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@JakeCrain_ Just recently moved back to Oregon and I have been offline for a while. Loved your Ducks preview. Don’t know if you get to go to games but you should try to come out to Eugene for a Duck game. Small stadium compared to SEC and B1O but amazing environment

FULL DISCUSSION: youtu.be/e6Gg0kZpFlw

“Okay Matt Rhule, this is the game that can catapult you to where you want to go and maybe we can get these damn apartments built.” -@crainandcone on Nebraska’s most pivotal game

@KevinKileyCA I like the time changes. I like later daylight in the summer and more darkness during the holidays to enjoy Christmas lights and not spend as much of the morning in darkness. I am aware this is a minority opinion.

This week the House is voting on ending production of the penny and ending Standard Time to make Daylight Saving permanent. What do you think?

@realDailyWire @andrewklavan He looks great for over 126

Happy birthday to the best-looking podcaster born in the 19th century 😉 Here's to many more! @andrewklavan

@michaeljknowles It says not only am I the hair club president I’m also a member

My Arabic is rusty. Can anyone translate his reported final words? “لدي معلومات ستؤدي إلى اعتقال هيلاري كلينتون.”

@SLOblond81 @DTheKingpin @megbasham @grok Yes i looked this up so I could understand it too

@WilinModoc @DTheKingpin @megbasham @grok succinctly explain Christian Dispensationalism theology

I’m not a dispensationalist, but the bizarre fixation some people have to making everything about the joooooooos is a pretty strong argument that Satan still considers them God’s chosen people. Because I don’t know how else to explain obsessive hatred like that.

@DTheKingpin @brodigan @Kiradavis I will admit I was fooled. I first saw Candace Owens interviewing Carol Swain and was impressed. I read Booker T Washington’s Up From Slavery after watching the interview and thought he was espousing the conservative idea of taking personal responsibility for doing your best….

@brodigan @Kiradavis You a fool 😂😂😂

You and @Kiradavis wouldn’t even know conservatism is a thing Black peoples are allowed to be without Candace. Jealousy is the WORST flavor of Haterade. *ducks*

@lancelands I feel that county superintendents should set policy…..what works in Los Angeles or Ventura counties vs Trinity or Modoc counties are vastly different because our students and parents are so different. I taught in Sacramento and in rural California the needs are quite different

I've had a lot of conversations about the recent bill passed by the legislature, AB 181, which would remove statutory powers from the Superintendent of Public Instruction without eliminating the position itself. For many reasons, I believe it's a terrible idea, conceived in desperation, advanced through a broken legislative process, and ultimately slated for failure upon implementation. I expressed that viewpoint during the Senate Budget Committee right before the legislature went on its summer break, even though this wasn't a budget bill. First of all, we can debate how effective the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction is. I think that leadership in that office can magnify or diminish its own power as the current occupant has demonstrated, but a Sonja Shaw would bring much-needed reforms to the office if she were given the chance to provide a different vision by the voters. Simply neutering the duly elected officer doesn't fix the problem. In the handful of times the elimination proposal has gone to the ballot, the voters have rejected the idea. While voters never have full information on ballot initiatives — that's why we live in a constitutional republic — there could be better communication from the legislature through thoughtful hearings, as opposed to the circus hearings this spring where they were confirming the verdict they already had. Believe me, I've expressed my concerns on this issue to many legislators recently and back to ACA 9 (McCarty) in 2023. I know their frustrations, but I also know that there were several who voted for AB 181 not out of malice or to betray conservative principles, but because they really want to see something improve in our public schools. This move seemed like a poorly timed Hail Mary pass, considering the election this fall. And we've seen this movie before. When the Legislature gutted the Board of Equalization's statutory authority, it didn't fix anything for taxpayers; ask around and see how that's working out. The strength of public education has always been local oversight, and we should be thinking how to empower local district and county trustees, not stripping power away from the State Superintendent. Again, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic doesn't fix California's broken, government-run education system. And I can't think of a worse place to consolidate that authority than the Governor's office; I have yet to meet a single person outside of government who can name one issue, policy, or program the Governor handles well. This proposal won't improve academic outcomes or public school effectiveness — it will only make bureaucrats' jobs easier. If legislators actually want to neutralize the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the ethical path is a constitutional amendment to eliminate the office and put it before voters. But that won't happen, because it's been tried before and it always fails. As an extreme localist, I believe California needs less state influence in education and more empowered local school boards. In fact, county education boards already play a substantial role in the state's education policy formation and execution and those 58 bodies could be the right vehicle for reform — if the (majority of the) legislature were serious about fixing education rather than placating the teachers' unions. Ultimately, AB 181 misses the important issues and will not fix the problems facing California's government schools. I think that we've done enough berating the legislators about this myopic decision; I hope they'll listen to our concerns and consider the solid reforms we've been outlining for years next year when they're done belaboring the current Superintendent of Public Instruction's incompetence.

