This video made me pucker!
Frankly it was dumb luck that there wasn’t bloodshed. Cop answered a call of armed teen. Teens didn’t comply, plus one was futzing with his MP3 player in his pocket, and the other had a fake gun on him. Cop correctly guessed that none were REALLY armed, and nobody got shot. Still it was just his guess, and his dumb luck that nobody REALLY had a gun that he lived through this.
Saw this awesome video, and I thought I’d add to it.
College, like Health Care will never be “Free” because they all must be services rendered by a skilled professional. What I’m sure Julie is aware of, but didn’t feel to delve in is what the cost of government involvement is.
According to a White House press release on Friday, the America’s College Promise plan would “make two years of community college free for responsible students, letting students earn the first half of a bachelor’s degree and earn skills needed in the workforce at no cost.”
The plan may involve no costs for students, but taxpayers are a different story. The White House estimates that the plan could save as many as 9 million students about $3,800 annually, which translates to an annual cost of about $34.2 billion.
That 34 Billion number was simply done by multiplying the number of students by the estimated cost to be subsidized by tax payers. But it isn’t that simple, as running any sort of program costs money as well.
There are a few examples of stuff like this already working. Look at Health Care. Since the massive overtaking of health insurance in this country, insured people don’t actually PAY for their health care. For somebody like me the actual health care is “Free”, I just pay my insurance company (though the help of my employer) to be covered, and pay a “usage fee” in the form of co-pays when I actually engage their services.
Now if I wasn’t ensured I could negotiate with my doctor what an exam or procedure would cost, have that done, and then pay cash and be done. With Health Insurance my employer has people who manage the group accounts, the insurance company has people who run the account, and the doctor has employees who manage collection of the fees from the provider. All of that costs a very non-trivial number. Further the doctor has no incentive to give me his fairest price, or compete with the office across the street as far as price goes, because I don’t know or care what an exam or procedure costs unless I look at my insurance statement. Either way there is negotiation between the doctor and insurance company (either on accepted rates, or individual services) so whatever number is on my statement is artificial anyway.
Same goes for charities. Your buddy’s house burns down and he asks you and all his friends to help him out. You pay him and the money goes into his pocket. Now many charities work with volunteers, but bigger groups will have some paid management staff, plus overhead costs for fundraising and distribution of goods and services.
Either way the more people that get involved between a simple transaction the more money is lost, and just like the professor at the college isn’t going to giving lectures and grades for free, the people who are collecting and distributing tax monies for subsidized schools aren’t going to do it for free. Further the government is well known for hiring 10 people to do the job of 3, and giving them good benefits and retirement.
And that isn’t going into the people who will be urged by the system to go to “free College” when they have no buisness and/or no interest in getting a higher degree, causing increased demand on the system to be paid for by schools raising rates to build new classrooms and hire new instructors, and the .gov side needing more people to manage the system.
So really the $34 billion price tag is a rock bottom estimate!
BUT FREE!!!!!!
This is something I can’t relate to:
A 42-year-old woman was fatally struck by a light-rail train while walking across the tracks, listening to music on her phone.
…**DEPARTED** crossed the tracks around 10:15am Sunday morning, even though there were flashing red warning lights, a flashing sign and bells telling of the coming Green Line train.
Now I take the train to work, and I’m listening to podcasts or the radio for my commute. Still I only put one ear bud in just so I can hear the world around me. Still this practice started at my last job when I’d be wandering around the lab doing work and somebody would come up to me and want to talk. Back when I’d have buds in both ears I’d have to stop the recording, pull out the ear buds and ask them to start over. With just one, I hear them from start to finish and can have a conversation while I stop the recording.
Still I never listened to music loud enough that I couldn’t hear the outside world, and trains aren’t quiet. That doesn’t factor in the whole “look both ways before crossing the street” and looking for the flashing lights at the crossing.
Still I guess we need to ban trains….
H/T Bob
This story is getting play on both sides of the issue:
SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — Police say three suspects and a business owner have been critically injured by gunfire in a botched robbery at a Kansas City gun shop.
