If the folks who go on about the 2nd Amendment had invested as much effort into a defense of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Amendments, Bush would have been impeached long before Inauguration Day 2009. But that stuff all happens to somebody else, right?
Yeah, rearrange the deck chairs. That should do it.
How in the world can Griscom and other very casual observers cling to the fantasies of a world class flagship university, increased excellence across the board, educating more Tennesseans, and attracting the highest quality faculty and students, while watching Bredesen and the state cut and gut the higher education budget year after year after year?
The federal stimulus has stayed the lastest slashings, but as soon as they run out, the state intends to cut higher education 25% over the following two years. 25%.
Crowing this blah blah blah about excellence while state funding is abysmal, and heading south, and goes beyond nonsense into irresponsibility and a profound disconnection with reality.
Interesting that the comments instructions here note that "profanities, slurs and libelous remarks are prohibited." Think we could work that into LK's gazillion dollar contract?
Roberts was one of the biggest champions, a decade ago, of consolidating the city and county school systems. Big money saver, we were told. Better schools.
At the risk of being impolite for injecting some reality, this from coverage of just a couple of days ago:
"In the three spring scrimmages that were treated as game situations and played in Neyland Stadium, Coleman was a combined 41-of-60 for 425 yards, with four touchdowns and no interceptions.
"By comparison, Crompton was a combined 31-of-70 for 324 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. Rising junior Nick Stephens, who was limited by a broken right wrist, was 13-of-25 for 159 yards and two TDs."
Vol fans don't want to admit what the whole country knows: you threw over a coach with a .750 lifetime record and a national championship for a stunningly expensive, all-hat-no-cattle kid with no track record (unless we want to count the losing), who will be lucky if he has a .750 SEASON for the rest of his "career." Expect regular Saturday beat downs by SEC teams that are counting Kiffin's appointment among their blessings for the upcoming season. Check out their blogs. They don't even know that his real first name isn't "Lame."
If someone believes that there has been a worse governor for higher education in Tennessee, ever, name him. PB has cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, and then blathers this nonsense about "world class" status for UTK.
In fact, at the doctoral level, the state needs MORE of what UMemphis, UTC, MTSU, and other universities are doing, adn that's providing doctorally educated nurses, teachers, etc. UTK has neither the interest in nor the capacity to deliver such programs some seven and eight hours drive from their campus. And puu-leese, don't give us that blah blah about distance ed. I'm talking DOCTORAL education, which is intensely personal.
While Bredesen attended a rich boys' college, his pinnacle has been a bachelor's degree, and frankly, folks, that makes him incompetent to judge the value of higher education beyond that point.
UTK itself has been decimated to the point that the "top ten" status Bredesen claims to aspire to is ridiculous.
He's looking to rationalize the consequences of butchering HE in TN. Please don't let him escape those consequences.
Raising the issue of room and board is a red herring. Were individuals not in college, wouldn't they still need a place to sleep and food to eat? Those are costs of being alive, not of attending college per se.
If legislators, the governor (perhaps the worst for higher education in Tennessee's modern history), the media, etc. are going to press for cutting off virtually every avenue for revenue maintenance, will they also drop their ridiculous rhetoric about UT and other institutions becoming more "world class"? If "good enough" funding is what they advocate, then "good enough" results are all they have a logical right to expect.
Race card? Description of facts isn't "playing the race card."
Here's what is, in addition to the examples cited by the new chairman: the state-party-funded attacks on Harold (he wants our white women) Ford, and the "Magic Negro" slur distributed without apology by Tennessee's former Republican chair and now a fading-from-contention candidate to lead it nationally. Any dope can see the pattern and the intention.
One Senate race still undecided
It's odd that this wasn't Lee Anderson's position after the very close and substantially flawed presidential elections of 2000 and 2004....
Guns with alcohol next
If the folks who go on about the 2nd Amendment had invested as much effort into a defense of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Amendments, Bush would have been impeached long before Inauguration Day 2009. But that stuff all happens to somebody else, right?
