Elizabeth Warren's campaign announcement will be on the steps in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where the Bread and Roses strike began https://t.co/jM8VBAfeoz
— David Dayen (@ddayen) February 2, 2019
I still hope I won’t have to give up my senior Senator. But as a childhood survivor of the ‘duck’n’cover’ era (the nuns at our primary school didn’t bother, since — as they pointed out — Manhattan was most assuredly one of the primary Soviet targets, so the only preparation we needed was to keep our souls in a perpetual state of grace), I think Warren’s already found some damned good talking points. Per NYMag:
In a bold and controversial move, Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation this week that would revoke Donald Trump’s existing authority to trigger a nuclear holocaust whenever he feels like it. The “No First Use Act,” which Warren co-authored with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, would legally establish that it is the policy of the United States to never be the first power to use nuclear weapons in an armed conflict…
Advocates of “no first use” believe the adoption of such a measure could spur more concrete changes in atomic policy, like putting our nuclear arsenal into a lower state of readiness (and thus reducing the probability of an accidental world war).
But leading Republicans believe that maintaining “calculated ambiguity” about whether America is a rogue, terrorist state that just might wipe a city off the face of the Earth at any moment is cool and good. Nebraska senator Deb Fischer said of Warren’s bill Wednesday, “With Russia and China increasingly attempting to intimidate their neighbors — some of whom are U.S. allies — this is the wrong message to send. It betrays a naïve and disturbed world view.”
Thank God our current leaders have a worldview that is sophisticated and sane.
Yeah, about that…
.@PressSec responds to the @axios report on Trump’s leaked private schedules by saying “there is time to allow for a more creative environment that has helped make him the most productive President in modern history.” pic.twitter.com/xc3phYYxDj
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) February 4, 2019
Americans aren't fools. They can see through your rhetoric. Stop trying to derail negotiations and let our Members do their work. #NoMoreShutdowns
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) February 3, 2019
Baud
Wouldn’t that just leave Trump free to use nuclear weapons first in an unarmed conflict?
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Patricia Kayden
Love how Pelosi is standing up to Trump. Finally, he has met his match.
Patricia Kayden
Good morning!!?
Baud
@rikyrah:
@Patricia Kayden:
Good morning.
rikyrah
WTF?????
Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) Tweeted:
Kansas judge calls children the ‘aggressor’ in sex abuse case with 67-year-old man.
https://t.co/3JD5KxecPY https://t.co/bBq5UZAHdq https://twitter.com/MiamiHerald/status/1092138148824416256?s=17
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: It’s Kansas.
hervevillechaizelounge
Since this is an open thread, can anyone tell me if the DNC has a sore loser clause? I’ve been digging around all night and I can’t figure it out—some (but not all) states have them, but I can’t find anything about how these laws apply on a national level.
Much obliged for your help!
Baud
@hervevillechaizelounge: I don’t know for sure, but generally ballot access is regulated by state law, not the DNC.
ETA: State law applies to ballot access for national elections.
rikyrah
@Patricia Kayden:
???
OzarkHillbilly
A new age guru is running for president? That’s 2019 in a nutshell
Please, somebody, just shoot me.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: This nice picture should make things better.
hervevillechaizelounge
@Baud:
So theoretically anyone who lost the dem nom could launch a third party run but would only be allowed ballot access on states without a sore loser law?
I feel like I’m studying for an exam in election minutia and I’m definitely going to show up at the wrong time, in the wrong class room, buck-ass naked:(
Thanks so much for your input!
David Evans
I can see a moral case for using the threat of nuclear first use to deter a major non-nuclear attack, for instance with biological weapons. Also a nuclear torpedo might be the only way to stop a submarine from launching an attack against a city. I’m sure the legislation could be amended to allow for such cases.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: This is why you have a coronation.
