Born N Bled Red

I completely agree with this statement, "what we teach now isn't suited for every student and doesn't fit their needs, and we can do better by our students." - We should fully fund schools and provide them the ability to further tailor educational pathways to student interest. That being said, how many of us are actually doing as adults, what we thought we would be doing at 15-16. I disagree that allowing students at the age of 15 or 16 decide they are done with education. No one at 15 or 16 has their head screwed on right enough to make such a life changing decision. - IMO all this will do is lead to more people living off the system, not less.

1) English - right, so reading comprehension, the ability to develop sound quotes and proposals, write a resume, are not useful. 2) There is already no such thing as a 1 size fits all high school education 3) 90% of student who think they are going to return to the farm end up in ag sales, working for local coops etc, not farming and again if you think farming only consists of putting seeds in the ground these days, you are incredibly wrong 4) I'm cool with this as long as everyone who is working a 40 hour week is guaranteed a real living wage, tied to inflation. This can be paid by the employer or through taxes. Here is MIT's analysis of a living wage in Nebraska Living Wage Calculation for Nebraska The living wage shown is the hourly rate that an individual in a household must earn to support his or herself and their family. The assumption is the sole provider is working full-time (2080 hours per year). The tool provides information for individuals, and households with one or two working adults and zero to three children. In the case of households with two working adults, all values are per working adult, single or in a family unless otherwise noted. The state minimum wage is the same for all individuals, regardless of how many dependents they may have. Data are updated annually, in the first quarter of the new year. State minimum wages are determined based on the posted value of the minimum wage as of January one of the coming year (National Conference of State Legislatures, 2019). The poverty rate reflects a person's gross annual income. We have converted it to an hourly wage for the sake of comparison. For further detail, please reference the technical documentation here. 1 ADULT 2 ADULTS (1 WORKING) 2 ADULTS (BOTH WORKING) 0 Children 1 Child 2 Children 3 Children 0 Children 1 Child 2 Children 3 Children 0 Children 1 Child 2 Children 3 Children Living Wage $10.96 $24.11 $28.85 $35.71 $18.36 $22.71 $25.27 $28.71 $9.18 $13.40 $15.76 $18.56 Poverty Wage $6.00 $8.13 $10.25 $12.38 $8.13 $10.25 $12.38 $14.50 $4.06 $5.13 $6.19 $7.25 Minimum Wage $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 Typical Expenses

How many people do you actually know like that? If you are washing your hands of those people, especially at 15- 16 years old, you better not complain when they have 10 kids, live below the poverty line and the whole family is utilizing your tax dollars to survive.

OK well, let's break down what you said- in rural areas, like most of the Midwest, there is already a lack of education and an incredible amount of poverty. - Correlation is not causation, right. At the same time, someone with only a high school diploma, can expect to earn somewhere between Minimum wage and $15 an hour in rural areas. Ok, so there is the tie to education and poverty. Further, the continued lack of education leads to fewer high paying jobs moving to or building in rural areas, as there is an incredible lack of qualified workforce = less opportunity. This cycle continues and reinforces itself, leading to more people on welfare and the need for stronger safety net provisions, not less. I do agree to the utmost that for most people college is not necessary for their careers. That work and life experience should be valued just as much, if not more so. I know personally of people who dedicated their lives to a profession climbed to the highest level in their profession and in the last 20 years could not attain or maintain that level due to HR personnel looking for a degree before vetting any work history or further qualifications- This is wrong. That said a better educated populace, especially in this day and age where even success in farming is based on the ability to utilize technology and interpret data, is generally better for society, local economies, and individuals as a whole. - Your suggestion is the opposite of that- would lead to greater disparity between the haves and have nots and further reduce our society to a feudal system.

If this is what they need to believe in order support and back the new president, and ministration, and their goals, and begin to back away from the crazy cliff, so be it.

So, you want more welfare and an uneducated populace. -

With as overloaded as the portal is, Nebraska should be able to add some pretty good talent via walkons throughout the off season ala Oliver Martin.

You mean like all the Obama's in a noose that rednecks pulled through parades during and after his tenure?? You mean like that? Get real man.

Bull Moose all over again

And other powerful people...... like Mitch McConnell????

I'm usually not dyslexic, but for a moment I thought we were going to be real progressive and have a female wide receiver. Some reason every time I look at this kids name, I see Karen Janak

Ummmm. Fair and Balanced mean anything to you???

Likewise it was important for you and other Trump supporters to know who Donald Trump was, before offering your support and vote multiple times over. Rapist/ Rape of a minor https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf Rape & Other misconduct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations You seem to be trying to discredit the entire Lincoln Project effort, while ignoring your previous undying support for someone accused many more times and in the face of settlements and payoffs that indicate guilt.

LMAO dude, not a lecture about MS, more of a lecture about priorities. Family >>> football everytime.

