No private school, especially private religious schools, should ever get a cent of public money for any reason. Money given to private schools is money taken away from public schools. Never the less, Republicans remain convinced it’s okay if they use the power of government to backstop Christianity.
Republicans have been working towards eliminating public schools altogether for decades now. Coupled with their weakening of child labor laws and union protections, one would think that their goal is an uneducated and heavily indoctrinated public who are easily controlled and will slave away for a pittance from a young age. Almost like they want the worst of the industrial revolution. Sounds a bit fascist to me.
When it looks like a wolf and barf like a wolf, then it might be a wolf. The R's have no trouble funding religious societies, so why don't they fund those taking away childrens rights.
"have been working towards" Agreed, and also the dummying of the United States public. Easier to control opinions and thoughts. Citizens are constantly being lied too by politicians, cults and religions. Many have no clue mainly because of education and not freely thinking for themselves. They will hold on to bullshit and misnomers because of the popularity not evidence. Sad and embarrassing 😟🤔
If you're worried about school shootings, maybe you should pass some sane gun regulation, instead of paying for more security. You know, barn door, cow, etc.
In fact, he was accused/convicted/plead guilty to attempting to bribe a member of Congress, who was only too happy to be bribed. One James Traficant of Ohio.
“Boy everyone in this country is running around yammering about their fucking rights. "I have a right, you have no right, we have a right."
Folks I hate to spoil your fun, but... there's no such thing as rights. They're imaginary. We made 'em up. Like the boogie man. Like Three Little Pigs, Pinocio, Mother Goose, shit like that. Rights are an idea. They're just imaginary. They're a cute idea. Cute. But that's all. Cute...and fictional. But if you think you do have rights, let me ask you this, "where do they come from?" People say, "They come from God. They're God given rights." Awww fuck, here we go again...here we go again.
The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, "It came from God." Anything we can't describe must have come from God. Personally folks, I believe that if your rights came from God, he would've given you the right for some food every day, and he would've given you the right to a roof over your head. GOD would've been looking out for ya. You know that.
He wouldn't have been worried making sure you have a gun so you can get drunk on Sunday night and kill your girlfriend's parents.
But let's say it's true. Let's say that God gave us these rights. Why would he give us a certain number of rights?
The Bill of Rights of this country has 10 stipulations. OK...10 rights. And apparently God was doing sloppy work that week, because we've had to ammend the bill of rights an additional 17 times. So God forgot a couple of things, like...SLAVERY. Just fuckin' slipped his mind.
But let's say...let's say God gave us the original 10. He gave the british 13. The british Bill of Rights has 13 stipulations. The Germans have 29, the Belgians have 25, the Sweedish have only 6, and some people in the world have no rights at all. What kind of a fuckin' god damn god given deal is that!?...NO RIGHTS AT ALL!? Why would God give different people in different countries a different numbers of different rights? Boredom? Amusement? Bad arithmetic? Do we find out at long last after all this time that God is weak in math skills? Doesn't sound like divine planning to me. Sounds more like human planning . Sounds more like one group trying to control another group. In other words...business as usual in America.
Now, if you think you do have rights, I have one last assignment for ya. Next time you're at the computer get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia, i want to type in, "Japanese-Americans 1942" and you'll find out all about your precious fucking rights. Alright. You know about it.
In 1942 there were 110,000 Japanese-American citizens, in good standing, law abiding people, who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That's all they did wrong. They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers, no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had was...right this way! Into the internment camps.
Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most...their government took them away. and rights aren't rights if someone can take em away. They're priveledges. That's all we've ever had in this country is a bill of TEMPORARY priviledges; and if you read the news, even badly, you know the list get's shorter, and shorter, and shorter.
Yeup, sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize the government doesn't give a fuck about them. the government doesn't care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety. it simply doesn't give a fuck about you. It's interested in it's own power. That's the only thing...keeping it, and expanding wherever possible.
Personally when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true: either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all.”
At least I was reminded of one of the really good lines from Ghostbusters 2. "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's god-given right!"
It's a typical Conservative response to anything public. Underfund it, claim it doesn't work, then privatise it. Schools, transport systems, hospitals – all over the world – it's what they do.
private schools are able to select their students while public schools serve all.
How many Catholic schools are in inner city neighborhoods?
Do Catholic schools serve special needs students?
Of course, Catholic schools are allowed to discriminate as much as they want against LGBTQ families.
of course, evangelical schools will be next.
A Catholic church in our neighborhood is displaying a sign celebrating "250 Years of Faith and Freedom." They have forgotten that Catholics have traditionally regarded as barely Christian by many of the evangelicals promoting Christian Nationalism
The corrupt SCOTUS Catholics sure do seem to be pulling a lot of strings around here. Don’t be fooled. They have all the power, money, and land (and the largest well funded pedo ring). The Evangelicals are their puppets.
