Garrison Keillor of Prairie Home Companion and Writers' Alamanac, on writing when life is hard. Open thread below...
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is too rarely given it's due as often as it is deserved.
Some stuff you can't make up!
the truth. Humor is a savior when times get tough, its saved me and my family from killing ourselves or each other, he's absolutely right.
He's fantastically intelligent, but honestly the weirdest looking guy ever, even his gestures are odd.
terrorism from Ray McGovern and Colleen Rowley. Saw it earlier from a different link.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/010510c.html
and his tales of Lake Wobegone (where all the children are above average), his wacky music making, and his grand humor.
I'm especially fond of his recent endeavors at editing anthologies of poetry: "Good Poems" and "Good Poems for Hard Times". The latter is particularly good reading in this day and age.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
good to see someone with that kind of money that still understands suffering.
on a couple of plant-related sites and the devastation from this cold snap is likely to be severe. 41F in Miami, frost in WPBeach, severe freezing in Tampa/St Pete. Even Havana (in the tropics) supposed to hit 45F tonight! While 30s and 40s may not sound bad to most of us, they can devastate many plants (coconuts, citrus, mangoes, nursery stock) that don't typically see them. Going to be lots of brown in SoFla in the coming week or so.
Best of luck to all there.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
People in L.A. might be worried about global warming at this moment. The rest of us are freezing our asses off.
http://sirocco.accuweather.com/iwxpage/adc/po...
three weeks with the heat on then back to the a.c. It really blows not having any seasons.
... and you fail to understand the difference between climate and weather.
at 1:00 am it's already down to 24ºF
It's winters like this that pushed the citrus out of Citrus County...
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---Southwest Airlines
3..2..1..Canadians will soon be bitching about the price of lettuce. It's a national passtime at winter get-togethers, and part of our charm!!! (Tee he he, and very predictable)
See the hockey game last night?
Yeah. Seen the price of lettuce?
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_ove...
Maybe I'm misreading all of this but it seems like everyday the Obama Administration comes up with a new way to fuck the very people who put him in office. So now he's in favor of taxing "High end" health insurance plans (Can't wait to see what the Democans definition of "high end" is, and you can be damn sure the health plans enjoyed by the House and Senate will be exempted). That's right, boys and girls, if our "leaders" have their way, you'll not only be required to buy overpriced health coverage (or face penalties if you don't) but if you already have insurance, you're gonna pay taxes on it (isn't this the bullshit scheme McCrazy was pushing during the Campaign). Like I say, I may be misreading all of this but, if I'm not, I will never vote for another fucking Democrat.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
another vote that will help the republicans win power again.
Well, Ron, you tell me what the difference is between the GOP and the Democrats other than the fact that the GOP doesn't even pretend to care about working people, and the Democrats just love to put on their little political kabuki while doing absolutely nothing, zip, nada, for the people who elected them.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
if you use yahoo news as a reliable news source you could probably sign up for the Drudge report or Rush's newsletter and get that kind of news quicker. Then you can tell us all how Obama wrote the legislation.
Uh, Ron, it's from the Associated Press. Yahoo, just posts the stories.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
I know it's from the associated press. That's why I said what I said.
Hey Ron, you have the right to believe and post whatever you want; your opinions are every bit as valid as mine. I'm not going to get into an argument over this. Obama was elected based on a very specific set of campaign promises - Closing Gitmo, providing Americans with affordable, widely-available health insurance, and cleaning up the economic mess that the Bush regime left behind. Here we are, a year later, Gitmo is still open for business (and no, shipping those poor bastards off to some other limbo doesn't qualify as "closing" Gitmo), We're still in Iraq, Afghanistan is turning to shit, We're using Predator drones to bomb the crap out of God knows how many innocent people in Pakistan (and Yemen seems to be next on our hit list), our economy slides further into the shitter, while the very people who caused the economic mess have not only not been punished, they've been put in charge of shoveling even more money to wall street), and now he's sold out on healthcare. Listen, Bush had his 20%'ers, and it's clear that Obama will have his. I have no intention of being one of them. A year later, people are still dying, people are still suffering, and the Wall Street scumbags are still lining their pockets. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
so everything that was left for him to clean up should be cleaned up by now. F**k him, let's put the republican neocon fascists back in charge. Damn, some of you people are so republican neocon fascist.
