Which is why no one respects news organizations anymore.
Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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Which is (part of) the reason big news institutions are struggling, and smaller, newer websites and such are becoming more prominent. Too bad those tend to be far more openly partisan.
Things are much better when news organizations pretend to be non-partisan?
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Bureaucracy in action - School dress code prohibits their own cheerleader uniform. Parents ask, "Why is it ok to wear in front of thousands of people at a game but not ok to wear in school on game days?" Bureaucrat's answer is priceless: "We have a new dress code and it applies to all students, end of discussion."[DOUBLEPOST=1379359468,1379359379][/DOUBLEPOST]Cops threaten to arrest charity group who has spent the last 6 years feeding the homeless in the park.
Bureaucrat should have said, "spectators at the game do not need to get up and finish a math problem at the black board."
Re: the dress code story
Never, EVER believe a principal who claims "X number of students have come up to me and told me they support my new rules/policy/whatever." They lie. If any students have actually done so, the number is more like 2-3 and the egomaniacs who become administrators inflate that number in their heads.
Never, EVER believe a principal who claims "X number of students have come up to me and told me they support my new rules/policy/whatever." They lie. If any students have actually done so, the number is more like 2-3 and the egomaniacs who become administrators inflate that number in their heads.
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GasBandit
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If the sight of a girl's upper arm is causing mathboners, those kids need a lot more education of a very different kind.[DOUBLEPOST=1379361876,1379361834][/DOUBLEPOST]
I can imagine it, but not in the way you mean. Or will ever happen.
I feel like I've seen that movie.If the sight of a girl's upper arm is causing mathboners, those kids need a lot more education of a very different kind.[DOUBLEPOST=1379361876,1379361834][/DOUBLEPOST]
I can imagine it, but not in the way you mean. Or will ever happen.
Then I demand that the swim team gets to wear their school approved uniforms to class.
I'm sure the rationale is that, much like pigeons, if you stop feeding them, they will go congregate somewhere else.
--Patrick
Basically this. The only proven way to remove homeless from your area is to make it so impossible to live there (by closing down shelters/shantytowns, requiring panhandling licenses, and making it illegal to give them handouts) that they leave on their own... or by buying them a bus ticket and shipping them to another city. This is what happens when your city treats the homeless like vermin that need to be exterminated instead of folks that need (expensive) help.
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... yours didn't?
Hey Raleigh! I live there! I also know Moore Square, and yea it's a shantytown.
I can pretty much guarantee that is the exact reason. They've already worked at cleaning up the streets bordering the NC State Campus, and Moore square is surrounded by recent efforts of cleaning up Downtown Raleigh.
It still depends heavily on the school. Granted, it's been nearly 10 years since I was last in high school, but the school I went to was notorious for cutting academic programs long before they'd ever touch the sacred football team.
This is a problem in the Midwest, where the local sports team is basically the only thing of note in the entire area. I know they routinely have to threaten to gut the sports teams to get any kind of bond to pass here.
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24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell was former football player for Florida A&M University who worked two jobs and had recently moved to North Carolina to be with his fiancee. On Saturday night, Ferrell was involved in a car accident when his vehicle veered into some trees off a road in Charlotte. The wreck was so bad, Ferrell reportedly had to climb out of his window.
Ferrell walked half a mile to the nearest home and began banging on the door the attract attention for some help. A woman opened the door and, after seeing Ferrell, shut the door and called police at around 2:30 am.
When police arrived on the scene, Ferrell ran towards them, when police attempted to stop him with tasers. When he continued to walk towards them, officer Randall Kerrick fired his gun at the young man, unloading 10 shots into him and killing him.
Officer Kerrick has since been charged with voluntary manslaughter and is due to be arraigned today in the fatal shooting of Jonathan Ferrell.
Reports show that Kerrick, the officer who shot Ferrell, was initially hired as an animal control officer in 2010 and was moved up to police recruit in 2011. Information on a one day suspension in 2012 would not be released by authorities.
Chris Chesnut, the attorney representing the Ferrell family, said that the family is deciding what course of action to take. Chesnut questions Kerrick’s abilities as a police officer and if he was qualified to be a member of the service. ”Clearly this is someone who did not have the necessary intelligence, discernment or compassion to walk the streets of Charlotte with a handgun, let alone a badge,” Chesnut said.
