Smedskjaer

Lisle, IL

Rhonda Reed-Slaughter -vs- CFBB et al

Perhaps. But they have little credibility and have attacked people with little to show for it for some good reasons.  (Yesterday | post #23)

Lisle, IL

Rhonda Reed-Slaughter -vs- CFBB et al

Let us not get caught up in semantics or be too exact in our language. Such concepts are best saved for the courts, not debates over a cup of coffee. We wish to, in general, explore our political views and advance the discourse. To be too exact is to halt such advancement. Perhaps the organization should hire a company to collect signatures. It would be quicker and certainly professional, adhering to the standards set out by law. This would give CFBB the strongest petition possible for their position.  (Wednesday | post #20)

Woodridge, IL

house raided near rhs turns up 3 guns

@Hmmmmmm. It is from an old latin story. One way to translate it is what I already posted. But here is the full story, in a different translation. The King's Son and the Painted Lion A KING, whose only son was fond of martial exercises, had a dream in which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion. Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace and adorned its walls for his amusement with all kinds of life-sized animals, among which was the picture of a lion. When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said: "O you most detestable of animals! through a lying dream of my father's, which he saw in his sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace as if I had been a girl: what shall I now do to you?' With these words he stretched out his hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he might beat the lion. But one of the tree's prickles pierced his finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince fell down in a fainting fit. A violent fever suddenly set in, from which he died not many days later. We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.  (Wednesday | post #12)

Downers Grove, IL

DuPage lawmaker: Consolidate fire districts

But we should first make as many small cuts as we can and see afterwards, what can be afforded, what must be cut back, instead of just saying 10 mil off the top.  (Wednesday | post #15)

Woodridge, IL

house raided near rhs turns up 3 guns

Take a deep breath. Calm down. Guns are everywhere. It isn't that scary a thought though. Buuuuut, if it is too much for you, send your kid to a private school in a gated community. At least the guns would be in the hands of rich kids instead. It is far better to bear your share of evil than cower at life.  (Tuesday Dec 15 | post #6)

Downers Grove, IL

DuPage lawmaker: Consolidate fire districts

Except those firemen are also paramedics. Is that 10,000,000 worth life saving treatment starting a few minutes sooner?  (Tuesday Dec 15 | post #12)

Downers Grove, IL

DuPage lawmaker: Consolidate fire districts

Oh, I think putting fires out might be an important service, so lets cut the budgeted pay to, perhaps, community rec programs? Close down the youth sports programs. The pottery for beginners. Spanish as a second language. See how much we can save there.  (Monday Dec 14 | post #10)

Downers Grove, IL

Villa Park Catholic school fighting to survive

No, Descartes is the Strong Anthropic Principle. All science is still based on Scientific method, which is based on peer reviewed empirical evidence.  (Friday Dec 11 | post #62)

Downers Grove, IL

Villa Park Catholic school fighting to survive

I should clarify, I subscribe to the 'weak anthropic principle', where 'conditions that are observed in the universe must allow the observer to exist.'  (Friday Dec 11 | post #60)

Downers Grove, IL

Villa Park Catholic school fighting to survive

CP, I follow the Anthropic Principle. Following this principle, schools and universities have advanced science to what it is today. The very existence of the LHC and Fermilab testifies to the utility and accuracy of that principle. It is through that principle science is based and it is through that principle evolution is supported. It is the best explanation we have under that principle and has stood up against over a century of criticism and always has been accepted as a valid theory. The advancement of medicine is dependent on the theory. Our lives is dependent on the theory.  (Friday Dec 11 | post #59)

Downers Grove, IL

Villa Park Catholic school fighting to survive

Okay, pbfa, I meant YOU should cool it. You are inciting CP while coming up with bile yourself. If you cannot cool down, then stop posting in this thread. You are only inciting a fight only you want.  (Friday Dec 11 | post #58)

Downers Grove, IL

Do you want a trade labor market school to be opened in Downers?

Forget Masters degrees or training as a nurses assistant. I think it is time to get back to basics. Instead of encouraging more stores to open and constructing new malls, how about the village build a school geared towards teaching adults how to drive forklifts, operate cranes, how to drive a semi-truck? These are skills that are useful for adults who are looking for jobs and communities that want to attract jobs to the area with a highly skilled labor market. The area needs a school so people can up qualify themselves over a week to a couple of months instead of two year programs that are not relevant to the job market. People need the jobs and the stores need people who have stable incomes.  (Friday Dec 11 | post #1)

Downers Grove, IL

Villa Park Catholic school fighting to survive

I thought school districts decided what text books should be used, not the state. There is some more leverage in Denmark. I am surprised that is can be done. It is different than what I grew up with in Woodridge. There are only oral exams except in languages and math, which have both paper and oral tests. I think this subject is getting off topic.  (Friday Dec 11 | post #50)

Downers Grove, IL

Villa Park Catholic school fighting to survive

As for text books. They are what transformed education and ensures a standard in education, offering a level of insulation from the variation of skill teachers show. Text books are a point of reference for what one will be examined in. They also put into context the source material. An example of this would be contextualizing the civil war as the consequence of long standing factioning between the Federalist and Republicans and not about slavery.  (Friday Dec 11 | post #47)

Downers Grove, IL

Villa Park Catholic school fighting to survive

We think the age of the universe is between 13.5 and 14 billion years. It isn't because a round number is nice that we say it is 14 or 13.5 billion years old. It is because those are the two reasonable limits while the most likely answer is in between the two. I did study evolution and excerpts from Darwin's work. You have the structure of a valid argument about science in general. But the counter point is, it is the closest explanation we have to describing reality that is consistent. God is specifically barred from the naturalistic view of how the universe functions. But metaphysics is as far as I am concerned an open question that can never bar god or any other possibility.  (Friday Dec 11 | post #46)