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You have choice — it costs more, but such is life. Get more money, and all that. Public education isn’t to benefit you personally, it’s to benefit society as a whole. Educated youngsters can accomplish more than ignorant ones Wendy P.

If I've learned anything in the past two years, it's that a system that doesn't have some sort of coercion, some sort of reward for good behavior and punishment for bad behavior, then it's not going to work. Far too many people are stupid, selfish and short sighted. They are more concerned with getting their hair cut than they are about their neighbors dying from a contagious disease.

Less government, smaller government and closer government

Hi 615, I do have to disagree with this from your link: Until the “invention” of the skydiving boogie in the 1970s, skydivers only really got together in multi-dropzone-community groups to participate in USPA-officiated competitions. Specifically – at regional and national jump meet Here in the PacificNW, we had competitions that were NOT PCA/USPA sanctioned events. They were put on by any local DZ. They were held almost every other weekend from early Spring until in the Fall. Actually, the first one of each year was the competition in Snohomish, WA in Feb each yr. Sometimes that one would get weathered-out. When the square canopy became the game-changer in accuracy is when the Boogie's began. Those competitions were a lot of fun, Jerry Baumchen

Don’t overthink it. I think Woke if FUBAR and you claim anything I say is wrong by default. As usuals, I’m underwhelmed. BSBD, Winsor

You should be more careful with your use of quotes. Unless, of course, your purpose is obfuscation. Humans are, on an evolutionary basis, subject to embracing concepts that are entirely and completely false. This vulnerability is exploited by various ideologies and can be beneficial, depending on where you stand on the whole good/bad thing. Most people who adopt a particular ideology either don't read the source material or cherry pick what they do read. The Hebrew Scriptures mandate all sorts of wonderful things like slavery and genocide, but 'Good Christians' will go through extraordinary contortions to explain away the parts of the 'Holy Bible' that are truly awful. Muslims similarly will claim their ideology is a 'Religion of Peace,' but the founder was a violent, psychotic pervert as a matter of record. In modern Islam homosexuality is haram and punishable by death, but sex with a male Kaffir is halal. Putting a daughter to death for being raped is accepted without batting an eye in large parts of the Islamic world, and Sharia overall is equally well adjusted. Being a violent extremist is mandated by the fundamentals of Islam, and much of the Islamic world accepts as 'holy' the teachings that result in violent extremism. What am I missing? There are people I like a lot who are blind or paraplegic. Am I okay with being blinded or crippled? No, these conditions are not what one might choose. Quite what is going on with people who conclude they are a different sex is not something that fascinates me, but I can't escape the notion that there is something severely amiss with them. I have known enough people with alternative sexuality that I am as likely to like or dislike an individual no more or less than if they were breeders. I have always considered Priests and Nuns to be sexually dysfunctional, but there are some of them with whom I get along fine. Perversion is defined as something that you won't do, and I am largely indifferent so long as you keep kids out of the mix. When you have people who advocate initiating sex changes for people who are less than 18, that's where I draw the line. Since 'Woke' mandates 'Equity' rather than 'Equality,' that leaves me out. Don't hold your breath waiting for me to be cool with Islam or National Socialism, or to view 'Gender Dysphoria' as well adjusted. BSBD, Winsor