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I've been using Chromium

Donal — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:41:30 +0000

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I've been using Chromium lately - the Linux version of Chrome. I like it.

YEAH!Class warfare goes on at

Richard Day — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:26:09 +0000

In reply to Richard, they are talking

YEAH!

Class warfare goes on at the street level every frickin day and guess who wins all the battles?

States are broke, .....look

Resistance — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:20:31 +0000

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States are broke, .....look to where the money is

There are places where we can save the money spent and redirect it to usefulness.

We can still have a quality education system in America.

http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/dire-straits-minnesota-10925#comment-126795

We need to think outside the box,

Remember, we didnt allow the buggy whip manufacturers from keeping us from having automobiles.

No one questions the soundness of cutting our costs when it comes to our family budget..

Didn’t you recently touch on

Resistance — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:06:43 +0000

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Didn’t you recently touch on the subject of textbooks? (Texas school board?)

Isn’t it about every 4 years, a new text book is manufactured and the old ones are supposedly obsolete?

Why do we as a nation have to keep the book binding companies and all the others on the payroll to tell us Columbus sailed the ocean blue in1492. We need a new book to tell us that?

When you go to the law library,the small pamphlet that accompanies the Westlaw Bound volumes, timely updated information? Annotated

Change the way text books are made, no hard binding, maybe 3 leaf binders with replicable and replaceable pages. Download when you need one?

No more expensive books, no more backpacks carrying heavy books.

No more carrying the book makers. (BOOKIES wanting their cut)

When an update is necessary put the handicapped and teens to work in the summer, getting the text binders back in shape, for the next school year.

Recycle the binders, update the pages….. Not the entire book

I'm tired of planned obsolescence; it's wasteful and costs us energy and money.

Rather than an enriching an industry that depends on producing a New beautifully bound school book, every four years, eliminate the waste and reduce the cost of education.

Let Kinko’s or Office Max compete, to produce the 3 hole educational paper pages.

Khan Academy is another good way to educate.,

Help us change education

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Browse our library of over 2,100 educational videos...

You could have a large study hall and one or two monitors or tutors watching the young adults/ kid’s advance at their own speed, by watching the keystroke activity.

I’m sure the teachers won’t like it. We knew technology was going to change things.

We need to cut our costs. Why can't the Democrats get out in front of this issue?

Sacred Cow?

Richard, they are talking

NCD — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:06:40 +0000

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Richard, they are talking CLASS WARFARE over this jet thing at Human Events magazine. Yes, Obama wants to start a WAR! this is a war I can volunteer to fight!

Obama's Latest Class Warfare Catchphrase: 'Corporate Jet Owners'

HUMAN EVENTS:The President's got the sound bite rhetoric down. What he means is, he's not backing off on higher taxes for the highest wage earners.

'Not backing off on higher taxes on RICH PEOPLE! Is it true? Why would a bankrupt country want to raise taxes on rich people??

Thinkprogress link,:

“Between the second quarter of 2009 and the fourth quarter of 2010, real national income in the U.S. increased by $528 billion. Pre-tax corporate profits by themselves had increased by $464 billion while aggregate real wages and salaries rose by only $7 billion or only .1%. Over this six quarter period, corporate profits captured 88% of the growth in real national income while aggregate wages and salaries accounted for only slightly more than 1% of the growth in real national income. …The absence of any positive share of national income growth due to wages and salaries received by American workers during the current economic recovery is historically unprecedented.”

States are broke, cutting services, yet we can't look to where the money is piling up to fund essential services for the middle class and poor, or save jobs.

You are correct there is more

rmrd0000 — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:43:58 +0000

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You are correct there is more knowledge that is available literally at your fingertips, however you have to have funds to get access to the information I wonder if local public libraries have access to resources available through the university via lend via lease arrangements?

If you don't have Firefox it

Ramona — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:02:51 +0000

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If you don't have Firefox it would be worthwhile to download it unti IE gets all the kinks out. You can post to dag with Firefox easily. I like it much better than IE. I have Google Chrome, too, but haven't played with it much. I use it for the email address I use for my personal FB and that's about it.

Professors are seeking their

Richard Day — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:31:07 +0000

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Professors are seeking their own levels of 'entitlements' including pensions.

It is just that over the last three decades, the entire costs passed down upon the student have got to have increased three hundred percentage points....eight hundred percentage points in some cases!

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF PUBLIC ED? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF COLLEGE ED?

This is a tough issue.

What bugs me again....is that the knowledge is all there!

Just hidden from the peasants.

And libraries are the first institution that is dissed during hard times!

Governor Dayton is fighting

Richard Day — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:25:27 +0000

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Governor Dayton is fighting the good fight!

Besides what I have already linked, Josh has been on this:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/hours-before-state-government-shutdown-no-budget-deal-in-minnesota.php

As well a few others who should be linked above including National Public Radio.

I was surprised when one of those links noted that this is a rare phenomina.

If this were California or NY; well it would be all over everyone's paper.

Mark Dayton is a gooooooooooooooood man!

I am having the same trouble,

trkingmomoe — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:22:45 +0000

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I am having the same trouble, It is because you maybe running the newest version of IE. Genghis told me to turn off rich-text so I could post a comment but that leaves me with out the ability to do the special formating also.