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Kristin Gillbrand Refused to "Believe All Women" When a Staffer Complained of Being Harassed by One of Her Top Aides, But Finally Parted With Him When Media Pressure Got Too Problematic
Per Politico, Gillibrand declined to fire a male staffer despite a female staffer quitting over alleged sexual harassment. But when Politico reached out about it, she finally fired him https://t.co/37JK4a8kc6
— Molly Woodruff (@woodruffbets) March 11, 2019
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of the most outspoken advocates of the #MeToo movement who has made fighting sexual misconduct a centerpiece of her presidential campaign, spent last summer pressing legislators to update Congress' "broken" system of handling sexual harassment. At the same time, a mid-20s female aide to Gillibrand resigned in protest over the handling of her sexual harassment complaint by Gillibrand's office, and criticized the senator for failing to abide by her own public standards. In July, the female staffer alleged one of Gillibrand's closest aides -- who was a decade her senior and married -- repeatedly made unwelcome advances after the senator had told him he would be promoted to a supervisory role over her. She also said the male aide regularly made crude, misogynistic remarks in the office about his female colleagues and potential female hires. Less than three weeks after reporting the alleged harassment and subsequently claiming that the man retaliated against her for doing so, the woman told chief of staff Jess Fassler that she was resigning because of the office's handling of the matter. She did not have another job lined up. The woman was granted anonymity because she fears retaliation and damage to her future professional prospects. ... Since she left last summer, the woman has been doing part-time contract work. The male aide, Abbas Malik, kept his job. Two weeks ago, however, POLITICO presented the office with its own findings of additional allegations of inappropriate workplace conduct by Malik. Among the claims were that he made a “joke” about rape to a female colleague -- a person whom the office had failed to contact last summer despite repeated urgings by Malik’s accuser to reach out to the person. Gillibrand's office opened a new investigation and dismissed Malik last week. Malik did not respond to requests for comment.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thanatopsis at March 12, 2019 11:53 AM (IKICP)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at March 12, 2019 11:54 AM (IKICP)
Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2019 11:54 AM (BXMxN)
I won't hold my breath.
Posted by: Brexit at March 12, 2019 11:54 AM (zqYE5)
Posted by: El Kabong at March 12, 2019 11:54 AM (datdl)
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Abbas Malik.
Intersectionality. Who is higher on the victim hood continuum.
Brown people over white women, apparently.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 11:55 AM (8XRCm)
Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2019 11:55 AM (BXMxN)
"You're terrible at this one thing."
"Send donations in today!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 12, 2019 11:55 AM (aFMSC)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 11:56 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 12, 2019 11:56 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 12, 2019 11:56 AM (xfb67)
Posted by: Zod at March 12, 2019 11:56 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 11:56 AM (ptqGC)
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Not even with your fork.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 11:56 AM (8XRCm)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 11:57 AM (faNU0)
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Abbas Malik.
Intersectionality. Who is higher on the victim hood continuum.
Brown people over white women, apparently.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 11:55 AM (8XRCm)
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I doubt Gillibrand cares about intersectionality.
She knows the guy. He's one of the good guys because he works for her and believes progressive things.
She can't spare him, so she can sacrifice one little whiny bitch who's gonna get in Gillibrand's way to power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 12, 2019 11:57 AM (aFMSC)
Posted by: Slawalin15@gmail.com at March 12, 2019 11:57 AM (MafHV)
Posted by: Washington Politicians at March 12, 2019 11:57 AM (I2dne)
Posted by: CN at March 12, 2019 11:57 AM (U7k5w)
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 12, 2019 11:57 AM (8D42x)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 11:56 AM (ptqGC)
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Not even with your fork.
Posted by: fixerupper
Spork her!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 11:57 AM (LHT0w)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 11:58 AM (faNU0)
Fuck her.
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With Allah as my witness, I tried. Perhaps next time, Inshalla.
Posted by: Abbas Malik at March 12, 2019 11:58 AM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 11:58 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: BignJames at March 12, 2019 11:58 AM (ykq7q)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2019 11:58 AM (zBaqJ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, back in the saddle again at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM (RD7QR)
Even I have a better shot at getting the nomination than that fat blonde bimbo.
Fraud and slag.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2019 11:58 AM (zBaqJ)
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How else is she going to sell whatever book she's recently "written"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM (aFMSC)
I won't hold my breath.
LOLWUT?
Posted by: The Gee Ohh Pee at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM (beH4q)
this is why we don't need white feminizm in the white house
*bzzz* *beep* *bop* *CLICK*
http://tinyurl.com/3fqyrwf
Posted by: NPC-1000 at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM (AzW6q)
With a name like that you would think he'd be sexually harassin Kids.
Posted by: garrett
Goats.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM (LHT0w)
Posted by: BignJames at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM (ykq7q)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 12, 2019 12:00 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 12, 2019 12:00 PM (mWkbG)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 12, 2019 12:00 PM (bLhAC)
...
Posted by: NPC-1000 at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM (AzW6q)
++++++++++
Is there a checked-privilege fee? If I book with Southwest, do two privileges come along for free?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:00 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 12, 2019 12:00 PM (r+sAi)
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Meryl Streep called Harvey Weinstein God.
What must she think of baackwoods conservatives who don't donate to Planned Parenthood?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 12, 2019 12:00 PM (aFMSC)
Posted by: pahound at March 12, 2019 12:00 PM (BTevZ)
Posted by: Total Control Racist at March 12, 2019 12:01 PM (Z92n0)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:01 PM (faNU0)
FIFY
Posted by: pep at March 12, 2019 12:01 PM (TpAxy)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, back in the saddle again at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM
FIFY.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 12, 2019 12:01 PM (0tfLf)
With a name like that you would think he'd be sexually harassin Kids.
Posted by: garrett
Goats.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM (LHT0w)
Nah, the little goats are too fast...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 12, 2019 12:01 PM (8D42x)
Her ignorance can be forgiven. She has not been exposed to the One True Faith.
Posted by: Zod at March 12, 2019 12:02 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 12, 2019 12:02 PM (bLhAC)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:02 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 12, 2019 12:02 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: sound awake at March 12, 2019 12:02 PM (wYb2i)
With a name like that you would think he'd be sexually harassin Kids.
Posted by: garrett
Goats.
Posted by: rickb223
Hahahaha...fuck you Stampy!
Posted by: The Chicken at March 12, 2019 12:02 PM (beH4q)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2019 12:02 PM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: critic of the Godless at March 12, 2019 12:02 PM (1XtI9)
also, targeted rape "jokes" are TIGHT!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:02 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Zod at March 12, 2019 12:03 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Archer at March 12, 2019 12:03 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:00 PM (I2dne)
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if you are a white male you cant pay the cost of your privvillige on black and brown bodies you need to take a back seat and be an ally a silent ally
*whrrr* *click* *THUMP*
Posted by: NPC-1000 at March 12, 2019 12:03 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: pep at March 12, 2019 12:03 PM (TpAxy)
She knows the guy. He's one of the good guys because he works for her and believes progressive things.
She can't spare him, so she can sacrifice one little whiny bitch who's gonna get in Gillibrand's way to power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 12, 2019 11:57 AM (aFMSC)
he's a minority who is either in the military or just likes to dress up like he is, so... he's a real twofer.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:03 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 12:04 PM (LHT0w)
"I must have been starving. I hit that Pizza like it was Tuesday!"
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:04 PM (faNU0)
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This is a training wheels campaign cycle for the Democrats. They aren't designated for winning. Of course 2016 proves shit happens.
Posted by: Total Control Racist at March 12, 2019 12:04 PM (Z92n0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 12, 2019 12:05 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:05 PM (gCzjH)
Posted by: Fritz at March 12, 2019 12:05 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 12, 2019 12:05 PM (0O7c5)
"There are good rape jokes?"Female Colleague
"I want to rape you"Abbas Malik
"That's not funny."Female Colleague
Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2019 12:05 PM (BXMxN)
Michael Jackson responds to Leaving Neverland.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8CgdRLnDQ&feature=youtu.be
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 12, 2019 12:05 PM (mWkbG)
Here's to the great Democrat enfuckening!!
Posted by: dananjcon at March 12, 2019 12:06 PM (xqfqx)
Posted by: Rapey Tuesday at March 12, 2019 12:06 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 12, 2019 12:00 PM (bLhAC)
They make the rules, we just get to live by them.
That said, I worked in for a sales-driven, male-dominated company for a while and one chick made like 10 complaints about different dudes in the office "sexually harassing" her (mostly by making off-color comments about women or whatever that she overheard)... and believe it or not, the company actually FIRED her. I was shocked.
She has since filed suit against the company, but I imagine in their minds they were like "who is more important? A girl who complains to HR all the time about nothing and never hits her sales goals, or the rest of the office?"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:07 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Not that guy at March 12, 2019 12:07 PM (G9Y8y)
- Abbas Malik - Look for my new book "How to ID whore and influence sheeple"
Posted by: Archer at March 12, 2019 12:08 PM (gmo/4)
*whrrr* *click* *THUMP*
Posted by: NPC-1000 at March 12, 2019 12:03 PM (AzW6q)
++++++++++++
When did this "bodies" crap start? Also, do they not see that they are offering a lens - a nasty, vicious lens - into their world view?
You as a *person* do not matter. You are indeed *not* a person. You have no ideas and no opinion. You have no *mind* at all. You are a body. Just a body whose life - if a body without a mind can be considered a life at all - is defined by your melanin content and bone structure.
This new woke nomenclature is deeply troubling evidence of their actual hatred of life. Their world is one populated with animals. Animals are defined by their bodies. Men are defined by their minds.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:08 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Not that guy at March 12, 2019 12:07 PM (G9Y8y)
an e-4 with a Muslim sounding name, though, so...
