Some suggest the Beagle has been light on actual news and information lately.
Item: A Thirsk, North Yorkshire family got wee Wellington boots to put on its little pig because the poor dear had an aversion to muck and mire and now he is more of a pet (for the time being) than proto-sausage. But should the media lose interest, watch your local links for "Cinders."
Item: A border dispute has more than a thousand Cambodian and Thai soldiers standing off near Preah Vihear Temple.
Item: Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich have joined forces to scapegoat the teachers unions for the quality of education instead of addressing family involvement, small classes, competitive salaries for teachers, and the kind of child development programs that have made America strong for the past century. They're for merit pay and vouchers and other stupid things that don't work. Couldn't they both go away? Far, far away?
I was gonna make a comment around, Wouldn't it be nice if we (people enduring the politicization of EVERYTHING, including but not limited to public education in the US) could adopt some variation of the suggestion that: Rather than continue arguing endlessly about which country (whatever) owns the disputed area, a much better approach would be for both countries (fill in the blank) to immediately agree that it (policy - any subject) is something akin to an ''international peace park,'' (well, okay, that's a stretch) with neither side claiming ''sovereignty''.
ReplyDeleteGuess not....but here here to the Bugle's obviously biased report.
P.S. I'm a bit rusty (like my DOD)on how to make blog comments. I was referring of course to the insane idea put forth in the article on Thailand's dispute with Cambodia over temples and borders and arguing. Thailand and Cambodia are always on about that stuff...but you knew what I was talking about. Just wanted to clarify that I had some grasp (however tenuous) on what I was talking about.
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