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Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy agreement is effective as of: July 7, 2015.
Thumbtack, Inc. ("Thumbtack") values your privacy. In this Privacy Policy ("Policy"), we describe the information that we collect about you when you visit our website platform, whether accessed through a computer on our www.thumbtack.com domain or through the Thumbtack mobile application software (collectively, the "Platform") and use the services available on the Platform ("Services"), and how we use and disclose that information.
If you have any questions or comments about the Privacy Policy, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. This Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Thumbtack Terms of Use, which can be accessed at www.thumbtack.com/terms. Your use of the Platform and/or Services and any personal information you provide on the Platform remains subject to the terms of the Policy and Thumbtack's Terms of Use.
A. Collection of Your Personal Information
We collect personal information from service professionals offering their products and services as well as from consumers searching for those service professionals. Both consumers and service professionals are required to create an account to be able to access certain portions of our Platform, such as to submit questions, participate in polls or surveys, to request a quote, to submit a bid in response to a quote, and request information. The type of personal information that we collect from you varies based on your particular interaction with our Platform.
Consumers: During the Account registration process, we will collect information such as your name, zip code, and email address. You also may provide us with your telephone number, mailing address, and demographic information (e.g., gender, age, political preference, education, race or ethnic origin, and other information relevant to user surveys and/or offers). We may also collect personal information that you post in your Offer, Profile, Wants, or Feedback, and any comments or discussions you post in any blog, chat room, or other correspondence site on the Platform, or any comments you provide during dispute resolution with other users of the Platform.
Service Professionals: If you are a service professional and would like to post any information about yourself, we will require you to register for an Account. During the Account registration process, we will collect your business name, telephone number, address, zip code, travel preferences, a description of your services, a headline for your profile, first and last name, and email address. In addition, you may, but are not required to, provide other content or information about your business, including photographs and videos. We also may collect payment information, such as credit card information, from you.
If we deem it necessary, in our sole and absolute discretion, we may also ask for and collect supplemental information from third parties, such as information about your credit from a credit bureau (to the extent permitted by law), or information to verify any identification details you provide during registration.
You may log into our Platform through your Facebook account. If you do so, you must enter the email address and password that you use for your Facebook account. We will ask that you grant us permission to access and collect your Facebook basic information (this includes your name, profile picture, gender, networks, user IDs, list of friends, date of birth, email address, and any other information you have set to public on your Facebook account). If you allow us to have access to this information, then we will have access to this information even if you have chosen not to make that information public.
We store the information that we receive from Facebook with other information that we collect from you or receive about you.
Facebook controls the information it collects from you. For information about how Facebook may use and disclose your information, including any information you make public, please consult Facebook's privacy policy. We have no control over how any third party site uses or discloses the personal information it collects about you.
We and our third party service providers, which include ad networks, analytics companies, including Doubleclick and Google Analytics, use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our Platform and Services, such as your browser type, your ISP or operating system, your domain name, your access time, the URL of the previous website you visited, your page views, your IP address, and the type of device that you use. We also track how frequently you visit our Platform and use our Services. We use this information (including the information collected by our third party service providers) for Platform analytics (including to determine which portions of our Platform are used most frequently, what our users like/do not like), to assist us in determining relevant advertising (both on and off our Platform), to evaluate the success of our advertising campaigns, and as otherwise described in this policy. Currently, we do not honor browser requests not to be tracked.
Cookies. We and our third party service providers collect information from you by using cookies. A cookie is a small file stored on user's computer hard drive containing information about the user. The cookie helps us analyze web traffic or informs us about your use of a particular website. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual, tailoring its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. When you visit the Platform, we may send one or more cookies (i.e., a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters) to your computer that identifies your browser.
Some of these cookies may be connected to third-party companies or websites. The terms of use of such cookies are governed by this Policy and the privacy policy of the relevant third-party company or website. For example, Google measures the performance of advertisements by placing cookies on your computer when you click on ads. If you visit the Platform when you have such cookies on your computer, we and Google will be able to tell that you saw the Thumbtack ad delivered by Google. The terms of use of these cookies are governed by this Policy and Google's Privacy Policy.
Disabling Cookies. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you disable cookies you may be prevented from taking full advantage of the Platform because it may not function properly. Flash LSOs operate differently than browser cookies, and cookie management tools available in a web browser will not remove flash cookies. To learn more about how to manage flash cookies, you can visit the Adobe website and make changes at the Global Privacy Settings Panel.
Clear GIFs, pixel tags and other technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer's hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with our Platform to, among other things, track the activities of Platform visitors, help us manage content, and compile statistics about Platform usage. We and our third party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.
California Do Not Track Disclosure. Thumbtack is committed to providing you with meaningful choices about the information collected on our Platform for third party purposes. That is why we have provided links below to the NAI "Customer Opt-out" link, DAA opt-out link, a Google opt-out link. However, Thumbtack does not control any of the above opt-out links and are not responsible for any choices you make using these mechanisms or the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms. Further, Thumbtack does not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated Do Not Track signals, as the Internet industry is currently still working on Do Not Track standards, implementations and solutions.
B. How Thumbtack Uses the Information We Collect
We collect your personal information and aggregate information about the use of our Platform and Services to better understand your needs and to provide you with a better Platform experience. Specifically, we may use your personal information for any of the following reasons:
- To provide our Services to you, including registering you for our Services, verifying your identity and authority to use our Services, and to otherwise enable you to use our Platform and our Services;
- For customer support and to respond to your inquiries;
- For internal record-keeping purposes;
- To process billing and payment, including sharing with PayPal or other third party payment gateways in connection with Platform and/or Thumbtack's products and Services;
- To improve and maintain our Platform and our Services (for example, we track information entered through the "Search" function; this helps us determine which areas of our Platform users like best and areas that we may want to enhance; we also will use for trouble-shooting purposes, where applicable);
- To periodically send promotional emails, which you may unsubscribe from at any time, to the email address you provide regarding new products from Thumbtack, special offers from Thumbtack or other information about Thumbtack that we think you may find interesting;
- To contact you via email, telephone, facsimile or mail, or, where requested, by text message, to deliver certain services or information you have requested;
- For Thumbtack's market research purposes, including, but not limited to, the customization of the Platform according to your interests;
- We may use your demographic information (i.e., age, postal code, residential and commercial addresses, and other various data) to more effectively facilitate the promotion of goods and services to appropriate target audiences and for other research and analytical purposes;
- To resolve disputes, to protect ourselves and other users of our Platform and Services, and to enforce our Terms of Use;
- We also may compare personal information collected through the Platform and Services to verify its accuracy with personal information collected from third parties; and
- We may combine aggregate data with the personal information we collect about you.
