DISTURBED IN DENVER

I found a two-month-old copy of a Denver Post, which taught me that school officials there were disturbed.

First of all, I want to remark that it seems to be ONLY school officials = administrators (not to be confused with EDUCATORS)in LARGE CITIES that become disturbed. Apparently their counterparts in places like Duluth, Minnesota; Worland, Wyoming; and Norman, Oklahoma roll along in comparative tranquility. I wish someone would esxplain to me why it is mainly city schooools that promote ulcers. What the devil is prominent in them to make them centers of educational dyspepsia? Someone out to study large cities and deduce why their students are such a never-ending problem. Whatever is it about cities that make oligophrenic students?

The data for Denver's several high schools showed that their percents of studets requiring "remedial classes while in college" ranged from 47% to 99%!

An initial, obvious question is a simple one; if a kid can't do college-level work why is he or she allowed into one? Aren't colege entrance exams and requirements good enough to discriminate between people sufficiently capable to get along there and those that are not? Why admit a blockhead that's earmarked for failure? Isn't that WHY we have examinations? Are many of these Worst Lady Princeton admissions; i.e., fail but get accepted anyway? Why waste resources that might be used to make good students better? They, after all, are our nation's hope.

The short answer is that in many states the public colleges must accept any blockhead that graduates high school and is able to eke out a pass on a trivial entrance exam - note well what gets admitted solely to frolic on the football, basketball, etc. teams and then ask yourself how difficult it must be to slip in. Since high schools pass along every blockhead that wastes space in them, the blockheads get into college. Of course, my solution to that nonsense is to mainytain standards and keep the duds out of universities. Even more basically, I would deprive blockheads of high school diplomas if they don't deserve them.

A second simple question of the same type is, if a blockhead infiltrates a college and can't cut it, why don't THOSE educationj officials just bounce him or her out on his or her - ear. Wonder why this country resembles the last minutes of the Titanic? Figure it out, or are you a blockhead, too?

Denver's pedagogical savants, at any rate, have decided exactly what are needed; "turnaround strategies for exising schools and opening new schools to address the lapses." This, taxpayers will be dismayed to learn, translates easily as spending MORE MONEY, which is the chant of inept people that can't do the jobs with the resources given them. Furthermore, anyone remember - was anyone ever TAUGHT - the aphorism about silk purses and sows' ears?

STOP FLUSHING OUR MONEY! Don't imagine for a second that the bucks to waste on Denver's, doomed "turnaround strategies" will come solely from Denver pockets or even from Colorado pockets, because the feds are always willing to spend YOUR $ in the decades-old, HOPELESS cause of refuting that aphorism. Did your state vote for this idiocy?

THREE ITEMS

I visited some relatives that have an outfit called Hughes, as in Howard, for their ISP. I discovered that the company HQ is around Baltimore, which may account for the ludicrous fake/distoted "news" these loonies broadcast. (Have you driven through Baltimore lately? I have. Take a tip - lock your car doors, for here is another Model City that definitely IS NOT SAFE.) The people showed me a Hughes headline that described Gen. McChrystal as "disgraced!"

What a load of rot! He stood up and told the public what schlock, sham clowns are the Commander-in-Thief and his Harvard Puppeteers. This is about as disgraced as Ben Franklin, Tom Jefferson, and George Washington were when they told the Brits to stuff it. I'd like to be equally disgraced.

In other news are two stories of low-down creeps' prevalance, as often occurs when courts are involved.

First, the Swiss denied the U.S. extradition of obscene Polanski and freed the sewer rat. At least he won't be coming here, unless he chooses to walk across our unwatched borders.

Second, a "federal" judge from - guess where if you don't already know - decided that parts of the Defense of Marriage Act are unconstitutional! Yes, an almost trivial puzzle, it was in the land of the Massholes, where queer unions, stupidly called "marriages," are sanctified, and Toad Kennedy would have been dirtying the Senate for a thousand terms if he'd lived that long. May we hope that some court of appeal is less pixilated than that one?

