An old adage says that being born with a silver spoon in your mouth is no disgrace if you are given the ability to keep it polished. Certainly, Deke Copenhaver has kept it polished.
Of course Bedden's going to take the job in Texas. Everything he's done here is like a house of cards, and it's going to fall, including the bullying problems. They didn't stop bullying; they just instructed the teachers not to report it.
Augusta, why should we hire another school superintendent? Why don't we just make it where they have to be voted for and voted up or down. Let's make it an electable post. That way parents can have more power.
I think Bedden has done a better job than Charles Larke did, and you paid him about half of Larke's salary. His departure will be a loss to Richmond County. He's been great! The money you will waste to find another leader you could have used to give him a raise. Thank you, Bedden, for a job well started. I'm sorry people won't let you finish. From a Tutt Middle School parent.
This is a rant against the Rants & Raves department. You seem to reluctantly print anything against Obama or the Democrats. All you see are rants against Republicans. How about making it fair and balanced?
All college administrators who get free car allowance, free housing allowance, free magazine subscriptions and free vacation: Sonny Perdue says that you are not getting free stuff anymore. If you make enough to be a college administrator, you ought to pay for your own car and house, and I don't want to have to pay for your magazines, either.
This is for all my rants that you have avoided printing predicting the demise of MCG Augusta. Full steam ahead, MCG Athens. Throttle back, MCG Augusta. Now that the damage has been done, the local decision makers are beginning to realize that dual campuses are financially prohibitive. When will our elected officials and pundits wake up?
This is a rave to Lowell Greenbaum. He sees and hears things that the average American does not. His spin on the health care summit was absolutely brilliant. Greenbaum's letters to the editor merit consideration for a new comic strip.
The Editor of The Chronicle must have graduated from the college of negativity. Mr. Obama, our president, can stand on his head and this editor will print that he was standing on his two feet.
Media are busting their britches to help Obama by writing absurd headlines, e.g., "Employers shed jobs in February, but upward trend continues." If jobs are "shed," that's called fewer jobs, not an "upward trend."
well at least today's menu offers something to consume. Here goes: #1: never heard that expression...interesting...I don't know Deke so if he was born wealthy maybe that's why he's a politician...never seen too many poor ones.
#2, 3, & 4: Bedden's outta there...focus on who is coming to replace him. My son started under Clarke and finished under Bedden...I'd have to say things were a bit better under Bedden...alliterative verse.
#5: Are you insane? The ACES is pro-repukes and not pro obama-rama. What paper are you reading?
#6:Don't know if your presumption is accurate but I second your rant.
#7: Yeah well UGA is in Athens and when it comes to funding universities, I'd have to say UGA beats anything we have here. Why wouldn't they shift money out of this God-forsaken town of lawless citizens? It's all about money anyway.
#8: Haven't read any so "Noted".
#9: Have they changed the ACES ed policy or is there another paper out there ya'll have been reading? This town is an**-retentive when it comes to anything not repubullycan.
#10: That last one goes hand-in-hand w the news story I just watched where they stated temp help/jobs are on the rise...what else are the unemployed going to do after their checks run out? Take a temp job of course...DOH!
TTThhhaaatttt's allllll folks. It's 420 somewhere. Ya'll have a fun day. HOOO-rah.
Here's a rant about Toyota: Take 'em all off the road until the problem is fixed and compensate everyone who is disadvantaged because of your stupidity and reluctance to admit the truth. How many more folks have to die or be scared they are going to die before the cars are off the road until they are fixed properly?...quit trying to avoid lawsuits and go hide your lost face in the sand....no one wants to own a potential death-trap.
Here's a rave about taxing soft drinks...please do and stop all the fat adults from indulging in self-deprecation. Maybe if they took the sugar out of all soft drinks folks wouldn't buy them...oh yeah, they wouldn't be left w much to drink.
To all the self-employed who want insurance....check this site out: http://www.freelancersunion.org/index.html
To the Dr Greenbaum raver, very nice job! I appreciated the early smile. To the next to last ranter, I really don't think you have to worry about the ACES writing that President Obama is capable of standing on his own two feet. Have a nice day! w00t!
A Rave to the "Runaway Prius" driver. I just heard on the news that as it hit speeds of about 90 mph, and he was unable to slow it down and having trouble controlling it, he did the only thing a logical conscientious concerned environmental(case) would do ... he dialed 911 on his cellphone to ask for advice ....I can't make this stuff up. They told him to press the "Off" button, and for "some reason" that worked and he got it stopped. Obama '12!!!
morning all..............to the second rant, no bedden has not stopped bullying, i dont know if the problem is that the teachers were told by bedden not to report it, or if it is simply that the teachers are being bullied as badly as other students are, but one thing that i do know is that richmond county is a lot better off with bedden than they ever were with larke, at least with bedden, the bullying does not start at the top
Another Rave for the entertainment the lefties are providing:
HDNet's Dan Rather stepped on one mine after another in the racial minefield that exists when talking about the nation's first black President as the former CBS anchor, on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend, uttered the following take on the President's ability to get health care passed and how the GOP and independents would view it.
DAN RATHER: Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama's leadership. And the Republicans will make a case and a lot of independents will buy this argument. "Listen he just hasn't been, look at the health care bill. It was his number one priority. It took him forever to get it through and he had to compromise it to death." And a version of, "Listen he's a nice person, he's very articulate" this is what's been used against him, "but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic."
While Rather may not have been being intentionally racist one has to wonder what the reaction would be if a conservative had used similiar language on the show. (Thanks to the MRC's Bob Parks for alerting us to the remark and creating the video.)
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2010/03/08/dan-rather-arti...