C. Electronic Newsletters, Invitations, Polls and Surveys
At our sole discretion, Thumbtack may offer any of the following free services on the Platform, which you may select to use or receive at your option. Certain of the following services may require you to provide additional personal information as detailed below:
We may offer a free electronic newsletter to users. We will gather the email addresses of users who sign up for Thumbtack for the newsletter mailing list. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by opting out of receiving newsletters during the registration process, by following the link provided in each newsletter that points users to a subscription management page where the user can unsubscribe from receiving newsletters, or by changing their preferences in their Profile Settings page.
Our Platform users can voluntarily choose to electronically forward a link, page, or document to someone else by clicking "send to a friend." To do so, the user must provide his or her email address, as well as the email address of the recipient. The user's email address is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues, Services, and/or the Platform. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. We may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.
We may conduct user surveys from time to time to better target our content to our Platform users. We will not share individual responses from these surveys with any third party apart from the survey provider. We will share aggregate data with third party service providers, partners, and other third parties. We also will post aggregate data containing survey responses on our Platform; that data may be viewed and downloaded by other users of our Platform.
D. Children's Privacy
Our Services are not designed for children under 18. Thumbtack requires that only persons 18 years of age or older use the Platform and/or the Services. By using the Platform and/or the Services, you hereby represent that you are at least 18 years old. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our systems.
E. Security
We employ appropriate physical, procedural and technological security measures, which are reasonably designed to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure. Thumbtack may use encryption, passwords, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure. No security measures, however, are 100% complete. Therefore, we do not promise and cannot guarantee, and thus you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will not be collected and used by others. You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, and keeping your log-in and password private. Thumbtack is not responsible for the unauthorized use of your information nor for any lost, stolen, compromised passwords, or for any activity on your Account via unauthorized password activity.
F. Disclosure
We may share the information that we collect about you, including your personal information, as follows:
We may disclose your personal information to prevent an emergency, protect or enforce our rights, enforce our Terms of Use and/or to protect the safety of users of our Platform and our Services or protect or enforce the rights of a third party, or as required by law.
We may contract with various third parties for the provision and maintenance of the Platform, Services and our business operations, and Thumbtack may need to share your personal information and data generated by cookies and aggregate information (collectively, "information") with these vendors and service agencies. For example, we may provide your information to a credit card processing company to process your payment. The vendors and service agencies are only permitted to use your personal information as necessary to perform its obligations to provide the Services to you. If you complete a survey, we also may share your information with the survey provider; if we offer a survey in conjunction with another entity, we also will disclose the results to that entity.
Your request for services may be shared with third party websites with whom we have a contractual relationship in order to provide your request with maximum exposure. The post on the third party website will include the details of your request, including your location, but will not include your last name. Interested bidders, however, will be able to click on your request on such third party site, and will be directed to our Platform where they will have access to your first name and the first letter of your last name, as would any other service provider on our Platform interested in bidding on your request.
If you are a service professional, the information that you post (other than your payment information) is available to other users of our Platform and our Services. Comments that users post to our Platform also will be available to other visitors to our Platform (see our discussion of User Generated Content below). In addition, we will post the results (in aggregate form) of surveys to our Platform. If you are a consumer, your first name plus first initial of your last name, zip code, as well as the details of your request, are available to all visitors to our Platform. Bidding professionals also will be permitted to see the consumer's full name and telephone number.
We will disclose your information, including, without limitation, your name, city, state, telephone number, email address, user ID history, quoting and listing history, and fraud complaints, to law enforcement or other government officials if we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or otherwise in cooperation with an investigation of a governmental authority.
In the event that Thumbtack undergoes a change in control, including, without limitation, a merger or sale of all or substantially all of Thumbtack's assets to which this Platform relates or other corporate reorganization in which Thumbtack participates, and is thus merged with or acquired by a third party entity (a "Successor"), Thumbtack hereby reserves the right to transfer the information we have collected from the users of the Platform and/or Services to such Successor.
In addition, in the event of Thumbtack's bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application or laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, Thumbtack may not be able to control how your information is transferred, used, or treated and reserves the right to transfer the information we have collected from the users of the Platform and/or Services to non-affiliated third parties in such event.
We may share your personal information with other Registered Users to whom you explicitly ask us to send your information or if you explicitly consent to such disclosure upon receipt of a specific Service. For instance, when you contract for a specific Service with another Registered User, Thumbtack will send that Registered User a notice that includes the personal information that you have chosen to allow Thumbtack to reveal to users with whom you contract.
Thumbtack may aggregate and/or de-identify information collected by the Platform and Services or via other means so that the information does not identify you. Our use and disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information is not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy, and we may disclose it to others without limitation for any purpose.
G. Links to External Platforms
The Platform may contain links to other websites or resources over which Thumbtack does not have any control. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by Thumbtack of those external websites. You acknowledge that Thumbtack is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that Thumbtack is not responsible for the content of such external websites. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such external websites and such sites are not governed by this Policy. Your use of any external website is subject to the terms of use and privacy policy located on the linked to such external website.
H. Updating, Deleting and Correcting Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
You can review, correct and delete your personal information by logging into the Platform and navigating to your preferences page in "Your Dashboard." You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. Typically, we will not manually alter your personal information because it is very difficult to verify your identity remotely. Nonetheless, upon your request we will close your Account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your Account activity and in accordance with applicable law. We do retain information from closed Accounts in order to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations of any Registered User, enforce our Terms of Use, and take any other actions otherwise permitted by law that we deem necessary in our sole and absolute discretion. You should understand, however, that once you publicly post a Request, Offer, Want, Feedback, or any other information onto the Platform, you may not be able to change or remove it. Once we have deleted or removed your Account, you agree that Thumbtack shall not be responsible for any personal information that was not included within your deleted and/or removed Account that remains on the Platform.
I. What Choices Do I Have Regarding Use of My Personal Information?
We may send periodic promotional or informational emails to you. You may opt-out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt-out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you emails about your Account or any Services you have requested or received from us.
J. Third-Party Ad Networks
You may opt-out of many third-party ad networks, including those operated by members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") and the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA"). For more information regarding this practice by NAI members and DAA members, and your choices regarding having this information used by these companies, including how to opt-out of third-party ad networks operated by NAI and DAA members, please visit their respective websites: www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp (NAI) and www.aboutads.info/choices (DAA). To opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising or customize Google Display Network ads, you can visit the Google Ads Settings page.
Opting out of one or more NAI member or DAA member networks (many of which will be the same) only means that those members no longer will deliver targeted content or ads to you. It does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content or ads on our Site or other websites. You may continue to receive advertisements, for example, based on the particular website that you are viewing. Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit this opt-out page, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer or change web browsers, your NAI or DAA opt-out may no longer be effective. Additional information is available on NAI's and DAA's websites accessible by the above links.
