Orlando Tim
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A good friend of mine is right now dealing a POS principal who has instructed her not to teach the "Outsiders" in 8th grade despite it being approved by the state for that level. The teacher has taught it for 10 years without objection because she informs parents at begining of year, in January and just this week before she starts it on March 25th. Parents can opt for an alternative assignment but the principal is pretending that she is concerned about the law when it has been approved for 8th graders. When I see headlines about how difficult this law is to follow I get pissed because it is easy to follow and this teacher has gone out of her way to ensure parents with immature children have an alternative.
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On 3/14/2024 at 1:39 PM, LabattBlue said:
Any idea how much draft capital is needed to go from 28 to top 10?
IMO…very very small chance of this happening.
The Bills got the minimum from KC a on the pick for Mahomes and that was the next years 1st along with the current 1st and a 3rd rounder.
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First time jumping on this signing but how are people trashing the guy? He has to be used properly to flourish but that is why is not getting paid $30 million a year. If we use him and the other receivers properly I can see an offense where 5 guys have 60+ catches on this offense. I like the signing even if it seems like we have a lot of "slot" guys.
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On 3/13/2024 at 12:19 PM, B-Man said:
The Press That Spread the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Lies
Now Lies About the Settlement Reached Regarding That Law
by Brad Slager
In Florida, a court challenge to the hotly contested Parental Rights In Education Act has ended with a settlement reached between the plaintiffs and the state. You can read through the media reports about this conclusion and see the bias plainly on display.
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These articles are hilarious in that they are celebrating that nothing has changed. The only people who are going to change are liberals who pretended the law said things it did not say. My safe space sticker on my door has remained up the entire time, my male students are always discussing their boyfriends, and the lesbian teachers have had their family pictures up the whole time. The law was aimed at a few terrible teachers and they are the only ones who had to change because they liked discussing their sex partners with children.
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i need an explanation of how the mother got in trouble. This was a good lesson to the bully, and if my kid was the bully I certainly would not be pressing charges
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If he is still available when we can trade up for him I would be very happy with that pick. Josh has shown he can work well with tight ends and he would give us a ton of flexibility on formations. No reason we can't use all three TE at once and use Kincaid and Bower as split out receivers.
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I know Buffalo can convert Josh salary into to bonus to clear up $15 million this year but can the Bills just do part of it? Basically can they do 5 million only?
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17 hours ago, Roundybout said:
I’m so glad Elon gave us free speech on Twitter. Now we can have lots of this!
I will point out that I have seen this bite post many times on Twitter but never with that word. The algorithm they use determines which words/phrases get you to respond and gives you more of it. I get tons of stuff from 90s Bills and other sport items. Block the trolls and they go away
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@Joe Ferguson forever I am truly curious what stance you have ever taken in regards to COVID that was driven by concern for the young people? I know your concern for 70+ year olds is outstanding but I accepted shutting down schools for several months and did both online and face to face school at the same time for a while year to help out old folks, but what stance have you had that was not basically screw the kids.
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25 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
You can. Kids in some schools can’t. And since you’re so current with the Covid literature, link some studies to support your claims. Native immune systems failed for nearly 30000 dead people under 30 in the US alone. It did nothing to stop under 30,s from being reservoirs. Of course, that’s about caring for other people. It’s clearly a foreign concept to you.
My concern will always be for kids over adults, yours is the opposite. Also your 30k number is not from COVID since the total since 2020 of COVID deaths under 30 still has not hit 10k in total.
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18 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
from 2020-23 27000 us citizens DIED from covid. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge Is that enough for you? Countless others transmitted the virus to the vulnerable. The concept of herd immunity is above your capacity. What is your threshold for lives saved to compel you to take the vaccine? I suspect there isn't one. Selfish and ignorant is a bad combo. Banned books can be found on a simple search. IIRC they include steinbeck and Hemingway as well as the Diary of Ann Frank. Your conspiracy assertion that the virus was not novel deserves no reply.
I can get Hemingway and Anne Frank from my local library so you are lying about the book ban, i appreciate that you don't want to discuss the fact that the vaccine did nothing to protect the young and healthy beyond what their own immune system already provided, as intelligent people thought in March of 2020 and knew with certainly by August of 2020. It is still a conspiracy that the US funded gain of function research in Wuhan on a Sars virus? You must have missed a ton of news over the past few years
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1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
You MAGAs minimize tragedies like a global pandemic and Jan 6 and perseverate on culture war issues like transsexuality, conspiracies and book banning. This is not normal. This is not logical. This is not productive. But that's MAGA. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Of course, no one was experimenting on children. It was a novel and dire situation. Public health officials went with the evidence they had at the time. I don't know the current recs on childhood immunization are since I never treated kids but suspect it's still recommended.
