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"Concocted by the same expert cadre that’s brought us every post-1970 education boondoggle, and resting on the same gross unfamiliarity with actual classrooms and students, the arbitrary, biased, technology-laden, assessment-obsessed Common Core is the creature of the Gates Foundation, with entities like the Pearson conglomerate sitting at Mr. Gates’s right hand. Pearson is the largest textbook and education software publisher in the world, as well as the world’s dominant education assessment contractor. Mr. Gates’s connection to the computer and software business is also a matter of public record."

"The Community Center for Education Results (CCER) was responsible for creating the proposal to collect an extensive amount of student data on our children. This pertains to Bill Gates’ desire to collect student information for each child in this country that can be accessed by those producing and profiting from products to be sold to school"

Many states? You offer 2 but fail to offer any citations?

At last check, Nevada's site has only signed up 531 people: http://www.foxreno.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/nevada-health-exchange-signups-790.shtml

Zero for Oregon: http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/11/11/oregon-health-care-exchange-has-yet-to-enroll-a-single-person/

We've got the Washington (state) exchange crashing during it's promotional tour: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Health-exchange-website-goes-down-during-road-tour-229571661.html

Never mind the issues of Washington's site with costing people their projected tax credit: http://washingtonstatewire.com/blog/rude-awakening-for-federal-way-woman-who-got-shout-out-from-president-cant-afford-obamacare-policy-after-all/#.Uoq1uZH1JMg.twitter

Zero plans sold during the first two weeks in Hawaii (due to issues): http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/10/10/hawaii-relaunching-obamacare-exchange-after-not-selling-any-health-insurance-due-to-software-problems/

Ditto in New York: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/white-house-deems-health-glitches-unacceptable-gop-calls-obamacare-doa-article-1.1491281

And Vermont: http://rutlandherald.com/article/20131031/OPINION04/710319973/0/OPINION

And that a month in, state exchanges had only reached 3% of their target: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/11/usa-healthcare-enrollment-idUSL2N0IW0XX20131111?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssHealthcareNews&rpc=22

Yes, such a great success.

While you are free to lament about my 'personal politics' into it... I'm sorry that you don't like being confronted with facts... or would you prefer I jump up and down and scream "We told you so, we tried to stop you, you didn't listen... now reap what you've sown!" ?

Na, your dismissiveness of the facts at hand is the truly juvenile part of this.

Not a bad idea, but the schedule may be kind of aggressive. It doesn't seem to allow a lot of time for dealing with problems.

I'm aware of at least one outdoor LED roll-out that hasn't been problem free. It's at the recently rebuilt (at a cost of $76,000,000) Crown Point Bridge over a narrow spot on Lake Champlain. It's not that big a deal since drivers crossing the bridge at night have their headlights on anyway. But similar problems in NYC would presumably earn some bad publicity and increase costs beyond what is expected.. Here are some links http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21643/20130320/why-don-apos-t-all-the-lake-champlain-bridge-lights-work http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20130628/THISJUSTIN/702149975

The problem apparently isn't the LEDs themselves. It's the circuits powering them.

Entergy is hundreds of millions of dollars behind in its decommissioning fund for Vermont Yankee, more now that they have contaminated the site so badly: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100201/NEWS02/2010362/1003/NEWS02 It is not cheap power, it is creative bookkeeping.

The leak was into groundwater. It was in no way harmless. From http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100210/NEWS02/2100351:

The Vermont Department of Health last month confirmed that the tritium contaminated water was reaching the Connecticut River, since one of the most polluted groundwater monitoring wells was about 15 to 20 feet from the river.

...

According to the Department of Health, there is a general increase in tritium contamination at the wells that do show the radioactive isotope.

The well that shows the highest level of contamination decreased a little on Tuesday, down from 2.52 million picocuries per liter to 2.4 million picocuries, according to the latest post from the Department of Health Tuesday afternoon.

The first well that showed contamination measured 39,000 picocuries, the next worst well measured 890,000 picocuries, and there were two other contaminated wells, one measuring 81,000 picocuries and another, 2,500 picocuries.

One well tripled in contamination in recent days, going from 6,900 to 23,000 picocuries per liter.

The federal standard for drinking water is 20,000 picocuries per liter.

Today a rowdy group of Vermont Yankee worker broke into a press conference being held by Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility to shout lies about renewable power: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100223/THISJUSTIN/100229968 Nuclear Hooligans.

