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The coach was hired about five years ago (2018) and when winning is more important than anything else (including and especially academics) the townspeople are apparently willing to overlook: 1. In 2014 he resigned from Tuttle HS after a parent demanded the coach be fired for repeatedly using crude names to refer to the players. 2. In 2016, he resigned from Clinton HS after a controversial incident involving his players. An investigation found no wrong doing. At the time of his hire in Ringling, a *resident was quoted as saying Koons had an old school coaching style: ""If people really realized what goes on in them [sic] locker rooms, and what's shown, and what's said, then maybe some other people would have different opinions about this man." The resident was speaking in favor of Koons. Yes, you read that right. I''m totally not surprised at all that a coach in Oklahoma who has his players do naked burpees as punishment is allowed to go from job to job leaving a trail of bullied students in his wake. Like @YGIFS has said, coaching and pastoring are two fields where abusing and or grooming young people are viewed with obscured lenses. *This was from an article where some parents were actually not in favor of the hire but were afraid to speak out in public. Also may be why the other schools were unable to get traction on any investigations.
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1) Fuck Meatball Ron. Ewwww, no, gross. (2) First Amendment lawyers will have a field day with this law if when passed. Outside of my lane, so I'll withhold comment. (3) Fuck Florida. Should have turned the entire state into a National Park (with a carve out for the space program) a long time ago.
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With one more flag and a nice wind that little cart may just happen to fly into those power lines. Even the boat rallies couldn't top those kind of fireworks on film.
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How was this? We haven't seen it yet but I like Olivia Colman. Amazingly talented and a lot of range. Although I'm not a regular award show watcher, her speech at the Academy Awards (for The Favorite) was a hoot.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
Mrs Whiggins replied to Parliament's topic in Cloak Room
The video editor started it off with Rogan so I'm putting it in his thread; it is remarkably similar to any discussion these two would have and rather funny if you follow along: -
We usually enjoy British shows and comedy in particular, but we didn't make it through the first episode with this one. We knew what it was going in but for whatever reason, the night we were watching it wasn't bringing the laughs. There is a quick show of about an hour regarding film cliches that we saw earlier this week. It's hosted by Rob Lowe, and if you ignore him and his script, it's actually not too bad. Not a glowing review, but it covered a lot of films over the decades. The section about how the Hays Code (which led to what we now have as a content rating system) was begun was interesting. Can't recall the title but it might have been in the documentary section.
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Rubric. Thank you, that is a much more accurate description than catechism for the way the textual conversation appeared to me at first glance. Until someone can teach that computer to follow my train of thought the way my spouse does after many many years of marriage and complete with random observations, side tangents, topics about people whom he doesn't know but is presumed to have in depth knowledge about, that thing that we both experienced twenty years ago but obviously one of us remembers better than the other, and why I did something that was very important to me but not to anyone else in the known universe but by God everyone should acknowledge that it was done at great sacrifice and at the expense of great time and effort, then that machine has quite a ways to go.
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Thank you for posting the article; interesting read. It's not my area at all, so my observations are not backed by anything other than rando person on the internet opinion: it was interesting that the name is essentially gender neutral (like the way Sam or Alex or Ashley can be these days) and that the machine uses the catch-all 'spouse' when stating that the reporter's spouse is underwhelming (paraphrase). When texting with the machine, one wonders what the demographic data would be on who assigns a gender (while typing with the machine), what gender they assign, and so on. The repetitive phrases still make it seem so machine-like to me and have a very insistent quality (don't know if that is the right word)--like the big brain IT in "A Wrinkle In Time" and that sets my teeth on edge even though I know it is just a machine. I'm not supposing that the AI is a stand in for evil like in the children's book, but as of right now, the conversation has a catechism quality to it? Fascinating.
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Given that his staff has been severely reduced, I'm rather surprised no one has hacked the platform to mess with him and his account. Or did those issues get resolved? I have no account, but in the past it seemed as if people got compromised fairly easily. Was that simply being tricked into giving out their password and not a deeper intrusion into the system? Not a tech person so that is out of my lane by a mile.
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Do I have this correct? Missouri allows for minors to carry guns on public land because "just because a child is carrying a weapon doesn't mean they're going to harm someone" (per Rep Lovasco in the article) so that the next time a Missouri police officer shoots a young black minor with a gun (which turns out to not be a gun but a phone) and citizens protest in the street, then a group of minor Kyle Rittenhouse wanna-bees are free to carry their weapons up and down the street 'hunting?' Sounds about right for Missouri.
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Why won't Nikki Haley be the first female POTUS?
