy," Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said Monday. Jon Kyl Berates Obama For Focus On Middle Class:
Declaring that the use of the phrase "middle class" is "misguided and wrong and even dangerous," Kyl argued in a Senate floor speech that Obama is "spreading economic resentment [that] weakens American values" and ignoring "the uniquely meritocratic basis of our society."
“We have a president who talks incessantly about class, particularly the middle class,” Kyl said.
"I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America," said Kyl, the Senate minority whip. He added, "I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country. Tell me what's different about the values of someone who the president identifies as middle class?"
