primary level (er... elementary in the US I think, under age 8).

Elementary school in the US lasts until age 12. Primary education in the UK is about the same.

TFA says that the school is called ''Kermit Elementary School''

So I guess it's appropriate that the principal is a muppet.

You've obviously not interacted with public school management much. Generally speaking, they're deathly afraid of anything anyone from any side of the political spectrum might take offense at.

This has been going on for some time now:

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards." -- Mark Twain in 1897

1.The Republican Congress will never approve this idea. Never.

Of course not. Obama has no expectation that this will ever pass. It's a rhetorical club to beat the Republicans with.

The less you pay in taxes, the more profitable you appear

That would be because the less you pay in taxes, the more profitable you are.

Now fuck off and suck retard dick like a good braindead faggot.

Truly, we are all elevated by your insightful and witty debate.

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"The NSA makes us uncomfortable, but their money makes us very comfortable indeed."

Really, it's more the powerful lobbying of Archer Daniels Midland, which does most of the corn processing in this country. The fact the the first caucus (not the first primary--that's in New Hampshire. Iowa's caucus is before New Hampshire's primary, though) is in Iowa doesn't hurt though, I'd imagine.

Apparently because of safety considerations, they really want a four-engine plane. But those are getting scarce on the ground. Jet engines are getting big and reliable enough that even the largest jets made these days have only two engines.

Well, sure. Otherwise the money will go to someone who doesn't make campaign contributions...er, that is, isn't American!

Bah. The BBC has been simulating a time machine for decades.

So you're saying they just don't need U?

U is for Underwater. I assume the data center is not submerged.

That's Town*send*.

Sci-fi had pew-pew-pew long before there were lasers. Ask Buck Rogers. Or Kimball Kinnison--he'll be happy to show you his DeLamaters.