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True Freedom May 7, 2013 at 04:17 pm
@Elias: RE: carrying purchases in your hand...
like Chris Rock in "I'm Gonna Get You…Read More Sucka"... "F** the cup, pour it in my hand!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQRqAoT-2c
classic
Diana Swartz (Editor) May 7, 2013 at 04:17 pm
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rubberband May 7, 2013 at 04:12 pm
@Lisa:
cool.
Think of me as a Kung Fu type, wandering the earth playing my flute, visiting cities…Read More and hanging out...but w/o the moral lessons or grasshopper stuff. I laugh a lot.
p.s. bacon
p.s.s the dog pic is cute.
Greg Coppes May 9, 2013 at 11:58 pm
In our first meeting here I told you that I believed that any discussion or argument here was not…Read More done to change the minds of those involved, rather it was to influence those who are reading them; third parties.
You have been very helpful in that regard. Anyone reading our exchanges can see you for what you are.
I tried to have a discussion with you and could not even agree on the definition of words with out hours of argument
You have an agenda and you will not allow anything to get in the way of it. That agenda includes trying to circumvent and weaken the 2nd amendment and redefine it's intent.
Mark Paxson May 9, 2013 at 11:51 pm
Once again you misdirect. You made a specific statement about one California piece of legislation…Read More you claimed did very specific things and, therefore, was unconstitutional. I'm not arguing the constitutionality. I'm arguing that the factual basis, the things that legislation does, is wrong. We can't even begin to discuss the constitutionality if the facts are wrong. I have provided the evidence that your facts are wrong. You have yet to counter that evidence. And now you change the conversation to "the constitutional intricacies within hundreds of pages of proposed state & federal firearms legislation written in legalese." You made very specific factual claims about one specific piece of California legislation. I've provided the bill number as well as the analysis. And all you can do is now quibble over whether eristical is a word that I should have looked up.
I will never understand why you and the rest of the right-wingers are so incapable of understanding that if they post "facts" in the context of their arguments that are proven to be false, they believe the problem is with the person who proves them wrong. Seriously, Jeff ... if the factual basis for your claim of unconstitutional provisions is wrong, how can you keep arguing the legislation is unconstitutional? Why is it so hard for you to back up those "facts?" You're proving yourself to be no better than the rest.
Mark Paxson May 9, 2013 at 11:41 pm
You imply far too much, sir. But your further response implies other things. First, that I have…Read More ever questioned your interest in defending the Constitution. I have not. Second, that somehow those who haven't served in the military would somehow have less of a desire in preserving and defending the Constitution.
It's interesting, everybody I know who has served in the military who has expressed an opinion on the issue has stated that above all, they believe in the right of others to express their opinions, that what they were defending when they served was the beauty of the divergent views and opinions that exist in this country. Sadly, most of what you've done on Patch is contrary to that concept. As you have done everything you can to squelch any legitimate conversation about these important issues.
No, sir, I have not served in the military. A fact that I am not ashamed of. And a fact that is irrelevant as to whether or not I have a strong desire to preserve and defend the Constitution. Nothing I have suggested is an attack on the Constitution.
Pamela Smyth May 10, 2013 at 08:57 pm
We thank our teachers from elementary school through graduate school by remembering that spelling…Read More and literacy in the language of one's culture and community matters, that reading newspapers matters, that what we publish online represents their efforts to teach us how to articulate our thoughts and ideas, and how to read with care and consideration the opinions of others with that same thoughtful consideration. We thank our teachers by taking the work they do and the hours and hours of unpaid and free or volunteer work "behind the scenes" and the money they spend out of their pockets to improve the learning environment for their students seriously. Most of all, we thank them by growing up to be civil and to work hard at whatever jobs or tasks we are given in life to the best of our abilities; and if some of that work began with the encouragement and recognition given by a teacher, then that is a joyful word of thanks to all of us who were students and are indeed, today, teachers.
Nicole Mooradian April 22, 2013 at 01:43 am
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Carl Petersen III April 21, 2013 at 11:34 pm
Robert Livesay
8 minutes ago
"Herr Carl Petrersen III I have some concerns about your…Read More postings."
