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For some reason, anything with “FEDNOW” as a header has the hair on the back of my neck, stand it up.

Let me offer this from personal experience - as someone who’s married to a teacher who was in one of those “liberal” school districts. Even if there were some agenda to be pushed - there isn’t the time, will, or resource to push it. She spent her days making sure her kids had enough to eat. There’s no telling how many coats and pairs of shoes we’ve bought. She spends her off hours creating resources to use in the classroom because there aren’t curriculums to use. She has had two books that her students love and cause them to grow in the reading levels banned - Hatchet and Love that Dog. She manages behaviors instead of teaching - again due to lack of resources. She’s got a job that she loves - but constantly thinks about leaving the profession because of the damage it does to both her mental and physical health. I’m sure there are teachers who would love to push some type of agenda. But I don’t know who they are. There are way more that come home at the end of the day exhausted like my wife. My oldest two kids are at the most diverse school in the state. They go to school with all races, genders, sexual identities, and everything else - both at the student and teacher level. We have conversations about what they’re experiencing at school all the time - like weekly. My wife and I believe that stuff like that isn’t the school’s job - it’s ours. But, in all those conversations I can’t remember the last time where they were exposed to something in the classroom that my wife and I weren’t comfortable with - maybe a middle school extracurricular reading club selection? Now one thing is true. My kids are more compassionate and empathetic just by being present with people who aren’t like them. I think this probably registers on some people’s scale as more “liberal”. This would make some people uncomfortable. I’m okay with it. I know the voices that speak into their lives. *edited to remove me quoting @BigK - made it look like I was responding directly to him - and this was more general observation

Turned in my 2 week resignation notice to my employer here in Vegas. We will be heading out for Rogersville, TN the last week of May. Looking forward to getting back to Tennessee! If you order weapon parts online and it has a sticker in it please check the back of it. I have started writing "Thank you" on the back of the sticker in red to addresses in Tennessee just to see if anyone on here gets one that I shipped out from Vegas. I have shipped a lot to Tennessee but just started to do this after I gave notice. If you get one. Let me know!

A few comments: First, I see a LOT of teachers as a psychotherapist. My last patient today was a high school teacher. All are dedicated to their students, all give MORE than 40 hours a week, and ALL are exhausted, and remain so. The time that teachers spent trying to teach from home during COVID is something most have not fully recovered from. This week TCAPs are about over, and every teacher over the last 6 weeks has felt the pressure of their principal and instructional coaches to "teach to the test" so the school's scores will be "good." Teachers struggle with educating students, being there for them emotionally, and putting up with a lot of paperwork. The time it takes to get grades in alone is overwhelming. This being said, I do not know of a teacher who has the time, energy, drive, desire, or patience to "push" any kind of an agenda on their students. Granted, I'm sure there are some out there, but the average teacher is just trying to get through the day, put out any "fires" that may occur, worry about their kids, and get home. And one other ongoing fear that teachers have: a school shooter. This anxiety is not new; the worry about "what if" has occurred with teachers long before the Covenant tragedy. It is a daily fear for our educators. Mac, you stated that your kids are ". . . more compassionate and empathetic just by being present with people who aren't like them." Nope, not liberal, just being human. We used to be more like that as a country, and we have about lost the quality of accepting and appreciating another person just because of who they are as a human being and not because they are a "carbon copy" of myself. All persons have value and worth. All persons are created in the image of God. I may not like or agree with someone, but I can respect them and their right to their place on this planet.

I agree with that statement, but that's not the bill of goods being delivered. In my opinion only one leg of that stool is doing their job most of the time. Too many parents are guilty of treating the school like a babysitter and only poking their nose in when something they don't like happens. Thank God for the good parents who pay attention and keep the school in check though. Without concerned parents look at that sketchy stuff they've tried to sneak into their curriculum. Luckily, most teachers are good, but the ones who put their personal agenda ahead of educating kids should be run out of the profession. Sadly, it's not happening because the fox (liberal bureaucrats and college professors teaching the teachers) is in charge of watching the hen house.

