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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/09/opinion/sunday/pain-opioids.html Spot-on commentary. Just goes to show the consequences of the government's War on Opioids. An abject failure.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/fdr-new-deal-experimental-no-coherent-plan/ I agree with that, but it’s worth reminding folks that there was never any single coherent thing called “the New Deal.” From the beginning, FDR was clear that he was winging it. At Oglethorpe University, he famously set the tone for what they were up to: “bold, persistent experimentation.” He added, “It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” Roosevelt fans on the left — and of late on the right — have lionized FDR’s “pragmatism” ever since. But this is a terrible credo for a nation committed to the idea that we live under the rule of law, not of men. Some avenues are supposed to be closed off from “experimentation.” Let’s try getting rid of the Bill of Rights for a bit and see if we can’t get great things done! Let’s be — as Tom Friedman puts it — “China for a Day.” Implicit in the idea of experimentation from Washington is the idea that planners should not be constrained. Implicit in the idea of a constitutional republic is that they should be. As we put it in our editorial on the Green New Deal, “The Left really has only one idea: control” — and that is the idea implicit in New Deal–style “experimentation.” But there’s something else implicit in the idea of such experimentation: a total lack of policy coherence. The New Deal cargo-cultists have a vexing habit of pointing at the things they like or liked about the New Deal and saying, “That’s the New Deal.” So they like Social Security but are silent — usually from ignorance — about the policies that caused blacks to protest the NRA (National Recovery Administration) as the “Negro Run Around” and “Negroes Ruined Again.” They like all the government makework for artists and writers but don’t talk about the little things, like Jacob Maged or the scuttling of the London Economic Conference, that helped deepen the Depression. The simple fact, as I argued here, is there was no single New Deal (which is one reason why historians talk about the second New Deal, which produced most of the stuff people associate with the good New Deal). It was the steady pursuit of control and constantly updated wish lists. As FDR told Congress in 1936: In other words, so long as we have the power, whatever we want to do is “wholesome and proper.” But if our political opponents get power, look out! “I want to assure you,” FDR’s aide Harry Hopkins told an audience of New Deal activists in New York, “that we are not afraid of exploring anything within the law, and we have a lawyer who will declare anything you want to do legal.” The New Deal wasn’t a program, it was the by-product of ad hoc experimentation by people who thought their own power was self-justifying. And to look back on it as somehow more coherent than the would-be Green New Deal is to give it too much credit. “To look upon these programs as the result of a unified plan,” wrote Raymond Moley, FDR’s right-hand man during much of his rule, “was to believe that the accumulation of stuffed snakes, baseball pictures, school flags, old tennis shoes, carpenter’s tools, geometry books, and chemistry sets in a boy’s bedroom could have been put there by an interior decorator.” When Alvin Hansen, an influential economic adviser to the president, was asked — in 1940 — whether “the basic principle of the New Deal” was “economically sound,” he responded, “I really do not know what the basic principle of the New Deal is.” It was control. And wish lists. And it was ever thus. Yep. FDR's "New Deal" was just romanticized government control, and an unprecedented level. And now the new breed of progressives want the same.

Did you actually read the article? Apparently not:

No, my uncle does. And he is not a kazillionaire.

The best government high school football field in the country. Fleur De Lis Field in Greenfield, Illinois, doesn't have a play clock and it thankfully probably never will: High school football shouldn't be homogenized like college football or professional football.

https://www.cato.org/blog/lawsuit-car-passenger-tased-11-times-criminally-charged-after-asking-officer-why Note: This video is disturbing. And more evidence of the police state we live in.

One Cheer for Kamala’s Cannabis Candor: http://reason.com/archives/2019/02/13/one-cheer-for-kamalas-cannabis-candor More political flip-flopping. *yawn*

This monument to the war on terror is still open, and it’s costing taxpayers a fortune.: http://reason.com/archives/2019/02/12/gitmo-preps-for-an-upgrade Agreed. Gitmo needs to be closed, and then torn down. As for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, his torture is probably the reason why he hasn't had a trial. Easier for the government to let him rot in jail then risk exposing the atrocities perpetrated by fellow Americans. Cowardly.

A Holcomb-appointed Indiana teacher pay panel lacks teachers, though one will advise it.: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/12/teacher-pay-heres-who-guide-indianas-effort-raise-salaries/2846729002/ Should educational professionals in Indiana be outraged by the makeup of this commission? What do guys from banks and car makers know about education? And I wonder if the framers of the Indiana State Constitution envisioned the state government becoming a de-facto education company, as the outrageous amount of spending toward government schools proves?

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Will he ever learn?:

http://databases.usatodaynetwork.com/indystar/indiana-teachers-pay/

I'm getting a larger refund back this year, and it stinks. I dislike letting the government borrow my money. Of course I probably made a mistake somewhere.................

Either should whiteface, or yellowface, or redface, or greenface....................

https://deadspin.com/more-than-two-years-after-the-games-rios-olympic-debt-1832558040 Yep, I feel the Olympics as are have know them is destined to fail. Local cities and government can't take on the debt such a boondoggle entrails.

Yes, it does begin. A new all girls troop (which is the model the BSA is promoting, 100% separate boy and girl troops) is in the works for Clinton county. Supposedly an individual has stepped up to be the Scoutmaster; it will be chartered by a church in Rossville; and the troop will meet out at Camp Collum, a more centralized location within the county. And on the girl scout cookie front, I tried my first S'mores cookie last night. Pretty tasty..............

The lust for power keeps them in office. And the need to maintain the status quo.

Who here is telling you to do this IO? Just the putting out the idea that contraction is a viable option for some communities is not the same as "telling <insert school here> what they should be doing with their Football program."

* More athletes available for soccer and cross country.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Is a Radical Front for Nationalizing Our Economy: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-radical-front-nationalizing-our

Then I humbly request that you share them, so we can all benefit from knowing what a "good job" truly is.

I can see how you fail. Drawing obvious conclusions isn't your strength, just obvious obfuscation and trolling. That said, can you please list all attributes that make your current job a "good job"?

You definition of a "good job" :

Another one jumps into the ring for the Democrat side of the uni-party: http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/10/sen-amy-klobuchar-announces-2020-run Liberal pundits have rallied around Klobuchar anyway, with many dismissing the idea that how a senator treats subordinates should matter when assessing her fitness for office. Some suggested it was only an issue because she's a woman. But in general, and especially with Klobuchar campaigning as the nice Midwestern anti-Trump, her temperament behind the scenes matters. Blowing up at staff and driving them away at high rates don't suggest "Minnesota nice," nor someone who may handle presidential pressure well. More so than being a member of Congress even, head of state is a position that requires restraint and good people skills to do well. ....

Yet you appear to want everybody to get paid at least the same amount as you. Shouldn't a job with specialized skills and/or responsibilities be valued more highly in the free market?