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by Ken
Tue May 21, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 147
Views: 7889

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Largest public sector unions. It is AFSCME. I don’t know who is claiming that NEA is larger. AFSCME represents all state employees below grade 13. That is a lot of employees.The teacher’s union is a mixed bag, Baltimore County is AFT, unless they have changed it in the past couple of years. (I was ...
by Ken
Tue May 21, 2024 5:01 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 552
Views: 87429

Re: War in Gaza

One doesn't need to look to ancient history to explain or justify anything about the war in Gaza. Israel is a modern multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation. Every country on earth has been subject to war and conflict over its history. Israel is no exception. Every so-called Christian nation from th...
by Ken
Tue May 21, 2024 4:12 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 552
Views: 87429

Re: War in Gaza

From the OP Please keep partisan comments/debates out of this thread - avoid comments that reflect negatively on either right-leaning or left leaning political persuasions. Please keep this thread focused on the topic. It looks like a number of posters have not read the OP lately. Which comments or...
by Ken
Tue May 21, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: History
Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
Replies: 43
Views: 868

Re: MennoNet and Genealogy

Yiddish is close to/influence by German. PA Dutch, as has been said, is really PA Deutsch. That is, Deutsch is German. So the Yiddish/Deutsch connection is pretty obvious. I can understand both bits of PA Dutch and Yiddish because of my fluency in High German. There's also a lot of Hebrew in Yiddis...
by Ken
Tue May 21, 2024 3:46 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: NFL “values”
Replies: 29
Views: 407

Re: NFL “values”

Szdfan, Do you think the NFL should censure for, fire for, punish for, or otherwise disavow what this football player said in his speech? I'm not SZfan, but my opinion is that all employers should give employees pretty wide latitude for what they say on their own time when not representing the orga...
by Ken
Tue May 21, 2024 1:45 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 552
Views: 87429

Re: War in Gaza

Second: Is it fair to take this as condoning military participation? Where I’m coming from is the assumption that if a man was converted while in the military, his instruction was to not harm anyone. Because he really didn’t have the freedom to quit the military. Now if that assumption is more or l...
by Ken
Tue May 21, 2024 1:28 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: NFL “values”
Replies: 29
Views: 407

Re: NFL “values”

NFL “values” Returning to the very simple+direct subject line AND OP, does anyone have anything to add wrt NFL “values”? .. and/or lack thereof. It’s hard to add anything-much to THE BEE pieces. The only thing the NFL values is money. NFL athletes are a diverse lot and what any particular one of th...
by Ken
Tue May 21, 2024 12:41 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Poll: Daniel Perry - Should he have been pardoned?
Replies: 66
Views: 1412

Re: Poll: Daniel Perry - Should he have been pardoned?

It is not just a mortgage document issue. It is COVID relief money fraud, she made a withdrawal from her public pension fund because of claimed loss of income due to COVID. Only there was not any, and it was not true. Should we expect better from those who we entrust with government office? And a l...
by Ken
Tue May 21, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: NFL “values”
Replies: 29
Views: 407

Re: NFL “values”

There have already been calls for the Chiefs to get rid of him. It shows that the left doesn't value free speech and thinks that if someone publicly says something they disagree with, they will try to get that person fired. This is very toxic to a free and open democracy. Just because some people o...
by Ken
Tue May 21, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 147
Views: 7889

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Largest public sector unions. It is AFSCME. I don’t know who is claiming that NEA is larger. AFSCME represents all state employees below grade 13. That is a lot of employees.The teacher’s union is a mixed bag, Baltimore County is AFT, unless they have changed it in the past couple of years. (I was ...