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http://forum.collegetimes.us/forum/news-and-politics College Forum to discuss admissions, financial aid, SAT prep, Greek organizations, campus clubs, politics, etc. en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:25:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://forum.collegetimes.us/search.php http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/doc1theworldaccordingtomonsanto#post-1244 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:15:04 +0000 Anonymous 1244@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>The.World.According.to.Monsanto?</p> <p>What is that? A begging of a nightmare? A joke? No my friends, this is the awfully reality, stranger than fiction, that's our world. The modern man way of life.</p> <p>CORPORATIONS UNDER ONE GOD !!</p> <p>Everybody knows what is a corporation, and also what is Monsanto, that is the exemplification of the modern multinational's modus operandi, They made money: raping: our world, our nature, our equilibrium, our state of mind, simply didn't thinking about the consequences of their actions. A blind giant try to move between eggs in the darkness.</p> <p>Have you heard of it?</p> <p>Monsanto !</p> <p>In Italian the words: "mon" and "santo" have 2 religious means, they stand for "saint". What a joke.</p> <p>We heard of Monsanto since many years and everybody knows what they did and continue to do in our society, all over the planet, so why the leadership of the world let Monsanto do whatever it want to do? You know the answer better than me, I'm sure of it. If you are not following me, my friend is time to wake up and raise, cause you are still caged in Matrix, but you have to understand what's goin' on.</p> <p>Switch off the tv and open your mind.</p> <p>This is your opportunity to discover the new world that Monsanto is going to built for us.<br /> Le monde selon Monsanto</p> <p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189345/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189345/</a></p> <p>This is the original title of this piece of work, a master piece i guess by Marie-Monique Robin.</p> <p>If you care about our future, our freedom to choose, our freedom to know what are we eating, what are we breathing, and finally what are we building for the next generation, this is the path, the beginning of awareness, a drop in the ocean of ignorance, but a drop can change the direction of the events. Every single person is important, every consciousness is precious to improve our society or at least to not annihilate it.</p> <p>A lot of times thinking, i find my self in doubt, like many others i suppose. I don't know, if it's better to know and questioning or to stay blind and ignorant. Maybe life is easier while you sleep, when you became aware of the dirty world around, you start questioning about everything. Why this? Why that? You go to the market wondering, "why am i here"? How this chickens are feed up? Where this meat came from? Do i really need this? Is it better buy easily and cheaper in a big store or finding biological food in a little farm?</p> <p>A lot of questions, but all really important cause the world is based on our choices and if everybody cares, perhaps, something could change.</p> <p>Starting from our thinking, from our way of life. If you can choose, why u shouldn't?</p> <p>If you can choose...</p> <p>Can you already choose?</p> <p>I am sure u can discover if you can by your self. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/obama-gets-an-f-on-protecting-americans#post-1263 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:07:12 +0000 Anonymous 1263@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>There is no more solemn duty for an American commander-in-chief than the marshalling of “every element of our national power” – the phrase Obama himself used on Monday – to protect the people of the United States. In that key respect, Obama failed on Christmas Day, just as President George W. Bush failed on September 11th (though he succeeded in the seven years after that).</p> <p>Yes, the buck stops in the Oval Office. Obama may have rather smugly given himself a “B+” for his 2009 performance but he gets an F for the events that led to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarding a Detroit-bound plane in Amsterdam with a PETN bomb sewn into his underpants. He said today that a “systemic failure has occurred”. Well, he’s in charge of that system.</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100020934/barack-obama-gets-an-f-for-protecting-americans/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100020934/barack-obama-gets-an-f-for-protecting-americans/</a></p> <p>[quote]In his studied desire to be the unBush by responding coolly to events like this, Obama is dangerously close to failing as a leader. Yes, it is good not to shoot from the hip and make broad assertions without the facts. But Obama took three days before speaking to the American people, emerging on Monday in between golf and tennis games in Hawaii to deliver a rather tepid address that significantly underplayed what happened. He described Abdulmutallab as an “isolated extremist” who “allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device on his body” – phrases that indicate a legalistic, downplaying approach that alarms rather than reassures. Today’s words showed a lot more fire and desire to get on top of things – we’ll see whether Obama follows through with action. In the meantime, he went snorkelling.[/quote] </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/china-might-change-english-as-we-know-it#post-1262 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:23:42 +0000 Anonymous 1262@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>China's emergence as a 21st century superpower will change the way English is used internationally, according to language experts at the University of Melbourne.</p> <p>In a book* published last week, Melbourne Graduate School of Education researchers Professor Joseph LoBianco and Dr Jane Orton argue that the world's communications profile will change dramatically because of increased English language learning in China and increased Chinese language learning in the rest of the world.</p> <p>The authors say there are now more Chinese people learning English than there are Americans. But they are learning a 'domesticated' form of the language with English words that have been adopted for social and identity purposes.</p> <p><a href="http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2009121810474964" rel="nofollow">http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2009121810474964</a> </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/textbooks-for-rent-saving-students-cash#post-1303 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:54:00 +0000 Anonymous 1303@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p><a href="http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20100123090937817" rel="nofollow">http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20100123090937817</a></p> <p>Leah Germain<br /> 24 January 2010<br /> Issue: 108 </p> <p>As any university graduate can attest, the process of getting a degree is often a pricey endeavour. Along with tuition fees, students find themselves shelling out for textbooks and course packs that can add up to a small fortune, an average of US$900 a year in America. But BookRenter, a web-based company in northern California, is offering students an alternative to purchasing their expensive textbooks: simply rent them.