Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Your Comments On... Federal Coach: There's many paths for successful leadership The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service and The Washington Post'

zeinali wrote:
Yes, there are several and diverse ways of thinking, acting and reacting to or on indefinite life challenges, such as: out of the box view, holistic approach, combination of analytical and synthetical thinking, brainstorming, inclusion of transcendental, intuitive and emotional views, values and visions, of the so-called 6th sense, constant open-and wide-minded flexibility, creativity and innovation in all areas and aspects affecting our daily individual and collective lives, internal and external existence, natural, unnatural or supernatural processes, and so on. While keeping a firm and steady moral, spiritual and mental foundation, keep on being and staying flexible, ready for constant changes and new challenges with a predominant enthusiastic, positive and joyful attitude and with the mindset of a curious researcher, constantly and eagerly looking for exciting discoveries.
6/2/2010 12:10:39 PM

Friday, May 28, 2010

Your Comments On... Senate prepares to vote on war-funding measure The Senate set the stage Thursday to vote on whether to set aside $30 billion to pa

zeinali wrote:
What about just and common-sense priorities, spending money most and first for solving our own national economic, social and other existential and cultural pivotal problems, clean up first our own house, before allocating humanitarian aid to other nations? Where is standing now the constitutional balance of powers in our nation, where is hanging in the power of People, somewhere on the bottom or on the top among the major Government powers? Who in the Government can give me an analytical answer to this judicial philosophical question?
5/28/2010 11:41:40 AM

Thursday, May 27, 2010

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zeinali wrote:
I am relieved to finally see some mental and spiritual efforts, beside predominant male macho tactics, put into solving our national and international strategic and existential challenges, good job, keep up with the good and common-sense choices.
5/27/2010 11:29:18 AM

Sunday, May 16, 2010

ओउर मुस्लिम Heritage

This message is informative and reflects crude realities. I am myself first-hand familiar with such realities, being married to a Muslim man, however, it is ideologically biased, it shows only one negative side of a historically rich and complex society and culture, and unfortunately similar to some of their extreme unilateral negative perceptions of our western culture and heritage. This is not a superior and constructive way of promoting understanding and peace among cultures and nations, which does not translate into approving evil practices and wrongdoings, but to acknowledge and condemn evil, while not ignoring positive accomplishments and images of a society as a whole and of single individuals, judging nations and individuals without prejudice and stereotypes.
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To:
Subject: RV: Fw: Our Muslim Heritage?
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:47





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Barack OBAMA, during his Cairo speech,
said: "I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America 's
story."

AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S RESPONSE:

Dear Mr. Obama:

Were those Muslims that were in America when
the Pilgrims first landed? Funny, I thought they were Native American
Indians.

Were those Muslims that celebrated the first
Thanksgiving day? Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and Native American
Indians.

Can you show me one Muslim signature on the
United States Constitution?

Declaration of Independence ?

Bill of Rights?

Didn't think so.

Did Muslims fight for this country's freedom
from England ? No.

Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to
free the slaves in America ? No, they did not. In fact, Muslims to this
day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery. Your own half
brother, a devout Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though
Muslims of Arabic descent refer to black Muslims as "pug nosed slaves."
Says a lot of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family's "rich
Islamic heritage," doesn't it Mr. Obama?

Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights
era of this country? Not present.

There are no pictures or media accounts of
Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or helping to
advance the cause of Civil Rights.

Where were Muslims during this country's
Woman's Suffrage era? Again, not present. In fact, devout Muslims demand
that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture. So much so, that
often they are beaten for not wearing the 'hajib' or for talking to a man
who is not a direct family member or their husband. Yep, the Muslims are
all for women's rights, aren't they?

Where were Muslims during World War II?
They were aligned with Adolf Hitler. The Muslim grand mufti himself met
with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi's
in killing Jews.

Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on
Sept. 11th, 2001? If they weren't flying planes into the World Trade Center
, the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on our
own soil, they were rejoicing in the Middle East . No one can dispute the
pictures shown from all parts of the Muslim world celebrating on CNN, Fox
News, MSNBC and other cable news networks that day. Strangely, the very
"moderate" Muslims who's asses you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo ,
Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11. To many Americans,
their silence has meant approval for the acts of that day.

