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Lloyd Lofthouse

Apr 23, 2015

Parental Choice, Magical Thinking, and the Paralysis of Indirect Solutions

Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: Parental choice #1: Seeking a school for their white children so they will not have to attend classes with black or brown children. Parental choice #2: Seeking a school where their wealthy children will not have to attend classes with poor children. Parental choice #3: Seeking a school where children will be taught Intelligent…
Lloyd Lofthouse

Apr 21, 2015

The Working Poor that Conservatives Don’t See, Hear or Smell

The U.S. government spends about 50% on corporate welfare subsidies than social welfare programs.
Lloyd Lofthouse

Apr 13, 2015

Is your creative mind suffering from social media overload like mine is?

I have two screens, and when I’m in Social Media mode, one has Twitter on it and the other usually has a Blog post I’m reading on someone else’s blog.
Lloyd Lofthouse

Apr 12, 2015

Trying to get a job done and ending up with a useless right arm

It was all that pounding that put the strain on an aging elbow that wasn’t up to the work it once did decades earlier.
Lloyd Lofthouse

Apr 12, 2015

Evidence of a Corporate Reformer Pretending to be something he isn’t, and how the wealthy are buying the U.S. one election at a time

UPDATE 4/30/15 There are two previous updates that may be found at the bottom of this post. In the 13 days since the last update, NINE more poster sized flyers poured into our mailbox, and it is obvious that Steve Glazer’s wealthy and corporate supporters are outspending Susan Bonilla at least $8 to $1 if not more. FOUR of the flyers…
Lloyd Lofthouse

Apr 4, 2015

The cultural war in the United States is being financed by billionaire oligarchs and corporations

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: In 1965, China’s Mao Zedong launched a cultural war against the excesses of capitalism, and this was led by the people, the workers and their children, and the capitalists in China and anyone who was accused of supporting the lifestyle of the rich and famous was targeted leading to millions of…
Lloyd Lofthouse

Apr 1, 2015

A Tweet about the greed based insanity of Standardized Testing I Want to see go Viral

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Watch the video and read the Op-Ed in The Washington Post. Here’s the lead paragraph of The Washington Post piece by Valerie Strauss: “Imagine that you are a doctor and your evaluation is based on patients you didn’t have. Or a car dealer, and you are assessed by how many cars…
Lloyd Lofthouse

Mar 30, 2015

Salon: How the Rich Blame the Poor for Being Poor

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Rosenberg, writing at Salon, is outraged that many super-wealthy people–and their apologists at the NY Times–blame poverty on the lifestyles of the poor. He writes: “There they go again. Conservatives are back again with their “war on poverty,” which is to say, their war on poor people and any liberals, or sympathizers, who…
Lloyd Lofthouse

Mar 27, 2015

Discovering Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs with my ears

Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: I can’t remember when I paid $3 at Half Price Books for an audio book of Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. You see, I enjoy reading. That’s why I buy books—audio and the old fashioned kind on paper—and DVD’s of films and TV series faster than I watch or read/listen to them, and…
Lloyd Lofthouse

Mar 20, 2015

Two former Marines take a hike on Old Baldy that was almost as Lethal as Leukemia

On an average Saturday when there wasn’t a storm threatening, hundreds of hikers using all three trails would have been climbing to the top of Baldy, Mount San Antonio’s alias, but today, we saw no one.