UNLV PROFESSOR PLAYS THE NAZI CARD
As I’ve written here many times, there is no level in this budget battle too low to which higher ed officials at Hyperbole U won’t stoop to protect their precious taxpayer subsidies. Indeed, at least three university officials and the former chancellor all publicly blamed late UNR president Milt Glick’s death last month on Gov. Sandoval’s proposed budget.
So I guess it was only a matter of time before some numbnut professor would whip out the ol’ Nazi card. From Ben Spillman in a Las Vegas Review-Journal story this morning…
John Farley, a physics professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said earlier cuts to the Nevada System of Higher Education already have made it difficult for colleges and universities in Las Vegas and Reno to retain faculty members.
Farley listed several professors who have left or are in the process of leaving, including one at University of Nevada, Reno, who was responsible for attracting millions of dollars of grants to the university.
He compared the departure of professors from Nevada to the exodus of academics from Germany in the 1930s, when the Nazi regime was on the rise and imperiling Jews in academia and throughout the nation.
What an ass-clown. This is what passes for “higher” education at UNLV? No wonder are kidz ins’t lernin’.
ROAD TRIP!
Forget school…let’s go camping!
That’s the message sent out via email on Friday by UNLV student and community organizer Michael Flores of (Lack of) Progress Now Nevada. Flores is organizing the camping trip in Carson City this coming week to..to…to, um…supporting the Mother of All Tax hikes on Nevada’s families and small businesses to that he won’t have to pay market prices on college tuition. Here’s his email:
Hi everyone,
Thanks for attending the March 21st rally in Carson City to fight against cuts to the higher education budget in Nevada. It was the largest rally in Carson City history and marked a turning point in the legislative session.
Unfortunately some legislators still have not gotten the message and are threatening to vote in favor of drastically defunding higher education, and UNLV is at the top of their list.
To once more bring the voice and the will of the people to Carson City a final major legislative action has been planned: a three day tent city on the lawn of the Capitol where students will intensively lobby legislators the entire time for education funding.
We know that enough legislators are on the fence about supporting new revenue to help education that we can win the fight, but we cannot win it without direct action.
A charter bus has been secured to take students from Southern Nevada to Carson City for the camp out where we'll be joined by hundreds of students from Northern Nevada. Think March 21st but for three whole days. We'll be doing direct lobbying of legislators as well as other actions in and around the Legislative Building to create pressure to support new revenue.
If you are interested in going on this critically important trip please respond to this email. Here are the details:
When: May 16th 3:00AM (approximate time bus will depart Las Vegas) until May 18th 9:00PM (approximate time bus will return to Las Vegas)
Cost: The bus ride is free. There will also be food and drinks provided free of charge most of the time. There are restaurants and coffee shops in the area if you would like to buy your own stuff, but most of the food/drinks will be free.
Are we really camping out: Yes! If you have a tent or can borrow one from a friend that would be ideal. Or discount stores sells two-person tents for as low as $20. If neither of these are an option there will be some extra spaces in tents, just let me know and we'll find you a spot.
This is our last best chance to save our school from major tuition hikes, professor layoffs, programs ending, and our degrees being harmed.
Please respond to this email immediately if you are interested in going on this important trip.
Thanks!
Thanks for attending the March 21st rally in Carson City to fight against cuts to the higher education budget in Nevada. It was the largest rally in Carson City history and marked a turning point in the legislative session.
Unfortunately some legislators still have not gotten the message and are threatening to vote in favor of drastically defunding higher education, and UNLV is at the top of their list.
To once more bring the voice and the will of the people to Carson City a final major legislative action has been planned: a three day tent city on the lawn of the Capitol where students will intensively lobby legislators the entire time for education funding.
We know that enough legislators are on the fence about supporting new revenue to help education that we can win the fight, but we cannot win it without direct action.
A charter bus has been secured to take students from Southern Nevada to Carson City for the camp out where we'll be joined by hundreds of students from Northern Nevada. Think March 21st but for three whole days. We'll be doing direct lobbying of legislators as well as other actions in and around the Legislative Building to create pressure to support new revenue.
If you are interested in going on this critically important trip please respond to this email. Here are the details:
When: May 16th 3:00AM (approximate time bus will depart Las Vegas) until May 18th 9:00PM (approximate time bus will return to Las Vegas)
Cost: The bus ride is free. There will also be food and drinks provided free of charge most of the time. There are restaurants and coffee shops in the area if you would like to buy your own stuff, but most of the food/drinks will be free.
Are we really camping out: Yes! If you have a tent or can borrow one from a friend that would be ideal. Or discount stores sells two-person tents for as low as $20. If neither of these are an option there will be some extra spaces in tents, just let me know and we'll find you a spot.
This is our last best chance to save our school from major tuition hikes, professor layoffs, programs ending, and our degrees being harmed.