And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the "rich heritage"
Muslims have here in America .

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the
Barbary Pirates. They were Muslim.

And now we can add November 5, 2009 - the
slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a
doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be counseling soldiers
returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan .


That, Mr. Obama is the "Muslim heritage" in
America .
EVERY AMERICAN MUST
READ THIS !!

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

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Posted by Mihaela Zeinali | less than one minute ago

Our President has being and is ongoing abusively criticized and verbally assaulted in the public media, why can't he, in turn, criticize, express his personal judgment and visions, or expose wrongdoing without a hostile reaction? At least he is expressing opposition in a civilized, respectful and decent way, without abusive verbal attacks or threats.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

washingtonpost.com > Politics Your Comments On... Both national party committees spend big chunks on fancy meals, hotels, travel Both the national De

zeinali wrote:
Speaking about bipartisan common ground...we normally say: "united we stand, divided we fall". What about: "united we fall, divided we stand"? Divided we can stand against hypocrisy, fraud, corruption and abuse of power; united we can stand for a genuine democracy, for ethics and integrity in the general political process and structures of our leading major parties.
4/21/2010 11:53:28 AM

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Comments 6 | Recommend 1 Print RSS Yahoo! Buzz Share Paddling is back in Temple schools 12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, April 18, 2010 Michael Birnbaum

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Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post

TEMPLE, Texas – Most school districts across the country banned the paddling of students long ago. Temple has gone the other direction.

The Central Texas city of 60,000 revived the practice at the demand of parents who longed for the orderly schools of yesteryear. Without paddling, "there were no consequences for kids," said Steve Wright, who runs a construction business and is Temple's school board president.

Since paddling was brought back to the city's 14 schools by a unanimous board vote last May, behavior at Temple's single high school has changed dramatically, Wright said, even though only one student in the entire school system has been paddled.

"The discipline problem is much better than it's been in years," Wright said, something he attributed to the new punishment and other discipline programs the schools are trying. Residents praise the change.

"There are times when maybe a good crack might not be a bad idea," said Robert Pippin, a custom-home builder who sports a goatee and cowboy boots. His son graduated from Temple schools several years ago.

Corporal punishment remains legal in 20 states, mostly in the South, but its use is diminishing. Ohio ended it last year, and a movement for a federal ban is afoot. A House subcommittee held a hearing on the practice last week, and its chairman, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., is gearing up for a push to end the practice once and for all

"When you look that the federal government has outlawed physical punishment in prisons, I think the time has come that we should do it in schools," she said.

A joint American Civil Liberties Union-Human Rights Watch report last year found that students with disabilities were disproportionately subjected to corporal punishment, sometimes in direct response to behavioral problems that were a result of their disabilities. Many educators and psychologists say that positive tools, such as giving students praise when they behave well and withholding it when they don't, are far more effective for discouraging misbehavior.

Rules about paddling vary from district to district, but typically only administrators can mete out the punishment, which is done in private. Usually, a long, flat wooden paddle is used to give as many as three blows across the student's clothed rear end, although Farmer found students who had been hit many more times. Boys are overwhelmingly the target.

Not everybody in Texas is gung-ho about paddling. The practice has been banned in the state's big cities, and its use varies from campus to campus in districts that allow it.

In Alvin, a formerly agricultural city of 23,000 that has been swallowed by Houston's suburbs in the past decade, the policy is on the books but not used in many schools.

"I don't think it's that simple anymore," said Terry Constantine, who added that she hadn't swung a paddle in her 16 years as an elementary school principal there. "We look for our parents to work with us now."

At Alvin High School, where the technique is used, principal Kevon Wells said he has paddled students about six times this school year. If a student continued to misbehave, he said, he wouldn't do it again.

"I'm not into beating kids," he said.

Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post

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Posted by Mihaela Zeinali | less than one minute ago

"It takes a village to raise a child". Many people, blinded by old-fashioned ideological extremism or rough individualism, scared by too much government involvement, don't seem or want to understand the importance of social/cultural environment aspects and values, their enormous significance and impact on our children. Not only educational institutions, teachers and parents, but also the entire society are responsible, are influencing and forming our children, their education and general development. The physical punishment should be only a parent's privilege, and parents should not be intimidated by fear of overzealous government intervention, violating their privacy and their parental discipline rights. Schools in other countries are operating like military institutions, with no need for Police on the campus, where children understand respect for authority and appreciate education and educators, where teachers can tech without serious disruptions and Police intervention. In a democratic and multicultural society, to achieve positive and constructive learning school environment and culture, the whole society needs to be funded on mutual respect, positive and flexible integrative cooperation between diverse individuals and groups of people, harmoniously embracing their various values and structures to its benefit.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

washingtonpost.com > Business > Business Policy Your Comments On... Obama, Republicans square off on financial-regulation bill President Obama accus

zeinali wrote:
If we only could get the truth, complete and accurate information, so that we, the people and the media, can make educated and smart comments and suggsestions, can contribute efficiently to the democratic process and progress. What I can figure out as an independent thinker with incomplete knowledge and information, is that the whole process is very complex, there are a lot of national and global interrelated structural political, legal and economic mechanisms to be addressed, analyzed and improved. One of them, in my opinion, is the governmental structure and process. I agree that we need stricter financial regulations, however, in order to achieve positive changes, we first need an efficient and high quality government regulatory system, so that the new regulations won't fail again under new government structures' abuses of power. It is outrageous and unbelievable, that a whole country and ultimately the whole world , have to suffer and pay for the mistakes and failures of a few irresponsible national and international executives and because of governmental structural weaknesses and corruption. I think that this is the first big picture to start with in the process of eliminating the evil roots and avoiding such historical catastrophic repetition.
4/17/2010 10:59:30 AM

Friday, April 16, 2010

washingtonpost.com > Columns » Follow The Post On: Mobile Newsletters & Alerts RSS Facebook Twitter Your Comments On... Leaving one Afghan valley: Wha

zeinali wrote:
We accomplish what responsible adults normally teach children and teenagers in good faith: bad choices, bad consequences. It's time for the so-called responsible adults in charge, to really be responsible and really be a positive role-model for our growing children, as they learn from our principles and deeds, not from our first-class diplomas, titles and privileged offices.
4/16/2010 10:07:16 AM

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Your Comments On... Are Republicans losing their nerve on repeal? The party needs to hang tough, not cave in. - By Marc A. Thiesse

zeinali wrote:
For both sides, right and left, it's time to stop playing the same sclerotic and infantile game over and over again at the cost of the growing populations' impatience. It's time for some extra mental and emotional efforts, to overcome old ideologies and structures, and instead, to create new ways of positive, practical and ethical thinking, followed by more efficient, progressive and flexible operating systems; it's time for modernizing and restructuring obsolete political structures, for integrating diverse channels into a more constructive and productive cooperative way of doing business, for the benefits of the majority of people.
4/13/2010 4:18:56 PM

Monday, April 12, 2010

washingtonpost.com > Politics Your Comments On... Bill to extend jobless benefits faces Senate showdown Congress is poised for another partisan showd

zeinali wrote:
No rational and decent people want to be out of work, with no life quality and struggling to survive. Only because of some exceptions to the rule, of some people who prefer welfare because of whatever personal reasons, one cannot punish millions of people, who constantly and actively are looking for work but unable to find jobs because of a frozen job market, or because of catastrophic economic and social practical consequences derived from ideological politics and policies, and consequently, from unregulated and abusive free markets.

washingtonpost.com > Politics Your Comments On... Bill to extend jobless benefits faces Senate showdown Congress is poised for another partisan showd

zeinali wrote:
Even when Republicans have a good intention, to stop government overspending and deficit, they continue their political unfair and unethical game of saving money at the costs of the weak and poor, of the needy and suffering unemployed, disabled, old, young and children, instead of cutting spending at unnecessary, unproductive and excessive government and private industry money sucking monster machines.
4/12/2010 11:55:10 AM

