Video: Why California really, really needs Race to the Top funds
posted at 2:15 pm on July 25, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Item: California may not get to participate in President Obama’s Race to the Top education grant system because the state bars school districts from using student testing data in teacher evaluations:
The state isn’t likely to see any of the $4.35 billion in competitive federal grants that will be passed out as part of the American Recovery Act if legislators don’t rescind a law that prevents teachers from being evaluated based on student test scores, say federal officials.
“Any state that makes it unlawful to link student progress to teacher evaluation will have to change its ways if it wants to compete for a grant,” President Barack Obama said in a news conference Friday.
California’s education code states that a system tracking teacher data, to be online next year, is not to be used in combination with student information to evaluate teachers.
Only Wisconsin and Nevada have similar laws.
Item: Even apart from the money, evidence that California needs to repeal those laws:
King Banaian dropped this one on us in the NARN Green Room this afternoon, in what had to be a covert operation to undermine our show prep. I’m not sure which is my favorite part — probably where the young woman explained that “food is free, all you have to do is pay the farmers” — but Mitch thinks the “vegetable trees” was the best. Actually, I think the most edifying part was watching the Santa Cruz city council sit impassively to the very end, or maybe the strangled applause just before they asked for the next speaker.
California, the choice could not be more clear.
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Arugula Czar.
guntotinglibertarian on July 25, 2009 at 3:31 PM
It’s actually enjoyable to watch…if you turn the sound off.
vcferlita on July 25, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Cozmo: I don’t think she understands the concept of “moronic”
Willie on July 25, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Well, I have noticed that your breasts are enlarging.
Loxodonta on July 25, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Oh – Like we used to watch Baywatch.
ericdijon on July 25, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Not sure, but as a small woman myself, I’ll take it.
Esthier on July 25, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Hey! You’re going to hurt her self-esteem. Think of all the efforts teachers made so this idiot would, you know, like think she has really, like, you know, keen ideas that, ah, should, like, be shared, like, you know, like, with other people. It’s soooooo kewl.
GarandFan on July 25, 2009 at 3:36 PM
When is she moving to Portland? She’ll have many friends…
Realist on July 25, 2009 at 3:36 PM
I had to stop watching after she said “We need food, because, you know, it’s food, and stuff.” I knew it wasn’t going to get any better.
rmgraha on July 25, 2009 at 3:37 PM
These aren’t mine! I’m back here!
DarkCurrent on July 25, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Not only does my wife have a rack like that she’s a RN and makes good money! No need to put up with dumb bimbos.
boomer on July 25, 2009 at 3:39 PM
“I think that we should make a perfect pesticide for the crops, but, and it’s good for people and healthy and it keeps the crops preserved, too, because we need the food, because it’s food and stuff, and organic food is good also.”
Who could argue?
Or diagram?
Abby Adams on July 25, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Wow. I had to stop halfway through and let my brain untwist. vegetable trees and slavery on the east coast. Food is free. Land is free. And drop those rental prices, OK? The homeless have lots of stuff. All they need is a house.
((((BOOOOOOIIIINNNGGGG)))
I used to live in Victorville California in the 80′s. It’s like,,you know,,like the 80′s is still alive and stuff.
Guardian on July 25, 2009 at 3:42 PM
betsyz on July 25, 2009 at 3:42 PM
I see her IQ and breast size is the same.
Jeff from WI on July 25, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Filed under ‘fantasy seeds’ for future reference/cultivation
DarkCurrent on July 25, 2009 at 3:44 PM
No doubt, she’s an Obama backer
Jeff from WI on July 25, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Gravity will get her eventually
Jeff from WI on July 25, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Best part is definitely, without a doubt, the vegetable trees part.
otherkid on July 25, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I’ll bet you $5 she’s Nancy Pelosi’s, like, you know, daughter. It’s in the water on the left coast. LOL
bradley11 on July 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM
This is Perfect California: totally clueless, drug-addled, comprehensively stupid, spaced-out and wasted.
Any doubts regarding who she voted for last Nov?
Meanwhile, millions of normal people in California are forced to deal with an Oversupply of Loons………..
Janos Hunyadi on July 25, 2009 at 3:50 PM
;-)
redrock on July 25, 2009 at 3:50 PM
It’s not so funny when you consider that her vote counts as much as yours does.
Cicero43 on July 25, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Wow, she one of many.
