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What kind of support do you provide the Early Learning programs in your area? |
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Written by Bleu
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:54 |
Sometimes,when you get into the education field, you get sucked into politics, my soul now belongs to Education Politics, for 2 years anyhow.
I just sent a letter to my Senators asking them to support the Early Learning Challenge Grants Fund legislation. Why? Well, the goal of this legislation is to build a comprehensive, high-quality early learning system for children birth to age 5. Access to quality affordable childcare and preschool is something I think every family deserves.
The legislation would provide $1 billion a year for eight years to states to develop and enhance high-quality early learning opportunities for all young children, birth to five. These grants focus on building parent support and engagement, increasing access to quality child care and creating real quality standards.
High-quality early learning programs for children under age 5 matter in today's economy more than ever. As the Wall Street Journal reported last week, more and more women are returning to work to support their families and consequently, across the country, child care centers are seeing their enrollment rise.
It's time to make this legislation a reality! Join me and send a letter today! I mean everybody in every state..write a letter, an email..make a phone call to the lawmakers in your state and ask them to support Early Learning!
Remember, the little ones of today are going to be the ones caring for this country when we are in the twilight of our lives. Early learning programs foster and cultivate those quickly growing minds, helps open crucial windows of opportunities for learning, and helps every child have the confidence they need to be successful academically and socially in our communities!!!
The big question you need to ask yourself and everyone around you is: Is it worth the tax dollars being spent to educate the next generation now, or will it be better to wait to spend those same tax dollars later on the welfare and prison ($30,000/year/inmate) systems when they are adults?
Thanks!
http://www.wsaheadstarteceap.com/
http://www.momsrising.org/
http://www.educationvoters.org/home/
http://www.k12.wa.us/
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The passion of the Black Jesus |
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Written by BooYa
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Friday, 07 August 2009 08:40 |
Everyone, as we're told, is human and therefore will have shortcomings, or failings, or even inabilities.
Throughout history people have wanted to point at others and see them as perfect though. Whether it was
Lennon, Reagan, Kennedy, Jordan, or Oprah, people have always wanted someone to look to as the modern messiah.
Some bask in this and use the opportunity to marinate themselves in the glory until the inevitable
messianic complex develops. Some fight it or deny it trying to keep their bearings and personality intact.
Most often these people have been musicians, or athletes, but more recently we've collectively, albeit
likely unconsciously, decided that our current Godlike adoration belongs with a politician. Mr Obama, the
Obamessiah, is just the man for such a job. Just the person our collectively frail psyche needs to look to
for perfect leadership of hope. We eat and eat greedily from that buffet of false hope feeding as if we're
starved. We walk along as lemmings willfully betraying our ingrained need for individuality and self
importance in favor of the high we get from feeling love and adoration for whomever we decide to errantly
throw it upon.
I ask now, rhetorically, what happens when that super duper image of perfection starts to fade to us. When
we start to lose our false impression. When we see through the dream we've insisted upon seeing and are
shown the reality that our object of desire is just as human and real as the rest of us.
I know that many were ready for change, that many needed the metaphorical savior to change our outlook
on life, yet why have they insisted upon foregoing reality for the sake of that icky warm feeling?
A lesson that has been repeated many times and will be repeated many more. We cannot falsify reality
and expect anything less than disappointment. Our commander-in-chief, the Black Jesus himself, is
walking that path of disappointment, now, that we all set him upon, and has no other option at this point
than to turn his sights to the next task: fail as intended.
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2012 - My not so humble review |
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Written by BooYa
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:39 |
2012...
There has never been a more disastrous use of 200 million dollars in the history
of entertainment. Roland Emerick seems very intent on doing his best to follow
10,000 BC with something not only worse, but infinitely more terrible. From the
very beginning you have the sense that you are about to go down a path that you
will never fully make it back from. A piece, or more if you're unlucky, of your
soul will be left behind, weeping, pared from you with the sharp blade of ultimate
sorrow after this film.
This horridly overfunded visual orgy of special effects fails to ever offer much of
a story or even the sense of closeness to the characters that most modern dramas
strive to establish. If at any point Mr. Emerick attempted to tell a story, or
give depth to what we were seeing on-screen, he failed to ever establish any
traction. We learn that the main character (played by the less-than-believable
uber hero John Cusack) is a professionally underperforming writer, that his daugter's
only contribution to the movie is that she still at 7 wets herself, and that noone
could ever be more capable of outrunning armageddon than him...Next, enter armageddon.
The ensuing formula to the storyline is: Armageddon chases writer, nearest vehicle
whether it be limosuine, camper, small airplane etc, helps writer outrun armageddon,
writer catches breath, and repeat. Through all of this we are treated to some nicely
done special effects moments of heinous destruction. Yes that is one of two tally
marks on the 'positive' column for this movie, the other being that the final credits
have rolled.
If a below average aspiring teenage film director was able to talk someone out of 200
million dollars, and make a film with it...it would look a lot like this. If, as a fan
of filmmaking you prefer an approach that skips strong plot, skips plot development,
skips substance, skips character endearment, and focuses all funding on special effects...
you will absolutely love this movie. Otherwise, spare yourself the humiliation of being
one of the anecdotal x-amount of people who wasted the money.
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The sweet love of extremely late term abortion |
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Written by BooYa
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 07:59 |
So the new uproar with the House leadership's health care bill is that it
contains a "hidden mandate" that would allow taxpayer dollars to be used to
pay for abortions. This bill does not mention at all abortion, and though
supporters claim that this makes the bill neutral, opponents say that this
lack of mention is precisely what leaves the door open for opportunity.
Without specific language expressly forbidding the public coverage from
covering abortions, this group of renegade democrats say that these
mini manslaughters would undoubtedly be funded and that this will negate
any chance for their support. With Mrs. Pelosi at the helm, this ridiculous
minority of metaphorical womb-huggers will have little support from the
rank-and-file elite of their particular side of the aisle. We can assume
that had it been Al Gore at the helm, he would have deftly blamed global
warming on unborn babies and abortion would not only be a right but it would
become mandatory before the next full moon.
I see a completely different solution to todays political dissention and
general calamity of decency within all American political bodies. Marrying
the goverment body and abortion in a way never seen before. I propose we are,
as Americans, given the right to abort the very politicians that spread
through our daily lives like a terrible uncurable virus.
With a simple majority, a half plus one popular vote, we could all choose a
better representation of what values and choices are truly desired by us.
In this scenario, liberals would have had their wish years ago and run
the intensely vile George W. Bush from office. They would have had their
opportunity to cure the ills of our country and likely the world...failed
and the cycle would have naturally run itself albeit much faster than normal.
Though conservatives cannot yet claim that this system would rid their lives
of the ever-smiling, shit pile of glee that is the Obamessiah, they can
take comfort that here in this third week of July 2009, his approval rating
is exactly one percentage point below that of his predecessor at the same
point in his tenure as talking head for the American people. Right there
just below good ol' George W. Somewhere below George Sr. even.
Though in this day and age every politician who was within the acceptable
timeframe of allowable abortion would undoubtedly be coat-hangered to death,
the option would be sweet sweet poison to many, drank willingly and wildly
for the ironic sake of self preservation.
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