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http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/20931/teachers-west-virginia-strike-national-education-association-public-workers

Teachers and service personnel across West Virginia are planning to strike on Feb. 22 and 23 in an effort to boost pay and lower their increasing healthcare costs. It will be the first statewide walkout in nearly 30 years.

The strike was announced by the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia and the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA) during a weekend rally at the state capitol in Charleston that attracted teachers and other public sector employees and supporters. Hundreds also showed up at the capitol on Feb. 2, where they sang Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, hey, hey, goodbye! while Tim Armstead, Republican Speaker of the W.V. House of Delegates, gave a speech on the House floor. At this past weekends rally, WVEA President Dale Lee declared that all 55 of the states counties were prepared to stand united. The entire state of West Virginia will be shut down, declared Lee, whose union is an affiliate of the National Education Association.

According to a 2017 study that ranked each states average teacher salary, West Virginia is the sixth worst in the country. On average, the states teachers make $45,477, compared to first-place-ranking Alaska, where teachers make $77,843. W.V. teachers want the state to fund the states Public Employee Insurance Agency (PEIA) and increase their salaries. The states House of Delegates has voted to give public school teachers 2-percent raises next year and a 1-percent raise over the next three years, while the states Senate has approved a 1-percent raise, every year, over the next five years. Union representatives believe these raises are inadequate, especially when considered alongside the rising costs of healthcare.

Kym Randolph, director of communications for the WVEA, tells In These Times that dissatisfaction has been brewing for years. Its a number of things, says Randolph. PEIA, lack of salary, years of neglect, anti-worker policies healthcare thats inadequate. According to Randolph, lawmakers have become entrenched on the issue of teacher salaries and are difficult to persuade.

One of those lawmakers is Republican Gov. Jim Justice. He has proposed freezing PEIA for a year, effectively preventing health premiums from rising, and he doesnt believe that the 1-percent raise, every year, over the course of five years should be increased in any way. I think the prudent thing and the smart money is to fix PEIA like weve done, and the smart money is to stay at 1-1-1-1-1, said Justice at a recent press conference. However, his critics point out that a PEIA freeze is merely a short-term solution for a problem that isnt going away, and such a temporary action could give birth to even higher healthcare costs in 2019. The teachers are looking for a long-term plan that provides security while finally making salaries competitive.

In that same press conference, Justice said that a teachers strike would be a crying shame. He also dismissed a Senate Democrat proposal that would fund PEIA by raising the states severance tax on natural gas as political grandstanding.

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Some real Hey Arnold villain ass shit
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I feel like a third gif is needed for proper representation
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I don't.
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A cool way to insult someone is to ask "lol who is this clown?" because it implies that they're one of the lesser-known clowns
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daftpunk_mk5 posted...

Did any of the mass shootings actually use a bump stock though?

I only heard of them following Vegas, so I assume they were used there?
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/20/trump-guns-parkland-shooting-guns-417888

One White House source told POLITICO that he and fellow administration officials were taken aback by the bump stock announcement. Theyd received no heads up, the person said, and wondered privately if Trump simply wanted to blunt accusations that he wasnt acting decisively.

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Wow I can't believe the guy with no ideological beliefs would do such a thing
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r4X0r posted...

because one psychopath slipped by the FBI isn't a rational course of action.

This is hardly the first mass shooting
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27_Sandman_40 posted...

NRA cant manipulate the media, so no.

It doesn't have to to get what it wants
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Psy
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It's used for tucking in down behind the fairing to reduce drag. I think it also helps with avoiding wheelies? It can be remapped, or just made automatic (1% fewer credits tho)
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Apparently Wolff is on this week's Chapo Trap House, which, sure
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Holding Y (Xbox controller) down the straights is a pain.
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I already have the original, so I doubt I'll be spending money on this
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Both are good
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I applaud their usage of a gender neutral term, but "gunman" might be more illuminating in this case.
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halomonkey1_3_5 posted...

listening to right wing conspiracy theorists would leave me to believe there is a booming market for being a paid stooge but none of my inquiries are ever returned on how I can get in on the industry

It's a corollary to their belief that all political organization is evidence of nefarious funding.
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Doom_Art posted...

why would they use the same actors for multiple events

Shadowy forces are trying to manipulate public opinion from behind the scenes
But also they are laughably incompetent.
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Apple can't give you skinnier fingers

But seriously, you should get one of those phones with a stylus
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https://twitter.com/learyreports/status/966061854303965191
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r4X0r posted...

