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/blockquote>
Finally the media has picked up the most overlooked issue
of this presidential campaign – education.
On 10/10/2004 the NY Times had an article entitled “How to
Rescue Education Reform”
[link removed]
and today (10/17/2004) Yahoo listed an article 'No Child
Left Behind' Top Education ...See More/blockquote>
Finally the media has picked up the most overlooked issue
of this presidential campaign – education.
On 10/10/2004 the NY Times had an article entitled “How to
Rescue Education Reform”
[link removed]
and today (10/17/2004) Yahoo listed an article 'No Child
Left Behind' Top Education Issue
[link removed]
I have started to set up a grass root movement collecting
better ideas and a better name to improve the NCLB: For
more details please go to
[link removed] .
I want to include your ideas – the ideas of professionals
who work in schools every day. Therefore I am asking
everybody who thinks the NCLB needs improvement to send a
blank email to [email removed].
Your name and email address will be kept secret, I will be
your spokesperson, because I cannot be fired for
articulating that the NCLB needs improvement. I also have
200 journalists at hand who I will be able to convince that
this needs to be discussed further, provided I get at least
1,000 emails. So far, I have 50 emails and I believe 13
great names.
So, please forward his message to anybody who has a stake
in education, and who does not, and let’s try to get these
emails together.
Emails gives us the perfect opportunity to get a grass root
movement together, you don’t need to donate a dime, nor
need to march anywhere, all you nee to do is sending an
email and spreading the news.
I thank you very much for ever action you take!
Why am I doing this? Because this is the greatest country
on the planet and it needs to stay this way. Education is
the future of any country and others aren’t sleeping.
Gisela Hausmann
Gisela Hausmann is an educational activist and author of
obvious LETTERS and the Hands on Mathematics CD-ROM books.
She can be reached at (910) 798-5042 or
[email removed] .
/blockquote>
How much will it cost the tax payers to protect the Kerry-
Heinz homes if he is elected? Don't get me wrong I believe
the President should be able to go to his home for
relaxation, but will we have to provide around-the-clock
payed security for each of his six homes? Just a thought!
/blockquote>
Why are the warlike Republicans on the wrong list here?
DEMOCRATS:
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971
as an army journalist in 20th...See More/blockquote>
Why are the warlike Republicans on the wrong list here?
DEMOCRATS:
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971
as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor,
Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star
with Combat V, Purple Hearts.
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star,
Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star &
Bronze Star: Vietnam.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army
Reserve 1979-91.
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and
seven campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs,
Bronze Stars, and Soldier's Medal.
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart,
Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple
Heart.
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in
Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V.
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star
* George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
* Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments.
Entered draft, but received #311 in the lottery.
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with
18 Clusters.
* Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII.
Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.
REPUBLICANS:
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. five deferrments, the last
by marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach
business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who
attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight
instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year
National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could
campaign for family friend running
for U.S. Senate; failed to
show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-
combat role making movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was
over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit,
Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem," although
continued in NFL for 8 years.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National
Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.
PUNDITS & PREACHERS:
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal
cyst.')
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
* John Wayne: did not serve.
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
* Ralph Reed: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
* Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
* Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things
that don't shoot back.)
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Bush can't run on his record. After all, he's lost 1
million jobs, turned record budget surpluses into record
deficits, squandered the world's goodwill, and used
America's foreign policy to reward Republican fat cat
campaign contributors while sticking you with the bill for
his failures.
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/blockquote>
President George W. Bush: A Record of Accomplishment For
Women
The President’s priorities are shared by women from coast
to coast, and his decisions and actions have dramatically
improved the lives of women at home and around the world.
He has put his compassionate conservative philosophy to...See More/blockquote>
President George W. Bush: A Record of Accomplishment For
Women
The President’s priorities are shared by women from coast
to coast, and his decisions and actions have dramatically
improved the lives of women at home and around the world.
He has put his compassionate conservative philosophy to
work making America more secure; protecting the homeland;
strengthening the economy and reducing the tax burden on
families and small businesses; making health care
affordable and accessible for all Americans; reforming
education so that no child is left behind; empowering faith
and community-based groups; and building a culture of
responsibility.
