How Stupid Are They?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The drug companies are screamin' already. And you can bet your a$$ their lobbyists are wearin' out the carpet in the halls of Congress.

Maybe they should charge admission and sell tickets to that circus? Make every registered lobbyist wear a big name tag along with who they represent?

Probably could pay a few bills on the sales,

[rex desilets]

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Like diverting funds from the football program.....
Wait. What? Football programs, at large schools, anyway, pay not only for themselves but other, minor sports, including all the Title IX girl stuff. Successful football teams attract alumni money.

In any case, not really relevant. Almost every college or university requires researchers to get their own funds independently of the institution - generally a requirement for promotion and tenure world-wide. A lot also have to get that grant money to pay part or all of their salary. And, there's damned little of that grant money since curing cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart disease, etc. are not very high priorities for Congress (except when one of them gets prostate cancer) or much of the rest of our nation's population.

Perhapsyou should get a good football team

[Rufus T. Firefly]

<snip>

Like diverting funds from the football program.....
Wait. What? Football programs, at large schools, anyway, pay not only for themselves but other, minor sports, including all the Title IX girl stuff. Successful football teams attract alumni money.

Successful football teams attract more money for more football expenses - you really think anything significant trickles out to other sports? If so, I have vast quantities of swamp land for you to purchase.

[robert.]

"I was required to take English, History, Psych, Sociology, Music, and a Religion course to get my 1st degree in Chemistry. Sociology was bizarre and Religion just required you to agree with the Professor to get a good grade. Some of these requirements have been dropped since then" Rufus.


I was required to take a Phys ed class. Brisk walking. For one hour and forty five minutes we walked around the track. My Professor was the athletic director's daughter. For the whole semester people thought i had Tourette syndrome. Not a clean word came out of my mouth. They charged me $600. for that class.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

"I was required to take English, History, Psych, Sociology, Music, and a Religion course to get my 1st degree in Chemistry. Sociology was bizarre and Religion just required you to agree with the Professor to get a good grade. Some of these requirements have been dropped since then" Rufus.


I was required to take a Phys ed class. Brisk walking. For one hour and forty five minutes we walked around the track. My Professor was the athletic director's daughter. For the whole semester people thought i had Tourette syndrome. Not a clean word came out of my mouth. They charged me $600. for that class.

I also had 2 semesters of Phys Ed. classes -- totally forgot until I read the above........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Here are some of the choices we had in Phys. Ed in college, all of which I did avail myself:
Bait casting
Riflery.
Swimming.
Tennis.

[webenda]

Heck, even the English don't use the "English" system anymore!

Yes they do.

[Roy]

A pound sterling for a pound of tomatoes? They better be good tomatoes.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

They have Snickers there.

[rex desilets]

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Like diverting funds from the football program.....
Wait. What? Football programs, at large schools, anyway, pay not only for themselves but other, minor sports, including all the Title IX girl stuff. Successful football teams attract alumni money.

Successful football teams attract more money for more football expenses - you really think anything significant trickles out to other sports? If so, I have vast quantities of swamp land for you to purchase.

If I were sufficiently motivated, and I'm not, I would look up available information to refute this nonsense.

[webenda]

A pound sterling for a pound of tomatoes? They better be good tomatoes.

99p = $1.31 USD

[webenda]

I don't know where or when tomatoes were $2.49/lb. The price varies with time of year and location of the market.
I shop at Safeway here in Tucson. The prices marked in the store are not what I pay. I joined the Safeway Club to get discounts. I have to scan my Club Card or enter my phone number to get the discount. I shop on the Senior Discount day to get additional discounts. Today, tomatoes on the vine are $0.88/lb for club members. On Senior Day there is an additional discount.

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I receive Chevron gasoline discount points everytime I shop. I paid $1.02/gal on 1/24/2015. (More recently it was $1.71/gal with Safeway points.)
The points are cumulative, they add and add until used (upper limit $1/gal.)

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The stores make seniors jump through hoops to get discounts, is it stupid to jump for discounts?

[robert.]

They probably ad 12% the night before. Come senior day they take 10% off. I hate those club cards. Lower your prices across the board.

[Roy]

Do they have a senior center in Tucson? It would be nice, if they got discounts on food and gas. Also, Meals-on-Wheels, if you have that.

[HONDO74]

I am sure we all remember the discussion about the Dr Suess books with the racist pictures ?

Kellogg’s Changing Corn Pops Box After Its Design Was Branded Racist on Social Media
http://people.com/food/kelloggs-backlas ... ed-racism/

See if you can figure it out before reading the story.