tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post7057592984512963482..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Counterlight's Peculiars Endorses Barack ObamaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-86544950687005926852012-03-19T15:37:06.185-04:002012-03-19T15:37:06.185-04:00http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/03/...http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/03/17/exclusive-seller-of-controversial-anti-obama-sticker-says-its-not-racist/Tristan Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936915388418287612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-3040044472505244202012-03-18T16:52:34.968-04:002012-03-18T16:52:34.968-04:00I have seen pictures of the sticker on cars, not p...I have seen pictures of the sticker on cars, not photoshoped, it is a real sticker!Tristan Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936915388418287612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-70005001082430838632012-03-17T16:12:20.269-04:002012-03-17T16:12:20.269-04:00I'm sympathetic to Brian. We have some dracon...I'm sympathetic to Brian. We have some draconian new regulations on financial aid coming down the road from the Feds on the college level. The lifelong maximum for Pell Grants will now be 12 semesters. That makes changing majors or second degrees much harder.<br />The same trend toward over-management and testing that plagues primary and secondary education is starting to hit the college level.<br />Both parties are responsible for this. Both are driven by corporate patronage.<br /><br />There are so many times in voting when it's a choice between bad and worse and figuring out which is which.<br />For me, as a gay man, the choice is a clear one this year. President Santorum would be a catastrophe. President Romney might be an equally bad disaster since his many patrons and the angry right that gets him elected will demand payback, and bashing the queers wouldn't cost him anything.<br /><br />As far as I can see, the Republican program for public education is to effectively end it, and their program for higher ed is to return it to its early 19th century function as a gate keeper for the class hierarchy.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-51990971057530363982012-03-17T15:56:21.369-04:002012-03-17T15:56:21.369-04:00You've said some very disturbing things, Brian...You've said some very disturbing things, Brian (and Doug, too, for that matter). Things we SHOULD strongly demand answers to . . . in <i>Obama's second term!</i><br /><br />Re the bumper sticker: Shockingly Predictable.JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-46378181011061553602012-03-17T14:57:21.757-04:002012-03-17T14:57:21.757-04:00I have very mixed feelings myself. As a public sch...I have very mixed feelings myself. As a public school teacher I have watched the President and his Education Secretary preside over the beginnings of the dismantlement of public schools in America. <br /><br />Race to the Top and other signature programs came straight from the Heritage Foundation playbook and are driven by corporate and privatization interests. The requirement of RTTT and exemption from No Child Left Behind put into place a very unfair and egregious teacher "evaluation" system that is required to participate in both programs yet is clearly designed to crush teachers' unions and rid the system of as many tenured, experienced teachers as possible and divert money to profit-making, private companies who will hire inexperienced, cheap labor. <br /><br />The ridiculous testing craze has been driven further into centrality by the president who claimed in this year's State of the Union address that teachers need to "stop teaching to the test" while his Dept. of Education made the results of those tests a mandatory part of teacher's evaluation that must be at least 50% of the final decision and decides whether or not we remain employed and what we get paid.<br /><br />Do I vote to end my own career and profession and support the end of public education in America in exchange for for-profit charter schools that are controlled by the same people who drove the world economy into the ground or do I vote for the greater good in other areas? <br /><br />I've never had to face such a difficult voting situation in 32 years yet I know that I cannot support any of the Republican candidates and I've never missed a vote in my adult life. I will pray.Briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-47270374927778107212012-03-17T14:29:18.819-04:002012-03-17T14:29:18.819-04:00We would be unbelievably naive to be totally happy...We would be unbelievably naive to be totally happy with any choice we have, but I like you am also supporting Mr. Obama. I like your reasons.<br /><br />And I hate that bumper sticker.susan s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03679099677585214433noreply@blogger.com