Well, if you want to make schools focus on "social experiements" rather than places of learning we have succeeded.
If we hand off parenting to the teachers and educrats, we reap what we sow.
Co-ed phys ed. The dull with the gifted (mainstreaming). The creation of middle schools (6-8) has...
My wife brought me a McDonald's Big Mac today.
"Oh, I can't eat anything Fatty." I said.
"Come on, this one thing won't effect your diet." She replied.
"No, I just mean I'm full," I said back.
Pretty much every majority black school started out as an all white majority school. What happened in the meantime?
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oth, this is an unfortuante circumstance.
I haven't looked around the net yet but just wondering if continued unemployment - benefits one politcal party over the other.
Reluctantly you collect your ue benes etc, discouraged because you cannot find a job perhaps you might change your way of thinking to vote for the political party who...
I was out in the car today and the wife was driving. When she suggested a McDonald's Drive Thru I thought great.
The stupid bitch ploughed straight through the old man's field and hit a Quack Quack here and a Moo Moo there. By the time she got across the field there weren't many animals left...
You are a truly unique being, right down to the last letter of your DNA code. You were made by your parents, who spliced their DNA together by having sex. They in turn were made by your 4 grandparents, who were made by your 8 great-grandparents, who were made by your 16 great-great grandparents...
If I respond by not marrying or reproducing, my DNA will die out. The human race will be denied the benefit of the contribution made by my offspring.
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I'll just have to be satisfied passing down my spiritual DNA, kinda like the Pope. Maybe the word might be...
C'mon guys, no one mentioned this?? McDonalds is in the real estate business, hamburgers is what they use to buy the real estate.
Hedge funds would love to split MCD real estate from the business.
Subway leases or rents space in strip malls. losing proposition.
Disciplining my children was beginning to take up a lot of my time, so in an effort to halve the time I had to spend on it, I started hitting one child with the other one.
I like the look of your new blog. :)
Personally my gut feeling is Bernanke (being the student of the depression) is doing all he can to avoid what he feels are the mistakes of the Depression.
But, what one may consider "mistakes" in gov't policy are natural forces and there is little...
This is a generational concept, somewhere in the 60's (?) welfare regulations, kicked the "man/father" out of the house. No benes, if an able bodied adult male was living in the home.
The consequences are absent fathers/men in a childs life. This is where we are today.
An anthropologist (university professor), at the begining of each semster with each group of new students, she made it a point to ask them "Why do you want to have children?"
The consensus was to pass on their genes.
Reading some of her work, the economic aspect of this equation boils down...
Arnold Schwarzenegger has been offered a role in a sequel to 'The Terminator.'
In this one he travels back in time and kills the person who suggested he run for Governor.
It is nuts but also psychological. You're part of a group, click, gang whatever, if you don't go along you're out --ostracised.
The consequences of not going along are worse than doing the right thing, calling the police for example or stopping the crime.
(In their criminal mind.)