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March 12, 2014

#WarOnPoorChildren
— Ace

Sowell calls the left's relentless attack on high-performing charter schools a "war on minorities." Indeed, it is. Some people in the left's coalition have more pull than others. The teachers unions have a great deal of pull; minority children, not much at all.

And so the #WarOnPoorChildren continues.

If anyone wanted to pick a time and place where the political left's avowed concern for minorities was definitively exposed as a fraud, it would be now -- and the place would be New York City, where far left Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched an attack on charter schools, cutting their funding, among other things.
These schools have given thousands of low income minority children their only shot at a decent education, which often means their only shot at a decent life. Last year 82 percent of the students at a charter school called Success Academy passed city-wide mathematics exams, compared to 30 percent of the students in the city as a whole.
Why would anybody who has any concern at all about minority young people -- or even common decency -- want to destroy what progress has already been made?
One big reason, of course, is the teachers' union, one of Mayor de Blasio's biggest supporters. But it may be more than that. For many of the true believers on the left, their ideology overrides any concern about the actual fate of flesh-and-blood human beings.
Something similar happened on the west coast last year. The American Indian Model Schools in Oakland have been ranked among the top schools in the nation, based on their students' test scores. This is, again, a special achievement for minority students who need all the help they can get.
But, last spring, the California State Board of Education announced plans to shut this school down!
Why? The excuse given was that there had been suspicious financial dealings by the former -- repeat, former -- head of the institution. If this was the real reason, then all they had to do was indict the former head and let a court decide if he was guilty or innocent.
There was no reason to make anyone else suffer, much less the students. But the education establishment's decision was to refuse to let the school open last fall. Fortunately a court stopped this hasty shut-down.

Sowell goes on to note that Obama has joined the #WarOnPoorChildren at the federal level, cutting DC's voucher program, and having the DoJ attempt to block Louisiana's attempt to expand charter schools.

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1 Transparent.

Posted by: Tutu at March 12, 2014 02:56 PM (CpWI4)

2 Why arent the Republicans doing a lot of things, I often wonder.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 12, 2014 02:56 PM (IW1TI)

3 Why does no one publish pictures of these poor, starving American children? Where is this happening?

Posted by: Marmo at March 12, 2014 02:57 PM (pcgW1)

4 Running up ruinous debt using your children's future earnings benefits them, right?

Posted by: Barky O'Jugears at March 12, 2014 02:58 PM (0cMkb)

5 abortion#waronpoorchildren

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 02:59 PM (zOTsN)

6 We're gonna need more streetlamp poles.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 12, 2014 02:59 PM (BAS5M)

7 Why does no one publish pictures of these poor, starving American children?

Keep wishing. A close GOP friend told me that all of you conservatives wanted pictures of starving kids so you could fap to them.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi, Genius at March 12, 2014 02:59 PM (8ZskC)

8 In WA state, we voted to allow charter schools in 2012. Which in and of itself was pretty amazing, given the state voted for Obama by 15%. But 2 years later, there are exactly ZERO charter schools in the state. The people voted for it, but the Democrat run state govt has put up so many roadblocks and red tape, it might as well have been voted down.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:00 PM (0LHZx)

9 teacher unions#waronpoorchildren

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:00 PM (zOTsN)

10 publis schools#waronpoorchildren

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:00 PM (zOTsN)

11 public not publis. jeebus

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:00 PM (zOTsN)

12 Thanks to my policies, your children won't have to work. ...Well....won't be able to find a job. But, they can get on welfare and smoke choom ALL. DAY. LONG. so, it's all good.

Posted by: Barky O'Jugears at March 12, 2014 03:01 PM (0cMkb)

13 #7 That's my pr0n and I'll fap if I want to. Fap if I want to.

Posted by: Marmo at March 12, 2014 03:01 PM (pcgW1)

14 But conservatives are mean and want to put women in binders!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mr. Low Information Voter at March 12, 2014 03:01 PM (8ZskC)

15 Oh and on top of it all, the teachers unions are suing to get the charter school vote nullified. And given the composition of judges in the state - ie they make the 9th Circuit look right wing - they will probably get that as well.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:02 PM (0LHZx)

16 Every child a planned and wanted child. Oh that's a different topic.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 12, 2014 03:02 PM (HVff2)

17 This is an issue that an enterprising political hack could make the Dems wear like a oat anchor. I miss Lee Atwater.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 12, 2014 03:03 PM (DcuIu)

18 Don't threaten the monopoly. Don't show the general public that the Almighty Teacher just isn't that great. Whatever you do, don't make the union members look lazy.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 12, 2014 03:03 PM (oMKp3)

19 3 Why does no one publish pictures of these poor, starving American children? Where is this happening?

Posted by: Marmo at March 12, 2014 06:57 PM (pcgW1)

They can't because, ironically, the poor starving American kids are too fat. But they're fat on McDonald's food which puffs you up like a poison pup. In all actuality, they are starved of vitamins and nutrients and love from h8rs like every Republican on the planet. There may even be some living in your house, Marmo, since you're on this military (gasp) blog. I'll fix this problem through the state-controlled indoctrination centers.

Posted by: kathysaysso channeling Mitchell Obama at March 12, 2014 03:03 PM (6H6o8)

20 Hey why not.

Ryan is saying that poverty is all the lazy urban (you know what that means) men's fault.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 12, 2014 03:03 PM (LSDdO)

21 This topic is how the GOP could win Hispanic votes. Not fucking amnesty. But it's the Stupid Party so of course they will not mention charter schools and push amnesty 24/7.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:04 PM (0LHZx)

22 7 Why does no one publish pictures of these poor, starving American children? Keep wishing. A close GOP friend told me that all of you conservatives wanted pictures of starving kids so you could fap to them. Posted by: Nancy Pelosi, Genius at March 12, 2014 06:59 PM (8ZskC) Because they would be fat little bastards with a game boy or a cell phone in their hands. Exercise to them is jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle and mood swings.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 12, 2014 03:04 PM (HVff2)

23 The "American Indian Model Schools," despite the title, were not populated by Indians (or native Americans). I don't know where they got the name from. It was typically "multicultural" as you might expect in Oakland. Except: It was HARDCORE academics, with military-style discipline expected from ALL students. Inner-city parents begged to have their kids let in. Why? BEST RESULTS OF ANY SCHOOL IN OAKLAND. Was the former principle skimming off funds? Maybe. Who knows? But what's that got to do with the kids in school NOW? If "a former employee stole something" is a valid criteria for closing down an institution, we as a species would revert to living in caves.

Posted by: zombie at March 12, 2014 03:04 PM (mizYg)

24 Boat

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 12, 2014 03:04 PM (DcuIu)

25 Kids, why try to better yourselves when you can get free money by not working, drinking 40 ounces, and voting for Democrats every couple of years?

