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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on October 06, 2011, 07:57:51 PM
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antigone382 (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-06-11 08:23 PM
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I need advice and lodging!! My college just pulled funding for our trip to the Wall Street protests!
I go to *Unnamed Private Liberal Arts College* in Kentucky. This week, our SGA managed to raise $10,00 over a matter of days to send 50 students on a tour bus to the protest this weekend (we have a four day weekend prior to midterms). Several college departments and campus organizations contributed funds to make this happen, and we were all set to leave tomorrow at 5:00 PM. However, today the college suddenly changed their line, and although we obliged every request they made, including finding faculty and staff to sponsor us, and preparing a detailed safety plan, they pulled $8,000 of our funding two hours ago, and refused us access to any college resource, including transportation.
We are now desperately trying to make alternate arrangements. We have pooled together what funds we have, which isn't much considering that this college only admits students from low income backgrounds (I'm identifying the school right there, but I don't really care). We are working out transportation details, but one of our biggest needs is a place for students to stay in the area. All hostels are full, and we can no longer afford to stay at a hotel. We are trying to come up with tents and camping gear, but again, our resources are limited. If anyone has any advice to offer, please post it in this thread. If you have a place where a couple of students could stay, PM me for more details.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2071397
Interesting, they raised 10k then suddenly just took 8k away.
Sadly none of the DUmmies are going to help him or her pay for a motel room.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-06-11 08:26 PM
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1. I suggest you stage your own event there in Kentucky.
You'll make a bigger impact than you will by traveling. Gather your friends and allies together and do something where you are. Just my opinion.
You can't spare $10 to help out a fellow moonbat?
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antigone382 (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-06-11 08:50 PM
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16. Thank you for the advice.
We would probably need one bus, assuming it can seat 50 people. $50 a person may still be too much--I think our total budget right now is at maybe $3,000. We are contributing as much as we can out of our own pockets, as well as our food stamps, and hopefully we'll get more individual donations from faculty, and from some of the local liberal churches (there are more than you would think in this part of Kentucky) so we may yet be able to pull something together.
It warms my heart to know that this DUmmy dines every night curtsey of the taxpayer. :whatever:
antigone382 (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-06-11 08:45 PM
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13. That's definitely an option.
In this case, there's a particular individual in authority who undermines a lot of student-led, progressive initiatives. Considering the history and legacy of this particular college, this person is at the wrong institution, and the student body will be making efforts to get this person to change the M/O or leave.
We have protested locally, and will continue to do so. However, at the moment we intend to go forward with the original plan so many of us worked so hard to pull together. We have a place at the heart of the movement, and we're going to try to get there if there's any way we can.
So some teabagger is keeping them from going. :mental:
notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-06-11 08:49 PM
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15. Good luck, but I'd definately look for a way to publicly embarass "this person"
Get the dirt on him and go public with it.
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What is an SGA? Did the school put the kibosh on the whole plan?
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Wait, what do they need a motel for, I thought they were occupying wall street night and day. Sleep in the street.
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What is an SGA? Did the school put the kibosh on the whole plan?
"Student Government Association," maybe?
I really dislike it when the primitives use acronyms.
It's like they're trying to appear as if they know something the rest of us don't.
But actually all the primitives appear is.....stupid.
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Sounds to me like some parents got wind of this, and called the school with the simple question......"WTF are you loons doing with our tuition money......??".
And the school caved......
doc
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We're just $10 away from global revolution!
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Why don't these hippies start an "Occupy Berea" eyesore.
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They are living up to the typical liberal standards in that their first thought when they need something is to ask someone else for it rather than earning it themselves.
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He's talking about Berea College, which requires all students to be charity cases to be eligible for admission.
So these ingrates, who have lived off the taxpayer their entire lives, want to protest against the system that has fed them from the cradle.
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He's talking about Berea College, which requires all students to be charity cases to be eligible for admission.
So these ingrates, who have lived off the taxpayer their entire lives, want to protest against the system that has fed them from the cradle.
The Berea College alumni facebook page has a discussion going about the school pulling the funding:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Non-Censored-Berea-College-Alumni-Page/137255786305765
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Quote from: chris_ on Today at 08:00:34 pm
What is an SGA? Did the school put the kibosh on the whole plan?
"Student Government Association," maybe?
I really dislike it when the primitives use acronyms.
It's like they're trying to appear as if they know something the rest of us don't.
But actually all the primitives appear is.....stupid.
I had no problem with it. But then I go back far enough to have had to deal with TWX messages. They charged by the letter and spaces. About the only words usually not abbreviated were "I" and "a".
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I'm not sure, but, I don't think you can legally give your food stamps to anyone else...
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Thank GOD none of my kids or step-kids went any where near that shithole of a sorry excuse for a college.
If THAT is what passes for "higher learning", may I forever remain "ignorant".
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antigone382 (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-06-11 08:23 PM
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I need advice and lodging!! My college just pulled funding for our trip to the Wall Street protests!
So, instead of attending classes, you want to go "have fun" protesting.
We now know it's the some old BS that protesting is all about.
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Why don't these hippies start an "Occupy Berea" eyesore.
GOBUCKS, at first glance I thought you meant the tar pits. :lmao: Then I remembered it was La Brea.
I wonder if any of these "need a place to stay" pleas has ever been successfully executed, with a nice time had by all.
I think TVDOC is exactly right, the parents got wind of it. This is 4 days before midterms? Ever thought about getting ready for those?
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Funny I have midterms coming up as well. Guess what I will be doing this weekend.
Hitting the books rather than attending some silly protest.
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We now know it's the some old BS that protesting is all about.
What protesting is all about for hippies, DUmmies, and all the other freeloading bums, is a chance to openly buy and sell illegal drugs.
