It always amazes me that there is a certain segment of teachers who refuse to be adults. My friend has a sister who used to teach and she was the one who clued me in on this. She would say "I love my sister- but I don't care what Johnny and Susie are doing this week." Yeah, we all talk about work, but I got the impression that it was a little too involved in terms of being gossipy. Rather than leading by example, they try to be peers in an attempt to relate , and that is not the job. I am not advocating for a return to slapping kids upside the head - that is a different problem of leading through fear, butI think that is really the missing element. A lack of leadership by example for the students.
When I was a senior in HS, one semester I had the local Democratic mayor who taught government. Nice guy but would go off on rants about the GOP. The next semester I had Mrs. B. Mrs. B played devil's advocate and never revealed her personal beliefs. At the end of the semester, I remember the class trying to get her to say who she was 'for". She just smiled serenely. She was the better teacher.
BB on Badlands touched on this yesterday - that the media outlets have been siloed, which is why they are so discombobulated. No 4am talking points.
When the news first broke one of the first things that came to me was that they were looking for an excuse to talk about guns and to tamp down on the rallies because "safety". And I think you are right, they had the scripts ready right go. Too bad these people suck at improv.
This has been my issue with severe TDS patients- how can you hate a guy that much whom you have never met?
(And I try to keep myself in check on that as well when I find my ranting getting out of control. We are all susceptible to it.)
The dates of Bastille Day (7/13 here, 7/14 there) reminded me of a tweet Eric Trump posted earlier - he was basically crediting his mother for being his father's guardian angel. I did not realize that today is the second anniversary of her death. If 7/14 is indeed the Freemasonry Day, did Ivana fall? Or was she pushed?
She was supposedly frail, but I don't know about that. She was an athlete when she was younger and she was 73, not 93. I have zero proof. Only a silver headpiece. But would it be so surprising for the enemy to strike out at the mother of your children? Few days ago, I saw an interview with Ivanka and the topic of her mother came up and you can tell it still upsets her a lot.
I remember when they found the luggage tag with the sister's business card. Which when you think about it is quite the needle in the haystack of an ocean to find. That said, though, it is hard to see how you could get her family to buy in.
I assume they are dead. But. On July 16th - right in the middle if the GOP convention- is the 25th anniversary of the plane crash. It would be wild.
Don't forget all the recent lower court rulings...
I have felt for some time that he was abused.
There was a picture of him - dressed very plainly, like T-shirt with khakis, sitting on the edge of a bed. The scenery out the window looked tropical. I thought in jest at the time "heh, Gitmo vacation". But...maybe not....???
My understanding us that "traditional" therapy isn't working because the jab, isn't a vaccine in the traditional sense - remember, they changed the definition -it is gene therapy. Something we need to hammer home a bit more, IMHO.
Anyway, it seems that the sequence has flipped something. Say you have a river and there are 10 stepping stones you have to follow to get across and they must be followed in order. Now flip stones 5 and 6. The traditional therapy cannot get across the river and the theory is that is partly what is happening.
I caught a clip earlier where Sage Steele had Byron Donald's and Wesley Hunt on and they were talking about leadership, strength and weakness, etc. I did not know that we have lost seven US embassies under Brandon. That point led to the following:
REP. WESLEY HUNT: When we were negotiating with the Taliban, when President Trump was still the president, President Trump wanted to get out of Afghanistan, but he wanted a conditions-based withdrawal, meaning you do what we tell; you to do and we will start pulling troops back slowly, as long as you abide by our rules.
President Trump and Mike Pompeo were talking to Taliban leadership in the room, and they had one translator. President Trump looked at the Taliban leader and said this, "I want to leave Afghanistan, but it is going to be a conditions-based withdrawal." And the translator translated. And he said, "If you harm a hair on a single American, I'm going to kill you."
And the translator goes [whoa]. And Trump goes, "Tell him what I said."
He reached into his pocket, pulled out a satellite photo of the leader of the Taliban's home, and handed it to him, got up, and walked outta the room.
Do you know, for 18 months, not a single American was killed in Afghanistan? That's the definition of strength. That's what I'm talking about. And so, you can imagine that kind of sentiment around the world.
If we have an embassy in another country, no one's gonna touch it because they are going to be fearful that they will get a MOAB on their head. That's how President Trump rolls.
Gold balloons!