Someone should photoshop the Maggot Brain cover with RFK,Jrs head on it. I cant do it, my graphic design skills suck, but I know there are people that could do it.
Please do it, the world needs it.
barneypiccolo
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To them nothing exists before Reagan, except when they want to bash Carter as the caveman that Reagan took America from.
Go back any further, and they have the only president who was never elected (Ford) or the first president to resign in disgrace (Nixon), although every Republican president since Nixon should have resigned, or in the case of one, arrested, tried, and executed.
18-34. They have a little money from their first jobs, and they tend to spend it.
Investors tend to be extemely risk averse, so the slightest little thing might scare them off. Even if they decide to take the chance anyway, they still want it to be as clean as possible, to minimizing the risk.
Even the slightest improvement may increase the investment by millions, or even billions, of dollars, so it's worth the trouble.
Then there are the failed businesses that were neverbsupposed to succeed because they were fraud from the inception, like Trump University. They announced it and promoted it, and signed up students, who took out student loans ffrom the government and sent them to thebadmissions department.
Then it turned out that they never bought/ rented a single building, hired no teachers, never created a curriculum, etc. They didn't do one thing to create a school except sign up students and take their student loan money. It didn't go bankrupt, it never existed, but they sold it anyway.
If only they could invent a medication people could take to prevent getting it...
He had some pretty terrible elementary school teachers. Two of them ended up fired for being incompetent, in part because I reported their behavior (although in both cases I was only the final straw). His kindergarten teacher, in her first year, was so abusive, he started to develop a stutter, and he was telling us about physical abuse that he and others suffered. Then she refused to let the nurse give him medication for a waning illness hed had, and it was email time, complete with a legal threat. She was on maternity leave (scheduled for a month out) the very next day, and did not get return the following year.
His second grade teacher would hand-pick students from the first grade classes, and she always made sure to pick a few that she knew were Jehovah's Witnesses. Then she would assign those kids to be table leaders, and those kids would then get after the non-JWs. We are non-religious, so when his table leader started telling him on a daily basis that God hates him for not being a JW, and he's going to Hell, I took it to the principle. She wasn't fired, but he was switched a different class where he thrived. Presumably other kids were being treated the same, but their parents didn't stick up for their kids, so they had to suffer through 2nd grade.
His fourth grade teacher was too engrossed in tracking sports on the internet to teach class (I always figured he was gambling), so the classroom was chaotic, and eventually some kid stabbed my son with a pencil, lodging 2 inches deep in his calf. I didnt even have to ask, the principal (who I liked) just offered to put him in a different class. That teacher was gone at the end of the year.
He also had teachers who were amazing, and I made sure that the principal knew how great they were. His new 4th grade teacher asked for him to be in her class after the stabbing, because she had noticed him, and wanted to give him a proper classroom envir0¹onment to thrive in. She cared about him so much that she came to every play and musical he was in through his senior year.
So I had every reason to be a Parent-zilla, but I wasnt. I just wasn't going to tolerate abuse against my son. These were normal schools in a good neighborhood, probably better schools than average, and this was our experience.
I love music, and was able to earn money as a teenager doing it, instead of flipping burgers or bussing tables, like my friends. But hanging with all those older, professional players taught me that I didn't have the talent to hang with the pros as an adult. Rather than delude myself, I realized that I loved records (it was the olden days) and steered my career and education toward Music History, with an eye on a career in the record biz. I did that for 30 years, until the record industry imploded around 2000.
Perhaps rather than break his heart and look unsupportive, teach him to be honest with himself, and then put him up against truly talented players so he can realize that he doesnt have what it takes. At the same time, encourage him to look at other options in the business, like coaching, administration, scouting, PR, announcing, etc. He can still be part of the sport he loves without being on the field.
An Agent Provocateur.
Self-defense isn't going back to your vehicle to get a weapon to come back and terrorize people. That's assault.
If he had returned with his weapon, and someone killed him, THAT would be self-defense.
Yeah, I'm not abdicating my responsibility for my kid's LIFE to civil servants.
Maybe it's because I'm an older Dad, and most teachers/administrators were younger than me, or maybe its because I'm a business owner, and I have confidence in my own decisions over those of others, but I don't do what they tell me, they do what I tell them.
Every principle my son had, knew me by name. On Parent/ Teacher nights (which I NEVER missed), I always had a short meeting with the principle, and brought up any issues with my son, his teachers, and the school. I wasn't a Parent-zilla, but my son was particularly intelligent, and uniquely talented, and I did not tolerate bullshit when it came to his education. He was NOT going to fall through the cracks, and I made sure he didn't.
My mom reads clickbait titles and thinks she knows the entire story.
A few years ago there was a clickbait title that Cracker Barrel was closing their restaurants, and she told me they were going out of business. I found the story, and it said that they were closing a few stores, but they were opening up a whole lot more. Cracker Barrell wasn't going out of business. All she had read was the title, and concluded they were completely going out of business.
To this day, whenever we pass a Cracker Barrell, she either repeats that she read they were going out of business, or she wonders aloud when they be closing that location, since they are going out of business. When I try to correct her, she says she read it, and "You think you know everything."
No, Mom, I don't know everything, but I know not to believe clickbait headlines.
On the positive side, she has always despised HitlerPig with a white-hot passion. She hated him long before he ran for president anyway, but she became really serious after the Pussy-Grabber tape. After that, for a couple of years, just the mention of his name would bring on a 20 minute rant, starting with "I dont know how any woman could vote for that man..."