</p> <p>BookRenter says it can save users up to 75% when they rent their required textbooks through its online exchange. Among other guarantees, the company promises customers their textbooks are either brand new or slightly used; there are - its managers claim - millions of books available and delivery is free if the textbooks do not arrive on time.</p> <p>The United States Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has released findings suggesting an American student can spend an average of US$900 a year on textbooks, which translates to roughly 20% of the tuition fees at a public community college. PIRG also stated that since 1994, the cost of textbooks had increased at four times the rate of inflation.</p> <p>BookRenter's website reports an overall growth of 300% following last September's start of the new academic year. With more than 40,000 students using the database from 5,000 campuses across the US, BookRenter has a firm grip on the US market.</p> <p>"We've experienced a record year of growth by focusing on what our customers really want - selection, affordable prices, high-quality books and reliable delivery," says Mehdi Maghsoodni, BookRenter's CEO.</p> <p>Launched in 2007, BookRenter has harnessed the power of new media to help communicate with its customers.</p> <p>"Consumers are surprised when they discover that the majority of our team is dedicated to working with customers online via Twitter, Facebook, email and chat. We view our customer support and community team as a core pillar of our business versus seeing it as a cost centre," says Maghsoodnia.</p> <p><a href="http://www.universityworldnews.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.universityworldnews.com/</a> </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/uc-davis-protests-over-higher-education-costs#post-1353 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:49:59 +0000 Anonymous 1353@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p><a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/nutshell.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.mideastweb.org/nutshell.htm</a></p> <p>Here is the thing... </p> <p>These students out there rallying for a just cause (lower student loan<br /> costs and overall lower educational costs) are so dumb, they don't even<br /> realize that the very socialist government that they so proudly trump<br /> around defending and yearning for is the very government that is causing<br /> the rates to go up for them. I mean, this is some great irony as WELL AS<br /> A SHOWING OF A GREAT DEAL OF STUPIDITY on the part of today's educated<br /> (is that an oxymoron, cause they're certainly not educated!) kids.<br /> They're their own worst enemy. Stubborn, a refusal to look at the facts,<br /> and the inability to say "I was incorrect but now I understand and I'm<br /> going to go ahead and do what is necessary to change my views." Dumb,<br /> dumb and dumb! Would you idiots like to know what the reason behind<br /> higher educational costs are? Read this paper done by Hayek and<br /> Friedman, two of the best economists to ever live. And wisen up kids,<br /> cause it's YOUR future you're giving away!</p> <p><a href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3344" rel="nofollow">http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3344</a></p> <p>The full PDF report can be read here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa531.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa531.pdf</a> </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/south-africa-intellectuals-more-likely-to-be-found-outside-universities#post-1246 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:05:20 +0000 Anonymous 1246@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p><a href="http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20091211082436622" rel="nofollow">http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20091211082436622</a></p> <p>Jonathan Jansen*<br /> 13 December 2009<br /> Issue: 0043</p> <p>More than ever before, intellectuals are more likely to be found outside rather than inside the South African university. The transition from legal apartheid to a young constitutional democracy created major dilemmas for the anti-apartheid intellectual.</p> <p>This is a chapter from Poverty of Ideas: South African Democracy and the Retreat of Intellectuals.</p> <p>First, where does the loyalty of the post-apartheid intellectual lie? Years of struggle couched in an anti-apartheid discourse had not only been built on strong personal and emotional attachments to the liberation movements, principally the African National Congress, but it had not imagined a realm of ideas and politics beyond that struggle.</p> <p>Thus, when a new state emerged in the 1990s, many university-based intellectuals on the left found themselves in a moral and political quandary about how to respond to the new conditions of politics, economics and society under what is, effectively, a black government. As I will demonstrate later, this quandary arises in part from a misconception of loyalty, and therefore disloyalty, on the part of the intellectual.</p> <p>Second, what would be the costs to intellectuals of working outside the state? The word 'costs' refers here to material, reputational and political costs.</p> <p>On the one hand, and to put this bluntly, there was money to be made, promotions to be gained, tenders to be won, invitational recognition at major functions, and senior university or civil service positions to be attained, by those who announced - and made visible on public platforms - that their loyalties lay with the promotion of the Reconstruction and Development Programme or the Growth, Employment and Redistribution strategy, GEAR (it did not really matter which, given the material interests being foregrounded) in their various fields (for example, education, health or social welfare).</p> <p>On the other hand, very severe sanctions were applied to those intellectuals who dared challenge the state on the three most contestable public issues of the Thabo Mbeki presidency: the defensive position of government on Zimbabwe; the dangerous position of government on HIV-Aids; and the dismissive position of government on crime and the fragility of domestic security.</p> <p>But these are only the big-media issues on which university intellectuals were largely silent. So many other public issues call out for critical response and engagement on the part of intellectuals, such as the demonstrable failure in delivery of key social services such as municipal governance, education and housing, and the collapse of key governmental functions (try calling a police van to a crime scene or an ambulance to an accident scene and measure the time spent waiting).</p> <p>There are many powerful and personal consequences that could and should be documented about the costs to the university academic of intellectual engagement on these issues. I will elaborate on this later.</p> <p>But there is another problem that faces the university-based intellectual, and that is the ways in which the institutional conditions under which thinking proceeds have themselves changed the terms and the territory on which public engagement can take place. The shorthand for this complex of conditions is called 'managerialism' in the academic literature and it is characterised by the following key shifts in institutions:</p> <p>* The shift in the authority of academics from individuals to the broader collective, the management; an example is the punishing of individuals at certain universities for daring to launch critical seminars on subjects of public interest without the approval of the senior executive.</p> <p>* The shift in the authority of faculties from the academic unit to the managerial complex; an example is the appointment of academics by central management instead of by the department or faculty as in the past.