K. Your Full Name and Use of Thumbtack Information
As a Registered User of the Platform you will select a Full Name during the registration process. All of your activities on the Platform will be traceable to your Full Name. Certain other people, including other Registered Users with whom you have transacted business via the Platform, can see a large part of your activity on the Platform. If you book a service with a Registered User, cancel a scheduled service with a Registered User, receive an offer on your posted service from a Registered User, or have posted a service, Thumbtack may send a notice to you or the appropriate Registered User that includes your Full Name. Thus, if you associate your real name with your Full Name, the people to whom you have revealed your name may be able to personally identify your Platform activities.
The Platform facilitates your sharing of personal information with others in order to negotiate, provide, and use the Services. If you agree to contract for a service with another Registered User, you may need to reveal your name, email, phone number, or personal address to that individual so that the service may be performed. Please respect the privacy of others. You agree to use the information of other users solely for the following purposes: (a) Thumbtack-transaction-related purposes; and (b) using Services offered through the Platform.
Your password is the key to your Account. When creating your password you should use unique numbers, letters, special characters, and combinations thereof. In addition, DO NOT disclose your password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, you are solely responsible for all actions taken via your Account. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Thus, IF YOUR PASSWORD HAS BEEN COMPROMISED FOR ANY REASON, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THUMBTACK TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.
L. User Generated Content
We invite you to post content on our Platform, including your comments, feedback, pictures, and any other information that you would like to be available on our Platform. If you post content to our Platform, all of the information that you post will be available to all visitors to our Platform. If you post your own content on our Platform or Services, your posting may become public and Thumbtack cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Policy, the law, or your personal privacy.
M. Privacy Policy Updates
N. Notice to Non-U.S. Users
Our computer systems are currently based in the United States, so your personal data will be processed by us in the United States where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as the European Union. If you create an Account with the Platform as a visitor from outside the United States, by using the Platform, you agree to this Policy and you consent to the transfer of all such information to the United States, which may not offer an equivalent level of protection of that required in the European Union or certain other countries, and to the processing of that information as described in this Policy.
O. Contact Information
If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or the Services, please contact us by sending an email to email@example.com, or by writing to:
Thumbtack, Inc.
360 9th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
© 2015 Thumbtack, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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Friday, August 1, 2008
Here's a couple of the commissions I did during the convention.
Panda from Jason Pearson's Body Bags:
A Greta naturally:
And this is actually a little painting demo I did for my fiancée shortly after con:
I'm hoping to get the Bookplate Betties book set up on the shop soon, so hang in there it won't be long.
24 comments:
- Skim said...
such gorgeous work!!
- August 2, 2008 at 12:15 AM
- Fabián Fucci said...
Love the first! :-P~
- August 2, 2008 at 2:46 AM
- kaNO! said...
Awesome as always.
- August 2, 2008 at 6:11 AM
- Craig Zablo said...
Everyone's a winner, baby! [Hmmm... that should be a song title!]
- August 2, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- crylic said...
Yeah that first one is deadly! I'm also very much enjoying the Bookplate Betties book, Bill. It is fantastic!
- August 2, 2008 at 3:44 PM
- intergalactic said...
Hey Bill,
Any chance you could share a few tips tricks on water colors with us?
- August 2, 2008 at 6:05 PM
- hadi tabasi said...
very great the first.
- August 3, 2008 at 1:34 AM
- Chrissie A said...
Absolutely gorgeous.
Looking forward to ordering 'Bookplate Betties'!
- August 3, 2008 at 4:20 PM
- Michael Dooney said...
that demo piece is killer. I can just see how you doing a demo would go...Step one, do a really good drawing. Step two, paint it very nicely...done!
- August 3, 2008 at 5:46 PM
- Lovelace said...
Hey Bill- you are a fountain of cheesecake fortitude!
- August 3, 2008 at 8:38 PM
- Totoche Tannenen said...
Rââââh, lovely !
- August 4, 2008 at 1:25 AM
- *daisy said...
Hey Bill! It was wonderful getting to meet you down at the con and getting a copy of the Bookplate Betties book- it's so lovely and inspiring! : D I agree with intergalactic's suggestion on sharing any watercolor secrets- I loved studying the interstitial pages w/ the roughs and in-progress pieces in the Bookplate book... again, it was great to meet you and take care!
- August 4, 2008 at 1:46 AM
- Ben Newman said...
the panda one is superb!
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- pablo pablo said...
excellent babes!
- August 8, 2008 at 12:47 PM
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- Daniel Arriaga said...
This is some awesome work. I really like your Totoro piece. Very inspiring.
- August 12, 2008 at 9:20 PM
- Visedo said...
Wow, man! Awsome! Great work. I specially like the third picture (the girl in the red bikini).
I recently bought a book of Rex Steele and I liked your style a lot. I'll come around more often.
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NEW YORK ŌĆō The July 27, 2014 edition of the New York Times Sunday Magazine featured an article by Elizabeth Green entitled ŌĆ£Why Do Americans Stink at Math?ŌĆØ In this blog post, I identify six myths promulgated in that article.
Let me be clear at the outset.┬Ā I am an admirer of Elizabeth GreenŌĆÖs journalism and am sympathetic to the idea that improving teaching would raise American math achievement.┬Ā But this article is completely off base.┬Ā Its most glaring mistake is giving the impression that a particular approach to mathematics instructionŌĆöreferred to over the past half-century as ŌĆ£progressive,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£constructivist,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£discovery,ŌĆØ or ŌĆ£inquiry-basedŌĆØŌĆöis the answer to improving mathematics learning in the U.S.┬Ā That belief is not supported by evidence.
A Summary
Green asserts that American math reformers frequently come up with great ideasŌĆöthe examples cited are the New Math of the 1960s, CaliforniaŌĆÖs 1985 Mathematics Framework, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) math reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, and todayŌĆÖs Common CoreŌĆöbut the reforms are shot down because of poor implementation.┬Ā Green deserves credit for avoiding the common habit of attributing the failure of reform to ŌĆ£implementationŌĆØ without defining the term.┬Ā In GreenŌĆÖs way of thinking, implementation of math reform hinges on changing the way teachers teach.[1] American teachers, Green argues, are wedded to the idea that learning mathematics is synonymous with memorization and practicing procedures.┬Ā They arenŌĆÖt provided the training to teach in different ways.┬Ā Left on their own, teachers teach the way they themselves were taught, emphasizing, in her words, ŌĆ£mind numbingŌĆØ routinesŌĆöand perpetuating a cycle of failure.
