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Joementum posted:Oh, my apologies then. I'm predisposed to assume the worst of New York (because yer feckin awful flatlandahs). To be fair most New Yorkers don't know regent degrees are optional and worthless Edmund Lava fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Edmund Lava posted:To be fair most New Yorkers don't know reagent degrees are optional and worthless Grignard politely tells you to eat poo poo.
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Quote of the night, "Scott Walker's a guy you want to have a beer with -- a Miller Lite." ~ Reince Priebus
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Joementum posted:Quote of the night, "Scott Walker's a guy you want to have a beer with -- a Miller Lite." ~ Reince Priebus I trust that Reince knows exactly what to drink in the company of all of his potential nominees, and that he never ever stops
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Super bonus quote, “There’s a reason why people in this country take off the Fourth of July. And not the 15th of April." ~ Scott Walker I will point out that the reason for this is a law established by the federal government of the United States.
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420DD Butts posted:Click on the link if you wish to go down the IronKnuckle rabbit hole. I guess this is what I get for posting leftist opinions in GBS. Wait, IronKnuckle is back? That dude kept mentioning me in his blog before taking down his entire web presence a couple years back and it was creepy as gently caress (I only knew he had a blog because he kept buying people avatars with links to it)
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I'm probably stating something already long established, but the Republican party seems to be playing the right game for a party that only wants Congress-being decentralized and all the over the place in policy positions is great for grabbing up local Congressional spots, especially when you don't have to tie your name to a particular President no matter what you do. In fact, considering that the last four presidents (Reagan->Obama, and really Nixon too if you ignore the two nobodies Carter and Ford) have left office with majority opposition Congresses the opposition party probably has a home field advantage by not being tied with the incumbent President, although it works completely the other way for actually winning the Presidency.
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Joementum posted:Quote of the night, "Scott Walker's a guy you want to have a beer with -- a Miller Lite." ~ Reince Priebus Wow that's harsh, even I don't hate Scott Walker that much. A real Wisconsinite and sane person would have said New Glarus but they happen to be filthy Demoncrats. MaxxBot fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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LookingGodIntheEye posted:I'm probably stating something already long established, but the Republican party seems to be playing the right game for a party that only wants Congress-being decentralized and all the over the place in policy positions is great for grabbing up local Congressional spots, especially when you don't have to tie your name to a particular President no matter what you do. In fact, considering that the last four presidents (Reagan->Obama, and really Nixon too if you ignore the two nobodies Carter and Ford) have left office with majority opposition Congresses the opposition party probably has a home field advantage by not being tied with the incumbent President, although it works completely the other way for actually winning the Presidency. Well, I'm basically like a crazy around here, but I think you're totally right. The GOP objective seems to be to achieve the Reagan/Norquist goal of drowning government in the bathtub through smokescreens and obstruction more than through actual legislation. Obama has done more to electrify the GOP base than any GOP candidate or official, and they do exactly what you say: clean up on every elected position from school board to senator. SOOOOO much lovely legislation gets passed on the local/state levels, and all they have to do is obstruct on the federal level to prove their point that government is useless. In the meantime, federal monies are siphoned off to donors, and the government really does start sputtering to a complete halt. I think that there are enough smart people out there to see that nothing from 2008 REALLY got fixed. So, why would you want a president from your party to take the heat for another collapse, when you can take the House and Senate, do absolutely nothing, and blame Hillary or whatever poor benighted soul takes over in 2017 for presiding over a financial crash worse than the Great Depression? poo poo, with Obama in office for 2008-2016, you can already blame him for causing it! I cannot understand why any party would legitimately want to win the presidency in a time as hosed up as this.
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Zeitgueist posted:America continues to be very racist in action if not in voice....drops in black household income, wealth, increased school segregation, etc. This is why America was not ready for a black president.
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My Imaginary GF posted:I'm well aware. This is why I'm against common core: it prevents innovation in education and crystalizes the use of unproductive instructional methodologies. There are better solutions out there than reinforcing the first years of $10k/year as the time to teach foundational critical thinking and verbal reasoning skills. Common core doesn't prescribe how material is taught, merely what the goals are. It absolutely does not dictate instructional methodologies, and there is nothing in common core preventing teachers from using best practices, nor from teaching critical thinking or problem solving. There are problems with the education system; a common set of standards to target is not one of them.
