Muda69

You are you one who threw out that scenario, not I. Tell you what Dante. Get your progressive liberal friends to have "health care" enumerated as an unalienable right in the U.S. Constitution and then we'll talk. Good luck.

Joe Biden Won’t Close Guantanamo Bay, But He Should: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/joe-biden-wont-close-guantanamo-bay-but-he-should/ Ain’t that grand? The United States tortures inmates at illegal prisons overseas. The unreliable information they obtain is then used to…keep inmates trapped in another illegal prison overseas! Speaking of torture, the FBI back in 2004 investigated whether anyone employed by the Bureau had witnessed any “aggressive mistreatment” of detainees at Gitmo. Nine personnel admitted that they had, detailing instances of prisoners being threatened with dogs and forced to stand in uncomfortable positions until they wetted and soiled themselves. (Thankfully the military later clarified that it didn’t consider any of this to be torture.) Such is the miscarriage of justice—better call it an abortion, as Christopher Hitchens used to say—that is Guantanamo Bay. No less a sandals-wearing peacenik than George W. Bush began to wind down the prison, transferring 500 prisoners away from Gitmo out of a total population of 780. Barack Obama continued the releases and signed an executive order during the first week of his presidency calling for Gitmo to be closed. Alas he ran into snags: judicial complications, difficulties resettling the inmates, resistance from Republicans in Congress. Then came Donald Trump, who promised of Gitmo that he would “load it up with some bad dudes,” the Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure approach to extrajudicial detainments. Instead he did nothing and the prison remained in stasis for another four years. Now enter Joe Biden. The arguments for closing Gitmo have been made so many times they almost don’t seem worth repeating: our regular justice system can handle the trials; our regular prison system can handle the convicted; no one has ever escaped from a federal supermax prison including El Chapo; how can we chide Bashar al-Assad for vanishing people into prisons indefinitely when we do the same thing? Dick Cheney’s Heffalumps-and-Woozles trips to the war on terror “dark side” notwithstanding, there is no good reason to keep Gitmo open. If Joe Biden wants to restore the American dream, he should start by lancing the country’s most gangrenous sore. Agreed. Let's see if Mr. Biden has the courage to do so.

Andrew Cuomo Continues His Assault on the First Amendment https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/andrew-cuomo-continues-his-assault-on-the-first-amendment/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=second

So your health insurance covers your nephew?

Then there obviously wasn't a profitable market for it. Many people also don't really need health insurance. Frankly such "insurance" shouldn't be used for annual physicals, dental cleanings, etc. Just like my care insurance doesn't pay for an oil change and my home insurance won't pay for my house to be re-painted. Again, life isn't fair. And that counts for birth defects as well.

If there is enough of a need for pre-birth disease insurance then the market will provide it. Maybe instead of government regulations perpetuating the WW2-era practice of employer provide health insurance we can have a more free and open market, like we currently do for things like car and home insurance. If you feel your health insurance company is "profiting off of the sick", then don't do business with them. Why should a for-profit insurance company be forced to provide insurance to an individual who smokes, drinks, is overweight, has diabetes, etc.?

tl;dw. Also from what I did watch that millennial doesn't blink. Probably a lizard person.

Life's unfair at times. Get used to it.

? So you knew in the womb what diseases and conditions would befell you after your birth?

So you are essentially talking about social Darwinism, correct?

Please elaborate exactly how Louisville "does it".

So how does government effectively force these deadbeat parents to become "involved"?

They'll all be renamed to Biden-Harris High School...........................

I predict that by 12/15/2021 Ms. Harris will be the POTUS.

And you know this how exactly?

