Connecting Those with Beards to Those That Like to Stroke Beards
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First – Yall wake up!
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This guy’s an economist?
All of us, when we drive our cars, heat our homes or use fossil fuels in more indirect ways, create these costs without paying for them. It follows that we overuse these fuels. Advocating a carbon tax is not some kind of argument for government planning; it is the logic of the market: That which is not paid for is overused. Even if the government had no need or use for revenue, it could make the economy function better by levying carbon taxes and rebating the money to taxpayers.
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Now that these consumers have received a windfall from the fall in energy prices, it would be possible to impose substantial carbon taxes without them being burdened relative to where things stood six months ago. The price of gasoline has fallen by more than a dollar.Mr. Summers seems to be suffering from Texpat’s dysrationalia.
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#3 – Based on my neighbor’s reluctance to spay and neuter, I think I just found a new source of supplemental income.
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That old woman is clearly mentally unbalanced. She needs to be in psychiatric ward at Huntsville.
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Speaking of disturbed, unless it is spoofery, the OC video shows people who are clearly in that category. /shivers
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Good morning Hamsters. Good thing we put the plants on the porch and covered the big ones next to the house last night. Slid to 29 and just crawled up to 30, but if the clouds hadn’t been around we’d have sunk farther under freezing. Frosty roofs but no frost on the pastures.
Shannon from last night hoping that it would be -40 in Green Bay on Sunday for the playoff game with the Cowboys is on the right track. Apparently the forecast for game time is -1, but that of course is subject to change as the day approaches. Could be Ice Bowl II since another Arctic front is on the way. We watched Ice Bowl I on the tube in Madison and spouse was in grad school. It was surreal in Green Bay that day. It had to be surreal all over Wisconsin as well. That was a cliffhanger supreme.
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And what follows the o\c video is shall we say hugely unreal.
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mharper42 #5 & 6
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#2 Hamous
Agree with your diagnosis.
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Via Breitbart, this is a Salon article http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/03/salon-nypd-anti-de-blasio-revolt-a-fascist-coup/
The unhingement of the left is breathtaking . -
According to the story I read, the video started out as a joke, then the guy found out there was a market.
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Just refreshing…
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And if I remember correctly, I got the apellation “crazy” because of some of my links. Seems there’s a lot of that goin’ ’round.
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I got the apellation “crazy” because of some of my links.
Might it not be a chicken and egg thing?
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#14 Reminds me of a scene from the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Let’s hope he really means it this time:
This time, Bill Moyers really means it. After 43 years as public television’s most visible intellectual and its most unabashed liberal, he’s done. As of Friday, he’s officially retiring from TV.
Yes, he’s said that before. Twice, actually. And both times (in 2010 and 2013) he reversed course, returning to TV to pursue his varied passions and crusades — against the corrupting influence of money in politics, for the environment and civil rights, against growing economic inequality — in familiar style, avuncular and Texas-inflected. The last time he retired he was on the sidelines for all of 17 days.
But this time is different, he insists. Moyers, 80, said in a brief note posted on his Web site in September that the final show of his interview series, “Moyers & Co.,” which airs beginning Friday on public stations, would be his last. “I am writing to assure you that this time it’s the real deal,” he wrote then. “. . . It’s time finally to sign off.”
What is it about Texas’ homegrown “progressive” newsies (Moyers, Ivins, Rather, and Hightower) that make them so venomous? I think Moyers is the most viperous of the lot.
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One of my son’s buddies pulled into one of those electric car charging spots at a Whole Foods store in his F250 pick ’em up truck, layed the charge cord in the engine compartment and closed the hood. 😀 They get raised right out here in the sticks. (except that Ford part anyway)
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That poor cat coat lady could have probably just called the local pound and had as many cats delivered as she wanted – probably a few dogs too.
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#12 Hammy
then the guy found out there was a market.
Since we find ourselves living in BizarroWorld these days, that doesn’t completely surprise me. I guess there are much worse things, for which there is a market, if only some nutzoid will step up to supply it.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/05/exclusive-gohmert-names-boehner-s-broken-promises/
Gohmert is serious about getting the Orange Skinned Lying Bastige out of the speaker’s chair.
