Republicans beaten in the street

2010-04-17 Thread Sam
But we only need to worry about right-wing protesters because lefties are so peaceful http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/04/republican_officials_attacked.html Friday night a week ago in New Orleans, a petite female political operative and her boyfriend were attacked and seriously injured by a v

Re: Tea Party tax protestors amuse Obama

2010-04-17 Thread Sam
I'd say something but Hotair already covered it. http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/15/obama-mocks-tea-partiers-you-should-be-thanking-me-for-cutting-taxes/ Let’s see. For starters, he’s lying: He has raised some taxes, contrary to his campaign pledge two years ago. But more than that, he seems

Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....

2010-04-17 Thread denstar
I think the bottom line is that home school and public school are not disparate things. The most successful public schools are those that have incorporated aspects of home schooling (or, perhaps something more akin to "community schooling", which is what the best home schooling seems to be). Hig

Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....

2010-04-17 Thread Dana
this is really the bottom line. > It is a personal decision. The fact that I homeschool my children will > likely not impact any one on this list - positively or negatively. The > fact that Eric sends his kids to public school will likely not affect > any one on this list - positively or negative

Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....

2010-04-17 Thread Scott Stroz
Luke, There are many reasons why people choose to homeschool...most I would agree with. some I do not. Based on my experience with home schoolers, you wife's experience would be a very rare situation. I actually think my wife and I error on the side of caution when it comes to 'grading' tests, s

Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....

2010-04-17 Thread Dana
hmm. A couple of thoughtful questions to a thoughtful (I think) post. (At first I wanted to ask, Gruss, is that you? But Gruss did not suffer from random capital disease. If you are for real you don't understand the comment, and thas' ok. I am not making fun of you. I am also pretty sure Gruss di

RE: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....

2010-04-17 Thread Eric Roberts
Give me a few days till I am done moving so I can jump in fully...I hate moving... Eric -Original Message- From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:17 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling. Well you could try pro

Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....

2010-04-17 Thread Dana
I can't resist throwing this in: In New Mexico, homeschooled children are exempt from standardized testing. The reason, I am told, is that their statistics were being grouped together as school="other" and for years on end "other" was way way ahead where the statistics were concerned. On Fri, A

Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....

2010-04-17 Thread Dana
cough. You did say you agreed with it, did you not. Morgan said he meant it more as a comment about himself than about the educational strategy, and fair enough. He would know, right? On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > And as I pointed out that I did not start out on the "s

Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....

2010-04-17 Thread Dana
Well you could try proving otherwise, you know. You don't seem uneducated, actually, and I don't think the term's been applied to you. Intolerant now... that's up for grabs ;) This answer assumes the rhetorical question is not merely an excuse. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Eric Roberts wrot

OT JavaScript technical question for the Saturday crowd.

2010-04-17 Thread Ian Skinner
I have this JavaScript function that is the click event handler for some anchor tags. function switchNotes(e) { var targ = setTarget(e); var divId = targ.href.split("#")[1]; var div = document.getElementById("notes"); for (i = 1; i < div.childNodes.length; i++) { if

Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....

2010-04-17 Thread Luke Kilpatrick
This discussion has been interesting, I am very much on the Fence about home schooling, I can see the good points and the bad. I am not talking completely out of my ass here as My Wife was Homeschooled from K-12, she never stepped foot in a classroom until she was 23. I am not going to quote s

RE: Tea Party tax protestors amuse Obama

2010-04-17 Thread Eric Roberts
This is what happens when American stop being Americans and start becoming sheeple and stop thinking for themselves. Eric -Original Message- From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 9:58 AM To: cf-community Subject: Tea Party tax protestors amuse Obama ht

Tea Party tax protestors amuse Obama

2010-04-17 Thread Vivec
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002677-503544.html "The president went over the laundry list of tax cuts instituted in Washington over the past year. "In all, we passed 25 different tax cuts last year. And one thing we haven't done is raise income taxes on families making less than $250

Re: Breaking News: Goldman Sachs charged with fraud

2010-04-17 Thread Vivec
I am all for prosecuting people for engineering the loss of my money, and then setting things up so they profit from that loss. How someone, especially someone who has lost money, can support this: A) I give money to someone to invest. B) They intentionally and knowingly make bad investments. C)