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• Middle School Suggestions

  Published: August 13, 2007, 12:02 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Opinion, Politics, Christine Quinn, Michael Bloomberg, Randi Weingarten, Robert Jackson

  for educators. UFT president Randi Weingarten said the recommendations could turn around every middle school in the city. "Let's make this real, she said. Let's turn around our middle schools. Robert Jackson, chairman of the City Council's Education Committee, made his own comment on the current state of the city's middle schools. On his

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• Recently I posted an article about Randi's Million...

  Published: February 16, 2007, 11:47 am

  Tags: Michael Prescott, Jref, Randi, Science, Paranormal, Million Dollar Challenge

  and the quotes above from Randi's own FAQ prove is that the challenge is, in fact, just an excuse to debunk phenomena which may or may not be real without even raising so much as a finger. It seems to me, in the end, all of the time and energy spent investigating Randi is far more than he's put into investigating the paranormal...and one of

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• Authors@Google: James Randi

  Published: August 17, 2007, 6:03 pm

  Tags: Skepticism, James Randi, Skepticism

  talk by James (The amazing) Randi. It’s always nice to see him in the media, he’s looking well and joking about his illness which is great to see. According to the video he’s now given up the scientific pursuit as to whether Santa Claus exists which is a great shame, but at least he has more time to spend debunking homeopathy.

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• Chiudete quella madrassa terrorista Il caso della scuola araba di New York

  Published: September 6, 2007, 7:45 am

  Tags: Generale, Bloomberg, Danielle Salzberg, Debbie Almonstaser, Discriminazione, Ebraismo, Gibran, Intifada, Islam, Madrassa, New York, Randi Weingarten, Terrorismo, Xenofobia

  d’arabo. Persino Randi Weingarten, presidente del potente sindacato dei professori, applaude. […] L’articolo completo di Alessandra Farkas stato pubblicato sul Corriere della Sera di oggi Condividi

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• Weingarten Not With Bloomberg on Testing, Cell Phones

  Published: September 14, 2007, 2:03 pm

  Tags: Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Randi Weingarten

  head of the teachers' union, Randi Weingarten, has had a pretty good working relationship with Michael Bloomberg, who has made education the cornerstone of his mayoral legacy. But in a television interview airing Sunday, Weingarten, showed some daylight between her vision of school and Bloomberg's. First, she offered a pretty good analogy

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• Randi Weingarten Torn up Over Cellphones

  Published: September 14, 2007, 5:14 pm

  Tags: In Other News, Cell Phones, Mayor Bloomberg, Randi Weingarten

  said teacher's union honcho Randi Weingarten, in a radio interview to be aired this weekend. [Ed. Note: Wait, what? Don't Ask, Don't Tell? Oh, no, homo don't play that!] Weingarten is torn. She wants to help kids be safe while traveling, but admits that in some schools phones are so disruptive that it's becoming a serious impediment to learning.

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• Calling Bullshit: James Randi Offers $1 Million If Audiophiles Can Prove $7250 Speaker Cables Are Better

  Published: October 1, 2007, 9:45 am

  Tags: Calling Bullshit, James Randi, Jref, Pear Anjou, Pear Anjou Speaker Cables, Snake Oil, Speaker Cables

  found its way to the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), and Randi offered $1 million to anyone who can prove those cables are any better than ordinary (and also overpriced) Monster Cables. Pointing out the absurd review by audiophile Dave Clark, who called the cables "danceable," Randi called it "hilarious and preposterous." He added

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• Another Thompson (and Weingarten) Announcement on Schools

  Published: October 4, 2007, 10:10 am

  Tags: Politics, Bill Thompson, New York City Public Schools, Randi Weingarten, United Federation Of Teachers

  will be teachers union head Randi Weingarten. About two weeks ago, Thompson issued an audit saying the city's education department underreported violent incidents at schools. Lots more to come from him on the schools issue, I

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• Double Blind: Pear Cable Calls James Randi's $1 Million Offer a Hoax

  Published: October 5, 2007, 8:26 am

  Tags: Audiophiles, Double Blind, Hoax, James Randi, Pear Cable, Speaker Cables

  of Pear Cable, has called Randi's offer "a fake" and a "joke". We've contacted James Randi, asking if he'd like to get together with these Pear dudes for some double-blind testing. We've also contacted Adam Blake, asking if Pear planned to participate in Randi's double-blind test. After the jump, see the full text of Pear Cable's accusations

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• Pear Cable Calls James Randi's $1 Million Offer a Hoax

  Published: October 5, 2007, 8:16 am

  Tags: Hardware, Cables, Hardware, James Randi, News, Pear

  of Pear Cable, has called Randi's offer "a fake" and a "joke". We've contacted James Randi, asking if he'd like to get together with these Pear dudes for some double-blind testing. We've also contacted Adam Blake, asking if Pear planned to participate in Randi's double-blind test. After the jump, see the full text of Pear Cable's accusations

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• CNN Pushes Gun Control in Philadelphia, Blames Concealed Carry for Crime

  Published: October 6, 2007, 5:49 pm

  Tags: Anderson Cooper, Randi Kaye

  tougher regulations. CNN's Randi Kaye now looking at all the angles in a debate with deadly stakes, "Keeping Them Honest." RANDI KAYE: In Philadelphia, getting a gun is about as easy as ordering a pizza. Are guns flooding the streets here in Philadelphia? RAY JONES, JR., Men United for a Better Philadelphia: Yes, they are. KAYE: Each

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• Dan Abrams: Did Democrats Know About Secret Torture Methods Or Not?

  Published: October 9, 2007, 4:48 pm

  Tags: Msnbc, Nancy Pelosi, Scandals, Torture, Bush, Dan Abrams, Democrats, Pat Buchanan, Randi Rhodes, Rendition

  and Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes about the recently revealed Bush DoJ secret 2004 torture memos. The Democratic leadership, including Nancy Pelosi, Jane Harman and Jay Rockefeller, have all denied having seen the secret memos, but admit they were briefed on operational details (whatever that means) which leads Abrams asks the question

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• Political Types on a List of Business Women

  Published: October 11, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: Politics, Chung Wha Hong, Jennifer Cunningham, Randi Weingarten, Suri Kasirer

  head of the teacher's union, Randi Weingarten, and powerhouse lobbyist Jennifer Cunningham. Also honored were lobbyist Suri Kasirer and fund-raiser andimmigrants' rights advocate Chung-Wha Hong. UPDATE: I just notcked that in her little profile, Cunningham manages to get in a little dig at Spitzer's persona: It was an odd assumption that

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• The Full Randi

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:03 pm

  Tags: Politics, Randi Weingarten

  in December in honor of Randi Weingarten, the head of the teacher's union. The money is going towards the union's charter school, the Council for Unity and the Educational Priorities Panel. And in other Weingarten news, she'll be honored later tonight at the Empire State Pride Agenda's fall fund-raiser. All in all, a decent couple of

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• Randi Weingarten: Not a 'Coming Out' Occasion

  Published: October 12, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Politics, Christine Quinn, Empire State Pride Agenda, Randi Weingarten

  the first time labor leader Randi Weingarten publicly discussed the fact that she is a lesbian. Weingarten, the head of the United Federation of Teachers, made her remarks on the subject last night at the Empire State Pride Agenda's fund-raiser, where she won the group's award for community service after being introduced by City Council

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