Woody wrote:

Bakestar wrote:[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/us/politics/13apply.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin]Well, I guess I'm out.
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Is there anyone on this board who'd pass the sniff test?

Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets carrying fines of less than $50 need not be reported, the application says. Applicants are asked whether they or anyone in their family owns a gun. They must include any e-mail that might embarrass the president-elect, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages.

The application also asks applicants to “please list all aliases or ‘handles’ you have used to communicate on the Internet.”

"It says here that you're known for posting on internet lists and forums using the handle 'Woody', and that includes TYPING IN ALL CAPS the following phrase: 'I'D DIP MY BALLS IN IT'. Care to elaborate on that?"

jerseyhoya wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

It appears Sarah Palin knows Africa is a continent.

jerseyhoya wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

It appears Sarah Palin knows Africa is a continent.

pacino wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

It appears Sarah Palin knows Africa is a continent.

You konw how I know you're Northeast Republican Elite (TM)? You cite the NY Times.

:D

dajafi wrote:

pacino wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

It appears Sarah Palin knows Africa is a continent.

You konw how I know you're Northeast Republican Elite (TM)? You cite the NY Times.

:D

Sometimes it occurs to me that our friend jh might be "purged" from the Republican Party for thought-crimes such as "gay marriage really isn't a big deal" and ideological deviations like, um, hanging out with us.

jerseyhoya wrote:

dajafi wrote:

pacino wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

It appears Sarah Palin knows Africa is a continent.

You konw how I know you're Northeast Republican Elite (TM)? You cite the NY Times.

:D

Sometimes it occurs to me that our friend jh might be "purged" from the Republican Party for thought-crimes such as "gay marriage really isn't a big deal" and ideological deviations like, um, hanging out with us.

Heh. Most of the professional party apparatus agrees with me that the religious right is bat $#@! crazy. At least if my interactions with them are representative.

Michelle Rhee, the hard-charging chancellor of the Washington public schools, thinks teacher tenure may be great for adults, those who go into teaching to get summer vacations and great health insurance, for instance. But it hurts children, she says, by making incompetent instructors harder to fire.

So Ms. Rhee has proposed spectacular raises of as much as $40,000, financed by private foundations, for teachers willing to give up tenure.
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LMs. Rhee has not proposed abolishing tenure outright. Under her proposal, each teacher would choose between two compensation plans, one called green and the other red. Pay for teachers in the green plan would rise spectacularly, nearly doubling by 2010. But they would need to give up tenure for a year, after which they would need a principal’s recommendation or face dismissal.
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In an interview, Ms. Rhee said she considered tenure outmoded.

“Tenure is the holy grail of teacher unions,” she said, “but has no educational value for kids; it only benefits adults. If we can put veteran teachers who have tenure in a position where they don’t have it, that would help us to radically increase our teacher quality. And maybe other districts would try it, too.”

Ms. Rhee has significant public backing for her efforts to improve this district of 46,000 students, one of the nation’s worst-performing. Both presidential candidates lined up behind her in their final debate last month, with Senator Barack Obama calling her Washington’s “wonderful new superintendent.”

pacino wrote:I don't think anyone here's mentioned it yet, but one of my big bosses just died, Lt. Governor Catherin Baker Knoll, due to cancer. Condolences to her family

dajafi wrote:It's a big job that offers mammoth ego gratification and a chance to be enormously influential. Granted, she wouldn't be the first, or even second, lady SoS. But I think it's reasonable to believe she'd have a larger impact than Albright or Rice did.

If you believe that Hillary isn't the political animal that Bill is, as I sort of do, it makes a lot of sense. As for Obama, the advantage for him is that it gets her out of the Senate, where she could (and maybe would) do a ton of mischief: see here.