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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 24, 2021, 10:06:50 PM »

To name a few.
Might be fun but finding a job?
Not so much.

Video game Design
Music Industry Studies
Ethnomusicality
Vineyard Management
Informatics
Rhetoric
Comparative Literature

Informatics experts are in high demand.   As are coders and graphics designers for video gaming.   A friend of mine studied informatics, now has his own biotech company.
Some of the others are academic fields that have been around for centuries, and offer the chance to teach and do research.   Vineyard mgmt is part of agribusiness, and offers well-paying jobs.   The newer fields on the list have seen growth in demand for trained specialists,  which is why universities responded with courses.   

You seem to have cut/pasted again,  and with no idea what you're talking about.

None of those graduates are in high demand.
Not one.
As for cut and pasting, I made a list, albeit a small one, copied it and pasted it.
Sue me.

1442

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 24, 2021, 09:05:35 PM »

What I don't think some neo-cons grasp is that it's less expensive to provide a good education than it is to provide the massive programs that handle the fallout from bad education.   I'm a true fiscal conservative:  good education from preschool to grad school is the way to hand out the LEAST amount of taxpayer money.

When the government made college loans easy to get the universities went to work inventing boutique degrees, doubling administrators, counselors, etc, expanding campuses all of which(and more) inevitably sent tuition skyrocketing.
Many grads could not find real work and then the debt came due.
And now we all curse the day coming when we write more checks to pay for college only this time the taxman will be collecting them.

Normally I cruise past replies devoid of examples or facts that are needed to support vague critiques,  but I'll bite:  define a "boutique degree" please.

To name a few.
Might be fun but finding a job?
Not so much.

Video game Design
Music Industry Studies
Ethnomusicality
Vineyard Management
Informatics
Rhetoric
Comparative Literature

1443

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 24, 2021, 06:50:30 PM »

Cancel culture is at it again:

AP Staffers Demand 'Clarity' On Emily Wilder Firing With Powerful Open Letter
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-staffers-open-letter-emily-wilder_n_60abd701e4b0a2568315c76a

Meanwhile I am in a hospital waiting area listening to a pianist playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps while thinking there is just something... wrong.

Well.
If you are weeping for Emily Wilder you are on a fool’s errand.
She acknowledged possibly violating AP’s social media guidelines that bar employees from sharing political opinions, but claimed the policies are “selectively enforced” by design.
“I was transparent from the very beginning, and I have been transparent,” Wilder said of being upfront about her activist past. “Yes, I had opinions in college, and yes, I still have opinions, because everybody has opinions. I have never denied any of that.”

Her timing was atrocious coming at the same time her employer,THE AP, was discovered sharing an office building with Hamas.

Her firing had nothing to do with cancel culture.
She was canned for being stupid.

1444

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 24, 2021, 03:50:54 PM »

What I don't think some neo-cons grasp is that it's less expensive to provide a good education than it is to provide the massive programs that handle the fallout from bad education.   I'm a true fiscal conservative:  good education from preschool to grad school is the way to hand out the LEAST amount of taxpayer money.

When the government made college loans easy to get the universities went to work inventing boutique degrees, doubling administrators, counselors, etc, expanding campuses all of which(and more) inevitably sent tuition skyrocketing.
Many grads could not find real work and then the debt came due.
And now we all curse the day coming when we write more checks to pay for college only this time the taxman will be collecting them.

1445

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 24, 2021, 10:44:22 AM »

Read carefully, with better sources.  Biden is not sure he can legally void debt through executive order,  so his advisors and education secretary are looking at legislative options for Congress.   

Politics is "the art of the possible."

Reread the David Brooks interview I referenced last week.
Especially the part where Biden says

The idea that you go to Penn (the University of Pennsylvania) and you’re paying a total of 70,000 bucks a year and the public should pay for that? I don’t agree," Biden says, in the interview with David Brooks of The New York Times.
This mess was all predicted to happen when Obama insisted on federalizing student loans.

Now Biden is faced with figuring out how to get out of the bag he helped create.

1446

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 23, 2021, 08:47:46 PM »

As I Told ELBA years ago:

New book claims Obama was a 'parasite' who sucked the Democratic Party dry to get reelected

Chickens always come home to roost on Arrogant Assholes.




A "parasite" on the Democratic Party is how journalist Edward Isaac Dovere describes former President Obama in his forthcoming tell-all book Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaign to Defeat Trump.

In a chapter entitled "Benign Neglect," Dovere writes that the section’s namesake is how Obama aides privately described his abandonment of the Democratic Party once in the White House. "‘Negligence’ might be more accurate," Dovere, writer for The Atlantic and former chief Washington correspondent for Politico, writes.

