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Falwell and bunch always came across as very intolerant of those who had different beliefs of anything... and Liberty is his "baby". I even remember and saw him on TV blame America's sinfulness for 9-11, not the terrorists. . I even heard one of his "preacher" buddies on radio urging people to go there and not those infidel public universities and compared community colleges to barber/beauty schools. I don't want to have any part of giving them any credibility on anything. .

---Different subject (mentioned above) but I absolutely oppose "free college" ...... Where I teach we did that for a while for recent grads... It was awful. We had people sign up and go a few times and never come back once they discovered it was not HS part II. . It was a total waste of money and resources. Students need to have some "money on the table" or they will not take it seriously.

Odessa Permian had one do that in basketball a few years ago.... he did not look his age either.... sent to prison because of his "actions" with a teen-age girl. . . https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/high-school/highschoolheadlines/2010/06/07/Report-Odessa-Permian-basketball-player-5918

Major in what-ever you want to major in ..... just be aware of what the job opportunities are and the pay is after graduation... Pay is often determined by what you can do that others can't ( or won't ) .. I just have seen people who suddenly realize AFTER graduation that there are few good paying jobs for that major. Most people go to college to qualify them for employment in the future... and not just to take fun or easy classes. Just don't complain about the lack of jobs or the pay then..

-- I teach at at a community college..... Let me explain a big difference ... here and at most good community colleges and small colleges.... students get profs with master's degrees and PHD's that have taught a lot of years (usually) and at most large 4-year schools students their Freshman and maybe sophomore year usually get-- 1). some person who may be an "instructor" with only a Bachelor's degree and working on a Masters and maybe even teaching a class for the first time ever. , ----2). extremely large classes and unable to ask many if any questions, --- 3) Some person with a foreign accent that they can barely understand. ---- I honestly believe in a lot of cases students get a better education at a smaller college or community college their first year, maybe two... --- My summer classes tend to be .. 1/3 Aggies, 1/3 TxTech, and the 1/3 others ... and those are the complaints I hear regularly.. especially the last two... I do not just give out grades easily as the post above indicates. Maybe somewhere .. but not here... Students tell me the best thing is they can ask questions and understand us... I asked my class last summer (during the final week) who had had a prof they tried to take and could not understand or a class that was huge.... Most raised their hand. --- I was once a TA at TxTech as were many others on staff somewhere... I know what goes on. There is zero pressure here to pass students .... they will know the content or else they fail.. Those last two reasons is why so many go here in the summer. --- We do get feedback from some universities ... I have several times heard that our transfers to 4-yr. colleges including UNT have higher GPAs than the students that started there..... UNT was one of best at feedback for a while .... [ seems to indicate our students are getting as good or better background than the ones that start at 4-yr colleges ]... --- We also have some classes here taught by other colleges including TxTech and Sul Ross... in fact we have one building on campus with the Texas Tech name on it. The Frisco site will likely be filled with mostly older students (20+) going back to school (sometimes women with kids now) and traveling is a problem to them, or those who are living at home still and trying to reduce costs, or those that may be working full or part-time.... Most of these older students tend to work harder because they now understand the importance of an education. -- My pet peve is on-line classes from anywhere... Most students I see that have had them didn't learn what they should have. (math) .. just memorized methods and don't really understand. Maybe it works in some subjects... not math .. Having this campus will reduce that need some.

----UT and A&M are funded from the "University Land Fund" set up over a century ago .... which now takes in a fortune in oil money from mostly West Texas.. Starting in 1966 the Texas Legislature started changing names various colleges so they could also use those funds starting with Texas Western becoming UTEP and Arlington State becoming UT-Arlington. What was East Texas State, West Texas State, Texas A&I and others now have names which allow them to draw from it ... UNT, TxTech, and some others do not have access to that money. We are funded entirely differently.... ----Thanks to those guys in the 1800's that created that fund, many of our colleges have that money available and is likely a huge contributing factor why that we don't have a state income tax ... we don't need tax money collected for those colleges but other states do need tax money and don't have this type fund to fund education. We have it because we we once an independent nation and kept our public lands. . There might not be issues if we were a TAMU or UT branch but it isn't because of favoritism for any group or person. They have money available to them we can't access..... unless you want UNT to become UT-Denton. --- Living in West Texas I am very aware that this area provides funding for so many universities of much of the state (mostly oil money) .. Ever hear of Santa-Rita #1 near Big Lake.... it was the first University Lands oil well and began the oil money flowing into the account. I think it is used only for construction and maintenance and not salaries etc.

Not college kids... age 50+ or more.

