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  1. Feb 2016
    1. AND THESE NEW BERNIE VS. HILLARY MEMES. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN DOING?

      oh my god, this

    2. just like Obama has had to for eight goddamn years

      yessss, but Hillary threw quite a bit of racist shade at Obama

    1. the business bent of the “Clinton Democrats” and the so-called Washington Consensus on international trade

      sadly

    1. Mr. Coyne threw gasoline on that little fire

      ha

    2. And when black football players joined the protest, Mr. Wolfe says, it was "the equivalent of throwing gasoline on a small fire." He adds that their coach, Gary Pinkel, "missed the opportunity to teach them a valuable life lesson" and that "the end result could be financial catastrophe for our university" because, he says, the university will lose "more than $25 million" in revenue from reduced enrollment next fall.

      glad he doesn't think that the lives of students of color are worth that much

    1. “As an academic professional, her first goal should have been to promote a safe and stable learning environment for all students, and to represent the university to the public in a way that strengthens the image of our flagship state institution of higher education. Instead, Professor Click’s comments served to inflame an already caustic situation that was clearly out of line.”

      she was trying to do so, that's why she was protecting the students of #ConcernedStudent1950

    1. Enhanced functionality for metadata description on the OSF will help increase discoverability of research and support institutional data preservation workflows

      interested to see how this looks

    1. "Yes, cannabis has an impact, but the focus should be on the task force report we were given," Marlin said. "We have a responsibility to address the issues raised by the report. This is part of it, but it's not the main focus. We should get back to our main focus here."

      hmm

    2. Something is being done about it.

      what is that something??

    3. Connolly said marijuana arrests often happen in conjunction with more serious crimes.

      yeah? Where's the data to back this up?

    1. American is also expanding its complimentary entertainment on domestic flights with in-seat TVs. Passengers will be able to choose from up to 40 movies, 60 TV shows and 300 music albums. Delta has taken a different path, focusing more on entertainment that passengers can stream to their own devices. It now offers about 67 movies and 138 TV shows for free.

      how about free internet

  2. Jan 2016
    1. Although there are guidelines for donating water, why not donate directly to Catholic Charities Center for Hope, the nonprofit that’s handling the donations, and let them decide how the money is best allocated?

      yeah, nope. What else do they do? If they're Catholic, they probably also advocate against women's health rights

    2. says don’t send bottled water to Flint.

      well, really they just re-shared what Michael Moore wrote

    1. Among the demands are a 40-percent increase in black enrollment by 2022, the hiring of more black faculty members, the immediate tenuring of three professors, the firing of eight faculty and staff members, the renaming of four buildings, and regular payments in lieu of taxes to the City of Oberlin.

      payments in lieu of taxes? For what?

    2. while "some of the challenges outlined in the document resonate with me and many members of our community," he would "not respond directly to any document that explicitly rejects the notion of collaborative engagement."

      ugh this is so much bs

    3. "My short term goal is to have 20-25 people leave by the 25th," wrote Mr. Newman, a businessman who took office as president last year. "This one thing will boost our retention 4-5%. A larger committee or group needs to work on the details, but I think you get the objective."

      how would this boost student retention?!

    1. "unclean hands" defense

      what's an "unclean hands" defense?

    2. copies of the 64 Front Pages along the inside cover of the Infringing Work. Defendants never sought or obtained a license for the use of the 64 Front Pages.

      thumbnails have been proven to be acceptable fair use in the past.

    1. Thimerosal was taken out of childhood vaccines in the United States in 2001

      okay good

    2. Thimerosal use in medical products has a record of being very safe. Data from many studies show no evidence of harm caused by the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines.

      citations please

    1. And the total amount of damages you find for the plaintiffs entitled to is one hundred dollars.

      $100?!

    2. Unfortunately

      I wouldn't call this unfortunate. Jowers was trying to capitalize off of a tragedy

    1. States and localities that make progress in this area should get more federal justice grant money. Those that do not should get their funding slashed.

