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President Obama said:
Number three, we know that Latino kids are almost twice as likely as white kids to be suspended from school. Black kids are nearly four times as likely. And if a student has been suspended even once by the time they’re in 9th grade they are twice as likely to drop out.
That’s why my administration has been working with schools on alternatives to the so-called “zero tolerance” guidelines — not because teachers or administrators or fellow students should have to put up with bad behavior, but because there are ways to modify bad behavior that lead to good behavior — as opposed to bad behavior out of school. We can make classrooms good places for learning for everybody without jeopardizing a child’s future. (Applause.) And by building on that work, we can keep more of our young men where they belong — in the classroom, learning, growing, gaining the skills they need to succeed.
Number four, we know that students of color are far more likely than their white classmates to find themselves in trouble with the law. If a student gets arrested, he’s almost twice as likely to drop out of school. By making sure our criminal justice system doesn’t just function as a pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails, we can help young men of color stay out of prison, stay out of jail. And that means then, they’re more likely to be employable, and to invest in their own families, and to pass on a legacy of love and hope.
Makes ya think …
There would seem to be a contradiction between gun control efforts at keeping guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous people based on their scary track records and the Obama Administration’s push to keep black and Hispanic youths from getting so many black marks on their permanent records due to their bad behavior.
Something other than inclusion in level classes with students who are more self-disciplined and competent might have worked: An alternative education rather than alternative school. Practical solutions are out there but won’t be applied because different has been stigmatized.
Sometimes I look back at Obama and think, “How in the world was this country foolish enough to vote this guy in twice?!”
We’re not foolish enough to vote Kamala, Michelle, or Oprah in come 2020…are we??
*21 years, the time between when David Dinkins, New York's first black mayor, lost his reelection bid and when Bill Di Blasio, the next effectively black mayor, was elected.
Basically, if we'd elected a black president before 2008, Obama wouldn't have won in 2008. I mean, he would've beaten Hillary, but she's a horrible campaigner, and she hadn't yet rigged the DNC yet to make sure an upstart couldn't have taken her.Replies: @TheBoom
Michelle is the only one of the 3 that has a legit shot but here too she has expressed no interest. The Obama’s are making millions a year and travel in style with taxpayer funded security. Why give it up for the rigors of the campaign trail? Michelle has an ego but not as much as Hillary.
1. Political parties seeking a 3d turn at the wheel are at a disadvantage anyway. It didn't used to be that way, but it has been throughout the post-war period.
2. Bush was pretty much discredited with the broad public. (Clinton and Eisenhower hadn't been, and their Veeps still lost).
3. You had a perfect storm of trouble in the financial sector erupting right in the middle of the campaign. People stupidly blame the Republicans even though the most guilty parties in Washington are Barney Frank and Franklin Raines.
4. The major media were press agents for BO to an unprecedented degree.
5. John McCain turned the supervision of his campaign staff over to Steven Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace. See Robert Stacy McCain on this pair of grifters and review their history over the last ten years. (Sarah Palin had no use for Nicolle Wallace and didn't wish to be around her).Replies: @Jack D
underfunded schools
Student spending in Broward, Palm Beach counties below U.S. average
Boward and Palm Beach County public schools spent less per student than the national average but more than Florida in the 2009-10 school year, according to a Census Bureau report released Thursday…Broward County schools spent $9,290 for each student, slightly higher than Palm Beach County’s $9,225 per pupil rate. The state average was $8,741 per student…That gave Florida a ranking of 44 among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with top spenders being Washington, D.C, ($18,667), New York ($18,618) and New Jersey ($16,841)…The lowest on the list are Utah ($6,064),
So at least back then, Broward Co spent 50% more per pupil than Utah.
Which state has the highest average ACT and SAT scores?
https://twitter.com/mikeenochsback/status/951681199960940544Replies: @eah
No, that’s not the cause, it’s merely the effect.
O/t
Uncut Grass will Rot in the Fields
http://fox8.com/2018/02/25/local-landscapers-worried-about-having-workers-this-summer/
So in theory the number of H2B visas could grow by 66,000 per year as returning workers were excluded from the cap? 66,000 H2B workers in Year 1, 132,000 in Year 2, and 1,320,000 in Year 20?
What an effed up concept.
And if a student has been suspended even once by the time they’re in 9th grade they are twice as likely to drop out.
It's almost as if Obama and his followers don't grasp the concept of cause and effect. People don't become evil *because* they've committed murder. They commit murder because they are evil.
