Rollitup Endorsements - Biden For President

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hanimmal

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CLEVELAND — On the last day of early voting in Ohio, oncologist Paul Hergenroeder pulled his Prius into the parking lot of a senior high rise to give Walter A. Brown a lift to the polls.

Hergenroeder and Brown don’t live far apart, but the doctor is in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood while the retired sanitation worker’s building, called Scranton Castle, is part of public housing. Someone stole Brown’s car a few months back, so while he uses his walker to get to the grocery store, no way could he make it a few miles to the Board of Elections building — the only early-voting location for Cuyahoga County’s 1.2 million residents.

And he wanted to vote early because he’s about to have cataract surgery. “My eyes are not that good,” he said, “but I’ll do the best I can.”

When Hergenroeder picked him up — as one of 140 drivers deployed by a new nonpartisan group, VoterDrive — Brown still wasn’t sure how he’d mark his ballot. “Going to try to vote for the best man” was how he put it.

A long queue greeted them as they pulled up to East 30th Street and Euclid Avenue. But then a police officer directing traffic told Hergenroeder to bust a U-turn; another moved cones so he could ease the Prius into a “handicapped entrance only.”

“God, Walter, you get VIP status,” Hergenroeder joked with Brown. “Wish I had you when I came.”

Both men passed the required temperature check and were whisked into the Accessible Voting Area. “He has fuzzy eyes,” the doctor told a poll worker. She ran through Brown’s options: a large print ballot; headphones to hear the candidates’ names, or someone to read the ballot aloud.

Brown picked #3. “We have to have one of each party — a Democrat and a Republican — read the ballot to you,” the worker explained. “They will even color in the circles for you once you say who you want.”

Within minutes, he was done. And who was the best man? “I voted for the Democrat,” Brown said. “I figured we needed a change of pace.”
 
CunningCanuk

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MickFoster said:
Jack Nicklaus was one of my favorite all time golfers......until yesterday when he endorsed the traitor and urged all of his twitter followers to do the same.
Fuck you Jack, and the orange dick you're sucking.
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I feel the same about Nicklaus now. And Bobby Orr for all those hockey fans out there.
 
CunningCanuk

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:
I read a bit and picture of Lil Wayne with Trump and he is an idiot . I bet he wants some publicity because He got jealous of Ice Cube getting recognition . I was so disappointed with Ice Cube getting all political in stupid ways supporting Trump and then got even more upset when I read that Kamala Harris had tried to have a meeting with him like a month ago and he had no interest talking to her. Lil Wayne is a loser. I had more respect for Ice Cube but not now.
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Or as trump calls him “Little Wayne”. LOL
 
CunningCanuk

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Fogdog said:
Hey, rky, thanks for asking.

I'm so glad I took some classes this summer to get ready for my kid's travails with online learning. I'm not actually homeschooling. The local school district didn't open up this year and we are all struggling with getting enough from the online learning program. Last year keeping them on track with online learning was a total failure on my part. As in "You are supposed to be in your class right now why aren't you at the study table?, Why haven't you done your homework?, What is wrong with you?", followed by meltdowns. This year, at least we have stayed on speaking terms and I can vouch that my kids are keeping up with the curriculum. I'd count that as a success.

I'm not the nurturing type and not all that patient either. So, it's kind of rough on all of us. The societal mindset is that if a kid isn't learning, it's on them as in "Kids do well if they want to". This leads to frustration on both sides when the kid's attention wanders and they get bored or they encounter a difficult problem, which is why everything went off the rails last year. What I learned and am ham-handedly trying to follow is a shift in thinking about the problem. "Kids do well if they can". The key is to figure out what's blocking them and its my job to collaborate with the kids to remove the blocks. They are both in high school so there are issues that have nothing to do with school and there are successes when they solve a problem. One of them even wants to become a teacher. I guess they have seen how badly it can go when the teacher isn't up to the job.

Mostly, I have to be home to keep them from treating this as an extended vacation. I am concerned about their class. I think there will be a lot of kids for whom this time will be lost and they will have trouble keeping up later on.
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At the risk of looking like a kiss up, I have to say you’re kids are probably in good shape with their new teacher.

We had a choice here to go online classes or in person and we chose online. My 12 year old daughter is enjoying online classes for the most part. She is even making new friends that she would never have made otherwise. Every now and then she will ask for my help with math but thankfully for her, that’s my only contribution to her education.
 
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