Can you pass this test- if it was updated?

WHAT GUMMINT DO          West Virginia Diploma Test - 1931 Jodi Lou sent me this 1931 West Virginia Elementary School Diploma Test.  You can download the entire thing (,pdf) HERE.  Of course it will elicit the usual comparisons between then and now; the older you are the harsher the comparison.  But, this is what struck me the most.  Look at the Geography section.  The emphasis on the local economy and West Virginia itself hearkens back to a time when people saw themselves as citizens of their state first, and Americans second.  When Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861,  the Virginian rejected the command  on the day after Virginia seceded.   It was with Virgina, he felt, that his sacred honor dictated he must follow.  And what a wonderful notion it was, federalism.  It meant that if the state you lived in wasn't being governed to your satisfaction, you could vote with your feet and move to another. It was what the framers anticipated. All that ended with the election of FDR in 1932. Yes, you can still  vote with your feet, but to little avail, since the Federals and their courts dictate what the states may, or may not do.    We have chained ourselves to a central government, so that today we are reduced to debating  passage of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s  “21st Century WPA Act” to reinstate the FDR's New Deal employment program.  Laut's estimated cost  —   through 2013?  — $250 billion!   I am positive Lautenberg would have failed this West Virginia test. Here a 1910 test from Washington state.

Union aims to organize the unemployed

Union aims to organize the unemployed Would they be public sector, or private sector thugs?

This little Piggly Wiggly went to the market

COMEUPPANCES Oh Yeah? “ Last September the magager of a  Piggly Wiggly grocery store in  Sheboygan WI  reduced hours for 19  employees represented by the  United Food and Commercial Workers union, shortly after the union’s labor deal expired. They cried foul, and in May a NLRB administrative law judge ordered the company to restore full-time status and benefits to represented employees at the store whose hours were reduced without bargaining with their union. Jun. 12, 2012 Sheboygan-based Piggly Wiggly Midwest notified the state on Tuesday it intends to close its south-side Sheboygan store by Sept. 1, the same store that had been the subject of a recent complaint by the United Food and Commercial Workers union. The closing would result in the loss of 108 jobs at the store at 3124 South Business Drive, the notice to the state Department of Workforce Development said. Workers would not be offered bumping rights to other locations.  [Full] Given the drubbing public sector unions have taken in Wisconsin, it looks like Piggly-Wiggly decided to lay down their own marker. ”

Graham grills Holder

Sen. Lindsay Lohan Mugs Holder Lord knows, I am not a Lindsay Lohan Graham fan, but give the devil his due. Here he  questions Atty. Gen. Holder's decision not to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate recent national security leaks, and twists him into knots.  Well done.

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Good News, Bad News

THIS JUST IN The good news is my fever broke.  The bad news is that it broke just minutes before a team from the Guinness Book of World Records arrived.  The were summoned by MoSup to verify my claim of having the most serious summer cold in all of mankind,  and  survive.  Without hardly complaining.  Oh well, I would only have broken my own record.  Now, where was I?

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Mary Kennedy Lived the Dream

The late Mary Richardson Kennedy, it seems, got to "live the dream." According to court papers, Mary used to beat the crap out of husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr

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You'd think Elizabeth Warren was a climatologist

More Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring “ Is it this? The University of Virginia Board of Visitors announced Sunday morning that UVa President Teresa Sullivan is stepping down effective August 15. [Newsplex] What? UVa President Teresa Sullivan woke up Sunday morning and thought, "I hate this job.  I think I'll quit?"  Or, did it have something to do with this?  And, do the New York Times still rate the MA senate race a "tossup"?¹  Is Elizabeth Warren the phoniest, most corrupt liar in the Democrat Party?² ¹  yes, believe it or not. ² Sadly, no.  Run of the mill. ”

