Evolution isn't Georgia's only problem

Seems like the have a problem with "events over time," formally known as history.

Dumbing down our past

The Georgia Department of Education recently unveiled a draft of the new high school history curriculum. Officials tout it as "world class." It's not. They describe it as "rigorous" and "strengthened." It's neither. With much fanfare, spokesmen say it will raise expectations. It won't.
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The current high school world history course surveys civilization from the earliest times to the present. The new curriculum calls for teaching only the period from 1500 to the 21st century. Students will no longer study such figures as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, William the Conqueror or Joan of Arc.

"The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" will not be mentioned. The development of democratic government in Greece and the fall of the Roman Empire will be skipped. Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha and Confucius are not to be found in the new curriculum. Great civilizations like ancient Egypt will no longer merit study, and the concept of feudalism will not be discussed.

The present 11th-grade U.S. history course covers the Exploration period to today. In the proposed changes, teachers will spend two or three weeks discussing the foundation of our country, with the remaining time devoted to studying events from 1876 to the present. Gone is any mention of the Louisiana Purchase or Lewis and Clark. There will be no discussion of Indian removal and the Trail of Tears.
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Search in vain for discussion of the Civil War; that topic is off limits. In a course entitled "American History," students will not study our most devastating war. There is no mention of Fort Sumter, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee or anything else associated with those years.

Though teachers supposedly have no time to discuss topics essential to understanding our heritage, the curriculum suggests they have their students write a 1920s radio drama. Teachers are also encouraged to assign essays about dating in the Jazz Age and to show segments from "All in the Family," "Good Times" and "Chico and the Man."

I have yet to talk to any teacher who likes the new curriculum, though I am sure there are some who favor the idea of teaching less. The misguided rationale behind the hastily prepared revision is that we teach too much history in high school. The solution? Eliminate 40 percent of the current coursework.
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There is also a sinister element to the changes. States are facing new federal mandates to improve test scores. Interestingly, states can devise many of the tests used to measure this improvement. While mandating that we teach less, Georgia will prepare assessments that test less. Interesting formula: teach less, test less, brag more.

Imagine a similar approach with math. Teach half the multiplication tables and test only the half that is taught. Surely scores would rise and the headlines would scream that math scores improved! But students suffer when perception becomes more important than learning.

I have a feeling this is only the beginning. Seriously, how after this incredible mismanagement does the Republican party hope to have anyone vote for them in the future; simple get dumber voters.

Education is the friend of democracy and the enemy of tyrants. No Child Left Behind mean "leave no child in that old free USA and lead them all to the new imperial majesty of the Bushmerica!"

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Down the Memory Hole

We should have a permanent Paul Krugman link. Today's column should raise all our hackles, Dems and Republicans and everyone, everywhere. The road to Hell is paved with God intentions.

"America's credibility has been badly damaged — and nobody is being held accountable. But that's standard operating procedure. As far as I can tell, nobody in the Bush administration has ever paid a price for being wrong. Instead, people are severely punished for telling inconvenient truths. And administration officials have consistently sought to freeze out, undermine or intimidate anyone who might try to check up on their performance."

"Still, the big story isn't about Mr. Bush; it's about what's happening to America. Other presidents would have liked to bully the C.I.A., stonewall investigations and give huge contracts to their friends without oversight. They knew, however, that they couldn't. What has gone wrong with our country that allows this president to get away with such things?"

Two things: Money and More Money.

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Bush likes to say "it's your money,' so why is he so freely spending my children's money?

Deficit for one year over 500 Billion dollars.

Bush Budget Raises Cost of Medicare

WASHINGTON - President Bush's new budget projects the Medicare overhaul he just signed will be one-third more costly than estimated and this year's federal deficit will surge past a half trillion dollars for the first time, administration and congressional officials said Thursday.

The White House will estimate the cost of creating prescription drug benefits and revamping the mammoth health care program for the elderly and disabled at $534 billion for the decade that ends in 2013, the officials said. The number will be in the 2005 budget Bush proposes Monday.

