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Posted on December 1 at 11:20 p.m.
". . . don't be fooled, bellisima is actually elnuestros using an alias."
Elnuestros doesn't need to use an alias.
Nor does he need to write down to a level understandable to people like ZhuZhu.
In fact, he probably couldn't if he tried.
On Traffic stop for window tint leads to 5 arrests on drug charge
Posted on November 30 at 2:57 p.m.
The future of journalism, as envisioned by a couple of teevee newspeeple (If it bleeds, it leads . . . more at 11) and the publisher of the NDN?
Clark, yes. Jones? Possibly. But the others? Same ol' same ol' and none too fresh at that.
Anyone who wants a glimpse at the future of journalism would better spend time studying the model being created by Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo. At a time when even the venerable St. Pete Times is trashed out with tabloid blog-gossip, TPM is pointing the way toward a Fourth Estate actively engaged in the continuation of America's experiment with democracy.
Posted on November 30 at 2:47 p.m.
"Some part of our brains is fixated on life in trees."
Really?
On High and mighty: Tree houses give kids of all ages powerful perspective on life below
Posted on November 30 at 10:53 a.m.
Beetle, you continue to amaze.
"Tammy, 28, and Drew, 29, met about eight years ago at the University of Tampa. They married three years later."
Posted on November 29 at 4:59 p.m.
Growth pays for growth.
Managed growth will keep us from becoming like the East coast.
Growth is inevitable. Only in Collier County do we have the vision and determination to ensure that it creates a superior Quality of Life.
Rinse. Repeat.
Now say: "Thank God we're not like Lauderdale."
You betcha.
On Collier County gets personal with banks to clean up untidy foreclosures
Posted on November 22 at 4:53 p.m.
"I often wonder if in our microwave-oven, reality-TV society, consumers have just become impatient and anticipate immediate results. Why not? They’ve been conditioned to."
In wasn't Orville Reddenbacher and Paris Hilton who conditioned the real estate market to expect fantastic returns in no time.
It was you, Chris, and the rest of the realtors. Tell me you've never cautioned a buyer to "act now" because the price is just going to keep going up, or something similar.
Now you get a free spot in the Realtors Daily News to bang your newest drum, that sellers can't live in the Glory Days and that a commission on a reduced price is better than no commission at all.
If only more of these recalcitrant homeowners would recondition their minds and start believing you, you could be doing okay even in a lousy market.
Right?
Posted on November 21 at 8:13 p.m.
" “Auction lots are complex and the bidding takes a lot of time,” she said. “The auction was getting longer and we wanted to keep it shorter and fun.” "
Yeah, and the chance to be on the Simpsons or to see American Idol up close are the stuff a rich man's dreams are made of, too.
I can't wait to read that Rachel Ray is going to be a guest chef, that two lucky ticket holders will get an honorary dip in the Sippy Hole come Swamp Buggy time, and that Ripple and Mad Dog are each sponsoring tents at the new, smaller, more manageable event.
And, by the way, the economy has done just marvelously under the plutocrats. That trickle down bidness, especially in the last eight years with the taps wrenched tightly shut, has been marvelous for so many that even Thurston Howell and his ilk are spending like there's no tomorrow.
Way to probe, Liz.
I'll now open the floor to all the apologists for the wealthy, the spiritual brethren of Joe the Plumber who, despite their own mean existence and rising debt, are so sure of their eventual wealth that they can't wait to see the "death tax" overturned before it prevents them from passing their ATV and their bowling balls down to their children, and who somehow think bilking consumers and taxpayers is the same as "working hard to make their fortunes."
On Simpsons, soap opera roles top Wine Festival 2009 auction list
Posted on November 19 at 6:08 p.m.
It'd be interesting to find out how many commenters have a clue about Aspberger's Syndrome. For the record, the diagnosis is employed in so many cases that it hardly means anything.
That's been especially true since the "experts" voted to include it in the "autism spectrum" as though it is a defect of some kind. In reality, the original meaning suggested no deficiency at all, but only a different way of looking at the world and analyzing information.
A person with Aspberger's Syndrome, for instance, would much rather sit in a quiet room and read an encyclopedia than be trapped in a noisy room with a bunch of sports fans watching a game on television.
Now, I understand how the sports bar types might think such a person is weird, but I would submit that the world would be a far saner place with more such "defects."
In this case, there isn't enough information here to judge whether the student truly suffers Aspberger's Syndrome, or another condition that made him a less malleable little nugget of industrial child processing based on current Best Practices.
There's also nothing to suggest whether the teacher was using an admittedley unconventional approach to restoring discipline, after having tried countless others, or was just being cruel, lazy or both. Without knowing the particulars, there is no way to judge. I say that as someone with experience in this area.
Finally, we all should understand that the liability-exposure people, and I include in this group the administrators, principals, and others who defend NOTHING as vigorously as they do their jobs, will gladly throw a teacher under the bus rather than risk an angry parent with a lawyer's phone number.
It's how they "protect" the taxpayers, dontcha know?
On Florida kindergarten teacher suspended for allowing class to vote on kicking out student
Posted on November 19 at 5:49 p.m.
thinker:
You're called on using "liberal." What does that term have to do with anything here? You might as well blame wolverines or pixies; both are as much a factor in what happened.
Stop using "liberal" as an epithet. You might as well have a picture of Rush tatooed on your tush. Reverting to such an inane, low-information insult says far more about you than you want it to.
On Florida kindergarten teacher suspended for allowing class to vote on kicking out student
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Posted on December 2 at 3:52 a.m.
“As far as what you kind of read on the memo in terms of us not providing the time and materials and wanting the $910,000, we are just confirming to the city that our estimate is not that far off base from what the time and materials will be, that it actually ended up being really close to what the actual cost was,” Tew said."
She really wrote that?
Her bad, indeed.
On Outsourcing of Bonita Springs’ community development office causing friction