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hndog609 said:
It amused me that after Weezer's comment you've had an exchange (that wasn't the only one) regarding someone you've never heard of, nevermind how all over the news that person was before and since.

I found it funny, nothing more, nothing less.
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Weezer made the wise choice of actually describing the situation. Had anyone provided anything more than just a name (like maybe "the mayor of Chicago"). I would have responded accordingly.
 
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luthervol said:
That's like saying stupid is stupid. That would completely disregard your unique level.
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You leftist morons have elevated racism to a level higher than murder. Now you are saying there are even levels of it. Because the mayor that you allegedly have never heard of determines her interviews based on skin color, it now matters which direction she is going as to whether or not she is racist. Unbelievable. You have elevated hypocrisy to amazing heights.

And it's actually more like saying murder is murder. The victim is still dead in either case. Your stupid analogy is... just stupid.
 
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ButchPlz said:
Not usually in public school.

The difference in detail between my history classes where the teacher outright ignored the SOLs (world history and one US history class) and the ones where the teachers adhered to the "standard" (i.e., garbage) were night and day. I am much better off for them.

Of course, my mother is a history teacher and massive history buff, so we grew up going to battlefields, museums, historical sites, and all kinds of neat places. That helped me learn that history is very much alive.
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History is something you have to study on your own. As taught in schools, it's wasted on the young, apparently not understood by a lot of teachers, and comes from revisionist texts acceptable to those of the cancel culture variety in departments of edukation. Knowledge of history also suffers from the fact that there are always at least two sides to any important event, and an unbiased look is frequently difficult and hampered by the fact that most authors form on opinion and set out to "prove" it ... or at least make that the palatable view.
 
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This guy is the ant-Luther, he has no continuums. It's long but worth it.

In 1996, Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching career that began in 1948. He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light blue shirt, and a string around his neck from which home plate hung — a full-sized, stark-white home plate.


Seriously, I wondered, who in the hell is this guy?


After speaking for twenty-five minutes, not once mentioning the prop hanging around his neck, Coach Scolinos appeared to notice the snickering among some of the coaches. Even those who knew Coach Scolinos had to wonder exactly where he was going with this, or if he had simply forgotten about home plate since he’d gotten on stage.


Then, finally …


“You’re probably all wondering why I’m wearing home plate around my neck. Or maybe you think I escaped from Camarillo State Hospital,” he said, his voice growing irascible. I laughed along with the others, acknowledging the possibility. “No,” he continued, “I may be old, but I’m not crazy. The reason I stand before you today is to share with you baseball people what I’ve learned in my life, what I’ve learned about home plate in my 78 years.”


Several hands went up when Scolinos asked how many Little League coaches were in the room. “Do you know how wide home plate is in Little League?” After a pause, someone offered, “Seventeen inches,” more question than answer.


“That’s right,” he said. “How about in Babe Ruth? Any Babe Ruth coaches in the house?”


Another long pause.


“Seventeen inches?”came a guess from another reluctant coach.


“That’s right,” said Scolinos. “Now, how many high school coaches do we have in the room?” Hundreds of hands shot up, as the pattern began to appear. “How wide is home plate in high school baseball?”


“Seventeen inches,” they said, sounding more confident.


“You’re right!” Scolinos barked. “And you college coaches, how wide is home plate in college?”


“Seventeen inches!” we said, in unison.


“Any Minor League coaches here? How wide is home plate in pro ball?”


“Seventeen inches!”


“RIGHT! And in the Major Leagues, how wide home plate is in the Major Leagues?”


“Seventeen inches!”


“SEV-EN-TEEN INCHES!” he confirmed, his voice bellowing off the walls. “And what do they do with a a Big League pitcher who can’t throw the ball over seventeen inches?” Pause. “They send him to Pocatello!” he hollered, drawing raucous laughter.


“What they don’t do is this: they don’t say, ‘Ah, that’s okay, Jimmy. You can’t hit a seventeen-inch target? We’ll make it eighteen inches, or nineteen inches. We’ll make it twenty inches so you have a better chance of hitting it. If you can’t hit that, let us know so we can make it wider still, say twenty-five inches.'”


Pause.


“Coaches …”


Pause.


” … what do we do when our best player shows up late to practice? When our team rules forbid facial hair and a guy shows up unshaven? What if he gets caught drinking? Do we hold him accountable? Or do we change the rules to fit him, do we widen home plate?


The chuckles gradually faded as four thousand coaches grew quiet, the fog lifting as the old coach’s message began to unfold. He turned the plate toward himself and, using a Sharpie, began to draw something. When he turned it toward the crowd, point up, a house was revealed, complete with a freshly drawn door and two windows. “This is the problem in our homes today. With our marriages, with the way we parent our kids. With our discipline. We don’t teach accountability to our kids, and there is no consequence for failing to meet standards. We widen the plate!”


Pause. Then, to the point at the top of the house he added a small American flag.


“This is the problem in our schools today. The quality of our education is going downhill fast and teachers have been stripped of the tools they need to be successful, and to educate and discipline our young people. We are allowing others to widen home plate! Where is that getting us?”


Silence. He replaced the flag with a Cross.


“And this is the problem in the Church, where powerful people in positions of authority have taken advantage of young children, only to have such an atrocity swept under the rug for years. Our church leaders are widening home plate!”
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Full story.

STAY AT 17 INCHES. | Baseball Life
 
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McDad said:
How those reasonable and rational approaches are applied and implemented are the key. We have a founding document which is amendable. But we don't follow that pathway when we want to integrate something reasonable and rational. Our reasonable and rational ideas are too important, too necessary, too sacrosanct to be exposed to the risk of stumbling and falling on the existing pathway. Therefore, in our hubris we find new and creative ways to circumvent the pathway which was created for a constantly evolving world.
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It's too much trouble to amend the Constitution when you can always find an activist judge to reinterpret things to the liberal point of view.
 
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