Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
A new state law required home loan modification and foreclosure consultants to obtain licenses from the mortgage division. While 50 applications are being processed, none of the applicants has posted the required $75,000 surety bonds, according to the division.
Here are the details of this new law. Notice how those "less government" Republican legislators *unanimously* voted YEA, and that the bill was signed by a Republican governor.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
CCSD Out of Arts Education
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Rick McEnaney, the district's director of secondary fine arts education
Another non-teaching position. Does this guy report to the Assistant Liason for Interdistrict Communications or to the Deputy Administrator for Creativity & Health?
Sorry, but arts is *not* core. Besides, the arts education your kid is likely to get at CCSD will be *very* superficial. Like the core subjects. If you want to expose your kids to arts (a noble gesture), hire a teacher to come to your house. You can probably get one for as little as $25 per week. Indeed, bring your child's education *entirely* in-house and homeschool.
In my old high school (not CCSD), drama was not serious, only a clique. Interestingly, years after I left, my middle school music teacher was incarcerated for having sex with students.
Rick McEnaney, the district's director of secondary fine arts education
Another non-teaching position. Does this guy report to the Assistant Liason for Interdistrict Communications or to the Deputy Administrator for Creativity & Health?
Sorry, but arts is *not* core. Besides, the arts education your kid is likely to get at CCSD will be *very* superficial. Like the core subjects. If you want to expose your kids to arts (a noble gesture), hire a teacher to come to your house. You can probably get one for as little as $25 per week. Indeed, bring your child's education *entirely* in-house and homeschool.
In my old high school (not CCSD), drama was not serious, only a clique. Interestingly, years after I left, my middle school music teacher was incarcerated for having sex with students.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
CCSD Throws TD Passes To Football. Crumbs To Academics.
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Rulffes said "We have librarians, P.E. (physical education) aides, computer specialists, counselors. We have arts and music. We only have minimal impact on sports. I believe, for the funding, the public is getting a good bang for its buck."
Why does CCSD need librarians? The kids can't read. PE? The kids are sugar-filled marshmallows. The kids don't need Computer Specialists to help them play video games. Those pathetic counselors are the ones responsible for this mania about passing flunkards in order to guard their self-esteem.
What is this emphasis on sports? If boys want to play football, they can join Pop Warner. School is supposed to be about the 3R's, not PP&K. Of course, CCSD is all about *politics*, so that means maintaining popular support for itself through any means necessary, especially football. And you can hire a good piano teacher to come to your house for only ~$25/hr.
If Rulffes thinks we're getting good bang for the buck, then I wonder what he considers a *bad* deal.
Rulffes said "We have librarians, P.E. (physical education) aides, computer specialists, counselors. We have arts and music. We only have minimal impact on sports. I believe, for the funding, the public is getting a good bang for its buck."
Why does CCSD need librarians? The kids can't read. PE? The kids are sugar-filled marshmallows. The kids don't need Computer Specialists to help them play video games. Those pathetic counselors are the ones responsible for this mania about passing flunkards in order to guard their self-esteem.
What is this emphasis on sports? If boys want to play football, they can join Pop Warner. School is supposed to be about the 3R's, not PP&K. Of course, CCSD is all about *politics*, so that means maintaining popular support for itself through any means necessary, especially football. And you can hire a good piano teacher to come to your house for only ~$25/hr.
If Rulffes thinks we're getting good bang for the buck, then I wonder what he considers a *bad* deal.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Club RINO
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Looks like Senate ultra RINOs Raggiowe and Townspend want Fibbons to a call a special session in order to give them one more opportunity to vote for higher taxes. They're both term-limited out (Townspend in 2010, I think). If we had small government in this state, the biannual budget would be less than $200M. The budget would be in SURPLUS. That's right. Fibbons would have to call a special session to figure out how to REBATE all the money piling up in the treasury.
What's all this nonsense about school underfunding breeding lawsuits?! The legal (constitutional) minimum for K-12 is one school per district (18 statewide). Yep. The legislature could vote out of existence *everything* above that. Slam dunk.
