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A new video game is in the works that promise to deliver what could be the hottest video game vixen of all time. That’s right ladies and gentleman, for all those that have been writing in requesting it, the time has finally come. Former U.S. Justice O’Conner is joining the ranks of video vixens.

That may be a stretch as no word yet on whether she will actually make an appearance in the game or not. She is however involved with the project. I applaud her for branching out and finding something to do in her retirement, but have to wonder if she is suffering from dementia. A game to teach children about the court system? Really? Never mind the topic, should any one educated enough to use “vitriolic” effortlessly in conversation ever be involved with a video game? She is just about as far from having her finger on the pulse of current trends as possible.

That sounds a bit harsh, no real details of the game have been released, and it is after all going to be an educational game for children. Thinking back on the computer games back when I was in school, it didn’t take much. Although I do not really remember learning much from “Oregon Trail”. “Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego” was by far more entertaining and probably more educational. Perhaps O’Connor’s new game will be able to achieve the same level of success.

Coming soon: “Justice: Bring the Hammer Down On Those Godless Activists” .

First I want to say I know there has been no Sunday Stream in quite some time. Excuse me for having a life. To many birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays all lumped at the end of the school semester. But that is all over now so hopefully there will be not just a more regular stream, but more frequent posts as well.

And now onto the regularly scheduled programming.

Talk about having some balls, but apparently a younger gorilla snuck in and did the dirty deed with one of the elder gorilla’s concubines. In the gorilla world this is apparently doubly taboo as not only was the gorilla younger, but it seems that most male gorilla’s are not allowed to mate until the are at least 12 yrs of age.Brass Monkey, that funky monkey. He just snuck right in there and got what he wanted.

I may not be the most aware person in the world and lack a fair ammount of common sense, but I think I would notice if someone was living in my house.
I see not so dead people Hiding in the closet, coming out when the guy was not home. How could you miss someone living in your closet?

My wife recently told me a story from her child hood. She had a friend in highschool, ( when I heard the story I thought it was elementrary school), that she wanted to ride the school bus with. But her father did not allow them to have friends stay over during the school week. This did not deter my wife. Her friend came home with her. Their master plan was for her to hide and sleep in the closet. Unfortunately her father through a wrench into the plans by coming home sick early from work. She was not smart enough to think he might notice a difference in her behavior, ie staying back in her bedroom instead of watching tv in the living room. So he comes back and pops his head into the room to check on them and the friend darts back into the closet. Busted. And in less then a year.

The man had to have cameras installed in his house to catch the woman. And he only became suspecious the past few months when he finally noticed food missing. I love food, I would have noticed missing food much sooner.

70% to 80% of students fail Georgia’s Social Studies CRCT Test. As a result the tests and scores are being scrapped and the students will have to retake the exam.

I live in Georgia. I grew up in Georgia. I got me some learning on in Georgia. I find it unacceptable for that many students to fail the test. I find it unacceptable that they are throwing out the test scores because it just doesn’t seem right for that many to fail. Something is wrong here. Either the tests do not reflect the curriculum, the teachers are not teaching the curriculum, or the students are just that stupid. My money is on all three. The tests seemed to always be just beyond the base curriculum, which is acceptable to test the extent of the students knowledge and skills. The teachers can only teach what they could get to in the amount of time they had, limited further by dealing with the students. And based on one of my universal rule that everyone is stupid, students are stupid.

“But my kid had all A’s and B’s in Social Studies and still failed”. How many teachers have a mandate that says the students must have a certain grade or higher? I never remember middle school being terribly difficult. Sure you could classify my as one of the smart kids in school. But even when I did poorly there was always a way to make that poor test score up. And I could easily believe it has gotten even easier with even more extra credit being given out. I do not want to go off on a tirade on what is wrong with our educational system so I will stop where this seems to be heading and move on to other questions I have concerning the CRCT.

First, have they investigated the difference between the test and the curriculum that is supposed to be taught?
Second, have they investigated the difference between the curriculum that is supposed to be taught and the one that actually is?
It seems premature to just throw out the entire test with out answering either of those questions with yes.

Third, why are the schools not getting the test results? I would think the schools, if given the test results, could pinpoint exactly what problems the students had, which would then help to answer questions one and two. Supposedly they have gotten some feed back from a few teachers, which is good. However this is only part of the investigation. You must also have a neutral party compare the state curriculum with the test and not simply rely on the teachers. Of course the teachers are going to say the test is not testing what they taught, but you must verify that they are teaching what they were expected to. The southern states are NOT a separate country no matter how many of use think they should be since the civil war should never have happened based on the U.S.’s own declaration of independence (although it said nothing of separating peaceably and no provisions for succeeding from the union were really provided for in the constitution, although if I am mistaken on that last part by all means feel free to correct me, I did after all go to public schools in Georgia).

Fourth, why was this problem brought to light a week before most state schools go on summer break? This should have been seen and addressed well before now. I know I would hate it if I had to take another standardized test just before, or worse yet just after, summer break starts.

Fifth, why do both the curriculum and the tests have to be changed to in order to properly assess the students knowledge and skills? It would seem that only one is at fault and only one must be adjust accordingly. Although I would not fault them for scrapping the whole curriculum and tests and starting over from scratch assuming that is the new curriculum and test are at the very least on par with the level and amount of knowledge and skill as required by its predecessor. Otherwise they will just set education back even further.

Personally I have no problem simply failing all of the students and holding them all back another year. I personally fear that generation eventually being the ruling generation.

Today is the day for animals. Ok, so one of them is actually from Tuesday, May 20, but I did not get a chance to show case how much of an ass an ass was. And I was rewarded with my sloth with the self addressed stamped parrot.

I may have misled you a bit with the title. Sorry, I have very little money so it would do you no good to try and sue me for false advertising, besides which I did say not exactly a talking, flying donkey. However the donkey was very much treated like a human. It got into a fight, beat a few people, and was thrown in the pokey until its bail could be paid. I am not sure which had more to drink, the police, the donkey or the people assaulted by the donkey. In either case, I bet that’s the last time they give him the worm. Or perhaps the Chiapas police are not real police, but are in fact animal control officers in disguise as police.

So the donkey didn’t talk (it didn’t really fly either), but the parrot sure enough did. Trained to repeat its owners address if lost. Nice. Just one question, how did the owner teach it to recognize when it was lost? Teaching the address is one thing, but teaching it to recognize when it was lost is another. Unless of course they simply taught it to respond with the address when prompted with a certain question or questions. And it refused to talk to the police. Perhaps it has watched too many crime drama’s and wanted his lawyer present before he said anything, just in the off case he say something to incriminate himself. “yes, I stole the crackers. I can’t help it. That dry bland salty goodness just drives me over the edge.”