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Good, so we agree. Only stuff that actually happened. Second fork in the road. Example. General Custer and the Battle at the Little big Horn. We know it well. Or do we? We know that in the battle, the US Army fought Native Americans. We know the outcome, General Custer got his a$$ kicked. It was one of the few battles that Native people won.
As white people living today, we learned this bit of history from our perspective. Even though we lost that one, students learn about it in the context of the US Army, or the white man. There is another side to the story. the native people's perspective. If you want to learn about what really happened on that battle field, you need both perspectives. The Native perspective may make you uncomfortable, but it is, as Stan likes to say, real. Unless you include it, you dont really know what happened. Agree?

Commented: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 @ 1:02 am By: Big Bob

Thanks Gary, and that is why we voted for you. You get what is real, and how far the status quo is removed from it; like a terrible plague, and far worse than the Covid pandemic and Democratic Socialist Election Scheme.

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 11:08 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I’m going to regret this but here goes. High school US history. Can we agree that the the curriculum can include things that actually happened? That’s the first fork in the road. If we can’t agree on that there is no point is discussing further. Just stuff that happened. Agree?

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 10:26 pm By: Big Bob

Lame response? What's lame is that you think indoctrination is history.

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 9:09 pm By: Gary Ceres

I'll tell everyone one thing ... if elected I'm going to insist on a public hearing on how they have spent the money the city gave them and how they are using public funds. Also going to insist on a vote on my anti-nepotism ordinance to forbid the appointment of kin to boards by while family members are serving as elected officials. The public ethical lapses here are staggering and the cover-up of not releasing the receipts and where the money is spent is obscene. If there's no wrong-doing ... COMPLY with the mandatory request.

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 9:08 pm By: Gary Ceres

So big Bob I guess all those black women that have stood up in front of school boards denouncing CRT as portraying their children as victims and incapable of competition with white people are just bigoted black women huh? Such absurd statements. People should be judged as individuals and I'm sick and tired of people jumping to race on both sides every time there's any kind of issue in our schools the problem is leftist indoctrination that teaches that people are incapable of success simply because they are a member of a group which completely negates all of the hard work done by countless minorities who have succeeded to own businesses and in education and an innovation and in technology what you're doing is saying that they're only capable of success if Government gives them a handout or if Government steps in. That's absolutely nonsense and completely racist in and of itself. It's also completely racist of certain white people on the right to think that every single black person that has been successful has done so because they've been given a hand up by the government which is also incorrect since there's a lot of black and Latino people who have chosen to become individuals and ignore the extremes on both sides. So big Bob you might want to reevaluate where your racism is actually coming from. Sorry for the tone of this message but it really infuriates me when people think that minorities and others people of color can only be successful when a liberal white person steps in to help them.

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 5:54 pm By: Gary Ceres

Actually in many schools, students are taught history. If you are ashamed of your history, like Buzz here, you need to learn about it and regain your dignity. The abortion comment is absolutely not true. God is everywhere including the schools. The rest of this post is nonsense. Buzz seems to angry that others (ie nonwhites) get to tell their story and live their life.

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 4:05 pm By: Big Bob

The money that the Sadler camp put into this project represents $60 for every man, woman, and child in Washington, or $300 for a family of 5. No wonder the Sadlerites hit us with a 12% tax increase to pay for corrupt boondoggles like this one.

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 1:51 pm By: Conservative Voter

The very purpose of the city "loaning" (there appear to be no documents that one would normally expect on a real loan) that money to the Housing authority was to buy those two substandard lots from Brooks and build houses on them. That is Conflict of interest with a capital "C".

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 1:44 pm By: John Steed

Exactly, John Steed, in your second paragraph, which is almost exactly what I experienced, and yes, exactly, it is ultimately the responsibility of the politician enriched, and to a lesser extent, the other board members and staff are not completely absolved of some liability in any matter of this kind, depending on their position in the issue.

In these issues, being stupid is NOT a defense. In fact, I would argue that the Stupid Defense does not work for any of the parties in a conflict of interest issue.

Once again, I would like to reiterate: This is why all public dealings, where the public's issues are dealt with must be done in public, preferably recorded for posterity by camera.

In government: "Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant."

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 1:33 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I thought much of the same this morning; the end result also pitting the Democratic Socialists against unwise legislation by better enacting far wiser legislation.

Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 12:37 pm By: Stan Deatherage