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		<title>By: RevBev</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/is-our-children-learning/#comment-1420795</link>
		<dc:creator>RevBev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I actually considered that, and no doubt there are lots of achievers.  Wasn’t Churchill one?  We just happen to have one who never put in the diligence to study harder to meet the challenge.  He truly does not deserve to be President, IMO&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I actually considered that, and no doubt there are lots of achievers.  Wasn’t Churchill one?  We just happen to have one who never put in the diligence to study harder to meet the challenge.  He truly does not deserve to be President, IMO</p>
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		<title>By: sunny</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/is-our-children-learning/#comment-1420780</link>
		<dc:creator>sunny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sure I have, I didn’t pull the story out of my ass./s I’m wondering why FDL frontpagers don’t seem to think voter suppression is a significant enough story to talk about.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sure I have, I didn’t pull the story out of my ass./s I’m wondering why FDL frontpagers don’t seem to think voter suppression is a significant enough story to talk about.</p>
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		<title>By: Adie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/is-our-children-learning/#comment-1420775</link>
		<dc:creator>Adie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;so, folks.  don’t write anything questionable without that handy little /s added at the end.  u be good pups now.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>so, folks.  don’t write anything questionable without that handy little /s added at the end.  u be good pups now.</p>
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		<title>By: Adie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/is-our-children-learning/#comment-1420772</link>
		<dc:creator>Adie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Hold it right there!  I resemble that remark!?!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many many LD people lead incredibly productive lives.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many are absolutely brilliant and work wonders in their jobs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I know.  We hatched one.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hold it right there!  I resemble that remark!?!</p>
<p>Many many LD people lead incredibly productive lives.</p>
<p>Many are absolutely brilliant and work wonders in their jobs.</p>
<p>I know.  We hatched one.</p>
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		<title>By: Adie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/is-our-children-learning/#comment-1420767</link>
		<dc:creator>Adie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Despair - isms?  At your service, hon.  One of our cock-eyed sonnyboys gave us a calender of them for Christmas.  Such a good boy.  ;-&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;check out  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.despair.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.despair.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;February’s got a good “teaser” for ya:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“CONSULTING.&lt;br /&gt;
If You’re Not Part of the Solution,&lt;br /&gt;
There’s Good Money to be Made in Prolonging the Problem.”&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despair &#8211; isms?  At your service, hon.  One of our cock-eyed sonnyboys gave us a calender of them for Christmas.  Such a good boy.  ;-&gt;</p>
<p>check out  <a href="http://www.despair.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.despair.com</a></p>
<p>February’s got a good “teaser” for ya:</p>
<p>“CONSULTING.<br />
If You’re Not Part of the Solution,<br />
There’s Good Money to be Made in Prolonging the Problem.”</p>
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		<title>By: Adie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/is-our-children-learning/#comment-1420762</link>
		<dc:creator>Adie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Our musician son tells us today that the Repugs voted to deregulate electricity prices in our state (OH).  Analysts expect prices for electricity may rise 40% or so as a result.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This rise includes the public schools, which are on fixed or declining income, depending on where you sit on the &lt;strike&gt;a**&lt;/strike&gt; issue.  Many are frantically looking for places to make cuts - anything not mandated by the state or feds is fair game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So….  Out with arts education, all those field trips to museums and the symphony’s kiddy concerts, probably busing for middle and high school kids plus all students living within a mile of their school (picture your 6-yr-old on a narrow-shoulder country road (55mph speed limit), or crossing a city street through rush-hour traffic on a dark wintry day - no-o-o biggie to these compassionate pugs, nosiree)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Children left behind? well, define be-hind without using the letter “s”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Children summarily dumped?  Absolutely!  and people wonder why many youngsters are growing up aloof and bitter.  Go figure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As for the symphony.  That’s old news.  Our son no longer gives oboe lessons.  It’s too depressing, and dishonest he thinks, because the orchestras are dying even faster than the students graduate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vote for every Democrat every race, every ballot.&lt;br /&gt;
Rinse.  Repeat.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our musician son tells us today that the Repugs voted to deregulate electricity prices in our state (OH).  Analysts expect prices for electricity may rise 40% or so as a result.</p>
<p>This rise includes the public schools, which are on fixed or declining income, depending on where you sit on the <strike>a**</strike> issue.  Many are frantically looking for places to make cuts &#8211; anything not mandated by the state or feds is fair game.</p>
<p>So….  Out with arts education, all those field trips to museums and the symphony’s kiddy concerts, probably busing for middle and high school kids plus all students living within a mile of their school (picture your 6-yr-old on a narrow-shoulder country road (55mph speed limit), or crossing a city street through rush-hour traffic on a dark wintry day &#8211; no-o-o biggie to these compassionate pugs, nosiree)</p>
<p>Children left behind? well, define be-hind without using the letter “s”.</p>
<p>Children summarily dumped?  Absolutely!  and people wonder why many youngsters are growing up aloof and bitter.  Go figure.</p>
