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- Hi Jarad how are you?utopian
- She can be on my platoonRamanisky2
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Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare
Exempt from Obamacare taxes: Illegals, Indians, religious, prisoners
http://www.atr.org/comprehensive…
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Mosque sheik-up
Imam replaced at Ground Zero center
Ground Zero mosque ditches imam, appoints new leader with terror ties
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/loc…Critics of the project pointed out that Adhami has a link to Imam Siraj Wahhaj, of Brooklyn, whom prosecutors fingered as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj also was a character witness in the trial of convicted terror plotter Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.
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- Jared only shot 18 innocent people, six were fatal. Good shooting practice Jared!utopian
- lol @ fox linkmoldero
- Why do you have a picture of the president and Secretary Gates?luckyorphan
- you really are a moron, aren't you?********
- Explain it then.luckyorphan
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Corporate tax reform: Talk grows louder
There's the sweet deal for companies that make Puerto Rican rum. Or the tax break intended to promote U.S. manufacturing but that's so broad it can include the making of hamburgers.
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Tennessee Tea Party Demands School Curriculum Not Focus Too Much On The ‘Minority Experience’
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01…
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This is a story that isn't getting much play nationally yet, but in Wake County, North Carolina (where someone I know works as a teacher), the Tea Party took over the School Board. Their first act was to eliminate busing for diversity, i.e., sending kids from poorer areas to decent public schools.
http://www.wral.com/news/educati…
http://www.npr.org/templates/sto…Basically the first school board to do so since the Civil Rights era.
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Neither of those articles really go in depth as to the reasoning behind the decision to end the busing program, but if it was a matter of proximity, i can't say i completely disagree with them. i don't let my kids ride the bus. It's a 45min ride one way (even though the school is only 10min away). This means getting up earlier, not getting as much sleep, being exposed to the behaviors of older children in an environment where supervision is heavily restricted (due to the fact that they're driving a frickin bus).
Schools in all areas should have the same resources. But if they're busing them soley for the goal of having a diverse school populace, i think it's a bit wrong-headed and may actually breed contempt where it hadn't been before, rather than unity- It is important that modern children experience as much cultural diversity as possible these days IMODrBombay
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But how does that address the needs of kids from less advantaged backgrounds than your own? If it was as easy as saying "schools in all areas should have the same resources," something tells me this problem would have been solved long ago.
Not saying you don't have a point - driving an extra 20 minutes every day because the bus has to pick up kids from other areas sucks - but doesn't that have to be balanced against the negative social impacts?
I guess partly I'm suspicious because the Tea Party is behind it. They have a record of acting more out of ideology than practical concerns. And remember Rand Paul's insistance that businesses be given the right to refuse minorities?
- i'm skeptical of the motivations at well, but i didn't read much about their motivations, so i took it at face valuelocustsloth
- The motivations are pretty straightforward really, they dont believe in social policy of any kind********
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Chinese President Hu Disses the Dollar; Says U.S. System is a 'Product of the Past'
http://www.foxnews.com/world/201…
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U.K. changing state-run health-care system
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You're listening to Right-Wing News®
brought to you by Chilamont
- and your news? left-wing BS?********
- I don't post mindless "news bulletins" like you********
- sure you do, each time you open your mouth********
- when was the last time you wrote an original paragraph of words in this thread?********
- and your news? left-wing BS?
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Arizona shooter was pothead and Salvia addict
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/1…yep, a conservative, sure...
- right cause conservatives don't do drugs... EVERlocustsloth
- Not that i'm saying he was left or right. This dude was nuts and all over the placelocustsloth
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McCain: Obama "a patriot" worthy of leading America, political debate should be more civil
