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Luxury Hotels In Montenegro: A Guide On Where To Stay In Montenegro
Luxury Hotels In Bay Of Kotor, Montenegro
Boutique Hotel & Spa Casa Del Mare – Mediterraneo, Kamenari
Lazure Hotel & Marina, Herceg-Novi
Hotel Forza Mare, Dobrota
The Chedi Luštica Bay, Tivat
Regent Porto Montenegro, Tivat
Hotel Forza Terra, Kotor
Iberostar Heritage Grand Perast, Perast
Luxury Hotels On The Montenegro Coast
Splendid Conference & Spa Resort, Budva
Dukley Hotel & Resort, Budva
Slavija Budva Hotel, Budva
Maestral Resort & Casino, Sveti Stefan
Hotel California, Sveti Stefan
Melia Budva Petrovac, Petrovac Na Moru
Hotel Senator, Ulcinj
Luxury Hotels In Podgorica, Montenegro
Hilton Podgorica Crna Gora
Perla Residence Hotel & Spa Podgorica
It may be a small and unassuming country, but Montenegro surely holds its own among Balkan heavyweights like Croatia and Greece. Home to magnificent mountain scenery, blessed with fantastic beaches, and dotted with attractive towns, it's an excellent place for a summer holiday. In fact, when planning your next off-the-beaten-path getaway, you might be interested in checking out the best luxury hotels in Montenegro on the beach below.
They're arguably the best places to base yourself in Montenegro while exploring the charming country, boasting all modern amenities, great locations, and outstanding services.
Most of the 5-star luxury hotels in Montenegro are along the coast. Whether it's the scenic Bay of Kotor or popular Montenegro resorts like Budva and Sveti Stefan, that's where you'll find the vast majority of high-end Montenegro accommodations. Its capital of Podgorica, on the other hand, also has a few upscale hotels.
Photo Credit: Boutique Hotel & Spa Casa Del Mare
Situated in the tiny town of Kamenari in the heart of the Bay of Kotor, Boutique Hotel & Spa Casa del Mare offers accommodation with fantastic sea views and a private beach.
There's a garden and terrace, too, while their car, motorcycle, and even yacht rental service allows you to explore the bay in your favorite way. You can also join an organized excursion.
At the beach, guests can use sun loungers and beach chairs free of charge. There's a daily continental breakfast, and the excellent onsite restaurant served Mediterranean dishes, with a selection of vegetarian choices.
Located only about 16 kilometers from the historic town of Kotor and 30 kilometers from Budva, it's a great base to explore northwestern Montenegro.
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Photo Credit: Lazure Hotel & Marina
Housed in a gorgeous stone building on the shore of Kotor Bay, the 5-star Lazure Hotel & Marina provides the ultimate luxury in both accommodation and amenities. All rooms and suites are in a beautiful 18th-century historic building and boast a modern-rustic décor. They have either courtyard or sea views. The private bathrooms have a walk-in shower or spa bath.
Free WiFi and private parking are available, while there's also a conference center and a scenic outdoor garden venue. The latter is, by the way, a super-popular wedding venue. The resort's three restaurants serve Mediterranean cuisine; you can head to the wine bar or lounge bar for fine wines.
Photo Credit: Hotel Forza Mare
While looking for luxury hotels in Montenegro's amazing Bay of Kotor, your search may lead you to the Hotel Forza Mare. With its own private beach, this hotel is located 3 kilometers from the Kotor town center, far from the noise in Dobrota at the Boka Bay waterfront. Although Dobrota is another town, the residential area is considered a part of Kotor.
Guests here can enjoy French and Mediterranean cuisine at the chic onsite restaurant. The hotel has indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a spa and wellness center, a terrace, a sun garden, free parking, locker facilities, and free WiFi.
Each room reflects a different geographic location – Africa, China – and includes all the necessary amenities, plus a tumble dryer, laptop safe, balcony, hypoallergenic linen, and free WiFi. The luxuriously designed executive rooms are 35 m² and reflect India, Dubai, or Japan, while also having a fantastic sea view.
We speak from experience when we say that The Chedi Luštica Bay is one of the most luxurious Montenegro hotels. The Chedi in Montenegro isn't just any hotel, though. It's part of a fully packed complex that includes a striking marina, beachside area, shops, apartments, spa and wellness area, and entertainment facilities.
All guests can start off their day with a continental breakfast—gluten-free and vegan options are available! You can choose between the property's two restaurants and one bar for lunch, dinner, and drinks. The culinary focus lies on Mediterranean-style cuisine and local wines.
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Right in Boka Bay, this luxurious Venetian-style 5-star resort is one of the best hotels in Montenegro. Guests are pampered to the fullest with expansive views of the sea and the Porto Montenegro village, lavish facilities, and epicurean delights.
With its jacuzzi, sauna, Turkish bath, swimming pools, gym, and wet suite, the Regent Spa provides a place for holistic rejuvenation onsite. At the same time, the squash and tennis courts nearby are accessible for fitness lovers.
Guests at the Regent Porto Montenegro accommodation also have access to the world-class marina, yacht club, and the secluded Dobrec beach that's only accessible by boat. Tivat Clock Tower and Saint Sava Church are within walking distance.
All of the rooms have either a balcony or a terrace, while some also have a kitchenette. Rooms feature minibars, safety deposit boxes, air conditioning, heating, hairdryers, flatscreen TVs with satellite channels, alarm clocks, free WiFi, and iPod docks.
The 63 m² suites also have sitting and dining areas and either mountain or sea views. The 123 m² 2-bedroom has a dining area, living room, and a full kitchen, along with gorgeous views of the blue Adriatic from its three terraces.
The Regent Porto Montenegro is the perfect luxury Montenegro accommodation for a dream vacation.
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The 5-star Hotel Forza Terra in Kotor can offer that experience if you'd like to feel like a holidaying celebrity. It's located in the middle of one of Montenegro's top destinations, overlooking the shimmering water of the bay and providing car and bicycle rentals—cycling is a fantastic way to explore the area.
Guests can enjoy views from the sun terrace, have a drink at the bar, and indulge in delicious regional fare at the restaurant. Both WiFi and private parking are complimentary. Other communal facilities include an outdoor and indoor pool, a spa center with saunas and hot tubs, and a gym.
Photo Credit: Iberostar Heritage Grand Perast
As far as historic settings go, few luxury hotels in Montenegro compare to the Iberostar Heritage Grand Perast. Housed in an 18th-century palace in the heart of UNESCO World Heritage-listed Perast, this fantastic hotel boasts and beautiful bayfront location.
Free WiFi is available all over the property, while guests can also enjoy the spa and wellness center, which has a sauna and hammam. There's a fitness center, too, so you can exercise away the calories you take in at the restaurant or lobby bar.
All rooms have modern decorations, air-conditioning, a flatscreen TV, safe and minibar. The private bathrooms come with either a bath or shower.
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Set close to Bečići Beach, about 1.9 kilometers from the Budva Old Town, the Splendid Conference & Spa Resort is one of the best five-star luxury hotels in Budva. Guests have access to 6 swimming pools, including a heated indoor pool, saunas, steam baths, hot tubs, and a private sandy beach.
The onsite restaurant serves delicious Montenegrin or international cuisine and a selection of famous wines. A large spacious Casino Royale is also present on the property.
The large spacious rooms and suites include all modern amenities such as LCD TVs, air conditioning, private balconies, minibars, laptop safes, coffee machines, free WiFi, and free parking. Ask for rooms with either sea views or mountain views to enjoy your morning coffee or a glass of wine at night!
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One of the best places to stay in Budva, the luxurious Dukley Hotel & Resort, is about 1.5 kilometers from the town center and 17 kilometers from Tivat Airport. Additionally, it's about 50 meters from Dukley Beach, 250 meters from Becici Beach, and 350 meters from Slovenska Beach.
The Dukley Seafront Restaurant serves a variety of fresh food while the other three onsite restaurants, located on three separate beaches, serve exotic snacks and Caribbean and Mediterranean dishes. Golf carts are available to travel around the property and between facilities. The spa and massage facilities are fabulous.
Large spacious rooms, suites, and penthouses are elegantly decorated and include all necessary amenities, including a well-equipped kitchen and dining area. Free WiFi and parking are also available for all guests.
All the rooms have furnished terraces, while some have private jacuzzis on the balcony and an amazing view of the mountains, the perfect way to enjoy your luxury holiday in Montenegro.
Photo Credit: Slavija Budva Hotel
Featuring a rooftop bar and pool, the Slavija is one of the top luxury hotels in Budva. It is about 1.5 kilometers from the best things to do in Budva. Slovenska Beach, with its water sports and swimming areas, is only 300 meters away.
Guests at this accommodation in Budva can enjoy access to a spa with saunas, steam rooms, and massages, a rooftop snack bar, a lobby bar, and free WiFi.
Spacious rooms at this Budva hotel include marble flooring, air conditioning, minibars, flatscreen satellite TVs, dining tables, sofas, free WiFi, and free parking. Tivat Airport is 24 kilometers away. Omnia Night Club and TQ Plaza are within walking distance of this high-end Budva hotel.