The legal minimum for NSHE is three departments: Mining, Agriculture, and Engineering. Look it up. The legislature could dissolve DRI, UNLV, NSC, etc in one rollcall. In fact, the University of Nevada was originally endowed with capital sufficient to make it self-sustaining in perpetuity (taxpayer backup required only if some Regent bankrupted the trust). All students majoring in one of those aforementioned fields should be receiving free rides. or else paying just nominal tuition. The liberal arts students should be paying $600 per credit "user fees".
Only a RINO lawyer like Billus Raggiowe would resort to legal scare tactics.
Looks like Senate ultra RINOs Raggiowe and Townspend want Fibbons to a call a special session in order to give them one more opportunity to vote for higher taxes. They're both term-limited out (Townspend in 2010, I think). If we had small government in this state, the biannual budget would be less than $200M. The budget would be in SURPLUS. That's right. Fibbons would have to call a special session to figure out how to REBATE all the money piling up in the treasury.
What's all this nonsense about school underfunding breeding lawsuits?! The legal (constitutional) minimum for K-12 is one school per district (18 statewide). Yep. The legislature could vote out of existence *everything* above that. Slam dunk.
The legal minimum for NSHE is three departments: Mining, Agriculture, and Engineering. Look it up. The legislature could dissolve DRI, UNLV, NSC, etc in one rollcall. In fact, the University of Nevada was originally endowed with capital sufficient to make it self-sustaining in perpetuity (taxpayer backup required only if some Regent bankrupted the trust). All students majoring in one of those aforementioned fields should be receiving free rides. or else paying just nominal tuition. The liberal arts students should be paying $600 per credit "user fees".
Only a RINO lawyer like Billus Raggiowe would resort to legal scare tactics.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Abolish EDD
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
You can't insure for an event where the risks are positively correlated, like unemployment within the State of Nevada. Unemployment insurance is built on sand. That is why every few years the State has to borrow money from the feds (who unconstitutionally reinsure the whole nation!) to stay afloat.
The Nevada government has NO constitutional authority to operate an insurance company. It doesn't matter that the feds mandate it. Gibbons should announce that henceforth Nevada will no longer participate. If Obama threatens our highway funds Gibbons should stop federal tax withholding on state workers. What's the IRS going to do -- audit the State of Nevada?
You can't insure for an event where the risks are positively correlated, like unemployment within the State of Nevada. Unemployment insurance is built on sand. That is why every few years the State has to borrow money from the feds (who unconstitutionally reinsure the whole nation!) to stay afloat.
The Nevada government has NO constitutional authority to operate an insurance company. It doesn't matter that the feds mandate it. Gibbons should announce that henceforth Nevada will no longer participate. If Obama threatens our highway funds Gibbons should stop federal tax withholding on state workers. What's the IRS going to do -- audit the State of Nevada?
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Constitutional Must Haves and "Have Nots"
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
boycott all of the socialist things you enjoy .. the list is long.
Let's not confuse the necessary functions of a small government with the unnecessary functions of a big one. Everyone agrees that Nevada should have police power, military power to repel foreign invasion, etc.
Nevada doesn't need a public school system, a Taxicab authority, a dairy commission, and so forth. Those are all unnecesary features of BIG government.
We pay extra for state highways via gas taxes, auto registrations, etc. Whether NV 95 should be privatized is debatable, but it's small financial potatoes compared to our disasterous public education and health systems -- which make up ~75% of the biannual budget.
boycott all of the socialist things you enjoy .. the list is long.
Let's not confuse the necessary functions of a small government with the unnecessary functions of a big one. Everyone agrees that Nevada should have police power, military power to repel foreign invasion, etc.
Nevada doesn't need a public school system, a Taxicab authority, a dairy commission, and so forth. Those are all unnecesary features of BIG government.
We pay extra for state highways via gas taxes, auto registrations, etc. Whether NV 95 should be privatized is debatable, but it's small financial potatoes compared to our disasterous public education and health systems -- which make up ~75% of the biannual budget.
Miners "Not Paying Their Fair Share"
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
The problem is *not* that Nevada miners pay too little taxes. It's that Nevada government SPENDS too much money. If we had small government in this state, we could abolish mining taxes,
The problem is *not* that Nevada miners pay too little taxes. It's that Nevada government SPENDS too much money. If we had small government in this state, we could abolish mining taxes,
Friday, September 11, 2009
Deregulate NOW!
