HTC Droid Incredible 2 on Verizon
I was purchasing a new phone for work, and saw that Verizon has the new HTC Incredible 2 listed as an option, if you want to pay $99,999.99 for it! :)
How to Ensure Your Child Gets a Good Education
Don't send them to a U.S. Public School, instead send them to the Chinese Communists....
Fifteen-year-olds in the U.S. ranked 25th among peers from 34 countries on a math test and scored in the middle in science and reading, while China’s Shanghai topped the charts, raising concern that the U.S. isn’t prepared to succeed in the global economy.Full article
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, which represents 34 countries, today released the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment. For the first time, the test broke out the performance of China’s Shanghai region, which topped every country in all academic categories. The U.S. government considers the test one of the most comprehensive measures of international achievement.
The results show that U.S. students must improve to compete in a global economy, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said yesterday in a telephone interview. President Barack Obama’s administration is promoting national curriculum standards and a revamping of teacher pay that stresses performance rather than credentials and seniority.
“The brutal fact here is there are many countries that are far ahead of us and improving more rapidly than we are,” Duncan said. “This should be a massive wake-up call to the entire country.”
Bill Cosby: "...the revolution is in the home!”
"I want you all to understand the value of your children,” Cosby said. “Your children happen to be helpless. They need you."
He says too many parents expect too much of the schools and that pouring more money into them won't solve all of the community's problems.
"To try to get the adults to seriously throw off the apathy and recognize that the revolution is in the home,” the actor, producer and activist continued.
European MP: ‘Who the Hell Do You Think You Are? The Euro Game Is Up!’
Nigel Farage: "You are very, very dangerous people indeed. Your obsession with creating this Euro-State means that you're happy to destroy democracy. You appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor. Untold millions must suffer so that your Euro-Dream can continue.
We don't want that flag, we don't want the anthem, we don't want this political class. We want the whole thing consigned to the dustbin of history."
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