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:08 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: critic of the Godless
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They have one goal: The acquisition of power. It does not matter how it is achieved. The well-being of the Republic and it's peoples concerns them not at all.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 12, 2019 12:08 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2019 12:08 PM (BXMxN)
Posted by: Caliban at March 12, 2019 12:09 PM (QE8X6)
Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2019 12:08 PM (BXMxN)
+++++++++++
Once the Czars fell, the Bolsheviks took the knives to the Mensheviks. It shall ever be so.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:10 PM (I2dne)
She successfully played the part of a gun-lovin' blue dog Dem when representing a rural, conservative district in NY. Then after being appointed to fill Felonia's Senate seat she went straight to hard-left harridan who does as Schumer tells her.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:10 PM (DQjsT)
Posted by: Caliban at March 12, 2019 12:09 PM (QE8X6)
++++++++
FIFY
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:10 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Dan Rather at March 12, 2019 12:10 PM (6XT4H)
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 12, 2019 12:11 PM (J+mig)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 11:56 AM (ptqGC)
She's in her salad days.
Posted by: Caliban at March 12, 2019 12:11 PM (QE8X6)
Posted by: Not that guy at March 12, 2019 12:07 PM (G9Y8y)
an e-4 with a Muslim sounding name, though, so...
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
He had access to the armory.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (LHT0w)
...
Posted by: NPC-1000 at March 12, 2019 11:59 AM (AzW6q)
++++++++++
Is there a checked-privilege fee? If I book with Southwest, do two privileges come along for free?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:00 PM (I2dne)
too much baggage...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (LX21o)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:08 PM (I2dne)
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of course you would say that as a white male opresser your ideas about hearts and minds are a white social construct to jusstifi your control of black and brown bodies and who has time to think when they do not have enuff to eat thanks to white capitalizm and their comyunities are polluted
*beep* *buzz* *BOOOP*
Posted by: NPC-1000 at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:10 PM (DQjsT)
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So, the Lefty version of Mia Love then.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (ffYR/)
Just once you'd think they would believe their female staffer, but no.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (tVWQB)
Abbas Malik. Obviously a white male flaunting his white male privilege. Diversity will save us from all of this comrades
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (OLCnA)
Posted by: Archer at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (gmo/4)
Prior to the election, Camron Goodman and Amie Jean, the president and vice president elect, told the campus community that "we will implement a training tag system that shows which professors have undergone inclusivity training by identifiable tags on the course schedules and syllabi. This will provide students with more transparency about the learning environment and encourage professors to proudly undergo trainings and further means by which they connect with students."
Posted by: McInTx (formerly (T)expat - West Africa Time) at March 12, 2019 12:13 PM (HF4ch)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
heh, first thing I thought, he's a muzzie. So that's why she kept him, so that's why he knew he could do anything to women he wanted.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2019 12:13 PM (Kpl3J)
You as a *person* do not matter. You are indeed *not* a person. You have no ideas and no opinion. You have no *mind* at all. You are a body. Just a body whose life - if a body without a mind can be considered a life at all - is defined by your melanin content and bone structure.
This new woke nomenclature is deeply troubling evidence of their actual hatred of life. Their world is one populated with animals. Animals are defined by their bodies. Men are defined by their minds.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:08 PM (I2dne)
Your onto something, but I think it goes a step further.
Its all about tribal politics. To the Left you as an individual do not matter, only what group you are a part of matters.
Why?
Because they don't WANT to go to the trouble of treating individual citizens as that, its easier to 'buy' off a group, than an individual
Problem is it leads to group rewards, which ARE group punishments (for those not in the preferred group).
Affirmative Action cemented that silly notion into law, and the Left is just taking it to the next step.
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:13 PM (NgKpN)
*beep* *buzz* *BOOOP*
Posted by: NPC-1000 at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (AzW6q)
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Very well done. Just like being in college, but the tuition here is much cheaper.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:13 PM (I2dne)
And Lena Dunham says "Hi!"
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2019 12:14 PM (W+vEI)
SILENCE!!!!! INFIDELS!!!!!
You pronounce my name incoreectly.
Abs...ass...my...lick.
This is what I want infidel girls to do.
Its is in my name.
Posted by: Abbas Malik at March 12, 2019 12:14 PM (8XRCm)
No, that was the scrunt from Minnesota that Cuck George Will has fallen in love with.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2019 12:14 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:14 PM (LX21o)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 12:14 PM (tVWQB)
She investigated it, met with both parties, issued warnings about what would happen if it happened again. Seems pretty reasonable.
The weird thing is, she doesn't agree with how she handled it, at least publicly from her bully pulpit bloviating about believe all women.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:14 PM (gCzjH)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2019 12:14 PM (W+vEI)
In other words, she's the perfect Democrat: a lying, duplicitous, socialist, anti-constituional fraud.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2019 12:15 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: The voting public at March 12, 2019 12:15 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Caliban at March 12, 2019 12:09 PM (QE8X6)
Woke = dumb
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 12, 2019 12:15 PM (OLCnA)
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I have to admit that it's better than the pink tennis shoe lady.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:15 PM (LX21o)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Break Progressive Minds with a Trumpinator From The Outrage Outlet! at March 12, 2019 12:15 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2019 12:15 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:16 PM (bim/x)
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:13 PM (NgKpN)
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Yes it did, but I disagree that this just for political benefit or that the notion is even strictly political as such. It is very politically useful, but I don't think the real root cause is even the lust for political power. I think they, because of their perverse and evil philosophy, hate people. A world without people is their ideal. The first step to destroying people is to destroy the person - the individual. Once individuals are gone, they can start destroying the groups.
They're killers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:16 PM (I2dne)
@TheHill
.
Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 12:16 PM (MAstk)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (bLhAC)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (LX21o)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (gCzjH)
Why?
Because they don't WANT to go to the trouble of treating individual citizens as that, its easier to 'buy' off a group, than an individual
Problem is it leads to group rewards, which ARE group punishments (for those not in the preferred group).
Affirmative Action cemented that silly notion into law, and the Left is just taking it to the next step.
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:13 PM (NgKpN)
Individualism vs. Collectivism.
The collectivists see you as a drone, your only purpose is to support the Queen Bee. You are to work without reward and then die when too worn out to work.
All collectivism may be sold with friendly promises about "the community", and benefits that will allegedly improve your quality of life, but always ends in dehumanization and slavery.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (J+mig)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:16 PM (bim/x)
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OOOoooooo! Ooooooo!!!!
THE EMPEROR HAS NO NOSE!!!
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Not that guy
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I was an E-4, and I had dress blues. Man, did I look sharp in them. Hell, I had officers waiting on me.
You should have been at Tipper's and my wedding. It was full-on formal military. National Cathedral, sabers, all kinds of good stuff. Looked like a Ghadafi wedding.
Anyhow, not bad for an E-4. Rumors that my daddy played a pert in it are a lie.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (LX21o)
That was my grandfather's name. He spelled it Patrick but that was just the Anglicized version of Malik
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (OLCnA)
@TheHill
Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 12:16 PM (MAstk)
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Damn. I hope he loses the primary. If he gets through, I think he could win. The typical tame suburban liberal types can get behind Biden while lying to themselves that they aren't voting for the communists.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM (ffYR/)
Yep. Good analogy. Love had to actually win her seat though, that's the only difference.
(Gillibrand won re-election - as a Dem in NY how could she not - but was appointed to the seat in the first place.)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (DQjsT)
@TheHill
.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
Breathe......
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHhhah!!11!11!
What a sucker.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 12:18 PM (tVWQB)
"I must have been starving. I hit that Pizza like it was Tuesday!"
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:04 PM
*tweet*
flag on the play.
it's taco Tuesday, and only lesbians are allowed to rape tacos...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 12, 2019 12:18 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (bLhAC)
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She nicknamed him ONE WOOD.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:18 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by:
----Dammit. Forgot sock
Posted by: Al Gore at March 12, 2019 12:18 PM (xSo9G)
sense an opportunity from it. You could say that they are opportunistic
rather than principled.
Build the damn wall.
Posted by: Meghan's dead dad. at March 12, 2019 12:18 PM (cSc4o)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:18 PM (Rarvo)
SCOOP: FORMER VP JOE BIDEN will run for PRESIDENT in 2020, senior Democratic lawmaker tells
@TheHill
.
Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 12:16 PM (MAstk)
This is AWESOME!! The Dems have another Old White Male Cis Gender running for POTUS. We're going to need more popcorn.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 12, 2019 12:18 PM (jxbfJ)
As a former upstate NY'er I wholeheartedly second this.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:19 PM (DQjsT)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation
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As opposed to the one with the Chinese spy driver?
Posted by: Al Gore at March 12, 2019 12:19 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 12, 2019 12:18 PM (8D42x)
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Over 100 and I found this funny and it is very loosely connectable.
Q: What's the female version of the "tea bag" maneuver?
A: The "clam slam" maneuver.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:19 PM (I2dne)
@TheHill
.
Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 12:16 PM (MAstk)
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Not exactly a scoop, completely expected. I hope he wins the nom. Watching PDT debate him would be epic.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 12:19 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: NCAA at March 12, 2019 12:19 PM (faNU0)
Posted by: FIRST!!!!! at March 12, 2019 12:19 PM (d8iVQ)
Ticket Carlson still has his job while Malik is gone
GOP still voted for creepy Ray Moore and grab 'em by the pussy Trump
Posted by: Kurt at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM (7CSmR)
Gillebrand's dad worked for NXIVM as a lawyer, IIRC.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM (faNU0)
Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM (9L2du)
Posted by: blaster at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM (9VeU0)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM (I2dne)
Slightly off topic, I bet Harvey Weinstein could write one hell of a book about the starlets with whom it was a willing quid pro quo.
