Day: June 26, 2012

Caveat: Barack H. Cheney

Politics, Economics & Current Affairs

Michael T. Klare at Guernica magazine makes a what I find a convincing case that Barack Obama's energy policy is a near perfect continuation of Dick Cheney's, as developed both while he was Bush II's vice president but even when he was Secretary of Defense under Bush I (due to said energy policy's notably heavy geopolitical elements).

Let's add to that the almost transparent way in which Obama is continuing the Cheneyesque national security policy (e.g. drones, subterfuges against Iran, Guantanamo, etc., etc.), and I have hard time not believe that Cheney somehow, eerily, still seems to be pupeteering the White House, despite his protoge's replacement by a zombie from the other team.

I'm so discouraged. I'm trying to decide what third-party candidate to support.

Caveat: School of Fish

Banalities & Journaling / Teaching & Methodology / The Wonders of Work

Fourth-grader Jeonghyeon impressed me today, because she gave me a picture of a fish school. It was impressive because this was a fairly accurate representation of something we'd talked about during my "phone-teaching" with her last Friday. It was a sign that her comprehension skills are actually improving, and it's a credit to the phone-teaching concept. She's a difficult student – a befuddling combination of a sunny, positive attitude and stubborn resistance to actually learning something.

Here's her fish school.

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I'm extremely tired tonight. I think I slept badly over the last several days. I'm not sure why.

[Daily log: walking, 3 km]

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