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Posts posted by Mrs Whiggins
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Oh, and while we're talking about public education and WTF lege, let's check in on higher education. SIAP but here's a Trib article and some links regarding what UT and other universities in Texas are going to be facing. No clue of how serious the lege is on promoting this among their other chicanery, but this is beyond McCarthy and going straight Christian Vo-Tech:
Here are a few excerpts but I strongly urge (in a REAL spirit of a strongly worded letter, not the sarcastic kind) reading the entire article. I read the bill itself because I thought, yeah, maybe they're exaggerating, but no, SB 37 is actually worse when you read some of the stuff the article omits for space. It effectively neuters the administration and faculty through this governing board that has more control than regents in some cases, and with-holds money for the yearly budget if they don't think the uni is conforming to their standards, standards which are rather enlightening once one reads the bill. Some of it is actually already in place in a not nefarious way because universities actually do provide oversight over their curricula, hiring, etc but this bill tweaks it to the extent that any faculty or other hires (normally the regents have the final say on those) must pass through this board and they are the ones with the vote. It also demonizes faculty senates and ...well I'll stop there but read the bill text if you have about ten minutes--I know I know, reading a proposed Act is not something you want to do, but if you want your children to inherit this mess, then look away. I'll put the bill link at the bottom.
QuoteSenate Bill 37 would create an Office of Excellence in Higher Education within the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The new office, led by a governor appointee, would be responsible for investigating claims that universities and colleges have broken state laws or their own policies.
QuoteSB 37 would also let governing boards vet and veto universities’ courses and curricula. It would require boards to create committees, made up of local industry partners and tenured faculty at the institution, to ensure courses prepare students for the workforce and “do not endorse specific public policies, ideologies or legislation.”
QuoteGoverning boards would also have the power to hire anyone in a leadership role at their universities. Right now, they only appoint chancellors and university presidents. Under SB 37, they would have the final say in hiring vice presidents, provosts and deans. They would also regularly evaluate those employees to ensure they are meeting goals, which include “making efforts to ensure a variety of perspectives are represented among administration and faculty.”
The last is rather humorous because it addresses the notion that all universities are too liberal, progressive and yet they use wording that is rather um, inclusive but you know what they really mean so gah, I just can't. Here comes the march of the middling white religious conservative male, see him strut through the halls of higher ed wielding his superior white male intellect to the
masses. Strike that, in the bill, this new board also has oversight over admissions so guess who doesn't get in? Not the masses that make up the demographic of this state, just those of whom we approve.Here is the link to the bill:
Read between the lines in an Orwellian fashion and it is, as I stated, enlightening.
I forgot to add, I think it was Brandon Creighton of Conroe that proposed it.
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3 hours ago, UpperWestside said:
Vaughan would later be fired by SAGU for refusing to attend church services at an Assembly of God church instead of the charismatic Baptist church he attended. He got the last laugh and has won three NBA titles as a scout for the Warriors and was on the podium in 2022 with the team in Boston.
Anyhow this younger Barton tried out for the basketball team. He was not good, AT ALL....Timothy Barton is a terrible basketball player and apparently an even more terrible person. If any of you ever cross paths with him please feel free to ask him about how his aspiring basketball career went at SAGU and then give him two swift kicks in the nuts. If you see his idiot father that poses as a Christian minister and fraudulent historian please kick him square in the face.
Bolded (my emphasis). Isn't AoG the group that glossed over the whole affair/conncections with some longtime sexual predator/pedophile who was affiliated with their campus outreach ministries: Chi Alpha? The ones that had the aggie dudes that took a minor boy to Houston and had naked spiritual services with him? These folks are the ones that want to put the Ten Commandments in the classroom? Nevermind the fox in the henhouse, that's giving them the farm...
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On 3/11/2025 at 3:07 PM, Mother mopar said:
'25 name are it it seems. Karen, gonna bring the lulz
Calling it right now: Jerry (which immediately precedes Karen) is going to be one of those just messin' around in sweatpants storms but Karen is going to come onshore with severe speak to the manager energy.
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Texas reported 259 cases of measles today, an increase of 36 since Tuesday. Nationwide (CDC brief), there are ~300 in total spread over 15 states (including Texas). Immunity among vaccinated citizens does seem to be helping which is a positive sign; other communities have been reporting shortages of MMR shots due to demand. Good that people are getting immunized, because the virus may see an uptick after the spring break weeks around the country conclude and students re-enter classrooms.