Posted by: Advo at March 12, 2019 12:21 PM (Ms4Um)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:21 PM (DQjsT)
Posted by: CN at March 12, 2019 12:21 PM (U7k5w)
I'm trying to note the difference between you and a 20lb bag of dog shit, and I'm coming up empty.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 12:21 PM (tVWQB)
my gram is rolling in her grave
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 12, 2019 12:21 PM (0O7c5)
Rich people paid to get their kids into better colleges. Shocker!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:21 PM (gCzjH)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:21 PM (faNU0)
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But see, in his culture, women are objects and property to be exploited.
Let's not be judgy.
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at March 12, 2019 12:21 PM (vg8iE)
Kurt, the syphilitic imbecilic trollster has spun more folksy pearls of wisdom for us to laugh at.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:22 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:22 PM (faNU0)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:22 PM (bim/x)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:22 PM (DQjsT)
103 Gillifraud has been full of it from the beginning. Ask anyone from
NY. She lied to the voters, especially upstate that she was some type of
pro gun rights moderate. Then once elected went complete Left Wing
liberal.
As a former upstate NY'er I wholeheartedly second this.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:19 PM (DQjsT)
X 3.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 12, 2019 12:22 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 12, 2019 12:22 PM (1ISKN)
Ah, good to see you've got the Media Matters talking points for the day! Yes, that Tucker Carlson is the worst, yeah, that's the ticket!!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2019 12:22 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2019 12:23 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:23 PM (faNU0)
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There's WAY more than 20 lbs of dogshit in Kurt.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:23 PM (8XRCm)
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Oh, that's too bad. I hope he lost.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 12, 2019 12:23 PM (vg8iE)
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greetings fellow hoo-mon you are so strong and brave
*click* *click* *WHRRR*
Posted by: NPC-1000 at March 12, 2019 12:23 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:23 PM (LX21o)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (LX21o
Joe Biden runs on a platform that advocates categorizing paste as a vegetable. "It really sticks to your ribs. And the roof of your mouth. Like peanut butter," the former vice president is quoted as saying.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Break Progressive Minds with a Trumpinator From The Outrage Outlet! at March 12, 2019 12:23 PM (hLRSq)
NY. She lied to the voters, especially upstate that she was some type of
pro gun rights moderate. Then once elected went complete Left Wing
liberal.
yup, that scrunt ran the first time as a full on "moderate" LOL...Not that it fooled me
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:24 PM (bim/x)
They're killers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:16 PM (I2dne)
I think it goes deeper than that.
I believe that Maslow's Hierarchy of needs is a pretty good explanation.
First you protect self, then family, then extended family (tribe), then community.
A major fight between right and left now, is who is your Tribe? I always thought of my tribe as all Americans, but the LEFT wants America to be at the community level, with your tribe being a sexual or racial division.
When you do that however, because you will protect Tribe, over your Community, you protect your special interest group at a higher priority than you go your community, ie America itself.
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:24 PM (NgKpN)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:24 PM (LX21o)
This new batch of them are really disappointing,
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:25 PM (gCzjH)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 12:25 PM (tVWQB)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2019 12:25 PM (dNzKv)
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Irony.
It's like Silvery.... except it rusts.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:26 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2019 12:26 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: weft cut-l00p at March 12, 2019 12:26 PM (Hk+Y0)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 12:25 PM (tVWQB)
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kurt is a sensitive and mindful hoo-mon your words are vilince
*BEEEEP*
Posted by: NPC-1000 at March 12, 2019 12:26 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Kurt at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM
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How tiresome. Learn some new songs.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM
You could make sense of that? It was like a Russian to English translation then run through a shredder.
How come we never get trolls with a decent command of the English language?
Posted by: Newest Nic at March 12, 2019 12:26 PM (jYje5)
Sit down boy. Have another dick. You will feel better.
Posted by: Xipe Totec still banned at rgICo at March 12, 2019 12:26 PM (A5B6s)
Universities pay people to take exams and produce coursework for Athletes.
Just about every single University in America does this.
Also, Affirmative Action and Title IX are the Government bribing Universities. Without, you know, the financial benefit.
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:27 PM (faNU0)
Posted by: Not that guy
Warum nicht? You know who was an E-4!
Posted by: Franz Liebkind at March 12, 2019 12:27 PM (6rX0K)
Posted by: Kurt's mom at March 12, 2019 12:27 PM (cSc4o)
I wonder if she was With Her (Hillary)? That would make her arrest even more delicious.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 12:27 PM (ptqGC)
Okay so the rich-people-have trope - I actually went to an Ivy WITH a rich scion who we all knew wasn't really up to snuff, BUT - she was full-ride, in a waste major, and she at least on paper had the numbers. The Ivies only allow one standard deviation in school average SAT/ACT scores for top-tier athletic recruits - no one else.
these people were faking ACT/SAT scores for cash
and the "good old days" of Kennedy's using pull are nothing to continue!!! jesus H christ
DO YOU REALIZE HOW HARD WHITE KIDS ARE KILLING THEMSELVES TO GET INTO THESE SCHOOLS?!!!
you have NO idea. no clue. they're working themselves to the bone, but certain connected people are just paying to get in, paying for the right score, paying for a FAKE athletic profile??!?
my friend's son almost literally committed suicide his junior year AT A PREP SCHOOL when he lost his "first in the class" to another student. Despite two Ivy legacy parents he got into not a single Ivy accepted him. NOT ONE!
insanity. my daughter and her friends work on their sports every day, all year round, suffer injuries, stress on a level that kids should not suffer, miss dances, miss trips, miss all kinds of shit to go to showcases and tournaments. . .
PLUS HAVE TO GET THE GRADES because they're not men's basketball stars!...
ARGH
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:27 PM (Rarvo)
@TheHill
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Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 12:16 PM (MAstk)
Biden/Random Girl 2020: Fondle the Change!
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 12, 2019 12:27 PM (RD7QR)
Nah, I chortle. Snicker. Guffaw, even.
The primary voters have pretty much zero say in the nominee. It's the superdelegates who decide, and they are being seduced by the anti semitic communist wing of the Democratic Party.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (tVWQB)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (Rarvo)
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I bet he was her "driver." Maybe she was his mount.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (dNzKv)
I am and will continue to.
Joe Biden has failed at just about everything he has ever done. He is a fucking fool.
The fact that he is Old, White AND Male is just gravy.
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (faNU0)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (LX21o)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 12, 2019 12:29 PM (OLCnA)
Posted by: kallisto at March 12, 2019 12:29 PM (S44lC)
Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 12:29 PM (MAstk)
How come we never get trolls with a decent command of the English language?
We're working on that.
Posted by: Google Translate at March 12, 2019 12:29 PM (8erNz)
Which has gone on FOREVER!
But Hillary is still walking free with no real public investigation 5 years later?
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:29 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2019 12:26 PM (VpIIl)
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I don't see the Dems letting him get the nomination. They are way too far into identity politics and intersectionality to run a 78 year old white guy. The exception that I see is if they see no hope for 2020. They may run him to take the fall.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (ffYR/)
nominee. It's the superdelegates who decide, and they are being seduced
by the anti semitic communist wing of the Democratic Party.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (tVWQB)"
Remember how Clinton won. Those people are still around and the party will ultimately push the primaries where they want it to go. Watch.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (ymnmz)
*not* a person. ...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:08 PM (I2dne)
You jest, but Ilhan Omar was caught on tape saying Trump is not human. If anyone doubted she's a muslim, and muslims believe that non-muslims are apes and pigs, they should stop doubting now. But they won't.
Posted by: Tamerlane at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (gLMhO)
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Old.
White.
Dude.
Fondles women.
....thats for starters.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (8XRCm)
Relax.
It has always been happening. The only difference here is the temerity required to categorize the bribes as Tax Free Donations.
Uncle Sugar wants his cut.
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (faNU0)
Which has gone on FOREVER!
But Hillary is still walking free with no real public investigation 5 years later?
What you said
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:24 PM (NgKpN)
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Yup. Get the divisions first. Then turn them on each other. Then relish in the death.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (I2dne)
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Wow.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:31 PM (LX21o)
Uh, that is weirdly like a plot of "Sports Night" where Huffman's college football star brother is caught cheating in academics so he can play.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2019 12:31 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Ralph Northam at March 12, 2019 12:31 PM (9gHOW)
it's like you have a feeling there's no way there isn't something weird and illegal happening and then you find out that there actually WAS something illegal happening - it was FIXED
that on top of the affirmative action slots being unavailable, and the illegal aliens getting admittance, a normal straight-as-an-arrow white kid has no chance
FRUSTRATING
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:31 PM (Rarvo)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 12:31 PM (ptqGC)
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Well....DUH! Some of their kids may have been fucked over by this.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 12, 2019 12:31 PM (vg8iE)
Pelosi said she couldn't hire her because she only wants women that would be 100% available 100% of the time.
Democrat #MeToo women are women's worst "friends." Dem women are the worst of the worst misogynists!
Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 12, 2019 12:31 PM (t6wDl)
nomination. They are way too far into identity politics and
intersectionality to run a 78 year old white guy. The exception that I
see is if they see no hope for 2020. They may run him to take the fall.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (ffYR/)"
The party will throw the mob a VP Burnt Offering.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2019 12:31 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Newest Nic at March 12, 2019 12:26 PM (jYje5)
++++++++++
People with a decent command of the language don't work in troll farms for a few rupees a day.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:31 PM (I2dne)
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Hole my bear
- Ramando
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:32 PM (LX21o)
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Learn to Code.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:32 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2019 12:32 PM (dNzKv)
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:32 PM (faNU0)
you're definitely right - they only got caught b/c they were stupid and arrogant enough to deduct the cost of fixing as a charitable expense.
HILARIOUS
Gee I feel great now, this is funny.