Cleaned up? No, I wouldn't expect that from anybody. But making things worse - that's a whole 'nother story my friend. It's my hope that, eventually, my Liberal/progressive brothers and sisters will get over this fear of either it GOP-lite, or it's the GOP, no other choice. At least, that's my hope, but I probably won't live to see it. Ok ron, now you can go ahead and make the obligatory crack about me being a Nader or Ron Paul cult member.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
say that!
I'm with you on this, Gene - he's going to have to do some serious about-facing in the next two years to even get me to consider voting for him again.
It could be better all right... For now the alternative is the nothing less than criminally insane Republicans.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Closing it within a year was one of the first things Obama announced plans to do. Funny, but the whole Republican establishment went batshit on this, and Democrats joined in the "not in my backyard" chorus. Funding for alternative locations was delayed and or held back. Liberals complained that "shipping those poor bastards off to some other limbo doesn't qualify" but providing them with civilian trials had both political and pracitcal legal problems due to screw ups in the way Bush folk treated (tortured) the "poor bastards" and f*#ked up the cases against them.
Of course, two of the "poor bastards" who were sent to Saudi Arabia instead of Limbo sent a Nigerian kid back here with a bomb in his pants. The R's ( and much of the press) blamed Obama even though it was Bush who released the two probably after having incarcerated them for no good reason. Even so Obama reaffirmed his commitment to closing GITMO and not putting the Nigerian kid through Bush inspitred torture and (in)justice.
So, Gene, on simple issue number one, things are not so simple. I'll get to the next two when I get a spare minute.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Liberals complained that "shipping those poor bastards off to some other limbo doesn't qualify" but providing them with civilian trials had both political and pracitcal legal problems due to screw ups in the way Bush folk treated (tortured) the "poor bastards" and f*#ked up the cases against them.
After almost 9 years, there are no cases against these detainees. I've always maintained that they should be released and sent back home to their native countries. I'm not interested in whether or not they should be tried in civilian courts or military tribunals. They should have to stand trial at all. They're innocent people being held in some hellish limbo while Americans play their bullshit political games. It's fucking sad, and a crime. And that, Ricky, is why I call those men "poor bastards".
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
judge and jury but I have to ask, "How do you know they're innocent?"
By virtue of the fact that, after all these years of being detained by the U.S. government, not one shred of concrete evidence has been produced which proves that any of them have been involved in terrorist activities.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
they have never been brought to trial. Please give me a clue about your level of education because you're not showing much.
His point is that Obama failed because he did not shut GITMO completely and simply send everyone there back to from whence they came ASAP.
If he believes that is what should have been done then he is among about 10% of the American electorate.
If he believes that he ignores that most of the governments of the countries from whence these people came will not let most of them back or will incarcerate and torture them some more if they do.
If he believes Obama ran on a pledge to do this he is simply delusional.
Let's get ready to move to issue two. It fits well here. On GITMO prisoners he says there seems to be no shred of evidence against any.
On the economy, however, Obama is to blame because he knows nobody responsible has been punished. He is certain of the detainees innocence and Wall Street leaders guilt. That is a good point from which to move on to the next issue.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Oh,yeah, that hurts (yawn). Let me try to explain how our legal system generally works. Suspects are detained, evidence is gathered and submitted to Grand Juries which are charged with the task of determining whether a crime has been committed. If the Grand Jury determines that there is sufficient evidence, then the GJ hands down an indictment and the case proceeds to trial (Granted this is an abbreviated version of the process, but I think it covers the key parts. Now, that's how civilians are tried. Military tribunals are way different and I must confess I'm not familiar with the process. Not only has no evidence been produced against any of these men, the US government, 9 years later, STILL can't seem to decide if they're civilians (which means they're entitled to a civilian trial by jury) or "enemy combatants" ( a bullshit meaningless classification intended to do nothing but keep innocent people detained without trial) As far as I'm concerned, having been apprehended on the battlefield, they are POW's which means the Geneva Conventions apply. So, to sum up, Ron (and I'll type this slowly) - you can't determine their guilt because they can't be tried, and they can't be tried because there's no fucking evidence. Get it?
