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The Electoral College Needs To Be Eliminated

The Electoral College Needs To Be Eliminated

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Hillary Clinton won the 2016 presidential popular voting by 2.86 million.  So the people of the United States decided to install that women into being the president of the United States by any competent measure.  But, the retarded, incompetent, flawed, pro fascist, idiotic, despicable electoral college was allowed to change the votes of the American public.  This was a crime against the people.  Members of the electoral college should be punished for their action against the will of the people.  Anyone who supports this existing crap system is a moron or idiot – you choose which.

We need to eliminate the electoral college NOW!

What the electoral college accomplished as a result of their perceived incompetence:

  • Create a more divided country.
  • Put in place an alleged corrupt politician who may well be a criminal.
  • Revealed to the world how the Republican Party is moving away from Democracy and toward fascism.
  • Exposed the number of Republican politicians who failed to hold to personal high standards but instead  followed a cult leader who lacked proper standards to lead this country.
  • More, much, more.

 

 

More Information:

The Electoral College Explained

12 Days That Stunned a Nation: How Hillary Clinton Lost

 

Posted 8-12-2022
Revised 8-13- 2022

Ian Masters Radio Show Segment: The Magnificent Seven with Professor Lawrence Wilkerson

Ian Masters Radio Show Segment: The Magnificent Seven with Professor Lawrence Wilkerson

Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell joins Ian Masters to discuss his article at The Huffington Post “The Magnificent Seven”  What is shocking in the radio segment is Mr. Wilkerson is candid and seemingly honest in his evaluation of the Republican Party.  The most shocking view that he puts forth is that one of the Republican Party’s problem with President Obama is black prejudice.  I have suspected this for a long time but it seems that most everyone fails to talk about it.  What is more shocking is Mr. Wilkerson’s prediction if the Republicans take the white house and keep exercising personal self serving policies that only enrich the Republican oligarchs, the United States will fall into decay.

[Update: December 7, 2017, Ian Masters has moved his web site and I found that this radio show segment is not available currently.]  Listen to the radio show segment “The Magnificent Seven”

E-mail from Score Card to Professor Wilkerson:

WOW!  I listen to your segment with Ian Masters entitled “The Magnificent Seven” and you really come across as honest, intelligent and knowledgeable about what ails the United States.  You really do not state your mind bluntly.   I just love that.  I have suspected for quite a long time that Republicans are prejudice against blacks.  What is sort of disturbing, if true, is no one seems to want to mention this possibility.  You are the first one to bring this up (in my world).  Thank you again in a different perspective as it firms my blog approach (I am a blogger).   I am really disturbed in contemplating that a large segment of the United States population is simply stupid and if so, what do you do with that problem?  Thank you for sharing your views.  I hope to hear more from you.  Start a blog or better yet, write a current world situation book.

Professor Wilkerson’s reply:

Thank you for taking the time to wrote to me and to express your support and your views.  Our Founders were concerned about the same matter, i.e., how does one keep the electorate–the people–knowledgeable, competent, and able to cast a smart vote, or even ensure that the candidates available are the right ones for the positions, local, state, and national.   Thomas Jefferson actually stated that such was the reason he and others founded the University of Virgina and, as you may know, Jefferson had that founding put on his gravestone. It was one of his proudest achievements.  Jefferson also was a slaveholder, one who had sexual relations with his dead wife’s half-sister, Sally Hemmings, a slave herself–sexual relations that led to several children.  None of us is perfect, in other words.  We just have to keep trying.  I believe Jefferson was right about education.  It is the most important answer to the question of how to keep a democracy sound.  Ours is weak right now primarily because the people are weak–and they are weak primarily because there are so many among us who are ignorant, uneducated, and therefore vulnerable to the political charlatans like Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton.

Thanks again for writing.

Prof Lawrence Wilkerson

Google Allegidly Denies Proper Adsense Control.

Google Allegidly Denies Proper Adsense Control.

This web site has been in existence since 2006.  The web site started just after taking a web development class at a California State university.  The class was excellent.  Some time, not sure when, I enrolled in Google’s Adsense.  This is an application where you can join Google and they will help place their managed advertisements into your web site and pay you some small amount of money for showing their advertisements.  A web site can begin costing you just over fifty dollars a year including domain name registration or more depending upon how smart your decisions are setting up your web site.  I was hoping that Adsense might help me defray some of my hosting fees.  This process began running off the rails when I used my university e-mail.  At the time, I was a full time staff member.  I was totally unaware that, probably because I had take that web site class, the university made a student e-mail account for me.  When I signed up for Google Adsense I used my supposed staff e-mail which had the same user name but apparent different passwords.  For some incredibly stupid reason, the unknown by me, my student e-mail may have been substituted instead of my staff e-mail into the Adsense process.  The alleged criminal act of theft took place at some point when Google assumed that a student account could not own a web site.  By having a “.edu” at the end of my e-mail account and apparently having that e-mail arise out of a university student list suddenly makes it the property of the university?  What an incredible conclusion and near criminal theft.  Does this mean that the university now owns my car and home because I have an .edu at the end of my e-mail address?  How colossal stupid can you get?

