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Online Masters Degree: Myths about college sports

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Wed, 30 May 2012 03:26:00 PDT

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As far as Rightardia could tell, college sports is primarily about getting contributions from alumni. Football and to a lesser degree, basketball, are big alumni draws.

We are not fans of American football and consider it an expensive, bloated sport with teams that often exceed 80 players.

The sport is over-specialized with kickoff teams, return teams, field goal teams, punting teams and so forth.

The game is slow with entirely too many time outs and is micro-manged by coaches who call for unnecessary play reviews.

Most colleges could operate a men's and women's soccer teams for less money than a traditional; football team. This is why some small colleges have abandoned football.

Even the head coach of a college football team does not really coach, his staff does. The primary function of many college head coaches is to recruit high school players.

Of interest, in Florida, most art and music teachers were laid off when the Great Recession started, However, the high school athletic programs such as football were left untouched by the budget cutters.

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Xinhua | English.news.cn: Greeks to lose 55 pct income if country exits euro

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Wed, 30 May 2012 02:43:00 PDT

ATHENS, May 29 (Xinhua) -- "Greek citizens are expected to lose some 55 percent of their current income per capita and recession could surpass 22 percent, if Greece leaves the euro zone, according to a survey of the National Bank of Greece (NBG) released on Tuesday in Athens."

graphic: http://american.com

See more: Greeks to lose 55 pct income if country exits euro: bank survey - Xinhua | English.news.cn

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The politics of the absurd

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Wed, 30 May 2012 02:24:00 PDT

“I mean, Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don’t know how many wives he has. I’m not saying that I believe in that, I’m just saying he was born on a Mormon compound. I’m not a ‘Wifer’ but for some reason he’s never shown his original marriage certificate.”

– Bill Maher

graphic: All Hat No Cattle

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Al Jazeera English: The 'sunk costs' of a profit-driven prison system for immigrant detention

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Wed, 30 May 2012 02:17:00 PDT

Atlanta, GA - "During the past decade, there has been an alarming increase in the use of immigration detention in the United States. From 2001 to 2010, the number of immigrants held in immigration detention each year nearly doubled from 209,000 per year to over 363,000.

The increasing use of immigration detention is an unnecessary drain on government resources and taxpayer dollars. In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) maintained a record-high daily detention capacity of 34,000 beds, costing taxpayers $2bn.

As of November 2011, the US government spent approximately $166 per day to hold one immigrant in detention. This is 18 times greater than the $8.88 per day it costs for more efficient, highly effective, and humane alternatives to detention.

The for-profit prison industry is the main beneficiary of the ever-expanding, unregulated immigration system in the US."

graphic: http://prernalal.com

See The 'sunk costs' of a profit-driven prison system - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

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WIN: Wisconsin Governor Walker Implicated In Possible Bid-Rigging Scheme

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Wed, 30 May 2012 01:23:00 PDT

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker

Wisconsin’s Democratic Party Tuesday released documents it says contradict Governor Scott Walker’s explanation of his role in a possible bid-rigging scandal.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that the criminal “John Doe” investigation into Governor Walker’s aides when he was Milwaukee County executive is looking at possible illegal bid-rigging involving the governor.

A private email exchange between Walker and his longtime campaign advisor John Hiller regarding a real estate contract Hiller had a financial interest in is at issue.

The newspaper said sources have described the emails as a possible “bombshell."

Walker has hired criminal defense lawyers and has spent tens of thousands of dollars from a criminal defense fund he set up to deal with the “John Doe” investigation. He faces a recall election June 5th.

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source: workers Independent News

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SFGate: Nancy Pelosi goes on the attack against Mittens

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Wed, 30 May 2012 01:10:00 PDT

Former Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi

"The House minority leader said Republicans tout the private sector's role in creating jobs and say they are "the ones who say they're risk takers."

But the Romney campaign's aggressive attacks on Obama over Solyndra, which went belly-up after receiving a $535 million federal loan guarantee, sends the opposite message.

"Now all of a sudden, they're saying, 'don't take risks,' " she said."

Rightardia thinks we need Nancy Pelosi back bad as the speaker. We used to read The Gavel, the US House blog, which had things going on in it all of the time. Several new bills were introduced weekly. At that time The Gavel had a positive tone.

When John Boehner took over The Gavel became an attack vehicle against the president.

Here are the cirrent headline articles in The Gavel.

That's it!

Why, because the 112th House was ineffective and only passed 75 bills in a two year period which is a historically low output for the House.

The 112th went out of session with a 17 per cent overall favorability rating from Gallup, a historic low. It's favorability rating during the last week was 12 per cent, even lower.

Anyone who thinks Republicans should continue to control the House is misinformed. The 112th was a "do nothing" House.

it was a national embarrassment.

Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats did a far better job of running the House.

