I'll leave you with Gimme Shelter - LIVE

Here is what should be the official theme song for the only Canadian stop for this phenomenal retrospective of the greatest rock and roll band in the history of the world and their impact on music, fashion, film and pop culture.

"I turned on my boy scout smile; I stood up and gave her my seat. I winked my eye and UNZIPPED my fly and later we went up to her penthouse suite!" Love it! :)

Check this out!

Yea, I had a couple bouts with COVID.. Once in Jun of 2020 and another again in Jul of 2021....

It ain't no thang... :D

I'm hoping to see them live in the not too distant future...

heh

It was the first song I was exposed to at the tender young age of I can't recall that far back.. :D

Michale, I think you will love The Cooper Brothers, from Ottawa!

Apropos, eh?? :D

And, he's got a big New Year's Eve performance scheduled in Vancouver ... hoping for the best for him

Here is a favourite BA tune ... Bryan wrote this with his longtime writing partner, Jim Vallance of PRiSM fame ... Lonely Nights

Michale, I think you will love The Cooper Brothers, from Ottawa!

Yea.. So what else is new.. :^/

No reason we can't have a little one ourselves.. :D

Another EAGLES tune that tells an awesome story... :D

HOTEL CALIFORNIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BciS5krYL80

I knew a guy in NJ who swore up and down that HOTEL CALIFORNIA was about a robotic takeover.. :D

Very nice!

Since there was no FTP column on Friday, there was no CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party, so ... it's all Chris's fault.

See ya this coming Sunday night!

VERY rich in story-telling..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HhWmjDFAw

You would have to post the specific study, but the ones about Head Start I have read all fall in to the cut off the study at 3rd grade and only look at standardized test results category that I mentioned above. Way too narrow to call "failed utterly"...

Head Start was pitched to us in the beginning as being the "Cadillac of Pre-K education", but the Gov't audit report I mentioned concluded that it had turned out to be in reality, an "Inner-city jobs program".

Not the first (nor likely the last) expenditure of taxpayer money on well-intentioned programs that failed utterly.

At the pre-K level, social and verbal skills are the most important, along with promoting fine motor skills as they develop. Even in middle class families, not every child has enough opportunity to play with other children or interact with non-family adults. Verbal skills tend to go up with parental education, but not absolutely. Play-based pre-K is foundational.

My mother taught kindergarten for decades in a working poor neighborhood, and was well aware of the struggle of good parents who worked long hours, possibly at more than one job, to raise their children in the way they wanted. They had to rely on the school and programs like Head Start to help them out.

Re "Attendance at pre-school is among the most accurate predictors . ."

Check out the government's own audit of the vaunted "Head Start" program issued several months ago. Supposedly the 'Cadillac' of pre-K educational programs, turned out to be "of no lasting value whatsoever", I think their conclusion was "No effect beyond third grade."

in truth it's more of a multi-factor spectrum based on a combination of economic and cultural factors. but yes, one can't easily fit that into a sound-byte.

JL

Sorry, but you have struck a nerve.

poor parents in the US generally have to spend most of their time working, which doesn't leave a lot of time for other things. so kids generally don't get enough quality time with them. because they're too busy keeping a roof over everybody's heads.

CW used the term “preschool” - but clearly in the context of childcare, not education. The prefix Pre means before, so preschool is where children go before they are old enough to go to school. Preschool is primarily intended to keep young children safe, fed and supervised. Things most working parents can’t do while on the job. Some education will break out - but it’s not the primary mission. Bottom line, there is nothing for Lefties to acknowledge…your comment is just more of your divide and conquer shtick.

Those words were a direct quote from his first box. I attributed them to some unnamed "lefty". I never said they were CW's words, however I definitely think he is in agreement with them, otherwise he wouldn't be advocating for fellow Dems to broadcast them, right?

CW made no such admission about the educational value of child care. That is purely your extrapolation… aka putting words in somebody’s mouth.

Economic nonsense. Wage gains can only affect price inflation within sectors of the economy where normal competition does not exist (automobile manufacturing prior to globalization would be an example). Wage gains by themselves cannot directly cause price inflation. Actually, it's the price inflation (caused by monetary inflation, increased demand or reduced supply) that are causing the wage gains.

FINALLY, a lefty admits that pre-school has zero to do with education, and everything to do with high-priced, glorified day care!

Hate to say it but the Cynic Within me thinks that such political malpractice is because Democrats (or enough DINOs like Manchinema) also serve big money. The Repugs are simply more honest about representing the few and to hell with the 90%.

And, remember the Republican cult of economic failure!