      This didn't work for NCLB and I don't believe it will work for criminal justice reform either.

    2. We need to require police departments and states to collect data on all police shootings and deaths that take place while in police custody and make that data public.

      we also need federal funding for this

    1. We should be focusing on anti-racist policies; this conversation is taking us down the wrong path."

      yes, yes, yes!

    2. Erik McDuffie, a professor of African American Studies, said he voted against the policy because, even with good intentions, it can be used in a discriminatory fashion.

      yes, this

    1. We do not respond to web browser “do not track” or other related mechanisms at this time.

      seems rude

  3. Dec 2015
    1. Quite frankly, if Facebook was insisting that people must strip naked, spin thrice widdershins and then shout ‘Hail Zuckerberg’ before using internet.org I’d regard that as a small price to pay for the economic benefits that are going to flow from its use.”

      well you're not in that position to have to pay it so your opinion, quite frankly, doesn't count

    2. That $1.25 a day and under utter destitution of peasant poverty.

      you mean the same poverty that capitalism depends on for the success of wealth white nations?

    3. explained

      you misspelled 'splained

    4. As above, net neutrality is an interesting idea and concept. But the prime task is to alleviate that poverty: that requires that GDP grows, that more wealth be generated

      No, the prime task is to alleviate poverty in such a way that is FAIR to everyone, not just facebook. In that way, we need net neutrality.

    5. the idea

      they don't like the idea of being deceived

    1. Existing law prohibits importation and possession of ferrets in California.

      this information is out of date. It is now legal to possess ferrets in California

    1. was totally changed at the last minute in the House late Wednesday to include several more controversial provisions, including one that bans using public dollars or resources to educate the public about ballot proposals in the 60 days leading up to an election.

      just, how is this legal???

    1. Even the big bad has depth; you want to laugh when he takes off his helmet to reveal Girls star Adam Driver, until the actor conveys an unnerving vulnerability to go with his character’s volcanic temper.

      I don't think he has depth

    2. most diehard Star Wars fans are going to love The Force Awakens.

      Yeah, as a diehard Star Wars fan, I did NOT love it.

    1. Texas performs comparably with other states in this area, and has steadily improved.

      that means we're failing at a national level

    1. Funding data AdVISORY GROUP

      why not Library of Congress or National of Archives?

    1. 10.13039.10000001"

      this is only a DOI prefix. Do funders need to be Crossref members to have a DOI prefix?

    1. (1) to use their original figures or tables in their future works; (2) to make copies of their papers for their own personal use, including classroom use, or for the personal use of colleagues, provided those copies are not for sale and are not distributed in a systematic way; (3) to include their papers as part of their dissertations; or (4) to use all or part of their articles in printed compilations of their own works. Citation of the original source must be included and copies must include the applicable copyright notice of the original report.

      what about in an institutional repository?

    2. Volumes 90–105 (1993–2008) copyright © by the National Academy of Sciences

      huh wonder what happened here

    1. Author contributions: M.X., M.W.L., G.C.L.W., and J.C. designed research; M.X., M.W.L., R.A.M., Z.S., Y.B., and A.L.F. performed research; M.X., M.W.L., R.M.P., L.-F.C., A.L.F., G.C.L.W., and J.C. analyzed data; and M.X., M.W.L., C.Y., A.L.F., G.C.L.W., and J.C. wrote the paper.

      This is like scoro:level metadata. I wonder if it is scoro??

    2. Semantically Related Articles

      what is a semantically related article???

    1. but some professors say the process was not transparent enough. “Here we are just a few weeks away from when these cuts will take effect, and we’re really, a lot of us, caught off-guard and not really sure what’s in store for our research and for our students,” a political-science professor, Scott Matthews, told the CBC.

      so, about how scholarly journal subscriptions work....