Western Kentucky did well in NIT and was eliminated in the semi-finals on Tuesday by Utah ... 69-64 and had defeated and eliminated Oklahoma State which was a very good Big-12 team, also Boston College and Southern Cal earlier. Middle Tennessee won one game in the NIT then was eliminated by Louisville. ...... Marshall in the NCAA defeated Wichita State then lost to West Virginia of the Big-12. . CUSA has had a pretty good year in the post-season.. with none of the four teams losing in the first round and had success. Chicago Loyola won the CBI about 3 years ago and they are now in the NCAA final four.. Go Mean Green...!! .

McCasland was the Midland College coach the last time we won the National championship for community colleges... (have won some before ... with Spud Webb and Mookie Blaylock)... He has experience in very meaningful playoff games.... He is a good guy and I have met him several times. Not that it means anything But MC main color is also green.... .Go Mean Green.

What is your deal .??.. about every time I post you attack me or try to make fun of me.... I have done nothing to you.. ... In the past I have even talked to you before football games although I never used my ID here..... .. Freedom of speech does exist. .I grew up in an era that political parties got along... Go back and look at LBJ/Dirkson/Ford/Goldwater era.. . Yes they did vote SOMEWHAT on party lines but not as extreme as now. Things started changing greatly in the 90's... The tea-party types showed up claiming to be conservative and look at the debt now ... like it or not taxes have to collected if money is spent for highways, education, law enforcement, food inspections, courts , military, etc. What has happened is the super wealthy and corporations have received huge cuts and the rest of us ...very little..... Pay attention ... In Texas property taxes have climbed as state funding fell for various things and then they brag about cutting taxes ... well not really... locals have had to make up the difference. . People in public education and many others do not like Gov. Walker..... He does have a point about about seeing students major in a subject that leads to good jobs... but that is about it. -- It is not about which party but what he has done... This is widely known to people who work in education and many others... Can't access the Washington Post article (subscribers only) on him and what he has done. ... but one exists. . Scan this. http://onewisconsinnow.org/scottwalker/education/

Best UNT years were absolutely the Bill Blakely ones about 1976-77 or so .. Won 22+ games those years (3 straight I think) but not in NCAA because it was only 24 or 32 teams then and we were independent with no conference championship to force us in.. The best NT game I saw was in 1965? when we defeated Cincinnati in the old Snake pit who had been national Champions a couple of years earlier (twice) before UCLA began its insane run of about 9 championships in 10-11 years. We were absolutely in the best Basketball conference in America... the Missouri Valley. UCLA was the best team but the MVC was the best conference.. in fact my senior year at Christmas 5 of the top 10 were MVC members. [ Louisville, Wichita, Cincinnati, and I think Bradley and Drake ] Texas Western aka UTEP won it all that year. .Why was the MVC so good ..??.. The ACC, SWC, SEC, and few others were all white and the MVC was integrated and pulling in a lot of talent and just outside of the South. . The best player I saw was Wes Unseld, later NBA Hall of Fame player and from Louisville. UTEP and UCLA were pulling in a lot of talent elsewhere then as well. .After I graduated Houston with Elvin Hayes was killing everyone except UCLA.. and the SWC was still not integrated or very little. Houston was then also an independent before joining SWC as team #9 ... We would like have been team #10 if SMU had not opposed us so strongly... Because of the gym size you had to go early if you wanted to see a game... all weekday games were full.. Weekends not so much. GO Mean Green...!!

Not exactly ... not drop those majors but let students know that some of those degrees do not lead to well paying or many jobs in the future .. in other words better advice from the college and maybe even in high schools is needed.. . I recently was looking at majors of students graduating from college (not UNT) and too many were in areas of "not great" job opportunities. if a student wants a degree in "Bulgarian Lit" well ... have at it ... but don't expect many job offers and don't complain when they can't get one. . ..... Why must everything be related to a political party ..... Who cares what party controls the legislature ... officials are elected to serve the public not a political party. Politicians should not be just puppets to a party or some donor and should think for themselves and do what is right. . .What I have read about Wisconsin public education isn't very good... Things have gone down in Texas as well ... Students I am now seeing are not what we once had... A lot less state funding putting more pressure on local property taxes ( I am guessing yours has gone up a lot.. don't blame them, blame the state for cutting their share of funding... money has to come from some where) and those current stupid tests that we now have also hurt... Remember those tests have nothing to do with me except I see the students after high school. They do not indicate much about the teacher other than who spent too much time teaching just the test items.

Plus they got 42 of their 72 points on 3-point shots ... How likely is that to happen again.... I am optimistic. We outscored them in the second half... They won because of their crazy first few minutes of so many 3 point shots going in.. .

42 of their 72 points came from 3-point shots ... that is crazy... maybe next time that won't happen.