Let’s see what the cowardly Culbertson does now. If he votes for OSLB I feel confident that he will be primaried. -
Let’s see what the cowardly Culbertson does now. If he votes for OSLB I feel confident that he will be primaried.
He and Blake Farenthold can start a bidness together.
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I’ll bet Poe, Olsen, and Brady will vote orange as well. I remember back when Poe was a respected member of Congress, and Culbertson used to have some credibility also. Olsen ran right to get elected and then immediately signed up as Boner’s lapdog, and Brady was just a weasel to begin with. Hell, at least SJL represents her constituents unlike these guys.
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Hell, at least SJL represents her constituents unlike these guys.
I think Hammy would beg to differ on that point.
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Had to re-look up Farenthold – now I remember the duck costume story – and he was unopposed in 2014 by any Republican?
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Well there y’all are, Mornin’, iffin’ it’s still morning.
I discovered something interesting this morning, apparently Hambone & Drudge are plugged into the same extension cord. I tried from 5-7 AM to bring up either one with no luck, all the other places that I go to, worked just fine. FWIW; This happens on occasion with Hambone but NEVER with Drudge, well until today. -
It could get very interesting later today.
Just 29 Republican votes are needed.
Here’s how it works, if I understand this. Boehner wins on the first ballot if and only if he receives a majority of all votes cast.
Now, the Democrats will not be voting for him. Obviously. (Though they might wind up throwing some votes to him for strategic reasons, maybe.) That means that Boehner needs something like 207 votes to win.
So if just 29 Republicans vote for someone else, Boehner does not win on the first ballot.
And here’s the cool part: If he doesn’t win on the first ballot, some people who have actually behaved rather cowardly will pretend to be courageous and start offering themselves as Speaker, To Save America And Stuff. And then it gets pretty serious, as far as selecting a different speaker.
So they idea if if Boehner can be thwarted on the first ballot, he’s very likely to lose outright on the second (and following) ballots.
They usually say the insurgents already have 12-20 votes; so they don’t have to pick up too many to get to 29.
Gohmert said the effort to dethrone Boehner in 2012 was closer than many realized and that only at the last minute did a handful of Boehner opponents back down, thwarting the coup.
“John Boehner came within two hours of losing the speakership,” Gohmert said.”It was so close, I was surprised he would even try again.” -
#13 Tedtam, originally you said that we had two choices, but now it looks like a free-for-all.
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#3 That old lady is just trying to make a living in Obama’s world.
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Superdave – it’s four slots each.
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1/12………………………………………………………………………………I spoke with Lovely this morning. Still nothing. Baby’s moving – just not in the right direction!
On my Wall of Wit and Wisdom, I have a saying: “Don’t confuse activity with progress. A rocking chair moves, but it doesn’t go anywhere.”
So the newest member of the family needs to be eddicated on the difference between movement and progress!
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/Noona’s getting really frustrated over here, waiting, waiting, waiting…
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#24 EG
at least SJL represents her constituents
All Shirley does is she be herself. How does whining about chains, muss she die?, or getting confused about that flag on Mars, help her constituents?
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For those who want a progress update, http://www.haveyouhadthatbabyyet.com/
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#35 – now THAT’s funny I don’t care who you are! 🙂
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#36 – Reckon they’ve never heard of a ‘Honey Wagon’ eh?
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So when’s the pool on LD asploding start?
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#39 WB
She looks dangerously close already….and AB keeps poking her belly with his finger. He may want to rethink that activity!
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Just got through printing a buncha property tax checks.
Had to make a bathroom run after I finished.
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Or perhaps this would be more apropos:
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Ezra Klein and his hive of villainy at Vox are profoundly anti-American and anti-Constitution. Plain and simple.
The problem isn’t that the deck is stacked in favor of Republicans. The problem is that the deck is stacked in favor of small states, which receive equal representation in the Senate despite dramatic variance in population. The Senate is a profoundly anti-democratic body and should be abolished.
Article V of the Constitution profoundly prohibits such an action. Period. End of story.