    1. That decision came after the executive committee of the state’s Republican Party called on lawmakers to eliminate funding for the Knoxville campus’s diversity office.

      ffs

    1. he said that "most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas," but instead from "lesser schools" where they do not feel "pushed ahead" in classes that are "too fast for them."

      uh no, they come from "lesser schools" BECAUSE OF INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM

    2. Mr. Falwell "was in no way" referring to the "many good and honorable Muslims who do not come into public spaces armed to kill innocents."

      uh huh

    1. specified by the object property scoro:usesPersonalIdentifierScheme and an individual member of the class scoro:PersonalIdentifierScheme.

      object property and an individual member of the class:scoroPersonalIdentifierScheme only required when not ORCID (I think)

    1. WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU RETHINK BUYING YOUR BROTHER A HOVERBOARD FOR XMAS... Need new ideas stat. Rio's back to the drawing board too. Yesterday, one of its major power suppliers for the Olympics pulled out. Great timing, since the games are less than a year away. And Rio's dealing with just a few other things right now. Think: polluted water where Olympians will be competing, an epic recession, and impeachment proceedings against its prez. But it wouldn't be the first time the Olympics won a gold medal in 'sh*t show' (cough, Sochi, cough). 

      I don't understand why hoverboard is linked with Rio?

    1. then there is no need for a 45-day notice.

      why not?

    2. Japanese cars, French wines, Chinese televisions, Brazilian coffee and many other items will become cheaper for people in the US.

      what about for people in those countries?

    1. Supporters of scholarship tax credits say they save the state money because annual tuition at a private school is typically less than the per-pupil cost at public schools.

      uh wut.

    2. The scholarship is used to pay tuition, fees, and other related expenses. As a result, the state does not have to appropriate per-pupil education funding for those students that receive scholarships

      this is BULLSHIT

    1. “Voters seem to understand how the state’s changing demographics are intrinsically linked to the state’s ability to succeed economically through a skilled and educated workforce.”

      then how the hell do Republicans keep getting elected???

    1. an off-duty police officer, Lisa Castellano, who was working at the theater that night

      TRAINED OFFICIAL

    2. Nick Meli, a shopper in the mall, drew a personally owned firearm on Roberts, who then retreated. Meli did not fire his weapon, for fear of striking bystanders.

      GO didn't fire BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO HURT BYSTANDERS. #ohwait

    3. Off-duty police officer

      TRAINED OFFICIAL

    4. July 19, 2009

      gun owner called in anonymously according to ammoland article; ammoland is a blog and interjected with writer's personal opinions; video doesn't mention if the guy speaking is talking from personal experience or just repeating a story. I think this one should be thrown out due to unreliable references.

    5. by off-duty police officer Kenneth Hammond, who held him in position before authorities could arrive

      TRAINED OFFICIAL

    6. A former police officer from Minnesota named Jeanne Assam was at church when a 24-year-old gunman named Matthew Murray began firing at parishioners in the parking lot.

      TRAINED WITH GUNS

    7. Assistant Principal Joel Myrick, a U.S. Army Reserve commander

      TRAINED WITH GUNS

    8. Oct. 1, 1997

      this kid didn't have a gun though

    1. she would take the initiative to attend a classroom version of the CCW permit class.

      assuming people know about thhis

    2. We are all competent with firearms, and we have all taken classes to receive our permit.

      TRAINING. DUH

    1. The BG opened fire on the GO. The GO returned fire, hitting the BG as the GO dove hard for the floor behind some barrels full of ice and drinks.

      GO's returned fire could have also hit that teenager or other innocent bystanders

    2. convenient

    1. is working as a financial analyst, which raises the legal question of her continued standing, and the practical issue: How were you so injured by this inherently subjective process?

      she wasn't. Also, she's working at VMWare (via LinkedIn), a company that's worth 35.7 Billion (US). I think she's doing okay.

    2. Students have been outrageously uncivil; they have overreacted to perceived slights; they have discounted the importance of the open debate that is central to the academic enterprise

      okay, respectability politics is bullshit

    1. The pledge goes as follows: "I will never bring a gun to school. I will never use a gun to settle a personal problem or dispute. I will use my influence with friends to keep them from using guns to settle disputes. My individual choices and actions, when multiplied by those of young people throughout the country, will make a difference. Together, by honoring this pledge, we can reverse the violence and grow up in safety."

