Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

One could argue that if the subsidies and loans didn't act in the market, then it's likely that these universities would clean up their act, or go out of business.
Oh, come on now. It's almost like you're trying to say that we're collectively responsible as a society for digging ourselves into this mess, and we all know that can't be true.

--Patrick
 

Necronic

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Some people think the only tool they have is a hammer.
When what we really need is to let the nail put itself in with natural market forces!

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Seriously though the idea of a national accreditation board isn't that crazy, its already more or less done professionally all over the place. Lawyers, doctors, engineers, all of them have nationally regulated boards that oversee their licenses. And I would love to see someone argue that any of those three professions would be better off without those regulatory bodies.
 
So... the answer to failure due to government interference is more interference?

We can see, as a society, how well this is working in our primary educational system.
Yes, when influenced by people actively trying to undermine said system to turn ALL education into a for profit enterprise once again, it pumps out terrible decisions.

We saw, as a society, saw how that turned out in the Gilded Age. Would you like to go back to having a vast, uneducated underclass like back then? I sure as hell wouldn't.
 

Necronic

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There has to be some level of government involvement though, since it's illegal to practice those fields (and many others) without a license. So the government gives some sort of approval to some bodies and not others.
 
"It's not going to be an easy election, it's a close election," said Sharon Day, the co-chairwoman, while speaking at a GOP field office in Waukesha, Wis., according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Like I said, much closer than I can even understand why.

"I don't want to say anything about your Wisconsin voters but, some of them might not be as sharp as a knife," she added.
:facepalm:
This is the Wisconsin 2014 equivalent of Gerald Ford's Liberation of Poland.
 
:facepalm:
This is the Wisconsin 2014 equivalent of Gerald Ford's Liberation of Poland.
The best part is conservatives are whining the Dems have nothing nice to say about the Republicans. Pot, come on over and meet Kettle, I think you have a lot in common.
 
It's generally not a good idea for your side of the aisle to denigrate the voting populace just as early voting (ahem) "absentee balloting" is starting.
 
When one of the most right-wing papers in the state has to qualify nearly every endorsement it makes with "you're kissing coal's ass too much," you know the playing field isn't just tilted, it's damn near vertical.
 

GasBandit

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GasBandit

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This is Reyhaneh Jabbari. In Iran in 2007, a man attempted to drug and rape her, and she stabbed him with a pocket knife in self-defense. She was hung on Saturday after being charged with pre-meditated murder. If she had been raped and lived, she would have been stoned to death for adultery.
 
This is Reyhaneh Jabbari. In Iran in 2007, a man attempted to drug and rape her, and she stabbed him with a pocket knife in self-defense. She was hung on Saturday after being charged with pre-meditated murder. If she had been raped and lived, she would have been stoned to death for adultery.
I'm sorry. We Americans will need to know which video games she was playing before we can get really worked up about it.

--Patrick
 


This is Reyhaneh Jabbari. In Iran in 2007, a man attempted to drug and rape her, and she stabbed him with a pocket knife in self-defense. She was hung on Saturday after being charged with pre-meditated murder. If she had been raped and lived, she would have been stoned to death for adultery.
Yes, I read this... Horrific. There's a woman currently in jail (though not facing the death penalty) in Iran for watching a men's volleyball game.
 
Man. That just reads like both sides are jerking around a bunch of teenagers to win political points on a superficial problem. Their tap water is contaminated with arsenic and uranium, but let's ask the students how they feel about the nickname "Redskins," and we'll use their answers to bolster our position by either saying, "See?! It's fine," or "They're pawns and sellouts!" They're fucking teenagers who like fucking football, and cannot drink their own water. They are neither the final word in the argument about the Washington Redskins name, nor are they sellouts for going to enjoy a damn game.Both sides of this come out as people who need to be smacked upside the head.
 
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