Another cashgrab by a religion whose figurehead decried exorbitant amounts of money and how those who had more than their fair share just might not see the pearly gates.
I live in Florida and I can tell you it’s not all doom and gloom. There are quite a few of us who work for the environment, and have our heads on straight. We do not feel that private schools have any right to public funds. Especially private religious schools. Have a bake sale, do a car wash, get into those deep pockets of people who pay for private school and have them dig down to support the school and the students. Solicit your parishioners but stop taking money out of my pocket.
No private school, especially private religious schools, should ever get a cent of public money for any reason. Money given to private schools is money taken away from public schools. Never the less, Republicans remain convinced it’s okay if they use the power of government to backstop Christianity.
Republicans have been working towards eliminating public schools altogether for decades now. Coupled with their weakening of child labor laws and union protections, one would think that their goal is an uneducated and heavily indoctrinated public who are easily controlled and will slave away for a pittance from a young age. Almost like they want the worst of the industrial revolution. Sounds a bit fascist to me.
The creation of a permanent American underclass is the age-old Republican dream.
And it's their own kids and grandkids that they are doing this to (as well as ours).
What are they thinking?
Oh yeah, sorry, got carried away there. Thinking 🙄 ... not.
When it looks like a wolf and barf like a wolf, then it might be a wolf. The R's have no trouble funding religious societies, so why don't they fund those taking away childrens rights.
Uhm, "barf" means 🤮.
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"have been working towards" Agreed, and also the dummying of the United States public. Easier to control opinions and thoughts. Citizens are constantly being lied too by politicians, cults and religions. Many have no clue mainly because of education and not freely thinking for themselves. They will hold on to bullshit and misnomers because of the popularity not evidence. Sad and embarrassing 😟🤔
Thanks
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Bulletproof glass? Safety officers? Why would xtians need those? Won't their god protect them? Shows a distict lack of faith.
Why do they install lightning rods on churches? ;)
Hoo boy, were some xtians pissed off about THAT. They mewled that science had somehow robbed their god of its power. :)
Not a very powerful god if he can be thwarted by a lightning rod. ;)
This article simply demonstrates the absolute uselessness of prayer by xtians to get what they need.
If you're worried about school shootings, maybe you should pass some sane gun regulation, instead of paying for more security. You know, barn door, cow, etc.
Oh c'mon. All they really need to do is post the 10Cs in every room and all will be good.
Yeah, the need for bulletproof glass really hit me hard
OT: The owner of the company that was hired to fix the algae problem in the reflecting pool looks the part.
https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1u9sb1h/the_man_who_did_the_reflecting_pool_john_j_cafaro/
Ummm ... GREENwater Services??? [smirk ... smirk ... GUFFAW!!! 🤣🤣🤣]
You can't fool me. That's John Candy impersonating Tony Clifton.
Jesus Christ, he deserves to be in prison – if only for a fashion crime.
In fact, he was accused/convicted/plead guilty to attempting to bribe a member of Congress, who was only too happy to be bribed. One James Traficant of Ohio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Traficant
… Oh Em Gee. He looks like John Candy with a moustache playing the role of an evil and/or incompetent business mogul.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MRC5nvSKTTs
I saw clips of people pulling up sheets of the blue coating.
Trump has sent in the National Guard to keep people from grabbing a souvenir.
Oh come on he looks like the villain of one of those cheesy movies from the 80s!
Apologies this is the whole quote:
“Boy everyone in this country is running around yammering about their fucking rights. "I have a right, you have no right, we have a right."
Folks I hate to spoil your fun, but... there's no such thing as rights. They're imaginary. We made 'em up. Like the boogie man. Like Three Little Pigs, Pinocio, Mother Goose, shit like that. Rights are an idea. They're just imaginary. They're a cute idea. Cute. But that's all. Cute...and fictional. But if you think you do have rights, let me ask you this, "where do they come from?" People say, "They come from God. They're God given rights." Awww fuck, here we go again...here we go again.
The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, "It came from God." Anything we can't describe must have come from God. Personally folks, I believe that if your rights came from God, he would've given you the right for some food every day, and he would've given you the right to a roof over your head. GOD would've been looking out for ya. You know that.
He wouldn't have been worried making sure you have a gun so you can get drunk on Sunday night and kill your girlfriend's parents.
But let's say it's true. Let's say that God gave us these rights. Why would he give us a certain number of rights?
