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Even with 0% funding increase scores should be going up. I am expected to be more productive and effective at my job every year. More/better output with the same input. Educators must be doing the same. You must be a better teacher each year. Administration must be causing educational attainment to go up by more than the cost of their own salary. Not should. MUST.

Sounds like a “ Jesus can’t swim” type response.

The idea of windmills and dreamcatchers facing the sun as energy sources are not new. In fact, they are some of the oldest technologies in capturing/converting energy from one form to another. The issue is that they are not nor ever will be efficient and effective. Therefore, the free wind and free sun rays cost more than the other energy sources. This is not news. It is physics. You know, science. While I am very sure that there are hucksters and hooligans (might we call them Hoaxsters - Al Gore comes to mind) getting rich being a Carney Caller about the "renewable" energy sources they are not causing the price of the inefficient electricity to be so high.

I have. At NASA. In the military. In universities. In international corporations. Ranging from the 80's onward. DEI is nothing new. Just reshuffle the acronyms. I have also seen it hurt the very best qualified and performing minorities very directly. This one officer candidate was the absolute best among his peers. Head and shoulders above the rest in a very high performing group. But due to affirmative action and "goals" (aka quotas, wink, wink, nudge, nudge) it would always be wondered if he was where he was due to merit or melanin. This was in the 1990s.

From the "bang ourselves in the balls with a balpeen hammer" department, the EU finds ways to further punish people who are just not EV enough! Stupid is as stupid does and drives its economy further into disrepair in the ongoing manmade disaster known as the climate hoax: https://www.autonews.com/ev/ane-phev-utility-factor-higher-emissions/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-ANEDontMiss-20250205 A very telling term is "revised emissions measurement . . . CO2 ratings". An emissions measurement that was 100% off shows just how much guessing and imposing and mandating and non-fact based this whole hoax is. What the hell is a CO2 rating? When bureaucrats get involved the credits and counts and ratings are all a game and may the best gamer win. Oh, and things that are measurably good for the environment - like VW's and others small diesel engines that got incredible gas mileage - get thrown on the trash heap because VW figured out how to win the silly game to the embarrassment of the game-makers.

“The EV subsidy is so poor at cutting CO2 emissions, it is like paying $2,072 for a latte.” https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-states-ev-rebate-program-a-failure-study?cfp What a bunch of multi-tasking overachievers. Being expensive AND worthless at the same time.

Trump Caves . . . I am hoping to read this thread lead by RV many many times. Every cave so far this week has been associated with good news and seems to be meeting a stated goal. I hope to see this one soon, "Trump Caves - disbands DOGE due to lack of anything for DOGE to do."

Concur - it was an interesting read. I've seen the same / similar concept in The Infinite Game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infinite_Game

Hitler wasn’t half the Nazi that Musk is. Hitler was a purely amateur nazi using improper salute angles and believing only a small subset of whites are remarkable.

Another option is to give less of our own money and very limited power to use it to politicians. Kind of like the constitution says. The way to get the money out of politics is to stop the red money from going into Washington. And a balanced budget amendment. Then lobbyists and corporate money would flee DC lickety split..

As an asylum seeking member of the international gang (not nice to call gangs illegal, remember, nor alien. It is probably not very woke even to call them international as that is very "othering" to do) your ability to avoid capture by telling sanctuary city personnel of your "status" is greatly enhanced. Actually, they assist your avoidance of capture.

I think BH stumbled onto a solution. The problem is the demand is in the U.S. Let us co-locate demand with the supply. Caught with a drug smuggled into the US? Deport the individual to the country of origin of the drug. Don't incarcerate. Outcarcerate. Consider this humanitarian - you know, like needle exchanges. Another solution - charge the country of origin with the cost of the DEA and other agencies, support, doctors, etc. for the costs to our society of drugs originating in their country. It will probably be cheaper for them to control their own countrymen and (ex)ports than to pay for the damage caused by the "supply' from their country.

Only if you see the assassination. One of our colleagues with legal expertise made the observation that a crime is not a crime unless you see it.

And they are really yuge chromosomes.

The wall.

Are rhetorical questions meant to be answered?

Hmmm, the facts don't seem to line up . . . What could be the mistake . . . I know!! These are toy guns and pretend ammo for all of the children. The Asylum Seekers, who are better citizens than real Americans, are simply playing Santa Claus for their new hosts!! What a bunch of saints! Or . . . maybe they aren't seeking asylum but are actually criminals?!? Nope. Not possible. Illegal aliens do not commit crimes so do not believe your lying eyes, thank these saints for blessing us with their presence, and let them carry on asyluming. Now focus all law enforcement pursuits, raids, indictments, convictions, incarcerations, solitary confinement, and other justice on grandmothers walking between velvet ropes at the invitation of Capitol police officers over 4 years ago.

Hendricks was so factually stuck that even 51 former intelligence experts could not concoct a counter-Russian Hoax conspiracy.

Dems will vote against it if it leads to calling an illegal alien anything other “honored guest blessing us by removing another racist American “.

Trump made him do it as part of a Russian conspiracy hoax. Natch. And 51 intelligence experts will sign a letter saying so if Biden asks them to.

Rich Boy Toy. Fun to have the option to spend your money on if you win the lottery or sell your App for millions of dollars or can hit a 95 mph fastball. Like a Rolex or a yacht or a trophy wife - mostly useless for society as a whole.

Well, are EV sales soaring (see my post above on Rolls Royce) or plummeting? The Automotive News does not seem to be able to make up its mind. The self-induced manmade disaster of the EU economy over energy and automotive propulsion laws is leading to quite a bit of human misery. Elections matter. Start deciding better, EU. https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/suppliers/ane-record-supplier-job-cuts-clepa/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-ANEDaily-20250117 The link is probably firewalled but maybe someone can get in to the article.

Simple, the same way the Nazis and the Japanese Imperialists were defeated politically. Via very nicely written Thank You notes written on linen paper and delivered by doves.

I know this is an editorial cartoon that is supposed to be funny and it is a little bit funny on the level of "no real progress has been made yet". However, I was really struck by the term "hostage swap". There is no possible way that the Palestinians incarcerated in Israel for criminal acts can be considered as "detained equally unreasonably and deserving of release" on par with the hostages taken by Hamas on Oct 7th. This is no way equivalent to a prisoner of war exchange and the press should not treat it as such.