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yes. ive always imagined how hot that icelander chick Lt edwards was banging was...HBO would be a good call...could get some quality titty shots in there

Off topic, not a Jack Ryan, but I always thought Red Storm Rising would make a good single season TV series

Having a spouse that has been a private school teacher for 3 years, I can assure you they do not pay more than public schools- at least in the two states we’ve lived in recently. Private schools that approach public school pay cost about $12k - $14k per year in tuition. Even a voucher program wouldn’t cover that, but if a parent wants to fork over the extra $6k to $8k to cover the difference, more power to them. And again, it would ease over crowding in public schools. Guess what happens when class sizes drop? Better education for everybody. Vertigo, you are correct that private schools can be selective and for good reason. From experience, they do not have the resources that public schools do, so kids with special needs that require an IEP and documented intervention can not get the services they require. Many private schools also expect their kids to perform on or above grade level, and it isn’t fair to put an underperforming student in that environment where they will fall further behind. Unfortunately that happens in public schools now too because of an innovation called the “inclusive classroom.” When I was in elementary, kids were separated based on aptitude. This allows higher performers to excel with harder material and allows struggling students to receive the attention they need. Public schools feel that is ‘unfair’ so now the teacher has to modify lessons to fit various aptitude levels in the same classroom. Equality and fairness results in mediocrity for all. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is a storyline that I didn’t like. Greer was a great character in the books and didn’t need to be changed. Every time I read the books, I always heard James Earl Jones in my head.

People always bring up the Nordic countries as an example of socialist success. First, those countries are sparcely populated and highly homogeneous that share similar ideology..stark difference from here in America. Second, their economies are actually starting to suffer because wealth creation and free enterprise is suppressed. There is a lot of displeasure with their government and that is starting to take a toll. Finally, who would want to pay a 50%+ tax rate!? I will agree with you that no country is truly capitalist or socialist but rather a mix of ideologies on a scale.

Didn't a revolution start over this very issue?

It isn’t.

And this

Well whadya know? I agree! Self determination os one of the many things that have always made this country great. I think it’s important, and entirely possible to preserve that trait while moving ahead with progressive ideas such as universal healthcare. Before you criticize those two things as being wholly incompatible, remember that there was a time in this country when having a standing army was considered radically progressive and even dangerous. Yet it was eventually determined that we could not exist in a modern world without one. We even lived with a draft, the antithesis of self determination for much of our history. I argue we were better for it. As time and the world move on, so should we. We should be constantly looking at ways to make this country better, rather than constantly retreating towards the past. If we are diligent, we can do so without undermining the principles that have always made us great.

It’s also not for everybody like it’s being sold over here. By 13 you know if you’re going to college or trade school in places like Germany. If you’re family has the money you can opt out and buy an education but the vast majority are told where and what they will be doing. This “you can go to college and the government will pay for it just like in Europe” is nothing more than fancy dressing for an impossibility. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Say, in a socialist society, doesn't somebody ultimately make the decisions, allocate the resources, and decide winners and losers? Is there a site where I can download the application for that gig? In doing some casual research, I'm not finding a poor socialist leader. Heck, even Bernie is a multi-millionaire and, to the best of knowledge, he's never, since his late twenties, been anything other than a politician. Yes, please, I'll have some of that. My neighbors can eat cake...

From back in the day... CF-5 rage over Canada.

After wings have already written them. Again. Over-under on this board having the same delays as the last one?

Option A. Quit before they kick you out. Drink beer and chase women. Graduate. Join the guard. Profit Option B. Quit before they kick you out. Drink beer and chase women. Graduate. Get required qualifications and get hired by a airline. Profit. Option C. Combine A and B.

Having your card show up on someone’s slide as unpaid is the best way to get someone to kick finance in the ass to pay your voucher ...

Yea man, I'm not an idiot. Obviously things have cost. When you stay at a hotel that offers "free breakfast," it's not like you've found this oasis where the food has no cost, it's baked in to the price you pay for the room. There's no philosophical disagreement here. The argument for "free public college tuition" is that we as a society should value education enough to provide it at no or little out-of-pocket cost to students for up to 16 years. We currently do this for 12 years and in fact mandate that students attend school for much of that time. It's not some radical Stalinist jump to go from the government paying for 12 years from tax revenues to paying for 16 years from tax revenues. If you are against this, or other ways of using tax dollars, that's totally fine; it's also totally fine to be for those things. The arguments about how to allocate tax dollars, how many dollars should be available to allocate, and where those dollars come from, are the root-cause debates behind a huge amount of public policy. Back to higher education for a minute...Tennessee, where I live, is actually a leader in the effort to help more people afford college and currently provides two years of tuition-free community college or technical schooling to all graduating seniors in the state. There are also programs for adults who decided to work first but later want to earn degrees, as well as specific programs for Tennessee National Guard folks to earn four-year degrees, tuition-free. All of these programs were passed by a heavily republican state legislature and signed by our popular Republican governor in the last few years. They can tell you why this concept is not socialism. My reason for quoting you in my previous response was that you took an overly broad view of what is "socialism" and basically ended up saying that taxation never works and can't work due to fundamental human nature. The words you used, quoted below, very literally described taxation, not socialism. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of a tax is, "A charge usually of money imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes," which is exactly what you described. Pilot-proof summary: Taking money from people and using it for public purposes, with the government deciding on how much to take and how it's spent, is called taxation. You may be against both taxation and socialism, but let's allow words to have their correct meaning and not conflate the two concepts.