INSANITY: voting Republican three times in a row expecting different results.Grant Gerver
Vehicles flooded by a tidal surge from Hurricane Ike sit along a street in Galveston, Texas. Hurricane Ike made landfall early Saturday on Galveston Island, Texas, driving a huge ocean surge over coastal areas where tens of thousands of people remained holed up, the US National Hurricane Center announced.
The “For Sale” sign caught my eye in this photo. Anybody want a bargain on some southern vehicles? Only hit twice by hurricanes and floods! |
No Child Left Behind In response to President Bush’s federal “No Child Left Behind Act” (NCLB), it is proposed that students will have to pass a test to be promoted to the next grade level. In the hope that this proposal will be uniformly adopted by all of the states, the new test will be called the Federal Arithmetic and Reading Test, or FART. All students who cannot pass a FART in the second grade will be retested in Grades 3, 4, and 5 until they are capable of passing a FART score of 80%. If a student does not successfully FART by grade 5, that student shall be placed in a separate English program known as the Special Mastery Elective for Learning Language, or SMELL. If, with this increased SMELL program, the student cannot pass the required FART test, he or she can still graduate to middle school by taking another one-semester course in Comprehensive Reading and Arithmetic Preparation, or CRAP. If, by age fourteen, the student cannot FART, SMELL, or CRAP, he or she can earn promotion in an intensive one-week seminar known as the Preparatory Reading for Unprepared Nationally Exempted Students, or PRUNES. It is the opinion of the Department of Instruction for Public Schools (DIPS) that an intensive week of PRUNES will enable any student to FART, SMELL, or CRAP. This revised provision of the student component of the House Bill 101 should help “clear the air” as part of the “No School Left Standing” Act.
Well, since you don’t seem to be in an updating mood today, I might as well throw in some filler, lol. I’ve started going to a local judo school here in Mesa (as per Denise’s request, actually) and today was my second class. It would appear that they went easy on me on Tuesday--although I was so sore that I could barely move until today, and had to miss the Thursday class--and today we did one heck of a workout for someone who hasn’t worked out in two months. Ran for 10 minutes (forward, backward, and sideways), did lunges down the mat, did jumping hip-twists down the mat, side-to-side jumps down the mat, then did judo low crawls (like an army crawl, but harder) down the mat 9 times (which is a long way). After that we stretched for a bit and started what the instructor called “the 300” which, as it turns out, is exactly what it says; 100 pushups, 100 situps, and 100 burpees (squat, kick your legs back, do a pushup, kick back up, jump up). THEN we started working judo techniques. As soon as the endorphins wear off, I think my muscles will die :P
NoahL 13 Sep 2008, 2:47 p.m.
Hi Noah, I’m glad you are back to doing what you enjoy so much. Just don’t kill yourself with enjoyment ;-o I have been having a hard time writing on the blog lately. I think it is because I am so disgusted with the McSame/Pale politics and I don’t want to bore everyone with how I feel about the lying liars. Unfortunately I am afraid we might end up with President Pale.
MjL 14 Sep 2008, 06:03 a.m.
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