Wow! It was a blast! Randy Montana is the best, i really had fun during his tour here in detroit. I'm looking forward on seeing his one of his concerts again! Thanks for posting this schedule, 70-455 // 70-529 // 77-882 // mb2-634 // mb2-867 // 70-175 // 70-225 // 70-296 //

Isn't that just special, the social and economic processes are unfolding just the way 1%ers like the Kochs have planned. Trickle down economics with its facilitation of a massive shift of wealth to the very top has helped enable them to purchase the Supreme Court along some state governors.

What a coincidence, suddenly state governments are in the red not because of tax loopholes for the rich, corporations paying zero in taxes, states cutting taxes on the wealthiest, or the Kochs getting their unfunded Bush tax cuts, or because Wall Street banks looted America, or even because of the unfunded wars, which all crashed the economy......they're in the red because teachers with their unions have gained excessively generous pay and benefits. Yep that's what did those damn unions.....I guess there's nothing excessive about the top 400 having more wealth than 1/2 the population combined! Keep the rabble uneducated and they'll buy into anything. Hell, they might even believe that the hit and run looting of the workforce by guys like Romney is a form of job creation and should be rewarded with an office in the White House.

The future of young Americans depends on how many of the American 99%ers take to the streets to OCCUPY and EXPOSE the right wing, CONSERVATIVE, "unregulated," capitalist, agenda.

There are all kinds of ways to occupy. Interesting project at link accomplishes two things: 1) shows that the faces of occupy are different and more diverse than the stereotypes shown in MSM amid tear gas and smoke, and 2) that peaceful protest through art can be effective and powerful.

Visit http://insideoutoccupyoakland.wordpress.com/ and read the statements under the portraits or visit the kickstarter version: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/insideoutoccupy/inside-out-occupy-oa...

I am pondering this point a lot this weekend: People like Thom Hartmann are hardly able to educate uneducated majorities. The entirely uneducated don't listen to our entirely different world. An educated mind can hardly socialize with those simple minds. We speak a different language and live in a different world. I'm even afraid of this simple-minded brutality of thinking. It's gross and you wanna run away.

I also watched some nasty stuff I had never seen before, on YouTube: Godzilla, War of the Worlds (three-legged fighting machines -- how bizarre, insanely senseless stuff!). So this stuff crapped peoples brains for decades, made any who gets addicted to it an idiot! So now I have an idea what's going on on many people's minds.....

A group of adolescents can be very disturbing to a teacher, even in high-school. If you have to educate kids of uneducated families it gets tougher still. I couldn't do that, frankly. This is why I was flat-out depressed, after getting Thom Hartmann's Friday blog-question. Educate America is my favorite topic! Though suddenly I was unable to write a comment. The robots helped me out: Although I was never much interested in science fiction stuff, I fell for sort of star wars creature. I think he could be able to do the beastly job to educate the entirely uneducated......

I come to the conclusion, these robots might be able to help: They are able to handle simple-minded brutality, although extremely smart and highly educated. Simple people love Star Wars stuff and are supposed to like communicating with those robots.... who then could kinda sneak education into them. Modern communication robots do have a therapeutic effect indeed, as I read.

http://pleasant-robot-guy.wow

The point is, you can't change the program on a human teacher's brain so soon. But you can change his mind at any time and in almost no time. You can improve his skills as a teacher constantly and make him extremely effective. As you can make him able to bridge the gaps between low-educated and the highly intelectual world. An army of these guys could easily communicate with lonesome kids of so-called red-necks. This is extremely difficult for average educated humans -- these robots do it easily, for they're emotionally not vulnerable.

And the reason you give that gay bashing heterosupremacist tyrannical theocRAT a free bully pulpit is because you actually do not care if LGBT children are gay bashed in school, or if LGBT Americans are killed on the streets. You actually think there are TWO sides to equality and human rights. You would only give that gay basher a free bully pulpit if you thought the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual and intersex human beings was debatable. You so-called liberals make me sick. You are as dangerous as Maggot GalliSlut because you give her gay bashing bullshit credibility. The blood of gay bashed children is on YOUR hands.

We are in trouble in education primarily because the government is involved in setting up educational policy and controling the schools and teachers. Schools need to be run by the educators, not administrative bureaucrats taking orders from people not involved with children at all. The educators are the ones who are the professionals and the great majority of them are doing it because they love the children and want to see them learn and grow. Of course most of our educators have also gone thru the governmentally controlled system that has created this mess; so it is hard for them to think for themselves. Because governments aren't interested in truly educating people into creativity and freedom, and by that I mean becoming human beings who out of their own selves take responsibility for their lives and actions and give meaning to their existance. Governments seem to primarily set their policies based upon economic considerations (and how to make citizens they can control and manipulate): what does "industry" need, what kind of jobs are we preparing them for. Do we need scientists right now? engineers? computer programers? You get the picture. Government mandated public education was originally set up on the "factory" model, to prepare workers who would be willing to perform tasks over and over again and not complain (too much), who would somehow be content to be the pawns for industrial civilization. We need be educating them to become whole Human Beings, creative beings, who can do anything that's needed, who can think for themselves, solve problems that haven't even been seen or thought of yet. Everyone in the field of education knows that we don't have any idea what will be needed in 5 years, let alone 10 or 20. The jobs that are needed now, were not even in existance a few years ago.

