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Dances with swords
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Jeanie Cote of Hebron performs an Arabian sword dance at the third annual Maine Cultural and Music Festival on Saturday in Livermore. The festival, which featured live music from area artists and a medieval pig roast was a fundraiser to benefit two young boys suffering from severe peanut allergies.
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verified on "J. Ziehm: LePage forgetting his childhood"
Child labor crescendo was
Child labor crescendo was during the early industrial revolution. During the same time period life expectancy of children increased dramatically [1].
That being said, the government does have a purpose. Investment in sanitation significantly increased live expectancy for example. That was a benefit to society as a whole; however, the Government can overreach and is currently overreaching to the point where these basic services will be at risk due to structural budget deficits.
In closing, I hope to work until I die for that is a function of living. We’ll have to continue to argue about where to draw the line between productive services and overreaching services, but you cannot deny perpetual borrowing to balance the budget will not result in eventual collapse in all services. You need to start thinking about what you want to give up now to save the most important services, such as sanitation.
[1] http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/387301/modernization/12022/Pop...
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verified on "School choice, public funding for religious institutions headline LePage education plan"
Jon, I agree, except on the ease of firing teachers
I realize this piece regards NYC, but removing bad teachers in not easy at all, and the teachers' unions are behind the road block: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_brill
My brother-in-law, a 10th-grage history teacher, laments to me all the time about some of the horrible teachers his school simply can't get rid of -- even with loads of damning documentation.
I taught both English and biology years ago, and was stunned at some of the uninspired dinosaurs in the schools I was in. They were tenured gravy trainers, man. Yes, there were innumerable good-to-great teachers, but simply too many bad ones.
And current teacher evaluations are anything but stringent. I remember getting all 'E's for 'excellent' in my first review, and my pride was soon crushed when I was told that pretty much everybody gets 'E's.
verified on "Documents show Scarcelli was in early on 'Cutler Files'"
What????
This is suggesting that Scarcelli was a faux-democrat candidate created by the Republicans intended to produce a weak opponent for LePage. Wouldn't be surprising. During the campaign activists knew there was something just not right about Scarcelli's campaign. Republicans have done this or similiar things before in other states. Might also explain why Woodcock lost the campaign before and why LePage a very similiar out-of-the-mainstream candidate who was equally inarticulate and irrational won.
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