No seriously - that arrogance? That tells me that there's a whole class of Special Leftist Elites that act arrogant b/c they know they will NEVER be called into account! They got lazy
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:33 PM (Rarvo)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 12:33 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Tamerlane at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (xxAFD)
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I do not jest. I'm serious as a heart attack. These are different in flavor (she is dehumanizing a specific opponent, whereas the identity politics play seeks to destroy the individual entirely as a human concept), but they have the same source: a hatred of man and a lust for his destruction. I mean it. They worship death and they want to destroy man. Their philosophy is the philosophy of an indiscriminate killer who kills not for a purpose but for the pure joy of killing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:33 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: ErikInTexas at March 12, 2019 12:33 PM (X8p7j)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2019 12:34 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (tVWQB)
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This is not necessarily true. I have little doubt at this point that the DNC and the donors have decided to back the SJW Maoist faction.
But, after the 2016 debacle, the Bernie Bros. demanded (insistently) that they reform the primary, and the DNC, after much sturm und drang, caved in.
It would now have to go to a second vote for the superdelegates to decide the outcome. Not that it isn't possible, but even without counting the superdelegate-padding of 2004-2016, that still hasn't occurred since the 70s.
But, even so, the media have gone all in for SJW Maoism, so any fishbelly white old dude is gonna have a tough row to hoe in this primary.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2019 12:34 PM (AzW6q)
BIDEN / RYAN 2020
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (LX21o)
Not impossible.
I think we are seeing a major political realignment. Both major parties have bases at odds with their upper powers, the professional politicians.
If/when the bases break with the party establishments, the two establishments could/would join to form the 'moderate party'.
It can be seen with the nevertrumpers advocating for dems.
Posted by: davidt at March 12, 2019 12:34 PM (Pp8LH)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:34 PM (bim/x)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2019 12:32 PM (dNzKv)
One of our best friends did, as well. Owns his own heating and A/C company and lives very, very well.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 12:34 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Abbas Malik at March 12, 2019 12:34 PM (4Eo4+)
Posted by: kallisto at March 12, 2019 12:35 PM (S44lC)
Posted by: kallisto
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Keith Ellison.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 12, 2019 12:35 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: MAGA at March 12, 2019 12:35 PM (8QPj9)
Now: 6th Circuit, divided, rules against Planned Parenthood affiliates that challenged Ohio law restricting state funding /// Majority: 'The affiliates do not have a due process right to perform abortions.'
Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 12:35 PM (MAstk)
As of last night, my store has only sold two items. A power glove and a $12.88 doll. The kitteh plushie and the $19.88 doll are still at O.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 12, 2019 12:35 PM (OxIAR)
"I don't know what more embarrassing, when your college charges bribes for admission, or when your college can't charge bribes for admission"
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:35 PM (Rarvo)
The first time Trump thanks him for curing Cancer, I am gonna piss myself for the laughter.
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:35 PM (faNU0)
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:24 PM (NgKpN)
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Yup. Get the divisions first. Then turn them on each other. Then relish in the death.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:30 PM (I2dne)
Yup, people don't realize that the reason the Civil War was fought by the majority of people in it, was a case of Tribal Identity.
The South fought for their States, the North fought to 'save the Union'. An entire war fought to define tribal identity.
Hmmm, and thinking on it, it was the Democrats of the South who wanted and fought for the smaller identity grouping.
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (NgKpN)
In the long term, that's probably going to be the BEST thing that ever happened to him - or to his parents. Just because society thinks a thing is some "great prize" doesn't mean its worth having.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (GBteo)
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Hole my bear
- Ramando
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:32 PM (LX21o)
Heh - I actually ran his comment through a translator into Japanese & then back to English:
Do not make difference between Dems and GOP
Ticket Carlsson is still doing his job while Malik is leaving
GOP vote for the still creepy Ray Moore and grab them with the cat playing cards
Posted by: josephistan at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (7HtZB)
....
My nephew went to Yale on a football scholly,
It's not all that, just a buncha leftists self-congratulating themselves. It does open up the doors to hang out and make money with the mega-wealthy, though.
Nothing to kill yourself over, though. You'd probably live a healthier, godlier life if you never stepped foot on an Ivy League campus.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (gCzjH)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:17 PM (LX21o)
Paul Ryno is quoted as saying there are a number of announced Dem candidates who can beat Trump. And I'm sure he'll be working for them
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (OLCnA)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:33 PM (I2dne)
Yeah, bad wording on my part. Sorry.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 12:37 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2019 12:37 PM (dNzKv)
Words will be deployed to explain away his perversion. "Endearing." "Gentle nature." "An affectionate affability." "Like your favorite uncle."
Meanwhile, Sinema will be criticized for her fashion-revolutionary forwardness.
There is no justice.
Posted by: Zod at March 12, 2019 12:37 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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Well, since 'left-wing', and 'hypocrites' are redundant, you're not exactly going out on a limb there.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 12, 2019 12:37 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2019 12:32 PM (dNzKv)
One of our best friends did, as well. Owns his own heating and A/C company and lives very, very well.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 12:34 PM (ptqGC)
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I Didnt go Ivy League. I earned 4 Year Degree in Economics Tho.
Comes in handy fixing up all these burnt up houses. I calculate shifting LM curves and run an Aggregate Demand matrix in the margins of my drywall takeoffs.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:37 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (GBteo)
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Great food. Some of its pairings like those little fish cakes and bulgogi do help push it further into greatness, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:37 PM (I2dne)
not really b/c now he's at georgetown and completely miserable there
no actually he's really smart and thoughtful and a perfect student for an Ivy
he's what they were BUILT for
but now it's all just shit and imposters
did you see Loughlins two THOT daughters who got into USC to "party and go to games"?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (Rarvo)
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Aptly put. I think he's more of a danger than some are telling themselves. Those giant, white Chiclet teeth can throw out the convincing BS and put to ease those D voters who are scared of the full-bore socialists already in the running. I take nothing for granted.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (JoUsr)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:35 PM (faNU0)
Slow Joe took the lead in creating the internet, you know.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (xxAFD)
Ticket Carlsson is still doing his job while Malik is leaving
GOP vote for the still creepy Ray Moore and grab them with the cat playing cards
Posted by: josephistan at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (7HtZB)
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Oh shit. This is going to be a problem.
Posted by: Dogs Playing Poker at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (I2dne)
Take it easy on NGU. Between patients, he hits that gas pretty hard.
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (faNU0)
Posted by: John Galt, Esq. at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (4Eo4+)
I am livid about this college admissions scandal
LIVID
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:18 PM (Rarvo)
I sense some delicious class-action suits against these schools from every person who sent in an application and was rejected.
Hmm....maybe triple the full four year tuition costs awarded to each as damages?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 12, 2019 12:39 PM (OxIAR)
They will now turn their propaganda hate machine up to full blast and direct it at any of their own who don't follow the program and bow out. There is a candidate that the PTB on the left want. We'll see more clearly who this chosen one is as we get closer, but you'll be able to tell who it is because there will be not one iota of bad press about them.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at March 12, 2019 12:39 PM (k76MH)
Kimchi: great food, or the greatest food?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (GBteo)
whu?
sorry not even in the ballpark, carne asada for the win in best everything.
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:39 PM (gLMhO)
Kimchi: great food, or the greatest food?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM
******
It's actually pretty good although I prefer the winter version (less hot IIRC).
Hated running behind a ROK platoon during PT though...gawd the smell.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 12, 2019 12:39 PM (0tfLf)
Nobody ever factors in 4 years of lost Wages and Experience in the College Experience.
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:39 PM (faNU0)
Posted by: kallisto at March 12, 2019 12:39 PM (S44lC)
Posted by: weft cut-l00p at March 12, 2019 12:39 PM (Hk+Y0)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (faNU0)
Well yeah I have gas. I can clear a room pretty fast
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (bim/x)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (faNU0)
She was studying Mandarin (her doctor mom is Chinese), and even after sending her to China to study for a year, can't speak or read a word of it.
When her dad asked her what she wants to do when she graduates, she said (in up-talk), "I want to, you know, do good things for people?" He informed her she could have saved him a metric f*ck ton of money by working as a cashier at Kroger.
I love that man.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (OLCnA)
Really? What is it about the demented, dangerous, deranged and demonic Democrats that neverTrumpers don't get?
Posted by: N. L. Urker at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (JgA4k)
Please do not the difference between Dems and GOP
Carlson's ticket still has his job while Malick is gone
PP still votes for the terrifying Ray Moore and grabs them from the Trump pussy
Posted by: josephistan at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (7HtZB)
Kimchi: great food, or the greatest food?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (GBteo)
Does it have bacon? Because if you make it without bacon then it doesn't really qualify as food, per se.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (xxAFD)
Actresses Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman among 40 charged in college exam cheating plot
In other news, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are celebrities.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (4Ky2a)
lol this is clever - did you try this on Twitter?
anyway we went Ivy but our kids we are steering AWAY from them. but the oldest is very adamant ugh
in the end tho we're not paying out the butt for ivy (I say that now)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (Rarvo)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (GBteo)
whu?
sorry not even in the ballpark, carne asada for the win in best everything.
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:39 PM
*****
Nein!!!
Kartoffel salat.
Ist gerschmect!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (0tfLf)
Hmm....maybe triple the full four year tuition costs awarded to each as damages?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 12, 2019 12:38 PM (ufFY
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If there was widespread SAT/ACT cheating and substitute test-takers, someone there was probably complicit. Beyond the universities, The College Board and ACT might ge in play.
Posted by: Dogs Playing Poker at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (Rarvo)
Nothing to kill yourself over, though. You'd probably live a healthier, godlier life if you never stepped foot on an Ivy League campus."
I agree - the mega-wealthy go to them simply to show that they are Members of the Club. Those who are not-so-wealthy strain to get into them in the hope of ensuring themselves lifetime positions as hangers-on and sycophants to the mega-wealthy.
The actual "education" received is probably less than any Junior College in the country, but "education" is not the point of an Ivy League degree anymore - perceived Social Status is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (Rarvo)
Kimchi: great food, or the greatest food?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (GBteo)
whu?
sorry not even in the ballpark, carne asada for the win in best everything.