Shawnee, Kansas, police Maj. Dan Tennis says four people tried to rob She’s A Pistol Friday afternoon. Three were shot. Two of them were critically injured. Another had less-serious wounds and was arrested with the fourth suspect in a residential area nearby.
A man who co-owns the store with his wife also was critically injured by gunfire inside the store. He and the wounded suspects were taken by ambulance for treatment. The female co-owner wasn’t shot but sustained minor injuries to her face.
The antis see this as nothing but wanton violence, and a reason for us to give up our guns. The the owner was shot, and his wife was injured! SEE??? GUNS DON’T KEEP YOU SAFE!!!
Well except it was 3 vs two, and the criminals planned the thing, and the shop owners were just open for business. All suspects are in custody. Hopefully the owner will pull though, and I’m pulling for you. Could be EVERYBODY is going to live.
So while it sucks so much blood got shed, what’s the alternative? Let the suspects rob the store, sell the guns, and commit more mayhem? Plus they ALREADY HAD GUNS, and now don’t.
Plus you think only non-violent people are hearing about this story? Those three jokers didn’t expect to get shot that day, and do you think they were the ONLY ONES who thought that way?
**UPDATE** It appears the store owner has died. My heart goes out to his surviving wife, their family, and the customers who knew him. The antis are using this as fodder, but again, three criminals off the street, their guns confiscated, the man’s wife will be fine. I’m not going to call it a “fair trade”, but I will call it a heroic one.
An Oklahoma mother was arrested on a charge of child abuse murder after police say her 3-year-old foster son died from a severe head injury.
…The couple’s foster son **DEPARTED** was rushed to a hospital August 27 suffering from blunt force trauma to the head. Despite the doctors’ efforts, the toddler’s condition gradually worsened and he passed away from his injures five days later.
…According to court filings, **FOSTER MOTHER** told police the 3-year-old was jumping on the couch when he fell and hit his head on a table.
However, investigators found that the foster mother’s account was not consistent with the severity of the boy’s injuries.
Hey, but only “Gun Death” counts, so lighten up!
H/T Bob
You hear this constantly from the antis. We just need to license gun owners and register guns like cars! Think about that!
A 15-year-old girl without a driver’s license took her father’s SUV without permission before crashing the vehicle, killing three teenage boys, authorities have said.
The unidentified girl, who may have been speeding, is now facing possible charges in the crash,
So we have a registered vehicle, we have licensing for all LEGAL operators of motor vehicles, and we probably have a vehicle that was locked up before it was, let’s not mince words, stolen.
So now three young men are dead. Where do we go from here? Maybe the father should have kept his keys locked up? Savor the irony of that statement!
Of course where we go from here, in the eyes of the antis, is note that only “Gun Death” counts, so these boys can be ignored.
Don’t you feel better now?
H/T Bob
Florida father charged with hurling his 5-year-old daughter from a Tampa Bay bridge just after midnight Thursday had previously been arrested for battery against the girl’s mother and sought a domestic violence injunction against her, police revealed. That request was declined last month.
Really sick! And what kind of monster would do this?
**REDACTED** was previously arrested on two separate battery domestic violence charges in 2010 and 2013 against the mother of his daughter, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. In 2013, he was also arrested for battery against his own mother.
That kind…good thing he didn’t have a gun, otherwise we might be dealing with a “Gun Death”.
H/T Wallphone
Of course due to the recent attack in France I’m hearing a lot of anti-Islam sentiment going around. It makes me mad as I know many Muslims who are great people, just like all the good Christians and Jews I know. Also all three of those religions are Abraham, so as an outsider I see conflicts between these groups at a spiritual level very strange.
So this story makes me very happy:
In the war for young people’s hearts and minds, Mohamed Ahmed hopes to use cartoons to dissuade a generation raised on “The Simpsons” and “South Park” from taking up arms for the Islamic State group and other extremist causes.
Ahmed, a convenience store manager from Minneapolis, has launched AverageMohamed.com, a website offering homemade videos aimed at countering the messages and images terrorists use to lure disaffected youths into holy war.
“I don’t want my children fighting this war. Let’s end this in my generation,” said Ahmed, a married father of four young children.
His website is here, and I decided to post a few of his videos.
Keep spreading the good word!
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