there's been a big pushback from schools that have lots of bilingual students because the rules of the no child left behind act are that EVERY student should meet certain minimum requirements for succeeding in education. however, this pushback could lead to a separate-but-equal system where children whose primary language is not English are passed into society without succeeding in basic English skills. how well did separate but equal work the last time we tried it?

I was pissed when Nader ran to the left of Gore in 2000. But I wasn't pissed at Nader, I was pissed at Gore for throwing away the election, not running on his past record, and not moving more to the left.

Clinton's camp has been deriding Obama for his oratory skills, saying that words don't matter. Barrack offered up a few examples of where they were wrong, including:

"I have a dream," MLK jr.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal," Thomas Jefferson

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself," FDR.

I concur -- words are very important. Here's a nice repository for some of my favorite quotes.

And a link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/...

joementum, say it ain't so...

although he's stopped running for president, that didn't stop voters from selecting john edwards as their choice over clinton and obama

heath ledger was a drug addict. fuck him. who cares if he died. the world will be a better place without him.

will mrs. clinton subjugate obama's followers by offering him the veep job? or will obama latch onto edwards' push to fight poverty, and by doing so add him to his ticket?

i was scammed by a jerk on ebay. i'm now telling everyone, asking them to avoid this jackoff.

i have a dream... a dream that one day, all candidates will be able to declare themselves winners... and once that happens, the voters will come to understand the meaning of the term, "clusterf*ck".

We haven't heard much from Roseanne Barr this election cycle, but now she's telling it how it is.

the national enquirer is reporting that john edwards' girlfriend is having his baby.

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update: 08/08/08

to all the jerks who called me names and told me that I shouldn't even be asking these questions, how would you be feeling now if Edwards was our candidate and not Obama? recall my previous posts -- I've been an ardent Edwards supporter from the beginning, and like many of you, I feel betrayed by John Edwards' affair. Thank GOD he didn't get the nod.

And to any of you aspiring presidential hopefuls -- keep it in your pants, ok? We don't need another JFK / Clinton / Hart / Edwards. I'm tired of these hijinks preventing loyal Dems like me from achieving our higher goals.

this is sarcasm, ok?

i don't think we should or could bomb iran without devastating repercussions, but i have some concerns about what we know we know about iran's nuclear programs, what we know we don't know, and even scarier, what we don't know we don't know -- the "unknown unknowns".

at a recent debate, hillary's staff plants a question. this is similar to how bush-style events since President GHW Bush controlled access to a political talk in 1989.

a proper response to the complaint about the resolution naming the slaughter of armenians by turks in 1915-1917 "genocide"

sorry for stealing the line from public enemy's song, 9-11 is a joke, but today is the first time in 6 years i've been able to avoid any mention of our losses. and it feels good.

In 632, Uthman was murdered while at prayer, allowing Shiat Ali to ascend to the Caliphacy. In 661, Shiat Ali was murdered by one of his own men. These two deaths predicated the current debate/battle between the Sunnis and Shi'ites, and is the basis for Muslim-on-Muslim violence in Iraq. It also played a role in the devastating Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988).

so osama bin laden has a new video coming out. great news in our war on terror, huh? dude doesn't have the cajones to show up on live television; he's probably dead. but how come the media isn't questioning bush why he stopped the search for bin laden to move the troops to iraq, which even he has occasionally admitted wasn't responsible for 9/11.

what is this BS about a 4 state plan? did we not learn ANYTHING from kerry's loss in 2004?