President Bush has taken decisive action to improve the
lives of women, including:
• Making America More Secure by Confronting the Threats of
Our World. After America was attacked on Sept. 11th,
President Bush determined that the civilized world had to
aggressively and proactively challenge terrorists and
governments that harbored or supported them. He determined
that Al Qaeda, which based its operation and training camps
in Afghanistan, was responsible for the attacks, and when
the Taliban government refused to close the camps and turn
over Al Qaeda leaders, he sent America’s military to
liberate the country and shut down the terrorists’ base of
operations. Then, President Bush and his administration
began to assess other threats throughout the world in the
new light of September 11th. He went to the United States
Congress and the United Nations and led an international
coalition to remove Saddam Hussein, a murderous dictator
who supported terrorists, had used weapons of mass
destruction on his own people and invaded his neighbors.
The world is safer because Saddam Hussein is in prison, not
in power. President Bush is pursuing our enemies and
expanding the frontiers of liberty to extend peace and
freedom throughout our world.
• Protecting the Homeland. President Bush proposed and
signed into law the Patriot Act, giving law enforcement in
the fight against terrorism the same tools that are used
against organized crime. The Patriot Act broke down the
wall between law enforcement and intelligence officers, so
critically important information about terrorists can be
shared. In the most significant reorganization of the U.S.
government in over 50 years, President Bush created the
Department of Homeland Security to safeguard our borders
and ports and to protect the American people. Women are
playing a vital role in helping to secure America. Over
21,000 women are currently serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Today, military women fly combat aircraft, serve in
leadership positions aboard aircraft carriers and other
naval vessels, support combat land operations, and hold
three-star rank in every service.
• Growing the Economy & Reducing the Tax Burden. Steady
leadership has transformed a recession into a recovery.
Three times President Bush has provided tax relief to pull
our economy out of recession and return it to a path of
growth. In 2004, 81 million women will save, on average,
$1,878 as a result of the President’s tax relief packages.
This includes 49 million married couples who will save, on
average, $2,602 on their taxes and 11 million single
mothers who will keep, on average, $921 of their own money.
Forty-three million families with children will save, on
average, $2,090 in 2004. According to a June 14, 2004 Wall
Street Journal editorial, “women have actually done very
well during the Bush years -- their median earnings rose
5.4% between 2000 and 2002, compared to 1.4% for men. That
meant the ratio of female-to-male earnings hit an all-time
high in 2002. Moreover, the current 4.9% unemployment rate
for women is significantly lower than the national average
of 5.5%.”
• Promoting Flexibility in the Workplace. President Bush
is calling on Congress to pass legislation giving American
workers more options to help families better juggle the
demands of work and home through comp-time and flex-time.
• Supporting America’s Small Businesses. America’s over 20
million women and women equally-owned businesses employ
18.2 million people and contribute $3.6 trillion to the
national economy. Under the President’s Jobs and Growth
Act, 25 million small business owners and entrepreneurs are
receiving an average tax cut of $3,001 in 2004. Those
dollars create jobs and opportunity. Women-owned businesses
with $1 million or more in revenues are now growing at
twice the rate of all comparably sized firms.
• Ensuring Affordable and Accessible Health Care.
Affordable and accessible health care is one of the
President’s highest priorities. Last December, President
Bush signed historic legislation to strengthen Medicare and
provide a first-ever voluntary prescription drug benefit,
keeping a commitment to seniors to help them afford the
medicines they need. The bill also created Health Savings
Accounts, which allow all Americans to save tax-free in
order to pay medical expenses. In addition, the President
supports the creation of Association Health Plans to make
health care more affordable for small businesses and their
employees and refundable tax credits as a way to close the
coverage gap.
• Fighting Junk Lawsuits. Because medical liability drains
up to $110 billion annually from America’s economy,
President Bush is fighting to stop frivolous lawsuits to
protect patients, doctors and hospitals from wealthy trial
lawyers.
• Reforming Education So That No Child is Left Behind.
President Bush submitted his framework for education
reform, No Child Left Behind, three days after taking
office and secured overwhelming bipartisan passage less
than a year later. It is the most dramatic education reform
in a generation and reflects the President’s belief that
every child can learn. Every student will be held to high
standards, and every school will be held accountable to
parents for results. Parents with children in low-
performing schools have new options for their child
including transferring to a better public school or
securing extra assistance from one of 1,600 state-approved
tutoring providers. Backing up these reforms are historic
levels of federal funding, including a 49 percent increase
for elementary and secondary education funding, 52 percent
increase in support for disadvantaged students and 75
percent increase for special education.
