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Spin Zone / Re: I cant stream the GOP debate.
« on: March 03, 2016, 11:11:09 PM »
Wake me up in late October. This is torture. 
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Spin Zone / Re: Black People Don't hate White People...
« on: March 02, 2016, 11:24:13 AM »The Republicans passed the 64 Civil Rights Act. The Dems got the 59 one killed. The media won't allow that to be known.Boobism goes back way further than racism, is more culturally accepted, and the media actually promulgates it!
Boobism: The Next Big Thing.
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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: March 01, 2016, 03:21:08 PM »OK, so assuming it comes down to Trump vs Hillary, with everything that is on the line (SCOTUS, Obamacare, future of the nation, you know little things, etc.) - who do you pull the handle for?I typically vote for the most electable conservative candidate. I honestly don't think Trump is electable. However, the Democratic Death Star will be aimed at whoever the GOP puts up, and Trump seems to have stronger deflector shields than Rubio or Cruz. While Trump is not reliably conservative, he is also not reliably liberal. He cancels himself out, I think. Which makes him the kind of blank slate that Obama was and is: He is whatever a voter wants him to be. That has not worked out well.
'Gimp
I know, I haven't answered your question. Let's just say it would be really, really repugnant to me to vote for an adulterer who is also a childish bully, and give him the nuclear codes. I have eight months to swallow the bile he raises in me. We'll see.
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Spin Zone / Re: The No Racism Thread
« on: February 25, 2016, 11:05:47 AM »
Bunch of family stuff coming through on facebook; black kids receiving school honors, musical honors, stuff like that. Black people living good lives. Who knew. 
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Spin Zone / Re: Way to Go Tim Cook!
« on: February 19, 2016, 04:19:13 PM »
I'm sure he has friends at Apple, he's worked with hundreds of people from Apple, they love him, he loves them ...
The Dems are collecting all these clips and could probably run a 90-minute ad filled only with them. The man is pathetic.
I am beginning to wonder if he is getting his support numbers from Democrats who just want EITHER Bernie or Hillary, so are throwing their votes behind this sure-to-lose gasbag.
The Dems are collecting all these clips and could probably run a 90-minute ad filled only with them. The man is pathetic.
I am beginning to wonder if he is getting his support numbers from Democrats who just want EITHER Bernie or Hillary, so are throwing their votes behind this sure-to-lose gasbag.
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Spin Zone / Re: A World without Black History Month
« on: February 17, 2016, 11:55:54 AM »
Pilot Spin is not a microcosm of society as a whole, at least not in the sense that it represents a true sampling of the spectrum. It does not.
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Spin Zone / Re: A World without Black History Month
« on: February 16, 2016, 06:37:28 PM »Nope. But considering the website and the audience....Bet if we had a poll, close to 100% here would say they judge on character not color. That's what you usually get in a group where people are willing to discuss all topics openly and frankly. Small-minded people usually fade off in an environment like this.
But even still....Nope.
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Spin Zone / Re: Tuition Free College........
« on: February 11, 2016, 09:14:40 AM »
No federal role in education. Let the states do it. As is, ridiculous variations in state and federal requirements are rampant, but worthless; teachers get to decide which standard they will use!
The Department of Education is in fact worthless. There's a reason it always comes up top in discussion of trimming FedGov.
States are in the perfect position to manage education, but they should step up to the plate and do it well instead of merely throwing money at it. Painfully, we just voted in a school levy to increase our taxes by $4.50 on every $1K of valuation. Painfully, because public schools can so easily become:
-babysitters, not educators; true learning time is far less than private school or good homeschooling
-conduits for inculcating liberal softness and bizarre, dysfunctional notions (teachers are predominantly liberal)
-money sinks
Our local high schools have four or five vice-principals, one whose FULL TIME JOB is handling truancy and detention.
One of the real problems we face is a shortage of good parents.
The Department of Education is in fact worthless. There's a reason it always comes up top in discussion of trimming FedGov.
States are in the perfect position to manage education, but they should step up to the plate and do it well instead of merely throwing money at it. Painfully, we just voted in a school levy to increase our taxes by $4.50 on every $1K of valuation. Painfully, because public schools can so easily become:
-babysitters, not educators; true learning time is far less than private school or good homeschooling
-conduits for inculcating liberal softness and bizarre, dysfunctional notions (teachers are predominantly liberal)
-money sinks
Our local high schools have four or five vice-principals, one whose FULL TIME JOB is handling truancy and detention.
One of the real problems we face is a shortage of good parents.
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Spin Zone / Re: Tuition Free College........
« on: February 10, 2016, 10:28:52 AM »
It is ridiculous to compare "free high school" to "free college."
All good parents know that as a child grows toward maturity, he/she becomes most developed, capable and functional as he/she takes on more and more responsibility. College is where the rubber meets the road. What are you going to do with your life? What career will you undertake? How are you going to make that happen?
Others have said it: Skin in the game is what makes a strong game and a strong finish.
My stepkids were 11 and 13 when their dad and I married. About their education, he was firm even before we met. He would furnish 2/3 of tuition, books and fees for their first degree. The rest was up to them. Any scholarships they obtained came directly out of their third. That resulted in their careful selection of career paths, early part-time work (paper routes and fast food) and SKIN IN THEIR OWN GAME.
They're both successes in their professions, and one is pursuing a medical degree (on her own nickel), and just took the MCAT after 650 hours of self-driven and self-chosen study.
My husband also made it clear that he was not interested in raising his kids' babies, if they had any intentionally or unintentionally, and that he was not a hotel or a bank.