@johncanzanobft Wondering if Oregon State to the Big 12 is real or just wishful thinking and related how durable the new PAC 9 will be

Monday Mailbag is out tomorrow. The best questions get published. Have fun with it. What's on your mind? Ask away.

@DTheKingpin @megbasham I don’t know what dispensationalist means but I can’t read the book of Romans without believing that the Jews are still God’s chosen people and we as Christians are grafted into those promises. As for Israel, even apart from my belief they have been and remain an important ally

I absolutely still believe that. I’m relatively dispensationalist in my thinking. I thoroughly reject “replacement theology” though and believe we were “grafted in”. God still has a plan for Israel and the Jewish people. They’re still the apple of His eye. I firmly believe that. Our religion has Jewish roots (as all sane people know) and the attacks on the Jewish people, particularly from so called “Christians” is an attack on the very essence of God. Do we believe in a God who keeps His promises or not? Additionally, the attempts to erase Jesus’s Jewish heritage is a lie from the pit of Hell itself. It’s a tale as old as time. Satan’s attempt to delegitimize Jesus. If Jesus is not Jewish then Jesus is not the messiah because scripture REQUIRES the messiah to be Jewish. This rise in antisemitism is a demonic plot to both isolate and destroy God’s chosen people (as Satan has always tried to do) as well as to delegitimize Christianity by attempting to remove in the minds of millions of people Jesus’s legitimate claim to the throne as the Messiah. Antisemitism allows the devil to get two for the price of one. It is utterly demonic.

@JeremyDBoreing Because the dog on the couch next to you during your show is clearly robotic or ai, a real dog would spurn you, apparently

Yes. If only anyone had ever seen me around a dog…

@JakeCrain_ Oregon vs Washington “”Kenny Wheaton’s Gonna Score” (Call from Jerry Allen in 1994, the game that brought Oregon from mediocre at best to the Rose Bowl and began the rise to a national brand). Oregon still uses that call from 32 years ago to fire up the crowd

Let’s get it

Dropping our greatest rivalries in CFB here soon and I know I’m right

@JeremyDBoreing You told her not only that you were homosexual but also that you were maniacal about it? Your Jeremy’s Razors commercials kinda gave that away

Man, I told her that in confidence!!!

@asthegirlturns I am seeing rural kids just like urban kids looking for something real in the artificial world we have created and some of them are turning to traditional religion in that quest

@asthegirlturns I have taught in rural Oregon and California for 24 years and this is not what I am seeing at all…..what I am seeing it erasing of some of the differences between rural and urban kids as social media and the internet flattens out cultural differences and communities distinctions

I live in rural America and this is a load of horse hockey.

@DTheKingpin Goldwater had very different views from the 50s through his presidential run in 64 into the 80s when he was almost libertarian, his views shifted greatly throughout his career

@DTheKingpin Thank you for a clear answer. This is pretty much what I found when I looked into the question after I asked it. So was the person you were originally responding to saying Vance was a return to Goldwater style Republicanism? I think that is hard to quantify because……

Goldwater Republicans chased Black voters out of the party. In 1956 Eisenhower won 39% of the Black vote, in 1960 Nixon won 32%. After Goldwater the party hasn’t won more than 15% since. I’d be careful on romanticizing the Goldwater era

@IdahoNuke @PeterSchiff @JDVance Yes this is what I saw too, Reagan was the first social conservative as President ironically like Trump he was socially liberal in his personal life but governed socially conservative as much as he could with a liberal congress

@PeterSchiff @JDVance You misuse "Liberal." Both Rs were socially liberal. Rockefeller Rs were for a social safety net and economic interventionism. Authoritarians. Goldwater Rs were for the smallest government possible at the federal level, free enterprise, and fiscal conservatism. Libertarians.

The Republican Party was once dominated by liberal Republicans, known as Rockefeller Republicans. Conservative Republicans, known as Goldwater Republicans, were a minority until Reagan led a successful conservative revolution. @JDVance wants to return the party to the Nixon era.

@DTheKingpin @OpenRoadOpenMic I hadn’t heard this before, I was taught that Nixon was the Southern Strategy president in 68, but what I read from several sources suggests a different story. As the parties are in another realignment moment, understanding our political past is important

@DTheKingpin @OpenRoadOpenMic I was born in 71 and my first political memory was the Reagan-Carter election of 1980. My parents were considered Reagan Democrats, switching parties after Reagan first ran. The only thing I remembered about Goldwater is that in his speech supporting Reagan became prominent

@DTheKingpin @OpenRoadOpenMic It appears that Goldwaters opposition to the 64 Civil Rights act, while not specifically opposing the idea of Civil Rights, led to segregationists switching parties and their actions were the catalyst that pushed Robinson and other Black Republicans to leave the party.

@DTheKingpin @OpenRoadOpenMic I respect many things you have written on this site so I read about the 64 convention. I found it interesting that the Jackie Robinson museum doesn’t mention that Goldwater voted for Eisenhowers Civil Rights bills in 57 and 60 but opposed the 64 act on grounds of States Rights