The Lani Guinier Hypothesis

The Lani Guinier Hypothesis systemic sociopathy Just read CBC staff: Opposition to Obama is racist on Beltway Confidential.  I would be gob smacked if it was still  possible to be gob smacked after four-years of daily gob-smackage.  Angela Rye, Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus states that — Obama has struggled during his first term due to racially-motivated opposition from conservatives who dislike having a black president (blah-blah-blah) Conservative opposition is racially-charged, citing the use of the word "cool" in an attack ad launched by Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS superPAC (the word "unhinged" just crossed your mind, didn't it?). Rye then declares that "Democrats have to explain how voter ID laws are racist to help motivate black voters." Now, all of us have, and are still,  wondering how in hell anyone can mount an argument against providing identification before casting a ballot?  The arguments are just absurd. Here comes the BINGO! I'm proposing that the democrat machine have allowed them to justify, rationalize, and accept  that voter fraud  is  both necessary, and justified.  They can't come right out a say it in those terms, of course; us rubes would get all uppity.   Remember Lani Guinier? Hillary Clinton's 1993 nominee as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights?  The "Quota Queen," who had to withdraw after her advocacy for anti-constitutional  proportional representation was discovered?   Proportional representation is what it sounds like.  In simple terms, black votes are counted 2, 3, or more times,  as required to give them parity with white voters in elections.    Lani Guinier is gone, but I see that very philosophy at work in the democrat's persistent fight against any form of voter identification.  They believe in proportional representation, and the only way they see of achieving it is through voter fraud.  You can actually hear the gears grinding away in their morally superior brainal cavities.  "Too many black voters fail to vote because of the discouraging influence of slavery and persistent racist beat-downs by white Republican party racists.  Ergo, it is entirely proper that we be allowed to cast their ballots for them, if there is ever to be justice." I'm pretty damned sure I'm right on this one. We're dealing with a systemic sociopathy.

hammers and a burrito

Today— 45 hammers; some condoms; a burrito

No Pulitzer again this year

La la la la la ..... According to Blogger these are, in descending order, the 5 most viewed posts this year. Fricken Elephants Apr 12, 2012 s SEIU Summer Camp Apr 12, 2012, Reveille Jun 6, 2012, SEE-LECTED before EE-LECTED May 18, 2012, For The Radies Man May 27, 2012, I'm surprised, but what the hell.

TSA is looking more and more like Gestapo

Police State Culture                    Dana Loesch     ✔ @DLoesch TSA just forced us into private screening, claimed second alarm, threatened to escort me out when I asked officers name And even more “ ”

USS Wisconsin

Putting Things in Perspective USS Wisconsin The USS Wisconsin at her berth in Norfolk, VA. This is pretty much what the Japs in Manilla might have seen in 1945

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That's What I See

When that's all there is ...

Move on. Nothing to see here. “ My current blog roll lists just 25 blogs that are brilliant, or satisfy me in some fashion.  Some,  like Sondrakistan and American Digest, are so packed with content that I often leave thinking, "well, that's all there is; I can't add anything else," so I go fishing.  What I mean to say is that my blog is about what I'm thinking about at the moment ... . So that's what my focus becomes.  And it's already been handled, so what the hell.  Anyway, these from Kaiser Vanderleun are today's case in point.  I'm going to watch 8 Top Gears (81-90) . ”

Climate control heads People control list

Obama believes the most important issue of second term is 'climate change' “ Do we have the most obtuse President ever in the Oval Office? Tens of millions of people out of work or underemployed; pension funds at risk; the entitlement crisis is getting worse every day it is unaddressed; the oncoming "fiscal cliff" threatens to throw us into another recession (predicted by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office; Taxmaggedon begins on January 1st; our deficit is enormous and we have accumulated trillions of dollars of debt under his presidency with nothing to show for it other than high unemployment and high debt; and Barack Obama believes climate change trumps these concerns? Read more: The debate has ended,  Ahem. ”

Sixty Six and Doc Martin

At The Cinema                            Two for you This is a two minute trailer Sixty Six  Plot Bernie Reubens (Gregg Sulkin) a young Jewish boy is about to have his bar mitzvah. Initially, he meticulously plans a lavish reception to upstage that of his older brother Alvie (Ben Newton), but as the family's finances lurch from one disaster to another, the family is forced to lower Bernie's expectations and stage the bar mitzvah reception at home in North London. When England reach the 1966 football World Cup Final, most of the guests make excuses not to come to the reception so that they can watch the game. I so thoroughly enjoyed this 2006 movie that I think I'll recommend it to you.  A great "Father's Day" film on the order of  Field of Dreams.  For me anyway. While I'm at it —  Now that I've exhausted Sherlock Holmes and Perot on NetFlix, "Doc Martin" has become my best television series of all time.  I'm up to episode 8 of 32 (I think) on NetFlix, and as the characters firm up, each new episode is better than the last.  It was created based after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. Martin Clunes plays Dr. Martin Ellingham, a brilliant and successful vascular surgeon at Imperial College London who develops haemophobia (a fear of blood), and as a result is forced to stop practicing surgery. He obtains a post as the General Practitioner (GP) in the sleepy Cornish village of Portwenn, where he spent childhood holidays with his Aunt Joan .  Clunes is brilliant.

