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Get Used to Unemployment
This year, I took a couple of courses at Palomar College, and the teachers were so inept, it was shocking. I remember the good ol' days when you actually learned something (the 1970s). The school is on academic probation, and please explain to me why, they are allowed to build a new campus in RB. How sick and crazy is that? I wrote a letter to the editor about it in the NCT, and received a stern letter from the Office of Student affairs that if I didn't show up for an appointment to discuss the "disruption," my grades would be withheld and I wouldn't be allowed to participate in extra curricular activities. Like I care? I'm 51! What? They aren't going to let me chaperone a dance? I replied with letter that said it wouldn't be wise to attend the meeting, I would no longer take classes at their school, and if they messed with me further, I'd sue them for violating my right to free speech. I was shocked to learn that many of the students were from CSUSM. They couldn't get their classes at the university, so they're taking classes at Palomar. It is taking them six years to get a four-year degree. It breaks my heart, and makes me glad my kids chose NOT to go to college. I'm not so sure that these days, they would have gotten anything out of it.— August 20, 2010 12:57 a.m.
Get Used to Unemployment
Founder and Don, I've asked her why she doesn't volunteer on base, and I don't get a reply. She's in that phase of young adulthood where if it's Mom's idea, it can't be a good one. Since she's grown up, I've apologized to my mom for that phase in MY life. I am really fed up with the way the government does things. If they give out these student loans, they should make sure that the money goes to schools that our legit. They should protect those people who would go to such schools--most likely young and uneducated. I am also fed up with the Chelsea King issue, where her parents are fighting for tougher sex offender laws. The problem is not with the laws, the problem is that the parole officers got away with not doing their jobs. There is no accountability in government, and that is what is ultimately going to send us to hell. Having worked for the government, my guess would be that the parole officers didn't want to do the paperwork, and that's why John Gardner was out on the street. Those officers should be fired and/or lose their pensions for not doing their jobs, but you know they won't. The public is too complacent on these matters. They should picket and revolt. Get together and vote these bad politicians out, but they won't. They'll just eat another Dunkin' doughnut and watch another episode of AI. It's sickening!— August 20, 2010 12:44 a.m.
Gay Paper Suspended, but Sends Money for Back Taxes
I believe Daniel2 and ClayinNP are reading way too much into this story. I believe that Mr. Bauder, being a jornalist, was looking for a story, rather than a target. And no one can say that Ms. Bonnie Dumanis is launching a witchhunt against the GLBT. If I am not mistaken, she is gay.— August 20, 2010 12:23 a.m.
Get Used to Unemployment
Re: #16 I suppose you mean that the schools are fradulent. I don't think the school my daughter wetn to, U.S. Colleges, was an out-and-out rip off, but they sure as hell didn't tell her there were no jobs to be had. She pretty much expected it because noone else she knows could get a job either. I would have found out all of this stuff ahead of time, but she didn't take me to the school, she took my dad who was a pushover. What gets me is how the government gives student loans for school that is an obvious rip-off. Recently, a woman's magazine had an article about a divorced, mother who went to one of these trade schools on a loan, and applied for over 200 jobs and couldn't get arrested. As it turned out, she couldn't take the required test because the school wasn't licensed or accredited and the school said she didn't ask. This was on the east coast. I've heard that students at schools like Kaplan can't get arrested either. I am very wary of trade schools, and something needs to be done. Re: #18 My daughter has problems that would preclude her from entering the military. However, she married a young man who is stationed at Pearl Harbor, and is doing well.— August 19, 2010 6:01 p.m.
Get Used to Unemployment
I think one problem is going to be that employment will be a buyer's market, and that competition will be fierce. My daughter got a student loan for phlebotomy school, got her license, then couldn't pay back the loan because there were no entry-level jobs. Now that so many people are competing for jobs, labs are requiring a minimum of two years' experience. She couldn't even volunteer to get experience. The only hospital that would take her on was out at Camp Pendleton, and she didn't have a car to get there. I paid for a chunk of the loan from money I won in the neighborhood story contest, and my dad went ahead and paid it off. He lets her pay it back $30 at a time. I was in probation which is county, and the entire department was practically wiped out. Now probationers fill out a form and send it in. I'd like to know what types of government jobs will be available. I'll bet they will require a level of experience and education that a lot of people won't have. My husband was laid off in 2008. He's just holding his breath until he can take early retirement in two years. But a recent article in NCT said social security will be broke in a few years. I also read that many people are doing the same thing. Social Security may go broke earlier than expected. I had planned to go back to get a master's degree once my kids left home. But I'm afraid I'll get the loan and won't be able to subsequently get a job to pay it back. My age will be a detriment, as well as the economy. It seems hopeless.— August 19, 2010 12:15 a.m.
Pig Pit Goes Boom
I mean sensibilities. It's late.— August 18, 2010 10:59 p.m.
Pig Pit Goes Boom
Re: #1. I had a bf that did that once. Struck a match to light the stove, and subesequently lost his eyebrows. As a vegetarian, this story, and particularly the photo, offends my sensibles. I feel sorrier for the pig than I do the guy having the luau.— August 18, 2010 10:58 p.m.
Why Anchor Babies are not Legal Citizens
In answer to crystalcove, you missed a part of the story. Prior to the Supreme Court decision in 1898 it was assummed that a child of a foriegn national was a citizen of the parents country. And that is the law in most countries today.The assumption that any child born in the US is a US citizen is a result of a Supreme Court decision, not the Constitution itself.Congress can pass a law undoing that decision and that law would stand until the Supeme Court ruled against it. We must remember that the courts can not make laws.And any court decision can be overturned by a higher court or a later ruling by the Supreme Court.— August 18, 2010 12:25 p.m.
Irate Judge Now Feels Lerach's Sentence Was Too Lenient
What kind of idiot judge would believe anything a defendant says? Teaching classes? The historical society? Let this guy shovel dog crap at the county animal shelter like I did to work off a traffic ticket. Did you know that if you're caught shoplifting in Saudi Arabia they cut off your hands? In Taiwan, they shoot you in the mall if you are suspected of having illegal drugs! Where's Judge Judy when you need her?— August 18, 2010 2:27 a.m.
Permit an insolvent city to subsidize a Charger stadium?
Re: #136 Dog people are the best people, Surfpuppy. Thanks, Don. I come from a VERY right-wing family. And I've been bucking the establishment my whole life. Pictures of Nixon shaking hands with Grandpa, or Reagan with his arm around him, are among the family photos. That's why I voted for Obama. I don't mind raising hell, in fact I thrive on it. Pissing off the other posters is my pass time. I'm like a cat playing with a ball of yarn. BTW, I haven't celebrated a holiday with my family since 1992, when they wouldn't let me bring a black man to Thanksgiving dinner. I also used to bring McDonald's to my sister's gourmet restaurant (where we celebrated many holidays) because I didn't like the food. A bf once said, "You know what I like about you, you don't take crap off of anybody. You don't care who they are. You'd tell the president of the United States where to go, if he rubbed you the wrong way." Needless to say, I'm known as the rebel of the family.— August 18, 2010 12:33 a.m.