Posted by: Barky O'Jugears at March 12, 2014 03:04 PM (0cMkb)

26 I have little sympathy for the parents of the kids losing their charter schools. 95% of them voted for DeBlasio! They're getting what they voted for. That's an education even charter schools don't provide.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at March 12, 2014 03:05 PM (h53OH)

27 You see, if we had just aborted all those black babies, we wouldn't have to figure out expensive ways to educate them.

Posted by: Margaret Sanger at March 12, 2014 03:05 PM (mizYg)

28 we like Publius schools

Posted by: John Jay, James Madison, and Alex ( toy boy ) Hamilton at March 12, 2014 03:06 PM (omBWL)

29 the DoJ attempt to block Louisiana's attempt to expand charter schools. How is that even legal? *slaps self with crosscut saw* Dopey me.......

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 12, 2014 03:06 PM (h7P8X)

30 Woo-hoo -- my first sockpuppet comment ever! (#27 above).

Posted by: zombie at March 12, 2014 03:06 PM (mizYg)

31 The union rep teacher at one school I used to work in made no secret just how much he hated the kids. Of course, he only said that in the teachers lounge. To the parents, he was all schmooze. He loathed children.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 12, 2014 03:06 PM (oMKp3)

32 @26 - I'd like to see evidence of that, though I think you're probably right.

Posted by: JEM at March 12, 2014 03:07 PM (o+SC1)

33 When your a member of a union you are part of a collective. Much like the Borg. Or a beehive. Any thoughts or actions counter to the will of the collective (i.e. its leadership) will result in discipline or expulsion from the collective. And this is when people you thought were your friends will reveal their true feelings about you.

Posted by: deepred at March 12, 2014 03:07 PM (RHYM4)

34 Liberalism= neo-feudalism, only the serfs don't produce anything for the nobility but votes.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 12, 2014 03:07 PM (LiHKo)

35 Low income equality, suckers. Gonna drag your ass to the lower class.

Posted by: Barry the Fern at March 12, 2014 03:07 PM (wAQA5)

36 I believe that "follow the money" may also apply here. Charter schools are becoming big business and the usual suspects are figuring out how to line their pockets. This in some cases includes shutting down some charter schools so others which will handsomely compensate them can take their place.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 12, 2014 03:07 PM (RZ8pf)

We feed and warehouse those little shits for seven hours a day!

What more do you want?

Posted by: National Education Association at March 12, 2014 03:07 PM (D+lxs)

38 Come on Sowell, no one cares about poor kids. This is all about the money. The teachers union wants it and the charter schools have it, and I'm going to fix that.

Posted by: Comrade DiBlasio at March 12, 2014 03:08 PM (F58x4)

39 Well, Louisiana charter schools...Tuttle-run perhaps?

Posted by: John Brown at March 12, 2014 03:08 PM (67CI7)

40 Louisiana is part of the evils former confederacy. Like North Dakota.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 12, 2014 03:08 PM (DcuIu)

41 The "logic" of this position as 'splained to me by some super duper earnest teachers I know is that the kids in the charter schools are highly motivated and will do well no matter where they go so putting them into charter schools serves only to divert scarce resources away from the kids who really need it.

Needless to say, I find this to be errant nonsense, not to mention total bullshit.

Posted by: alexthechick - come for the Global Warming stay for the SMOD at March 12, 2014 03:08 PM (Gk3SS)

42 I bet if we gave the government more money, this unpleasantness with poor children would go away and we'd all feel very good about ourselves.

Posted by: Marmo at March 12, 2014 03:08 PM (pcgW1)

43 We need more money. It's for the kids. Well, after you inflate our salaries, add more assistants and helpers and specialists, throw technology around the schools like Mardi Gras baubles, sweeten our pensions, pay for our health insurance, add admin functions and directors to make the districts even more top-heavy, THEN what's left over is for the kids.

Posted by: Teachers Unions at March 12, 2014 03:08 PM (BAS5M)

44 Let us not forgot the lovely and safe healthcare provided to minority women by Kermit Gosnell. /s

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 12, 2014 03:09 PM (xWgW3)

45 Woo-hoo -- my first sockpuppet comment ever! (#27 above).

Well done. You've taken your first step into a larger world.

Posted by: Obi Wan Sockpuppet at March 12, 2014 03:09 PM (8ZskC)

46 Posted by: National Education Association at March 12, 2014 07:07 PM (D+lxs) Ive heard pretty much that exact quote.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 12, 2014 03:09 PM (oMKp3)

47 But they did abort the Black babies.

In most places about 50% of abortions are Black.

"WE'RE HALF WAY THERE" - M. Sanger -

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 12, 2014 03:09 PM (LSDdO)

48 Woo-hoo -- my first sockpuppet comment ever! (#27 above). Settle down , lightweight .

Posted by: Gleen at March 12, 2014 03:09 PM (XWw96)

49 Aaaaaand back to the MFM being perverted liars and the GOP being about as useful as a Jello hammer.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 12, 2014 03:10 PM (qyfb5)

50 Speaking of the Tuttles... whoever first floated the notion that Marty or Rust could be the 'Yellow King' is a big fuckin idiot. Where would such a preposterous idea come from?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 12, 2014 03:10 PM (IW1TI)

51 The main complaint the NEA has about charter schools is that the teacher's have to actually know the subject they're teaching and be able to teach it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 12, 2014 03:10 PM (LSDdO)

52 45 Woo-hoo -- my first sockpuppet comment ever! (#27 above). -------- Pride leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate.... leads to the dark side.

Posted by: Yoda at March 12, 2014 03:11 PM (Aif/5)

53 Woo-hoo -- my first sockpuppet comment ever! (#27 above).
Posted by: zombie Margaret Sanger at March 12, 2014 07:06 PM (mizYg)

Posted by: AOSHQ Stylebook at March 12, 2014 03:11 PM (3a584)

54 Dem client population slits its own throat. Shocker. I hate it, but they brought it on themselves. F**k 'em. Anyway, any person bringing a child into the world in the US is just making a new slave to the State - I no longer pity any parent who intentionally makes babies without being able to afford leaving the public system. They should know better by now. The schools have been trash for decades. Soon the only people in this country holding any positions of authority in the private sector will be from private schools, home school, or the better charter schools. It's one more reason why the US has no future at what we'd call a first world nation.

Posted by: Reactionary at March 12, 2014 03:11 PM (jfeoD)

55 We conservatives have a better method -- We put the children in wheelchairs and shove them off of a cliff.

It's true; ask any Democrat.

More to the point, TFG did his little war on children move shortly after he got elected in 2008. So what happened election night, 2012 in Washington DC?

Voter % for TFG was 91%; Romney pulled 7%

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 12, 2014 03:12 PM (wNF3N)

56 Woo-hoo -- my first sockpuppet comment ever! (#27 above).

Don't get cocky!