And kids don't drop out of school because they have been suspended. They both get suspended and drop out of school mostly because they are stupid and undisciplined.
Student spending in Broward, Palm Beach counties below U.S. average
Boward and Palm Beach County public schools spent less per student than the national average but more than Florida in the 2009-10 school year, according to a Census Bureau report released Thursday...Broward County schools spent $9,290 for each student, slightly higher than Palm Beach County's $9,225 per pupil rate. The state average was $8,741 per student...That gave Florida a ranking of 44 among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with top spenders being Washington, D.C, ($18,667), New York ($18,618) and New Jersey ($16,841)...The lowest on the list are Utah ($6,064),
So at least back then, Broward Co spent 50% more per pupil than Utah.
Which state has the highest average ACT and SAT scores?Replies: @eah
And the lies emanate from the very top.
https://twitter.com/mikeenochsback/status/951681199960940544
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/968627021520801792Replies: @eah
Yes, why are we importing more and more people from these groups?
In a sane world you would think the immigration advocates would recruit immigrants from areas of the world that either, A) provided us with quality immigrants in the past, or B) are highly functioning areas themselves. Instead we take immigrants from the train wreck or shithole nations of the world. And as far as taking them from established sources, we have been offering a ridiculous lottery to take people from places that have little to no track record of sending us immigrants.
It’s hard to believe that a nation of people who put so much effort into recruiting the best possible talent for corporations, universities, sports teams, fantasy leagues, etc., would be so ignorant and uninterested in the recruitment of their future citizens.
Hidden beneath an American's surface conformity lurks a deep streak of angry, insubordinate rebelliousness coupled with a resentment towards any authority that arrogates to itself the right to tell other people what to do or how to do it. This attitude is what drove these people to immigrate here in the first place.
We're not foolish enough to vote Kamala, Michelle, or Oprah in come 2020...are we??Replies: @anon, @Dave Pinsen, @rogue-one, @whorefinder, @Hhsiii, @Ed, @Art Deco, @Art Deco
Because of who controls the media.
Nature vs nurture for Nikolas Cruz
Nikolas Cruz’s mother paid $50,000 to adopt him from his drug addict birth mom – then later bought younger brother Zachary for $15,000
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5442331/Nikolas-Cruzs-mother-paid-50-000-adopt-him.html
The woman who raised Nikolas Cruz paid $50,000 to adopt him from his drug addicted biological mother and later bought his younger brother for $15,000, a former …
https://twitter.com/mikeenochsback/status/951681199960940544Replies: @eah
More or less.
Portland State students triggered when speaker suggests that men and women are innately different - calling them "brainwashed". You can't make this up.Replies: @Forbes
We're not foolish enough to vote Kamala, Michelle, or Oprah in come 2020...are we??Replies: @anon, @Dave Pinsen, @rogue-one, @whorefinder, @Hhsiii, @Ed, @Art Deco, @Art Deco
I doubt it we’ll see another black POTUS for at least one Dinkins Unit*
*21 years, the time between when David Dinkins, New York’s first black mayor, lost his reelection bid and when Bill Di Blasio, the next effectively black mayor, was elected.
Giving blacks an 8 or 10 year curriculum that they could accomplish-an 85 IQ person is educable to the sixth to seventh grade. Forty percent of blacks minus the talented tenth is nearly a third of blacks, who are 90-95 range, they can about do a standard vo-tech track high school curriculum, and ten years is fine for that. And let professionals deal with the kids that get out of line as needed. Blacks would not equal whites but they would be better off than they are now.
We're not foolish enough to vote Kamala, Michelle, or Oprah in come 2020...are we??Replies: @anon, @Dave Pinsen, @rogue-one, @whorefinder, @Hhsiii, @Ed, @Art Deco, @Art Deco
What was the alternative? McCain who would have led a war in Iran? Romney who would have also passed DACA?
We're not foolish enough to vote Kamala, Michelle, or Oprah in come 2020...are we??Replies: @anon, @Dave Pinsen, @rogue-one, @whorefinder, @Hhsiii, @Ed, @Art Deco, @Art Deco
To be fair, he’s the only president to be re-elected with fewer votes than during his initial election. Those “gotta vote the black guy in” white folks were, by 2012, no longer experiencing that new car-anti-racist-cool-event smell, especially after he turned out not to be some religious miracle worker or saint. But he was the incumbent, so he got back in based on that
Basically, if we’d elected a black president before 2008, Obama wouldn’t have won in 2008. I mean, he would’ve beaten Hillary, but she’s a horrible campaigner, and she hadn’t yet rigged the DNC yet to make sure an upstart couldn’t have taken her.
