Jon seems to be spot on. Serious question here… what IS Sarah Palin on? Her teleprompter supposedly broke. Didn’t she used to make fun of President Obama for depending on a teleprompter? Just asking…
I am always speechless after these things. Rick Perry sounded the most intelligent. Should I be scared?
Bring on the clowns. To quote that intellectual giant, Sarah Palin: We be bold!
Prince William County could have “a fundamentally different school system” if a proposal to hold real-estate tax bills at the rate of inflation is approved, a move that could trigger up to $20 million in cuts next school year, School Board Chairman Milt Johns says.
The school board won’t discuss particulars until Feb. 4, but to brace for what Johns calls an “unplanned and dramatic revenue cut,” he’s asking board members to consider discretionary spending cuts to absorb a loss of about $11 million in expected revenue. At the same time, he wants to maintain a planned pay scale “step increase” for teachers, costing about $8 million, and a $1 million plan to reduce class sizes in one grade level.
Johns is asking the board to find savings in three areas: full-day kindergarten programs at non-Title I schools; bus service to middle and high school specialty programs and construction and renovation projects planned to begin in fiscal year 2016.
None are cuts Johns would advise, but they are the few large-ticket items that can be reduced to find significant savings in the division’s budget.
I have a plan. PWC needs to stop going on the cheap. They attempt it again and again. That’s how we get in these pickles to start with. There cannot be a supervisors meeting without Pete Candland piping up and trying to “reform” us. In December, he proposed to disregard the 5 year plan and hold revenue increases to 1.3%. As it stands, the budget guidance is once again going on the cheap.
Pete and his sidekick are only 2 people. Why did three other irresponsible people chose to support cheap again? I don’t like paying taxes either. In a perfect world. I would get really good services for nothing. As it turns out, that isn’t how things work. If I want decent services commensurate with Northern Virginia standards, I am going to have to cough up some money.
School head Matt Glendinning announces that Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island is closed because of inclement weather.
I think that Principal Glendinning has missed his calling. He seems too talented to be doing the BS that principals have to contend with.
Any takers? Are any of the local principals this talented? I will publish if we have any takers.
The facts are, wrote Hannah Arendt in 1946, “that six million Jews, six million human beings, were helplessly, and in most cases unsuspectingly, dragged to their deaths”. Human history, she added, “has known no story more difficult to tell”. In the years since those facts first became known, the story of the Holocaust has been told and retold, yet it still remains obdurately difficult to tell.
Scholarly inquiry, the search for causation, the most meticulous reconstruction, the grave questions of theologians and of thinkers like Arendt herself, the wrenching accounts of survivors, the discovered testimony of victims like Anne Frank – it all goes only so far. The unknowability of the Holocaust was famously, if inadvertently, expressed by the guard at Auschwitz who curtly told Primo Levi: “There is no why here.” We cannot in the end explain the Holocaust: it is beyond explanation.
The converse is not true. We cannot explain the Holocaust, yet, in large measure, it explains us. The Holocaust set the moral, ethical and geopolitical parameters within which the western world lives, influenced international institutions, sits balefully on the shoulders of writers and artists, and is never entirely absent from our minds.
