Posts Tagged ‘university’

President Obama goes after greedy university administrators

October 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Yeah!  Tell me another one!  Whew.  OK.  Let’s get serious.  Obama, as usual, is attacking the concept of personal responsibility.  The concept that people willingly and knowingly incurred a debt is meaningless to Obama.  Completely.  Under his watch, the student loan program has been removed from the private sector and made federal  ( that’s called [...]

I Want That Job – Minot State University-Bottineau Entrepreneurial Center for Horticulture

July 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment

According CAGW: $250,000 by Senate appropriator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) for the Entrepreneurial Center for Horticulture at Minot State University-Bottineau.  According to its website, the center is “committed to furthering greenhouse production of organic and specialty vegetables in North Dakota.”  North Dakota is not among the leading states in horticulture sales [...]

I Want That Job – Western Illinois University Small Business Development Center Director

July 31st, 2009 | No Comments

From CAGW: $400,000 by Senate Financial Services Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) for Western Illinois University for the Small Business Development Center.  The University’s website lists only one faculty person for the Center. I could do that for $400,000 easy.  Actually, I’ve done it for a lot less in the past.  Don’t tell Durbin [...]

Ahmadinejad goes to New York

September 24th, 2007 | No Comments

Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is disappointed the US is not allowing him to roam free in the US speaking.  His logic for allowing to do so is something like this: Ahmadinejad said the American people have been denied “correct information,” and his visit will give them a chance to hear a different voice, the official IRNA [...]

Majority voters determine how smart everyone else is?

October 19th, 2006 | No Comments

Morgan Quitno Press released this list of the “smartest states” list. Without further ado, here it is, color coded to make it more fun to play with:   Looks kinda grim for all those people who mocked the “Al Gore voters are smarter than Bush voters” thingy from the past. However, Morgan Quitno has kept [...]

Ashley Miller and most of the UW Student Senate

February 17th, 2006 | 2 Comments

“…many monuments at UW already commemorate rich white men.” Thus spoke University of Washington Student Senate member Ashley Miller. The conversation was referring to this guy: He’s Native American. See those airplanes in the background? He’s possibly the greatest pilot to ever sit in one of those cockpits. He was held captive and tortured during [...]