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Or go to school in a country that believes prosperity arises from an educated workforce. Free or under $1000 euro a year are abundant. But they have two big drawbacks. They are GOP and FOX news free.

Because public funding for higher education has been slashed by the GOP. When you shrink funding by 1/2 its a given that the ratio would expand. A Truly Devastating Graph on State Higher Education Spending Some states have slashed per-student spending by as much as half. Some EU countries have free college education. But thanks to Rupert Murdoch and his FOX apparatchiks keeping the public ignorant has had its due pecuniary rewards. "The budget agreement maintains the post-sequester non-defense discretionary funding cap for 2016, slashing the 2016 funding level by $37.3 billion below the comparable President's request. But after 2016, the cuts get worse. Over ten years, the budget cuts non-defense funding by $496 billion below the cap levels, leading to a 21 percent loss of purchasing power by 2025". The combination of States cuts plus cuts in federal funding is entirely responsible for ballooning student and family debts for education.

Ivy league and private institutions have not controlled costs.

Neil Parish was a UK MP who just resigned from parliament for watching porn in the House of Commons. So different from the GOP. Where you get votes for having sex with minors and "grabbing pussy". As long as you can satisfy the Christian right with right amount of hate for LGBT people. Its all good..

Brent relaxing at home:

Just ask Brent! and his Facebook friends. Killing crops and killing people. Heat kills. lancet "Increased exposure to extreme heat is having deadly consequences for adults over 65. Heat-related illnesses caused an estimated 345,000 deaths in 2019, a new record. And, the annual number of heat-related deaths among older adults has increased dramatically in every region since 2005. (See the graph below.)"

There are just too many Brents in Florida. You could do it. Just as one percent of salmon live to reproduce. There are politically active people here who act to help others unselfishly. Wendy as an example. I just think thats a battle with slim possibility of success.

Florida, owns the government it deserves. Skydivers, the cheaper the jumps the better the DZ. If the next one is even cheaper, the herd is a coming. Political awareness and social responsibility among skydivers. Well those parameters are defined in these forums regularly. Joe, imagine a salmon swimming upstream. Now add dams and waterfalls. Your idea is that salmon.Sorry to be the dream crusher. You could tackle something more achievable. Turning Putin into a Buddhist monk. Turning trump into Mother Teresa.

If conservatives react and therefor refuse to apply for admission. All the better. An education is wasted on the population that worships on the altar of ignorance.

Y'all forgot steering contracts to Bubba, the brother of a GOP insider. Bailing out identifiable constituents with government subsidies.Redrawing districts, stacking courts, etc. GOP trying to make America's corruption ranking beat Russia's. By one place. Below the trump years and the US corruption index.

Thanks for that.

Elon lost allot of money by not doing that. I was wrong about him when he launched the car company. Wrong about him when he launched SpaceX. For sure he is a lose cannon. Even a crackpot conservative. But I still admire what he's achieved. He will have to climb a big mountain to get the returns on twitter that he does on his other projects.

Please quote where you found this. I find it a bit difficult to believe even for America.

New Florida election DeSantisgestapo. I got nothing. I'd think the A/C would have to get to at least 1000 AGL to get above the stink of DeSantis pandering. "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill into law creating a new election police — officially called the “Office of Election Crimes and Security" — that will be responsible for looking into voter fraud accusations and other violations of election law. DeSantis signed the bill at a sports bar called “Rookies” in Pasco County amid a receptive crowd and lots of fellow Republicans. The budget he will sign (let’s assume sometime in late May) includes enough money ($2.6 million) to pay for 25 positions with the new effort."

Perhaps trump views it like his brother Eric. Useful for idiots.

trump social seems to be having problems. It goes offline for hours at a time for no reason. There was some speculation that site administrators were falling asleep. But after examining the pillows in the control room. Technicians found that Mike Lindell was not responsible. Just as he is not responsible for his mouth due to mental defect.