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You can’t even do that by amendment. These fascists will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
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Long overdue from a significant figure in Islam and very encouraging. From Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi:
I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have to think hard about what we are facing—and I have, in fact, addressed this topic a couple of times before. It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible!
That thinking—I am not saying “religion” but “thinking”—that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world. It’s antagonizing the entire world!
Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live? Impossible!
I am saying these words here at Al Azhar, before this assembly of scholars and ulema—Allah Almighty be witness to your truth on Judgment Day concerning that which I’m talking about now.
All this that I am telling you, you cannot feel it if you remain trapped within this mindset. You need to step outside of yourselves to be able to observe it and reflect on it from a more enlightened perspective.
I say and repeat again that we are in need of a religious revolution. You, imams, are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move… because this umma is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands.
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/01/03/egypts-al-sisi-makes-extraordinary-speech-on-islam/
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The above I posted last night. Today I read my man Daniel Peterson’s take on the matter. He teaches Arabic and Middle Eastern studies and knows the history, vulture, and theologies quite well. (He andI definitely have disagreement regarding establishing peace in Israel). Here Dan gives a good historical background on Sisi’s call to revolutionize Islam and the potential it can have. Dan also links to First Things’ website who posted on Sisi’s speech.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2015/01/reforming-islam.html
Direct link to First Things: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2015/01/president-sisis-speech
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Tedtam / Lovely;
Just so I know, is everything OK so far as you know or is Lovely just ready to give birth? Also, without knowing much at all on Lovely’s situation, or than she’s ready to lay her egg in the nest, put me diwn for 1/8. On her behalf, I do hope it’s sooner. 🙂
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#35;
:>)
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Just popping by to say that I think it would be nice if LD had her child today as it is my mother’s 95th birthday today. Mind is still sharp as a tack but sadly her body is very frail. A stiff breeze goes by and she is at risk of breaking something.
Good luck and best wishes LD.
Seems a bit weird me calling someone else’s daughter LD.
😉
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I just can’t resist:
#36: Those pedestrians had a real crappy day; as did everybody else in the vicinity.
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#43
😀
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#27;
apparently Hambone & Drudge are plugged into the same extension cord.
Not really. Rather, they both get their power from the same hamster wheel. Apparently the hamster took a long dinner break.
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Texanadian #50;
Happy Birthday to your mother.
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And, in spite of his wife’s pleas, he has no plans to replace it.
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Fun on Facebook today.
John ClaytonThings I remember growing up in Manchester, NH
5 hrs ·
Washington Post – Pound for pound, the best place to live in America is New Hampshire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/why-the-south-is-the-worst…/Why the South is the worst place to live in the U.S. — in 10 charts
It might be time to consider moving to New Hampshire.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM
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40 people like this.Jackie Sage This is the NH I know. Population is getting older as young families moving due no meaningful employment opportunities and extremely high rent.
5 hrs · LikeKent A. Vining I’ve lived in NH (grew up there), and I’ve lived in the South. Only a Liberal would think that the south is the worst place to live in the US. I’m happy with that. Stay up there. I found paradise in Texas and I really don’t want y’all doing to it what you did to NH.
4 hrs · LikeSheila Kelley Please stay where you are ! We have had enough outer staters come here and try to change our way of life.
4 hrs · LikeKent A. Vining I’m not an outer stater. I was born and raised in NH. I left NH permanently. You don’t have to worry about me coming back. I’ve seen what its turned into. I enjoy low taxes, economic freedom, a booming economy, low unemployment, biggest medical center in the world, major colleges for engineering and science, NASA and private Space exploration, my kids were educated well and have good careers, more gun stores than you can shake a stick at, and a low crime rate because of it. You’d hate it down here.
4 hrs · Edited · LikeKent A. Vining http://www.nytimes.com/…/is-life-better-in-americas-red…
Is Life Better in America’s Red States?
Liberal regions are richer, but they create fewer jobs.
