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1. Power blackouts
   When I was a kid back in the sixties a neighbor kid threw a bicycle chain up in the air. It landed on a power line and knocked out power to our neighborhood. In the back of my mind is the idea that if any terrorist group wanted to create havoc in the country all it would take is a few dozen people around the country to throw a chain with hooks attached over the power lines coming out of power substations located all over the country at the same time. You can locate them on Google Earth maps. I think this would have a chain reaction and cause power loss all over the country.They could then use the chaos to their advantage to make further attacks. We live in an open society with endless soft targets. our best remedy is to stop importing so many potential terrorists and to remove those we suspect that are here now.

2. LOL, Chicago schools. Majority of students who “graduate” are illiterate in both reading and math. Really who is going to care what they put down? In the end the school system will crow that the majority of students graduating from their “system” plan on being ” Brain” Doctors.:-)

   1. Will these lead to a new industry where students will just buy a ‘plan for the future’ instead of trying to think of something? Or will they just baffle them with BS?

3. Grid, after the California sub station was shot up, what would have been the result had a couple more been shot up in a coordinated attack? Couple that with transformers on the poles being shot as the get away route allowed. Our infrastructure, for a large part, is an aging antique held together with sweat, spit, and repairs. So many ways to physically attack, all it needs is imagination.

4. Sounds like we need to ban bicycle chains and mylar balloons before the whole damn grid goes down!

5. I have no problem with getting students to look forward into the future, but withholding a diploma is counterproductive. I personally never had a clear plan for my future. Instead, I traveled/drifted and worked at whatever I could; and then found something I excelled at and successfully stuck with my entire life. But in Rahm’s scenario I would not have succeeded.

   1. 1) Well, Rahm Emanuel himself pranced around in a ballet tutu until some rich guys gave him a sinecure at an investment fund — for which he had no qualifications whatever, no MBA — and which let Rahm pick up $16.5 million in 2 years. A ,,er,, investment that paid off handsomely in 2008-2010 when the chickens came home to roost for investment bankers and they needed the Big Bailout.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel#Education_and_upbringing

      2)Next, Rahm ran Freddie Mac into the ground
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel#Freddie_Mac

      Fortunately, on Christmas Eve 2009 Rahm’s boss Obama gave a big $4 Trillion present to Freddie Mac’s creditors by putting the taxpayer — i.e, you — on the hook to give unlimited financial aid tocover any losses Freddie’s investors incur:
      http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122401588.html

      3) So maybe some Chicago kid can send Rahm a life plan in which the kid promises to sell out every moral principle he has , to stab the American People in the back, and to fasten his lips firmly to the buttocks of the first rich man he can find in exchange for some big bucks.

      4) On the other hand, a REAL education would explain to the kids that Rahm and Obama’s corruption has dumped $10 Trillion in federal debt onto the kids — and that maybe the kids should tell Rahm to go take a flying leap.

6. You want to hear a good one, about 25 yrs ago, my son was stationed in Germany and he wanted a car loan from the local c u.. I told him that he wouldn’t get because he was out side the U.S. A couple of weeks later he got it. Fast forward 3 to 6 monthes, and a young woman from the Credit Union called to confirm some information. After everything was asked, she asked me where in the U.S. Germany was located, to say that I almost dropped the phone would be an under statement. I then asked if she had went to grade school, high school and college and if she had graduated, she yesbut did that have to do with it. I then adked if she remembered having classes about WW2, Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler and a few other things. Her answer was ” oh s–t” and hung up, she was later terminated a few days later. Oh, and the kid didn’t default on his car loan.

   1. Germantown is in Wisconsin,Denmark and several others too.

      1. China, Paris, Cleveland, Dayton and Nome are located in SE Texas. Shot even Iowa has an Iowa colony in Texas, just to name a few

7. I don’t see a problem with the “must have a plan before you get your diploma” plan. Just tell them you plan on building safe spaces and protesting Trump in your spare time, you will probably graduate early.

8. It’s not just Chicago that is doing this. My son graduated high school in Colorado and he had to apply to college before they would give him his diploma. He told them he had no plan to attend college and was going to join the military instead because of the debt of attending college. He works in the oil fields instead and makes good money for a 20 year old.

9. Most CPS graduates are functionally illiterate if not totally(I hired and fired them for most of a decade). The standard plan is to stay in the hood until they go to jail or die or play hoops or be a rap star because they are the best ever the teacher told them so. This is what you get when you put an Israeli in charge ,they are Communist nuts.

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