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On 3/11/2025 at 8:17 PM, Vegas64 said:
Speaking of Hugh Grant, despite being an adult in his heyday and vibrantly remembering his being busted with a prosty and going on late night talk show to apologize to America (because we didn’t have screen shots or apologies written on a note app to share on Instagram in 1997), I realize I have never seen a movie he’s in.
Notting Hill (1999) with Julia Roberts changed that for me.
I actually really enjoyed it. I am guessing that will buy me a fair amount of ridicule here, but maybe I’m just a sap.
Also, the hand Otto Hightower as the Welsh deadbeat is one of those “wow, that’s the same guy” moments for me.
In a similar genre, watch him in Four Weddings and a Funeral and The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain if you haven't already. Both flicks have solid casting and some very funny scenes as well as some poignant ones.
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Texas reporting 223 cases today in their news brief. Of those, 29 are in the hospital. Lubbock has stayed at the same number of cases, Gaines County is still outbreak central with 156 cases.
AFAIK, New Mexico hasn't reported beyond last week, but Oklahoma added two cases linked to the outbreak in TX/NM to the mix--officials there are not reporting the location because they said "the public is not at risk." Apparently because the patients isolated themselves "during the contagious period." That is not exactly reassuring being that it IS Oklahoma but hey Okies, you do you.
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10 hours ago, ultimaton said:
His Dad probably wouldn't let him wear makeup, but it's very Adam Ant-Duran Duran like. Just goes to show that if someone had given him more of a nudge when he began his whole midlife crisis, we could've avoided this whole DOGE fiasco because Elon would've just started his own middle-aged boy/rock band kinda like other celebs and rich guys do.
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Finished Culinary Class Wars, binged the last 3 episodes this weekend. That was a great watch.
Also watched The Misfits (Pierce Brosnan, Nick Cannon, et al). It was a Mistake. So many better heist movies than this one and unfortunately we took a gamble w/o reading reviews.
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198 cases. Well, that is not a good sign. Tuesday was 159. Most are still in Gaines County, which is a plus.
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12 minutes ago, Bookman said:
He played a successful businessman on TV.
Like Jimmy Kimmel, when hosting the Emmy Awards (prior to the 2016 election) said: “Many have asked, ‘Who is to blame for Donald Trump?’ I’ll tell you who, because he’s sitting right there. That guy.” Kimmel pointed into the audience, and the live feed cut to a closeup of Burnett, whose expression resolved itself into a rigid grin. “Thanks to Mark Burnett, we don’t have to watch reality shows anymore, because we’re living in one...”
Sourced from this article, a good read: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/how-mark-burnett-resurrected-donald-trump-as-an-icon-of-american-success
A long long time ago, somewhere on this forum I posted another article about Burnett that was far darker and more speculative in that it discussed Burnett's military background in more detail and posited that Burnett had ties to some unsavory foreign players somewhat in the vein of an Erik Prince. No idea if that was true. He certainly approached Putin about a decade ago about producing a show in Russia but that may have just been him looking for whatever angle he could to keep shows in the pipeline. Because ultimately he is a producer and now with his appointment as special envoy to the UK, all of his 'I'm not pro-Trump' rhetoric is as fake as his shows.
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37 minutes ago, bluto said:
What do you suppose the odds are that the preacher/rep in that insta crowing about the vax rate is innoculated? Now do the odds for being a child abuser based on the youth minister thread in CR....
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6 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
he must have a ton of sephora points
+1. ^^^^^^^This post needs more love^^^^^^
Also, what is up with the derails lately? First the damn gerrymandering and now the Democratic Party and all that ails it debate. 🙄
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5 hours ago, Newdoc said:
Superintendent with $870k comp to oversee 1000 charter students.
I would imagine our inability to efficiently run anything governmental would make this grift look like child’s play when it comes to subsidizing private schools with vouchers. Everyday I’m more convinced we are devolving into a third world country full of amoral nepotistic greed and corruption.
The article is not really CR but just generally a massive failure of our educational structure.
Better fast forward that curriculum planning for your Flat Earth Academy before you miss out. Wonder how much the actual educators get paid at his campuses.
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1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:
Americans are so fucking number illiterate.
The US budget is so big that millions of dollars = the change in your couch to you and me.
