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    #196
    Re: What Are You Thinking About?

    District IT staff here (and by here, I mean the district with less money about a half hour north of me, not the one whose region I live in) get paid better than that by a frack-huge margin. I don't want to think about how much better paid our teachers are. Your district has issues.
    life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

    Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

    "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

    John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

    "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

    Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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      #197
      Re: What Are You Thinking About?

      Three times, now, in the past 20 or 30 minutes, I've written up a post only to lose it in the ether. And yet I still insist on using this phone to access the site.

      What is wrong with this picture?




      "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." - Ayn Rand

      "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

      "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." - Mark Twain

      "The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing." - Johnny Depp


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        #198
        Re: What Are You Thinking About?

        Me thinks Smart phones are over rated...
        MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

        all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
        NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
        don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




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          #199
          Re: What Are You Thinking About?

          Originally posted by MaskedOne View Post
          District IT staff here (and by here, I mean the district with less money about a half hour north of me, not the one whose region I live in) get paid better than that by a frack-huge margin. I don't want to think about how much better paid our teachers are. Your district has issues.
          Hmmm... I wonder how much our IT people make? I know the teacher aids get paid less than subs...

          It isn't a problem with the district, exactly - it's a problem with the state. Our current governor, Rick "The Dick" Snider has been actively destroying public education. The Republicans have a huge anti-public ed propaganda machine. When I do a Google search for "teacher pay in Michigan," the first four pages that come up are flat out lies, put out by places like the Mackinaw Center (a Republican run anti-public pro-private education thinktank - private education teachers top out at about $30,000). They take data from the richest areas of the state (Gross Point, where the mansions have ballrooms and elevators, or Farminton Hills, where the pro football players live) and claiming that they are typical of Michigan teacher pay.

          Privatization is the Republican goal - public ed is being privatized, prisons are being privatized (do a bit of research on the abuses that are coming from that) and even the military is being privatized (the US hires more mercenaries currently than any nation since the time of the Condottieri. Mercenaries get paid much more than service men/women, and don't follow the same "rules of engagement").

          I'm not normally a fan of socialism, but some things SHOULD be under the control of the government...
          Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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            #200
            Re: What Are You Thinking About?

            I just posted this somewhere else:
            "I see a terrifying pattern developing in the 'states rights' game. We're headed towards a society where ones destiny is determined by location and parental finances. Say goodbye to equal opportunity. People are fussing about the words "under God" in the Pledge so much they're not noticing that "undivided, with liberty and justice for all" is slipping away."
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              #201
              Re: What Are You Thinking About?

              Originally posted by Hawkfeathers View Post
              I just posted this somewhere else:
              "I see a terrifying pattern developing in the 'states rights' game. We're headed towards a society where ones destiny is determined by location and parental finances. Say goodbye to equal opportunity. People are fussing about the words "under God" in the Pledge so much they're not noticing that "undivided, with liberty and justice for all" is slipping away."
              I agree - people are so distracted by the trivial and meaningless - but "exciting" - that they miss the important issues right in front of their faces.
              Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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                #202
                Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                Also a lot of people seem to forget how the feds "help" when disaster strikes. One state can't cover a major event alone,that is one reason we pay federal taxes,kind of an insurance against major weather events,or other natural problems. What is the saying? "Stand together or hang separately"
                MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

                all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
                NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
                don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




                sigpic

                my new page here,let me know what you think.


                nothing but the shadow of what was

                witchvox
                http://www.witchvox.com/vu/vxposts.html

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                  #203
                  Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                  Originally posted by anunitu View Post
                  Also a lot of people seem to forget how the feds "help" when disaster strikes. One state can't cover a major event alone,that is one reason we pay federal taxes,kind of an insurance against major weather events,or other natural problems. What is the saying? "Stand together or hang separately"
                  The rich stand together so that the poor and middle class all hang separately. Nobody ever wants to look at it like class warfare. The rich get richer and the middle class all become paupers. Joining our ranks because the rest of us are nay but chattel, and really don't matter. We don't even count, except as a whole, where a line can be drawn in the sand, that we can't cross, firmly planting us in cobblestone effect. Or, "wherever we fall".

                  Politicians, on both sides, enjoy the wealth, all the way to the bank, since their pay doesn't depend on the success or failure of chattel.
















                  Have I mentioned, lately, that I'm a cynic? You know, just in case it doesn't show.




                  "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." - Ayn Rand

                  "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

                  "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." - Mark Twain

                  "The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing." - Johnny Depp


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                    #204
                    Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                    Finally relaxing in bed after a long day of running around during finals week with a semi-head cold. I gots a big plate o' meat, broccoli, and mashed 'taters with some warm tea on the side. Couldn't be happier.

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                      #205
                      Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                      Just over a week until my favorite moment of the year "and they're off in the Kentucky Derby"!!! And 24 is coming back, more Jack Bauer power! The winter blues are lifting fast.
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                        #206
                        Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                        I started playing neverwinter online again after like two years. I stopped playing before because it reminded me of my ex (who got me into it) but I'm over him and remembered that it was actually a lot of fun. They released the drow as a free to play race so I made a new character and started with that. Still sticking with control mage though since I'm most comfortable with it. I wanted to try rouge but it seems hard, maybe later.
                        Circe

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                          #207
                          Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                          Zombies are so overdone.

                          Where's my skeleton movies and video games? I want skeletons to be the new zombies, I want to play the skeleton DLC for Call of Duty.
                          Trust is knowing someone or something well enough to have a good idea of their motivations and character, for good or for ill. People often say trust when they mean faith.

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                            #208
                            Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                            Originally posted by Denarius View Post
                            Zombies are so overdone.
                            Blaspheme!
                            Satan is my spirit animal

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                              #209
                              Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                              I like my zombies just as much as the next guy, but they are EVERYWHERE. Why can't we have a skeleton apocalypse for once?
                              Trust is knowing someone or something well enough to have a good idea of their motivations and character, for good or for ill. People often say trust when they mean faith.

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                                #210
                                Re: What Are You Thinking About?

                                Originally posted by Denarius View Post
                                I like my zombies just as much as the next guy, but they are EVERYWHERE. Why can't we have a skeleton apocalypse for once?
                                Do you remember this lil guy?
                                Satan is my spirit animal

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