The Bill of Rights of this country has 10 stipulations. OK...10 rights. And apparently God was doing sloppy work that week, because we've had to ammend the bill of rights an additional 17 times. So God forgot a couple of things, like...SLAVERY. Just fuckin' slipped his mind.
But let's say...let's say God gave us the original 10. He gave the british 13. The british Bill of Rights has 13 stipulations. The Germans have 29, the Belgians have 25, the Sweedish have only 6, and some people in the world have no rights at all. What kind of a fuckin' god damn god given deal is that!?...NO RIGHTS AT ALL!? Why would God give different people in different countries a different numbers of different rights? Boredom? Amusement? Bad arithmetic? Do we find out at long last after all this time that God is weak in math skills? Doesn't sound like divine planning to me. Sounds more like human planning . Sounds more like one group trying to control another group. In other words...business as usual in America.
Now, if you think you do have rights, I have one last assignment for ya. Next time you're at the computer get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia, i want to type in, "Japanese-Americans 1942" and you'll find out all about your precious fucking rights. Alright. You know about it.
In 1942 there were 110,000 Japanese-American citizens, in good standing, law abiding people, who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That's all they did wrong. They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers, no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had was...right this way! Into the internment camps.
Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most...their government took them away. and rights aren't rights if someone can take em away. They're priveledges. That's all we've ever had in this country is a bill of TEMPORARY priviledges; and if you read the news, even badly, you know the list get's shorter, and shorter, and shorter.
Yeup, sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize the government doesn't give a fuck about them. the government doesn't care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety. it simply doesn't give a fuck about you. It's interested in it's own power. That's the only thing...keeping it, and expanding wherever possible.
Personally when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true: either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all.”
George Carlin
And during this and other moments of tyranny, the NRA and gun owners did absolutely nothing.
All the “don’t tread on me” folks are awfully quiet these days…
Those traitors are in the icestapo doing the treading.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTbsPfZAXyf/?igsh=MXZwd2VpMHduY3RsdQ==
And the bit for this piece that made me think of it:
“He wouldn't have been worried making sure you have a gun so you can get drunk on Sunday night and kill your girlfriend's parents.”
Indeed. -_-
At least I was reminded of one of the really good lines from Ghostbusters 2. "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's god-given right!"
Am I missing something? Shouldn't these costs be covered by the Vatican? They got enough gold from the Nazis!!
Surely other religious-based schools, such as ones based on Islam, can receive some tax dolllars right? Right?
Time for TST to open a school.
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The devil would certainly be in the details in any funding going to that hypothetical school.
It's a typical Conservative response to anything public. Underfund it, claim it doesn't work, then privatise it. Schools, transport systems, hospitals – all over the world – it's what they do.
What is not being said is that apparently, religion isn’t teaching anyone to be better people, nor is protecting religious institutions.
So, their morality doesn’t make the schools better or safer. Their prayers are not h]going to stop violence or save lives.
The only thing that will fix their problems is tax payer money.
BINGO!!!
some additional points:
private schools are able to select their students while public schools serve all.
How many Catholic schools are in inner city neighborhoods?
Do Catholic schools serve special needs students?
Of course, Catholic schools are allowed to discriminate as much as they want against LGBTQ families.
of course, evangelical schools will be next.
A Catholic church in our neighborhood is displaying a sign celebrating "250 Years of Faith and Freedom." They have forgotten that Catholics have traditionally regarded as barely Christian by many of the evangelicals promoting Christian Nationalism
Trying to sort out who was, or was not, a TRUE Christian has spilled a river of blood.
The corrupt SCOTUS Catholics sure do seem to be pulling a lot of strings around here. Don’t be fooled. They have all the power, money, and land (and the largest well funded pedo ring). The Evangelicals are their puppets.
Not to mention that denazi is a pseudo catholic.
It's sad that the catholic church doesn't have its own money. 🙄
On topic:
Vance chooses the most delusional religion, doubles down on lying and hypocrisy as his post-Trump Republican bona fides
https://www.ms.now/opinion/jd-vance-book-communion-2028-presidential-race
I hate that scumbag so much.
Vances's religion is performative. Period.
They want the population that is unable to afford private schools ignorant. And those that can afford to be their puppets
Another cashgrab by a religion whose figurehead decried exorbitant amounts of money and how those who had more than their fair share just might not see the pearly gates.
I live in Florida and I can tell you it’s not all doom and gloom. There are quite a few of us who work for the environment, and have our heads on straight. We do not feel that private schools have any right to public funds. Especially private religious schools. Have a bake sale, do a car wash, get into those deep pockets of people who pay for private school and have them dig down to support the school and the students. Solicit your parishioners but stop taking money out of my pocket.