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
to have you represent me as an attorney.
When did I ever claim I was a lawyer? Aw fuck it, Ron - believe what you want man.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
you fail to mention the fact that it was the Bush administration that denied these people a trial by jury.
haters have morphed into Obama haters,
making me wonder if it is the President or the hatred which is the problem.
"Obama was elected based on a very specific set of campaign promises - ...cleaning up the economic mess that the Bush regime left behind... Our economy slides further into the shitter, while the very people who caused the economic mess have not only not been punished, they've been put in charge of shoveling even more money to wall street."
Those were Gene's words as it pertains to issue two.
Gene seems to have skipped the suspects are detained, gathering evidence, going to the grand jury,
grand jury determining if there is a crime, grand jury indicting, and a trial taking place. They should have already been punished. In less than a year. Let's see, when was Tom Delay indicted? And his trial is set for when?
And just who is "they" who have not been punished? Why the very "they"
who are now in charge of shovelling more money to Wall Street. Forget that the bail out was initiated under Bush and passed with bipartisan support. Forget that as administered by Obama it seems to have acheived some measure of stability and some recoupment of taxpayer funds. Forget that virtually everyone said the negative employment effect of the financial crisis would peak well after the new administration came into office, but that the administration addressed this as its first Congressional request and got a bill passed over near unanimous Republiocan opposition.
I guess we should have seized the banks and put every dollar from the stimulus into a public works jobs program. That of course would have included the prison guard jobs needed to guard they who should have been punished by now.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fusea...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
President Barack Obama has ordered a "surge" of federal air marshals to be in place by Feb.1 in what officials said was a "race against time," with other suicide bombers believed to be in the terrorist pipeline, although there is no specific imminent threat, federal officials told ABC News.
Whats Obama at about 28% approval now looks like he's getting tips from the Bush holdovers.
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"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
a job...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
were getting B Jobs, the bomber would have been caught before he could light.
And this isn't an inspired site for self abuse either.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
a requirement, I might fly again.
should pose as blind passengers accompanied by bomb-fluffing dogs..."watch the teeth Lassie!! watch the teeth!!"
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could make for good fantasy, I suppose it's about as likely as me flying first class.
Hell, after paying all the fees-- '9/11 emergency' ticket surcharge, $25 first bag/$50 second bag, $7 for a worthless blanket/pillow combo I wouldn't give to a homeless person--I haven't got any cash left to pay a pro.
Besides, at good airport screening, I can get puffed/blown in the little cubicle for free. And really, when it comes down to it, 15 seconds and the right attitude is all one really needs...
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---Southwest Airlines
(on KPFK in L.A.) and a Democratic Party strategist, and his feeling is that the Democrats are now basically like Eisenhower Republicans.
I'd say the corporatist healthcare legislation speaks to that in volumes.
It's been pretty much down-hill for Progressives since the DLC came to being and Bill Clinton was their first anointed.
In the meantime we have the U.S. supporting terrorists against Iran:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115495&s...
If this one gains traction and ends up before the U.N. security council it won't look pretty for Obama.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
a show and tell at the UN as as Colin Powell it really won't look pretty. But what looks mighty ugly is someone taking Iranian military propaganda at greater face value than they would allow another to take American government propaganda.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
humans are screwing up the Earth with resource stripping and screwing our way into overpopulation oblivion.
per Jon Stewart tonight.
