ElfinWilde

those who understand the law and knowingly break it.

A substitute teacher should know better than to ever touch a child in any way.   However, subs are thrown in with next to no training (I got none, but these days they get one day of shadowing an experienced sub), are given very little information on the students, and sometimes, no lesson p…[Read more]

the House has to investigate any, part, or all of impeachable/criminal offenses…

You would think that they should and would, but since the object is political power rather than justice, the path isn’t so clear to our current Congress.  I mean, after all, who wants to find that the criminal wrong doing used to impeach/unseat a current sitting…[Read more]

How many protesters were injured.  I notice that number never seems to be reported…

premium went up.  I was already paying nearly $10,000 per year for two people (myself and my son), both with no health problems, with a $6,000 deductible each, no family aggregate, and only paid 60% of covered medical/hospitalization costs.

The premium was about to go up and I just could not afford it.

My son aged out of being able to be on my…[Read more]

projected death toll of school children at 0.02%.  Which doesn’t seem like a large amount (if it isn’t your child, a relative’s child, or someone you or your child knows).

But the reality is that  50.8 million children were expected to attend public school in 2019. So let’s assume 48 million children attend in 2021. That 0.02% comes to 960,000 d…[Read more]

I don’t know what your job was and have no way of knowing what your point of reference is.  I do think you make harsh judgements on very little information.

I am thinking of the welfare of the children.  These kids have been out of school since mid March and Ihaven’t heard of any cases of small children being left on their own in these last f…[Read more]

their last day, I’ve been pondering the question of whether or not to go back when school opens in August.

The school board announced a plan in our district where the half the student body would go to school on Mondays and Thursdays and the other half on Tuesdays and Fridays with every one on distance learning on Wednesdays.  Wedensdays and…[Read more]

Last one made me laugh!  Hit the “Restart” option.

Is Hell endothermic or exothermic?

People (Trumpers for the most part), even those who should know better, are screaming bloody murder, first over the shutdown, then over masks.  They believe it is all overblown, a hoax, or a plan to shut them out somehow.

On the other hand, their are those who were Trump supporters who have changed their minds on this issue alone.  A neighbor, w…[Read more]

Mesmerizing…

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‘Cause that sure looks like a reenactment of a photo of the couple (either in real life or from the movie).

almost never get out the old turn table any more.

Guys, ABBA was just what we needed in the ’70s.  It was joyful, nice melodies and hamonies.  The orchestration was superb, and it was eminently dance-able.

Remember the seventies:  The Beatles broke up, Vietnam War, the  invasion of Cambodia, Kent State and Jackson State shootings,  Jimi Hend…[Read more]

China’s Edward Snowden.

Apologize and Elvira on it?  I bought that album at a yard sale with no cover and only a dust jacket on it when I was sixteen or seventeen.  I stillh have it, although I rarely play LPs anymore.

Love Ed Ames.  What a voice!  Even into his 90s.

Video of the event that gets posted and passed to a point that it becomes viral.

The video of Amaud Arbery was so horrifying that people were compelled to demand justice.

The video of George Floyd being suffocated by a law enforcement officer while he begged to be allowed to breathe was even more horrific because of the absolute casual…[Read more]

You certainly talk big on this forum, but what have you done in the real world to bring about change?  I’m not asking as a put down.  I know that you have big load to carry just in your own life.

But I have a problem with people who denigrate those who are doing the hard work to make change happen.  When your efforts match his, then you can be…[Read more]