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If only it were confined to parenting.

I never knew that the Scottish were so big on Van Hagar.

Those are both Andy Summers songs. I enjoy them, but I get that a lot of people don't.

School lunches are the result of lobbying by corps like Aramark. Food packaging regs get put in place to prohibit freshly prepared food. In 2024 Utah spent $2000 more per kid than in 2023. It's not a lack of funding that kills field trips, it's choices. The pie is the pie is the pie, with only so many slices to go around. Salaries have gone up dramatically in the past year or so, 20% or more in many cases. Plus, signing bonuses are offered. Yet there is still a shortage. Hemi touched on the root of the problem: too many out of control kids with irresponsible and highly litigious parents. Here in NorNev districts are hiring back retired teachers who can draw retirement PLUS salary and benefits. Few retirees do it, because of working conditions brought on mainly by the lib social agenda.

What resources do you believe are being gutted in schools?

Your power rates must be way below ours. ETA: Sure enough, Utah is lowest in the nation at 11cents per KW hour. Nevada is 16 cents, significantly more.

Whole highly profitable to their big donors, Dem policies in (over)reaction to COVID have been disastrous, and not just economically. The social fallout will be felt for a long time.

Why do you hate the planet?

Mail order bride, from a high-end catalog

I have solar. Do you?

That she is Algerian is a very interesting twist.

Food comes from stores, electricity from outlets.

Abortion is a deciding factor for many, many people, and not in the GOP's favor. I think Dems lose on the economy, war, immigration, sexualization of children, but Trump and his VP choice are so off-putting even those issues aren't enough to ensure a GOP win

Dems outspent Reps 2:1 more or less in 2020 (+/- $9 billion to $5 billion). Add to that their media advantage and the Dems have a pretty good shot this cycle now that Biden is out. Trump is terrible at focusing on an opponent's record, relying instead on juvenile ad hominems. That's worn thin, I think.

It's true. We have a choice between two very shitty people. Or voting third party, of course.