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---Southwest Airlines
Do they have an abundance of males too? that's a recipe for pointless unrest.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
The country’s fertility rate was almost 6.5 children per woman in 2007.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_...
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---Southwest Airlines
my kids. i haven't had any P*ssy in quite awhile.
a) highly skewed to benefit men
b) unlikely to benefit kids much
c) basically non-existent
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---Southwest Airlines
Due to a combination of intelligent people not having children and excessive breeding by less intelligent people, the world is full of morons, with the exception of an elite few who work slavishly to keep order.
the good smells of centuries past...
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---Southwest Airlines
are exclusively union plans.
Some stuff you can't make up!
But even if they were, a health care plan that costs $25,000 per year per person sounds like a plan that does as much damage to the idea of holding down health care costs as it does to benefiting the average union member who might have such a plan in his or her contract. Keep in mind that per capita health care spending in socialist Britain was just under $3,000 for 2007. Paid for out of taxes on income.
What is being talked about is taxing plans that cost above a figure almost 10 times the amount of total per person spending in a country most people here would argue has very good health care.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
are like the anonymous sources and the some people say folks. We never hear who the fuck they are.
I have to pay $870 a month for insurance premiums because the pharmaceuticals I have to take would cost me $3,500 a month otherwise. Now, on top of the $10,000 in premiums I pay through my one person company, and the $1,200 a year in pharmacy co-pays, the government is going to tax me for having a "Cadillac" plan? Give me a break---seriously!
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Some stuff you can't make up!
Time is so fleeting as I get closer to my own demise...
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---Southwest Airlines
except he's a piece of shit hypocrite homophobe.
BARF
i grew up on PHC, but seriously? it makes me sick.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/...
http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/fuck_garr...
Some months ago, I had posted here (erroneously) that I thought Keillor was actually a 'Winger. Indeed, this was the issue that many lefties had with him. (I'm sort of surprised others didn't point out that this was his blemish, if you will. I don't follow the guy all that closely.)
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---Southwest Airlines
cure teh gay.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Thank you for posting that. I know Keillor puts on a good show and all, and he's on our side on many issues, but when he rants against the LGBT community he's a right-wing bigot.
And maybe even a Christian Right bigot:
Sorry, but it's really hard for me to listen to this guy.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
As a straight guy, I can only sympathize with those in the LGBT community as to how Keillor's words would offend.
As both a Jew (son of a Jewish mother) and a Catholic (Confirmed, though not practicing), I am offended by both of the above quotes. (I guess I can empathize with myself??)
And while I've enjoyed his radio shows in the past, especially when I was homeless, living in my van, life's too short to donate a couple of hours of weekend time to him now.
Homophobe? 'Winger? Hypocrite? Xtian? Too many stripes/spots for me to contemplate at this late hour; I'll just stick with ASSHOLE for now.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
...satire?!?
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
I considered that possibility, but these are frequent themes for him, and he doesn't seem to go into "Colbert character" for other issues.
If I turn out to be wrong, I will be happily relieved. But from what I've seen, he seems to be serious.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Really really very bad satire? Not funny!!
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
... loses a lot in print. I think the fact he used so many dog whistles in both the gay and xstian pieces makes it satire.
I imagine him speaking them, with the pregnant pause, the low key voice, waiting for the audience to catch up and then continuing on could be funny.
I could be wrong.
I don't know the guy, so I won't pass judgement. When I watched the clip (yesterday) he seemed kinda gay to me.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
And yes, he's a christian, so what? Lots of people are, not me, but lots of people.
. . . and there's Christian Right. If he's just being snarky, I'll be happily relieved, but I don't think he is.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Palin says she isn't going to "back-off"! does that mean she is going to continue posting opinion on her face-book page? Run for the hills! The no longer anything lady is going to post stuff!
Guess what silly girl - Levi is going to post stuff too, and it will be more relevant.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
negotiations on C-SPAN while he was campaigning:
http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-ob...