While muscling the Medicare package through Congress in November, Bush and Republican leaders won pivotal votes by reassuring conservatives that the cost over that period would track the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (news - web sites)'s estimate of $395 billion. The measure passed both chambers narrowly, giving the president one of his top legislative triumphs since taking office.

Hey, if it was cool with the conservatives when he lied about the war, I'm sure they'll be cool with the fact that he lied about the cost of his "give pharmacuticals more money" medicare package.

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Why I don't like Kerry. He's a skull and bones guy. Dean, Edwards, and Clark all look better to me.

I'll vote for him, if I have to, because he is definitely no Bush, but he certainly isn't looking very good.

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Richard Perle: "I think all terrorists should be killed unless they give me a speaking fee."

Charity Event May Have Terrorist Link

Pentagon adviser Richard N. Perle, a strong advocate of war against Iraq, spoke last weekend at a charity event that U.S. officials say may have had ties to an alleged terrorist group seeking to topple the Iranian government and backed by Saddam Hussein.

The event, attended by more than 3,000 people Saturday at the Washington Convention Center, generated enough concerns within the administration that officials debated whether they had the legal authority to block the event, U.S. officials said yesterday. FBI agents attended it and, as part of a continuing investigation, the Treasury Department on Monday froze the assets of the event's prime organizer, the Iranian-American Community of Northern Virginia.

Perle, in an interview, said he was unaware of any involvement by the terrorist group, known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), and believed he was assisting the victims of the Bam earthquake when he delivered the paid speech.

"All of the proceeds will go to the Red Cross," Perle said. Informed that the Red Cross had announced before the event it would refuse any monies because of the event's "political nature," Perle said: "I was unaware of that." Perle declined to say how much he received.

So we are left with 2 possible conclusions:

1. Perle is telling the truth, and a senior Pentagon advisor is an incredibly stupid tool.
   
2. Perle is lying and cares more about his wallet then national security.

Why is Perle still with the Bush Administration? Oh yeah, Bush only fires folks who are disloyal to him, if you're disloyal to the country he doesn't care.

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Georgia considers banning 'evolution'

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- The state's school superintendent has proposed striking the word evolution from Georgia's science curriculum and replacing it with the phrase "biological changes over time." Emphasis mine.

The good news is they won't be reprinting all the textbooks, which is good because that why they will still have money in their budget to make improvements to "manipulating numbers" classes and "that thing where you string letters together to convey a concept" classes.

Oh and sex education will be changed to "that dirty thing we won't mention that only parents are allowed to do anyway and only once per kid at that."

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Gop's main boy: Scalia

Scalia Mustn't Sit in Judgment of His Hunting Buddy

Antonin Scalia and Dick Cheney are hunting buddies. They went to Louisiana together a few weeks ago to shoot ducks. Ordinarily there would be nothing noteworthy about that. But Vice President Cheney is fighting in court to keep the records of his energy policy task force secret. And Scalia is a justice of the Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear the case.
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There is no higher authority to review Scalia's decision. But a private, out-of-state getaway is different from a chat at a cocktail party. And Cheney is not an incidental party to the lawsuit: It was he who convened the task force, believed to have been top-heavy with industry players, and he who kept the meetings secret.

And who paid for the private jet that whisked Scalia to Louisiana? The Times said it was the owner of an oil services company. Scalia has been hopelessly compromised.

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The reason why Neo wins Maryland's delegates

Md. computer testers cast a vote: Election boxes easy to mess with

For a week, the computer whizzes laid abuse - both high- and low-tech - on the six new briefcase-sized electronic voting machines sent over by the state.

One guy picked the locks protecting the internal printers and memory cards. Another figured out how to vote more than once - and get away with it. Still another launched a dial-up attack, using his modem to slither through an electronic hole in the State Board of Elections software. Once inside, he could easily change vote totals that come in on Election Day.

"My guess is we've only scratched the surface," said Michael A. Wertheimer, who spent 21 years as a cryptologic mathematician at the National Security Agency. Emphasis Mine.

