Yes, if you want to go into academia, you have to know that it is very competitive and the pay is low, relative to the level of competition. Presently, the Baby Boomers are hanging on for dear life to their jobs. They are 69 years old and less. All of them are clutching their jobs for dear life, maxing out Social Security etc. Hopefully the next 1-5 years will show a boom in hiring as the Boomers retire. In universities, there are the faculty and the administrators. The administrators run everything and look down on the faculty. The faculty don't run anything but they reach the students, and they look down on the administrators. Unfortunately, universities are being run for profit more and more as economic times become worse and worse, so jobs at every level, especially on the faculty side, are being "downsourced" to cheaper labor. At every opportunity administrators will try to burnish their credentials with a new scheme to provide education products with lower overhead. Ideally, all classes would be taught by part timers who do not qualify for benefits. But you also need the kind of professor who does research in the departments that get grants (not all do, obviously) and meet US News ranking criteria. So universities are not staffed solely by part-time faculty, but that is definitely the dream of most university administrators, like University of Phoenix on steroids.
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Well, if a caller on the Howard Stern show says something, you had better believe it. Come on, people. Think harder. Challenge yourselves and your neurons to be better, smarter, more useful to the planet.
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Now Trump wants to murder people's families in cold blood. So Israeli of him. What a swell guy, making America great again. Donald Trump on terrorists: 'Take out their families' http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrorists-families/index.html onald Trump said Wednesday that he would kill the families of terrorists in order to win the fight against ISIS. The billionaire businessman was asked by the hosts of Fox News' "Fox and Friends" how to fight ISIS but also minimize civilian causalities when terrorists often use human shields. "The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families," Trump said. Trump said he would "knock the hell out of" ISIS, and criticized the U.S. for "fighting a very politically correct war."
Well, with the drone war, we are probably accidentally taking out a lot of terrorist families, along with all the innocent families we also kill (with your tax dollars and mine).
So just how much do we think that this *******'s popularity is basically tied to the fact that we're getting ever closer to a day and age where whites (and specifically white christians) are minorities in this country?
What a coincidence! I heard many people talking about taking out Trump's family. (But I thought it was a bad idea.)
Donald Trump wants to close up the Internet Hours after Donald Trump suggested the U.S. ban Muslims from entering the United States, the leading Republican presidential candidate said America should also consider “closing the Internet up in some way” to fight Islamic State terrorists in cyberspace. Trump mocked anyone who would object that his plan might violate the freedom of speech, saying “these are foolish people, we have a lot of foolish people.” “We have to go see Bill Gates,” Trump said, to better understand the Internet and then possibly “close it up.” Trump characterized the problem of Internet extremism by saying, “We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet.” The Internet has taken center stage in both the 2016 presidential race and the Obama administration’s current fight against ISIS. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton urged tech companies to “deny online space” to terrorists. Clinton then anticipated and waved away presumed First Amendment criticisms. “We’re going to hear all the usual complaints,” she said on Monday, “you know, freedom of speech, et cetera. But if we truly are in a war against terrorism and we are truly looking for ways to shut off their funding, shut off the flow of foreign fighters, then we’ve got to shut off their means of communicating. It’s more complicated with some of what they do on encrypted apps, and I’m well aware of that, and that requires even more thinking about how to do it.” The Obama administration spoke about cyberspace in a Sunday night speech from the Oval Office. The president said he would “urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder to use technology to escape from justice.” While less explicit and extreme a statement than Trump’s, many observers took Obama’s statement to be about outlawing strong encryption. Here's Trump's complete statement on his proposal to crack down on the Internet due to ISIS: We have kids that are watching the Internet, and they want to be masterminds. And then you wonder why we lose all these kids, they want to be masterminds; they're young, they're impressionable, they want to join ISIS. And we have our anchors—I think I've got 'em mostly stopped, have you noticed that, they don't say it as much—but they say, the 'young mastermind', oh he's brilliant. I don't think he's got a high IQ. In Paris, I called him the guy with the dirty, filthy hat. 'K? Not a smart guy, a dummy. A mastermind? Bing bing bing, starts shooting everybody. The press has to be responsible; they're not being responsible. We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet. We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people who really understand what's happening and maybe, in some ways, closing that Internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people, we have a lot of foolish people. We've got to maybe do something with the Internet because they're recruiting by the thousands, they're leaving our country, and then when they come back, we take them back. 'Where were you?' 'I was fighting for ISIS.' 'Oh, come on back. Go home, enjoy yourself.' When they leave our country and they go to fight or go to ISIS, they never can come back.
Honestly, I think it's pretty obvious. Trump has not, does not, and will not ever consider himself a genuine candidate for public office, much less POTUS. He's in it for the attention, publicity, and for the "just because I can" ego factor. He never thought that he would make it this far, and he's intentionally saying stupid shiit in order to lose favor and fall out of the race. The things that he says as time goes on will just become more and more outrageous. The problem is that there are people who actually believe and support those outrageous views. This whole Trump thing will go down as one of the biggest examples of American Fail.
American democracy is a joke. There is no real third party and that is the problem. A lot of voters have no one to go to so they rely on Trump the clown to show their anger. Trump, on the other hand, never imagines he can go this far. He is playing with house money now and he is enjoying every second of this publicity and being the center of American politics, which hurts Republicans big time.