Posted by: Han Solo at March 12, 2014 03:12 PM (8ZskC)

57 DeBlasio's goal seems to be to out-Dinkins Dinkins is turning NYC back into a miserable shithole. And when he was elected I thought NYC will never elect another Republican. Maybe I spoke too soon.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 12, 2014 03:12 PM (LiHKo)

58 I should not find Gleen socks as funny as I do after all these years. Especially in public places.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 12, 2014 03:12 PM (DcuIu)

59 Marty was a warped, twisted-midget version of John Wayne, with that stupid fake-hick accent that Woody affects.

Posted by: ( I learned the truth from ) Lenny Bruce at March 12, 2014 03:13 PM (omBWL)

60 Woo-hoo -- my first sockpuppet comment --------- I've got a bad feeling about this.

Posted by: Princess Leia at March 12, 2014 03:13 PM (Aif/5)

61 @29 - 'legal' isn't something the Federal government bothers with any longer, and will not do so until the DOJ's budget is cut 40%. I've pretty much figured that, in addition to being US-born and over 35, having two hands qualifies me to be President of the United States. On one hand I can count the number of cabinet-level departments that should not be cut 40%, and on the other I can count the cabinet-level departments that should be eliminated in their entirety. Oh, and I own a flashlight.

Posted by: JEM at March 12, 2014 03:14 PM (o+SC1)

62 What's really fun is mentioning to public school teachers the results that Christian and parochial schools get, at half the cost per pupil

Posted by: grammie winger at March 12, 2014 03:14 PM (oMKp3)

63 Zombie... what are you doing here?

Posted by: Cahrles Jhonson at March 12, 2014 03:14 PM (jucos)

The main complaint the NEA has about charter schools is that the teacher's have to actually know the subject they're teaching and be able to teach it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 12, 2014 07:10 PM (LSDdO)

Damned Right!

That is why seniority is so important. We need innumerate Phys Ed doctorates teaching math and science because of their experience and seniority. And who cares if they cannot add, subtract or multiply? They have what matters, SENIORITY!

Posted by: National Education Association at March 12, 2014 03:15 PM (D+lxs)

I couldn't figure out the Democrats until it finally hit me:

Democrats want to do to ALL Americans, what they've done to Black Americans.

Once you realize this, their actions make perfect sense.

Posted by: I'm the honey Badger, BITCH! at March 12, 2014 03:15 PM (nyxv/)

66 Pride leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate.... leads to the dark side. Posted by: Yoda at March 12, 2014 07:11 PM (Aif/5) Whereas the light side leads to abandoning your family and never loving anyone - and getting wiped out by a spoiled brat. Nice job, there, sport.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 12, 2014 03:15 PM (qyfb5)

67 there are lots of good public schools in this country; not great, but good

hint: Avoid cities east the Mississippi and on the Left Coast

Posted by: ( I learned the truth from ) Lenny Bruce at March 12, 2014 03:16 PM (omBWL)

68 You see, if we had just aborted all those black babies, we wouldn't have to figure out expensive ways to educate them.

Posted by: Margaret Sanger at March 12, 2014 07:05 PM (mizYg)

_________

Or just bought only castrated slaves like us.

Posted by: Zhu Yigun at March 12, 2014 03:16 PM (wAQA5)

69 Soon the only people in this country holding any positions of authority in the private sector will be from private schools, home school, or the better charter schools. Posted by: Reactionary at March 12, 2014 07:11 PM (jfeoD) _________ Pretty much.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:17 PM (0LHZx)

70 Alexthechick, there is something however to the fact that kids in charter schools have parents who are more involved, as is evidenced by their jumping through the hoops to get them there in the first place. However, admitting that annoys teachers too.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 12, 2014 03:17 PM (RZ8pf)

71 In a little-known episode from my past life, I very briefly was a substitute teacher for second-graders. But I didn't last long. Why? Here's why: After the end of school hours, a lo of the kids had to hang around and wait for their parents to come get them or for the always-late buses to show up. So I came up with an idea: Optional and voluntary after-school funtime lessons in really interesting stuff for the kids to learn. No grades, no homework, no expectation, and extra credit: Just a educational way to pass the time if the kids wanted something fun to do while waiting. About one-third of the kids eagerly participated, usually for somewhere between 15 and 30 minutes after classes on most days. In the classroom. What did I teach them? Stuff like: - Basic electrical circuits: Each kids got a AAA battery, a couple pieces of wire and a small lightbulb. Task: Make the turn on! They loved that. And they were really learning, I could tell. - Set theory. Basic logic about "Subsets" and "supersets" and "not included" and "empty set" and so forth. More amazement and learning. - Strategy games. Taught them the rules to checkers, go, chess, that African bean-moving game similar to backgammon whose name eludes me, and more. Minds growing! - Ecosystems. Explaining how everything eats everything else and what a predator is and a herbivore and a scavenger and a parasite and so on. I could see I had just created several young biologists. Etc. Etc. And them...the administration found out. I was summarily fired. Why? FOR TEACHING STUFF NOT IN THE CURRICULUM WITHOUT PERMISSION. Even though the curriculum was moronic and atrocious. I never went back to teaching after that. Ever.

Posted by: zombie at March 12, 2014 03:17 PM (mizYg)

72 67 there are lots of good public schools in this country; not great, but good hint: Avoid cities east the Mississippi and on the Left Coast Posted by: ( I learned the truth from ) Lenny Bruce at March 12, 2014 07:16 PM (omBWL) __________ It's more like avoid schools IN a city....west, east, north or south.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:18 PM (0LHZx)

Woo-hoo -- my first sockpuppet comment

>>>>>>>>>>

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: Adm Josh Painter at March 12, 2014 03:18 PM (jucos)

74 The hashtag has not taken off due to the insincerity of the motive behind it. Republicans do not care about the poor or minorities. On a daily basis Republicans bash them as parasites, FSA and leeches. No one believes your crocodile tears on this subject.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:18 PM (87fH2)

75 66 Represent brother!

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 12, 2014 03:19 PM (xWgW3)

76 #61 JEM I you were a Democrat all you would need to be qualified to be President is to be a minority transgendered gay pro-abortion atheist. You would be at the top of the ticket.

Posted by: Marmo at March 12, 2014 03:19 PM (pcgW1)

77 The teachers lounge. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 12, 2014 03:19 PM (BAS5M)

78 you know what..? I still have a fundraising letter from the Hillary for NY Senator campaign from 2000, and it was signed by Bill de Blasio.

Because the children.

Posted by: Mallfly at March 12, 2014 03:19 PM (bJm7W)

79 PGiS, that happens to be the SINGLE greatest determinant of a student's level of achievement.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 12, 2014 03:19 PM (DcuIu)

80 I've told this story before, but my son voted for Mitt Romney in his first Presidential election, almost totally because he watched "Waiting for Superman" in his sociology class and was incensed about the teachers unions and the Democrats who kowtow to them. I don't think he will ever vote for a Democrat as long as they oppose charter schools. Young people really care about stuff like this. There has to be a way that conservatives/Republicans can make school choice a bigger issue in campaigns. I am convinced that we can win a lot of young voters if we can figure this out. Maybe the hashtag and other social media type of awareness campaigns is the way to go.