Alright since this thread is actually titled, "What is the future of the republican party," I'm going to put this out there. History already has a direct analogy for what happens when and incredibly popular candidate gets disowned by their party. --- If Trump is still alive, I could see this playing out almost exactly between Trump/ Pence. As a member of the Republican Party, Roosevelt had served as president from 1901 to 1909, becoming increasingly progressive in the later years of his presidency. In the 1908 presidential election, Roosevelt helped ensure that he would be succeeded by Secretary of War Taft. Although Taft entered office determined to advance Roosevelt's Square Deal domestic agenda, he stumbled badly during the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act debate and the Pinchot–Ballinger controversy. The political fallout of these events divided the Republican Party and alienated Roosevelt from his former friend.[3] At the 1912 Republican National Convention, Taft narrowly defeated Roosevelt for the party's presidential nomination. After the convention, Roosevelt, Frank Munsey, George Walbridge Perkins and other progressive Republicans established the Progressive Party and nominated a ticket of Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson of California at the 1912 Progressive National Convention. The new party attracted several Republican officeholders, although nearly all of them remained loyal to the Republican Party—in California, Johnson and the Progressives took control of the Republican Party. In the 1912 election, Roosevelt won 27.4% of the popular vote compared to Taft's 23.2%, making Roosevelt the only third party presidential nominee to finish with a higher share of the popular vote than a major party's presidential nominee. Both Taft and Roosevelt finished behind Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson, who won 41.8% of the popular vote and the vast majority of the electoral vote.

He is summing up all the vote totals for all house districts into one "national vote." If you do that, democrats get more votes. It's one way some people show that people holding a *minority belief* are ruling the majority of the voters. - They've been doing this for a while and with the Senate too.

Dude, if your mom, who already had multiple sclerosis https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/multiple-sclerosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350269- getting sick and hospitalized while you were in college wouldn't make you at least reconsider where you were at, you guys are cold a** dudes.

You mean like a NPR social media outlet? You'd have to be very careful to not have it turn into state run media. What's more - for people out there who are already worried about governments and big business having too much access to private information- this would by scary level 10. I mean they have algorithms that can figure out a if a woman is pregnant before she even knows. Talk about Big Brother.

You really want to know how to fix this???? You don't let one single private company get so large as to "hold the keys to the internet," in ANY INDUSTRY. It's why anti-trust laws exist. But then the Republican congress sought to appease their donors rather than enforce those laws. Now they can all REAP what they've SOWN.

This is part of what I was trying to demonstrate the other night, in alleging Nortre Dame Joe and Archy1221 are sock puppet accounts. Even in articles trying to refute the false information, the false language is repeated again, and unintentionally reinforced. By refuting the false narrative you give it stronger legs to stand on and allow the national debate to be shifted from how terrible the action was, and how to deal with the actions, to "who was really behind the action" which then gives the media license to offer opposing thoughts on the "who" issue, even though there was no question to begin with. This is what is so incredibly frustrating with how democrats handle this type of misinformation, as I've posted before, particularly around the impeachment trial and the republican's effective use of a false narrative about Hunter Biden to distract from Trump's crimes. Democrats expect that actual facts and research and analysis will sway these people away from the false narrative, but the audience that consumes these false narratives have been conditioned to believe that all politicians lie. So they will deny all facts. The best way to combat the false narrative is to not give it legs, and go all in on the truthful narrative and repeat it over and over again. To that point: I take an attack on our nation and government more seriously than people protesting in the streets. We as a nation are less safe now than we were before this happened yesterday. We don't know who was in that building, what information was accessed or stolen off congressional desks and computers. I love America, and our Democracy. The violence, loss of life, and destruction of property this summer was terrible. It didn't threaten our nation, our duly elected leaders or the United States Constitution. As a true patriot, and proud American, I can't be silent when this country I love is under attack. While again, the violence this summer was wrong and terrible, American businesses have insurance to protect against loss of property and the federal government has provided aid that while couldn't possibly replace what some individuals lost completely has certainly helped. Yesterday's attacks threated the constitution of the United States of America directly. If that is destroyed, if our democracy is ruined, there is no coming back. Our standing as a beacon of light to the oppressed people of the world would be gone, and the sacrifices made by every American that lived, fought, and died defending our constitution from the Revolutionary War through the armed conflicts going on today would have been made in vain. 243 years ago, the founding fathers laid out a government that has been the envy of the free world ever since. That is what was attacked yesterday. The equivalency you keep presenting is false. If you can't see that you're blind.

Agreed with RedDenver. Kids are wishy washy. When I first read about Wandale's potential transfer I was pretty shocked as well. The more I hear about the forces at home trying to pull him, I am less worried about the direction of the program. A coach can do every single thing right, but if a player's family is actively pressuring them to play closer to home, the staff might lose them anyway. Not much to be done here, if he does decided to leave, and I don't hang it on the staff. More than anything I feel terrible for Wandale. To have made up your mind and go to play for a team he seems to really care about only to have family constantly pressure you and question your decision would really mess with your mind, and create undue agony and stress. I hope Wandale follows his heart and conscious and does what is best for him, whatever that may be.

The 14th amendment of the United States prevents anyone who participated in an insurrection from ever holding office. - This was identified within the articles of impeachment filed today in the House of Representatives. Are the Democrats missing a step here? Should they hold an official vote to condemn last Wednesday's attack and officially label it an insurrection within the US government? If they did, how would that impact Cruz, Hawley and the Q women in congress? To me this sounds like a logical step.

Yeah all those posts were made in 2 hours Friday night to illustrate a point. Its all good,

Mastermind behind the party, no- however his brazenness, overall lack of care about anyone other than himself, and willingness to embrace fringe extremist to formulate his coalition has definitely pulled out the absolute worst of the republican party and put it in plain view for all to see. The past 4 years has normalized this crazed behavior and style of leadership. My fear is that pandoras box has been opened, and even if Trump is removed, it will not go back into that box. The willingness Fox and even normal, everyday republicans have shown to bend and sacrifice core values in the name of power only enhances my concern that this will not pass with Trump.