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:39 PM (gLMhO
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (gCzjH)
Yale does not offer football scholarships.
Posted by: BignJames at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (ykq7q)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (dNzKv)
...
Slimy, rotten cabbage.
Categorize that answer into whichever category you think it fits best.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (gCzjH)
Nothing to kill yourself over, though. You'd probably live a healthier, godlier life if you never stepped foot on an Ivy League campus.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (gCzjH)
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The key to the Ivys is getting accepted. Once you are, unless you truly are brain dead, you're going to do well. Put in an average amount of work into academics and network your ass off and you will go far.
To your point though, this assumes this is a good direction to go for you.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (ffYR/)
It's not all that, just a buncha leftists self-congratulating themselves. It does open up the doors to hang out and make money with the mega-wealthy, though.
Nothing to kill yourself over, though. You'd probably live a healthier, godlier life if you never stepped foot on an Ivy League campus.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (gCzjH)
Eh, the networking is super value. I had a friend who went to Harvard on a football scholarship (hilarious fact: the application has a little football helmet in the corner of it), and he's never wanted for work since graduating.
Makes great money working for his classmates Dad in finance. Got the job right out of college, which is.. not easy to do.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (GBteo)
And it sure looks like none of the troops/veterans in that photo with Gillibrand looks happy to be there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (nPGq2)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:42 PM (bim/x)
Categorize that answer into whichever category you think it fits best.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (gCzjH)
greatest
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:42 PM (GBteo)
trying to not think garret is my bereishit
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:42 PM (gLMhO)
Zod took a B.A. in English and is not assistant night manager at a Taco Bell, insh'allah.
Posted by: Zod at March 12, 2019 12:42 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Harry - I see no "rotten cabbage" choice.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 12, 2019 12:42 PM (gNADb)
Posted by: davidt at March 12, 2019 12:43 PM (Pp8LH)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:43 PM (DQjsT)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:42 PM (gLMhO)
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wow.
You went all out to avoid "gay".
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:43 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:43 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:43 PM (LX21o)
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 12, 2019 12:43 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:44 PM (faNU0)
Posted by: BignJames at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (ykq7q)
Yeah, he's speaking colloquially. The ivy's pride themselves on not giving out sports scholarships.
But they certainly do, ahem, lower their academic standards for admissions and hand out a lot of "need-based" money to people who have decent academics and are great high school athletes.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:44 PM (GBteo)
Actresses Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman among 40 charged in college exam cheating plot
In other news, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are celebrities.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM
I can see another Loughlin mystery on Hallmark. (Just to be clear, Mrs D makes me watch them with her.) Plot will be the corrupt practices of university administrators in selecting students for the school. A coach and Administrator will be found dead and en flagrante delicto!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 12, 2019 12:44 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: blaster at March 12, 2019 12:44 PM (9VeU0)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:44 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:44 PM (DQjsT)
Posted by: House Music All Night Long at March 12, 2019 12:44 PM (vtd+q)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:44 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (pw+jk)
Zod took a B.A. in English and is not assistant night manager at a Taco Bell.
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Yet, Zod. Think positively. Work hard. One day it will happen. In the meantime..... volunteer for drivethru.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (MAstk)
When you do that however, because you will protect Tribe, over your Community, you protect your special interest group at a higher priority than you go your community, ie America itself.
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:24 PM (NgKpN)
I would refer to the fight as tribalism vs. nationalism.
The tribalists want people to have primary loyalty to racial or subcultural groups.
The people who intend to run such a society think they will be able to maintain control by tailoring messages to each tribe, and playing them against each other.
The nationalists look beyond tribe, to anyone they can find common ground with, and have loyalty to the entire group.
We could also talk about globalists, but they're just tribalists who think their tribe will be the tribe that dominates all others. They hate the nation-state because they see the broader bonds of loyalty as a threat to their ability to control and manipulate.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (J+mig)
....l
They don't.....and they do.
He was Mr. Football for his classification at a private school here in Tennessee and never applied to Yale.
And yet they came and asked him if he'd be interested in coming there. His tuition was means tested and "sponsored".
Call that whatever you want. In the South we call it a football scholarship.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (gCzjH)
Posted by: A Cow at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (faNU0)
Posted by: Sponge at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (9gDA7)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:43 PM (LX21o)
Well, you have a school full of smart kids who work hard and got 4.0's in high school.
So... yeah, you're not going to see huge grade differentials.
Same, honestly, with a lot of higher tier schools.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: House Music All Night Long at March 12, 2019 12:44 PM (vtd+q)
++++++++++
Simple, non-fancy plain yogurt, I assume? I could see that working. I should try it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:41 PM (GBteo)
Harvard does not offer football scholarships.
Posted by: BignJames at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (ykq7q)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (gLMhO)
I went to community college, and I am doing ok.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2019 12:32 PM (dNzKv)
One of our best friends did, as well. Owns his own heating and A/C company and lives very, very well.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 12:34 PM (ptqGC)
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I Didnt go Ivy League. I earned 4 Year Degree in Economics Tho.
Comes in handy fixing up all these burnt up houses. I calculate
shifting LM curves and run an Aggregate Demand matrix in the margins of
my drywall takeoffs.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:37 PM (8XRCm)
Comm. College grad here as well - went into IT. Didn't finish my Bachelors degree until 27 years later - in business management. As an IT manager, I'll take an ambitious new hire with a 2yr degree with 2 yrs experience over a 4yr degree 0 experience any day of the week.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:44 PM (GBteo)
Princeton's men's rowing team has no such compunctions. At least, they didn't 30 years ago.
Posted by: Zod at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (faNU0)
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Great! Next do sanctuary cities!
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: kallisto at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (S44lC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (OxIAR)
Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (LL1Be)
They caught Lori Laughlin. She of the amazing legs on Full House.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:47 PM (DQjsT)
Celebrities charged in college entrance exam cheating plot!
Actresses Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman among 40 charged in college exam cheating plot
In other news, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are celebrities.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 12, 2019 12:40 PM (4Ky2a)
Lori needs to get into a lingerie pillow fight with Felicity, to sort this situation out.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 12, 2019 12:47 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: BignJames at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (ykq7q)
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I think the Ivies just funnel the cash to athletes in the form of "financial aid" to maintain the pretense.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2019 12:47 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:47 PM (bim/x)
He couldn't understand someone not wanting to attend.
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2019 12:48 PM (faNU0)
I think this confirms where white women are now on the progressive stack. new the bottom, just above white males and their liberl faith won't help them. I wonder if any of them will notice.
Posted by: Ripley at March 12, 2019 12:48 PM (MxEKc)
The Democrats are complicit and accessories to the islhamic takeover of The United States.
repeatedly made unwelcome advances after the senator had told him he would be promoted to a supervisory role over her.
The liberal mind (or muslham, what's different) is amazing. I'm going to be your boss, but you will BLOW me first, or I will continue to harass you with my penis until you do.
What a fucked up mindset the left has.
Posted by: Sponge at March 12, 2019 12:48 PM (9gDA7)
He was Mr. Football for his classification at a private school here in Tennessee and never applied to Yale.
And yet they came and asked him if he'd be interested in coming there. His tuition was means tested and "sponsored".
Call that whatever you want. In the South we call it a football scholarship.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (gCzjH)
Yeah, I had a team mate get one...to Yale.
Posted by: BignJames at March 12, 2019 12:48 PM (ykq7q)
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at March 12, 2019 12:49 PM (LISuA)
I believe it was Mussolini who said 'Corporatism is Fascism'.
And he defined Corporatism as breaking down society into separate distinct groups, so you could buy of and control said groups.
Sounds really familiar doesn't it?
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:49 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:49 PM (DQjsT)
Posted by: Abbas Malik, DEMOCRAT at March 12, 2019 12:49 PM (4Eo4+)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:49 PM (bim/x)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 12, 2019 12:50 PM (OxIAR)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 12:50 PM (ptqGC)
"How snake bite woman bum-bum for toilet"
bbc.com/pidgin/world-47005323
Posted by: josephistan at March 12, 2019 12:50 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (I2dne)
Basically, yeah. I use unsweetented Vietnamese style but it isn't much different.
Posted by: House Music All Night Long at March 12, 2019 12:50 PM (vtd+q)
Posted by: BignJames at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (ykq7q)
They do though. They recruit athletes like any other school.
Said athletes have lower academic achievements then their classmates, and seem to qualify for more need-based scholarships then you'd think they'd actually need.
Case in point, my friend from high school who went to harvard, despite having good not great SATs, a solid but not excellent GPA, and received a solid scholarship despite having parents who made well in to the 6 figures combined income.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:50 PM (GBteo)
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Yet, Zod. Think positively. Work hard. One day it will happen. In the meantime..... volunteer for drivethru.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM
*******
Think the salad station!
See the salad station!
Visualize the salad station!
BE THE SALAD STATION!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 12, 2019 12:50 PM (0tfLf)
So... yeah, you're not going to see huge grade differentials.
Same, honestly, with a lot of higher tier schools.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (GBteo)
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Except you will have top, middle, and bottom of classes even with smart people. If the lowest achiever is hitting the ceiling, raise the ceiling.
"According to the Yale Alumni Magazine, in 1963, only 10 percent of Yale's grades were A's or A-minuses. When the report was conducted in 2013, the percentage rose to 62 percent. According to the Brown Daily Herald, 53.4 percent of grades given out during the 2012-2013 year were A's, which was a 36 percent increase in the course of 20 years. "
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:50 PM (LX21o)
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2019 12:50 PM (QkjLD)
Remember that dickhead on election night? "I've been watching the results...tonight could be a great night for our country."
