Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "The New York Times" channel.

  1. Yeah, that was weird.
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  2. Some wonderful teachers without certifications. Certs are just Teachers' Unions' way of limiting competition. The free market always wins.
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  3.  @westjkl9064  Yeah, that's the ticket!
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  4. Don't believe the OP. People in NYC drove carefully and respectfully. That blackout and others - we've had a few.
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  5. That day in 2003 is when many of us learned that fact
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  6. Excellent comment, Paul Brassey.
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  7. It's obviously false, and jingoistic as well. He should have said to wait for the facts to come out. Because when they did - the US took responsibility. Think.
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  8. That's the way it was done back then. Recommendations changed later
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  9. I've lived through several NYC blackouts. "Fun" would not be my choice of descriptions.
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  10. Idiotic
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  11. May I note that conservative policies simply work better, period?
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  12. You mean that rich white leftists are total phonies? Shocker. Whoda thunk it?
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  13. Ted Kennedy started hollering against nuclear after Three Mile Island. Then came the bumper stickers: "More people died at Chappaqiddick than died at Three Mile Island".
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  14.  @singtweetypie  You misunderstood my comment. The mayor's general accusation against the US was not only false, it was ridiculous. Can you name me all those many instances of the US using Canada as a scapegoat? Me neither. I remember the day of the blackout well - I have lived nearly all my life in NYC. While there was a theory posited that it may have stemmed from Canada, no one got too crazy about it, and the whole idea lasted a few hours. This defensiveness about the US was - and is - some Canadians acting insecure.
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  15.  @singtweetypie  You must be living in an alternate reality. Your laundry list of "Blame Canada" moments reads like an episode of South Park. No Canadian I know has any such complaints, and no American is worried about Canada at all. Perhaps you have too much time on your hands? Look into volunteering somewhere.
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  16.  @singtweetypie  Sorry to trigger your insecurities, sweetie. Don't take out your anger, re your own unfortunate life, on some YT commenter. It won't help you.
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  17.  @alexandramcginnis8872  Free market works these things out better than central planners do. If you want to pay a witch doctor, that's between you and him. Of course neither gov't nor ins. should reimburse for such.
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  18. "Chernobyl was pretty much dismissed here, because it was not US technology." No, it was dismissed because it some third rate Societ crap.
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  19. Do you glow in the dark?
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  20. The backstory on how the mayor became an innocent victim: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2008-08-08-0808070248-story.html
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  21. So, how did those underprepared students do against top competition at elite colleges? The NYT should have followed up.
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  22. It was a stupid, jingoistic comment. He should have just said that when the facts come out, Toronto will not have been at fault.
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