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Bill is a smart guy and read the tea leaves well. Thanks for posting this.

I think it’s even simpler than that.

In California, some group of advocates a while back said phonics is racist, so they can’t use it to teach reading.

Grateful for the "Waffle House" comment ...keeps CA/NY libs from wanting to move here!

Per Reform California: Despite facing a massive budget deficit, California Democrats approved expanding taxpayer-funded health services to illegal immigrants

I must have missed something.

Bill Maher said Mississippi is out performing California in education stats.

While I don't care for this guy, I got the impression
he was using Mississippi to expose the goofy West Coast logic
... (or lack thereof).

I have no problem with such.

Bill Maher taking a shot at Ike so the stupid live audience can laugh…that was pathetic. Ike helped to save the free world - literally. Bill and the loud laughing dork in his audience wouldn’t have lasted a day cleaning Ike’s toilet during WWII

Uh, yeah, Mississippi is just awash in prodigies. The ones that we actually have leave right after the acceptance letters start arriving with out-of-state postmarks. And they don't come back. Well, except one or two who turn out not to be quite as prodigy-ish as they would have the non-prodigies still here believe. I hear the voice of Winston Wolf telling a couple of gangsters that they shouldn't be giving each other blow jobs quite yet. And I see a sign with a shoeprint on it.

The kids and grandkids will inherit a fair amount of property in Mississippi, with a whole lot of history and heritage. We hope they'll keep at least some. They say they just don't know, and we understand that. We won't come back to haunt them if they call the real estate agent on the way to the funeral home. Goddammit, why did we - collectively, all races - allow it to get in this situation? The hows are all around us and largely obvious to anyone who will look. It all comes down to stupidity. I want to know WHY. The possibilities pissed away...SMMFH (as the kids might say).

Fifth Column tool......

What is a Waffle House car and how do I get one?

"The car on the front lawn" is a classic. Just think of all the things MS citizens store or do on their front lawns that should probably be in back behind a fence (or not at all); old washing machines, old refrigerators, swimming pools left from five years ago, tires, more than one car, dish antenna unused since 1990, bounce houses, long dead lawn mowers, things covered by a blue tarp, seasonal decorations from two years ago, sofa, barcalounger, dog (or dogs) on chains or in cages, of course there's the aggressive pit bull just roaming, ... I'm sure there's more, Mississippians are very creative :D

At first, I saw only the "dragged Mississippi" and was waiting for the disrespect while watching. Upon watching and rereading the headline, now I get it. It's still a little backhanded and passive-aggressive by Maher. "You know that shithole of a backwards-ass landmass down south? Even they are better than California!" All he needed to add was a "bless their hearts" to clinch it.

1. 25% of MS 3rd graders cannot read well enough to pass a standardized reading test.
2. Texas has suffered rolling blackouts owing to unreliable Hippie Energy dependence, a stupid situation in a state with massive natural gas production.

3. Jackson MS, JPS 3rd Grade Reading Proficiency is only 25%.
(Yet KF plays the bitch card for those who notice that Jackson's deficiencies outweigh the proficiencies, except for its outstanding 3 major hospitals).

I know this will be a surprise to some of you, but if we get sick or injured as visitors in a foreign country, we will get free medical care and the reverse is also true for those visiting here.
THINK! If there's a person with a contagious disease visiting us or illegally here, don't we want them quarantined and treated instead of spreading it? If a family member of yours is hit by a car overseas and their leg has bad fractures ( actually happened to a Mississippi young woman), don't you want them treated? And, if it happens here, do you just want to let them get infected and die or be crippled?
If you are truly a Christian, how on earth would you justify that?
Do you really think other countries get paid by oh...Blue Cross Blue Shield or even USAA? Read you policies!

Correction: 50% (not 25%) JPS 3rd graders passed reading assessment, 1st try.

So...if there were no private schools, those averages would be higher. The truth is that not all our Janes or Johnnys of any color are smart.
And, trust me, if you marry a dumb person for their " looks", your child's IQ just won't be lower than that of the parent with the lowest IQ. But, they may not get as high as the highest IQ parent.
Our private schools actually have an entrance test that has to be passed. Unless, of course, the kid's parents have loads of money or the kid is so good at sports , his teachers give him or her better grades than they deserve or "extra credit" projects to help their grade.
I'm under the impression that none of our schools teach biology or else all of you would know at least something about genetics. I guess they are afraid it'd be taught as " sex education". My schools taught the basics beginning in junior high in separate classes for boys and girls but STILL not well enough since some kids still thought you could get pregnant sitting on your parent's beds!
And, heads up...pregnancies don't always go well. The mother can have problems or injuries that affect development of the fetus.
I'll be some of you don't know that how a child is physically or psychologically doing on "test day" can affect their test scores.
Ignorance is a dangerous!

9:04 am
I got food poisoning in Austria once. Some nuns gave me an aspirin. I went back outside, crawled under some bushes and continued to vomit with an extreme gut pain.
In America I have been well treated by medical professionals for car wreck injuries, ripped tendon snow skiing, and many, many surgeries and procedures. Most paid by insurance, some paid in cash. No rational person advocates Socialized Medicine. Those ass backward countries have hospitals with gurneys of hurt people waiting in hallways for treatment. Foreigners fly to USA for quality medicine and pay for it.

"Texas has suffered rolling blackouts owing to unreliable Hippie Energy dependence"

in the 1990s, Texas deregulated it's electricity public service, and went too far. Texas also detached from the national grid, in order to keep federal regulators out of it. Rolling blackouts are the result.

It has nothing to do with "renewable" energy dependence. This is a "free market" and "regulations are bad" approach to a public service problem, not a "green energy" problem.

Kids are being taught how to test , not how to think.

"I know this will be a surprise to some of you, but if we get sick or injured as visitors in a foreign country, we will get free medical care..."

Earlier this year my brother-in-law's sister died while visiting Mexico. The hospital would not release her body for transport for burial in the U.S. until her hospital bill had been paid in full in cash.

Can barely see a doctor anymore; we get shunted off into the care of some nurse practitioner. Many times we are treated by a doctor with an accent so thick as to be difficult to understand, unsure whether the doctor has the language comprehension to understand his patient. If this is the best healthcare system in the world, I hate like Hell to see what second place looks like.

10:42am
Absent Solar &Wind which Climate Hippies falsely promote as a redemption panacea for Texas and the planet, there likely would have been much stronger baseload capacity founded in additional natural gas fired turbines &/or perhaps even nuclear energy production when unusual cold ice storms swept through TX. TX will get it right and plan better, all the brains are moving there while the Climate Druids are drumming and chanting mantras to the moon.

Lifelong Mississippian here. What kind of people are proud to be the victims of backhanded compliments? “Oh look - even the dummies in the Sip are better than you”. Comparisons to California are ridiculous anyway. Their economy is bigger than Russia’s.

Thank you, 7:13PM! The lack of Phonetics in California schools, may explain the deplorable PRONUNCIATION FADS currently destroying the English Language. I call it 'Trendigurlspeak'. Young women (and womanly young men) seem to feel obliged to conform to every pronunciation fad. It only stands to reason, that those fads originate in California, given how much mass media originates there.

I'd been wondering how people were getting basic sounds so very wrong. Now, I know. Thanks for that information. (and praise the LORD, that we Mississippi kids were relentlessly drilled on Phonetics).

8:35: I said "phonics," which is a method of teaching reading.

"Phonetics" deals with pronunciation.

I recommend you investigate "phonics" further.