TN Toffee
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The only thing missing was for him to slap the Union leader with a white glove. Also, Bernie playing the role of exasperated father trying to mediate a dispute between two toddlers was fantastic.
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The only thing missing was for him to slap the Union leader with a white glove. Also, Bernie playing the role of exasperated father trying to mediate a dispute between two toddlers was fantastic.
davek
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My money goes on O'Brien in a fist fight.
davek
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Mullin sounds like an utter tit.
Martin Alvito
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The Beltway changes people.
and yet people vote for them in their droves!Yep, that's the state of the Republican party these days.
U.S. Senate: The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner
1851: Caning of Senator Charles Sumner -- May 22, 1856www.senate.gov
That's the pathway we're on right now.
Martin Alvito
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If I hadn't spent all those years in the South, I would struggle to wrap my head around it.
The truth is that there's a three-tiered education system down there: private, public in counties with high property values and public. One undesirable effect of shunting most people into the latter tier is that they're not equipped to separate fact from fiction. They'll believe anything that sounds appealing, including the notion that they can be as bigoted as they desire without repercussion, should they vote for the right candidates.
If you want to explain to me what's happening in the big square flyover states, I'm all ears. I've done plenty of time there, and I still don't get it.
ha. I'll have to pass.
I can barely explain what's going on in New England...
Martin Alvito
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You're in good company. I can't recall any scholar ever making sense of it. I know good local authorities on several states, but never New England.
TN Toffee
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Can confirm. Eternally grateful that the zip code lottery put me in the former group of public schools.
Martin Alvito
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In my case, it was my parents (though it wasn't that way for most of my childhood before we moved down that way, because they had lots of good options). I didn't put my kids in that group, but we also deliberately moved out of state to schools that fit the second profile before it mattered.
Also, if you want to say that Tim Burchett's high school counts in the second tier, I will be happy to talk smack.
summerisle
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My first thought was: "That's silly, how could Santa get down chimneys if he was in a wheelchair?"
Because getting down the chimneys at all, flying all round the world in a sleigh, and omniscience in the specific matter of children's behavioural histories across a calendar year are all easily explained. By 'Christmas magic'.
TN Toffee
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Lol. Didn’t actually grow up in Knoxville, but in nearby Oak Ridge. In the 90’s that was about as good as public schools came. Actually less of a high property value zip than a high property TAX zip. Most of that money was spent on the local schools.
Got a fantastic education there…tbd how much leftover radiation from the Manhattan Project I absorbed living there for two decades.
Martin Alvito
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Oh, I can talk junk about Oak Ridge, too. It was a good school system back then, though.
As far as the radiation is concerned, anyone living next to Fort Loudon Lake is probably just as screwed, considering everything they buried there to study the effects.
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