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3DHS / Re: Penn Gillette 75% right
« on: October 06, 2016, 12:52:18 PM »
There are thousands of different teaching strategies, not just one. Strategy depends on the subject, the age of the student and the best way to teach that particular student. Not everyone learns in the same way.

The computerized games that are designed to focus on the student getting the right answer to math problems or English spelling problems are better than the homework and quizzes used on me when I was in school.

I sent my daughter to a Cuban run private school so she would learn Spanish for three grades. That worked out okay, but the teacher was uncertified and had no clue about how to teach math. The school paid about half what public schools paid their teachers, I eventually learned. So it took a lot of effort to teach her math and she still isn't too good at it.

I wanted to take her out of that school in the second grade, but my ex did not want to let me do it. I let her teach my daughter math for a while, and eventually she came around.

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3DHS / Re: We need to be led by a parasite
« on: October 06, 2016, 12:43:20 PM »
I mean that I think that Bill is not likely to fool around with young WH aides now that he is 20 years older. Monica will not return to the White House, of course I was not referring to that possibility. This country was weakened by the stupid Whitewater investigation. It was a useless and expensive witch hunt and it prevented Clinton from running the country as well as he would have done had they not been harassing him.

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3DHS / Re: Trump stiffs wedding caterers.
« on: October 06, 2016, 12:39:23 PM »
Come off it. I am really getting pissed at you for blathering about how Trump is somehow less of a jerk because of some right wing crap about Hillary.

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3DHS / Re: Secret Arrest
« on: October 06, 2016, 12:37:42 PM »
Hillary slapped a bunch of sanctions on the Russians over the invasions of Ukraine.; I am pretty sure that Putin thinks that he will get those sanctions lifted by Trump. Trump has investments in Russia. I get the impression that Putin thinks he has Trump's balls in his pocket.

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3DHS / Re: The value of suffering
« on: October 06, 2016, 12:35:04 PM »
I don't think pain pills (by which I mean aspirin or ibuprofen) work on all classes of human beings.
Mother Teresa claimed that the suffering of theses people was something that God appreciates and perhaps would reward them for enduring.

I disagree that a loving god would take that attitude.

^The Jehovah character in the Bible is not a loving god all that often: Jehovah was a jerk in the way he treated poor Job, for example.

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3DHS / Re: Penn Gillette 75% right
« on: October 05, 2016, 09:16:31 PM »
I am not opposed to private schools existing. I simply say that without public schools, we would be far worse off, Like Kenya or Uganda, for example.

Some of the charter schools score better than the public ones in my county; others score worse.
All of the charter schools pay MORE to administrators than public schools, but pay teachers far less, and their benefits suck.

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3DHS / Re: This just in.....e-mails prove Bush lied about WMD
« on: October 05, 2016, 09:09:21 PM »
I am not responsible for Hillary. I don't need any leg to stand on.
Trump is so clearly the most awful creature ever to run for president on a national party that he makes McCain and Romney and even Juniorbush look good by comparison.

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3DHS / Re: The value of suffering
« on: October 05, 2016, 09:07:02 PM »
Discomfort and labor are not things I consider to be suffering.
The kind of suffering I am talking about is deliberate self-torture:self- flogging with metal whips, sitting on a bed of nails, the sort of things that Buddha saw and practiced in the Forest of Trials. See the link to the Life of Buddha manga I posted.

I hate to mow the yard, but if I postpone it too long it becomes harder and the yard looks worse.

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3DHS / Re: Secret Arrest
« on: October 05, 2016, 09:01:52 PM »
RT = Russian Television.

A truly secret arrest we would not be hearing of. Why, you are asking? Because a secret arrest would be secret. When we are hearing of arrest, it no longer is being secret. Da?

I imagine that I read of about 4% or fewer of arrested in my community. They may not be secret, but they are not publicized.

There is a deterrent effect for arrests: no one likes to be arrested, so at least some people do not commit crimes because they do not want to be arrested.

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3DHS / Re: Penn Gillette 75% right
« on: October 05, 2016, 08:40:38 PM »
It makes complete sense for local governments to run local water companies. We have both public and for-profit companies in my country. The city run companies charge less than half as much, pay their employees more, and have fewer contaminants in their water, according to several articles I have seen in the local papers. For-profit highways are also more expensive and rarely even less congested. No one has for-profit streets, and I know of no for-profit libraries. The public library was not only a cheaper place to rent DVDs than Blockbuster, it had a greater variety of films available. Blockbuster and other for-profit video stores tended to remove very good films to make way got 87 copies of the latest sequel of Die Hard.

We would be better off if local municipalities took over telephone and internet service. ATT and Comcast are the usual options, and they are the most hated companies in the country in survey after survey.

I don't see any reason to do this will cell phones, but land lines are a natural monopoly and ATT has sucked in all its manifestations here: Southern Bell, Cingular, BellSouth and ATT

Taxing citizens for public schools and libraries is clearly justified. If we did not do this, we would be a country of ignorami. 


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3DHS / Re: Trump stiffs wedding caterers.
« on: October 05, 2016, 08:39:36 PM »
No country needs to have a gonif for president.

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3DHS / Re: We need to be led by a parasite
« on: October 05, 2016, 08:01:58 PM »
Nixon paid spies to spy on the Democrats.
Trump is thousands of times worse than Hillary. A Hillary presidency will be like a Bill Clinton presidency, but without the Monica bit. In other words, pretty good and better than either Bush.

But poor sirs will hate her all the more, because sirs is a jerk.

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3DHS / Re: Don't be surprised......
« on: October 05, 2016, 06:10:29 PM »
Killing the head of Isis would be a very good thing. If as a result Hillery won,. it would be an even better thing. It is President Obama's job to remove those who threaten Americans.

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3DHS / Re: We need to be led by a parasite
« on: October 05, 2016, 06:08:34 PM »
Nixon was a scumbag and has it coming.

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3DHS / Re: This just in.....e-mails prove Bush lied about WMD
« on: October 05, 2016, 06:07:51 PM »
So you can go to your nonexistent other world of switched identities and prosecute whomever the Hell you wish, sirs. Hillary's e mails are nothing as godawful as Trumps many scams. He is nothing but a big fat parasite. He stands for no principles whatever and he will lose.just like Romney did, just like McCain did, but he deserves to lose more than either one of them, because he is incompetent to run this country.

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