Griscom: Reforms that can’t be put off
Yeah, rearrange the deck chairs. That should do it.
How in the world can Griscom and other very casual observers cling to the fantasies of a world class flagship university, increased excellence across the board, educating more Tennesseans, and attracting the highest quality faculty and students, while watching Bredesen and the state cut and gut the higher education budget year after year after year?
The federal stimulus has stayed the lastest slashings, but as soon as they run out, the state intends to cut higher education 25% over the following two years. 25%.
Crowing this blah blah blah about excellence while state funding is abysmal, and heading south, and goes beyond nonsense into irresponsibility and a profound disconnection with reality.
Knoxville: Pahokee still mad at Lane Kiffin
Interesting that the comments instructions here note that "profanities, slurs and libelous remarks are prohibited." Think we could work that into LK's gazillion dollar contract?
Roberts: It may be time to unify all services
Roberts was one of the biggest champions, a decade ago, of consolidating the city and county school systems. Big money saver, we were told. Better schools.
How did that work out for ya, DR?
Any other Qs about going further down this path?
BLOG: Colemangate could haunt Vols all season
At the risk of being impolite for injecting some reality, this from coverage of just a couple of days ago:
"In the three spring scrimmages that were treated as game situations and played in Neyland Stadium, Coleman was a combined 41-of-60 for 425 yards, with four touchdowns and no interceptions.
"By comparison, Crompton was a combined 31-of-70 for 324 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. Rising junior Nick Stephens, who was limited by a broken right wrist, was 13-of-25 for 159 yards and two TDs."
That's bling.
BLOG: Colemangate could haunt Vols all season
Vol fans don't want to admit what the whole country knows: you threw over a coach with a .750 lifetime record and a national championship for a stunningly expensive, all-hat-no-cattle kid with no track record (unless we want to count the losing), who will be lucky if he has a .750 SEASON for the rest of his "career." Expect regular Saturday beat downs by SEC teams that are counting Kiffin's appointment among their blessings for the upcoming season. Check out their blogs. They don't even know that his real first name isn't "Lame."
Governor seeks one flagship university
If someone believes that there has been a worse governor for higher education in Tennessee, ever, name him. PB has cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, and then blathers this nonsense about "world class" status for UTK.
In fact, at the doctoral level, the state needs MORE of what UMemphis, UTC, MTSU, and other universities are doing, adn that's providing doctorally educated nurses, teachers, etc. UTK has neither the interest in nor the capacity to deliver such programs some seven and eight hours drive from their campus. And puu-leese, don't give us that blah blah about distance ed. I'm talking DOCTORAL education, which is intensely personal.
While Bredesen attended a rich boys' college, his pinnacle has been a bachelor's degree, and frankly, folks, that makes him incompetent to judge the value of higher education beyond that point.
UTK itself has been decimated to the point that the "top ten" status Bredesen claims to aspire to is ridiculous.
He's looking to rationalize the consequences of butchering HE in TN. Please don't let him escape those consequences.
A stimulus spending dilemma
Raising the issue of room and board is a red herring. Were individuals not in college, wouldn't they still need a place to sleep and food to eat? Those are costs of being alive, not of attending college per se.
If legislators, the governor (perhaps the worst for higher education in Tennessee's modern history), the media, etc. are going to press for cutting off virtually every avenue for revenue maintenance, will they also drop their ridiculous rhetoric about UT and other institutions becoming more "world class"? If "good enough" funding is what they advocate, then "good enough" results are all they have a logical right to expect.
New state Democrat chief decries GOP’s ‘racist’ attacks
Race card? Description of facts isn't "playing the race card."
Here's what is, in addition to the examples cited by the new chairman: the state-party-funded attacks on Harold (he wants our white women) Ford, and the "Magic Negro" slur distributed without apology by Tennessee's former Republican chair and now a fading-from-contention candidate to lead it nationally. Any dope can see the pattern and the intention.