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Joementum posted:I do have some problems with the sample test.  What did they do, hire some freelancer off the web to write this test? Idaho does something similar, but seniors are required to submit a research project that includes a written and oral component. Seniors are required to take a government class and the project is based on that class. It's a good idea, especially in conjunction with some of the programs offered by the Center for Civic Education
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duz posted:When I graduated from high school in NY, admittedly a very long time ago, regents qualification wasn't required to be able to graduate. Maybe that's the difference? They really cut back on alternative programs a while ago. The vast majority of NY public school students are following the Regents curriculum or taking RCTs.
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I don't really have a problem with requiring a civics test for graduation. I do have questions about why it's popping up in 18 states so suddenly. Is it an ALEC thing?
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I think a more valuable test would be an ethics test. Maybe including the following questions: Q: You are walking in the desert. There is a turtle laying on it's back, baking in the hot sun. Why don't you help it?
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SquadronROE posted:I think a more valuable test would be an ethics test. Maybe including the following questions: A: It's Mitch McConnell and I need to conduct a quorum call first.
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SquadronROE posted:I think a more valuable test would be an ethics test. Maybe including the following questions: Boot straps.
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SquadronROE posted:I think a more valuable test would be an ethics test. Maybe including the following questions: It hasn't finished cooking.
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We're surrounded by replicants!
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SquadronROE posted:I think a more valuable test would be an ethics test. Maybe including the following questions: What do you mean I'm not helping?
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SquadronROE posted:We're surrounded by rep Fixed and its worse than that. Disinterested posted:What do you mean I'm not helping? If you help you're a Socialist.
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What is this word "help" that you speak?
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Gravel Gravy posted:If you help you're a Socialist. What if I offer the turtle a contract to become my indentured servant for life in return for my help? Do I become a Nietzschean superman then?
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This problem is best addressed within the turtle community.
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Disinterested posted:What if I offer the turtle a contract to become my indentured servant for life in return for my help? Do I become a Nietzschean superman then? Why would you outsource American jobs?
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Joementum posted:This problem is best addressed within the turtle community. We need to address the root causes of why the turtle is on its back in the middle of a desert in the first place. Generally evolution has made it so that turtles don't often get stranded on their back, much less so in a hostile environment. This reveals that either that turtle is a terrible member of its society and therefore should be allowed to die so as to not lead the species down a bad evolutionary path, or even more insidiously there is an outside force that has acted on the turtle to cause this situation. As the latter situation is one we want to, as a society, be prepared for, I recommend that we allow ourselves the freedom to express our 2nd amendment rights openly as a form of deterrent.
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The turtle is on its back because it is a weak. We are watching it on its back because we are strong. We need this pathos of distance because in order for us to be strong we must hate the weak.
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SquadronROE posted:We need to address the root causes of why the turtle is on its back in the middle of a desert in the first place. Generally evolution has made it so that turtles don't often get stranded on their back, much less so in a hostile environment. This reveals that either that turtle is a terrible member of its society and therefore should be allowed to die so as to not lead the species down a bad evolutionary path, or even more insidiously there is an outside force that has acted on the turtle to cause this situation. As the latter situation is one we want to, as a society, be prepared for, I recommend that we allow ourselves the freedom to express our 2nd amendment rights openly as a form of deterrent. The turtle busted a deal, faced the wheel and was sentenced to gulag. It probably doesn't deserve our help anyway.
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SquadronROE posted:I think a more valuable test would be an ethics test. Maybe including the following questions: I don't want to interfere in the free market. If there's a profit to be made someone will come turn this turtle over; otherwise it has failed the test of the free market and deserves its slow-cooking fate. Also I am a literal child who believes in magic.
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I propose a committee to investigate what the Obama administration knew of this turtle #terrapinghazi
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The turtle is not really on its back. The idea that it is on its back is merely us applying our western concepts of 'up' and 'down' on the turtle.
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The turtle isn't on its back rather everything is on the turtle's back.
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SquadronROE posted:I think a more valuable test would be an ethics test. Maybe including the following questions: *DREAMer pulls pistol from waistband* "Let me tell you about mi patria"
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DemeaninDemon posted:The turtle isn't on its back rather everything is on the turtle's back. Edit: The turtle [i]is]/i] the proletariat! Edit edit: vvv Holy poo poo was Glenn Beck a bladerunner?! Gin and Juche fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Hey, I'm just asking questions here! In answer to your query, they're written down for me.
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Disinterested posted:What do you mean I'm not helping? I'm sayin' you're not helping....
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Ah yes, the Testudine Question.
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All I know is the life, gringo. All I know is la eme. But now ju give me a diploma.
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In his peripatic wanderings through the countryside, the American ronin has uncovered the true force behind the so called Ferguson "protests".
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:
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