Common Core: The Last Time Bill Gates Helped America https://spectator.org/covid-vaccination-bill-gates-common-core/ In 2015, the Obama administration replaced No Child Left Behind with the even more Orwellian program named ESSA: the Every Student Succeeds Act. Like its forebear, ESSA’s outcomes were not great. In fact, one of the promising provisions of NCLB, teacher competence — a teacher had to have mastery of the subject he or she taught — was stripped from ESSA. Unqualified teachers “taught” children. Now, in 2020, Bill Gates, the rich man trying to remake the world in his image, has new ideas for America. This time, they involve vaccination, vaccination cards, and universal testing requirements. It’s worth noting whether his old ideas have results worth emulating. George W. Bush believed that American education was failing. He was not wrong. Student test scores were sliding. There were great disparities between school districts and between states. Like today, poor children were being left behind. Politicians on the left agreed with George W. Bush. Moreover, after the hyper-partisanship of the Clinton years, George W. Bush wanted to heal America with “compassionate conservatism” borne of Christian charity. Bush, like Ted Kennedy in the Senate, was possessed of a certain noblesse oblige. He came from a great American family and was tasked with glorious purpose, as Loki would say. He wanted to heal the nation by reaching across the aisle for his first action in Congress. No Child Left Behind was born. NCLB would tie federal funds to schools improving test scores and successful outcomes. It didn’t take long for school districts, especially districts with the most challenging student populations, to realize that to get the federal dollars, they’d need to game the system. Test-taking scandals popped up across the country, most notably in Atlanta, Georgia. Teachers and administrators were implicated in taking tests for students to goose averages and qualify for federal and private grants. One teacher, Shani Robinson, refused to plead guilty to the crimes and wrote a book about the experience. She says in an NPR interview (after the obligatory racism allegations): Despite this debacle, the Obama administration decided that problem with No Child Left Behind was that the legislation didn’t go far enough. NCLB let states and local school districts create the curriculum to teach to the standardized tests. It was up to them to improve their scores. Because primary education had always been the most local of politics, even introducing national testing was controversial. But, according to the Obama administration, local school districts couldn’t be trusted to teach the right things. Enter Common Core. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect. Eight years of NCLB had resulted in lowered test scores. President Obama would save education, and tech billionaire Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation would help him. Philip Brand of Capital Research writes an excellent history of the program: No, Georgia was not picked to launch Common Core by accident. And far from locally driven standards, Common Core was adopted almost wholesale from the Gates Foundation’s initiatives. Gates Foundation grants and a snappy, newly named campaign, Race to the Top, had school districts competing for foundation grants to teach struggling kids. Did Common Core work? Did the millions of Gates Foundation dollars make a difference? Nope. In 2019, the New York Times blared, “Reading Scores on National Exam Decline in Half the States.” Far from being a success, national standards and financial incentives had made the weaknesses among American students universal and diminished any strengths they might have had. Washington, D.C., conservative intellectuals felt that the benefits of Race to the Top and Common Core outweighed the negatives. Meanwhile, conservative activists hated both the substance of Common Core and the federal government taking over education. In addition to opposing the bank bailouts, “school choice” became a Tea Party mantra. The argument for school, and parent, choice in educating children is stronger today than ever before, despite over 20 years — and, if one goes back to Lyndon Johnson’s efforts, 50 years — of federal meddling in education. If American teachers hate NCLB and Common Core, American parents loathe it, and for good reason. Both federal programs sought to modify more than just teaching standards. They aimed to change the behavior of American parents, especially. The underlying premise was that involved parents create smarter kids. The solution, then, was to force parents to be involved. Kindergartners were now coming home with homework, and parents were overwhelmed with ridiculous projects. As more women entered the workforce and as more of them were single parents, the burdens were nothing short of discriminatory. Education was front-loaded. Rather than letting young children run around and play for half the day, teachers were now cramming information into the heads of six- and seven-year-olds. The theory was that a certain amount of learning had to be in a kid’s brain by third grade or he’d be left behind. In practical effect, America’s children are now fatter and dumber. They’re denied play time, they are full of pent-up energy and anxiety, and they’re doped up on ADD medicine to suppress them. They hate school, and their growth is stunted. Then there was the inane curriculum itself. Math became a convoluted mess. Parents are still teaching their kids the “old” way, and then teachers teach kids to the tests with Common Core math. As the above test scores illustrate, the reading curriculum is no better. One of the “successes” of Common Core was that the dropout rate declined and more kids graduated. But school districts gamed that, too. They wouldn’t count kids who were withdrawn by parents or kids who were moved to alternative private schools for difficult children. These schools, often for-profit, would take the most at-risk kids, and then those kids would be “off the books” for school systems wanting to hit benchmarks. Twenty years federalizing primary education has resulted in a dumber America. Now, with big-city teachers unions rebelling against doing their jobs because of COVID, the most needy children aren’t being educated at all. Since these unions control the Democrat party, don’t expect any helpful innovation anytime soon. In fact, the new Democrat craze is to get rid of standardized testing. The answer to stupid children, evidently, is to not test them at all, as testing is “racist.” Getting rid of standardized testing means that schools may reduce their standards and not have any proof of success. Meanwhile, America gets less competitive. ***** Why is all this important? Besides the obvious implications regarding the fruitless national educational standards, the players trying to enforce these standards are all back in power. The Obama administration will be running America for a third term. They favor more government power. The current COVID crisis plays into their governing biases. The government must fix the COVID problem. An older, still utopian, Bill Gates is back, too. He has been funding vaccine research and vaccination programs around the world. This is noble. Just as funding education standards and attempting to help school districts educate children is noble. These are objectively good motives. But federal attempts and the public-private sector partnerships being created to attack these big issues tend to fall flat and end up in places not intended. Recently, Gates was on Jake Tapper’s show on CNN opining that America should be shut down, maybe through 2022. Two whole more years? This is insanity that only sounds sane to people who can afford to never leave their palatial homes again. Already, Americans will be given vaccination cards (which they can keep in their wallets!) to prove that they’re vaccinated. Want to go to a concert? Better have an app to prove your COVID status. Want to fly on a plane? Better have an app. Activists are again warning against the possible implications of COVID government power grabs. Like warnings about home loans and education, these sensible statements are getting lost. Bill Gates has great incentive to push universal vaccination. He funded the research into the vaccines. He stands to profit if there are millions of buyers. Americans are right to be concerned about federal pushes. The consequences in the past have been disastrous. Government intervention often leads to unintended results. As we learned last week, liberalized home loans lead to bank bailouts and a near-total financial collapse. Government intervention in education, with help from Gates, has resulted in dumber students, frustrated parents, and the desire to ditch all standardized testing. These are bad outcomes. When it comes to the COVID crisis, Americans are smart to be skeptical. Government interventions pave the road to hell. There’s no reason to believe that these interventions will be an exception. Agreed.

