On Congress’s finding of no collusion on the part of the Trump campaign with Russia, social media’s collective outrage storm, and the over-reliance on Mueller’s investigation: the solution is political. Starts with primaries and continues THROUGH November. It always has been.
Although, I have to say I’m enjoying some of the all-caps responses on Twitter. š
Huh.
https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/973195402559283201
Can we talk for a minute about how prohibitively expensive
#SXSW is? Itās nuts.I was told if I lose my badgeāwhich was already paid forāthat it would be 1800 dollars to replace.
ā¦the hell?
The cheapest ticket is 825 dollars. Who has that kind of money?
They should offer day passes or something.
This is a very exclusive event. And it shows. Especially considering Austinās homelessness problem. Itās just very stark.
Salon has this to say:
He doesn’t have a show on HBO or an international arrest warrant like some other presenters, but Eric is one of the more interesting invites.
He told me that his hosts at SXSW should probably be sued.
SXSW should have expected that. In 2011, Eric and others who worked as unpaid interns on the movie “Black Swan” sued film studio Fox Searchlight for back wages, an experience he’ll be talking about on the panel āDebating Internships: The Value of Unpaid Work.ā That’s relevant because at SXSW, more than 3,000 people ā some called āvolunteersā and others called āinternsā ā work for nothing.
This section heading made me chuckle:
Be Polite, Be Professional, Butā¦
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Mattis:
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.
There are a couple of things in here I take issue with (The Atlantic liberal?Ā Axios worthwhile?), but this seems useful.
Looks like I need to readĀ The Guardian more.
Source: http://www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com/the-chart-version-3-0-what-exactly-are-we-reading/
There are on the order of 100,000 public schools in the country.
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=84
A police officer makes an average of $60,000/year.
https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/patrol-officer/salary
That doesn’t include the cost to his or her employer for health and life insurance, training (an ongoing expense), vacation, whatever support personnel are required (dispatchers, therapists, car mechanics, etc.). I think a 25% bump to salary is a very conservative estimate of total cost to police departments for each police officer.
100,000Ā ā 75,000 = $7,500,000,000
$7.5Ā billion.
Take North Carolina.
2500 schools.
https://ballotpedia.org/Public_education_in_North_Carolina
Using the same conservatively-estimated cost figure for police, that’s a total of $187,500,000.
$187Ā millionĀ dollars, just for North Carolina.
Total education budge for the state of NC is around $9 billion.
Assuming that budget goes 100% to teachers (it doesn’t; there are also building payments and maintenance, utilities, school supplies, etc.), that’s enough to give every teacher a 2% raise.
West Virginia just finished a statewide wildcat teachers’ strike over a 5% raise.
Not having a cop in every school gets us almost halfway to giving teachers in NC a 5% raise.
The problem is guns, not how to turn schools into fortresses.
Here’s an article:
Ā I was mortified when I read my comments the next day online. I didnāt recognize the person in that article. Seventeen dead, and Iām concerned about firearm confiscation?
I realized I was regurgitating a right-wing cable-news talking point I heard a few nights earlier.
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Politicians have been known to ignore articulate, passionate high school students and they do this at their peril. However, they canāt ignore balding, slightly overweight, middle-aged men, because we vote in large numbers.
Previous administrations have tried, and failed, to muster bipartisan support for reasonable gun regulations, even after such tragedies as Sandy Hook. A few gun control bills were drafted but never passed. Iām reminded of a famous Thomas Edison quote, āOur greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.ā
We must continue to try for the sake of the young lives that will perish at the hands of the next school shooter. He may be already planning the attack in your sleepy āsafeā enclave.
Remember, Parkland is an upper-middle-class community known for its excellent schools, low crime rate and perfectly manicured landscaping.
“Older browsers like IE11”. š
CSS variables finally have broad browser support and can be compiled down for older browsers like IE11 with PostCSS. Excellent post on how CSS variables work:
Quotes:
John Prados, a fellow at George Washington Universityās National Security Archives, came to an even broader conclusion in a study ofĀ declassified Bush administration documents: Bolton bears a significant amount of blame for the politicized intelligence used to justify the decision to attack Iraq.
and
Trump sees the world through a televisual lens; he seems to get more information from Fox News than from his daily intelligence briefings.
and
In December 2016, the Washington Post reported that Bolton was eliminated from the running for secretary of state because Trump ā I swear Iām not making this up ā didnāt like his mustache.
and
āIf Bolton becomes the national security advisor, the United States has not hit rock bottom in our international relations,ā says Eoyang. āWe could go lower.ā
https://twitter.com/KarlreMarks/status/973119856336924672?s=20
De Tocqueville’s America was way different in 1820, so this ain’t status quo ante, eh?
Seems about right.
Source: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/monsanto-roundup-glyphosate-cancer-who/
Eisen, meanwhile, worries that IARCās handling of this case will damage public perception of the group. āThis is going to end up undermining peopleās confidence in this agencyās ability to do this well,ā he said.
