- The Julia Child's movie with Meryl Streep looks like a beat down.
- It's "Shark Week" on the Discovery Channel. If you stumble across it, you'll be hooked. There's just something about those eating machines that we just love.
- Lady tries to hire hitman to kill husband. Lady ends up talking to undercover cop. Cops stage fake crime scene. Cops film lady being informed husband is dead.
- The new G.I. Joe movie also looked awful in the trailers, and the studio refused to let the film be screened by critics. That's a bad sign.
- Awkward moment yesterday: I tweeted that our office was getting a new sprinkler system and that it sounded "like there's a mariachi band out there" due to the radio. Thirty minutes later I run into the owner of the company who asks me if I'm Barry Green followed by, "What sounds like a mariachi band?" Thank goodness he has a sense of humor (his brother had called him.)
- The crowd of protesters at town hall meetings seem to be 99% white. Why is that?
- Has there been even a single hurricane so far this year?
- The massive repaving of 287 through Rhome is a good thing. The pavement there, for some reason, always seems to crumble like a burned cookie.
- The now federally owned AIG announced a quarterly profit this morning. If the unemployment numbers (announced about the time I'm posting this) would hit the brakes, I think the recession is finally ending.
- I think being a first year teacher would be hard. I mean, once you do it for a few years, you would have it down. But the first year would seem like it would be the equivalent of giving day long first time presentations every day for nine months.
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58 comments:
The crowd of protesters at town hall meetings seem to be 99% white. Why is that?"
Obama wants to tax apirin. Why?
Because it's white and it works.
Every company could post a profit if they got to write off most of their debts.
Nice picture even the second time around.
You are so right about the first year of teaching - very hard. Not only are you staying up late every night trying to stay ahead in your subjects (For me anyway, you don't really learn a subject until you are responsible for teaching it), you are also having to learn how to deal with the behavior of 20 - 25 teenagers in a room with you. And that situation stays fluid through out the years.
You come in dog-tired and start studying again, stay up late, start again early next morning.
Actually the first 3 or 4 years are really difficult. That's why a very large percentage of teachers don't make it to the 5th year.
We veteran teachers know the great rewards that are ahead in the coming years and we try to help and encourage, but there's no easy way around those first few years as a teacher.
Thanks for your empathy.
Kudos for those young teachers. Bless 'em.
Isn't the hot slutty chick a rerun?
"The crowd of protesters at town hall meetings seem to be 99% white. Why is that?"
Do you think it is because we work and do not always have our hands out and are sick of giving all to those with their hands out?
The rest are so accustomed to the government teat, they just see that teat getting bigger and bigger from their "daddy" Obama so they will not protest more giveaways.
Not that hard to figure out, eh??????
The participants at town hall meetings either want to learn, voice an opinion, observe their representation, or see if a blog editor notices them. It has little to do with skin pigment...you closet profiler.
Don't worry about the citizen mix of the townhall meetings, because it's about to change. The AFL-CIO is sending in union thugs to straighten things out. (Picture the Black Panthers aremed with billy clubs planted outside the polling place in Philadelphia and you get the idea of the intended strategy.)
Pic is a repeat.
"The crowd of protesters at town hall meetings seem to be 99% white. Why is that?"...........because they're tired of paying other people's bills,
The "random thoughts" young lady is a repeat. Not complaining, of course, just making an observation. Feel free to use her again and again. Yow-zah.
I'll grant her, it was a pretty good acting job. What I want to see is her face when her "dead" husband confronts her for the first time. Why isn't there video of that on YouTube?
I would lick her toes
"I think the recession is finally ending". Really! You did not look at the graph you posted yesterday. You are too young and innocent Barry. The price of oil fell overnight in Asia based on expectations of negative unemployment numbers continuing to rise in the U.S.
Even in good years the housing market dries up in mid August (school starting?). It doesn't pick up until birds start migrating back to their nesting areas. I know this sounds weird but all historical data supports this. I have a few rent houses and will not sign a lease that ends in mid to late summer. I would be vacant all winter if I put a rental on the market in September. People buying houses behave the same way.
Unemployed people do not buy houses. Do you really think the rcession is ending?
You've posted that random pic before. However, as Martha Stewart would say "It's a good thing." And as Julia Child would say "Bon appetit!"
Give your support to first year teachers like no other and nothing else you do in your life for your children and community. The attrition rate can be pretty bad for them.
They will never forget you for it either.
I had a whole paragraph of comment but it was all so maddening trying to correct your logic and your middle-class people are white comments, I am just going to say....
Ugh.
Go back to sleep and get a few more hours sleep.
I know the whole road around Rhome (287) is so bad.
Also while driving home I saw something amusing at Kousin's on the 407 exit.
There was round bale of hay and a banner was attached to it. It said:
"Got my Obama bail out"
*snicker*
Barry,you're like a teenager who keeps going back to that one particular Hustler picture that winds your clock.
