We learned from Eva Moskowitz that some of the five year old students in her schools are so violent that they throw chairs and must be expelled post haste.
Now Peter Greene has discovered a code of conduct for five year olds that grades them in accordance with their readiness to comply and conform. Those that don’t are anarchists. Really.
https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2017/08/those-damn-five-year-old-anarchists.html?m=1
Trump is something new in our politics. He is making money by renting space to Republican events at his properties.
Other presidents separated from their holdings and business interests. Not this one. Every time there is an event at his hotel near the White House, he makes money.
I wonder if he is charging the federal government for the rooms he occupies at his various weekend lodgings.
The New York Times doesn’t like Trump. On Sunday it ran a page-long editorial on his failed presidency.
On Monday, columnist Charles Blow tore Trump apart as a man without a moral core.He might have added that he is a man with no knowledge of history, no curiosity about the world, no patience for listening and learning. In short, he is totally unfit–by temperament, intellect, and experience–to be president.
Blow wrote:
“We are leaderless. America doesn’t have a president. America has a man in the White House holding the spot, and wreaking havoc as he waits for the day when a real president arrives to replace him.
“Donald Trump is many things — most of them despicable — but the leader of a nation he is not. He is not a great man. Hell, he isn’t even a good man.
“Donald Trump is a man of flawed character and a moral cavity. He cannot offer moral guidance because he has no moral compass. He is too small to see over his inflated ego.
“Trump has personalized the presidency in unprecedented ways — making every battle and every war about his personal feelings. Did the person across the street or around the world say good or bad things about him? Does the media treat him fairly? Is someone in his coterie of corruption outshining him or casting negative light on him?
“His interests center on the self; country be damned.
“What some have always known about Trump, others are slowly coming to realize, and with great shock and horror. The presidency is revealing the essence of the man and that essence is dark.”
Getting through this next three years and five months a test of our nation. Can we survive with a president who is a malignant narcissist, ignorant about foreign and domestic policy, motivated solely by self-aggrandizement?
As Phyllis Bush continues to confront cancer treatments, she thinks back to her childhood chemistry set.
Now the challenge is not to mix a potion, but to live with the side effects of the chemo treatments.
She is watching herself, an experiment every day, as she confronts her fears and beats them back.
The Secret Service has run out of funding because of providing protection for every member of Trump’s large family and many residences.
Remember when Trump the candidate used to complain about President Obsma’s vacations?
Trump travels every weekend to one of his resorts and has run through the cost of eight years of Obama vacations in less than a year.
The Trump administration disbanded a federal advisory panel on climate change.
One way to deal with climate change is to pretend it isn’t happening, and to refuse to listen to any scientists.
The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the government’s climate analysis into long-term planning.
The charter for the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment — which includes academics as well as local officials and corporate representatives — expires Sunday. On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s acting administrator, Ben Friedman, informed the committee’s chair that the agency would not renew the panel.
This is in keeping with the administration’s hostility to science. Remember this when you hear Secretary DeVos urging students to study STEM courses. She doesn’t mean it. She wants them to study religion and learn science from the Bible.
Wednesday was the four-year anniversary of Peter Greene’s blog.
https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2017/08/happy-curmudgabirthday.html?m=1
Just as many people get kicked off the receiving end of this blog, I have been kicked off the receiving end of Peter’s blog, whose name I can’t spell. Curmudgacation?
Peter has a razor-sharp wit, and a battery of invented words that he deploys with grace.
He makes laugh. He informs us. He skewers pretension. He is indispensable. He reads the dreary reports and nonsensical studies that roll forth from the reformer industry and demolishes them with grace, style, and a finely honed verbal rapier.
Thank you, Peter!
I am married to a Roman Catholic who believes in the power of prayer. Let’s see if this one works.
The Texas Education Agency accused the former board president of the San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity of stealing tens of thousands of dollars of electronic equipment from the school.
“Two members of SASIC’s state-installed board of managers, Judy Castleberry and Velia Minjarez, said Thursday that they believe that Denise Fritter took computers, televisions, video game consoles and other items from two school buildings Saturday, two days after the state took physical control of the district’s assets. The items were valued at $30,000 to $100,000.”
Don’t expect the TEA to acknowledge that the problem is lack of oversight or accountability for these unregulated charters.
Let the waste of taxpayer dollars proceed!
Steve Bannon, Trump’s former soul mate, has been fired.
Chief of Staff John Kelly cleaned house even though he can’t control Trump’s mouth or twitter fingers.