<p>As for the symphony.  That’s old news.  Our son no longer gives oboe lessons.  It’s too depressing, and dishonest he thinks, because the orchestras are dying even faster than the students graduate.</p>
<p>Vote for every Democrat every race, every ballot.<br />
Rinse.  Repeat.</p>
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		<title>By: prostratedragon</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/is-our-children-learning/#comment-1420756</link>
		<dc:creator>prostratedragon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks, same to you!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Actually, “May Day”* is what i almost had to tap out when I clicked on the “CURSES” extension. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;====&lt;br /&gt;
* From a distressed French ship whose radio operator frantically called out “M’aidez!” or “Help me!” during the early days of radio communication.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, same to you!</p>
<p>Actually, “May Day”* is what i almost had to tap out when I clicked on the “CURSES” extension. </p>
<p>====<br />
* From a distressed French ship whose radio operator frantically called out “M’aidez!” or “Help me!” during the early days of radio communication.</p>
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		<title>By: NorskeFlamethrower</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/is-our-children-learning/#comment-1420753</link>
		<dc:creator>NorskeFlamethrower</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;1,829 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Citizen Swopa and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are completely and righteously fucked in this country…my wife has a Master’s Degree in Reading and Psychology and has LD (learning disabilities) certification.  She has been the Reading Specialist for our local school district for 3 years, taught 1st grade for 25 years and LD for two before that and with 30 years in the district she still can’t retire because the local Nazi school board pulled the retirement package for the teachers two years ago that guaranteed healthcare coverage for all retirees between retirement and medicare. She has been in charge of or on the committee for purchasing new reading series texts every 4 years for the last 20 years, so she has seen, up close and personal, the hemorrhaging of money into the Bush-held text publishers for the last 7 years.  Ya think she’s pissed off??!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Every single structure of our society has been fatally corrupted in the last 8 years and the public treasuries have been looted so that at every level it will take 20 years of RICO prosecutions and confiscatory taxation jest to get us back to the point that we were at 25 years ago!!  And we are debatin’ the importance of a Black minister on the political fortunes of the only real Democrat runnin for the White House while his opponent in the primary sits down with Fox News after gettin’ a $4Million gift for her husband’s retirement fund??!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I want every single Firepup who has been suggestin’ that we should all rally around whoever the Democratic nominee is explain ta Mrs. Norske why she should believe that Mrs. McClinton will be any different from her best friends in the Bush cabal!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wake up Firepups, we’re walkin’ off a cliff in our pajamas!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION AND NO I WON’T VOTE FOR HER!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1,829 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…</p>
<p>Citizen Swopa and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:</p>
<p>We are completely and righteously fucked in this country…my wife has a Master’s Degree in Reading and Psychology and has LD (learning disabilities) certification.  She has been the Reading Specialist for our local school district for 3 years, taught 1st grade for 25 years and LD for two before that and with 30 years in the district she still can’t retire because the local Nazi school board pulled the retirement package for the teachers two years ago that guaranteed healthcare coverage for all retirees between retirement and medicare. She has been in charge of or on the committee for purchasing new reading series texts every 4 years for the last 20 years, so she has seen, up close and personal, the hemorrhaging of money into the Bush-held text publishers for the last 7 years.  Ya think she’s pissed off??!!</p>
<p>Every single structure of our society has been fatally corrupted in the last 8 years and the public treasuries have been looted so that at every level it will take 20 years of RICO prosecutions and confiscatory taxation jest to get us back to the point that we were at 25 years ago!!  And we are debatin’ the importance of a Black minister on the political fortunes of the only real Democrat runnin for the White House while his opponent in the primary sits down with Fox News after gettin’ a $4Million gift for her husband’s retirement fund??!!</p>
<p>I want every single Firepup who has been suggestin’ that we should all rally around whoever the Democratic nominee is explain ta Mrs. Norske why she should believe that Mrs. McClinton will be any different from her best friends in the Bush cabal!</p>
<p>Wake up Firepups, we’re walkin’ off a cliff in our pajamas!!</p>
<p>KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION AND NO I WON’T VOTE FOR HER!!!</p>
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		<title>By: JerseyGirl</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/is-our-children-learning/#comment-1420741</link>
		<dc:creator>JerseyGirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;My God this story really pissed me off. I cannot believe how morally bankrupt these people are. The more I pay attention, the more I feel it’s the American people Bush is at war with and only uses the term Al Queida as a distraction.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hope the democrats grow a pair and soon. We’re in deep deep trouble.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My God this story really pissed me off. I cannot believe how morally bankrupt these people are. The more I pay attention, the more I feel it’s the American people Bush is at war with and only uses the term Al Queida as a distraction.</p>
<p>I hope the democrats grow a pair and soon. We’re in deep deep trouble.</p>
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		<title>By: dosido</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/is-our-children-learning/#comment-1420740</link>
		<dc:creator>dosido</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Still on topic:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.despair.com/un.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Underachievement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Still on topic:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.despair.com/un.html" rel="nofollow">Underachievement</a></p>
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