</p> <p>* The shift in the authority of deans from a primary responsibility downwards, to the academics who appoint them, to a primary responsibility upwards, to the senior managers who now contract them under the new and revealing title of executive dean.</p> <p>* The shift from the authority of academics over their own work to the ever-greater surveillance of external authorities, such as the Council on Higher Education, which also make decisions about whether programmes are worthwhile or not. This is not a case against the practice of ensuring quality; it is a case against the immediate and long-term consequences of such a practice being enforced from the outside, on behalf of the state.</p> <p>* The shift in the authority of academics over their right to decide what is worth teaching within universities. An example is the recent intrusion of a government department into what was once the sacred grounds of university autonomy - the right to decide what to teach - when the national Department of Education introduced a qualification into universities (an Advanced Certificate in Education for school principals) that would effectively close down other such certificates by tying its qualification to promotion and advancement in schools. Never before in the history of universities in South Africa has any government ever usurped such authority; it would have been seriously contested even under apartheid.</p> <p>* The shift in the authority of academics towards greater and greater decision-making over routine matters by academic administrators with less and less control over the core functions (such as finance) that enable academic work to proceed. The irony of decentralisation in institutional contexts is that academics actually end up with less authority than under previous managements.</p> <p>The point of this discussion about the changing conditions of academic work is the dilemma for the university intellectual: at the very moment when the cost of external engagement with the state was compromising and silencing some of the most visible and prolific university intellectuals on the left, the conditions of their work within institutions circumscribed their academic authority and re-routed their activities into an accumulation of administrative tasks and functions.</p> <p>Universities, in this age of managerialism, have opted for less visibility on the major social issues of the day, rather than greater and more critical engagement with those issues. Where engagement takes place, it is defined as implementation of or delivery on a preset development agenda. The agenda itself is not questioned.</p> <p>One reason for this change is that universities have turned inwards on themselves after the high-publicity stories of institutional corruption and collapse in the 1990s that led to the take-over of certain institutions by a legal oddity called an administrator.</p> <p>Another reason has to do with the real and imagined sanctions that institutions could face if they or their members are seen as speaking against or standing outside official mandates placed on universities. For example, university finances are now determined not according to a predetermined formula based on inputs and outputs, but are also subject to the discretion of the minister, to a political decision that makes institutions increasingly subject to the year-by-year actions of a government minister.</p> <p>I am certainly not suggesting that in some simplistic way a funding decision is based on the degree of allegiance of a specific institution; rather, the new basis for funding institutions creates, alongside other official actions, an environment in and around universities in which they are increasingly conscious of their public behaviour in relation to the state.</p> <p>This kind of mindless subservience has led to the somewhat laughable decision of certain universities to hand out honorary doctorates to the heads of research funding (such as the National Research Foundation, which decides on the volume of institutional and individual funding) and statutory bodies (such as the Council on Higher Education, which determines programme accreditation status), not because of exceptional standards of scholarship on the part of these heads, but because of anticipated benefits that flow from such hand-outs. It also explains the over-representation of the same senior ANC officials and their family members in the position of chancellor at these universities. It would, in my view, constitute an ethically astute position not to make such awards or appointments to funding and accreditation agencies or to leading members of political parties.</p> <p>The point of all this is that university-based intellectuals no longer work in the same kinds of campuses that, for the most part, were once sites of intellectual productivity, problem-setting and politics against the apartheid state.</p> <p>It is in these kinds of campus contexts that the failure to problematise the concept of loyalty enables the silences or allegiances of university intellectuals. Since loyalty is understood as party-political loyalty, there emerges the kind of family-knit allegiances that Njabulo Ndebele [former vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town] so eloquently described in his attempt to explain the bizarre behaviour of pro-Jacob Zuma activists outside the courts where the former Deputy President [now President] was on trial for rape.</p> <p>When loyalty is defined in terms of clear principles - such as the right to speak one's mind without fear of reprisal or to exercise independent thought on critical matters of public concern - then of course there ought not to be a conflict when really difficult issues, such as a rape allegation against a senior politician or corruption within the state, comes to the fore.</p> <p>It will of course be very difficult to engender such an elevated sense of loyalty in a country where the past is still very much with us, where racial emotions are still raw, and where the struggle to build a new society remains a very long-term project amidst dire inequalities that have not diminished since 1994.</p> <p>What is at stake, though, is serious business, much more important than the visibility, independence and criticality of intellectuals. The kind of democracy South Africa builds for the future depends crucially on the space and support available to university-based intellectuals during these formative years of the new society. It will determine the kind of engagement allowed and inspired on university campuses; the kind of citizens to emerge from institutions; and what kinds of mindsets are nurtured among students and academics of this democracy.</p> <p>There is a real danger that the combination of external surveillance and internal self-censorship could alter the very meaning of university life in South Africa and lead to the permanent demise of institutional intellectuals.</p> <p>There is also the drift factor - some of the most prominent university-based intellectuals in the apartheid period have migrated to government and the corporate world where their official positions and material interests have effectively negated any strong emergence of critical intellectuals. More seriously, as a result of this drift universities have lost their best intellectuals, and this further limits the possibility of intellectual vibrancy on campuses.</p> <p>It is, however, once of those curious observations of life in the new South Africa that university-based intellectuals are once again racially distinguishable in the post-1994 period.