4 Students Arrested in Northern California, Suspected of Plotting Killings in High Sc

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

My climical experience suggests that a frequent battle is getting a kid's nose out of the computer or tablet, and out into the sunshine and fresh air.

Good old conservative Red State Republicans aren't helping much.

http://yellowhammernews.com/politics...g-budget-cuts/

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced Wednesday the closure of 5 of Alabama’s 22 state parks. Other parks will see reductions in staff and hours, as well as increases in some entrance fees.

[donquixote99]

Next will come proposals to privatize them.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Next will come proposals to privatize them.

It's already in the works.

The department is also working to transfer responsibility and management of some existing parks to nearby private resorts.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

My climical experience suggests that a frequent battle is getting a kid's nose out of the computer or tablet, and out into the sunshine and fresh air.

I've seen this sort of thing more than once: two kids, usually both girls or a boy and girl, sitting side by side on a bus.... texting each other.

Their parents must have been sitting across the aisle, pills at the ready, making sure they didn't interact directly with each other.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Next will come proposals to privatize them.

Or sell off the timber and then frack the wasteland.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Or sell off the timber and then frack the wasteland.

That's of course within the rights of a private, wealth-building, job-creating owner.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Good old conservative Red State Republicans aren't helping much.

http://yellowhammernews.com/politics...g-budget-cuts/

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Next will come proposals to privatize them.

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

It's already in the works.

Then you will have to pay a fee to enter any park. It will amount to MORE than you would have had to pay in taxes previously, because the private interest must turn a profit on it...........

And Republicans will call this a victory for YOU.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Or sell off the timber and then frack the wasteland.

You got it. Which, of course, is the true purpose of privatization.

[bobabode]

We live in the Corporate States of America. The Gordon Geckos have taken over the land. Welcome to hell if the Repubs take over the White House in '16 and they get to replace Ginsberg on the high court.