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Sounds like someone is a little bit upset over getting proven wrong about his allegations about the cause of our economic crash.
Carl Petersen III April 21, 2013 at 10:03 pm
Carl Petersen III
5 hours ago
Robert Livesay
2 minutes ago
'ou folks that voted for Liberals need…Read More some lessons in economics.'
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Is lesson one how the Conservative economic policy of the Bush administration crashed the economy?
navigio April 4, 2013 at 07:27 pm
You forgot the link to the declining performance.
Did you not understand my point that tuition is…Read More not the same as cost of education?
I picked an LAUSD school at random:
http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=sarc4&which=4507
search for 'expenditures per pupil from unrestricted sources' and see the district average. thats what actually gets to the school that is not set aside for something specific like additional intervention.
btw, out of curiosity, do you believe educational achievement would increase if we raised class sizes?
ATC April 4, 2013 at 06:28 pm
Once again, navigio, Facts matter; Stop making things up.…Read More
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d09/tables/dt09_059.asp
http://www.edreform.com/2012/04/k-12-facts/
http://www.capenet.org/facts.html
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/private-schools-cost-less-you-may-think
Californicated1 March 26, 2013 at 05:12 pm
And that is exactly my point.
Not everybody is going to "find their bliss" or even their…Read More career even in college.
And one of the biggest problems the last 70 years or so was that a college education and even a college degree out there has been sold as the panacea to everybody's problems from job frustration, lack of education, and even self-actualization and self-fulfillment and that both the teachings of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers have even been applied towards selling the public on a college education.
And there are plenty of examples out there we can all quote chapter and verse about the merits and values of a University education and that there are always exceptions out there about who succeeded despite not finishing their education, like the Jeff Zuckerbergs and Bill Gates out there, who wound up dropping out of Harvard and being successful despite that.
Meanwhile, I know a lot of Speech Communications majors out there who went to places like UC-Davis and even Southern Illinois University who were hoping to be the next major talk-radio hosts out there who wound up managing fast food joints after working their way up from the bottom during and after school, including an Engineering Student from CU-Boulder who after graduating eventually wound up as a regional supervisor over several restaurants in a fast-food chain.
And then there are that guy's co-workers, even his peers, who wound up doing the same thing with nothing more than a diploma.
Dalamar March 26, 2013 at 04:13 pm
To summarize CA1, you have advocated anyone who is born into a particular class should not bother…Read More making any attempt to improve themselves. Such persons should just accept their fate as being born into a poor family which can't afford a university education and stay poor?
I agree there should be some options for vocational skills be taught during high school, but not as substitution for college prep, but in ADDITION to. We've all been programmed into believing that college education has always been a luxury since Ronald Reagan destroyed free education when he was Governor in 1967. (http://www.newfoundations.com/Clabaugh/CuttingEdge/Reagan.html)
Controlling the cost of education is the correct action to take.
Add the fact many college degree jobs are outsourced overseas and the appeal for a college education diminishes. Napoleon does correctly point out regardless of what occupation a person acquires after attending a college, there are many other facets of the experience and education which enrichens all students, not the least of which is the exposure to diversity of culture, religion and beliefs in a conducive environment.
Our nation is a union of all citizens regardless of class, creed, race or religion. When a significant percentage of our citizens are below the poverty line and undereducated, by default our nation is. Investment in education is in an investment in our citizens and ergo our nation. Bringing jobs back through tax codes is the next logical step.
Napoleon Solo March 26, 2013 at 03:56 pm
We probably are reading different things. The specifics have been done and I think it was in the…Read More Wall Street Journal and/or Business Week magazine in the last year. I'm too lazy to look for it. Bottom line was that from a money standpoint, some degrees are a net loss. Getting back to my brother, he went four years and hated every minute of it, and finally went into sales. He said ever since that he wish he could have been earning money in those four years instead of spending it on college. College is not for everyone. However, it was a good choice for me. I've done work I could have not done without it, and earned a large multiple of what it cost me.
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