Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Office: State Education Board Could Withhold Salaries Of Superintendents, School Board Members Who Implement Mask Mandates
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Office: State Education Board Could Withhold Salaries Of Superintendents, School Board Members Who Implement Mask Mandates
And if the teachers don’t show up for jobs they are not paid for?Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:56 pm crossposting
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Office: State Education Board Could Withhold Salaries Of Superintendents, School Board Members Who Implement Mask Mandates
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Ian Millhiser@imillhiser
So I have a story about one of the greatest villains of our time. It begins, as so many tales of evil and wingnuttery do, in the Fox News greenroom.
I was booked for an 10:20pm segment. The guest in the segment before mine was a Republican member of Congress.
1:45 AM · Aug 12, 2021
The way that cable news typically works is there's a makeup room right next to the greenroom. Shortly before your segment, they slather makeup on your face. Then, when your segment is over, you go back to the makeup room to get some wipes to remove it all.
So the congressman does his segment before mine -- again, this was a late night segment -- when he's almost done I get shuffled into the studio. I do a maybe 6-7 minute segment with the host and a conservative guest. Then I get back to the makeup room around 10:30.
When I get there, the congressman is in the middle of the makeup room, ranting about some bizarre conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton and Russia (I think), and he's going on about how Jim Jordan is about to uncover it all.
He's not really talking to anyone in particular.
The poor makeup artists are just trying to do their job as this unhinged man is just standing there ranting. They just sort of walk around him when they have to. He doesn't really engage with them. He just rants.
If he wasn't wearing a suit and a Member of Congress pin, I would've assumed he was just some random person with a very serious mental illness who had somehow gotten past Fox's security and then set himself up, street preacher-style, in the first room he found with people in it.
Anyways, I spend a minute or two removing the makeup from my face. And he's still there, ranting. I duck into the bathroom to take a dump. When I'm done, he's still there, ranting.
Again, this is a member of Congress, and he has nothing better to do on a random weeknight.
Friends, the unhinged man, who was ranting in the general direction of the makeup ladies at 10:40pm on a weeknight, was Ron DeSantis.
Read the thread to the end to find out who the "member of Congress" is.So I have a story about one of the greatest villains of our time. It begins, as so many tales of evil and wingnuttery do, in the Fox News greenroom.
I was booked for an 10:20pm segment. The guest in the segment before mine was a Republican member of Congress.
Why is only one nurse wearing a mask in the photo? The nurses are in fucking Florida!raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:44 am
Those numbers don’t seem right to me, but I don’t doubt there is a big disparity.
So, lumping all Americans together is OK, but lumping all Catholics together isn’t? Got it.Suranis wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 8:38 am Well, it is my opinion that if people really wanted to stop it, it would have been stopped. Whether they just don't want to grasp that nettle while they deal with other stuff, or want to promote an armed society, all sides are willing to leave it alone, and accept a certain number of deaths.
But, its just my opinion.
Well, there is lumping and there is aggregation. In a very real way, both of the statements are true. If americans wanted to stop the virus, they could. If catholics wanted to stop pedophilia in the church, they could, but only if you abstract the collective power and priorities of the people within the group. The people in charge are just people, they require the support of the people below them, and those people require the support of those below them. Groups of people act on the sum of their priorities and needs.. the final value does not represent any one invididual or all individuals within the group, but it DOES represent the pressure (or lack there of) they exert on their leadership.roadscholar wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 6:59 am Do I even have to propose the logical extension of what you said about Americans and guns, i.e. that “if Catholics really wanted to stop pedophilia in the Church, it would have been stopped?” That for Catholics in general there is an acceptable number of molested children?
Note: rhetorical exercise only. That is not, in fact, my opinion.
DeSanctus worked hard to make sure that his corporate buddies in Fla (cf. Publix), rather than the departments of health and other local agencies got the right to distribute vaccines--and thus got the reimbursement bucks that went with them.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 6:35 am So Gov. DeathSentence not only wants to kill half the residents, he also wants to bankrupt the State while doing so?
Makes perfect sense. The fewer people, the less money the State needs to function. Do I have that right?
I guess you missed the part where I said that it was not actually my opinion.Suranis wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 7:33 am
The CC has instituted reforms to deal with child safety. Its also apologized a zillion times and commissioned reports on how extensive the problem lies, and dioceses have been driven to bankrupcy by the cost of lawsuits.
36000 people die every year, 100s of thousands of people are injured, and you all wring your hands and say nothing can be done. Not to mention try and deflect away by starting stupid internet arguments.
Totally the same, bad analogy man from the greatest country in the world. (sarcasm)