Posted by: rockmom at March 12, 2014 03:19 PM (vE1mx)

81 Yeah, like non-poor kids will have it any better. We had a common core flunky come to the university's math department. There were a lot of people in the room but mostly from the math ed side of the department. Notably, all of the Asian faculty were missing even though they had kids in school. The flunky started filibustering and wouldn't let a word in edgewise, except from the sycophantic lecturer whose only job is to teach the pre-remedial course that the students can't even get college credit for. In several faculty meetings, most of the faculty expressed the belief that she was unqualified to teach anything higher and that she made several (somewhat pedantic) mistakes when observed. Well, this flunky kept talking about one thing -- College Algebra. We've got to get these kids ready for College Algebra. (1) College Algebra isn't. It's what you were supposed to have mastered in 10th-11th grade. It's not considered a remedial course, but it should be. Even after you pass it, you're still not ready for calculus. (2) Calculus is what they should be ready for. Not one word about calculus. Instead the whole goal is to make everybody as dumb as people with Ed.D.s, like this flunky who is the Iowa Regents education head honcho. Because she's an expert, see? She has a degree in education, so she knows more than you professional mathematicians.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 12, 2014 03:19 PM (T0NGe)

82 This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. ----------- I have a new strategy. Let the Putin win.

Posted by: C-3PO at March 12, 2014 03:20 PM (Aif/5)

83 "74 The hashtag has not taken off due to the insincerity of the motive behind it. Republicans do not care about the poor or minorities. On a daily basis Republicans bash them as parasites, FSA and leeches. No one believes your crocodile tears on this subject. " Maybe. But our policies don't involve systematically exterminating them using tax dollars.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 12, 2014 03:20 PM (LiHKo)

We need more money. It's for the kids. Well, after you inflate our salaries, add more assistants and helpers and specialists, throw technology around the schools like Mardi Gras baubles, sweeten our pensions, pay for our health insurance, add admin functions and directors to make the districts even more top-heavy, THEN what's left over ~~is for the kids~~ should be given as bonuses to us.

Posted by: Teachers Unions at March 12, 2014 07:08 PM (BAS5M)

FIFY

Posted by: National Education Association at March 12, 2014 03:20 PM (D+lxs)

85 Here in WI we have public school open enrollment and school vouchers. Walker is trying to push more vouchers but you can guess how that is being met. He really gored them with his Act 10. The surprising thing about the vouchers, they started in Milwaukee pushed by the African American community. But, that's where their support of the GOP ends.

Posted by: Misanthopic Humanitarian at March 12, 2014 03:20 PM (HVff2)

86 Whereas the light side leads to abandoning your family and never loving anyone - and getting wiped out by a spoiled brat. Nice job, there, sport. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 12, 2014 07:15 PM (qyfb5) This. They couldn't even spare a few creds to buy the Chosen One's mommy out of slavery so he would be less likely to go psycho. "Millions for massive statues of ourselves, but not one penny for liberating slaves!"

Posted by: Reactionary at March 12, 2014 03:20 PM (jfeoD)

87 OT on teen suing her parents. Reunited A New Jersey cheerleader who sued her parents for child support has returned to their house after having her lawsuit thrown out. Rachel Canning moved out of her parent's New Jersey home but filed a lawsuit against them saying that she deserved to have her college tuition and other expenses covered. The judge denied the teen's request last week. The lawyer representing Rachel's parents held a press conference Wednesday afternoon confirming that the family has been reunited. 'My clients will be known for this for quite some time... As far as my clients are concerned it's over, it's done,' attorney Angelo Sarno said. 'Rachel's back home.'

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:21 PM (zOTsN)

88 I often despair of the GOP being able to get its act together on messaging. Not least when it comes to arguing against the corruption and inefficiency of unionized public schools.

Part of this is no doubt because many weak hands on the Republican side start to tremble in panic at the thought of charges that they hates them some chirruns.

After all, isn't education good? So anyone who criticizes it must be bad! By definition! H8R!

But it can be done. Here's a guy who is on message with laser focus and unafraid. With a simple understandable analogy that everyone will instantly get: what if supermarkets were run the way that public schools are run?

http://cafehayek.com/2011/04/grocery-school.html

I think the only way you could improve on this would be with an online video animation to rope in the always growing TL;DR crowd of slow readers and nonreaders.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 12, 2014 03:21 PM (gqT4g)

89 Why does no one publish pictures of these poor, starving American children? Where is this happening?

The USDA tracks "hunger" with some broad brushes. The worst bucket to be in is called "Very low food security". 5.7% of American households fell into this bucket sometime in 2012. Only 1.2% were households with children.

Here is the official definition of "Very low food security": experienced reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns at some time during the year.

Source USDA: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cltoopg

If you eat a "less varied diet or participate in gov't food programs" you're "Low food secure". 10% of households are there in 2012. That appears to be the bulk of the "starving" or "hungry" kids they point to when they claim 1 in 6 are "hungry".

Got that? If you're eating just fine, but on assistance, you're "hungry".

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 12, 2014 03:22 PM (P7Wsr)

90 Since blacks vote Dem 95%+ and since 95%+ of kids who are fucked by the anti school choice policies are black...I say fuck them. If they vote for the people who are actively hurting their kids....I'm not going to shed too many tears over it.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:22 PM (0LHZx)

>87

Grounded for two weeks!

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2014 03:23 PM (wAQA5)

92 Parental involvement isn't a detriment to a child's education. Lack of parental involvement is.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 12, 2014 03:23 PM (RZ8pf)

93 Hey, troll--fuck the hell off on behalf of my kids, you unserious evil shithook.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 12, 2014 03:24 PM (DcuIu)

94 83 Naes1984 Republican policy is to insult and humiliate them. Just be honest on this issue. Republicans could care less about minorities and their education.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:24 PM (87fH2)

Posted by: zombie at March 12, 2014 07:17 PM (mizYg)

You need to teach somewhere please. Not in a public school, but somewhere. Have you ever thought of working with religious schools?

Posted by: National Education Association at March 12, 2014 03:25 PM (D+lxs)

96 "94 83 Naes1984 Republican policy is to insult and humiliate them. Just be honest on this issue. Republicans could care less about minorities and their education." And your policy is to murder them in the abortuaries.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 12, 2014 03:25 PM (LiHKo)

97 @ 90 Mr. Moo Moo I respect your opinion because unlike other Republicans who claim to care, you admit your hate. Thank you for your honesty. I would rather have an honest enemy, than a dishonest fake friend. Thank you for your honest feelings.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:26 PM (87fH2)

98 Off nick!

Posted by: rd at March 12, 2014 03:26 PM (D+lxs)

99 We have a member of the Reality-Based Community among us.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 12, 2014 03:26 PM (8ZskC)

100 If you eat a "less varied diet or participate in gov't food programs" you're "Low food secure".

So every kid who eats a public school lunch...