The NRC has sent the projects section chief to Vermont Yankee in response to the toxic radioactive spill: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100112/NEWS04/1120359/1003/NEWS02 Also, the plant spokesman is clueless about former violations.

You can still go to Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, and Hotmail, and read your mail from those pages directly.

Apparently not.

Sixth paragraph of TFA:

AOL, Yahoo! and MSN subscribers will continue to have access to content but will no longer be able to access their e-mail through the third party Web site. Instead, Yahoo! and other third party e-mail will be accessed directly at the MyFairPoint.net portal.

C'mon, New Hampshire, you know you want to. "Live Free or Die" and all that.

I just needs to get through the small (but increasingly socialist, with strong ties to the DNC) senate. The House vote was 268-8, and the Governor is on board.

There are various wind farms being opposed in Vermont, the most currently notable of which is proposed for a former radar base on top of a remote mountain which already has a road up it to the base. In more populous parts of the state (which is the most rural in population distribution of any state), a totally assinine outfit calling itself the Glebe Mountain Group had been running seriously dishonest advertisements in all the local papers claiming that due to energy credits wind power generation just enables more coal generation elsewhere, so is bad for the environment. They also lie and claim that intermittency means that wind has no real effect in reducing generation needs from other sources. They'll say anything, and their refrain is always that they're revealing the "facts" the the evil, "corporate" people are hiding - totally perverse considering these idiots almost entirely consist of retired corporate hacks and their various whores.

Meanwhile, Vermont is getting most of its energy from a vibrating nuclear plant and Hydro Quebec dams, which have flooded large areas of Native American land and release massive amounts of mercury from the flooded soils. Yeah, fucking Vermont, home of ... well, me.

How about health care? He created a half-ass, jury-rigged monstrosity and then claimed "health care for 96.4% of Vermont." Now that he's gone the cost is spiralling out of control. Such is the Dean legacy for Vermont.

Eisner's family owns a large estate in SE Vermont for many years.

So, see how Eisner has rewarded Leahy for his work on the Mickey Mouse copyright extension and other acts of kindness.

You won't get any argument from me that Dean has redefined himself several times, as the mood took him. During his earlier years as governor of Vermont, during the Gingrich-revolution/Clinton-`triangulation' era, he was indeed more conservative than he is today, winning an `A' rating from the national rifle association (which he has kept, to his credit), and passing a moderate tax cut (though he has also attempted to claim credit for a larger tax cut passed by his predecessor which took effect on his watch, oddly enough).

In later years, however, and in particular around the time of the 2000 election, he began to take a much more traditionally `liberal' tack, including:

• passing `civil union' legislation
• pushing for expansion of the Dairy Compact system of milk subsidies
• advocating universal single-payer healthcare
• boosting taxes
• boosting more taxes
• and generally scoring pretty low on fiscal policy

More to the point, on the campaign trail, Dean has laid out a vision of his presidency which runs far to the left even of his positions as governor. And what evidence do you bring in response? A claim that this is irrelevant since he ``doesn't really mean it''.

I guess I'm not too convinced...

You won't get any argument from me that Dean has redefined himself several times, as the mood took him. During his earlier years as governor of Vermont, during the Gingrich-revolution/Clinton-`triangulation' era, he was indeed more conservative than he is today, winning an `A' rating from the national rifle association (which he has kept, to his credit), and passing a moderate tax cut (though he has also attempted to claim credit for a larger tax cut passed by his predecessor which took effect on his watch, oddly enough).

In later years, however, and in particular around the time of the 2000 election, he began to take a much more traditionally `liberal' tack, including:

• passing `civil union' legislation
• pushing for expansion of the Dairy Compact system of milk subsidies
• advocating universal single-payer healthcare
• boosting taxes
• boosting more taxes
• and generally scoring pretty low on fiscal policy

More to the point, on the campaign trail, Dean has laid out a vision of his presidency which runs far to the left even of his positions as governor. And what evidence do you bring in response? A claim that this is irrelevant since he ``doesn't really mean it''.

I guess I'm not too convinced...

You won't get any argument from me that Dean has redefined himself several times, as the mood took him. During his earlier years as governor of Vermont, during the Gingrich-revolution/Clinton-`triangulation' era, he was indeed more conservative than he is today, winning an `A' rating from the national rifle association (which he has kept, to his credit), and passing a moderate tax cut (though he has also attempted to claim credit for a larger tax cut passed by his predecessor which took effect on his watch, oddly enough).