Sunday, April 11, 2010

washingtonpost.com > Politics Your Comments On... Steele urges Republicans to not let errors be turned into distractions NEW ORLEANS -- Michael S. St

zeinali wrote:
The facts speak for themselves...Who do you think is a better political person and role model for our nation's adults and children? A highly educated President, trying to positively solve and redirect the inherited nation's mess and catastrophic circumstances, in good-faith and in the best interests of the American people, while managing to be and remain a good and responsible father, husband and social human being? Or, an abusive angry and political ambitious man and his party, a morally ambiguous political leader, who, by pursuing first his and its selfish agendas, focus their primary goal on trashing, undermining and blocking most of the constructive politics and civil efforts of our elected and inspiring President, instead of concentrating their minds and efforts on positive innovative politics, to help lift the country out of the misery they primarily caused, to support the progress and peace for all the nation's citizens and the world?
You judge and decide what's best for the "American" agenda, for the Republican Party and for the global world!
4/11/2010 10:39:50 AM

Friday, April 9, 2010

washingtonpost.com > Columns » Follow The Post On: Mobile Newsletters & Alerts RSS Facebook Twitter Your Comments On... Tone down the hatefulness in p

zeinali wrote:
I am pleased to see the light at the end of the tunnel, when discovering civility, maturity, sophistication and high educational quality in the media, like in this article. To be honest, I started to get tired of the numerous ignorant, primitive, immature, rude and vulgar public and official political cultural comments and opinions (or better said, lack of a civic political culture).
4/9/2010 3:47:34 PM

washingtonpost.com > Politics > The Fed Page Your Comments On... Lawmakers, advocates push administration for appointments to privacy board Lawmaker

zeinali wrote:
Where are the voices of some outraged and abusive Republicans, trying to excessively and destructively criticize, demonize and obstruct almost everything the President does, tries to do or not do, or says, who don't want too much government? Can they counteract positively and in turn deliver some creative, clever and constructive analytical and systematic thinking, some pragmatical solutions to current national and international issues? Can they keep up with complex historic processes and changes, acknowledge and address them, and, consequently meet all the challenges with adequate responsible and progressive responses and actions? I hope that I don't ask too much from them, maybe they are in a dare need of some fresh blowing wind across their dead-bones party's antique structural body and operations.
4/9/2010 12:01:45 PM

Thursday, April 8, 2010

washingtonpost.com > Columns » Follow The Post On: Mobile Newsletters & Alerts RSS Facebook Twitter Your Comments On... Language proficiency is Foreig

zeinali wrote:
Languages open windows to new countries, cultures, variations of mindsets and perspectives, create the basis for an enrichment of spirit and visions, as well as for an open-mind, tolerance and flexibility. Foreign languages should be promoted and should be mandatory in schools, like in most of the world's nations. By promoting them, first at home and then abroad, we promote basic fundamentals for global understanding and communication, for world peace.
4/8/2010 5:03:33 PM

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

washingtonpost.com > Politics > The Fed Page Your Comments On... Neary on where the Office of the Director of National Intelligence went wrong Five

zeinali wrote:
Who needs to go to an Intelligence University to become intelligent, non-intelligent people?
Don't you think that our Intelligence agencies and operations are in absolute need of naturally intelligent people, people with life experience, special talents and skills, plus an international academic and work experience profile, in order to serve the country in more reliable, responsible and smarter ways?
4/6/2010 2:34:08 PM

washingtonpost.com > Religion Your Comments On... Obama to meet at the White House with black church leaders President Obama will sit down Tuesday wi

zeinali wrote:
I am glad that our President is honest and racially unbiased. He is right when choosing to represent and serve all Americans without preferences, we are all in the same boat. With all respect and compassion to the black people and their past history of oppression and injustice, why aren't black people honest and upright, to admit that their present privileged status and rights, enabled by the affirmative action in response to the past wrongdoings, create a negative and unjust impact on non-black people today, who often are treated unfairly, denied the same rights and privileges, or discriminated against?
4/6/2010 2:01:10 PM

Friday, March 26, 2010

Your Comments On... Stopping the health-care madness There are people who take incendiary words literally. - By Eugene Robinson Comments zeinali w

