“…the military is pursuing a new strategy….” Pentagon discloses largest-ever cyber theft:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/14/national/main20079424.shtml?tag=re1.channel
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“Does the administration agree? Or does it have a different plan?”
How to Shave a Bundle Off the Deficit: Spend Less on Nukes
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/how-to-shave-a-bundle-off-the-deficit-spend-less-on-nukes/241844/
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Kevin Drum at MotherJones thinks having the debt ceiling is “goofy”.
“Why wasn’t it repealed long ago by a majority party tired of the opposition using it to score political points?”
Remind me again why we have a debt ceiling:
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/07/remind-me-again-why-we-have-debt-ceiling
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Here’s a February DailyKos on means testing that still works today. Our less than creative options have been downsized and consolidated – which always reminds me of my bedtime way back when. “Which book for tonight … this one or that one?”
The case against means testing Social Security:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/20/947639/-The-case-against-means-testing-Social-Security
Means testing is expensive and it’s not the agreement we had when we paid for the policy. Integrity counts. I personally would like to try a voluntary “patriotic” opt-out for those in the upper echelon thoughtful enough to refuse social security because -they -don’t -need -it. Wouldn’t a list of their names be telling? That’ll never happen ….
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Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Think about it. Once they start, our kids are in public school about 16,380 hours (P – 12). That only leaves 5.72 years out of 13 for them to experience life awake and not in school before they graduate. Ouch.
540 hrs – preK public school 1 yr
16,380 hrs -180 days in public school per year @7hr k-12
33,215 hrs – sleep @7hrs x 13 yrs
=50135 hrs or 2,089 days or … 5.72 years
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Here’s my favorite video about teaching. Toshiro Kanamori is teaching a class. REALLY teaching a class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=armP8TfS9Is&feature=related
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And finally this one. Have a nice weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0lZ4d161h0&feature=share
speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class
by Bernie Sanders
art: “Morning In America”, June 18, 2011
artist: Ligorano/Reese
video: …A THOUSAND CUTS
music: composer/violinist Michael Galasso
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