In later years, however, and in particular around the time of the 2000 election, he began to take a much more traditionally `liberal' tack, including:

• passing `civil union' legislation
• pushing for expansion of the Dairy Compact system of milk subsidies
• advocating universal single-payer healthcare
• boosting taxes
• boosting more taxes
• and generally scoring pretty low on fiscal policy

More to the point, on the campaign trail, Dean has laid out a vision of his presidency which runs far to the left even of his positions as governor. And what evidence do you bring in response? A claim that this is irrelevant since he ``doesn't really mean it''.

I guess I'm not too convinced...

You won't get any argument from me that Dean has redefined himself several times, as the mood took him. During his earlier years as governor of Vermont, during the Gingrich-revolution/Clinton-`triangulation' era, he was indeed more conservative than he is today, winning an `A' rating from the national rifle association (which he has kept, to his credit), and passing a moderate tax cut (though he has also attempted to claim credit for a larger tax cut passed by his predecessor which took effect on his watch, oddly enough).

In later years, however, and in particular around the time of the 2000 election, he began to take a much more traditionally `liberal' tack, including:

• passing `civil union' legislation
• pushing for expansion of the Dairy Compact system of milk subsidies
• advocating universal single-payer healthcare
• boosting taxes
• boosting more taxes
• and generally scoring pretty low on fiscal policy

More to the point, on the campaign trail, Dean has laid out a vision of his presidency which runs far to the left even of his positions as governor. And what evidence do you bring in response? A claim that this is irrelevant since he ``doesn't really mean it''.

I guess I'm not too convinced...

You won't get any argument from me that Dean has redefined himself several times, as the mood took him. During his earlier years as governor of Vermont, during the Gingrich-revolution/Clinton-`triangulation' era, he was indeed more conservative than he is today, winning an `A' rating from the national rifle association (which he has kept, to his credit), and passing a moderate tax cut (though he has also attempted to claim credit for a larger tax cut passed by his predecessor which took effect on his watch, oddly enough).

In later years, however, and in particular around the time of the 2000 election, he began to take a much more traditionally `liberal' tack, including:

• passing `civil union' legislation
• pushing for expansion of the Dairy Compact system of milk subsidies
• advocating universal single-payer healthcare
• boosting taxes
• boosting more taxes
• and generally scoring pretty low on fiscal policy

More to the point, on the campaign trail, Dean has laid out a vision of his presidency which runs far to the left even of his positions as governor. And what evidence do you bring in response? A claim that this is irrelevant since he ``doesn't really mean it''.

I guess I'm not too convinced...

You won't get any argument from me that Dean has redefined himself several times, as the mood took him. During his earlier years as governor of Vermont, during the Gingrich-revolution/Clinton-`triangulation' era, he was indeed more conservative than he is today, winning an `A' rating from the national rifle association (which he has kept, to his credit), and passing a moderate tax cut (though he has also attempted to claim credit for a larger tax cut passed by his predecessor which took effect on his watch, oddly enough).

In later years, however, and in particular around the time of the 2000 election, he began to take a much more traditionally `liberal' tack, including:

• passing `civil union' legislation
• pushing for expansion of the Dairy Compact system of milk subsidies
• advocating universal single-payer healthcare
• boosting taxes
• boosting more taxes
• and generally scoring pretty low on fiscal policy

More to the point, on the campaign trail, Dean has laid out a vision of his presidency which runs far to the left even of his positions as governor. And what evidence do you bring in response? A claim that this is irrelevant since he ``doesn't really mean it''.

I guess I'm not too convinced...

Sorry guys, if you were expecting him to be different from the majority of other politicians then you will be truly disappointed. He might be better than Bush or Lieberman, but not much. If UCE will get him into the Oval Office then UCE it is.

From the Portsmouth [New Hampshire] Herald, August 10, 2003:

"A medical marijuana campaign report card"
Howard Dean - Rating: F+
In short: Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who is a physician, is the only candidate who has actually killed a medical marijuana bill. Because of Dean's actions, Vermonters with AIDS, cancer and other terrible illnesses still face arrest and jail under state law for using medical marijuana. Dean recently retreated from his earlier pledge to direct the FDA to study medical marijuana. His reversal and his actions have shown that medical marijuana patients can never trust him. The only reason we give Dean an F+ and not a straight F is because the latter grade should be reserved for Bush, who is as cruel and heartless as anyone could possibly be on the medical marijuana issue.

Rutland Herald - Newspapers sue Dean for access to schedule
Portsmouth Herald - A medical marijuana campaig report card

My advice: pick another horse.