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Some say "why do we need a 9/11 investigation? We know what happened?

Do we?

9/11 Hijackers Used Mace And Knives, Panel Reports (washingtonpost.com)

The hijackers of Sept. 11, 2001, blasted Mace or pepper spray at flight crew members and passengers to keep them away from the cockpits and wielded knives in their orchestrated takeovers of the aircraft, according to a report issued yesterday by the commission investigating the attacks.

Mace? Pepper spray? Well, that's new? What about the box cutters?

Passengers calling from cell phones noted the use of box cutters on only one flight, the report said.

Four flights, box cutters used on only one. And yet all we heard was box cutter this box cutter that. This is just the tip of the ice berg of what we're going to learn. But Bush doesn't seem to what to learn what happened, or at least he doesn't want us (the citizens) to learn what happened. Why not?

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The press also begins to wonder if the earth does indeed revolve around the sun

Editorials Question Bush's Role in 'Cooking' Up a War

NEW YORKIn the wake of the latest revelations from weapons inspector David Kay, many of the largest U.S. newspapers are belatedly pressing the Bush administration for an explanation of how it could have gotten the question of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so wrong in the march to war last year. A growing number are raising the possibility that Bush and his team may have "cooked" the intelligence to support their case for war.

An E&P survey of the top 20 newspapers by circulation found that as of Wednesday, 13 had run editorials on Kay's resignation as chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq last Friday, and his statement that no WMDs exist in Iraq, and likely did not exist in Iraq during the U.S. run-up to war.

Nearly all of those papers blamed intelligence failures for the miscalculation and called for a full probe. But eight of the 13 -- most of which supported the war -- also raised the issue of White House deceit and its possibly blind pursuit of intelligence that fit its plan for war.

Among them was The Dallas Morning News, in Bush's home state, which had supported the war, but now declared: "We feel deceived -- by the CIA, which overestimated the threat, and by the White House, which probably stretched the bad estimates to build a case for war." If Bush had found other strategic or humanitarian reasons for the war, "he should have argued the case on that basis," the editorial said.

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The ThisCenturySucks.com Store has been updated.

We've now combined our two best sellers (well, you know, more then one sold) into one shirt!


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Also it seems that the ready.gov sweatshirts are on sale at our store now, check them out before they go back up in price.

Also until 2/4/04 (not long) you can get $5 off any purchase of $45 or more by using the coupon code: CPLUVSU on the order form.

That's it for store plugs for awhile.

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The Edjumacation President

President Bush Speaks with Nation's Mayors at Winter Meeting

Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

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This could get interesting

9/11 Commission Says It Needs More Time

ASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks announced on Tuesday that it was seeking an extension of its deadline to complete the investigation until at least July, raising the prospect of a public fight with the White House and a final report delivered in the heat of the presidential campaign.

The White House and Republican Congressional leaders have said they see no need to extend the congressionally mandated deadline, now set for May 27, and a spokesman for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said Tuesday that Mr. Hastert would oppose any legislation to grant the extension.

But commission officials said there was no way to finish their work on time, a situation they attribute in part to delays by the Bush administration in turning over documents and other evidence.

The commission said Tuesday that it had not yet received a commitment from the administration for public testimony from prominent White House officials, including Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser. The panel said it was still in negotiations over the possibility of testimony from President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Emphasis mine.

It might be difficult to get Dick to come though, he's hiding in a spider hole somewhere that day.

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Completely Random Thought

What kind of songs did Barbara sing to George when he was little?
Did they sound like this:

'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justive is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!

So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms.
In your arms.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms.
In your electronic arms.

From: O Superman by Laurie Anderson

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We're dealing with loons

Saddam's 'evil chemistry' justified war: Ashcroft

VIENNA - Saddam Hussein's past use of "evil chemistry" and "evil biology" and the threats they posed justified the war in Iraq, even if no weapons of mass destruction are ever found, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said today.

My school never offered evil chemistry, though many thought it did as I often heard "chemistry is evil."