Please respond to this email immediately if you are interested in going on this important trip.
Thanks!
Michael Flores
UNLV Student Organizer
UNLV Student Organizer
A free lunch! And free bus fare! A liberal’s dream come true!
I wonder if they’ll be allowed to use Speaker Oceguera’s gym and the shower in his office? And I wonder how many baby liberals are going to be conceived in this co-ed tent city over those three days? Keg-ger! Keg-ger! Keg-ger!
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REPUBLICANS WHO RAISE TAXES; ANOTHER IN A SERIES
AB 9 raises taxes. In this case, the “tax” is called a “fee.” Not a fine, mind you. A fee. It raises the fees you have to pay to file a lawsuit, appeal a judgment, request copies of records, etc. The bill clearly states on the first line that it “Requires Two-Thirds Majority Vote,” meaning it raises taxes.
The bill passed out of the state Assembly on April 20 with only two of the sixteen Republicans voting against it: Assemblyman Ed Goedhart and Assemblyman Kelly Kite. Fortunately, it was killed in the state Senate this week. That’s the good news. The bad news is that two Republicans voted for the bill (it needed three Republicans to get the 2/3 supermajority required): liberal Senator Joe Hardy (no surprise) and Senate Minority Leader Mike McGinness.
That’s the second tax hike McGinness has voted for this week. This is a very bad omen for the end-game.
DEMOCRATS WHO RAISE “REVENUE,” ANOTHER IN A SERIES
Assemblywoman Marilyn Dondero-Loop wrote in an email on Friday: “Over the next few days, the Nevada Legislature will be hearing testimony on two bills to raise badly needed revenue to fund…” blah, blah, blah.
Why can’t these people call a spade a spade? The two bills raise TAXES. Do these people think Nevadans are stupid?
Never mind; I just answered my own question.
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GOOFBALLS AT MOVEON.ORG MOVE ON GOV. SANDOVAL
You know you’ve made it as a conservative when the wingnuts at the left-wing MoveOn.org group puts you in their sights. Here’s the fundraising email headlined “Will you stand up to Brian Sandoval” which went out to their nincompoop e-peeps today:
Dear Nevada MoveOn member,
Imagine if tea party Republicans were in charge of everything—without President Obama to veto their worst bills.
That's pretty much the situation in 20 states—almost half the country—and what we're seeing is absolutely horrifying.
In Nevada, Gov. Sandoval wants to balance the budget on the backs of school kids and teachers. And across the country, unions are under attack, while millions of poor and disabled seniors are being dumped from Medicaid.1
The clock is ticking: With just a couple weeks left in many state legislative sessions, Republican politicians across the country are racing to pass the most extreme right-wing bills while they still can.
That's why we've launched a major new initiative to fight back against the worst Republican officials—but we need to raise $200,000 to make sure we have the resources to take on so many fights at once.
Can you chip in $5 right now?
Here's the plan: To take on the right-wing assault in so many different states and communities, we've launched a whole new online organizing platform called SignOn.org.
SignOn.org allows local progressive organizations and leaders to run their own MoveOn-style campaigns by creating online petitions, sending timely email alerts to their grassroots supporters, and connecting with other local progressives who can help.
By linking MoveOn's online organizing know-how with the best local progressive leaders, we will have the grassroots muscle we need to win. Here are some great examples of SignOn at work:
· In Florida, pro-choice Representative Scott Randolph used SignOn to fight back against a raft of bills attacking abortion rights.
· In Pennsylvania, a coalition of progressive leaders are using SignOn to stop Governor Tom Corbett from cutting one billion dollars from public schools.
· And in Maine, more than 18,000 people have signed a SignOn petition supporting legislation to allow voters to recall the state's tea party governor, Paul LePage.
But there are so many more fights we need to take on—and the repercussions of these fights go far beyond each state's borders, because a terrible law passed in one state often becomes a model for others, like Arizona's radical anti-immigration law.
It's only with the support of our members that we can follow through on all these key fights.
Click here to chip in $5—or as much as you can
Thanks for all you do.
–Anna, Steven, Adam, Michael, and the rest of the team
CONGRATULATIONS Gov. Sandoval! Keep up the good work!
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LACK OF MONEY FOR SCHOOLS ARGUMENT DOESN’T ADD UP
Lynn Warne, the state teachers union boss, was on Jon Ralston’s Face to Face program on Thursday and bleated out the same old tired clichés, boiled down to this: we don’t have enough funding for education.
Bull.
One of these days the media is going to pin down these teachers union propagandists and hit them with the fact that Nevada spends, according to a Nevada Appeal story by veteran reporter Geoff Dornan (“Per pupil spending much higher than just state funding,” 4/17/11), an average of $9,885 per pupil in 2010.