Geronimo on July 25, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Nah. It’s funny.
madmonkphotog on July 25, 2009 at 3:54 PM
That is, she’s one of many. My God, I’m getting dumber by the minute watching this stuff.
Geronimo on July 25, 2009 at 3:55 PM
What you mean? You not dumb. Me not dumb. That woman dumb.
madmonkphotog on July 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Believe it or not, that woman is TYPICAL of a lot of the idiots that go to school at UC Santa Cruz. Many are spoiled “trust fund” ninnies going around saving the vegetable trees.
And our state and local governments PANDER to these idiots. She better never get a bump on the noggin because if the integrity of her skull is compromised she will suffer a sucking head wound as the air rushes in to fill the vacuum between her ears.
crosspatch on July 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM
LOL
Jeff from WI on July 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM
This gal’s testimony is typical here. That’s why no-one laughed. Let me give you an example:
LA County Fair Ad
theCork on July 25, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Dumb dumb dumb dumb duuuuuuuumb. Dumb dumb dumb dumb.
Me go get food from tree now. Me want burrito tree in back yard.
Geronimo on July 25, 2009 at 4:03 PM
“The food is free, so we should just … sell it at the farmer’s market.”
Liberal Econcomics 101.
Laugh, but is the dumbness of her statement any worse than Obama’s statement that by limiting profits we can incentivize private insurance?
PackerBronco on July 25, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Her huge hooters arent enough to combat the stupidity.
This is why I prefer to live in Los Angeles. Girls with boobs that big down here dont bother blathering about vegetable trees and free land.
I woud say just pray for that earthquake to come and make the bay area sink, but with those floatation devices she’d find a way to stick around until she starves to death when the vegetable tree and the money bush don’t work out…
theoneandonlyfinn on July 25, 2009 at 4:07 PM
California isn’t the only state with a surplus of stupidity.
Kentucky has their share, obviously, when you find that Western Kentucky University has a football player named
Jihad Morris.
Ol’ Jihad’s mama sounds like a shining light on the brainpower hill to me.
bradley11 on July 25, 2009 at 4:07 PM
But actually, good for her for even wanting to get involved. Dumb as a rock, but engaged at least.
Abby Adams on July 25, 2009 at 4:08 PM
On the lighter side its really good to see that the severely disabled get to have their say…
theoneandonlyfinn on July 25, 2009 at 4:10 PM
I live in SoCal and I gotta tell you, she is not the exception, she is the rule. I have no doubt that if you put over half my neighbors up in front of any group and asked them to express their opinion on any topic, they would sound just like her. And the worst part is, they really think they are smart! That’s why CA is floundering financially, people believe in this stuff!
Bikerken on July 25, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Uh.. engaged morons got us Obama
DarkCurrent on July 25, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Most severely disabled are smarter and more articulate than this woman or SimpleSimon .
CWforFreedom on July 25, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Flat line.
watson007 on July 25, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Engaged morons got us in a budget deficit, the biggest state tax increases in the nations history, and Rob Reiner.
I was stunned that the whole state rejected more taxes on that May 19th ballot.
Guess even Busty LaRoo thought that was too much to take.
Besides the sales tax hike on the bras alone would break her back, if the rack didnt…
theoneandonlyfinn on July 25, 2009 at 4:16 PM
A Democrat politician takes one look at her and thinks.
Great Democrat breeding stock. We’ll stay in power another generation. Dumb as a post but can breed us another half dozen Democrats, brought up on welfare.
Jeff from WI on July 25, 2009 at 4:18 PM
True… stream of consciousness can work well when done by the likes Dostoyevsky or Faulkner or, as evidenced by this video, it can go horribly, horribly wrong…
elgeneralisimo on July 25, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Green Economics:
Growing food for the people is so good, because it’s free. All you have to do is pay the farmers. And pay for the land. But why do we have to pay for the land? The land’s free. It’s new land. You know? I mean, do you have to pay for the land? Do you have to pay rent? Do you have to pay? Um! The food’s free! So, we should just… sell it at the farmer’s market.
— Brilliant Woman
I told you it was green.
Loxodonta on July 25, 2009 at 4:21 PM
You obviously weren’t looking at the same things I was.
Loxodonta on July 25, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Living in California has turned into a David Bryne song.
And you may find yourself, living in a moron shack.
And you may find yourself, in a foresaken part of the world.
