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I guess this is trying to say we should spend more on education? 

I just want to see the total spent, so here it is…

2.3 million (2011) incarcerated at all levels = $75,900,000,000 That’s  tens of billions btw.

64 million (2006) in grade school/middle school/high school = $531,200,000,000/year This is hundreds of billions. Recent figures show we are actually spending more than $805 Billion/year.

Now for my thoughts.

First off, I think we do spend enough per kid when it comes to education. But we are ranked 37th on education spending they say… 37th when it comes to % of GDP. We destroy everyone else on the planet when it comes to education funding.

We have to focus on the pedagogy(science/art of education(how we teach kids)) not the money. Only in America is making $40K/year (some more/some less based on experience*) not enough. Now I’m not saying we need to go back to the days where kids were getting hit all the time, but some teachers have let off the throttle so to say. You gotta put in a good days work, and you have to hold the kids accountable. Of course this is just based on averages, and some school districts are terrible. I’m just speaking across the board.

Secondly, I think we need to lesson drug related offenses and treat them as a health issue and not as a crime. Well, as long as you didn’t commit some felony crime while on the drugs. It’s always gonna cost money to incarcerate, but hopefully we’ll be able to incarcerate less in the future!

Prison/education data from above as well as the Fed. 

*Salary data from my own school district via the state of Missouri government. In said school district only 44% of my teachers had a masters. So, I will concede that we at least need to focus on getting our teachers more schooling. If we do up the amount we put into education we need some of it, or all of it to go into more education for the teachers(kind of goes back to my point on focusing on Pedagogy).

Here are some more states that will really show you how it’s not the money. From the USC.

Think about it people.

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nonoschrutefacts:

I don’t know why this makes me so angry

You can’t just scale shit down to make it seem worse, that’s not how things work.

My great grandma was 100 years old

scaling that down to 1 hour

she started smoking when she 5 minutes old

and died 55 minutes later

Don’t smoke, you will only live an hour.

Also, in the scaled down world the forests would only be here for a couple ours more than us, ice caps/glaciers would be in the same boat… and in some cases would be around for less hours. I’m not denying the influence human kind has had on the planet, but this big blue ball in space has been doing crazy things to itself for years(millions of real years). Just check out the history of the Amazon. At one point it stretched to nearly the tip of SA, and at another it was nearly all contained to the very northern bits of SA and Central America… all before humans did anything. 

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Hurricane Isaac

You may have wreaked havoc on my family and friends in NOLA, but our dry, drought stricken Missouri hills, valleys, and grasslands will destroy you! Fuck yooooouu, Isaac! More like Ballsaac. Am I right.

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NASA recently released imagery showing the deforestation of America …in just 34 years

this is sad

We are fucked.

swear to you this makes me want to cry. Like do we not understand we are destroying this planet

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VERDICT: False, Misleading

http://factsfromfiction.blogspot.com/2012/04/nasa-deforestation-image.html

This always cracks me up. “Look at deforestation, you guys! It made the US SWOLLEN and brown! Crying panda tears now!”

TUMBLR!

oh this was a fun day.

There are these things called seasons.

I’m glad someone did some fact checking, but this was obviously fake from the get go. 

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my-esl-student:

There is no war anymore.  We really don’t any weapons anymore.  It’s time to waste them and create one world.  The weapons will be change into fish houses.

Now this is what we need! Maybe more of this could help us get some world wide equality and move us to start accepting people for what they are on the inside. Why must there be so many greedy/evil/simpleminded people in control of the world?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson keepin’ it real. 

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shortformblog:

Fun guy chillin’ in South American rainforest finds plastic-eating fungi

Seriously, though this is kind of a big deal. Know that big problem we have? You know, the one involving a crapload of used plastic hanging around in landfills with nowhere to biodegrade for a couple million years? Well, Jonathan Russell might’ve solved that problem. See, Russell and his fellow Yale students went to Ecuador, where they found a new kind of fungus they’re calling Pestalotiopsis microspora. Big deal, you’re thinking. Anyone can find fungus anywhere! Well, something his fellow students found out after the fact is that this fungus can live on a diet of polyurethane alone — and even crazier, it doesn’t even need air to do so! In other words, we could potentially put it at the bottom of a landfill and cover it with plastic, and it would do the rest of the work. This might be game-changing if it works as advertised. (photo via Flickr user dbutt; EDIT: Updated with link to research abstract) source

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Another Earthquake! Seeing as I have felt every respectable quake in MO since 2007 I’m starting to worry about going out to Cali, hahahaha.

4.0 Earthquake near East Prairie, MO. It’s about 90 miles by air from where I live south of Farmington, MO. 

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condiments

Nutella is Italian, and the obvious stereotypical choice would have been Vegamite when it comes to Australia.