Shooting Fish in a Dept. of Ed. Barrel

So I was going to make a blog posting and "shoot fish in a barrel" and do a dry sarcastic posting on Obama's ebola policy. However, first I thought it was my responsibility to first peruse the government blogs and laugh at the under the radar obscurity since I have not done anything original for quite a while. The first blog post I went to for absurdity is the Department of Education. They did not disappoint.

Let us start with the title of the blog post I encountered.
Investing in Evidence: Funding Game-Changing Evaluations

I was sooooooo drawn to this because of the title. I read it like this:

Investing in Evidence:
Funding Game,
Changing Evaluations

But it is really supposed to be read as:

Investing in Evidence
Funding <GameChanging> Evaluations

Hopefully you can see my initial misunderstanding; especially since I had had a drink.

So yes, from here on it is a drunken post, but it doesn't mean I can not make more sense than the Department of Education.

Let us move on into the post.

The Congressionally enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 allows the Department to strengthen the impact of our evaluation work by pooling resources across Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) programs. This makes it possible to fund rigorous evaluations of individual Federal education programs that currently lack sufficient evaluation dollars, and to evaluate the impact of various strategies that cut across a wide range of ESEA programs.

Year after year more money has gone to education and performance has gone down. We are told we need to give more money for education. However, this paragraph eludes that we can scrape money from this system like fat from a skinned rattlesnake for flavoring to fund a new study.

Really?

There's enough fat in the bone dry education system to fund a survey?

O.K. What's the survey?

Specifically, we are asking your help to identify what the most pressing education policy and/or practice questions are and how answering them could provide needed information to educators, parents and local, state, and federal governments to enable significant improvements in education. Our goal is to support the development of findings that have the rigor and power to inform significant improvements in how schools, districts, states, and the federal government provide services to students. We are seeking public input on the following questions:

So far the two quoted paragraphs go to a centralized point of decision. This is central planning. The thousands in Mississippi and millions in New York, the thousands in Missouri and the millions in California, speak their voice, supposedly.

All because school choice is bad.

So, let us move on to the questions.

What are the most critical P-12 questions that are still unanswered?

Are you f**king kidding me!? Aren't you supposed to be the experts taking our money telling us what is the best for education!? Aren't you the ones berating us for advocating for school choice? What the f**k is wrong with you!? Unanswered questions!?

How's this for unanswered questions!?

Why the f**k aren't you teaching times tables?

Why the f**k does simple subtraction take several steps in Common Core?

Why the f**k do you misinterpret the second amendment in Common Core?

Why the f**k do our students score high in self esteem but low in grade scores against other countries?

Why the f**k do you deserve a single penny of our tax dollars you dumb f**ks?

[compose thyself for the next question]

How could answering these questions provide information that could be used by schools, districts, and States to improve student outcomes for all students and/or particular groups of students?

[in a calm voice] I am glad you did not take the solution to the centralized federal level. This in general illustrates a problem with the educational system in that centralized planning devalues the need of local needs. To more properly answer the questions we need to answer local needs.

What type of study could answer these questions and produce findings that are reliable and generalizable?

[in a slightly irritable voice] What the f**k do you mean? We don't need a study for what is needed for our industries. And generalizable? What the f**k of major issues in our state is generalizable with the major issues of another state across the country? Why the f**k are we giving you money to homogenize states with incompatible interests!?

What implications would these findings have for existing practices, policies, and federal programs? Please mention the specific practices, policies, and programs by name if possible.

[uncontained outrage]
Oh my F**KING GOD! 50 different states with 50 different needs and you want me to describe how centralizing our interests and needs against 49 disparate ones will affect me? Can you do the math on that!?

Probably the f**k not but you might have learned the proper emoticon to express your disappointment in that!

Buy this Dame a Drink!

Julia Pierson resigned as Director of the Secret Service. Buy this dame a drink!