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, FIDEL!

Yes, folks, he called his "movement" the 26th of July Movement, for on that date Dr. Castro, in classic Commie fashion, took to the mountains of Oriente Province, I believe it was, to prosecute gurilla warfare. Of course Fulgencio Batista was a rotten dictator, but also in classic Commie fashion, Cuba got a worse one in exchange. Fidelito proved himself a vicious, uncompromising model, in fact, from whose clutches people fled by the tens of thousands. After the Russians bailed out of the morass, he ran the country into the crumbling ruin it is today.

Remember that the next time you have the opportunity to vote for a Commie. There will be some available come November and, unfortunately, two years from then.

"REDNECK" REDEFINED

According to an item sent me from an Alabama newspaper, "Rednecks" were originally Rebel soldiers that wore red collars and were said to be particularly vicious fighters. The author claimed to be proud to be called one. This does not jive with what I find on the web, where there's a great deal of rot, and language morons persist in using "gay" to denote queers, but I've yet to adopt Wikipedia as my guide to facts.

I was reminded of the Confederate term "Bluebellies" to refer to Union troops.

What do you think?

GET OUT YOUR ISRAEL CHECKBOOKS!

I wonder how much Nathan the Yahoo's visit to Washington will cost us. Every time an Israeli politician drops by, we, the tax-paying dupes, shell out the shekels.

Has anyone ever published data on how much we GIVE - meaning out-and-out charity - that insignificant country annually? Is that ever a headline? Why do you suppose we do it? Denken daran.

WHAT STATE HAS THE WORST ELECTORATE?

The Blagojevich trial re-emphasizes what a gutter ball held the office of Governor of Illinois (Thank goodness B.O. never had any contact with him! :-) ), and I'm wondering if that state has the dumbest electorate in the country. They selected that foul-mouthed clown TWICE, for heaven's sake!

Years ago their governors, irrespective of party, were always guilty of something or other; a secretary of that state died with a closet full of shoe boxes stuffed with license plate checks he'd stolen; Chicago had a convicted felon (Democrats seem to gravitate towards tax evasion) as mayor and was so proud of him they've named buildings after the jerk; they put B.O. in the state, then national, senates; and they voted for him on Disaster Day, 4 November 2008.

Plenty of other states have demonstrated their electoral stupidity at all levels, too, but Illinois must lead the league in office-holding criminals. What sort of people have such a tortile view of character and qualifications? Someone should do a demographic study of Illinois and discover who are all the stupid, unqualified voters there.

20 JULY - THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIENDS!

We had ambition, the spirit of adventure and discovery, the will to confront a gigantic task and succeed! What a heady era!

On 20 July 1969, under President Nixon and set into motion by Kennedy, "men from the planet earth first set foot on the moon."

In terms of distance, not to mention other dimensions, the years have only shrunk us. Typical missions are 100 miles, not 250,000 - that's contraction by a factor of 2500, by the way - and presently we lack even the facility for shooting a guy into space and retrieving him. We plan to rely upon our still spy-happy pals, the Russians, for that, and how long will it be until our space program, if any, is outsourced to Chinamen? (Don't wax apoplectic E. and W. Coasters; people habitually say "Englishmen," "Scotsmen," and "Irishmen," and thus far not even the nuttiest of liberals mind those appellations.)

The new NASA head is another racial appointee, and already Pres. Bush's idea of getting to Mars has been scrapped. Hmm. Where might that budget money go? Possible targets are

1. Breakfasts for the "poor" school children, probably overweight, whose parents haven't the inclination or the brains to cook them and whose welfare handouts go for cigarettes, booze, fast food, and other essentials.

2. The overwhelming deficit this pixilated "health" program will create.

3. Litigating a state with the sense to try and preserve a degree of integrity in our laughably porous, federally-ignored borders.

4. Pelosi's plane.

5. The Worst Lady's trips to New York City.

The possibilities are endless. " ... we thought they'd never end," but, sadly, they did.