Even the founders would have been impressed with her work as speaker!

See the SFGate article: Nancy Pelosi goes on attack against Romney

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Huffington Post: Obama will smoke Mittens in the debates

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:29:00 PDT

Sidney Barthwell may be the only former classmate of both Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.

He thinks the former Massachusetts governor doesn't stand a chance when facing the incumbent president in debates before the general election.

Barthwell emphasized:

When they debate, Barack will smoke Romney.

Mitt Romney is smart. Having said all that, I still think he’s going to get smoked. The best he can do is hopefully come out not looking like a fool. Mitt will find out the hard way as soon as they have their first debate: You don’t debate Obama.

Barthwell, 64, was in Romney's 1965 class at Cranbrook Schools. he alsoattended Harvard Law School with Obama. He has donated money to both campaigns and has "tremendous respect" for both men.

Obama struck Barthwell as "brilliant" at Harvard but he said Romney's years at Cranbrook were nothing to write home about.

Barthewell noted:

Mitt was not particularly popular. He was very, very ordinary.

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source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/classmate-romney-obama-debate-_n_1553427.html

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Mittens tells Donald: Show me the Money!

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:19:00 PDT

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Think Progress: American's generous maternity leave benefit

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:10:00 PDT

Republicans suggest giving women maternity leave is anti-business.

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Donald Trump,the clown prince of NYC

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:53:00 PDT

The Donald jumped the shark when he became a Birther. He lost a lot of credibility with moderate and progressive Americans.

The conservative shtick is that democrats are anti-business, but liberal thought is originally based upon free enterprise and the rejection of monarchs.

The Democrats need to make it clear that they are not anti-business. Of course, the conservative idea is the primacy of business in our democracy has no constitutional basis.

Conservative also suggest that only successful business people should be in government, However, some of out most successive presidents such as Bill Clinton were primarily politicians.

It is not clear what skills that business persons would bring to the table that would make them more effective leaders.

Many corporate CEO's have authoritarian personalities. Mitt Romney is hardly an exception to this observation.

Certainly, the economic performance of Republican presidents has not been that impressive. In most case Democratic presidents out performed their GOP peers with lower increases in the national debt and a more balanced budget.

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Gallup provides good news to President Obama, 5/29/2012

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:11:00 PDT

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Mark Fiore: Blasty the Drone

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:00 PDT

Wirehead. our technical writer, reads a lot of science fiction and has read all of Frank Herbert's The Dune series.

Herbert prophesized about the use of drones in warfare in his books.

Little did he know!

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RS Jaynes: Mittens is the regular guy

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:33:00 PDT

source: Fishlink
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Far Left Side: Uniquely Unqualified

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:24:00 PDT

Mittens explains the economic recovery using magical thinking

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:11:00 PDT

The Obama administration economic stimulus has a great deal to with the economic recovery.

In Europe, the governments there tried austerity and the voters have been turning out governments in France, Germany, Greece and Spain since.

Mittens contrarian view follows:

Now his campaign these days is trying to find a twig to hang on to, some little excuse they can grab and say, ‘Look, things are getting a little better, aren’t they?’ And the answer is yeah, things are getting a little better in a lot of places in this country, but it’s not thanks to his policies,” he said. “It’s in spite of his policies. You see, every recession ultimately comes to an end, but you’d expect that this deep recession might come back to an aggressive turnaround, but it didn’t happen.

Indeed, the Us is emerging from the Great Recession, but that's not due to any help from the GOP.

Mittens went on:

Government sees small business and big business as the enemy. We’re not the enemy,” Romney said. “Some of these liberals say they like a strong economy but then they act like they don’t like business. An economy is nothing but the collection of all of our businesses together. I want our government to support small business, middle-size business, big business. I want jobs. I want government that’s an ally of business not an enemy of business.

Government does see some business as the enemy: those that are too big to fail like the investment banks on Wall Street.

The Obama administration has never taken an adversary approach toward small business that it has provided a slew of tax breaks. The energy industry, of course, is hardly small business.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-claims-economy-recovering-in-spite-of-obama-20120529,0,6325279.story
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Huffington Post: The states where the Chisters live

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 09:28:00 PDT

Madalyn Murray O'Hair. the famous atheist, used the term Christers to refer to Christians when she was alive.

It should be no surprise that the Red States in the South and the West have the highest populations of Christians in the US.

See Most And Least Christian States In America (PHOTOS)
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Tampa Bay Times: Earmarked funds amount to abuse of public trust

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 02:40:00 PDT

"Repairing a golf course in Orlando wasn't exactly what the U.S. Department of Education had in mind in 2010-11 when it sent $867,000 in federal stimulus money to Florida for a program run by Florida A&M University for "targeted student assistance." But that's what federal and Florida taxpayers got in a scheme devised by two term-limited state senators to benefit nonprofits they have ties with."

