The Children of Excellence...

The students of California are in open revolt...Over cuts in education along with irksome fee increases mandated by that state's ruinous financial meltdown.
Far be it for me to mock the demand for a better education, but as far as Humble Elias is concerned those college students would be better off picketing their own parent's homes.
Lets face it, California sets a low bar for access to Ballot Initiatives, and in the past ten years the electorate has faithfully voted for every expensive education reform on the ballot along with every single tax cut as well.
The result is a foregone conclusion an insupportable Tiffany Education System financed at Dollar Store prices.
Sorry kids the fact that you aren't being prepped properly isn't the state's fault, it is the fault of your damn parents for embarking on a self destructive round of tax-cuts and new spending all at the same time.
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You'd think the kids would see this humiliating irony right off the bat, but no, today's educational system teaches a kid how to defrag a hard drive long before he or she is taught the innate value of informed voting or even the basics of what we used to call "civics".
Ah but then again today's education is about becoming a valuable worker or professional, not in becoming a good citizen.

If Al Queda's involvement with the 9-11 attacks is a myth...

per the President of Iran's latest outburst...Then why did Iran routinely rat out Al Queda operatives to the CIA prior to the US invasion of Iraq?
If the whole thing was a conspiracy of war mongers and rootless cosmopolitans then why did Iran routinely round up Al Queda's best and brightest whenever they could lay on hands?
 I get it, their shoes were too garish and secular....That must be it.

When I think "Charlie Baker" I think of many things

"Clueless blatherskite, stiff, closemouthed functionary, lackey" a host of epithets come to mind.
To which we can add "Effin' tool" to the list based on this excerpt from his appearance on WBZ's "Nightside" program last night.
Apparently, Charlie was "surprised" in an arrogant and dismissive way at the pay cuts imposed on caller "Erica" an otherwise unidentified state worker.
You can tell from the patient patronizing tone he takes with the caller that nothing short of a smack upside the head will cause him to change his mind about anything.

Honestly, Charlie Baker is rapidly evolving into everyone's nightmare boss, adept at blaming others, narcissistic and inclined towards making bad decisions whose consequences he then deftly evades.

A dose of pre-Oscar venom courtesy

Channel Zero

Take it with a little milk for your stomach's sake.

Newsflash:

Brian McGrory still can't figure out if Charlie "Ziplips" Baker is a Moderate Republican or not.

Read it, never has an apostle so closely examined his savior...

Of course to me, the basic question is, how does Charlie Baker get all these bona fides as a wizard manager and an Economic Man on Horseback having nigh bankrupted the transportation system in this state and stood mute as the Big Dig quadrupled in cost when he was a wee cabinet lackey for Bill Weld?

Brand Romney, A Moderate Once More...

With a visible sigh of relief, the Boston Globe has once again taken the bait from the Former Viceroy and proclaimed him a nice safe milk & water family friendly GOP moderate.
I can just see Scott Lehigh moping his brow and blubbering "Oh Thank God!"
Of course, what is unintentionally funny is Mitt's newly minted status as a "Policy Wonk", just like the current President Romney likes to cuddle up at night with a heavy table of statistics from the Social Security Administration.
Next the ex Governor of Massachusetts will take up one on one basketball.
Anything to look like a winner I guess.
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My question though, is this...Does a real moderate talk about the President of the United States in these terms:
“Never before in American history has its president gone before so many foreign audiences to apologize for so many misdeeds, both real and imagined. It is his way of signaling to foreign countries and foreign leaders that their dislike for America is something he understands and that is, at least in part, understandable. There are anti-American fires burning all across the globe; President Obama’s words are like kindling to them.’’
Dunno, that sounds like the usual indictment of the President's patriotism that we get from the Teabaggers doesn't it?
I mean you can just see the Zambesi tribesmen pouncing on an unwary safari can't you?
Well, passive aggression has worked so well for Mitt in the past, he can't give it up now.

And this is what is wrong with Romney, at his core all he cares about is winning, moderation (what that means these days) is merely a pose to him. Mitt will indulge any flip flip or court shamelessness to ensure his own prospects for victory at the polls.
And the Globe falls for it every god-damned time.
Sad really.

If the glass ceiling is one undiscussed issue in Massachusetts politics

then certainly another is the inherent disposability of GOP Officeholders. Consider this, Governors Weld & Cellucci resigned before the end of their terms, Jane "Jingle Money" Swift shoved aside by Mitt Romney who then declined to run for a second term as a means to demonstrage his Massachusetts-phobia to Presidential constituencies.
On the congressional side we've had Peter Blute and Peter Torkildsen ascent to the US House of Representatives and then come down shortly thereafter with a ghastly sickening thump.
Y'get me here...They go up like a sky-rocket, go BOOM! Joanie Vennochi, Brian McGrory and Scot Lehigh all go "oooh aaahhh" and then...nothing.
We keep getting told that these are GOP pols in for the long run but two years later they've been defeated for re-election or have gone whoring after opportunities outside the state.
And then we are back to square one...
Given that record, what are Scott Brown's real long term prospects?
Just sayin'...