Let ‘s deconstruct that phrase “find themselves in trouble with the law.”
I think it means , “ I will deliberately conceal the truth.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5442331/Nikolas-Cruzs-mother-paid-50-000-adopt-him.html
The woman who raised Nikolas Cruz paid $50,000 to adopt him from his drug addicted biological mother and later bought his younger brother for $15,000, a former ...Replies: @istevefan, @El Dato
The brother looks nothing like him. I’d have preferred my adoptive mom to not adopt the half brother.
Nikolas Cruz looks a lot like Jake Gyllenhaal.
“Scandal-free”
DailyMail has the scoop. Cruz and his brother were adopted away-for sizable cash payments-from their hopeless drug addict biological mother. There we have it, drug induced neurological damage done during pregnancy. There’s a drug crisis going on all over the US; we don’t know how many of these pregnant druggies are causing damage that only becomes apparent later. How much of the murder rate in the big cities might be attributable to this? Drug use is high in those neighborhoods, the pregnant women young and the shooters mostly seem to be mentally defective in some way when one actually takes an up close look as a cop would.
It’s an article of Faith among many or most Americans that at bottom, all humans possess equal ability to excel and that only circumstances hold them back. After all, any schmo can become president–that proves it!
Hidden beneath an American’s surface conformity lurks a deep streak of angry, insubordinate rebelliousness coupled with a resentment towards any authority that arrogates to itself the right to tell other people what to do or how to do it. This attitude is what drove these people to immigrate here in the first place.
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/968627021520801792Replies: @eah
“war against reality”
Portland State students triggered when speaker suggests that men and women are innately different – calling them “brainwashed”. You can’t make this up.
“That’s why my administration has been working with schools on alternatives to the so-called “zero tolerance” guidelines — not because teachers or administrators or fellow students should have to put up with bad behavior, but because there are ways to modify bad behavior that lead to good behavior — as opposed to bad behavior out of school. We can make classrooms good places for learning for everybody without jeopardizing a child’s future. (Applause.) “
“In order to save the classroom we had to destroy it”
If there are “ways to modify bad behavior that lead to good behavior” why isn’t the crime rate lower?
We're not foolish enough to vote Kamala, Michelle, or Oprah in come 2020...are we??Replies: @anon, @Dave Pinsen, @rogue-one, @whorefinder, @Hhsiii, @Ed, @Art Deco, @Art Deco
Good one. I always thought of it as a Lindsay Unit. Forty years from Lindsay to Warren Wilhelm.
Whoops, meant to reply to Dave Pinsen’s reply.
And if a student has been suspended even once by the time they’re in 9th grade they are twice as likely to drop out.
We’re ruled by cargo cultists. I believe they really do think that causation can simply be switched in whatever direction they want, as suits their narrative.
It seems almost common sense to me that being suspended is a symptom of a student who is likely to drop out, not a cause. Yet they seem to think that even if a student is committing actions that would normally be worthy of suspension or arrest, that they can “interrupt” this school-to-prison pipeline by engaging in “alternative” solutions.
If those “alternative” solutions were so great, why would we ever suspend or arrest anyone, even adults?
What happens is what happened in Broward County, FL — interrupting the school-to-prison pipeline just leaves more students in schools who ought to be in prison, and while they’re there, they disrupt the school experience for everyone (sometimes by going crazy and killing 17 students).
So let's do our part to prevent wet streets.Replies: @International Jew
I have seen a less official version of this playing out in schools in the last decade or so, where the administration imposes more lenient punishment on black students than white (very few Hispanics in the area) for more practical purposes. The fear is the loud reaction they get from mom or grandmom and accusations of racism, so they bend over backwards to overpunish the white kids for minor infractions and let the black kids go for things that don’t cause destruction of property or injury.
Somewhere along the way, the black moms and grandmoms became less likely to show up at school and drag their kid out by his ear to bring him home to whoop him, and more likely to accuse the school of being racist.
We're not foolish enough to vote Kamala, Michelle, or Oprah in come 2020...are we??Replies: @anon, @Dave Pinsen, @rogue-one, @whorefinder, @Hhsiii, @Ed, @Art Deco, @Art Deco
Kamala isn’t happening she polls low even within a Democrat primary. Oprah polls better but she really hasn’t expressed serious interest.
