The Nation Bemoans Plight of OWS Protester $35K in Debt for Puppetry Degree
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Is there a Puppetry of the Penis roadshow in auditions?
Should be suing the institution that granted the degree for fraud.
Leading on this deluded simpleton into thinking that was a worthwhile skill.
Post secondary fraud.
He apparently missed out on the casting call for the new muppet movie!
Perhaps the lender should establish guidelines such that silly loans aren’t provided for silly subjects. Then again, most student loans these days support the pursuit of dubious degrees.
With that degree, you would think he could pull some strings and find a better job.
@steve
What exactly does he need to audition for?
He is the mascot. A dick with a degree in puppetry.
Sounds like the university has its own version of the Canada Revenue Agency Income Tax short-form:
Item 1: How much are you stupidly willing to spend on university?
Item 2: Send it in.
“so I’m working for half as much as I did four years ago, before grad school, and I don’t have health insurance…. It’s the best-paying job I could find.”
No, it’s probably the best-paying job you were willing to do. You probably never even applied for any jobs that wouldn’t fit your lifestyle, or that would require your leaving the city you call home.
Wow who would have thought your couldn’t find a job as a master of puppetry? Didn’t he call the LPC? Boob probably could use a new puppeteer..
He should apply to the biggest puppeteer in the business to day. That would be George Soros. He is running the Obama puppet and no doubt he could use a helper to manage some of the other puppets that hang around the white house.
Maybe he can consume some of his fellow meat puppets in the undergrad arts world.
I wonder if the divergence of worldview and opinion making has always been so far apart?
The Nation is writing this article as though it’s self-evident. Leftists nod in agreement.
Conservatives laugh at everything it’s about.
How to bridge that gap?
“With that degree, you would think he could pull some strings and find a better job.”
WINNER…Why bother commenting after that…
I’ve been saying for a few weeks not that the real grievance should be with the public education system which mis-lead my generation and the Y2K generation to thinking that ANY University education meant success. The result is an oversaturated market in many fields, and a de-valuation of the degrees in those fields. There are 10 million unfilled jobs in the Trades in the USA today. Also, disinterested Boomer parents can take some of the blame as they did not pass the values of hard work and saving and responsibility that their parents pass-on to them. Too busy I guess. THIS… is ONE of the epic failures of the Boomer generation that generations today are paying for.
That said, like me, these OWS protesters must suck it up, and deal with it.
BTW, I went back to school in my late 20s in pursuit of a good career. Most of these protesters are of a similar age, and could/should do the same. That is my solution to the puppet-master’s debt dilemma.
Finally, you’d think these protesters would be protesting the 15 Trillion debt their elders have hoisted on them. I could get down with that! “Pass the peyote as they used to say”. – Willie D (Geto Boys)
I guess with a Masters of Puppetry you can not only put your hand up a puppets a$$, you are also a master of putting your head up your own a$$.
Follow your dreams Buddy!
Puppets?!? damn.. a masters in basket weaving would be more practical.
He has a degree in Puppetry and needs a full time job?
Is he aware that both the Canadian Liberal and NDP parties are looking to hire new leaders?
He should have taken plumbing instead of puppetry…anyone know of an unemployed plumber???
Wait, what? There is a degree in puppetry?
Oh, John Kelly, tres drole! 🙂
I am pushing for my 2 boys to go in to plumbing or electrical. The older one (12) now says he wants to be a vet. I recently did some work at the home of a local vet. I am now pushing plumber, electrician, or veterinarian.
He needs to go back and get his Masters Degree in ETHNIC Puppetry. That will lead to doors opening up everywhere!
Perhaps he could take his degree, and some initiative, and create a business to feed the market that desires his skill set? I am sure he can’t be the only Masters of Puppetry in the OWS movement? Come on buddy, help a brother out!
“Jeff – I don`t see the gap being bridgeable any time soon. Westerners are now fully engaged in intense ideological warfare, and the media, both traditional and electronic, are the battlefield.
Kicking asses may end up being the only practical solution. Kick, and kick, and for variety kick some more, until the repeated impacts force an iota of common sense up into those ossified impermeable punk-hippie-parasite-zombie cranial cavities.
The puppet master reminds me of the daughter of a friend – she liked to paint and decided to “follow her passion” by studying fine arts at university, racking up a hefty student loan in the process. Upon graduating with a BFA, she just couldn’t understand why nobody would hire her, while her friends (who had gone to community college) had no trouble finding jobs.
Cripes he could come up here and get a job pulling Dildo McDinky’s strings…after all, the environmental parasites are overdue for a break.
Another thought naturally had to follow my last one: even if it doesn’t work, it will feel so damn good!
