Category Archives: Scribbles

Middle school grade inflation

The new big deal among the unionized teachers of Texas (ably assisted by their overpaid chums in the administrative office) is giving grades for study hall in middle school. Yep.

To make the teachers and the administrators look good they now give study hall grades, which generally helps raise a student’s overall average.

So if you’re barely passing major subjects, your A in study hall will pull you (and them) through. Unless—like Mr. B. here lately—you’ve found a way to flunk study hall.

Well, actually he has a 69 which is a D. Or he would have except they’ve also eliminated the D. Nowadays, a 70 is a C, but a 69 is an F. More grade inflation. It’s a game folks, a game called politics and it’s reached down to sixth grade.

Well, actually, it’s reached down to first grade where, for the longest time, Mr. B. thought Sojourner Truth had freed the slaves. Just like he was all worked up (at six years old) about the threat of global warming which was presented as the truth. You know “settled science.” Politics, indeed.

About those teachers’ unions in Chicago…

Time for the Democrat media’s knives

The Democrats have unleashed Maureen Dowd, the NYTimes hatchet-girl who starts slicing long about mid-September when a Republican is running for the White House.

This time she’s welcoming Rosh Hashanah with anti-Semitic tropes against Romney’s Jewish advisor Dan Senor:

“…depictions of Jews as snakes or puppeteers are classical anti-Semitic images, right up there with blood-sucking. The snake image has roots in the Christian Bible; the puppet-master goes back at least to Nazi Germany, and when Glenn Beck used it to talk about George Soros, who, unlike Dan Senor, has actually been hostile to Israel, the left was all over him for it.”

Soros always gets a free pass. Senor, rarely. Romney also is being attacked for an innocuous (and wholly accurate) talk to donors back in May some media stooge recorded for a September “secret video” surprise.

Look for the sly editorializing in the stories about it. Romney responded “somewhat awkwardly,” the NYTime opines. And their headline: “Romney faults those dependent on government” is a lie discoverable by anyone who has time to read the piece.

Anyone not busy working to pay the taxes to support the, ahem, increasing millions the Democrats are signing up for government welfare.

Don’t you just love living in a country where most of the news media backs one political party? Me neither. It’s uncomfortably like the old Soviet Union.

Indeed, everything is fake now“As we watch the news covering a story, what we are actually watching is the media making up a story and then telling that story incessantly and embedding it in every nook and cranny of their coverage.”

Or do you think it’s an accident that you have to listen to CNN at airports?

Obama’s bragging killed the ambassador

For my money it was Obysmal’s (and Biden’s and Kerry’s) constant bragging about killing bin Laden (as if these well-known weenies pulled the trigger) that got the Cairo embassy trashed and the Libya ambassador murdered and his body dragged through the streets.

That whatever-it-was anti-Muhammed video was just a pretext that suits Obozo’s court media because it takes the heat off their champion. Indeed, here’s what the Wall Street Journal reported:

“According to the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram, the Cairo mob chant[ed]: “Obama, Obama there are still a billion Osamas.”

Not what we’re likely to see reported on MSNBC or any of the other of our Democrat media outlets. Nice to see one journalist who is not in the tank for our wimp of a president.

UPDATE:  Vote Romney. It’s the only way we’ll also get rid of our famous cuckold of a secretary of state and her constant suck up to the murderous muslims.

Obysmal: the greatest hoax

Clint Eastwood is satisfied with his amusing empty chair performance at the Republican National Convention. He’s also satisfied with the angry reaction from the Democrat news media and the mockery from Democrat pols.

But he’s not quite through with Obysmal:

“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.”

Via Drudge.

Banning smoking in (wait for it) Lebanon

Whew. Glad these folks have got their priorities straight. For a moment I thought maybe they meant they were banning the smoking cities of Syria or the way Iran and their puppet Assad would like to export those smoking cities elsewhere.

But that would be revolutionary.  No, turns out the Hezbollah-backed government of Lebanon is referring to cigarettes and banning them in public places. California exports! Coercive politics, anyhow. What will the terrorists think of next? Banning free speech? Naw. They already do that.

The grasshoppers are back

Not that they ever really go away entirely, but they tend to swarm in the heat and drought. And we’re going through a triple-digit warm spell that could last a while and, of course, we’re still pretty dry.

Haven’t seen more than a piddling few hoppers here at the rancho, but a fellow I know out in Red Rock, southeast of Austin down around Cedar Creek, who grows organic veggies for market, says they are “grazing on everything like a herd of a thousand cattle.” They have been even worse.