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Yo soy Madridista. Yo he llorado por el Real Madrid. Me siento en el Real Madrid. Yo vivo en el Real Madrid. Yo tengo un corazón blanco. En las buenas y mas aun en las malas. Yo sé que mi equipo nunca se rinde. Yo sé que nosotros volveremos. Me siento orgulloso de ser Madridista. ¿y tú?
After seeing the Mother Jones posting that links to Glen Beck calling him “the aggressor” (among other things I can’t bare to type right now) I had this thought… If Trayvon were a little white girl, we’d have Trayvon’s Law by now. By now. Three weeks later. True story. At least…
there’s also Nixzmary’s Law
So we know that the cop who investigated the Trayvon Martin murder has a history of racial problems. We know that one of the cops changed a witness’s testimony. We know that Zimmerman fired a warning shot and Martin begged for his life. We know that the police lied about…
omfg
oh my fuckig god
I CAN’T
omg. this tweet cannot be serious. can it?
Badass.
can we talk about how ADORABLE that baby is and how cute her little dress is :3
dead, gone, embalmed, cremated, ceasing to exist
crying
wow, fuck off bloombergMayor Bloomberg: I Would Cut The Number Of Teachers In Half
Mayor Bloomberg was apparently full of interesting things to say while talking at MIT this week. Not only did he refer to the NYPD as “my own army but he also apparently expressed a very, shall we say, interesting view on how he would fix the city’s schools in a perfect world: “If I had the ability to just design the system and say ex cathedra this is what we’re going to do you would cut the number of teachers in half and weed out all the bad ones.”
The man who once disastrously hired magazine executive Cathie Black to run the city’s schools and has failed in his attempts at merit-based layoffs then went on to explain that ”double the class size with a better teacher is a good deal for the students.”
Full quote: “Education is very much, I’ve always thought, just like the real estate business. Real estate business, there are three things that matter: location, location, location is the old joke. Well in education, it is: quality of teacher, quality of teacher, quality of teacher. And I would—if I had the ability, which nobody does really, to just design a system and say, ‘ex cathedra, this is what we’re going to do,’ you would cut the number of teachers in half, but you would double the compensation of them, and you would weed out all the bad ones and just have good teachers. And double the class size with a better teacher is a good deal for the students.”
Yes, teacher quality is important. You know how you improve teacher quality? Reducing class sizes (even the best teacher can’t keep a room of 40 little kids under control), increasing salaries to attract the best and brightest, oh and giving them some vague semblance of JOB SECURITY so that the best teachers will actually want to teach.
Fuck you, Bloomberg.
-Jess
The judge in his case has requested clemency, not least because he had inadequate legal representation which led to the suppression of mitigating factors in his case.
And again, for those who say that the death penalty in the United States is not about race—Derrick Mason is a…
