Young Kossacks 第两个 Answer a FP question?

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Tuesday November 24, 2009 · 7:59 PM PST

2009/11/24 · 19:59

On monday, Meteor Blades said he did not know who the youngest Kossack is when he was giving tribute to Charlotte Lucas on her 96th birthday.

The question is, who is the youngest Kossack? I know I have Populista beat by a few months, and I'm pretty sure rossl is a little older than me. I'm 16 and was born on November, 5th, 1993.

If, in the self selected group of people who access this diary, there is someone younger than me you will host the next Young Kossacks!

This is a community diary like the omnipresent pootie and woozle diaries. If you prefer something more substantive and mind provoking, I invite you to look on the front page. But if you're interested in thought provoking discussions with another person wearing orange stained pajamas I invite you to take a ride on the Young Kossack train.

And in the infallible words of a favorite front pager from the wrong Portland, Young Kossacks part 2 starts in There's Moreville... [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]

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How young are you? In pi years from 96!

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How young are you? In pi years from 96!

0-5 pi

1 vote

5-10 pi

3 votes

10-15 pi

5 votes

15-20 pi

12 votes

20-25 pi

3 votes

25-30 pi

3 votes

Less than 30 pi from 96

1 vote

What do you mean danmitch? Can I have a cheat sheet?

1 vote

Sure. 0-5pi is 96-81 years old. 5-10 pi is 80-64 years old, 10-15 pi is 64-49 years old, 15-20 pi is 49-33 years old, 20-25 pi is 33-18 years old, 5-30 pi is 18-2 years old

1 vote

just give me pumpkin pie ala mode ya damn utes

5 votes

Hey NW Kossacks: Are you on Twitter?

danmitch

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Saturday April 11, 2009 · 10:10 AM PDT

2009/04/11 · 10:10

Twitter is the website of 140 characters. Not only is it an awesome waste of time, it can also be used for political purposes.

Imagine how much quicker we could get information if it was tweeted out? Messages to all your friends to canvass, to vote in an election, or to check out a cool diary on Daily Kos.

I am working on a project for the Northwest Progressive Institute (NPI) to collect Twitter usernames of progressive activists in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Our goal is to mix Twitter microfeeds together to capture what activists across the Northwest are saying and doing.

danmitch

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Sunday December 21, 2008 · 1:01 PM PST

2008/12/21 · 13:01

Education has always taken a back seat to other more pressing issues like war, the economy, health care, social issues, and other policies. Not since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 has education been a key policy--and we all know how horribly that turned out. Even though education normally takes a back seat, it is one of the worst parts of public policy to be abridged. When there is bad educational policy for one year we loose twelve grades of students who could have been better educated. It can be described as a lost decade of learning. That is why it is imperative that we change education--reform it--so that the future will show America as the shining beacon on the hill. How might we change education so that we are educating for the future? We follow the steps of teaching for the sake of teaching.

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Which best describes the education plan I describe?

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Which best describes the education plan I describe?

Excellent, should be sent to Arne Duncan immedietly

4 votes

Good, but requires a few revisions

1 vote

Better than the current system, but not great

1 vote

On par with the current system

0 votes

Worse than the current educational system

1 vote

Terrible, not worth the bytes it is coded in

2 votes

Education from a student's perspective

danmitch

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Friday December 19, 2008 · 2:11 PM PST

2008/12/19 · 14:11

The announcement that Arne Duncan will be the next Secretary of Education had me thinking about my own education and what the government should do. I am a 9th grade student in the Gifted High School Program in Bellevue, WA. This means that I will be going into the IB program next year and that I have four more years to be in public schools under the helm of the government. I was able to go to a Joe Biden event on October, 19 and I said to him "Senator Biden, I have been living under the Bush Administration since I was six years old, please invest in my education because I sure have not been invested in by them." He replied "We will invest in your education, unfortunately it will be about ten years too late." This made me more hopeful for my future and that of posterity. Now, however, I am not so certain about the future of education.

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What is the most important part of an education?

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What is the most important part of an education?

Tests! Tests! MORE TESTS!

3 votes

Philosophy

50 votes

Math

17 votes

Science

44 votes

History

33 votes

To be good Democrats

8 votes

To protest the system

20 votes

English

21 votes

Foreign language

4 votes

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