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Writer, accordion player, runner, reader, teacher, wedding officiant, Iowa farmer, dirt-road Democrat, juggler, freethinker. Not necessarily in that order. Oh, and puppets. http://schoolblazing.blogspot.com
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I hope these exchanges are taught in every private Christian school this fall.
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The looming Medicaid crisis will destroy rural Iowa hospitals. There go to healthcare jobs you’re planning on.
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There are people in power, who don’t want us to understand the numbers. This is from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”:
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Today’s was a little weird, but admin from a few days ago was out of bounds. Isn’t admin just in abbreviation for administration or administrators?
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My dad then did the same to his brother’s. With tears of rage streaming down their faces, they beat each other’s hog houses to smitherines. I always loved that story and its unstinting ending…
Tonight, I’m watching that same story unfold in real time.
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From George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”:
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I drove 30 years without GPS, but I’m so dependent on it now I don’t know if I could find my exit without it. I’m not sure this is progress, but it is the way of the world. Maps may go the direction of mother-of-pearl buttons.
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Hello, fellow journalism teacher.
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“It’s just words” is a libel defense now?
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Talk about cancel culture.
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Who Joni thinks she is and who her words and actions show her to be are two different people. This calls for some adjustment. The Jonis aren’t matching.
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Mine comes today.
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Do you know if anyone has ever carried a mushroom wedding bouquet this would be perfect. Carry the whole log.
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I 💙 lifelong learning.
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Pretty sure she didn’t accidentally wandered in there.
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He and Joni Ernst are cut from the same smug, self-righteous cloth.
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My first thought is always that he and his son exchange porn warnings when they get too frisky
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And Joni Ernst said, See? I told you! We’re all going to die!
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Vile?
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I live in Iowa and can verify.
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She zigzags in intended tone from apology to insult to “joke” to religious testimony— all to the backdrop of a cemetery. The result of her attempted irony is clear disdain for all of us concerned about healthcare and children. I give it an F.
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before ending at the pulpit proclaiming life after death—which is a cringy belief to juxtapose with the tooth fairy comment.
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She then takes a twisted boomerang back to further denigrate the people genuinely concerned about their healthcare, then veers into a weird tooth-fairy “joke”
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Thank you for this.
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I prefer “wretched.”
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Best use of AI I’ve found yet
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It’s the Big Billionaire Bill 💸