Gooood morning!
This week has been a little new for me. I’m in sales; I travel; I network – and have done so since my early 20s. This particular week I’ve been solely responsible for a12yo little girl while the bf is out of town. While not a feat for most women, you’re probably snickering a little to imagine the comedy of errors I’ve enjoyed this week. No worries – ballet, dinner, homework, chores, reading… I’ve got it covered like saran wrap. Moose, the lab/pit, has even been walking me twice a day.
Parents will know that ITBS scores arrived this week. Tuesday night was my first time deciphering percentile ranks since I was in school. I’ll say it – I was floored. I managed to stay calm in front of Princess Buttercup, but I about lost my mind. We’ve been working on her grades (3 As, 2Bs, and a D), but that’s just it – both of us have been dutifully working with her on homework…particularly the D in Math. Teacher conferences were Monday morning and nothing out of the ordinary was reported. BUT, an ITBS report shows the very next day that Buttercup’s reading comprehension is in the 5th percentile? 5TH. How can you have an A in Language Arts and such a low reading comprehension?? Something. Is. Not. Working.
Buttercup is the reason I turned my focus to researching public vs charter vs private schools a while back. I want every option available to me to ensure her success. It’s now personal.
Georgia
- VP candidate Paul Ryan raised cash in Cobb County yesterday. Is everyone alright? By my FB feed, I swear I thought a few of you were going to jump from an overpass because of traffic delays.
- Smyrna gun store offers gun raffle tickets to voters. Can everyone just chillax? Adventure Outdoors is actually where I bought my Glock 27. Good people. ’Murica.
- NRC approves plan to resolve Plant Vogtle rebar, concrete issues. I put rebar (and a .pdf explanation) on the radar back in June at the bottom of this post.
- Atlanta Beltline finance director resigns. For the second time in the last two months, a top official at Atlanta BeltLine Inc. has stepped down.
- Gov. Deal names new head of state driver services department.
- Kennesaw State University opens $21M science lab today. By 2018 Georgia will need to fill 211,000 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related jobs. FYI – this still doesn’t make KSU an engineering school. Leave Southern Poly out of it, Regents. We don’t want to be part of KSU thanks.
- Speaker Ralston, Speaker Pro-Tem Jones, Majority Leader Larry O’Neal, Rep Cheokas, et al met visited South Georgia Technical College
- Snellville woman arraigned in school supply scam. To offset their artificially low prices in the American market, Chinese manufacturers were ordered to pay import tariffs known as “anti-dumping duties” of between 76.7 and 258.2 percent.
- Synovus posts $16 million profit, says TARP repayment on the horizon
- Georgia agencies hosting job fair. Georgia has one of the highest numbers of veterans returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan, many in need of help transitioning back to civilian life.
Inter/national
- Bernie Marcus endorses Mitt
- Romney erases Obama advantage among women. Romney’s pitch to women has been focused squarely on the economy, making the case that what women want most is to ensure their families and their country are on a solid financial footing. The poll shows that message appears to be taking root. You bet your sweet stilettos, Papa Bear.
- Conservatives are closing the gap with liberals in social media
- 7 Dumbest Quotes From CNN’s Women Voters Article. “Single women who are ovulating are more likely to be socially liberal.” ”When women are ovulating, they “feel sexier”, and therefore lean more toward liberal attitudes on abortion and marriage equality.” Ri.dic.u.lous.
- Video: Letterman explains what he cares about this election with Rachel Maddow
- Congressman’s son resigns after voter fraud video
Whatevs
- Apple’s new iPad ‘mini’ is bigger, pricier than projected
- Atlanta Megachurch turmoil: Megachurch shooting suspect was committed to mental facility and Cherokee man charged with molesting girl, 13, from Woodstock church.
- Man, 68, accused of touching young girls at White Water. What 68yo should have a season pass to a kid’s water park? And – he’s 68 – a mom needs to beat. his. @$$.
- Scott65, I don’t really have any funny posts this morning either :/ Maybe some tweets from The Funny Sexist?