As far as I know, the Conference Committee has been eliminated and Pelosi, Reid, Obama and Rahm have decided to have their own little secret soirees with AHIP's and United Health Plans CEO's behind closed doors....????
Where's the Progressive Caucus when we need all 79 of them? Why are they not raising hell on this?!
I keep waiting for the big press conference to happen where they will all DEMAND that CSPAN be allowed to televise ALL negotiations and that either a ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION AND/OR THE KUCINICH AMENDMENT TO ALLOW STATES TO OPT OUT be included in the final bill or they will vote "NO!"
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
but if it was on C-span, it looks like nobody here for the most part would be able to grasp the reality of the situation anyway.
The fix has been in since day one.
This is a side tidbit of Corporate Welfare to take eyes from the main thread of the Great Plunder.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
But I think you are right.
Maybe we should have paid attention when they said Obama and chenny were related. lol
Will SCOTUS ignore states' rights when it comes to gun control? On a related note, the Holocaust museum shooter conveniently kicked the bucket. Some piece of shit stiffs a Salvation Army with a fake check for 25 grand. Cold spells do not disprove global warming. Lame Duckenegger will try to bring back 100,000 jobs, while the "liberal" media praises his Obama-esque speech in which he overlooks the tent cities and takes credit for saving us from financial ruin. Oh, and he wants to privatize prisons. I guess it was by looking the other way on exploitation of undocumented workers. The Pentagon uses the Cheney argument for keeping Gitmo closed. Picking someone's brain takes on a whole new meaning. Our airport "security" at work. Good luck, Gary.
I hate the phrase "states rights." States do not have rights. Persons have rights. States have powers. And they only have the powers rightly delegated to them by the consent of the governed. And that's what the friggen' case should be about. Whether a state is acting within the proper scope of its powers.
Will the Court uphold state power when it comes to gun control? To me the analysis should be quite simple: Is the law in question designed to protect each person's rights equally? If so, does it? And that should be that. If the law fails the tests, it should be struck down.
I favor a variety of regulations when it comes to gun control, but I do agree that the Constitution protects the right to bear arms via the Second and Ninth Amendments.
I wish we could stop talking about it in terms of states rights, as though a state is being oppressed by having its right to oppress its citizens infringed. We just need to ask whether any level of government is acting within the proper scope of its powers.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
...as though a state is being oppressed by having its right to oppress its citizens infringed.
Touche!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
But what about States rights to protect themselves from the abuse of Federal Powers?
I know about the VI article, the XIV and XV amendments and all that, but in the context of when the Constitution was written, the states were virtually self-sustaining city-states under the Articles of Confederation.
I don't know if there was ever a decisive moment between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
In Canada, with our parliamentary system, it's very clear which things are federal and which are provincial. We never have these sorts of power struggles. All the "big stuff" and citizens' rights are federal (to put it simply).
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
unsuspecting passenger stuck with explosives, leads to major Irish chaos.
http://www.timesunion.com/ASPStories/Story.as...
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... the most disgusting diatribe ever by Rush Limpballs here
It is from last night's van Susteren show. The man is a total mental case, and they should have kept him in Hawaii for observation.
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
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---Southwest Airlines
I will agree with one point he made whatever he paid it was 35% less because he does not have insurance. That is most likely the truth.
It is nice that he has the money to pay his hospital and doctors charges. Honest people don't have that much money to be able to do that.
I know the limpballs of our country talk about how they did it themselves and if they could do it any one can.
Yes we have all heard someone give that very same line of bullshit a thousand times.
But the facts are, if you try to deal honestly and fairly, pay your taxes and meet your obligations. You won't be making 400 million a year. Honestly how someone like limpballs ever got found people ignorant enough to listen to him is beyond me.
Everytime I think of limpballs I think of the first time I ever heard him speak. I guess I listened for 5 minutes whan he said, he was bringing the facts as they are with super intelligence on loan to him from GOD!
After hearing the things he had said prior to that statement I nearly chocked on my lunch.