Photo Credit: Maestral Resort & Casino
One of the most incredible luxury hotels in coastal Montenegro, the phenomenal Maestral Resort & Casino sets the standard of what luxurious accommodation ought to be like. Completely renovated in 2017, the property has several swimming pools, a modern casino, and a wellness center featuring hot tubs, saunas, a steam bath, massages, and various beauty treatments.
Its four restaurants serve a wide variety of Mediterranean and international dishes, complemented by an elaborate selection of renowned wines. For drinks and snacks, you can visit one of the numerous bars that dot the complex.
This luxury resort lies in a picturesque rocky bay and has its own private beach, a quick drive from the bustling town centers of both Budva and Sveti Stefan. Rooms are modern and spacious, equipped with air-conditioning, private balconies, and free WiFi.
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One of our top picks for luxury hotels in Sveti Stefan is Hotel California. Boasting five stars, this high-end accommodation lies right on the beach of Sveti Stefan, overlooking the town's iconic little peninsula. This is easily one of the best-located hotels in the area.
Guests can enjoy the private beach area, free private parking, room service, the terrace, and complimentary WiFi. A restaurant and bar serve dinner and drinks, while visitors can also indulge in either a buffet or a la carte breakfast.
Photo Credit: Melia Budva Petrovac
Situated in the small coastal town of Petrovac na Moru, a short distance south of Sveti Stefan, the Melia Budva Petrovac is a fantastic 5-star hotel. Its numerous amenities include two swimming pools and a wellness center with a gym and sauna.
You can also get pampered, thanks to a selection of beauty and relaxation treatments. Business travelers and event organizers might be interested in the onsite conference room. Free WiFi is available everywhere in this hotel.
As far as cuisine goes, you can indulge in Italian food in the a la carte restaurant, while the buffet restaurant features show cooking. Breakfast is served every morning. Moreover, there's also a snack bar at the pool!
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A 5-star aparthotel mere steps from the beach, Hotel Senator offers private luxury apartments on the southern Montenegro coast. These spacious and modern apartments include a kitchenette with a dining area, a private bathroom, and a seating area with a flat-screen TV.
Communal facilities and services are plentiful and range from an indoor and outdoor pool to an onsite bar, bicycle, and car rentals. There's a grocery store just down the street, while a restaurant is just 100 meters away.
This luxury aparthotel is a fantastic place to stay if you'd like to explore the coast of Montenegro and nearby Lake Skadar and would be the best place to base yourself in Montenegro.
Photo Credit: Hilton Podgorica Crna Gora
Located in the heart of Podgorica, the superb 5-star hotel lies a short walk from the city center, embassies, and parks. In addition to a rooftop bar where you can hang out, there also are no fewer than four restaurants on the property. Terrace Fontana serves homemade pastries and coffee.
This luxury hotel is popular among both business travelers and tourists, its facilities ranging from a business center to a spa. Rooms are spacious, stylish, quiet, and bright.
Photo Credit: Perla Residence Hotel & Spa Podgorica
Without question, one of the best hotels in Podgorica, Perla Residence Podgorica & Spa, lies just outside of the Old Town and features several exciting amenities. There's a garden and terrace, a gym, a spa, and a wellness center with an indoor pool. Free WiFi and private parking are available, too.
An onsite restaurant serves Spanish, Latin American, and local cuisine. All rooms are well-equipped as well, including a flatscreen TV, a kitchen, seating area, bathroom, and dining area.
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Charles "Chuck" Pagano New CTC Board Chairman
Charles "Chuck" Pagano, the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the global sports
The Council also re-elected Joe Savage, Executive Vice President, Commercial Banking, Webster Bank and Webster Financial Corporation as the Treasurer, Alan Mendelson, founder of Axiom Venture Partners and a longtime leader in the state's venture community as Assistant Treasurer and Richard Harris, a partner in Day Pitney, LLPs where he chairs the firm's technology practice, as the CTC board's Corporate Secretary.
"Chuck Pagano exemplifies the spirit and best that Connecticut has to offer the world: he grew up here, went to school here and has been part of one the greatest business success stories in the world, without losing any of his passion and concern for his home state," said Chris Kalish, former Executive Director of the GE Edge Lab and CTC's chairman for the past four years, who is an IT consultant to the TJX Companies.
Pagano joined ESPN in 1979 and has been part of every expansion and addition to their giant Bristol campus. He has led the sports networks evolution into one of the leading video production businesses in the world and oversees billions of dollars of facilities and operations. A native of Waterbury, Connecticut, Pagano received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Master of Science degree in organizational psychology both from the University of Hartford and also studies astronomy in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University.
"I am excited about the opportunity to give back to my home state and to bring my experience into areas of economic development and public policy. This is going to be fun and rewarding," Pagano said.
Tony Allen is a Managing Partner of The IMPACT Group, a consultancy that works with a diverse clientele of international organizations in the development and deployment of strategy and operational performance improvement. In this role he brings 25 years of global strategic and operational management experience to this collaboration of experienced senior executives from diverse industry backgrounds. IMPACT has conducted more than 100 projects with clients in 20 countries on six continents providing business transformation consulting to a wide variety of clientele from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies. He was educated at the University of Maine and studied Business Management at the Swedish Institute of Management, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and the Fuqua School at Duke University. He is also a graduate from the Center for Creative Leadership.
"No one has put his imprint on the Council in the way that Tony has – both by helping us plan, by helping us see the opportunities in front of us and by stressing the role of execution and follow through in everything we do," added Nemerson.

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The following is a starting point for anyone willing to understand the plight of immigrants in this country better. For anyone that is interested in our humanity. I believe that if everyone read these books, signed up for the authors'/websites' newsletters, friend-requested artists/writers, followed them on Instagram/tumbler/twitter; we would not have such a strong anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. I truly believe that when we begin to listen to each other, we understand each other. We understand why we do things, how we might help each other through them, and we begin to care about each other's happiness. The following is a list of first-hand accounts from immigrants, or accounts written by children of immigrants. It's important that we tell our own stories and that we read the stories from the mouths of immigrants. Memoir/Non-Fiction Sacrificing Families, Leisy J. Abrego The Beast, Oscar Martinez and also, the newspaper Oscar helped found, El Faro.net , the only truly impartial/liberal newspaper in El Salvador Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea And anything by Reyna Grande Poetry Slow Lightning, Eduardo C. Corral The Verging Cities, Natalie Scenters-Zapico The Art of Exile, William Archila The Cha-Cha Files, Maya Chinchilla Toys Made of Rock, Jose B. Gonzalez Anthologies Poetry of Resistance: Poets Responding to SB-1070 and Xenophobia, Francisco X. Alarcón, Odilia Galván Rodriguez And a forthcoming undocumented anthology edited by Sonia Guiñansaca, look for it. Look for anything she does over at: http://soniaguinansaca.com/ Artists concerned with the Undocumented Struggle Favianna Rodriguez Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza's Dignidad Rebelde Collective Lunar New Year Mata Ruda And these helpful organizations: Undocumedia CultureStrike Colibrí Center for Human Rights Presente.org Again, these are only the beginning in understanding the 12 million undocumented individuals in this country. Spread the word. Let's talk to each other via our art, writings, posts. Let's understand each other and treat each other with respect. Also feel free to add any other suggestions in the comment section. Thank you for reading. Continue reading
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The Story of Someone-We-Love: Part II
"Why didn't you take me with you? Why didn't you come back sooner?" Someone-We-Love remembers these questions perfectly. Her daughter, Maria, was searching for an explanation. At 14, she couldn't quite understand why her mom had left. In the four and a half years that Someone-We-Love had been away, Maria dropped out of school twice. The first time, right after her mom's departure, Maria stopped going to school for a few weeks. The second time, the year before Someone-We-Love returned, she dropped out for an entire year. I asked Someone-We-Love why she thought Maria had done this, "because she missed me. And also, I think it was difficult for Maria to accept I had a daughter with Carlos." Someone-We-Love gave birth to Ana a year before she migrated back to El Salvador. Of course, she told Maria the moment she found out. Which was around the same time she dropped out of school for a year. "Maria grew even more distant. I understood her struggle, so I tried to talk her through it, but also give her space. It was difficult for me. I wanted to be happy with Carlos. I wanted Maria to be happy." Before Ana turned two, Someone-We-Love boarded the ICE plane with her second daughter, Ana, in her arms. Ana's father, Carlos, doesn't have documentation, so he had to stay in California. "Carlos was so afraid that he didn't want to come into the airport. We said goodbye outside." Someone-We-Love told Carlos that she would be back soon. Two or three years maximum. "My plan was to convince Maria to come to this country with me. I returned for the quinceañera, yes, but I wanted her to be here with me." But, someone-We-Love didn't count on the strong bond Maria had formed with her Abuelita Nelly—Someone-We-Love's mother. "'How can I leave her here? Who's going to take care of Abuelita Nelly now that all her daughters have left?' Hearing my daughter Maria tell me this, really broke my heart." Someone-We-Love started to cry. She explained to me that she felt pulled in all directions. She felt terrible to leave her mother behind. She felt terrible to leave her daughter Maria behind. She felt guilty for wanting to take Maria away, for wanting to leave her mother, Nelly, alone again. "I didn't know what to do." On top of the difficulties she faced with her family, Someone-We-Love's hometown continued to get more and more dangerous. When she returned, she was afraid to sell pupusas again. She had to depend on Carlos sending money. And on top of all of that, Ana was born with hyperthyroidism, which meant she needed special medication to control her growth. If she didn't get the right dose, it could put her development in jeopardy. Someone-We-Love stayed in El Salvador until 2013. Close to three years, before she had to return to California. "Ana's hyperthyroidism was the main reason why we came back. I didn't want to leave Maria again. I begged her... Continue reading