@hervevillechaizelounge: Yes, I think that’s right.
bemused
@rikyrah:
Wow. This creep judge might as well have stuck on his chest a neon sign flashing pedophile.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That’s nice. What locale?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Easter Sierra, Mt. Whitney’s in the center of the photo.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
Only if I’m King.
raven
The best thing about the Super Bowl was that a friend who is a retired ER doctor said the MRI readings I had with my stroke were absolutely normal. He said it is very common for a preliminary reading to miss the type of stroke I had and that getting a complete report takes time. He also said it was good that I had the pons stroke because the symptoms could have been for MS.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: And here’s what you see at the end of the road, close to Mt. Whitney.
Amir Khalid
It was probably not wise to get into a quarrel with a libertarian YouTuber. But I couldn’t resist the temptation. That guy just grinds my gears.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Where was that taken? The blue sky and fluffy clouds are very pretty.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: The road from Lone Pine to Whitney Portal.
opiejeanne
I saw a tweet about people standing outside a building in New York, protesting something or other, and cheering when the lights were turned on. Later I found a news item about a prison in New York that was without heat during the terrible cold. I think it’s the same building but I haven’t been able to find out much about this atrocity. Something about not being able to get parts for several days?
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I know that road. We used to drive up 395 in the summer to spend a week fishing at June Lake. Sometimes we’d stop at the parking lot at the bottom of the trail just to look around. Mr opiejeanne climbed Whitney when he was a young man. 21 years old, I think. My son-in-law hiked the entire Muir Trail with his twin brother a couple of years ago, a thing we wanted to do in stages but never got around to and now I probably can’t handle it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne:
Then you’ve seen the waterfall in my second pic.
ETA: I took these pics almost 6 years ago with a entry point and shoot Samsung camera that only shot jpg. I’m testing out a program that converts jpg to raw(or tiff) and uses AI(doesn’t everything nowdays) to bring out detail.
opiejeanne
@opiejeanne: Found the prison story: Protesters brought a brass band
OzarkHillbilly
@opiejeanne: Same story. Unsure of the reasons but “Something about not being able to get parts for several days?” sounds like a reasonable sounding excuse. Not that I’m buying it.
Emma
@OzarkHillbilly: unarguably, she would make a better president than the one we have. Heck, my 12 year old schnoodle would make a better president than Trump.
raven
We often read scorching condemnations of the “south” here so I thought I’d post this article about Champaign Urbana.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yes. We’ve also hiked in a number of other canyons off of 395 and seen the cabin lived in by John Muir’s daughter in one of those, but I can’t remember the name of the canyon. I want to call it Sawmill but I think that’s wrong. We hiked to Lake Agnew, a horrendous climb in the wrong shoes, a switchback trail paved with large granite shards. There’s a funicular for Edison employees to get up to the dam but I don’t think it’s ever open to visitors. The offices are set up to house a crew if they get caught there during a bad snowstorm. We’ve hiked in to Walker Lake and Parker Lake, and one is a nasty hike with not much of a reward at the end, and the other one is a medium difficulty that takes you through gorgeous meadows and across big streams and past a large beaver pond. I can never remember which one is the nice hike. You look back from the shoulder of a hill and you can see across Mono Lake and beyond. I wish I had photos from all of those trips, exploring “dog towns” and Obsidian Dome, and visiting Mammoth Hot Springs to the east of Mammoth, on the airport road.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: I’ve never been further north of Bishop, we hiked in the mountains west of there when I was in the Boy Scouts. Incredible scenery.
OzarkHillbilly
@Emma:No matter how bad things get, they can always get worse.
Immanentize
@raven:
Hell, one does not need to reach into the past for frightful stories of Northern racism. Here is a recent one from my home town in upstate NY. — strip searching 12 y.o. black girls for drugs because they were “giddy.”
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You go a few miles north of Bishop and it’s just overwhelming. The June Lake Loop is four lakes created by Edison, and when you enter at the south end you see a sign that tells you that you are approaching Oh! Ridge. What a silly sign. Then you come to the ridge and look over into the valley and across June Lake and everyone in the car says OH! I mean, it’s pretty before you get there, but then it’s just gorgeous and we fell in love with the area in 1975, the first time we went there. There’s just a bit more rainfall in the area and you’re up around 7500 feet, and I need an aspirin and a nap to get past the grinding headache at that altitude. Gull Lake is small and not very interesting, but Silver Lake is a different kind of pretty, with a forest of aspens fluttering up the mountainsides and all around the lake. The last one is Grant Lake, and it’s just a huge pool of water in a dry landscape.