</p> <p>The most fervent intellectual debates and leadership in this period have come from a group of people who might call themselves Afrikaner intellectuals. What drives them is a single cause - the perceived decline of Afrikaans in public life generally and on university campuses in particular. It is a debate without national consequences at the moment, because it is largely an internal debate of the white Afrikaans-speaking community, one that sells Afrikaans newspapers and raises Afrikaner sentiment like no other issue. But the debate on Afrikaans has serious institutional consequences and could become the flame that lights all kinds of white nationalist causes.</p> <p>The prominence of conservative intellectuals like Danie du Toit of the University of South Africa or Hermann Giliomee of Stellenbosch has replaced the visibility of progressive intellectuals on major subjects of the day. The Afrikaner intellectuals no doubt seek a restoration of the dominance and privilege of Afrikaans in institutions even if this means denying access to non-Afrikaans speakers and, therefore, the vast majority of black students and academics. There is no parallel movement among black intellectuals.</p> <p>But the grounds for the development and nurturing of black intellectuals are further eroded by the mass promotion and employment of black academics at senior levels in universities without any substance or scholarship. I have referred in previous writings to the growing tendency to appoint black academics as professors without any significant knowledge to profess, any substantive scholarship to promote or any record of excellence in the academic domain.</p> <p>Black nationalists are doing after apartheid exactly what Afrikaner nationalists did under apartheid: promoting people on the crude basis of colour, this time to meet employment equity pressures and through a misguided sense of parity with white academics.</p> <p>Academics of course are not necessarily intellectuals, but my point is that by engaging in this reckless behaviour it is even less likely that conditions are being established within institutions whereby intellectual life can flourish and intellectuals can be identified and nurtured. We have, effectively, dumbed down our institutions, which is why the level of investment in research capacity runs in directly opposite lines to the aggregate production of research outputs. To simply blame this on the retiring white male is disingenuous.</p> <p>It is important to understand the common mechanisms by which intellectuals, black and white, are silenced in South Africa. It would be reckless to claim that there is the kind of direct, oppressive sanction that imprisons intellectuals or that exiles the university critic. South Africa has been fortunate to construct a relatively open and democratic society in which white intellectuals especially have discovered that vicious attacks on the state, often fuelled by a crude racism in the Afrikaans papers, have not met with direct retaliation.</p> <p>But the mechanisms of censure are often much more subtle and in many ways much more effective than the direct and oppressive silencing of intellectuals. I will avoid giving specific examples, though these are available, and concentrate rather on general observations about how censure happens within this young democracy.</p> <p>First, university-based intellectuals find that their access to certain kinds of research resources quickly dries up if they are seen as working outside the political will of the powerful in government. Much of the large research funding flowing into South Africa requires government approval, such as the very lucrative funding available for health research in general and HIV-Aids research in particular. It is the approval process that can work to fund cooperative institutions and marginalise the critics. This simple fact might explain the relative silence of university intellectuals on the perplexing positions of Mbeki on Aids. It is not only the large research grants, but also the routine government contracts for training, research and evaluation that suddenly become out of reach for such intellectuals.</p> <p>Secondly, university-based intellectuals will also find that their expertise is ignored within government commissions and expert panels. This is an effective way of sending a message of disapproval, and it not only robs the country of high-level local expertise, but also means that large numbers of external consultants, often from rich countries, are brought in to do what could have been done locally. Because our young democracy still finds it difficult to reconcile criticality and loyalty, South Africa pays a heavy price for such small-mindedness when it could otherwise be enriched by the multiplicity of voices on any subject.</p> <p>Thirdly, university-based intellectuals will also find themselves disqualified from seeking senior positions within the academy, not because of their managerial of leadership capacities or because of their academic credibility, but because their public profile is interpreted as negative, as something that runs counter to the managerialist ethos and political sensitivities of the post-apartheid university. It is for this reason that university vice-chancellors are increasingly non-academics and more likely to be senior civil servants, heads of statutory bodies or low-profile, unremarkable academics who are unlikely to ask tough questions about the relationship between the state and institutions. (There are of course notable exceptions.) They are also unlikely to lead the academic and research community with any credibility, but at least their political credentials are intact.</p> <p>And so public intellectuals within or outside universities in South Africa are forced to make a cost-benefit analysis: do they speak truth to power and thereby run the real risk not only of the ridicule of the powerful, but also of the marginalisation of their expertise within a developing context? Do they accept that the vocation of the intellectual necessarily means standing outside the allure of power and privilege? And do they accept that their specialist expertise within the disciplines will be shelved in the reasonable pursuit of making a contribution to national development?</p> <p>These are tough and even painful questions, and only a fool would risk superficial and trite answers. But what makes these questions even harder is the fact that the withering away of the public intellectual has meant that those who stand up and speak truth to power are more likely to be seen as oddities or even eccentrics precisely because there are so few others doing the same.</p> <p>For example, I write this piece at 3am from a hotel room in Chicago, where jetlag has robbed me of a decent night's sleep; so I write and I read. The morning newspapers are in, and there are dozens of editorials in both the electronic and the print media highly critical of the immigration policy of the President. It is hard to single out individuals as unreasonable in this culture because the critical voice is everywhere even though university-based academics like Noam Chomsky clearly rise above the sea of critics and intellectuals because of sheer eloquence, consistency and commitment.</p> <p>In South Africa, it is very different. There are literally less than a dozen university-based intellectuals who are likely to speak out on public concerns that challenge the powerful and unsettle the status quo. And because the same few voices emerge on the range of public concerns, they are labeled as irritants, as unreasonable, as having one or another personal or political agenda. These persons are more likely to be respected and recognised outside their national borders than within them. And even among these few university intellectuals, several have already disappeared from the radar screen because the costs are simply too high.