NYTIMES.COM|BY RICHARD FLORIDA
4 hrs · Like · Remove PreviewTom Crombie …don’t forget that all the land in Texas is fenced and private…..no parking your car and just trudging off in any direction. I lived there for 5 years………
4 hrs · LikeKent A. Vining Not exactly true. There’s a great deal of public land down here. I regularly hike in the Sam Houston National Forest. But yes, you don;t have to worry about hunters coming onto your property or strangers walking through it.
4 hrs · LikeJohn Colburn Kent A. Vining according to the article there NH had a much better safety score than Texas.
4 hrs · LikeAnnette Talbot Lennox Low taxes? Not in FL anyway, maybe TX. Cost of living in FL is just as high with less job ops. Every state varies. NH is still a great place to be with less crime and more value for your dollar. MA has the best job ops but cost of living is higher. It’s give and take no matter where you live. If you love the heat, live in the south. If you like varied seasons and temps, then live in NH.
4 hrs · Like · 1Kent A. Vining @ John Colburn. Seeing as how Houston has about 4 times as many people as the whole state of NH, and there’s three other cities of comparable size, the crime numbers would be skewed.
4 hrs · LikeJohn Colburn New York and New Jersey both inch ahead of Texas in the crime rating. Massachusetts with Boston and a number of lesser cities is well positioned on that chart.
4 hrs · LikeKent A. Vining I’m OK with that. We have a 1500 mile border with a country that’s essentially run by drug cartels. We do just fine once that’s considered—and nobody is trying to take away our ability to protect ourselves.
4 hrs · LikeJackie Sage No sales tax in NH but extremely high property taxes
Homeowners bear all costs
4 hrs · Like · 1Kent A. Vining We have a low sales tax here, no income tax, and low property taxes. I paid $1200 on a 1600 sq foot house on an acre of land last year. Gas this morning was $1.89 a gallon. don;t know how much heating oil is, we don’t need it. But we do appreciate y’all buying it from us
4 hrs · Edited · LikeJohn Colburn I believe NH has a “stand your ground” law, but that may not be typical of other states with low crime rates. That’s a subject for a whole different study.
4 hrs · LikeKent A. Vining We have what’s called “the castle doctrine” as in “your home is your castle”
4 hrs · LikeRon Villemaire Texas sucks!!!!!!!!!! I served 24 years in the Military and spent time in 32 states. Unfortunately I had basic training in Texas, a Tech school in Texas and had to return to different areas of Texas 14 times for periods of three or four weeks playin…See More
4 hrs · Like · 2John Colburn Basically the same thing as inspired by an incident we had here. I realize Texas has challenges we don’t have here, but it’s a rich state and should be able to handle those challenges.
4 hrs · Like · 1Josanne Hebert Love this stste
3 hrs · LikeKent A. Vining Thanks for leaving Ron!
3 hrs · LikeVictoria Colman Kent we get it you like Texas, no need to be rude!
3 hrs · Like · 2Kent A. Vining Rude? The original story says the South is the worst place to live in the US, Ron said Texas sucks, and I’m the one who is rude?
2 hrs · LikeBarbara Moody A woman from Texas once told me that New Hampshire looked to her like a place she would choose to go on vacation.
1 hr · LikeJackie Sage I would move west before South
They are still fighting the civil war
1 hr · Like · 2Victoria Colman LOL they think they won too!!!
1 hr · LikeGayle Godzyk We all love the State that we live in (or perhaps like it anyway)…That’s what is so neat about being in American…we can live where we want to. So….I will say…. if, one person likes living in Texas…it’s ok. We like living in NH ….. and that’s even better! (No rudeness…”thread” will be cut) (JUST HAVIN’ A FUN TIME Y’ll!)
1 hr · Edited · LikeBeverly Gagnon Fussell Where do u buy those shirts.?
1 hr · LikeColin Werner Simply AMAZING. Go New Hampshire.
29 mins · LikeMichael Hale NH or Texas to each his own but kent you were chippy from the start of the conversation.. no worries we will stay up here but only if you stay down there.. Deal?
11 mins · LikeDaishun Bickford Nice place to live in NH? Try moving to Manchester, and tell me if it is a nice place to live. SMH
7 mins · LikeMichael Hale NH is bigger than Manchester
5 mins · LikeJohn Colburn Many of us who live here in Manch think it’s nice.
