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  1. 1 hour ago, Separation Scientist said:

    Is Hunter and "The Big Guy" taking millions of dollars of bribes from forigners?

    YES of course they are.

    Yet you are concerned about Trump and a Bible? Seriously? Why?

    Big girl doesn't want Trump selling Bibles but has no problem with crackhead Hunter "selling" finger paintings for $500,000.

  2. 29 minutes ago, 5GallonBucket said:

    I believe we have to protect our space from it being used for evil(China) but that’s all the money should be allocated for.

    im no expert either but I could name many things that that money could be used for here on earth that would better humanity.  
    now if we want to create some type of facility on Mars for all the murderers rapist sex offenders etc then I’m down for that 

     

    I don't want the government confiscating money from me to better humanity, the best way "extra" funds should be allocated to better humanity is to leave it in the taxpayer's pocket and not take it at all.

    The thought of government taking unallocated taxes and deciding how best to spend it makes me sick.

    Now, back to space before the "you're off topic" police show up, lol.

  3. This is the hidden content, please

    From the article:

    Every Democratic lawmaker in the Senate voted against an amendment that would bar taxpayer funds from being used to fly illegal aliens to U.S. towns and cities, according to the Republican senator behind the amendment. 

    "Tonight every single Senate Democrat voted against my amendment that would stop Biden Admin from using taxpayer dollars to charter flights for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from their countries directly to American towns to be resettled," Republican Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty tweeted early Saturday morning. 

    "Indefensible," he added.

     

     

  4. On 3/22/2024 at 3:02 PM, Reagan said:

    Here are some of the other things our side is mad about:  

    $850k for a gay senior home 

    $400k for a gay activist group to teach elementary kids about being trans

    $500k for a DEI zoo, an anti-racist nature appreciation program

    $400k for a group to gives clothes to teens to help them hide their gender

    $1.5 billion Green New Scam funding

    $300-500 million to Ukraine Secretary Assistance Initiative

    Continues funding Joe Biden’s border invasion

    12,000 Afghan Special Immigrant Visas and authorization to support loans to the International Monetary Fund.

    Benefits for illegal aliens late term abortions funding at home and abroad, per UN funding

    DEI funding initiatives across the nation

    Funds FBI New Headquarters

    None of this matters, what is important is to blindly go along with this nonsense so we can say we reached across the aisle in the squishy moderate name of bipartisan support.

    According to some, smh.

  5. Tyson has been charged with hiring illegals in the past and some of their manager / operators were actually indicted.  They said they were doing what Tyson told them to do and Tyson said they knew nothing about this.  Tyson was not charged but is sure sounded fishy, I would guess they knew exactly what was going on.

  6. 28 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

     The common attitude from those outside of the field is that teachers should just deal with whatever wages and paltry conditions that are provided to them because "it should be about the kids."  Without quality teachers, the kids aren't going to get quality educations.  And more and more quality teachers are leaving education.   you and CB can make it out to be teachers being selfish or lazy or whatever, but the fact of the matter is fewer and fewer people are willing to work for what teachers make while dealing with what teachers deal with.  Districts are getting creative to keep teachers, and for smaller districts who can't afford to pay a decent wage, a 4-day week is just about the best incentive they can offer.  I guarantee you Jasper gained some really good teachers when they went to 4-day weeks, and I can also guarantee you that many of those teachers will leave now that Jasper isn't offering them something that they can't get in a better district with better pay.  Subsequently, y'all's talk about pay cuts is asinine.  As I stated, teachers in 4-day districts are working the same amount of time as before.  longer days, extra weeks.  you think TVC should make less money as a cop because he worked 4 10s instead of 5 8's? Not to mention all of the overtime he made in career, versus the hundreds of hours of unpaid OT that most teachers work yearly.  I knew going in that I wasn't going to get rich teaching, and I don't complain about my wages, but I'm also not going to sit back and listen to people insinuate that teachers aren't worth the meager pay they do get.  Especially when I know guys making 3x my salary sitting behind a console doing a job that a chimp could do.  And  no, I'm not bitter, I've passed up multiple opportunities to go make much more money in various fields because I love what I do.