</p> <p>In every country, the quality, depth and sustainability of democracy depend crucially on the treatment of intellectuals. Even established democracies such as the US still struggle with freedom of speech and have to fight the wiretapping of the telephones of citizens, the demonisation of Mexican immigrants who keep the economy afloat, and the dehumanisation of Muslim peoples as a pretext for bloody war.</p> <p>A young democracy like South Africa no doubt feels the same strains, but its future will be determined not so much by its past history but by its present actions with respect to the universities and intellectuals within them.</p> <p>* Professor Jonathan Jansen is Vice-chancellor and Principal of the University of the Free State. He was the former dean of education at the University of Pretoria. His recent books include Mergers in Higher Education (2002), Education Policy Implementation (2001, with Yusuf Sayed) and Changing Curriculum (1999, with Pam Christie). His latest book is Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting race and the apartheid past.</p> <p>* This article is a chapter in the recently released book, Poverty of Ideas - South African democracy and the retreat of intellectuals, edited by William Gumede and Leslie Dikeni. The book is published by Jacana, Johannesburg. The chapter is reproduced with permission.</p> <p>* Poverty of Ideas - South African democracy and the retreat of intellectuals can be bought through <a href="http://www.kalahari.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.kalahari.net</a> or by emailing <a href="mailto:sales@jacana.co.za">sales@jacana.co.za</a> </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/the-poughkeepsie-tapes-serial-killers#post-1243 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:13:12 +0000 Anonymous 1243@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Welcome back my friends, welcome to my world, the kingdom of questions, the reign of no one, but a path where everyone can feel the freedom to understand or to explain everything.</p> <p>Welcome back!</p> <p>Serial killer or fiction? Reality, brutality, violence, our world or an imaginary one? Walk the line between fake or real, an awfully reality translate into a documentary, directed by a sick mind.</p> <p>A normal neighborhood shocked by dramatic events, a mix of: interviews, 8mm footage, home made images, stories, tears, cops, all linked to 2 words, "serial killer", a label too many times used in our society, a brand, that scared everyone.</p> <p>Who is a serial killer?</p> <p>How can i recognize him/her?</p> <p>It's impossible i guess, but the real question is "Have serial killers always exists?" or "Are the serial killers a product of our time?" or better," Are they increase in number since the movies industry talks a lot about them?" or "Does really exist a serial killers gene?", a lot of questions, every single of this queries open a lot of feelings, many doors that we can open freely if we are interest in this kind of matter. Maybe too many questions, too many attentions, a lot of problems that seems the society can't handle properly now.</p> <p>We try to understand our fears, we'll try and maybe we'll do it.</p> <p>"I'm a real, live human being, sometimes i want sweet, sometimes i want sour, sometimes I don't know what i want, my shit stinks, I'm going to die some day".</p> <p>Can you still follow me? My friend, in my dissertations, on my path there are a lot of questions and normally only few open answers, i have no suggestions, to solve the problem, only one tip to you, "Watch this movie", really, I mean it.</p> <p>I can unveil to you nothing of this movie/documentary, cause doing it, almost certainly, I'd ruin your premiere and this is not in my intentions.</p> <p>So think about this problem or don't think about it, but watch this work cause it worth it.</p> <p>John Erick Dowdle, this is the name of the director, most famous for his last work, "Quarantine", a remake of a spanish genial movie "REC" directer by Jaume Balagueró.<br /> They are 2 of the best directors in this kind of movies, really particular films that can transport you right in the middle of a story, inside the core, while you watch their works you can fell the situation, the environment, sometimes you can almost smell the scent of a scene. You believe me? I don't think so but you should.<br /> I am waiting for your reviews or comments, whatever they'll be: strange, crazy, one word, confuse, happy, from the inside, from something you have read, a quote, a sign, a desire, a fear, don't hesitate, follow me and I'll show you<br /> "How deep the white rabbit hole really goes". </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/v-for-vendetta#post-1242 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:11:27 +0000 Anonymous 1242@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>"We must become the change we want to see in the world". (Mahatma Gandhi)<br /> It was time for a good film. A real good one I mean. You know, good sense and significances mixed with genius directing. This time "the brothers", (Wachowski) overtakes themselves; they are the best film's writers ever, i think... revolution action! i love it!</p> <p>Everybody have to see it especially in time like ours, where 1984 is still goin'on, if you follow me, I hope so. This film is so actually and prophetic at the same time, full of means that goes longer our ages. You can feel it across the speeches, whoever speaks, words can kill, but also bring poems. The main character have no self-expression, the mask that he wears talks in its stead. The mask bring inside a legendary semblance of Guy Fawkes, I let you discover who this character is.</p> <p>When the basements of a society are shake from the inside, the reality that everyone sees change, when mainstream information lead to nowhere and the power of few men drag the people's imaginary into a sort of cage, something have to move on. What have to mutate? You know what. You have to reach the bottom to fill it, to start again, to reborn, or simply to understand.</p> <p>Now, waiting in our homes, watching tv, talking about nothing, losing time, we are losing control. Let someone take the decisions cause we are not able to do it, lead the society toward a dictatorship, a medias brainwash.</p> <p>Do you feel something? Are you still follow me? Sure you do.</p> <p>The movie is set in Great Britain in the near future but the themes are awfully current. The revolution is inside everybody, waiting to be wake up, like the slavery is around us chasing us, we have to wake up soon.</p> <p>"V" this is the name of our hero (Hugo Weaving), a very theatrical character, but also a fighter, pushed by his personal revenge against his jailer, only to personify the rape of all the world, "V" is a metaphor, the naughty characters are also metaphors, "V" is the ordinary people, exploited, caged, misled while the establishment is symbolized by the totalitarian government, in the person of Chancellor Adam Sutler (John Hurt).</p> <p>"Strength Through Unity. Unity Through Faith !!"</p> <p>Terrorism it's only an excuse to take off all the civil liberty, when the people is scary from something, really scared, few men can take advantage from the situation. Something remind me to our time. Can you see?</p> <p>Follow me !</p> <p>Where freedom seems terrorism and our free will is stolen, we must riot!</p> <p>In the middle of tons fo useless films sometimes genius appears, I hope this is only the beginning.</p> <p>Watch it! Better do it ! Wake up my friends, time is come.