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Tecumsehsbones

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You also received enough education to allow you a law degree and a comforatable life .

Yeah, by getting the f*ck out of that school at 13 and never going back. I got my education at the local public library, at the hands and minds of "teachers" who were the most wonderful, generous, eclectic, and frankly bizarre group you could imagine. And because they had no authority over me, they listened to me and helped me follow my interests.

So quit looking for silver linings in the American Indian School system. There weren't any.

There may have been in Canada. Canada generally has a reputation (especially among Indians) for much better treatment of us than the U.S. So understand clearly, I'm not talking about the Canadian system, I don't know enough about it to form an opinion. But on general reputation, I'll accept that your system was head and shoulders (and torso, and waist, and thighs) above ours.
 

taxslave

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Yeah, by getting the f*ck out of that school at 13 and never going back. I got my education at the local public library, at the hands and minds of "teachers" who were the most wonderful, generous, eclectic, and frankly bizarre group you could imagine. And because they had no authority over me, they listened to me and helped me follow my interests.

So quit looking for silver linings in the American Indian School system. There weren't any.

There may have been in Canada. Canada generally has a reputation (especially among Indians) for much better treatment of us than the U.S. So understand clearly, I'm not talking about the Canadian system, I don't know enough about it to form an opinion. But on general reputation, I'll accept that your system was head and shoulders (and torso, and waist, and thighs) above ours.

I didn't even know the US had an Indian school system until recently. Best I can tell my grandmother went to a regular school. But this would have been in the late 1800s .Unfortunately There is no one left that I can ask.
 

Durry

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Yeah, by getting the f*ck out of that school at 13 and never going back. I got my education at the local public library, at the hands and minds of "teachers" who were the most wonderful, generous, eclectic, and frankly bizarre group you could imagine. And because they had no authority over me, they listened to me and helped me follow my interests.

So quit looking for silver linings in the American Indian School system. There weren't any.

There may have been in Canada. Canada generally has a reputation (especially among Indians) for much better treatment of us than the U.S. So understand clearly, I'm not talking about the Canadian system, I don't know enough about it to form an opinion. But on general reputation, I'll accept that your system was head and shoulders (and torso, and waist, and thighs) above ours.
Yeah, maybe our system was a bit better than the US system, but it made no difference, or very little difference, in the outcome of the Indians in the end, most still turned out to be useless and mainly relied on the Whiteman for survival.
 

Ocean Breeze

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BREAKING NEWS
The Metropolitan Opera fired James Levine, one of the greatest American conductors, after finding evidence of “sexually abusive” conduct


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/...&gwh=18DB713E5E926D43CB8A5111B8DBC809&gwt=pay


HIM too??!!!




Democracy Dies in Darkness

News Alert Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 6:49 PM

Trump blocks Broadcom’s $117 billion bid for Qualcomm out of national security concerns, a highly unusual move
In an executive order Monday night, President Trump said his administration has uncovered national security concerns in Broadcom's hostile bid to take over Qualcomm, a deal that would have put one of America’s biggest mobile chipmakers in the hands of a company based in Singapore.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/?wpisrc=al_news__alert-economy--alert-national&wpmk=1
 

Ocean Breeze

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Twin_Moose

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'Have they started blaming Russia?' Moscow mocks Tillerson sacking

Russia issued a mocking reaction to the surprise sacking of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, with a foreign ministry spokeswoman asking if the finger of blame was already being pointed at Moscow.
"Have they started blaming Russia yet for the Washington staff changes?" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a text message sent to AFP. She did not immediately make any additional comments.
Tillerson on Tuesday agreed that Russia "was likely responsible for the nerve agent attack" on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England, speaking on a flight back from Africa.
"We agree that those responsible — both those who committed the crime and those who ordered it — must face appropriately serious consequences," he added.
The U.S. has accused Russia of actively interfering in the 2016 presidential election, stealing Democratic Party communications and pushing out disinformation through social media, which Moscow denies. Tillerson, before being appointed as secretary of state, worked closely with Russia as head of U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil, which included meeting regularly with President Vladimir Putin.
Despite Donald Trump's initial promises of improved ties, relations between the countries have deteriorated sharply under his administration.
Putin once again rejected accusations of election meddling in an interview with NBC released on Friday.
"Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do this?" Putin asked in the interview.
 

Ocean Breeze

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Interesting to watch just how much influence Russia has on TrumpAmerica now. Both Putin and Trump love to shame others in the most derogatory and immatrue way. No wonder Trump is such a Putin fanatic. They think the same way. Little wonder Russia wanted Trump as POTUS.......

Hillary would have fought Russia on important issues that affected american democracy etc. Trump is happy to go along...... with Putin.......in a passive but his own way.


Suspect that Trump secretly admires Kim.......and really wants to meet him to see if they are as like minded as Trump thinks they might be. Both are tyrants but in a different environment.

By not condemning Russia' behavior Trump is condoning it.

Tiller son had his head screwed on straight . He is pragmatic , smart, diplomatic........but now he is Trump road kill. Along with so man others.

More to come.......you can bet on that one. Trump ;can't tolerate things running smoothly ........and fosters chaos just for his own pathological needs. These are the Trump weaknesses that Putin will manipulate to his advantage.
 

Ocean Breeze

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I guess you are unfamiliar with the old adage................"no one is irreplaceable". :)
The one I know is "no one is indispensable " ;-)

wait until Trump puts CDA in his cross hairs. There is no low and dirty he won't go.
 

Ocean Breeze

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Senate passes rollback of Dodd-Frank banking rules put in place after 2008 financial crisis


Several Democrats joined Republicans to pass legislation that would exempt mid-size and regional banks from some of the strictest levels of supervision put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. The bill’s backers argue it will jumpstart the economy and strip away unnecessary red tape, while critics — including progressive Democrats such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) — argue it will encourage the type of risky behavior that destabilized the global economy a decade ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/?wpisrc=al_news__alert-economy--alert-national&wpmk=1
 

Hoid

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So to recap: banks use deregulation create trillions of dollars of phony wealth - get caught - cause worldwide financial collapse - require years of government funding in order to survive, receive massive tax cuts as a reward, then arrange to deregulate once again

Oh the 1%

It really is something special
 

OpposingDigit

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Hi! Hoid

"Too Big To Fail" is an attempt to allow the "Too Small To Compete" American banks to challenge the humongus Chinese banks.