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Well, the lack of taking responsibility taking responsibility was straight out of Janet Reno's Branch Davidian mea culpa. It'll be interesting to see where this story takes its next turn. The Spanish train bombing cost Aznar an all but certain election win. How much of that electoral decision was due to his government initially blaming Basque separatists? And they only misidentified the true suspects for a day or so.

Except she didn't exactly fall on her sword. "I'm responsible for the State Department, for the more than 60,000 people around the world. Uh, the decisions about security assets are made by security professionals. " According to the testimony in the Congressional Hearing, the decisions about security WEREN'T made by security personnel. Nordstrom requested additional personnel and was denied. That doesn't sound like 'letting the security professionals make the decisions about security.' [EDITED to correct HC's quote.]

Agree with the bolded. But though they are trying to get each individual up to 'grade level,' reality is they aren't going to get everyone up to grade level and the aggregate goal shouldn't be 100%. Whatever that aggregate goal should be, should, in the LT, be for all the races.

NB seems to be getting where I was going w/ my brief posts above. It's unrealistic for the schools to expect 100%. (Apparently VERY unrealistic based on where their stated goals are and one could realistically say it's 'impossible' if we're not dealing with the purely theoretical.) How much buy-in would FLA get from schools by making 100% the goal? In lip service, probably some, in reality, not much. By setting 'realistic' goals, they're likely to get buy-in. I'd prefer to see them setting a goal (say 95%, 98% maybe) across the board for all the subjects over a set time period (10 years?), with milestones along the way which might be targeted to different socio-economic strata. The goals should be difficult to reach but not impossible. There's no way they are going to get to 100%, Nothing wrong with 'stretch-goals' but when setting up goals, especially those that one knows will get significant pushback from, impossible goals aren't 'stretch-goals,' they're simply impossible. EDIT: By 'across the board,' I mean for all the various races they are currently segregating goals for. Not 'across the board' of all subjects, though eventually getting each subject up to 95-98% student proficiency would be good as well.

And you AREN'T going to get to 100% whether you set out to reach it or not. If the goal is physically unattainable, then why strive for it? It would have been silly for Kennedy to challenge Americans to reach Saturn by the end of the decade. The moon, however, was a pretty friggin' cool goal to set and reach. EDIT: And no, I don't think that setting differing targets for differing ethic groups is particularily wise either.

True, But why stop at attaining 100% of the student body meeting the targets? If you're going to be unrealistic, why not shoot for something like 200% of the student body meeting the targets? (Where a 200% %age being defined roughly as having all 100% of the particular grade meeting that level plus all the kids 1 grade level lower meeting the targets.)

Never had that problem. When I've been there, they've always carved it to order. I've been with people who've ordered it from rare through medium-well and never seen anyone with a complaint. Though one probably couldn't get a dried out husk for 'well done' if they wanted it.

Sounded more 'The Nightfly' to me as well. Overall I liked the song, but wasn't overly impressed w/ the disco guitar.

Kucinich is an 'entertaining' piece of work. I'm not positive, but it appears according to him, that the Ambassador's death is Ronald Reagan's fault.

Yeah, but think how low the unemployment rate will go once everyone starts working only 20 hour weeks. FORWARD!

One of my favorite restaurants. Only make it back to there a couple of times per year, but rght now I've got a serious craving for a beef on 'weck.

OMG!!!!!! He can fart rainbow unicorns TOOOOOO! (Isn't he dreeeaaamy.)

"Crystals of opaque quartz, studded limpid tears, Forming magic chandeliers, lighting blistered galleries." - Rick Wakeman

Nope. He traded Bobby Chandler for Phil V.

You !@#$ing moronic !@#$, the issue isn't whether they have the 'option' of healthy food. They are required to take 'healthy' items regardless of whether they will eat the !@#$ing healthy items. They aren't being forced to eat 'healthy;' they are being forced to take food they won't eat and are being limited in how much they can take of items they WILL eat. And some of those 'unhealthy' items they are limited in are things such as meat. And it is across the board, who can't take too much of an 'unhealthy' item. A lacrosse player, a swimmer, or a cross country runner can't exceed the lunch caloric intake just the same as a slacker WoW player. !@#$ing brilliant. Because clearly those athletes shouldn't exceed the same caloric intake that a couch potato such as yourself should exceed. (Apologies if you aren't a couch potato, but the fact that you think this is a worthy endeavor leads me to believe that you need somebody to protect yourself from the Doritos.)

How the !@#$ do you figure that 'free food' and 'free energy' are available around the corner? Why the !@#$ don't you just want a time machine to gather the knowledge of people 1,000 years in the future? I mean if you don't think that's just around the corner, you must be arguing against technological progress. Right? !@#$ing idiot. (Sorry Tom)

While she very well may not have a thorough knowledge of history, she isn't Joe Biden. This thread seems to be putting you on even footing with those that believe Mitt Romney really thinks airplane windows should open at 30,000 ft.

Well, the Jays are the last 3 season WS defending champions and I honestly can't think of who the last 3 time defending champ was prior to them. (They get a pass for the 3rd year as the WS wasn't played in '94. )

Well, kind of. If the Bills could become relevent in the next 20 or even 200 years, it would be like a blip of time to the time traveller. If it takes another 2,000-20,000 years for Ralph to finally pass the reins, that time traveller will age as well. But we'll have the advantage of being dead by the time the Bills are finally relevant again. (And we won't have to suffer through the extra 180-19,980 years to get there.)

So how exactly is President Obama going to keep this program available for them? He's siphoning off $716B from Medicaid for Obamacare. Does he have another magic bullet like that one to keep SS alive?

As Ned Flanders would say: okely-dokely.

Perhaps. But you'd said she'd bought them for HER classroom. I was trying to find a reason why she'd bought 3 AC units for 1 room, shy of her being a moron. You might have just supplied the reason.

How many !@#$ing AC units do you need for ONE room? She bought THREE? Please tell me there's more to this story than she being an imbecile.

Bob Newhart George Carlin Rodney Dangerfield Newhart had the straight man down pat and w/ his 'phone calls' didn't even need a clown on the other end of the jokes. Carlin was a true master. Rodney just made me laugh. There's a lot of other guys (and a gal or 2) that are and were funny, but those were my top 3. (Steven Wright, Rita Rudner, Dennis Miller, Jay Leno, Bill Cosby, Alan Sherman, Mitch Hedberg, Robert Lee, John Panette, Carl Hurley, Chonda Pierce, James P Connolly are just a few others that are hilarious.)

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