</p> <p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/</a> </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/uc-expected-to-raise-student-fees-32-percent#post-1174 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:06:13 +0000 Anonymous 1174@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Regents are expected to approve yet another increase, arguing it's needed to avoid further course reductions and staff furloughs. The plan draws statewide protests. Police arrest 14 at UCLA.</p> <p>By Larry Gordon</p> <p>November 19 2009</p> <p>Caught between state funding cuts and rowdy student protests, a key committee of the University of California's Board of Regents on Wednesday reluctantly approved a two-step student fee increase that would raise undergraduate education costs more than $2,500, or 32%, by next fall.</p> <p>The complete article can be viewed at:<br /> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucfees19-2009nov19,0,6237361.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucfees19-2009nov19,0,6237361.story</a> </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/fort-hood-shooter-screamed-allahu-akbar-before-opening-fire#post-1133 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:18:36 +0000 Anonymous 1133@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>[i]Our prayers go out for the Fort Hood families of the November 5, 2009 shooting.[/i]</p> <p>There is a small detail that most media outlets, and the ARMY, are not saying, which is that the shooter at Foot Hood, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, screamed "Allahu Akbar" before opening fire on fellow US soldiers.</p> <p>Earlier today, Drudge Report linked to this AP article on Yahoo:</p> <p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting</a></p> <p>It's quite interesting that the US military, always careful with their portrayal of minorities, females, and Muslims, has refused to comment on this fact, and the mainstream media is also ignoring it for other politically correct reasons. But while the story is being reported as a "psychiatrist who snapped, because he was being deployed to Iraq", the fact remains that he was a Muslim who screamed the token phrase that all Muslim terrorists scream before exploding, or terrorizing, etc.</p> <p>Was he secretly recruited by Al Qaeda before this event? Probably not. But there is much more to this story than is seemingly being reported, and the following weeks will surely demand the details. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/what-websites-do-you-visit-to-get-your-news#post-1117 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:43:43 +0000 Anonymous 1117@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>So what are you favorite news websites?</p> <p>I frequent:<br /> <a href="http://drudgereport.com/" rel="nofollow">http://drudgereport.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://wn.com/" rel="nofollow">http://wn.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/</a> </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/ap-declared-in-2004-that-obama-was-born-in-kenya#post-1121 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:06:56 +0000 Anonymous 1121@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>[i]From a seemingly accurate email forward...[/i]</p> <p>According to this Associated Press article, Obama admitted that he was not a US Citizen to Allan Keyes in a debate. He stated "so what?" regarding his run for office, stating he wasn't running for the presidency. Guess he changed his mind, huh?</p> <p>Notice too, how the MSM including Google, is trying to hide from people trying to find the truth.</p> <p>AP declared Obama “Kenyan-Born”</p> <p>John Charlton<br /> The Post &amp; Email<br /> October 16, 2009</p> <p>What most people know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news services. What most people don’t know that is in 2004, the AP was a “birther” news organization.</p> <p>How so? Because in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, and which was, as of this report, available at</p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm</a></p> <p>The AP reporter stated the following:</p> <p>Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.</p> <p>This report explains the context of the oft cited debate, between Obama and Keyes in the following Fall, in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a “natural born citizen”, and in which Obama, by his quick retort, “So what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency”, self-admitted that he was not eligible for the office. Seeing that an AP reporter is too professional to submit a story which was not based on confirmed sources (ostensibly the Obama campaign in this case), the inference seems inescapable: Obama himself was putting out in 2004, that he was born in Kenya .</p> <p>The difficulty in finding this gem of a story is hampered by Google, which is running flak for Obama: because if you search for “Kenyan-born US Senate” you wont find it, but if you search for the phrase without quotes you will find links which talk about it.</p> <p>For those who believe what they see, here is the screen capture of the page from the Kenyan Sunday Standard, electronic edition, of June 27, 2004 — Just in case that page is scrubbed from the Web Archive:</p> <p>kenyan born</p> <p>Readers should take note that this AP story, was syndicated world-wide, so you should be able to find it in major newspapers, archived in libraries world-wide. If any reader does this, please let The Post &amp; Email know, so that we can publish a follow up-story. You can scrub the net, but scrubbing libraries world-wide is not so easy.</p> <p>Hanen of Sentinel Blog Radio broke the public news of the existence of this AP story at on October 14, 2009 at 12:31 pm. However, The Post &amp; Email can confirm that a professional investigator had uncovered this story months ago, and that certified and authenticated copies of this report, meeting Federal Rules of evidence, have already been prepared and archived at many locations nationwide.</p> <p>It should be noted that on January 8, 2006, the Honolulu Advertiser also reported that Barack Hussein Obama was born outside the United States .</p> <p><a href="http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jan/08/ln/FP601080334.html" rel="nofollow">http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jan/08/ln/FP601080334.html</a></p> <p>A Chronology of Deceit</p> <p>One can now ask an important question which has not yet been emphasized enough: “Just when did Obama begin to publically claim he was born in Hawaii ?” This question is distinct from the question, “Just where in fact was Obama born?”, and from the other question, “What do official documents say about where he was born?”</p> <p>Regarding his claims, we can summarize what is known:</p> <p>1. As of Monday, Aug. 28, 2006, Obama’s Campaign was putting out that he was born in Hawaii . This is known from the introductory speech given by Prof. George A. O. Magoha, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nairobi , on the occasion of a speech given there by Senator Obama that day. (One presumes that the Vice-Chancellor was given notes from the Obama campaign, as is customary on such occasions)</p> <p>2. From the newspaper reports above, it is clear that the Obama campaign was putting out that he was born in Kenya , or overseas, during the period of June 27, 2004, until January 8, 2006.