Green believes that the 1980s math reforms failed in the U.S. but took root and flourished in Japan.┬Ā Over a 12 year span, she writes, ŌĆ£the Japanese educational system embraced this more vibrant approach to math.ŌĆØ ┬ĀThe two countriesŌĆÖ math classrooms are dramatically different, and readers are presented with a series of contrasts.┬Ā American classrooms are dull and oppressively quiet; Japanese classrooms are bursting with children ŌĆ£talking, arguing, shrieking about the best way to solve problems.ŌĆØ Japanese students ŌĆ£uncover mathŌĆÖs procedures, properties and proofs for themselves;ŌĆØ American students regurgitate rules spoon fed to them by teachers.┬Ā When the innovations of the 1980s and 1990s were proposed, Japan ŌĆ£was able to shift a country full of teachers to a new approach.ŌĆØ American teachers dug in and clung to traditional teaching.┬Ā The upshot of all of this?┬Ā Japan scores at the top of international math tests; the U.S. scores near the middle of the pack or worse.
The story is wrong.┬Ā It goes wrong by embracing six myths.
Myth #1: Japan Scores Higher Than the U.S. on Math Tests Because Japanese Teachers Teach Differently
Green provides no evidence that instructional differences are at the heart of American and Japanese achievement differences.┬Ā Indeed, she provides no evidence, other than the assertions of advocates of the teaching practices extolled in the article, that Japanese teachers changed their instructional practices in the 1990s, or that American teachers did not change theirs, or that any change that occurred in math instruction in either country had an impact on student achievement.
Green relies on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 1995 Video Study to document differences in Japanese and American teaching styles.[2] She fails to tell readers of a crucial limitation of that study.┬Ā The TIMSS video study did not collect data on how much kids learned during lessons.┬Ā Interesting differences were indeed apparent between Japanese and American instruction (German math teachers were also part of the study), but the study could not assess whether Japanese students learned more math as a result.┬Ā Within-country comparisons might have been especially revealing.┬Ā If Japanese kids who were exposed to ŌĆ£reformŌĆØ teaching strategies learned more than Japanese kids exposed to traditional instruction, and if great care were taken to make sure the two groups were equal on characteristics related to learning, then that would suggest the choice of instructional regime might be driving the learning differences. ┬ĀGiven the studyŌĆÖs limitations, that analysis could not be conducted.
The 1995 TIMSS collected survey data separate from the video study that can shed light on the question.┬Ā Eighth grade math teachers were queried: how often do you ask students to do reasoning tasks?┬Ā Table 1 shows the frequency of teachersŌĆÖ answers, along with the average TIMSS score of students for each response category (in parentheses).
TeachersŌĆÖ Reports on How Often They Ask Students to Do Reasoning Tasks
|Never or Almost Never
|Some Lessons
|Most Lessons
|Every Lesson
|55% (604)
|37% (608)
|24% (495)
|50% (498)
|26% (514)
Source: Table 5.11, IEA Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 1994-1995, page 160.
Note that the data support the view that eighth grade Japanese teachers emphasize reasoning more often than U.S. teachers.┬Ā But the data also suggest that the difference can only explain a trivial amount of the Japan-U.S. test score gap.┬Ā The gap hovers around 100 points across response categories, comparable to the overall gap reported in 1995 (Japan scored 605, the U.S., 500).┬Ā The within-country difference between teachers who include reasoning tasks in every lesson versus teachers who only present them in some lessons is only 14 scale score points in Japan and 19 points in the U.S.┬Ā Indeed, even if 100% of U.S. teachers had said they emphasize reasoning in every lessonŌĆöand the 514 TIMSS score for the category held firmŌĆöthe achievement gap between the two countries would only contract negligibly.┬Ā This suggests the overall test score difference between the two countries is driven by other factors.
Myth #2: Factors Outside School Are Unimportant to Japanese Math Success
What are those other factors?┬Ā Green dismisses cultural differences or the contribution of instruction outside school to Japanese math achievement.┬Ā This is puzzling.┬Ā There is no discussion of Japanese parents drilling children in math at home or of the popularity of Kumon centers that focus on basic skills.[3]┬ĀAnd juku gets not a single mention in GreenŌĆÖs article.┬Ā Juku, commonly known as ŌĆ£cram school,ŌĆØ is the private, after-school instruction that most Japanese students receive, especially during middle school as they prepare for high school entrance exams.┬Ā Jukus are famous for focusing on basic skills, drill and practice, and memorization.[4] Japanese public schools have the luxury of off-loading these instructional burdens to jukus.
An alternative hypothesis to GreenŌĆÖs story is this: perhaps because of jukus Japanese teachers can take their studentsŌĆÖ fluency with mathematical procedures for granted and focus lessons on problem solving and conceptual understanding.┬Ā American teachers, on the other hand, must teach procedural fluency or it is not taught at all.
Myth #3: American Kids Hate Math, Japanese Kids Love It
GreenŌĆÖs article depicts American math classrooms as boring, unhappy places and Japanese classrooms as vibrant and filled with joy.┬Ā She cites no data other than her own impressions from classroom observations and the assertions of advocates of reform-oriented instruction.┬Ā It is odd that she didnŌĆÖt examine the Program for International Assessment (PISA) or TIMSS data on enjoyment because both assessments routinely survey students from randomly-sampled classrooms and ask whether they enjoy learning mathematics.[5]
American students consistently report enjoying math more than Japanese students.┬Ā In response to the statement, ŌĆ£I look forward to my mathematics lessons,ŌĆØ posed on PISA, the percentage of U.S. 15-year-olds agreeing in 2012 was 45.4%, compared to 33.7% in Japan.┬Ā To the prompt, ŌĆ£I do mathematics because I enjoy it,ŌĆØ the percentage agreeing was 36.6% in the U.S. and 30.8% in Japan.[6] The differences between countries are statistically significant.
TIMSS asks younger students whether they like learning math.[7] Among 8th graders, the American results are pretty grim.┬Ā Only 19% say they enjoy learning math, while 40% do not like it, more than a 2-to-1 ratio disliking the subject.┬Ā But American students are downright giddy compared to students in Japan.┬Ā Only 9% of Japanese 8th graders say they like learning math and 53% do not like it, almost a whopping 6-to-1 ratio of disliking to liking.┬Ā Fourth graders in both countries like the subject more than eighth graders, but in the U.S. the like to dislike ratio is about 2-to-1 (45% to 22%) and in Japan itŌĆÖs close to even (29% to 23%).[8]
GreenŌĆÖs impressions are based on observations in non-randomly selected classrooms.┬Ā They suggest that American students dislike math and Japanese students love it.┬Ā But empirical evidence collected by more scientific methods finds exactly the opposite.