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of an overtaxed automobile.
And you may find yourself with a beautiful dolt.
with a beautiful rack.
and you may ask yourself, well…
why the f@#% do I live here?!?
theoneandonlyfinn on July 25, 2009 at 4:25 PM
She has probably worked out these ideas talking with friends. That’s what I want video of.
exception on July 25, 2009 at 4:26 PM
likes of…
Note to self: Click the preview button first elgeneralisimo, not all of the words you form in your brain make it to the keyboard…
elgeneralisimo on July 25, 2009 at 4:26 PM
California is floundering because it’s a nutcase state. Too bad we can’t do some sort of corporate spin-off and sell them to the Chi-coms without worrying about our national security.
What a ph$ck up state. And, of course, they are held as the standard that the rest of us should follow.
No thanks. I’ll hang out with my fellow knuckle-dragging, conservative citizens who have a great degree of common sense and high regard for the good of this country.
Cody1991 on July 25, 2009 at 4:26 PM
You folks simply have no appreciation for classic
westernCalifornian gibberish. Admittedly, it’s an acquired taste.mojo on July 25, 2009 at 4:28 PM
You just dig a hole in you back yard. Do you have the hardware? I mean, once you have your hardware out, it’s free! Then you just bury your toe in the hole… Then plant some seeds. And your burrito tree will be free!
Loxodonta on July 25, 2009 at 4:28 PM
I have to find out,,, is she single?
feedercattle on July 25, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Well, she’s right about one thing — there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit in California.
KyMouse on July 25, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Nahhhhhh….
Here you go: ÓÒ
Loxodonta on July 25, 2009 at 4:34 PM
There’s more than one talented girl in CA.
txag92 on July 25, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Wonder what kind of fertilizer California uses for their watermelon patches? I may have to go to the store to get me some.
yoda on July 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM
I’m not so sure those are hooters. I think they may be bilateral floatation devices.
Key West Reader on July 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM
That was a good one!
Key West Reader on July 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Then why are so many sinking right into them?
Loxodonta on July 25, 2009 at 4:48 PM
She doesn’t need to ride a horse or ride a roller coaster!! I would suggest she could get a job as a stripper or the Adult film industry!
Dire Straits on July 25, 2009 at 4:52 PM
When did Miss South Carolina move to California? :-0
Seriously, God help us if this woman was serious (I have my doubts). That was the most warped case for socialism I have ever heard. Essentially she was advocating that California become one big, like you know, hippie compound where there is no private property and everybody spends the days making stuff and reaping the harvest from the vegetable trees.
Of course what do I know, I’m on the East Coast where apparently we still have slaves.
highhopes on July 25, 2009 at 4:53 PM
I would suggest California’s nanny state act to ensure that she doesn’t, like you know, procreate.
highhopes on July 25, 2009 at 4:54 PM
She could be a victim of a mental health care system designed and implemented by Precedent Twaining Pants. And, its FREE!
/yay
Key West Reader on July 25, 2009 at 4:54 PM
This is just the latest which makes me fervently wish for an earthquake of sufficient magnitude to separate and sink that particular strip of beach from the rest of this continent.
Vegetable trees and all.
Spiritk9 on July 25, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Eh, youre missing the nuance…
the China slaves.
I really think Bouncy McTatas is enjoying Californias
biggest…er…crop. Even Marx would be rolling in his grave at this…
theoneandonlyfinn on July 25, 2009 at 4:57 PM
I really, really, REALLY would like this “woman” to go up to Obama and suggest that he is a slave.
Please do this lady…please. On national TV too.
Spiritk9 on July 25, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Holy Cow!! She didn’t even need a teleprompter to make that speech.
Dire Straits on July 25, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Yep…from Santa Cruz NORTH to Marin County and east into Sacremento. Nice big tidal wave a la Deep Impact.
Just stay away from the beaches down here towards OC and San Diego. Yea they’re full of bimbos…but theyre (mostly) Republican boobs down here.
theoneandonlyfinn on July 25, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Boob jokes aside….. did you notice the only time the audience reacted to her incoherent monologue was when she mentioned Bush? I think there were more boobs in that audience than the two that were protrudingly apparent!
libertylady on July 25, 2009 at 5:02 PM
I replayed it and…sounds like she actually had a NICE comment about Bush…ruh roh…
theoneandonlyfinn on July 25, 2009 at 5:05 PM
“Everybody knows you never go full retard.”