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Stopping the health-care madness
There are people who take incendiary words literally.
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zeinali wrote:
What about responsible adults journalists of your newspaper publishing these abusive, racist hate speeches and terrorist threats targeting the President and his administration? What about Sarah Palin neglecting her children, putting her career ambitions over her family, did the CPS investigate her?
3/26/2010 4:28:35 PM

Your Comments On... Iowa man joins protest against Obama and health-care reform IOWA CITY, IOWA -- He had no plans to throw bricks, issue death threat

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Iowa man joins protest against Obama and health-care reform
IOWA CITY, IOWA -- He had no plans to throw bricks, issue death threats, spit in faces or scream racial slurs. But Randy Millam, 52, intended to make a scene, so he woke up early Thursday morning to prepare for President Obama's visit.
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zeinali wrote:
Message to Mr. Millam and supporters.
Mr. Millam, everybody opposing the universal health care, our President and his administration.
I don't think you've really grown up, and let me tell you why. What kind of constitutional freedoms are you talking about: to die because of lack of health insurance or lack of a just and quality health insurance plan, to work hard, like a slave, even two jobs, and still not being able to pay all your necessity bills (I am not talking about irresponsible overspending), not to talk about out of work people at no own fault, about the majority of citizens, employed or unemployed, struggling to survive in a rich industrial country? Our President and his administration are working hard in trying to overcome the deep recession and solve the catastrophic problems of our country by creating and using new, flexible and practical ways, not stiff, old and unpractical ideological ones, one by one or combined, while obsolete, selfish, narrow-minded and ideologically biased conservative heated heads are constantly trying to undermine and block their noble efforts in the name of constitutional freedom, instead of joining and supporting them, in spite of political differences.
3/26/2010 3:30:57 PM

Thursday, March 25, 2010

washingtonpost.com > Politics Your Comments

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Obama returning to Iowa City to pitch benefits of health-care law
President Obama will return Thursday to the place where he first called for health-care legislation, aiming now to convince Americans of the benefits of the measure he just signed into law.
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zeinali wrote:
It looks like Republicans still don't get it or don't want to get it, that the United States is no longer the only world superpower, as they historically pretended and acted accordingly. They are losing ground and feel like drowning in the new global world, therefore, I believe, they are desperately trying by all means to stay above the water, maintain and enforce their obsolete ideologies and privileges. Aren't they and their extreme supporters, like any regular citizen, subject to criminal prosecution in regards to hate speech, libel, malicious intentional inflicting of public damage through deceiving and unfair manipulation through collective brainwashing, slander, harassment, terrorist threats, and so on? Does the criminal law apply only to the week and poor folks, and, are the legal rights and privileges designed to only serve the rich and famous?
3/25/2010 10:57:16 AM

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Your Comments On... The health-care bill: A glorious mess The health bill's imperfect, but Obama was right to let Congress shape it. - By Eugene Rob

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The health-care bill: A glorious mess
The health bill's imperfect, but Obama was right to let Congress shape it.
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zeinali wrote:
Character damage, verbal assault, slander and libel are subject to legal prosecution and not protected by the freedom of speech. Regarding the freedom of speech, the First Amendment provides protection of it, free from government interference, however, the freedom of speech should be limited to prevent abuse of this right. Intentional malicious false and defamatory speech, libelous or slanderous, anything that is injurious to the good name or reputation of another person is an abuse of the freedom of speech and consequently, a violation of law.
About the "N' and "F" words, I have a question about common sense and character integrity for the African-American popular mindset and culture (and please don't get me wrong, not to excuse the atrocious use of these words by white folks towards black folks): why did the African-Americans widely and intensively promote and tolerate these words (in the name of freedom) in their private and public culture without regard to negative and dangerous social effects and affects on the whole society, especially on the young generations?
3/23/2010 11:11:36 AM

