vapviking
Old & In the Way
I'll say it.
Florida is chock full of monumentally stupid people.
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Florida is chock full of monumentally stupid people.
florduh
Well-Known Member
Well they don't call it FloriDUH for nothin'. We don't want our kids too educated down here. Just funnel them into low paid tourism jobs. These are public schools we're talking about here anyway. If these kids were worth anything their parents could've afforded to send them to private school.
Also, I like how we have military wives doing stolen valor now. How the fuck does your husband doing a job at some point in the past qualify YOU to do anything?
His_Highness
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
My daughter teaches 5th grade, went to university for it and has had to take different courses each year since graduating to increase her teaching skills. She loves "her kids". One of my daughter's greatest strength's is that she loves teaching. I have also met many teachers with the required credentials who shouldn't be teaching.
Jumping from waitress to teacher ...... I can't wait to ask her about this.....
EDIT: Asked my daughter for her opinion. Boy did she give me an earful. She said: No. Its not a joke. Florida treats the teaching profession so poorly that there is a teacher's shortage so bad that they have no alternatives to filling thousands of vacancies. Then there's the politicalizing of teaching.....what is taught, how its taught and worse....some teachers are actually threatened and treated horribly by some the community.
After hearing my daughter out.....I got a feeling if she didn't "love her kids" and the profession .... she might consider making a lot more doing something else. So while it might seem like a good deal for a waitress to become a teacher the teacher could do better and it looks like thousands of teachers decided to do just that.
Jumping from waitress to teacher ...... I can't wait to ask her about this.....
EDIT: Asked my daughter for her opinion. Boy did she give me an earful. She said: No. Its not a joke. Florida treats the teaching profession so poorly that there is a teacher's shortage so bad that they have no alternatives to filling thousands of vacancies. Then there's the politicalizing of teaching.....what is taught, how its taught and worse....some teachers are actually threatened and treated horribly by some the community.
After hearing my daughter out.....I got a feeling if she didn't "love her kids" and the profession .... she might consider making a lot more doing something else. So while it might seem like a good deal for a waitress to become a teacher the teacher could do better and it looks like thousands of teachers decided to do just that.
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florduh
Well-Known Member
First of all, @His_Highness, your daughter sounds wonderful. I was thinking it really has to suck for people who took out onerous loans and went to school for 4 years because they genuinely wanted to help kids.
All of this is part of a multi decade effort to destroy public education in this country. That's what's behind all the critical racism theory and gay/trans hysteria shit too.
Funny enough, I'm sure the hog people screaming themselves hoarse at PTA meetings over the past few years think of themselves as hating "coastal elites". But all of these moral panics, going back to "The War on Christmas" and "The Gay Agenda" 15-20 years ago are manufactured by a billionaire funded think tank called "The Manhattan Institute". All these salt of the earth middle America types getting lead around on a leash by rich New Yorkers who go out to $1,000 dinners in Manhattan every night. Amazing.
From the footage I've seen of those insane PTA meetings, I'm guessing a healthy percentage of the people screaming won't be able to afford to send their kids to school when education is totally privatized. Fortunately, there's a delightful Free Market solution for that too:
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Exclusive: Hyundai subsidiary has used child labor at Alabama factory
A subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co has used child labor at a plant that supplies parts for the Korean carmaker's assembly line in nearby Montgomery, Alabama, according to area police, the family of three underage workers, and eight former and current employees of the factory.
LOL, another one of these stories dropped today.
An Amazon contractor is under investigation after allegedly hiring teens from a polygamous cult to build warehouses
Oregan State is investigating an Amazon warehouse builder with ties to a polygamous cult over allegations of child labor and wage theft violations.
www.businessinsider.com
Stick-on ultrasound patch hailed as revolution in medical imaging
Wearable technology can scan a person’s insides for up to 48 hours as they go about their daily life
www.theguardian.com
Las Vegas flooding: Multiple casinos, entire Strip, airport under water
Video footage shared on social media shows the streets of Sin City consumed with floodwater.
nypost.com
Will Smith Finally Addresses Oscars Slap: 'Jada Had Nothing to Do With It'
"I made a choice on my own from my own experiences, from my history with Chris [Rock]," Smith said in a YouTube video. "Jada had nothing to do with it."
www.newsweek.com
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Babylon Drifter
Black Taoist
Maybe a risk vs benifit assessment from our elected officials is in order.