I'm not laughing at all. I learn about news stories that interest me 9 times out of 10 here first. Most of what gets skipped here is news I don't care about. Like @gregintenn said, I hear different viewpoints here too. At least they're as wide of a host of viewpoints as I can tolerate.

I think one should definitely approach schooling and whatever choices they make around that as a part of a larger system. Someone a few years ago put it to me like this: "We view our role at (this school) as a partnership between us at (the school), your family, and the local church you're a part of. All of those are critical elements in raising a healthy child - and if any one of those is missing - the whole stool is less balanced and may tip over."

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Had a great day watching the horses on Corolla Beach in the Outer Banks today.

You get a host of different views on a given subject instead of the .gov endorsed AP talking points.

Exactly - read it all from all kinds of sources, and then make up your own mind!

This is one of the most valuable posts I've seen on TGO in a long while. I'm considering creating a dummy account just so I can like it twice.

This is probably true. However, I’m thrilled that we have the internet, reliable satellites (remember communicating on the MARS overseas) and social media. As with everything, moderation is the key. I can also relate to parent’s concerns about younger children using social media. Just today I saw a story about bipartisan support for a bill banning the use of social media by children under 13 years of age. I’m all for it. Children and some adults can be extremely cruel. Social media unnecessarily amplifies the cruelty. For me the pros of social media are in most cases being able to witness history in real time, examination of other cultures, learning in general, it makes it harder for corrupt governments to germinate into full blown dictatorships or authoritarianism, because people are more informed, aware and information is disseminated rapidly. Also, short of getting rid of the internet, social media makes it more difficult for those who wish to ban books, delete and erase history. As we’ve seen in crackdowns all over the world, information still finds a way out. Thanks for the time you spend teaching STEM. Those kids are amazing information sponges, and like myself, full of questions. It’s alway a pleasure chatting with with young people. I

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Not everyone getting waxed is a 10 . . . . or female.

It should also say "Our worst umpire is still better than Angel Hernandez"

RFK Jr isn't the only one worried about what could come from the system: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who tweeted Wednesday that a Fed-issued currency would “allow the government to surveil all our private financial affairs … enforce dollar limits on our transactions restricting where you can send money … [and] freeze your assets or limit your spending to approved vendors if you fail to comply with arbitrary diktats, i.e. vaccine mandates.”

EXACTLY! When my kids were growing up, I met their teachers and got to know them as persons. I made sure they understood that I was an interested, involved, and supportive of their efforts. And then I talked with my children about school, knew what their assignments were, kept up with what was going on. I never had a negative interaction with any teachers because they knew me and they knew of my interest and that I backed them. I also never spoke of the teachers in anything but an appreciative way to my children.

Helluva deal.

Thanks for this. I refuse to use Round Up anymore, after I had a reaction to using it.

No safety generally means it does not have a manual, mechanical safety. With an M&P it just means this is the model without the thumb safety; think like a Glock. Most modern firearms are going to modern internal safeties to prevent a firearm firing unless the trigger is pulled. This M&P will have a firing pin safety and the hinge safety trigger.

They may be left leaning - and I’m capable of filterIng through that. But they break some local stories because they have people on the ground in the community. Phil Williams was the reason Rep. Campbell resigned last week after harassing/potentially assaulting a couple of 19 year old interns. I can’t speak to their broadcast news - I don’t have a TV that receives it. But I guarantee you that Cameron Sexton is sleeping a little less easy tonight knowing that he’s looking into his per diem reimbursements as speaker - knowing our last mayor pled guilty to a crime that kind of rhymed with that. Truth be told, I’m going to purposefully seek out things that I don’t necessarily agree with. I’m an adult who can glean from all kinds of sources. Your mileage may vary. You’ve got to find something that works for you.

Apparently, east coast islands are silly with wild horses. Assateague Island in a national seashore is what I was actually thinking of.

Depends on who you ask, right? I'd argue there dozens of major news outlets that spin the news one direction and one major outlet that spins the news the other direction. None of them can be trusted completely.

