Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Why Reasons Why Maryland Needs Universal Free Higher Education
Rising Textbook Costs-A monthly living expenses check of 2,000 per semester (and prorated by month on Summer and Winter semesters) with inflation adjustments would help out a lot with rising textbook costs, so that it will not put students into poverty
Negative Consequences of Using Property Taxes as a Main Source of School Funding
There are other alternatives to this problem, that is by implementing a county income tax. The income tax would be similar to the federal income tax but smaller. Another idea would to limit property taxes to businesses and people who have more than two homes (so they can only tax the second or subsequent home). I would recommend that both of these ideas be implemented next year, if not this year.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
ECON 200 Cock-up
into almost an hour in my first ECON 200 retake when the projector blew
out.
More updates when available
--jkid4
If you're reading this. My Math111 discussion prof did not arrive.
Hey Baltimore Housing Authority!
Same-Ethinic Hate Crimes! But Why Teens Are Still Doing Them
The threatening words discovered on the side of Virginia Trotter's Odenton home sent a chill down her spine: In dark red spray paint, someone had written a racial epithet and the letters KKK in what she saw as an act of racially motivated vandalism.
Anne Arundel County police investigating the crime weren't so sure: Trotter and her husband are black - but so are the teenage suspects.
After initially saying that it was not investigating the incident as a hate crime, the department reversed course yesterday and said the case deserves "special handling."
Sadly, there's No (Rich) Child Left Behind and the sexual orientationalists who would prevent such a thing from happening because the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender variency.(They rather have teens perpetuate hate crimes than give them education about the people who will eventually meet in real life)
Monday, January 28, 2008
Got out of math class
summary of the proballity poriton of Math 110 (which I barely passed
with a 62%). But I'm done for the day and need to get back to my room
after lunch.
--jkid4
Trains, Subways, and Bikes
Yesterday it was announced that without major changes from the Federal Transit Administration, the Dulles Rail Link will be put on the back burner. The Project needs $900 million dollars from the Administration. What's a Commonwealth to do?Here's private equity to the rescue! In the form of the Carlyle Infrastructure Fund. Yet with private funding, part of the project and the end resulting Rail Link will be owned by Carlyle.
But there is a better idea, why not the Virginian Government gives up many of its road buliding projects for the Rail Link? We have too many roads any way and the more we build, the most traffic will come. Why not build a rail track that reduced road traffic?
Requiescat In Pace Karibu Books (1993-2008)
Yesterday I been to the store and half of it's stock already stripped. All of the books now cost 50% of the retail price. I picked up a few books out of curiosity to see what the prices where. A strange oddity that the final novel of Harry Potter and Densha Otoko (Train Man) manga where stocked at the shop. But in the end even though I got the price of those and 5 other books I wanted to get, it was not wroth it. I could could easily get these books online at a much cheaper cost.
With competition coming from big name bookstores, independent chains such as Karibu are being pushed out of the market. And with little minority ownership in bookstores these days: No book store will possibly replace Karibu.
Corrections?! Do Correctional Facilites Correct S***?!
P.S. The title of this post is based on a lyric from 50 Cent's Bulletproof track called "Maybe We Crazy"
Pardon My Dust
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Doc Block=Crime Block
Anyway I'm going to watch Lockup: Raw Criminal Minds, featuring one convict who thinks that killing someone is a no brainier. Expect my synopsis soon after.
Another Anti-Immigrant Law?! From Charles, Again?!
Frederick County Commissioner Charles A. Jenkins has proposed another anti-illegal immigrant law, even though his other one died in council last year. His proposal is to periodically audit local businesses that have building permits for any illegal immigrants. If they are any, the company could be fined and have the workers removed. But his proposal has more questions than answers.
Like, how would the law be enforced and funded? Would the law be funded by the fines it would impose? What about legal immigrants? Also, why enact a local law to enforce federal laws against hiring illegal immigrants. But what about the goal of the proposal? Is it to persuade illegals to leave the country? That and the others remain to be seen.
One Cent Hike! Also, Other Tax Hikes in Effect!
With the State of
Other taxes for cigarettes, vehicle titling, and corporations have already in effect as of New Years Day 2008. The tax for corporations has been raised from 7% to 8.25%. Taxes for cigarettes are now two dollars per pack. And vehicle titling tax was raised by 20% to 6 cents per dollar.
This article from Gazette.net has a convenient chart of the tax changes in full around the bottom of the page.