I see now that all these years later he is as stupid as always!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that is killing America!
... in having to pay more when I didn't have insurance because there was no large corp and membership to get better deals.
I was charged $500 for an emergency room visit and a shot of penicillin for an extracted wisdom tooth infection.
It will be on YouTube. A delayed, rather than live, broadcast, of course, but it's an interesting development.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
and by whom. Still, sounds like a victory of sorts.
As someone who has been through the CJ system, I've come to expect that most of my "personal" information isn't that at all. Hell, when I've been arrested lately, my boss and family are more likely to find out details online--charges, bail, court appearance dates, where I'll be living short-term, DL status, hair style, etc--well before any lawyer sees me. That players in a high-profile case (where millions of people with similar cases await a likely pivotal decision) should expect special privacy seems ludicrous to me.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Garrison Keillor is a snore.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Bruce Schneier has a 'design the new TSA logo'
contest!
may cut science classes, because minorities aren't doing as well.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/berkeley-hi...
Abe Lincoln said something I think would apply here.
"You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak."
Berkeley is facing huge cuts in funding due to the governator screwing the state's economy worse than Gray Davis ever did.
The HS school is cutting 5 science teacher positions and the labs which take place before and after regular school hours AND are advance placement classes. The teachers, parents and students all voted for this. It costs $$ to open early and stay open late. If all the students are suffering for the few who can afford to attend it only makes sense in this financial climate to serve the whole student body.
I thought repuggies hated 'elitists'!?
Very interesting to see both sides of the same story, isn't it? So easy to spin, depending on the wrtier's bent.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
... science classes, just the AP classes. What should a public school do, serve a few at the expense of the majority?
This is just the wrongwinger screech of the day, being able to say 'liberal' Berkeley is putting the white man down at the expense of affirmative action.
They hate science, it has a liberal bias.
because of budget cuts?
In the proposal by the principal, it states it is because of the racial equity/achievement gap. And according to the teachers it will effect both regular and AP classes. "It would reduce instructional time by 21%(30% for AP classes).
When you say the teachers, parents and students all voted for this, do you mean the School Governance Council? Which has what 20some members? Or something else?
And what do you mean by "If all the students are suffering for the few who can afford to attend it" Is the school funding it? Which means it would be available to all who qualify. Or are the families of the students funding it? Which if that is the case how is it because of budget cuts?
Currently the many of the students enrolled in the AP classes can take them first year. Without the before and after school time, most of them would have to take a general class the first year then the AP class the next. So they spend a little more for one year, rather than have to pay for it for two. Which sounds most cost effective?
And for your other post about "serve a few at the expense of the majority". A few? About 600 students at that school take AP classes a year.
And I don't see anything 'elitist' just hard workers and over achievers. Hell you have kids who want to put in extra time at school and learn as much as they can, and that's a problem? Seriously?
I would rather have tax dollars spent on that, than what happens at my local HS(and I'm sure it's not the only one) where they hire people to come in and one on one with some of the underachievers to try to get their grades up. I knew one person that did it until they ended up quitting, the student they were assigned to could do the work, they just didn't care to. She was just bidding her time in school because she had to go. The Aides day was spent like this "put down the brush/makeup/etc. and do your work." repeated all day long. And from what I've heard that was the norm not the exception.
What sounds like the better use of limited funds? The hardworking student or the lazy bum? I have no problem with helping out those that need it and can benefit from it. I do have a problem with trying to help those that don't give a shit.
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2009/12/08/bhs-sc...
http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/upload...
So why is it conservatives always argue the three R's: Readin', Ritin', Rithmetic?
(Hmmm...must be where the tea-baggers bad spelling comes from).
Last I checked Science doesn't start with an R.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Here's Richard Wolff explaining what's wrong with the current top down model and how to fix it by democratizing companies with a bottom up model. He also explains other economic topics such as derivatives, emerging market investments, etc.
http://www.askbutwhy.com/2010/01/richard-wolff-on-cooperation-and.html
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