    Showing your ignorance of other's jobs now.  Guess what, there are other folks that have tough jobs as well, just like the "dumb" operator you're referring to.  Good teachers are valuable, I agree, but the profession is not above criticism, especially when they want to change a system that has served kids well for generations so they can have 3 day weekends, at the expense of their customers / employers.  

    Maybe one day vouchers will take care of the problem, folks can take their money and send their kids to a school that teaches Monday - Friday.

    A four day week puts lots of burden on lots of families that they weren't dealing with for a five day week.

    By the way, my 20% cut comment in pay was probably a bad taste joke, I know this arrangement isn't a 20% cut in time and wouldn't want to cut any pay, I simply think the traditional 5 day week serves the community much better.

     

     

  7. 26 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

    At this point I probably know less people working standard 5-day work weeks than I do people working 4-day weeks, hybrid schedules, from home, etc.  how do these families get by during holiday breaks and summer?  How do they work around schools' varying schedules, that rarely if ever fit perfectly with the 8-4 or 9-5 workday?  They've managed to do so forever, and they're figuring out how to make it work in the districts who've already gone 4-day as well.  Some districts provide cheap or free child care on Fridays for families who can show they need it.  Churches in my community have offered to do this if we go to 4-day weeks.  There are options and ways to help out.  

    We need to quit making it about the teachers that want a lax schedule and make it about the kids.

    I agree with CB, you want to knock a day off, take a 20% cut in pay, now there's a real savings for the ISD.

  8. 36 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

    You apparently don’t understand how it works, on more than one front.  We receive 187 days pay, prorated through the course of the year to ensure we receive a paycheck in the summer.  And districts are required to work a certain amount of minutes a year, with 4-day districts adding minutes to each day, working certain Fridays, and an extra week or two or three a year to make up the difference.  And you clearly underestimate the difficulty of the job, and the value a good teacher has in society.  Like a profession there are good ones and bad ones, but I don’t understand your attitude towards teachers at all.  

    And the folks that are pushing this are clearly underestimating the job of two working parents barely getting by or a single mother with no support.

    Work five days a week like it has been forever, like everyone else.

  9. 5 hours ago, tvc184 said:

    For what it’s worth, I worked a 4 day week for 20 years.

    It made a lot more sense in my job with 24 hours of hourly and mandatory coverage however as there benefits to the public and very little to no detriment or extremely little.

    Unlike schools, no one had to schedule their time around my job. 

    Apples and oranges

  10. 1 hour ago, SmashMouth said:

    More than just liberals. The further leaning left adhere to "Progressive" policies which are more extreme than your left leaning liberal. She is a progressive by definition, and she is dangerous.

    She, and her ilk, are definitely dangerous.  They are concerned about the rights of the government being infringed rather than the individual's.

    Folks like this hate the Constitution because it's a stumbling block to their agenda.

  11. This is the hidden content, please

    A sitting SCJ that doesn't understand the Constitution, smh.

    I feel like she's channeling Obama when he called the Constitution a "charter of negative liberties".

    From the article:

    As the justices questioned whether the Biden administration crossed the constitutional line, Jackson appeared to suggest that such actions can be justified.

    "My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods," she told the lawyer representing Louisiana, Missouri and private plaintiffs. 

    "And so I guess some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country, and you seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information," she continued.

    "So can you help me? Because I'm really – I'm really worried about that because you've got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances from the government's perspective, and you're saying that the government can't interact with the source of those problems," Jackson added.

    Her comments quickly went viral with dozens of people insisting that "hamstringing the federal government" is "literally the point" of the First Amendment.

  12. 2 hours ago, SmashMouth said:

    It's not the same thing. And even if it was (which it's not), then why are we asking for Trump to get off just because Biden did? Why aren't we asking why both should have to face consequences? Why do we keep putting our politicians on a pedestal & above the law?

    Both Trump and Biden did what most Presidents have done, with no nefarious intent, I will add.

    None have received the treatment from Democrats and the media like Trump has for doing the same thing other Presidents have done.

    Whether you like the guy or not, and I’m not a fan of the man, the constant charges, impeachments and general coverage is something that should be an embarrassment to this country, all while many ignore the vegetable in the White House.

     

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