The problem with bullying is not Bedden, it is the "labels" being placed on children with behaivor problems that make them part of a protected class - disabled. If a student who is ADHD, ADD or any other alphabet soup disorder misbehaves and it is determined that said misbehavior is due to their disorder, they can not be suspended or expelled. In addition, there are maximum suspension days and other restrictions placed on the schools, at the federal level, that don't give districts, like Richmond, the ability to fully address bullying. If you can't suspend or expel and there is limited alternative classroom space available - the only option is to keep those disruptive kids in the general population where they will disrupt the classroom, bully their peers, etc. And before anyone implies that I am "picking on" disabled kids - NO, absolutely not. I am however stating that I believe many parents have their children subjectively labeled as a means of protecting themselves and their child from being held fully accountable.
It's not just the bullying that starts at the federal level. Although we need child protections laws/guidelines they have been taken to the extreme. Feds direct rules, states make them more restrictive to stay out of trouble, districts do likewise, school administrators follow suit. They also train children to report abuse from home, leaving parents afraid to discipline their children. It has taken an entire generation plus to get into this over controlled situation and will take at least as long to recover from it. Put discipline and religion back in the schools and take bureaucracy out immediately and the current problems will be drastically improved in the next 20 years plus when we get a new generation of parents who know how to discipline and raise children. Society is over controlled by the government and can't improve without taking control of their lives/future.
We are too far gone into the Great Experiment of the 60's to revise course. Total breakdown and chaos are the only things left before America is re-created by constitutionalists, entitlements will be a memory, and there will be many many people suffering who never took a single cent of entitlement money.
Dear Washington DC and every Governor's Mansion in the USA: If you don't work, you don't eat. So let it be written, so let it be done.
This is a rant for our RC solid waste manager. Now he wants to give is a small metal trash can with no wheels and go to once a week pickup. If you want the larger plastic container with wheels like we have now it will be called "premium" service and cost you more than the little metal can. Call your commissioners and stop this dead in it's tracks now. Can you imagine what our county roads will look like with these immoblie metal cans sitting out on the right-of-ways all over the country. Oh yeh, he wants to take away the bulk pickup and make it a "call for service" which means it will probably be an extra charge too.
Trash and recycle pick up: Come to North Augusta and see how it is done.
Just "pay your own folks" like Columbia County residents do.
Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.
The measure also prevents doctors from absorbing a crippling cut in Medicare payments, extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed and gives cash-starved states help with Medicaid, the federal-state program providing health care to the poor and disabled.
The unemployment insurance alone -- to provide weekly unemployment checks averaging above $300 to people whose core 26-week benefit package has run out -- will cost $66 billion through December. In some states people are eligible to receive benefits for up to 99 weeks.
The bill, and the test vote Tuesday, demonstrate the difficulty Democrats face as they focus on jobs. It doesn't include new ideas for boosting jobs, but instead reprises elements of last year's $862 billion economic stimulus bill, which is earning mixed reviews from voters. Simply extending those provisions has produced a far more expensive measure than a separate so-called jobs bill that Democrats hope to soon send to President Barack Obama. That measure would boost highway spending and give tax breaks to companies that hire the unemployed and could clear the Senate for Obama's desk this week.
All told, the measure would add $107 billion to the deficit over the coming decade. Democrats have labeled most of the bill an emergency measure, exempting it from stricter budget rules enacted just last month.
jshsmmfh in disgust... 99 weeks of Unemployment bennies? Emergency measure?
Would it be wrong to pray for a hurricane/tornado/earthquake today?
A Good Morning to all true Americans and to all our fighting Men/Women in the Middle East, a Good Evening Prayer to you all.
Lets all try to post today without the "SMARTERNU" attitude.
Sean, Where have you been, you haven't deserted us, have you?
Tks Beauford... I just cannot understand how people sit for this crapola. The Gov can't GIVE anything but other people's money to people, deserved or not.
Congress makes rules (pay as you go) and immediately circumvents them.
Bunning was right. I really don't care if this sounds heartless:
Cut people off the entitlements now, only THEY will suffer.
Keep giving away other people's money, we ALL will suffer........ for generations.
WE, that's right, we are broke people.
Why can't we up the amount received to $500 per week, make unemployment bennies permanent and end all other entitlement programs? Wouldn't that be cheaper?
Follow that up with mandatory drug testing and soon we would save 80% of that money.
Add a stipulation that if convicted of a crime while receiving unemloyment benefits and you must pay back all monies received and.......
Education of our children is the reason we are living with they type government we have today. All the opinions they are made dealing with our education problem will never be solved until such time PC is poo canned and we the people face it with the real FACTS. Teach our children the Truth of this world we live in so they will never become slaves of society.
lol willie, how would they pay back the money if they are in jail (sucking even more money from the taxpayers to incarcerate them)?
Ceeg: Parent must take charge of their own kids education. Home school if necessary. Sacrifice the luxuries for the sake of the children....
This is not an original thought. Most would say I am incapable of such.
Add a stipulation that if convicted of a crime while receiving unemloyment benefits and you must pay back all monies received and.......
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Offered amendment: if you are convicted of a crime while receiving ANY non-earned benefit, no repayment, you lose them for life. Nuff said.
Reform the prison system. When you commit a crime you start a mandatory work program that has a relevant value and for which money is earned. You are released after all restitution and trial costs are paid.
Make em pay for the cost of housing them and feeding them as well.
Make prisons a profit center. Put them in the hands of private enterprise.
When you commit a crime you start a mandatory work program that has a relevant value and for which money is earned. You are released after all restitution and trial costs are paid.
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Include a mandatory educational requirement. Vocational or Academic, matters not. Successful completion is stipulation of release.
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