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Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

jenyum — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:09:41 -0700

Michelle Malkin on Tacoma: "the infamous odor caused by the pulp mills and cow manure"http://michellemalkin.com/2011/09/21/the-big-labor-aroma-in-tacoma/um... as the saying goes Michelle, she who smelt it dealt it. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

jenyum — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:04:23 -0700

No announcement yet on school tomorrow (usually the district lets us know around 5)http://tacomamama.com/content/tacoma-teachers-strike-day-7My children are nationally famous... for bickering...http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jMH65ALA3QKOjfCXYueWSQHKIcnA? More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

fredo — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:44:46 -0700

In an era of shrinking budgets every dollar needlessly spent on payroll or worker benefits at the library is a dollar NOT available to acquisitions. I for one would not want to live in a world where the only thing you could find at the library was a few glorified employment counselors. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

NineInchNachos — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:29:31 -0700

update! The Governator might get her feet wet! More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

Thorax O'Tool — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:17:25 -0700

Heh... Fredo and Doomafudge present in class. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

NineInchNachos — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:12:43 -0700

people are getting jazzed http://www.king5.com/news/Tacoma-teacher-taken-to-hospital-after-picket-line-scuffle-130214503.html More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

troysworktable — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:34:39 -0700

"We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

troysworktable — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:31:52 -0700

More likely a "slippery slope." More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

fredo — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:21:42 -0700

But there is much more that goes on than what you see in the "front of the house" That's for sure. I walked around behind the librarian at Wheelock library and she was playing solitaire. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

fredo — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:19:30 -0700

Joel wrote "You know what. our kids don't need to go to school either, kids are much better at doing menial tasks, we could put them all in stools in long rows in a warehouse and give them bread and water to eat." That would be defined as a straw man argument. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

troysworktable — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:09:09 -0700

@fredo: I'm not going to play around with "straw man" arguments. When you want to have a real discussion about real jobs in the real world, then we can talk. You could just as easily be a police officer or fire fighter or doctor with your line of thinking. I will simply state again that I am glad that I don't live in your world of nightmares. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

Joel 413 — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:05:39 -0700

And why do you have that knowledge Fredo, from whom did you learn these things? My guess would be a librarian. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

fredo — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:04:11 -0700

I can't debate you on how the Puyallup Public Library operates. After all I've never been there and you are on the board. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

Joel 413 — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:52:02 -0700

@Fredo What happens in your world when the people who will take less pay get these jobs and work at them for a little while, then someone else who will take less pay comes along? Oh wait, that was the 19th and early 20th century. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

troysworktable — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:43:53 -0700

The Puyallup Public Library isn't filled with overpaid public employees. I can speak to that since I serve on the library board. There are a few librarians with training and experience who have earned the pay they receive. They are far from lavishly paid. There are also many entry level jobs for library assistants and the like. Some have held those positions long-term for various reasons. Others have used those "entry level" library assistant positions to determine if they want to become librarians or as a springboard to their own library information system educations and degrees. I don't want a world of a few highly paid jobs. I haven't argued that. You, however, are almost always preaching about entry-level minimum wage jobs. I just happen to imagine a world that is more than poverty level, working poor, service industry jobs. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

NineInchNachos — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:41:52 -0700

aim higher Fredo. Did you know microsoft goons have their own islands and crap? More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

fredo — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:37:37 -0700

Troy, last year the City of Tacoma closed two branch libraries because the costs of operating the branches (staffing costs primarily) were too high. No offense, but I don't want to live in your overpaid public employee world. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

troysworktable — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:23:54 -0700

It's called training. If someone with no training is going to teach me, then I might as well do it myself. No offense, but I don't want to live in your minimum wage world. All I see is minimum wage jobs being promoted by you. Your utopia/dystopia appears to be filled with a bunch of entry-level, minimum wage workers ripe for exploitation by the few. Are you one of those elite that will lead the masses? If not, then who? More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

fredo — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:22:04 -0700

OK Troy, I can see how the librarians can help somebody fill out a job application, how they can help esl people find books in their native language, and how they can read to first graders and impart a love for reading. I get that. More »

Re: Comics | Feed»Tacomic - Microsoft Office & Gates Foundation's Secret-Teacher-Union-Busting Replacement Teacher Weapon

troysworktable — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:57:49 -0700

@fredo: Those public sector librarians are as important as the former. If you truly care about people getting jobs, which you claim (low-wage or high-wage), then some people do need help. Public libraries also provide books in native languages (Spanish, Russian, Korean) as well as in English. Public libraries also provide reading programs for children during the summer (to keep them at their reading level when school is on break) and to give younger readers a boost. My daughter is a perfect example of the latter. Her mother and I read with her every night (and have since she was born), but she also had mentoring by two awesome children's librarians. They are partly responsible for a first grader that reads at a seventh grade level. Love your librarians! More »