The irony is that if he went into a Planned Parenthood with a stolen GUN and injured three people this thread would be full of people demanding we ban guns, yet ironically nobody yet has advocated banning trucks.

"If X was different, you would react differently," is a basic fact of reality, not a winning argument.
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Conservatives tell on themselves when they assume political organization can't happen without top-down payment
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Darkman124 posted...

i honestly have no real understanding of why dems abandoned labor

This article gets into it somehwat: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/geismer-democratic-party-atari-tech-silicon-valley-mondale
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The Admiral posted...

Hating the standing president alone didn't work for them in 2004, so I'm not buying that as a great motivator now.

Bush was well liked in 2004. Democrats swept into power in 2006 though.

Anyways, I think you'd have to at least wait for the primaries to get a sense of where the Democratic message stands. Preliminarily, I'd say
"We're the party that didn't try to take away health insurance from the poor to give tax cuts to your boss."
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https://mobile.twitter.com/jbporcleric
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SomeonesAlt posted...

bloodydeath0 posted...

Darkman124 posted...

Focus on the data.

https://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2018_generic_congressional_vote-6185.html

Opposing party always gains ground in mid terms. That doesn't mean they "won".

What's your criteria for "winning"?

I assume he means gaining control of a house they previously didn't hold.
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The_Curling_Pedants have logged on
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These polls suggest gun control public opinion is in line with the Democrats:

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557433452/poll-majorities-of-both-parties-favor-increased-gun-restrictions (from after Las Vegas)
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/inaction-mass-shootings-mental-health-screening-priority-poll/story?id=53205008 (Post-Florida)
https://twitter.com/RussellBlairCT/status/966029640967090176 (post-Florida)

But with how fast the news cycle moves, who can say if that will be a priority come November? I imagine GOP efforts to undo the safety net might be a big issue.
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Is Dragon Age: Inquisition a possibility?
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Need for Speed: Thot Pursuit
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@chill02
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Probably the waving around liberty in different fonts part
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CableZL posted...

What would happen if someone just threw the stones hard AF? Is that frowned upon?

It's perfectly legitimate, but generally that's a move for earlier in the round since it's hard to get such a shot to stop where you want it to.
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My dad thought there were too many continuity errors in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
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It's out in two weeks
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CableZL posted...

Yeah, the closer to the center the stone is at the end of the round, the more points that stone is worth.

Not quite; each stone is worth a maximum of 1 point. You get a point for each stone that is closer to the center than your opponent's closest stone.
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"A beater is always a beater" - chief feminist Donald Trump
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/256454471020847105
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Just the opposite; the sweeping reduces moisture on the ice and allows the stone to go faster.
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The Top Crusader posted...

I agree, I don't really blame them. But what I've seen of them (basically just one TV interview) doesn't help their cause, IMO. A couple of students, one was at least coherent but his statements weren't really logical or factual, and the other just screamed at the camera man. I mean now is a time you can probably get some support for stricter gun laws, but if you just scream how every NRA member or gun owner is a murderer you are going to turn a lot of people off quick.

"I know you just saw 17 people die senselessly, but don't raise your voice."
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Arm the teachers' unions
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Trump's aides have been working overtime to keep him from tweeting something about these students.
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9 fictional tracks in addition to the big Isle of Man course
40 bikes
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Sayoria posted...

I don't mind a Republican president as long as it were someone like Kasich, or even Bush..... but Trump is a whole new level of What-the-fuckery that really shows how uneducated and how helpless our country really is.

Bush was worse than Trump
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Obama followed up Sandy Hook with a real push to restrict guns and prevent future shootings. There's no sign that Trump will do the same.
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