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  • JollyJ Offline
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    Jolly
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    #20

    How many "Doctors" of education could actually walk into a classroom and teach?

    Precious few, I'm thinking...

    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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      #21

      I watched the video with the sound off. It looked to me like his eyes hurt, nothing more.

      I guess if you go in expecting to see dementia at play, that is what you are by god going to see. Oh well, turnabout's fair play, I guess; why should Biden escape his detractors anymore than Trump escaped his? After all, what's the welfare of the country compared to the rich, fulfilling satisfaction of sweet, sweet revenge?

      Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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      • JollyJ Jolly

        How many "Doctors" of education could actually walk into a classroom and teach?

        Precious few, I'm thinking...

        George KG Offline
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        George K
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        #22

        @jolly said in Biden’s victory lap:

        How many "Doctors" of education could actually walk into a classroom and teach?

        Precious few, I'm thinking...

        I believe Jill Biden was still working as a teacher.

        https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/jill-biden-plans-to-return-to-her-day-job-even-if-she-becomes-first-lady.html

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

          @george-k said in Biden’s victory lap:

          Ann Althouse blogs about this stuff.

          But here's the funny part. Someone commented:

          "A reader writes: "When I first started teaching at Stanford, someone remarked to me that he had never met a physicist who used 'Dr.,' and never met a Ph.D. from the Education school who did not. This has held true in my experience for decades now."

          That’s true and also ‘exculpatory’ for Jill, IMO.

          The Superintendent of our little district is “Dr Brady”

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          @jon-nyc said in Biden’s victory lap:

          The Superintendent of our little district is “Dr Brady”

          My school district’s superintendent also uses the title “Dr.” in all school district communications.

          It’s quite clear to me that that’s because he has a doctoral degree, not because he is a medical doctor, and no, I do not worry if he will ever volunteer in an airplane if the crew ever ask “is there a doctor on the plane?”

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          • JollyJ Jolly

            How many "Doctors" of education could actually walk into a classroom and teach?

            Precious few, I'm thinking...

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            #24

            @jolly said in Biden’s victory lap:

            How many "Doctors" of education could actually walk into a classroom and teach?

            Precious few, I'm thinking...

            I trained as a teacher, and the training college was full of doctors. We initially all kind of wrote them off as ivory tower academics, but actually when we saw our tutors take a class they were really good teachers.

            I think there's a danger of writing off people who have a lot of qualifications as a kind of inverted snobbery.

            I was only joking

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            • George KG Offline
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              George K
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              #25

              Someone found Jill Biden's dissertation:

              https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20407226/bidens-dissertation.pdf

              Ouch:

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              • MikM Offline
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                #26

                I got to the first paragraph of the introduction and found this:

                "The needs of the student population are often undeserved, resulting in a student drop-out rate of almost one third."

                I don't think I need to read any further. Spellcheck is a cursory check, not editing.

                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                • jon-nycJ Online
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                  #27

                  married for a cumulative 30+ years to various people

                  I figured, wow, is she one of those people married 3-4 times?

                  Nope, she had an ex she was married to from 70-75. Married Joe in 1977, some 43 years ago.

                  Only non-witches get due process.

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                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                    married for a cumulative 30+ years to various people

                    I figured, wow, is she one of those people married 3-4 times?

                    Nope, she had an ex she was married to from 70-75. Married Joe in 1977, some 43 years ago.

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                    George K
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                    #28

                    @jon-nyc said in Biden’s victory lap:

                    married for a cumulative 30+ years to various people

                    I found that a rather odd comment as well.

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                      #29

                      It always amazes me when you see someone submitting something important and there are basic mistakes like in the paper above by Mrs. Biden. Does not give me confident in the rest of the paper.

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                      • AxtremusA Axtremus

                        @jon-nyc said in Biden’s victory lap:

                        The Superintendent of our little district is “Dr Brady”

                        My school district’s superintendent also uses the title “Dr.” in all school district communications.

                        It’s quite clear to me that that’s because he has a doctoral degree, not because he is a medical doctor, and no, I do not worry if he will ever volunteer in an airplane if the crew ever ask “is there a doctor on the plane?”

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                        @axtremus said in Biden’s victory lap:

                        @jon-nyc said in Biden’s victory lap:
                        I do not worry if he will ever volunteer in an airplane if the crew ever ask “is there a doctor on the plane?”

                        I have a friend who said the main reason he did a PhD was in the hope that at some point in his life a large-breasted woman would pass out at a sporting event and he'd be able to unbutton her top, saying "It's OK, I'm a doctor!"

                        I was only joking

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                        • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                          It always amazes me when you see someone submitting something important and there are basic mistakes like in the paper above by Mrs. Biden. Does not give me confident in the rest of the paper.

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                          #31

                          @taiwan_girl said in Biden’s victory lap:

                          It always amazes me when you see someone submitting something important and there are basic mistakes like in the paper above by Mrs. Biden. Does not give me confident in the rest of the paper.

                          It doesn't get any better.

                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                            George K
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                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                            • MikM Offline
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                              #33

                              Except for the coughing part, it sums up my assessment. He cleared his throat frequently but little coughing.

                              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                              • MikM Mik

                                Except for the coughing part, it sums up my assessment. He cleared his throat frequently but little coughing.

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                                This encompasses my problems with Twitter. Whilst the message above may or may not be true, it quickly becomes irrelevant, since after looking at his profile I'm just left with the desire to punch the obnoxious little shit in the face.

                                I was only joking

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                                • MikM Offline
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                                  Who are you calling an obnoxious little shit there, Limey? 😠

                                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                    #36

                                    I think that President elect Biden needs to hire President Trumps doctor so that he too can have a letter saying that he is the "best shape President ever!!!"

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                                    • MikM Mik

                                      Who are you calling an obnoxious little shit there, Limey? 😠

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                                      #37

                                      @mik said in Biden’s victory lap:

                                      Who are you calling an obnoxious little shit there, Limey? 😠

                                      Oops, sorry. I was referring to the other obnoxious little shit, not you. I wouldn't risk punching you, you might hit back.

                                      I was only joking

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                                      • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                                        @mik said in Biden’s victory lap:

                                        Who are you calling an obnoxious little shit there, Limey? 😠

                                        Oops, sorry. I was referring to the other obnoxious little shit, not you. I wouldn't risk punching you, you might hit back.

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                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #38

                                        @doctor-phibes 😆

                                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                          And in other news, the C-SPAN viewing numbers were somewhere around 8000, IIRC.

                                          Leader of the free world and winner of 81,000,000+ votes.

                                          And Dominion smiled.

                                          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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