</p> <p>3. In October of 2004, during the ABC Chicago Affiliate’s broadcast of the Obama-Keyes debates, Obama openly admitted — he conceded — that he was not a natural born citizen. (C-Span aired the uncut version of the debates, which contained this exchange, in the second half of April, 2005)</p> <p>4. It is known from a classmate of Obama at Harvard University , that while at Harvard, Obama at least on one occasion admitted that he was born in Kenya . (This friend went on record on a call in radio program in Idaho in early July, 2009)</p> <p>If any reader can find a link which documents a claim to a birth location before Aug. 28th, 2006, which differs from this timeline or which supports it; please let The Post &amp; Email know of it, by posting it in the comment section below.</p> <p>In a follow up report, The Post &amp; Email has published a brief analysis of the Google Newspaper archive, which shows that Obama’s story changed after June 27, 2004.</p> <p>Finally, that the AP did cover this story, reprinted by the East African Standard, can be seen from the citation made to AP stories about it (Jack Ryan dropping out of the race), in the following contemporary news articles, which however are incomplete:</p> <p>June 25, 2004 — <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123716,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123716,00.html</a></p> <p>June 26, 2004 — Bellview News Democrat</p> <p>June 26, 2004 — AP Online Story by Michael Tarm</p> <p>June 25, 2004 — AP Syndicated Story by Maura Kelly Lannan</p> <p>(Second Source on June 26, 2009, which cites Associated Press Special Correspondent David Espo and reporter Dennis Conrad as contributors to this report)</p> <p>(Third Source, The Ledger, print edition of June 26, 2009: partial republication) </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/modern-man-a-wimp-says-anthropologist#post-1111 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:34:46 +0000 Anonymous 1111@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>[url=http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59D0BR20091014?pageNumber=1&amp;virtualBrandChannel=11604&amp;sp=true]http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59D0BR20091014?pageNumber=1&amp;virtualBrandChannel=11604&amp;sp=true[/url]</p> <p>LONDON (Reuters) - Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.</p> <p>Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood.</p> <p>Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestle.</p> <p>These and other eye-catching claims are detailed in a book by Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister entitled &quot;Manthropology&quot; and provocatively sub-titled &quot;The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male.&quot; </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/uc-faculty-walk-out-924#post-978 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:01:50 +0000 Anonymous 978@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Under the cover of the summer months, UC administration has pushed through a program of tuition hikes, enrollment cuts, layoffs, furloughs, and increased class sizes that harms students and jeopardizes the livelihoods of the most vulnerable university employees. These decisions fundamentally compromise the mission of the University of California. They are complicit with the privatization of public education, and they have been made in a manner that flouts the principle of shared governance at the core of the UC faculty&#39;s capacity to guide the future of the University in accordance with its mission.</p> <p>On September 24, in solidarity with UC staff and students, faculty throughout the University of California system will walk out in defense of public education.</p> <p>For more info, please visit <a href="http://ucfacultywalkout.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ucfacultywalkout.com/</a></p> <p>Join the facebook group and show the UC Prez that students/faculty/staff mean business :-) </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/iraqi-shoe-thrower-shot-dead-by-us-troops#post-1019 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:14:29 +0000 Anonymous 1019@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6dc34801599f65f8916891b204ea0026.891&#038;show_article=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6dc34801599f65f8916891b204ea0026.891&#038;show_article=1</a><br /> [quote]</p> <p>An Iraqi man who witnesses said shouted abuse before throwing a shoe at a US army vehicle was shot dead on Wednesday in what the American military said was a suspected grenade attack.</p> <p>Residents told an AFP reporter in Fallujah that Ahmed Latif, 32, whom they said was mentally disturbed, insulted the soldiers as they patrolled in the centre of the city, and then hurled a shoe at them.</p> <p>The US military told AFP that a convoy in Fallujah had been attacked with a suspected grenade.</p> <p>&quot;Positive identification of the attacker was made, and US forces fired in self-defence wounding the attacker,&quot; the army said in a statement.</p> <p>&quot;Local Iraqi police secured the scene and transported the wounded attacker to a local hospital for medical care,&quot; it added.</p> <p>Dr Ali Hatam of Fallujah hospital confirmed that Latif died of gunshot wounds.</p> <p>The incident came a day after Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi was freed after spending nine months in jail for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush during a visit to Baghdad. [/quote]</p> <p>Umm... was this an accident? </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/acorn-story-grows-but-mainstream-media-refuse-to-cover-it#post-1008 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:54:16 +0000 Anonymous 1008@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>[i]From the organization that Obama just awarded millions of dollars in tax money during the &quot;bailout&quot; :([/i]</p> <p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/14/dan-gainor-acorn-media-ignore/" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/14/dan-gainor-acorn-media-ignore/</a></p> <p>Dan Gainor - FOXNews.com - September 14, 2009</p> <p>ACORN Story Grows But Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover It</p> <p>Bruce Springsteen once wrote: “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come).” I doubt he expected that story of love gone wrong would become ideal political commentary for the group known as ACORN. </p> <p>The small scandal showing an embarrassing video of Baltimore ACORN staffers looking like they were giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel, is now national news. -- This story has everything you could ever want – corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream. Imagine the ratings!</p> <p>Only almost no one is covering it. </p> <p>This is the news media in the era of Van Jones and President Obama. The major outlets cover what they want and create the themes they want. When they find something inconvenient, they let it pass. They didn’t like the Van Jones story, so they ignored it. The network news media liked the financial entity known as Fannie Mae, so they ignored that scandalous organization for years. ACORN is getting the same treatment.</p> <p>But it isn’t working any more. The ACORN fiasco has now impacted three offices – Baltimore, Washington and New York – with laugh-out-loud videos reminiscent of the hookers and pimps from the 1970s “Starsky and Hutch” show. Huggy Bear returns! Four employees have been fired, with more likely to come. And the controversy was so laughably bad that the Census Bureau cut off all ties to the group known formally as the &quot;Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.&quot; -- They called it the “tipping point” to shed themselves of ACORN. More nuts for someone else, I guess.</p> <p>And yet. And yet it’s still been ignored by the network news. Nothing on ABC, CBS or NBC. The only thing any one of the three broadcast networks has done appeared in a blog post by ABC’s Jake Tapper. It&#39;s hardly worth noting except to show that the networks know about what’s going on. They just don’t care to report it. Only FOX News has bothered to report on the controversy.