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Pinellas doctor accused of selling illegal prescriptions, deputies find $1.9M, gold bars
Neelam Uppal, 62, was arrested Tuesday. She faces three counts of trafficking in codeine and three counts of trafficking in oxycodone.
Let armed vengeance be mine, Bishop Lamor Whitehead says after $1M Brooklyn church robbery — he wants clergy to carry guns
NEW YORK — The bling bling bishop wants to be the pistol-packing pastor. The Brooklyn minister who was robbed mid-sermon in his own church by gun-toting thieves who stole $1 million in jewelry from him and his wife urged elected officials to pass a law allowing clergy to carry guns to protect...
www.rawstory.com
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florduh
Well-Known Member
The people who rule America, who mostly sit in corporate boardrooms rather than Congress, are some real scumbags. In private, they're praying that conditions for workers get worse.
theintercept.com
The article includes this banger quote from Adam Smith. I always forget the father of capitalism was actually pretty based.
50% of the price increases being described as "inflation" are just corporations taking a higher RATE of profit than they took in the years before 2020. Blaming inflation on the meager gains workers have hade in the past two years is fuCking laughable. Especially when housing prices have skyrocketed way past those gains.
Bank of America Memo, Revealed: “We Hope” Conditions for American Workers Will Get Worse
The most powerful economic actors in the U.S. — entities like Bank of America and its clients — do not like working people to have power.
theintercept.com
The article includes this banger quote from Adam Smith. I always forget the father of capitalism was actually pretty based.
50% of the price increases being described as "inflation" are just corporations taking a higher RATE of profit than they took in the years before 2020. Blaming inflation on the meager gains workers have hade in the past two years is fuCking laughable. Especially when housing prices have skyrocketed way past those gains.
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vapviking
Old & In the Way
Also suks alot.
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Conspiracy website InfoWars parent files for bankruptcy
The parent of far-right conspiracy website InfoWars filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Friday as the company and its founder Alex Jones face up to $150 million in damages in a trial over longstanding falsehoods he perpetuated about the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre.
Monkeypox strain in India different from Europe: ICMR-NIV study
New Delhi, July 30: A team of Indian scientists have found that the monkeypox virus strain circulating in the country is different from the strain that caused 'superspreader events' in Europe,...
Non-Consensual Condom Removal Is Rape, Canadian Supreme Court Rules
The Court made it crystal clear that removing a condom without consent in a sex crime.
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vapviking
Old & In the Way
This part is the Stuff.
Jon Stewart on Senate failure to pass Vets bill.
And this part is the News Article (from Wonkette);
www.wonkette.com
Jon Stewart on Senate failure to pass Vets bill.
And this part is the News Article (from Wonkette);
Republicans So Mad About Dems' Climate Bill They're Going To Punch Veterans In The Throat!
This is not a real political party. It's a nihilistic cabal.
www.wonkette.com
florduh
Well-Known Member
This part is the Stuff.
Jon Stewart on Senate failure to pass Vets bill.
And this part is the News Article (from Wonkette);
Republicans So Mad About Dems' Climate Bill They're Going To Punch Veterans In The Throat!
This is not a real political party. It's a nihilistic cabal.
Yeah, it's real sicko shit that we've refused to help the veterans we poisoned in the utterly pointless Iraq War. Our 21st century wars accomplished nothing except making the shareholders of weapons companies richer, and giving the Taliban more control of Afghanistan than they had in 2001. The least we can do is help the Americans we fucked over in the process.
The author of that article can call the Republicans "not a real political party", but they usually deliver for their constituencies. Namely the oligarchs and hateful religious weirdos. More than I can say for the Democrats in my lifetime.
There's a fairly simple solution to get the veterans bill passed. As well as a number of other pieces of legislation. Abolish the idiotic filibuster. The Democrats are allegedly scared to do this, for fear of what Republicans would do in the future. It's gonna be amazing to watch the Republicans abolish the filibuster anyway as soon as they have the Senate again. To make a certain gynecological procedure we're not allowed to talk about illegal in all 50 States.
Ramahs
Fucking Combustion (mostly) Since February 2017
You can't always judge a book by its cover, but here's the former Google guy:
Mayyyyybe not the best dude to determine if you're talking to a real human woman, and not a bot.
Yes. Maggots can be used to clean wounds. For some reason they will eat all the dead/diseased flesh, and not touch the healthy flesh. If one finds themselves in the absence of better modern-medicine, then maggots seem to be a reasonable method of cleaning a wound.