I only had two big problems with the Bush years ...... ONE: we invaded without using the intelligence we had available even with satellite photos ... and just took the word of a Liar (Curveball, an Iraqi citizen) that Germany and others including France insisted could not be trusted... 100's of Americans died as a result and the situation in the Middle East is worse than before we invaded... Yes Saddam was a bad guy but not as bad as things are now. Cheney who I consider to be the big factor in causing the invasion kept insisting HE knew where the nukes were .... he lied. Gen Powell (Sec of defense then) on the other hand seemed to be questioning it . It cost a lot of money and lives and still is not completely resolved. It had nothing to do with being unpatriotic by opposing it ... I don't want Americans killed for a stupid reason. Yet some of us got greatly criticized for opposing it. .. ..TWO the debt started the debt climb with the passage of the tax bill in 2001? that gave the super wealthy 90% of the tax cut.. Normal people did not get much... just a bone thrown their way .... Every other war in history taxes were raised to pay for it ... not this one ... Congress cut taxes instead... That gave the Bush or Obama administration little chance to balance the budget... plus Congress has made no effort to stop it and it will get worse because of interest and war costs and now even worse (in my opinion) with this latest cut..... and you will see that nearly all of it went to corporations ... not us. Like an individual .... when debt gets very high, ... it is nearly impossible to stop it and pay off largely because of the interest.... .Do I like to pay taxes ... hell no ... but quit giving cuts to those who don't need one. ..The super wealthy and corporations (big contributors directly and indirectly) on their 2018 taxes will be cut 40%.. (due next year) What has gone on since 2001 (financially ) is not even close to conservative.... but the party that claims that... is responsible ... mostly. I am nothing like a lot here try to "paint" me. Liberal, unpatriotic, dumb, and anti-gun. All of us are conservative on some issues and a bit liberal on others.... To me the gun issue is backwards.... I would think conservatives, like other things, want regulations and controls, and liberals don't want any. if you want to popular with your kids .... give them money and everything they want even if you can't afford it.. make no rules either ...... Unfortunately that works with politicians who also tell people what they want to hear and that will get them elected... .

I agree.... that is a big problem with sports networks and even newscasts.... those games are still going one when they take place... Unless they are afternoon games ... no one hears/sees the results nationally and maybe not in Texas. Even too late for most Texas newspaper deadlines.

The 2015 CBI winner was ---- Loyola- Chicago ..... and they are in the Final four of NCAA this year. The 2016 CBI winner was --- Nevada ... and they made the NCAA this year and they lost to Loyola - Chicago in the round of 16.. The 2017 CBI winner was --- Wyoming.... they were 20-13 but not invited anywhere and in 6th place in. Mountain West. UNT next year...???? .... sic em.

True.....They show near nothing about any ones total wealth ... but they do reveal how much income he has made and would show how much more he would be making after the corporate tax cut ..

.Rick ......the Democrats did not control Congress until 2014... as you claimed. The GOP took over in Jan 2011 look at the link I posted ... 2011-2013 ... 193 Democrats and 242 GOP members.... I don't where you get that "stuff".. but it is not accurate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ..... This is from the US Treasury site I linked to. ... not political --Doubt me ..... go read it .. The end of Nixon/Ford budget 1977 debt --- $ 0.7 trilion The end of Carter budget 1981 .... . debt ----$ 0.9 trillion The end of Reagan budget 1989 .... debt ---- $ 2.8 trillion The end of G. Bush budget 1993 .... debt ------ $4.4 trillion The end of Clinton budget 2001 ..... debt ----- $5.8 trillion. ---- after 200+ years. The end of W. Bush Budget 2009 .. debt ------ $11.9 trillion ..... that is not a $3 trillion increase as you claimed. The end of Obama ---- about $19 (as you said) ..not listed here. but note how it slowed down in those last years (below) after the economic crisis and he even had a GOP Congress and still that tax cut for the wealthy in effect. . It isn't good but considering less money coming in from taxes after 2008 for several years and a GOP Congress.. Now (with Trump) it is a little more than $21 trillion ...... $21.065 trillion. so the treasury site says. (today) Date Dollar Amount 09/30/2015 18,150,617,666,484.33 09/30/2014 17,824,071,380,733.82 09/30/2013 16,738,183,526,697.32 09/30/2012 16,066,241,407,385.89 09/30/2011 14,790,340,328,557.15 09/30/2010 13,561,623,030,891.79 09/30/2009 11,909,829,003,511.75 09/30/2008 10,024,724,896,912.49 09/30/2007 9,007,653,372,262.48 09/30/2006 8,506,973,899,215.23 09/30/2005 7,932,709,661,723.50 09/30/2004 7,379,052,696,330.32 09/30/2003 6,783,231,062,743.62 09/30/2002 6,228,235,965,597.16 09/30/2001 5,807,463,412,200.06 09/30/2000 5,674,178,209,886.86

Just my opinion: Trump did not release his tax forms (as promised) because he doesn't want the public to know how much MORE money he will make as a result of this last tax cut..... It will be a lot because of the severe drop in corporate tax rate.