Nothing more.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2071397
Interesting, they raised 10k then suddenly just took 8k away.
Sadly none of the DUmmies are going to help him or her pay for a motel room.
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You can't spare $10 to help out a fellow moonbat?
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It warms my heart to know that this DUmmy dines every night curtsey of the taxpayer. :whatever:
So some teabagger is keeping them from going. :mental:
Not only dining but gas! , I was at a Hess gas station the other day and to my suprise there was a large Red White and Blue sticker on the pump that proudly declared "we accept EBT cards at the pump". My face got red as I passed $70 to fill my tank.
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GOBUCKS, at first glance I thought you meant the tar pits. :lmao: Then I remembered it was La Brea.
That's funny right there!
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Interesting, they raised 10k then suddenly just took 8k away.
Reading between the lines, it sounds a whole lot like the college put up $8,000 plus a bunch of non-monetary support like buses, then the moonbats got their mommies and daddies to put up another $2,000, then saner heads prevailed at the college.
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I don't need no stinking student loan....I'll scam my way through college...$10 at a clip[DUmmie/student/mode]
DUmmie student should be at least a business major.
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-06-11 08:49 PM
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15. Good luck, but I'd definately look for a way to publicly embarass "this person"
Get the dirt on him and go public with it.
Hey DUmbass "not-a-dumb-blond", it's definitely and embarrass. User name irony.
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definately
This is the one spelling error that makes me want to slap the offender with a billy club when I see it. Dumbshits.
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Berea College's Statement from the Alumni Page:
On Wednesday, students approached College administrators to provide support for a trip to New York for them to participate in the “Occupy Wall Street†event. When the College became aware of their plans, we too got involved in working with the students to ensure the educational value of such an experience as well as details regarding transportation and their safety and well-being. Despite the efforts of many, there simply was not enough time to coordinate details that would ensure reasonable safety for the students before their scheduled departure. Because 50 students had signed up, we were particularly concerned that there was only one faculty member who was able to accompany the group.
College administrators have been working very closely with the students over the past three days, and have expressed to them our willingness to continue to work with them toward a safe and educationally valuable experience when all of the procedural arrangements can be met.
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Colder weather will be setting in soon, which will pretty much disband the protests for the year. I'm dreading this summer. It's going to be an "American Summer." :mental: :whatever:
It's going to be really, really ugly.
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Colder weather will be setting in soon, which will pretty much disband the protests for the year. I'm dreading this summer. It's going to be an "American Summer." :mental: :whatever:
It's going to be really, really ugly.
Unfortunately, I think that you're right. The summer of 2012 is going to get ugly. If I were the chief of police for the city that the Republican Convention is going to be held in, I'd be laying in National Guard help now . . . then I'd be tripling what I thought I needed.
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Colder weather will be setting in soon, which will pretty much disband the protests for the year. I'm dreading this summer. It's going to be an "American Summer." :mental: :whatever:
It's going to be really, really ugly.
No.
I saw a pic of one of the protests with a sign asking for items (can't remember where I saw it. I've seen so many). One of the items requested was an electric blanket and extension cord.
I wonder where he was going to plug it in?
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So soon we forget the WHITE college students up north that went on Freedom Rides to the south in the 1960's. Some of these kids didn't come back alive.[28]
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Not only dining but gas! , I was at a Hess gas station the other day and to my suprise there was a large Red White and Blue sticker on the pump that proudly declared "we accept EBT cards at the pump". My face got red as I passed $70 to fill my tank.
EBT cards also hold welfare benefits now. I think they put on whatever the person qualifies for onto one card and it's differentiated by 'food' or 'cash'. What that is saying is they can use their CASH welfare benefits right at the pump. The problem I have with all the EBT convenience is it makes it easier to defraud the system. How many addicts can offer someone a tank of gas on their cash EBT benefit for cents on the dollar to get cash to spend on dope? And now EBT transactions don't even require the interaction of a cashier or manager to perhaps detect potential fraud. One can defraud the taxpayer right out at the gas pump with nobody getting wind of it. Bad idea imo. I'm torn over this whole thing since I had help following my divorce and I still get a waiver for my disabled son that is no income related but disability related. I have done and do everything to use the help I'm given responsibly and I'm sure there are many others like me. I won't even mention the fact that during the good years, we put in enough that I probably could not even come close to touching that with the little bit of help I have taken--ultimately I feel like I'm accessing a bank account we put into years ago since we actually were and are contributors. That aside, the government should get serious about the fraud. Ultimately, that would make a different to that system I think. A hard discussion about what constitutes poor should happen too. I don' tknow how anyone can't sit here and see the disingenuous nature of liberals who on one hand cry out about the obesity problem and on the other hand actually want to say people are going hungry. Liberals are very adept at wanting it both ways to whatever suits their message du jour. Much of my prodding on places like facebook has been to remind the soft middle of the conflicting messages and to be careful to not get themselves wrapped up into something they think is a relevant movement of this time while ignoring the conflicting and disturbing messages coming out from there--ie my message it to remain vigilant to truth and to seek out hypocrisy and conflict and give it the light of day. Don't be snookered because you think this stupid shit is cool.
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Reading between the lines, it sounds a whole lot like the college put up $8,000 plus a bunch of non-monetary support like buses, then the moonbats got their mommies and daddies to put up another $2,000, then saner heads prevailed at the college.
You know the way primitives have a bad habit of jumping the gun, claiming something before it's a fact.
And then it turns out to not be so in the end.
I'll bet the primitive overheard a discussion about "asking" the college to help with expenses, someone said yeah, they would ask.....and this primitive trotted over to Skins's island to announce it as a done deal (which obviously it wasn't).