      I don't believe in encouraging children to agree to these kinds of pledges

    2. investigating as an act of terrorism.

      only because the shooters turned out to be Muslim though =/ The Planned Parenthood attack isn't being investigated as terrorism (as far as a know). The shooter in that instance was a white man.

    1. classroom reforms face the biggest obstacles in schools with large numbers of low-income kids and students of color. In the past 10 years, the per-student funding gap between rich and poor schools has grown by 44 percent.

      surprise!

    2. This means schools can ditch some standardized tests for things such as evaluations of student work and parent surveys

      let's see if they do

    3. The gaps in math and reading for African American and Latino students shrank far more dramatically before No Child Left Behind—when policies focused on equalizing funding and school integration, rather than on test scores.

      SURPRISE

    1. One facet of the new Second Amendment test, the dissenters complained, was that it applied the Second Amendment only to the kind of arms that were common at the time the Second Amendment was ratified — that is, in 1791.

      this is a funny complaint coming from these two

    2. Justice Clarence Thomas, joined in dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia

      they are the worst

    3. machine guns

      well it's true. Machine guns are automatic weapons. AR-15s are semi-automatic

    4. machine guns

      well it's true. Machine guns are automatic weapons. AR-15s are semi-automatic

    1. But on Wednesday, UT Austin spokesman J.B. Bird said that the campus is not “open to outside groups for assembly, speech, or other activities.”

      yep, that's what I thought

    2. Demonstrators reportedly changed the starting location of the mock shooting at the last minute to stimulate the unpredictable nature of real mass shootings.

      uh huh. More like to avoid any possible legal action

    1. should not be our focus as a party.  Instead our focus should be on issues such as the economy, government fiscal accountability, trade, national security, and jobs.

      these are inherently intertwined. Intersectionality

    2. Teachers should be paid in a way that matches their skill and criticality to our society.

      yes this. What about libraries and cultural heritage organizations?

    3. We believe there must be real comprehensive healthcare reform, which includes physician accountability, elimination of junk medical lawsuits, quality of care, reduced cost, and adequate coverage.  Reducing healthcare costs is the first priority for making healthcare affordable for everyone

      so not single payer.

    4. The Reform Party calls for the repeal or revision of current trade agreements.  America’s elected leaders have a primary responsibility to assure that American citizens’ economic security takes priority in any trade policy decision.

      I can get behind this

    5. s fundamentally fair,

      what does the Reform Party define as "fundamentally fair"?

    1. Everyone defines racism differently, you might be over reacting.

      you may be underreacting.

    1. “Unfortunately, even though people don’t want to hear it because a lot of what he says is inflammatory toward certain groups, it is the truth, because we have a massive problem.”

      it's not the truth, that's the point

    1. formalin-inactivated

      killed with formaldehyde

    2. attenuating

      reduce the force, effect, or value of.

    3. reactogenic

      In clinical trials, the term reactogenicity refers to the property of a vaccine of being able to produce common, “expected” adverse reactions, especially excessive immunological responses and associated signs and symptoms—fever, sore arm at injection site, etc.

    1. The completeness of a Portable Web Publication has a significant role to play in this respect: combined with archiving it provides means to store the content offline, making it appropriate for archival purposes.

      I don't really understand this sentence

    2. highly dynamic and possibly interactive Web Publications as primary content, the traditional means of archiving (i.e., storing an XML or HTML page on some backup device for long term preservation) is no longer adequate

      libraries have been working on this for awhile. See video game archiving, transmedia, etc

    3. dedicated institutions like national libraries

      not just national libraries - university libraries, special libraries, historical associations, museums, archives, etc.

    1. The judges also did not seem convinced by a short series of First Amendment arguments made against the rules.

      let's hope so

    2. He specifically pointed to traffic that is "time sensitive" such as a video live stream, which could be reasonably prioritized. He used the analogy of a railroad charging extra money for a railcar that also includes refrigeration

      wut?