HalfAssedHomesteader
@OzarkHillbilly: At least we know now that Oprah won’t be entering the ring.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
That could well be the O.H. motto.
T-shirt or Tattoo?
TS (the original)
Imagine if Obama’s Press Secretary had said any of this sh!t – what do these people have to gain that would lie so much for him?
Immanentize
TPM seems to be fluffing Gillibrand. They are a NY outfit, but still odd.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: Sorry that the Patriots lost and have to go to the White House.
opiejeanne
@raven: We have driven through Illinois a couple of times and we were underwhelmed by the way white people treated AAs and the way they behaved in general. It was instructive, visiting mr opiejeanns’s family in Robinson. We stayed with his mom’s aunt and met a bunch of the cousins. They couldn’t quite place his mother because she was raised by her aunt and uncle, and was treated as a bit of an outsider despite being related to all of these people. Her own mother died when she was 4, her dad couldn’t be bothered, so her teenaged uncle and his mother took her in. People kept asking us how soon we were moving there and if we planned to join the country club. I thought they were the rudest people I’d run across in my 28 years. (Now I know there are worse). All except Josephine, a great aunt who was wonderfully nice.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: Hmmm, wonder if the kid’s been to Oh Ridge, I know she and her sister’s family have been up to Mammoth.
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA: No one has to go to the House of White. But some will….
Lucky for me, no classes Tuesday when the victory parade will bring the drunks to the streets so I can work from home!
Baud
@TS (the original): Loyal foot soldiers get rewarded with wingnut welfare. Plus it’s their culture.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: The t-shirt goes, ” No matter how bad things get, they can always get worse, and they usually do.”
Emma
@OzarkHillbilly: And good Monday to you too! I think I’ll keep optimism going for a couple of hours more.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: I’m sure that Trump will serve them cold fast food.
Betty Cracker
@Immanentize: The 9/11 first responders article currently up at the site is definitely fluffy, but I haven’t noticed any other similarly fluffy pieces there. Have you?
NotMax
Something brainfoody to read (not long and not dry) with morning coffee, a basic synopsis of the history of Russian/Soviet relations with the Saudis.
debbie
Asked and answered.
OzarkHillbilly
@Emma: I live to serve. (bows most humbly)
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: ???
debbie
@raven:
I’m happy to read this good news! Are you on blood thinners or anything?
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Opiejeanne’s question about the NYC protests. The BBC was all over it last night. The real problem is that the jail authorities have had no sense of urgency in making the repairs to bring the prisoners — many who have not even been charged yet — heat (esp. when it was so cold last week), light, and water.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh! Ridge is on the June Lake Loop, 20 miles north of Mammoth.
opiejeanne
@debbie: Yes! The reason I couldn’t find anything for a while was that the reporting was mostly local when I started looking. Now several of the large media outlets have articles up. I linked to the one in the Guardian (I think).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: I’m sure if they went up there, there’s a pic of her and her sister posing by the sign.
debbie
@opiejeanne:
I’ve heard a number of references to the protests, but the BBC was the first to mention many of the prisoners hadn’t even been charged yet.
opiejeanne
People are starting to do their taxes and are discovering to their horror that they owe considerably more than they did last year.
We noticed in February there was an extra $300 in our paycheck, and we hadn’t gotten a raise. We figured out that the deduction amounts had been fiddled with so that less was taken out.
Sleight of hand. A fake tax break for the suckers.
We called our CPA to verify and had him change the withholding to the same amount of money as before. We told our kids and anyone else who would listen that they had not gotten a tax break, that they would owe a bunch of money this year if they didn’t make the necessary adjustments.
In the spring I heard two guys in a parking lot outside Home Depot talking about how much better they were doing in 2018. I figured they were MAGAs and is it very wrong of me that I didn’t give them a heads up?
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: There’s a viewpoint at Oh! Ridge, and lots of people stop to take pictures and gaze at the forest and green valley and June Lake.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: Got it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: (Looks at Google Maps.) Oh!, I see.
