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QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Dec 18, 2014 -> 10:50 AM)
Body cameras aren't a cure-all. There are 4th Amendment issues that will need to be resolved. There will be police reports where the camera either wasn't turned on or malfunctioned (both could come from benign or malicious intent).

 

Body cameras will help - both officers and the public should want them and advocate for them. But there are going to be plenty of speed bumps regarding their implementation nation-wide.

I did not say that they were a cure-all. I cited specific research on a case in California where the addition of force-wide body cameras led to a 60% reduction in police use of force and an 88% reduction in complaints against police. So while some of your anecdotes may be correct, if these results are scaleable nationwide then that is an enormous signal of less police-on-others violence associated with those cameras, and that's what I was pointing to.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 18, 2014 -> 09:56 AM)
I did not say that they were a cure-all. I cited specific research on a case in California where the addition of force-wide body cameras led to a 60% reduction in police use of force and an 88% reduction in complaints against police. So while some of your anecdotes may be correct, if these results are scaleable nationwide then that is an enormous signal of less police-on-others violence associated with those cameras, and that's what I was pointing to.

 

I agree with you - body cameras will be a significant aid in police/public interactions. And my post, while it quoted yours, wasn't meant to debate the veracity of the study, nor the ultimate result - body cameras protect both police officers and the public.

 

The ACLU had an interesting report from last year discussing some of the policies/procedures that will need to be discussed in order to make body camera implementation more successful.

 

https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty...s-place-win-all

 

I think this is a pretty interesting topic - just trying to add to the discussion.

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So a University of Michigan department chairwoman has published an article titled, "It's Okay To Hate Republicans". How can any conservative student in any of her classes be assured that they are being graded fairly from now on? And if the University doesn't distance itself from this, how can the college claim to treat all fairly when they would clearly endorse hating Republicans?

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3947...katherine-timpf

 

This teacher does a LOT of projection in her writing. She really needs to look in a mirror.

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QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 18, 2014 -> 12:16 PM)
So a University of Michigan department chairwoman has published an article titled, "It's Okay To Hate Republicans". How can any conservative student in any of her classes be assured that they are being graded fairly from now on? And if the University doesn't distance itself from this, how can the college claim to treat all fairly when they would clearly endorse hating Republicans?

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3947...katherine-timpf

 

This teacher does a LOT of projection in her writing. She really needs to look in a mirror.

 

The exact same protections every college students have regardless of reason, or even without a specific reason against a professor. Depending on the University there are numerous avenues for appealing grades. Every professor I've had enjoyed debate about what they are teaching. It is by far the best way to teach. The students are engaged and they learn a valuable life skill that carries into the work place.

 

Should your employees have feared an unfair job review because you may have disagreed with their political views?

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It is worth wondering whether there is any good reason for her to know any of her students' political affiliation in the first place, since she works in communication. Even so, educators have all kinds of reasons to be potentially biased. There's no way to be perfectly neutral.

 

With that said, chances are that she rarely teaches/grades undergraduate students. She's a full professor and department chair at a top research university in a scientific discipline. She probably only works with grad students.

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QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 1, 2015 -> 07:01 PM)
The exact same protections every college students have regardless of reason, or even without a specific reason against a professor. Depending on the University there are numerous avenues for appealing grades. Every professor I've had enjoyed debate about what they are teaching. It is by far the best way to teach. The students are engaged and they learn a valuable life skill that carries into the work place.

 

Should your employees have feared an unfair job review because you may have disagreed with their political views?

 

You shouldn't have to be appealing grades because your teacher "hates" (a strong word) your political views, IF that's even the case here.

 

If a student wanted to take a class to learn debate, they'd take a debate class. If I'm learning computer programming, I don't want to debate you about giving me a fair grade because you feel it's a "valuable life skill" and you're a douchebag that can't separate your political views from the teaching process.

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And students grasp at any excuse. I was told by one parent that the reason her son was failing my class was because I didn't like him. I just pulled out copies of his work, printed out the work he submitted on-line, noting that almost all of it was late. I also showed her the rubric for the major assignment. I showed her the semester benchmark that he left mostly blank because he wasn't allowed to use the restroom as quickly as he would have liked. There was a long line and it was one at a time in the restrooms to help fight cheating.

 

Her conclusion, I was a terrible teacher who didn't like her kid and that's why he failed. :lol:

 

Later in the year she pulled him from the school because all the teachers were against her son and hated him.

 

One of my MA classes was American Lit through the lens of economic systems. We read works like Cosmopolis, An American Dream, Invisible Man, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, etc. One student was so upset that a couple times he had to leave the room, once it was so bad he was thisclose to needing security to escort him out. He earned an A in the class. To add a little levity I brought a bandanna to class and called it the bulls*** flag. We took turns throwing it. That didn't work long. Even though I was pushed way out of my comfort zone and my ideas were challenged, pushed, pulled, stretched, and discredited, it was my favorite class. All the training I received here from the right wing wackos really helped. I never sensed your views would cause a poor grade, just the opposite, sitting on the sidelines would have.

