Meme busters

[dogtowner]

Obama 2012 claims Romney's tenure in MASS ranked 47th among the states in job growth.

In reality (gleaned from the Bureau if Labor and Statistics)
When Romney took office in 2003 Massachusetts ranked 51st (including DC) in job growth. Romney left office in December of 2006. At that time Massachusetts ranked 30th. Only five states did better during that time. The unemployment rate dropped during Romney’s tenure.

feel free to add examples as you see fit

 

[Cruella]

I was just doing a search on Romney's 2002 Olympic Games turn-around. But because of these damned commie leaning search engines, all I can find are liberal publications dissing what he accomplished there.

I am so sick and tired of the fifth column (or 4th estate) running this country.

 

[dogtowner]

I was just doing a search on Romney's 2002 Olympic Games turn-around. But because of these damned commie leaning search engines, all I can find are liberal publications dissing what he accomplished there.

I am so sick and tired of the fifth column (or 4th estate) running this country.

yes doesn't help that Google is very biased. there are other search engines that don't filter. Olympics was practically a miracle to pull out. I remember it.

 

[Dr.Who]

yes doesn't help that Google is very biased. there are other search engines that don't filter. Olympics was practically a miracle to pull out. I remember it.

I use alta vista for most of my searches. They may or may not be baised too but at least i am avoiding Google much of the time.

 

[dogtowner]

I use alta vista for most of my searches. They may or may not be baised too but at least i am avoiding Google much of the time.

not near as bad. used to have one that filtered nothing. got back a boatload of hits on everyhting though.

 

[Cruella]

I've been using Bing, but they seem to be as bad, if not worse, than google.

 

[dogtowner]

you know all those teachers BO is crying about getting axed ? Newsbusters tells us

A regular media meme, especially since Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's comments regarding public sector employees last week, has been that there just aren't enough school teachers in America.
Such statements ignore that according to the Census Bureau, since 1960, the average class size in our public schools has declined by 40 percent as the number of teachers rose almost four times faster than the student population.

In 1960, there were 1.4 million public school teachers educating 36.3 million primary and secondary students. This represented a ratio of one teacher per 25.8 pupils.
In 2009, there were 3.2 million teachers - a 129 percent rise - educating 49.3 million students - a 36 percent rise. This represented a ratio of one teacher per 15.6 students.
You read that correctly: despite all the media carping and whining, average class size in this country has dropped by over ten students or 40 percent in the last 50 years.

 

[Cruella]

The schools around here have 25+ students per class. I'm wondering if a lot of those teachers aren't special ed types that don't have their own classrooms and are usually part time like substitute teachers.

I recently read an article about some European schools going back to the traditional way of teaching the three R's. Guess their liberal progressive way isn't working out too well.

 

[dogtowner]

The schools around here have 25+ students per class. I'm wondering if a lot of those teachers aren't special ed types that don't have their own classrooms and are usually part time like substitute teachers.

I recently read an article about some European schools going back to the traditional way of teaching the three R's. Guess their liberal progressive way isn't working out too well.

yes special ed does skew the numbers (around here they are not part time, some of the aids are but a number of them are volunteers as was my kid who worked with autistic kids this past year). But it really doesn't change the fact that we're not bleeding the schools dry much less that the addition has made the difference it was billed to have had.

 

[Cruella]

Smaller school districts seem to do a better job of educating. The Los Angeles city schools are a disaster. The district is way to big and ran by idiot liberals. But it's the kids who suffer and so does our society at large. When will they ever get a clue? It's not brain surgery.

 

[dogtowner]

Smaller school districts seem to do a better job of educating. The Los Angeles city schools are a disaster. The district is way to big and ran by idiot liberals. But it's the kids who suffer and so does our society at large. When will they ever get a clue? It's not brain surgery.

its kids with parents that do well. just sayin...

 

[Cruella]

its kids with parents that do well. just sayin...

Oh I agree, but smaller districts, even with parents who aren't clued in, the kids do better than their inner-city peers. There is a culture in the inner-cities that smaller districts don't seem to have to contend with.

 

[dogtowner]

Oh I agree, but smaller districts, even with parents who aren't clued in, the kids do better than their inner-city peers. There is a culture in the inner-cities that smaller districts don't seem to have to contend with.

right, kids have parentS in less urban areas, parenT in the more urban ones.
as I pointed out to my kid some years back after being rung up by an overly inner city lingo-ed, tattooed sales clerk "this is what you become when you ignore school". graduated in the top 10% last week.