    3. Stephen Williams, a Reagan appointee, seemed most resistant the FCC's argument.

      of course

    4. "I couldn't find it in the order," Tatel said

      couldn't find what?

    1. However, a German museum argues that photographs of public domain artworks don't fall under public domain license, because the photographs themselves fall under normal copyright law.

      ugh

  4. Nov 2015
    1. Common hussies need not apply.

      if we could avoid gendered insults that would be great

    1. but Republicans raised it up the flagpole and the governor’s office pushed back, saying it did include sufficient reforms,

      it did or it didn't? If it did, why would there be pushback?

    2. The working group had started as a group of female legislators, then broadened to include male lawmakers.

      Of course, because women always do the real work

    3. “allow (but not require) all school districts to bargain over 3rd party contracting, layoffs, class size, school year & technology (like CPS).”

      oh hell no. This needs to be required if there's an effing union

    4. bicameral

      (of a legislative body) having two branches or chambers

    1. William Gibson has famously said that “the future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.” With the digital humanities we have the opportunity to distribute that future more evenly. We have the opportunity to distribute knowledge more fairly, and in greater forms.

      All of these methods rely on digital variations but there's no mention of the digital divide. How does that distribute the future more evenly?

    2. 5,000-tweet conference backchannel edited into the official proceedings of the conference backchannel.

      also this

    3. I can imagine mobile publishing, using smartphones and GPS

      this would be awesome

    4. I can image MLA Singles, one-off pieces of downloadable scholarship following the Kindle Singles model.

      how is this different than a blog post?

    5. I can imagine greater emphasis placed upon digital projects as tenurable scholarship

      I'm skeptical of academia changing all that quickly

    6. I can imagine greater support of peer-to-peer review as a replacement of blind review

      this is a privileged statement imo

    1. Illinois Policy Institute

      the Illinois area mini-heritage foundation affiliate. This is an interesting project for them.

    1. Speaker Madigan, balancing the budget with specific additional taxes/revenue details; Leader Durkin, the need for reform before revenue; President Cullerton, overall spending levels, pension reform and Chicago’s financial crisis; Leader Radogno, economic reforms to improve the jobs climate like workers’ compensation reform; and I will focus on term limits, redistricting reform and local control of costs and property taxes

      man, overbearing much?

    1. No changes to the Title I funding formula along the lines of what the Senate passed that would steer a greater share of the funds to districts with high concentrations of kids in poverty

      BOOO.

    2. does include a pilot project allowing districts to try out a weighted student funding formula, which would also essentially function as a backpack of funds for kids

      Hmm. Weighted how? Don't we already do this?

    3. No Title I portability—that means that federal funds won't be able to follow the child to the school of their choice

      yay!

    1. The company uses a clause that assigns the copyright for any review customers might write to the company. Then, when the company finds a review it doesn’t like, it files a DMCA notice to take the content down.

      uhhh

    1. “It's clear we need major workers' compensation reform if we want to grow manufacturing jobs in Illinois,” she said in an email.

      as long as free trade agreements exist, we're never gonna be a manufacturing country again

    1. he warned that the result might look different if the analysis was at the level of U.S. counties, rather than U.S. states. An analysis at the level of counties, he suggested, might reveal a rural-urban divide in whites’ implicit racial bias levels that a coarser state level analysis can’t tease out.

      oooh, that sounds interesting

    2. Packer found that states with higher implicit bias scores had more racist tweets

      not surprising

    1. Illinois was one of 16 states in which low-income families were “worse off” over the year, meaning there was less access to assistance and/or fewer benefits from assistance, the report found.

      that's what happens when Republicans get elected

    1. It was announced Thursday that all graduate students at MU with assistantships will receive full tuition waivers for the 2016-17 academic year, reversing a decision made in June

      this is great!

    2. Regardless of whether we are approving of this method of getting action,

      this is as peaceful as protesting gets. The point is to inconvenience - to force people to pay attention

    1. get a sheepskin

      what's this mean?

