It's freedom of speech, not freedom of speech pathologists.
Why does it open with her opening a tubular canister full of beige sludge? (What is the sludge?) I know some speech pathologists and I don't think they ever mentioned the sludge.
And yes it's a thing in Arkansas as well https://www.apnews.com/4bc6e59c3bf6407f9e0932823af9f3df
Truly we are living in a golden age of applied anti-anti-semetism.
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be unwise to extend them.
The instrumental delusion of apocalyptic grandeur was offensive and sad when these people weren't quite so dangerously enabled by their ally of convenience in power, but now it has descended into utter depravity.
Anti-boycott provisions in government contracts received Court approval (not sure if it was the Supreme Court) once upon a time, when the federal government was trying to break widespread boycotts of African-American businesses in the South. The precedent is ripe for overturning.
It's obviously a dumb law for a state, and bizarre to apply to an individual rather than a multinational companyThere's almost nothing in the United States for a consumer to boycott.* Multinationals, especially in the weapons business, are a different story. Some defense contractors favor these provisions, since they can effectively supply both sides of a highly profitable conflict. They can tell their Arab customers that they would love to boycott Israel, but can't because of U.S. law. Israel can legally condition purchasing on not selling to the Arab nations, but it doesn't always have sufficient market power.
*Sodastream is all I can think of.
Borrowing a bunch of money then triggering the end of the world makes sense from a certain perspective. At least more sense than most Republican plans.
The only risk is what if the world doesn't end.
See also
(a) CONTRACTOR agrees to comply with state and federal anti-discrimination laws, including
without limitation:
(1) Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §2000d et seq.);
(2) Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. §794);
(3) Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq.);
. . . [ and a few more]
These laws provide in part that no persons in the United States may, on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex,
age, disability, political beliefs, or religion, be excluded from participation in or denied any aid,
care, service or other benefits provided by Federal or State funding, or otherwise be subjected to
discrimination.
Not objectionable, at least with this crowd. The "national origin" bit makes the Israel anti-boycott provision unnecessary.
10: Most people aren't willing to run away to Utah.
Bay cities like to impose procedurally similar requirements, like we won't contract with anybody involved in building The Wall. I don't think the issue is the procedure, though.
Amawi began working in 2009 on a contract basis with the Pflugerville Independent School District, which includes Austin
This is misleading.
It's a suburb. It's not broadly Austin.
And I suspect it's in Williamson county, which is notoriously bonkers, although trending bluer. Not that Texas isn't home to rabid rightwingers who would happily prioritize Israel over anything else.
I didn't realize AISD didn't cover all of the city of Austin! Bonkers.
That's what they mean by Austin City Limits.
11: Different situation. If she was refusing to work with, or discriminating against, Arabic-speaking students from Israel, that would be a valid job performance issue that would justify termination. The anti-boycott provision she is dealing with seems to go way beyond that, to insisting that she not support any anti-Israel boycotts in her personal life. That seems like a massive free speech/free association violation on the part of the school district.
Sodastream is all I can think of.
OMG I want a Sodastream so bad. But I've been doing my part to oppose apartheid by not getting one.
You could probably find someone who loves the Israeli occupation but hates soda to logroll with.
You could probably find someone who loves the Israeli occupation but hates soda to logroll with.
I don't know what logrolling is but it sounds dirty so if I was going to do that I would want it to be with someone I like and trust, not some occupation-loving soda hater.
I think you're confusing it with what is now called "jousting."
18: Again, the problem is applying a provision originally drafted to make sense for corporations. The statue says it applies to sole proprietors, but it shouldn't.
Corporations don't have personal lives, and aren't supposed to get involved in politics, so the issue wouldn't come up.
Sodastream moved their factory out of the West Bank a couple years ago, so they're no longer directly implicated in the occupation the way they used to be. It would still make sense to boycott them as part of a general boycott of Israel, of course.
I believe Pepsi recently bought Sodastream.
All I know about AISD is they post their education app passwords online so we can steal their access.
27: I don't believe I've heard of the book. The name of the subject sounds vaguely familiar.
Alternatives to Sodastream (via the Quakers!): https://www.afsc.org/story/sodastream-alternatives
I've been meaning to get one of these puppies for years.
What I really need is someone to deliver Diet Coke to my house.
That's not actually hard to find. At least in certain locations.
17: I think the ISD lines in Texas generally do not coincide with city lines.
27: What interests you about that book? It looks like the kind of thing that only a pretty focused specialist might have read.
There are probably more recent books that cover the Texas part well, but that might be the only one on that guy. The only other person I can think of named Ranald had a last name of McDonald, and a personal history very much worth reading about.
I saw it cited in this and it looked interesting, but maybe as you say, too obscure.
Just based on his Wikipedia page it sounds like the guy had an interesting life, so it may well be a good read. There's definitely a lot of more recent scholarship on the Texas frontier, though.
17: It's even worse than that. Look at the region carved out by Eanes ISD. It's basically Fancy Wealthy 1990s Austin.
In white Americans, the probability of overt racism decreases with income while that for antisemitism increases. That's just science.
I thought the low-income Zionists just want to skip to the part where the Jews are thrown in the lake of fire?
I've only thing I've had from a Sodastream was plain seltzer water (which really should be a home run for the gizmo; it's the base for all the other drinks). But my big takeaway was, "Wow, this Sodastream thing sucks at making seltzer water."
Maybe the seltzer for soda pop is different from the seltzer for seltzer?
Too much plop plop, not enough fizz fizz.
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The fortune in the fortune cookie I just ate says my positive attitude is contagious and I want to punch it in the face.
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Sounds like you positively want to punch it in the face.
|| Facebook just suggested I become friends with someone I've never met but who I happen to know died two months ago. Maybe they should tweak their algorithm? |>
Maybe the dead return as Russians now.
Nikolai Fyodorov would feel so vindicated.
Above my pay grade, that one.
(At some point I'll get my ass together and buy your book.)
Did the cement manufacturers have a convention in a Trump hotel or something?
I messed up reading Trump's tweet. It had "Concrete Wall" twice, but he was saying that it won't be Concrete. So, nevermind.
It was the Steel Slats Society that had a convention in his hotel.
Right. Clearly not actually a wall.
It's just a fence, which any loser nation can have.
51 Can someone repost the link, or send it to me at pseud at gmail? Thanks.
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24: The Volokh take (I kind of can't believe I'm saying that) seems to think that this applies to the business of the sole proprietorship and not to the person. I definitely don't know if that's a supportable distinction in the law, and whether or not it is seems important.
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Mossy, irrespective of how together your ass is, I am going to be briefly on Roc Island at the end of March. Some friends were planning a Japan trip and roped me in, but I'm doing a solo side jaunt because I want to see the National Palace Museum and whatever else.
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Well the Roc Island Line is a mighty good road
The Roc Island Line is the road to ride
61: Great! Hit me up closer to the time. (Be warned, I am profoundly boring IRL.)
I'll see your boring and raise you tetchy and pedantic.
