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To: i-node who wrote (785505)	5/19/2014 12:33:17 PM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Respond to of 1576892

I fully support an Article V Convention of States. Do you? well it's more complicated than that Dave you see, if it's about birth control, then the federal govt must control that because the majority of Americans are against it, having enacted laws at the local level to regulate abortion against the wishes of the communist democrats if it's about gun control, then we are for cities and states controlling that since we can't get it past the federal level yet until we finish stacking the supreme court with politburo members the end justifies the means...... you tell us communist democrats what the issue is, and we'll get back to you..... :)

To: i-node who wrote (785505)	5/19/2014 12:53:25 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576892

The thing about Rs.........you don't like each other any better than you like Dems. And you don't treat each other any better either. Why? Mississippi Senate race reaches a new low 05/19/14 08:43 AM—Updated 05/19/14 10:30 AM By Steve Benen “Politics ain’t beanbag” is a tiresome cliche, but it persists because those involved in campaigns recognize how ugly fights for public office can become. Voters, candidates, staffers, and journalists have come to realize that election seasons often bring out the worst in people, and everyone adjusts their expectations accordingly. But once in a great while, a campaign hits the bottom of the barrel, drills a hole, and goes even lower. Take the recent developments in Mississippi, for example. A Pearl man who runs a political blog is accused of sneaking into a nursing home where U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife is bedridden and photographing her, then posting the image in a video political “hit piece” on the internet. Madison Police arrested Clayton Thomas Kelly, 28, of Pearl on Friday night on a charge of exploitation of a vulnerable adult. He’s being held on a $100,000 bond. It’s generally not a topic of conversation, but the senator’s wife of 50 years is bedridden at a Mississippi nursing home, where she has lived for over a decade, suffering from progressive dementia. For reasons that simply defy comprehension, Kelly, a conservative activist and blogger, is accused of sneaking in to the nursing home, photographing the senator’s ailing wife, and posting it online as part of “an anti-Cochran, pro-Chris McDaniel ‘hit piece’ video.” McDaniel, of course, is the right-wing candidate taking on Cochran in a Republican primary. If the allegations are accurate, there is no defense for such a morally depraved move, and as best as I can tell, no one has tried to offer one. But the story took a curious turn when questions arose as to what McDaniel knew about the incident and when. Soon after the Clarion-Ledger broke the story, reporting that Kelly was arrested and charged with exploitation of a vulnerable adult, the McDaniel campaign condemned the blogger’s behavior and insisted that the accused has “no relationship” with the campaign. However, the Clarion-Ledger soon after followed with another report, noting that the McDaniel campaign “knew details about the break-in at the nursing home” before they were public, raising questions about possible contradictions in Team McDaniel’s story. Indeed, McDaniel specifically said he hadn’t heard about Kelly until Saturday morning, but McDaniel’s campaign manager left a voicemail message for the Cochran campaign about Kelly’s arrest on Friday night. The video and photographs of the senator’s wife have been taken down, but the incident has rocked an already ugly Senate race in ways that were impossible to predict. The primary is two weeks from tomorrow.

To: i-node who wrote (785505)	5/19/2014 1:52:36 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576892

The Richer College Presidents Are, the Poorer Teachers and Students Are Hamilton Nolan Today 11:11am It's widely recognized that the insanely high pay of corporate CEOs is connected to poorly run companies in which executives use shareholder money as their personal ATM. Did you know that public universities are exactly the same? It's true! Millions of young people are concerned about their burdensome student debts that could set them behind financially for their decades to come. Instead of attributing this toxic situation to cruel fate, take a moment to connect the dots between your huge student debt, the huge and rising cost of college education, and how much the leaders of universities are paid. This is a great way to put a human face on your own broke ass misery. A new report today from the Institute for Policy Studies looks at the salaries of top administrators at public universities, and draws some very interesting conclusions that any graduates of these schools with high debt loads may not be surprised to learn. The most fundamental: high pay of university presidents goes hand in hand with lower pay for faculty members (more adjuncts and less full time faculty) and high student debt. Greed at the top, in other words, is connected to penury among the masses. From the report: The student debt crisis is worse at state schools with the highest-paid presidents. The sharpest rise in student debt at the top 25 occurred when executive compensation soared the highest. As students went deeper in debt, administrative spending outstripped scholarship spending by more than 2 to 1 at state schools with the highest-paid presidents. As presidents' pay at the top 25 skyrocketed after 2008, part-time adjunct faculty increased more than twice as fast as the national average at all universities. Here is a list of the public universities with the highest-paid presidents. Suffice it to say that it is not a list of the largest state universities, nor is it a list of the best state universities. It would be more accurate to call it a list of state universities that are extremely poor at managing the money that you, the students, pay it. Across America, adjunct faculty members cannot make a living wage, and student debt continues to skyrocket. Meanwhile—at the same schools most prone to these problems!—the pay of college presidents soars into the millions. Just as activists and the government crack down on the pay of CEOs at public corporations, students and professors should turn their eyes to the pay of their own universities' presidents. (Not to mention the fucking football coaches.) Why do executives who sit at big desks in air conditioned offices reap huge amounts of money, while the vast majority of stakeholders in an institution scrape by on either next to nothing, or less than nothing? Would these university presidents like to argue that they are smarter than every professor at their institution? Would they like to argue that their fundraising prowess is so much better than that of a more reasonably priced replacement candidate that their high valuations more than pay for themselves? We would like to see them prove that, given the fact that this study is a strong indication that, in fact, they are little more than common rent-seekers, seeking to funnel as much revenue as possible off of the budgets that they supervise into their own swollen pockets. The takeaway here is 1) Your misery and the luxurious life of your leaders are in fact connected, and 2) If you're gonna wave signs and protest and occupy the administration building and shit, here's a pretty good cause. *[Photo of Gordon Gee, who made $6 million(!) at Ohio State while turning it into the " most unequal public university" last year: AP]*