I am not saying Trump is some sort of tactical genus. I agree that Trump should be giving regular press conferences showing what the mayors and governors are allowing, but it is what it is I guess, and I would suspect that the MSM would not show any of it or just cherry pick it and just show recordings instead of it live.
Sen. Tom Cotton proposed using the Screamin' Eagles to put down these riots, and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Hard to predict what the chinks will do.
You don’t. You send them to the ovens.
Seems to me the wording of the 14th amendment would in fact provide a method for the federal gov't to act that wasn't there before, possibly?
The supremacy clause was in place the entire time this went on.
14th wasn't adopted until 1868. Before the civil war it was more of a Free for All (attitude was "I am a citizen of State X first, US second") when it came to states vs feds, and chances are outside of the 1st there was no federal law that stated "You can't have the state pay for clergy", and even if there was, Supremacy clause is more of a constitutional law issue suited for the courts if there is a conflict. The SC just means if the fed go after pot store fronts any states who challenge it to the feds in court should be shot down easily. The only recourse the States have is to have the states hold a constitutional convention under Article V.Where states are concerned I think the 14 amendment is more on point?
As an example of what I mean, Connecticut had an established religion and paid clergy (Conregationalism) from public taxes well into the 1820s, over thirty years after the Constitution was ratified. Yes, it was a carryover from the beginnings of the colony, but the state didn't stop this over any kind of Constitutional separation of whatever theory, the Baptists and Methodists just got sick of their taxes funding another faith. So the state legislature revoked the special status of Congregationalist ministers with zero federal involvement or (AFAIK) anybody even considering the federal Constitution when it happened.
The supremacy clause was in place the entire time this went on.
I guess they're not wrong if you figure that the Democratic vision of Law and Order is really just Anarcho-Tyranny.
I wish the best for her kids, honestly. I'm sure the father isn't in the picture. What she should do lawyer up and disappear from the public eye. She's better off just taking the money and running. Leave a few million for her kids.The same people who depend on government money turn around and squander it on frivolous items and mutual donations to e-begging sites. You're right that they could pool that money and use ti to make a meaningfuil difference, but these are slacktivists we're talking about. Action is too tiresome.
It's funny because many liberals want more money for education and a solution to the "digital divide." For now, it instead looks like they're more invested in these protests that solve zero social issues. Meanwhile, schools are trying to figure out when and how they will reopen come September, and the technology woes they faced this spring in trying to provide online education on short notice are still unresolved -- something that doesn't bode well should schools be closed again for an extended period of time due to COVID-19 or anything else.
Aren't these also the same people that want $0 bail because requiring a cash payment to get out of jail is classist, racist, and about a dozen other-ists? Funny how they don't like the same ideas they advocate for when their opponents/enemies take advantage of them.
From what I've seen of Libertarians shilling their candidate, the talking points they focus on seem to be identical to the Democratic platform, especially regarding open borders. Why vote Libertarian if party members are touting policies already being supported by the Dems?
I imagine it will be some combination of:
Sadly, very little of this money will probably benefit the family/kids in any meaningful way because they probably won't take the time to seek out a reputable financial planner that doesn't see them as mere dollar signs.
- "Financial advisors" offering to help for a steep price (and mismanaging the money),
- Frivolous purchases, and
- All kinds of people crawling out of the woodwork to request or demand a share of the money with the implication that saying no is not going to be an option.
- Any other similar items not mentioned.
MLive has been garbage tier for some time. As the quality of their regional sports coverage declined and the <state>Live platform as a whole discontinued its own forums, there was nothing left to distinguish it from any other online news source. Worse, viewing MLive with an ad-blocker can yield unpredictable results. Sometimes, an article displays without any issues. Other times, you have to click something saying 'Continue without unblocking'. Still other times, you can't read the article at all, but a refresh produces the article in its entirety without the no-ad nag.
Writers such as this drive home the point that low-tier journalists flock to equally low-tier media sites where one journalist's mere incompetence is sadly above average when compared to the rest of them.
About 15 years ago, someone I know in Maine mentioned that their area had seen a brief upswing in Asian/African refugees escaping whatever turmoil was going on in their native countries at the time. Many of them found their way to the regional community colleges in an attempt to get themselves better educated.