It was not novel, the US government had been studying it for years at the Wuhan laboratory. But two questions, how many lives to think we're saved by healthy 30 year olds getting vaccinated? Secondly can you name one book banned in Florida?
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13 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
No shame in that. An "abundance of caution" was clearly indicated when we knew almost nothing about transmission. It';s what you want your surgeon to employ when you're getting a bypass.
I assume you live in one of the states that mandated the COVID shot for children, was that part of abundance of caution or was that simply evil to force an experiment on children?
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3 hours ago, BillStime said:
Oh Tim...
‘We are in a state of emergency’: Orlando surgeon says hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients
Central Florida hospital capacities pushed to their limits by new COVID cases
Florida hospitals, overwhelmed with COVID, describe nursing shortage, financial hits
Life was WORSE four years ago.
As I stated there were several articles of how ICUs were at capacity without pointing out capacity is a flexible thing for an ICU. Sam Attallah who you quote, works out of the hospital I go to for my doctor. His hospital was absolutely not being overrun at any point. They had to move non emergency appointments but he was being dramatic. The nursing shortage is real here, but that is due to an ever expanding population and is continuing to this day. By mid 2021 most of life Orlando was back to normal even at the hospitals.
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1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
sure, I was cowardly taking care of covid patients some of whom were dying and filling up every ICU bed when there was no treatment or vaccine...How'd you spend the pandemic? How many do you think died from covid? Did you help or hurt the vulnerable?
Far too often you sound like you never practiced medicine at all. "Filling up every ICU bed" is a line from a politician not a doctor- ICU is made to flex and few places ran out of beds. NYC ask for and received the floating hospitals and barely used them. In Orlando they shut down non vital services but COVID never overran any hospital in central Florida , though the loval media did lie about it a couple of times and then "correct" themselves a few days later.
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1 hour ago, beebe said:
The story circling the internet is comically misleading. After the game, it was reported that 15 people were transported to an area hospital. Only three people were treated for frostbite related injuries directly from the game. It's unknown how many of those three required amputation. Below is an article from Jan 19, six days after the Chiefs-Dolphins game. Note it says five admissions came "within the last 24 hours" of the article being published. It was freezing temps across the KC metro region for more than a week, both before and after the game. Undoubtedly, a subset of people attended the Chiefs game. Even then, it doesn't mean they got frostbite at the game. One likely amputee that I read about (I was appalled by the 70% headlines and had to see for myself) said he was also a meter reader who works outdoors.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Jan 19) – With winter continuing to grip the Kansas City area, more and more people are visiting the emergency room for weather-related injuries.
The University of Kansas Health System reported 19 frostbite patients had been admitted to its burn unit in the last 10 days, with five of those admissions happening in the last 24 hours.
Research Medical Center in south Kansas City said it’s seeing a record number of patients this year.
“Last winter we had maybe a small handful of patients come in with frostbite and frostnip,” said Dr. Megan Garcia. “This past week we’ve seen dozens of patients come in with these injuries.”
Garcia works at the Grossman Burn Center inside Research Medical Center; in fact, she helped start the unit a decade ago.
In the time she’s worked at the hospital as a burn surgeon she hasn’t had to do a lot of amputations related to frostbite, maybe 10 or 15 per her recollection, but this winter is a different story.
“In just this cold spell we’ve been having I’ve seen multiple patients that will likely require amputation five to six weeks from now. I imagine it’ll be somewhere between 10 and 20 at this point,” she added.
Extreme cases like this typically mean a patient’s fingers or toes are dark, meaning their blood vessels have exploded. To put it plainly, you’re beyond the point of repair.
Wait, you expect me to read an article and not just go off a headline? You expect too much!!
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43 minutes ago, BuffaloRebound said:
Loved the pop and downhill nature Dorian Williams brought to the defense when he played. I also think lightbulb goes on for Elam. He’s still a pup.
I agree with Williams, he physically fits the position well for us and I think he understands his role well. Our LBs could be insane for the next few years. I disagree with Elam but it is one of my few indictments of Beane, taking a man cover corner to play put zone is dumb, guys instincts work with one or other, rarely both.
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I went to the Bills Raiders playoff game that about the same temperature and stayed the whole game when I was in my teens. My father left with my sister who was a preteen at the time at the end of first quarter because her clothes weren't warm enough. I have minimal sympathy for any adult because if you bundle up you will be fine and it takes several bad decisions to get to that point. As for kids, my sympathy is enormous and wish they had a father like mine.
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1 hour ago, Tommy Callahan said:
When one is a product of their environment, they don't see the future, they see it one day at a time. it's called the hustle/servival.
people from Sheltered upbringings don't understand because they have never lived or experienced it.