Now do the math with me here (real math, not public school math): If you have 30 students in a classroom, taxpayers are spending $296,550 per classroom/year. Now, the average teacher salary is around $45,000 per year. That means there’s more than a quarter million dollars left over per classroom to spend on rent, utilities, maintenance, administration, etc.
A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS!
The problem isn’t that we’re not spending enough on education; it’s that somebody is spending it badly. VERY badly.
REPUBLICANS WHO VOTE FOR TAX HIKES
The Sun’s David Schwartz inked a story today about a bill to extend taxes scheduled to sunset which has thus far largely flown under the radar screen – until, of course, Schwartz shined his light on it.
No, it’s not the $650 million worth of tax hikes passed in 2009 and scheduled to sunset next month. It’s a tax hike to build the third straw to suck water out of Lake Mead which was passed by voters back in 1998.
The bill to extend the sunset on the “straw tax” passed out of the Senate on April 22 at 6:03 pm without anyone noticing with exactly the three Republican votes needed to approve any tax hike thanks to the 2/3 super-majority requirement.
Two of the three GOP votes will be of no surprise to regular readers of Muth’s Truths: term-limited Sen. Dean Rhoads and RINO Sen. Joe Hardy. But the third vote is rather shocking: Senate Minority Leader Mike McGinness.
Ruh-roh.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE, TO THE UNION…
I was just forwarded the text of a “loyalty oath” that officers, executive board and review board members of the Clark County teachers union are required to take:
“I (state your name) do hereby faithfully pledge to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the Clark County Education Association to the best of my ability, subverting all persona goals, loyalties and ambitions to the organization. I pledge to conscientiously work toward achieving the collective goals of the organization, to represent the membership of the Clark County Education Association, to keep in the strictest confidence information acquired as a result of my position in closed or executive session and diligently avoid any conflict, whether personal or professional in nature, that may tend to have any negative bearing on my ability to fully and honestly perform the duties and responsibilities arising from my position. I do solemnly undertake this Oath of Office, and hereby, commit my allegiance and loyalty to the Clark County Education Association and its members, any membership in, connection with, or obligation to any other organization notwithstanding.”
I can’t confirm this yet, but I understand members take this oath while wearing togas in a candlelit basement somewhere off of West Sahara near Palace Station. Afterwards, new members must proceed through a gauntlet of veteran union leaders wearing Rey Mysterio masks, bending over sideways in front of each for a good paddling on their behinds with a bamboo cane wrapped in sandpaper.
They are then blindfolded and escorted to a remote desert location outside of town where, on a moonless night, they are required to march around in circles for an hour – naked, except for a pair of white tube socks and a green sombrero, and slathered in Canola oil - picking petals off of roses while chanting, “The union loves me; the union loves me not. The union loves me, the union loves me not.”
But that might just be an urban legend.
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WHY TEACHERS DON’T GET NO RESPECT
I’m not sure, but I think the teachers union goofballs act more like children than the children their members teach. Get a load of this call-to-action from Clark County Education Association union boss/head goofball Ruben Murillo which was just sent out:
CCEA, along with many schools, has embarked on a letter writing campaign aimed at Governor Sandoval. Our goal is to express our extreme dissatisfaction with his education budget and the impact it has on the students and staff in the Clark County School District.
During the CCEA/SEIU rally last week, participants wrote letters to the governor. Those letters were placed in a coffin. The coffin represents the mortal attacks on public education and its demise if funding is cut and our collective bargaining rights are eroded.
We need your help. We ask that you participate and organize a letter writing campaign at your school. The message: To demand Governor Sandoval finds additional funding for education because students and educators of Clark County deserve a well funded education system and deserve a Governor who will work hard to make it so.
To increase the effectiveness of our message, letters should include examples of how these extreme budget cuts would impact students in the classroom and your ability to provide a quality public education. Please also include how these proposed budget cuts would impact you personally and professionally.
Here’s what you can do:
· Hold a 10-minute CCEA meeting before or after school explaining the letter writing campaign.
· Encourage teachers to have their families, friends, and children write letters to Governor Sandoval.
· Once the letters are written, collect and bring them to CCEA by Friday, May 20, 2011. Also, we will be holding an Association Rep Council meeting on May 24, so you may ask your AR to bring letters to the meeting.
Here’s what CCEA will do:
· Put all letters in the coffin and deliver it to Governor Sandoval the week before Memorial Day weekend.
· Contact the media when we deliver the coffin so that we can deliver a very public and loud message to the Governor.
We have approximately 500 letters in the coffin now and want to fill it to the brim. With your help, we will find it difficult to close the coffin, so… start your letter writing campaign now!
I mean, can you get more ridiculously juvenile than this? Professional wrestlers conduct themselves with more dignity than this. And yet some wonder why so many people no longer see teachers as highly-respected professionals? When you act like a goof, you get treated like a goof.
Would somebody PLEASE tell me why teachers allow their union to keep making them look like complete horse’s asses?
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