Education's root word is educare, which means to draw out from within. Only the "Waldorf" educational philosophy and methods truly recognizes that every human being comes into incarnation to bring their gift to the world and it is our job as educators to help remove any hindrances and to help bring them forth in joy and excitement, to help them learn to love the world, to know it as a whole, to feel and know the great sweep of human history and evolution, to sense the ideals that have led us forward, to love people and what needs to be done; to educate them thru goodness, beauty and truth. All the research into the results of educational systems points to "Waldorf" being superior in every way, with where the graduates go, their success in college and in their career choices and their personal fulfillment with their lives.

Testing is the furthest thing from education imaginable. Maybe it has a place at the end of 6th grade, 8th grade and graduation; but it is not education. Teachers if allowed, will know their students and be working to help each one as they need. In elementary Waldorf, the teacher stays with the same students for possibly up to 8 years, thus really knowing them, so that they can truly serve their unfolding. Yes, the students will have plenty of ways to show what they've learned; but just "facts" are dead. It's like feeding them stones for bread and expecting them to regurgitate it. Truth is a living reality and is deeply connected to goodness or health, which is connected to wholeness; which is what the world needs now is for us to serve the whole. This whole industrial civilization, that basically enslaves most of humanity and destroys the earth, needs to be completely turned around. We need free thinking, creative human beings to meet these challenges. We will somehow do it; but right now our educational system serves death instead of life.

We need to get government out of education. Government is about "rights", protecting our freedoms, protecting us from force and fraud. Education is about culture and developing whole, healthy, free and creative human beings. Economics is about serving human needs. Liberty or Freedom in the cultural/educational sphere, Equality (before the Law) in the Rights of Governmental sphere, and Fraternity or Brother/Sisterhood in the Economic sphere. As you can see it's all messed up everywhere right now.

Get someone on your program Thom, who can speak well about this. There's several people in NYC or up in Columbia County NY who can speak well on this. Gary Lamb? or contact the Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento or for that matter there's a Waldorf School in Washington DC and one in Baltimore and one in NYC, close to 200 around the country. In fact they are all over the place. Out here in California there are even quite a few Charter Waldorf Schools, though in that there is some compromise with government interference. Never-the-less a noble effort.

Ma. has too. What the dishonest Bush administration never told the gullible masses was that No Child Left Behind was unfunded, an unrealistic pie in the sky. Now Ma. has the opportunity to fund realizable goals.

I think the public schools are in trouble because of several problems. First when I went to school in the 50s (oh lordy) the teachers were so dedicated and happy to have a civil service job that provided security. They were also from the best and the brightest in their class. Many women, not seeing a career in business were content to become the school teacher. These people were not so much about having a job but having a passion. With the opening up of higher paying jobs for women the best and brightest are seeking work elsewhere. There have also been terrific cultural changes over the years too which has produced a very laid back attitude toward the importance of schooling for the masses. We used to be glad to go back in September with polished shoes, starched dresses, and shirts with a pride of appearance. You only have to see kids coming from schools these days to see the idea of cool is to look as disheveled as possible. Look to see who the suppliers are for torn jeans with rag bottoms and the tees with some outrageous sayings and pictures. The girls have black nail and blue lipstick. Their grammar is awful and their vocabulary is lacking. Just go on any You Tube sight and look at the kind of language is used. The worst filth you can imagine. These are the things that are driving anyone who can afford it to the private sector for education. Those schools are very choosy about who they admit and have not worry about telling a parent that they do not want their child back next year. I sort of get rid of the riff raff. The public schools on the other hand have to talk all comers and the worse the schools get the more of the dregs they get. It takes a leader in each and every school to enforce a dress code if there is no uniform Never mind the kids hate uniforms. The high end stores hate them too because they cannot push their tacky products on millions of kids anymore. I don't believe students should be beaten in school but the fear of a ruler slap on the palm of your hand certainly helped keep us all paying attention.

Most of all we need smaller and not larger school. Teachers need to know their students and the parents. We keep building bigger schools with gyms, pool, football fields, and every other perk you can think of which has nothing at all to do with learning. More homework, much more required reading and maybe even ethics would come in handy. We don't need to be providing the media with football players we need scientists, engineers, doctors, and all kinds of professional people.

Don't mind me, I guess I am just an old fuddy duddy but it's hard to believe all the wonderful scholars who came out of log cabin schools.

Look at this video and you all tell me what type of a President we had recently:

http://youtu.be/dlV18GmkHyY

If it is the purpose is to open up the airspace to remote flight, then the bill must have included "no cameras" on those domestic flights.

Probably in the fine print, right?

"We the People" was ACTUALLY "We the 1%" since 1776!!!! What do you EXPECT from a system SET UP by the 1%????

Don't believe me? Name 1 President in the last 200+ years that wasn't a famous military officer, mega-landowner and/or lawyer (if not all 3)

When a homeless person becomes President, THEN I'll believe that "anyone can become President"!!!

We need a no-nonsense national industrial policy that takes the best "Best Practices" from Germany and adopts them for our combined benefit. It galls me that my state is importing steel from China for the [San Francisco] Bay Bridge. Heck, yes, the steel's probably cheaper. But I want decision makers who are tough-minded enough to figure out how to employ U.S. steelworkers without busting the budget. And please don't tell me it can'y be done ! And then to listen to a Democratic Representative ask why INDIA steel pipe will be imported, sent to Arkansas to be finished, and then installed on the Canadian tar-sands-to-Gulf-Coast pipeline, galls me even more. Bernie is RIGHT: We need to DEMAND that Congress start protecting AMERICAN jobs.