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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

They don't have dedicated gender clinics schools but they DO have health clinics and they do have a connection with teh Seattle Children's Gender Clinic.
Emails obtained through records requests include:

While our School-based Health Centers have long offered a continuum of gender-affirming care services including supportive student counseling, promotion of social identity, and health education, this step will allow us to begin offering families access to important medical interventions including hormone treatments,” it states.
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Does atheism even really exist?

those in the U.S. who insist they are atheist are also, coincidentally, former Christians, not simply folks who grew up and were nurtured ideologically in a thoroughly secular household.
Just a point. Some people truly are raised to be atheists. I don't have any statistics on this, but it might be more common than one thinks. It is certainly my background and those I was acquainted with. The option to believe in a supernatural power was not really on the table. We were taught all forms of religion, was nothing more than a way to control the masses or for the weak minded. We didn't ridicule those "poor deluded people", but we certainly wouldn't have wanted to identify with them.
Writing this now I can't believe how ignorant I was, while ironically thinking I was being so smart. There is an element of elitism in it.
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Republican Senator Jim Justice (WV) to pay $5m in back taxes following government lawsuit regarding funds due since 2009

I can only shake my head in bewilderment.

From elsewhere:
"Justice had a fortune estimated at $1.9 billion last decade by Forbes magazine, which stripped his billionaire title in 2021, when Justice's worth had dwindled to an estimated $513 million. Earlier this year, Forbes estimated that Justice’s net worth had disintegrated to “less than zero” due to liabilities that far exceeded assets."
I wonder how he agrees to pay the settlement when his assets are "less than zero?"

By my math this has been allowed to go on for ~15 years.
I wonder if a middle class family not paying taxes on the 401K they partially cashed-in to pay medical bills would be allowed to wait this long to "agree" to pay?
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Disneyland 'MAGA Invasion' Organizers Reveal Plans to 'Trigger' Guests and ‘Make Disney Great Again’

To them it's probably a matter of being inevitable.
They say their intent up front. We dont have to speculate about probablies.

Im reminded of the huge Trump "_____ your feelings" flags around here. I do get that people can be oversensitive in this age. But really. What a thing to lead with.
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Pro's and con's of using AI in political debate.

From AI is a valuable - easy reference system, similar to using Google, but faster to "I despise AI’s instant citations — they rob me of my noble art of winning debates through trivia hoarding and grammar policing, the true pillars of intellectual dominance."

Thoughts?

The AI system I use includes citations, so I'm pretty confident on the material.

What do you think?
Fine to use in finding a source to back up your own thoughts. But then quote the source. If its just "AI says....", then who knows what its worth.

Mainly I want to hear people's own thoughts about things. Thats primary. Sources are important but secondary.
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Let's Track the Economy (with objective empirical data?)

US consumer confidence tanks in November as Americans see more financial pain ahead

The Conference Board’s reading hit 88.7 in November, down 6.8 points from October’s level of 95.5.

[That's the lowest since April, when LIBERATION DAY sent people into panic. One more drop like November's and it'll be the lowest level in 10 years.]

Its measure of consumers’ short-term expectations for income, business, and labor market conditions also dragged lower to 63.2, remaining well below the threshold of 80 that the Conference Board says typically signals a recession ahead. November was the 10th consecutive month with a reading below 80.
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The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

Evidently you reserve the right to yourself to determine what "American culture' is so you are going to have to deal with more people who haven't "assimilated" than just Muslims--including many of us native born citizens.
It's never going to not be a problem. I promise. Until the end of time.
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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

They don't have dedicated gender clinics schools but they DO have health clinics and they do have a connection with teh Seattle Children's Gender Clinic.
Dr. Matt Logalbo, Medical Director at Country Doctor Community Health Centers said in a statement that his center operates the school-based centers. Logalbo said the health centers provide comprehensive medical and mental health care while promoting health and educational growth by increasing access to care at school at no cost.

The Centers services include immunizations, sports physicals, well-child visits, sick visits, dental evaluations and referrals, 'as well as gender affirming health care'.
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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

Empathy is what leads schools to allow gender clinics inside of schools. Empathy is what causes people to want to support affirmative care for kids.

Empathy is what can cause people to allow the homeless or drug addicts to do drugs on the streets creating unsafe environments for communities.

Empathy in and of itself is good. We need empathy. But we need to be wise with it and make sure our empathy is not allowing actions that are harmful to the person or society.
Or insulting to some Christian's religious opinions, of course.
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The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

His economic policy is going to be a disaster, and I think he's going to attract a huge foreign culture to America's "big apple" that's going to clash with our own culture, and cause long term problems in the future.
Oh no… what would NYC look like with a huge influx of foreign immigrants?!1!
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How old is the earth?

Time did not exist until the fourth day of creation week because then the very things we use to measure the passing of our own existence were created. The light on that 1st day was the glory of GOD. The darkness seperated from the light was the separating of GODS kingdom from Satans kingdom. This was indeed the recreation of the Earth after the destruction caused by the Satanic rebellion. The Earth existed before this and in it were giant creatures and vegetation that doesn’t exist today but we do dig up fossils, bones and such. It is impossible to know the age of the Earth.
Good Lord - where does all this nonsense come from?
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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

Empathy doesn't actually "require" anything. You can have concern and compassion for fellow humans in a situation and you can look for ways that they are like you and you can recognize the difficulty of that pain and struggle.

I've never known empathy to be harmful outside of hypotheticals.
Empathy is what leads schools to allow gender clinics inside of schools. Empathy is what causes people to want to support affirmative care for kids.

Empathy is what can cause people to allow the homeless or drug addicts to do drugs on the streets creating unsafe environments for communities.

Empathy in and of itself is good. We need empathy. But we need to be wise with it and make sure our empathy is not allowing actions that are harmful to the person or society.
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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

Gender affirming care is expansive. It does not mean that schools are performing surgeries or school nurses hand out hormones. Don't be silly. Affirming a kids gender is more than that.

In Oregon the Dept. Of Education has gender affirming care in their schools.
They have entire documents on how schools are supposed to provide gender affirming care for the students.

Minnesota does the same.

In Seattle the schools allow gender clinics in the schools which do provide hormones to the kids. Can you imagine if schools allowed churches inside the schools to operate all day and hold services during the school day?
They don't have dedicated gender clinics schools but they DO have health clinics and they do have a connection with teh Seattle Children's Gender Clinic.
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