Michelle is the only one of the 3 that has a legit shot but here too she has expressed no interest. The Obama’s are making millions a year and travel in style with taxpayer funded security. Why give it up for the rigors of the campaign trail? Michelle has an ego but not as much as Hillary.
Somewhere along the way, the black moms and grandmoms became less likely to show up at school and drag their kid out by his ear to bring him home to whoop him, and more likely to accuse the school of being racist.Replies: @AndrewR
My best friend in high school was a black guy. We were walking down the hall one day when he jokingly pulled a pencil out of the back pocket of a girl whom he barely knew and whom I had never talked to. She spazzed out and accused him of touching her butt. He was suspended (and the girl wasn’t even though she threatened him). His mom came to pick him up, saw me and said “Why didn’t you get suspended? Cuz you white.”
I was speechless. Obviously I didn’t think Sean deserved to be suspended for his silly action, but ultimately he had done… something… and I had done absolutely nothing besides be next to him while he made a spontaneous choice. At the time, I didn’t understand why she thought my lack of suspension was attributable to my white privilege instead of my literally-hadn’t-done-anything privilege.
That evening, I called him and his mom asked to speak to me, whereupon she lectured me about Emmett Till and tried to link him to Sean’s situation. I wish I was making this up.
That was one of my initial experiences revealing how unbridgeable the race gap is in this country.
Last I talked to Sean, he had lived in Zimbabwe for years. He tried to invite me for a visit. Then he stopped talking to me after I said on Facebook that I dislike blacks in general. “Blacks in general” of course does not mean “all blacks” but he didn’t get that memo.
Malcolm X had it figured out 55 years ago; negros had to live away from whites. There was no way the mass of negros was ever going to make it competing with whites.
And with massive illegal immigration, and technology eliminating the jobs low skilled negros could do, it's only going to get worse.
You could of come to the aid of your negro friend after the white chick flipped out. You had your 'white male privilege', that's the most powerful force in the galaxy! Just speak to her with your calming, dominate, white male voice, to STFU Bitch! LOL.
Michelle has expressed no interest, but all she has to say next year is, ‘my daughters are grown up and it’s time for me to re-enter the workforce.’ Being the first woman president is quite a laurel, hard to resist grabbing for it.
If she runs the same campaign as Hillary, she could win. She needs the old-black-lady turnout that Obama got in 2012 and Hillary lacked in 2016, in OH, WI, MI, PA. And Michelle isn’t awful on TV, comes off more comfortable than Hillary, though that isn’t saying much.
There’s a multi-pronged solution to the problems that odious administration was generating.
(1) limit categorical inter-governmental transfers to some contracted rental payments, small indemnities awarded by magistrates and hearing examiners, payment in lieu of taxes on federal land, disaster relief, some discrete appropriations to the Indian reservations and insular territories, dedicated funds which finance the maintenance of the Interstates and perhaps the U.S. Routes, the financing of unemployment compensation, and financing of Medicaid. Replace absolutely everything else with a check cut to each state and territorial government whose value would be determined by a formula and which said government would be free to use however it cared to. School districts would get nothing from the Feds unless school buildings were destroyed by tornadoes &c.
(2) Transfer the statistical collection services in the federal Department of Education to the Labor Department and then shut the Education Department down, discharging all its employees.
(3) Eliminate the Civil Rights Division and the Community Relations Service of the Department of Justice.
(4) Replace housing vouchers and federal funds for public housing with an expanded EITC
(5) Transfer the lead-paint inspectorate in HUD to the EPA and shut HUD down, discharging all its employees.
(6) Shut down agencies and sub-agencies whose book is primarily to send dedicated funds to state and local government e.g. the Administration for Children and Families.
Of course, the Republicans in Congress will do nothing.
But we're in an era where our rulers announce constant solutions that require expanded departments with more staffing.
We're not foolish enough to vote Kamala, Michelle, or Oprah in come 2020...are we??Replies: @anon, @Dave Pinsen, @rogue-one, @whorefinder, @Hhsiii, @Ed, @Art Deco, @Art Deco
See Pat Buchanan on Mooch: “Not a happy camper [in the White House]”. She wanted her husband to get out of politics altogether ca. 2000. She’s not career-oriented. She quit practicing law at age 27. Her work life from 1991 to 2008 consisted of a series of positions in public and higher-ed bureaucracies which all had titles which gave you no clue as to what she did all day. She had four or five different positions over that period of years. The first two or three were derived from her association with Valerie Jarrett. She got a huge raise in 2005 when her husband went to Washington. She’s not interested in a job with serious responsibility attached to it. She hasn’t had one in 27 years.