Posted by: HR at March 12, 2014 03:26 PM (hO8IJ)

101 You know I like to stick my dick in a toaster. Don't act like you didn't know.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:26 PM (Aif/5)

102 Soon the only people in this country holding any positions of authority in the private sector will be from private schools, home school, or the better charter schools. Posted by: Reactionary at March 12, 2014 07:11 PM (jfeoD) Guess what? Our political class is filled with people who got Ivy spots because they graduated from tony prep schools. Our scientific and technical class is people who...weren't educated in this country.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 12, 2014 03:26 PM (T0NGe)

103 I no longer pity any parent who intentionally makes babies without being able to afford leaving the public system. They should know better by now. The schools have been trash for decades. Soon the only people in this country holding any positions of authority in the private sector will be from private schools, home school, or the better charter schools. It's one more reason why the US has no future at what we'd call a first world nation. Posted by: Reactionary at March 12, 2014 07:11 PM (jfeoD) Sad, but true.

Posted by: rockmom at March 12, 2014 03:27 PM (vE1mx)

104 Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 07:24 PM (87fH2)

Sock? Or Average Joe?

Also, my wife is a teacher. She's very invested in teaching ALL of her kids, including minorities.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 12, 2014 03:27 PM (P7Wsr)

105 Republicans could care less about minorities and their education. Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 07:24 PM (87fH2) You know nothing of me or my family or our efforts in these matters. Nothing. Nada.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 12, 2014 03:27 PM (oMKp3)

106

I'm sure this is all somehow Texas' Fault.

Posted by: wheatie at March 12, 2014 03:27 PM (8quPO)

107 Republicans also hate fags. And the planet.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 12, 2014 03:27 PM (IW1TI)

108 96 Naes1984 You could care less about aborted minority babies. Look at the brightside, less parasites for you to complain about, right?

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:27 PM (87fH2)

109 Republican policy is to insult and humiliate them. Just be honest on this issue. Republicans could care less about minorities and their education. Posted by: Who are you fooling how silly how would "insulting and humiliating them" help Republicans in any way and we are not necessarily republicans. We are conservatives

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:27 PM (zOTsN)

110 The flunky started filibustering and wouldn't let a word in edgewise, Posted by: AmishDude at March 12, 2014 07:19 PM (T0NGe) You can't let them do that, it's how they "win." They have decades of practice at controlling "public" meetings, we *have* to monkeywrench them whenever they do it. I hope you at least spread the word in the crowd about what they were doing.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 12, 2014 03:28 PM (qyfb5)

111 All trolls are Average Joe, who is a person of cock suckage by choice.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 12, 2014 03:28 PM (jucos)

112 Amishdude that is one of the biggest things that makes me furious about common core, the way they are teaching math now on the normal track kids don't get algebra until high school meaning they never make it to pre calculus by the time they graduate. Thankfully our school district has a higher math track that kids test into so they can basically do math the way it used to be done.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 12, 2014 03:28 PM (RZ8pf)

113 I respect your opinion because unlike other Republicans who claim to care, you admit your hate. Thank you for your honesty. I would rather have an honest enemy, than a dishonest fake friend. Thank you for your honest feelings. Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 07:26 PM (87fH2) ___________ And where is your honesty? Your side is doing this to the people you laughably say you want to help. Have you seen unemployment rates for blacks since Obama has been in office by the way? CHANGE!!

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:29 PM (0LHZx)

114 You know I have a baby dick. Don't act like you didn't know.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:29 PM (Aif/5)

115 @ 105 grammie winger Spare me you fake outrage. I respect Mr. Moo Moo due to his honesty. You are a phony and would would not shed a tear if minorities died off. You would celebrate no more parasites as you call them in America.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:29 PM (87fH2)

116 Who Are You Fooling is Fooling Himself

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:29 PM (zOTsN)

117 34 Liberalism= neo-feudalism It is.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 12, 2014 03:29 PM (h7P8X)

118 "Iran and Russia reached a preliminary agreement to build at least two new nuclear power plants," Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told the news agency. The two new 1,000 megawatt plants will be constructed alongside the existing power station in Bushehr, which was also built by Russia, Kamalvandi said.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 12, 2014 03:29 PM (e8kgV)

119 So every kid who eats a public school lunch...

Yep, see the USDA link. So they trick you into thinking "We need gov't programs to help these poor hungry kids who are not being helped". But in reality, if you're CURRENTLY ON gov't assistance, you're classified as hungry.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 12, 2014 03:29 PM (P7Wsr)

120 Fen's Law explains all.

Posted by: toby928© embraces tribalism at March 12, 2014 03:30 PM (QupBk)

121 how does putting the teachers unions above the students help the poor student?

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:30 PM (zOTsN)

122 Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 07:29 PM (87fH2) Do not speak to me in that manner. I will no longer respond to you.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 12, 2014 03:30 PM (oMKp3)

123 BY the way fooling... I despise white people on welfare as much as blacks. If they all died off, I'd be a happy person.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:30 PM (0LHZx)

124

Caring: generational poverty cycles, indifference to the dissolution of the family, cynical anti poverty programs, faux outrage over one off interracial incidents while turning a blind eye to the epidemic of gang violence, and the couching of a genocide within the confines of "choice."

Yes, I am the insincere one.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 12, 2014 03:31 PM (DcuIu)

125 Who Are You Fooling is Fooling Himself

Well, he gets credit for being honest about the size of his dick, although I don't think this thread is really the place for it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 12, 2014 03:31 PM (8ZskC)

126 . "Millions for massive statues of ourselves, but not one penny for liberating slaves!" Posted by: Reactionary at March 12, 2014 07:20 PM (jfeoD) I mean, yeah, everybody in The Old Republic, the Empire *and * The Alliance built big - but the Jedi made a lot of noise about being ascetic monks, and then they go and build lavish retreats and giant effing statues of themselves everywhere. They make the Pope look like a pauper.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 12, 2014 03:31 PM (qyfb5)

127 The Denver charter schools obviously have lots of time and cash to spare. In the Denver Post recently was an article on how some ninth graders from one of those schools were going to help create a ban on grocery store plastic bags. Because environment and social justice. (Actual learning? LOL!) If charter schools are going to become hatcheries for aspiring college leftists, and beyond, which this evidence seems to suggest; then I second the call to "fuck em".

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 12, 2014 03:31 PM (9gFMq)

128 Great post. I believe there are more poor and homeless children as a result of his policies too, unless the stats have changed. Everyone is so much worse off, with the exception of those pockets the SCOAMF puts (tax)money into directly.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 12, 2014 03:31 PM (IXrOn)

129 Remember, only Qualified Teachers are Qualified to determine if children are really learning. Standardized testing is for people who think that creativity and leadership aptitude mean less than knowing how to calculate a 10 percent discount or knowing the difference between "accept" and "except".

Also, spelling and grammar hold children back from enjoying Inglish.