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It's back (after a break last week):

The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, No. 140

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German trial hears how Iranian agent warned US of impending al-Qaida attack

The United States was warned of impending September 11 terrorist attacks by an Iranian spy, but ignored him, German secret service agents testified yesterday in the trial of an alleged al-Qaida terrorist.

The spy, identified as Hamid Reza Zakeri, tried to warn the CIA after leaving Iran in 2001, but was not believed, two German officers who interviewed him told the Hamburg court.

Want to learn more?
Why was he ignored?
How can we make sure this doesn't happen again?

Well, sorry to tell you, but Bush doesn't want you to learn more. He doesn't want American to learn what went wrong.

He's starved the 9/11 investigtion for time and cash. It isn't paranoid to ask: why?

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Cruel Men

I forgot to add this quote at the bottom of yesterday's Cold Mountain review, but thought it stands well enough alone.

I have argued with people that the lies about why we went to war are important because 500 plus American soldiers are dead, thousands more are missing arms or legs.

And I have received this answer more than once, and it still stuns me:

"But that's what those folks signed up for when they joined the army."

They signed up to die for a war that wasn't about defending America? They signed up to die for the profits of Halliburton and Bechtel?

So you deficate on the subway platform because people are paid to come and clean it up? I mean that's what they signed up for when they took the job to clean subway platforms. The world need not be that cold a place.

It reminds me of a quote from a cruel, cold, insane man:

“But that’s what the young men are there for.” - Adolf Hitler.

Anyone who tells you "but hey, they joined the army, that's what they signed up for." Tell them they are an idiot, and to think for a second and wonder why they traded a part of their soul so they could still continue to support Bush and sleep at night. Bush isn't worth it.

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Film Plug: Tonight's the night.

SHELTER DOGS - A documentary film by Cynthia Wade

Shelter Dogs will have its national TV premiere on HBO Tues. January 27 at 7:30pm EST.

What does the NYTimes say:

Life-and-Death Decisions About Four-Legged Prisoners

Ms. Sternberg, the subject of "Shelter Dogs," a documentary being shown tonight on HBO as part of the "America Undercover" series, says she does not believe dogs should be confined for life. So she decided on euthanasia.

It is a hard choice to make, and the dog's death, though peaceful, is hard to watch. What makes one want to keep watching is Ms. Sternberg's unflinching willingness to confront the problem of unwanted dogs, and the unflinching eye of Cynthia Wade, the film's director.

About five million dogs are brought to shelters each year, and about four million are not adopted, the documentary says. Some are killed. Others live for years, sometimes their whole lives, in shelters.

After the film, make sure to watch the director, Cynthia Wade, on CNN at 10:45!

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Is there anyone in America who still believes there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq?

ummm... anyone but Dick Cheney?

Kay: U.S. Must Explain Iraq WMD Research

WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies need to explain why their research indicated Iraq possessed banned weapons before the American-led invasion, says the outgoing top U.S. inspector, who now believes Saddam Hussein had no such arms.

"I don't think they exist," David Kay said Sunday. "The fact that we found so far the weapons do not exist — we've got to deal with that difference and understand why." Emphasis Mine.

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Updated with state of the union and trips to Mars

get your war on









Okay, maybe I got carried away, but I find them sooo funny.

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OCCUPATION, INC.

War profiteers in Iraq pursue quick fixes and high profits by overcharging for shoddy work, while Iraqis protest that they could do the work better and cheaper. Welcome to the reconstruction racket.
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Across the street the lights go out. Yaruub Jasim, the general director of electricity for the southern region, a kindly-looking man in his sixties dressed neatly in a grey suit, is apologetic. “Normally we have power 23 hours a day but today there is a problem. We should have done maintenance on these turbines in October, but we had no spare parts and no money.”

The needed parts were supposed to be supplied by Bechtel, a California-based company in charge of repairing the power system under a contract to restore Iraq’s infrastructure. The contract was issued without competing bids last April, before an end to major conflict was declared by President Bush, and also covers sewage, water and school systems. The contract is worth over a billion dollars and growing, making Bechtel’s business in Iraq second only to Texas-based Halliburton.

