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underrated Oklahoma

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“Oklahoma may well be the most underrated team in America after the Sooners won their 10th in a row Saturday, treating the Texas Aggies to the death of a thousand cuts 77-0.” – Mickey Herskowitz Yes, Oklahoma – voted unanimously number one in both the Associated Press and the USA Today polls – is underrated. … Read more

Importing Oil Into Iraq

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“Of the $1.6 billion the Corps of Engineers had allocated as of Oct. 17 to rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure, some $762.4 million had been spent to import fuel and repair Iraq’s fuel distribution network. Halliburton is permitted to earn a profit of anywhere from 2 to 7 percent on the cost of the assignment.” [source] … Read more

Blonde on Blonde

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Joal [sic] Ryan in this Puff Piece makes fun of Jessica Simpson for not knowing if the mainstream Americana food Chicken of the Sea is “chicken or fish”. Problem is, his subtitle is “Now who’s going to tell Jessica Simpson chocolate mousse is a vegetarian dish?”.  In actuality, Chocolate Mousse contains gelatin, and is therefore … Read more

Don’t sharpen your pencil in Katy

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Yet another example of a zero-tolerance policy, atempting to be moron-proof ending up being moronic. When will people learn that zero-tolerance is an idiotic thing to do? (“History never repeats, I tell myself before I go to sleep…”)

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2171872


Oct. 22, 2003, 12:26AM

No slack for pencil sharpener

Katy schools sued after girl disciplined

By HARVEY RICE
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

When she was growing up in South Korea, Sumi Lough says, she used the traditional pencil sharpener that all children there used: a 2-inch-long blade that folds into a small handle.

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Chron: ACP

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Sept. 23, 2003, 11:32AM

Good press for the ACP program in the Chron’s regional section of the paper.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/thisweek/zone10/news/2114763

Alternative certification draws ‘best teachers’

By BETTY L. MARTIN
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

Sometimes people don’t know what they want to be when they grow up until they’ve already grown. Then, if they’re lucky, a few find new careers in education were worth the wait.

So it was for Elsa Monsalve, music teacher at Crockett Elementary School, 2112 Crockett; Annette Sanchez-Mena, creator of the robotics program at Hogg Middle School, 1100 Merrill; Robert Pollock, principal at Looscan Elementary, 3800 Robertson; and Cliff Evans, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts orchestra director, 4001 Stanford.

The four are among approximately 800 teachers who have been hired through the Alternative Certification Program

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