Sorry for your family's loss.
My mother and stepfather both caught it in February, but both recovered.

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That driver was immediately fired. The USPS has no, I repeat NO patience for this kind of shit. My stepfather worked for the post office in Rhode Island was fired immediately when he accidentally knocked over someone's mailbox when backing up. He didn't know he had even hit anything (scary I know) until he got back to the station and they canned him on the spot. On the whole, the USPS is such a dependable service with fewer bad eggs than the other delivery companies. This woman should be put up in stocks in the town square.

Intelligence is not derived from the threat of physical punishment. I'll take positive reinforcement every time when it comes to situations like learning how to throw a fucking ball. Spank your kid for running into traffic or pointing a toy gun at his grandmother, fine, but learning how to throw a ball? I bet there's no more sure-fire way to get your kid to hate you.>> ^chingalera:

Fucuking Roman Catholics with low IQ's is what he the fuck that was.

>> ^Fletch:

>> ^csnel3:
Dad deserves to be punished.
Oh, please. Oscar Lopez needs to get his ass beat. Amazing what passes for "child abuse" nowadays.


I've known people who had CPS called on them for the most inane shit imaginable. Both times, it was an Hispanic female who called the laws on Caucasians and both times in public places. Fucuking Roman Catholics with low IQ's is what he the fuck that was.

>> ^csnel3:

Dad deserves to be punished.

Oh, please. Oscar Lopez needs to get his ass beat. Amazing what passes for "child abuse" nowadays.

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>> ^Ryjkyj:

I know circumcision can be a touchy issue here sometimes, but I don't think there's a single member of this site who questions whether or not circumcision prevents AIDS. And I say that as a person who's son is circumcised, and who's stepfather died of AIDS.


you'd be surprised.

I know circumcision can be a touchy issue here sometimes, but I don't think there's a single member of this site who questions whether or not circumcision prevents AIDS. And I say that as a person who's son is circumcised, and who's stepfather died of AIDS.

Exactly. He was Tom the third and the stepdad was Scotch/Irish

>> ^kymbos:

He got adopted by his step father so they changes his first name? Why? Was Tom his biological father's name?>> ^braschlosan:
I thought it was cute. He obviously has many fond memories of the guy. I know how he feels. I had a friend through middle and high school that was adopted by his stepfather. They changed his name from Tom to Shawn. Even though I knew better I couldnt stop myself from calling him Tom from time to time.

He got adopted by his step father so they changed his first name? Why? Was Tom his biological father's name?>> ^braschlosan:

I thought it was cute. He obviously has many fond memories of the guy. I know how he feels. I had a friend through middle and high school that was adopted by his stepfather. They changed his name from Tom to Shawn. Even though I knew better I couldnt stop myself from calling him Tom from time to time.

I thought it was cute. He obviously has many fond memories of the guy. I know how he feels. I had a friend through middle and high school that was adopted by his stepfather. They changed his name from Tom to Shawn. Even though I knew better I couldnt stop myself from calling him Tom from time to time.

The point is not that there wasn't policy. The point is policy is harder to push when needed without a Department of Education.

The entire question of whether we should have a Dept. of Edu should not have a thing to do with specific policy debates. If the Dept. of Edu. is pushing bad policy, then change the policy it's pushing; abolishing it completely is ridiculous. It would be like abolishing DoD after the Vietnam War.

The Dept of Edu serves many functions beyond just pushing policy. It provides an apparatus for data collecting, analysis, correlating, etc. dedicated to education. It provides a national mechanism to help enact educational policies that are national in nature. It's common sense that if education is important, and if there are national tendencies, trends, data worth investigating that could/should drive national education policy, then we should have a Dept. of Edu. What policies should be pushed, as I said before, is an entirely different issue.

>> ^BansheeX:

The department of education helps no one but those in the education industry, it's a really bad deal for students. Education is a noble profession, but all services can be overpriced. Federal loans allow colleges to jack up rates every year knowing that the government will borrow more to pay for this supposed "sacred service that is the key to everything no matter the cost". Politicians have no fear of loss, the money is coming from future taxpayers that don't exist to vote it down. It's no coincidence that prices have accelerated far faster than unsubsidized products and services. If the government were to declare laptop ownership a social protocol and issue $1000 vouchers to everyone, the price of laptops would go up $1000 overnight. They do the same to education as they've been doing with housing.
My stepfather graduated from college in 1967. He paid 4k total for 4 years, that includes room and board. His first accountant job paid 10k a year. He is actually fairly liberal and is shocked to see how many people naively think that college didn't exist or wasn't any good prior to the DoE. He's old enough to know it's the total opposite.