Kay
@opiejeanne:
The thing that worries me is the shortfall between tax revenues and spending. They’ve ballooned the deficit and that’s during a GOOD economy, and that projected shortfall will increase every year. The effect of these Trump tax cuts hasn’t even started to be real yet- it took several years for the tax cuts in Ohio and Kansas to be realized in shortfalls. Kasich lied. He didn’t “balance” anything. The miracle where lower rates are made up by increased revenue in every bracket never happened. Within a state that can be made up- cities and townships raised taxes to repair (some of) the damage but that’s not true for national programs. They are creating an emergency, and the damage will continue to accrue long past Trump and it will accrue every single day unless and until the next President raises taxes.
All the discussion of increasing taxes on very high income and assets is being conducted as if we don’t need it- we do need it. We need it just to meet current projected expenses.
Trump is making a mess but he’s also created the conditions to ensure it gets worse – there will be an economic downturn- that’s guaranteed. When that occurs the full scope of the disaster of the Trump tax cuts will come clear.
NotMaxn
@opiejeanne
On the one hand, no, it wasn’t.
On the other hand, no, it wasn’t.
;)
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Like going to a gunfight without any bullets.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay: A lot of folk gave Jerry Brown a hard time for keeping a rainy day fund and not expanding programs with all the surplus funds, now when he left a surplus after his first 2 terms as Governor, they next guy(a Republican) made a big deal of giving folk tax rebates and when the economy hit the skids, no money.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMaxn: … as efg would say, fuckem.
OzarkHillbilly
Gov. Bevin’s lawyers say Kim Davis failed to do her job as clerk, must pay the bill
Heh. Proof that God is a standup comedian.
Kay
@opiejeanne:
John Kasich is down the road- I think he lives in New Hampshire now- and, lo and behold, come to discover that Ohio doesn’t have funds for road construction or repair. This is after FIVE YEARS of a hot economy where they should be swimming in tax revenue. If you don’t build and repair and invest during a 5% unemployment economy then when, pray tell, do you build and repair and invest?
Never. The damage continues LONG after they out of office. It doesn’t even really KICK IN until they’re gone.
raven
@debbie: Yea, mild statins and lose dose aspirin.
OzarkHillbilly
Kay
@opiejeanne:
If I were a centrist Democrat I would run an actual debt and deficit campaign. Not this bullshit they pull out only when there’s a Democratic President and use to lobby to cut or privatize Social Security. A real one.
Democrats have to cover the whole field of substantive issues because the Republican Party consists of one person- Donald Trump. Tell people the Trump tax cuts will ENSURE a crisis down the road. We have 41 candidates or something. One of them can focus on that. Run on one thing re: taxes. “I will reverse the Trump tax cuts because they are a rolling disaster”
Kay
If Schultz were really a “centrist” he would have taken that lane. Warren on the Left w/tax increases on rich people leaves a middle lane, where a person could just focus exclusively on Donald Trump’s reckless economic policy. Reverse the tax cuts. At least get us back to where we were when bankrupt asshole fake businessman took office. At least cover current projected expenses. That’s the “centrist” lane on taxes. It has the added benefit of forcing every Republican to admit that they’re running up huge debt and deficits.
It would be a good debate and it won’t come from the Right because there is no Right, other than Donald Trump.
Baud
@Kay:
That would defeat the whole point of his run.
Citizen_X
Oh, Russia is a problem now? And we have allies? If only a Republican Senator could do something about this. Maybe you should talk to your President about it.
germy
@Kay:
And then their hatetalk radio, tv & internet blame Democratic politicians and liberals in general.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@raven: Good. I guess. Though any “good news” that includes it’s a good thing you had a stroke seems a little Pollyanna-ish.