The Story of Someone-We-Love: Part I
The recent hypocrisy of the Obama Administration is infuriating. Yes, the president cried during his much-needed gun-control Executive Order speech, but the same day his administration released a letter that justified the deportation of everyone––including children and mothers––who crossed the border after January 1, 2014, the year the United States had a "crisis of unaccompanied children at the border." But there have been children immigrating for quite some time (i.e. I was an unaccompanied minor in 1999). In 2014 alone, it is estimated that over 100,000 families crossed the border. My question is: Why does the media not see that the people crossing the US-Mexico border are just like the refugees crossing the Mediterranean? Someone-We-Love's two-part story is a brief compilation of several interviews. I call her Someone-We-Love because she's our grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, cousin, friend. She's someone we know, across the counter, at the checkout-line, walking on the sidewalk. I hope you can have compassion, share her story, and see her humanity—something the media often erases. * * * It's two weeks before Christmas and I am sitting with Someone-We-Love at the small café she works at. She just clocked out for the day. I jot notes on a small pad as she sips her coffee. What I understand is that migrating from El Salvador was her last resort. Someone-We-Love gave birth to her daughter Maria when she was only 16 years old. Her husband Juan was twice her age. He was a retired Atlacatl Battalion soldier (the most ruthless faction of the military during the civil war), so he got a pension. "I thought he was handsome in that olive-green uniform," Someone-We-Love says. "To this day, I don't know why I liked him." Beatings and verbal abuses happened too many times the nights he would stumble through the door. Someone-We-Love says, "He spent all his money on cheap cane vodka. He hung around with the village drunks. He would get so wasted and recall what he did during the war. He said if he really wanted to, he could kill me with his bare hands. That he could kill anyone, that that's what the army taught him." When that occurred, Someone-We-Love and her daughter would walk in the dark for two kilometers on dirt roads to her parent's house. It wasn't until Maria turned five that Someone-We-Love garnered the strength to leave Juan for good. Even then, from time to time he would yell at her from the street when he was drunk. He had never helped her with money. She worked with her mom at their pupuseria, but their earnings were not enough. Her sisters, who had fled to the U.S. years earlier, sent her more money once she got separated from her husband, but still, it wasn't enough. In 1999, El Salvador changed their currency to the dollar and with it, the cost of living increased. Around the same year, gangs started to take hold of San Salvador. News began to spring up about a... Continue reading
Place, Origin, and Stalks of Corn [by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo]
Keeping with this week's theme of immigration and community in mind, I asked Marcelo Hernandez Castillo to chime in on his own experience. What follows is his essay about place, origin, and stalks of corn. Thank you Marcelo. I don't know where my grandfather is buried, only that he's been lying somewhere in the desert for the last 60 years. He died crossing the border like so many others, attempting to provide a better life for his family. To cross a border as an undocumented immigrant is to risk crossing a threshold into invisibility. And so, for 21 years, every act of living has been an act of trying to remain visible. Recently, I keep going back to a line by Wendy Xu in which she says "I am trying to dissect the memory of my erasure." And it is true, our act is an act of dissection, of opening ourselves up to what has been hidden. I have to keep redrawing myself back in a landscape because erasure is a constant. I'm negotiating an absence and presence simultaneously that was begun by the event of displacement. And because of such displacement undocumented immigrants are taught to guard our presence for fear of deportation, to have an intrinsic fear of being seen. But you can't live like that, not for long. Perhaps to be a writer of color and to write about place is to always write about what has hurt you. The places we inhabit are always in relation to an origin and in the act of immigrating, you are always longing for what you have lost, perhaps forever. I'm thinking of a way back, of mapping the lineage of pain caused by separation. What would that look like? I've thought of reversing my parent's journey but it doesn't work like that. And for many, there is no going back, undocumented immigrants come to this country and die in this country without ever seeing their family again. My cousin was forced to sit by while they buried his father 2000 miles away in Mexico; forced to mourn from a distance. And so, a substitution occurs, because it must, because there is no other option. You need to replace the object of mourning with something else, something physical you can hold in your hand to replicate the act of touching their deceased body, whether that be a picture, or an old coat that belonged to the deceased. When they buried my uncle, his children in the US mourned through the phone, hearing only the wailing on the other line. My cousin asked to touch me because I had touched her father last. And so poetics, as far as I am concerned, is a way to make sense of this separation; of mourning as third party mediation of senses. Place, then, can't simply be somewhere you can travel to, or occupy, it must be something else. For writers of color, the history of place is just as resonant as its present.... Continue reading
Recuerdo (Remembrance), Resistencia (Resistance), Recreación (Reinvention)[by Javier Zamora]
These week's posts will try to keep in mind Francisco X. Alarcón's commitment to the Latin@ community. As many have written since his passing, here is a poet who shows us what can be done with the languages we speak and the indigenous languages some of us have forgotten to speak. He shows us that it's the poet's duty to respond to injustices. It's our duty to add a human side to the news articles, to the conflicts, to aid in the feeling of the immigrant community in this country. A group of extreme-left students tried to chain us inside 100 Wheeler Hall. They were mostly white; we were 500 students protesting against recent tuition hikes and Arizona's SB-1070 bill. They had not asked us for our consent. A leader of the student group MECHxA asked me, Do you have papers? I said no. She immediately rushed to the door and urged the ones holding the chains to let me out. In that moment, I didn't know how close I'd come to getting arrested for civil disobedience. I knew I was different from most students because I didn't have legal documentation, but I didn't know that a simple infraction could have taken me to jail, and if ICE happened to be there, I could have faced deportation. My parents repeatedly told me, Don't get arrested; don't throw everything away. I listened, but a part of me didn't. I was a teenager. I didn't want to believe I was different. The weeks that followed the protest, I was so afraid of my immigration status that I would bolt home after class. I checked Facebook. Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez created the page Poets Responding to SB-1070. This was Francisco's first post on the Facebook page: Melanie Cervantes' poster of a protester with the words brown and proud, todos somos Arizona. It was a simple but powerful thing, I'd chanted this at protests, we were all chanting it now. People started to share and comment on poems, cartoons, and posters advocating for the humanity of immigrants. As I read them, I began to understand that there were others under my immigration status writing about their experiences, there were other writers that were citizens who cared about immigrants. Francisco understood this about media. He was a huge fan of Twitter and the short form. He knew how technology could help the most marginalized of us, connect and gain strength. Slowly, I started to write about my own experiences as a Salvadoran immigrant. This wasn't the first time Francisco has influenced my life. When I started to learn English in fourth grade, I was part of an ESL program where I read mostly bi-lingual children's books. At the time, my mom didn't speak much English, but she understood she didn't agree with the school's policies of starting us at a first-grade reading level. She went to the bookstore and bought me as many books and flashcards, so I could learn English faster.... Continue reading
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Aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled drinks package in the world, according to a new analysis by Resource Recycling Systems (RRS).
Commissioned by the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), Beverage Can Makers Europe (BCME) and Abralatas in Brazil, the study used global recycling data to calculate and validate the global recyclability rates for aluminum, PET and glass beverage containers. The study established a global weighted average recycling rate for aluminum at 69 percent, compared to PET at 43 percent and glass at 46 percent.
The study prioritized markets with accessible recycling data and then verified and validated the data for 82 percent of the aluminum can global market (representing 21 countries), 79 percent of the PET bottle global market (representing 23 countries), and 79 percent of the glass bottle global market (representing 22 countries). The study identified aluminum recycling rates at 98 percent in Brazil, 79 percent in Poland, 77 percent in Japan, 72 percent in Italy and 55 percent in the United States.
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Morning Ethics Warm-Up, 4/30/2020: The "Let's Have A Morning Warm-Up That's Actually In The Morning" Edition
April 30, 2020 May 1, 2020 / Jack Marshall
1. I have a theory on mainstream media bias deniers..Maybe it's more sympathetic than they deserve, but I think people don't notice how sloppy, incompetent and stupid reporters and pundits are because they don't read newspapers carefully or consistently, and because other news sources are so packed with distractions and emotional manipulation (not that newspapers are not) that it's hard to concentrate on the details. This is why I read the Times. I figure that it's supposed to be the best, and if the best is stupid and biased (stupid makes you biased, and vice-versa), then we can be pretty sure that the rest are worse.