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QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 2, 2015 -> 07:48 AM)
And students grasp at any excuse. I was told by one parent that the reason her son was failing my class was because I didn't like him. I just pulled out copies of his work, printed out the work he submitted on-line, noting that almost all of it was late. I also showed her the rubric for the major assignment. I showed her the semester benchmark that he left mostly blank because he wasn't allowed to use the restroom as quickly as he would have liked. There was a long line and it was one at a time in the restrooms to help fight cheating.

 

Her conclusion, I was a terrible teacher who didn't like her kid and that's why he failed. :lol:

 

Later in the year she pulled him from the school because all the teachers were against her son and hated him.

 

One of my MA classes was American Lit through the lens of economic systems. We read works like Cosmopolis, An American Dream, Invisible Man, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, etc. One student was so upset that a couple times he had to leave the room, once it was so bad he was thisclose to needing security to escort him out. He earned an A in the class. To add a little levity I brought a bandanna to class and called it the bulls*** flag. We took turns throwing it. That didn't work long. Even though I was pushed way out of my comfort zone and my ideas were challenged, pushed, pulled, stretched, and discredited, it was my favorite class. All the training I received here from the right wing wackos really helped. I never sensed your views would cause a poor grade, just the opposite, sitting on the sidelines would have.

 

That they do, I witnessed this on a few occasions while I was a student myself.

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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 2, 2015 -> 07:50 AM)
That they do, I witnessed this on a few occasions while I was a student myself.

 

Sadly, it causes the legitimate cases or errors to be dismissed. One of the reasons I love electronic submissions via Google Classroom is proof that I did or did not receive the work.

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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 30, 2015 -> 02:19 PM)
A year of concealed carry in Illinois was terrible, resulting in daily fire fights with unintended victims and murders by gun-toting vigilantes uneventful.

 

http://illinoistimes.com/article-15045-packing-heat.html

The only bad thing I can recall happening was a series of CC teachers had their credentials revoked for not teaching the required stuff. The rush of people applying helped convince some that they had to take shortcuts. That wasn't good. otherwise, uneventful is a good thing.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 02:50 PM)
MarketWatch ‏@MarketWatch 2h2 hours ago

 

President Obama’s new budget would raise $1.44 trillion in new taxes over the next decade http://on.mktw.net/1Cqc8Q0

Makes you wonder what color the sky is in his world where he can propose a budget with a 15% increase in spending with a straight face. The Republicans really should just propose a budget about 15% LESS than the last one we had. Deal with it. We all have to on a personal level.

 

Although I do have an idea of something Obama can tax to raise some money. Foundations/endowments. Harvard Trust Fund is sitting on over $32 billion in cash, and growing. Yale's Endowment is only a mere $20 billion. But then there is the Ford Foundation with assets of $10 billion and an annual income of $6 billion. Tax it! I think this may be one tax that The Democrats wouldn't like.

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QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 05:14 PM)
Makes you wonder what color the sky is in his world where he can propose a budget with a 15% increase in spending with a straight face. The Republicans really should just propose a budget about 15% LESS than the last one we had. Deal with it. We all have to on a personal level.

 

Although I do have an idea of something Obama can tax to raise some money. Foundations/endowments. Harvard Trust Fund is sitting on over $32 billion in cash, and growing. Yale's Endowment is only a mere $20 billion. But then there is the Ford Foundation with assets of $10 billion and an annual income of $6 billion. Tax it! I think this may be one tax that The Democrats wouldn't like.

Actually, those assets universities are sitting on are to me emblematic of the screwed up nature of our non-profit system and it's something that should be fixed but won't be. YalePrinceton is basically an investment fund with a school hooked to it.

 

Edit: crossed up the schools. Princeton's the one with the monster one.

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Did any of u folks see Brownback's latest? He took away the law that protects lesbians and gays from being fired just because they are lesbian or gay.

The people of Kansas (morons that most are) just recently re-elected this Brownback cat. Yes we re-elected a guy who has the state in its most dire straights financially in history, a guy who wants to rescind rights for groups that have had protected rights.

 

Would any of you leave the state because of this embarrassing man and idiots who re-elected him for one reason: The name 'REPUBLICAN.' I am thinking about it.

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QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Mar 27, 2015 -> 09:42 AM)
If President Pissypants's foreign policy objectives are to show the world that our allies can't trust us, then he is doing a good job.

If our allies want to declare that apartheid is their official policy in order to win elections then they shouldn't be our allies.

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