Hitler finds out that Scott Walker won

The Gift That Keeps on Giving Hitler finds out that Scott Walker won the Wisconsin recall

Shiela Jackson Wheeeeeeeeee!

Sheila Jackson Lee Declares Rodney King a 'Great Philosopher' “ On Friday in response to a Fox News reporter's question about Obamacare, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a University of Virginia Law graduate, invoked the name of Rodney King calling him a "great philosopher." Not since Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) expressed concern that the addition of 8,000 service personnel and their families onto the island of Guam might cause it to tip over have Americans heard such moronic craziness. Do we really pay the Queen of Racism $174,000 per year? [Sheila Jackson Lee Declares Rodney King  ... .] Shucks, she's just your average Democrat woman in congress. ”

Let's not blow this up out of proportion

Why is this man suddenly happy? Friends - "President acts like a new man"

r u smarter than a 3 year-old ?

La la la la la ..... I find it hard to believe that pre-schoolers solve this in 100 years.  Maybe that's because I've been thinking on it myself since Friday, and it just now came to me while looking at the FLAG PSA a few posts below. Here's one without the answer —   9668=? BONUS ROUND  WHAT TIME IS IT?

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How to show the flag

PSA How to unfold a flag SFW, but Warning DO NOT ROLLOVER Some guys can argue politics all day long, but Patriotism is what I'm all about.  We always hear about how to fold a flag properly... but, did anyone ever show you how? We have several patriotic holidays coming up, so this is important. First: Locate Your Flag... Second: Firmly Grasp the Edges.... and Pull, Slightly.... Lastly...  Observe.... In Quiet Reverence.... Stand and Salute Blame Tim W if you fell into the areolæ

Torquemada, Hansen/Gore, Richard Dawkins

GREEN CRAP I Stand By It as a Theatrical Work The paper might have been scientifically invalid, but it was a box-office success. The headlines were everywhere “ A group of international scientists is sounding a global alarm, warning that population growth, climate change and environmental destruction are pushing Earth toward calamitous — and irreversible — biological changes.  [LATIMES] Here's how Anthony Watts dealt with this one.  Well, you can read it;  I'll just post a few of the comments which will give you what you need to know (it's all  more contrived climate crap): Nature, record heat, tipping points, Hansen’s opinion on weather noise, and all that Fred 2 says: June 9, 2012 at 10:29 am Why doesn’t the meme, “We are doomed, doomed I say. So give me more money and control over your life” seem convincing? stpaulchuck says: June 9, 2012 at 10:31 am 1895…. we were just coming out of the Little Ice Age. Today’s temperatures are higher than that. *shock* *surprise* [/snark] In point of fact we are merely approaching the Middle Ages Warm Period temperatures. That was a time period which was absolutely great for humans and other creatures, yet we’re supposed to be horrified. What a crock of BS. NEXT The LA TIMES, On the discovery of  phytoplankton (carbon dioxide munchers -) which the AGW lobby had already listed as goners, this amusing insight. So, yes, the phytoplankton could have been growing for a long time, Bontempi said, which she finds "fascinating." "Things are happening on this planet that we never knew existed." But let's not let this "setback" keep us from our appointed rounds,quoth Algore, and his merry band? Again from Anthony Watts. NEXT Jo Nova chronicles the snapping of the Gergis hockey stick Posted on June 9, 2012 by Anthony Watts Note: I’m reposting this excellent essay from Jo Nova to give it a wide as an audience as possible. Be sure to bookmark her site if you have not already. – Anthony 300,000 dollars and three years to produce a paper that lasted three weeks: Gergis The paper might have been scientifically invalid, but it was a box-office success. The headlines were everywhere Blah-Blah- Blah.  I know that most of you are also utterly confounded by the AGW climate lobby's refusal to acknowledge that they are thoroughly discredited.  Take James Hansen, (when news first leaked that Tipper discovered Al was screwing someone else, everyone's first guess was Hansen),   head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.  How does he keep his job?  How can he possibly have any standing left in the scientific community?  The same goes for Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann.  Rather than carry coal to Newcastle,  I'll suggest that this  is an epiphany. Torquemada, Hansen/Gore, Richard Dawkins Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design.  Stein's not arguing for or against "intelligent design" (which is not "creationism"), but rather the "scientific community's response to any debate. And, I do mean any.  What we find are the same academia mindsets (the debate is over), catch-phrases (the debate is over),  and  penalty for straying outside the box - excommunication.  Trust me on this one - at least begin watching, or bookmark it. This is the whole movie. ”

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