Maine really is rather boring relatively speaking, and the low crime rate is so true that locals will give visitors from out of state/the big city good-natured ribbing about locking their cars, especially during the winter.
Agreed. Between Chief Craig's quick and proactive responses and local activists making it clear agitators are neither wanted nor welcome, Detroit has largely stayed calm. Even with the latest big shooting, Chief Craig released the body cam coverage rather quickly to dispel the inaccuracies being spread on social media. For now, the biggest ongoing protest in Detroit has been BAMN blockading school buses because they fear summer school will bring a large upswing in COVID-19 to both students and staff alike.
Send the feds to places such as Portland and Seattle where the local elected officials either do nothing to stop the violence or encourage it with their behavior and/or inaction.
At this point, the burnt areas of Portland, Minneapolis, and other cities make Detroit look better (for now anyways). If you want to compare Portland's current state to Detroit's after its 1967 riot, though, you'd be more spot on.
The $15/hour demand is the byproduct of SEIU's involvement. They're the group behind that along with unionizing fast food workers so they can boost their depleted union membership and coffers. It's ingenious icing on the cake when they, or other groups, imply $15/hour minimum wage would somehow cure everything wrong in the US right now.
Even if there was a new and improved term for homeschooling, it wouldn't change the fact people would still use it for bad reasons as they do now. That aspect will never go away.
@Syaoran Li, @FatalTater, and @Meat Target have all replied about the subject, but here are some other thoughts combined with theirs:
The biggest issue is a lack of uniform standards. Regulations vary greatly from state to state. In my state, parents don't have to notify the state unless they want special education resources. Further, they don't have to notify the local school district although it's encouraged to avoid truancy issues. Apart from minimal content requirements, parents have relatively complete autonomy. Even the requirement that anyone homeschooling children possess a Bachelor's degree is easily sidestepped because of how easy it is to claim having said degree isn't possible for religious reasons. Efforts to further regulate homeschooling often get fought by homeschool lobbyists.
Another issue is the aforementioned people that use it to either hide something or indoctrinate their kids. In addition to fundamentalists who may want to slant teaching to include their distorted religious world view, there are also those who use homeschooling to keep anyone from learning the children are being abused and neglected. Yes, these are likely a small minority, but the media has a field day reporting these incidents because it allows them to portray homeschooling and their advocates as abnormal.
One of the last main concerns I've seen comes from a thread active when I was a lurker: Unschooling. The idea that parents are claiming to homeschool their children when they instead have their kid unsupervised in front of an electronic device doing whatever they want, even if it's not educational. I'm willing to bet many people have this in mind when they first hear "homeschool" even though it's once again a small minority whose behavior is exaggerated by those who dislike any disruption to the status quo.
Public school unions seeing it as a threat are indeed a thing. They've never been totally thrilled with private schools even if they tolerate them to some degree. Charter schools are looked at even more unfavorably because they get state tax funding that would presumably go to the public schools those students might otherwise attend. As a result, teachers unions, especially the more militant ones affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers tend to have a vested interest in seeing their competition fail in some form or another.
The socialization issue can go either way. Many homeschooled students go on to attend college, do well, and graduate to be productive members of society. However, that doesn't provide good ammo for criticizing homeschooling. Instead they focus on those students who behave quirky for whatever reason or might not move on to college. Those become Exhibit A on why homeschooling is bad. That said, there exists organized homeschooling groups that provide structured learning and opportunities for interaction whether student-teacher or student-student. Also, some areas with enough homeschool students have been known to have organized physical education sessions, intramural sports, or full-fledged athletic programs to make sure students have a chance to be active and learn teamwork skills.
This is his most brilliant play yet. He has repeatedly offered to send in Federal help, but the states have the right to refuse it, and allowing the states to make the conscious decision to burn their cities down for wokeness, makes Trump look good, and doesn't encourage or respond to the "hurr durr hes a facist" claims. Because now everyone sees what the real problem is, the mayors and senators of these cities. Not only is Trump sticking to his Republican base of states rights by not directly interfering, but now the individual city police departments are the ones responsible for controlling the chaos and get blamed.
That isn't necessarily fair to the police departments, often its the city ordering the police to stand down, the police don't have much of a choice. The police are faced with "Look bad but follow orders, or go rough which also looks bad"