Mrs Whiggins replied to tantric superman's topic in Cloak Room
I went to her Stand For America website and under the policy heading it's a bunch of videos with a three sentence vanilla filler description underneath. Fuck that Nikki. Believe it or not, many voting Americans can read. Put actual policy in text on your website, Nikki. Oh? That isn't possible because all you have are little soundbites about woke unions and "Obamacare" and on and on? Ugh. I would absolutely cast a vote for a female President but not Nikki Haley. -
Carpetbagging weasel faced smarmy little bitch, Ted Cruz
Mrs Whiggins replied to Grade of D as in David's topic in Cloak Room
Roses are red, Violets are blue. When Ted's on parade, Throw a beer can...or two.- 6803 replies
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There was an article I believe in the LA Times but it may have been one of the other large news sources about the pharmacies in northern Mexico that cater to the tourist medical trade. They tested a bunch of pills that people routinely cross the border to buy and a lot of them contained fentanyl while some of the Adderall pills were comprised of meth IIRC. Looked for it, it was the Times. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-02-02/mexico-pharmacy-fentanyl-laced-pills-meth
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Do NOT write negative reviews about German ballet directors
Mrs Whiggins replied to smwhorn's topic in Daily Texan
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Ritchie has one coming out this year: Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre with Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Hugh Grant, and Josh Hartnett. Here is a trailer: Upcoming is the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare which is still in production. It also casts Cary Elwes, along with Henry Cavill, Henry Golding, among others. The cast of The Gentlemen was pretty good, we'll see if these next two pieces that have some of the same cast members can hang with it.
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The destruction of America's public education system
Mrs Whiggins replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
The Right Wing, despite some of the recent in-house squabbles, has to be credited for their ability to align their interests toward a common goal. It's always been about money and power, and their latest strategy, a multi- pronged approach, is winning. To wit: K-12 education is a venture capitalist's gold mine and as this article I've linked points out, "one of the last honeypots for Wall Street." I first read this article (link below) back when I served on a bond committee for our local ISD (that Dripping Springs article gave me some PTSD I tell you) and the article is even more relevant today. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/venture-capitalists-are-poised-disrupt-everything-about-education-market/ We're talking big big money, and the various entities that rely on that money. The publishers of textbooks, software, testing services, and on and on. Billions. Billions of state and federal tax dollars just waiting to be scooped up at will. Tied into the comments about charter schools and private schools being able to influence who attends and what they study are those curriculum decisions on the aforementioned publications. What is emphasized or omitted in the textbooks, the libraries, the classrooms. As one of the largest states, Texas is a curriculum influencer. and that has a domino effect throughout education. The power of who attends which school and what the students study falls into the hands of the state, the local powers that be (school boards), and the billionaires who funded it all. For the top tier class, having a large mass of uneducated citizenry is to their benefit. The greater the income inequality, the less mobility to change classes, to change jobs, to change lives. For others in power, it is having a overarching theocratic form of education that indoctrinates the citizenry to serve whom they say to serve and to deem worthy whom they say is worthy. Studying America's past and the history of slavery isn't just about racism. Students who learn about slavery also learn about labor and freedom, about politics and power, about what things have changed over time and what haven't. The coalitions within the GOP have aligned with these goals in mind and regardless of who is the upfront on the news 'leader,' the money and power behind the scenes has not ever stopped doing what they do best. -
Bat Shit Crazy
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Like Brisket commented, the article states: So what happens if they decide not to approve? I mean while it is easy enough to dole out money they didn't put in, there are quite a few BSC legislators in Texas whose logic I cannot fathom.
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It's why I support research funding that is not wholly private but also not politicized (yeah, a pipe dream). So much we are learning. If you read about 'junk' DNA, the views/information about that has changed over time and they are making new discoveries and it's fascinating what else we can learn. We take for granted so much but the workhorse askers of questions who then get in the lab and try and find answers build upon each other. Have you ever thought about how anti-depressant medications have been developed and changed over time? And yet, there is still so much we don't know about how various biochemical functions interact. Dumbing down the populace does not provide for an optimistic future.
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I haven't been following this closely other than reading it went to committee last week, but seems like a not great idea w/respect to child labor safety. Iowa House & Senate both have GOP majorities.
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It is the Ents. Because the Entwives went missing.
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You have children. That is never boring. Even during those late night diaper changes, one can ponder how such a smiling cooing twelve pound bundle of human is able to generate so much mess in so little time. I do not believe anyone on here is making the tabula rosa argument with respect to children. Nature and nurture combine to make us so very special. However, there does seem to be one specific person in this thread who appears much more supportive towards the biology is destiny idea, whereas your comment regarding spectrums of behaviors, influences upon environments, frequencies of occurence, etc is much more prevalent and based in nature itself. Within each species there is and are varieties and homogeneity and exclusivity has its downside within populations. I am not a population geneticist so I'll excuse myself from that discussion, but those scientists will readily admit there is a lot they do not know. That is not to say that generalities or commonalities regarding sex/gender, etc do not exist, but that in the desire to sift and winnow people into neat and tidy categories in order to malign or abuse those that don't 'meet the standard' set by those 'standard setters' a lot of harm can and has been done.
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Sta Puft Ron seems appropriate too:
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Thank you for the clarification. Medicine and medical care seems like a field where Abbott or any governor ought to heed the admonition to stay in his/her lane.
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