In 1979 63.3 percent of recent high school graduates had employer-provided healthcard. By 2004, only 33.7 percent did.
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making music with goldie:Arts Walk Morgantown WV
at helm of fortune
Paul and Benny Aboard, Tilghman Creek
Here's what gets me into the "zone. " Ain't she pretty?
Beautiful Music: Roumamian Street Musician in Amsterdam
Rated LPD
...in heaven
making music with goldie:Arts Walk Morgantown WV
...in heaven
at helm of fortune
About Me
- paul
- I try to be compassionate, ethical, generous, hard working, and engaged in making the world a bit better each day. Sometimes I'm grouchy, forgetful, messy.
LPD Rated
L = Left, as in my politics
P = Personal, as in some posts
D = Derivative, as in incorporating neat things from others
P = Personal, as in some posts
D = Derivative, as in incorporating neat things from others
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Paul and Benny Aboard, Tilghman Creek
Goldie
Here's what gets me into the "zone. " Ain't she pretty?
Roumanian street accordionesse in Amsterdam
Beautiful Music: Roumamian Street Musician in Amsterdam
Ways in Which the World Divides
- People who prefer cake dough knishes and those who prefer flaky dough
- those who hang their toilet paper with the loose end over the top vrs those who like it coming out from underneath
- ...by favorite season. I prefer fall
- Progressives who still have hope for Obama and those who don't
- People who write with a pen or pencil or people who write on a keyboard. Unfortunately I'm one of the latter, it's the piano thing
- People who think unions have improved america and those who think they are a curse.
- People who prefer the Reuben (corned beef and sourkraut) to those who prefer the Rachel (pastrami and cole slaw.)
- Students who learn best by reading, and those who learn by listening to lectures
- People who think bagels are ok with blueberry or cinnamon filling, and those who think they should not be sweet
- People who love to cook with pressure cooker and those who are afraid of the things
- Foods that love to be overcooked (pot roast; brisket) and those that don't (fish; brussels sprouts)
- Adults who like it when it snows, and those who fret about it
- people who like flavored coffee and those who don't
- SUV drivers and the rest.....
- "daddy" vs anything else
- Food processed latkes (smooth) or grated (chunky)
- Some people like snakes, some hate 'em
- People who like flavored coffees and those who do not (is there a correlation with people who like lite beer?)
- middle aged men who can go the night without a trip to the bathroom
- People who can stand to drink lite beer and those who can't
- people who like dark vs milk chocolate
- elastic band vs rubber band
- pop vs. soda
- lean or fatty pastrami
- pastrami or corned beef
- people who sing in tune and those......
- people who sit in the front row, and those sit in the back
- People who like to learn languages and those who do not
- People who think the 60's were great, and those who do not
- People who remember dreams and those who do not
- Sailors vs motor boaters
- Crunchy vs smooth peanut butter lovers
- People who like or don't like long car trips
- People who think honey is healthy and sugar is not
- People who pay their credit card debt in full each month, and those who don't
- Meat vs vegetable eaters
- Math confident vs math phobic
- Fans of football and fans of futball
- People who enjoy running
- People who eat cilantro
- Tomayto vs tomahto
- People who put their coats on their chair backs at a theater
- People willing to go first in a buffet
- Morning vs night people
- People who eat sour cream vs apple sauce on latkes
Bests
- furry slippers in the morning in the winter
- Energetic music in the morning
- First big snow of winter
- Music with 5,7,9, or 11 beats, especially if they alternate from measure to measure
- Funky diners....
- An evening doing nothing but listening to music.....as in tonight!
- learned tastes: brussels sprouts, halvah, celery soda (tonic,) shav
- Making latkes with my mother's recipe
- Listening to my music on shuffle in the car and then going to whatever cd strikes my fancy....often one I forgot I had
- First crisp day of fall
- Nina Simone
- First coffee in the morning
- Moment when you shut off the motor on a sailboat
Worsts
- Running out of hot water for a shower
- Television in the morning
- Pianists making the sweeping bent wrist motion off the keys
- Empirical Political Science
- French fries that aren't brown on the outside
- Moment while taking a bath when your warm back touches the freezing tub back
Things I've changed my mind about
- When I was a kid I always lusted after the variety of nasty looking pocket knives in see through cases in hardware stores. My parents would only let me own a homey boyscout knife. Now that I can buy my own, I'm not very interested in all those nasty looking knives in the case.