</p> <p>The video scandal is only part of the fiasco that is this Saul Alinsky-esque community group. Just last week CNN reported that other ACORN employees were arrested in Florida. “Arrest warrants were issued Wednesday for 11 Florida voter registration workers who are suspected of submitting false information on hundreds of voter registration cards, according to court documents,” said CNN.</p> <p>That’s typical. The Web site &quot;Rotten ACORN&quot; is devoted to election fraud complaints against the organization. The site’s map shows 14 different states where complaints have been filed. The last time any one of the broadcast networks talked about that was before the 2008 presidential election. That was NBC on Nov. 1. Nothing since.</p> <p>Yes, the newspapers have taken a passing glance at the video story. The Post wrote about the firings in D.C. The New York Times ran a story by the Associated Press. Nothing more. I am underwhelmed. At least the Times covered it this time. With Jones, the Times waited until he had resigned to report he was under fire.</p> <p>What’s worse with ACORN is that we’re paying for all this. At least in part. The Washington Examiner writes that they “found that ACORN has received at least $53 million in federal money since 1994.”</p> <p>For its own part, ACORN naturally blamed someone else. In this case, FOX News, calling itself “their Willy Horton for 2009.” The ACORN state reads like a paranoid’s interpretation of the videos. Here’s Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer, for the group:</p> <p>“The relentless attacks on ACORN&#39;s members, its staff and the policies and positions we promote are unprecedented. An international entertainment conglomerate, disguising itself as a ‘news’ agency (FOX), has expended millions, if not tens of millions of dollars, in their attempt to destroy the largest community organization of Black, Latino, poor and working families in the country. It is not coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction. It is clear they&#39;ve had these tapes for months.”</p> <p>Yeah, all that about under-aged prostitution, corruption and government connections isn’t news. People are just out to get ACORN. No wonder their name symbolizes a kind of nut. Too bad the rest of the media don’t want us to know that.</p> <p>Dan Gainor is The Boone Pickens Fellow and the Media Research Center’s Vice President for Business and Culture. His column appears each week on The FOX Forum and he can be seen on FOXNews.com’s “Strategy Room.” </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/big-bad-wal-mart#post-815 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:44:46 +0000 Anonymous 815@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Hey guys,<br /> Thought I&#39;d get your opinion on the Wal-mart company</p> <p>Now Wal-mart is causing more trouble:<br /> <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/house-divided/2009/08/preservationists_say_wal-mart.html" rel="nofollow">http://voices.washingtonpost.com/house-divided/2009/08/preservationists_say_wal-mart.html</a></p> <p>What do you guys think of it?<br /> I won&#39;t skew the results by saying my opinion until after there are some responses. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/honor-killing-or-excuse-for-a-getaway#post-299 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:11:13 +0000 Anonymous 299@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>What do you guys think about the teenager in the States who fled to Florida because she claims that her strict Muslim parents were going to kill her for converting to Christianity?</p> <p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1918228,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1918228,00.html</a></p> <p>Such a hot button issue.I don&#39;t know everything that she knows, but if she&#39;s lying then I am left completely baffled.Not that the truth would be any better,but I wouldn&#39;t want honor killings to be a knee jerk reaction for many people in the States exclusively.Honor killings are a serious and rare enough occurrence over here as is. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/combating-johns#post-878 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:07:26 +0000 Anonymous 878@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/27/tennessee.john.school/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/27/tennessee.john.school/index.html</a></p> <p>I actually think this is a great idea, and it would certainly be something worthwhile to pursue in states like California, where overpopulation in prisons is a problem.I used to believe that with a system of health checks and resources,prostitution should be something that is monitored and legalized.</p> <p>However, I guess now I ascribe to the school of thought that many prostitutes are exploited or forced into that line of work, and to validate it would be abominable and further such a practice.Young girls are especially what I would worry about, and certainly(at least in this country) there would be laws that still made it illegal for johns to visit under 18s.</p> <p>What do you think of this school(and its effectiveness) and the issue of legalizing prostitution? </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/stock-market-bounce-back#post-394 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:32:04 +0000 Anonymous 394@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Over this last Monday and even last Friday we have seen quite a bounce back in the stock market. With the Dow Jones closing around 9,600 points yesterday. Is this the end of the troubled times?<br /> Will my stocks start turning around and actually making profit?</p> <p>Lets hope so! (knock on wood)</p> <p><a href="http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow/?" rel="nofollow">http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow/?</a> </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/ted-kennedy-dead-at-age-77#post-615 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:58:57 +0000 Anonymous 615@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>After a long battle with brain cancer, Ted Kennedy has perished. Now Chappaquiddick can be forgotten. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/government-complaining#post-555 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:16:28 +0000 Anonymous 555@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Health Care reform. </p> http://forum.collegetimes.us/topic/moratorium-on-real-women#post-164 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:44:47 +0000 Anonymous 164@http://forum.collegetimes.us/ <p>Let&#39;s just stop.</p> <p>Collectively, I want a permanent ban on the phrase &quot;real women&quot;. You condescending women&#39;s <em>anything</em> aimed at making women feel included while dually shaping them to buy the jeans that they won&#39;t buy and can&#39;t fit into.</p> <p>We are smart, college educated people who can do better by our women. Let&#39;s not throw one body shape(skinny) down while validating another half heartedly. </p> <p>&quot;I like real women,&quot; the guy at the party grins to her, noting her curves and thinking he&#39;s so gracious to be so accepting. </p> <p>&quot;Good, so you don&#39;t like mannequins or blow up dolls? That distinction actually wasn&#39;t what I would have guessed just looking at you.&quot;</p> <p>I guess that&#39;s my in head retort for crap like that.Sorry:)</p> <p>What stereotypes about your gender does the media feed that irritate you? </p>