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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[LarryBnDC]

Texas stays red.
In a three way primary the democrat was the odd candidate out.
dems missing another opportunity.

It is a district that was represented by a Vovid denier who died of Covid.

His wife will most likely win 5he run off.

I don’t th8nk your handlers know what opportunity means.

[LarryBnDC]

Freaking out over “wokeness” is just another example of ‘moderate’ Democrats falling for and amplifying Republican bullshit.

[Hairy Lime]

Texas stays red.
In a three way primary the democrat was the odd candidate out.
dems missing another opportunity.

ahh....come on - its a 60% district - never in doubt

The dems were enthusiastic  they were making inroads. Trump carried the district by double digits in 2016 but Biden came within 3 points of flipping that last November.
A swing and a miss for the dems.
Now a non contested  race for the GOP.
Campaign money to use elsewhere.

Perhaps they could spend it in the Louisiana 2nd Congressional district. As opposed to a Congressional district Dems have not won since 1980.

[facilitatorn]

And at Old Trafford today - English football fans mimic Jan 6 Americans.

I could see how a terrorist bent on sedition and living outside the law could find the two events equivalent. I’m not at all surprised you amplify that view while I remain confident your cowardice will continue to keep you from becoming overly dangerous to those around you.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Texas stays red.
In a three way primary the democrat was the odd candidate out.
dems missing another opportunity.

ahh....come on - its a 60% district - never in doubt

The dems were enthusiastic  they were making inroads. Trump carried the district by double digits in 2016 but Biden came within 3 points of flipping that last November.
A swing and a miss for the dems.
Now a non contested  race for the GOP.
Campaign money to use elsewhere.

Perhaps they could spend it in the Louisiana 2nd Congressional district. As opposed to a Congressional district Dems have not won since 1980.

I feel your pain.  You must root for the Browns and the Indians

[FlyingVProd]

One good thing too about having faith in God, and believing that God is with you through the dark times, is that Christians do not commit suicide, Christians keep believing that things will get better and they keep believing that God is there with them.

When you are working on a suicide hot-line that is one of the questions that you ask the person, you see if they are a Christian, and the danger of suicide lessens if they are a Christian. 

Also, Christians always believe that God is watching over them, so even when no else can see then God can still see, and God is the ultimate judge, God gets to judge how you spend eternity. God sees everything, and God knows everything, and God will judge everyone. I think that is what the eye is all about on the back of a one dollar bill. 

And God tells us that by doing good deeds we store up our treasure in Heaven, we will be rewarded in Heaven for good deeds that we do to help other people. If we help other people then we get rewarded in Heaven, and if we are bad to other people then we go to Hell.

And God is all about love, and we are to love our neighbors. 

God is awesome, and Christians make great neighbors.

Salute,

Tony V.

[REDSTATEWARD]

What people like Noam Chomsky or James Carville or Margaret Atwood or Martin Amis are talking about is a real problem in academia where free speech issues have been pretty real.   Agreeing that professors shouldn't be fired for conservative opinions isn't the same as saying it's cool to violate professional standards of conduct (like pushing your religion in a public school,  or making racist,  sexist,  transphobic personal attacks on students,  for example).  Chomsky and Carville are defenders of healthy intellectual life in all its stimulating clashes of ideas,  but they aren't suggesting it's a "cancel" to expect people at lecterns or pulpits to not abuse their privilege or code of ethics.   

I heartily agree with Carville in his challenge to us to use clear direct English.   Advice both conservatives and liberals could take,  perhaps for somewhat different reasons.

I don’t think that was Carville’s point.
More than anything he is saying higher education has been hijacked by elitist educators( the pointy heads in the faculty lounge) who, in the simplest terms, confess to taking our money and doing with it what THEY want.

According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center college enrollment has fallen from 20.5 million students in 2011 to 18.2 million in the fall of  2019, even though the supply of 18-24 year olds has not changed.

More than anything this trending foreshadows not the cancelling of these  PC boobs  but their unemployment.

[barton]

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/02/992890494/judge-says-columbus-police-ran-amok-against-protesters-restricts-use-of-force

Small step forward.   Now repeat for several hundred other cities and the 1st amendment begins to recover its health.   

[barton]

What people like Noam Chomsky or James Carville or Margaret Atwood or Martin Amis are talking about is a real problem in academia where free speech issues have been pretty real.   Agreeing that professors shouldn't be fired for conservative opinions isn't the same as saying it's cool to violate professional standards of conduct (like pushing your religion in a public school,  or making racist,  sexist,  transphobic personal attacks on students,  for example).  Chomsky and Carville are defenders of healthy intellectual life in all its stimulating clashes of ideas,  but they aren't suggesting it's a "cancel" to expect people at lecterns or pulpits to not abuse their privilege or code of ethics.   

I heartily agree with Carville in his challenge to us to use clear direct English.   Advice both conservatives and liberals could take,  perhaps for somewhat different reasons.

I don’t think that was Carville’s point.
More than anything he is saying higher education has been hijacked by elitist educators( the pointy heads in the faculty lounge) who, in the simplest terms, confess to taking our money and doing with it what THEY want.

According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center college enrollment has fallen from 20.5 million students in 2011 to 18.2 million in the fall of  2019, even though the supply of 18-24 year olds has not changed.

More than anything this trending foreshadows not the cancelling of these  PC boobs  but their unemployment.

If higher education has gotten too expensive,  that's not necessarily due to professors being greedy or straying from their professional mission to teach.   That's a complex issue which cannot be simplified as you've tried to.

And I have no clear idea what the thought is behind catchphrases like "elitist educator. "  Aren't highly educated experts in a field of knowledge,  erm,  by definition an elite?  If I'm paying good money for an education I would hope they are elite and the creme de la creme.   Being part of a highly respected elite doesn't de facto make you elitist.   

Who would you want defending your home from an invading force?   An elite team of soldiers.

Who would you want removing a tricky tumor from your child's brain?

An elite team of neurosurgeons. 

And they know they're an elite,  and proud of it.   We need smart people with unusual capabilities.   

If some profs use their lecterns as bully pulpits, then fire them on the obvious and legitimate grounds of professional malfeasance. 

[kidcarter8]

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/02/992890494/judge-says-columbus-police-ran-amok-against-protesters-restricts-use-of-force

Small step forward.   Now repeat for several hundred other cities and the 1st amendment begins to recover its health.

Algenon.

Heh

[kidcarter8]

Hahahaaaaa

Cuomo wants a recount

Too funny

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/01/991671730/how-26-people-in-the-census-count-helped-minnesota-beat-new-york-for-a-house-sea

[kidcarter8]

Great God Almighty -

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/us/houston-90-people-home-smuggling-investigation/index.html

[josh]

that Christians do not commit suicide, Christians keep believing that things will get better and they keep believing that God is there with them.

Sometimes your shit is too much to even ignore, Tony.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310534/

What religion, how much social interaction, types of practice and frequency of them all vary in impact.

[josh]

[facilitatorn]

It’s definitely a country with a lot of racists in it, including nearly everyone who sported a stupid red Chinese hat the last four years.