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source: http://itgetsworsefl.org/
They're Not Coming to Florida
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Without Being Rude...
Under-appreciated and Under Attack
A Good, Old Fashioned Moderate is Hard to Find
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Dirty Harry not running for Senate - or any office in 2012
Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos released a video today declaring that he has dropped out of the Republican senate primary concluding his position is in conflict with the campaign.
Video translation:
I have made a choice to improve the lives of others in the classroom and in public service - and have I proven that? No.
See, I don't intend to help socialist commie hippies like you - or other Floridians. I help people like my friends. Friends who paid for this video.
And along the way I was inspired by people that like to help their friends too - like Ronald Reagan and Jeb Bush.
People who believed enough in us, to allow us to fend for ourselves. They gave everything they had of themselves - to help each other.
Last year I was elected president of the Florida senate by my friends. And what I have done to help them is pretty remarkable; passing initiatives to cut thousands of jobs, moving medicaid to private for-profit companies and stifling education so students can't spell 'excellence.'
source.
Video translation:
I have made a choice to improve the lives of others in the classroom and in public service - and have I proven that? No.
See, I don't intend to help socialist commie hippies like you - or other Floridians. I help people like my friends. Friends who paid for this video.
And along the way I was inspired by people that like to help their friends too - like Ronald Reagan and Jeb Bush.
People who believed enough in us, to allow us to fend for ourselves. They gave everything they had of themselves - to help each other.
Last year I was elected president of the Florida senate by my friends. And what I have done to help them is pretty remarkable; passing initiatives to cut thousands of jobs, moving medicaid to private for-profit companies and stifling education so students can't spell 'excellence.'
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
You've got mail: FSU Reacts to Petitions
9,000 petitions later, Floridians remarkably opposed the infamous Koch brothers and their deal to dictate whether the university hires political ideologues to do their bidding or professors who will actually stand up for education.
The donation agreement in 2008 left FSU under public scrutiny after a Times investigation exposed that it gave Koch representatives power to influence the hiring process, implement a right-leaning laissez-faire economics club and a "market ethics" class with Ayn Rand as the required reading.
FSU, as they say "maintained its integrity," when 2 new staff members were recently hired without any outside influences and that the Faculty Review Committee declared the decision that future donor agreements will no longer allow external faculty evaluations.
ProgressFlorida e-mail:
Yesterday, we turned in nearly 9,000 petitions, including yours, urging Florida State to rescind its contract with the Koch Foundation. Within 24 hours of our delivery, FSU announced their faculty review committee’s decision. The St. Petersburg Times is reporting that the university now recognizes “future donor agreements should not allow external faculty evaluations.”
I don't care if you study Ayn Rand, but I do care that you understand she's a little daft.
Ayn Rand's philosophy is almost polarized; she advocated gaining knowledge through reason and not faith - which I think is true - but also that state systems and any form of collectivism didn't advocate individual freedom. In reality, though, does collectivism really stifle individual freedom?
If the collective public education system (created to promote reason) was ousted for the sake of a free market, would I have more or less choices? If I couldn't afford private school then it's more than likely I would have no school at all. Then McDonalds would collectively be more than happy to hire me.
Ayn, I didn't realize individual freedom could be so limiting.
The donation agreement in 2008 left FSU under public scrutiny after a Times investigation exposed that it gave Koch representatives power to influence the hiring process, implement a right-leaning laissez-faire economics club and a "market ethics" class with Ayn Rand as the required reading.
FSU, as they say "maintained its integrity," when 2 new staff members were recently hired without any outside influences and that the Faculty Review Committee declared the decision that future donor agreements will no longer allow external faculty evaluations.
ProgressFlorida e-mail:
Yesterday, we turned in nearly 9,000 petitions, including yours, urging Florida State to rescind its contract with the Koch Foundation. Within 24 hours of our delivery, FSU announced their faculty review committee’s decision. The St. Petersburg Times is reporting that the university now recognizes “future donor agreements should not allow external faculty evaluations.”
I don't care if you study Ayn Rand, but I do care that you understand she's a little daft.
Ayn Rand's philosophy is almost polarized; she advocated gaining knowledge through reason and not faith - which I think is true - but also that state systems and any form of collectivism didn't advocate individual freedom. In reality, though, does collectivism really stifle individual freedom?
If the collective public education system (created to promote reason) was ousted for the sake of a free market, would I have more or less choices? If I couldn't afford private school then it's more than likely I would have no school at all. Then McDonalds would collectively be more than happy to hire me.
Ayn, I didn't realize individual freedom could be so limiting.
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| This is Ayn Rand shrugging. Yeah that just happened. |
Happy Caturday! (when one doodles in photoshop)
So I guess this is what it boils down to. Cat sandwiches.
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| This is my cat Short-Round. Well, he was. Now he's a meme. |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Stories of life under the Rick Scott Administration (video)
A preview to interviews by those affected by the Rick Scott Administration. Full length footage should launch in about a month. Brought to you by itgetsworsefl.org
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
WUCF-TV: A New Source of Public Broadcasting (video)
Why save PBS:
"WFME decided that our PBS station had to go. We said NO."
"WFME decided that our PBS station had to go. We said NO."
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