Dear Secretary of Education Duncan:
Thank you for apologizing for insulting “white suburban moms.” However, your apology did not go far enough. You failed to apologize for Common Core, an insult to our entire nation.
Mr. Duncan, you may control the purse strings but WE (moms of every color and location) control our “brilliant” children’s shoe strings. We have the final authority and we’re saying “no” to your “higher standard” and your high-stakes tests. We’re not afraid of a higher-standard. In fact, we’re not afraid of anything. We will not be intimidated by DC politicians and corporate profiteers who think they know what is best for our children. We will NOT allow our families to be bullied into your P-20 (pre-natal to life-long labor) education scheme.
Our children are...
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Dave,
Let me start by saying I have great respect for you. I worked for you for just under four years, and it was the best job I've ever had. You've helped millions of families, including my own, get out of debt and make sound financial decisions. You're one of the smartest, most successful people I've ever had the privilege of learning from.
I also respectfully think you've made a mistake with your stance on bitcoin.
On April 8th 2013, I sent you an email making myself available as a resource related to Bitcoin. You were kind enough to reply with "I have no idea what you are talking about. I am sadly ignorant of that world." My intention was to help you be a well informed voice in the media on this issue.
I remember when you expressed negative opinions concerning social media...
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Dear Mr Clarke
You strike me as a decent chap, who is truly passionate about your job and your business. Why wouldn’t you be – after all, you’ve been at Tesco all your life and I believe your father worked there too!
But that’s part of the problem – it’s in your DNA. But it’s not in your customers’ genetic make-up.
You speak retail; they talk pub/school-gate/bingo-hall/rugby-club-speak.
The media interviews you did this week were always going to be tough – the sales slide is what journalists love: bad news, and you could not control the questions. But you could control the answers and all those other utterances you made to shareholders or customers.
So, Mr Clarke, what did this mean?:
“We are pleased by the early response to our accelerated efforts to deliver the most...
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My Darling Pam,
Vic Neverman is a Scorpio (dark, paranoid, etc.) who likes animals and long walks on the beach.
Vic Neverman is a Scorpio (dark, paranoid, etc.) who likes animals and long walks on the beach.
I have been negligent. I haven’t called. Not that your campaign headquarters ever excelled at taking messages, but called of late I have not. It isn’t for lack of want, Pam… Pamela Jo… You must understand, I haven’t been in a good place of late and it is for our own best interest we, you...
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Dear Dr. Albers and Ms. Larsen,
I am writing to you in response to a story I recently read regarding a principal in your district. I am sure that at this point you have read or heard about the Raw Story piece on Kimberly Taylor. I am sure that you, just like me and every other parent of a special needs child, were horrified by the audio tape of Ms. Taylor embarrassing a child in front of the school and saying, “This is a retard.” I am sure that you, just like me and every other parent of a special need child, were horrified by Ms. Taylor’s use of profane language, of the anger and hate in her voice, of her abusive and demeaning language. I am sure that you, just like me and every other parent of a special needs child, were horrified to the point of knowing that Ms. Taylor does not...
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Dear Emma.
As you know I have been trying to get comment from your operatives on one of your clients. They will have told you what information I have on that client. Having discussed the matter at length with regulatory authorities I can see only one outcome. I will run with this expose in due course with a “no comment” from yourselves but pro tem as your client knows what is coming I think I shall torture him and make him sweat for a while yet. I will fire an opening salvo soon.
I write because your team point blank has refused to return phone calls or to say whether they do so on just this client or on all clients. If it is the latter that would be a shame as you do act for some half decent companies that Steve and I might write positively about. Should we tell them that you are...
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Dear Justice Makarau
I WRITE this open letter to you in my capacity as a concerned Zimbabwean patriot and also as one of your learned friends. I hope I find you well.
I have known you since the early 1980s when both of us were law students at the University of Zimbabwe. You were a few years ahead of my stream. I have nothing but absolute respect for you as an individual, a lawyer and a jurist. You have distinguished yourself as a legal practitioner and your record as a jurist is impeccable.
When you were appointed chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) a few years ago, I was very pleased and, in fact, I was convinced that you were going to clean up the mess at ZEC and that you would, in your typical hardworking manner, ensure that the organisation would...
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Dear Boss,
Given that I’ve been working for you for a while now, I think it’s time for me to share with you my list of grievances in hopes that your Neanderthal behavior will spontaneously evolve to catch up with the 21st century in the year to come.
First, HR tells me that I should call you my “manager”, but let’s face it, you couldn’t manage a 3rd grader’s bake sale on your best day. If they’re referring to “micro-manager”, then yes, I might be able to get on board with that term. It definitely seems fitting when you cram my inbox with busy work on Friday at 4:46pm and pop your head in my office at 4:56pm to see if I’ve finished it.
The truth is, what I’m really working on is building an arc to stay afloat above the torrential flood of paperwork that somehow seems to overflow...
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Dear Mr. Mourinho,
Real Madrid's project with you as a coach has come to an end in dramatic fashion. However, we, as madridistas, should all look back and be proud about what you were able to accomplish in the biggest sport club in history. We all probably expected you to bring us La Décima, but the team fell one goal short of being in the Champions League Final two consecutive years. You finally inspired Real Madrid and allowed its fans to finally enjoy a game of football against arch rivals FC Barcelona.
I personally think that you would've accepted to stay if big changes were made in the dressing room. President Florentino Pérez decided to give power to the players instead. We will never know how things would've developed in the next few seasons with you in command, but we do...
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Dear David,
Back in the summer when I was asked to pen an open letter of welcome to you on the eve of your official first day as the new United manager I wrote that there would be some wretched times ahead and you would need to develop Rhinoceros skin to deflect the heavy criticism that even your predecessor had to deal with at times.
I never for one minute thought it would ever get as wretched as it did in Athens.
And if your skin has got thicker over the last eight months then I suspect you are going to need grow another heavy layer quickly so that the latest bombardment of flak doesn’t penetrate and wound you fatally.
If you thought the ride was bumpy so far then I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it is going to be like riding along a pot-holed road in Fred Flinstone’s...
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