Results of the class survey

I took a survey within our 8th grade class of 21 people (one refused to participate, making the math easy). Here are the results:

32% Capitalist
22% Democracy
18% Anarchy
9% Totalitarian (don't ask me how that happened)
5% Socialist
5% Deserve to be in an asylum (seriously, that's what he said)
2% Communist

Okay, so 5% is one person. People who checked one thing got their alloted 5% devided up evenly. This is the information I gave them:

Capitalism-$Do your own thing$
Democracy-Power to the people!
Socialist-Share everything, live simply, and save some trees while you're at it!
Communism-Equality! But the government owns it all.
Totalitarianism-King makes the rules. What? You don't like the king? You die.
Anarchy-Who needs a government?

What are you?

More about Alaska...

I won't pretend to know what I'm talking about when I talk about where to find oil, how ot drill for it, and more importantly, how and when we know it's running out. So I won't talk about that, or at least not really.

When we run out of oil (like I said, I don't know how we'll know, but we WILL find out), if it goes slowly or suddenly, we will have a crisis. We will turn to Alaska, ESPECIALLY if the current president is still in office. Once the supposed oil is gone from there, we will have gone from bad to worse, from having no oil to having no oil AND a messed up National Park (or whatever it is).

So, my children, what is the logical solution?

Al-gebra

AT NEW YORK's Kennedy airport today, an unidentified individual - later
discovered to be a public school teacher - was arrested trying to board a
flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a slide rule, and a
calculator. At a morning press conference, the U. S. Attorney General
disclosed that he believes the man to be a member of the notorious al-gebra
movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math
instruction

"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," he declared. "They seek average solutions by
means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute
value. They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves
as 'unknowns,' but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of
the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek
philanderer Isosceles used to argue, there are three sides to every
triangle."

When asked to comment on the arrest, the President stated, "If God had
wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us
more fingers and toes. I am gratified that our government has shown us a
sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs, who are
willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love
to inflict plane on every sphere of influence. Under the circumferences, we
must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line."

The President warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the potential
to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen, unless
we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor in random facts of
vertex."

The Attorney General concluded, "As our Great Leader would say, read my
ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertain of: though they continue to
multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens."

In Lieu of Standardized Testing

This is in "honour" of all the standardized tests that children our doing now. To test the teachers. Whatever they say, just please comment with any standardized testing acronyms for states that you may know. I will post them here! These are the ones I know:

Indiana-I-STEP, me

Massachusetts-M-CAS, me

About Gas...

As you have probably noticed, Gas prices are drastically raising, with the rigs and such closed down after Katrina. So what does our president do? He opens up "rainy day" stores of gas. Instead of letting everyone see what it will be like later as we are running out of gas. Yes, I would have made a VERY unpopular chief executive.
So, as newspapers are now saying, "The question is not if we are to run out of gas but when." Estupidos! We all knew that from the beginning! Anyways, that phrase, "not if but when" can now be applied to a subsequent topic: Drilling in Alaska. Unless some drastic changes happen to our country (i.e. impeach bush and/or somehow get LOTS of people that we need to use less oil, not find more), eventually, especially if in the next 4 years, we get low on oil, we will turn to the "oil" in Alaska. In the "nationally protected" wildlife preserve in Alaska.

Converted

I am no a new convert- to the Impeach Bush m"movement", I suppose you could call it.

"President Bush has totally and utterly failed the American people. Almost every day we are presented with further proof why he should not be our president. From 9/11, to WMDs, to Iraq, to Katrina-- the reasons are many and obvious. We need to impeach him NOW."-From The Bulldog Manifesto

"Here's something very interesting. Did you know that:

More than four in 10 Americans, according to a recent Zogby poll, say that if President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment.

But you wouldn't know it from following the news. Only three mainstream outlets that I can find made even cursory mention of the poll last week when it came out.

And the Right accuses the media of a liberal bias. Give me a break. If the media really had a liberal bias, this would be front page news."- From the Martian Anthropologist

Personally, I think that the Martian Anthropologist's is better, so if you are interested, you should read that one.

*Note-- Just because I support some of their political viewpoints does not mean that I support all of their viewpoints*


Also--No, I can't write my own stuff anymore, I just read everybody else's bigger, better blog posts and post them here.

More Quotes!

This one I made up, though.
"Sometimes taking the band-aid off hurts wose than the cut."
I think that this could be applied to many situations, especially to ones dealing with political correctness.
But evrything cuts two ways. If an infection was prevented, then the band aid was worth it.

Cool quote from Poe

"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser."
-Poe, The Cask of Amontillado