Jamaica: A student who cannot spell 'cat'!(H.S. teacher exposes breathtaking extent of edu. crisis)

The Jamaica Gleaner ^ | November 24, 2005

[Slings and Arrows]

I think it's the Mark II Helen Thomas.

[NerdDad]

Please, at least assure me that it is incapable of reproduction.

[caryatid]

Jamaica's growing education crisis

1,476 MURDERS in Jamaica -
LAST YEAR'S DEATH FIGURE SURPASSED

~ While many of the residents of his battered and shattered city are living in shelters across the nation, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has been vacationing in Jamaica with his wife, Seletha, and three children, as private guests of Sandals chairman Gordon 'Butch' Stewart.

Mayor Nagin noted that Jamaica and New Orleans already share interests, particularly in the area of culture. "We both have unique characters, unique styles, wonderful food and, most importantly, wonderful people," he said. "The wonderful people you see when you go to Jamaica or New Orleans ... they make you feel welcome, they treat you like your brother or sister."

Hizzoner should feel right at home in Jamaica!

[Politicalmom]

Take heart. My nine year old and eleven year old just told me that if outside information is used, the source must be given. :) They also said it is wrong to present someone else's work as their own.

[Stoat]

Thanks very much...I'm wondering how much circulation your story about Nagin has gotten? I hadn't heard that one yet. It will probably be swept under the rug by the MSM as 'irrelevant to any issue' because Nagin is
1. Black

2. The Mayor of a city that is a perfect showpiece for the failure of liberal ideology, policy and culture.

3. A VERY liberal Dem, and so 'one of their tribe'.

I'm wondering if he may be a very distant relative of Marie Antoinette?

[caryatid]

New Orleans looking to strengthen relations with Jamaica: Nagin visits as private guest

This was posted by Ellesu on 11/21/2005. It came from jamaicaobserver.com and has probably gotten little or no play in the MSM.

For whatever, if anything, it is worth: Mayor Nagin was a Republican who changed his stripes er uh party registration in order to run for Mayor of New Orleans.

3. A VERY liberal Dem, and so 'one of their tribe'.

Hizzoner with one of the "Mardi Gras Indians"

[Sorry, I couldn't resist.]

[caryatid]

mom, I would be willing to bet that your nine and eleven year olds receive better training/education at home than they do at school.

[grey_whiskers]

According to humor columnist Dave Barry,

The German word for 'cat' is
einfuhrungaltfriesischenspraakuntworterbuchgegenwart.

So maybe this isn't a problem after all :-)

[Stoat]

ROTFLMAO!! Oh Lawd......

Thanks again. Republicans are served best when Leftists like Nagin develop a modicum of honesty and leave the party for the Socialists / Dems where they rightfully belong, rather than corrupting the Republican Party from within by their presence.

I appreciate your references and link....thank GOD for the internet, without which things like this would forever remain a secret.

[Slings and Arrows]

I don't know it that well, and have no desire to do so.

[quantim]

Jamaica has never been a particularly good place to live,

But at least it WAS a nice place to visit a generation ago.

Ah, the 70's, the beaches, the Jamaican rum....

[Stoat]

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