What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
To help pay for the state’s transportation system, Massachusetts should collect tolls from New Hampshire drivers who use our roads.
Meredith Warren: No more free rides for N.H. drivers commuting to Mass. – The Boston Globe
Weh, weh, weh, said the masshole, all the way home.
Sure, that’d be fair, as long as you guys pay an equal amount to come up and clog our roads with your bullshit, self-aborbed, tourist asses every fucking weekend.
A McGraw-Hill textbook given to children in Texas is referring to the slave trade as a “pattern of immigration.”
McGraw-Hill’s Geography Textbook Says African Slaves Were Paid “Workers”
Textbooks are an evil cesspool. Very few companies. Very few agendas that aren’t backwards and hateful.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed Saturday that the military amend dishonorable-discharge records for gays and transgender people who were expelled from military service because of their sexual orientation.
Clinton floats idea of altering military files of ousted gays
Nice. This shouldn’t be a question.
Vice President Joe Biden is throwing his unequivocal support behind letting transgender people serve openly in the U.S. military, as the Obama administration considers whether and when to lift the longstanding ban.
Biden backs transgender military service as US weighs policy – The Washington Post
Of course he does, Go, Joe!
Police are blaming the War on Police for incidents that have left officers shot, but are turning out to be fabricated.
Fabricated Cop Shootings Add Fuel to Fabricated “War on Police” – PINAC
hmmmm
America’s dark little secret: Native Americans dying at hands of police at higher rates than any other minority group
Police killings of Native Americans out of control
Where is a white people face-palm meme when you need it?
Oh, ‘Murica….
Sigh….
What happens when a state with a tough voter ID law suddenly makes it much harder for minorities to get driver’s licenses? We are about to find out in Alabama. Facing a budget crisis, Alabama has shuttered 31 driver’s license offices, many of them in counties with a high proportion of black residents. Coming after the state recently put into effect a tougher voter ID law, the closures will cut off access — particularly for minorities — to one of the few types of IDs accepted.According to a tally by AL.com columnist John Archibald, eight of the 10 Alabama counties with the highest percentage of non-white registered voters saw their driver’s license offices closed. “Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their driver license office closed. Every one,” Archibald wrote.
Alabama Demands Voter ID–Then Closes Driver’s License Offices In Black Counties
Fuckers.
He doesn’t have immediate plans lined up for life after the administration.
Education Secretary Duncan stepping down – POLITICO
He didn’t haven’t plans to improve public education in this country either, so, what? More of the same bubbling bullshit for Arne?
It is about time you left, you shit-stain.
You had a chance to help a generation of young people and you decided to put teachers and schools in an expensive, discriminatory (Oh no? Check the test scores of schools who can’t afford the exact right books to prepare for the draconian tests that are so popular now!) and economic caste barrier solidifying stranglehold. You’re great at spin but you suck at education. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass, you fuck-wit reject.
The idea behind procedural justice is that people are far more likely to obey the law if the justice system does not humiliate them, but treats them fairly and with respect. That begins with the way judges speak to defendants.
The simple idea that could transform US criminal justice | Tina Rosenberg | US news | The Guardian
This is wild. Seems like it could really save the taxpayers money too.
Rich liberals feel differently when their own children’s education is at stake.
Brooklyn Public School Battle: Progressives Are Opposing Integration | National Review Online
I’m finding the coverage of this fascinating. Not for what is being said -it is all pretty straight forward- but rather what does not enter the conversation.
Rich whites are racist sometimes, perhaps without even knowing that they are doing it. No big news there. People like the school they have, as it is now, better than the alternative. No big shocker there either.
Pride, ignorance, fear of the other, fear of change, wanting the best for ones children… Emotive, sensitive issues like this lend themselves to black and white (you don’t have to pardon the pun but I couldn’t resist) analysis.
Hypothetically speaking, I wonder how all parties would be reacting and what they would be saying about each other if race was somehow not part of issue and it was a given fact that the education at one school is dramatically better than what is offered at the other.
The text of her speech at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.
Getting to the Point with Senator Elizabeth Warren
hmmmmm
A proposal to rezone students from the predominantly white P.S. 8 to the mostly black P.S. 307 has drawn intense opposition from families at both.
Race and Class Collide in a Plan for Two Brooklyn Schools – The New York Times
hmmmm
educational inequity, what a great way to divide and conquer.
Brooklyn Public School Battle: Progressives Are Opposing Integration | National Review Online
The disruptive behavior thing is just weird. Wouldn’t educational content, resources, & teaching staff be more pressing concerns?
“If someone wants to use a condom with you, it’s less likely that they actually love you.”
Sex education in the U.S. is even worse than we thought | Fusion
Yikes!
From her time at HP to abortion and assault weapons, Fiorina has an adventurous relationship with the truth.
Carly Fiorina Makes a Lot of Stuff Up About Everything | Mother Jones
sigh
In a surveillance video, David Stojcevski, 32, is seen lying naked on the floor of his cell, dying. He is more than halfway done with a 30-day jail sentence.
David Stojcevski died in prison for a traffic ticket | Fusion
Every year, my home state is rated one of the best states to grow up — if you’re white.
Juvenile injustice: Wisconsin’s perverted racial arrest rate | Fusion
hmmm
Welcome to the cryptowar battlefield.
Judge rules defendants can’t be forced to unlock smartphones | Fusion
hmmm
Tondalo Hall is serving 30 years in prison after she failed to protect her children from an abusive boyfriend. Her request for clemency was denied Wednesday.
WTF?
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