First of all, @His_Highness, your daughter sounds wonderful. I was thinking it really has to suck for people who took out onerous loans and went to school for 4 years because they genuinely wanted to help kids.
All of this is part of a multi decade effort to destroy public education in this country. That's what's behind all the critical racism theory and gay/trans hysteria shit too.
Funny enough, I'm sure the hog people screaming themselves hoarse at PTA meetings over the past few years think of themselves as hating "coastal elites". But all of these moral panics, going back to "The War on Christmas" and "The Gay Agenda" 15-20 years ago are manufactured by a billionaire funded think tank called "The Manhattan Institute". All these salt of the earth middle America types getting lead around on a leash by rich New Yorkers who go out to $1,000 dinners in Manhattan every night. Amazing.
From the footage I've seen of those insane PTA meetings, I'm guessing a healthy percentage of the people screaming won't be able to afford to send their kids to school when education is totally privatized. Fortunately, there's a delightful Free Market solution for that too:
Exclusive: Hyundai subsidiary has used child labor at Alabama factory
A subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co has used child labor at a plant that supplies parts for the Korean carmaker's assembly line in nearby Montgomery, Alabama, according to area police, the family of three underage workers, and eight former and current employees of the factory.www.reuters.com
LOL, another one of these stories dropped today.
An Amazon contractor is under investigation after allegedly hiring teens from a polygamous cult to build warehouses
Oregan State is investigating an Amazon warehouse builder with ties to a polygamous cult over allegations of child labor and wage theft violations.
Yeah, I remember when I was in Texas, the head of the school-board (A FUCKING DENTIST!!!) tried to list Moses as one of the founding fathers of the USA in our social studies textbooks...that would go out and fuck up the heads of half the kids n the country because of how much Texas has sway with textbook providers, due to the significant population in Teaxs.
He wanted to lie to children like this!!!!!!!!!! What a piece of garbage human being he was, mother fucking piece of human trash.
I've never understood why something like the filibuster can be a thing in any type of government that is not intended to be purely a joke.
The Filibuster is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of, and its existence makes the American governmental system to appear to be the stupidest thing in existence today. It's completely ridiculous that anyone ever has allowed a thing like a filibuster to happen.
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florduh
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I remember when I was in Texas, the head of the school-board (A FUCKING DENTIST!!!) tried to list Moses as one of the founding fathers of the USA in our social studies textbooks...that would go out and fuck up the heads of half the kids n the country because of how much Texas has sway with textbook providers, due to the significant population in Teaxs.
That's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard. Setting aside the fact that Moses is a fictional character in a novel set thousands of years before Europeans came to North America. Moses was a former slave. My guess is he wouldn't want any part in founding a Slaver State.
This country was founded by slaver aristocrats. The Senate was created to ensure the will of the aristocrats would remain supreme. If the peasants elect too many undesirables to the House, the Senate is there to make sure the will of the peasantry gets slapped down.
At the end of the day, we need a page 1 rewrite of the Constitution. It was written by syphilitic 20 something slavers who didn't know what a germ was. With a feather. By candlelight.
Jefferson thought we should rewrite the thing every 20 years. But we've let it rot down to the bones. I can't see that happening though. Our Constitution is so shitty it's now virtually impossible to amend the thing, let alone rewrite it.
Crypto Karma?
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www.reuters.com
U.S. crypto firm Nomad hit by $190 million theft
U.S. crypto firm Nomad has been hit by a $190 million theft, blockchain researchers said on Tuesday, the latest such heist to hit the digital asset sector this year.
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florduh
Well-Known Member
Holy shit, no one told me they were televising this.
LOL, Jones got caught committing perjury because his lawyers sent every text message from his phone to the Sandy Hook parents' lawyer.
It also came out that Info Wars was making upwards of 800k per day, selling scam supplements to slack-jaws and lead poisoned boomers. Homie was out there getting that bag. I'm not even mad. Scamming people who are willing to watch Info Wars is a totally ethical way to make money, in my estimation.
Since it's not looking good for Alex, here's a throwback to happier times:
I'd say about half of the 9 million views are from me when this song came out a few years ago. Absolute banger.
LOL, Jones got caught committing perjury because his lawyers sent every text message from his phone to the Sandy Hook parents' lawyer.
It also came out that Info Wars was making upwards of 800k per day, selling scam supplements to slack-jaws and lead poisoned boomers. Homie was out there getting that bag. I'm not even mad. Scamming people who are willing to watch Info Wars is a totally ethical way to make money, in my estimation.
Since it's not looking good for Alex, here's a throwback to happier times:
I'd say about half of the 9 million views are from me when this song came out a few years ago. Absolute banger.
Babylon Drifter
Black Taoist
Holy shit, no one told me they were televising this.
LOL, Jones got caught committing perjury because his lawyers sent every text message from his phone to the Sandy Hook parents' lawyer.
It also came out that Info Wars was making upwards of 800k per day, selling scam supplements to slack-jaws and lead poisoned boomers. Homie was out there getting that bag. I'm not even mad. Scamming people who are willing to watch Info Wars is a totally ethical way to make money, in my estimation.
Since it's not looking good for Alex, here's a throwback to happier times:
I'd say about half of the 9 million views are from me when this song came out a few years ago. Absolute banger.
Total asshat.
florduh
Well-Known Member
Alex Jones Confronted By Infowars’ Attacks On Judge And ‘Extremely Blue Collar’ Jurors As Sandy Hook Parents Seek Defamation Damages
UPDATE: Juror deliberations have begun to determine damages over by Alex Jones after he was found liable for defamation for claiming that the Sandy Hook shooting massacre was a hoax. In closing arguments, one of the parents’ attorneys, Kyle Farrar, said, “Speech is free, but you have to pay for...
deadline.com
This trial is the gift that keeps on giving. Jones was confronted with a clip from Info Wars accusing the judge IN HIS OWN TRIAL of being a pedophile child trafficker. Because she worked at CPS.
Jones said the clip was out of context. Here was the opposing attorney’s response.
Lol. Keep in mind. Jones is on trial for spreading lies about the Sandy Hook parents and ginning up his audience to harass them. And now he’s doing it to the judge on his own trial. In the middle of the trial.
This would be like if a guy was on the way to his DUI trial. Driving drunk. And plowed into the car of the judge on his case. Only Jones is doing this on purpose.
florduh
Well-Known Member
Dick Cheney calls Trump a ‘coward’ and a ‘threat’ in ad for Liz Cheney
Former Vice President Dick Cheney called Donald Trump "a coward" and said that "a real man wouldn't lie to his supporters."
www.usatoday.com
This story is making my Havana Syndrome act up. Splitting headache.
First, the good news. Glad 'Ol Dick has finally transformed into the Evil Emperor from Star Wars. Very appropriate. That's the only nice thing I have to say.
If we're mad at Trump for trying to steal an election, I definitely don't want to hear about it from a motherfucker who SUCCESSFULY stole the 2000 election. I don't care if he used the Supreme Court rather than Sea-Doo owners storming Federal Buildings.
"The voters rejected Trump", Bitch, the voters rejected YOU. Yet you still got to rule this country. Disastrously. Bush and Cheney were worse than Trump by literally every metric. Amazing that people have forgotten this.
cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
While I have no love for Deadeye Dick and believe that his influence on America was all bad and incredibly destructive, I will accept help from the devil himself in making sure the Zombies don't rise again in American government. At least Cheney isn't asking for anyone's soul in return for his help, this time. I believe that Cheney believed, no matter how wrong, that he was helping the country. The Zombies don't give a fuck, they just want to steal it from the rest of us, and if they destroy it in the process they couldn't care less. Politics makes strange bedfellows...
florduh
Well-Known Member
Yeah because he already took the legs and arms from thousands of American servicemen who will now piss themselves every Fourth of July because their bodies and brains were maimed in Cheney's two utterly pointless wars. Well not totally pointless, as they made Dick and his friends even richer.
The MAGA people believe they're doing the right thing too. Shit, Hitler believed he was acting in the best interests of Germany. Who cares? Cheney is as close to an actual demon as you can get in this world.
I guess at the end of the day... this ad isn't for me. It's for the maybe 100 elderly Republicans left in Wyoming who aren't totally lost in the MAGA sauce and still have fond memories of the early 00's. But it's absolutely deranging for people who can even somewhat accurately remember 20 years ago. But I'm probably in the minority. The United States of Amnesia.
I'd be fine with the ad if it was more, "Donald Trump was a terrible President. Take it from me, the Vice President from the #1 worst, most disastrous administration in American History."
Babylon Drifter
Black Taoist
Well thats sorta old thinking he was the VP of the most disasterous administration in American history until now.