We're not foolish enough to vote Kamala, Michelle, or Oprah in come 2020...are we??Replies: @anon, @Dave Pinsen, @rogue-one, @whorefinder, @Hhsiii, @Ed, @Art Deco, @Art Deco
“How in the world was this country foolish enough to vote this guy in twice?!”
1. Political parties seeking a 3d turn at the wheel are at a disadvantage anyway. It didn’t used to be that way, but it has been throughout the post-war period.
2. Bush was pretty much discredited with the broad public. (Clinton and Eisenhower hadn’t been, and their Veeps still lost).
3. You had a perfect storm of trouble in the financial sector erupting right in the middle of the campaign. People stupidly blame the Republicans even though the most guilty parties in Washington are Barney Frank and Franklin Raines.
4. The major media were press agents for BO to an unprecedented degree.
5. John McCain turned the supervision of his campaign staff over to Steven Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace. See Robert Stacy McCain on this pair of grifters and review their history over the last ten years. (Sarah Palin had no use for Nicolle Wallace and didn’t wish to be around her).
Obama could have done a lot more damage than he did but he preferred to play golf and really didn't cause too much permanent damage to the country - compare that to say FDR whose programs are still profoundly affecting the country 70+ years after his death.Replies: @Art Deco, @Art Deco, @Twodees Partain
Parkland = Late Obama Age Collapse
Eliminating the school-to-prison pipeline creates the school-to-graveyard pipeline
Uncut Grass will Rot in the Fields
http://fox8.com/2018/02/25/local-landscapers-worried-about-having-workers-this-summer/Replies: @JollyOldSoul
We have to look at the cap, the 66,000 per year, but we also have to allow returning workers to not be considered in the cap,” Renacci says.
So in theory the number of H2B visas could grow by 66,000 per year as returning workers were excluded from the cap? 66,000 H2B workers in Year 1, 132,000 in Year 2, and 1,320,000 in Year 20?
What an effed up concept.
And if a student has been suspended even once by the time they’re in 9th grade they are twice as likely to drop out.
It’s almost as if Obama and his followers don’t grasp the concept of cause and effect. People don’t become evil *because* they’ve committed murder. They commit murder because they are evil.
And kids don’t drop out of school because they have been suspended. They both get suspended and drop out of school mostly because they are stupid and undisciplined.
“Here, my adopted son: here’s a constant, ever-present reminder that your birth mother is a crazy, drug-addicted slut.”
Nikolas Cruz looks a lot like Jake Gyllenhaal.
And if the streets are wet all over the city, it’s more than twice as likely that it will rain that day!
So let’s do our part to prevent wet streets.
Of course, the Republicans in Congress will do nothing.Replies: @bomag
Good governance requires constant pruning.
But we’re in an era where our rulers announce constant solutions that require expanded departments with more staffing.
1. Political parties seeking a 3d turn at the wheel are at a disadvantage anyway. It didn't used to be that way, but it has been throughout the post-war period.
2. Bush was pretty much discredited with the broad public. (Clinton and Eisenhower hadn't been, and their Veeps still lost).
3. You had a perfect storm of trouble in the financial sector erupting right in the middle of the campaign. People stupidly blame the Republicans even though the most guilty parties in Washington are Barney Frank and Franklin Raines.
4. The major media were press agents for BO to an unprecedented degree.
5. John McCain turned the supervision of his campaign staff over to Steven Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace. See Robert Stacy McCain on this pair of grifters and review their history over the last ten years. (Sarah Palin had no use for Nicolle Wallace and didn't wish to be around her).Replies: @Jack D
We frankly dodge a bullet with McCain. As bad as Obama was, I trust McCain’s judgment even less.
Obama could have done a lot more damage than he did but he preferred to play golf and really didn’t cause too much permanent damage to the country – compare that to say FDR whose programs are still profoundly affecting the country 70+ years after his death.
Obama and his appointees created such racial tension that we've been lucky to avoid a civil war. Only the fact that other races outnumber blacks has kept such a war from breaking out, though the cultural warriors keep pushing. Obama caused permanent damage that you can see every day.