    2. At City Colleges, officials tell us the graduation rate has doubled in the last five years, from 7 to 14 percent, but that’s based on narrow federal guidelines that exclude part-time students and those who are re-enrolling in college—a whooping 95 percent of the system’s total student population.

      what does re-enrolling in college mean? Those who are transferring?

  5. docs.legis.wisconsin.gov docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
    1. or theleave accrued under s. 103.11 (3) (b), whichever is greater

      what is section 103.11?

    1. Agrible is an equal opportunity employer

      Ya'll don't seem to value diversity that much considering you only have 2 POC employees

    1. up to 24% of those homicides would not have happened if the suspect or victim had been serving longer sentences for previous crimes.

      uh huh

    2. Hite and other city officials long have advocated for mandatory minimum sentences for those who commit violent, gun-related crimes

      we've seen from the "war on drugs" that these types of laws disproportionately affect communities of color.

    3. thugs in handcuffs and squad cars by sundown,”

      way to use racially coded language there, LaPierre

    4. felons who illegally possess a gun in Chicago typically receive sentences on the low end of state sentencing guidelines.

      uh huh

    1. when it only takes a simple majority instead of the super-majority that’s required now.

      Why would it only take a majority in January but a super-majority now??

    1. Justice Anthony Kennedy announced confidently that nothing of the sort was possible as a result of that decision

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    2. is not for us to dispute

      uh, yes it is

    3. when a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals accepted the religious nonprofits’ argument that it would violate their religious conscience if they had to notify the government of their religious objections, as that act itself would “trigger” the provision of what they believe to be an abortifacient for women.

      so the fact that other women use birth control is an affront to their religious rights? Wtf?

    4. the owners of for-profit, nonreligious businesses who have religious objections to certain forms of birth control could decline to cover those items in their employer-provided health plans

      thanks citizens united

    1. She’s taking Sanders’ remarks out of context and twisting them to breed resentment.

      Nah, I've always been convinced that when Sanders says "urban" he means black.

    2. based on power or privilege, that playing the race card or sex card from the left isn’t as bad as playing it from the right. But even if you believe that, Clinton’s smears bring discredit on the whole idea of bigotry. If accusations of misogyny and racism are casually thrown at Sanders, voters will conclude that these terms are just rhetoric.

      I feel like this is someone who is a Sanders fan who get their feelings hurt

    3. They’re designed to veil her meritless insinuations that her Democratic opponent is sexist and racist

      Considering that he took forever to support #BlackLivesMatter and that he didn't understand a journalists question about whether or not it's fair for Hillary to be judged on her hair, shows that he is, at least, IMPLICITLY racist and sexist, as most white men are

    4. When Clinton ran for president in 2008, she explicitly used race against Obama. She told USA Today that she should be the Democratic nominee because “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.”

      ouch

    5. And it’s not necessarily derogatory

      yeah, when used by Black people. But it is derogatory when used by white people.

    6. church by a white racist

      *terrorist

    1. he Supreme Court ruled that a D.C. law requiring gun owners to use trigger locks violated the Second Amendment, so we probably won’t be seeing mandatory trigger locks anytime soon.

      ugh

    1. Illinois has over-prescribed institutional care to lower-need individuals when less expensive and more appropriate care options are available

      like what? They're not available, that's why the government makes them available!

    1. When administrators and faculty and staff members speak and act as private citizens they should make clear that they are not speaking or acting on behalf of the university.

      why to not backup your employees UNT

    1. a museum can now legally hack into the firmware of a video game console for the express purpose of ensuring that games remain playable for historical research purposes well into the future. That museum still won't legally be able to create replacement servers to allow for continued online play, though.

      *museums, archives, and libraries

    2. saying that "such jailbreaking is strongly associated with video game piracy" and should therefore remain legally prohibited.

      BULLLSHIIIITTT

    3. Librarian of Congress

      acting librarian of congress

    1. It shall not be unlawful to discriminate on the basis of sex in the provision of facilities which are distinctly private in nature, such as restrooms, shower rooms, bath houses, health clubs or other similar facilities.

      why the hell not???