It is amazing how much disinformation the Times allows, or in many cases, promotes. Here's a trivial but telling example: Sarah Lyall is a Times reporter who also writes a column reviewing thrillers in the New York Times Review of Books, wrote recently that she always wanted to be "the Henry Fonda" of a jury, "single-handedly" "exonerating" a "wrongly accused" defendant, like "Twelve Angry Men." This is a factually and legally false description of Reginald Rose's script. Juror 8 (Fonda) doesn't "single-handedly" do anything except keep deliberations going. The defendant isn't "exonerated"—all the jury does is collectively figure out that he wasn't proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt–you know, like OJ. And he probably wasn't wrongly accused. In fact., he's probably guilty. The whole point of Rose's screenplay is that "probably" isn't enough.
Newspapers are supposed to enlighten readers, not make them dumber. I know most people think that "Twelve Angry Men" is like mystery where someone is accused of murder and is proven innocent by a relentless sleuth, but it's not. Did Lyall not really watch the film, meaning she was lying, or did she not understand it, indicating that she should be judged too stupid to be a reporter? The same can be said of her editor. The Times can't get the easy things right; why would anyone trust it to analyze more complex matters more reliably?
2. It's not integrity, exactly, more like "We'll only lie for you so much." But the Times apparently has limits! As Ethics Alarms discussed at the time, the paper's editor, Dean Baquet admitted that it removed references to Joe Biden's history as a serial sniffer, hugger, kisser and groper from its unconscionably late investigative report on Tara Reade's sexual assault allegations. Now a talking memo has gone out to the Democrats from the Biden camp, saying in part, "Biden believes that all women have the right to be heard and to have their claims thoroughly reviewed. In this case, a thorough review by the New York Times has led to the truth: this incident did not happen."
That's a lie. Nonetheless, Biden supporters have stuck to the script, including Stacey Abrams, the completely inexperienced fad flavor of the moment who is actively lobbying to be Joe's VP. (To be fair, it has been made painfully clear that only three qualifications matter for the honor: being female, being black, and seeming more mentally acute than Joe.) This week Abrams was grilled by CNN's Don Lemon, apparently in the throes of a rare impulse to be a journalist, regarding her feelings about Reade's accusation. She dutifully repeated the talking point that the Times had found that the alleged incident "did not happen."
The Times issued a statement contradicting Abrams and the Biden supporters' talking point. "BuzzFeed reported on the existence of talking points being circulated by the Biden campaign that inaccurately suggest a New York Times investigation found that Tara Reade's allegation 'did not happen,'" a spokeswoman for the paper said. "Our investigation made no conclusion either way."
3. When Ethics Alarms Don't Ring. There has been an anti-Jewish crime wave in New York City City: in 2019, anti-Semitic hate crimes rose 29 percent. Yet here is NYC mayor de Blasio's recent tweet regarding social distancing: "My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period."
Imagine the reaction if a mayor (or a President) singled out any other a racial or ethnic group for special criticism. President Trump was accused of instigating hate crimes against Asian-American because he singled out a country for criticism it richly deserved. Of course, singling out Jews is especially stupid, but then Mayor de Blasio has already proven that he is that (and had before he was re-elected.) Writes my old friend John Podhoretz:
You know, I used to think you were an idiot, the kind of idiot useful to totalitarians, the kind who subscribed to the official party newspaper of the Stalinist regime in Nicaragua back in the 1980s. I also used to think you were a feckless and thoughtless mayor who airily allowed the cleaned-up streets of the city to regress into an open-air dormitory for opioid addicts, in thrall to some demented principle of fairness and justice, not to mention a man intent on destroying the school system out of some equally demented ideas about how excellence is racist. What I didn't think, after six years of your ghastly mayoralty, was that you had the capacity to surprise me. But you have… Your tweet, you declared, "was said with love, but it was tough love." Let me follow your example, and say something with love, but tough love: You're a bad person.
4. Just to make it clear that New York isn't the only city dominated by people with dead ethics alarms, Legal Insurrection informs us that the Matanuska-Susitna school district in Alaska has banned these classic from being taught in the schools:
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
The rationale, summarized by one school board member, was "It would be unfair to ask teachers to have to navigate their pupils through the complicated subject matter."
This is an example of adults who were never properly instructed in critical thinking seeking to ensure that future generations are similarly handicapped….and, presumably, future voters for politicians like Joe Biden, Stacey Abrams, and Bill de Blasio.
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Steve Witherspoon
#4 "It would be unfair to ask teachers to have to navigate their pupils through the complicated subject matter."
That's a fabulous piece of evidence showing how our schools are dumbing-down students.
It's another example of the same bull shit that's nailing the edges of the coffin and sealing logic and critical thinking away to permanently bury it in the quaint anecdotes of history.
A dumbed-down society is far easier for totalitarians to control. Think about that for a while and then take an objective look at what's happening in our society right now.
Alizia Tyler
All this may be true, but I would suggest that no one has an real certainty as to *what is happening in our society* right now.
Remember: there are superficial readings and then there are depth readings.
On all the pages of this blog, from one end to the other, there are dozens & dozens of *superficial readings* that show no or little capacity to examine *causal chains*.
But this is an excusable problem in a deliberately dumbed down society: that historical perspective shrinks along with vision. One sees as though *through a chink in a wall*.
The other dimension is even larger and more inscrutable:
Like Macbeth, Western man made an evil decision, which has become the efficient and final cause of other evil decisions. Have we forgotten our encounter with the witches on the heath? It occurred in the late fourteenth century, and what the witches said to the protagonist of this drama was that man could realize himself more fully if he would only abandon his belief in the existence of transcendentals. The powers of darkness were working subtly, as always, and they couched this proposition in the seemingly innocent form of an attack upon universals. The defeat of logical realism in the great medieval debate was the crucial event in the history of Western culture; from this flowed those acts which issue now in modern decadence.
The conversation on the topic of *What happened?* and *Why?* has yet to be had. All efforts to define this — here — are routinely shot down.
Anything good on TeeVee?
Alizia Tyler wrote, "I would suggest that no one has an real certainty as to *what is happening in our society* right now."
That's one of the most ridiculous things you've ever written and that's really saying something.
What's happening in our society is something that is viewed from a personal perspective and your statement is essentially telling every human being on the planet that their personal perspective of what's happening in their society from their personal perspective is irrelevant. Your blanket claim bull shit.
Alizia Tyler wrote, "Remember: there are superficial readings and then there are depth readings."
You seem to disregard anything that you deem as "superficial readings" in favor of what you call "in-depth readings" that are taken to absurdity and your method of "in-depth readings" is to question everything to the point of absurdity which comes across as sealioning.
In our society right this very minute there are literally totalitarian rules put in place to literally control the population and literally limit what the population can do and purchase, violate the totalitarian rules and you will be punished. I stated that "A dumbed-down society is far easier for totalitarians to control. Think about that for a while and then take an objective look at what's happening in our society right now."; the first statement I believe to be a self-evident fact, the second statement is related to that self-evident fact and how it relates to what is happening this very minute in our current society. These statements are not placed there for you to muddy them up by piling on tangents and cosmic puzzles for your enjoyment they were placed there for others to take an objective look at our current society.
I consider your entire comment an intentional trolling deflection.
An Aside: As absurd as your reality appears to be sometimes, are you absolutely certain that you're not just a virus in the matrix?
Allow me to suggest, in those polite terms for which I am famous, that this is an example, in its way, of a 'dumbed-down' statement. Don't look *over there* to find the dumbed-down, look inside. We need to become far more circumspect. This is the key to everything I write. It means: we have to start looking at the external problems differently. I suggest my focus is a necessary branch of the 'ethical project'.
When you consider *mutability* — that things are forever in flux and unstable — you quickly recognize that those multitudes you speak of live with contingency and mutability. True, the experience things, but they rarely *understand* them. How could they? Understanding requires space, time and distance (to see from above) in order to grasp in a larger frame *what is going on*.
Well, I admit that the things I point to are uncommon. For example, to refer to Richard Weaver and his 'witches on the heath' is not a common topic of conversation. But is the loss of capacity to recognize transcendentals? I suggest that that loss is one of the primary and more significant effects of processes of getting or being 'dumbed-down'. If it is fair to use the term 'dumbed-down' (and it is a good term) then what dumbing down means has to be explored with rigor and perseverance.
What is *absurd* for you seems to be what you cannot understand. I am evermore dedicated to what I have identified as the *real problem*: getting clear about causation.
Since 9/11, and continuing now in this strangest of all strange present moments, very odd things have gone on. I have mentioned, time and again, the anomalies that can easily be found when examining 9/11. But I notice that these are pushed aside. They will not be considered. There is a will not to consider them. But now, when your-plural liberties are more directly curtailed, suddenly you are raging around and screaming Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh! But what is happening TODAY has a causal relationship with what happened just a few years back. So, 'seeing & interpreting' come to the fore as important endeavors.
One who is stuck within mutable experience — the immediate events of the day — is inhibited from seeing things from a more removed perspective.
In our society right this very minute there are literally totalitarian rules put in place to literally control the population and literally limit what the population can do and purchase, violate the totalitarian rules and you will be punished.
These things are part-and-parcel of trends that began — just to pick an approximate date — during and after WW2. If you understood the dynamics of the power-machinations of the so-called military-industrial complex, and also the meaning of the term 'swamp', and the assault on Constitutional principles, you could *see* the present in a wider light. Yet you (specifically you, and others to) deliberately will not to see certain inconvenient facts.
