thephan wrote:

pacino wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:So I saw a bumper sticker on the way to work this morning that was "NObama" superimposed on a confederate flag. It was pretty faded too, so it might've been from the 2008 election cycle.

Do I need to add that it was on the back of a beat-up pickup truck?

i mean, at least you're in VA. I'm in PA and see confederate flags

Careful there matey... he is in Richmond, capital of the Confederacy, there is very little of that BS here in NVA. We are not free of general stupidity, but RPF is a lot closer to 'a still in every house' country.

thephan wrote:

pacino wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:So I saw a bumper sticker on the way to work this morning that was "NObama" superimposed on a confederate flag. It was pretty faded too, so it might've been from the 2008 election cycle.

Do I need to add that it was on the back of a beat-up pickup truck?

i mean, at least you're in VA. I'm in PA and see confederate flags

Careful there matey... he is in Richmond, capital of the Confederacy, there is very little of that BS here in NVA. We are not free of general stupidity, but RPF is a lot closer to 'a still in every house' country.

jerseyhoya wrote:The president is the leader of the United States of America

td11 wrote:the point is that black people probably consider him to be just as much, if not more, of a leader/role model for the black community than they do al sharpton and jesse jackson

Some of our greatest cities, including New York and Los Angeles, are much safer today than they were 20 years ago, thanks to Republican leaders, such as former Gotham mayor Rudy Giuliani. Forty years ago, conservatives and liberals disagreed about how to fight crime. Conservatives looked to more effective policing; liberals, believing that poverty caused crime, bet on redistributive social policies. The past decades have overwhelmingly vindicated the conservatives. The expansive government programs of the liberals’ Great Society coincided with rapidly rising urban crime rates. Cities became safe again only when they embraced tougher—and
smarter—policing.

Imagine what would happen to the quality of food in New York if the city replaced its thriving, hypercompetitive restaurant scene with a single public canteen. That’s exactly what cities have done by accepting monolithic public school systems.

Bay State leaders constantly proclaim their passion for providing affordable housing for the poor. Yet Massachusetts remains one of the least affordable states in the nation for housing because its suffocating regulations restrict building, shoving up prices. By contrast, Texans, who rarely talk about affordable housing, enjoy lots of it (see “The Texas Growth Machine”). Texas’s housing affordability isn’t the result of any top-down government program; it reflects the might of the free market and the Texan aversion to regulation.

Bucky wrote:That's the other half

The Pennsylvania Department of Education reported in September that 59 percent of charter schools had made adequate yearly progress, the measure used to rate schools and schools districts. Making adequate yearly progress depends heavily on students' performance on the annual Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, or PSSA, tests.

At the time, public school officials and critics of charter schools argued that those numbers were inflated because the state, for the first time, was using more lenient rating criteria for charter schools than was used in previous years.

The U.S. Department of Education agreed in November, rejecting a request from the state to use the more lenient criteria and forcing Pennsylvania to recalculate scores for charter schools.

Based on those recalculated numbers, only 33 percent of charter schools made adequate yearly progress.

And the number of cyber charter schools hitting the mark fell from three under the relaxed criteria to zero using the revised calculation.

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jerseyhoya wrote:

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Bucky wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

drsmooth wrote:wow

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As part of its planning for sequestration, the Department of Defense said it's getting rid of tens of thousands of temporary employees, and on Friday, it made clear that should the automatic budget cuts occur, the remainder of the civilian workforce would face furloughs of one day per week without pay for the rest of fiscal year 2013.

A Pentagon memo earlier this month gave defense components the go-ahead to terminate temporary hires and stop renewing term employees. Ashton Carter, the author of that memo, told Pentagon reporters on Friday that has largely happened. Forty-six thousand temporary workers have already been let go in anticipation of sequestration

Carter said furlough notices had not yet been issued to the department's 790,000 full-time civil servants, but DoD would have no other option if the department continues for the balance of the year without an approved budget and if sequestration takes effect.

he Army's going to have to take 30 percent of base budget O&M out in order to protect their share of OCO, and that 30 percent is going to have to come out essentially in the last four months of the fiscal year," said David Berteau