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Senators draft plan to rework U.S. immigration policy

zeinali wrote:
Too much damage was done and continues to be inflicted to all citizens: Americans, legal and illegal residents, a lot of damages, a long list of negative, extreme and inhumane hardship for all parties. To give some of the endless direct negative effects on individuals, groups and institutions: overcrowded schools and hospitals, highly educated and skilled Americans and legal immigrants, losing jobs to cheaper, uneducated and low-skilled illegal immigrants (even when they can't even speak or want to learn to speak English), inhumane (fascist style)separation of illegal families, where minor little kids were left alone after both parents were deported, entire illegal families living in limbo for decades, in constant fear and insecurity, altogether, loss of humanity, dignity and quality of life for everybody, legal or illegal. Politicians can learn from successful, just and humane immigration laws and policies in other developed countries like: Germany, England, Canada, France, and so on, with flexible, practical and socially/culturally responsible immigrant laws and guest workers programs, benefiting all the parties, legal and illegal citizens.
3/21/2010 11:23:34 AM

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Your Comments On...
House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
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By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane

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zeinali wrote:
Left and right strategies, debates over debates, conflicting and contradictory outdated rules, regulations, laws and policies blocking the roads to our nation's economic, social and cultural recovery and progress. I want to remind everybody making decisions affecting the entire population, that we, the people of this great country on earth, we are not objects, but subjects, and we want to be treated accordingly, with respect and accountability to our demands, honoring our constitutional civil and equal rights. One of our constitutional rights is the right, not privilege, for equality and equal treatment, the right of everyone to have access to health care, like Congresspeople and other leaders do have.
3/16/2010 10:53:56 AM

Sunday, March 14, 2010

नो चिल्ड लेफ्ट बेहिंद law

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Obama: Revise No Child Left Behind law
President Obama proposed overhauling the No Child Left Behind law that was his predecessor's hallmark education initiative, aiming to eliminate several of the measure's controversial mandates on public schools but adding new ones.
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By Nick Anderson

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zeinali wrote:
It's wonderful to see a President standing up with passion and vigor for the needs of the American people, for our children, and not mainly for the selfish needs of the some few rich and privileged individuals or group of people. The President can't do everything perfectly and on his own, at least he is starting the improvement process wherever is a need for improvement, the rest it's up to us, responsible citizens, lawmakers, teachers, parents, and so on. There are a lot of complex and interrelated factors contributing to the success or lack of success of our public schools: psychological, emerging of new economic, social, cultural structures and environments,which were not sustained, supported and embraced by adequate and adaptive corresponding contemporary laws and regulations. Families and teachers were losing their authority, power and respect, partly by a growing destructive popular and epidemic uncivilized subculture glorifying violence, inhumanity and the gangster way of life style; partly hindered and undermined in their efforts to discipline children by simplistic protective laws, which in the end effect turned to be more harmful than the good old discipline school. You can't put the blame only on parents or teachers in a society where children are raised by only one parent, who or is either on welfare or working two jobs to pay the bills, where teachers can't even separate fighting student at schools or engage actively in disciplining them, because of fears to lose their job or fear of retaliation. Regarding discipline and respect, schools should function like military operations, that's how schools in other countries succeed with no big issues and no need for Police on campus. The most significant educational and emotional impact on children at home is during their first 7 years, after children start the first grade, the main educational and character forming impact is shaped and formed by schools, public or private, mainly by teachers, but also by peer pressure, as kids are easily influenced. So, it's a complex social-cultural world, a lot needs to be changed, adapted and updated, to improve our schools and our children' education and character.
3/14/2010 12:19:37 PM
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

March 10, 2010

we finally get some good news about the job market, about a slow but steady progress, as in The Dallas Morning News article on March 9, 2010, headlines:
"Job openings up sharply in January to 2.7M".

These are statistical facts presented by qualified economists and not any ideological fictional stories of conservatives manipulating the public in their efforts to undermine the President's authority and credibility, to regain political power and influence.
The major political parties in America, the entire judicial/political government system was founded and rooted in noble principles and legal rules and procedures to protect the American people and their civil/human/natural/equal/equity rights and duties, in order to protect and sustain a working democratic culture and civilization.
We got the solid Constitution and democracy foundation, it's up to us, to our choices, on the top and on the bottom, united or divided, conservative, liberal or democrat, whatever religious or non-religious direction, to live and act according to
our national rules and principles, adapting and updating them to constant social and economic changes without losing their foundation essence and values.
What a relief this morning, finally some good news in the media about the job market getting better, slowly but steady