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If you live in Springlake or if you live in Village St. George and you are an average student, where’s the closest high school?

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How many students in those areas actually attend public high schools? For example, if 80% of the students are enrolled in private schools, why would the district build a new high school there if the enrollment wouldn’t support it financially? From a fiscal responsibility standpoint, it would make more sense to bus those students to Woodlawn, McKinley, or Tara wouldn’t it?

The issue is that much of the population effectively opted out of the public system, and now there are complaints that the same system didn’t build a school in that area. A separate district was never necessary, what was needed was for families to opt into the existing system in large numbers at one time and reclaim it, but no one seems willing to do so.

It’s probably more work than that what you’re interested in, but Jeffrey Morgenthaler.’s recipe is my favorite.

All-Day Bloody Mary Mix
150 grams water
150 grams fresh lemon juice, strained of pulp
150 grams Worcestershire (Lea and Perrins)
6 grams (roughly 1 rounded teaspoon) citric acid
4 grams (roughly 1 teaspoon) Tabasco
2 grams (roughly ½ rounded teaspoon) celery salt
2 grams (roughly ½ rounded teaspoon) finely ground black pepper
1.5 grams (roughly ¼ rounded teaspoon) MSG
Combine ingredients in a quart-sized container and mix well.
Cover with a lid and refrigerate for at least one hour, or for up to two days.
Strain through a fine mesh strainer (nut milk) bag.
Makes approximately 1 pint (500 ml), lasts nearly forever.

All-Day Bloody Mary
1½ oz (45 ml) vodka
2 oz (60 ml) All-Day Bloody Mary Mix
2 oz (60 ml) tomato juice
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Roll gently and vigorously to combine and chill.
Pour into a pint-sized glass rimmed with salt and cracked black pepper.
Garnish with a lemon wedge and dill pickle spear.

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They are worth a good bit. 1000% to 50,000% above face value on average.

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So, 10 cents to 5 dollars? It sounds a lot less impressive that way doesn’t it?
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Its either 1985 0r 82. but in the middle of that year they stopped making pennies out of copper. Look it up to make sure, but all pennies before that year will be copper and if you have a reasonable amount you can take it to a scrap metal place or somewhere.. And the copper on one penny is actually worth more than 1 cent.

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The transition year was 1982; however, since 2006, it has been illegal to melt down U.S. pennies or nickels for their metal content or to export them in large quantities for that purpose. Violating this can lead to massive fines or even prison time. Uncle Sam is one step ahead of all you scrappers.

Pennies that are currently not valuable won’t likely ever be valuable. People hoarding them don’t understand how coin values work or what rarity means in the coin collecting market. So, if you got a bunch of worthless pennies I wouldn’t worry about holding them.

My Snack List
Clausen Pickles
Lindsay Crafted Medium Pitted Green Olives in a can
Homemade Hummus
Fage Greek Yogurt with berries
Cashews
Boiled Peanuts
Popcorn

I keep all of this pretty much all the time, and usually eat a snack every evening while I’m cooking dinner. The yogurt is breakfast most days, but every once in a while I eat it as a snack too.

The more traditional stuff like chips are usually my go to on road trips / vacations.

I hold some controversial views on voting. I believe far too many people are allowed to vote. Why should a 50-year-old who has never held a real job get an equal say on tax rates as someone who actually pays them? Why should people who were never eligible for the draft have a voice in electing leaders who decide whether to send troops to war?

The idea that individuals with no real skin in the game, lifelong failures or dependents, should have the exact same voting power as productive, successful citizens is deeply flawed. It’s the equivalent of handing your crackhead son unrestricted access to your bank account. It just doesn’t make sense.

That said, if we’re going to continue allowing universal suffrage, we should at least eliminate gerrymandering entirely. Realistically, voting districts should consist of simple parallel latitude lines cutting across each state. No more creative map-drawing by politicians. Achieving this nationwide would require a constitutional amendment, but it’s really the only practical way to at least make this dumb system truly equal.

Every Republican wants to cut, but none want a their programs cut. So to get every Republican to agree to cut something and not to increase funding to anything is impossible. Hence government always grows.