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Re: UVA student paper editorial wants University to cancel Thomas Jefferson

citizenw — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:53:59 -0000

Ha hahahahahaha "communist" has become shorthand for "anything I don't like".

The word used to have meaning.

Re: Milwaukee Health Department Says Reinstating Mask Ordinance Won't Slow Pandemic

citizenw — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 10:00:26 -0000

"Masks decrease transmission."

Nothing is guaranteed to provide absolute protection, but some things improve the odds.

Re: “Looking for the best places in DC to learn how to drive”

citizenw — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:01:33 -0000

Start out at the USDA Arboretum ... little traffic... learn car control and operation, there, branch out to small side streets.

Re: DC statehood is bad policy and worse politics

citizenw — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:37:08 -0000

Over 70 percent to the daytime occupants of DC are commuters from the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, every on of which is represented and can vote. And those commuters are the wealthy movers and shakers; Surrounding (outside DC) jurisdictions have notably higher wealth and incomes than residents of DC proper. If there is animus against the federal government, it would be better directed against those commuting in from the suburbs, because THEY are the actual influential actors.

Re: GOP senator introduces bill to make D.C. part of Maryland

citizenw — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:07:32 -0000

And Florida and New York three each.

Re: GOP senator introduces bill to make D.C. part of Maryland

citizenw — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:06:29 -0000

Maryland has made it very clear they do not WANT DC as part of the state. It would upset the delicate three-way balance between Baltimore, the DC suburbs, and ROM (Rest of Maryland) .... Maryland can't be forced to accept DC.

Re: GOP senator introduces bill to make D.C. part of Maryland

citizenw — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:00:41 -0000

DC's only "representation" in the legislature is one non-voting "delegate" whose very existince is based on the sufferance of the House members.

Some "representation."

Re: Assembly Republican Plan Would Send Teachers Back To Classrooms, State Workers Back To Offices

citizenw — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 10:08:48 -0000

CWH ; you assume that this is a THOUGHTFUL, LOGICAL proposal, based of "first principles". That appears to be a mistake. The "first principles", (if any) are apparently 1) PROFIT, and 2) MORE PROFIT for the class known as the Powers That Be.

Re: New Jersey school district rejects donor's offer to pay large lunch debt | PhillyVoice

citizenw — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:06:12 -0000

Dox the people who object to a generous charitable offer from a well-off donor.

Re: New Jersey school district rejects donor's offer to pay large lunch debt | PhillyVoice

citizenw — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:03:20 -0000

" its not the kids fault about what their parents do."

Re: New Jersey school district rejects donor's offer to pay large lunch debt | PhillyVoice

citizenw — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:59:20 -0000

Obviously you don't...

Re: New Jersey school district rejects donor's offer to pay large lunch debt | PhillyVoice

citizenw — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:57:41 -0000

Except he didn't ... 26 % of voters is not a win in any real-world scenario...

Re: New Jersey school district rejects donor's offer to pay large lunch debt | PhillyVoice

citizenw — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:55:05 -0000

The kids don't control the parents. Stop punishing them for things beyond their control.

If you MUST, sue the parents... (Good luck with that.) Or you could just ACCEPT THE GENEROUS DONATIONS, you heartless bastards! Scrooge had NOTHING on you!

Re: The vote that led to the 19th amendment - National Constitution Center

citizenw — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 20:38:03 -0000

Suffrage and the suffix -ist. Those are your clues. Investigate.

Re: ““Through their diligent work, the agency has revealed that about 40 percent of students at Duke Ellington, representing over $2 million in D.C.-taxpayer funded education a year, are not District r...

citizenw — Fri, 11 May 2018 17:30:40 -0000

PCC

Re: Washington, D.C. needs statehood to ensure its residents’ rights

citizenw — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:28:12 -0000

Why just Maryland or Virginia? Just let DC residents choose (during the census years) their electoral affiliation for the next ten years, and vote (absentee) in the state and location of their choosing? And perhaps the same for residents of Puerto Rico and the territories...

Re: Dem senator warns Mueller against issuing Russia report near 2018 election

citizenw — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 12:31:01 -0000

Putin's President

Re: 1st grader asks for food, blanket in heartbreaking letter to Santa

citizenw — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 19:51:51 -0000

Miserable excuse for human beings.

Re: MSNBC’s Reid: Rural Americans a ‘Core Threat to Our Democracy’

citizenw — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 08:03:53 -0000

The root of the problem is in the Senate. Rather than Tyranny of the Majority, what we have now, effectively, is a tyranny of the minority. Wyoming, Vermont, and South Dakota each have about 0.5 million population. California, Texas and Florida have 40, 25, and 18 million, respectively, resulting in disparity ratios of 80:1, 50:1, and 36:1 respectively. And with further demographic changes, the disparity is widening.

By the way, the original disparity agreed to in 1789 in the Great Compromise, and enshrined in the Constitution, was 10:1. The demographic changes of the past few decades have overturned the basis of that compromise. The question is whether this country can survive the century being run by a ten percent mostly rural minority.

Re: MSNBC’s Reid: Rural Americans a ‘Core Threat to Our Democracy’

citizenw — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 07:45:09 -0000

When the Constitution was written and the Great Compromise was set, Virginia, the largest population state, was 10 times the size of the smallest, Delaware. The Great Compromise accepted that ten times advantage for the smaller states.

Within the last few decades, demographic changes have resulted in California having 80 times the population of Wyoming, and the gap is widening. The maximum disparity of representation is now 80:1, rahter than the agreed upon 10:1, and it will likely be 100:1 and widening in a few decades.

This country was founded on the principle of Consent of the Governed. It may not survive the next century, being run by a small mostly rural minority of about ten percent of the population.

Re: Economics in One Lesson

citizenw — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 12:01:01 -0000

If the people who would otherwise buy the products made by the rich mogul's factory have insufficient resources to buy the product, the factory will shut down due to lack of demand. The workers will be laid off, reducing demand even further. And the economy will be right back in the soup. A smaller range of inequality produces a more balanced economy, and everyone is better off. Extreme inequality is self-destructive.

Re: Two Senate candidates busted using aliases are possibly married to each other — but no one can figure it out

citizenw — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:26:06 -0000

Shape-shifting does that to you....

Re: Two Senate candidates busted using aliases are possibly married to each other — but no one can figure it out

citizenw — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:21:02 -0000

What di you think Donald "JAY" Trump stands for? John? Well, yeah, that too. But that's not a name, that's a vocation.

Re: Two Senate candidates busted using aliases are possibly married to each other — but no one can figure it out

citizenw — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:17:13 -0000

^^^^^
That's what SHE said.

Re: Two Senate candidates busted using aliases are possibly married to each other — but no one can figure it out

citizenw — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:13:53 -0000

Jon Tester is an android manufactured by aliens.