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The Doctor Is In
Dr. Peanut, I think the Reader should hire you as their Advice Columnist. =================== That would be my dream job. Giving out MY advice on behalf of the Reader! Would we survive it though!— May 24, 2010 2:15 p.m.
San Diego’s newest corporate darling, Bridgepoint Education
I'm post #250...whooohohooo@!1111!!!!!! Don, I know why you like Eliza Krigman.....she came from your alma mater, University of Wisconsin-Madison!!— May 24, 2010 2:14 p.m.
Condo Excitement
Yes, the font size glitch is very distracting....— May 23, 2010 2:12 p.m.
San Diego’s newest corporate darling, Bridgepoint Education
You have a lot of knowledge in this area. These are disquieting numbers, but they are believable. ===================== Hidden Details: A Closer Look at Student Loan Default Rates Author:Erin Dillon Publication Date:October 23, 2007 When U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced in September that the federal student loan default rate—the percentage of borrowers who fail to repay their government student loans—was 4.6 percent, the press didn't lift a pencil. The rate has hovered around 5 percent for years. But a new report by the U.S. Department of Education's own National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reveals that student loan defaults are a far larger problem for some groups—particularly students of color and those who leave college with a lot of debt. http://www.educationsector.org/analysis/analysis_…— May 22, 2010 9:12 p.m.
Slurp! Slurp! SERP Propels Felsinger's Pay
Being the ant-slaying type, would you mind giving me that recipe, SP? ======= I don't recall exaclty how it went, but SOMETHING like this-you buy a little jar of the Borax at the store, and then mix 1 part Borax, 1 part sugar and then I think like 8 parts water (??) all together and make a sugar/water/Borax mxiture. You then get an old discarded plastic container, and you poke little holes at the bottom of the container so the ants can get in, then you spread the Borax mix inside and put the lid on, and then put the trap out where the ants are. The ants take the bait back to the colony and the Borax is feed to the entire colony and they all die. Something liek that. Have not used it recently.— May 22, 2010 6:04 p.m.
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Cross dressing is IN this year. Best, Don Bauder ======= I heard JW and JF were caught cross dressing each other at the fire station while talking about their pensions :)— May 22, 2010 5:56 p.m.
San Diego’s newest corporate darling, Bridgepoint Education
Some have predicted a coming surge in student loan defaults, =========== There is no coming surge, it is already here. The true default rate for ALL student loans is well over 30%, it could be as high as 50%. For some "for profit" schools it is well over 75%, for some HBCU's it is over 40%. This was from data processed and analyzed from "Education Sector" in 2007 (but collected from the DoE), that was BEFORE the Great Recession. I am sure that rate had climbed dramatically since then. Google Erin Dillion at Education Sector in Washington D.C., she is an expert and has done numerous studies. I have used Erin's research numerous times under expert witness testimony and evidence. Don't listen to the US DoE " official" default rate-it is totally gamed, no different than how the US games the unemployment rate by using the U-3 UE rate instead of the true U-6 UE rate. The US DoE only counts loan as "defaulting" if it happens within the first 2 years of graduation. It takes 9 months for a student loan to "officially" default after the first day the default starts. That means for a student loan to "officially" default you would have to not pay within the first 15 months after graduation-and that just doesn't happen. And that certainly is not an indication of the TREU default rate. It is a gamed number from a government that does not value the truth-too many special interests taking the taxpayers to the cleaners and making money off the scam SL system.— May 22, 2010 5:48 p.m.
San Diego’s newest corporate darling, Bridgepoint Education
I might find For Profit Education Companies more ethical if they were held financially responsible for collection on all bowered Title IV funding by there enrolled students. ========== If that were the policy there would be no "for profit" schools, they would all be BK. In fact probably half the "non profit" schools would be BK also. There is a non profit, TTTT (bottom of the barrel), ABA law school paying their President half a million dollars in compensation and sponsering baseball stadiums through "naming" rights. That kind of nonsense says everything about the education scams running today.— May 22, 2010 5:32 p.m.
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i wrote poetry nearly everyday...that blog was deleted and i lost 4 years of writing by the same hacker...as well as my hotmail address..gmail address..and yahoo address ============ Oh, that's no good. I am surprised if you wrote poetry it was not done on a home PC and saved to the HDD at home. Too bad about gettign hacked. I have never been hacked, not yet anyway, I am sure that day will eventually come. Yes, Loren Nancarrow sure did contribute to the stations he worked at-I have used his ant killing home remedy a few times (the Borax ant mix!!). He was in San Franssisco a few years but he came back to San Diego and that was nice.— May 22, 2010 5:24 p.m.
April Unemployment Dips to 10.4%
Those unemployment stats jump around ========== It only jumps around on the "official" UE rate-the U-3 rate. The gamed UE rate. The U-6 UE rate. the true UE rate, accounts for those who have been out of work longer than 6 months, as well as part timers who are looking for and need f/t employment.— May 22, 2010 5:18 p.m.