Holy shit....I am speechless

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Science and math have zoomed to the top of the nation's education agenda. Yet Amanda Cook, a parent of two school-age girls, can't quite see the urgency.

"In Maine, there aren't many jobs that scream out 'math and science,"' said Cook, who lives in Etna, in the central part of the state. Yes, both topics are important, but "most parents are saying you're better off going to school for something there's a big need for."

Nationwide, a new poll shows, many parents are content with the science and math education their children get -- a starkly different view than that held by national leaders.

Fifty-seven percent of parents say "things are fine" with the amount of math and science being taught in their child's public school. High school parents seem particularly content -- 70 percent say their child gets the right amount of science and math.

Oh. My. God. I think I've just had a stroke and heart attack.

-janelane, WTF??!!

CNN: Parents don't see a crisis over science and math

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.

A statement from the spokeswoman said he was surrounded by his three children when he died in Arlington.

"The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his dues on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days," she said.

Rehnquist was appointed to the Supreme Court as an associate justice in 1971 by President Nixon and took his seat on Jan. 7, 1982. He was elevated to chief justice by President Reagan in 1986.

His death ends a remarkable 33-year Supreme Court career during which Rehnquist oversaw the court's conservative shift, presided over an impeachment trial and helped decide a presidential election.

The death President Bush his second court opening within pour months and sets up what's expected to be an even more bruising Senate confirmation battle than that of John Roberts.

Rehnquist, 80 and ill with cancer, presided over President Clinton's impeachment trial in 1999, helped settle the 2000 presidential election in Bush's favor, and fashioned decisions over the years that diluted the powers of the federal government while strengthening those of the states.

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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening

flynn23 wrote:
] ] Taken together, the report finds that the Bush programs
] ] "mark a major shift in the constitutional separation
] ] of church and state."
]
] The key word here is [CHRISTIAN] church.

hit the nail on the head on that one.

RE: Bush's faith-based changes scrutinized

Rattle wrote:
] ] Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer
] ] capitalize the "I" in internet.
]
] Don't expect the AP to update its style guide.

ive always used the lowercase and boggled at the uppercase. glad to see the world is catching up to me. heh.

RE: Wired News: It's Just the 'internet' Now

] "Bush has created more harm to this country's standing
] and security than any president in history," Trudeau
] said. "What a shame the world has to suffer the
] consequences of Dubya not getting enough approval from
] Dad."

Ouch!

[ Trudeau certainly has no love for W. The Doonesbury representation of GWB is freaking perfect, like so many of the characters. An asterisk with a cowboy hat... it's just right on. -k]

Yahoo! News - 'Doonesbury' Artist Trudeau Skewers Bush

"Pop-psych punditry about fragile male egos may cloud the real problem inherent in many alpha-alpha marriages. Psychologists agree that difficulties most often arise not because a man feels emasculated by his wife's star power ("No one can emasculate you except you," avows Pak), but because the woman grows disappointed with her partner...If a woman is powerful, smart and ambitious, her expectations for her husband, and for the relationship, rise," says Nando Pelusi, a New York City psychologist who has counseled plenty of alpha-alpha pairings. McCarthy says it's the primary reason that middle-class marriages fail in the first five years: The woman feels her spouse is not keeping his end of the pact"(Seigel).

Is this the sign of a change? The next step is paternity leave.

The New Trophy Wife

just shows how stupid the arguement is when you use the bible against homosexuals. idiots.

shrimp makes jesus cry

arresting images of the famous and infamous, and it ain't pretty.

That's Not My Good Side