Posted by: Mallfly at March 12, 2014 03:31 PM (bJm7W)

130 Very Obviously we need MOAR Midnight Basketball....

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 12, 2014 03:31 PM (jucos)

131 Who Are You Fooling is Fooling Himself Well, he gets credit for being honest about the size of his dick, although I don't think this thread is really the place for it. Posted by: Cicero always talking about his shortcomings

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:31 PM (zOTsN)

132 I would rather have an honest enemy, than a dishonest fake friend. Thank you for your honest feelings. Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 07:26 PM (87fH2) Your hero, Chairman Mao, said much the same thing of those on the Right. Unlike Leftists, who are all habitual liars, he knew the reactionaries would say what they really thought.

Posted by: Reactionary at March 12, 2014 03:32 PM (jfeoD)

133 You could care less about aborted minority babies. Look at the brightside, less parasites for you to complain about, right? Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 07:27 PM (87fH2) Now what, Hector, you lying puss explosion?

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 12, 2014 03:32 PM (h7P8X)

134 oh dear

Posted by: soothsayer at March 12, 2014 03:32 PM (IW1TI)

135

Does a "charter" school have anything to do with reducing my cable TV bill? Also, can I use those "vouchers" to buy beer and cigs at the Circle R Mart?

Posted by: Low Information Voter at March 12, 2014 03:32 PM (pmsMR)

136 I hope you at least spread the word in the crowd about what they were doing. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 12, 2014 07:28 PM (qyfb5) The former chair who invited her made it clear that she was "invited". Furthermore, there was nothing to be gained. Nothing was decided and nobody in the room was to be influenced or persuaded. In fact, a lot of the faces in the room were stern.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 12, 2014 03:32 PM (T0NGe)

137 @ 113 Mr. Moo Moo I do not support Obama and his Marxist cohorts. At the same time I sure as hell do not support the Neo-Dixiecrats in the Republican party either. Neither of you have the interest of this nation at heart. I have nothing but respect you Mr. Moo Moo. You are honest and make it clear where you stand. I wish more Republicans would be as honest as you.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:33 PM (87fH2)

138

Since blacks vote Dem 95%+ and since 95%+ of kids who are fucked by the anti school choice policies are black...I say fuck them.

Except it is not just the Dems that are fucked. It is every poor kid stuck in those schools. It does not matter if you are white, black, hispanic, asian, NA, or green. All the kids in those schools are fucked. Whether their parents are Dem-tards or Republicans or apolitical, the kids are FUCKED.

So try to unfuck the schools before they give us more fucked-up future democrat fodder.

Posted by: rd at March 12, 2014 03:33 PM (D+lxs)

139 "Who are you fooling?" please read this. Seriously, sit down and contemplate it: http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2014/03/10/progressive-racism-the-hidden-motive-driving-modern-politics/ And please send it to you progressive friends. Progressivism is the very essence of "dishonest racism."

Posted by: zombie at March 12, 2014 03:34 PM (mizYg)

140 Jaysus, people, it's AJ or one of his dingleberries. Mind you, they're just imitating your average bottom-of-the-food-chain liberal, but still. It's easy to do that, by the way, you just have to assume the worst about anyone who is not like you, confront them angrily, listen to nothing in response and generally try to shit on as many metaphorical carpets as you can. The old word for that, for those of an academic bent, was "bigot."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 12, 2014 03:34 PM (qyfb5)

141 @132 Reactionary You are ideologically closer to Mao than I am.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:34 PM (87fH2)

142 Definitely Hector.

Posted by: Adam at March 12, 2014 03:35 PM (Aif/5)

143 oohhhh only one has the interests of the nation at heart all listen gather at (its?) feet we are so fortunate please go on fix the schools oh wise one regale us with tales of your real world successes teach us how to help poor students escape poverty and live lives of independence please halp us

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:35 PM (zOTsN)

144 Heck, include Public Schools as the #WarOnChildren. Everywhere a Democrat effects a child, it is in the wrong direction, and hurts them in the end.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 12, 2014 03:35 PM (IXrOn)

145 where is the neo dixiecrat membership list?

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:36 PM (zOTsN)

146 I hate that I sexually abuse children. There. I said it.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:37 PM (h7P8X)

147 OT but fellow morons beware... Pat Robertson says horror movies and porn invite demons to possess you. Story @ the blaze

Posted by: BSR at March 12, 2014 03:37 PM (3wrJ+)

148 112 Amishdude that is one of the biggest things that makes me furious about common core, the way they are teaching math now on the normal track kids don't get algebra until high school meaning they never make it to pre calculus by the time they graduate. I rail about ed. majors and lawyers and journalists, but ask yourself this: Is there a special easier English class for the science-inclined? Now that's fine. It really is. Not everybody's going to be Newton, but when your education system is ruled over and run by people who have a huge part of education as something they find intimidating or bitterly resent, you're going to have a broken education system. Crabs in a bucket. Thankfully our school district has a higher math track that kids test into so they can basically do math the way it used to be done. Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at March 12, 2014 07:28 PM (RZ8pf) For now. For now.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 12, 2014 03:37 PM (T0NGe)

149 @132 Mr. Moo Moo That is your first lie you have told me. Republicans support white people on welfare.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:37 PM (87fH2)

150 Mr. Fool has all the answers. Yes, please enlighten us.

Posted by: Marmo at March 12, 2014 03:37 PM (pcgW1)

151 My balls are getting all tingly , sure sign of a banning ... or a chinook .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 12, 2014 03:37 PM (XWw96)

152 Who Are You Fooling is Fooling Himself Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 07:29 PM (zOTsN) Yep. And you'll notice that in his mind all minorities are welfare leeches. He can't differentiate between "not white" and "failure." Typical of all those on the Left. They hate guys like Clarence Thomas because he doesn't fit their narrative of the helpless black person in need of rescue from some white liberal.

Posted by: Reactionary at March 12, 2014 03:37 PM (jfeoD)

153 "Each kids got a AAA battery, a couple pieces of wire and a small lightbulb. Task: Make the turn on!"

I am not even sure I could do that...

Posted by: navybrat at March 12, 2014 03:38 PM (AW7Gr)

154 Public vs. charter schools remind me of unions vs. free shops. They'd rather have everyone be mediocre than let some people shine.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 12, 2014 03:38 PM (GrtrJ)

155 oh most high WRYF please enlighten us do not deprive us of your wisdom simply because we are unworthy tell us how to fix public schools

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:39 PM (zOTsN)

156 ..and I know because I have a Mao T-shirt. And it looks like you, so there.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:39 PM (h7P8X)

157 "Here is the official definition of 'Very low food security': experienced reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns at some time during the year."

Fuck me standing.

I've had "very low food security" my entire life by this metric.

Twice last week!

Posted by: torquewrench at March 12, 2014 03:39 PM (gqT4g)

158

He really gored them with his Act 10. The surprising thing about the vouchers, they started in Milwaukee pushed by the African American community. But, that's where their support of the GOP ends.