Of all of the P.O.S.s that have been appointed by Obama, Julia is the only one man enough to fall upon the sword.

Odd. Her name is Julia and the Obama campaign had a "Life of Julia" campaign that showed how weak women were and needed the government (instead of a man).

This Julia fell on the sword for the government.

Buy this dame a drink.

Eric Holder resigned. So the F**k what. He's a partisan racist hack. It does no one any good, except maybe those that expect true justice, so maybe everyone.

Julia might have been qualified for the job except for the Obama administration touting they put a woman in charge of the Secret Service for the first time. Just cast doubt if she was put in position because she was qualified or had a vagina.

One thing the Obama administration didn't expect was that she has integrity.

She fell upon the sword.

Buy this dame a drink!

ISOT, not ISIS or ISIL

ISIS means Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ISIL means Islamic State of Iraq and Levant.

How about we just settle for ISOT : Islamic State Of Terrorism.

However, if you are properly rude you may prefer IBF : Islamic B**t F**k*rs.

What do you think?

What should we call them?

ISOT

ISIS

ISIL

IBF

 

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Prager University: Feminism vs. Truth

Teacher's Union

The Union for Teachers. Department of Education.

Good?

Good for who(m)?

Does a Union protect the worker or the client/boss?

The Teacher's Union.

Is it working for the teacher or the students? Who gets paid? Who pays or who's parents pay?

How about a "Client Union?"

The Determinators : Whoever Pays Holds The Right To Decide : Obamacare

You are gripped at the start with the State saying they can not pay for Chemotherapy but assisted suicide is affordable.

A documentary about medical ethics. Where does Obamacare swing?

Listen here: http://acu.libsyn.com...

Thanks Justice Roberts.

Why you didn't hear about a Quran found on the Mexican-American border

Hint: you are all pop culture whores.

Newsbusted

Baiting the Cops or Harassment?

So Jeff (RantWithJeff) had a colourful response to Michigan cops reacting to some men exercising their right to open-carry.

This is the video he reacted to:

So do you think they were baiting the cops or was this harassment?

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President Bush was not a Soothsayer!

So by now you have probably read, viewed, or heard President Bush describe why we would not withdraw from Iraq.

Just in case you missed it, here it is...

So many people are saying he was prophetic. Shut the freak up you morons! You are confusing what was.

It is frustrating to hear he was prophetic. He wasn't predicting the future. He was explaining the state of the region and how events would unfold because he and his advisers understood, I repeat, understood the region, the politics, and the people.

It was not a prophecy. It was a statement of fact.

If I were not so self-overserved last night I would have already posted this. President Obama does not understand terrorists or terrorism.

President Obama is worse than being an empty suit. He is a bubble boy.

President Obama is a bubble boy that enjoyed his ideals by being protected by the armor of capitalism and U.S.Military interests.

President Obama's political philosophy will kill Americans. He thinks through talk you can reach an understanding, empathy, and agreement.

Benghazi?

President Obama lacks understanding. ISIS or ISIL (as Obama prefers to say) is an Islamic ideology. It may be a gross interpretation, but it is an Islamic gross interpretation. President Obama stating it is not an Islamic ideology does not make it not so. President Obama is not a caliph.

I can not image how much of our military is chomping at the bit to be let loose and devour ISIS. I am sure there are Marines and Soldiers already waging bets on head counts they can get.

But as p. Obama talks, let us wait for the coalition. (Yes the small 'P' is intentional. As p. Obama wants to lessen the US's powers he lessens his rank.) Our strike force must "wait" for "the coalition," or to redefine "wait" for "the approval of the European elite with the dainty bung holes that smell as sweet as the toiletries that they wipe them with made of rose petals."

Our soldiers fart death bombs you pussies!

pResident oBama is a blip on the radar of the United States. He is a learned mistake. He reminds us talk is cheap. pResident oBama is talk, talk, talk, talk, and golf, golf, golf.