Stinky Scandal Yeh, imagine all those Yankees, in the dugout, in the field, totally distracted from the game, thinking "Yum, what was that jello that tasted like fish? When can I get some more? I know, if I just swing at the first three pitches, we can get this game OVER and then I can HAVE SOME MORE!" Sadly, these brilliant ideas always come too late!
Redistricting I'm trying to sort out what people are saying here. If somehow the official map were a DFL power booster, why would any Republican support it? Shouldn't every COMPETING party be against it? Not that the Republicans have snowball's chance in hell now that they've deliberately molested the city budget, but they still wouldn�t have any rational motive to want the DFL STRONGER. Or would they. Maybe the people with the conspiracy theories can show that logic doesn�t apply.
Racism The community school plan was not an attempt to separate the races. It was an attempt to recover money for education that had futilely been spent on transportation. The notion back when the courts imposed busing was that by balancing populations in schools, the learning gap between races would gradually disappear. That gap hasn�t improved at all. So, why not try something else after decades of trying out what was, at best, a THEORY. After all, what was busing REALLY about? It was about segregation in housing. If we could learn, as races, to get along as neighbors, you would never need busing. But block-busting, a real estate scam that started at least as far back as the 60�s, caused neighborhoods to change from all-white to majority-black, while enriching real estate brokers and further impoverishing black homebuyers. The term may be unfamiliar to Generation X people, but it was the subject of endless coverage in the media at the time. So, anyway, Sayles Belton came out in favor of community schools with CHOICE in hopes that by taking bus money and applying it to teaching in black-majority schools, something could be accomplished. Just another theory, but worth trying. She did give an issue to a sector of the Left, but there�s no way to avoid that. ________________________________________ Jim Mork Cooper Neighborhood Crimes against Peace: namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a Common Plan or Conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing; -- Nuremberg War Tribunal
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