nopokerface: All we need are $40k/year tuition pre-schools for everyone.

Well that was completely unrelated to the article.

Patrick is the best governor Massachusetts has had in a LONG time. It's a good thing people are finally starting to notice. (new window)

Good for us.

nopokerface: All we need are $40k/year tuition pre-schools for everyone.

Lol. You mean spending more on education leads to kids doing better in school? Are you sure you want to stick with that argument?

So . . . who wants to step forward and champion spending cuts in education right now?

Unfortunately, in America, reading is for gay people and math is what terrorists use to build bombs.

Go Massachusetts... Great education is one of the reasons I love living in the Commonwealth.



"The Spirit of Massachusetts is the spirit of America..."

So you're saying Massachusetts excels in creating dweeby nerds?

Osomatic: So you're saying Massachusetts excels in creating dweeby nerds?

Of course. Haven't you ever heard of MIT?

AirForceVet: Osomatic: So you're saying Massachusetts excels in creating dweeby nerds?

Of course. Haven't you ever heard of MIT?

He's running for president, isn't he?

Their boys are wicked smaht.

this AND universal healthcare? romney's got a lot to run away from!

FlashHarry: this AND universal healthcare? romney's got a lot to run away from!

Yup. The GOP base not only has to stomach his success in providing universal healthcare, now they have to put up with people learning things that DON'T come from the Bible?

Good luck with that, Mittens.

Reading and socialism are for homoqueers. Real men put on tight pants and jump into big dogpiles. For Jesus.

SphericalTime: nopokerface: All we need are $40k/year tuition pre-schools for everyone.

Lol. You mean spending more on education leads to kids doing better in school? Are you sure you want to stick with that argument?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_mate

What I saw when reading this discussion.

I wonder what their population of English language learners are compared to say, California.

Because the article sucks and doesn't link to the damn report:

Link

Jake Havechek: SnakeLee: Patrick is the best governor Massachusetts has had in a LONG time. It's a good thing people are finally starting to notice. (new window)

I'm going to go ahead and disagree with this.

Disagree with what, he's better than Jane Swift? Mitt Romney? Weld? Dukakis? How far back do you want to go? You're an overly partisan clown.

Lane83: Reading and socialism are for homoqueers. Real men put on tight pants and jump into big dogpiles. For Jesus.

You do realize the flagship college teams in the south are public schools, and the flagship college team in Massachusetts is a private Catholic college?

Jake Havechek: Yeah, us Mass. Dems can be highly partisan, especially when we don't support our own Democratic governor.

I don't get why people don't like him. Because he bought a nice car and then gave it back when for some reason, a black guy doing that got huge media attention? Because he was mean to Charlie Baker?

SnakeLee: Jake Havechek: Yeah, us Mass. Dems can be highly partisan, especially when we don't support our own Democratic governor.

I don't get why people don't like him. Because he bought a nice car and then gave it back when for some reason, a black guy doing that got huge media attention? Because he was mean to Charlie Baker?

Also what part of "he is the best governor in a long time" do you disagree with? Are you saying that:

Jane Swift was better (that is a joke)
Mitt Romney was better (still basically a joke)
William Weld was better (in between Swift in Romney in joke level)
Dukakis (I could see you making this case) - this ended in 1991, or 20 years ago. Is that not a long time, assuming you think he was better? He wasn't a better governor than Deval, but regardless, I'm still right.

birdboy2000: Video man

Calling BC a "flagship football school" is a bit of a stretch. It's probably not even the biggest sport on campus.

/The only college sport that matters up here is hockey.

It is. But it's the only FBS team in Massachusetts.

To be honest, I was moved from a Masshole area to Illinois in grade school. Back in the 1960's.
I was three years ahead of the local school district (54) and was yanked from public schools to private as soon as this was known by my parents (who freaked) as soon as this was known. In fact, even through freshman year of HS my math teacher had issues with how I finished problems because I was correct, but this was not how it was taught. My reply of "I learned this in 3rd grade" was a major piss shooting issue between my parents and the administration.

Martian_Astronomer: Have you noticed that Massachusetts doesn't even call itself a "State" like most of the God-fearing states of the Union? No, it calls itself a "Commonwealth." "Common-wealth." Common. Wealth. What does that sound like to you? I think the logic speaks for itself.

So Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky are high-taxed, gay marrying, gun controlling, universal healthcare offering Socialist Paradises™ too?

Cubicle Jockey: SnakeLee: William Weld was better (in between Swift in Romney in joke level)

Whoa whoa whoa.
What was wrong with Weld?
The only complaint I have about Weld is that he let the voters of this state think that other Republicans could do as good a job as he did.

Are you confusing him with Cellucci, whom you left out of your list?

I guess he was okay. Most of the good he did was during the boom years and anybody would have done fine, he didn't really leave a legacy of any kind, there was the Decker College incident, his career now is writing bad murder mysteries.... I just don't like him as much as Deval.

I did that list off the top of my head, I think I blacked out Paul "Gidget" Cellucci from my memory.