@Barbara – this reminds me of my favorite snippet from the famous “graduation address” (really just a personal column) by libertarian writer Neal Boortz regarding the government:
“Your new lifelong partner is actually an agent; an agent representing a strange and diverse group of people; an agent for every teenager with an illegitimate child; an agent for a research scientist who wanted to make some cash answering the age-old question of why monkeys grind their teeth. An agent for some poor demented hippie who considers herself to be a meaningful and talented artist, but who just can’t manage to sell any of her artwork on the open market.”
Also speaks to the matter of the pseudo-scientist being discussed in another thread here today. 🙂
OTOH,maybe this guy is just a really bad puppeteer?
OK, so why would a man want to be a puppeteer?
Think about it. This dipstick gets a job teaching little children, then he wants to be a puppeteer and spends 35 large to do it.
Notice how all his efforts are geared toward little kids? I don’t know but I’d be very wary of this guy.
Parents-Don’t let this guy take your children behind the curtain to see the secrets of puppetry. A Jim Hansen he ain’t.
“Perhaps the lender should establish guidelines such that silly loans aren’t provided for silly subjects. Then again, most student loans these days support the pursuit of dubious degrees.”
Posted by: steve at November 3, 2011 3:17 PM
No Kidding! Perhaps gov’t should “de-fund” universities for offering silly subjects. In fact, the Puppet Master should have been forced to pay for a completely unsubsidized degree–probably closer to $135K (which is what a foreign student would pay for 3-years pre or post grad).
Of course some left-tard will argue that we’re sending all the important puppet master jobs to: China, India, insert country here, a la wind power, solar power etc….
What a maroon!
I’m not sure which is more ridiculous the clown borrowing 35 G for a degree in puppetry or the clown lending the 35 G for a degree in puppetry. Maybe if we attached some personal responsibility to the lenders the borrowers who obviously are too stupid to attend university would go get a job more in line with their intellectual capacity like maybe a bricklayer or drywaller.
Why would a bank loan someone a lot of money to get a degree in puppetry?
Had the first movie not portrayed Michael Moore so accurately, said puppeteer would probably accept a job working on Team America II.
He thought he would be the next George Soro’s, with his own real live teleprompting Obamba.
“I’m not sure which is more ridiculous the clown borrowing 35 G for a degree in puppetry or the clown lending the 35 G for a degree in puppetry. Maybe if we attached some personal responsibility to the lenders the borrowers who obviously are too stupid to attend university would go get a job more in line with their intellectual capacity like maybe a bricklayer or drywaller.”
Just like how personal responsibility has been excercised by the people and institutions responsible for the global meltdown? Do you know why this protest movement is happening? The entitlement of Goldman Sachs, et al, to get tons of free government handouts to cover for their bad spending and mistakes. Where’s the right-wing outcry?
No, instead let’s belittle people for blowing $35k on a puppetry. Who cares about the billions of wasted dollars on bailouts. Who cares about the fact that there may have been a market for puppetry had the governments, banks and speculators not thoroughly screwed the economy.
Chris – yes, I’m sure that if it weren’t for Wall Street we would now be living in the Golden Age of Puppetry, with Puppet Master being a vaunted and prestigious career.
And the right-wing outcry happened BEFORE the bailouts – we didn’t want them to happen. A government bailing out a failing private business with public money is a socialist act. You seem to forget that it was the left that wanted the bailouts in the first place…
You guys have all missed the point: someone’s willing to go $35K in the hole to study puppets. I’m opening the PT Barnum Puppet Academy next week. Limited enrollment! Apply now!
Putting aside views on a degree in puppetry for the moment,* consider something else at play here.
Here’s a guy with a degree or two and teaching experience but still he can’t get back into a career in education.
I’m willing to bet a large part of the problem isn’t the principal’s “budget” at all; it’s the sclerotic, unionized vice on the education system that reduces a principal’s initiative and flexibility by tying his hands when it comes to engaging fresh teaching talent.**
* Sneer at a post-grad degree in puppetry if you will but such a concept is entirely valid in itself. However, anyone who chooses such a field had better be prepared to accept the career limitations of such a choice.
** It’s worse than that. No one would argue the value of, and need for, the nursing profession and yet even there the unionized closed shop inhibits careers and opportunity for all kinds of highly trained and motivated young nurses.
Yes Chris, we know why the protest is happening: so that crust-punks, patchouli-stinking hippies, junkies (one OD’d in the Vancouver camp yesterday) and other parasites can get out of doors and do their usual thing: take a giant public dump on the values of the working people of this country.
The rest is just a smokescreen masking their brain-searing envy of anyone with motivation beyond rolling over in bed and lighting the first joint of the day.
Is there a Puppetry of the Penis roadshow in auditions?
Should be suing the institution that granted the degree for fraud.
Leading on this deluded simpleton into thinking that was a worthwhile skill.
