Trump has used violent language many times in the past--predicting riots, violence in the streets, etc., if he did not win/or if the country did not support the Big Lie. No normal person uses "bloodbath" to describe a financial or manufacturing crisis. Oh, wait a minute ...
Trump praises the violent insurrectionists he calls "hostages"--you know, the ones who stormed the capital with guns, flagpoles, etc., and caused deaths while threatening to hang the VP. At his latest rally in GA, he played these criminal convicts singing the national anthem while Caudillo Trump (aka Captain Bone-Spurs) gave an imitation of a military-style salute--a sickening and treasonous sight. By the way, I thought he didn't like people who "got caught"?
It's really getting hard to choose among the visuals, because most of them are great. I was with the majority on all but the first one, as I picked the Electric Ave. No Outlet one there.
Using "illegal" as a shortened descriptor of a person whom is in this or any other country without first following the rules of immigration to that country is acceptable and doesn't dehumanize them at all. It simply describes their status as a person who violates the rules of entry. Whether or not the person has been arrested or convicted either in their home country or here is immaterial to their immigration status here. If the person was granted, let's say a driver's license or registered for military service or received a diploma in their home country does that make them documented here? This reminds me of homeless v unhoused. In that discussion unhoused is used as a more gentle way of describing a person who lives on the street whether sleeping in a doorway, a tent under a bridge or in a sponsored shelter. Common useage of the word home doesn't mean (to me at least) any of those three situations. Any such unfortunate individual is homeless and using unhoused as a descriptor to soften their situation is disengenuous.
āDo you want elementary school teachers to greet their kids, āhi you fuckers now take a seat.ā Or when applying for a job, do you ask ā I hear you motherfuckers have a job opening?ā Or a patient in a hospital setting āSorry but your tests tell me you are fucked royally!ā
No but I also wouldnāt want the teacher addressing his students or the job seeker addressing her potential co-worker with an insult that isnāt a swear word. Like ā idiots ā or the doctor saying ā sorry but your tests tell me you are doomed.ā The scenarios you set up are much more about
wrongly insulting others or dealing callously with an issue than about ā swearā words.
"Secret sauce?" As a 45 year educator, it's the parents. Give me a student with good parents and I can work miracles; give me a student without these parents and it's going to be a struggle. Of course outliers for both exist, but a strong home-school connection via the parents is so important.
Regarding the election outcomes, I agree with all of EZ's predictions and cast my ballot accordingly in the races I could. I'm looking forward to seeing if he gets any wrong (maybe Harris or Reyes).
I have no problem using the term āillegalā to describe the alleged killer from Venezuela who entered the country illegally. I do object to the term being used, particularly by the right, to describe asylum seekers.
Pretty much agree on the elections, but I think it will be a "no" for the mayor's pet project. As for the SA race, beyond me why the county board chair & the Dems think their guy, who was Blago's chief of staff & a big deal at the DOT should be the SA. Hasn't been in a courtroom for years and would be more of the same as the incumbent., who will be a much better defense atty than she's been as SA.
to EZ re school choice - sorry, i missed your point - the point about which you refuse to get out of your chair and away from your computer, and learn more about school choice. so NLCPHS, per your research: 'U.S. News ranks North Lawndale 13,261th our of 17,680 high schools nationwide and Public School Review says it āranks in the bottom 50% of all schools in Illinois for overall test scores '. accepting that there's no rationale for comparing its results to Stevenson HS, how about comparing its results to its peer grp - i.e., the attendance area CPS HS's on the west side of Chicago?
i hope you're not implying that funding attendance area CPS schools at the level Stevenson is funded would yield student achievement results remotely close to Stevenson's - that would be an opinion unsupportable by any evidence.
and if you're not going to get up off your *ss and go for a visit, how about looking at broader measures of HS success? how about graduation rates? how about college attendance rates? how about college graduation rates? compare those to a relevant peer grp.
you've become prickly to a challenge to justify your antipathy twd school choice - notice i haven't criticized CPS or CTU in this post - and yet you want to be spoon-fed the 'secret sauce' [if it exists] of the alleged efficacy of school choice vis-a-vis assignment to public/govt schools by attendance area.
attendance area public education in urban america isn't working, hasn't worked for many students for many years. teachers unions haven't helped, more funding/higher pay for teachers hasn't helped, 'school reform' has maybe helped a little, but not much. school choice at the very least engages parents/guardians in their children's education - and that always promotes student achievement.
Guesses: I agree with all of Zorn's picks (though I have zero opinion on congressional races that are not my own, which is Danny Davis), except I will guess, with no polling knowledge if there is any, that Burke will lose. I tend to think the primary electorate in Cook County has become super-progressive, and Burke does not fit that mold. I voted for her, so this means I win either way.
I was working the election on Tuesday so couldn't comment on election predictions (too busy!) and now it's too late for my guesses because we know the results EXCEPT for Cook County State's Attorney. I do think Burke will eke out a win but it is very close. Burke was very popular in suburban Cook County, Harris in the city. I think the suburbanites may get their way (I personally voted for Burke, I didn't want another Preckwinkle-hand-picked candidate).
Trump has used violent language many times in the past--predicting riots, violence in the streets, etc., if he did not win/or if the country did not support the Big Lie. No normal person uses "bloodbath" to describe a financial or manufacturing crisis. Oh, wait a minute ...