5 mins · LikeKent A. Vining Micheal; I’ll come up to visit. Its a great place to take a vacation.
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#34 – I didn’t say she does anything to help her constituents, merely that they don’t know any better and they like what she does – she represents them by reflecting the idiocy (maybe that should be “ignorance”) that they believe in.
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I think I just saw the saddest woman in America. She’s on the “My Pillow” commercial: “It really did change my life!” I’ve had several events during my years that I would consider “life-changing”. A pillow has never made the top million.
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60 Hamous
I would assume you never lived with a woman who complained day and night about not getting any sleep because of her pillow. I bet it changed her husband’s life far more than her life.
This guy who started the My Pillow company hit on a gold mine. Her Highness has at least a dozen pillows around the bedroom that she bought and doesn’t like any of them.
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I would assume you never lived with a woman who complained day and night about not getting any sleep because of her pillow.
Nope. I think my snoring probably makes the pillow insignificant.
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Pillow Talk 🙂
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Here’s the latest in coffee making gadgets. I knew that something good would come out of that last coffee pot discussion.
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Funniest thing I’ve read today; especially the comments.
Nordog6561
Newby, does anyone make fun of the paisley pattern on your fainting couch?
whistlin’ dixie
1 microaggression = .001 aggression => whoopdee doo da
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Nope that’s a milliaggression. A microaggression is 0.000001 aggressions.
PCTon80
It would take 132,000 bowls of YOUR breakfast cereal to equal the amount of aggressions in ONE BOWL of New Super VictimFlakes!
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It’s all gonna be ok… cause ol’ Pete Olson says so.
The 114th Congress will be a time of action. The House will have an opportunity to work with a Republican Senate to reduce federal spending, grow our economy and exercise proper constitutional oversight over the White House.
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#65: That’s some funny comments there. 🙂
… and well deserved sarcasm.
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#66 – Pete has turned out to be another in a long line of disappointments.
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65 hamm
I couldn’t finish it.
I just don’t have the patience anymore.
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Nope. I think my snoring probably makes the pillow insignificant.
Well, soon after you’re married you’ll discover the effectiveness of a woman’s elbows at night.
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Good to bring up to Jeb Bush and Kindergarten testing on steroids:
A working paper called “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade? The Changing Nature of Kindergarten in the Age of Accountability,” by Daphna Bassok and Anna Rorem of the University of Virginia’s EdPolicyWorks, a center on education policy and competitiveness, notes that kindergarten has been transformed over the last decade, with academic skill-being taking center stage.
For some kids, learning to read in kindergarten is just fine. For many others, it isn’t. They just aren’t ready. In years gone by, kids were given time to develop and learn to read in the early grades without being seen as failures. Even kids who took time learning how to read were able to excel.
Today kids aren’t given time and space to learn at their own speed.
And…
… The top-down, test-driven regimen of Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” and Obama’s “Race to the Top” initiatives in K-12 education is now in the process of being nationalized with those Common Core standards championed by the Times — an enterprise largely funded, and relentlessly promoted, by corporate groups. That same version of school reform, driven by an emphasis on global competitiveness and a determination to teach future workers as much as possible as soon as possible, would now be expanded to children who are barely out of diapers.
That doesn’t leave much time for play. But even to the extent we want to promote meaningful learning in young children, the methods are likely to be counterproductive, featuring an emphasis on the direct instruction of skills and rote rehearsal of facts. This is the legacy of behaviorism: Children are treated as passive receptacles of knowledge, with few opportunities to investigate topics and pose questions that they find intriguing. In place of discovery and exploration, tots are trained to sit still and listen, to memorize lists of letters, numbers, and colors. Their success or failure is relentlessly monitored and quantified, and they’re “reinforced” with stickers or praise for producing right answers and being compliant.
This dreary version of early-childhood education isn’t just disrespectful of children; decades of research show it simply doesn’t work well — and may even be damaging.
A HUGE part of early childhood development is letting a kid be a kid. I loved my Kindergarten class in large part because I was “just a id” acting like a kid.
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