In various forms, the following question comes up on an IQ test:
"True or false: If some oodles are doodles, and some doodles are noodles, then all oodles are noodles?"
Those that answer 'true' seem to love to stereotype. And blindly at that.
Because some of Group 1's are corrupt, then they all are. Because some of Group Bs are good, then they are all good etc etc
It is getting harder and harder to trust corporate America. Bethlehem Steel goes belly up (with a nice new buy out) but those who put in 25-40+ years of service see their pensions cut by more than 50%. Let's not get into MCI, Enron, etc. What has the gov't done about this?
Therefor, I could say that 'all corporations are corrupt'.
On a singular topic, my wife has taught for 25 years. And is one of the best. There was the possibility of a strike last year, because their contract had expired...the previous year. They finally settled on 3% increase minus higher rates in health care premiums and copay. (The nonunion administrators rewarded themselves with 10-20% raises on top of their $75-125 G salaries)
Sorry, but I think after what happened in Bresslan, saying that teachers hold parents and students 'hostage' over contract disputes is a pretty poor choice of words.
btw....anyone hear that the Democrats will take away your rights to read the Bible? That's what the GOP mailed to New Mexico voters last week.
Must be true, because only the GOP believes in the Ten Commandments, the Ten Commandments say 'thou shalt not lie', therefor only the GOP does not lie.
'give me tribal sovereignty or give me....uhh, what was that again?'
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Sorry, I did not think of Bresslin when I wrote that comment.
Henceforth, I don't have time or the energy to participate in these political scraps anymore ... not that it matters ...
Henceforth, I don't have time or the energy to participate in these political scraps anymore ... not that it matters ...
This seems to be yet another example of someone saying "I'm not a conservative BUT...[insert a bunch of conservative opinions]"
This seems to be yet another example of someone saying "I am going to take bits and pieces of what you said that do not concur with my opinions and add a few opinions adverse to mine while attributing them to you so that I can argue them."
Virtually every right that workers have today was fought for and won by unions. Pick up any labor history book and you'll be stunned at the amount of violence directed at various unions by employers and by the state solely because they asked for humane working conditions. As for teachers unions and tenure, you don't seem to have much of a clue about that and yet that's the one example you use to support your assertion that "most, if not all, unions abuse their persuasive powers." In fact, since only the judicial and teaching professions use tenure, you are taking a very small percentage of the unionised workforce and using that to make a wider point about "abusive unions" that is almost laughable in its contrivance.
Notice how you completely ignored when I clearly stated that unions are necessary. I know the value of a union, and I believe that to do away with them would be comparable to doing away with sticks and pucks at a hockey game. I will apologize and hereby revoke the statement "most, if not all, unions abuse their persuasive power within their respective industries". Whether there is truth in that statement or not, I cannot tell, thus I take it back and earnestly ask your forgiveness. I will support and acknowledge that abuse does occur (to which degree, I cannot specify, and will acknowledge that whatever the degree is, it is not due cause for abolishing any unions), and I will continue to use the teachers' union as an example of this.
Tenure is a way of protecting scholars from unfair dismisal or other consequences that may arise as a result of their research or teaching. For example, if a professor raises controversial questions in his class and someone complains, he can't be fired as a result. This is an extremely important factor in ensuring academic free speech. To give two historical examples, tenure protected many professors from being fired when they taught that racial segregation was wrong. It also protected those professors who taught evolution from being punished due to pressure from outside the university. Furthermore, tenure is not a job for life.
A university can fire a professor for financial reasons, for example. Tenured professors can also be fired for abusing their position, just as in any other profession. They just can't be fired for saying something controversial.
Tenure is also a way of basically guaranteeing teachers their jobs after receiving it. I did not say that tenure was not important or that doing away with it would make the educational system better or worse, because I simply do not know. But I will say the facts: tenure is often easily gotten. In a New Jersey K-12 school a teacher must work for only three years to receive tenure. After this, it is extremely difficult to remove this teacher from his or her position unless the teacher commits some sort of heinous crime or constantly does not abide to school policy. Yes, tenure has done a lot of good, but it has also opened doors to abuse. I did not formulate or express an opinion of whether or not tenure should remain...you did.
As for teaching and tenure, I think you'll find that (firstly) it's not at all easy to get tenure: you have to do an incredible amount of work and give up huge amounts of your time for unpaid research to get into a position where you have publish
I cannot believe that anyone would vote Bush. I am 17. I live in Buffalo, NY. I am from a lower middle class family. I am a Liberal Democrat.
First of all, I do not believe that it is anyone's right to tell someone if they can get married or not whether they are gay or straight. The same goes for abortion. I am pro-choice. I am pro-gay marriage. I am first off not going to vote for a president who wants to limit people's rights and put an amendment on the constitution against gay marriage. That is sick. I do not care about people I don't even know. You know what, it's not our life, so back out of theirs!
