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NWBuck

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  1. True story- stopped off in a random bar and grill south of Addis Ababa, and they changed the jazz they were listening to and put on Don Williams. Not that I was complaining, but it was certainly a choice.
  2. Could be worse, I guess:
  3. More of a singer moving behind the kit, but nothing surprises me with Stevie. Dude is probably a master at the bagpipes too.
  4. Dear God... Please let her folks still be alive
  5. Yup. And most of them haven't been colored in yet!
  6. The "school choice" and "religious freedom" angle has been at the heart of the modern American Christian Conservative movement since the jump (especially post Brown). Interestingly enough- public education was a hallmark of the social gospel movement in the second half of the 19th century- Christians who saw their calling in educating kids who were otherwise working in factories or on farms, leading to public schooling (contemporary of Mann and Dewey) and child labor laws. Of course, American fundamentalism (and evangelicalism) were responses to the social gospel movement... so the Religious Right's pushback and the modern equivalent certainly make sense. Ironically, families who are likely to reject "gub'ment" being involved in education are often from economically depressed areas where other schooling may not be possible. Ah, well... better to be ignorant than "indoctrinated"
  7. No, I got that... I was making a reference to another debunked historical document that mouth breathers continue to venerate.
  8. Protocols of Zelenko?
  9. Gorgeous photos! We're headed out in late July... how's your transition been?
  10. Well, it's probably the only way to keep the GOP from fucking this whole country (further) up the ass.
  11. For anyone interested in information a bit closer to the situation, today's Seattle Times has a good story/editorial: The myth at the heart of the praying Bremerton coach case The praying Bremerton coach won a great victory in the U.S. Supreme Court this week. But to get that win, he lost his way. The high court ruled Monday that former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joseph Kennedy was entitled to offer a “short, private, personal prayer” on the field after games and that the school district had discriminated against him when it tried to restrict him. This ruling sounds reasonable, as who is against short, private, personal prayer? The problem is that the only part of the phrase “short, private, personal prayer” that is accurate to what was going on in Bremerton in the fall of 2015 is “prayer.” We know this because it all played out here. One piece of evidence in the court record was a Seattle Times article from Oct. 15, 2015.
  12. Hell, enough of them quote "Art Of War"... Maybe some Taoist worship practices.
  13. I don't doubt that... We teach about the concept of authoritative pressure and expectation, but there seems to be a difference between "we felt like we were supposed to" and "we were punished if we didn't"
  14. I've been following this case since it started (even teaching about it in graduate Education classes)... the "retaliate against players who didn't join him" is news to me. It wasn't covered in any of the newspapers or other stories written about it (and we're not exactly conservative friendly here in Seattle), it didn't show up in any of the previous court case details that I can recall. Can someone point me to something substantive? The court decision is still wrong- case that was open and shut all across the nation, even was denied a SCOTUS hearing on one other occasion. When this first came to light, the district offered him a place to pray in private (accommodating his freedom of religion) and even told him he could pray on the field after everyone had left (and he was heading home) if he wished. He initially accepted the offer of privacy until a conservative legal group stepped in and offered to represent him. This may have been covered as well- but a number of community members were also "concerned" when a group of Satanists showed up at the game to support him (and, therefore, their right to be on the field after games as well). Like I said- the decision was a bad one.
  15. I've been following this case since it started (even teaching about it in graduate Education classes)... the "retaliate against players who didn't join him" is news to me. It wasn't covered in any of the newspapers or other stories written about it (and we're not exactly conservative friendly here in Seattle), it didn't show up in any of the previous court case details that I can recall. Can someone point me to something substantive? The court decision is still wrong- case that was open and shut all across the nation, even was denied a SCOTUS hearing on one other occasion. When this first came to light, the district offered him a place to pray in private (accommodating his freedom of religion) and even told him he could pray on the field after everyone had left (and he was heading home) if he wished. He initially accepted the offer of privacy until a conservative legal group stepped in and offered to represent him. This may have been covered as well- but a number of community members were also concerned when a group of Satanists showed up at the game to support him (and, therefore, their right to be on the field after games as well). Like a said- the decision was a bad one.
  16. https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-smites-rock-with-nine-iron-causing-it-to-spew-forth-cheap-gasoline/ According to the alleged Russian hotel takes, that ain't gasoline.
  17. Not to light the Ana/Hugo signal, but what ever happened with that "secure server" that Trump used? Shouldn't someone in the new administration have access?
  18. Like I can even count to potato.
  19. Could we build a bridge out of them instead? #InfrastructureWeek
  20. NWBuck

    King's X

    Black (vocal chords) don't crack
  21. In Soviet Russia, system defenses you
  22. I thought that was bears?
  23. Really going out on a limb there, chief...
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