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  1. tchookem
    Empowered stupidity is stupid.
  2. tchookem
    It is sad beyond expression that every action of the right is motivated by a deflection of Trump malfeasance.
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    bUt GoVeRNmeNt iS tHe prObLeM.
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    Crazy conclusions!? Not in this day and age. The next thing you're going to tell me is that people act in bad faith.
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    Look up how many planes he crashed before Vietnam. In fact, anyone that looks into John McCain will soon find out what a fraud he really was.. but he told that old lady Obama was a decent man and he stood up to Trump, so whatever. EDIT: Sorry to quote you, F250. My comment wasn't directed at you specifically.
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    It sits on a mannequin head while you sleep.
  7. tchookem
    I like to imagine it's felt even longer for him... being in Hell and all.
  8. tchookem
    Troll. Correction... lying troll.
  9. tchookem
    You want a hat? We got hats. Red ones. Lots of red hats.
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    I was dragged off my base to DC, where I was forced to testify about some minor flight times off the base. Turns out this entitled lawyer, his Jew assistant, and this lady with short hair (I suspect she was a lesbian) started yammering about "the truth". His Wokeness just would not let it go. I finally lost it. I told the truth, and they arrested me... ME!
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    Geddy Lee is taking Neil Peart's passing very hard.
  12. tchookem
    Has anyone gotten an update on grave location?
  13. tchookem
    That's a bummer. Guess it wasn't as popular as I thought.
  14. tchookem
    Newseum in DC - took a group of 8th graders on a tour before it opened so not everything was available. It was still really impressive and the kids enjoyed it. That was over 10 years ago. I assume it's gotten better since. Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia - I really appreciated the whole experience. Tells the story very well as you progress through thre museum. Valley Forge NHP - They were working on the visitor center when we were there, so we missed a lot, but the replicas are great and allow for interaction for the kids (and adults) Jamestowne NHS - great reconstruction right on the water. Rangers were great story tellers. Still a working archaeology dig so that's neat to watch Very Underrated... Palo Alto Battlefield NHS in Brownsville - they do a great job interpreting a complicated topic. Battlefield is a nice walk and very informative. They do a great job despite not getting nearly the financial support that other sites get.
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    Lynchings are tough call. 7th graders are all over ther place maturity-wise and it's possible that one kid can completely derail the conversation for 29 others (kinda like this message board). Most of the time its covered in generalities: "there was discrimination", "many faced violence and had property taken". Sometimes you have to wait and let the high school get into the brutal details.
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    Naturally the solution is finding a private/ charter school that better matches their worldview (with accompanying voucher). I'm only half kidding when I say this is another piece in privatizing public education puzzle.
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    It's part of my 7th grade TX History class. This year I struggled with the decision of how to cover this document over Zoom. You never know how many are giving 100% of their attention, how many are giving half their attention, and how many parents are going to walk in just in time to hear me say Africans are "an inferior and dependent race". I wasn't sure I wanted to even bother. In the end I decided to do my thing the best I could and let the chips fall where they may. How many genuinely learned anything? Who knows? But then again that was pretty much the story of this school year.
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    You're suspicions are correct. I'd only add that it's less about the kids' comfort levels and more about the parents' comfort levels when confronted with difficult questions from their kids. Of course parents should be teaching kids HOW to have those difficult conversations, but difficult conversations are difficult. Unfortunately, it's not enough for them to avoid difficult conversations, they have to make sure EVERY kid avoids difficult conversations. Never underestimate the lengths (some) parents will go to so they can avoid parenting.
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    No, he should do his act IN the road.
  20. tchookem
    The past couple years have been a windfall for funny, smart, and attractive ladies. It's a good time to be a guy.
  21. tchookem
    Double post
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    Well this is the political COVID thread. I'd say that there was a lot of mismanagement of COVID. The people managing COVID at the start were Republicans. One of the areas they mismanaged was schools. My bigger point was that poor children routinely get the screw, COVID isn't really any different, it just made issues worse. Living in Texas, the Republicans have controlled education my entire life. If someone doesn't care about how they've screwed over poor kids pre-COVID, forgive me if I don't take that person seriously when they complain about how kids stree getting screwed over now.
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    Poor children were getting screwed long before COVID. COVID just amplified everything. Republicans decided to turn the amps up to 11.
  24. tchookem
    But just imagine how owned those cancel culture socialists feel right now.
  25. tchookem
    It also completely misses the point that they acknowledged the problem and have since fixed it. Unlike thre current issue, which apparently isn't going away.

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