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well, i wonder if those better romney numbers with females will include indiana, since he is apparently in commercials with murdouck, the most recent tea party freak that the gop has decided to shoot itself in the foot with (great job for my team, way to o’donnell what should have been an easy hold for the gop)…
Romney, and for that matter, Mourdock, is in no danger of losing the vote, female or otherwise, in Indiana as even the mere utterance of the words “Democrat” and/or “Liberal” in public are considered derogatory slurs vicious enough to ignite a brawl.
Democrats and Liberals are abhorred and despised in Indiana these days and Mourdock’s words, which shameless liberals have taken great pleasure in distorting to fit their own sick and twisted perverted political narratives, will not affect the outcome of the Indiana Senate race one iota.
except, you are wrong, this race has been rated pretty much a tossup since mourdock got nominated. all the polls are within the margin of error. indiana isn’t alabama…
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/09/27/poll-indiana-senate-race-is-no-easy-win-for-gop/
To heck with Indiana. It’s Ohio, yes that Ohio.
US Senate candidate from Ohio Josh Mandel is described as strongly opposing abortion and here’s the definition:
Strongly Oppose means you believe: Abortion is immoral because it kills a human being, and should never be tolerated. `Roe v. Wade’ should be overturned and we should protest abortion clinics as other forms of injustice are protested.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Josh_Mandel_SenateMatch.htm
Mandel is polling behind the Democrat for US Senate from Ohio. Now this from Mourdock? You know Governor Romney’s ad endorsing Mourdock mixed with Mourdock’s statements is running in Ohio where the fight is for Women’s votes? SHEESH.
And with the ballot question on life, GA is posed for the same fight at the General Assembly level.
Believe it, lots of women are pro-life.
Erick Erickson said it best:
It should also be a wake up call to the pro-life community that they need to do a better job working with pro-life candidates so, when they are asked the difficult questions, they do not walk into awkward soundbites about which they must do damage control.
Mourdock told the truth as he sees it. The truth in politics must be avoided.
what Erickson meant ^
that was a situation of too much info. You never elaborate on a question like that…hence Murdock/Akin
Josh Mandel is a horrible candidate…they should have done much better in their recruitment. He will lose because he too has diarrhea of the mouth after which he quickly inserts his foot. I loved the fact when asked if he thought a rape victim should be forced to have the baby he just nodded his head so there wouldn’t be a written record…lol
You wont know the effects of his remarks for a couple of days in the polls. There is always a 2 to 3 day lag
The ITBS; the Iowa Test of Basic Skills; how that one little test dredges up so many unpleasant memories, especially the section on fractions.
I can easily pinpoint why a student, any student, would get good grades in a language arts class while also scoring low on the ITBS.
It’s because schools don’t teach reading comprehension anymore. They teach phonics. Schools teach their students how to call words, and little else.
I am willing to bet any student who was taught phonics can read any paragraph on the page. I’m also willing to bet that same student, when asked, can’t tell anyone what the words on the page meant.
There is a difference between reading and reading comprehension. And that’s what is wrong with our public schools today. Too many administrators believe that reading is more important than reading comprehension.
The Wikipedia article on reading comprehension says, “Many educators in the USA believe that students need to learn to analyze text (comprehend it) even before they can read it on their own, and comprehension instruction generally begins in pre-Kindergarten or Kindergarten.
“But other US educators consider this reading approach to be completely backward for very young children, arguing that the children must learn how to decode the words in a story through phonics before they can analyze the story itself.”
I was taught the backwards way. I learned how to “read” when I was four. I learned reading comprehension when I was four. My mother taught me how to understand what I was reading at an early age, and I always scored in the 99th percentile on the ITBS reading comprehension test.
So the backwards way, I think, is better. Teach reading comprehension, and the phonics will work itself out.
Thanks for spelling out the acronym, Andre. I thought ITBS was some sort of digestive colon problem. That would make scoring low a very good thing, huh?