Without taking away from your statement, there are a lot of people that have difficulty with 'scale' when it comes to more than just money. "This is a great program!" But they only ran the numbers for a group of ten people and when you point out the flaw after sitting there and mentally sizing it up for 100 times that many because that is the target, they just blink because the concept throws them into a vapor lock.
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Guess they can try and get a job at the state penitentiary or one of the other prisons up the road. Not a lot going on in that part of Oklahoma besides some ag-related stuff.
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6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
"re-harvest"? Does he think trees grow in a few months?
Do you think he spends ANY time thinking about trees ever? I mean his only outings with nature are on his golf courses where the trees are mostly at a distance lining the fairway and he's speeding by on his lil cart; his oldest son goes on canned hunts to kill species that probably ought to be on an endangered list; if Ivanka ever set foot in anything resembling a tent it would only be one of the pavilion types they use for weddings and runway shows; Eric is just smart enough to know that trees provide shade but not smart enough to understand the Warren Buffett line about "someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
Nature would give them their just desserts if they ever actually experienced it in the wild.
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Mudslides or Dust Bowl: pick your poison based on the National Park's location and climatology.
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18 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Musk said this morning that he wants to privatize Amtrak and the Post Office.
Seems like more and more he wants to use strong arm tactics to crater other forms of transportation through disruption, destruction, and favored legal and funding status over his competition so that his automobile company can rise from the (literal) ashes and become the only option. After all, it's been done and he's not really an innovator when it comes down to it.
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For what it's worth, the most inciting violence conversation I've witnessed of late is the consistent and persistent gerrymandering talk in the Leopard's thread; the derail was intense, immutable, and irrelevant. But I usually scroll past most stuff anyway.
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On 2/23/2025 at 5:10 PM, blacklab said:
If you haven't seen it Culinary Class Wars is a great Korean cooking show.
Finally started this and thank you for the rec; we're enjoying it thus far but not through it too far yet. So many dishes that I would have loved to taste myself. It's the one show thus far that when the subtitles were going so fast that trying to read and watch got tricky at times and was glad for the back up feature.
SpoilerLoved the blindfolded tasting but that younger judge ( Chef Anh I believe was his name?) must have super sensitive taste buds. I understand that this is his vocation, but his ability to taste so specifically was amazing to me from a home cook's perspective. His comment on the flowers that someone put on their plate and then during the blindfolded judging, one of the master chefs had some flowers on the plate and I was "Noooooooo! He might be able to smell them! You're going to be out for sure!"
I see there is to be another season released in the latter half of this year.
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4 minutes ago, Captainant said:
He really is filling in the role of chief propagandist in a goebbels sort of way. He's specifying cultural things the Party shouldn't like, and then the Party is animated by his action to target the newly ID'd "out" groups
He's been working towards this for a long long time. Well before Musk bought Xitter, he had a well thought out agenda and worked social media in an adept way. Just as Roger Stone was able to expand on the Florida vote counting methods during the Bush vs Gore and turn it into the stop the steal blitz of 2020 (along with some new key players), Rufo has gathered resources and enough of them to be one of the GOP attack dogs to infiltrate, intimidate, indoctrinate, and ultimately purge institutions of 'not right minded' individuals.
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Just in time for Spring Break....
Florida high school student in the Miami-Dade area has measles in the state's first reported case of 2025. The state's vaccination rate among school age children ranges to pretty high to not so great. Their state surgeon general is the official who during an outbreak last year among elementary school students said that parents could decide whether to send their children to school or not (regardless of vaccination status).
Flori-duh.
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6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
What is it with these people not knowing how to drink from a fucking water bottle?
They've devolved to the point where the opposable thumb is returning to a claw?
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Jumping catfish! What a great arm! Who is that kid, anyway?
Of course he's got a great arm, Buttermaker. He's the best athlete in the area. But you don't understand, that's Kelly Leak.
You guys talking about Kelly Leak?
Yeah.
That dude is a bad mother. You talk about a loan shark. I borrowed a nickel from him last week. He said if I didn't give him a dime by Friday, he'd break my arm.
Es un bandido.
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Look, Buttermaker, you're not my father and I'll not move an inch to play baseball for you any more. So why don't you get back into that sardine can of yours and go, go vacuum the bottom of the Pacific Ocean?
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
in Daily Texan
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How it started:
How it's going:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/state-health-department-finds-two-more-measles-cases-in-oklahoma/ar-AA1B2rP1