For this reason, or at one level, you deliberately remain in a sort of willed state on un-seeing. All the hyper-patriots here — who can only see America in one way — deliberately mis-see. They cannot be relied on for accurate or productive assessment. Just patriotic speeches. And then a return to superficial readings.
I am making the effort — my effort — to *do my work* here. To take the meaning of *ethics* seriously. It has to be taken to a depth level. This is what *you-plural* have taught me inadvertently.
As absurd as your reality appears to be sometimes, are you absolutely certain that you're not just a virus in the matrix?
What if I am an antibody? What if what I do is (some part of) what is needed?
The 'dumbing down' of the students is only the effect. The cause is the 'dumbing down' and overpay of the teachers by the 'Education Establishment'. Let's just start off with an impolite truth, this country's teachers were never an especially bright bunch of people. They were typically middling college students and a teaching career was an attainable goal for them. The pay wasn't good, so the people that chose that profession generally WANTED to educate students, not get rich. Educating students was their motivation. Then, we got the Department of Education and the 'educators' got to determine what the teaching preparation should be. Before this, college professors in their respective fields decided what teachers needed to know and be able to do. Before the Department of Ed, teachers typically got a degree in the area they wanted to teach and added a 'Teaching Certificate' as a minor. This 'Teaching Certificate' was 18-credit-hours or so of education techniques and student teaching. Math teachers had to get math degrees (maybe watered down, but math degrees), history teachers earned history degrees, etc. Now, we have 'Education Departments' and the degrees are determined by the Department of Ed. Now, only 29% of high-school math teachers have math degrees. In Illinois, which pays far better than average, it is 5%. But how can this be? Doesn't Illinois say that 90% of their math teachers are 'qualified and 60% have Master's Degrees'? Yes, but qualified by whom, and how does a Master's degree is Education Administration help them teach math? Most math and science teachers just pass a 'competency exam' that doesn't require a single college-level class in the subject to pass. Many can't even do that and are teaching under 'emergency certification'. Emergency certification was supposed to allow technically qualified people to teach their subject of expertise, but has mainly been used to allow PE teachers to teach chemistry (OK, a little exaggeration there). Teaching is a cult and you don't let 'outsiders' into a cult.
OK, there is the dumbing down part. What about the overpay part? Teaching degrees are possibly the easiest degrees on campus. They also lead to a career that pays far above what similar college degrees pay. The average teacher salary in the US is $60,000.The average for people with humanities degrees is $50,000. Also, teachers have a 9-month contract (not 12) and great benefits. In Michigan, a Ford VP joked that he married his wife (a public schoolteacher) for her insurance benefit ($100 deductible for the year, 0 copay on prescriptions). When you overpay for a skill, you attract people who are just in it for the money (medicine is another great example of this). It is an easy major and it pays better than most, low hanging fruit. As a result, we have school districts that stopped teaching cursive because 'it's too hard', stopped teaching logarithms, etc. After 40+ years of educational research by the Department of Ed and all those pedagogy courses the education students take, you think they would be BETTER at teaching than the teachers before them. NOPE. Why is that? Teachers don't care about being good teachers.
Here's a few anecdotes to illustrate my point:
I had a student once who wanted to be a science teacher. He was an OK science student but thought he was very smart. It came as a shock to him when he got a 'B' in one of his science classes and a 'C' in math. He went and discussed it with the education faculty. They were very concerned with a 'B' and a 'C', so they told him to drop out of science classes. They told him he didn't need to take science classes to be a science teacher, he just had to pass the certification exams and he already had enough science to do that as a freshman. The science faculty tried to argue with him, but he changed his major to history education and got straight A's from then on. When he graduated, he passed the teacher certification exams in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, history, and English. With 2 semesters as a science major, he passed 3 science areas and mathematics and he hadn't even taken a physics course! Job offers flooded in and he was made part of a city's Education Department, determining what should be taught across the district. He is today's ideal teacher. He was 'fully qualified' in most of the curriculum, but knew very little. Wonder why we need to get rid of the school system?
I had another student who wanted to be a chemistry teacher (not biology, not 'science'). He was a below-average science major, but he had a desire to teach and he was good at it as a TA. However, he was getting C's in his science classes, so they threw him out of the teacher ed program. That's right, it is fine if you skip the hard classes and take blow-off classes, but if you take calculus-based physics and get a C, they don't want you. That is the mentality of the education establishment. Every decent student I had who went into teaching was fired from the public schools system within 3 years for…teaching. Those teachers required work from the students and it made the senior teachers look bad and drew in complaints from 'key parents' whose children were no longer getting all A's. It's OK, they all found more satisfying positions teaching at private schools.
Almost every science-education student I have met in 20 years wanted to only teach biology. They balked at the idea of learning chemistry or physics because 'I am never going to have to teach that' and 'that is too hard'. Only a precious few wanted to teach biology because they loved biology. The ones who actually wanted to teach chemistry or physics were gems because they loved the field and were motivated to teach it. Think about those 2 groups. Which one do you want teaching your children? The first group is in the public school system. You have to go to a private school to get the second group.
A statement from a school board member that "it would be unfair to ask teachers to have to navigate their pupils through the complicated subject matter" is literally a signature significant statement of a school system that is literally dumbing-down its' student body.
Everything you wrote may in fact be true but this is a clear case of cause and effect. We could talk until we're all blue in the face about the "whys", but this is clear evidence of an actual underlying motive to dumb-down the student body. It maybe as simple as the school system trying to elevate the average test scores by not presenting challenging material to participation trophy wielding lazy and/or unintelligent youth.
I was just stating that this was more far-reaching and a long time in planning, not that it wasn't happening.
Michael R. wrote, "I was just stating that this was more far-reaching and a long time in planning, not that it wasn't happening."
Yup I knew that. It's all good.
Phlinn
I feel like you missed an opportunity, so here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB2yiIoEtXw
joeystigz
Re:#4 – Before anyone else starting spinning conspiracy theories that this is another example of the left trying to cultivate dumb, obedient voters that they can easily manipulate with their wily totalitarian ways, it should be noted that it was the conservative-leaning school board that removed the books, not the Matanuska-Susitna Education Association (which looks like it's the local teacher's union, and is in strong opposition to the ban).
Straw man. I didn't say anything about the ideological rationale, because stupid is stupid. It wasn't the usual group of books the Left likes banning, such as "To Kill A Mockingbird" or "Hucklebery Finn," so I assumed it was right wing idiots rather than left wing idiots. I see where you got the idea, though, since almost all calls for censorship is coming from progressives these days, but Alaska is unusual.
My response was pointing out both the inaccuracy of your post (specifically who called for the removal) and the inevitable reaction that somehow teachers and public education in general are to blame (specifically posts like Steve and Michael's)
joeystigz,
Stop putting words in my mouth.
Yes, the schools in general are the primary source of the problem with students graduating that are functionally illiterate and can't balance a checkbook, they're graduating idiots; but I said nothing whatsoever about teachers. In fact I've stated many times that it's usually school administrations that are tying the hands of teachers. School boards and administrators set policies about what teachers can and cannot teach etc, teachers are the teaching tools that are being limited by administrators.
You're telling me that you read Jack's post, which incorrectly cited a teacher's union as being the ones that removed the books, and that in response you just made a comment implying that *generally* schools are dumbing down students and that the dumbing down fits nicely into the left's strategy of wanting masses of dumb dumbs they can exert control over? And not that you were implying that there is some sort of deliberate strategy on the part of schools to indoctrinate an army of obedient non-thinkers? If I were a less generous man I would call that flat out bull shit, to use your term, because I've read plenty other of your conspiracy-minded posts. But please, extrapolate on the connection between this school board's decision and our country's descent into unbridled totalitarianism* so I'm not putting words in your mouth.
Or maybe just admit that you made an incorrect assumption based on incorrect information and used that to support your incorrect theory.
*NEW totalitarianism, now administered haphazardly at the local level!
You're having some comprehension problems. Try reading what I've actually written not what you "think" I've written and then try again.
I read what you actually wrote, and am asking you to clarify because it once again sounded poorly thought out. I'm asking you to clarify your thoughts on how the decisions this school board made somehow ties to the left's drive for 'totalitarianism" in your mind. And asking you not to lie when you say that your response was not partisan minded. You've convinced me to challenge you to my hearts content. I'm not content yet, so stand up for what you believe.
Oh, and while you're at it, please answer this question:
Do you think that progressives are on a mission to destroy the country so they can usher in an era of socialist totalitarianism, and part of their strategy is to deliberately dumb down the national IQ, in part through a failed system of public education, so that more of the electorate will be submissive or otherwise oblivious to their tactics and the flaws in their proposed solutions? I'd love to get you on the record on this.
