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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[facilitatorn]

Those good patriots will soon be paying for Medicare for all, social security expansion, and a peace dividend.

Since you have no wealth, Red, we know you’re not concerned.

[bambu.]

"All countries are wonderful".
Oh no they're not!

"Everyone in the world is a lovely person".
Oh no they're not!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-14/australian-academic-jailed-iran-named-kylie-moore-gilbert/11513580

Australian woman jailed in Iran named as Melbourne academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert

Dr Moore-Gilbert had been named in Persian-language media before DFAT issued the statement on behalf of her family.

The Department's Smartraveller website urges people to reconsider the need to travel to Iran "due to the risk that foreigners, including Australians, could be arbitrarily detained or arrested."

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Iran is not Australia.
Time for bambu to start a college, specialising in "wise up, you're living in the real word, not MakeBelieveLand" courses.

[bambu.]

Twisters/hurricanes/tornadoes, whatever, in Dakota, warning alarms were not activated [ridiculous, heads should roll], place smashed badly.
We have an Elba poster who lives in the Dakotas?

Yes.   Employee error in the dispatch center, so 3/4 of Sioux Falls didn't hear sirens.  His head will undoubtedly roll.   SF is the seat of Minnehaha County, which was as the name suggests only slightly amused.  I live at the other end of the state, which is mostly out of the tornado region, protected by mountains.

That's good to hear.
Wise location.

[bambu.]

Jim has no use for Karl Marx, eugenics is his preferred area of study.

Marx was a menace.

[josh]

Here’s the median net worth of U.S. families based on the age of the head of household:

Age 35 or younger: $11,100
Age 35-44: $59,800
Age 45-54: $124,200
Age 55-64: $187,300
Age 65-74: $224,100
Age 75 or older: $264,800

Note that that list also reflects the fact that the poorer one is the higher the death rate at younger ages (which I posted about previously).

[josh]

[josh]

[facilitatorn]

Jim has no use for Karl Marx, eugenics is his preferred area of study.

Marx was a menace.

Marx was cool.
He had sex.
Engels lent him the necessary beds.

[bambu.]

Totally outrageous.
Poor and Black in America, not good to be.

[LarryBnDC]

Totally outrageous.
Poor and Black in America, not good to be.

You’re tell8ng me!

[bambu.]

America is a harsh place...way too harsh, you get tossed in prison for doing nothing much wrong.
You make a small mistake, and your life is basically over...off to prison you go for many years, 'branded' 'ex-con' when you get out, if you get out alive and functioning.
Homeless, poor, Black young mom, off to the horror of prison she went.
There oughta be a law against that punishment, for what she did.

[bambu.]

Meanwhile...down in bambuland;

https://www.kidspot.com.au/parenting/real-life/in-the-news/i-lied-about-my-address-to-get-my-child-into-the-school-i-wanted/news-story/bfcfc807e4878e8a6966f089e02f8fef

“I lied about my address to get my child into the school I wanted"

Parents desperate to get their kids into a school are using fake addresses and now officials are threatening to involve the police.

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Been going on forever, seems to me.
Massive immigration seems to have caused a tightening of the rules now.


A child’s education is so important to a parent they will do almost anything to ensure their offspring is learning in the best possible environment.

That includes doing what they teach their children not to do - lie.
In most Australian states a child is zoned to a primary or high school. But some areas are more strict than others about allowing students to attend schools if they don’t live within it’s catchment, especially if the school is in high demand.

So mums and dads are pulling a risky move to ensure their child gets into the school they want by making up their home address.

Parents faking it to get what they want

*Sally, a mum-of-two tells Kidspot she used a fake address to get her son into kindergarten for 2017 at a school she isn’t zoned to.
The only way she could enrol her child there was if the principal of both her zoned school and her preferred school gave consent.

“We didn’t want him at our zoned school because of big numbers in the class, and we haven’t heard the best reviews,” she says.
“But they are very strict here, and the principal where we are zoned, refused to sign off. The school is huge, it’s bursting at the seams they should just let us go out of the zone.”
“I was a little bit scared, people were saying it’s fraud”

Sally’s four-year-old son has already been to pre-kindergarten classes at the preferred school for six months so the family is familiar with the schools, students and teachers.
She says she decided to use her friend’s home address on her son’s enrolment papers to get him into it, so he could continue there in smaller classes with closer teacher attention and more modern facilities.

“I was a little bit scared. But the friend’s address I used they have older kids so aren’t connected to the school. I was thinking how could it come back to me that it’s definitely not my address? People were saying it was fraud," she says.

“But you do what you need to do to fit into the school you want. My son needs to be challenged, he needs to have people who are there with him, the smaller classes will help him.”

"Sometimes there are rules, and sometimes there are rules to be bent”

Enrolment guidelines for parents at high-demand schools such as Brisbane State High School warn parents will be required to sign statutory declarations to provide legal evidence of their child’s eligibility to attend the school. The guidelines state those found to be misleading will be turned over to the police.

Mr Mara said dishonestly applying for enrolment at any school by providing false information constituted fraud.

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Signing your name to false statements on a Statutory Declaration is big trouble for you if you get caught.
Putting a fake address on an application where the schools don't care much, small trouble.

There's big fraud...like ripping off investors for hundreds of millions of dollars, or any dollars.
Then there's little fraud.
Being tossed in prison over a school enrolment address...ridiculous.
IMO, paying someone to alter exam results is a far worse offence.

[bambu.]

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/felicity-huffmans-two-week-jail-sentence-triggers-claims-of-white-privilege/ar-AAHiR5O?li=AAgfLCP&OCID=AVRES000

Felicity Huffman's two-week jail sentence triggers claims of 'white privilege'

Actress Felicity Huffman has been accused of benefiting from “white privilege” after getting just a two-week jail sentence over paying to inflate her daughter’s exam results.

US congressman Hakeem Jeffries, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, and Martina Navratilova, the tennis player, were among those who took to Twitter to suggest Ms Huffman had got off lightly given her background.
There was also criticism of the minimum-security prison she will be incarcerated in, which reportedly has the nickname “Club Fed” because of its cushy conditions.

She was sentenced to 14 days in prison, as well as a fine $30,000 fine, supervised release for a year and 250 hours of community service.
Like many, Mr Jeffries and Navratilova questioned the sentence by comparing it to Crystal Mason, an African-American woman given a five-year sentence for voting while on supervised release from prison.

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Think if you put that on any pub bar and asked "is that White privilege"?   most of the answers you would get would be "yes".

[barton]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1172703173322203136.html

Wow.  Meanwhile, this is the breaking story that Fox News is on top of....

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/christina-anstead-ate-placenta-son-birth

[barton]

America is a harsh place...way too harsh, you get tossed in prison for doing nothing much wrong.
You make a small mistake, and your life is basically over...off to prison you go for many years, 'branded' 'ex-con' when you get out, if you get out alive and functioning.
Homeless, poor, Black young mom, off to the horror of prison she went.
There oughta be a law against that punishment, for what she did.

There is.  It's called the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution.