Various Sundry Subjects

   I notice several national columnists advocating doing away with the filibuster rule in the Senate – I seem to remember these same folks being ‘against’ changing the filibuster rule when the Republicans were in charge.  And they make their arguments with a straight face. Interesting.

   I am stunned at how much ‘news’ one can pick up via 140 characters. Shall we say ‘Breaking News’?  One can’t be on Twitter all day, although it seems some are, but when you open Twitter and just scan for abit, it truly is amazing what technology has brought.

   I was listening to Morning Joe the other day.  He is on this kick to umm, take meanness out of politics.  He then goes on to give examples of rhetoric he deemed to be inappropriate.  He referred to <the professional left>, and the <extreme right>.  Joe, words do mean things.  His choice of professional and extreme say it all in my book.

   The state of education in or nations schools is the latest ‘thing’.  I truly do hope the powers that be can come to a resolution and fix the problems in our schools.  In the end, I suspect ‘their’ answer will be to throw money at the issue.  My own belief is, unless and until they address the issue of the unions, they are, shall we say, swimming upstream. President Bush, in ‘his’ effort, “LET” Teddy write the bill named ‘No Child Left Behind’.  This was Bush’s effort at bipartisanship early on in his administration.  Bush of course is savaged for the failure of education reform.  More money is not always the answer.  Sometimes if the money comes after true reform, it does some good. 

   Anybody know what is happening regards the Ground Zero mosque?   Seems to have slipped away.  Either the news is moving too fast, or people have gotten their mileage out of this story.