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Texas Education Agency Takes On Math

Monday, March 15, 2010

In a move that hardly surprised anyone the Texas Education Agency, or TEA, has moved on from Social Studies and taken on the subject of arithmetic and determined what Texas students will learn over the next 10 years. Some points from the discussion: Image via Wikipedia TEA members have declared multiplication “bullshit”.  One board member [...]

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The Power of the Vice Presidency

Monday, January 26, 2009

Having heard part one of this on NPR‘s All Thing Considered and now having listened to it again and the recently found part two I couldn’t help but pass it on. Part 1 Image via Wikipedia Part 2 It really points to something that I think I always knew in the back of my mind [...]

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Capitalism’s Place In America

Sunday, January 25, 2009

We live in a time where it seems that corporations have more rights, and certainly more social help, than humans do in the United States. While social security, welfare, unemployment benefits, and food stamps do little to actually help the public in need Corporate America is being spoon-fed caviar at the tax payer expense. I [...]

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It’s a trap!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Uncle Jubba here to bitch about the auto companies. Something doesn’t smell right. Let’s forget for a moment that they basically screwed themselves with a rubber hose by falling asleep at the wheel (har dee har har) and not innovating or at the very least keeping pace with foreign auto makers. Let’s forget what the [...]

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Joe the “unlicensed, tax-evading” Plummer

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Apparently our friend “Joe the Plummer” doesn’t feel the need to prove he can actually turn a wrench or lay pipe as reported by MSNBC. While he may be absolutely correct that because he is just an employee he doesn’t need a license (I don’t have the time, nor do I care to spend the [...]

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MILF?

Friday, August 29, 2008

So McCain pulled out a surprise VP pick in Sarah Palin and while I probably don’t agree with a thing she says at least when I am tuning her out I have something to look at. In all seriousness though, as I stated to my wife, America needs to pay extra special attention to McCain’s [...]

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A HOWTO On Voting By Uncle Jubba

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

For all of you out there who went to the polls and are wondering how Uncle Jubba picks the winners here is how it goes. First off, in general on any given ballot there are only 2-5 things which you are probably really even going to care about. For those 2-5 items I do my [...]

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