Well, three years is not a really long stretch of time. If you read the article you'll note that casualties from tornadoes have remained stable around 50 per year, down from the over 500 in 2011. So it sounds like there was increased activity in 2011, but we've had afew slow years.

It's moronic to equate that to, "so much for climate change..."

I was pondering this very topic during my morning shower. How easy it is for someone to say, skip lunch, don't get cable, live on beans and rice, walk to work, etc...

It's simple to make a temporary sacrifice, when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and your probably coming off a pretty nice existence.
It's not so simple to make a sacrifice that leave's you treading water, in the same miserable existence. Human nature makes it seem better to enjoy yourself while you can.

Yeah, they'll be sure to satisfy them. They'll have personal service, with cops watching their house at all hours. Their level on police interaction will be so extensive they will definitely be too pleased to complain further.

at least around here, that's flipped. AT&T has made huge strides in customer service.

If only they would have better upstream.

If anyone from AT&T is reading this, we want faster upstream speeds!

That's not true, plenty of places pay the same salary and don't expect more then 40 hours. I know that's something I ask up front when I interview.

Your flat out wrong. If you had read the article, you would see that profits are up, as a percentage of GDP, almost the exact amount that wages are down, as a percentage of GDP. Your calculations are perfect if you are in a vacuum and they make sense to a functional moron (sorry to break it to you).

To put it in simple terms, your bosses are keeping more money and giving you less. Companies are hoarding cash they could easily be paying to employees, and corporations are paying shareholders, or propping up their share price, at the expense of employees.

Not less capable, but might understand spoken english much better then written. Might also not have had the same opportunity to learn, even though they are just as capable.

i challenge you to volunteer in an inner city poor school. Those kids are just as interested as wealthy and middle class kids. They also have alot more obstacles to learning. Often, they surmount those obstacle. Sometimes they don't.

Kids love to learn, sometimes they are too busy learning how to avoid a beating, or how to get a meal. This prevents them from learning math and reading.

yes, private school is something you pay for if you so choose. You pay for your own public school education whether you want it or not.

To be fair, the donate time and supplies breaks down over a larger deployment. It's a nice fantasy though.

Only android allows you to maintain your own app store and properly lock down a device (in theory). Ipads require every parent to put a cc into apple's system or do some sort of gift card work around. This alone should make them untenable in a school or corporate setting.

I'm i a "respond to troll" mood today. Go into any urban McDonalds and tally up how many of their workers were born in the USA. That's why the icons are used. The vast majority of public school children graduate with the ability to read, do advanced math, and understand rudimentary problem solving and cause / effect. I can see why a subset of our nation wants to change that, I don't.

Our system is set up so that those funds are fungible. He can pay any school system for his education, slowly, with no penalties. It's a great system. Home and private school systems still have public cost, although lower then running a school.
Personally, I would ban them.

Too true, for all the problems with public education, it's still head and shoulders above any alternative.

I have this same problem offline. I choose to raise my kids in an nice community with good schools. It's sometimes a struggle to afford living in an area like this.

The bad thing is that so few people in this area have ever experienced economic hardship. They don't realize how good they have it. They self identify as conservative and they a have total disconnect from any sort of real adversity.

I see this creeping into my kids attitudes. They don't appreciate the things I can afford to do for them and they hear echos from too many closet rascists. People who are just waiting for an example to cast poor or non-white people as animals or "demons".

Keep trying to fight the good fight. It's hard to explain to someone why it makes you uncomfortable when there is no overt action, but I feel you. It's not enough for a good man to do nothing...

So, he kept a fortune teller on his senior staff?