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  5. What bothers me the most about these signs is the foul language that the children are holding up in them. The two ‘f’ words shouldn’t be used by adults, let alone children. There is no arguing or fact-finding anymore. There is only screaming and cursing orally and in print. That makes me sad.

  6. I agree TADFORD (#5) with your plaint about the use of foul language. I believe its public use helps no one and also makes the words mean less–and then where are we when we really need that full, older meaning?

  7. This is Cindy Sheehan all over again. For those with short memories, Cindy Sheehan used her son’s death in Iraq as a political soapbox to bash George W. Bush (egged on by the Dems & the Media). The Dems & the Media are now using these kids to bash Trump & the Republicans. They could care less about gun control; this is all about the November elections. Like Cindy Sheehan, these kids will be used, exploited, and finally dumped by the Dems (probably on November 8).

  11. I’ve just started playing the scene of the dancing puppets from Pinocchio.

    All you need point out to these little brats is that they’re nothing but puppets who have to obey white liberal adults and they flip out.

    And you just keep asking them to get their mommy or their handler so you can talk to the person who’s actually telling them what to think, because they’re too stupid and helpless to think for themselves.

  13. I wonder if Chuck Todd is offended by these signs (particularly the “F*** You Guns” sign), since he is so “concerned” by children hearing Trump use vulgarities.
    Yet, the great Democrat icon, Harry Truman, used foul language practically every day during his Presidency and Dems had no problem with that. He, after all, was “Giving Them Hell!”

  17. Few things are certain in this world, but among them are:

    1. Most teenagers don’t know their @$$es from their elbows.

    2. Most teenagers will seize any opportunity or excuse to cut class

    3. Many teenagers want to look like rebels, so they will take part in any protest, whether they understand the issue or not.

    You could organize a protest tomorrow, and these kids would join it, refusing to return to class until Nelson Mandela is released from prison, or until the Berlin Wall is torn down, or until abortion or gay marriage is legalized.

  18. What bothers me the most about these signs is the foul language that the children are holding up in them.

    I find this disconcerting as well, both from civility and effectiveness viewpoints. Where once the rules of “polite society” governed personal behavior and decorum, the standard for personal behavior in the public arena is now “whatever I want to do” and any objection to that sentiment is met with accusations of a stifling of free speech. While it’s easy to go on a rant about how this ties in to the overall decline of society and social mores and values, it can stand on its own as a valid objection.

    What these little tools don’t realize (and perhaps even the supposed adults in their vicinity don’t as well) is that many people still do find such expressions of language objectionable and will tune out the entire message when they are exposed to it. Thus the (usually conservative) response to those brain trusts who protest and yell “F#$% Trump!” is “This is exactly how you get more Trump.” The worst part about this trend is the number of adults who are supposed to have decent breeding and education think it’s actually rather “cool” to engage in such behavior simply because they agree with the overall message.

    Yet, the great Democrat icon, Harry Truman, used foul language practically every day during his Presidency and Dems had no problem with that.

    Are you sure you aren’t confusing HST with Lyndon Johnson? LBJ was regularly known for using vulgarities and harsh language in private, or when he knew it would be off-the-record. Often he did so to shock and disarm his intended audience (such as members of the press with him at his ranch), and other times he did so just because that’s how he spoke: “If we pass this [the Civil Rights Act Of 1964], the n*****s will be voting for us for the next 200 years!”

    However, having read several biographies of Harry Truman over the years, I have not heard where he used more than a “hell” or “damn” and even then, it was very rare. He had a deep sense of propriety and behaved as he thought himself to be: a gentleman. Gentlemen don’t use language they wouldn’t use in front of their mother. Gentlemen do get angry, but they express their anger via language that does not offend outside their intended target.

  19. These kids are racists. Where’s all this outrage when legions of their coevals in Baltimore, St Louis, Oakland, etc. are mowed down every day of the week by other kids?

    Of course that might involve noticing some unhappy truths and we can’t have that.

  22. I wonder how affirmative action will live down the 5 day old Miami bridge collapse with traffic?

    female engineer/project executive, Leonor Flores (speaking about teaching her daughter that women can go into STEM):

    “It’s very important for me as a woman and an engineer to be able to promote that to my daughter, because I think women have a different perspective. We’re able to put in an artistic touch and we’re able to build, too.”

    https://news.fiu.edu/2018/03/community-gathers-to-watch-950-ton-bridge-move-across-southwest-8th-street/120395

  25. It appeared on one rendering I saw that it’s a cable-stayed design. They just installed the span, but I didn’t see the tall-mast nor the diagonal supporting cables anywhere, nor any support props.

    One butterfly and down she comes…

    Typical of many doing public work, both the design firm and the contractor apparently have reputations for shoddy construction. And have had collapses before. Not only should they go to jail* and be bankrupted in court settlements, those in the government involved in their contract awards should go to jail.

