Yesterday's L-E headline/story: "Study: Less sex for U.S. teens, young adults * The study, released Thursday, is based on interviews of about 5,300 young people, ages 15 to 24. * It shows the proportion in that age group who said they’d never had oral, vaginal or anal sex rose in the past decade from 22 percent to about 28 percent. " -- How sick is it to ask teens about sexual activity and at the same time lumping in sodomy with normal sexual activity?
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From an online story concerning the deaths of 2 children and their mother in Florida: "That person said Brown (the mother) put one of her children up for adoption several years ago. When the adoption fell through, the source said, Brown readopted the child and began collecting adoption subsidies. It's unclear whether it was her son or daughter." -- Florida taxpayers paid a subsidy to the natural mother for "readopting" her natural child.... incredible!
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Casey Anthony's attorneys asked that several key pieces of evidence, including statements Anthony made to police, not be permitted at her trial for the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, as a motion hearing continued for the third day today in an Orlando, Fla., courtroom." -- I reckon so...it would beat having to defend her for what she probably has done... hmmm, another weird Florida case...must be something in the swampwater.
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Online story: "Online headline: "(Ohio) School District Apologizes for Mock Slave Auction in Class" -- Of course it was in bad taste, and a severe error in judgement, and while the apology from the school district is 'proper', nothing is rersolved unless the unnamed teacher is identified, and stripped of his/her job and teaching certificate. Wanna bet this is not going to happen?
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L-E story: "Women now account for the majority of undergraduate enrollment across all race/ethnic groups. * Women taking the idea of getting a college degree more seriously doesn’t surprise Marietta Webb, the principal of the Academic Success Center in the Muscogee County School District. * “More women are becoming the sole supporter of their family,” said Webb, who, as does Roberts, has a doctorate. “That now takes a quality education.” -- No, what it indicates is that there is less emphasis on social mores for men to be responsible, and for women to make better choices in deciding what men they allow into their lives.
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Online story: "Hillary Clinton has produced some pretty outrageous sounds bites over the years, but she outdid herself recently when she declared that America is losing to Al Jazeera because they are up in the ratings and we can't compete with 'real' news like them. Her solution? Have a stronger government TV news operation - just like they do in China and Russia. How many times has that thought crossed your mind: 'if only we had a media more like China - THEN we'd be set'." -- Amazing... and from a person liberals epitomize as 'the smartest woman in the world'. Does she think Al Jazeera, as a woman, would hire her?
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A Wall Street Journal story on teachers' salaries lists South Dakota (with an AVERAGE teacher's salary at $35,201) as the "worst" in the country. This is salary, not benefits etc. Now, in South Dakota, there is a 13.4 student/teacher ratio, and the student NAE Progress reports for math and reading are both the 8th best (respectfully) in the country. The second "worse" state for teacher salaries is North Dakota, AVERAGING a salary of $44,266, has a student/teacher ratio of 11.9, and the students are ranked 4th in math, and 10th in reading for the NAE Progress reports. Mississippi is the 6th lowest AVERAGE teacher salary at $46,818, has a student/teacher ratio of 13.9 and the worst math and reading NAE Progress reports of all states. Kansas is the 10th lowest salaried AVERAGE at $47,080, and its student/teacher ratio is 13.7, and the students rank 11th in math and 19th in reading. Sorry, it's not about salary, or even student/teacher ratios, it's about teaching what to who.
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Online story: "A Connecticut town must provide their union workers free coffee and milk, according to a ruling from the State Board of Labor Relations." -- Wait'll the Wisconsin government/union employees hear about this!