Speakers at DNC

[TeyshaBlue]

Didn't we hash this out in another thread?

[MannyIsGod]

Dude's mom said this and he's on his 2nd term as mayor of S.A.?

Now THAT is a skilled politician.

Well I didn't know that but I just got a lot of Respect for Rosie Castro. I feel the exact same way about that place.

[RandomGuy]

Meh, read into it and all it is seems to be more blame the victim, goverment is always bad, taxes suck, propaganda group think.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...al-3766860.php

Par for the course from the right in this country.

You don't have any solutions, other than simply to worship the magic god of the free market harder in the hopes that something will fall from the sky and fix all of our problems.

“Availability is less the problem than is parental failure to take advantage of existing programs and to get their children to the schools and agencies offering the programs,” they wrote.

[coyotes_geek]

Didn't we hash this out in another thread?

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201988

[RandomGuy]

Didn't we hash this out in another thread?

I dunno I stopped paying attention. Reading the steady stream of conservative bull is like subjecting oneself to a bukkake of stupid, not unlike reading 9-11 conspiracy websites.

[MannyIsGod]

RG i can understand the frustration but you're pretty in the wrong here.

[TeyshaBlue]

I dunno I stopped paying attention. I can't be bothered to keep an open mind.

[Winehole23]

motivated reasoners tune out anything they think they *might* disagree with. pity tho. that was a pretty good thread, I thought.

[MannyIsGod]

TB thats unfair as too. You're going to tell me that you view butons posts with an open mind? HA!

[TeyshaBlue]

motivated reasoners tune out anything they think they *might* disagree with. pity tho. that was a pretty good thread, I thought.

Aopparently it falls into the bukkake of stupid category.

[TeyshaBlue]

TB thats unfair as too. You're going to tell me that you view butons posts with an open mind? HA!

Actually, if you bother to look, bouton's and I agree on a good many things.

[Drachen]

I don't what you are doing with this either

Yes, pre-K for kids is partisan.

It is the height of extremism to think that it might be a good thing to invest in educating and caring for children.

I don't think that he is against pre-k for kids, I think he is against the funding/operational mechanism. I am too. Though I can't say that I would make the claim that it is a partisan thing to try to use city government to fill in the blanks where the state is not living up to its obligations. In fact there is a very very very public example of the Republicans doing the same type of thing over in that land called AZ. I feel like Castro is doing an otherwise fine job, so I won't vote against him next time due to one issue, but that is just me.

[MannyIsGod]

Aopparently it falls into the bukkake of stupid category.

RG engaged some of the worst people to engage on this board for far too long and took it seriously. I'm not surprised that he's fed up and I think his comments and frustrations are correct. There are many many many posters here who are pretty much doing nothing but pelting others with bull over and over and over again. Thats not to say thats all the posters of any specific leaning here (I feel the idiots comprise both sides) but I do feel the idiots outweight those who display objectivity.

[MannyIsGod]

Actually, if you bother to look, bouton's and I agree on a good many things.

This was good.

[RandomGuy]

RG i can understand the frustration but you're pretty in the wrong here.

ok, tell me why.

All I have really seen so far is the typical knee-jerk reaction that dismisses out of hand any possibility that the costs are more than outweighed by the benefits.

[DarrinS]

Well I didn't know that but I just got a lot of Respect for Rosie Castro. I feel the exact same way about that place.

Why?

[DarrinS]

I dunno I stopped paying attention. Reading the steady stream of conservative bull is like subjecting oneself to a bukkake of stupid, not unlike reading 9-11 conspiracy websites.

When all else fails...drop a race bomb or compare people to 9/11 nutters. Nice.

[leemajors]

Why?

[MannyIsGod]

ok, tell me why.

All I have really seen so far is the typical knee-jerk reaction that dismisses out of hand any possibility that the costs are more than outweighed by the benefits.

Because its been discussed in another thread and thats not whats going on at all. Its not like SA has a history of being some well run education mecca.

[MannyIsGod]

Tied in nicely with my previous point though.

[RandomGuy]

Originally Posted by Rosie Castro

She was born in San Antonio in 1947 to an immigrant mother who didn’t get past fourth grade; she didn’t meet her father till she was 34. To Rosie, the Alamo is a symbol of bad times. “They used to take us there when we were schoolchildren,” she told me. “They told us how glorious that battle was. When I grew up I learned that the ‘heroes’ of the Alamo were a bunch of drunks and crooks and slaveholding imperialists who conquered land that didn’t belong to them. But as a little girl I got the message — we were losers. I can truly say that I hate that place and everything it stands for.”

Dude's mom said this and he's on his 2nd term as mayor of S.A.?

Now THAT is a skilled politician.

You don't have to be a skilled politician to have someone in your family believe that and win in San Antonio. There's probably a pretty good percentage of the population that agrees.

SMH at the usual suspect's inability to see past their own viewpoints and understand why anybody might have the gall to think about historical events differently than the mindless aping of what they were told about them in movies as kids.

I couldn't find the picture showing the "brown/black/white" water fountain that hispanics and mexicans were subjected to by white Texans.


Better?

[TeyshaBlue]

RG engaged some of the worst people to engage on this board for far too long and took it seriously. I'm not surprised that he's fed up and I think his comments and frustrations are correct. There are many many many posters here who are pretty much doing nothing but pelting others with bull over and over and over again. Thats not to say thats all the posters of any specific leaning here (I feel the idiots comprise both sides) but I do feel the idiots outweight those who display objectivity.

I can agree with that.

[Drachen]

ok, tell me why.

All I have really seen so far is the typical knee-jerk reaction that dismisses out of hand any possibility that the costs are more than outweighed by the benefits.

If I remember correctly, CC supported the ends (more kids in pre-k), but wanted it to go through existing channels (the districts who already have the infrastructure) and existing funding channels (increased property taxes).

I don't know if this was CC or someone else, but I think they wanted it to include all pre-k age kids (rather than those who should already be being served by the state like castro's bill).

I pretty much agree with all of the above.

[TeyshaBlue]

This was good.

Single Payer, Renewable Energy, Coffee (It counts! ) for starters.

[RandomGuy]

I don't what you are doing with this either

I don't think that he is against pre-k for kids, I think he is against the funding/operational mechanism. I am too. Though I can't say that I would make the claim that it is a partisan thing to try to use city government to fill in the blanks where the state is not living up to its obligations. In fact there is a very very very public example of the Republicans doing the same type of thing over in that land called AZ. I feel like Castro is doing an otherwise fine job, so I won't vote against him next time due to one issue, but that is just me.

The funding mechanism is a 1/8 penny tax increase, generally paid for by people who would most benefit from it in the first place.

Again, not sure what I missed.

I will read further in the other thread, as I have a feeling there is more, based on what Manny said.