FWIW - from someone who teaches a couple of times a year at the graduate level. First - while it's generally considered impolite to say it out loud - it's really hard to run a $23T economy without either a. having tons of kids die in industrial accidents or b. by finding a way to keep them safe and occupied while their parents are engaged with the various engines of the economy. Primary and secondary schooling serve a critical societal function in keeping kids alive while their parents are at work. (It's worth pointing out that we lose enough kids to school shootings that it would probably get into #s/100k that OSHA would start to care about if it were an actual industry.) Second, primary and secondary schools - and to some extent colleges and universities in the last generation serve to make cogs that fit into the above engines of the economy efficiently. People have always liked to argue "kids these days" - but the schools generally perform the above function within parameters that are acceptable to industry. Third, empire is hard - and across the empire you'll have better and worse implementations. For better or worse (maybe better and worse) this American Republic kind of incentivizes that. It's built into our federalist system. Fourth, every kid is different - and those differences are probably more pronounced right now than they ever have been in history. We need educational options for all of those kids. I know some kids who at 13 - via what they've already learned in school and on their own could fit right in as a junior developer in a whole bunch of shops. At the same time, not every kid is going to be interested in or be capable of going down that path. We need options for everyone - and for the last generation (as student loans have become easy to get as they're backstopped by the government) we've kind of shoehorned everyone down one path. Fifth, there is dignity and respect in the trades - and we need SO MANY MORE people in this space. If I could change one thing in our schools today - it would be to incentivize more people down this path. It's a great pathway into the upper middle class - and we need it as a nation. A great opportunity for the next generation is to take things like coding - that to this point have required some type of college degree - and make it a reliable blue-collar job that can be done from anywhere. Last, don't discount today's kids. I work and teach in STEM fields. The kids I work with today are absolutely the smartest, most capable kids I've ever met. They have so much opportunity in front of them. I kind of envy them

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/when-owning-gold-was-ille_b_10708196 FDR Outlaws Gold One of FDR's first acts as president, therefore, was to declare the fact that Americans were withdrawing their gold and currency from the beleaguered banking system "a national emergency." He ordered all banks to close from March 6-9 "in order to prevent the export, hoarding, or earmarking of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency." Because he believed this action was not sufficient to prevent runs on banks and the resulting drain of gold from the system, on April 5, 1933, one month after taking office, Roosevelt used the powers granted to the president by the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 to make gold ownership illegal. He issued Executive Order 6102, which made gold ownership--both in coins and in bars--illegal for all Americans and punishable by up to ten years in prison. Anyone caught with gold would also have to pay a fine of twice the amount of gold that was not turned over to the Federal Reserve in exchange for paper money.

I would like to get this from you. Idk if I can come up with the full $900 but I cam get close. Tomorrow? Hwy 96 by the kroger?

Another case where celebrity gets special treatment. And it’s not the first time for Baldwin. So much negligence. Baldwin should have been charged properly. Can’t stand him! The armorer may not be so lucky.

Thanks MacGyver-didn't realize the tolerances were that tight! I took it to Knives N' More in Huntsville, AL and showed the owner the knife. He said "What the Heck?" as the knife failed to close fully immediately, and then offered to took a look at it and disassembled the Infidel. Turns out rails that hold the knife inside the handle had screws so loose they were out, so he put locktite on them and tightened them and said to let it set overnight. The owner thought it might have been the machine that puts locktite on the screws ran dry as he didn't think anyone assembling the knife would have just not put locktite on as he didn't see any placed by the factory. Great customer service, I will let you guys know how it works after tomorrow morning when the locktite sets.

Just to keep you up to date. I had a Heart Cath today and spent the whole day by the time they were willing to let me go. Thy found some partial blocks and a complete block. The heart surgeon wants me to recover a bit more from the stroke then he will decide what is the best option but probably open heart surgery. Could have been worse but not looking forward to it, he said to continue PT for now.

This guy bagged himself a Ford 8N while hunting

Another source to get a feel for current values is GunBroker.You will have to search the completed sales, then it’s best to sort those by number of bids (most to least). This will give you a feel for the interest in the sale. Just remember that sometimes folks go a little stupid on GB and get in a bidding war. I usually look at multiple sales and then try to come up with an average value based on guns of the same condition. I also then price depending upon how quickly I want to move the fire arm.