    1. And that not only did the CDC hide that information, but that the authors of the study threw that evidence into a trash can and destroyed it.

      that's literally what you do after a research project.

    2. The authors of the study decided not to disclose to the public that African American boys under two were more susceptible to developing autism or autism-like symptoms from the MMR vaccine.

      that's not what he said. He said that there was a correlation. Correlation =/= causation

    1. However in September 2014, the building that housed Elsie’s was sold and there was a significant rent increase by the new owners

      thanks gentrification!

  6. Oct 2015
    1. Having these two axioms in place and given e.g. the information that Sasha is related to Hillary via the property hasWife, a reasoner would be able to infer that Sasha is a man and Hillary a woman.

      Not necessarily. Increasingly same-sex marriages are more widely accepted. W3C should re-visit their documentation to ensure that they're not excluding LGBTQ populations and don't perpetuate heteronormativity.

    1. he doesn't expect it to result in a budget agreement

      that means he's not actually open to putting his "turnaround agenda" aside

    1. He was elected by the people with pretty strong support

      no he wasn't. He was barely elected over Quinn

    2. Rauner referred her to staffers, who he said are working with agencies deal with the situation.

      uh huh

    3. "I love teachers," he said.

      bullshit

    4. He downplayed any hopes that a public bargaining session with legislative leaders would amount to much, and he said it is "critical" that the scope of collective bargaining with unions be narrowed.

      screw youuuuuu

    1. Gonet says if a severance tax was passed, it could be the end of the road for the coal industry and the jobs it creates.

      that's always the excuse. If 21 other states are doing it, it's probably okay

    1. emendation

      the process of making a revision or correction to a text

    2. cliometric

      "A method of analyzing history through the application of quantitative methods." - investopedia

    1. a spokeswoman replied with the following email: "HB 4305 (the bill to release the local funds being held by the state) is another attempt by the Democratic majority to piecemeal together a budget that will force a tax hike on hard-working families without any meaningful reforms. Governor Rauner has compromised time and again to pass reforms to grow the economy and create jobs, and unfortunately, the majority party continues to block those reforms.

      deniallllllllllllllll

    2. They're referring to a proposal by Gov. Bruce Rauner to offer low-interest state loans to municipalities that are suffering financially because the state has refused to release money it collects on behalf of towns such as revenue from the motor fuel tax, video gambling and 911 fees.

      wut

    1. her predecessor died in office shortly after being reelected

      a Democrat.

    2. he’ll no longer be sending out vehicle registration renewal reminders

      *print

    3. Bruce doesn’t have a social agenda,” his wife, Diana, told voters in one campaign commercial last year. “He has an economic and education agenda

      employee unions ARE social issues

    4. donating more than $1 million to environmental causes and becoming a major player in education reform, where he’s given more than $20 million to help fund schools in Chicago—and directly tackled the powerful Chicago teachers’ unions.

      to help fund charter schools in Chicago. Not public schools.

    5. Illinois has lost 12,500 manufacturing jobs, The Illinois Policy Institute’s Michael Lucci reports

      yeah, the IPI reports, which is backed by the Heritage Foundation, which approves of moving jobs overseas. HMMM.

    1. Briefs supporting the union have not yet been filed. Madigan has not yet said whether she will participate

      sad :<

    2. Michigan and 17 other states, not counting Illinois, have filed court papers backing the nonunion teachers

      probably right-to-work states. Jerks

    1. "While we appreciate the advocacy groups desire to be involved, we will pick up the organization of the meeting from here

      that's so arrogant.

    1. Bottom line: Voters are feeling dissatisfied and unreasonable.

      not necessarily. I'd like to see the poll.

    1. A state court in Los Angeles found that the patients’ privacy rights hadn’t been violated. An appeals court agreed, holding that patients can’t expect prescription records to be as private as medical records because they know, or should know, that California monitors the flow of controlled substances.

      hmmm