The Democrats did not control congress until 2014 under Obama as you claim... check facts... They did Jan, 2009-Jan 2011 ONLY... those were years that the economy was trying to recover from the 2008 economic meltdown. ... things were not good then. The debt you listed is not right either...the Bush administration left in Jan 2009 and their fiscal year year ended later [ Aug I think] and their budget does also.. so it is more accurate to use 2001 to 2009.. not 2000-2008. Clinton was in office all of 2000 and that budget lasted until mid 2001(also 2000 taxes paid in 2001). ... and the first two years of Obama was real problem ones due to the 2008 economic Crisis so bad many banks and car companies where bailed out and with high unemployment ... the worse since the depression in the 30's. Tax revenue went way down those two years plus I assume you understand income tax enough to know that those with huge stock accounts were rigging their taxes to show losses and not gains which can carry over into several years after that which reduced their tax debt. (and tax revenue) ... I teach college math and even mathematics of finance and I am not making "stuff" up. I am very well informed on financial issues. House of Rep control: (it is easy to check facts and I will and people should).... and Fox never tells anything bad about the GOP if that is what you think you are quoting. IT IS WRONG. Plus there are a lot of fake news sites on the web [ not major networks] that lie like crazy. They get a lot of gullible people believing that BS. Apparently many sites were put up by Russian groups but had very patriotic American sounding names and a lot of people re-posted this BS on Facebook etc... This problem is all over the news. http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ Look at the chart again... the debt started up AFTER the crisis and 2001 tax cut which gave 90% or more to the extremely wealthy... Especially long term capital gains.. which dropped to 15% after that.... That is a lesser rate than I pay even and am not that extremely wealthy. You may have gotten a small cut .. but nothing like they did and the debt then went crazy... starting in 2002 or so. Remember that $6 trillion until 2001 was the result of TWO HUNDRED YEARS plus some expensive wars including WWII. .... not eight years. The tax cuts and having another war (unjustified, no nukes) as Cheney kept promising and even said he KNEW (supposedly) where they were. How are things in the Middle East now .?? ... worse. . The debt will get worse .. much worse .... after this last tax cut mostly to corporations (a 40% cut) ... No one wants to pay taxes but this can not go on forever... and even it is possible that the interest could eventually exceed tax revenue ... ie. bankrupt.. not good .. and very bad times would follow.

I. Obama did not triple the debt... he did not even double it.... plus he inherited a situation after the 2009 economic crisis that cause a lot less taxes to be paid and the debt grew then because of that.. ... and most of the time including his final 6 years the Congress which pass tax laws and spending bills was GOP controlled. 2. You are right about what the GOP after 2001 ... acted as financial liberals.. 3. Read below ... You will see what say is correct... .The Bush/GOP era end in 2009 and the debt was nearly $12 trillion. and was less than $6 trilion when he took office. .I don't make up stuff........ Below --- First is 2000-2015 ... the next is 1950 -1999 .... note the huge difference... in ALL Presidents (both parties ) prior to 2001 compared to afterwards when the GOP dominated Washington.. .. Afater 2001 is whee the debt went crazy ... yes I can be balanced .. But I deal in the truth not made up facts. . https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo5.htm https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo4.htm --------------------------------------- I have no idea where you got the idea he tripled it ... Fox probably ... they are not known for the REAL truth. Check facts... I can and do.....

---And the national debt was less then $6 trillion when Clinton left office in 2001 after 200+ years and many wars.. then the GOP took over both Congress and the White House in 2001.... Mostly blame Congress for the increase in debt.. they pass all spending and tax bills. ... Now it is over $20 trillion after after all the tax cuts to the super wealthy... And they just gave corporations a 40% reduction in taxes from 35% to 21%.... [ 21 is only 60% of 35 ] So much for claiming to be the conservative party and with the actions of the guy in White House ... the family values claim went out the window also. ---I wonder how much the President will make extra because of that tax cut .... likely that is why he will not release his tax forms .. doesn't want us to know.

--- He was home-schooled until college age. ... This isn't always true but a lot of them that I have seen are rather strange, have poor social skills, and a lot of extreme or odd ideas... Apparently he did not graduate college ... well that is no surprise either ... at least in math which I teach, they tend to be very poorly prepared. Another one I read about this week killed his buddy with a baseball bat.

--- May not be related but the Governor up there has not been a "friend" of education.... One concern I have had is the lack of really good counseling on campuses about employment opportunities of various majors. They may be "fun" or interesting majors but the real purpose of education should be preparing students for employment and life after college. -- A cartoon I have on my college office door is a Shoe cartoon with one guy stating that he graduated with a PHD in some obscure philosophy degree and the other responds "What does that make you" -- response ... "Unemployed". Above it I have written "One reason to major in "Math/Science/Engineering". --- They should not do away with those degrees ( or minors) especially history and English but better counseling should be done about employment opportunities after graduation..