Nah, that’s PITA
LOL! You dope!
The Vogtle / rebar issues may be over for now, but are we ready for another $3.5B?
http://gareport.com/blog/2012/09/05/time-to-quit-bragging-about-savings-that-no-longer-exist/
My guess is that a kwh of nuclear electricity is still much cheaper than coal or hydro, but maybe not.
no
I think you forgot to leave out the next sentence on the Romney women article: “And the president, in turn, has largely eliminated Romney’s edge among men.” This latter sentence makes me suspect the poll is probably fundamentally flawed. Neither claim is particularly believable.
No discussion about the voter fraud in Virginia?
*alleged voter fraud… sorry.
Some PAC sent PG a fund raising email for Michele Bachmann. The candidate’s name was misspelled twice.
Yeah…its spelled “Crazy Dingbat”
Good one, Scott. I also like your new avatar better than the previous one.
In order to divert anxiety on the Fla/Ga game the media, as anticipated, is hyping up the passing hurricane (not the team). Hate driving in the rain…..
Cracker, my guess is the game outcome will be far worse than the weather.
Yeah, I expecting 35-13 with the puppies being merely a snack for the gators–though I’m rooting for the Dawgs.
The best way to divert anxiety is to be a BAMA fan…
Is that what your wife/sister told you?
jk/JK
My niece actually…she goes there as did my sister (although my sister drank her way through the first 2 years…lol)
Seem to keep her anxiety down…lol
I’d just like to throw in my disgust with them shutting down traffic for Paul Ryan….and I like Paul Ryan…it’s not a partisan knock…it’s a knock on govt. in general. It just furthers the us vs. them, elites vs. foolish plebes meme.
Beverly Hall had her own got-danged driver who I believe made $100K a year and now we’re shutting down interstates for future Vice Presidents?
You shouldn’t get CEO-style perks because you are in government. I’ll allow the VP & P to get their own transport vehicles because Joe Biden trying to hail a cab would be crazy. In general though, this should be madness reserved for Arabs & Communists.
At least the new MARTA general manager is going to take MARTA to work every day. Thats pretty smart and I’m surprised it wasn’t a requirement in the past
Yeah, good point. I saw that and thought the same thing. I’ll be interested to see if anyone pays attention enough to really know if he is taking it everyday, beyond the first couple weeks. From what I read via Mme Saporta, he seems like a good pick.
I have a good feeling about him too…and by actually USING the system he will also gain some trust from the employees which will help him in the upcoming contract negotiations as well as be responsive to the complaints from many of the riders. He definitely wants to attract more upscale riders and was successful at doing that at his past jobs
If you own a pet…you need to read this and if you chose follow through with the petition. Cruelty to a pet just because the owner is too lazy is awful
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/25/14677222-dog-debarking-policy-at-avma-raises-activists-howls-of-protest?lite
That was funny Bridget…especially him flying to Australia to surprise his girlfriend in the US…on their wedding day
oh…but this is SO much better
http://www.chacha.com/gallery/3807/how-to-tell-if-he-s-overcompensating-for-his-tiny-junk
Imagine my shock when I found out the congressman’s son who resigned over voter fraud was a democrat! Gasp…..
If it was the same amount of shock as mine, then not much.
Noway, if he’s a “democrat” that just means that he is “a person who believes in and upholds government by the people; advocate of rule by the majority,” according to Webster. Everyone who believes in democracy is a democrat. Ergo, even a member of the Republican Party is a democrat. I’m just saying….
Except the US is a republic and it is not rule by the majority, it is rule by law. If it were rule by majority then we could have many nasty rules, and a minority with little freedoms or rights.
But then again, if it were rule by majority we would also have free beer.
Free beer and elections where the person with the majority wins.
Calypso, I knew somebody would come up with the old “we’re a republic” thing, just didn’t know it would be you.
According to Webster, a republic is “a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.” We are a republic that functions via democracy.
How about we call ourselves a democratic republic and move on to the important stuff?
Now, where’s that free beer?
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