Web site looses Google Adsense account to state university
 Google Adsense account login is diverted to a state university

To try to regain possession of my Adsense account, I am prompted to follow a series of steps starting at the Google Adsense web page.   After I finish doing the Adsense login, I am told that “Your Google Account is managed by xxx.edu.  I am then sent to the university student portal and then to the a web page entitled Google Apps where it dead ends.  I am told to contact the university Google Account Manager.  The university does not have one.  The reason for this is student e-mail accounts were shut down on the university servers years ago and transferred to Google.

I continually run into this prejudice where students are not thought to be adults by universities and businesses.  They switch views when students pay their fees or students come in with their parents.  Now I see that Google allegidly may have same prejudice against students.

August 18, 2018 a few days after putting up this post, an IT person at my university who I respect,  called to inform me that this problem was all Google’s fault.  Google allegedly assumes that if you are a student at a college or university that your web site creations are the property of the university if you use your student e-mail.  I thus lost control of my Adsense account because Google saw my Adsense login as being a student.  If Google did indeed take this approach, how utterly imbecilic, moronic, halfwitted or if you did not get the meaning of those prior terms, stupid!

The university campus IT person advised me to use another Adsense account which I had already done to bypass this problem.  But, any profit in the old account, I will never know about.   Banks and airlines tack on fees to gain extra profit.  Google, allegedly, only needs to obfuscate and be stupid in its policies to gain profit.

If anyone else runs into problems with Google Adsense, there is another option for you to consider.   Individual companies want their advertisements placed into your web site.  This process is typically called “affiliate program”.  If you look at the bottom of each page of this web site, you will see two affiliate advertisements.  One is from Linksky and the other from Namecheap.  I use both those products to help serve this web site for you.  Just read carefully how each program works.  Some of your best paying affiliate offers require that you read page after page of legal stipulations.  I advise you to read every word and abide by their requirements.

 

Govenor Brown Wants College Education To Take 4 Years Not 6

Govenor Brown Wants College Education To Take 4 Years Not 6

LA Times article, Thurs. May 16, 2013, LA Extra page AA, Brown urges UC to speed graduations.
By Larry Gordon

The California governor wants a college education to take 4 not 6 years.  There are some factors that are not readily apparent causing this problem.  I will list a few.  Please note that as I list each factor that factor in itself is a self sustaining problem that adds to the next factor.  To solve this problem, each factor should be dealt with.

Universities cherish research over instruction.  They thus hire some faculty that are deficient lecturers.

If a faculty member achieves tenure status, that person is protected from a culling process, if one exists, and I think the process is mixed from campus to campus in its effectiveness in getting rid of bad instructors.

Students compensate for bad instructors by trying to pick good or better ones by looking them up on evaluation web sites like http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/.

Universities fail the class enrollment process by listing “Staff” in course offerings.   This is simply an awful device that leads, in itself, to a slow education.  Departments hide who is teaching many classes.

Students counter the listing by “Staff”  by enrolling in extra classes.  They can thus find out who the instructor is when the first class begins and measure how competent that person is and how much work is required.  Students that work, to help pay education costs, not only want good instruction but can not afford to spend extra unnecessary time doing busy work.

Students who enroll in extra classes anticipating dropping ones with deficient instruction thus diminish the total number of classroom seats.  Students are signing up for classes that they know they will drop.  They are just not sure which classes until they attend the first or second class meeting.  This is a significant problem leading to making college a 6 year experience.

Education costs have risen.  Many students are working their way through college.  They only have time and money to take 4 or less classes a semester.  If education costs were lower, we might see students take more classes each semester.

Student anxiety is much higher today due to society and economic factors than years past.  These students, to minimize anxiety take fewer classes.  This is a significant problem that is getting worse.

What is being done by university officials to solve any of these issues?  Very little.  Governor Brown is trying to solve one problem but does he know that many factors are hidden from normal view and cause what appears to him to be a bigger issue?   Higher education has a lot of inherent problems and they all mainly seem to be concerned in raising money and not reforming to make their education business a better product.

Management Problem Allegedly Persists To The Level Of Incompetence?

Management Problem Allegedly Persists To The Level Of Incompetence?

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This blog ran a series of articles delving into an internal problem at a state university.  We were made aware of this problem late fall of 07 and began putting up articles a few months later in an attempt to pressure the university to take action.  It took a while but the university did come around (we are not sure why) and apparently resolved the issue.  The article that once appeared here has been taken down because we think it no longer serves the purpose it was intended.

Financial Aid Problems At A California State University

Financial Aid Problems At A California State University

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We received a private communication from a family that allegedly a series of mistakes were made for the deposit of scholarship money into their son’s account. The family counted at least six mistakes made over a six month period: “Wrong check numbers, wrong names, wrong amounts…”. If your student receives scholarship money, you might want to do what this family did. “He has his own checking account and a CD just for scholarships”.

Another problem came to light. It took the intervention of the parents to resolve the lost scholarship money. Every college and university wants the student to begin to act like an adult and try to resolve any institution issue without relying on anyone else. This student did just that beginning in August of 2007. This blog received this family communication in March 2008. The student claimed no one would deal with his problem for over six months! The student told his parents “what a difference in how you are treated when your parents show up with you”. Could it be that colleges and universities find it convenient to deal with timid young student populations rather than mothers and fathers?