Have we run out of hot women to post?
In Texas, our women folk don't hire a stranger to do what has to be done. They get behind the wheel of the Benz and run the hubby down - three times.
Married only six months? Wow! What would she do to the drycleaner if they didn't get the stain out? Serious judgment issues (or lack of same). Buying flowers for the wife on-line right now.
My Other Brother Darryl
LMAO She was really acting it out, huh? And the cops were all rolling their eyes and unable to believe this stupid broad! Oh, yeah I'd like to see her face when her husband confronts her!!
White people vote and who would of guessed white people pay taxes.
I don't know this for sure, but is Dick Armey one of the stem winders of these protest groups?
Someone told me yesterday, these folks are programmed to do certain things at these meetings - scattered around the room to heckle the speakers, etc, told what questions to ask and how to embarrass the speakers........
So much for peaceful protesting.
Wordkyle - From the link you posted, here is the AFL-CIO's response to your comment:
"Every American has the inalienable right to participate in our democratic process. Our politics is passionate, heartfelt and often loud -- as was the founding of our nation. But that is not what the corporate-funded mobs are engaging in when they show up to disrupt town halls held by members of Congress.
Major health care reform is closer than ever to passage and it is no secret that special interests want to weaken or block it. These mobs are not there to participate. As their own strategy memo states, they have been sent by their corporate and lobbyist bankrollers to disrupt, heckle and block meaningful debate. This is a desperation move, meant to slow the momentum for change.
Mob rule is not democracy. People have a democratic right to express themselves and our elected leaders have a right to hear from their constituents -- not organized thugs whose sole purpose is to shut down the conversation and attempt to scare our leaders into inaction
We call on the insurance companies, the lobbyists and the Republican leaders who are cheering them on to halt these 'Brooks Brothers Riot' tactics. Health care is a crucial issue and everyone - on all sides of the issue - deserves to be heard."
9:37 - thank you for such a thoughtful post. It was well written.
Republican leaders should be ashamed to participate in such disruptive town hall meetings.
These folks are acting like bullies in the school yard.
Which is precisely what a lot of them are.
Shame.
Yeah, we are dealing with Union thugs right now on a project out of state. Unfortunately, in a state that is suffering high unemployment percentages. The original contractor was removed for shoddy work and we were called in to the rescue.
A Union leader tried to bully an upper management employee of ours to hire some of his cult on the project. Thank goodness, we were steadfast and stood our ground. Full-time security personal had to be placed on the project in fear for the safety of our employees.
The fact that the General Contractor on the project had to call someone as far away as Texas to get the job done says a lot.
All those "white people" who work -- and I just love that defensive and self-righteous tone when y'all say WORK, like no one else has ever put in a day's honest labor but them -- so anyway, if they're working so hard, how come they've got all this time to go to Potemkin protests, eh? Don't they need to get back to WORK?
"Has there been even a single hurricane so far this year?"
From USA TODAY today......
Hurricane Felicia weakens to a Category 3 storm in Pacific
I have started to read the healthcare bill. You can find it here http://docs.house.gov/edlabor/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf
On about pg 443 they introduce a program that woud provide doctors with an incentive payment from the government. To receive the incentive the doctor would have to meet criteria based on expeditures and quality of care. The standards for these criteria would be set by the government.
At no time do I want a doctor treating me thinking that if he/she gives me the care that I may need it may decrease his incentive payment. This creates a major conflict of interest with my, your, or our loved ones life dangling. I don't like it!
-Shelly
9:58: Stupid comment!
Hey, House of R & R, do you have any openings for non wetback laborers. You could help your country and neighbors by sending the illegals packing south and hire some unemployed oil field workers.
Why 99% white protestors? They are the ones hit the hardest!
anon 9:37
Democracy is infact mob rule. A republic on the other hand has rule of law. This country was set up as a republic according to our founders
Recession will end or begin to improve in 2012 and I don't understand why the Libs act like cry babies when Repubs use the very same tactics the libs created.
937 - A series of Democrat talking points. ("Brooks Brothers," "mob," "corporate and lobbyist bankrollers," etc.) An often-repeated criticism is of that so-called "Republican strategy memo" on how to disrupt meetings. Here's the source of that memo:
Right Principles PAC was formed by Bob MacGuffie and four friends in 2008, and has taken in a whopping $5,017 and disbursed $1,777, according to its FEC filing. Right Principles has a Facebook group with 23 members and a Twitter account with five followers. (This information was before Democrats gave them such notoriety.) There's your high-powered organization. And let's face it, after the last several years of Republican political ineptitude, do we really think they're capable of organizing something this effective?
Funny as hell. Obama, proud community organizer, ACORN, unions, almost any liberal group, steeped in the ways of organized protest; bitching about white people concerned about their health care, showing up mad at town hall meetings.
Really?
There is just no reason to reply to this POS anymore.