Myth #4:┬Ā The History of International Test Scores Supports Math Reform
Japanese and American math scores are headed in opposite directions, but the trend is not what youŌĆÖd guess after reading the New York Times article.┬Ā JapanŌĆÖs scores are going down, and U.S. scores are going up.┬Ā The first international assessment of math, a precursor to todayŌĆÖs TIMSS test, took place in 1964.┬Ā Twelve nations took part. Japan ranked second, the U.S. eleventh (outscoring only Sweden).[9] If the scores are converted to standard deviation units (SD), Japan scored 0.9 SD higher than the U.S (all scores in this section refer to eighth grade).
Jump ahead about five decades.┬Ā On the 2011 TIMSS, Japan still outscored the U.S., but by a smaller amount: 0.61 SD.┬Ā Most of the narrowing occurred after 1995.┬Ā From 1995 to 2011, the average scale score for JapanŌĆÖs eighth graders fell 11 points (from 581 to 570) while the U.S. eighth graders gained 17 points (from 492 to 509).┬Ā JapanŌĆÖs decline and the U.S.ŌĆÖs increase are both statistically significant.
This pokes a huge hole in GreenŌĆÖs story.┬Ā She attributes JapanŌĆÖs high math proficiency to teaching reforms adopted in the 1980s and 1990s, but does not acknowledge that Japan was doing quite wellŌĆöand even better than today relative to the U.S. ŌĆöon international math tests in the 1960s.┬Ā If Japan now outscores the U.S. because of superior teaching, how could it possibly have performed better on math tests in the 1960s?┬Ā According to Green, the 1960s were the bad old days of Japanese math instruction focused on rote learning.┬Ā And what about the decline in JapanŌĆÖs math achievement since 1995?┬Ā Is this really the nation we should look to for guidance on improving math instruction?
Myth #5: The Failure of 1990s Math Reform was the Failure to Change Teaching
Green blames the demise of American math reform in the 1990s on the failure to adequately prepare teachers for change.┬Ā She does not even mention ŌĆ£the math wars,ŌĆØ the intense political battles that were fought in communities across the country when new math programs were introduced.┬Ā California deserves attention since Green holds up the 1985 California math framework as an example of that eraŌĆÖs push towards ŌĆ£teaching for understanding.ŌĆØ
The 1985 and 1992 California math frameworks were indeed crowning achievements of progressive math reformers, but as new textbooks and programs began trickling into schools, a coalition of parents and mathematicians arose in vehement opposition.┬Ā The charge was that the frameworksŌĆöand their close cousin, the 1989 NCTM standardsŌĆöcontained weak mathematical content.┬Ā One reform program, Mathland, attained notoriety for replacing textbooks with kits of manipulatives and for delaying or omitting the teaching of standard algorithms.[10]
In 1999, new state standards were written by four mathematicians from Stanford University. ┬ĀThe standards repudiated the previous state framework and the NCTM standards.┬Ā Although math reformers in California opposed the new standards, they could not claim that the authors lacked a conceptual understanding of mathematics or viewed math as the robotic execution of procedures.┬Ā The standards focused on clearly stated content objectives for each grade level, and avoided recommending instructional strategies.┬Ā They encouraged the development of computation skills, conceptual understanding, and problem solving.
The notion that classroom teachersŌĆÖ blind devotion to procedures or memorization led to the failure of 1990s math reform in the U.S. is ahistorical.┬Ā Indeed, Green cites no historical accounts of that period to support the claim.┬Ā Moreover, the suggestion that teachers were left on their own to figure out how to change their teaching is inaccurate.┬Ā Throughout the 1990s, the NCTM standards were used as a template for the development of standards and assessments in states across the land.┬Ā Education school professors in the late 1990s overwhelmingly supported math reform.[11]
The federal government deployed powerful resources to promote math reform and the National Science Foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars training teachers in three different systemic reform initiatives.┬Ā The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) rewrote its math framework and redesigned its math test to reflect the NCTM standards.┬Ā In 1999, the U.S. Department of Education endorsed several reform-oriented math programs.┬Ā ┬ĀBut a petition signed by over 200 mathematicians, educators, and scientists appeared in the Washington Post on November 18, 1999 renouncing the list of recommended programs..
Math reform in the U.S. is typically the offspring of government power wedded to education school romanticism.┬Ā David Klein has written a succinct account of twentieth century American math reforms.┬Ā E.D. HirschŌĆÖs intellectual history of curricular reform attributes the periodic rise of progressive movements to the ideological ŌĆ£thought worldŌĆØ that dominates education schools.┬Ā Contrary to Elizabeth GreenŌĆÖs account, these histories conclude that math reform movements have repeatedly failed not because of stubborn teachers who cling to tired, old practices but because the reforms have beenŌĆöthere are no other words for itŌĆöjust bad ideas.
Myth #6: The Common Core Targets Changes in Teaching
Algorithms are procedures.┬Ā When the Common Core states that elementary students will learn standard algorithmsŌĆöthe conventional methods for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbersŌĆöit is saying students will learn procedures.┬Ā Fluency with basic facts (e.g., 6 + 7 = 13, 18 – 9 = 9) is attained through memorization.┬Ā Nothing in the Common Core discourages memorization.┬Ā The primary authors of the Common Core math standards, William McCallum and Jason Zimba, have been clear that the Common Core is neutral on pedagogy, with teachers free to choose the instructional strategiesŌĆötraditional or progressive or whateverŌĆöthat they deem best.[12] The Common Core is about content, not pedagogy.┬Ā As the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) website adamantly proclaims, ŌĆ£Teachers know best about what works in the classroom. That is why these standards establish what students need to learn, but do not dictate how teachers should teach. Instead, schools and teachers decide how best to help students reach the standards.ŌĆØ[13]
That does not mean the Common Core wonŌĆÖt be used to promote constructivist pedagogy or to suppress traditional instruction. The protests of CCSS authors that the standards are being misinterpreted may not be enough.┬Ā The danger emanates from what IŌĆÖve previously described as ŌĆ£dog whistlesŌĆØ embedded in the Common Core.[14] The CCSS math documents were crafted to comprise ideas (CCSS advocates would say the best ideas) from both traditional and progressive perspectives in the ŌĆ£math wars.ŌĆØ┬Ā That is not only politically astute, but it also reflects the current state of research on effective mathematical instruction.┬Ā Scholarly reviews of the literature have raised serious objections to constructivism.┬Ā The title of an influential 2006 review published in Educational Psychologist says it all, ŌĆ£Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential and Inquiry-Based Teaching.ŌĆØ[15] Unfortunately, the Common CoreŌĆöand in particular the Standards for Mathematical PracticeŌĆöcontain enough short-hand terms related to constructivist pedagogy that, when heard by the true believers of inquiry-based math reform, can be taken as license for the imposition of their ideology on teachers.