------------------

The African-American community can't seem to get away from the idea that Republican = Racist. And unfortunately, until that perception is somehow fixed, it doesn't matter what you offer. The African-American community is going to vote straight Democrat.

Posted by: junior at March 12, 2014 03:39 PM (UWFpX)

159 Wait a minute , it's already chinooking .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 12, 2014 03:39 PM (XWw96)

160 109 thunderb and we are not necessarily republicans. We are conservatives You are even worse than Republicans.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:39 PM (87fH2)

161 http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2014/03/10/progressive- racism-the-hidden-motive-driving-modern-politics/ And please send it to you progressive friends. Progressivism is the very essence of "dishonest racism." Posted by: zombie at March 12, 2014 07:34 PM (mizYg) Great essay, zombie. The one about gun control is spot on.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 12, 2014 03:40 PM (T0NGe)

162 I like my sandbox. It's fun.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:40 PM (h7P8X)

163 The hashtag has not taken off due to the insincerity of the motive behind it. Republicans do not care about the poor or minorities. On a daily basis Republicans bash them as parasites, FSA and leeches. No one believes your crocodile tears on this subject. Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 07:18 PM (87fH2) We know that if you get a high school diploma that is worth something, and do not have children until you are married, there is only a 4% chance you will be poor. That's why we care about inner city schools getting out of the death grip of the teachers unions and liberal mayors who think city school systems are nothing but employment programs for incompetent adults. It is liberals who do not care about the poor or about having fewer poor people. If they cared they would blow up the inner city school systems, and promote abstinence and marriage. Instead we get all-nighters on the Senate floor about climate change.

Posted by: rockmom at March 12, 2014 03:41 PM (vE1mx)

164 I wasn't sure it was THAT zombie , and yes that essay was spot on .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 12, 2014 03:42 PM (XWw96)

165 oh great and wise WAYF please tell me how do you fix public schools

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:42 PM (zOTsN)

166 I never had a dad. Moms' life partner doesn't like them. They kiss a lot.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:42 PM (h7P8X)

167 139 zombie I am far from a progressive. Great article by the way exposing the hypocrites on the Left who to keep minorities oppressed. They block a segment of our nation from reaching their full potential as humans. It is sick what progressives have done. It is actually criminal what the Democrats have done since the great society.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:43 PM (87fH2)

168 Whenever I encounter poor minority children I offer to give them a shiny nickel if they'll shine my shoes.

They never accept my offer.

Posted by: Fritz at March 12, 2014 03:43 PM (UzPAd)

169 Anybody know where I can get an affordable couch. I need a new girlfriend.

Posted by: Who are you fooling at March 12, 2014 03:43 PM (Aif/5)

170 I fear that 87fH2 is a false prophet for he only offers criticism but refuses to show us the true way how do you fix public schools

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:44 PM (zOTsN)

171 LOL...the guy uses the term neo-Dixiecrat but he doesn't support Obama. You're not fooling anyone with the Mobyness dude.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:44 PM (0LHZx)

172 I hate it when my drool cup is full. Nobody comes to empty it for me. I have to wait for the social worker on Saturdays. He touches me a lot.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:45 PM (h7P8X)

173 163b rockmom I really would like to believe you. Sadly, I have seen nothing but hate and sneer towards minorities by Republicans. It is a shame that the party that freed the salves and fought for civil rights now views victims of Democrat oppression as the enemy. It actually breaks my heart that Republicans are based on white resentment instead of liberating fellow Americans to reach their full potential..

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:46 PM (87fH2)

174 The African-American community can't seem to get away from the idea that Republican = Racist. And unfortunately, until that perception is somehow fixed, it doesn't matter what you offer. The African-American community is going to vote straight Democrat. Posted by: junior at March 12, 2014 07:39 PM (UWFpX) _________ And that's why I say fuck 'em. They voted for this mess, they get to suffer. Blacks have the highest unemployment rate and the spread between the white and black rate has grown substantially since 2008. Tell me again why I'm supposed to give a fuck or feel sorry for them? They voted 98% for Obama. They broke it, I'm sure as hell not going to lift a finger to help them fix it.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:46 PM (0LHZx)

175 87fH2 are you a black separatist? because I cannot understand why you will not give us the solution unless you are afraid to

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:47 PM (zOTsN)

176 freed the salves WAYF are you wearing Tampon earrings per chance?

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:48 PM (zOTsN)

177 It actually breaks my heart that Republicans are based on white resentment instead of liberating fellow Americans to reach their full potential.. Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 07:46 PM (87fH2) _______ Translation: You don't like Obama, therefore you hate black people. Wow, never heard that before. You're so smart n' stuff and original.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 12, 2014 03:48 PM (0LHZx)

178 171 Mr. Moo Moo Not everyone on the right supports conservatism.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:49 PM (87fH2)

179 It actually breaks my heart that Republicans are based on white resentment instead of liberating fellow Americans to reach their full potential.. Reverand Wright, is that you?

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:49 PM (zOTsN)

180 "The African-American community can't seem to get away from the idea that Republican = Racist."

I tend to view it a bit differently. I think AfAms are making an economically rational decision for themselves. Economically rational on a short-run time frame, by voting for a party which says Free Shit For All But Even Moar Free Shit Based On Skin Color.

(A decision which is simultaneously long-term economically irrational for them, and damaging to the rest of society, but there you have it.)

Talking about the "Hispanics are natural conservatives" business, I postulated how I would think if I had just shown up in America for the first time, and I was given this political choice:

(1) Party D will give me plenty of free shit even if I don't work, and if I do work, they promise me preferential treatment in hiring and promotion. Plus I get an excuse card for bad behavior and poor choices, simply because of my ethnicity.

versus

(2) Party R wants me to work for my living with no special treatment and no excuses.

I've said before and will continue to say that in that situation, once I got the vote, I would pull the lever for Party D till my arm fell off. It's the short-run economically rational thing for me to do.

Again, if you have enough people making what are short-run good decisions for them but long-run bad decisions for everyone, the whole society collapses. You still can't pry people off of it.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 12, 2014 03:49 PM (gqT4g)

181 Republicans also hate fags. And the planet. Posted by: soothsayer at March 12, 2014 07:27 PM (IW1TI) But not necessarily in that order!!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis, Hater who loves him some hate at March 12, 2014 03:50 PM (oFCZn)

182 WAYF=Black Liberation Theology?

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:50 PM (zOTsN)

183 tell us your solution

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:51 PM (zOTsN)

184 178 thunderb You want my answer to solve our education crisis? Break the teachers union and make pay based on merit. Allow competition between schools and allow parents to choose where their kids will go. Encourage more private schools like Catholic Schools and provide vouchers for poor families to go to these institutions. Devolve educational power to states and localities. That is just what I can think off the top of my head.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:51 PM (87fH2)

185 182 WAYF=Black Liberation Theology? Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 07:50 PM (zOTsN) Nah. Just a blithering idiot waiting for Mom to come home with Pizza.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 12, 2014 03:53 PM (h7P8X)

186 Break the teachers union and make pay based on merit. Allow competition between schools and allow parents to choose where their kids will go. Encourage more private schools like Catholic Schools and provide vouchers for poor families to go to these institutions. Devolve educational power to states and localities. That is just what I can think off the top of my head. Posted by: Who are you fooling you lie that is what this post is advocating and you declared it racist you are a coward

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 03:53 PM (zOTsN)

187

Hear, hear, Mr. WAYF. Call me.

