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Jackiejokeman

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« Reply #12855 on: December 05, 2017, 03:40:05 pm »



 What is it about government that we don't control it ...


 although we elect them they continue to control it ...


 outside of why we elected them to control it.


 That whatever political process is in power ... they take care of their own.


 The pitch is they say they are going to represent you ...


 but once elected ... they represent themselves to be re-elected.


 You are not needed again until they need your vote, no matter how much they lie.


 And what the sickness is ... it's normal.


 You can't escape it because they control it.


 You are here to do what they dictate.


 I guess you could call yourself a Democrat-Republican-Independent ...


 but you're just along for the ride until they need your vote to keep the charade ...


 going.  ;D


 Your salary will go down and their salary will go up and you will except it as that's


 the way things work.


 Because you've been trained.


 You know what the saddest part about it is ?


 Your children have been trained that way also.


 But they are not going to put up with it.


 Your revolution is not you ... it's your children ...


 and they are going to put up with the shiit the way you did.


 And that's a good thing .  :D


 We will be gone and the children will have a better future ...


 because we won't be in the way anymore.

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« Reply #12856 on: December 05, 2017, 04:03:50 pm »
My kids have used iPads in school since 1st grade. For the lower level kids (1-3) they put a case on it which is like 3 inches of rubber on all sides.  As far as I know, they've never had a problem with the tablet breaking. My son is older and the case is less rugged so maybe he'll break it at some point but, so far it's been fine.

Mine are a bit younger... They simply destroy..
 OtterBox or not.
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« Reply #12857 on: December 05, 2017, 04:06:01 pm »
Once mine hit 1st I'll have a better opinion. Id guess most schools are using old text books, do so because they don't have resources to buy new ones... And large one time capital outlays for equipment/it staff is not in the budget.
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« Reply #12858 on: December 05, 2017, 05:02:15 pm »
Why not?  It would be much cheaper to have a license to teaching materials online then to buy and replace text books all the time?  I am not saying that the teacher should just use any internet page or wikipedia to teach from.  Accredited digital text books have to be cheaper and much easier to keep updated versions of.

I am not discouraging use of computers, but they are an additional resource and should not be considered entirely as an alternative text.

There are a multitude of minor functional differences, but every teacher I have ever spoken to about it agrees that the common approach used by most schools is a step backwards, and in many schools the students now no longer have textbooks they can take home with them (often making it more than mildly difficult to assign homework), they also do not get the text in digital format, and for poorer schools in poorer districts (like mine) a high percentage of kids still have no real computer access at home, or it is so limited as to be of little help.


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« Reply #12859 on: December 05, 2017, 05:45:41 pm »
https://news.grabien.com/story-morning-joe-trump-team-going-jail-rest-their-lives

There are going to be some incredibly disappointed people over at Morning Joe.
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« Reply #12860 on: December 05, 2017, 07:14:17 pm »
No foolin'!

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« Reply #12861 on: December 06, 2017, 12:11:31 pm »
Why is this fool wasting taxpayers time and money on this BS?


Democratic congressman Al Green plans to force vote on Trump impeachment
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Dec 6th 2017 11:16AM


Rep. Al Green, a Democrat, plans to force a vote to impeach President Donald Trump.
The resolution will surely fail, as not enough Democrats are on board and Republicans still control the House.

Rep. Al Green of Texas, a Democrat, plans to force a vote to impeach President Donald Trump in the House on Wednesday, after months of threats to take action.

Though Green's effort will most assuredly fail, he intends to force an up or down vote on the House floor through a privileged resolution.

BuzzFeed News reported on Tuesday that Green sent a letter to colleagues outlining the impeachment charges against Trump. Green's resolution claims that Trump has been harmful to the US, citing various comments the president has made, such as referring to white nationalist protesters as "very fine people" and describing Rep. Frederica Wilson as "whacky" on multiple occasions.

In addition, Green considers certain executive actions by Trump to be "inciting hatred and hostility," such as his ban on transgender Americans serving in the US armed forces.

Green has been threatening impeachment for months, regularly taking to the House floor to say that Trump is unfit to serve. And Green's reasons for impeachment regularly change.

In May, he delivered a speech on the House floor suggesting Trump be impeached for firing FBI Director James Comey, which Green said amounted to obstruction of justice. In October, he offered a resolution to impeach the president and quickly withdrew it without a vote.

But Green's plan will go nowhere. No Republicans have said that Trump ought to be removed from office and many Democrats, particularly those in the party's leadership, have said talk of impeachment is premature.

"It's not someplace that I think we should go," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on CNN's "State of the Union" last month. "I believe that whatever we do, we have a responsibility to first and foremost to unify the nation."
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« Reply #12862 on: December 06, 2017, 12:24:09 pm »
Hey backyard weather prognosticator


How you doing with the Penthouse Populism of the orange administration?
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Jes Beard

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« Reply #12864 on: December 06, 2017, 04:36:14 pm »
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/5/barack-obamas-team-worked-against-donald-trump/

Isn't that sort in the category of a dog bites man story?

I mean does anyone think the Bush team did not work against Obama, or that the Reagan team did not work against Dukakis, or that the Johnson team did not work against Nixon?

What is it I am missing that actually makes anyone think this qualifies as a NEWS story?

Or is the problem just that the url does not do a good job of indicating what the story is actually about and what the story is actually about does merit news coverage?

Jes Beard

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« Reply #12865 on: December 06, 2017, 04:44:50 pm »
Why is this fool wasting taxpayers time and money on this BS?


Democratic congressman Al Green plans to force vote on Trump impeachment
Business Insider
JOE PERTICONE
Dec 6th 2017 11:16AM

How much "time and money" is going to be involved?

What important stuff will it keep the House from considering?

And is there really anything more important than having the House weigh in on whether a president should continue holding the office?

Wouldn't bother me to see impeachment votes institutionalized as a regular feature in the House every month.

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« Reply #12866 on: December 06, 2017, 05:23:10 pm »
That would be bad policy. Too European.

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« Reply #12867 on: December 06, 2017, 05:37:04 pm »
Jes, If you seriously think the silent coup the Obama administration and the people they placed in the deep state has and still is attempting is normal I question your intelligence.

What you call conspiracy theories this article reports as fact.

But feel free to spout off with out reading the article.  Once you do you will still claim it never happened because you can never accept being wrong.  Even though the evidence is overwhelming at this point.

Maybe after the trials you will admit I was right and you were wrong but I doubt it.
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« Reply #12868 on: December 06, 2017, 05:37:20 pm »
Not really.  Removal would still require a trial in the Senate, and for any such monthly vote to have any effect it would have to include actual written Articles of Impeachment, but the nation has moved from a system of government in which the legislative branch was supreme and the executive branch subordinate to it to one in which the executive branch is supreme and the legislative branch is often considered almost an afterthought.

It would be nice to restore the proper balance.

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« Reply #12869 on: December 06, 2017, 07:11:16 pm »
Our identifiable ancestors appear to have just gotten older.  http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/africa/human-ancestor-little-foot-unveiled-intl/index.html