The numbers are hard to ignore: during his eight years in office, Obama oversaw a net loss of 947 state legislative seats, 63 House seats, 11 senators, and 13 governors," he continues.

1447

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 23, 2021, 12:59:48 PM »

So?   

No one is stopping Notre Dame from making that choice to not invite Biden.  I'm married to a Catholic.   Catholics disagree all the time.   There are conservative and moderate and Leftist Catholics.   Some don't want anyone to have abortion, some don't want the State to impose laws on those who do choose abortion,  some urge programs to combat poverty and teen pregnancy and sexual exploitation and other factors that increase unwanted pregnancies.   There are literally over a billion Catholics, what's your actual point here?   

That your first response to me made no sense.

1448

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 23, 2021, 12:06:59 PM »

New Item


The University of Notre Dame's 2021 commencement is set for Sunday, but President Biden will reportedly be absent from the event.

Breaking with recent tradition, the president will not address the ceremony after 4,300 "members of the Notre Dame community" signed a petition urging Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins not to invite Biden, the second Roman Catholic president, over his stance on abortion.

The petition said that Biden should neither speak at commencement nor be given an honorary degree, and said that signers were "dismayed by the pro-abortion and anti-religious liberty agenda of President Joe Biden." 

Imposing YOUR religion on ALL women,  and their access to medical procedures and reproductive choice,  is not really about "religious liberty."    If you're a woman and opposed to abortion,  you are free to not get one.

The Notre Dame Community is speaking only to the President, a practicing Catholic.
They don’t agree with his view which is in conflict with the teachings of the Church. That is their Religious Liberty protected by the first amendment.

1449

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 23, 2021, 11:31:05 AM »

New Item


The University of Notre Dame's 2021 commencement is set for Sunday, but President Biden will reportedly be absent from the event.

Breaking with recent tradition, the president will not address the ceremony after 4,300 "members of the Notre Dame community" signed a petition urging Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins not to invite Biden, the second Roman Catholic president, over his stance on abortion. 

The petition said that Biden should neither speak at commencement nor be given an honorary degree, and said that signers were "dismayed by the pro-abortion and anti-religious liberty agenda of President Joe Biden."  

1450

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 21, 2021, 10:55:13 PM »

Anti-Semitism attacks in New York and California are vicious

Biden and Schumer reactions?
<crickets>

When Trump was silent on such hate crimes,  the GOP members here assured us he was just waiting for the investigation to be done and all the facts in hand.   Why the different standard now?

News Item




Roving bands of Palestinians went hunting for Jews in New York City Thursday night. The Palestinians were seen on video attacking, beating, spitting on and firebombing Jews. New York Red Bulls soccer goalie Lucas Weis said he was confronted by a group of knife-wielding Palestinians in New York who demanded to know if he is Jewish. When he said no, they said they would have killed him if he said yes. At least one Jewish man was hospitalized in New York after being beaten by Palestinians. Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) who has been very vocal on the recent battle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza–including challenging Joe Biden to his face–has not said a word about the attacks by her Palestinian Muslim brethren on Jewish Americans in New York City.

Barton is calling for a video review.

1451

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 21, 2021, 10:05:31 PM »

News Item


President Biden said that there has been "no shift" in his commitment to Israel and that the Democratic Party still supports the Jewish state, despite heated and sometimes vitriolic criticism of Israel over the past ten days by progressives. 
My party still supports Israel," Biden said. "Until the region says unequivocally they acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as an independent Jewish state, there will be no peace."

1452

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 21, 2021, 09:54:32 PM »

I liked this part the most.


Biden told Brooks ....” people who take the big risks to generate wealth should reap the big rewards."

Common sense, but nice to see he agrees.

Yep, the workers in dangerous jobs who take the big risks and help generate wealth SHOULD reap big rewards.   Absolutely correct!   Glad you're seeing the light finally on a living wage.

Whoosh!!!

1453

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 21, 2021, 07:36:18 PM »

Anti-Semitism attacks in New York and California are vicious

Biden and Schumer reactions?
<crickets>

1454

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 21, 2021, 03:33:52 PM »

Well. Mitch and the GOP got Biden to shave $600m off the bloated “ Infastructure”  Bill.
Good work. 

1455

Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 21, 2021, 01:34:28 PM »

Hey, Bart, Kid just told you that the thing you didn't say, that he's not saying you said, is dangerous!  Ya been trolled.


I know Larry (?) already posted David Brooks on his interview with Biden, but I want to post it again, because it's really a useful window into where Biden came from, politically, and the distinction between Stevenson democrats and Truman democrats. 

I liked this part the most.


Biden told Brooks ....” people who take the big risks to generate wealth should reap the big rewards."

Common sense, but nice to see he agrees.