-Did you catch the Sopranos? Wow! Who will be alive at the end of the final episode?
-I did not get money from a federal study, but I can tell you why violent crime has skyrocketed all over the country:
1. There are no jobs for young people. Recent college grads are having a hard time finding jobs and students looking for summer jobs are discovering that no one is hiring. However, the army is hiring!!!!
2. Police community patrol money has been significantly cut by the federal government.
3. Money for Bush's war in Iraq has taken dollars from crime-fighting agencies and all programs that benefit people, neighborhoods, schools, and job creation.
4. The war in Iraq has created a sense of hopelessness in this country.
5. Crime is up in New Orleans because the Bush administration just let it slowly destroy itself. They did nothing to help the people in New Orleans after Katrina, and they have continued to ignore its people and environment. Don't you think Bush and his administration would have responded differently if New Orleans was filled with Republican voters?
---I was at a Kroger on Sawmill Road in Dublin, Ohio, and I was surprised to see that their televisions in their cafe were turned to Fox News. I plan to call their manager (614) 923-2333 and register a complaint about their support of such a right wing political channel. If you live in the Columbus/Dublin/Worthington area, you too may wish to voice you opposition (Warning: You have to get through lots of voice prompts, but it is worth it to actually talk to a person.)
---Why is Elizabeth Hasselbeck, from The View, such an idiot? How much right wing, Republican kool-aid has she had? She is like a right wing robot spewing their talking points!!!! Yuck.
---Information has surfaced that students in Texas are cheating on their exams at very high numbers.
NBC5i:
A newspaper analysis has found that tens of thousands of students across Texas continue to cheat on the TAKS test, despite claims by the Texas Education Agency that cheating on the standardized exam is a rarity.In a story published in its Sunday editions, The Dallas Morning News said it reviewed statewide scores from 2005 and 2006 on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test, which is given in grades three through 11.The newspaper said it found evidence of cheating by more than 50,000 students, who either copied answers from others or had their answer sheets doctored by school staff. That figure represents a small percentage of all Texas students, and two-thirds of Texas schools showed no evidence of cheating.
The review showed that the suspected cheating was concentrated in the Dallas and Houston school districts -- where it was three times more common that in the state's other large urban school districts -- as well as in charter schools, which are funded with tax dollars but run by private companies or groups."What we have here in many of the schools, particularly charter schools, is rampant cheating involving many students," said David Harpp, a professor at Montreal's McGill University who studies cheating and reviewed the newspaper's analysis.....
Remember when candidate George W. Bush bragged about his "education miracle" in Texas? It was all a bunch of hogwash, just like his unfunded 'No Child Left Behind' program.
