Everything posted by Larry T. Spider
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Mass College Admission Cheating Scandal
Schools are judged on retention rates and how quickly they get kids to graduation. Makes for some strange policies.
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Mass College Admission Cheating Scandal
Interesting because in the recording he said he used the money for facilities. I’m wondering if Patterson was pressuring him so much that he chose the deal with the devil.
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Mass College Admission Cheating Scandal
Richard Kimble gave them all sorts of trouble.
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Mass College Admission Cheating Scandal
Is it still the case that you can write a check and get your kid into an elite school? I heard that it’s not like it used to be. I also don’t have 350 million, so that do I know?
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Mass College Admission Cheating Scandal
Your mom left a snail trail last night.
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Mass College Admission Cheating Scandal
I see how crazy some of the competitive parents are in elementary school. Can’t even imagine jr and sr years of hs.
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Top Date Night Spots
Burger there is great.
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South Austin Projects
I took ASL as a “foreign” language in college. My teacher was deaf and she taught us a lot about deaf culture. She had us go to events at TSD, including football games. Everything bolverk is saying is true. It’s a tight knit minority community that will absolutely raise hell if they aren’t on board with the move. I haven’t studied the issue at all but my gut reaction is that this is bullshit. The school existed for 94 years before the SBOE gained control in 1951. They survived the civil war making their own clothes and growing their own food at this location. To say the history runs deep would be an understatement.
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2020 Democratic Nominee
Reparations talk is a great way to get trump re-elected. Let’s focus on real shit that can actually happen like making sure every American has access to affordable healthcare, fixing our immigration policy, and ensuring that trump doesn’t have another 2 or 3 Supreme Court justices. Those issues are winners with just about everybody other than people that were never going to vote for a dem anyway.
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2020 Democratic Nominee
SXSW would be a great time to announce. When else can you have people from all over the country in one place that can go back and spread the hype? Tons of influencers (I hate that word) and people with money in town.
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2020 Democratic Nominee
I think my top 3 are Beto, buttigieg, and hickenlooper. Would also be ok with Biden. I guess my white male bias is showing.
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Best Burger in Texas (and each state)
Shouldn’t be winning any awards but for the north Austin folks, riata bar and grill has good burgers.
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2020 Democratic Nominee
Seriously. There are 10+ dems in the race right now that I would gladly support. Some I might be somewhat disappointed by but would obviously still vote for them over trump.
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2020 Democratic Nominee
Like I said, your reading comprehension sucks. I’m not settling for shit. You added MOST in front of electable, which is not what I said. I have a really high standard in that I want a candidate who has similar policy ideals as me AND is electable. Electable is not some bad word that your are trying to make it out to be. It doesn’t have to mean establishment or vanilla. It’s a candidate can take their message to the people and sell them on their vision. Not every candidate with good ideas is ready to be the most important person in the world. Let’s take MJ Hegar. I think she’s a bad ass and agree with her on just about every policy. It doesn’t mean she should be my candidate for president. The party should have a bench deep enough where we can find solid liberals with enough experience to take on a national election.
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2020 Democratic Nominee
I’m not settling for shit. Your reading comprehension sucks.
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2020 Democratic Nominee
Trump is a symptom, not the problem. The problem is the number of completely regarded or selfish people we have in this country. The only solution is to repeatedly beat them at the ballot box with electable candidates. Basically the opposite of what we did last time.
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Best Burger in Texas (and each state)
Casino el Camino is up there for me.
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Bandera Wild Hog Explosion cancelled after (ironic) death threats from animal rights activists
So is amazon pulling out too?
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All cops lie: TABC edition
And what about all the previous cases where people went to jail or paid thousands based on a he said/she said? Juries believe cops in that situation.
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All cops lie: TABC edition
The lawyer and client taking it to trial instead of sending the tape to a DA to let the case die a quiet death makes them heroes in my book.
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Texas teacher pay raise.
Time to fix the system. For the record, the 200 mil referenced below for Houston isd is a drop in the bucket compared to AISD. They are much larger and pay 1/3 what we do. Go to work lege. What's happened over time is La Joya has benefited to the fullest extent of the 30-year-old formula. So much so, it has so much extra money, it can easily afford perks like the water park. Meanwhile, in other districts, like Houston, students enjoy no such luxury as teachers are laid off and campuses closed. How can the same system end in two such different results? "We place a band-aid here and a band-aid there when our school finance system is really due for a full gut rehab," Villarreal said.
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All things lottery
So let’s say this guy won 500 mil after taxes. If he parks that somewhere and pulls 4% out per year that would be 20 mil/yr. After taxes that would be roughly 12 mil. Thats a million a month or $33,000 a day for the rest of his life. And he never touches the 500 million. I would love to try to spend 33k a day....
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Texas teacher pay raise.
Front office staff, speech teacher, intervention teacher, reading specialists, instructional coach, we could go on and on.
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Texas teacher pay raise.
For an elementary campus, we have to pay for the following beyond the home room teacher: Buildings, electricity, water, books, other educational materials, busses, maintenance employees, campus administrators, district administration, custodians, teachers assistants, music teacher, art teacher, pe teacher, special education employees, counselor, diagnostician, etc.