Russia and the Russian people adore and respect strongmen. There is no core democratic belief that multi-racial and multi-cultural populations can be ruled by democracies. Many still rue for the days of Stalin. Perestroika was but a blip in Russian history. Thats not to say that there are not democratic believers in Russia. But they are few. Until Russia has a free, open, press and a transparent government. A majority of people who accept the cleansing of corruption benefits that free elections bring about. Russia will remain dangerous. As will China.

Actually I was just reading about them the other day. They will be a bit of a abortion design. With many chances for a goat-F*&k. Or cost overruns. Oh mon-dieu the French got it. But thats business for you.

W/O completely derailing this thread. Australia is currently embarked on a substantial increase in military,....er...defense.. spending. Including a fleet of new nuclear submarines. I read an article a couple years ago about the cost to send a US nuclear submarine on a single patrol. It seemed like a stupidly large amount. Tens of millions of dollars. In any event Australia has raised the ire of China and has been at odds for several years. China released last year several Canadian hostages it was holding to pressure Canada. Xi, IMO is a threat to the world the equal to Putin. Xi is a bully,a killer, an authoritarian without constraints. Given the budget from Canada three weeks ago. Canada see's no threats anywhere.

Joe was merely insistent that other NATO members meet an ideal, common target of spending. Not calculating that politicians in other countries set different priorities on the threats they face.. That they have constituents that rank defense as a low priority concern. That regardless of what those defense ministers say or represent in NATO meetings. That they will be overruled by political party leadership, in spending committees. That as political parties come and go in NATO members. Each will have different defense spending objectives. IMO Joe fails to recognize that NATO itself is seldom called to meet article 5 provisions. That the only time it was was for the defense of the US. Even though Ukraine is not a NATO member. NATO has taken a leadership position in the threats to its sovereignty. While I agree with Joe to a large extent. It should also be pointed out that the US spent $2.313 trillion in Afghanistan. Yet so far only spent $13.6 billion in Ukraine. I agree with Joe because Russia is a bigger threat to common security than what the Taliban ever was.

Incidental casualties for Brent on Earth Day.

This is an example of why Florida banned dozens of textbooks. What went unexplained is that the new math textbook provider is a republican political candidate. The lesson that people should disagree respectfully? Republicans have an answer:

Tough judges, tough prosecutors,lots of prison cells and tough laws. When your side looks bad and gets caught, the issue isn't important. When the issue stares you in the face, solutions become important.

I for one am embarrassed about Canada's military contributions. Democracies however are generally ruled by majorities. Riggerrob can pipe in but under funding of hardware for the CAF has gone on for at least four decades. Lack of equipment and age of equipment have been serious issues for a even longer time. Military spending substantially arises from a perceived need. Canada doesn't see many threats in the world. Many perceived important interests. The US sees many. IMO the Ukraine war justifies an all out response. The entire rationale for NATO was the Russian threat. Nothing against the Russian people. But Putin wasn't created overnight. The Duma has rubber stamped his actions. The Russian military has gone along with the action. Generals, FSB insiders, the Duma, etc. all know whats going on. Canada's lack of extra useful weapons doesn't prevent it from buying some used equipment from other NATO members. The Phoenix Ghost is this was rapidly developed by the Air Force, in response, specifically to Ukrainian requirements "The US military’s electronic warfare enterprise needs to take a page from SpaceX when it comes to responding to new threats, the Pentagon’s director for electromagnetic warfare said today. After SpaceX sent Starlink terminals to Ukraine in February in an apparent effort to help Ukraine maintain its internet connection amid war with Russia, SpaceX founder Elon Musk claimed that Russia had jammed Starlink terminals in the country for hours at a time. After a software update, Starlink was operating normally, said Musk, who added on March 25 that the constellation had “resisted all hacking & jamming attempts” in Ukraine." It seems as if there is a damn Ukrainian saboteur under every Russian ruble "A major fire broke out today in a secretive Russian military research center, killing several people, injuring others, and leaving significant damage in its wake. The facility in Tver, 120 miles northwest of Moscow, is responsible for diverse research focused on air defense, but reportedly crosses over between the fields of both space and the military. Most notably, it reportedly studies stealth technologies — and, above all, counters to use against them."