I have already wrestled with my domain name provider this morning and also with my video card threatening to fail. Now I have coffee. The day will get better.
opiejeanne
@Kay: I think the personal disasters of those income taxes I described above will do more to damage the Republicans, and especially Trump. All but the very dumbest of the worshipful cohort will know who is to blame and they will be very angry. He’s hitting people where it will hurt and I’m seeing the howls on various social media as people start doing their own taxes. It will get louder as more people discover the sleight of hand/fake tax break.
germy
I still remember my tiny W Bush-era tax rebate check. It had “texas bank” in big letters on it.
raven
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I don’t think that’s the case at all. This dude is a no-nonsense ER MD and doesn’t do Pollyanna. Something happened to me and there certainly is a range of possibilities and this is a hell of a lot better than MS.
raven
@opiejeanne: I did mine and I’m getting about the same 4k as last year.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker:
There was some positive thing back when Gillibrand announced, but no other candidate has yet been given front page fluff from TPM. Also, the deed was 8 years ago and the article basically backhand’s Hilary’s leadership on that issue before she went to State. We shall see….
opiejeanne
It’s nearly 5:30am. I haven’t been asleep. I need to give up all caffeine, I guess. I had a small glass of Coke at 2pm and it’s still affecting me, although I did not whiz around the room on a caffeine/sugar high at the time. I’m just not sleepy.
We got about 5 inches of snow yesterday and last night. It looks pretty in the dark, with the birches and pines lacy with snow. .
Dorothy A. Winsor
@raven: No arguing with that.
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
re: video card. It may just have worked slightly loose (or have gotten some dust or grit in a sensitive place) and needs to be reseated.
Immanentize
@Baud:
By “his” you means Schulz, yes?
Immanentize
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
It may be a tough start to the day, but your book is on track!
Betty Cracker
@Immanentize: I’d be surprised if TPM were in the tank for Gillibrand, but we shall see. The article up now certainly is fluffy though!
Immanentize
@raven: My brother had MS. Few things worse. Although, if need be, Ozark can remind us of some….
opiejeanne
@raven: Good for you.
We always get about $1500 back but we had to adjust our deductions a bit to stay there just for the cap on the deduction for property taxes. We are a little bit over the maximum. People in Orange County knew who to blame last November. That’s why it suddenly turned blue, as well as no longer being able to deduct state income taxes.
raven
@opiejeanne: The monkey mind strikes!
raven
@opiejeanne: Yea, we think $4000 a year in property taxes is high but I guess its really not.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker:
I’m not saying they are in the tank for Gillibrand. Maybe more like favorably disposed? The NYT has made me hypersensitive to the style of fluff.
Baud
@Immanentize: Yes.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@NotMax: A video card failed a few weeks ago. Mr DAW took it out and there were things burned out in there. He had this one lying around in an unopened package but god knows how old it is really. He used to build computers as a hobby. He ordered a new one, but probably he won it on e-bay and the seller is slow to ship. Mr DAW will fix it (good) but he orders the damn part on e-bay (bad).
@Immanentize: This is very true, and is good to think about.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: I live to serve.
Immanentize
@raven: @opiejeanne:
The inability to exclude state taxes is going to hit hard up here. Also the property tax limits may kick in on me. I won’t know for a couple of months, but this year is going to be hugely different anyway as a one income household. I am actually eager to find out what it all will look like going forward.
schrodingers_cat
@OzarkHillbilly: Guardian only likes candidates with fluffy policy proposals when they come from socialist senator of the Green Mountain state.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Give it me and I will fix it for good.
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Hm. Has he checked the running temp of the computer?
OzarkHillbilly
@schrodingers_cat: They do have a bit of a Wilmer fetish.
kindness
I would take some comfort were Sarah Huckabee turned into a statue of salt. It would be appropriate.
opiejeanne
@raven: We have a tiny cabin in SoCal, near Lake Arrowhead. The property taxes there are out of proportion with the value of the place because of the school district. Not enough people live on the mountain to cover the number of kids with what would be normal taxes in the flatlands. That is what has put us over the cap a little.
We’re listing it for sale in April because we’ve owned it for 10 years and after watching the fires that took out chunks of cities we’re familiar with, like Santa Rosa last year and Redding, we realized that there is no way that this cabin will be spared in the next fire on the mountain. We were always told that it’s so close to town, to Blue Jay, that. the firefighters would always protect it, but we see that they will not be able to do so next time. They’ve always stopped the fire at least half a mile from our place, the closest it ever came was in 2003.