In a word, "Yes." I'd say the left's response to certain segments of the population's inability to flourish has been to lower all sorts of standards rather than urge people to take the steps necessary to be able to flourish. Too many black guys in jail? Get black guys to stop committing crimes? Nah! Let them out of jail! And stop sending them TO jail! Presto Chango! Problem solved! Black kids can't get into Ivy League schools (neither could I)? Lower admission requirements for black kids and create goofy, easy majors that are useless since they won't be able to keep up with the really smart kids. Problem solved! It's much like when I drink too much and feel crappy the next day. When asked, I use my son's line and explain away the problem by simply saying, "I was over-served!"
joeystigz wrote, "You're telling me that you read Jack's post, which incorrectly cited a teacher's union as being the ones that removed the books, and that in response you just made a comment implying that *generally* schools are dumbing down students and that the dumbing down fits nicely into the left's strategy of wanting masses of dumb dumbs they can exert control over?"
Yes that's sort of close but not quite accurate. Yes I made a generalized statement that schools are being dumbed down; that's my opinion and I just don't give a damn if you agree or disagree with that opinion. I didn't mentioned teachers or teachers union until you brought teachers into the conversation and I've been very clear about my opinion regarding the separation between teachers and administration; again that's my opinion and I just don't give a damn if you agree or disagree with that opinion. The simple fact is that I didn't know and I didn't care one bit about exactly who got rid of the books or their politics and I was quite clear about that you're trying to twist this into some kind of smear and you're just not very good at it.
Also; consider the following.
1. Jack's post did not incorrectly cite that a teachers union as being the ones that removed the books, he correctly reported that another site had stated that; try to understand that difference.
2. In my opinion; Jack shared the information specifically to criticize the removal and criticize this rationale for the removal of the books "it would be unfair to ask teachers to have to navigate their pupils through the complicated subject matter" and criticizing the rationale is exactly what I did. If you think that rationale is justified then just say so, try to support the rationale and stop your nonsense attacks and deflections.
joeystigz wrote, "I'm asking you to clarify your thoughts on how the decisions this school board made somehow ties to the left's drive for 'totalitarianism" in your mind."
Your memory is rather short; I wrote above "That's a fabulous piece of evidence showing how our schools are dumbing-down students.", "A dumbed-down society is far easier for totalitarians to control." and I later wrote in response to your conspiracy theory statement that, "I think it's become a self-evident "truth" that the left and their propaganda outlets in the media are doing exactly that."
You seem to be able to concoct things by extrapolating what you read between the lines but yet you cannot connect the dots from actual statements? Schools are dumbing down students, totalitarians like stupid people because their easier to control, and the left (at least the outspoken left) has show us that them and their propaganda outlets lean heavily towards totalitarianism. I think I've been pretty clear; and again, that's my opinion and I just don't give a damn if you agree or disagree with that opinion.
These things have all been right here for you to read, they're written in plain English so I'd really appreciate it if you would stop reading in dumbass.
joeystigz wrote, "And asking you not to lie when you say that your response was not partisan minded."
I did not lie, I spoke the truth and your implication that I'm a liar is outrageous.
Just because you don't like or can't accept what I wrote doesn't mean it's a lie. Accuse or imply that I'm a liar and we're done; so we're done here. I will consider reengaging you after you post an honest apology that falls in #1 of the Apology Scale, nothing less is acceptable.
OK, yes, you got me Steve. Technically Jack just repeated another outlet's incorrect assertion that the teacher's union asked for the ban. The information in the post was, and continues to be, incorrect. It's a small, easily overlooked error so I don't fault Jack for not catching it initially – because also don't think he intended it to have a particularly partisan spin. But I anticipated how guys like you would respond without the clarification, and you delivered.
You're again repeating back earlier quotes you made that don't answer the question at hand – what's the connection between this event and your assertion that the left wants dumb people that they can control. You made the connection between the two in your original post, you're not backing down from that, but you're also trying to pretend that you never intended your critique of the book banning to be partisan. Let me break down how the thought process for normal people works. With this type of statement, a connection can be reasonably assumed:
"I don't like that X happened! It's evidence of Y!
Hyperbolic political statement!"
What if I said: "Unbridled growth of CEO compensation for mega-coporations is helping driving wealth inequality. A country in which most of the wealth flows to a small percentage of people makes it far easier for the plutocrats to control everything."
And then told you the first sentence in that statement was not intended to be partisan – "I don't care about the politics of corporate leaders. I was simply commenting on CEO pay is too high!" I mean….c'mon. (and to note – I was just building a similar example there, that's not an actual point I'm arguing).
Usually, when one complains of something, the follows that up immediately with a statement regarding some malicious intent from one side of the political aisle, one implies a connection between the two statements. You're telling me that's not what you were doing. And that simply doesn't pass the smell test. I'd give you the benefit of the doubt if I hadn't already seen similarly bonkers claims about widespread nefarious collusion to take over the country like this from you in the past.
And as for wanting an apology, you're not going to get one. If you want to make sweeping statements about totalitarianism and then get offended when you get called out, then once again, I would suggest not engaging me in the future. I will continue to point out bad takes when I see them.
joeystigz wrote, "what's the connection between this event and your assertion that the left wants dumb people that they can control. You made the connection between the two in your original post"
There we have it fellow EA commenters, a confirmed liar or idiot internet troll; this troll joeystigz accuses/implies that I'm a liar because he doesn't believe that something I wrote that was non-partisan when the statement in question was clearly stated as non-partisan and then this same troll joeystigz tries to make a claim that I made a connection in my original comment that I did not make – the original post said absolutely nothing about the political left – nothing.
So no one has to scroll to the top of this thread to confirm here is the comment in its entirety…
#4"It would be unfair to ask teachers to have to navigate their pupils through the complicated subject matter."
Zero references to the political left in that comment – ZERO!
joeystigz is either a liar, an idiot or both.
So you're resorting to name calling again instead of answering the question?
Why connect this incident with leftist totalitarianism if your implication was not partisan in nature? My question was not about the one sentence you highlighted, but about that sentence *and* the ones that immediately followed it, and how they are connected. Keep up Steve.
You have a history of making similar partisan statements, and now you're clutching your pearls when I ask how this was not intended as partisan? If I'm wrong then pony up, because as these conversations always go with you, you still refuse to explain your comment and instead are getting all huffy. Or just call me more names and swear some more, if that makes you feel better.
Point of order! Here is the entire text of what I wrote on this topic:
Just to make it clear that New York isn't the only city dominated by people with dead ethics alarms, Legal Insurrection informs us that the Matanuska-Susitna Education Association in Alaska has banned these classic from being taught in the schools:
The rationale, summarized by one board member, was "It would be unfair to ask teachers to have to navigate their pupils through the complicated subject matter."
You wrote, "Technically Jack just repeated another outlet's incorrect assertion that the teacher's union asked for the ban." In linking to a source, I don't endorse or ratify everything that source includes in its post. How did I repeat a false assertion by the linked blog? I expressed exactly the information I intended to pass on, which was true (I checked a local source) and if I wanted to mention other detail, I would have. From an ethics point of view, I don't care about the union.
I'm sorry I mentioned three Democrats at the end–I was seeking neat synchronicity, since I those were the pols I had previously mentioned in the post.
This sentence is incorrect: "the Matanuska-Susitna Education Association in Alaska has banned these classic from being taught in the schools" The association did not ban the books, they were opposed to the ban. That's what I was saying was wrong in both the blog you linked to & the paraphrasing you included. On Legal Insurrection the author actually mentions both the school board & the association, so it seems like she was just confused as to what the association is and how it was involved in the story.
This joeystigz is trying to build a false narrative (a lie) to attack Jack with. He, like many political hacks out there, is doing this by cherry picking "the Matanuska-Susitna Education Association in Alaska has banned these classic from being taught in the schools" out of this "Legal Insurrection informs us that the Matanuska-Susitna Education Association in Alaska has banned these classic from being taught in the schools". There is a HUGE difference between these statements and joeystigz is smart enough to know that he MUST cherry pick to support his narrative that the sentence is wrong – he's lying to you. This folks is what trolls do to create a false narrative (a lie) to attack by completely ignoring the whole context of what was actually written.
The sentence that Jack actually wrote – the entire sentence – is factually correct regardless if what Legal Insurrection wrote is false or not. Comprehension and context counts.
Steve, take a deep breath. If you want to interpret what I said as an "attack", go right ahead. It wasn't meant that way, nor would I expect Jack to read it that way based on my many interactions with him. And I'm quite sure that if he thinks I am "attacking" him, he would respond appropriately.
And you've made a general appeal to others on the blog multiple times now, what are you hoping everyone will gang up on me? It's starting to feel a little Mean Girls-esque. Not very fetch.
Fine, then the remedy is to let me know that I need to make a correction, that's all. Which I will. I also didn't know that the Association was a union. I was head of an education association for almost ten years. It wasn't a union. Few associations are unions. I am rather knowledgeable about associations, having worked for several.
Not that I care much. The post was about banning the books, not about who banned them. And not to get Clintonian on you, but my statement was that Legal Insurrection reported X, and I accurately stated what it reported.
Now I'll fix the mistake.
joeystigz wrote, "Before anyone else starting spinning conspiracy theories that this is another example of the left trying to cultivate dumb, obedient voters that they can easily manipulate with their wily totalitarian ways…"
But Joey, that's really not a conspiracy theory anymore I think it's become a self-evident "truth" that the left and their propaganda outlets in the media are doing exactly that.
