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An iPod for every kid? Are they idiots?
The Detroit News
| April 6, 2007
Posted on 04/07/2007 4:56:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
04/07/2007 4:56:56 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Do they all have computers, too?
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posted on
04/07/2007 4:59:02 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Kaslin
Buying ipods is the least of the bad ideas the Dems in Michigan are proposing.
To: Kaslin
IPods will “help” take the pain away while the Dems destroy the economy.
Before the next election, the dem candidate will campaign hard on the “happiness” the IPods brought forth and offer “free” ITune downloads if you vote for Democrats again.
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posted on
04/07/2007 5:10:35 AM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: Kaslin
It is a great idea, and while they are at it...
Expect the next "logical" increment, Free
- batteries for the ipod
- internet access for the
- free download on the
- quad core computer
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posted on
04/07/2007 5:13:11 AM PDT
by
lormand
(Michael Wiener - the tough talking populist moron, who claims to be a Conservative)
To: Kaslin
By the way, con men/women, grifters, hustlers, democrats, race baiters, socialist in control of legislation are hardly idiots.
The idiots are the people who fall/vote for the con.
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posted on
04/07/2007 5:14:29 AM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: Loyal Buckeye
“Buying ipods is the least of the bad ideas the Dems in Michigan are proposing.”
So the left is going to tax us so kids can have IPods the left won’t allow them to wear?
Now it all makes sense. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
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posted on
04/07/2007 5:21:38 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The Clintons: A Malignant Malfeasance of the Most Morbid)
To: rollo tomasi
“The idiots are the people who fall/vote for the con.”
You got THAT right.
- mesoman7
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posted on
04/07/2007 5:32:53 AM PDT
by
mesoman7
To: Kaslin
Do you hear conservatives say that they are not against all government handouts? That they support handouts to the truly needy? This is where it always has to end. Need will be constantly redefined upward. The only way to avoid this depravity is to stop it where it begins: government help for the truly needy.
To: EQAndyBuzz
"Liberalism is a mental disorder." Silly you, don't you know that iPod's fueled the Renaissance?
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posted on
04/07/2007 5:44:24 AM PDT
by
lormand
(Michael Wiener - the tough talking populist moron, who claims to be a Conservative)
To: Kaslin
It will probably reduce the crimes of stealing iPODs dramatically, but increase the rate of download thefts.
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posted on
04/07/2007 5:48:20 AM PDT
by
TommyDale
("Rudy can win the War on Terror!" Perhaps, but for whose side?)
To: Kaslin
Michigan is the Louisiana/Missippi of the North and Midwest. It’s a basket case.
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posted on
04/07/2007 5:49:00 AM PDT
by
quesney
To: Kaslin
I don’t live in Michigan, but I have rights too! Whaaa, I want an Ipod!
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posted on
04/07/2007 5:55:14 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: lormand
Expect the next "logical" increment, Free batteries for the ipod internet access for the free download on the quad core computer Why stop there? They need clothing so they'll have a pocket to carry the ipod, a house to store the computer, electricity to run everything, food ......
To: Kaslin
Who wants to bet that a majority of the free iPods will end up hawked on the street within 5 minutes of their distribution?
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:03:35 AM PDT
by
randita
To: quesney
“Michigan is the Louisiana/Missippi of the North and Midwest. Its a basket case.”
basket case?
That means we’ve move up in the rankings!
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:04:33 AM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
(Have a bit of humor today. You wont be able to stand this crap for 15 minutes if you dont!)
To: Kaslin
An iPod for every kid? Are they idiots?
Is this a trick question?
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:05:19 AM PDT
by
Beckwith
(dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
To: Kaslin
House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan. No cost estimate was attached to their hare-brained idea to "invest" in education. Details, we are promised, will follow.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Every school child needs to download vile rap music to listen to so they can be socially accepted and be culturally sensitive to gangsa music
Ebonics taught via the earplugs
They do realize that every ipod needs a computer to operate, might as well just budget a PC or Apple for every student, everybody MUST be equal
It's only taxpayer money after all, there is PLENTY to go around
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:09:56 AM PDT
by
Popman
("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
To: Kaslin
"We wonder how financially strained Michigan residents will feel about paying higher taxes to buy someone else's kid an iPod." Hey, they voted in a bunch of collective socialist politicians, obviously, they got what they wanted by the vote.
We are your overlords, you WILL pay for an IPod for that child that desperately needs one so not to be a social misfit.
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:16:12 AM PDT
by
Popman
("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
To: Kaslin
On FR I claim the state of my birth not the state where I live. Where I do live these are the facts. The public schools have an enrollment of roughly 50 per cent African-American. The geographic area the district covers has an African-American population of roughly 15 per cent. In the middle and high schools those who qualify for free or reduced price lunches including not just African-Americans is 90 per cent. If you were to spend any time in those schools you would see that the students having cell phones is at least 50 per cent. 90 per cent free lunch and 50 per cent cell phones, and as Yakoff Smirnoff used to say What a country! As far as any significant achievement, test scores reflect little. It is low achievement and high violence, and high drop out. But most everyone seems well fed and do not SEEM technologically deprived.
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