The prisoners deface a few korans which require the korans to be destroyed. Somebody (Taliban) tosses them into a trash can then points it out to the military who quickly remove them from the trash. The military is told that the koran must be destroyed since they have been defaced. The korans are placed in a burn bag and incinerated with the normal destruction of classified material. The Taliban then rats out the military for doing such a thing and the usual community organizers rally the ignorant peasants into demonstrating. Of course, no one mentions the 4 Afghanis beheaded in another part of Afghanistan for carrying satellite phones or the usual honor slayings that are directed at young females. Islam, under the taliban/al qaeda/muslim brotherhood, seems to be a religion easily manipulated for political gain.

Don't tie raises to graduation rates. The teachers will game the system worse than they are doing now. You want better graduation rates? Teach the test. You will have better graduation rates but they will mostly be semi-literate at best and illiterate at worst. But then you have to have remedial teachers in college to bring these illiterates up to speed to barely pass college courses. Keep an eye on the tote boards in front of most schools and judge how many have misspelled words on them.

Note to students/teachers; if you want to succeed in your chosen profession be adept at writing a page of english prose with no punctuation, spelling and grammar errors. Critical thinking and writing is becoming a lost art in the colleges and workplace. People who can read, write and do basic math are in increasing demand. Be prepared to understand basic economics and know who your customers are. Hint; it is not you!

I always wonder what group of yahoos approved these contracts in the first place? Want a real thrill? Go to the next union extravaganza euphemistically referred to as a "Teacher's convention." A stunning group of illiterate, professorial poseurs you will likely never find anywhere else in such a concentrated mass.

One other item of interest. The small group of teachers who are not qualified to teach rarely get fired but are transferred quietly to another school or rubber room thanks to the unions. I suggest, at a minimum, an active PTA that demands transparency in all matters relating to the children's teaching environment.

Will Whitney Houston have a parade before our Vets?

Do we see a pattern developing? Proposed 30% capital gains tax over present 15% and now he wants to take away our chance at dividends paid that will now go to out-of-favor friends on Wall Street? Obama has more brass than a "coney island fire truck."

Let me get this straight. The products of our education system are too ignorant to understand the importance of reading, writing and arithmetic for their children? That is stunning in it's stupidity. Our teaching schools must be an echo chamber of fools praising each other's incompetence.

Don't forget democratic congressman Hank Johnson from Georgia famously telling a military commander that more troops on that island would cause it to "tip over" and sink into the ocean. It being a small island of course. When his laughable statement was pointed out to him he blamed us for not understanding his intention. In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

...and Italy is poised to default the same as Greece.

The auto companies could have accomplished the same goal by filing Chapter 11 or Chapter 13 saving us all billions of dollars. If that isn't a smoking gun proving that the unions were bought and paid to vote democratic I don't know what is. I note in passing that Ford and cars from Germany, Japan and Korea didn't need a bailout. I doubt if they would have been offered one anyway from this administration.

Keep the left on the run and off-balance. Glad to hear there is sanity in Wisconsin in general and Madison in particular. They make a mockery of our system of government. Next step would be to bring charges against a group that knowingly submits fraudulent signatures and make an example of them.