Well, one can only hope.

Most businesses like to have their receivables paid promptly. Of course, this IS the federal government we’re talking about.

I am not 100% in favor of every one of Garamendi’s positions.

I’ve never met a politician with whom I agreed on 100% of his/her positions, and I doubt that I ever will.

Strangely enough, a lot of people LIKE Glenn Beck.

Here is a short excerpt of the multipage orders:
Grades 7‐12 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama’s Address to
Students Across America
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009
Before the Speech:
• Short readings. Notable quotes excerpted (and posted in large print on board) from
President Obama’s speeches about education.
• Brainstorm or Concept Web: Why does President Obama want to speak with us today?
How will he inspire us? How will he challenge us? What might he say?
During the Speech:
• Listening with a purpose: personal responsibility, goals, persistence. Teachers might
ask pairs of students to create a word bank from the web of any one of the terms
(personal responsibility, goals, or persistence) at the top of a double‐column style notes
page. On the right‐hand side, students could take notes while President Obama talks
about personal responsibility, or goals, or persistence, trying to capture direct
quotations. At the end of the speech, students could then write the corresponding
terms from the word bank in the left hand column, to increase retention and deepen
their understanding of an important aspect of the speech.
• Listening with a purpose: Inspiration and Challenges. Using a similar double‐column
style notes page as the one above, the teacher could focus students on quotations that
either propose a specific challenge to them or inspire them in some meaningful way.
Students could do this individually, in pairs or groups.
Transition/Quick Review: Teachers could ask students to look over the notes and collaborate in
pairs or small groups. What more could we add to our notes? Teachers might circulate and ask
students questions such as: What are the most important words in the speech? What title
would you give it? What’s the thesis?
After the Speech:
Guided Discussion:
• What resonated with you from President Obama’s speech? What lines/phrases do you
remember?
• Who is President Obama addressing? How do you know? Describe his audience.
• We heard President Obama mention the importance of personal responsibility. In your
life, who exemplifies this kind of personal responsibility? How? Give examples.
• How are we as individuals and as a class similar? Different?
• Suppose President Obama were to give another speech about being educationally
successful. Who could he speak to next? Who should be his next audience? Why?
What would he say?
• What are the three most important words in the speech? Rank them.

So the program ended a week ago and not everyone has been paid yet, in a program that was thrown together on the fly; proved many times more popular with consumers and car companies than anybody had anticipated; goosed consumer spending significantly; got hundreds of thousands of gas-guzzling, heavy-polluting cars off the road; and so on. Do you have any reason to believe they won’t be paid? Can you find me a local dealer who would rather the program hadn’t happened? And how can this be compared to health care reform, anyway? Honestly, Elwood, I just don’t understand where you’re coming from.

Ulno, if you have a problem with my posts, dispute the facts I present. It’s not a journalist’s job to confirm people’s ideological beliefs, just to report what’s actually going on.

And Bernie, I agree entirely – I’m leaving the office now to go find dinner and live my life. Elwood can go ahead and help himself to the last word – for tonight.

By whom?

The lovely and charming Josh?

http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=89419

Car Dealers Still Waiting On ‘Clunkers’ Cash

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Cash.for.clunkers.2.1155470.html

This guy is Glenn Beck in “e-drag”.