Friday, March 28, 2008

Catching bullies in action

From this morning's Inside Higher Ed:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget plan to cut back funds for California’s need-based grants program would disproportionate hurt students at the state’s community colleges, the Institute for College Access and Success said in a report Thursday. The report said that because of the way money from the Cal Grant Program is distributed, new grants to community college students would be cut by 45 percent, or about 18,500 students, in the fall. The report also estimated that 700 students at the University of California would be denied a Cal Grant, 2,000 in the California State University system; 1,200 at private nonprofit colleges; and 3,000 at for-profit career colleges.
From the OC Reg (Local preteen inventors to be on Leno tonight):
Three young inventors from Tustin and Irvine are heading up to Burbank today to hang out with Jay Leno for a few minutes of TV fame on the “The Tonight Show.”

Brandon Sharpe from Loma Vista Elementary will be talking about his belt buckle video camera. The invention, according to the third-grader, is designed to catch bullies in action. Joining Sharpe will be fifth-grader Benjamin Jacobs from Westpark Elementary and his “Perfect Parker” guide, which helps drivers park in their garages; and fifth-grader Kerissa Iyer at Brywood Elementary, with her popcorn-mate.

The trio was part of a group of more than 300 elementary and junior high students who displayed their inventions at the 21st annual Astounding Inventions showcase, which was sponsored by Greenberg Trauig law firm, at Irvine Valley College in January….

1 comment:

torabora said...

The Democratic DOMINATED legislature year after year has sent that RINO GAS budget after budget that was phoney baloney plastic banana financial gibberish worthy of an Arthur Anderson accountant(and nowadays we have KPMG in the sub-prime debacle). And they all liked it year after year up there in Sacratomato. Even those lousy Republicans.

And now the wheels are coming off the budget train just like they did with the Grey Satan.

Now you don't think for a minute that the Gubberment is going to tighten its own belt do ya?

You think maybe they could put the brakes on consultants, staffers, analysts, and those thieving lawyers? Maybe they could roll back some pay raises ($591000/yr for the new UC chief...vomit)? Put off for a year of two some major capital outlays?

Why not just no!...but HELL NO! Instead they'll come after the sick lame and lazy, the old, students, unwed mothers, babies, homeless, you know...the usual subjects. And not a one of their victims could grab enough money in a frigging year to equal what the legislature rips off the taxpayers back in just per diem/car allowance. They just gotta love it out there in GAS's cigar smoking tent.

Meanwhile, your Goo keeps sliming along.

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