In its one-sided support for a particular style of math instruction, Elizabeth GreenŌĆÖs article acts as a megaphone for these dog whistles, the misguided notions that, although seemingly innocuous to most people, are packed with meaning for partisans of inquiry-based learning.┬Ā GreenŌĆÖs article is based on bad science, bad history, and unfortunate myths that will lead us away from, rather than closer to, the improvement of math instruction in the United States.
Authored by Tom Loveless
[1] GreenŌĆÖs choice of math reforms to listŌĆöall of which, except for the Common Core, tried to change how math is taughtŌĆöis bound to mislead one into thinking that math reformŌĆÖs implementation problems are primarily related to instruction.
[3] A 1994 Chicago Tribune article describes a local student who happily gets after-school Kumon lessons.┬Ā Note the reference to schools of that time ŌĆ£forging a path toward a greater understanding of math concepts.ŌĆØ
[4] Ironically, an op-ed published in August 2014 in the New York Times on hagwons, the Korean version of jukus, attributes KoreaŌĆÖs high PISA scores to hagwon instruction.┬Ā It is inexplicable that hagwon instruction could mean so much to KoreaŌĆÖs test score success in this article but juku instruction does not even warrant mention in an article on JapanŌĆÖs high scores.
[5] I devoted a section of the 2006 Brown Center Report to ŌĆ£the happiness factorŌĆØ in education.
[6] OECD. PISA 2012 Results: What Students Know and Can Do. Student Performance in Mathematics, Reading and Sciences. Table III.3.4f.
[7] Ina V.S. Mullis, Michael O. Martin, Pierre Foy, and Alka Arora. TIMSS 2011 International Results in Mathematics. Chapter 8, Exhibits 8.1 (page 330) and 8.2 (p. 332).
[9] International Study of Achievement in Mathematics:┬Ā A Comparison of Twelve Countries (Vols. 1ŌĆō2), edited by T. Hus├®n (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1967).
[10] At its peak, MathlandŌĆÖs publisher claimed that the program was the most popular in California.┬Ā Today, it is not published.
[11] A snippet from a 1997 survey of education professors conducted by Public Agenda: The process of learning is more important to education professors than whether or not students absorb specific knowledge. Nearly 9 in 10 (86%) say when K-12 teachers assign math or history questions, it is more important for kids to struggle with the process of finding the right answers than knowing the right answer. ŌĆ£We have for so many years said to kids ŌĆśWhat's 7+5?ŌĆÖ as if that was the important thing. The question we should be asking is ŌĆśGive me as many questions whose answer is 12…,ŌĆÖŌĆØ said a Chicago professor who was interviewed for this study.
[12] McCallum on CCSS: ŌĆ£They just say what we want students to learn.ŌĆØ And Jason Zimba on misinterpreting the Practice Standards to diminish traditional content: ┬ĀŌĆ£I sometimes worry that talking about the practice standards can be a way to avoid talking about focus and specific math content. Until we see fewer topics and a strong focus on arithmetic in elementary grades, we really aren't seeing the standards being implemented.ŌĆØ


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Sorry, if your own supporters cannot name one accomplishment of a two term US senator, then it is time to retire or be voted out in a primary challenge …
Who say's we are not fair and balanced? We criticized Hillary Clinton supporters for not being able to name one single accomplishment for her, well we are doing the same for incumbent Republican, two term US Senator Lamar Alexander. Watch the below video from BEAT LAMAR's Michael Patrick Leahy as he interviewed several supporters of Lamar Alexander as they went in to the exclusive invitation only Lamar Alexander bus stop tour event in Chattanooga, TN on July 29, 2014. The Incumbent US Senator from the Volunteer state is actually have a bus tour that is by invitation only. Yes Tennessee, a real man of the people will to listen to all. UNREAL.
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The Real CNC opines that conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham will be in Nashville, TN on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 and attending the Restore America: Joe Carr rally. Laura Ingraham recently announced her full support for Joe Carr for US Senator for Tennessee. The Restore America: Joe Carr for Senate rally will be held at the Millennium Maxwell Hotel at 7 pm on Tuesday, July 22.
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BEAT LAMAR announced today that conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham will headline a Restore America: Joe Carr for Senate rally Tuesday, July 22 in Nashville, TN.
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The Restore America: Joe Carr for Senate rally will be held at the Millennium Maxwell Hotel at 7 pm on Tuesday, July 22.
"With tens of millions in our country still out of work and the border crisis worsening, citizens across America are waking up to the shocking failures of the Washington establishment that Lamar Alexander calls home. Electing Joe Carr will be a major victory in this new movement to restore America," Ingraham said.
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Freedom Works gives Lamar a 63% lifetime score. and 50% in 2013.
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Mitch McConnell and Alison Lundergan Grimes ran victory laps Tuesday in Kentucky as they rallied their party faithful to nominate them for a colossal showdown in November that could help decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.
Grimes, Kentucky's Democratic Secretary of State, rolled to victory over nominal primary opposition. And McConnell easily defeated tea party-backed challenger Matt Bevin, who spent $3.3 million in his failed bid to oust the five-term Republican Senate leader.
Um, isn't Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell one of those powers to be that he is referencing in his own speech?
As Powerline opines, it is time for Republicans and Conservatives to understand who is their greater foe, "As John has pointed out, McConnell's lifetime ACU rating, after 28 years in the Senate, 'is certifiably right-wing at 90%.' Given that record and the importance of wresting control of the Senate away from Harry Reid and the Democrats, it's difficult to believe that Republicans will not unite behind McConnell in the fight against Grimes."
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Blogger Clayton Thomas Kelly Arrested After Sneaking into GOP Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran's Wife Rose Cochran's Nursing Home Room
Bring gutter politics to a new low …
28 year old Clayton Thomas Kelly of Pearl, Mississippi was arrested on Friday night on a charge of exploitation of a vulnerable adult after he sneaked into the nursing home room of current Republican Mississippi US Senator Thad Cochran's wife, Rose Cochran, to photograph her and then posting the image in a video. He is being held on a $100,000 bond. Kelly, is a political blogger, who operates a "Constitutional Clayton" blog, a Youtube channel and other social media. Kelly has posted numerous pieces in support of Chris McDaniel and opposition to Cochran. He also appears to have interviewed McDaniel on video at least once. What kind of a sick SOB does something like this? One can dislike a political candidate all you want and support an opposition candidate against the establishment, but what that has to do with violating the privacy of an elderly spouse who is in a nursing home bed ridden and suffering from progressive dementia is beyond me.
Left to Right: Clayton Thomas Kelly & Chris McDaniel, pic from blog: 'I met MS Senator Chris McDaniel'
A Pearl man who runs a political blog is accused of sneaking into a nursing home where U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's wife is bedridden and photographing her, then posting the image in a video political "hit piece" on the internet.
Madison Police arrested Clayton Thomas Kelly, 28, of Pearl on Friday night on a charge of exploitation of a vulnerable adult. He's being held on a $100,000 bond.
