No, I don't want to teach in Florida

No, I don't want to teach in Florida. And this is why.

"Stop repeating yourself. We know you have earned tenure but we just have to let you go. See, here in Florida we really need to give corporations a tax break. Don't look at me like that, ever heard of trickle down economics? Wait.. what are you.. Oh god you're peeing!"

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"Here, we appreciate the worth of smaller government - which, turns out to be $2.65. That's the price of our lunches that consist solely of Starburst and barbeque chips. Totally worth it. Plus we get a monster sponsorship from Lays!"

No.

"You may be qualified but sorry, there is no room for you here. And I mean that literally; we are hiring ex-horse jockeys so we can squeeze more children into classrooms. If you're not built like a malnourished 7-year old, you can't teach one."

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"So what did you do in class today?"

"We got to be painted like animals."

"Oh, and what kind of animal did you choose?"

"A feral door knob. And I can't feel my face."

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"We use lead paint on our playgrounds to prove we don't need big government to run our elementary school. If a child complains that their hands are tingling send them to the Principal for being un-American."

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"small government" - because the first thing that gets cut is education.

~ Leaflet

FSU Sold Us Out

In exchange for accepting $1.5 million from billionaire Charles Koch, one of the notorious right-wing Koch Brothers, Florida State University gave Koch the unprecedented right to reject some professor candidates for the school’s economics department.
 
Join me and sign this petition to FSU President Eric Barron: Protect academic freedom and cancel this deal with the Koch brothers: http://bit.ly/maEbgf
 
The Koch's move to control a part of FSU's economics department is bigger than FSU. For years, right wing billionaires like the Kochs have funded scores of front groups and think tanks to advance their radical agenda. Now they want to use the cover of a public university in an attempt to give their failed ideas more credibility with the public. They can't win the battle of ideas in a fair fight, so they're suppressing academic freedom to get their way. Florida State’s preposterous arrangement with Charles Koch opens the door to a slippery slope of pay-to-play control over our universities and should not go unchallenged.
 
Sign the petition to FSU President Eric Barron: Protect academic freedom and cancel the deal with the Koch brothers: http://bit.ly/maEbgf
 
Thanks for your help.

- Progress Florida

(Video) Florida Session Madness: What's the Worst Bill in Florida?

Do you think you know what the worst bill in Florida is? Vote HERE for Session Madness.


More about Florida Session Madness.

Awake the State: Roadside Round 2 (Photos)

Florida Session Madness: Voting Now Open!

The Florida legislature has proposed enough bat-shit insane bills this session to make a person want to gouge their own eyes out and lob them at small woodland animals; the good news is that you can save your peepers (and some feral squirrels) for this instead:

You can now vote for which of Florida's proposed bills are the worst, in the style of college basketball March Madness brackets. 

Bills include whether they are ones that have passed and have not passed and the information for each one is listed. Click HERE for all the bills and their summaries and if you're already pissed and click-happy, go ahead and click HERE to vote.

Voting for the first round will only be open for a few days, so vote now before Gov. Rick Scott signs these bills >.<

Oh, and the bracket titles are snarky as hell.

Titles included are:

1. "Don't Worry, You Don't Need Civil Rights" Bracket

	2. "Health Care and Education are for Suckers" Bracket

3. "We Love Business" Bracket

4. WTF? Bracket

For more information on how Session Madness works, click here.