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pogo4pres -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 12:56:03 PM)

FR

Just to throw a wrench into the works, having driven the HIGH SIERRAS & ROCKIES in winter what you folk in the south call a mountain is about a hill to my experience.  Try driving through Donner pass to go to Reno 5 or 6 times a winter.  You'll learn fast enough.  Oh and while you are at it you'll need to learn the benefit of tire chains, or get a major fine from either the California Hi-way Patrol or Nevada state police.



Crankily,
Some Knucklehead in NJ



Kirata -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 12:57:03 PM)


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ORIGINAL: JstAnotherSub

Civil rights leaders are in an uproar about this.

It would be more accurate to say they are inciting an uproar.

K.



JstAnotherSub -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 1:20:09 PM)

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ORIGINAL: pogo4pres

FR

Just to throw a wrench into the works, having driven the HIGH SIERRAS & ROCKIES in winter what you folk in the south call a mountain is about a hill to my experience.  Try driving through Donner pass to go to Reno 5 or 6 times a winter.  You'll learn fast enough.  Oh and while you are at it you'll need to learn the benefit of tire chains, or get a major fine from either the California Hi-way Patrol or Nevada state police.



Crankily,
Some Knucklehead in NJ

True, but you can be just as dead falling 3000 feet as you are from falling 8000 feet.

I seem to remember, from way back in another lifetime when I drove a truck, that Donner Pass had signs saying things like "Crank er up-big hill ahead" or "slow it down, tricky curve ahead". 

Those mountains out west were damn sure a challenge.



rulemylife -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 2:17:09 PM)

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ORIGINAL: YSG

6 inches, big deal. We're up to 2 feet here in Ohio.


Damn, where do you tuck that all in? 





DomImus -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 2:25:04 PM)

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ORIGINAL: YSG

6 inches, big deal. We're up to 2 feet here in Ohio. Like I said, slow down a bit, you'll be fine.


Which part of "ice" do you not understand? I understand you are in Ohio (the Alabama of the north) but we're not talking about snow here.



Edwynn -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 3:21:36 PM)



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ORIGINAL: pogo4pres

Oh and while you are at it you'll need to learn the benefit of tire chains, or get a major fine from either the California Hi-way Patrol or Nevada state police.

Crankily,
Some Knucklehead in NJ




That just makes the most impeccable sense for the area we are talking about here. Dumb Southerners you know, just never even occurred to us.

I'm sure that all Atlantans are with me here on pressing our civic leaders ASAP to pass a law imposing heavy fines for not having chains on tires every winter.

And while we're at it heed the other sage advice here in having $100+ M of snow removal equipment sit idle for 8-12 years at a time so we can reduce MARTA rail service even more than the 20% already last year and eliminate even more than the 130+ bus routes done away with at the same time, and have $800 worth of snow tires for each vehicle stacked in the garage or driveway for these same 8-12 years.

You guys are so smart, I bet you must have taken a business course or something to figure all that out.

I am duly impressed.


PS


Thanks for the wrench, but in our current situation a good many of us need steel spiked ice boots to get from door to street or vice versa. Do they impose major fines in the smart areas of the country for not having those too?





rulemylife -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 3:33:00 PM)

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ORIGINAL: DomImus

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ORIGINAL: YSG

6 inches, big deal. We're up to 2 feet here in Ohio. Like I said, slow down a bit, you'll be fine.


Which part of "ice" do you not understand? I understand you are in Ohio (the Alabama of the north) but we're not talking about snow here.



Ohio is the Alabama of the north?

What does that make Georgia?







Edwynn -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 3:38:03 PM)




The Provence of Bosnia.








rulemylife -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 3:39:48 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn

The Lombardy of Norway.


What the hell is Lombardy?



Edwynn -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 3:42:22 PM)


I changed it already, but Lombardy is a region in Northern Italy.


Milan, etc.


Provence is in France.





pahunkboy -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 5:59:50 PM)

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

quote:

ORIGINAL: Edwynn

The Lombardy of Norway.


What the hell is Lombardy?



Why not take him to Disneyland?



tazzygirl -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/14/2011 11:12:47 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Marc2b

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~FR~ Or one could just learn to deal with ice and snow and not close the schools...just a suggestion, though I know you Americans hate to learn from Canadian experience


I hate to break this to you but but ice and snow don't stop at the border. Many of us Americans have plenty of experience of our own with winter. Its the Southerners who have no experience (and we Northerners consider it our God given right to laugh at them every time they go into a panic over half an inch of snow [:D])




ROFL. I live in the hilliest city i have ever come across... Pittsburgh. And these idiots canNOT drive... even on a clear, warm, sunny day!



pahunkboy -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/15/2011 7:52:57 AM)

This is why kids should be home schooled. 



littlewonder -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/15/2011 8:17:18 AM)

When I was in school any holiday could be used to make up snow days except Thanksgiving and Christmas. No others were off limits but we never had MLK day off.

It was strange that they had off to me when I had my own child.



pahunkboy -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/15/2011 8:46:44 AM)

Could Parents Lose Driver's Licenses When Kids Miss Too Much School?



poise -> RE: MLK Day as a make-up day for school.... (1/15/2011 2:00:18 PM)

Volunteer Louisiana highlights MLK day with some very worthwhile projects.
This year, we are going to be beautifying an elementary school.
Thankfully, we dont have to worry about tripping over students. [:D]

To answer the OP, I think MLK would feel education was more of a
priority as opposed to honoring his legacy.
In my opinion, the fact that there is controversy over whether to do
so or not defeats the message he spent his short life trying to pass along.



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