Kelly is accused of sneaking into St. Catherine's Village in Madison, where Rose Cochran has resided since 2000, suffering from progressive dementia and now bedridden.
UPDATE I: The Cochran campaign is now questioning when, exactly, McDaniel campaign manager Melanie Sojourner learned about the nursing home break-in.
The Cochran campaign is now questioning when, exactly, McDaniel campaign manager Melanie Sojourner learned about the nursing home break-in, implying that it was before news of Kelly's arrest became public and attempting to tie his actions back to the state senator's campaign operation. McDaniel's coalition director told the Clarion-Ledger that he was aware of Kelly's video, which featured the illegally obtained photograph of Rose Cochran, before Kelly's arrest, but a campaign spokesman and McDaniel himself reiterated that Kelly had no ties to the campaign itself.
UPDATE II: McDaniel also distanced himself from Kelly's actions in a statement issued on Saturday.
"I've reached out to Senator Cochran directly to express my abhorrence for the reprehensible actions of this individual," reads the statement.
"This criminal act is deeply offensive and my team and I categorically reject such appalling behavior. My thoughts and prayers are with Senator Cochran and his family," McDaniel said. "Politics is about the exchange of ideas and this type of action has no place in politics whatsoever and will not be tolerated."
Posted May 17, 2014 by Scared Monkeys
2014 Elections, Arrest, Bizarre, Bloggers, Crime, Primary Challenge, Republican, Senate, Senate Elections, WTF | one comment
Liz Cheney Dropping Out of GOP Senate Bid in Wyoming Against Enzi Citing Family Health Issues
Liz Cheney, the daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney, is dropping out of her Republican Senate bid for Wyoming. Cheny cited family health issues as to the reason why she was discontinuing her run for Senate and her GOP primary challenge to current US Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY). According to a statement released by Liz Cheney via Politico, "Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign."
With Liz Cheney halting her primary challenge, this will all but ensure that 69 year old Mike Enzi will win a fourth term in 2014. Wyoming has been a safe GOP state for years, there is no reason to turn a safe state into a civil war and provide Democrats any ammunition to use it as a proxy vote for gay marriage.
Liz Cheney, whose upstart bid to unseat Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi sparked a round of warfare in the Republican Party and even within her own family, is dropping out of the Senate primary, she said in a prepared statement Monday morning.
"Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign," she said.
Phil and I want to thank the thousands of people in Wyoming and all across the country who have supported my campaign. As a mother and a patriot, I know that the work of defending freedom and protecting liberty must continue for each generation. Though this campaign stops today, my commitment to keep fighting with you and your families for the fundamental values that have made this nation and Wyoming great will never stop."
More analysis at Hot Air where they discuss that maybe her dropping out is best but ponder what the medial issue could be.
Perhaps it's just as well. This campaign always seemed a bit ill-considered. Enzi didn't have a particularly RINO-ish reputation until Cheney decided to go after him; the American Conservative Union (which hosts CPAC in March) rated Enzi at 92.73% for 2012, 89% in 2011, and 96% in 2010. On top of that, questions immediately arose as to Cheney's connection to Wyoming, where she had lived sparingly at best for the last several years. The sudden exit makes the decision to challenge Enzi even more questionable.
Posted January 6, 2014 by Scared Monkeys
2014 Elections, Primaries, Primary Challenge, Republican, Senate, Senate Elections | no comments
Pew Poll: 77% of Americans "Angry" And "Frustrated" With the Federal Government
According to a recent PEW Poll, 77% of Americans are "Angry" and "Frustrated" with the federal government . Imagine that. As per poll results, 26% of Americans recently reported that they feel "angry" with the federal government, while another 51% say they are frustrated. With all the scandals, excessive spending, out of control debt, fears and lies of Obamacare and record number of recipients on food stamps with no job recovery in sight, is it any wonder why so many Americans are angry and frustrated. It would appear that only liberal Democrats are not angry with the current federal government … what does that tell you America?
With a possible government shutdown just hours away, public anger at the federal government is as high as at any point since the Pew Research Center began asking the question in 1997. Anger is most palpable among conservative Republicans – 41% say they are angry at the federal government, the highest among any partisan group.
The new national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Sept. 25-29 among 1,005 adults, finds that 26% overall say they are angry at the federal government, while 51% feel frustrated. Just 17% say they are basically content with the government.
The share of Americans who say they are angry at the federal government has risen seven points since January and now equals the high reached in August 2011, a few weeks after the widely criticized debt ceiling agreement between the president and Congress.
As in the past, substantial majorities across the political spectrum are either angry or frustrated with the federal government. But anger at the government is far more widespread among conservative Republicans than other partisan groups. This marks a change from 2011, when political independents (30% angry) were about as likely as conservative Republicans (32%) to express anger at the federal government. In the new survey, 41% of conservative Republicans say they feel angry at the government, compared with 27% of independents. Conservative Republicans are roughly twice as likely as liberal Democrats to say they are angry with government (41% vs. 18%).
Posted October 1, 2013 by Scared Monkeys
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Carlos Danger and Client 9 Come Up Short … Weiner & Eliot Spitzer Lose in Last Night in NYC's Mayoral & Comptoller Democrat Primary (Update: Weiner Flips Reporter the Bird
Thank you New York City for not embarrassing yourselves. Now both of you, please go away for good! A note to Weiner and Spitzer, sex scandals do matter …
Carlos Danger and Client 9 lose.
Carlos Danger, oops Anthony Weiner was crushed last night in the Democrat Mayoral primary, losing to De Blasio. Weiner finished a distant last place 5th and only received 4.9% of the vote in the Democratic primary. Personally, it is rather head scratching that Weiner managed to get nearly 5% of the vote. However, the day was not without it's typical and pathetic antics coming from the Weiner campaign as Sydney Leathers, former sexting partner of Anthony Weiner, attempted to crash his election night party, Weiner's ridiculous concession speech and his final parting shot of a one finger salute. WEINER … GO AWAY!!!
New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, who began his campaign as a long-shot but surfed a late wave of momentum by tapping into liberal anxiety over the three-term administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, overwhelmed his opponents on Tuesday to finish first in the city's Democratic mayoral primary.
With results still being counted late Tuesday evening, de Blasio, the city's public advocate, was bobbing around the 40% mark needed to avoid a three-week runoff race for the Democratic nomination.
And in the classy tone that Weiner has run this ridiculous campaign to be Mayor of NYC, as a parting shot, Weiner flipped the media the middle finger (see pic here) as he hopefully has faded into the sunset for good. Thankfully, Weiner's 3 ring circus has come to an end.