- Facebook....I like it
- Till I got goldie, I thought you couldn't have enough accordions. Now I need only one!
- Eat less meat. No I'm not anywhere near a vegetarian yet!
- Ronald Reagan....a little....give him credit for nuclear disarmament
- Opera..... now I like it, sometimes
- Country music.....now I like it
- Importance of genetics vs environment on childrens' personalities
- Counseling. There was a time when I thought it was hooey.
- Obama. I didn't care for him at first. Maybe I'll change my mind again and revert.
- Pacifism...I'm getting convinced
- Swing music....I used to equate it with bubble gum pop (music)
- New Jersey....I'm liking it better
- Lettuce (I don't like it much)
- Spinach (I like it)
- Lima beans: used to hate 'em
- Accordion Music
Things I haven't changed my mind about
- flickr....I still don't like it
- My mother's recipes....can't be beat
- Ronald Reagan...mostly....convinced the American people it was in their interest to go for all kinds of right wing stuff, like trickle down, deregulations, etc.
- Still love grilled cheese sandwiches
- snow, still love it
- Jewish women....
- Gorbachov:: visionary soviet reformer
- Pianists who make that rising sweeping motion off the keys
- Karl Marx: brilliant philosopher
- Regions of the country I like and don't like. I'll leave you to guess.
- The power of nature to bring out the best in us
- Marriage....I keep trying
- Euro pop....still too soft edged for me
- The 1960's...as in I'm still proud to be a child of...
- Richard Nixon
- Lobster...I like the taste, but can't stand the process
- Big bodies of salt water....I need them in my life
- Tongue (to eat...I don't care for it)
- Halvah (I like)
- Swimming pools (I don't like)
Becker Raves
- Sound of ice cracking when you pour in liquid of room temperature
- the way milk poured into coffee disappears to the bottom and then appears and spreads through the top.
- 88 Iranian professors protest violent tactics by govt., saying "violent attacks on defenseless students is not a sign of strength."
- West Virginia figure of speech....the car needs washed; the house needs cleaned
- Droste's hot chocolate
- Facebook as a way to keep track of casual friends...normally I'd just lose them
- Obama's ability to inspire....will that survive his waffling?
- Roz and Ann Payne organized a 350 vigil in Morgantown to support significant climate change in Copenhagen
- All the internet action working for comperhensive health care reform.
- I love writing this blog....way above my expectations. (Does that count?)
Becker RANTS!!
- Pre recorded and synthesized bass lines with a band. Dead Dead Dead
- Male rant number 1..... It seems to me if I am talking to a woman at an event and another woman comes over, she frequently bursts right in and starts a new conversation. Seems that a little more politeness would be to hang around, listen and find a way to fit into the conversation. As with the one below, I believe there is a little gender action going here.
- Male rant number 2: Another possible gender/civility occurrence... I don't care for the interaction when a woman friend comes over to me at an event, and before saying, "Hello, how are you?" Says, "where is your wife?"
- Opening a new cd package, especially the ones with the code taping the halves together on the side....especially when you're eager to hear new music!
- People who can't drive in snow (isn't that crotchety of me?)
- Uganda passes death penalty for gays law following visit by three US fundamentalists speaking on dangers of "gay"
- ...when people turn perfectly nice nouns into verbs. I call this verbizing. ... as in bureaucratize, transition
- People talking on cell phones at check out or in restaurant
- Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley,, and JP Morgan Chase hand out $29.7 billion in bonuses in 09. That's a record.. Wreck the economy and then receive socialism for the rich. That's a pretty good deal!
- Blue Dog Dems willingness to sacrifice all Health care for narrow issues!
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For almost 40 years now, the national average dropout of high school rate has stayed about the same: approximately 33% (67% graduation rate)
ReplyDeleteGraduation Rate in Baltimore County Public Schools - a little over 80%
Graduation Rate in Baltimore City Public Schools - about 34%
Another statistic, this one on the healthcare side rather than the high school side:
ReplyDelete“Last year 750,000 Americans filed bankruptcy. Over half of those bankruptcies were because of medical expenses. Over half of the people who filed bankruptcy because of medical expenses had health insurance."
-Harry Reid