Yeah buddy, could've been a lot greater if you did your f'ing job instead of actively thwarting the President's agenda. Coward.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:51 PM (DQjsT)
Paul Ryan is a fuckin asshole and always was
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:49 PM (bim/x)
I initially had high hopes for him. Boy was I ever wrong. Now I wouldn't piss on him if he was dying of thirst.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 12, 2019 12:51 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 12, 2019 12:51 PM (YslsA)
I think the rest of us would say "he got a football scholarship."
But for his football skills, he would never in a million years have ever been accepted to Harvard, much less received a scholarship.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:51 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 12, 2019 12:51 PM (O7MnT)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:47 PM
haha cute
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:51 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: WR at March 12, 2019 12:52 PM (xbR8Y)
Rush just played a clip of a 1992 Clinton lackey stating that Hispanics were just a blip on exit polls and did not matter then
World has changed some eh?
Posted by: Yo! at March 12, 2019 12:52 PM (1XAal)
Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 12:45 PM (MAstk)
How many times did she say "like" and "ya know?"
Posted by: Sponge at March 12, 2019 12:52 PM (9gDA7)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:49 PM (bim/x)
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I hold him in the same contempt as Elizabeth Warren. In both of their cases, if you look at their earlier or intermediate, work, they're smart enough to know better. Both of them understand finance and economics well enough to know that what they propose is bad.
Yet they soldier on anyway. Not because they are ignorant or stupid or idealistic, but because they are evil. They do wrong on purpose and say it is right to expropriate, wreck and destroy. They can't claim ignorance or stupidity. Only evil.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:52 PM (I2dne)
And he defined Corporatism as breaking down society into separate distinct groups, so you could buy of and control said groups.
Sounds really familiar doesn't it?
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:49 PM (NgKpN)
A lot of American economists were huge fans of Mussolini before the war. They never lost their love of his ideas, they just cloaked in under other top-down theories like Keynesian economics.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 12, 2019 12:52 PM (J+mig)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:50 PM (LX21o)
What's the incentive for a school to do that?
Especially since many scholarships require people maintain a certain GPA?
If all 30 kids in a class mastered the subject, why not give them all A's?
Or do you prefer the law school curve approach more?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:53 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 12, 2019 12:53 PM (DQjsT)
Posted by: teej at March 12, 2019 12:53 PM (NUb9I)
I get the unwanted sexual stuff. Possibly crude, although some women also have pretty foul-mouths.
But "mysogynistic"?? Seriously??
Did he tell them that they sucked at parallel parking?
Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 12:53 PM (LL1Be)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:53 PM (LX21o)
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Yep - if the curriculum is challenging and the grading is strict you should see an average distribution of passers, failures, and strong achievers, without regard to HS performance. 60+ % of A students points to rampant grade inflation.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2019 12:53 PM (AzW6q)
I went to a state college and did well there. I came from dirt, worked two jobs to pay my way through, and graduated with honors. I was courted by a few companies during my senior year and landed at a good one. Spent a lot of time in smaller companies which were either bought out or went BK. Got to a larger company and picked up an MBA along the way.
Through all of that the ivy leaguers were always in the background with their buzzwords and cliches. And through all of that time I found my upward mobility was greatly hampered because not only did the actual intelligence not matter, but those ivy leaguers knew they had to have people do the actual jobs that they had zero actual clue about. So yeah, they enforce that glass ceiling pretty ruthlessly.
It's still very entertaining come annual review time and especially in this job market..."so Widget Inc is advertising for a position very similar to mine with a $10k premium......."
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 12:53 PM (tVWQB)
Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 12:53 PM (MAstk)
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2019 12:53 PM (QkjLD)
years later - in business management. As an IT manager, I'll take an
ambitious new hire with a 2yr degree with 2 yrs experience over a 4yr
degree 0 experience any day of the week.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 12, 2019 12:46 PM (jxbfJ)
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One time a business associate who was doing a big software project cleanup asked me the question should he hire an experienced software guy or a couple of hot shot college fresh out of school. I said I always hire experience. Quality only hurts once. Well he hired the two kids and the project went in the weeds and his company was asked to remove themselves from the project. I laughed the next time i saw him.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 12, 2019 12:53 PM (pw+jk)
World has changed some eh?
________________
Open borders will do that for you. And that's essentially what we have, and have had for some years now.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 12, 2019 12:54 PM (fqUgw)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:47 PM
I know right!!??
They play was for a read option...WTF???
Posted by: Diogenes at March 12, 2019 12:54 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 12, 2019 12:54 PM (ePWRo)
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2019 12:55 PM (QkjLD)
is that still said , I dunno I feel old about now.
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:55 PM (gLMhO)
who is the person in uniform who is obviously violating military rules regarding attending partisan/political events while in uniform? UCMJ violation!
Posted by: ErikInTexas at March 12, 2019 12:33 PM (X8p7j)
That's the guy, Malik.
It's instructive that Gillicuttybrand was willing to overlook his violation of UCMJ and took a lowly Specialist as her military advisor. Getting a rank-and-file opinion on military matters is fine, but an E-4 doesn't have the military education to be able to properly advice a member of Congress on complex national security and military issues.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 12, 2019 12:55 PM (veoSD)
"There are good rape jokes?"Female Colleague
"I want to rape you"Abbas Malik
"That's not funny."Female Colleague
====================
"Its Funny Because Its True".
Posted by: Abbas Malik at March 12, 2019 12:55 PM (DWh/8)
I believe it was Mussolini who said 'Corporatism is Fascism'.
And he defined Corporatism as breaking down society into separate distinct groups, so you could buy of and control said groups.
Sounds really familiar doesn't it?
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:49 PM (NgKpN)
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"But since corporatism is the exact same thing as capitalism, that means that corporatism is fascism!"
-Dissertation from Harvard
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 12, 2019 12:55 PM (EvBgT)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2019 12:14 PM (W+vEI)
Safe to assume they all do. Why would moral, upright people want to go work for a Democrat?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 12:55 PM (nPGq2)
clear the field for their preferred far left woman-of-color. (No, not
Liz Warren, the other one.)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 12, 2019 12:51 PM (O7MnT)
Our first trannie FLOTUS?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 12, 2019 12:56 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 12:47 PM
I know right!!??
They play was for a read option...WTF???
Posted by: Diogenes at March 12, 2019 12:54 PM (0tfLf)
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Meh. Dont sweat it NGU. They just couldnt see your talents.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 12, 2019 12:56 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2019 12:56 PM (QkjLD)
Posted by: Hikaru at March 12, 2019 12:56 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at March 12, 2019 12:56 PM (cSc4o)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:36 PM (GBteo)
I used to eat at a small Korean restaurant in Fayetteville outside of Ft. Bragg, NC. They would serve 4 or 5 different types of kimchi with the meal. Delicious.
Posted by: Confucius at March 12, 2019 12:56 PM (WrMOC)
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
Posted by: SMOD
Let the Rectification of Names begin!!!
Posted by: weft cut-l00p at March 12, 2019 12:56 PM (Hk+Y0)
Posted by: Anachronda at March 12, 2019 12:56 PM (sGtp+)
1 are they real
2 are they truthful
3 due process even for the skags in life.
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:57 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: 145 pound Long Snapper at March 12, 2019 12:57 PM (DQjsT)
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Oh absolutely. I couldn't agree more. Especially if they can graduate 90% of their students with A's and B's.
I just have a hard time imagining a prestigious school where no one fails, especially knowing how "woke" they are and that they're passing and graduating Michael Obamas and Trayvon Martins.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:57 PM (LX21o)
Simple. Writing a course to the minimum standard short changes those who could learn more.
I taught adult education in both the Military and Civilian Technical sectors. You can always teach to the level of your dumbest student, but then you won't challenge your smarter students.
Thus, you shortchange those who could exceed the minimum standard by NOT educating them to their proper level.
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:57 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 12, 2019 12:57 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:58 PM (LX21o)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:58 PM (gLMhO)
Guaranteed some fat bribe money changed hands.
Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 12:58 PM (LL1Be)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 12, 2019 12:58 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2019 12:56 PM (QkjLD)
Their last one was blind....srsly.
Posted by: BignJames at March 12, 2019 12:58 PM (ykq7q)
pretty sure john longsnapper is a cousin to john smallberries.
Posted by: Anachronda at March 12, 2019 12:58 PM (sGtp+)
I think the rest of us would say "he got a football scholarship."
But for his football skills, he would never in a million years have ever been accepted to Harvard, much less received a scholarship.
.....
Well that was our scenario.
Nephew number 1: 3.9 GPA,10th in his class, Mr. Football Award, never applied to Yale
Outcome: Invited to and attended Yale
Nephew number 2: 4.23 GPA, Valedictorian of his class, average football player, applied to Yale
Outcome: Not attending Yale
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:58 PM (gCzjH)
Posted by: Ripley at March 12, 2019 12:59 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 12:55 PM (nPGq2)
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If the Republicans are better (and they do seem to be) it's only because they *have* to be *way* more careful than any Democrat.
If you're working at a high level in DC, the filtering process has already eliminated anyone with a soul. You have to undergo the full shamiotomy procedure before succeeding in either party.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2019 12:59 PM (AzW6q)
Allen, now a coach with the Boston Celtics, resigned from a six-year head coaching tenure leading the Quakers in 2015. He was 65-104.
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2019 12:59 PM (QkjLD)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 12, 2019 12:57 PM (LX21o)
It's hard to fail anywhere in academia.
...You have to try to actually fail.
At least in my experience.
I went to a decent private college for undergrad, a mediocre state school for my masters and a decent private law school.
Never once did I think I was going to fail a class.
And I worked and partied and did the normal college stuff. But I DID go to class and hand in my assignments, which seems to be were a lot of people mess up.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 12:59 PM (GBteo)
Outcome: Not attending Yale
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:58 PM (gCzjH)
++++++++++++
I've seen this but don't understand the mechanics of it. How do you exceed 4.0?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:59 PM (I2dne)
not fair!