The question is can a local school board and superintendent's office effectively manage such a large district?

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/education/2020/12/14/report-indianas-teacher-pay-problem-can-fixed-600-million/6537828002/ So is there also a guarantee from the Indiana legislature and the ISTA that jacking up Hoosiers tax rates to pay for the $600 million will also increate the quality of the government education these children receive? Also who here believes this consolidation talk listed in the report will truly ever happen?

Trump Lost Because SCOTUS Answers to the Constitution, Not to Him https://reason.com/2020/12/12/trump-lost-because-scotus-answers-to-the-constitution-not-to-him/

At least until all the supposed lawsuits are file against him by the lefties.

Yes, the Colts are definitely a small market team. And I get basically the reverse here in CI. If the Colts have a 1pm home game on say CBS the other channel, usually FOX/WXIN/59, will not show the 1pm Bears game but instead play something like 3 hours of Modern Family reruns.

The Supreme Court Just Dismissed Trump's Hail Mary Effort To Overturn the Election https://reason.com/2020/12/11/the-supreme-court-just-dismissed-trumps-hail-mary-effort-to-overturn-the-election/

Rack this post. I remember as a 17-year old, after my senior high school football "career" was over, being called up by a buddy on the Saturday after Thanksgiving to play in a pick-up game of football at our high school practice field. So I said sure, and when I arrived at the field realized we were going to be playing this pick-up game against a group of guys from a rival county high school. While we were literally drawing up plays in the dirt these guys were actually running formations & plays from their school playbook. The game was fun, tough, rowdy, we all got filthy dirty, and we laughed our heads off at times. I don't remember which side won and really don't care. I remember that pick-up game as vividly as I remember most of the other "real games" during my time in high school.

Too bad the uniforms on both sides of the ball are so hideous...........................

18. With all the dangers involved, that have been extensively documented, the decision to play tackle football should be for an adult individual to decide, not when that individual is still a child.