Simon

Yeah, he's clearly not mature enough to make dick jokes and brag about sex.......

Gee, it's too bad we don't know how Garland might view a case like DC v Heller. If only we knew what his position might be if he was ever to provide an opinion in a case like that.......

Seems like a solid choice. Although I'd like to see somebody who is maybe a little more supportive of the 2nd Amendment?

Which is why he will not be coming to Buffalo. If you look in a thesaurus under "football player" you'll find a picture of Mike Wallace........ under the antonyms.

Reason #7,984 that I don't own a cell phone. Although I guess I should just be thankful he actually had a shirt on.

Sarama's too busy keeping this place running to accept the nomination.

I never noticed the ending phonetics in that rhyme are the same as the Nationwide jingle.......

He also had a set of dancer's feet that I'm not sure I've ever seen on a man that size. Dude was an alien......

Ted was from my hometown here in Western Pennsyltucky; his brother was also a neighbor of mine for many years. As great a football coach as he was, he was an even better man. The whole family is a collection of world-class, quality human beings. Godspeed you Ted and thanks for everything. Look forward to sipping more of your beers on the other side.........

I dont know what you guys keep going on about. I clearly saw him retire to a tropical island on Kashyyk with a big pile of gold and 7 randy pirate maidens......

My favorite part was when Han retired to a tropical island on Kashyyk with a ginormous pile of gold and 7 randy pirate chicks......

And Happy Holidays to the rest of you!

You ain't alone with 1000 people thinking about you, west. It's OK to be at peace. Merry Christmas brother......

It's a sunny 60 degrees here in Northwest Pennsyltucky and I'm out on the deck knocking back rum drinks and running the grill. Might have to reconsider my stance on climate change.... Merry Christmas all!!!

You can tell me my dog is stupid, my wife is ugly, my kids are reprobates and mf me up and down this forum and there will be no repercussions

Mom, he's doing it again!!!!

While that's a fair assessment, I like to think that most teachers hold themselves to a bit of a higher standard. Regardless, I think the issue at hand is figuring out how to get rid of the few who suck instead of tearing down entire districts and handing them over to profiteers with zero oversight.

Yeah, maybe that was one bridge too far

geebus, our kids are turning into giant pussies

Like any other profession, there's a few teachers who suck at what they do. But the vast majority of them are dedicated and professional and do their very best with all the kids under their care.

If I've ever seen a better reason to shut-up, I can't recall it.

If you think that these people actually have your kids' best interest in mind, you're living in fantasy land.

I enjoy the irony of seeing a guy who complains about teachers gleefully bragging about how he would really just love to be one of the few shltty ones. Props on your mad hypocrisy.

Yes, you are an excellent representative of blind conservative doctrine. Why don't you tell us some more about how conservatives have principles but liberals have agendas? You can cry about it all you want but you're nothing more than the same ridiculous caricature that gatorboy is.

If you have anything better (or even equally accurate), I'd be glad to check it out. Yes they did; and here's the thing about that. If you look into that statement you'll see that it covers all of NOLA, not just the schools taken over by charters. To my knowledge nobody has broken down (or published) the data far enough to see if there is any measurable differences between the improvements in the remaining public schools and the new charter schools. My guess is that, like the vast majority of charters, there isn't any real difference in their testing scores because if there were, one side of the debate would be seizing on it as evidence. Another thing to note about the N'awilns case (which was admittedly probably a bad example for me to have used because there are so many odd variables) is that when the agreement was put in place the city had two caveats; one was that the charters had to be operated by non-profits and the other was that control had to remain local. These are two things that are very atypical with most charter privateers, most of which are definitely profit-driven with no ties to the local district. So basically what we have is an absolute best-case scenario in NOLA, with the worst schools in the US struck by tragedy and then being administered by local charters who aren't driven by profit. And still with that best-case scenario, there's not likely any difference in the results between them and the more traditional public schools. The profit-driven charters who are only interested in stealing public money are not going to have even these negligible results when they implement their plans to toss out professional teachers and replace them with untrained wage-slave babysitters and focus their efforts on nothing but drilling students on standardized testing scores so they can claim "improvement". Meanwhile some self-interested jackasses are going to be raking in your tax dollars while your kids are given a McDonald's level education and communities are losing local control of their schools to people who are going to bail on them the second things get tough. Don't fall for it, man. These mercenaries are beneath your support.