Basically, if we'd elected a black president before 2008, Obama wouldn't have won in 2008. I mean, he would've beaten Hillary, but she's a horrible campaigner, and she hadn't yet rigged the DNC yet to make sure an upstart couldn't have taken her.Replies: @TheBoom
It is possible for a second black president to win in the near future. only whites care about competence, good governance, a strong economy and freedom. All other races just care about what they can scam from whitey in the short term
Obama could have done a lot more damage than he did but he preferred to play golf and really didn't cause too much permanent damage to the country - compare that to say FDR whose programs are still profoundly affecting the country 70+ years after his death.Replies: @Art Deco, @Art Deco, @Twodees Partain
compare that to say FDR whose programs are still profoundly affecting the country 70+ years after his death.
The most troublesome Roosevelt initiative was the National Industrial Recovery Act. It was annulled by the Supreme Court in 1935. Next on the list was the model of industrial relations incorporated into the Wagner Act. This has grown less and less consequential over time as private-sector trade-unionism has declined. Third on the list would be the bevy of production controls in the agricultural sector. The farm sector has grown less and less significant over time and the use of production controls was largely discontinued 35 years ago. The last was the creation of AFDC. AFDC was a program of scant consequence until about 1958 and largely dismantled over the years running from 1996 to 2001. The real crap programs with any durability were Johnson Administration initiatives, not Roosevelt initiatives.
Obama could have done a lot more damage than he did but he preferred to play golf and really didn't cause too much permanent damage to the country - compare that to say FDR whose programs are still profoundly affecting the country 70+ years after his death.Replies: @Art Deco, @Art Deco, @Twodees Partain
One other Roosevelt initiative: enacting and attempting to enforce a wretchedly excessive minimum wage law. The labor market was quite sclerotic during the 1930s and this set of policies was part and parcel of that.
That’s basically what happened in Broward County. That’s basically the scam that Runcie and Israel were running. That’s why Cruz was allowed to run free until he finally did what he threatened to do. Their idea was by doing what Obama suggested here, the stats for the school district would improve – the fewer students arrested, the better they looked.
I’d forgotten that they were following Obama’s explicit advice.
And we still are told by some that Obama was the smartest person ever to occupy the office. Hmm. Maybe he was. Maybe, like the politicians who began the Ponzi scheme called Social Security, he figured he’d be gone by the time the consequences were apparent.
Right. There is no chance Michelle Obama ever runs for an office where she would have even a small amount of responsibility and accountability.
Portland State students triggered when speaker suggests that men and women are innately different - calling them "brainwashed". You can't make this up.Replies: @Forbes
These college students must be getting their HS education in states that spend boatloads of $ per student–the age-old (teachers’ union) metric for a good education.
How does Sean spend his days in Zimbabwe?
He said something about working with a guy involved in mining.
That’s the answer to every question that begins with “How in the world”.
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Malcolm X had it figured out 55 years ago; negros had to live away from whites. There was no way the mass of negros was ever going to make it competing with whites.
And with massive illegal immigration, and technology eliminating the jobs low skilled negros could do, it’s only going to get worse.
You could of come to the aid of your negro friend after the white chick flipped out. You had your ‘white male privilege’, that’s the most powerful force in the galaxy! Just speak to her with your calming, dominate, white male voice, to STFU Bitch! LOL.
“We can make classrooms good places for learning for everybody without jeopardizing a child’s future. (Applause.)”
Uhh…wha?
So if I get into all kinds of trouble in school, but it’s expunged from my record, could I then be called an undocumented juvenile delinquent?
So let's do our part to prevent wet streets.Replies: @International Jew
Didja know aspirin causes headaches? I know it does, because people who have headaches take more aspirin than people who don’t.
Obama could have done a lot more damage than he did but he preferred to play golf and really didn't cause too much permanent damage to the country - compare that to say FDR whose programs are still profoundly affecting the country 70+ years after his death.Replies: @Art Deco, @Art Deco, @Twodees Partain
True, there was no choice in ’08. I disagree that Obama did no lasting harm. His EO’s and the regs that his department heads put in place are all permanent damage, mainly because Trump is such a total mongoloid that he can’t even see any of them as a problem and hasn’t moved to nullify any of them..
Obama and his appointees created such racial tension that we’ve been lucky to avoid a civil war. Only the fact that other races outnumber blacks has kept such a war from breaking out, though the cultural warriors keep pushing. Obama caused permanent damage that you can see every day.