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See Earmarked funds amount to abuse of public trust - Tampa Bay Times

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Meet the political bundlers behind the money

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 02:24:00 PDT

infographic: The Center for Responsive Politics
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Media Matters: Ailes' says Fox News Employs 1 Conservative, 24 Liberals

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 01:54:00 PDT

Fox News is home of the whopper, isn't it?

If there is a liberal on Fox News, that would have to Shep Smith.

Either that or 22 of the other news people are great actors.

See Ailes' Whopper: Fox News Employs 1 Conservative, 24 Liberals

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Who will rescue America?

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 01:41:00 PDT

Could the Republicans win the presidency and the House. Certainly!

The GOP also has a good shot at the Senate, perhaps even better shot than they have at retaining the house. This could be a complete reversal from 2008.

The Citizens United Ruling will make it easier for corporations to outspend the Democratic Party.

American unions are weak with only 6.9 per cent of the public labor force in unions. Of course, when Democrats get elected, the Democratic Party does little to strengthen unions.

When Republicans gain power is states, they pass 'right to work" laws that weaken unions.

A Romney win could have numerous consequences:

The US will become embroiled in another middle eastern war
The GOP majority on the Supreme Court will be strengthened as more liberals retire.
Wall Street will remain unregulated.
The American Labor movement that is already on it knees could be headed toward extinction.

Rightardia thought that Barack Obama was the one that could straighten away America. He oversold himself and perhaps many progressives expected too much.

The only good news is that we are certain a GOP majority will make another huge mess of things with their unfaltering belief in their 19th century philosophy and militarism.

Will the Democrats cooperate with a Republican president when the GOP would not?

Rightrdia hopes not, but Democrats are notorious for rolling over. Perhaps the Democrats will learn something by playing hardball as a minority party if they can't pull the House, Senate or presidency out of the fire..

RS Jaynes is correct about the Nazis. They took over the government when the German economy was in dire straits.

The US economy is in a far better situation than the European, but Obama and the Democrats seem to have gotten little credit for their work.

source: www.fishlink.us

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Republican NLRB Board Member Resigns After Leaking Board Documents To Romney campaign

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Tue, 29 May 2012 00:22:00 PDT

Terence Flynn resigns before he got fired

Republican National Labor Relations Board member Terence Flynn has resigned after the board’s Inspector General found Flynn had leaked confidential internal labor board documents to two former NLRB members who were working to undermine and discredit the board.

One of them, Peter Schaumber, is a former co-chair of Mitt Romney’s labor committee. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka had called for Flynn’s resignation in March.

Mitt Romney made these comments before his labor adviser resigned:

I’m very concerned our president has pursued labor policies that are destructive to industry, to hiring and to job growth, Those policies are one reason America is having a very difficult time coming out of this economic slowdown.

Romney added he would encourage states to pass right to work laws, as South Carolina has done.

The NLRB had ruled against Boeing because it had broken the law. Terence Flynn had disclosed confidential documents about the ruling to Peter Schaumber.

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The Mitt Romney economic stimulus plan: lottery tickets

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Mon, 28 May 2012 13:42:00 PDT

It's the one per cent solution for America's ills.

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An inspirational message for Memorial Day

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:09:00 PDT

One of the best Memorial day messages Rightardia has seen in a long time.

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Think Progress EXCLUSIVE: Florida Telling Hundreds Of Eligible Citizens That They Are Ineligible To Vote

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Mon, 28 May 2012 00:49:00 PDT

Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) has ordered the state to purge all “non-citizens” from the voting rolls prior to the upcoming election.The Scott administration is so riddled with errors that, in Miami-Dade County alone, hundreds of U.S. citizens are being told they are ineligible to vote.

ThinkProgress has learned exclusively from the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections:

1638 people in Miami-Dade County were flagged by the state as “non-citizens” and sent letters informing them that they were ineligible to vote.
Of that group, 359 people have subsquently provided the county with proof of citizenship.
Another 26 people were identified as U.S. citizens directly by the county.
The bulk of the remaining 1200 people have simply not responded yet to a letter sent to them by the Supervisor of Elections.

see EXCLUSIVE: Florida Telling Hundreds Of Eligible Citizens That They Are Ineligible To Vote | ThinkProgress

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Betty Bower's Super PAC: Join the Party

noreply@blogger.com (Rightardia) — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:44:00 PDT

Published on Mar 26, 2012 by MrsBettyBowers

America's Best Christian, Mrs. Betty Bowers, releases a Super PAC ad for the GOP. They're welcome!

This video was written and produced by Andrew Bradley for BettyBowers.Com. Deven Green provides narration.

Join Betty on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mrs-Betty-Bowers-Americas-Best-Christian/312383...

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BettyBowers

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