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:59 PM (gLMhO)
the progressive stack. new the bottom, just above white males and their
liberl faith won't help them. I wonder if any of them will notice.
Posted by: Ripley at March 12, 2019 12:48 PM (MxEKc)
And white males can always dress as women and leapfrog the women.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 12:59 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: Repo Zod at March 12, 2019 01:00 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2019 01:00 PM (+lVUW)
Weighted classes.
Advanced Placement courses will weight 5.0 on a 4.0 scale.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 01:00 PM (tVWQB)
It's instructive that Gillicuttybrand was willing to overlook his violation of UCMJ and took a lowly Specialist as her military advisor. Getting a rank-and-file opinion on military matters is fine, but an E-4 doesn't have the military education to be able to properly advice a member of Congress on complex national security and military issues.
- - -
Conversely, did being Gillebrand's advisor grant him access to information that he would not have had access to as an E-4?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2019 01:00 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Don't know current system, but AP classes have extra credit attached.
Posted by: weft cut-l00p at March 12, 2019 01:00 PM (Hk+Y0)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:59 PM (I2dne)
AP (advanced placement) courses that give 5.0 for an A. It's been around since at least the 80s.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 01:01 PM (xxAFD)
Advanced Placement courses will weight 5.0 on a 4.0 scale.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 01:00 PM (tVWQB)
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Boy kids have it good these days. My AP/CP courses counted as 4.0.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2019 01:01 PM (AzW6q)
the progressive stack. new the bottom, just above white males and their
liberl faith won't help them. I wonder if any of them will notice.
still other men can get ahead of them right color or right sexual activity.
Male Patriarchy man!
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 01:01 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2019 01:01 PM (QkjLD)
You hand in your test, you place your hands around the neck of the instructor, and you say "I am better than 'excellent.' You will grade me accordingly. Do not disappoint me."
Posted by: Repo Zod at March 12, 2019 01:01 PM (Bdeb0)
Advanced Placement courses will weight 5.0 on a 4.0 scale.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at March 12, 2019 01:00 PM (tVWQB)
++++++++++
I see. My high school definitely didn't do that. My APs were still on a 4-point scale. Good to know.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 01:01 PM (I2dne)
dumbest student, but then you won't challenge your smarter students.
Thus, you shortchange those who could exceed the minimum standard by NOT educating them to their proper level.
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:57 PM (NgKpN)
Public schools in a nutshell. And as a bonus the sharp kids get to 'peer tutor' the other not so "gifted' /sarc students and then fall behind themselves. Win win!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 12, 2019 01:02 PM (9oE3U)
Did he donate to the pink hat ladies like Harvey Weinstein?
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2019 01:02 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:59 PM (I2dne)
Advanced / accelerated programs that are usually based on a 5 point scale.
I graduated high school with a 4.67 or something close.
Posted by: Sponge at March 12, 2019 01:02 PM (9gDA7)
This must make for some serious cognitive dissonance for a lot of the students.
Posted by: blaster at March 12, 2019 01:02 PM (9VeU0)
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2019 01:01 PM (QkjLD)
Hum? Look at the company mitt the bitch is keeping
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 01:02 PM (bim/x)
don't know mine was 3.86.
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 01:02 PM (gLMhO)
Outcome: Not attending Yale
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 12:58 PM (gCzjH)
++++++++++++
I've seen this but don't understand the mechanics of it. How do you exceed 4.0?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 12:59 PM (I2dne)
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Take some Honors and AP classes. An ace in those is worth 5.0 to your GPA.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 01:02 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Ha at March 12, 2019 01:03 PM (MAstk)
Thus, you shortchange those who could exceed the minimum standard by NOT educating them to their proper level.
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 12:57 PM (NgKpN)
Playing devils advocate here a bit, but assuming all of the students are very hard working and smart, there's not going to be a huge gap between the "dumbest student" and the "smartest student."
Arguably it's not even measurable, which would be Harvard's comeback to the assertion that they inflate grades.
It's like in law school curved classes -- there might be a test with 100 questions, and a raw score of 98 is an A, while a raw score of 94 is a C, and everything in between is a B. When you have a curve that tight... what are you even measuring?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:03 PM (GBteo)
Proof, if proof were needed, that HIV causes brain rot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 01:03 PM (nPGq2)
Since she left last summer, the woman has been doing part-time contract work. The male aide, Abbas Malik, kept his job.
Well, there you go. Knowing his name up front would've saved a lot of time.
He is further up the victim totem pole than a basic becky and therefore has more rights and leeway for freedom of movement.
Easy peasy, next case.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 12, 2019 01:03 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: Repo Zod at March 12, 2019 01:01 PM (Bdeb0)
+++++++++++
I see two ways to interpret this, depending on your perspective:
1) A death threat (I will choke you)
2) Seduction (if you assume the hands are a sensual embrace)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 01:03 PM (I2dne)
Mark my words
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 01:03 PM (bim/x)
pretty sure john longsnapper is a cousin to john smallberries.
Posted by: Anachronda
John Longsnapper has a short mustache.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 01:03 PM (LHT0w)
Mitt Romney, R-Utah
Heh.
If Mitt's for it, it must be wrong.
Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 01:04 PM (LL1Be)
....
They are trying to give deference to the kids that take harder classes.
Essentially that an A in advanced Calculus should count more than an A in Algebra 2.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 01:04 PM (gCzjH)
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
-
That's rayciss!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 12, 2019 01:04 PM (4Ky2a)
Posted by: MAGA at March 12, 2019 01:04 PM (8QPj9)
is this before or after you install his heartplug?
Posted by: Anachronda at March 12, 2019 01:04 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:03 PM (GBteo)
It means the professors are lazy and not asking hard enough questions.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 01:04 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 12, 2019 01:04 PM (RuIsu)
not fair!
Posted by: willow
concur, no fair! I had to get my college education paid for through active duty in the U.S. Army. delayed the beginning of my undergraduate degree for 12 years
Posted by: BifBewalski - i am sofa king we todd did at March 12, 2019 01:05 PM (td8Ta)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 01:02 PM (ffYR/)
My high school didn't do that.
My AP and honor classes were also on a 4.0 scale.
I know a lot of my friends (especially, seemingly, from the south for whatever reason) had a 5.0 scale, but that seemed... lame.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:05 PM (GBteo)
This must make for some serious cognitive dissonance for a lot of the students.
Posted by: blaster at March 12, 2019 01:02 PM (9VeU0)
Saw this when I went to US Navy Nuclear Power school.
Or as I call it, the largest collection of uneducated geniuses anywhere.
Lots of guys freaked out because suddenly, they were not the smartest person in class. EVERYONE there was smart.
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 01:05 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2019 12:20 PM (9L2du)
It's the big handle next to the helicopter pilot's seat. That they will get to see being used, eventually, I hope.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 01:05 PM (nPGq2)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 12, 2019 01:05 PM (z79tQ)
*bang* you hit that nail on the head like some old school framer with his 28 oz Estwing !
Posted by: Sock monkey wanted: organ grinder, willing to train at March 12, 2019 01:06 PM (uSoVh)
Mark my words
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 01:03 PM (bim/x)
------
Mos Def.
He's gonna be hanging around til his 90s, stinking up the Senate in a way a lousy rat like McCain could only dream of.
Romney is a bad, bad man, and I've never understood why people can't see it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2019 01:06 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 01:04 PM (xxAFD)
My point is that when everyone is more or less of the same IQ, academic ability, and has the same work ethic -- no matter what questions they ask, the curve is going to be incredibly tight.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:06 PM (GBteo)
not fair!
Posted by: willow
concur, no fair! I had to get my college education paid for through active duty in the U.S. Army. delayed the beginning of my undergraduate degree for 12 years
Posted by: BifBewalski - i am sofa king we todd did at March 12, 2019 01:05 PM (td8
You win
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 01:06 PM (gLMhO)
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 01:05 PM (NgKpN)
++++++++++++
This was what I liked about my current company when I started. I went from being the smartest guy in the room to just high-middle and had to work my ass off. Was fun.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 12, 2019 01:07 PM (I2dne)
On Tuesday, the reality TV star posted a photo from a hospital bed while detailing his health scare. His wife, Romney, was by his side in the photo.
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2019 01:07 PM (QkjLD)
That sounds about right for a Dem senator.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 12, 2019 01:07 PM (ePWRo)
That's kind of what it's like. There's not a huge academic difference between the kid who got a B- in torts class and the kid who got an A. We're talking a few points difference on a test.
No matter how you scale the test or how hard the questions are.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:07 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 01:08 PM (gLMhO)
Carol Danvers lost her powers in a fight between Ms Marvel and Rogue, and Rogue held on to her draining her powers so long that the transfer lasted for years instead of just a few minutes like usual. In that time period, Carol became part of SHIELD, then became Binary, who was insanely powerful and part of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
It was during this time period that Monica Rambeau became Captain Marvel with the light powers and is the most interesting incarnation of the name. Carol Danvers was around, but not called that at the time.
She eventually lost her Binary powers for reasons and Rogue lost her Ms Marvel powers she'd drained, so Danvers became Warbird, basically a weaker Ms Marvel with some energy manipulation powers and joined the Avengers. Then she became Ms Marvel again in a short-lived comic. In 2012 she becomes Captain Marvel again and gets a new title, which isn't very popular.
Someone at Marvel Comics, in the editorial staff, really really likes Captain Marvel and Carol Danvers but fans really are tepid on her.
In the movies, she's half-Kree (mom is Kree) and the mystery explosion gives her the full powers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2019 01:08 PM (39g3+)
Said athletes have lower academic achievements then their
classmates, and seem to qualify for more need-based scholarships then
you'd think they'd actually need.
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We all have different experiences to generalize from, so here's mine. I'm connected to a college counseling and test prep business, for whatever little that's worth, so I hear about this stuff on occasion.
