{"id":20548,"date":"2011-03-24T23:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/unblogged-bits-thu-24-mar-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-03-24T23:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T05:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-24-mar-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/unblogged-bits-thu-24-mar-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 24-Mar-11 2330)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/s55d-eqIvjA\/land-america-didnt-realize-how-good-we-had-it-under-george-w-bush\">Land: America Didn&#8217;t Realize How Good We Had It Under George W. Bush<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s zany!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/-acPx56-umw\/why-does-it-take-so-long-to-fire-a-bad-teache\">Why Does It Take So Long to Fire a Bad Teacher? &#8211; PrincipalsPage&#8217;s Posterous<\/a> &#8211; And, yes, that seems unreasonable and counter-productive. But I can guarantee you that at least half the steps there are due to abuses by school boards, pols, or principals.  That&#8217;s the way this sort of dynamic works.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/-cXA3bX_qBs\/there-are-good-people-in-the-world\">There Are GOOD People in the World. &#8211; PrincipalsPage&#8217;s Posterous<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/3Zu3ccVYPmI\/\">Smaller government, smaller dreams, smaller people<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;We seem to have become a small-minded people obsessed with smaller government, smaller visions, smaller aspirations \u2014 a crimped, cramped people from whom it seems unimaginable to expect or ask for this kind of hard work and investment and long-term foresight.&#8221; I do fear our country is well-down the road of decline, for just this sort of reason: we are now more interested in NOT investing, NOT spending, NOT doing anything that inconveniences or costs any money or doesn&#8217;t immediately add to someone&#8217;s profit &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Land: America Didn&#8217;t Realize How Good We Had It Under George W. Bush &#8211; It&#8217;s zany! Why Does It Take So Long to Fire a Bad Teacher? &#8211; PrincipalsPage&#8217;s Posterous &#8211; And, yes, that seems unreasonable and counter-productive. 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