    How did they get awarded those contracts? …Lowest bidder? …”Special” considerations? …Minority-owned small-business preference?

    It’s supposed to be lowest qualified bidder.

    [* – Normally I’ll side with the design professionals until proven-otherwise, but this looks blatantly egregious. ]

  27. Headline in the Maine’s biggest (and most Progressive newspaper):

    “Hundreds of Students Walkout Protesting Guns”

    There are currently approx 83,000 middle and high school students in Maine.

    The real headline should have been :

    “Tens of Thousand of Students Didn’t Walkout to Protest Guns”

  30. Ted B. (#25). That’s what I was thinking, the lack of stays/cable or supports until all was finished, but I hadn’t had enough coffee to make sure of what I thought I saw.

  31. The coverage is confusing. One report says they were stress-testing “the cables”, another says they hadn’t installed the compression mast and stays yet. None of the picts I’ve seen show any large cables draped through the wreckage, or a broken mast, …so it’s hard to tell. Both the contractor and the designers apparently have bad reputations, and LOTS of blatant local and state crony-politics seem to be involved.

    With civilian deaths involved, I’m sure EVERYONE is lawyering-up, finger-pointing, and CYA’ing. “Cooperating with the Investigation” is code for “talk to my lawyers” and “I want Immunity first…” Meanwhile everyone is deleting, purging and shredding their files before the Feds arrive with the little white boxes.

  32. After looking at several more news sites;

    1. The tall mast and diagonal cable-stays were scheduled to be installed next year. WTF??

    2. There were apparently no temporary supports.

    3. The “cables” being tested/tightened were likely the internal post-tensioning cables within the concrete slabs. Incorrect tightening or over-tightening can crush the slab or buckle adjacent slabs, an Australian bridge apparently failed this way.

    4. There was supposed to be a 2nd span over the canal to balance the diagonal stays, …and the mast. This is NOT rocket science…

  33. They seem to be using the same print shop.

    In essence, there just might be the same elements behind organized protests for the benefit of some one or some group… and I am increasingly of the belief that insurance and other financial companies are on the positive end of things when shit hits the fan in any sort of way. Law enforcement going MIA or fumbling it up seems to be of assistance in any havoc going on. All the angry talk afterwards in the media and officials hide their collusion. Even shirking responsibility to stay out of danger, just to make it to retirement, seems to work in their favor. All “seven deadly sins” work in concert toward destruction of society.

    Not saying people should be perfect, but we need to recognize that mediocrity breeds the mess we’re in. Entities will always take advantage of that for their own sake.

  34. I agree a lot with #17.

    I admit, I’m somewhere over 21, but, I believe, in my pre-21 years…aka as a kid under 18-

    I was never so arrogant as to tell [the adults] what they should do with the nation’s laws, or what [the adults] should do with the USA’s society. Because, as a kid, even at 17 + 18, I knew little or almost nothing, about the non-protected adults, and their world.

    When I was growing up, which probably lasted until sometime in my late 20s, I did not, as a teen…or younger kid: [tell the adults how they should run something, or what laws to have].

    I’ll put it this way- these students survived a traumatic event, + had to face the possibility of their own death?…I’m very sorry to hear that. I am very, very sorry to hear that.
    Now what?

    In my early teen years, I had a mugger-type guy attack me, and threaten me with a lethal weapon. I’ve had horrible events occur to me, and other people have, as well.
    Too much information, maybe, but there it is.

    After that-
    I could ASK the adults, + teachers, + others, to change things, + ask them to make schools + other US places safer, and to make laws to try to protect people more…but I was never so arrogant as to [act] like an expert on US crime, or on how [the Adults and all other people] should act, and what laws they should have, or what adults should do, to lessen crime in the US, or in the rest of the world.

    Should all adults, and all people, try their best, to make a good nation, + one with minimal violence to kids?…I certainly, certainly, think so.

    But as a 18-year old, and a teen kid, I hand only experienced: pimples, drivers’ lessons, and any thoughts at all [about my own job, + my own home], for about 5 years. Did I have any expert knowledge on muggings, and other crimes?

    I always thought it was complete arrogance, to try to talk to adults, adults who had been adults for decades, as if I: knew more about adult life, and lethal subjects, or that I knew more about anything…[than the adults around me knew].

    Harsh things can happen to people in life, and I am in no way trying to diminish that. Not in any form.

    If these students know [who] these [mythical adults are], these mythical adults [who HAD the power to stop all murders + killings, and did nothing about it], PLEASE, with all respect meant, tell me who they are. But they do not exist.

    Adults are in the world, with its crime and violence, and kids are in the world, with its crime and violence, but-

    telling the adults, [who probably know more about the subject of crime, and about human failings], than you do, that [you think that you know more than they do about things], you probably will not gain much support, or good will, in your endeavors.