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  • locustsloth0

    Teachers send their kids to private school because the private school provide a better education. Why does it provide a better education? One reason is because, often, their ratios are lower, allowing for more attention for each student and more flexibility in the curriculum. Public schools are like a conveyor belt. Kids are administered the education and whether it sticks or not, they get sent down the line.
    We are sending our 9 yr old to an independent school because he was bored with the curriculum in public school, but there was no way to get individual attention for his advanced level.
    Additionally, schools don't have the budget to supply trained personnel for out of classroom times (recess, lunch, hallways), which means a bunch of low-wage workers hollering at kids rather than assessing and helping solve problems. Kids avoid and fear (and defy) authority rather than understanding their classmates, and their own, behavior and understanding how to solve the problems that come up. So these problems persist, which distract kids from what they're supposed to be doing at school, which is learning.

    • you're smart to send him there! I don't blame you.
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  • locustsloth0

    so nothing, chilamont? You post bullshit from a bullshit site. That bullshit gets refuted by information from the very study your bullshit site is using, and you have no comment?

    • Don't bother with that moron. Remember GetRefresh? It's the same guy.
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    • Naw its JazX
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    • Subscribing me to the Glenn Beck newsletter is NOT a valid response. It is a little funny thoughlocustsloth
    • Yeah just call him an inbred cunt like I do...Ramanisky2
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    You left out this part -

    Indiana's Republican Governor Calls On State GOP To Abandon Union-Busting Bill

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.c…

    Looks like the protests are having an effect:)

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    This might have something to do with it too.

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nat…

    Gallup: Americans oppose taking away collective bargaining for unions, by 61-33

    • So whats up in WI. Unions want more money and there is none? So they busting up the unions that drove up costs?
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    • You couldnt be more incorrect, didnt stop you from running your yap.DrBombay
    • i'd love to hear what its about form you doc. That would be a blast.
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    • It is all over the news, have at it.DrBombay
    • Yea u said my interpretation of it was wrong. so whats yours?
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    • Kill yourself trolly.DrBombay
    • U ever wonder personally why u result to insults instead of explanation? If u are right explain it
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    • if youre wrong i dont care. if u explain to me why im wrong..(and makes sense).thx. its not a pissing contest.
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    • if it helps imagine your cock as two miles wide and long. no matter the outcome no ego is harmed
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    Anti-union bill in Indiana scrapped

    http://www.politico.com/news/sto…

    Republicans in Indiana’s state senate on Wednesday killed a proposed “right-to-work” bill that would have reduced the power of unions in the state.

    “It was a mistake,” said Senate President Pro Tempore David Long, a Republican, at a late morning press conference, the Courier-Journal reported.

    Democratic legislators fled the statehouse on Tuesday to block a vote on the proposed bill, following a similar move by Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin over that state’s proposed legislation to limit collective bargaining rights for public sector unions.

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    Income inequality in America, 2011

    Yeah, clearly our first priority should be to destroy the institutions working class people rely on

    • yes its a graph! And the statements has no direct relationship to anything!
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    • this articles says politicans policies pander to the rich. democrats pander unions and reps pander business
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    • then says panderign to business is bad and unions is good. but both are bad.
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    • the graphs are too support his statement that the politcians both sides only pander to the rich. he ignores unions or corporations and top dogs are rich
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    • are corporations selling people as labor.
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    • business lobbies 4 to 1 over unions. So get that corpo dick, deathboy.DrBombay
    • So. Lobbying is bad by coporations as logn as you only do it as much as unions? What are u suggesting?
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    • The declien of private union membership and increase in public union is scary. Public union can be more easily used by politicians for votes and public spending.
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    • by politicains for votes and public spending. Maybe corps have to lobby more to compete with public unions
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    • think shit through before u parrot talk statistics u dont understand or have any idea how they relate to anything.
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    • and do repeat logical fallicies. makes you look as uneducated rednecks saying they took our jooobbbsss
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    • and please dont try to relate education to typing skills on my part either liek u usually do
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    • LOL
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    Scott Walker has 20 minute conversation with prank caller posing as David Koch

    http://www.jsonline.com/news/sta…

    Koch: [Laughs] Well, I tell you what, Scott: once you crush these bastards I’ll fly you out to Cali and really show you a good time.

    Walker: All right, that would be outstanding. Thanks for all the support...it’s all about getting our freedoms back...

    Koch: Absolutely. And, you know, we have a little bit of a vested interest as well. [Laughs]

    Walker: Thanks a million!

    Koch: Bye-bye!

    Walker: Bye.

    • Pretty pointless 20 minutes. Nothing worth being upset about or entertained with.
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    • best part was the candid talk about using plants. Which both sides use to rile up team fans.
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    • no they dont .. liarRamanisky2
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  • utopian0
    • Land of the Freeutopian
    • ...and the home of the brave!utopian
    • collective vs individual. 50% or more doing that we'd have a problem
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    • 50 percent? So you need to see half the army doing this before you think it's a problem?IRNlun6
    • yup before you generalize all US soldiers the same as those guys.
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    • Dogs of War!
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  • utopian0

    The Rich are getting Richer...
    and the Poor are getting Poorer...