Posted by: Rev. Jess E. Jack and Son at March 12, 2014 03:55 PM (wAQA5)

188 >>>>Republicans could care less about minorities and their education.<<<<

Neither do Democrats-it is their policies that are currently enfuckening minorities and their children.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at March 12, 2014 03:55 PM (5REbo)

189 186 thunderb This post was about how a hashtag has not taken off. My answer is that Republicans come across insincere on this subject. One the one hand they claim to want to help minority kids, then call them parasites. I was pointing out the hypocrisy. If you reject my solution fine, but please scroll up and see what my beef was.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:56 PM (87fH2)

190 Mr. WAYF, Barry, Reggie and I have this weekly meeting called the Circle of Glory we'd like to invite you to be a part of.

Posted by: Kal Penn at March 12, 2014 03:56 PM (Aif/5)

191 188 the guy that moves pianos for a living Neither parties cares about minorities. Democrats view them as vote slaves, while Republicans view them parasites.

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:57 PM (87fH2)

192 re 186: and forget about the pay raise for the graduate degree. I had a shop teacher in 8th grade who had a PhD in... damn, don't even know. Nice guy but we're not talking about medicine.

Posted by: Mallfly at March 12, 2014 03:57 PM (bJm7W)

193 You people are all H8ters, Bigots and Raycisst! Why can't everyone agree that Obama is the Progressive/Marxist we've all been waiting for.... he will stop the rise of the oceans and heal the pla...... aw fuck. I can't push this shit anymore.... what a fucking joke the President is.... *sob*

Posted by: Who are you fooling? at March 12, 2014 03:59 PM (/oj1+)

194 off topic, but seen on yahoo news, from puffington post

Dole Is Conservative, Cruz Is Not

Posted by: Mallfly at March 12, 2014 04:00 PM (bJm7W)

195 I would rather have an honest enemy, than a dishonest fake friend that was your first post on the subject that is has not taken off because we are your "enemy" really then you refuse to offer solutions and when you do they are conservative ones You are neither Democrat nor Republican nor Libertarian You are Nation of Islam or some other black theology and you refuse the solutions you crave because of your assumptions of the color of the skin of the person offering it that is racism and self destructive not to mention stupid

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 04:02 PM (zOTsN)

196 A popular program that allows D.C. public school students to receive tuition for private school education has had its funding cut under President Obama's 2013 budget.

The Heritage Foundation wrote on its blog yesterday that Obama has cut funding for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, under which some 1,600 public school students have received $8,000 each annually towards private school education. The program was created in 2004 and functioned until 2009, when Democrats in Congress threatened to cut off funding. Republicans reinstated funding for the program last year.

The scholarship program has always been something of a political football. Some local officials and national public school advocates have argued that it takes necessary funding away from public schools, while proponents, both locally and nationally, have said that it provides a vital alternative to poor families in a city with notoriously bad schools. During a hearing on the Hill last year on the program, Mayor Vince Gray came out against it while D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown testified in favor of it.

http://tinyurl.com/7otgb8f

(dcist source; Feb. 2012 article)

And I will repeat the November 6, 2012 election results from DC:

Barack Obama -- 91%
Mitt Romney -- 7%

http://tinyurl.com/olbcfzn

Democrats taking away the DC voucher program had apparently NO IMPACT on voting totals.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 12, 2014 04:05 PM (wNF3N)

197 apparently being a real conservative means being bipartisan. puffington host:

"As both a senator and a presidential candidate Dole's positions on issues were conservative. He has always been pro-life, supported a balanced budget amendment, played a key role in enacting the Reagan tax cuts, pushed for welfare reform, opposed the Clinton health care overhaul and promoted traditional family values."

I recall Clinton giving his "with this card" speech in front of Congress at the end of 1993. I also recall Dole saying that he expected some version of what Clinton wanted would pass. I also recall Phil Graham saying 'over my dead body", which is why I wanted Graham as the Repub presidential candidate in 1996.

I also vaguely recall that the House impeachment managers wanted to bring up all of Clinton's questionable fundraising which seemed to lead to China getting a better deal on hi tech technology, but the Senate Repubs caved to the Senate Dems on that issue (tell me if I am remembering this incorrectly.)

Death to liberal websites who tell us what being a real conservative means.

Posted by: Mallfly at March 12, 2014 04:09 PM (bJm7W)

198 coward. sometimes when you hear the dog whistle, you're the dog. you are the racist. own it

Posted by: thunderb at March 12, 2014 04:10 PM (zOTsN)

199 Been too busy working on #KillThePoor...

Posted by: Jello Biafra at March 12, 2014 04:51 PM (26NUM)

200 We don't publish pictures of those poor starving children because someone might publish pictures of their 300 lb EBT and WIC-stuffed baby mommas WHO AREN'T FEEDING THEM.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at March 12, 2014 04:52 PM (XO6WW)

201

I will say it again, but it's been awhile since I have, that we normal folk have no clue, no idea about just how fucked up it is in the inner cities.

It is thunderdome fellas.

Bad times are in there. This is worse than just a war on kids, it's TRAPPING them in the cities.

So, so, so creepy.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Commissar at March 12, 2014 05:15 PM (HQml1)

202

Did you see that weird asshole arne Duncan, Barry's "friend" in that Bossy commercial?

Now, how odd is it that he is doing that, and what does it say about his priorities.

Do they even understand what they are doing, or are they just vessels for the Frankfurrt School weirdness?

I mean, Wilhelm Reich looks at these motherfuckers and says "you fucked up!"

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Commissar at March 12, 2014 05:21 PM (HQml1)

203 "...a former employee stole something" is a valid criteria for closing down an institution..." Why doesn't this apply to government?

Posted by: Coolpapa at March 12, 2014 05:22 PM (1eFP9)

204 Anti-slavery demorats are pro-sharia law-slavery.
Anti-Theocracy, religion on government, forced christians out and dumped Islam in.
Anti-children abortion demorats are 'for the children'
Anti-terrorism demorats arm and fund terrorist and defund our military that fights them.
Anti-gun demorats arm Mexican drug lords, and jihadist around the world, but fight endlessly to disarm law abiding Americans.

JUST SAYING !
THE HYPOCRISY IS ASTOUNDING AND MUCH, MUCH, MORE

Posted by: ron n. at March 16, 2014 01:53 AM (c7HxG)

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