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Bush and Bremer backing down, and recognising a free election might be a good idea afterall, especially when:

1. You are selling the idea that you are bringing freedom to Iraq.
   
2. You'd rather not have the Shiites rise up.

Shiite Leader Rejects U.S. Plan for Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq Jan. 23 — The U.S.-backed plan for handing over power to Iraqis is unacceptable as it stands, according to a top Shiite Muslim leader who met with President Bush this week.

However, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim said Friday that the Americans, as well as others, are slowly coming around to the need for elections to chose a new legislature rather than have the members named by 18 regional caucuses.
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Tens of thousands have marched in Baghdad and elsewhere in support of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, whose opposition to an earlier U.S.-backed plan forced Washington to drop it. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to decide next week whether to send a team to determine whether early elections can be held.

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On Law: Scalia and those ducks

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Both groups trying to pry open the records of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy policy group are at least cautiously considering a motion for Justice Antonin Scalia's withdrawal from the case.
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The present controversy began when Scalia accompanied Cheney on a hunting trip to Texas one month after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case this spring. The two men reportedly flew down to the Lone Star State on a private jet owned by an energy corporation.
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There's also something a little comic about the latest controversy, with all these portly men being trundled down in the lap of luxury to shoot semi-tame game birds on the Texas Prairie. Scalia subsequently told the Los Angeles Times that the few ducks he shot were "delicious."

Gee if Cheney had decided not to shoot the duck, maybe a hundred years from now, cute little bathtub ducks would be called "Dickies."

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The conservatives chime in

The State of Spending

Spending has increased twice as fast under President Bush as it did under President Clinton. From 2001 to 2003 total spending grew by 16 percent. Certainly the terror attacks of 9/11 placed additional demands on spending for homeland security, a strong defense, and rebuilding New York. However, this accounts for less than half of the new spending that has occurred since 9/11. What was so sorely lacking during this time was self-discipline required to balance fiscal priorities.

Reagan always whine "its not me, its the congress, they spend, see the democratic congress is spending the money. Give me a Republican congress and you'll see the spending cut." Well now we've got a Republican congress and a republican President and they've never seen anything on sale that they didn't need to buy. Is the present GOP actually good for anything?!?

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Greed, Evil Men, and Cold Mountain (and have times changed?)

Recently saw Cold Mountain, and while there are many pieces to discuss, I want to discuss one little piece:

All the suffering in the movie is due to greed.

Actually what I’m really saying is, the Civil War was about the greed of rich fat men who refused to give up their way of life and sold the concept of “states rights” to the masses.

It wasn’t about “state’s rights” it was about those born into wealth not wanting to suddenly have to earn a living, so rather than suffer the end of their plantations, they sold a war based on lies and bigotry to their poor neighbors who then died in the millions to defend a way of life they would personally would never even encounter. The poor of the south were fine enough to die for the plantation, but they were often not even allowed to work there, much less be invited over for dinner.

Let us now visit our own enlightened times. Executives of Halliburton, Bechtel, and any oil company you want to complain about rarely are folks that “worked their way up” but are unfortunate victims of cronyism, and tragically lack the self-confidence to compete in a true capitalistic market, so they turn to friends and create their own markets. They create war. Wars in which they and their families do not have to fight in, but in which they will profit dramatically, without competition.

Iraq had nothing to do with the war on terror, and it had no weapons of mass destruction, but Bechtel and Halliburton are making billions.

The leader of the local “home guard,” in Cold Mountain, ‘Captain’ Ashcroft -ooops- Teague is a sad pathetic evil man born into wealth and watches his advantages dwindle away as the people in his town become more independent, more “wealthy.” The war comes giving him the advantages back a dozen fold, he is now, basically, the dictator of the small town, his wealth now represented by a gang of thugs who push around the town’s folk at his bidding. Even as the war turns bad to worse, he does not weary of the war, it is not his life on the line.

You want to know tragedy? 500 plus killed for Halliburton’s stock price; Cold Mountain’s just a movie.

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