Post secondary fraud.
He apparently missed out on the casting call for the new muppet movie!
Perhaps the lender should establish guidelines such that silly loans aren’t provided for silly subjects. Then again, most student loans these days support the pursuit of dubious degrees.
This is beginning to look like Being John Malkovitch. Did he study for his degree on the 7 1/2 floor?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ahIGLNNwo
With that degree, you would think he could pull some strings and find a better job.
@steve
What exactly does he need to audition for?
He is the mascot. A dick with a degree in puppetry.
Sounds like the university has its own version of the Canada Revenue Agency Income Tax short-form:
Item 1: How much are you stupidly willing to spend on university?
Item 2: Send it in.
“so I’m working for half as much as I did four years ago, before grad school, and I don’t have health insurance…. It’s the best-paying job I could find.”
No, it’s probably the best-paying job you were willing to do. You probably never even applied for any jobs that wouldn’t fit your lifestyle, or that would require your leaving the city you call home.
Wow who would have thought your couldn’t find a job as a master of puppetry? Didn’t he call the LPC? Boob probably could use a new puppeteer..
He should apply to the biggest puppeteer in the business to day. That would be George Soros. He is running the Obama puppet and no doubt he could use a helper to manage some of the other puppets that hang around the white house.
Maybe he can consume some of his fellow meat puppets in the undergrad arts world.
I wonder if the divergence of worldview and opinion making has always been so far apart?
The Nation is writing this article as though it’s self-evident. Leftists nod in agreement.
Conservatives laugh at everything it’s about.
How to bridge that gap?
“With that degree, you would think he could pull some strings and find a better job.”
WINNER…Why bother commenting after that…
I’ve been saying for a few weeks not that the real grievance should be with the public education system which mis-lead my generation and the Y2K generation to thinking that ANY University education meant success. The result is an oversaturated market in many fields, and a de-valuation of the degrees in those fields. There are 10 million unfilled jobs in the Trades in the USA today. Also, disinterested Boomer parents can take some of the blame as they did not pass the values of hard work and saving and responsibility that their parents pass-on to them. Too busy I guess. THIS… is ONE of the epic failures of the Boomer generation that generations today are paying for.
That said, like me, these OWS protesters must suck it up, and deal with it.
BTW, I went back to school in my late 20s in pursuit of a good career. Most of these protesters are of a similar age, and could/should do the same. That is my solution to the puppet-master’s debt dilemma.
Finally, you’d think these protesters would be protesting the 15 Trillion debt their elders have hoisted on them. I could get down with that! “Pass the peyote as they used to say”. – Willie D (Geto Boys)
I guess with a Masters of Puppetry you can not only put your hand up a puppets a$$, you are also a master of putting your head up your own a$$.
Follow your dreams Buddy!
Puppets?!? damn.. a masters in basket weaving would be more practical.
Perfect place for a trailer park boys link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtQBpQSZFEU
He has a degree in Puppetry and needs a full time job?
Is he aware that both the Canadian Liberal and NDP parties are looking to hire new leaders?
He should have taken plumbing instead of puppetry…anyone know of an unemployed plumber???
Wait, what? There is a degree in puppetry?
Oh, John Kelly, tres drole! 🙂
I am pushing for my 2 boys to go in to plumbing or electrical. The older one (12) now says he wants to be a vet. I recently did some work at the home of a local vet. I am now pushing plumber, electrician, or veterinarian.
He needs to go back and get his Masters Degree in ETHNIC Puppetry. That will lead to doors opening up everywhere!
Perhaps he could take his degree, and some initiative, and create a business to feed the market that desires his skill set? I am sure he can’t be the only Masters of Puppetry in the OWS movement? Come on buddy, help a brother out!
“Jeff – I don`t see the gap being bridgeable any time soon. Westerners are now fully engaged in intense ideological warfare, and the media, both traditional and electronic, are the battlefield.
Kicking asses may end up being the only practical solution. Kick, and kick, and for variety kick some more, until the repeated impacts force an iota of common sense up into those ossified impermeable punk-hippie-parasite-zombie cranial cavities.
The puppet master reminds me of the daughter of a friend – she liked to paint and decided to “follow her passion” by studying fine arts at university, racking up a hefty student loan in the process. Upon graduating with a BFA, she just couldn’t understand why nobody would hire her, while her friends (who had gone to community college) had no trouble finding jobs.
Cripes he could come up here and get a job pulling Dildo McDinky’s strings…after all, the environmental parasites are overdue for a break.
Another thought naturally had to follow my last one: even if it doesn’t work, it will feel so damn good!
