A London woman who survived breast cancer isn’t faring so well against city bylaw officers who fined her $2,260 for providing a service to patients that medical staff say is invaluable.
Had cancer. Found that a lot of people had trouble getting rides for tests or treatment. Started driving people, charging ten bucks to cover costs. But "You do not have permission from the State to do this, peasant."
Asshats. Every bastard involved.
A note on why so many students are such idiots
I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors before I even passed
out the attendance sheet the first day or the syllabus. I gave them a
10-question American history quiz and we started - even though I'm an
English professor not an American historian - just to see where they
are. And this has been true for seven consecutive years - the vast
majority of my students, I'm talking like nine out of ten in every
single class, 28, 29 out of 30 kids - they have no idea that slavery
existed anywhere in the world before the United States. And I've got
Christian kids, I've got Jewish kids. Moses, Pharoh, none of that. They
have none of it. They are a hundred percent convinced that slavery is a
uniquely American invention and that with the Emancipation Proclamation
slavery ended worldwide. They're convinced of this. How do you give an
adequate view of history and culture to kids when that's what they think
of their own country? That America invented slavery and and the whole
Black Lives Matter movement, which is taught as absolute history in
English classes and philosophy classes, in sociology classes and biology
classes and race identity classes, that's the new narrative, right?
That even though slavery ended in America it's still with us in the way
we oppressed minorities and so that's all they know. They know nothing
else.
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