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That’s exactly it. There’s other element, kind of related, is a big reason public schools “ are not as good” is because they do have to serve everyone. When a school gets to pick their students then naturally they will perform better. Public schools serve a population that includes people on the margins. These kids require extra expenses. Conservatives don’t want to deal with that. They’d prefer you just send those kids away in some institution. Out of sight out of mind. Then the class can be limited to 23 kids with none of those “special” kids holding everyone back. How do you improve something by taking away funding? And the other thing is taxes aren’t linked to individuals.

I'll give you my answer. I disagree with the death penalty. I don't think the state should have the power to execute its citizens. 37 out of 40 isn't perfect but it's better than nothing. And if those three are the ones that didn't make the cut...lets just say I'll whistle past the gallows without losing much sleep.

I’m still hung up on “since what” because the book of Mathew says Jesus was born under Herod. But he died in 4 BCE. The book of Luke says Jesus was born during the census of Quirinius which contradicts that and the Bible is infallible so….and we have a day of the week named after a Norse god and some of our months so I guess we are not monotheists when it comes to tracking days and months.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that an op-ed writer for The Hill doesn't speak for the entire Democratic Party or even everyone that didn't vote for Donald Trump. Holic knows this, but hey, Twitter and meme culture is one hell of a drug

Chicken Tetrazzini is our go to dinner for Christmas now because we like it and who cares? We play softball catch on Thanksgiving at halftime of the Lions game no matter the weather. We invite the most churchy person present to pray but otherwise if nobody objects, don’t do grace. We eat chinese on Christmas Eve because our departed mother used to insist that she not cook on Christmas Eve. So that becomes a multi generational and multi-geographical thing the siblings have done with their kids.

TBF, $400 million is a lot for Rogers.

Not sure how credible this is, but

erik karlsson, is that you?

You took the words right out of my mouth. The conservatives want to blame the unions for a problem that is a societal one. Conservatives need a bogeyman. Someone to blame. Whether it’s the teachers who only do that job “to get summers off” or “welfare parents” having too many kids and not feeding them. As I said elsewhere they don’t want to deal with problems.

I don't know that The Hill has too much of a lean in either direction (they lean a bit conservative as far as I can tell, but not overly so)... But they aren't a quality news organization at all regardless of their lean. And their op-ed page has at times posted some wacky op-eds that are both provocative while being irrelevant to reality at the same time This is one of them and, more likely than not, they are doing it to drive clicks and get attention. They know what they are doing

bottom line from I have gathered is that in MI the charter schools in economically stressed areas don't do enough better than the public schools to believe they have any kind of core solution. The problem with urban schools - aside from often being tied to crumbling century old infrastructure, is the students. And the problem with the students is the social situation and to fix that you need better employment and security for about 15 yrs. The turnaround needs money, persistence and some level of political agreement on policy, and at least one of those always seems to be missing.

I like it a lot

Yeah, if a person is opposed to the death penalty, it's possible to be disappointed with the action taken (and that it comes across as a half measure) while still feeling that commuting 37/40 is still a positive step. He should have went 40/40 on principle, though... the folks who believe the state has never once killed an innocent person before (or don't care) were never gonna be pleased regardless.

Can he play defense?

the very people who supposedly had Christ killed in the first place I got a couple more for you: Even the good people at Christianity.com acknowledge that no one knows the actual date of Jesus's birth: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/when-was-jesus-born.html. So demands that people who are not Christians honor Christ on Christmas, which is almost certainly not even his day of birth, has nothing to do with God or Jesus and everything to do with people who profess Christianity for cultural and political reasons. How Easter is determined is even more wild: it moves alround the calendar because it falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of vernal equinox, originally pegged to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, followed by the very people who supposedly had Christ killed in the first place.

They changed that rule.

This category really bleeds into Project Autocracy because often religion is used as a lever by the autocrats. God bless all those with religious feelings but damn those who impose their versions of theocratic domination over the free peoples of the Earth.

You must be new here. All our political threads tend to wander like cow paths in an orchard

One more starter, one reliever and one right handed hitter is exactly what I expect the Tigers to get the rest of the off-season and they don't have to be free agent signings. They won't necessarily be as good as Bregman, Sasaki and Yates. In fact, that seems like an unlikely scenario.

Wouldn't Bregman at Comerica be a disaster? Yet another case of trying to change a guys approach and messing up his timing.

I thought for sure today’s 31-2 win by Baltimore would be a Scorigami (unique final score that has never been recorded before in NFL history). Nope, two other games have ended 31-2, in 1965 and 1936. The Lions’ 52-6 win over Jacksonville was a scorigami. https://nflscorigami.com

I'll get in a week early for this;

He just got the syntax a little out of order. Trump’s faith is to be serious about Taking His.

He sure takes his faith seriously. At least that's what the Cardinal of NYC tells us.

To me the one red line is admissions, if you take public money you must admit the ‘public’ without preference or exceptions.

Yes, for exmple I still put up the family Christmas creche every year even though neither I nor my remaining family members are religious. It has been displayed in my family home every year of my life and the feeling of continuity is comforting.

This truly would be a Christmas miracle https://bsky.app/profile/joncooper-us.bsky.social/post/3le5myzebvc2v love how Denmark isn’t taking any **** from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

It's literally not allowed. You can't outright somebody during the offseason (except that short period right after the season before the 40 man roster is set) if they were added to the 40 man roster after August 15. So if you straight up add too many players, you won't be able to outright them and may have to trim somebody you don't want to when you add a free agent.

Why do you think I should give you a straight answer when you don't have the decency to do the same. I don't pretend to know the minds of other me, so pretending to know Biden's reasoning. It is a morally reprehensible answer to a morally repressible question.