On BTC administrators given promotions, pay increases
Posted on March 22 at 8:21 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
BHTC is a public institution and is paid for by the public ! so it is everyones business ! only the administration at BHTC would say such a stupid comment ! the administration at BHTC can not even read the instructors contract. BHTC is not going to lose students it is going to have no instructors to teach the students. the only thing BHTC will lose is in COURT! way to waste the public tax dollars ! i say fire the administration they do NOTHING anyways ! thanks Frank Schultz for telling the TRUTH!
On Consumers wonder how high gas prices will go
Posted on March 20 at 9:56 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Octonal is better than ethanol because it packs more energy into the same space and doesn't attract water so much. Oil is bad because it causes GLOBAL WARMING!!! When the oceans become warm enough they become acidic and much of life in it DIES!!! See Permian extinction. There was a Science Friday on ethanol last year. Just Google "Science Friday ethanol".
Northman, anecdotal evidence is the exact opposite of broadbased. A survey would be broadbased. We have waiting here as well if you can even find a competent doctor who is taking new patients. It can take up to two months just to see a doctor.
Almost all of your largest economies are socialist in nature so I guess it does work.
On Consumers wonder how high gas prices will go
Posted on March 19 at 8:52 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Northman your using anecdotal evidence. Everyone has a horror story about the system. Here you get Nationalized health care if you are about to die. I don't know how that is better. We can't make a better system if we don't try to make a better system. Centralized planning which doesn't work is much different than socialism. Socialism as practiced in many of the Scandinavian countries helps because it reduces the risks of life and allows people to take more risks. Risk is good.
On Consumers wonder how high gas prices will go
Posted on March 19 at 1:57 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Health Care and oil are as different as night and day. One is a commodity the other a service that involves risk. For example, where do you return your triple bypass if it goes bad. Also, we already have Nationalized Health Care, they are called Emergency Rooms. Ever been to one? This means that the government is already subsidizing health care for those without insurance.
On Consumers wonder how high gas prices will go
Posted on March 19 at 10:28 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
When gas stations raise prices because another station did it is called "unconscious parallelism". It is a form of price fixing and is illegal but difficult to prove. Gas is cheap in Venezuela and other OPEC countries because it is subsidized by the state. So, they are paying for it in other ways. Most likely by reduced revenues.
Blaming our energy companies is a bit ridiculous. Historically prices go up and down. Manipulated markets go up and up and up. Free world energy companies don't own but a few dwindling oil fields. They have to make unstable agreements with dictatorships who change their minds all the time.
OPEC is a price fixing cartel. They reduce production in order to raise prices. However, you could blame the idiot Republicants and President for deficit spending which causes the value of the dollar to decline. Oil is traded in dollars so OPEC countries lose money when the dollar slides which is why they cut production. Invading a country in the region doesn't help either.
The best thing to do would be to remove all income and others taxes and have a single tax on gas. So, if you walked or road your bike you wouldn't pay taxes at all and their wouldn't be need to repair and maintain roads. Two benefits in one.
On Man gets one year probation for rape
Posted on March 19 at 10:12 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Yes, we need to see the big picture. Clearly, what is important is the current victim not the next victim whom he will probably kill. It is the job of this piece of crap DA to protect the public irregardless of the wishes of the victim.
On Is it disrespectful to say the Pledge of Allegiance in a language other than English?
Posted on March 15 at 9:31 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
"ordieman" i didn't make any aassumption ! i based my comments on the mans own words. i also don't watch cnn but you made that assumption!
On Is it disrespectful to say the Pledge of Allegiance in a language other than English?
Posted on March 14 at 9:53 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
anyone can pledge allegiance to our country in any language they want. that is how we all got here, from other countries. i find it disgusting that a service man who has seen other parts of the world still has no respect for anyone but himself.
Posted on March 13 at 9:54 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
i think i have tons of tolerance as anyone who has conversations with the religious right has to !
i just want the god lovers to speak the facts. facts are what is at risk here when the religious right states their beliefs as fact instead of story telling. myths have a way of becoming the norm when no one questions them. why be so upset with doubt ? Jesus had doubt but when i doubt he existed and that makes me wrong ? once again this was posted by "justsaynottomath".
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On BTC administrators given promotions, pay increases
Posted on March 24 at 8:25 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Seabee, businesses comparatively complain about taxes all the time. This is a strategy to pit states against one another. Businesses have a much harder time employing and retaining qualified people. And although we pay higher taxes then many states (the south) we have lower crime and an education system that ranks very highly when it comes to ACT test scores (these measure how well a student will do in their first year of college). The problem we have is keeping these educated people in our state.
Also, teachers have "Seniority" rights. In the arbitration ruling that BTC lost the Arbitrator ruled that it is by certification area and if the teacher has "sufficient ability" to teach. This excludes the more or same experience belief that many have. The ruling was WERC CASE NO. M-06-248. I have searched for an online copy but have not found one yet.