• Building a Better, More Responsible America. President
Bush is taking action to empower faith based and community
charities, defend the sanctity of marriage, tear down
barriers for Americans with disabilities, end partial-birth
abortion, promote adoption, and stop child pornography. In
addition, youth drug use has decreased by 11% or 400,000
kids over the past 2 years.
• Investing in Women’s Health. President Bush fulfilled the
commitment to complete the doubling of NIH funding by 2003
and provide $28.8 billion for 2005. Mrs. Bush and the NIH
have launched a nationwide campaign called The Red Dress
Project to raise awareness of women's risk of heart
disease, the leading cause of death for women.
• Protecting America’s Women and Children Against Violence
at Home. President Bush believes the home should be a
peaceful place. For victims of domestic violence, that is
too often not the case. To help combat this, the President
secured historic levels of funding for Violence Against
Women programs at the Department of Justice, giving
communities resources to prosecute the offenders and assist
the victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and
stalking. In addition, President Bush’s “Family Justice
Centers” will provide “one-stop-shops” of critical services
to domestic violence victims in a dozen local communities.
Working with faith-based and community groups, the Bush
Administration also recently launched a pilot program in
Philadelphia, Atlanta and Phoenix: Local police, health and
emergency personnel, and others will be trained to spot and
care for victims. In addition, victims will be encouraged
to help authorities prosecute their abusers. The
President’s efforts are yielding results. Federal
prosecutions for crimes involving violence against women
have increased 53% in the past two years.
• Safeguarding Health and Rights for Women Around the
World. In Iraq and Afghanistan, 25 million women and girls
are able to go to school, vote in elections, and play
active roles in their societies. In 2002, President Bush
launched the International Mother and Child HIV Prevention
Initiative and committed $15 billion to combat HIV/AIDS
abroad, which increasingly affects women. President Bush
is providing over $150 million to combat worldwide
trafficking in persons, mostly women and children forced
into sexual slavery.
/blockquote>
Terrorists hope to defeat Bush through Iraq violence By
Borzou Daragahi THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BAGHDAD — Leaders and supporters of the anti-U.S.
insurgency say their attacks in recent weeks have a clear
objective: The greater the violence, the greater the
chances that President Bush will be defeated on T...See More/blockquote>
Terrorists hope to defeat Bush through Iraq violence By
Borzou Daragahi THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BAGHDAD — Leaders and supporters of the anti-U.S.
insurgency say their attacks in recent weeks have a clear
objective: The greater the violence, the greater the
chances that President Bush will be defeated on Tuesday and
the Americans will go home. "If the U.S. Army suffered
numerous humiliating losses, [Democratic presidential
nominee Sen. John] Kerry would emerge as the superman of
the American people," said Mohammad Amin Bashar, a leader
of the Muslim Scholars Association, a hard-line clerical
group that vocally supports the resistance.
Resistance leader Abu Jalal boasted that the mounting
violence had already hurt Mr. Bush's chances. "American
elections and Iraq are linked tightly together," he told a
Fallujah-based Iraqi reporter. "We've got to work to change
the election, and we've done so. With our strikes, we've
dragged Bush into the mud." Mowafaq Al-Tai, a London-
educated architect and intellectual, said different types
of resistance fighters have different views of the U.S.
election.
The most pro-Kerry, he said, are the former Saddam Hussein
loyalists — Ba'ath Party members and others who think
Washington might scale back its ambitions for Iraq if Mr.
Kerry wins, allowing them to re-enter civic life. The most
pro-Bush, he said, are the foreign extremists. "They prefer
Bush, because he's a provocative figure, and the more they
can push people to the extreme, the better for their case."
Abu Jalal, answering questions submitted to him through the
Iraqi journalist, devised a simple formula for how his
group's attacks on American soldiers draw votes from Mr.
Bush. "They say there are 1,100 dead soldiers. That means
1,100 families hold grudges against Bush and hate him.