Eliot Spitzer, also known as client #9 and the disgraced former Governor of New York also lost his bid for political redemption last night as he was defeated in the Democratic primary for New York City comptroller by the current Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer. With 97% of the precincts reporting early Wednesday, Stringer was ahead 52.1% to 47.9%.
"I am proud to have run a campaign over the past nine weeks that many thought was incapable to mount," said Mr. Spitzer, who was subdued but not emotional. "We did it in a way that made me proud to revisit the issues we fought for when I was attorney general and governor, to lay out an agenda of what we believed was right for this great city."
"I say to the public, I am proud to have served," he continued.
A special thank you to the people of New York City who collectively told both of the pervs, Weiner and Spitzer, to take a hike and GO AWAY!
Posted September 11, 2013 by Scared Monkeys
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Tennessee: State Rep. Joe Carr Announces Tea Party Primary Challenge to Republican Incumbent Sen. Lamar Alexander
Hey Tennessee … Its time you have Representation that reflects the views of your state, not a RINO.
Tennessee State Representative Joe Carr has announced that he is going to primary challenge Republican incumbent US Senator Lamar Alexander next year. Carr announced his primary challenge to Alexander on Ralph Bristol's conservative talk show on 99.7 WTN. Carr was running against the embattled U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais for the GOP nomination in the state's 4th congressional district; however, has decided to shift his focus to defeating moderate and "the most liberal" member of the Tennessee Republican delegation. It was anticipated that some one would challenge Alexander as the 73 year old Alexander's views hardly reflect the Republican "red" Volunteer state these days. As reported at News Channel 5, Carr, of Lascassas, said "He's [Alexander]getting into the race because Alexander is "too liberal" for Tennessee".
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State Rep. Joe Carr announced today he will challenge U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander in next year's Republican primary.
In his announcement on Ralph Bristol's conservative talk show on 99.7 WTN, Carr called Alexander "the most liberal" member of the state's Republican delegation.
Insiders had anticipated a tea party candidate would challenge the 73-year-old Alexander, who has become a target of those from the far right.
So who will the current conservative politicians in Tennessee support? Many of them pander to the Tea Party, well its time to put up or shut up. And that means you US Rep. Marsha Blackburn. A vote for Joe Carr and his primary challenge to Lamar Alexander would show a clear message to the establishment Republicans who seem more concerned with maintaining power than they do acting like Republicans with GOP principles. He has my vote.
Posted August 20, 2013 by Scared Monkeys
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Is Liz Cheney Going to Primary Challenge Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi?
Run Liz, Run …
Hmm, is Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney, going to primary challenge Wyoming Republican Senator Mike Enzi? So fears the NY Times and establishment Republicans. According to reports Cheney contacted Enzi that she is thinking about it. Some, like Alan Simpson, say that it would be disastrous for the GOP and open the door for Democrats in Wyoming. Hardy, spare us the drama. Although, I generally have no issues with Enzi for the most part, he is one of the 32 Republicans that voted against the Senate amnesty bill and is considered rather conservative. That being said, every one should have to fear the ability to being primary challenged. No politician should ever be given a free pass to be a Senator for life or until they feel like retiring. The US Senate is not the Supreme Court. Maybe it is time for the 69 year old Enzi to return to private life.
Ms. Cheney, 46, is showing up everywhere in the state, from chicken dinners to cattle growers' meetings, sometimes with her parents in tow. She has made it clear that she wants to run for the Senate seat now held by Michael B. Enzi, a soft-spoken Republican and onetime fly-fishing partner of her father.
But Ms. Cheney's move threatens to start a civil war within the state's Republican establishment, despite the reverence many hold for her family.
Mr. Enzi, 69, says he is not ready to retire, and many Republicans say he has done nothing to deserve being turned out.
It would bring about "the destruction of the Republican Party of Wyoming if she decides to run and he runs, too," Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from the state, said in an interview last week. "It's a disaster — a divisive, ugly situation — and all it does is open the door for the Democrats for 20 years."
Wyoming is a solid GOP state. In 2012, Romney won the state over Obama, 69% to 28%. Which ever Republicans wins the GOP Senate primary will will Wyoming so spare me the Democrats might win the state if Liz Cheney runs. What it does tell me is that the old guard, establishment elitists in the GOP are worried about new blood. However, I am in some what agreement with Powerline that the GOP needs to focus on the enemy as being liberals, Obama and the Democrat party. Although I cannot say that Enzi's partnering with Democrat Durbin and the on-line Internet tax is a bastion of conservative values. But I also believe that no one is above being primary challenged. It needs to happen more often in the Republican party; however, this may not be the state to do it in. But then again, it would be a further upgrade of conservatism and that is never a bad thing.
It's too bad Liz Cheney cannot move to Tennessee and primary challenge Lamar Alexander. Now there is a GOP Senator that needs to be removed and replaced with a more conservative candidate, rather than one who voted for the Senate amnesty bill and has become a "green" energy wacko. While the Volunteer state is at it, primary challenge the Judas Bob Corker the nest time he runs as well.
Posted July 7, 2013 by Scared Monkeys
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Will Liberals Really Run a Primary Challenge Against President Obama?
We have this call in the past from Liberals and Progressives that they would run a primary challenge against President Barack Obama, but will they? Will the progressives in the Democrat party actually stand up for their principles, or is this just talk?
Worried the liberal voice is being drowned out in the presidential campaign, progressive leaders said Monday they want to field a slate of candidates against President Obama in the Democratic primaries to make him stake out liberal stances as he seeks re-election.
Ralph Nader warns that without an intraparty challenge the liberal agenda "will be muted and ignored," the one-man primary will kill voter enthusiasm and voters won't get a chance to reflect on the real differences that divide the Democratic and Republican parties.
"What we are looking at now is the dullest presidential campaign since Walter Mondale — and that's saying something, believe me," Mr. Nader told The Washington Times.
We have heard previous calls for such a run from Ralph Nader and US Senator Bernie Sanders (VT-I) … but is Nader finally serious and going to find a challenger to Obama? Nader and company want to develop a debate to bring attention to the Democrat Party. One would think that Obama has already done that, of course it would negative attention with regards to handling the economy and forcing Obamacare down the throats of Americans. However, what about former VT Gov. and Presidential candidate Howard Dean? For Progressives, he would seem like the ideal candidate. With such low job approval polling numbers, one can only imagine what an internal battle like a primary challenge would further do to Obama's approval ratings.
While the group does harbor certain concerns regarding President Obama's policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, his handling of the recent debt ceiling debate, and his relationship to Wall Street, they remain insistent that in offering a challenger they mean to do well by the Democratic Party. As Nader explains in the Washington Times, the group's intent is to create debate and draw attention to the Democratic Party in the same way the GOP primary has done for the Republicans.
Posted September 20, 2011 by Scared Monkeys
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