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The rented mule often has no idea how bad it's being treated. In this case trump wasn't in office long enough to face the reality of his policy. As long as America needs cheap labor, that boarder will remain porous. That's the math buddy. Economics trumps racism. Even the germans made the Jews work before easing them.

Commented: Saturday, April 29th, 2023 @ 9:57 am By: Big Bob

They weren't rent a cops. But I agree with the notion of arming everyone. Lets do it. What could go wrong?

Commented: Saturday, April 29th, 2023 @ 9:59 am By: Big Bob

Big Government Bob once again displays either his ignorence or his shooting from the hip without knowing what he is talking about. Hillsdale College was founded by abolitionists and has admitted black students since it was founded in 1844. That was a time that many northern states had "Black Codes" that were far more draconian in stripping black people of their rights than the later Jim Crow laws. In spite of those Black Codes, Hillsdale took a stand and admitted black students. "KKK" "white supremacy" Nonsense! You are an uninformed blowhard, Big Government Bob.

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 10:15 pm By: Conservative Voter

Well, your handle is a good description of the content of your posts. Bridges itself, on its own website, boasts that it is aligned with Common Core, and here is the smoking gun: www.mathlearningcenter.org
So do some independnet studies from educational publications, but the rules of this site only allow me to post one link and I have used that for the link from the Bridges site.

I'll bet you are all in for the "woke" Marxist alphabet soup of CRT, DEI, and ESG. From the research of others, that is also in Bridges. But parents across ideological lines have been fighting Common Core since it was first thrust upon US schools. It is a problem unrelated to CRT, DEI, or ESG. The school official who claimed that Bridges has nothing to do with Common Core was not telling those at that meeting the truth. That is the liar you should be concerned about.

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 8:02 pm By: John Steed

There have been lots of cases of a good guy or gal with a gun stopping a criminal or terrorist.

What happened at Uvalde was rent-a-cops being cowards and even stopping outside lae enforcement from going in. In the Nashville terrorist atack by a transgender, on the other hand, local law enforcement went into action immediately and took down the terrorist. That terrorist specifically picked that school as a target because she determined that it was gun free whereas her other investigated targets had armed defenders present.

A sign outside a school saying something like "staff are armed and will defend this school, outside guns prohibited" would be a huge deterent to these terrorists because most of them are cowards and want to attack where people are not armed to shoot back. We do not need to let our schools be soft targets.

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 4:49 pm By: John Steed

Yeah, I don't think trump stood for anything but himself. He does however, know how to treat his base like a rented mule.

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 4:02 pm By: Big Bob

All you have to do is look on the website for Bridges, and they say it aligns with Common Core math. Who "told" that it was "not" Common Core math? Education bureaucrats who were trying to push it through. The same education bureaucrats who "told" that SAVVAS wid not contain CRT concepts. They "told" what they thought would help their cause, NOT what was true.

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 2:36 pm By: John Steed

Thank-you Big Bob, even though you are a Leftist, for your celebrating President Donald Trump as the one honest, hard working president in recent times, who defended our borders by standing up to "Big Money on Both Sides."

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 1:00 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Maybe, but like Uvalde TX, the armed and trained men failed miserably. I'm sure 3rd grade teacher Miss Betty will do much better.

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 9:05 am By: Big Bob

Sorry Stan, but big money on both sides need the cheap labor. No jobs = greatly reduced illegal immigration. In this case economics trumps racism.

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 11:57 am By: Big Bob

Some of those comments on the Daily Haymaker point to the real problem here. We have certain Republican legislators, including those in the leadership, who ought to mount red lights above their office doors because they are such prostitutes for the special interests. The state senator who (mis)represents Beaufort County is one of those, Jim Perry of Kinston.

Like the NC Green New Deal and the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, NC consumers are being screwed to the wall to pander to the crooked special interests. Big companies like Duke Energy, which has an electric monopoly in most of North Carolina, and Blue Cross, an oligopoly with 83% of the medicial insurance business in North Carolina are being heavily favotred over John Q. Citizen. Jim Perry is trying to be the best politician that special interest money can buy.

We should not forget the chief sponsor of this corrupt special interest bill, Rep. John Bradnford (RINO-Mecklenburg, who was liberal Thom Tillis' handpicked replacement in his old NC House seat when Tillis went to Washington. Now Bradford is trying to run for Dale Folwell's job as State Treasurer. Electing Bradford would be an unmitigated disaster and we need to stop him in the primary. If not, then conservatives should just sit out the general election for State Treasurer or if available vote for a protest candidate such as a Libertarian. The Democrat is certain to be as bad as Bradford.

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 8:44 am By: Rino Hunter

Commented: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 @ 7:16 pm By: Big Bob