No, the Teabaggers won’t support Obama if he proposes this. Nor will they support King. My guess is that Congressional Republicans WILL support King’s bill, and this will drive a wedge between the Pubs and the Teabaggers. The Teabaggers want the ability to kill Congressional “tyrants”.
My sister is a teacher in Raleigh. To say she is pissed would be a huge understatement. It boggles the mind that someone actually looked at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and said,“That looks pretty good.”
The ironic thing is that the people really pushing for [del]resegregation[/del] neighborhood schools are transplants from the north.
Argh. As someone who grew up in the Triangle (albeit in Durham, not Raleigh), that article made me bang my head on my desk. Wake County schools have been a shining example of a public school system that works, in my opinion. And now they want to tear the whole structure down. I especially “appreciated” the incoming superintendent, who seemingly held up the DC public school system as something that Wake County should aspire to.
Actually, a few months ago he said, as an example of his openness to diversity, that he “dated a black girl once.”
I live in Wake County; I have a second grader and a rising kindergartner. I’ve been involved with some groups that have been trying to stop this insanity. It’s sickening.
Palin accuses critics of “blood libel”. It’s phenomenally tone-deaf to claim your Christian-majority self as a victim of blood libel when the real victim of the tragic event behind all of this self-exonerating folderol is a Jewish woman. Crazy tone-deaf.
The use of this particular phrase in this context by this particular woman is utterly breathtaking in its wrongness. I literally gasped when I read that quote.
To be fair, I doubt she even knows what blood libel actually means, but for Og’s sake, she ought to have SOMEBODY on her staff who reads this stuff for gaffes prior to her going out there and saying it!
I have a hard time thinking that she thinks she’s been accused of secretly killing babies in order to use their blood to perform religious rites. More likely she’s thinking along the lines of bloody libel. If she’s trying to use the phrase as it’s traditionally meant, she’s being so hyperbolic as to have achieved weightlessness.
Also from the article, she said, “Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them.” Which, I suppose, lets Grant Theft Auto off the hook.
… but as well known, guns don’t kill people - people kill people so perhaps the congresscritters should ban constituents within a 1000 foot radius. Babies get an exception