George Washington
Hey Barry
there is a pic of Brit Brit in a Bikini on TMZ website you might like She looks banging hot
First year teaching is a beating, and, if the teacher doesn't take copious notes on what went well and what didn't, year two isn't a whole lot better. Even with those notes, what was amazing with one group of kids can be a disaster with the next group.
An earlier commenter was correct, a teacher doesn't begin to feel really comfortable until year five or so. However, they bring a wonderful fresh perspective to the profession, and we love the "newbies!"
Thanks for the support for teachers. They really deserve it--new and more experienced. While the older ones do have somewhat of a routine, the state and/or school administration is always introducing a "new" way of teaching it. Sometimes, it is like the first year all over again. Pray for them.
i was waiting for Aston Kutcher to come and say "you got punked"! That would have been a classic. I kinda think shes hot..
GI Joe WAS actually screened by a few select critics that gave it good reviews. The producers of GI Joe did not want the cartoon turned movie to get reviews like the second transformers movie did before it's release. But those who did review it gave it great reviews.
The AFL-CIO is sending in union thugs to straighten things out.
Ha. Okay, so honest, hard-working blue collar Americans become "union thugs" when show up to counter-protest. Okay dude.
Also, will you people quit seeing crap like Transformers and GI Joe? If you honestly like that junk then fine, you have no taste. But if you're one of those people that's just doing it because of the hype or so you can get on your blog to trash it...well, you need to cut that crap out. They don't need your money too.
We learned all of our tactics from the union organizers
Hispanics and Asians are just thankful to be in America. White people are never happy with the way things are and constantly speak out for change regardless of what it is. And blacks just like to complain about the way things are instead of actually doing something to try to help themselves. Naturally this is not a blanket statement encompassing every single last person in each group. However I am confident I will still catch hell for the statement anyways.
We have our first nominee for "The LLLDQ Dumbest Statement of the day" award.
It comes in the form of a question.
"The crowd of protesters at town hall meetings seem to be 99% white. Why is that?"
Dumb dumb dumb
Xan - I admit that I'm prophesying some in describing the union goons as "thugs." I'm sure that the men -- and it will likely be all male -- sent by their union bosses to confront those who disagree with them will have as their prime directive "First do no harm." Union confrontations and tactics enjoy such a rich history of pacifism.
You're wasting your time wordkyle, that's way over his head.
One of the ways proposed to finance this so-called health care reform is to tax those with health care benefits with the exception of those on union health care plans.
What does the honest, hard-working, blue-collar union guy think about that?
By the way Barry, what are your thoughts on flag@whitehouse.gov?
Well there hasn't been any named Atlantic hurricanes and that is very unusual. Has it ever gone this long into the season without one?
I am always amused when posters will cut and pasted reference material from other sources to help prove their points….nobody cares about the facts…”just shut up and listen to my opinion” …..or is it the opinion I heard from Rush or Glen Beck or Fox, I cant remember I am just supposed I repeated it without thinking
It's not the teaching that's hard...I wish we really could teach; if you are a teacher, you understand what that means. It's all the meaningless tasks so blindly and arbitraily assigned to teachers...the bureaucratic stuff that doesn't serve the needs of students as much as it does people at the top. More and more administrators with minimal time spent as educators in the classroom (the fast-track administrator) are making decisions that have detrimental effects. They spend their time searching for the next educational fad on their smart phones so they can build their resumes. It's like they desperately want to be in the corporate world pushing products but the little bodies that hug me on their way out every day aren't products; they are human. Sadly, it's dumbing down what we teach kids even more than the stupid decisions we've let our legislators make.
Hey Barry, want to know what socialism looks like? Take a look at public education. That's what it looks like when the government runs something. Your cleaning lady will have to wait before I commit a damn dime to helping anyone via the government. Big government doesn't solve problems, it just makes them larger.
Say the word C-Scope to an elementary or core teacher in Decatur, rookie or veteran, and watch the look on their face. It will speak volumes about the atmosphere of teaching. Actually, the rookies have it made in Decatur. They won't have to use any of the expertise they gained in college or teacher preparation classes. It's the veterans that are suffering now because they see the problems, know the solutions, but have to keep their mouths shut for fear of the "your not being a team player" retaliation of adminstrators (also know as the growth plan).
Amen!Amen!Amen! to comment 3:19!
Very well said!!
Preach on!
You want to know the essence of Obama's healthcare plan? It's his backroom deals with lobbyists for drug makers to protect their profits, as long as they support his legislation.
"That's the Chicago way!" (You can't say you weren't warned.)
So, while protesting or arguing without mentioning race, a person with light skin is automatically believed to be a racist. A light skinned person disagrees with a person of color about anything and they are automatically a racist. Good times.
You are correct 3:19! When gov't put itself in the "drivers seat" for education, education wrecked and is still wrecking!!!!
Good Wordkyle! Lets see some documentation. Some real documentation and proof! Then we can really go after him.
939 - Great idea.
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