We have excellent, loving relationships with these kids, now adults at 31 and 33. Kids respect adults who let them HAVE their own skin the game.
It is hard, but you have let your kids hit bottom sometimes (and we had our share of that) before they can truly climb. It's a parent's job to raise the bottom, not put an easy chair there.
All good parents know that as a child grows toward maturity, he/she becomes most developed, capable and functional as he/she takes on more and more responsibility. College is where the rubber meets the road. What are you going to do with your life? What career will you undertake? How are you going to make that happen?
Others have said it: Skin in the game is what makes a strong game and a strong finish.
My stepkids were 11 and 13 when their dad and I married. About their education, he was firm even before we met. He would furnish 2/3 of tuition, books and fees for their first degree. The rest was up to them. Any scholarships they obtained came directly out of their third. That resulted in their careful selection of career paths, early part-time work (paper routes and fast food) and SKIN IN THEIR OWN GAME.
They're both successes in their professions, and one is pursuing a medical degree (on her own nickel), and just took the MCAT after 650 hours of self-driven and self-chosen study.
My husband also made it clear that he was not interested in raising his kids' babies, if they had any intentionally or unintentionally, and that he was not a hotel or a bank.
We have excellent, loving relationships with these kids, now adults at 31 and 33. Kids respect adults who let them HAVE their own skin the game.
It is hard, but you have let your kids hit bottom sometimes (and we had our share of that) before they can truly climb. It's a parent's job to raise the bottom, not put an easy chair there.
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Spin Zone / Re: C'Mon Mainstream Media - Waiting for you to call them THUGS
« on: February 08, 2016, 12:10:24 PM »
Heck, I'll call Chris Christie a thug.
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Spin Zone / Re: Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes
« on: February 06, 2016, 02:46:00 PM »
"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
As an editor and English major, I cannot find anything in that statement to counter the impression that he is referring to "colorblindness." In fact, he is shifting the focus to character, where it belongs. He is not saying color does not matter, but that it is not a factor by which to judge someone.
As an editor and English major, I cannot find anything in that statement to counter the impression that he is referring to "colorblindness." In fact, he is shifting the focus to character, where it belongs. He is not saying color does not matter, but that it is not a factor by which to judge someone.
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Spin Zone / Re: Tactics
« on: February 04, 2016, 12:39:04 PM »Beware declinism, the usually-incorrect belief that a country or society is in a nose-dive from which they cannot pull up. Though it is from a few years ago, you may enjoy this article. As I have aged (and don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly old and wise), I can feel a growing tendency to lift my cane and shake it in the general direction of the whipper snappers. This is entirely normal, as far as I can tell; the tendency to think that the good old days are gone, and everything is going to hell. And the feeling arises whether discussing "kids these days" or the functioning of our Republic.Fine and very fine. Just remember that "decline" is often used to describe "dysfunctional change." As I go about my day, I constantly observe and cogitate. Glacial, but sometimes extremely fast, changes are always occurring in the world I see. It doesn't take an exceptionally fine mind to extrapolate forward and back to see where we might be going. And, optimist and rationalist though I know we'd like to be, we are not going anywhere good when it comes to individual freedom, economic responsibility, and a host of other things that are critical to a functioning democracy.
But I actively fight against that. I do not think the default position should be a belief that the country is going to hell. After all, folks have been saying that for a century or more, and it has yet to come to fruition. So based on experience alone I think that is a poor conclusion to come to. Rather, I try to recognize that the world is changing, just as it always has, and as I get older, my ability to change with it is naturally in decline. So I must work diligently to understand the current world through the eyes of those who will continue to build it, rather than wholly through my own eyes or those of the folks who will soon leave it.
This is not to say that the older generations don't have fantastic input and wise advice. But I choose to believe the Republic is strong and not on its last legs, and work from that starting point. This is why I am wholly against drastic changes to fight against the "demise of the country". You may believe that the Republic will soon meet its demise. That's fine, as long as you understand there is a long line of people before you who believed the same and were proven wrong.
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Spin Zone / Re: Bernie
« on: February 03, 2016, 04:21:01 PM »
I just realized that even if Bernie Sanders were elected President, he would get nothing through Congress. Hence, I have concluded that Bernie Sanders is a waste of time.
That is all.
That is all.
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Spin Zone / Re: EAA Changes to Young Eagles Program
« on: February 03, 2016, 10:23:05 AM »
Of course there is an element of "okayness" to this, of course there is.
But this EAA situation is a classic example of what 'Gimp accurately calls a "tragedy unfolding." Glacially, this undercurrent of fear and distrust of one another has morphed into an effective technique now being used politically:
Create a solution to a non-existent problem, impose regulations to enforce "solution," creating more distrust while gaining power.
"Oh well," people say. "I'm busy. I'll just go along." And so we get more "solutions" where there is no problem.
But this EAA situation is a classic example of what 'Gimp accurately calls a "tragedy unfolding." Glacially, this undercurrent of fear and distrust of one another has morphed into an effective technique now being used politically:
Create a solution to a non-existent problem, impose regulations to enforce "solution," creating more distrust while gaining power.
"Oh well," people say. "I'm busy. I'll just go along." And so we get more "solutions" where there is no problem.
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Spin Zone / Re: White Christians need to act more Christian than white
« on: January 25, 2016, 11:09:57 AM »
I believe Jaybird thinks it means that "Christian" is a set of behaviors imposed by the faith, and "White" is the belief that whites are superior to non-whites. 