Dr. Dennis Harkins was named the new president of OCC today. Dr. Harkins is presently the Director of Government Relations at Georgia Perimeter College in metropolitan Atlanta and will take over the helm at OCC on January 1, 2010.
It would be nice if Dr. Harkins and his family decided to live in Costa Mesa.
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U.S. TRAVEL INDUSTRY GEARING UP FOR TRIPS TO CUBER (Ah, sorry, my Bahstan accent returned just for a moment.)
(Photo shows Havana)
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THE STATEMENT IN BLUE ITALIC BELOW APPEARS ON THE COSTA MESA HIGH SCHOOL'S REPORT CARD
Can you figure out why the school is considered a failing school? Actually, that's a misnomer. The school facilities are the same as any other school facilities in the district and the teachers are probably just as good as any other teachers in the district. Same for the administrators and staff.
So, what variable(s) do we have that might account for this school having so many low student scores and thus being considered a failing school from which (by law) parents can now remove their kids and send them to a non-failing school in the district? Hmmmmm?
When you look for variable(s) in this report card try to overlook the gushy left wing crap language and the unsupported and unsupportable conclusions that are nonsense.
Also, note the two statements that we've put in bold blue. So which is it? Is diversity an asset (and if so, how so?) or does diversity present challenges?
Costa Mesa High School serves 1889 ethnically- and academically-diverse students. The ethnic composition of the school includes 30.4% Anglo, 7.8% Asian, 54.9% Hispanic, 2.2% Filipino, 1.9% Pacific Islander, and 2.1% African-American. Approximately 38% of the
students use English as their second language. CMHS/MS's diversity is an asset, and the school and the Orange County Human Relations Commission have collaborated in training students and staff to celebrate the school's unity, tolerance, and respect that are shared among all in the school. At the core of the school’s mission is the future of all its students, and despite the challenges of the diversity presented, the opportunities offered to all students are designed to ensure that every effort is made to provide every child with
the choice to enter the college or career of their choice.
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LEFTIES HAVE NO CORNER ON STUPIDITY
You can, of course, see how such things get confused and mixed up in the modern world.
To be clear, the confusion flows and grows from the wrongheaded acceptance of the notion that genes don't matter and that we should disregard this essential and primary source of who and what we are and substitute secondary identities to define us.
These secondary identities include geographic locations, nations, governments, political divisions, cultures, languages, religions and ideas.
Here's a dumb article from the conservative Big Government web site in which the writer gets into a snit over the Akaka Bill that is being debated now in the U.S. Congress.
Akaka, in simplest terms, would recognize Native Hawaiians (like the guy in the photo on the right above) as being similar to an Indian tribe and allow them a larger degree of self-governance.
The Big Government article is so full of stupid statements, that it would take too long to discuss them all, but here are just three moronic gems from the author of the article who, like so many "conservatives," is against the bill and who tries to distinguish Native Hawaiians from American Indians to make his case. Our comments are in red:
"The fact of the matter is that Hawaii was a kingdom with a monarch before becoming a state, unlike American Indian Tribes." Uh, so what? That doesn't matter a whit.
"Furthermore, the Tribes recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs are not racially exclusive and the Native Hawaiian government would be race based." The native Hawaiian government should be race based, because Native Hawaiians are race based. They are Native Hawaiians because of their genes.
The genetic code of a distinct people is what determines their race.
"There are Hawaiians who object on the grounds that they would be racially excluded from the new governing entity, even though they have lived their whole lives in Hawaii." This is really stupid. The writer is mixing up residence with genes. It's just dumb logic.
Look at it this way: If a Chihuahua is born and/or lives in a kennel of Pit Bulls, is the Chihuahua a Pit Bull? Of course not. The Native Hawaiians are demanding the right to self-identity, self-determination and self-governance. They're saying, in essence, that they are a distinct genetic people and they want to live as a distinct genetic people and not become extinct.
THE CM PRESS BOTTOM LINE: All distinct peoples have, by dint of their birth and by natural law, the right to self-identity, self-determination and self-governance and they should not be forced by governments of humans (who are often of different blood) to blend themselves away into some undifferentiated lumpen mass of humanity. Distinct peoples have a God given right to exist, as they alone determine is in their best interests.
COMPLAINTS ABOUT LOUSY MILITARY EQUIPMENT
Rucksacks that cut off circulation
Rifles that jam
Camouflage that doesn't hide
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