HuffPost headline/story: "Slavery Homework Problem: Another Georgia Elementary School Under Fire For Math Problem Referencing Slaves * Parents are outraged after 139 fourth grade students in Georgia were given a math problem referencing slavery, WAGA-TV reports. * The incident is reminiscent of a similar controversy at another Georgia school that erupted in January. Parents at Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Norcross, Ga., were outraged after students were sent home with math word problems using explicit examples of slavery." -- Two questions come immediately to mind: Do the teachers not review the preprinted problem sheets they assign their students, and doesn't the local school system have an approved resources list for vendors? Regardless of the answers, the teacher(s) who hand out such, and the school systems's curriculum department should be immediately fired (versus reassignment).
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Online story: "President Obama's campaign has responded to comments Rick Santorum made about Malia's school trip to Mexico. Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager, told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that she is "surprised" Santorum would drag the president's children into the political crossfire. * "I think that children, for candidate purposes, have always been off-limits in presidential campaigns, and really any campaign," Cutter said, according to The Hill. "I'm surprised that Rick Santorum wouldn't agree with that." --
HUH? Given that Santorum's statement was not about potUS O'Blather's daughter to begin with, but about the abuse of potUS O'Blather's position in using the Secret Service in such a personal use not afforded every citizen, why isn't the media asking the same questions. Then when you look back at how the DIM&DUMBERats attacked the children of Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, and even Bush 41 & 43, there seems to be a heavy dose of hypocrisy coming to the forefront. DIM&DUMBERats sure have conveniently short memories!
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Once again, the whitewater hoopla was just that. This is the second time the whitewater crowd has built an event up that has failed to be as promised. Pretty soon, it will be a situation of them 'crying WOLF' and no one will care.
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About the only way potUS O'Blather will take the seriousness of the cost of gas will be for him to have to watch the gas pump as he personally fills up the tanks of Air Force 1.
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Online quote service: "There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived." - Amy Grant" -- The same applies to leadership...isn't that right potUS O'Blather?
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The Spring Harbor question is at best murky, but there is a real travesty of the laws governing special tax breaks at the Eagle and Phenix condominium development. Apparently, there is a special tax break for developing that (and similar) properties, but apparently the law allows the developers to pass along that tax break to individuals who buy units there. A former Columbus banker has a unit assessed at $324,378.00 and paid a total of $27.08 in property tax last year. One unit is assessed at $1,332,812.00 and paid only $388.81 last year. Others, including some of the developers, have purchased units while maintaining another home using the homestead exemption break reserved for primary residences. This law needs to be revised, as only the affluent can get such tax breaks.
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Unsaid about the change from 'emergency care' to 'urgent care' is that Columbus Regional already has a separate "Urgent Care Center" across the street from Columbus Regional itself.
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