You don't get to be a conservative radio host or be on TV unless you're taken the deal that goes along with your golden ticket. They're ALL on a leash, that's just how it works. The only place you'll find free speech is on podcasts, and even then you have to use your judgement to pick and choose those who are free from those who are muzzled.
Why is this panicky crap still going on? You all look silly. The fire was out eight days ago. The gas cloud dissipated quickly. Any leakage into streams and rivers went downstream and disappeared. No community in the area draws from a reservoir. City wells are several hundred feet deep Sorry but it's a big world and every short-term disruption dissipates and is gone. It's like panicking over a fart in the pool. I'm two hours away but upwind, upstream, and unaffected. Closest I came was going to the grocery in South Youngstown Saturday. It's been three days in a row without a cloud in the sky. The weather's been perfect. Fifty years of making steel was a vastly greater threat to health.
I can't call any of it entertaining. Nothing happened and nothing was noteworthy. Watching platforms move while the star stands still just doesn't cut it. The last 30 seconds was the same as the first 30. I'm sure the songs are fine if you know them but shouldn't something as significant as the Super Bowl halftime show have some entertainment value? I don't care about the lip-synching. Everyone sings to a track, that's TV.
Help me understand. You're being paid in material objects rather than money? Lets say ten bricks per hours labor. That's would not be considered taxable ordinary income. If you were to sell those bricks for cash, that would be income. But if you traded those bricks for beef, it's barter, not income. Transform to a life based on barter and you're free of the 'authorities'.
My mistake. The state money went to the for-profit school, not the local money. School levies are voted on and neighborhood demographics change. You have a choice on where to live and there's a long gap between your kids leaving school and retirement. It's pretty much your choice as to how much your town extracts from you for school money. The only thing I support more than abandoning your local school district is keeping them running cheap and hungry by withholding levy money.
Bingo. This is the answer. Online schools get the tax money and supply the laptops and remote teachers, the co-op supplies the building. Drop your kid off, they attend their online school, eat lunch, then you pick them up. Use the old teacher-classroom model and the kids are back to getting stuck with disruptive jerks all day.
My kids went to a for-profit online school due to health issues. The local tax money that would have gone to the public school went to them. They never wasted a penny on crap. The Junior High trip to DC cost us $50, which they refunded. My daughter's senior trip was three days on Orlando. It was free.
Preachers tell the same stories to adults they told them in Sunday school. There's no growth unless you seek it. At least the megachurches get people off their ass, away from the local jokers, and into a faith-based community rather than a social club. What people do about their weekly serving of baby food once (and if) they decide to grow is up to them. My time in a large Pentecostal Church led me to seek a deeper understanding. My last church had fifty members but it was a college-level study of the Bible. I only left because of proximity, having moved 75 miles away. There's a nationally-known megachurch nearby. Went there a couple times but they were serving baby food. I was far beyond that at that point.
Extreme Left is coerced behavior enforced by a few complete dicks. Extreme Right is everyone's a complete dick. Left is mind control by groupthink, Nothing good about it. Right is trust me to control my own actions and leave me alone. The ideal. It's a spectrum, there is no center. Nothing to the left of Right is good.
The lineup, mic placement, and non-combat look makes me think this is a choir.
It's a pretty safe bet that any car being attended by several cops and being searched is suspected (actually already known to be) trafficking. See it all the time on the freeways.