@Barbara – this reminds me of my favorite snippet from the famous “graduation address” (really just a personal column) by libertarian writer Neal Boortz regarding the government:
“Your new lifelong partner is actually an agent; an agent representing a strange and diverse group of people; an agent for every teenager with an illegitimate child; an agent for a research scientist who wanted to make some cash answering the age-old question of why monkeys grind their teeth. An agent for some poor demented hippie who considers herself to be a meaningful and talented artist, but who just can’t manage to sell any of her artwork on the open market.”
Also speaks to the matter of the pseudo-scientist being discussed in another thread here today. 🙂
OTOH,maybe this guy is just a really bad puppeteer?
OK, so why would a man want to be a puppeteer?
Think about it. This dipstick gets a job teaching little children, then he wants to be a puppeteer and spends 35 large to do it.
Notice how all his efforts are geared toward little kids? I don’t know but I’d be very wary of this guy.
Parents-Don’t let this guy take your children behind the curtain to see the secrets of puppetry. A Jim Hansen he ain’t.
“Perhaps the lender should establish guidelines such that silly loans aren’t provided for silly subjects. Then again, most student loans these days support the pursuit of dubious degrees.”
Posted by: steve at November 3, 2011 3:17 PM
No Kidding! Perhaps gov’t should “de-fund” universities for offering silly subjects. In fact, the Puppet Master should have been forced to pay for a completely unsubsidized degree–probably closer to $135K (which is what a foreign student would pay for 3-years pre or post grad).
Of course some left-tard will argue that we’re sending all the important puppet master jobs to: China, India, insert country here, a la wind power, solar power etc….
What a maroon!
I’m not sure which is more ridiculous the clown borrowing 35 G for a degree in puppetry or the clown lending the 35 G for a degree in puppetry. Maybe if we attached some personal responsibility to the lenders the borrowers who obviously are too stupid to attend university would go get a job more in line with their intellectual capacity like maybe a bricklayer or drywaller.
Hey, he is only half as bad off as the 99% moron who dropped $87k to learn how to repair $150 printers.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46683
Why would a bank loan someone a lot of money to get a degree in puppetry?
Had the first movie not portrayed Michael Moore so accurately, said puppeteer would probably accept a job working on Team America II.
He thought he would be the next George Soro’s, with his own real live teleprompting Obamba.
“I’m not sure which is more ridiculous the clown borrowing 35 G for a degree in puppetry or the clown lending the 35 G for a degree in puppetry. Maybe if we attached some personal responsibility to the lenders the borrowers who obviously are too stupid to attend university would go get a job more in line with their intellectual capacity like maybe a bricklayer or drywaller.”
Just like how personal responsibility has been excercised by the people and institutions responsible for the global meltdown? Do you know why this protest movement is happening? The entitlement of Goldman Sachs, et al, to get tons of free government handouts to cover for their bad spending and mistakes. Where’s the right-wing outcry?
No, instead let’s belittle people for blowing $35k on a puppetry. Who cares about the billions of wasted dollars on bailouts. Who cares about the fact that there may have been a market for puppetry had the governments, banks and speculators not thoroughly screwed the economy.
Chris – yes, I’m sure that if it weren’t for Wall Street we would now be living in the Golden Age of Puppetry, with Puppet Master being a vaunted and prestigious career.
And the right-wing outcry happened BEFORE the bailouts – we didn’t want them to happen. A government bailing out a failing private business with public money is a socialist act. You seem to forget that it was the left that wanted the bailouts in the first place…
You guys have all missed the point: someone’s willing to go $35K in the hole to study puppets. I’m opening the PT Barnum Puppet Academy next week. Limited enrollment! Apply now!
Putting aside views on a degree in puppetry for the moment,* consider something else at play here.
Here’s a guy with a degree or two and teaching experience but still he can’t get back into a career in education.
I’m willing to bet a large part of the problem isn’t the principal’s “budget” at all; it’s the sclerotic, unionized vice on the education system that reduces a principal’s initiative and flexibility by tying his hands when it comes to engaging fresh teaching talent.**
* Sneer at a post-grad degree in puppetry if you will but such a concept is entirely valid in itself. However, anyone who chooses such a field had better be prepared to accept the career limitations of such a choice.
** It’s worse than that. No one would argue the value of, and need for, the nursing profession and yet even there the unionized closed shop inhibits careers and opportunity for all kinds of highly trained and motivated young nurses.
Yes Chris, we know why the protest is happening: so that crust-punks, patchouli-stinking hippies, junkies (one OD’d in the Vancouver camp yesterday) and other parasites can get out of doors and do their usual thing: take a giant public dump on the values of the working people of this country.
The rest is just a smokescreen masking their brain-searing envy of anyone with motivation beyond rolling over in bed and lighting the first joint of the day.
I’m your puppet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSE_u8diWM0
I see nothing wrong with this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYT-jlb3uQk