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Managing Our Expectations: What We Can and Can’t Learn from Innovations in Teacher Quality in Other Countries

American Enterprise Institute  "International comparisons are prevalent in the education reform debate, but this work often concentrates on celebrating culture-building in countries such as Finland and Singapore and encourages the replication in America of overseas models. This paper takes a distinctly different approach to investigating talent management practices internationally by examining practices in a wider range of countries such as China, The Netherlands, and Norway, among others, with a focus on how they are seeding, implementing, and evaluating their interventions. These case studies will seek to broaden our thinking about how innovation within America’s recruiting, training, hiring, evaluating, and teacher compensation systems can be encouraged."

Global Warming junk science and it's offspring

And now it's global COOLING! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year

"Some eminent scientists now believe the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century – a process that would expose computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming as dangerously misleading."
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"Some eminent scientists now believe the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century – a process that would expose computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming as dangerously misleading."

Alan Caruba; The Ethanol Debacle

"All this waste and stupidity comes from three decades of lies about global warming and the supposed need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The President continues to lie about global warming/climate change despite the fact that Earth has entered its seventeenth year of a cooling cycle. "

The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Social Engineering

Wall Street Journal subscriber article; Washington's 'Fair Housing' Assault on Local Zoning  "Our experience in Westchester shows what the country can expect from a new federal discrimination rule."

 

Thomas Sowell on Unintended Consequences   "Quite aside from the question of whose values and habits may be better is the question of the effects of people living cheek by jowl with other people who put very different values on noise, politeness, education and other things that make for good or bad relations between neighbors. People with children to protect are especially concerned about who lives next door or down the street.

"But such mundane matters often get brushed aside by ideological crusaders out to change the world to fit their own vision."

Rush Limbaugh  "...Okay, let's fast forward to today.  Social engineering is on the verge of being imposed on entire neighborhoods, adults and children alike.  I want to read a little paragraph here from a document about the Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD.  "The agency wants the power to dismantle local zoning so communities have what it considers the right mix of economic, racial and ethnic diversity. A finding of discriminatory behavior, or allegations of discrimination, would no longer be necessary.

".... HUD wants to be able to force people to move into certain neighborhoods so that there is racial, economic, and ethnic diversity in the neighborhood, not just bus kids to schools.  This is that times 10.  What this is, is nationalizing neighborhoods."

Obama's Plan to Eliminate Suburbs

The fruits of epic incompetence

Charles Krauthammer  "Take at face value Obama’s claim of authorship. Then why isn’t he taking ownership? Why isn’t he calling it the “U.S. proposal” and defining it? Why not issue a U.S. plan containing the precise demands, detailed timeline and threat of action should these conditions fail to be met?"
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"On Thursday, Assad repeated that demand, warning that without an American pledge not to attack and not to arm the rebels, his government would agree to nothing.
"This would abolish the very possibility of America tilting the order of battle in a Syrian war that Assad is now winning thanks to Russian arms, Iranian advisers and Lebanese Hezbollah shock troops. Putin thus assures the survival of his Syrian client and the continued ascendancy of the anti-Western Iranian bloc.

"And what does America get? Obama saves face."

Don't complain about Vladimir Putin's gloating. Our craven behaviour has left him in charge   "Because while Barack Obama's handling of the Syrian crisis has been startlingly inept, the fact is that Congress, by making clear it would not support him and cutting the President's legs off when he asked for backing, has created a world in which Vladimir Putin gets to run the show."

National Review Commentaries on Obama and Syria

In reading these columns by the esteemed people at National Review Online, we are struck by the common thread that this president and his counselors are, to a person, unqualified to run our nation's affairs.
While this material is a condemnation of the Obama administration's amateurism, it highlights the silliness of the American electorate. That and of the cultural rot that led to our selecting this petulant juvenile celebrity as our trophy president. TD

John Podhoretz; Feckless Obama embarrasses the nation
“ 'Thanks to Pres. Obama’s strength,” tweeted House Democratic honcho Nancy Pelosi, “we have a Russian proposal.” The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein tweeted, “Kind of amazed I’m saying this, but the White House may really be about to win on Syria.”
"Ah, yes, winning. Which is to say, being humiliated, acting weak, behaving in vacillatory fashion, making a mockery of your office, destroying your country’s credibility, making your own words look desperately foolish, and ceding foreign policy to the Machiavellian machinations of a gangster regime in Moscow."

 NRO Editors; Amateur Hour
...."This deal is the immediate, concrete expression of that loss, with Putin elevated, Assad more secure, and Obama humiliated."
...."American power is a fearsome thing. But the American presidency at the moment, occupied by a rank amateur, is not."