1 hour ago, The Frankish Reich said:How is this even possible? Are the parents just completely disconnected? Do these kids (Honors) expect to go to college?
What Frank said about too high self esteem is not off the mark for many of these kids. I will state most of the kids I teach have parents who have money to pay full freight for a college, so scholarships and such are not top of mind. Also most colleges have acceptance rates north of 50% so being from my school and being a 3.0 gpa kid gets you into most schools. During 2021 COVID was top of mind and kids stayed home with minor colds, and that seems to be continuing, which is an issue. Lastly I definitely have the kids who don't care about college or the future also, but the issue we have is we can't kick them out really until they turn 19 even if they are not doing much of anything.
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If you hear about the absenteeism being out of control, it is not a joke. I have an Honors class in the middle of the day where 19 of 26 already have 10+ absences. Generally at 10 absences for the year and A is hard to reach. 10 of the students are on pace for 20 absences and at that point a B is generally unrealistic. How is a teacher responsible for kids they don't see?
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6 hours ago, ChiGoose said:
I'd say scale and willingness by a campaign to accept interference.
As far as I can tell, the IRA is fairly unprecedented. I'm not aware of such an organization playing in a US election at that scale before. The advent of the internet and social media presented an effective opportunity that we hadn't seen before and were definitely not prepared for.
In addition to that, the Trump Campaign had an unprecedented willingness to meet with foreign agents promising politically beneficial information. There were dozens of contacts between the campaign and Russian operatives when the normal thing to do would be to report such attempted contacts to law enforcement.
Hillary literally paid for the Steele Dossier, which is Russian disinformation, and you think Trump was the new "scale and willingness"? Secondly acceptance of foreign interference is applauded when it is believed to help liberals, such as foreign nationals whom work in Hollywood praise them.
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1 hour ago, ChiGoose said:
Something that has become pretty common is to set a baseline on an issue that is either incorrect or exaggerated because it allows you to make the point you want to make. It's just strawman stuff all the way down.
For the Russia investigation, many on the Right assume the narrative of far-Left loonies was the basis of the investigation (think Occupy Democrats, Krassenstein grifters, and even Hillary, etc.) who said things along the lines of Trump taking orders from Putin.
That way, when there's a lack of evidence to disprove the extreme position, they can claim victory over the entire issue, ignoring the reality of the situation.
What the Mueller Report found is that Russia tried to interfere in the election to Trump's benefit and that the Trump Campaign was open to (or even welcoming of) that support. It also detailed several crimes committed by Russians, members of the Trump Campaign, and by Trump himself.
But because it didn't prove the extreme / exaggerated claim that Trump and Putin were working hand-in-hand, the Right declared victory, completely ignoring anything else discovered in the investigation.
The idea that Trump and Putin had entered into a conspiracy was always way out there. There wasn't any need for an agreement between the parties: they wanted the same thing and they were going to act to achieve it. Why would they need a formal agreement on it when they were going to do it anyway?
If Mueller was telling the truth when he said there wasn't an agreement between Trump and Putin (he was), then why do they think basically everything else in the report is a lie (it isn't)?
In the end, you get people stupidly using the Mueller Report to disprove the Mueller Report either through a lack of reading comprehension or a malicious desire to mislead.
I do have a question for you- how was the interference in 2016 any different than the interference in every election since at least Reagan? The only major difference I see is that one of the campaigns was dumb enough to get hacked with classified information. Russians lied about Trump in the Steele Dossier, Russians lied about Hillary also.
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Any player not named Josh Allen should be available for the right price but I doubt anyone will offer what he is worth to us.
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Just now, Cynical said:
UCF went 6-7 and lost to GT Tech in the bowl game.
They knew who UCF was.They overestimated themselves.
Rat poison will do that.
By the way, welcome to Gus Malzhan football.
I see it has only been 3 years.
You probably still think he will turn it around.
Give it 2 more years, and you will understand why Auburn fans were ready to move on from him.
UCF had some injuries in middle of year and got smoked by two middling teams. We lost by 2 to Sooners and by 1 to Texas tech and Baylor. We would have been 8-4 if not for some bad luck. All of our good luck came during that one game.
Education in America
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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The concept of being proficient at math at these ages is much more along the lines of effort for 90% of students, because the math is simply not difficult. I have only had a few students, about 5-8%, who truly could not complete up to the level when they tried. Much of the issue is simply showing up to class and working through concepts, which is primarily on parents. The way that LeBron has set up the school is truly no better for these kids than the local public school since there is no requirement that parents be involved. LeBron is not the problem but he is not the solution at all.