I remain baffled by Obama.
I never bought into the least of his schtick. I knew he was bad news, I just wasn’t sure about the dimensions of the enormity.
To anyone who has paid attention, it’s clear he’s not that bright. Maybe a little over one standard deviation above average, but I don’t think his ideas were ever hardened by opposition. He was essentially a one man echo chamber. It never occurred to him to check things out. The story for instance about having an uncle on his grandfather’s side who participated in the liberation of a death camp which happened to well within the area of Europe overran by the Soviets. It didn’t help, of course, that the MSM never called him on any of his numerous errors and faux pas.
I look at his public countenance and immediately think of Hamlet “That one may smile and smile and be a villain.” But was he actively evil or, by his own testimony, simply one who believes his own BS.
As someone pointed out above, he could have done a lot more damage but thank God he loved to play golf and watch ESPN.
Ultimately, I don’t think he was a fundamentally serious person. Being President was really cool. And the level of narcissism was breathtaking.
I look at Obama and the damage he did to this country and to the stability of the international order and I think it is fair to render Churchill’s judgment of Stanley Baldwin as applicable to Obama, “It would have been better had he never lived.”
His intelligence is adequate for any common-and-garden professional-managerial job in which he might take an interest. The trouble is that he's not interested in much of anything and hasn't applied his head to much of anything since passing the bar exam. His attitudes are absolutely bog-standard for a person of his class and occupational subcultures, at least outside the Southern United States. Not a trace of originality. His vapidity is really quite peculiar when you think about it.
Was that ‘black marks’ comment an intended pun, or did your white privilege slip and reveal itself?
I’ve made this same suggestion for couple of decades, but Americans have an aversion to admitting humans have inborn cognitive and temperamental limitations preventing them from eventually becoming college material, in particular the leftist’s pet: NAM’s. A country like Germany has a common sense approach with their Gynasium/Habshule approach, but it’s considered too deterministic and anti-egalitarian in the US, and everybody seems to know/know of someone who got their act together and graduated from college after screwing up royally in high school.
My mother ran an alternative school for a while. It was a godsend for the kids at the school. MUCH better than having to deal with constant discipline, etc.
It is plausible that students that eventually drop out are also more likely to have been suspended before. That doesn’t mean they dropped out because they were suspended.
PS: Bayes’ theorem applies, here.
I have always been against Zero Tolerance policies. (I call them Zero Intelligence policies).
There was a very interesting example here in Madison, Wisconsin, and I absolutely love the followup.
A few years ago, there was a white girl (because some people made a big deal about her race) who had NEVER gotten into trouble. High honor student, star athlete, all around great kid.
One day she grabbed some of her father’s liquor, put it in a container, and took it to school before a football game. She mentioned it to her father, who was on his way to school to grab her and the liquor before she got caught.
Too late. She had given some to some friends, who told a teacher, and she was caught.
Under the Zero Tolerance policy the Madison Metropolitan School District had at the time, she was expelled.
That’s right, one of the almost perfect kids, gets caught one and only one time, and she is expelled because she gave liquor to other kids.
A local weekly got ahold of the story, and did a front-page in depth story.
Result: the school board was shamed into reinstating the girl, and they changed their policy so the SECOND offense was punished, and the first offense was up to the school.
Some very weird people complained that she only got attention because she was a smart and pretty white girl. My thought: who gives a flying fig? Besides, non-white kids suffered more from the policy.
Fast forwards a few weeks. It is the NEXT football season. Some kids are drinking before the game. My daughter and some friends are invited to have a drink. At that point, my daughter had never had a drink in her life, so she had no idea how much to drink. She had way too much, and walked into the game smelling like alcohol.
Now, my daughter was a great kid, who had NEVER gotten into any trouble. High honor student. Had been a decent, but not star, athlete. Very similar to the first kid, except my daughter is about half white and went to a different high school.
My daughter got caught. I got a call from the principal to pick her up at the high school. The principal explained that if she had gotten caught a few weeks earlier, he would have no choice but to suspend her. Instead, he arranged an appointment with a school counselor, and sent her home with a warning.
Fast forwards about 4 years. My daughter is now on a full scholarship at Wisconsin, almost 4.0 average. A suspension might’ve destroyed her academic career, and might’ve cost the scholarship. A warning gave her a chance to get her life back on track, which she did.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5442331/Nikolas-Cruzs-mother-paid-50-000-adopt-him.html
The woman who raised Nikolas Cruz paid $50,000 to adopt him from his drug addicted biological mother and later bought his younger brother for $15,000, a former ...Replies: @istevefan, @El Dato
I think the payment goes the wrong way.
