Helium Balloons To Cost $100?

Kiddie helium balloons will soon cost $100 each according to Cornell scientist Robert Richardson.

Why?

Helium is used in radiation portal monitors  to scan for bomb-making components entering the country, and the proliferation of these devices after 9/11 is causing a shortage, reports Popular Science.

The upside is that at $100 per balloon it would cost $9,900 to release 99 of them making the accidental start of World War III cost prohibitive for hippies.

 

Helium Balloons To Cost $100?

 

Helium Balloons To Cost $100?

Pa College Kids Get Tuition Hike

Tuition will rise 3 percent next year at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities.

The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Board, today, July 8,  hiked tuition   $99 a semester to $3,410.

Also, the board extended the contracts of 10 university presidents for three more years.

The presidents at California, Cheyney, Kutztown and Shippensburg universities  are serving on an interim basis.

The presidents are just about all pulling in over $200,000 per year not including benefits, at least as of February according to LancasterOnline.com.

PASSHE  does not govern the four “state-related” schools — Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln — which are run by the Commonwealth System of Higher Education and have different tuition and pay scales.

Pa College Kids Get Tuition Hike

Pa College Kids Get Tuition Hike Of $198 per year

 

 

Academia Faces Hard Times In Obama Era

Ryan Anderson, a graduate student in anthropology, has written a piece bemoaning the fate that looms before him.

“We spent about a decade learning how to become academics, only to realize the dream has already passed,” he said. “We’re all trained for positions that don’t exist. We’ve been prepared for a way of life that is rapidly vanishing before our eyes (the secure, tenured academic).”

Um, did you vote for Obama, Ryan? Most academic types did.

Imagine you’re a small business owner in Seattle who invested his life in his little restaurant and  just got hit with a $15 minimum wage.

Imagine you own a medium size business and are now going be stuck with carrying your employees’ health care?

They are pretty much feeling like you are right now. Mull that around.

By the way, what exactly do you think was the ultimate source of the funding for those anthropology jobs and such? You know the kind of thing that gets kicked down the priority list when dealing with a $17.5 trillion debt?

Academia Faces Hard Times In Obama Era

Academia Faces Hard Times In Obama Era