I'm sure you didn't intend the "buck" to be funny, but that made me giggle. :)
*buck-buck-bukaw!*
It's ONE of the best. CNN has a feature called "Best Place", and consequently Cedar Rapids is considered a CNNmoney 'Best Place'. Way to take something extremely out of proportion and showcase your extreme negativity. Yikes.
Just because a handful of Muslims do bad things does not mean all Muslims do bad things. It is bigoted to assume that being Muslim makes your odds of initiating terrorism better. Can we then also assume, based on another person's heritage and the residual stigma remaining from a historic event, that all Germans are Nazis, for example? It's the same thing: utilizing a negative stereotype about a group of people. There is plenty of historical data to prove terrorism (definition: The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda) by any fundamentalist religious or political group. You cannot let some people define an entire group of people. Such over-generalization is unbecoming and obtuse.
Being Muslim does not make a person a terrorist.
The quote is in reference to that particular family; she is saying that other families have injured children and they are happy that their child is unscathed. She would rather take the injury than have her child harmed. The quote is in no way discounting the death from this accident.
Yeah, I readily admit it's all pretty shady (like a lot of projects going on in town these days). I'm just glad everything is finally out in the open and we can all move on!
At least it's over and done with, as far as use of the old library is concerned. The city doesn't have to waste more money maintaining an empty building and more jobs will be created with the expansion of TrueNorth. There isn't really a problem here; it should be a relief.
A brownfield area, once cleaned up, can be used for anything including parks and recreation, residence, or commercial space.
If Alliant is so worried about the substation flooding, why don't they place it somewhere else instead of building it upon a raised foundation? They plan on building it higher up so it doesn't flood. There are plenty of other places in the city that are above the flood plain.
Wow, that's a hell of a good example...kudos to you for that! Puts a lot into perspective. However, as far as this case is concerned, it does say in the article that the school knew she was not Catholic when the hired her. That could mean a variety of beliefs; I don't claim to know any more detail than that, but it seems that, at the time of hire, this particular piece of information was not pursued further. If a teacher at a religious school was found to have quiet personal beliefs seemingly contrary to the school, then other factors such as her ability to teach and her actions and words in regards to facilitating school activities and discussion of her own beliefs should be analyzed. Her own beliefs were not affecting her ability to teach math, and she was doing her duties as an educator...she just had differing personal beliefs. She didn't drive them to school, to reference your story.
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