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Kraken wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 1:24 am Buddy Guy!



How's that for randomness?

Skinypupy wrote: Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:23 pm Teachers and staff at Idaho middle school dress as a border wall (complete with MAGA slogan) for Halloween.

The kicker: They did so while giving out student awards for "respect".

Yes, people really are that stupid.

An Idaho superintendent has issued a public apology and placed 14 employees on paid administrative leave after staff at a public elementary school dressed up as Mexicans and a border wall for Halloween.
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“I want to say we are better than this,” Superintendent Josh Middleton said in a Facebook video Friday. “We embrace all students. We have a responsibility to teach and reach all students. Period. Do I think that there was a malicious intent in this poor decision? No, I don’t. Was there a poor judgment involved? Absolutely. And we now have to own those decisions.”

On Saturday morning, Middleton announced the employee actions during a special school board meeting, The Idaho Statesman reported. The board later said the investigation would continue.
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After the teachers were suspended, a Change.org petition was created to argue that the controversy had been overblown and that the teachers involved shouldn’t lose their jobs. More than 12,000 people had signed as of Monday afternoon.

malchior wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:32 am It is quite common - I see it in all the time while traveling. I even saw it in India this summer which I chuckled at.

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LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 12:11 pm

malchior wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:32 am It is quite common - I see it in all the time while traveling. I even saw it in India this summer which I chuckled at.

I see 2 at home minimum. I have half a mind to name mine "Russian Counterintelligence Van".


But sadly the takeaway for a lot of people will be that the crooked, rogue FBI was watching them.

Chaz wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 9:45 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 12:11 pm

malchior wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:32 am It is quite common - I see it in all the time while traveling. I even saw it in India this summer which I chuckled at.

I see 2 at home minimum. I have half a mind to name mine "Russian Counterintelligence Van".


But sadly the takeaway for a lot of people will be that the crooked, rogue FBI was watching them.

My home network is currently named Surveilance Van 5. When I set up the network at my in-laws' house, I named it Surveilance Van 3, and it's still that way.

Not sure if that's any weirder than one of my neighbors' network being named "DollsandTractors".

TheMix wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 10:34 am One of our neighbors is running "Durka durka jihad durka". Which apparently is a reference to something?

TheMix wrote:My vague recollection was that someone told me it was from that movie. It would make sense. I've managed to forget everything from that movie, though.

hepcat wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2018 11:20 am Fox News is my favorite parody site these days. Their top story right now? The Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton scandal.

I kid you not.

Daehawk wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2018 1:46 pm CNN sues Trump and White House aides over Acosta

Good hit him in the pocketbook where it hurts the rat.

The suit alleges that Acosta and CNN's First and Fifth Amendment rights are being violated by the ban.

A recently defeated Republican congressman is blaming the Democratic House takeover on the late Republican Sen. John McCain's vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act. First-term Minnesota Rep. Jason Lewis argued in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece first published Sunday that McCain's vote against repealing the federal health care law last year "killed the reform effort."

Lewis said the vote also unleashed a wave of Democratic attack ads against Republicans across the country on health care issues.

McCain, a longtime Arizona senator, was among three Republicans to vote against the repeal legislation in the Senate.
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Lewis argued that McCain's vote was motivated by distaste for President Donald Trump and not by policy concerns.

Lewis's column first appeared online on Veteran's Day.
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Lewis is no stranger to controversy. His past career as a conservative talk show radio host was a campaign issue in his 2016 election and again during his failed 2018 bid for a second term, including years-old remarks in which he wondered aloud why he couldn't call a woman "a slut" and said it's not the federal government's place to ban slavery.

Isgrimnur wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:24 pm
Lewis is no stranger to controversy. His past career as a conservative talk show radio host was a campaign issue in his 2016 election and again during his failed 2018 bid for a second term, including years-old remarks in which he wondered aloud why he couldn't call a woman "a slut" and said it's not the federal government's place to ban slavery.

malchior wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:51 am Mitch McConnell asks if the Dems will work with them or simply put partisan politics ahead of the country.

What we can make of those opportunities will depend on our Democratic colleagues. Will they choose to go it alone and simply make political points? Or will they choose to work together and actually make a difference?

Last week, the American people made it abundantly clear that they prefer that Congress focus on making a difference.

That message may have been lost on a few House Democrats, who have made clear their preference for investigations over policy results. After years of rhetoric, it’s hardly news that some are more interested in fanning the flames of division than reaching across the aisle.

Both houses of Congress have taken swift action to right-size a bloated federal regulatory state. The Senate has shattered records in confirming the president’s well-qualified judicial nominees, including two outstanding jurists to serve on the Supreme Court

Needless to say, the past two years of unified Republican government will be remembered as a period of historic productivity.

This is what the Senate’s Republican majority was elected to do. And we’ll continue to get it done.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:07 pm Of course, we've gone down this road with Flake before....

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:07 pm Jeff Flake announced that he won't vote to move any judiciary nominees for a vote on the floor unless McConnell allows a floor vote on a resolution to protect Mueller. Of course, we've gone down this road with Flake before....

malchior wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:51 am Mitch McConnell asks if the Dems will work with them or simply put partisan politics ahead of the country.

But, in a shocking development, the Senate Majority Leader refused to provide the unanimous consent required to advance the bill Wednesday afternoon — a move that raises the harrowing possibility that Mitch McConnell is not always honest about the motivations behind his procedural machinations.

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