Posted on 05/27/2015 10:53:44 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Good Job!
Again....thanks for all you’re doing on this Arabic Immersion Magnet school...and other things.
Is your flyer posted on your website?
I posted on FB Stop Common Core-Houston but I can e-mail it to you...if I have an email address. It’s a great line-up on June 13
Home School. Seriously find like minded parents and form your own curriculum there is plenty of options online that help you get started. It will take more than you lifetime to undo what has come about in education. I started High School in 1952 an already standards were being lowered and discussions on minimum common curriculum were in motion.
MY kids are all out ... home schooled by their mama, now in heaven .... praising her Lord.
I was a Ted Cruz supporter until today, when his campaign posted that Ted Cruz supports TPA and TPP. They couldn’t say why, all they did was post what Boehner said about it.
Cruz has made statements about his support for the trade bills. He says that he voted in favor because 2.2 million jobs in his state depend on exports. Exports are key to building businesses and growing jobs.
Ever wonder why Dems who voted against it and conservative Republicans voted for it? I think we need to let this develop a little bit to see how it plays out. The public has not yet seen the content of the bill. Congress still has an up or down vote on any trade deals Obama proposes and I won’t be surprised if the House version has Cruz’s wording on immigration in the bill they send back to the Senate for reconciliation.
The coal terminala in WA State are counting on the trade deals to push the coal. Obama made a deal with Peabody to facilitate the terminals. They are terrible for WA State. We don’t need to turn rural WA into Perth Amboy, New Jersey. There is nothing in it for WA State, but destruction of our coast. Republicans think that they are creating jobs, but for WA, those jobs are only temporary, short term jobs, the damage is the only thing that will be permanent.
I thought that coal extracting technology had come a long way in being cleaner. I read that the real issue of pollution in Perth Amboy was oil refineries.
It is not the mining that is the problem, they don’t mine the coal in WA State. It would be a problem if they did.
The problem is that the metallurgic coal that they are mining is literally cheaper than dirt and any safety precautions to protect residents around the terminal would put the producers in the hole, so we get 250 ft tall piles of coal with no wind screens and nothing but water to keep down the coal dust, which is alleged to spread over a three to five mile radius around the terminal. But that isn’t the biggest fear, the biggest fear are the endless coal trains which will cross the whole state and run along the whole coast, below the picturesque high but unstable waterfront cliffs and mountain passes. Property owners are already experiencing some slippage from the mike long, heavily loaded coal trains . It is very possible that we could see another landslide like the one out in Oso last year, only with a lot more homes being damaged. There was one family who had built a gazebo at the back of their yard to take advantage of the view, who got up one morning and the whole gazebo was gone.
The only jobs for Whatcom County are the construction jobs and even those are unlikely to be local because we don’t have the type of heavy construction companies that do that kind of work and the Union labor to force to go with it. ...and we don’t want the ILWU trouble makers, either.
I forgot to mention that when the coal prices fell the developers of the terminal lost their backer, Goldman Sachs, who advised that new coal infrastructure was a poor investment. The only backing that the developers could find was a Mexican financier, who just happens to be the top lieutenant of Carlos Slim.
But hey, the Republicans don’t care, they think they are fighting Obama’s war on coal. Give the drug cartels their own terminal, anything to support those coal jobs.
Good Grief. That does sound like a mess. What must be even more frustrating is there are ways to prevent those problems and still keep the jobs and the resource of coal. It costs more, but I hope the communities keep raising sand until something is done.
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