I think it was Pat Buchanan, no lefty he, who said Obama did the world a great favor by keeping McCain out of the White House.
Obama did well in the Midwest against Romney for many of the same reasons Trump did 4 years later. Romney represented the globalists who were shipping away the jobs.
There was an EXTREMELY effective ad in the Midwest against Romney.
It showed a worker in front of a closed plant. The worker explained he used to work at the plant, until Bain Capital (Romney’s company) bought up the company, closed the plant, and opened a new one in China.
I can remember one time driving around Janesville, home of Romney’s running mate, Ryan.
It was SO depressing looking at massive factories with grass growing in the parking lots.
No wonder the people of Janesville, and the Midwest in general, turned against Romney.
Trump understood why. Hillary Clinton didn’t. I voted for Mrs. Clinton, but she didn’t seem to have a clue what was going on in the Midwest, and couldn’t be bothered to miss her coastal fundraisers to see for herself.
If we had elected McCain or Romney we would have full Amnesty, all the Obama programs, and zero chance of ever electing a Republican President again for decades.
I never bought into the least of his schtick. I knew he was bad news, I just wasn't sure about the dimensions of the enormity.
To anyone who has paid attention, it's clear he's not that bright. Maybe a little over one standard deviation above average, but I don't think his ideas were ever hardened by opposition. He was essentially a one man echo chamber. It never occurred to him to check things out. The story for instance about having an uncle on his grandfather's side who participated in the liberation of a death camp which happened to well within the area of Europe overran by the Soviets. It didn't help, of course, that the MSM never called him on any of his numerous errors and faux pas.
I look at his public countenance and immediately think of Hamlet "That one may smile and smile and be a villain." But was he actively evil or, by his own testimony, simply one who believes his own BS.
As someone pointed out above, he could have done a lot more damage but thank God he loved to play golf and watch ESPN.
Ultimately, I don't think he was a fundamentally serious person. Being President was really cool. And the level of narcissism was breathtaking.
I look at Obama and the damage he did to this country and to the stability of the international order and I think it is fair to render Churchill's judgment of Stanley Baldwin as applicable to Obama, "It would have been better had he never lived."Replies: @Art Deco
To anyone who has paid attention, it’s clear he’s not that bright.
His intelligence is adequate for any common-and-garden professional-managerial job in which he might take an interest. The trouble is that he’s not interested in much of anything and hasn’t applied his head to much of anything since passing the bar exam. His attitudes are absolutely bog-standard for a person of his class and occupational subcultures, at least outside the Southern United States. Not a trace of originality. His vapidity is really quite peculiar when you think about it.
Parkland was an Obama threefer: Hispanic, “special needs,” and for the win(!) a mulatto biological brother.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/21/photo-shows-accused-florida-gunman-his-brother-holding-moms-ashes/
Obama did well in the Midwest against Romney for many of the same reasons Trump did 4 years later. Romney represented the globalists who were shipping away the jobs.
There was an EXTREMELY effective ad in the Midwest against Romney.
It showed a worker in front of a closed plant. The worker explained he used to work at the plant, until Bain Capital (Romney's company) bought up the company, closed the plant, and opened a new one in China.
I can remember one time driving around Janesville, home of Romney's running mate, Ryan.
It was SO depressing looking at massive factories with grass growing in the parking lots.
No wonder the people of Janesville, and the Midwest in general, turned against Romney.
Trump understood why. Hillary Clinton didn't. I voted for Mrs. Clinton, but she didn't seem to have a clue what was going on in the Midwest, and couldn't be bothered to miss her coastal fundraisers to see for herself.Replies: @Stan d Mute
The polar opposite of a leftist, I sat that one out because McCain is truly perhaps the most contemptible politician in my lifetime. Plus I figured Obama to train wreck the country and I know we must hit bottom before we will wake up to do what’s necessary to fix it.
This too I sat out. I just can’t vote for a guy who worships a space alien from Planet Kolob and wears Magic Underwear. Could never vote for any Scientologist either. And I hoped Obama would finish the harm he started. Turns out both calls were the right ones and we got Trump.
If we had elected McCain or Romney we would have full Amnesty, all the Obama programs, and zero chance of ever electing a Republican President again for decades.
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