Regardless of the political leanings of the people that did this, the statement made by the school board member "it would be unfair to ask teachers to have to navigate their pupils through the complicated subject matter" is signature significance that they are literally dumbing-down the students.
I guess the political leanings of people doing stupid stuff is only relevant to you when it happens on the left? I'd challenge your latest sweeping, nonsensical declaration about totalitarianism – but it would just devolve into you not wanting to answer the uncomfortable questions it implies and accusing me of deflecting or being a troll or "sea lioning" or calling something bullshit – so why bother if that's all you can offer up?
If you're really worried about totalitarianism, I suggest you call your senators and demand that they push back against these guidelines: https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/
joeystigz wrote, "I guess the political leanings of people doing stupid stuff is only relevant to you when it happens on the left?"
You don't read well. I clearly wrote…
That sir (I assume you're a sir) is 100% non-partisan. Fact is I don't give a damn what party affiliation someone is when they sat stupid shit like that school board member said.
You can shove your partisan innuendo BS straight up where the sun doesn't shine.
joeystigz wrote, "I'd challenge your latest sweeping, nonsensical declaration about totalitarianism – but it would just devolve into you not wanting to answer the uncomfortable questions it implies and accusing me of deflecting or being a troll or "sea lioning" or calling something bullshit – so why bother if that's all you can offer up?"
That sounds like a great big rationalizing excuse to me. Stop making excuses joey and stand up for what you believe and I will do the same. Challenge to your hearts content.
joeystigz wrote, "If you're really worried about totalitarianism, I suggest you call your senators and demand that they push back against these guidelines:"
Do you understand the difference between guidelines and laws that have actual consequences if you don't follow them?
Freddie Haff
Lyall has confused 12Angry Men with an episode of Happy Days where hold out juror the Fonz does exonerate a motorcyclist of purse snatching. A common mistake I'm sure.
Here is an interesting article about the shutdown.
http://groups.google.com/d/msg/UK.Legal/b4OdlCWF1hE/merG6k21AAAJ
Almost half of the entire global work force could lose their livelihoods
because of the coronavirus pandemic, a UN agency has revealed.
The International Labour Organisation reported on Wednesday that some 1.6
billion workers in the informal economy are in 'immediate danger' of losing
their livelihoods.
The informal economy refers to any labour that isn't monitored by the
government and where the workers don't pay tax, such as restaurant staff,
cleaners and street vendors.
There are around 2 billion informal workers in the world, out of a total
workforce 3.3 billion.
The ILO's latest report sharply raised its forecast for the devastating
impact on jobs and incomes of the COVID-19 disease, which has infected more
than 3.1 million people globally, killed nearly 220,000 and shut down
economies.
'It shows I think in the starkest possible terms that the jobs employment
crisis and all of its consequences is deepening by comparison with our
estimates of 3 weeks ago,' ILO Director-General Guy Ryder told a briefing,
foreseeing a 'massive' poverty impact.
Already, wages of the world's 2 billion informal workers plunged by an
estimated global average of 60% in the first month that the crisis unfolded
in each region, the ILO said.
How can the shutdown be justified?
Glenn Logan
"BuzzFeed reported on the existence of talking points being circulated by the Biden campaign that inaccurately suggest a New York Times investigation found that Tara Reade's allegation 'did not happen,'" a spokeswoman for the paper said. "Our investigation made no conclusion either way."
Interesting. But you know, I wonder if people will even care. Democrats mostly won't, as winning the election is clearly more important to them than #MeToo, which I have concluded has always been about developing a extrajudicial tactic requiring due process be ignored in order to damage or destroy targets they don't like, or political opponents. Their calls for due process for Biden are clearly insincere and proforma — they really don't care if he's guilty or not, at least not enough to give the claim proper attention.
The trouble is, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump have both proven that such allegations, even when damning, are not enough to move voters by themselves, or at least, not many.
Also, Trump's aversion to telling the truth when a lie will do has made lying appear a minor sin at best, and to Democrats, lying in the service of Orange Man Bad is not just a forgivable sin, but a totally allowable means to an end.
JutGory
"It would be unfair to ask teachers to have to navigate their pupils through the complicated subject matter."
It would be unfair to ask teachers to navigate students through the complicated subject matter when we, the administration, are not willing to defend those teachers from complaints by students (and their parents) who get offended by the material or the topics raised in contemplation of them.
-Jut
4. Personally, I'm in favor of "Gatsby" being burned. A personal hobby horse. It's a really crappy book. Preposterous in any number of ways. Why it's taught to high school kids is beyond me. If you're surprised by anyone saying this, reread the book as an adult and see how flimsy it is. One of the all-time great over-rated pieces of fiction.
mariedowd
4: School boards seem to be a fruitful area to introduce stupid, to contaminate and corrupt. I may not think much of all the books on that banned list, but understanding and being able to explain why you don't agree with the dominating opinion is a valuable lesson, along with the fortitude to defend it with reason. The majority can be horribly wrong, just like it can be wiser.
Apparently, Orange Man So Bad that Democrats want to silence anyone in the media talking about Tara Reade's allegations against Biden.
Andrew Nelson
What's also telling about de Blasio, is that he stated that over 400 locations would be available for Muslims to pick up nighttime meals in observance of Ramadan. Not quite encouraging them to gather in large groups, but definitely encouraging them to go out, as opposed to telling the Jewish community to stay at home.


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By Alura on 18 May 2018
A world called Rolivencia. Rolivencia is a beautiful world located in the Lyran constellation, and while channeling a being from there when I was in Lyra as a part of the High Council, I had a chance to view it from behind the scenes. I also got to see it on a deeper level again, while doing an akasha records reading for a client of mine who had ordered Akasha Chapter One: Celestial Experiences. In the spiritual veil of Rolivencia, he saw many beings building up their society in the city, that they worked hard to put together, together. There were homes built like conical shapes, silver in their metallic texture.
The silver had more of a whitish tone to it though, and the Sun of their world would reflect off it, making it look like the town glowed with white light. The structures look alot like the ivory towerin the movie "Neverending Story" but without the flowering sides at the bottom. Like in the photo, their conical homes look like the center part of the building only, and much smaller without the tall observation tower coming out of the top. It is exquisite. The rivers there also have a silvery color to them, due to the rock underneath which is the same mineral that they mine to build with, only in its natural state it is more like the stone called Mica on Earth, until polished for the building projects.
Their town square, has a biodome in the middle of it, where a lot of natural foods native to their world are grown like healthy GMO, to reproduce the vegetation so that everyone would have enough without harvesting from the natural world. This provided much for the people there. They also had smaller domes that were offices for the government/council, seers, and patrol who watch for the safety of the planet. They also have scientists and labs of course. The schools are located in a larger dome on the outskirts of the town in the jungle as most of the habitat is made of jungle, with all sorts of animals that no one on Earth has ever seen before. The people there are feline in appearance, but humanoid. They speak in their own special language, as most civilizations all over do. Many speak of Light Language, but many do not realize that all languaes are of light, and there are millions. theirs is rarely spoken though, as they communicate in the silence of their togtherness and unity instead.
After viewing this, my client had wanted a home like that. Rolivencia. I too, really admired their way of life and wish that our Earth here could be similar. It would provide solutions to the issues in pollution for certain.
In Rolivencia, it is more feminine. Not many can say that they have been there, nor Rhocanria. Souls do not usually reincarnate from those places, or the angelic realms often, due to our sensitivity towards the unbalanced nature of Earth. Angels, Rolivencians, and Rhocancrians, are the most sensitive of all soul types. In Rolivencia, is a beautiful scene, with mixtures of landscaping geographically containing tropical rainforests, jungles, and gardens. They have tall mountains covered to their very peaks with lush greens and huge brightly colored flowers. One flower there, is the size of a basketball. They grow in the trees, vines, and bushes. When you look, there are so many amazing colors. You can not even see the rock of the mountains due to the coverage of plant life!
It rains there, twice a day. Once in the midmorning, and another time at midafternoon . But the warm weather quickly dries up the water, and the flowers, plants and trees absorb it. The world is advanced in science, but naturally. They believe in the use of all natural biofuels, and naturally generated electricity. they use a similar method to what Nikola Tesla had invented. The people help to nourish the planet, and instead of eating from the wild, they only take seeds to labs, to reproduce them and grow them, or to cross breed them into bigger species. They care for the planet, growing to cultivate the earth there, spending a lot time with their species of animals native their. For an example, they have a breed much like a monkey with the face of a cat, with fluffy tail like that of a siberian husky but matching in the color scheme of their fur of course. Wow, if you could only try to visualize them! The creators were, and still are, always projecting new things into the reality, and sometimes even letting old things naturally morph into new ones…new forms. There has always been new things to discover, even some of the creations are from the imaginative manifestations of the people there too, without their realizing it. The Creators take note on what the people dream of, and want to ensure their happiness in having those creative dreams come true in the environment. dreams are based on creative alterations to things that people already see, or have seen. There, crime, ugliness, horror, immorality…do not exist. Therefore, their creations are always pure in nature, inspired by the beauty all around them already.
