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My State Rep. Jeff Crank sent a letter saying he is proud to co-sponsor a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
My response:
In your email saying you are proud to co-sponsor H.R. 899 to terminate the Department of Education, you say that you believe "Parents know what is best for their child and should be given the tools to provide the best education for their child, not the federal government." A debatable point, but more importantly an irrelevant one.
In the same paragraph you say that the Department of Education exists to "promote student achievement and equal access to education." Nothing in that mission is incompatible with parental input and/or guidance.
Please tell me honestly which of the department's goals you find so odious.
Do you oppose student achievement?
Do you oppose equal access to education?
If neither, then you have not even begun to make your case for removing the department. Even accepting, for the moment, your opinion that parents actually do know better than professionals with years of pedagogical experience and training, you have yet to make an argument. You have not shown that D of E is somehow failing to give parents the tools to give their children the best education. You need to not only show that, but also why the problem cannot be solved with smaller changes.
Does the sort of "hand waving" you use in your letter work for some of your constituents? I'm not buying it. Do your work. We are supposed to be moving toward a meritocracy. Show your merit by showing your work. Make your case.
Sincerely,
Kevin Bowersox
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This is the ful vid of the #townhall in #Idaho
LISTEN to what the POS at the podium says before she gets grabbed... DESPICABLE.
(also not one guy moves to help her. In fact the one sitting next to her gets up so they can have easier access)
In case you had vacation plans, time to No Longer Support Tourism In Coeur d’Alene & North Idaho! Tourism Dollar’s Are Funding FASCISM!
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The more we let this slide, the worse it's going to get. You'll see people 'rationalize' this...as in "well it's ID" etc... before you know it, women have lost the right to vote.
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Did they take her to the gulag? My god! Unbelievable!
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"When someone's path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty they have failed the first test of an advanced society."
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The printing money section is missing.
I miss “greed” in the lower pie-chart.
"pulling themselves up by their bootstraps"
Probably a third or more of current wealth comes from financial speculation and gamesmanship.
@timbray that sorta falls under “merciless exploitation”, perhaps?
@mwyman In downstream effects, and indirectly, sure. But the financialization of the economy and the entirely-underserved riches this throws off to lucky insiders is worth considering as a separate category of badness I think.
It is in the attitude. If you look at people who succeed at the top, not too many of them are nice people. Ruthlessness and psychopathic traits are very good for you if you want to make it 🤔
Horatio Alger stories.
simple by owning "assets" = housing + charging rent
technology has made lives easier, just not ours.
of course the "birth lottery" just means that their ancestors mercilessly exploited the working class....
the “hard work” one always gets me; isn’t the person cleaning toilets working hard too?
The green half is the same as above; remove that one and replace it with "sheer luck"
That parasite model fits trump to a fine small t. As I understand it, daddy trump was trouble for Eisenhower and g'daddy trump was from Germany, pimped, and fled back to Germany before he could be located for deportation because an illegal migrant to USA.
I think you can get 'comfortable' by hard work and/or a bit of good luck without doing harm to anyone but not start with nothing and become a billionaire. The Very Rich have done exploitative things to acquire the level of wealth they have. It takes generations otherwise.
Just need to add the word "Winning" to "Birth Lottery" as we're all in the "Birth Lottery" but 99.99+% of us don't win or get anywhere near winning.
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have been struck by how much felon47 seems like the anti-Christ, which is problematic for me as an atheist who does not believe in prophesy.
But then it hit me, The anti-Christ of Revelation was actually Herod. So what I'm seeing is the recurrence of a type. The narcissist, unqualified, power-mad, asshole. A type that echoes through history like a fart in a cathedral.
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I'm the same. Don't believe in that AntiChrist stuff. Still somewhat satisfying to throw the possibility in the face of those who do. 🤷
Otherwise, yeah, events seem cyclic. We seem to be in the latest incarnation of the gilded age.
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Also, pay for the damages you caused Russian Terrorists! Plus Pain & Suffering.
Fully, completely endorse. Leave. Very peaceful.
#ukraine till its free
i would also say for musk-trump to leave the u.s.a. and abandon everything that they have accumulated, especially their incomes, businesses, and citizenships.
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where are they going from there...that is the peace plan!! Risky taken on this aren't what I got to talk about so think before you make some nasty decision...
But isn’t all of this the USA plan the whole time? Why would Ukraine join otan? They kinda betrayed Russia, right?
I believe this is bad whatever way it goes
I believe this is bad whatever way it goes
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Yup, simple and easy to understand, even for Putin and Trump. No New York jurisdiction required.
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Or do you only extend support to Europeans under occupation?
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Well said.
...or I'm gonna to call Chuck Norris.
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and return the 700.000 abducted children?
My peace plan:
1. Russian Troops leave Ukraine, including, of course, Crimea immediately.
2. Russia is dismantled as a federation. The federations subjects become independent states. If they fail to establish democratic systems, NATO occupation force intervene.
3. All remaining Russian military stockpile is destroyed, including all the nuclear weapons.
5. All war criminals are prosecuted.
6. Only then we can consider lifting some of the sanctions.
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Trump's peace plan:
"Surrender to dictatorship.
Then let me and my pal, Putin
split split up your resources
And leave you in poverty. "
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intelligence chases her, but she's faster.
I learned about these in the 1960s. Where did she go to school? Or is the question did she?
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She clearly didn't pay attention in class.
that's why they want to break down the education system as well. Biology is too woke.
The bees and the birds!
Wait until she finds out that biology isn't just yes or no, but also everything between. Even death is not the end.
Other animals have a lot more options.
IT'S ADAM AND EVE NOT ADAM AND STEVE GEORGE!!! /s
She's a genus!
Er...genius.🙂
Basic humanity eludes her
I'm so old the only genders they taught at school were humans and women.
@cynblogger She doesn't even realize she doesn't own her own body.
Not to mention Jacob's Syndrome as well...
According to genetic tests, I have mosaicism.
wait until this little fascist with a public bathroom obsession finishes high school biology and learns about XXY, XXX, XYY, XXYY, XXXY, XXXX, XXXXY, XXXXX, and X.
Then we can cover mosaicism, where a single individual has different numbers of chromosomes.
Then we’ll cover intersex people and she’ll realize she has wrongly tormented trans people her whole life.
Maybe, just maybe, the lightbulb will go off 🤯💡and she will realize REALITY IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN SHE THOUGHT. 👩🏫🧬💁♀️
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Todd Alcott is a screenwriter, essayist, and graphic designer who creates retro-looking prints and postcards that I just love. I wrote about his music-themed posters on Boing Boing previously: Your favorite…Ruben Bolling (Happy Mutants, LLC.)
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I remember seeing this in the JC Penny catalog and laughing for days.
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Tammy Duckworth and Felon47 locked in a room for 10 minutes with no questions asked and no charges filed. How can we make this happen?
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Resisting comes in all forms. Here is a very creative one starting to pop up.
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Looking at all of the nominees that are making it through, Matt Gaetz should be feeling like the worst loser in the world.
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From the Constitution. Remember that?
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From the Constitution. Remember that?
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