This happens all the time. The party out of the majority proposes moon-shot legislation knowing that it won’t pass. Because they get to go home and complain about the bad (insert party name here)s who blocked the, probably unconstitutional, bill that they proposed. Then beg for donations so they can get a seat on an important committee.

Since when is it illegal to sell tritium in the US? Gun companies selling tritium glow in the dark sights all the time.

America and Americans broadly do not respect “international law” as an idea. We don’t vote for representatives in a UN House of Reps or UN Senate. And if we did why would we wish to be beholden to a majority rules vote when that majority combined might be inferior militarily.

America tolerates international law when it doesn’t interfere with our course.

The idea of a “one world government” is treated as a fringe tin hat conspiracy theory nonsense that no one is advocating for.

It’s somewhat strange as a story. Polymer receivers have been around for some time. Being printed doesn’t have much market advantage.

Of the videos that have popped up in my algorithm I haven’t seen any Canada hate. If anything maybe some Mexico hate, he had a video essentially asking for a NAFTA 3.0 where we kick Mexico out of the deal so they don’t drag down US-CA relations w/ border politics. But half of his videos seem to be more on culture things like food or flags. Are there any particular anti-canada vids you have in mind?

Can’t comment on the fake accent though never met him. Could be an act.

Makes a sense in a pre-industrial pre-citizenship world. The broad idea is that you establish that the people voting on things are members of the community to be impacted. That way you don’t have transient people impacting the outcomes of elections.

This was my understanding as well

Douglas establishes it is more than just the memes to this person.

No one knows. The creator decided that a source and a year of collection were not relevant information.

Why would you have your default as sort by controversial?

Yeah, her legal counsel is doing so on her behalf. It isn’t like she is actually drafting the complaint herself.

That is presuming the idea of holding one’s own government accountable via the government’s mechanisms isn’t the shocking thing for you. The people of Connecticut have a constitutional right to a free public education. When that right is violated they have standing to file a civil lawsuit to be heard by a judge and jury.

I don’t doubt she will. CT’s Constitution’s Article 18 provides for a free public education. She seems to have been denied that here.

Paragraph 1: 1) Use proper nouns more. 2) have you been to Hartford? 3) Teachers wouldn’t need to teach for a test that was so simple as to not graduate an illiterate high school senior. But I agree the standard NCLB imposed was very detrimental.

Paragraph 2: “people like you insist that local taxes should pay most of it.” Go back re read what I’ve written. I support a ban on any funding education from municipalities. It should be ideally all done on a state level to balance accountability with equality of outcome.

My stance is that in practice municipal property tax pays for most education. Not that that is a good thing.

Hartford’s funding is mostly subsidized by the state with the municipality paying little. That is an issue as they receive (under the current system) what is needed from the state but not what is needed from the municipality. Because Hartford is broke. This is the fault in an education system where each town pays for a part of the educational spend with municipal property taxes.

The idea that anyone would pay taxes to support a k-12 education that doesn’t even produce literacy is not manufactured outrage. It demeans the name of the state. CT doesn’t come up much and it is an embarrassment when it does because of such a failure.

Paragraph 3: Yeah I agree. The issue is that you can’t spend more on public schools when you don’t have more money to do so. Which creates a circular issue.

I agree it isn’t about probably isn’t about just Aleysha to them. And it shouldn’t be. The fact that it could be truly said about anyone is an indictment of the system alone.

But I don’t agree this is a wedge issue. I’ve never met one human being who opposes the idea of taxes paying for a k-12 education or accepts the results of such being illiteracy.

You somehow manage to willfully misread or miss the entire point. Yes of course Hartford can’t match the per student municipal funding of suburban Connecticut. That is why I said that the issue is the school funding is being done on the municipal level.

Municipal property taxes paying for schools reduces the equalizing effect that state funding should have.

Yes, New England Republicans do tend to be much different than other states. No educational spending is not solely tied to party platform that ignores that blue states on average have higher house hold incomes and GDP due to historical & socioeconomic factors.

This is just yelling at clouds rather than seeking meaningful solutions to resolve issue. You are complaining that senators are upset about the failure of the educational system. Btw one of those senators introduced legislation to prevent this from happening again. Link.

They’re certainly not going to admit to systemic failures.

Did you read the article? What do you think “State Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding and Sen. Eric Berthel said in their Dec. 19 letter. ‘We continue to seek accountability as to how this student was illiterate when she graduated and how the system failed her year after year’” they meant when they wrote this.

Running shoes, Iron rangers, hiking boots, dress shoes, mountaineering boots, and plus worn out pairs of sneakers and winter boots that I need to toss. 5 good, 2 bad, plus a pair of slippers if that counts.

Look at your own situation and judge what is the appropriate sum for yourself.

I was stating the CT Republicans had little to no impact on the outcome of this student’s education because they have little impact on local politics in such a blue area. And resulting should have no reason to presume that any policy stances of their have an impact on the people of Hartford.

If Trump stripped the Dept of Education on day one that still would be irrelevant here as this student is the victim of over a decade of the school system failing them.

On your BTW, my point wasn’t about Hartford’s education costs but more on broader educational costs. In suburban CT well funded schools get nearly 70% of their expenses paid for by local property taxes. The failure of the city of Hartford to raise funds on the municipal level vs other municipalities is relevant here. Which of course stems from the difference in economics status between their citizens. Hence my critique of local funding playing such a big role.

CT has some of the finest public schools in the nation. But they sure as hell are not the ones in Hartford.

“Republican play book” dude it’s Connecticut. And none the less Hartford. That city hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1971.

The issue is that educational funding is predominantly on the municipal level, rather than the state level.

The only mention in the article about Republicans is the CT Republicans being outraged about how the schools have failed this child. Which is entirely justifiable.

But rather than look at the underlying system issues lets resort to flinging mud at people who had zero impact in the current situation.

Dude touch grass if someone wants to post cringe that’s on them but responding to every one of their comments is just harassment.

Nope just skimmed the complaint.