only if you are not logged on Lanny....when I'm logged on it clears up the boards very well but if I just open the site it's all there....for me it helps...I've had maris on ignore forever but I often skim the forum without logging on...recently I've engaged maris because of that and really, I should know better...I'm getting better at it. Trying to not clog the threads with responses to insults...just flag them and ignore them...I've no time for baited insults around here. I've said many times...this place should be fun and informative...mods here do a good job but they need to know when someone is slinging mud just to sling mud. Life is a process of elimination.
I think their emphasis on education is starting to pay big dividends. The president of Samsung sends his son to my great nephew's school. They are good buddies. Excellent academic school also a religious school. Our religion allows women and homosexuals to be priests. It is the same sect as the Bush family, President Lyndon Johnson and President Trump. Why can't public schools be provided the same resources as my great nephew's school? Of course, tuition at his school is $40,000/yr. with no public money. We should put our money where our mouths are. People want excellent schools for bargain basement prices.
Why is it okay that he makes it about more than the topic? I'm not allowed to respond to him? He constantly gets emotional during arguments and then plays the victim. It's tiresome and I'm going to call him out on it. Period. He called me an asshole, which was much worse than anything I said about him. And Sly is my friend, so I'm allowed to call him mommy.
He shouldn't do those things but he's been my friend for a long time and I hate to lecture him. Yeah, it's one of my many shortcomings. How many shortcomings? I dunno, ask my wife. You know what, every Sunday I ask for the strength to know my shortcomings and to correct them. I do my best but I'm flawed.
Actually, many of the best surgeons in the world learned primarily by remote tv and the internet, in far less time than the traditional college route. Brick and mortar schools from kindergarten on up have just about run their course and you'll be seeing a new kind of home schooling in a couple decades as just about everything we do will be at home, on a screen. Traditional schooling spends a year teaching you a month's worth of knowledge. So much wasted time and distraction, unwanted indoctrination, travel time, pollution caused by travel, enormous cost...
Here's mine. My grandson is 11. He left a poorly-run public school for a charter school the last 2 years. He flourished there. As a bonus, they taught him cursive writing, which unbeknownst to me our public school system has abandoned for who knows why? The Constitution is written in cursive, so maybe they don't want students to learn what it really says.
It upsets me any time someone is killed regardless of how. Your post was a pretty lame comparison though as gun deaths continue to rise while alcohol related car deaths have been on the decline due to organizations like MADD and passing more stringent laws. With the gun industry it's turn the other cheek and ignore the issues. https://www.responsibility.org/get-the-facts/research/statistics/drunk-driving-fatalities/