Trump praises the violent insurrectionists he calls "hostages"--you know, the ones who stormed the capital with guns, flagpoles, etc., and caused deaths while threatening to hang the VP. At his latest rally in GA, he played these criminal convicts singing the national anthem while Caudillo Trump (aka Captain Bone-Spurs) gave an imitation of a military-style salute--a sickening and treasonous sight. By the way, I thought he didn't like people who "got caught"?
It's really getting hard to choose among the visuals, because most of them are great. I was with the majority on all but the first one, as I picked the Electric Ave. No Outlet one there.
Using "illegal" as a shortened descriptor of a person whom is in this or any other country without first following the rules of immigration to that country is acceptable and doesn't dehumanize them at all. It simply describes their status as a person who violates the rules of entry. Whether or not the person has been arrested or convicted either in their home country or here is immaterial to their immigration status here. If the person was granted, let's say a driver's license or registered for military service or received a diploma in their home country does that make them documented here? This reminds me of homeless v unhoused. In that discussion unhoused is used as a more gentle way of describing a person who lives on the street whether sleeping in a doorway, a tent under a bridge or in a sponsored shelter. Common useage of the word home doesn't mean (to me at least) any of those three situations. Any such unfortunate individual is homeless and using unhoused as a descriptor to soften their situation is disengenuous.
āDo you want elementary school teachers to greet their kids, āhi you fuckers now take a seat.ā Or when applying for a job, do you ask ā I hear you motherfuckers have a job opening?ā Or a patient in a hospital setting āSorry but your tests tell me you are fucked royally!ā
No but I also wouldnāt want the teacher addressing his students or the job seeker addressing her potential co-worker with an insult that isnāt a swear word. Like ā idiots ā or the doctor saying ā sorry but your tests tell me you are doomed.ā The scenarios you set up are much more about
wrongly insulting others or dealing callously with an issue than about ā swearā words.
"Secret sauce?" As a 45 year educator, it's the parents. Give me a student with good parents and I can work miracles; give me a student without these parents and it's going to be a struggle. Of course outliers for both exist, but a strong home-school connection via the parents is so important.
Regarding the election outcomes, I agree with all of EZ's predictions and cast my ballot accordingly in the races I could. I'm looking forward to seeing if he gets any wrong (maybe Harris or Reyes).
I have no problem using the term āillegalā to describe the alleged killer from Venezuela who entered the country illegally. I do object to the term being used, particularly by the right, to describe asylum seekers.
I agree with your election guesses. But I'm rooting for Ray Lopez.
Pretty much agree on the elections, but I think it will be a "no" for the mayor's pet project. As for the SA race, beyond me why the county board chair & the Dems think their guy, who was Blago's chief of staff & a big deal at the DOT should be the SA. Hasn't been in a courtroom for years and would be more of the same as the incumbent., who will be a much better defense atty than she's been as SA.
I agree with all of your primary predictions except one. I think Bring Chicago Home will fail.
to EZ re school choice - sorry, i missed your point - the point about which you refuse to get out of your chair and away from your computer, and learn more about school choice. so NLCPHS, per your research: 'U.S. News ranks North Lawndale 13,261th our of 17,680 high schools nationwide and Public School Review says it āranks in the bottom 50% of all schools in Illinois for overall test scores '. accepting that there's no rationale for comparing its results to Stevenson HS, how about comparing its results to its peer grp - i.e., the attendance area CPS HS's on the west side of Chicago?
i hope you're not implying that funding attendance area CPS schools at the level Stevenson is funded would yield student achievement results remotely close to Stevenson's - that would be an opinion unsupportable by any evidence.
and if you're not going to get up off your *ss and go for a visit, how about looking at broader measures of HS success? how about graduation rates? how about college attendance rates? how about college graduation rates? compare those to a relevant peer grp.
you've become prickly to a challenge to justify your antipathy twd school choice - notice i haven't criticized CPS or CTU in this post - and yet you want to be spoon-fed the 'secret sauce' [if it exists] of the alleged efficacy of school choice vis-a-vis assignment to public/govt schools by attendance area.
attendance area public education in urban america isn't working, hasn't worked for many students for many years. teachers unions haven't helped, more funding/higher pay for teachers hasn't helped, 'school reform' has maybe helped a little, but not much. school choice at the very least engages parents/guardians in their children's education - and that always promotes student achievement.
Awww....I guess women top court justices are not diverse enough for you anymore.
Guesses: I agree with all of Zorn's picks (though I have zero opinion on congressional races that are not my own, which is Danny Davis), except I will guess, with no polling knowledge if there is any, that Burke will lose. I tend to think the primary electorate in Cook County has become super-progressive, and Burke does not fit that mold. I voted for her, so this means I win either way.
"Do you want elementary school teachers to greet their kids, 'hi you fuckers now take a seat.'"
No, of course not, but, speaking as a high school teacher....
I was working the election on Tuesday so couldn't comment on election predictions (too busy!) and now it's too late for my guesses because we know the results EXCEPT for Cook County State's Attorney. I do think Burke will eke out a win but it is very close. Burke was very popular in suburban Cook County, Harris in the city. I think the suburbanites may get their way (I personally voted for Burke, I didn't want another Preckwinkle-hand-picked candidate).