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I think someone deserves a nice Cunt Punt.

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Yep, it's her favorite color

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Congratulations! I've got 4 years to go -- it must feel really good to be free and have more money to spend on nice things.

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Congratulations. Mine was through emergency retraining options from when all the jobs went away. Then I did deferrals until I could actually find a job. Then hubs found out I don't make enough to have to pay anything anyway, and put in for a deferral for both of us (his is from a fraudulent for profit school, but don't yet know if he qualifies for the forgiveness - he already qualified for forgiveness on other grounds and it took the state AG to force the loan agency to actually give him a year off before they started going after him again...)I hate my life. The only thing it is good for is soap opera fodder.

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All Republicans in government were hard-wired from their birth to be assholes - EVERY SINGLE ONE...EVEN THE WOMEN (hello, Betsy DeVos, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Susan Collins). Their assholery is unrelenting and self-righteous. It says "I am an asshole and I dare you to do anything about it. Don't get me started on their criminality...

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The course I went through was useless for getting me a job. Fortunately I got a temp job in 2004 as an accounting clerk at a marketing form that lasted for nine months, and nine months after that they called me back and ever since then I've been working there. It's by far the best environment I've ever worked in in my 41 years in the labor force and I'm looking forward to retiring from here in another seven years or so.

My avatar is a gizmo from the days before integrated circuits that would cut down the volume of electricity flowing through a circuit to a precise amount. It was called a resistor, and these days I think a resistor is a good thing to be.

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I'm so depressed to hear confirmation of what I said! And I suppose if it got that way too near to their houses, they'd shake their heads and just move. You know years ago my husband and I moved to a lovely town outside Newark and were told by oldtimers how the blacks had ruined Newark and how lovely it used to be. Then we moved to a lovely town outside Oakland and were told by oldtimers how the blacks had ruined Oakland. Then I saw a BBC documentary showing how the Mob had destroyed Newark-- I mean protection rackets of its little businesses.And then I heard bits and pieces about the recruitment of workers for defense plants during the war from rural areas down south to work in the port cities around Oakland. And how those jobs abruptly vanished at the end of the war. I don't know if they were all asked to go back to being extremely poor in the cotton fields or not.

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In northern parts of Alaska.

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oh, yes, I get it. I tried to learn all those things because I want to make these little machines and I needed to bring down the current because I was using the teeniest LED's. But I couldn't learn it, I'd mastered the regular little bulbs and the buzzer that sounds like a doorbell and the one that sounds like a siren but of course I wanted to use the alluring LED's and it was a whole new ballgame and Radio Shack wasn't there for me anymore and you know, the men I asked just won't explain things to me. They pretended (I think) they couldn't understand me. It was so hard. Anyway I'm an idea person and I know there are millions of people out there who learn all those little facts like breathing, don't they? Why can't I hire them? I don't want to have a course in Arduino! Oh god it's so confusing. Well there's a rant for you. For free.

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I'm so sorry! It's utter shit that the loan agencies are allowed to hound people like they do, and charge what they do. I hope things in your life get better, and your student loan stuff gets sorted in your favour.

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What's the problem with teaching people art? Making pottery isn't easy, chemistry is involved, and it isn't cheap. It involves actual skill. It takes quite a lot of kilowatts(expensive) to fire clay in an electric kiln(also expensive), which is what most schools use these days. Then there's all the ventilation systems and filters the school needs, for safety reasons. Then you teach people to use a kiln(dangerous)and why there is a need for the ventilation(because danger), plus teaching people to learn to work clay, to make and use slips and glazes, a little history, a little color theory, to using all the equipment and methods to shape the clay.

Besides, most of the people teaching most classes, at community college level and up, are working as adjunct faculty, which means they get a set price for the semester. A much lower price than a tenured prof.(vanishingly rare). Adjunct faculty are not making $120K a year. The fucking tenured knobhead football coach probably makes more, just for teaching young men how to get traumatic brain injury.

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There is nothing honorable about Betsy Devoss.

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Adam represents a district in California

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I avoid using the C-word when referring to a woman, however, in Devoss' case, I will make an exception.

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Yes, you're right. I get to thinking that whole committee is from Connecticut.

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She`s a grand dragon wizard of the CCC, the criminal corrupt cunts.

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