The people, are peaceful, very compassionate, and full of joy in appreciation for all that they have. The leaders there are angelic and there are only four to represent the power of the goddess. There is only one angel/goddess, named Friliriel who is an angel in the legion of Archangel Ariel. Angel Friliriel reminds me alot of the Egyptian goddess Bast. Although, we know that Ariel was depicted by Bast here on Earth, in ancient Egypt. I think it is just their connection that makes me think of it.
She oversees the reality with the other four under her rulership. Even though that is there hierarchy, no one is excluded, and all opinions count. The needs and perspectives of the people are always included in decision making. In Rolivencia, many work together, wandering the world and its beauty, and many even migrated later, to the side of the world where the sea was found on the one coast. The coast has beautiful green waters, and golden sands, lined with trees that you could not compare to any tree on Earth. The people migrated once a leader had started making discoveries there. But the trees?… They are tall and seem to drape over toward the water like archways made of trees, along the beach. The leaves have vibrant healthy, bright colors of yellow, orange, purple, and even some which have shades of blue. It looks much like the autumn leaves here on Earth, except they are not the dull rustic collors of our autumn.
Speaking of seasons, in Rolivencia it is always Summer. There are no other seasons. The time there is also different. They only have dawn, day, and twilight. there is no dusk or nighttime. It keeps the plant life in a good process of their photosynthesis. They get plenty of water from the rain. Due to the time, having more daylight hours balances their need of having more sunlight, since they have the cloudy time for the rain to come in. The rest of the day having Sun light, helps them make up for the 4 hours of loss of sun from the rainstorms.
In regards to their appearance, the beings there are covered in a layer of very thin fur, resembling the coat of a wildcat. The pattern and colors are similar too. Their coat has more of brindle tone to their fur. They have a mixture of light tan, light grey, and light brown, with dark brown markings on their fur in spotted pattern. Their feline ears are not on top of the head as most, but instead, located at each side of the head like human ears are. Their eyes are yellow or yellowish green, and since there isn't any night hours, they do not need to have night vision as other feline species do. But they do have keen eyesight, are swift runners, and avid jumpers. They absolutely adore tree climbing, and lounging high up in a tree on a lazy day.
They are always more concerned for the health of the environment, and the welfare of one another. they are extremely spiritually awake but in the sense that they feel the soul of their world and it's collective creators, and they care for them. They do everything that they can, to ensure the purity and growth of their world, and their people. If ever there was a kinder race, the Rolivencians are the ones who I would say are in the top three on my list of the most loving beings in the Universe. It is wonderful to know that they care about everything so much, even other races and planets beyond their own. Some who have incarnated here, as they are rare…have specific traits:
Incarnated Rolivencian Traits:
1. Extremely peaceful
2. Quiet, Soft spoken
3. Deep thinkers, intellectual
4. passionate about nature, and helping all things in nature, and others. Even the atmosphere and sea.
5. Spend most time outdoors
6. Spent alot of time outside as a child, even if born as a millenial.
7. Attracts alot of animals in the wild toward them
8. Interests in field studies of different species of plants, animals, birds, stones, insects, and weather.
9. While spending alot of time outdoors they wiuld not be big television viewers, but if they did watch TV, they would be watching things like "Planet Earth" or "National Geopraphic".
10. Very casual in their style, mostly down to earth, and more outdoorsy in their apparel.
11. Likes to listen to ambient sounds of nature
12. Huge campers and hikers
13. They are very sweet, compassionate, and giving
14. They are usually raw vegans in their diets.
15. They love the zoo but are against the captivity of the animals there, they only love it for the animals themselves.
16. They espcially love cats and seem to have an unspoken bond with them.
17. They have an above average IQ.
18. They usually have a nature based belief like Wicca.
19. Born under any sign, and they love the night sky. Their eyes usually gravitating naturally towards Lyra.
20. They won't like a conventional job, but instead want a job outdoors, and one where they can sleep for at least 12 hours each day and work for the rest.
21. They are early birds, getting up while it is still dark outside, and going to bed after dusk.
22. Love tree climbing, treehouses, and sitting under a tree to relax.
Rolivencian Souls, are very silent. they often do not speak. They despise loud noise, and often bond well with others who very quiet too. In all, there will only be about 10,000 of these souls who incarnate, no more than 10 incarnating in one year. They usually come during meteor showers in the Summer, with a conception in the summer. However, again…it is not limited. these starseed soul types are wonderful to be around and always see the optimism in life. If meeting one, you will find that they make the most loyal, reliable friends, who would do anything for you!
Metatron News- June 21, 2018
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Claymont library design unveiled - www.delaforum.com
Claymont library design unveiled
Claymont will get a new public library described as elegant but not extravagant.
Marcus Henry, general manager of the county Department of Community Services, said the facility is expected to open in the spring of 2013.
He told a County Council committee that the final cost has not been determined, but that it should come in less than the $9.5 million authorization. That amount, which includes equipping the library, will be a combination of county and state capital appropriations and donations from the community and other private sources. Construction cost, he added, will be in the range of $6.5 million to $7 million.
The 17,500 square foot library will replace the 7,000 square foot library now located in the Claymont Community Center
It will be in the oval at the northern end of the Village Common in Darley Green. The Common will be a parkway-style extension of Green Street. Until that section of Darley Green is built, the only vehicular access will be via Lenape Way, off Darley Road.
Following the presentation of conceptual plans at the committee meeting on Oct. 25, Council at its plenary session voted unanimously to authorize County Executive Paul Clark to complete arrangements and accept the donation of 7.6 acres by the Commonwealth Group subsidiary now building Darley Green.
Presenting the plan to the Council committee, Gary Getz, of Morris & Ritchie Associates, a planning, architecture and engineering firm, said the new building will be atop a rise to be constructed in the oval. The main entrance will face the Common, but the building will be visible from Darley Road.
The most significant feature will be a clock tower, also facing the Common. There will be a porch along the eastern wall providing space for patrons to read out-of-doors when the weather is appropriate.
Inside the building will be a large common area flanked by separate sections to house the collection of books and other material, reference and computer terminal areas, and rooms to accommodate children and teenaged patrons.
Getz said material to be used will be "rather common for a public building that will last for a long time." But, he added, "We tried to pick up on elegant, but not go wild on materials."
If has not yet been decided if, or how, the library will be connected to Woods Haven-Kruse Park, located on the opposite side of Darley Road.
Noting that the plan includes four drainage control areas, Councilman Jea Street cautioned that they "will be a tragedy waiting to happen" if they are not protected by a fence or other barrier. He was told that the ponds are designed to be dry most of the time and hold, at most, two feet of water after a heavy rainfall
"Councilman Robert Weiner is legendary for his energy, knowledge and drive. He is one of the guiding forces behind the passage of the environmentally protective New Castle County United Development Code. He has been a force for good government in New Castle County for more than two decades."
Christine Whitehead
Former Vice President, Civic League for New Castle County


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India needs action to halt slowdown
By Nick Reeve
India is in need of urgent reforms to its infrastructure spending and fuel subsidy policy in its battle against slowing economic growth, according to Newton's Caroline Keen.
Ms Keen, deputy manager on Jason Pidcock's £4.1bn Newton Asian Income fund, said the Indian government had "not been aggressive in passing or implementing necessary re-forms to support growth" because of a focus on an election set for the spring of 2014.
"The macroeconomic backdrop remains mixed despite the recent liquidity injections," the manager said.
"Many sectors of the economy are slowing: even biscuit sales growth, the largest and previously most robust category in branded consumer foods, has slowed from 12-15 per cent to below 5 per cent."
She added that Indian investment in infrastructure "remains desperately lacking", with roughly $100bn (£62.6bn) sitting in stalled projects.
India has also been hit by a rapidly-depreciating currency. Talk of the Federal Reserve reducing its quantitative easing programme has led to investors pulling money out of emerging markets, meaning countries reliant on these short-term money flows have been suffering this year.
Ms Keen said that India's long-standing fuel subsidy and its reliance on imported oil and gas meant that the fall in the value of the rupee against the dollar had led to the cost of this subsidy spiralling.
"Reform is urgently needed if the government is to bring both its subsidy bill and budget deficit under control," she added.
Ms Keen and Mr Pidcock have been avoiding Indian banks due to their "vulnerability", but have backed companies operating private hospitals and consumer stocks, which Ms Keen said have "attractive long-term investment cases".
But the managers have less than 4 per cent of the Newton Asian Income fund invested in Indian stocks, instead preferring a bias towards Australian-based companies such as mobile phone provider Telstra, supermarket giant Wesfarmers and ANZ, Australia's third-largest bank.
India's main stockmarket, the Sensex index, is up 8 per cent so far this year in local currency terms, but sterling investors would have lost 4.1 per cent due to the weakness of the rupee.
Meanwhile, India's economic growth has fallen from 9.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2010 to 4.4 per cent in the second quarter of 2013. The 4.4 per cent figure marked India's slowest annual economic growth rate in more than 10 years.
The Newton Asian Income fund was the best-performing fund in the IMA Asia Pacific ex Japan sector in the three years to November 8, according to FE Analytics, gaining 35.5 per cent compared with the sector's average 4 per cent gain.
The fund's benchmark, the FTSE All World Asia Pacific ex Japan index, gained 8.4 per cent in the same period.
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