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My mom was a long-term sub for about twenty years, because when she got her teaching credential, you didn't have to have a bachelor's, but then they changed the law; but grandmothered her in, but all she could be was a sub. The relevant principal would fabricate an absence so they could bring her in for the year.

.But this was in the 50's and 60's, and I'm pretty sure she got benefits. At least, I know she eventually had a pension and some lifetime medical. Life in America has become somewhat harsher for the once-middle-class during my lifetime.

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Inheritors of the memory of the idyll of slavery (even though most of them would have been the white trash nobody ever remembers <i>must</i> have existed).

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George W. Bush is Charlie McCarthy after the ventriliquoDick has abandoned him.

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It was a near miss. "Command economy". Hey, it was a sub.

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To be precise, they lobby Congress to require the AF to purchase (vastly) overpriced pieces of shit even the AF doesn't want.

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hahahaha. No.

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They all work for Obama now.

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This morning I watched a school bus pick up a kid as the kids at the end of the next driveway watched, then roll the 15 ft to the next driveway to stop again to pick up those kids. Seriously... what the fuck? The kids can't just gather at one or other spot? Then I thought, well, maybe there's a rural neighbourhood war going on here between two families, then I started wondering whose dad was boning whose mom, then I just gave up and wished I'd brought some coffee along for the ride.

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"Russia from a capitalist country to a command country"

Yeah, cuz that Czar fella was all about market driven democratic principles.

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He came for the souls...but stayed for the peaches!

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The thinking man's penis.

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I don't want a brain-wasting disease on my hand! Gross!

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I'm scared now.

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Stalin grew a MUCH better mustache. Contrast!

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I was gonna say Kruschev, but he had much less hair.

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He needed something to fill in the spaces where people who 'fell from favor' used to be.

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