Victor Davis Hanson; Obama’s Farce
"No one currently in charge of U.S. foreign policy has any record of foreign-policy success. Those who might have offered wise counsel either are dead, have left the administration, or do not exercise authority — Crocker, Eikenberry, Gates, Holbrooke, Mattis, Petraeus."

Daniel Pipes; Forget Syria, Target Iran
"In this light, I recommend that Congress reject the sideshow proffered by the administration and instead pass a resolution endorsing and encouraging force against the Iranian nuclear infrastructure."

Rich Lowry; Unbelievably Small and Incredibly Unpersuasive
"If he’s not already, the president may soon wonder why, with the Syria vote, he built a pyre, threw his presidency on it, and asked Congress to decide whether to light a match. Considering the gravity of the possible defeat before him, any escape hatch can look attractive, even one provided by his secretary of state’s careless words."

 

Ex-Mossad chief: U.S. 'floundering' over Syria

"Russia’s proposal makes Assad’s ouster less likely, to Israel’s detriment, says Shabtai Shavit; attacks like 9/11 won’t recur, thanks to Western vigilance."
Times of Israel

"Shabtai Shavit, ... accused the administration of President Barack Obama of “floundering” over Syria. He noted witheringly that the US had “balked” at firing “half a dozen Tomahawk missiles” at the Syrian regime in the wake of the August 21 alleged chemical weapons attack by Assad, that the US says killed 1,429 Syrians.

        

"Replacing the Assad regime was a clear Israeli interest, he said, as it would significantly weaken Hezbollah, leaving Israel to confront Iran without its regional proxy."

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Echoing comments by Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday and by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, Shavit said that Israel will likely have to face the Iranian threat on its own.

"God is using Israel today as a measuring rod of the nations of the world; to judge the nations whether they will support or reject tiny Israel!  The prophet Joshua put it succinctly that God alone will fight for Israel:"  Joshua 23:9,10.
From Israel’s Role in the Endtimes

National September 11 Memorial & Museum

911memorial.org/

Museum 
   THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

 

   9/11: Events of the Day   

 ..."Marisa had already arrived to work at World Trade Center 1 when the plane hit the building and did not survive the attack.  A year later, Marisa’s heavily damaged and charred pocketbook was returned to her family."

More at the site. 

 

I also refer you to this TW post from one year ago: 9-11 Reading list

 

Esquire; The Falling Man   "Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day."

Muslims Against Crusades Celebrating September 11, 2001

Obama's Syria address to the nation flops

Thomas Lifson  It was all too obvious last night that the only reason President Obama gave his speech to the nation was that it would have been too embarrassing to cancel it. The result was inconsistent and unsatisfying at any level. (Transcript here) 
"Obama commandeered the nation's airwaves to call for a "diplomatic pause" in a Congressional vote he requested to affirm a military threat to enforce a red line he doesn't take responsibility for."
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"Faced with opponents uncowed by his race and beyond the reach of his media claque, Obama is discrediting liberalism and the Democrats. This may be a good lesson for the country -- if only the ship of state does not founder on the shoals as amateurs run its foreign policy."

Can you tell me this is not the creation of Jimmy Carter?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

Syrial Losers/ Getting Syrious

Ann Coulter   "Americans unsure what to think about President Obama's plans for Syria should remember that all military action undertaken by Democrats for the last half-century has led to utter disaster....."

"Democrats are gung-ho about deploying the U.S. military provided only that it will harm the national security interests of the United States, but vehemently oppose interventions that serve American interests."

 

...."By giving Islamic fanatics their first nation-state, Carter produced the global Islamofacist movement we're still dealing with today."....

...."The Iraq War turned every Middle Eastern despot into President Bush's bitch. But now Obama is their bitch.

"I know you liberals care more about free birth control than geopolitics, but if you keep electing Democrats, you'll be getting fitted for burqas, not IUDs."   (Emphasis added)

This next writer has had enough with this nation's political leadership and wants to see them out of this government.
Getting Syrious  "And it should be even more painfully obvious that, behind his putative "leadership," our manic lurching to and fro among all manner of unsavory social minefields and dangerous political and international adventurisms will never stop as long as he is on the scene." 
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The right course is to demand that the Congress snare this unhappy raptor, and impeach, convict, and remove him from his stupendously powerful official perch before he gets even crankier.  There is no shortage of outrages which more than justify this "unbelievably small" gesture of self-defense. 

Tunnel Dweller off line till Wednesday evening

We'll be watching for 9-11 stories that crop up, so please do check in. TD