“School performance can only be effectively and honestly measured by using a wide variety of factors, including, but in no way limited to, standardized test results” (Jay Rehak) Terry Knapp, please comment!
“As we’ve stated from the beginning, Edison is not the answer to public education. The answers are competition and accountability – which Edison and other have helped introduce. Inner city kids should not be written off – they that can, do and will learn if given the proper opportunity.” (Wall Street Journal) Listen up, Peoria.)
“If only Americans stayed out of casinos, quit buying foreign made cars, quit playing the lottery or stopped renting several movies a night, they might have enough resources to pay for such priority items as health care. Alas, people prefer to “invest” their money in entertainment and the like while wanting the government to be their parent” (Wyman Dickerson.) Surely, he is not talking about anybody in Peoria!!
“Even if Americans elected Michael Moore as president, O. B. Laden would remain implacable.” (Niall Ferguson) Niall, you mean those terrorists wouldn’t become puppy dogs and love us if we are smart enough to elect Michael or John & John?? Wow!
“The problem lies with the “extremist element that controls the Republican Party,” Holton said, “which has polarized this country.” (Statement by Virginia Holton former Virginia governor,” referring to “Come Back to the Mainstream” advertisements which moderate Republicans are starting August 31. (Amen)
“If we would learn what the human race is at the bottom, we need only observe it in election times.” (Mark Twain)
“It is important to note that the malpractice insurance companies indicate that the underwriting market has been highly unprofitable since 1995. Even if you include investment income this line of insurance has been unprofitable since 2000.” (Dr. Rida Boulos, Peoria, Il., 8/28/04, JS Opinion Saturday Forum). “Given that the typical obstetrician/gynecologist will be sued once for every three years in practice simply by virtue of our limited numbers and very high rate of unavoidable complications “Answer to John “Tort” Edwards’s platform of blaming the insurance companies for our medical problems.
“Drug companies currently spend upwards of $33,000,000,000.00 annually on R& D, (if you don’t know what that is don’t bother to read further), investing a far greater % of sales than any other industrial sector.” See “The Truth About Drug Companies by Marcia Angel”.
“As the wealthiest country in the world, you would expect us to pay a larger share of the tab for new prescription drugs.” (Letter by Jeffery Duncan in the Chicago Tribune.)
“What we spend clearing this land will come back to us many times ,through development and will prove to be a wise investment for the City” (Mayor Grieves in a Letter to the Editor, 3/21/99 talking about the ballpark and surrounding area.) Hmmmmm!!
John Kerry wants to raise taxes while he travels between his wife’s five mansions on a Gulfstream V jet. Her family fortune is worth an estimated $750,000,000.00 while paying an effective tax rate of only 15% on much of her income by using (legitimate) tax-avoidance provisions. (Forbes, 9/6/04.) Kerry says “sock it to those rich people, I’ve got mine.”
“Without question, we should disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime… He represents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculations…And now he is miscalculating America’s response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction…So the threat of S. H. with weapons of mass destruction is real ..! Sen. John F Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23,3003
Bed time! Talk with you tomorrow.
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