/Tropic Thunder
ReagansRight on July 25, 2009 at 5:06 PM
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OMG….. Like, she sounds like a friend of mine did when he like started operating his own lunch truck? His most famous comment about his bizness model, was that like “the food is free”!
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I love him dearly, but 2 business starts (he and a partner bought a bar…), and failures later, he still doesn’t get it. Every penny counts when you’re trying to pay the bills, and taxes, and fees, and other costs of running a small business.
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Apparently, it’s the same with a country… We can’t just keep acting like the things government pays for are like…. Free.
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RalphyBoy on July 25, 2009 at 5:08 PM
It’s Santa Cruz, California. That woman was probably valedictorian of her High School class and well on her way toward graduating with honors from UCSC.
highhopes on July 25, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Nice to see that “medicinal” marijuana is working out so well in California.
Hollowpoint on July 25, 2009 at 5:11 PM
I got that part, it’s just the stupidity of suggesting that East Coast people are slaves to China while all the “enlightened people” of California are living like Hobbits out happily weaving their own cloth and working the potato orchards as some sort of a giant collective only marred by those mean people who want rent money and insist on clinging to the idea of private property.
It really is a hillarious clip that perfectly sums up one segment of California thinking even though it is wrong to laugh at the mentally retarded.
highhopes on July 25, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Bet she doesn’t play much golf.
yoda on July 25, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Too funny. LOL
ReagansRight on July 25, 2009 at 5:21 PM
theoneandonlyfinn on July 25, 2009 at 4:25 PM
+100!
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Jack Ketch on July 25, 2009 at 5:22 PM
It’s this sort of thing that makes me doubt the long term viability of democracy.
Kafir on July 25, 2009 at 5:22 PM
I bet she would be a lot of fun on those extra long car trips.
feedercattle on July 25, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Hey AP!. was wondering if her presentation was that of her education. where did she go to school?. Cali is my guess.lol
public education at it’s ugliest.
hawkman on July 25, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Watch one of the Judge shows (esp Judy) and see the rocket scientists that agree to go on national tv and display their dumbness. Now, not that I have ever watched this drivel…just what I’ve been told!
Dingbat63 on July 25, 2009 at 5:32 PM
A shiny ball can be permanent diversion for her.
Jeff from WI on July 25, 2009 at 5:35 PM
…and she probably votes
elvis on July 25, 2009 at 5:38 PM
She is a pothead; tax her to the max!
TN Mom on July 25, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Jeepers, that’s sad.
dogsoldier on July 25, 2009 at 5:53 PM
uh m why like uhm pages uhm cuz uhm to like use ya nooo paper and that kills like uhm paper trees!
Like ya noooo like uhm All the paper trees are gone!
DSchoen on July 25, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Well, well, well! We have located one of Dr. Moniz’ patients.(1)
(1) Antonio Egas Moniz received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine for perfecting the lobotomy.
Orson Buggeigh on July 25, 2009 at 6:14 PM
This is the verbal equivalent of someone writing a post without punctuation. One guess as to who she voted for.
Vashta.Nerada on July 25, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I’ve a feeling this is, like, a put on. Either than or the world is about to, like, end. My I.Q. has already gone down and I couldn’t make it to, like, the end.
Fred 2 on July 25, 2009 at 6:27 PM
I thought Kellie Pickler was blond?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEP7uti0PDw
Jeff from WI on July 25, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Dumb as a stump
gdonovan on July 25, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Look at the poor guy in the background. You can tell he’s given up all hope for society as he listens her ramblings.
AaronGuzman on July 25, 2009 at 6:43 PM
If we didn’t have to eventually pay for it, I could care less what this collection of cretins, freaks and psychotic hysterics do. Jump into the Pacific Ocean (if you can find it) and convert the fish to socialism for all I care.
MaiDee on July 25, 2009 at 6:48 PM
THIS WOMAN HAS TO BE OBAMAS EXPERT ON THE BUDGET!!!!
Jeff from WI on July 25, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Oh Lord, please let the “big one” come.At least an “8″ and break off and slide these idiots under the ocean.
Jeff from WI on July 25, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Is this a stand-up club?
She’s rilly a secret roaming satirist, right?
Freezers should be free, coz, like, free is part of their name, kinda.
profitsbeard on July 25, 2009 at 6:55 PM
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