I’m too old to sift through the ashes and fight with our crappy insurance company. There’s only one insurer on the mountain now, thanks to the arsonist in 2003.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: Will this involved a hammer?
@NotMax: Yes. He has a program installed that does that I think. I am instructed to check the task manager every time the things freezes, but ya know, it’s frozen!
There’s a new thread up. I miss the most recent comment list because that was how I knew where people were.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: 24 oz waffle head with a straight claw.
Kay
The tax debate on the D side is interesting. I was an Overton Window skeptic but I was wrong. Floating the 70% tax on income over 10 million make reversing the Trump tax cuts the reasonable center-Right position
Democrats could own the whole rational tax debate, Left to Center, like they currently own health care Left to center.
I think you have to give Lefties credit for that expansion of the debate. It seems clear to me they did it. And, because of the sorry state of the GOP, the whole middle is now open to Democrats. If you look at it like a line, L to R, Democratic candidates could occupy all but the Right quadrant. 75%.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Kay: And pundits will still talk about Rs moving to the extreme right and Ds moving to the extreme left. I wind up yelling at the TV.
Kay
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Well R’s did move hard Right. The problem is they didn’t cover the center. Democrats should just take the opening and conduct the whole Left to center debate on their own terms and within their Party.
Our base hates Trump. A candidate who specifically went after the Trump tax law would be both useful and popular. Just forget about what political media say. They’re not who we’re trying to reach.
Make the furthest Right position on the D side “repeal the Trump tax cuts” – the taxes on income over 10 million makes that possible as the center. I actually want that repealed. I think it’s reckless and unrealistic and also unfair.
Centrist Democrats should be thrilled there’s a Left. That makes them the default center, not just of Democrats, but of the whole field.
PST
@Betty Cracker: The TPM story on Gillibrand is favorable, all right, but I don’t read it as fluff, especially given the site’s good reputation. I thought it was informative on the issue of how Gillibrand, among other junior senators, made a reputation early and got herself into the public eye. She did it by single-mindedly devoting herself to this issue. I didn’t read it as a slam on Clinton, who had many other irons in the fire. We deserve to learn favorable things about a candidate as well as unfavorable, and here we learned that Gillibrand can be pretty effective with her legislative peers. That is a power that can be used as easily for bad purposes as good, so it does little to answer the question of what Gillibrand stands for.
tokyokie
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Every time I hear some wank refer to progressive Democrats as the “far left,” I ask, rhetorically, what prominent Democrat is calling for workers owning the means of production.
Betty Cracker
@PST: Fair enough. The title and placement of the story (top feature at the time Imm and I were discussing it) was the fluffiest thing about it. I like Gillibrand fine, but her campaign launch strikes me as somewhat tepid. It’s early days, though, so perhaps that’s unfair. We’ll see how it goes.
WaterGirl
@raven: I came here for school in 1972 and it’s shocking to see all the information about 1966.
The article makes me wonder about the late night place we would goto eat after a late night out, named Sambo’s.
WaterGirl
@Immanentize: Every 12-year-old girl I have ever seen is giddy. I guess only 12-year-old white girls are allowed to be giddy. This makes me want to bang my head against the wall.
J R in WV
I guess some people, once they have power [ like a school principal who is essentially like the captain of a ship, sometimes including the ball bearings and strawberries! ] can not withstand the temptation to use that power when ever they have a chance.
In this case, a school
dictatorprincipal decided that happy, excited, giddy little girls in school must be on drugs, and of course they probably hid the remaining drugs under their clothes!!It says something that most or all of the girls in his school aren’t happy most of the time, learning interesting new things, having new experiences every day. Hahahah! I fool myself again!!
Here’s hoping that these school officials lose their jobs AND their teaching certificates, and that the other school officials in the district actually learn something from the experiences of these monsters! As in try to help all the kids be giddy and happy and excited most all day, every day in their schools. And don’t strip search kids unless they’re positive a crime has been committed, with evidence of the crime having occurred in hand BEFORE any searching begins!
With parents present as well ~!!!~