While it sucks that schools are so dependent on state tests to supposedly prove that children are learning, public schools nonetheless sink or swim in the eyes of state & federal bureaucrats based on those tests. So in order to prepare for the standardized tests -- which are in English -- WHAT THE HELL ELSE WAS THAT PRINCIPAL SUPPOSED TO DO, ENCOURAGE THE SPEAKING OF A NON-TEST-RELATED LANGUAGE? Eeesh.
It’s worth noting that the headline is intentionally a tongue-in-cheek attention getter; the article, however, is straight-up journalistic coverage of how your money is being spent by the administration — and past administrations — around the globe.
As I’ve explained before, WND does not pay me per hit; I am a freelance journalist that sells my articles and I receive the same compensation regardless of whether a particular report gets six or 6,000 hits. Additionally, FreeRepublic itself actually blocks posters from uploading more than an excerpt from WND.com, as it respects WND’s rightful embrace of protections that copyright law offers.
Best wishes, humblegummybear. Please see my latest WND article — or should I say excerpt and link — which I am about to post right now.
If you can shed light on what is wrong with me providing FR with easy access to articles that clearly are of interest to its readers — an interests that I base on the responses of everyone except for, well, just you — I’d like to hear it. A logical explanation is welcome.
A liberal acquaintance of mine responded to my article with these words: “Oh yeah? Well, look how much Bush and his cronies wasted in Iraq!” Ah, yes; liberal logic. Bush wasted more in Iraq, so reporting on an admittedly smaller waste of taxpayer dollars therefore is not worthy of being reported to concerned taxpayers. Hmm.