    The Great Recession and the slump that followed have triggered a jobs crisis that's been making headlines since before President Obama was in office, and that will likely be with us for years. But the American economy is also plagued by a less-noted, but just as serious, problem: Simply put, over the last 30 years, the gap between rich and poor has widened into a chasm.



    http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_th…

    • Timeline...
      I know,
      thanks!
      utopian
    • so what is the cause in your opinion and is it good or bad? And reflect the globalization of markets in this age vs previous.
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    • in nature if a strong apex appears it is picked off for a balance. if this bipolar method is in use what is a better method then lasisez faire
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    • then a liassez faire approach. Sure to swing the balance its everyone for there own but what else would u suggest.
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    • besides using gov to create false markets and ignoring how politicans are influenced by them
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    • capitalism is simply a more civilized course in natural selection. Instead of collective strength its individual in theory
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    • it's called education retard
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    • i actually was serious utopian. not just rightly accepting my beliefs as correct and laughing at all other..chilamont
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    • chilamont i appreciate the entertainment value i get out of your posts, how its no better then many polar opposites but u seem to knwo better
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    • u seem to know better. hopefully. but come on dont get personal and insult to ppl who insult u
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    • it kills any question or chance of real response. and that kills any chance of tryng to get by mutual understaing and fine detail
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    • detail stuff. instead it jsut promotes tema generalizations and ad hominem type shit
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    Obama's Mystery Links to Qaddafi Uncovered


    http://nation.foxnews.com/rev-wr…

    the rest here: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles…

    • YOU
      INBRED
      FUCKTARD!
      utopian
    • wow nice response, how liberal and democratic of you...
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    Bam AWOL on Libya
    Even the UN sounds tougher


    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opi…
    Meanwhile, President Obama was conspicuously silent about Libya, while all Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could muster on Monday was, "We join the international community in strongly condemning the violence in Libya."

    Violence? Gee, who's perpetrating it? Is there a guilty party?

    • YOU
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      utopian
    • wow nice response, how liberal and democratic of you...
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    • Obama is too busy...to celebrate Motown at White House concert...
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    • He's not a president..he's a celebrity! That was packaged and sold to the American people!
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    • He is no different than a Kardashian or the Bieber kid!
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    • Talentless and over sold! HOPE AND CHANGE!
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  • Ramanisky20

    ^^^ still a better president than the last 4 Republican presidents combined

    • You are funny!
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    • if I'm funny, you and chilamont are HILARIOUS!Ramanisky2
    • NO REALLY YOU ARE FUNNY! STILL DEFENDING THIS TOOL BAG OF A FAKE PRESIDENT..THATS CLASSIC!
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    • i dont care about the cat but his HC plan seems to be a repeat to what we know now with FDR policies
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    • i wouldnt be surprised if i could enjoy a brew with him. i jsut dont think he understanda reality vs poltics and all that entails
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    • entails. i cant hate the guy or bush. they just havent thought it through. theyre ambitious and ambition or reason block the big view
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    • s the big picture. as the blue guy said people are irrational animals for the most part, running on self interest instinct
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    Saudi Muslim student arrested in plot to bomb Bush home


    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4175…

    A 20-year-old Saudi student has been charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and may have targeted former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department said Thursday.

    FBI agents arrested Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, who was admitted into the United States in 2008 on a student visa, in Texas on Wednesday. The Justice Department accuses him of purchasing chemicals and equipment to make an improvised explosive device.

    • I'm sure he's 100% innocent and this is just a right wing thing!
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    • KABLOOEY!
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    • well see it was reported by msnBS so it has to be true, nothing they can say about that one... fucking LOL!
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    • What's your point? He was caught and will be tried.IRNlun6
    • msnBS, O'Bummer, so clever ..
      I like how you play on words, you're a bonafide cum bucket.
      Ramanisky2
  • Josev0

    Fox CEO Roger Ailes encouraged Judith Regan to lie to Federal Investigators about an affair she had with Bernard Kerik to protect Rudy Guiliani's presidential campaign:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/2…

    "It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation, had encouraged her to lie two years earlier to federal investigators who were vetting Bernard B. Kerik for the job of homeland security secretary.

    Ms. Regan had once been involved in an affair with Mr. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner whose mentor and supporter, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, was in the nascent stages of a presidential campaign. The News Corporation executive, whom she did not name, wanted to protect Mr. Giuliani and conceal the affair, she said.

    Now, court documents filed in a lawsuit make clear whom Ms. Regan was accusing of urging her to lie: Roger E. Ailes, the powerful chairman of Fox News and a longtime friend of Mr. Giuliani. What is more, the documents say that Ms. Regan taped the telephone call from Mr. Ailes in which Mr. Ailes discussed her relationship with Mr. Kerik."

    • sounds like its ready for soem house wives reality series
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    Hey heres a decent article. About speculations and markets... i dont really feel like posting a out of context sentence that may attract the demo i'd like.. i really dont give shit. If you care to read it knowing where i lean then your looking for validation for whatever my screenname represents from previous posts. Or you ignore it for the same reasons as the previous. And for that small group that doesnt fall in one of the others, im guessing its just like yea i knew that or mildly interesting and probably capt wow shit ..

    http://reason.com/archives/2011/…

    • Title is a bit misleading. This is a case for legalizing predictive marketing in the Film industry.IRNlun6
    • i just like it to example fake markets. Cant stop them but its important to understand them.
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  • utopian0

    Who gets rich off of $100 oil?

    http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/25/…

  • Ramanisky20

    A Republican lawmaker in Athens, Ga., fielded a startling question by an audience member at a town hall Tuesday, prompting national headlines as well as a Secret Service inquiry.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4178…

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    SUCK IT BITCHES!!!!
    Gingrich: If Palin Took Obama Actions, There Would Be Calls for Impeachment

    http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/…

    • Oh man thats devastating. Thanks for posting that
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    • SUCK IT COCK SMOKER!
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    • Gay domination!DrBombay
    • f*cking lol
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    • well thankfully we will never have to worry about a president Palinfooler