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MJR wrote:
bbaka wrote: The Republicans would have to stab themselves then since they are the real 'neo-cons', but I guess you can't see that. Bill Baka Bill, I'm not sure that I would lump Olympia Snowe, Bill Weld, or John McCain in with Tom DeLay, Sam Brownback, or John Kyl. Not too likely, it's just the party lines thing that is a pain. I once spent the whole day watching C SPAN and the Senate/Congress debating one bill and when it got down to the vote it was strictly along party lines. We actually elect these idiots to debate all day as if it was going to influence anything and the vote shows otherwise. If it was a company I ran they would 'ALL' be fired for wasting time, both parties. I lean towards the Democrats as the lesser of two incompetencies but we need to start over with people who actually care about the country that employs them. Simple concept, really. Bill Baka |
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Mark Hickey wrote:
bbaka wrote: Mark, Teaching and medical may be the most well paying jobs in the future, that much I do have to admit. Another upside is that it is much more pleasant to be educating 'interested' kids, so I don't know how high school will be. When I was a freshman in Illinois I attended Arlington Heights high, which was somewhat of a snob school for the well off. It had 3 levels of each class, standard, remedial, and advanced, and I made it to advanced in all classes because I was interested in learning. I also had many female study partners (one perk) and much more civilized classmates than the standard classes. The remedials got all the punks and the actual slow kids. I too am a product of the Illinois school system, from a rural area in southern Illinois (about 50 miles east of St. Louis). Back then (ending in the late 60's / early 70's) the schools in my area were rated very high on the national scale, though I'm sure we weren't positively awash in money to make it so. It all came down to teachers who were interested in teaching, and (for the most part) kids who were interested in learning. I finished out HS in that system, but did find most of the college-level stuff laughably easy when I went elsewhere (schools in KY, FL and AZ). I feel very lucky to have grown up there (and also, to have moved away). ;-) Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $695 ti frame Mark, There is nothing for me to disagree with there, not even the moving away part. I moved back in 1993 and had a good job in Mundelein, lived in Lindenhurst near the Wisconsin border, and had a high rent house with a lake as the border of my back yard. After work I would take my boat out for some power rowing or go for a bike ride up into Wisconsin. That part was OK, but my daughter was in High school at the time and the system had gone down the tubes. I went to see some of the houses I had grown up in and came back totally, 100% bummed. All of the corn fields I used to play in were paved over with housing, even as far out as McHenry, where I had my now infamous tricycle adventures. My old house was still there but the entire neighborhood was neglected, while across the creek that was the back yard property line, it was solid houses, even condos. That used to be my favorite cornfield for playing hide and seek. Down in Park Ridge it had become a huge traffic jam and my favorite climbing tree had been cut down, probably so some kid couldn't fall and hurt himself. The grand slam of that day was Paul Harvey mentioning that Chicago had become sooo crowded and that, by the way, in the last 10 years the Hispanic population had Quintupled. Welfare! That night there was no riding, no rowing, but a lot of beer. Yet people here wonder where I get my attitude from. I wonder, huh. Have good day. Bill Baka |
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bbaka wrote: MJR wrote: bbaka wrote: The Republicans would have to stab themselves then since they are the real 'neo-cons', but I guess you can't see that. Bill Baka Bill, I'm not sure that I would lump Olympia Snowe, Bill Weld, or John McCain in with Tom DeLay, Sam Brownback, or John Kyl. Not too likely, it's just the party lines thing that is a pain. I once spent the whole day watching C SPAN and the Senate/Congress debating one bill and when it got down to the vote it was strictly along party lines. We actually elect these idiots to debate all day as if it was going to influence anything and the vote shows otherwise. If it was a company I ran they would 'ALL' be fired for wasting time, both parties. I lean towards the Democrats as the lesser of two incompetencies but we need to start over with people who actually care about the country that employs them. Simple concept, really. Bill Baka Sounds good to me! You go marshal a socialist/green coalition, I'll go marshal a Libertarian coalition, lets ALL start throwing christians to lions again, and in 3 years we'll have a wonderful country! |
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