Today’s picture has nothing to do with the rest of this report. I needed to make a positive statement today, the start of a new week, a macro-re-birth, a new slate. I took the it from the back of a French-built trainer at Springfield Air Rendezvous 2006 during a VIP/volunteer flight (Thank you again, KC). [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Doing My Way Out
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Cutting Back
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The April 28 Time included an insightful essay by David von Drehle which packs a real wallop dollop of reality I recommend to poets, perverts and the family and friends who shape their lives. He states at the start, “We should stop explaining killers on their terms. It’s not about guns or culture. It’s narcissism. [...]
Troop Withdrawal Deadline: the Con
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If #43 wanted to throw Democratic politics into a Keystone Cop antic which would draw attention from his two and a half terms of insidious deception, he and the rest of his coven would bring 3,000 troops home as soon as charter carrier contracts could be arranged for their transport. Politicians and news media are [...]
MS-tical Franklin
Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
My love life skipped three about years between Blackhawk School and Ben Franklin Junior High, what is now known as Franklin Middle School. Though I had a major crush on Linda Walden in 5th and 6th Grades at Blackhawk, I was almost totally distracted by schoolwork and airplanes at Franklin until half-way through 9th Grade [...]
Fox 55. . Rhymes With Sux 55
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t observe the woeful dimunition of East Side language skills, based on a higher collective norm in the United Snakes of America without noting, to my profound regret the pathetic parallel on WRSP Fox Channel 55’s 9:00 pm news Sunday night.
It was a syndicate-fed story about how presidential hopefuls stayed off the campaign trail [...]
Up Periscope: Sub T’ Ramble #5
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you didn’t read UPSTR#4, that’s okay. No need to back track. Suffice to say here that I was bemoaning the lack of incentives substitute teachers have to encourage students they encounter for (typically) one day in their lifetimes to settle into the program groove and focus on the words “belched to the wind” (as [...]
Up Periscope: Sub Teacher Ramble #4
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Did you gnow (the “g” is silent, as in know) a substitute teacher is entitled to work only 90 days in the nine-month school year for Springfield School District 186? Subs may work morer days if they sign up with school districts beyond Springfield and with parochial schools. I figure if a teacher can afford [...]
How Imus Could Have Beaten the Rap
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
. . . . no pun intended.
Pictured here: Sluch Dog – Springfield resident, and polemical satarist
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You’d think broadcasters would have spotted the pot hole on the rainbowed high trail to white crinoline civil tonguery by now, but they have not, so it’s up to me to share it with you. I was all set to [...]
The Old Camp Ground
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been tenting tonight on the old camp ground.
Give us a song to cheer
Our weary hearts, a song of old
And the friends we loved so dear.
Many are the hearts that are weary tonight.
Wishing for the war to cease.
Many are the hearts that are wishing for the right,
To see the dawn of peace.
W’ve been tenting tonight [...]
So she say, “I ain’t TAHkina YOU!”
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
DATELINE: classroom Friday:
From my desk 25 feet away, I heard her say, “He ain’t no ree teachyanyway.” and I replied in a voice the whole class could hear as I continued to focus my face on the lesson plan I was reading silently up to then,”I beg to differ, miss. If I weren’t a [...]
