care.

priorities, you know.

of posts in 2 or more threads.

and still debating it a week after the school changed the policy, which was all the mother wanted. she likes the school and the personnel.

but some duers hate public schools and post at least one article every week so they can make hundreds of posts about how stupid teachers are.

In the old days we didn't talk about this; we got out the pitch forks and torches and scared the government into paying restitution for what happened to that girl.

The real issue is that when you talk about a city going bankrupt, the first thing that most people DEMAND is that we yank all benefits from city workers. This is an active, malicious drive by large swaths of the populace. It's what drove the vote in Wisconsin and two cities in California.

People WANT to sacrifice their own best interest for the ruling elite. It's a case of mass hypnosis. Even if there was no Snookie, no Justin Bieber, no sunburnt albino kids and no rainbow oreo cookies, even if you got rid of every distraction in the universe, you would still have seething masses of people who think they can get ahead by screwing over other workers. In fact, you would have more of them, as they wouldn't be as distracted from the propaganda coming from the corporate elite.

debate sunscreen policy, go to the twenty threads about it.

and no, if there weren't 40 million idiotic things to keep people from thinking about reality, they'd have to think about it.

So you're saying that sunburn doesn't hurt very badly? Or that sunburn doesn't increase your risk of skin cancer? Or that the school didn't deny the kid access to sunscreen? If you aren't willing to say "yes" then you must admit the kid's life was endangered.

If I were the parent of that kid I would not only NOT back down against anyone who told me otherwise... I would sue and force my views upon that school. I would sue that school right into the ground and take the proceeds to get on television and send a warning to other schools NOT TO ENDANGER someone else's kid.

I'm thinking you probably understand how unyielding I am on this issue. And how correct I am, too.

several to chose from.

you like colored oreos, go eat some

how did humanity ever survive without fucking sunscreen

And as I said in one of those threads, humanity survived without sunscreen. We just died from cancer more often. Long term unprotected exposure to the sun can do that to you, ESPECIALLY if you have albinism.

Have a nice day!

vacant.

Stockton just needs to get off its ass, learn the value of a hard day's work and quit spending all its money on drink. I'll bet you it has cable TV and a mobile phone, too.

and you are dependent on property taxes to fund city services.

COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS! Seriously... this pension is fucking nuts. I can't possibly see how anybody could argue that this can continue.

$2,000/month x 12 months/year = $24,000/year. When you're surviving on that for an entire year, paying more for healthcare would be pretty hard.

My father retired at 57, with 37 years into the company he was with. Are you saying that no one should be able to retire until they're 65 or older and have potentially have to put 45 or more years into a company, which then decided to close its plant and lay everyone off before that was even possible?

Completely ridiculous? I can't decide if you're being serious - it's too early in the morning and I haven't had coffee. My apologies if you're not.

I write near because if there were a legal mechanism under Oregon law for the county to declare bankruptcy, it would have done it already. It's scary to me that we are at this point.