She's so cute!

 

This boggles my mind still. You should be allowed to vote whoever after registering and not be penalized.

I actually don't think this is a problem. You can vote whoever the heck you want in the general election, as long as you're registered. Party affiliation on your registry simply permits you to vote in their primary: i.e., you get to have a say on which candidate your party puts forth for the general election, but you don't get to have a say in which candidate every party puts forth.

 

It's actually a lot more democratic in the Republican party than in the Democratic party. The Dems have something akin to the electoral college where one person can step in and override x thousands of votes. This is part of why Hillary Clinton got the nomination even though Bernie Sanders was the more popular candidate.

 

I think the problem is more the electoral college and the fact that we're stuck in a 2-party system with no run-off votes.

 

And school placement shouldn't be based on income, that's just wrong. I know here, it's all based on who's school limits you're within.

Legally speaking it's based on which limits you're in here too, the boundaries are just drawn based on income. It's the same reason a region that's 75% Democrat can wind up with 1 Democrat representative and 3 Republicans. It's just classic gerrymandering worked to fine precision via modern technology that can crunch all the numbers and spit out a map where one side always wins regardless of how people vote.

 

Ah I understand now. It's sorta how if you belong to a party here (you donate money) you can vote for the leader of the party when they have to replace one. But we don't have a set time before the election for that to happen.

Thank you for explaining Shad. Considering how much you guys effect us it doesn't hurt to know more 

How'd we get talking about politics?

 

You can register independent, but then you can't vote in primaries.

 

Having to register to vote is dumb though. Why can't you just, you know, vote without having to align yourself with a political party first?

 

This boggles my mind still. You should be allowed to vote whoever after registering and not be penalized.

 

Not in anywhere near the number to impact a federal race, I doubt, but the sort of thing that could sway city councils and school boards and the like.

 

If schools got something to do with politics something is very wrong in your country.

 

Agreed

 

 

Not in anywhere near the number to impact a federal race, I doubt, but the sort of thing that could sway city councils and school boards and the like.

 

If schools got something to do with politics something is very wrong in your country.

 

We actually had a small victory in the school board race here a month or two ago. The Republicans proposed a plan that would close all of the elementary schools and fire half of the teachers, compress it all into one megaschool with an untenable student-teacher ratio and basically dump a bunch of 5 year olds into something the size of a small college campus. There were no actual complains about the standing elementary school system, but the project was going to cost something to the tune of $42 million and the Republican school board was all getting a slice of that pie.

 

They tried to argue that it could be funded in the long run by money saved firing a lot of teachers, but it wasn't remotely clear how this was ever going to fly with the teachers' union (one of the few things in America still unionized) plus tax payers were going to have to cover the cost up front.  The blow to education didn't really phase anyone on the right, but any time you mention increasing taxes Republicans panic.  So campaigning mostly on the latter issue, we had a bunch of Democrats reregister as Republicans and run for the school board seats on a platform that the standing system was more fiscally conservative.  They won across the board in the primaries, and now a hard right town has a left-leaning school board.

 

Here we have Catholic school boards as well as public and both receive the same funding from the government. Isn't the US education system in shambles already? Firing teachers and having bigger class sizes will only make it worse.

And school placement shouldn't be based on income, that's just wrong. I know here, it's all based on who's school limits you're within.

Just my 2 cents

This truly is a crapsack world...

 

(and I am very happy I do not live in the USA, though I kinda wanna get out of the EU as well)

We have lots of space in Canada! You're welcome too Shad!

You guys have to declare the party you vote for in order to register?

 

 

 

 

 

So what do you chaps do 'round these parts?

eat bacon, play hockey and grow majestic beards...

 

where am i from?!!?!?!

Do you love maple syrup? If yes New Brunswick, if not, Alberta.

 

 

Yes and Yes im from NB!!!!!

 

lolololololol

 

wow that was impressive

 

 

thats what she said

 

to you specifically?

 

 

 

So what do you chaps do 'round these parts?

eat bacon, play hockey and grow majestic beards...

 

where am i from?!!?!?!

Do you love maple syrup? If yes New Brunswick, if not, Alberta.

 

 

Yes and Yes im from NB!!!!!

 

lolololololol

 

wow that was impressive

Is the show close to the books?

The first few seasons were pretty similar. They changed some things, added/took away others but that's expected. Now that they are ahead of the books who knows how it'll be when Martin is done. They will end it the same way as they know how it is supposed to end. Martin is fine with what they have done with the show and for me, that's good enough.

 

(Hands dander a warm quilt.)

 

Im Canadian, when we get cold we go kill a bear with our bare hands and use a bear skin blanket!!!!!

 

lololololololol

 

true story!

When the show started I wanted to know what happened next so I went and bought the series...I had to know!

Season 7 of Game of Thrones airs next week!!!!!!

Black Just don't have something faded with something new, looks terrible.

I prefer small accents of colour, specifically green or silver, causing that colour to "pop" against the black. 

Sorry, I used to work in clothing retail

 

In fact I wanna be the best.

 

I am the best

 

All I hear in my head is the theme song for Pokemon

I miss playing mafia. I almost won the first one I ever played. Now I usually don't make it passed the 2nd day

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I was watching the weather radar and the front just going further and further south when it usually dissipates. I've got lots of DM members on facebook and they were posting photos of the snow because they weren't used to it. I did find it a little funny though, is that cruel? 

Probably Canada.

 

I mean there are a lot of cool places to live, but that one would be practical.

Definitely the best choice There are places that don't get as cold during the winter, my home town for example. When we get snow, it lasts a few days then melts because of a chinook that blows through. Given this last winter was pretty brutal

*quietly tip toes through the monkeys. rolled a 5 then a 4*

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I know right?

Congrats Oscar! Light for the win!

*gives Mils a tight hug* We're here for you guys.

I know for myself, most of my experiences have been with peers, kids I've babysat as well as regular customers at places I've worked. I know one of the kids I've babysat loved to watch a kids tv show that taught sign language. I'm not sure if it was ASL but from the little I know, I did recognize some. I did see on Facebook, I think through Upworthy, a father who's daughter is non-verbal and he developed an app for her. It has photos of her mom and dad she can pick, and pictures of either what she wants or if she wants to say how she's feeling.

You've got this Led!

Have you tried cinnamon flavoured anything? I know a couple of people who found it helped to chew cinnamon gum 

*listening to the birds above, Lessa keeps an even pace through the forest* 4

*starts off toward the forest at a slight jog, searching for a clear path*

Rolled a 4 - 2 = 2

I know a lot of people take ambrosia salad for dessert on picnic's

FOR THE LIGHT!!!