Muda69

Spent a long weekend with my spouse in Gatlinburg and the GSMNP. That area is definitely not closed. Quite a few RV's down there, along with lots of cars and people. Had good time though, the Smokies are beautiful in the fall.

I'm sure there are those here praying for you and your mother in this trying time.

Hmm. I find this hard to believe. Do you live in your mom's basement and never leave? Please, educate yourself on one of the primary goals behind government education. And no, I have no desire to teach children to love the state. Do you have such a desire?

Educate yourself: https://www.noagendashow.net/

https://dvorak.substack.com/p/understanding-identity-politics Agreed. Spot on commentary from Mr. Dvorak.

Who is paying for that $11 trillion dollar presidency? You? "The rich"?

Kamala Harris Says Equal Outcomes Should Be the Goal of Public Policy https://reason.com/2020/11/02/kamala-harris-equality-equity-outcomes/ This may seem like a trivial difference, but when it comes to public policy, the difference matters. A government should be obligated to treat all citizens equally, giving them the same access to civil rights and liberties like voting, marriage, religious freedom, and gun ownership. The government cannot deny rights to certain people because they are black, female, Muslim, etc.—this would be unequal treatment. A mandate to foster equity, though, would give the government power to violate these rights in order to achieve identical social results for all people. In accordance with this thinking, the authorities might be justified in giving some people more rights than others. Indeed, this would arguably be strictly necessary, in order to create a society where everyone ends up in the exact same situation. Conservatives swiftly condemned Harris's tweet in characteristically dramatic fashion: Rep. Liz Cheney (R–Wyo.) accused Harris of sounding "just like Karl Marx." Harris probably isn't a committed Marxist—if anything, her core ideology seems to be whatever the current political moment calls for—but it's probably true that the people on her staff who helped make this video are well-informed about the sort of lingo that appeals to young progressive activists. This cohort is certainly interested in radical ideas like using wealth redistribution to engineer leftist social outcomes. If the Biden-Harris ticket triumphs on Election Day, expect some of these people to find themselves staffing the vast federal bureaucracy, taking jobs in the Departments of Education, Labor, Housing, and elsewhere. There are a million different ways for these bureaucrats to make marginal, under-the-radar policy changes that support an equity-over-equality worldview. That's a far greater danger than Harris's earnest and clumsy attempts to woo the wokest of the woke.

COVID-19 Didn't Break the Public School System. It Was Already Broken. https://reason.com/2020/11/03/covid-19-didnt-break-the-public-school-system-it-was-already-broken/

Yes, punish the children by incarcerating them for being late for a Zoom class. That will teach them to respect and love the state. Have you ever broken a law, Alduflux?

I'm sorry, anybody who votes for either of the uni-party candidates is really not a "critical thinker". Especially if they vote for a candidate that wants to add 11 trillion to the national debt. That's not monopoly money folks.

<democrat>But, but ACB has to be nothing but a puppet for Mr. Trump and the GOP, right? I'm sure right now a secret red phone is being installed in her office that will connect to either a GOP controlled White House or the RNC headquarters. You can't bite the hand that fed you, right? </democrat>

No, they are not inconsistent. I don't believe "packing the court" is a viable long term solution (in fact it's yet another solution looking for a problem), and that applies to both side sides of the uni-party coin. If the situation right now were reversed and it was the republicans squawking about "packing the court" I would be just as a critical of them as I currently am with the democrats. There really is no substantive difference between either side of the uni-party coin, the only one being whose money they want to steal to fund their big government initiatives.

No, not really. Do you?

IHSAA physical form asks athletes' sex assigned at birth and gender identity; is challenged as 'invasive' https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2020/10/29/new-ihsaa-physical-form-asks-athletes-sex-assigned-birth-and-gender-identity/5985534002/

No, I am not ok with that situation. Hence my earlier comment of "Not exactly sure how "local" of an official that really is anymore."

The Seen and the Unseen of Covid-19 https://mises.org/wire/seen-and-unseen-covid-19 [From the 2020 Supporters Summit, presented at the historic Jekyll Island Club Resort on Jekyll Island, Georgia, on October 9, 2020. Read and see the full lecture.] Chilling. And sad.

The thing is several years ago Dr. Tharp and his wife sold their home in the posh Little Lakes Estates north of Frankfort and moved to Indianapolis, yet he still works at an office in Clinton County. Not exactly sure how "local" of an official that really is anymore.

Teachers Unions and the Myth of ‘Public’ Schools https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/teachers-unions-and-the-myth-of-public-schools/

Predictably Poor Results for Ed System’s “Final Products” https://www.cato.org/blog/predictably-poor-results-ed-systems-final-products

A New Round of COVID-19 Restrictions Drives Illinois Eateries to Rebellion https://reason.com/2020/10/28/a-new-round-of-covid-19-restrictions-drives-illinois-eateries-to-rebellion/

Who are you, or the state for that matter, to make the determination that a parent is overreacting when their child is threatened with incarceration for being late to Zoom meeting?

? I don't recall the number of seats on the SCOTUS being enumerated in the U.S. Constitution.

Tit-for-tat is for children.

Yes, I read it thoroughly. Now are you going to answer my question?