Second of all. Those moral issues shouldn't have any matter. This is about economies, and jobs. The war in Iraq. Those are big issues. What the hell is this logic about the economy? This country is in the biggest deficit ever, I believe. Billions have gone to a war that has no cause. It has no purpose. What are we doing in Iraq? We have no business there. With these billions we are just throwing away without a fucking care in the world, we could be stimulating the economy, providing more jobs, etc. But no. I guess that the people without a job don't matter to republicans.
I could go on and on about how bad Bush is for America. But it is pretty ignorant to sit here and say "vote for Bush, Kerry did nothing for the Senate" when you know little to nothing about Kerry's whole campaign. I have researched both parties. I know information about each candidate. I am not going to sit here and promote Kerry when I don't know one single fact about Bush.
I have recently watched the acceptance speech that Kerry had given in my PIG class. I know everything that Kerry is standing for. And there is not one negative thing about Kerry's plans. Oh, I forgot, he's a flipflopper. Or is that just the only freaking propaganda you republicans can come up with? Bush has had four years to do something. I can't afford to eat. I don't even know if I can go to college next year because my family has absolutely no money. I forgot that the tuition prices have risen 35% since 2001 and that Kerry wanted to make a college opportunity tax to help me gain $4,000 a year for college. I forgot that was terrible.
"Do we want a president who is puppeted by a princess whose papa presented her a pureed tomato plantation?"
That is the lamest thing I have ever heard. I guess if we were really to stoop that low we could talk about how much Bush can't talk right without making up words of his own, which is featured at http://bushisms.com. Kerry being married to a woman who is queen of the Heinz fortune doesn't make him a bad president, jackass. There are far better issues to be looked at, not some petty thing such as what kind of woman he married.
Republicans have been taking cheap shots at Kerry because they have nothing else to go by. Kerry had said at the end of his speech that he had a message for President Dubya Bush. He wanted unity. He wanted to tear away barriers between republicans and democrats and make this election according to big ideas, not small conflicts. I guess that makes him a bigger and stronger person, huh?
And you know what's really pathetic? I am 17 years old and I understand this better than you do.
First of all, I do not believe that it is anyone's right to tell someone if they can get married or not whether they are gay or straight. The same goes for abortion. I am pro-choice. I am pro-gay marriage. I am first off not going to vote for a president who wants to limit people's rights and put an amendment on the constitution against gay marriage. That is sick. I do not care about people I don't even know. You know what, it's not our life, so back out of theirs!
Second of all. Those moral issues shouldn't have any matter. This is about economies, and jobs. The war in Iraq. Those are big issues. What the hell is this logic about the economy? This country is in the biggest deficit ever, I believe. Billions have gone to a war that has no cause. It has no purpose. What are we doing in Iraq? We have no business there. With these billions we are just throwing away without a fucking care in the world, we could be stimulating the economy, providing more jobs, etc. But no. I guess that the people without a job don't matter to republicans.
I could go on and on about how bad Bush is for America. But it is pretty ignorant to sit here and say "vote for Bush, Kerry did nothing for the Senate" when you know little to nothing about Kerry's whole campaign. I have researched both parties. I know information about each candidate. I am not going to sit here and promote Kerry when I don't know one single fact about Bush.
I have recently watched the acceptance speech that Kerry had given in my PIG class. I know everything that Kerry is standing for. And there is not one negative thing about Kerry's plans. Oh, I forgot, he's a flipflopper. Or is that just the only freaking propaganda you republicans can come up with? Bush has had four years to do something. I can't afford to eat. I don't even know if I can go to college next year because my family has absolutely no money. I forgot that the tuition prices have risen 35% since 2001 and that Kerry wanted to make a college opportunity tax to help me gain $4,000 a year for college. I forgot that was terrible.
"Do we want a president who is puppeted by a princess whose papa presented her a pureed tomato plantation?"
That is the lamest thing I have ever heard. I guess if we were really to stoop that low we could talk about how much Bush can't talk right without making up words of his own, which is featured at http://bushisms.com. Kerry being married to a woman who is queen of the Heinz fortune doesn't make him a bad president, jackass. There are far better issues to be looked at, not some petty thing such as what kind of woman he married.
Republicans have been taking cheap shots at Kerry because they have nothing else to go by. Kerry had said at the end of his speech that he had a message for President Dubya Bush. He wanted unity. He wanted to tear away barriers between republicans and democrats and make this election according to big ideas, not small conflicts. I guess that makes him a bigger and stronger person, huh?
And you know what's really pathetic? I am 17 years old and I understand this better than you do.
Bravoooooooo.... :):)
That was a good post. Harsh, but it really got the point across.
Also, there are many universities which you can attend for free if you have a good enough academic standing. For example, I can go to The College of New Jersey for free - no tuition or room and board fees. I think I may have to pay for books, but on the other hand I would get a free computer and will receive directly to me any scholarship money I am awarded. I think you should look out for opportunities like this if you really want higher education without bruising your wallet.
As for tuition fees otherwise, hell yeah they are amazingly high. I think I will have a hard time paying for colleges which do not offer merit-based aid.
As for tuition fees otherwise, hell yeah they are amazingly high. I think I will have a hard time paying for colleges which do not offer merit-based aid.