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Abolish insurance taxes and regulations. It drives up the cost of insurance. Abolish state insurance departments and bureaucracies. They're sinecures for friends of politicians. They drive up the cost of insurance. Abolish medical licensing laws. They create a guild for medical services, which drives up the cost of health care and the insurance premiums necessary to pay the bills. Abolish drug prohibition, the FDA, etc. Such government policies only drive up the cost of medications and the insurance premiums necessary to pay the bills.
What do the Democrats offer us? MORE regulations. MORE bureaucrats. MORE red tape. The Republicans rightly criticize them for that. They propose to fix things with MORE regulations. MORE bureaucrats, and MORE red tape. Nice to know we can count on them to provide opposition.
Abolish insurance taxes and regulations. It drives up the cost of insurance. Abolish state insurance departments and bureaucracies. They're sinecures for friends of politicians. They drive up the cost of insurance. Abolish medical licensing laws. They create a guild for medical services, which drives up the cost of health care and the insurance premiums necessary to pay the bills. Abolish drug prohibition, the FDA, etc. Such government policies only drive up the cost of medications and the insurance premiums necessary to pay the bills.
What do the Democrats offer us? MORE regulations. MORE bureaucrats. MORE red tape. The Republicans rightly criticize them for that. They propose to fix things with MORE regulations. MORE bureaucrats, and MORE red tape. Nice to know we can count on them to provide opposition.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Shame on UNLV Football
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
I just took a quick look at what the football upperclassmen are majoring in. I see that University Studies (ie "jockology") is still popular. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but I haven't yet found any serious students on the team. Where is the roster for the water boys and marching band?
I just took a quick look at what the football upperclassmen are majoring in. I see that University Studies (ie "jockology") is still popular. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but I haven't yet found any serious students on the team. Where is the roster for the water boys and marching band?
UNLV Research Still Adds Up to Fluff
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
[John Mercer is] a big shot researcher over at UNLV, the associate dean at the School of Allied Health Sciences.
Big shot?! What a complete puff-piece. For every pseudo-researcher like Mercer there are dozens of complete clowns like Dina Titus, Horsefurd's wife, administrators etc running around.
I just took a glimpse at some of Mercer's academic "research". Hmm. They might pass as Senior theses at San Diego State, but they're not serious science. Mercer is just another ridiculously overpaid bureaucrat Administrator. Kinesiology is just a euphamism for "jockology", like calling garbage collection "sanitation engineering". The Kinesiology department only exists to provide academic cover to dunderheads who can't hack it as basketweaving majors. It should be eliminated.
Grant funding? Who the heck is writing the checks? If it's NIKE, they should just bring the research in-house. The federal government has NO constitutional authority to sponsor this kind of research.
The original University of Nevada (now UNR) was chartered to provide practical instruction in fields relevant to our State, specifically Mining, Agriculture, and Engineering. Biomechanics of Running might qualify as engineering, but it's general relevance to Nevada is quite dubious. But that's what happens when the Legislature creates political institutions like UNLV.
[John Mercer is] a big shot researcher over at UNLV, the associate dean at the School of Allied Health Sciences.
Big shot?! What a complete puff-piece. For every pseudo-researcher like Mercer there are dozens of complete clowns like Dina Titus, Horsefurd's wife, administrators etc running around.
I just took a glimpse at some of Mercer's academic "research". Hmm. They might pass as Senior theses at San Diego State, but they're not serious science. Mercer is just another ridiculously overpaid bureaucrat Administrator. Kinesiology is just a euphamism for "jockology", like calling garbage collection "sanitation engineering". The Kinesiology department only exists to provide academic cover to dunderheads who can't hack it as basketweaving majors. It should be eliminated.
Grant funding? Who the heck is writing the checks? If it's NIKE, they should just bring the research in-house. The federal government has NO constitutional authority to sponsor this kind of research.
The original University of Nevada (now UNR) was chartered to provide practical instruction in fields relevant to our State, specifically Mining, Agriculture, and Engineering. Biomechanics of Running might qualify as engineering, but it's general relevance to Nevada is quite dubious. But that's what happens when the Legislature creates political institutions like UNLV.
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