"He's Unbelievable"
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The paper my license is printed on is still warm.
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to Major League Baseball in exchange for:
Bud Selig becomes President. He expands the United States to Mexico City and Monterey in 2007 and then threatens to contract the nation by two states. Rumor has it they'll be Delaware and Vermont. That, and the City of Toronto is moved to St. Petersburg, Florida.
George Steinbrenner becomes Vice President. He wins the war in Iraq by buying up the best players in the insurgency just so that Al Qaeda can't have them.
Tommy Lasorda becomes Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Under his management, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez hits an economic home run in the bottom of the fourth fiscal quarter to win year one of Globalism Series.
The $100 million goes to help pay down the enormous budget deficit left by the Bush administration.
George W. Bush becomes Commissioner of Baseball. Americans are surprised to find that he's actually somewhat qualified for this job.
Dick Cheney becomes owner of the Yankees. He manages to win a World Series with the best talent in the world, unlike previous ownership.
Karl Rove becomes GM of the Chicago Cubs. He catches fire for leaking to the Chicago Tribune that Mia Hamm is the best baseball player in Nomar Garciaparra's household. In his defense, he claims to have learned the information from the Tribune and not the other way around. Scooter Libby gets indicted.
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Here's the risk though. Even if it is taken as true that males and females learn differently, in order for both to have the same prospects for personal achievement, they're going to have to mingle at some point. If young women are not learning alongside males at a young age when they might actually learn to deal with whatever adverse effects males bring with them, then how will women be affected later on in life when they are thrown into competition with them? Furthermore, is the impact of having a male around in sixth grade math so detrimental to young females that they will truly be benefitted by segregating them into their own math classes? And does this not just reinforce the already harmful notion that women can't compete?
Mayor Bloomberg in New York took the whole idea a step further when he helped start Harvey Milk High School, the first all-gay public high school (First public gay high school to open in New York). Here the motivation is similar. Openly gay students in New York high schools suffer from discrimination. In order to remedy the situation, Bloomberg gives them their own high school. That way, the bigots at the regular high school get fewer gay kids around and the gays and bisexuals get their own stomping grounds. No errant societal mores are remedied; rather, closed-minded individuals can continue on without having their faulty stereotypes challenged and gay students can go to school without having to learn how to deal with said individuals. These apparently are problems better dealt with after high school, when it's no longer the school district's problem. The school has been challenged from both the Right and the Left: the Right because they see it as preferential treatment and the Left because it's friggin segregation. Last I heard, the school was still operating though a lawsuit is pending.Bang up job, boys. Bill supposedly lied about fooling around with an intern. And I say "supposedly" because Ken Starr made sure to not to ask him if he'd engaged in oral sex with Monica Lewinsky. After all, you can't impeach the man if you give him the chance to tell the truth.
Don't know about other Republicans out there, but it sounds to me like we've done a lot worse than the previous administration in the "honesty and integrity" department. Makes Clinton's White House look like a friggin boy scout meeting.
I'm out.