Condi Rice the Triple Threat VP Option

[cheeno]

I agree, but I would change "deeply religious" to "having a pretty deep understanding of religion and what it means to be religious", and then I have no quarrel at all.

"Nutjob" is shorter.

 

[Michchamp]

we had a couple different history teachers. the last two years one of the brothers taught American History, (AP and AP Gov't). he was a nice guy, but an awful instructor. I was not prepared for that AP exam at all.

not sure when you were there, but my mom used to work with an older lady who's three kids went to BR well before me. incidentally, they had a history teacher who sounded kinda like that. He was a great teacher and well-liked, but they all told their mom they smoked pot with him on the weekend a couple times. apparently the administration heard rumors, and he was fired. sounds kinda like Dead Poets Society or something.

I have no idea whether any of that was true or not, but it's what I heard.

 

[KAWDUP]

let me parse words for you since I used a few parenthesis, and that may have made the sentence hard to follow: the real goal here is to destroy unions. They are willing to screw up/destroy/turn upside down whatever, to the public schools do it. They don't really care whether charter schools, vouchers, etc. are better or not, they just want the unions to go away.

I say "right wing" think tanks, but that's not really a fair label. Here in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel - a democrat - is just as anti-union as anyone else. A better label might be "corporatist." How's that? I know anything that casts aspersions on the political right gets your hackles up... dems can be just as awful in this regard though.

:no:

Back to the issue at hand. You are using "screw up/destroy/turn upside down" as interchangeable verbs as they apply to public schools. They are not in my opinion very close at all. So maybe it is a matter of semantics.

I can imagine a statement that teacher's unions should have a little less power to force keeping bad teachers, but keep their power to negotiate better wages and/or benefits, would be "destroying" it to you?

As you can see, that may be why I was questioning what you have actually seen in writing about "think tank" missions.

 

[Michchamp]

"Nutjob" is shorter.

LOL... No. I would never say something like that, nor did I mean to imply...

 

[KAWDUP]

we had a couple different history teachers. the last two years one of the brothers taught American History, (AP and AP Gov't). he was a nice guy, but an awful instructor. I was not prepared for that AP exam at all.

not sure when you were there, but my mom used to work with an older lady who's three kids went to BR well before me. incidentally, they had a history teacher who sounded kinda like that. He was a great teacher and well-liked, but they all told their mom they smoked pot with him on the weekend a couple times. apparently the administration heard rumors, and he was fired. sounds kinda like Dead Poets Society or something.

I have no idea whether any of that was true or not, but it's what I heard.

Yes it is - and that is the guy. He did that a year or two after I left. He did talk about smoking pot, but I was mr goody-two-shoes at the time, and tended to gravitate more towards Brother Driscoll. Driscoll taught Physics my senior year and was voted the best teacher by the graduating seriors. He later became principal and was there for quite a long time. Did you know him? The hippy found a home teaching in the public school system in another state. I didn't really ask where.

 

[KAWDUP]

LOL... No. I would never say something like that, nor did I mean to imply...

Sure you wouldn't. :*)

. . . and cheeno, if I am really considered a nutjob, this is one radical country we live in. I certainly wouldn't consider myself on the fringe on most issues, and I do make a reasonable attempt to read up on any issue before making a statement about it. I never cast my vote based on my own morality either.

. . . but hey, if all you knew about me was what you read on this board, . . . OK I'm a nutjob. :shrug:

 

[tinselwolverine]

:hmm:

How so? he's deeply religious, somewhat reactionary, and conservative, like most Bro Rice alums... and I am not.

Well it's just that the two of you really, really like each other, but sometimes you both pretend that don't, just to piss each other off.

 

[KAWDUP]

Are you mistaking "like" for "grudging respect"?

 

[tinselwolverine]

Are you mistaking "like" for "grudging respect"?

I think the two of you have serious man crushes on each other.

 

[KAWDUP]

I think the two of you have serious man crushes on each other.

. . . or not. Now who is the nutjob?

 

[Michchamp]

I think the two of you have serious man crushes on each other.

not sure what gives you that idea.

 

[tinselwolverine]

There's nothing that gives me that idea.

I was totally goofing when I posted that.

 

[Michchamp]

There's nothing that gives me that idea.

I was totally goofing when I posted that.

oh, GOOFING!!! HAHA AH HA

 

[byco42]

It was always gratifying to drumbeat Brother Rice in baseball, even though I had a good friend on their Varsity.

EDIT: And we had a few of those teachers who got high with the students. It was not an issue back then in the libertine 1970s. I just got shit-faced with a few teachers a few times, but it was legal because 18 was the drinking age and we were not on school property.

There was even the teacher in his 40s marrying the 18 year old senior and leaving his family. Again, not even a mention in the local paper. Somewhat scandalous, though.

 

[redandguilty]

It amuses me to see blacks support the liberals, who talk a good talk about helping but intern make them poorer and poorer and dependent on the government. Maybe they'll wake up and realize the govt isnt the answer, but I doubt it. Jesse Jackson sure has made a bundle off his own people, sickening

How could observing one group of people making another group poorer and poorer be amusing?

 

[Michchamp]

How could observing one group of people making another group poorer and poorer be amusing?

when you dont empathize with them at all because you view them as inferior in some respect.

 

[Michchamp]

when you dont empathize with them at all because you view them as inferior in some respect.

Now... Most people would consider this racism, but you cant call it that or fox and friends, rush, and other gop pundits will get upset. its not "politically correct" to call it what it is.