My step dad was in the Army during Vietnam. He was also a secretary. His go to joke was that he should have received or did receive a purple heart (it switched between the two) because he got his finger stuck in the typewriter.
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Jeez, your dad is old. My dad was 6 when the Korean War started and I’m probably more than 10 years older than you.
eta: correction, he was 7.
Ya, dad was like 45 when they had me. Spent his 20s-30s racing cars and sailing boats. He passed away, kinda regret not pumping his for more info on his experience in Korea. Rarely mentioned it.
My dad was drafted and served as a corpsman in Korea. Upon his death my brothers and I were shocked to find his Bronze Star, which he never once mentioned having received.
Nonetheless, he’ld probably think it was awesome that your dad was smart enough to get out of dangerous duty.
Probably not a discussion for this thread, maybe here:
But I’m also in Ohio and very interested in school funding issues. Public education funding is more complicated than that - it is largely funded by local property taxes. But Ohio guarantees a Free and Appropriate Public Education to everyone, so the state serves as a funding backstop for school districts where the property tax base is insufficient to provide a good education. The school district I’m in (Dublin) is relatively affluent, so it receives fairly small amounts of state funding. Rural and urban districts receive a ton of state funding.
I agree that the chart is kind of misleading because the funding situation is complicated. But I’m not sure there’s an obvious way to present it.
Also, there was another very large protest in Dublin yesterday, this time emphasizing educators protesting. It’s really hard to describe how unusual that is for this uber-white, uber-affluent area.
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I’m seeing something on CNN about the Minneapolis city counsel saying they’re going to disband the police department
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Yes, I’m aware.
LFG!
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She doesn’t seem like a public defender from the above post? But if she is, just imagine what kind of representation her clients are receiving.
Public defenders get a bad rep, a lot of them are making major life sacrifices to work a terrible job for no pay. But the ones who aren’t true believers in what they are doing and just fall into it, God, they are just giving people such garbage representation.
Exactly. Every time I see someone write that is history I wanna scream this is history!
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CNN now reporting that the WH is saying Trump has been consulting with Ben Carson about Trump giving a speech to the nation later this week on our current race relations.
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Call me a sucker but I can’t put Mitt Romney in the WOAT tier anymore. He voted for impeachment and marched with BLM today. I think he’s a douche but at least he has some damn integrity.
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