There are 6,000 families whose sons were injured who hate
Bush and will not re-elect him." But even within the
resistance, not all agree that removing Mr. Bush from
office would make a difference. "The nation of infidels is
one, and Bush and Kerry are two faces of the same coin,"
said Abu Obeida, nom de guerre of a leader of Fallujah's al-
Noor Jihadi regiment. "What is taken by force will be
returned only by force, and we don't care what the results
of the elections are." Among ordinary Iraqis interested
only in a return to peace and stability, there is far less
clarity about what the American election might bring. Many,
like 35-year-old bank branch manager Sahar Mahmoud, say
they are bewildered by media reports about the nuances of
polling, swing states and attack ads. "It's a very big
political game, and something that we are very far from,"
he said. "We are very tired people, and we're just emerging
from a big crisis. So we can't imagine what other people
are going through."
Zeydoon Mohamad Jassem Najar, a biology student at Baghdad
University, simply shakes his head as the U.S. politicians
argue over his country's fate. “It's like everybody is
looking out for their own interests and nobody is looking
for the Iraqi people's interests," he said. "It's like a
game of personal interests between Bush and the other
guy." Mr. Bashar, a professor at Baghdad's Islamic
University, said he and many of those who oppose the U.S.
presence in Iraq were rooting for Mr. Kerry. "I think if
Kerry wins, he's going to try to get world support and
United Nations involvement," he said during an interview at
Baghdad's Um al-Qura mosque. "You'll see a different
situation in Iraq if the United Nations is involved."
But Nazar Judi, a 41-year-old money trader who had his
right hand cut off by Saddam Hussein's security forces nine
years ago, is squarely in the Bush camp. "I prefer Bush
over the other guy because he knows Iraq well," said Mr.
Judi, who received a new prosthetic hand from the U.S. Army
and was flown to Washington to meet Mr. Bush in person. "I
hope he wins his election because he wants to modernize
Iraq." A photograph of the American president shaking Mr.
Judi's prosthetic hand hangs on the wall of a back room at
his Khademiya office. In the front room, however, are
portraits of Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the
vehemently anti-U.S. Iranian cleric, and his successor, Ali
Khamenei, the current theocratic ruler of Iran.
/blockquote>
October 18, 2004
Democrats, NAACP Get Crack Squad Out For Voter-Registration
Efforts
In a story that will redefine the term "crack troops", a
volunteer for Democrats and the NAACP tried to pay
registration-gatherers in illegal drugs:
Defiance Deputies along with Toledo Police Department
detect...See More/blockquote>
October 18, 2004
Democrats, NAACP Get Crack Squad Out For Voter-Registration
Efforts
In a story that will redefine the term "crack troops", a
volunteer for Democrats and the NAACP tried to pay
registration-gatherers in illegal drugs:
Defiance Deputies along with Toledo Police Department
detectives conducted a search warrant of a residence on
Woodland in Toledo, believed to be the home of the woman
who hired Staton to solicit voter registration. Officers
confiscated drug paraphernalia along with voter
registration forms from the home. The occupant of the home,
Georgianne Pitts, age 41, advised law enforcement, along
with Ohio B.C.I.&I., that she had been recruited by
Thaddeus J. Jackson, II, of Cleveland, to obtain voter
registrations. Pitts admitted to paying Staton crack
cocaine for the registrations in lieu of money. A business
card provided by Pitts indicated that Jackson is the
Assistant NVF Ohio Director of the NAACP National Voter
Fund.
Predictably, instead of going out and getting valid
registrations, the addict instead filled a hundred or so
applications out himself. It seems that Democrats and the
NAACP in Ohio want to stage their own version of Rock The
Vote, one that MTV probably won't approve.
Put this in with Democrats' affiliation with Americans
Coming Together, which hired sex offenders and other felons
to go door-to-door to get registrations, and you have the
makings of a very desperate, and extraordinarily stupid,
effort to swing this election. Will the Ohio Democratic
Party and the local NAACP terminate anyone associated with
this project, or will they make the same kinds of excuses
we heard when the news broke on ACT's hiring practices?
Ohioans should take careful note of these methods and
choose their representatives accordingly.
/blockquote>
I'm taking the Praxis 2 tests 0011 and 0012 this Saturday.
I am not prepared for the 0012 (I'm a new-teacher-to-be.)
Does anyone know of any "quick" information or advice to
help me focus my studies?
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On 9/29/04, bill p dwyer wrote:
> concrete information is the bain of the "soft capitol"
> system, why would investment fluctuations take place
> unless we reflected subjetivity, the more accurate we can
> be about "event" based fluctuations, supposedly the more
we
> run the game, yet.....See More