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I honestly don't think Perry is going to suffer politicially for this in particular. His voters see it as exactly what a good politician should be doing - using his power to force out the "bad guys", and when he can't using it to cripple them and the organizations they lead. Hell, this is what a good chunk of congress was recently elected almost explicitly to do. He's going to be hailed for having the courage to stand up to the Democratic legal machine and its threats.
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BiggerBoat posted:Let's see here. All ready for school. Got my pen, my paper, my books, my homework, my computer and my lunch. Off I...OH poo poo! I forgot my KNIFE! I used mine a couple times. At the very least, there's plenty of lunches a knife can make more pleasant to it (I don't know why cutting fresh food into bite size chunks makes them so much more enjoyable, but it really does). Usually though the school will provide one in situations where you are likely to need it at school (art class, for example) unless it's one of those zero-tolerance-maximum-stupidity schools that say knives are always weapons and there's never a valid use for one. I mostly used mine for after school but before I came home which often entailed spending at least an hour or two playing in the woods where a knife can be really useful. I certainly consider my time in the woods part of my education, even if it wasn't part of my formal education, and wood carving is a great thing to learn and a great way to pass time while on a long boring walk. They're also useful for sizing and cutting rope, and rope is like one of the most fun and educational things to play with as a kid. Or at least it was for me. Not that Bundy and his family aren't morons, but they certainly can be useful educational tools for the sort of hands-on education and materials-shaping that I really loved as a kid. InequalityGodzilla posted:I was kind of afraid it was too subtle compared to people talking about "coloring perceptions" and what not. Glad to see someone got it.
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JT Jag posted:Usually the school provides utensils for lunch. You know, the lovely plastic ones that you can't actually use on other human beings. You don't need to bring a pocket knife to school. Hence the whole "usually the school will provide one" comment? Usually one appropriate to the task at hand. There are few things that are actually necessary to bring to school. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Aug 29, 2014 |
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BiggerBoat posted:Where would you rank "knife"? I think you may be an idiot. I'm fine with saying kids can't bring their own knives to school (although I think it's fine for a teenager to have a pocketknife outside it for sure). I'm not fine with people spouting idiocy about how knives have no use and can never be involved in anything remotely educational and knifes are always bad and oh so scary and blah blah blah kids should never be exposed to anything with possible danger involved ohmygolly gee. They are tools. I've used both claw hammers and torches in school in addition to knives. They have their place and their purpose. None of what you listed is as dangerous as the table saw students were allowed to use. Well, my school disagreed with your "tools have no educational value" stupidity, big whoop.
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