Ferrell’s family, however, is not angry. His mother Georgia has since been praying for the man who killed her son. “You took a piece out of my heart that never can be put back,” she said, speaking of Kerrick. “But I forgive you.”
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24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell was former football player for Florida A&M University who worked two jobs and had recently moved to North Carolina to be with his fiancee. On Saturday night, Ferrell was involved in a car accident when his vehicle veered into some trees off a road in Charlotte. The wreck was so bad, Ferrell reportedly had to climb out of his window.
Ferrell walked half a mile to the nearest home and began banging on the door the attract attention for some help. A woman opened the door and, after seeing Ferrell, shut the door and called police at around 2:30 am.
When police arrived on the scene, Ferrell ran towards them, when police attempted to stop him with tasers. When he continued to walk towards them, officer Randall Kerrick fired his gun at the young man, unloading 10 shots into him and killing him.
Officer Kerrick has since been charged with voluntary manslaughter and is due to be arraigned today in the fatal shooting of Jonathan Ferrell.
Reports show that Kerrick, the officer who shot Ferrell, was initially hired as an animal control officer in 2010 and was moved up to police recruit in 2011. Information on a one day suspension in 2012 would not be released by authorities.
Chris Chesnut, the attorney representing the Ferrell family, said that the family is deciding what course of action to take. Chesnut questions Kerrick’s abilities as a police officer and if he was qualified to be a member of the service. ”Clearly this is someone who did not have the necessary intelligence, discernment or compassion to walk the streets of Charlotte with a handgun, let alone a badge,” Chesnut said.
Ferrell’s family, however, is not angry. His mother Georgia has since been praying for the man who killed her son. “You took a piece out of my heart that never can be put back,” she said, speaking of Kerrick. “But I forgive you.”
Oh my god...
When you get in a car wreck bad enough to have to crawl out of the window you may be in shock or have a head injury.
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Alright, everybody hold on to their hairpieces, because I'm about to praise the Obama administration.
Obama Administration files FCC petition to require mobile carriers to unlock mobile devices
This is good for the consumer. It fosters competition and innovation (the lifeblood of the free market). It's such a no-brainer it has bipartisan support in the legislature. It's a step in the right direction.
Obama Administration files FCC petition to require mobile carriers to unlock mobile devices
This is good for the consumer. It fosters competition and innovation (the lifeblood of the free market). It's such a no-brainer it has bipartisan support in the legislature. It's a step in the right direction.
I agree, step in the right direction. Now they just need to mandate that for ALL consumer (or otherwise) hardware. Like game consoles. Let the homebrew/indie revolution commence!
The only reason razor blades are so expensive is because they've designed them to be. Back in the days before the disposable razor, all you had to buy were the blades... which cost pennies to make and can be bought in bulk. When the razor companies realized that they'd never make money selling just the blades, they designed the all in one razor (blade and handle locked together) and stopped making the old style razors. Since then it's been all about producing proprietary razors with blades that only fit THAT brand of razor. Since you are kind of forced to buy blades for the brand you own, they can charge whatever they like.
The old style razors are kind of making a comeback thanks to the internet though and you can buy blades for them for dirt cheap still.
Starbucks CEO asks customers to stop carrying gun to Starbucks locations, emphasizes that it is not a ban and gun owners will not be turned away. Gun owners flip out anyway, threaten boycott.
My favorite part is, as always, the numbskulls who claim this is a violation of their 2nd Amendment rights.
My favorite part is, as always, the numbskulls who claim this is a violation of their 2nd Amendment rights.
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I forgot about Dollar Shave Club. I love that ad.
Even if they had banned guns in Starbucks, it still would not be a violation of their 2nd Amendment rights.
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It's time to play, WHO SAID IT?
"We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: … an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand … the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education … We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents … The government must undertake the improvement of public health – by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor … by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the … materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of the common good before the individual good."
"We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: … an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand … the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education … We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents … The government must undertake the improvement of public health – by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor … by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the … materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of the common good before the individual good."
– From the political program of the Nazi Party, adopted in Munich, February 24, 1920
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Just this thread, or also including GBPT I-IV?
Either way, I think the answer is infinity.