The Ivies don't have athletic scholarships. They do have both means-tested and merit money to offer, and certainly that can be available to athletes. Some schools offer outright grants, and I believe (but don't really know) that others are still more traditionally offering loans and work. But it's not related to the sport, as far as I've heard.
Athletes get recruited by the school coaches. At Yale, for example, a given coach has a certain number of spots assigned to him. He can't offer admission himself, but he can "sponsor" the kid through admissions. But there is a catch: His team has to maintain an overall GPA/SAT/ACT rating with admissions each year, so if a coach sponsors a kid of low achievement through the process it's very tough on the team (because the coach has to find a really smart kid to offset the dumbo). Even if admissions can be persuaded to let the kid in, then, he is still an "offset problem" for the coach.
When the coach is considering a kid, he screens the application through admissions to get a pre-read. If admissions says the kid is a "go", the school might then issue a "likely letter" which says the kid will likely be admitted if this, that, and the other thing remain true (mostly, he doesn't get arrested, or otherwise embarrass the school, he maintains his grades and everything he said on his application turns out to be true). In certain rare cases (ie, Lacrosse) those likely letters can be issued in tenth grade! That's because good Lacrosse players are really hard to find, and the Ivies (which really don't much compete at football nationally) really can compete at Lacrosse.
Regardless of the sport, and how or when the kid gets in, the question of discounted tuition (or full scholarships) is a different question in the Ivies, administered by different people and not related to the sport or how important the athlete might be to the coach. At least, that's what our people believe to be true, fwiw.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, back in the saddle again at March 12, 2019 01:08 PM (LISuA)
I cautioned my kids to prepare to be in the middle. Being above the median was a great place to be.
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2019 01:09 PM (QkjLD)
the same IQ, academic ability, and has the same work ethic -- no matter
what questions they ask, the curve is going to be incredibly tight.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:06 PM (GBteo)
Disagree. If everyone is getting almost every question right, then they're either (A) not covering enough material quickly enough and/or (B) not asking questions that require creative thought with a deep understanding of the material.
A for excellent should mean, you know, excellent.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 01:09 PM (xxAFD)
I guess the upside of that is that nephew 2 is probably too concerned about football to get involved with screaming at Yale instructors about Halloween costumes.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 01:10 PM (d6Ksn)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:03 PM (GBteo)
If the curve is that tight? Then the course and tests are not properly written.
There are always different levels of student achievement and knowledge.
Heck, even standard writing ability (which it seems a Law Course would want to take into account) would be a differentiating standard.
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 01:11 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, back in the saddle again at March 12, 2019 01:08 PM (LISuA)
That's possible, I don't know. I always got partial scholarships throughout my academic career despite having not excellent grades and coming from a solidly middle class family.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:11 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: BifBewalski - i am sofa king we todd did at March 12, 2019 01:13 PM (td8Ta)
A for excellent should mean, you know, excellent.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 01:09 PM (xxAFD)
You can set the curve wherever you want. Say you set it at C. Anyone who scores one standard deviation above gets a B, anyone who scores one below gets a D, and two standard deviations give you A's and F's.
If the school is like most top tier schools, almost all of your students will fall right near the middle of the curve, no matter what questions you ask, how you grade, or what you grade.
So Harvard could set their curve to a C, and you probably wouldn't see anyone with a GPA over a 3.0 (since most students will revert to the mean over their entire academic career), and the majority will be closer to a 2.0
Not sure why that would make any kind of difference to anyone.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:14 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 01:14 PM (gLMhO)
PLUS HAVE TO GET THE GRADES because they're not men's basketball stars!...
ARGH
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 12:27 PM (Rarvo)
Or they could skip all the angst, and, you know, just learn a trade, and make money from the git-go.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 01:15 PM (nPGq2)
Posted by: BifBewalski - i am sofa king we todd did at March 12, 2019 01:15 PM (td8Ta)
Outcome: Not attending Yale
I hate this story! That is not right.
also my kids' schools don't give more than a 4.0 even for AP
so, they look "worse" than other schools' applicants. they also refuse to rank.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 01:16 PM (Rarvo)
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If you're 28 or 29, like me, it may have changed since our day. More importantly, our people say even well off families should fill out a FAFSA form. Actually they say "everyone" should. Because these schools (private schools often, but Ivies especially) are swimming in money and unsolicited offers of discounted tuition are the norm and not the exception. Even in acceptance letters nowadays, some schools will just offer money right there, without waiting for a FAFSA.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, back in the saddle again at March 12, 2019 01:17 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (dNzKv)
If the SAT's meant anything, then the dumb-bunny students who bribed their way in would be flying BOAC* for grades.
*Bounced Out At Christmas
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 01:18 PM (nPGq2)
I'm in my early 30's, and went back to school later in life, so I'm not that far removed from this stuff.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:19 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:14 PM (GBteo)
I just do not think that is true. At least from the perspective of science and engineering, there are always questions that require having read ahead, or applying concepts from other courses. And being able to figure it out in a short time. And no, not everybody has the same intelligence or work ethic. Even at top colleges. These days, maybe especially at top colleges.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 01:20 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: willow at March 12, 2019 12:28 PM (gLMhO)
Looks like the doofus in cammies in the picture up top is Malik.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 01:21 PM (nPGq2)
so, they look "worse" than other schools' applicants. they also refuse to rank.
===================
Lots of colleges are ready for this, and "rank" the kids themselves. Stanford, for example, wants the kids entire transcript. Then they pay some schmuck to enter the grade and course into a database, then they exclude anything not a serious class in their own view, award extra weight to AP or Honors classes, and proceed to generate their own version of the kids GPA. Yale does this too.
Getting into college is not just academic achievement though. Outside activities, "giving back to the community", application essays, and socio-economic background is also extremely important. Being a first generation college attendee is a golden ticket, I'm told.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, back in the saddle again at March 12, 2019 01:23 PM (LISuA)
That doesn't tell you anything about SATs, it tells you about grading and teachers
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2019 01:24 PM (39g3+)
OMG Thank you SO MUCH for all this info Huck!
Now I'm scared! I hope I've been well behaved on here! Uh oh! I'm sorry sometimes I do use this place to vent. As in today.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 01:24 PM (Rarvo)
/OrchidNiceMode
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 01:25 PM (Rarvo)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2019 01:19 PM (GBteo)
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Then I'm probably not correctly hearing what I'm being told! I was always a meh student, and I'm only interested in the accounting conversations at company meetings, truth be told.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, back in the saddle again at March 12, 2019 01:26 PM (LISuA)
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Be sure to validate everything I say with someone who actually, you know, understands the facts!
The only other thing I hear is "don't be afraid to ask coaches exaclty where your kid is on the list" and "don't believe coaches, because if your kid is #3, and the coach has three spots, then your kid could easily get bounced from the top three if someone better shows up at the last minute".
Posted by: Huck Follywood, back in the saddle again at March 12, 2019 01:28 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 01:30 PM (nPGq2)
Smartest thing I've read today.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, back in the saddle again at March 12, 2019 01:31 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2019 12:22 PM (W+vEI)
Well, I'm certainly not going to vote for him, not after this!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 12, 2019 01:33 PM (oRUl9)
As far as Ivy, the process itself is putting us off - plus having BTDT we aren't as overly concerned about the status part. We do think she'd do very well in one, but she'd do well in lots of schools.
There's a lot that goes into "fit," and I'm happy to basically leave that to her until we're really in the recruiting part (if we even get there).
She's a good egg and will be a good student at lots of places. She really wants to play in college tho. That's the trick.
Thanks again. The way you put everything - stuff I've heard in parent seminars - was very clear and concise. I copy pasted it!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 12, 2019 01:34 PM (Rarvo)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 12, 2019 12:12 PM
What excuse was it that Nancy Pelosi gave for Ilhan Omar's anti-Semitism? She comes from a different culture or some such?
And wasn't that the same excuse that Angela Merkel gave to German women when they were being sexually assaulted by "refugees"? That German women need to understand that these "refugee" men come from a different culture and German women need to change so as not to entice them or something?
You notice that it is not men --- white, conservative, Republican or otherwise --- who are claiming to support women and then throw them under the bus for political power. It is liberal women.
Heck, Hillary did it for decades to support her sexual predator husband and yet millions upon millions of women still said "I'm with her".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2019 01:36 PM (wl65x)
A for excellent should mean, you know, excellent.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 12, 2019 01:09 PM (xxAFD)
As a young assistant prof I struggled with correctly gauging the appropriate level of difficulty when writing an exam. My first one was way too hard, the second too easy. Imagine writing an exam for, say, ninth graders. You're so far removed from them that it's tough.
Then I hit on the solution. I wrote every question in three parts:
The first part was easy, a fastball down the middle of the plate. Anyone who had studied at all should get it.
The second part was more difficult, requiring integration of several concepts.
The part was tough indeed.
Result: the exams self-curved to about a 75% level. As an added bonus, I could tell at a glance what kind of student someone was by what proportion of each part he got right.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 12, 2019 01:40 PM (oRUl9)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 12, 2019 12:55 PM (veoSD)
So did this dillweed have leave from the Army to work in Gilly's office? How does that work? Or did the Army know he was a nogoodnik, and fobbed him off on her?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 01:42 PM (nPGq2)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Yep. At one time I actually thought that he was the real deal with intelligence and backbone. Was I ever wrong. Same with Mittens.
Posted by: Cheri at March 12, 2019 01:42 PM (oiNtH)
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One more thing. Lots of state flagship schools have Honors Colleges., and often those schools are unbelievable. Sometimes, they are "schools within a school", with they have different dorms, first dibs on tough-to-get-into classes and great counseling/tutoring options. I don't know which state you live in, but these schools can be really fantastic academic options (if that is important to your daughter).
Posted by: Huck Follywood, back in the saddle again at March 12, 2019 01:46 PM (LISuA)
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Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)