I've spent half of my life in the Palmetto state, it's been okay. I haven't whithered, I haven't prospered, so goes my life in Columbia. Well no more, tomorrow I'm done. Done with this city and state. I'm picking up and moving to Vegas to get outa here while the gettins good. My puter broke some months back, and I don't really have the resources to get a new one. I also will be spending much time finding a job, trying to get a job dealing cards and playing much poker, as well as trips to LA and Pheonix to visit friends. Alas that will leave me with little time to wax poetic about issues of the day online, so this is officially my TTFN.
In a few months when I get settled, in a new house and not the apartment that will immediatly be my domicile, I will be back. However, much distaction I will have. Oh yeah, this is gonna be my back yard:

Seriously, I walk out of my apartment complex and into The Palms casino.
So, uh, guess I'll see you guys around.

Funny, I thought call out diaries were strictly forbidden here, and often deleted. So how is it that a diary that's only intent is to call out multiple users of both mydd and dailykos and sow division among progressive bloggers still a few down there on the recent list. Are there going to be weekly "what they say over at dKos" diaries here that call out comments users make on another site. The daily Dailkos watch! Just look what they're saying, how horrid, they are not one of us. Shun Them Shun Them!
How childish. A diary like that does very little to advance any cause of the democratic party, or draw attention to important issues. It doesn't do anything to help anyones candidate, yet someone took the time to wade through dozens of comments and throw them together in a call out diary for what?
I imagine this very diary will be deleted shortly, as it could be considered a call out diary, we'll see if the other is deleted as well.

Lets honestly try and step outside our digital world and try and see things from the perspective of someone who doesn't surf the web from the perspective of our enightened views.

Alright, ready, here we go.
"Do ya'll really think Clinton can win the general election if she wins the nomination through super delegates after having lost in pledged delegates and most probably the popular vote?"
Just wonderin.

I was poking around what many here affectionatly call "The great orange satan" earlier and ran across a diary by someone who has for some reason lost posting privledges here. Not a banning I gather, just suspension of posting privledges. I won't comment as to any reasons why privledges were suspended, because I don't know. A few weeks ago a diary was "smuggled" in for a prominant Clinton supporter, so I figured it might be acceptable. I'm not going to go on for a paragraph or so about censorship because I really don't see blog moderation to be an infringment of anyones 1st amendment rights. I do hate to take up the space of another diary about some Penn. poll, but without further ado, below the fold Dracomicron has something they'd like you to know.

This was posted a while back on dailykos, I'm cross posting it here for a number of reasons. It's dated, but I hope it makes some people see where I'm coming from. This is mainly for angry mouse.
I hear you.

So there's a few people running around thinking they would rather see a president McSame than the other dem candidate. Below are a few reasons to support whomever the nominee is whether it be Obama (most likely), Clinton (less likely), or some crazy convention coup by someone like Gore (very very unlikely, but being talked about).

The ACLU has recently filed a lawsuit against a privatly run alternative school for "problem" students in Atlanta. The ACLU charges in the lawsuit that the school is "failing so miserably that it violates their constitutional rights."

 I first came upon this story listening to Tell me More on NPR on monday. The school is an alternative school for students who've had disciplinary problems, mainly fights. After one or a few problems parents can be faced with the choice of their children being expelled, or attending the alternative school. Students could remain in the alternative school for years before being admitted back into regular public schools.

 So what is this school, which recieves millions of taxpayer dollars accused of doing, or not doing. Well every student is searched upon coming to school, including pat downs, sometimes while a student is spread eagle against a wall. Girls have their scalp rubbed to make sure there is nothing in their hair. Apparantly the metal detectors they walk through barefoot TSA style isn't enough.

 No homework is assigned because it would violate the security protocol. Students are not allowed to bring books, bookbags or anything for that matter into school. For young girls this includes femine sanitation products.

 While at school the ACLU claims that teachers spend little time instructing students. In the NPR segment it was claimed the students mainly sit around and fill out cross-word puzles.

 Sounds great, sign me up. Here is an Associated Press article about it. Here is the NPR segmant which you should really listen to if you got the time.

Here are a few of the complaints by the ACLU:

*Not a single child at the school made it to senior year in 2006;

*The school has a "no homework" policy and also prohibits students from taking supplies home - including books.

*AISS-CEP has no cafeteria, no gym and no library;

*Students are subjected to full body pat-down searches that include even the soles of their feet every day, and all students - both boys and girls - are forced to lift their shirts up to their necks in front of the search team;

*Watches, jewelry, purses, combs, brushes, keys, and money in excess of five dollars are all considered contraband and are strictly prohibited --  girls are not permitted even to bring tampons into the building;

*In 2006-2007, 91.1 percent of students failed to achieve proficiency in math and 65.8 percent failed to achieve proficiency in reading on Georgia's statewide Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests.

*Fewer than 23 percent of students at the school met or exceeded standards across all subjects, compared to two nearby alternative schools where over 50 percent of students did;

 Hopefully this lawsuit won't get thrown out so we can get a straight answer to these claims. Oh yeah, anytime anyone makes an argument for school vouchers and such things, keep this in the back of your mind.
It seems to me the only thing this publicly funded, privatly run, alternative school gets kids ready for is a stay in one of our publicly funded, privatly run prisons.

(crossposted at Daily Kos)