Top Virginia Math and Science Magnet School Refused to Tell Students They Were National Merit Finalists, Preventing Them From Putting That on Their College Applications, For the Sake of Racial "Equity"

It's Harrison Bergeron all the way down.

Virginia parents are outraged after a top-ranked high school allegedly delayed notifying students of national academic honors in the name of "equity," making them unable to account for the recognition in some college applications.
Fairfax County parent Asra Nomani joined "Fox & Friends First" on Wednesday to discuss why the school delayed the awards and the importance of meritocracy in the classroom.
"This year the entire controversy just blew up because the kids got their certificate, weeks after early college application deadlines, just dropped on their desks as if it was just another piece of paper," Nomani told co-host Todd Piro.
"And this amazing mom named Shawna Yashar started asking questions, just like every parent's got to do," she continued. "From issues of the drag queen story hours to indoctrination in the schools, this is another form of this race to the bottom that the schools are going through right now."
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) in Alexandria, Virginia, allegedly delayed academic awards for years, according to Nomani, because of its ploy to advocate "equal outcomes for every student, without exception."
The school has even implemented a policy awarding students a 50% just for showing up to class, and administrators have eliminated zeroes entirely.
The delayed awards in question are given by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which recognizes top-performing high schoolers nationwide. TJ received the 2022 honors in October but did not distribute them to students until a month later, after early-application deadlines had passed, according to Nomani. Nomani's son, a 2021 TJ graduate, was honored as a Commended Student in September 2020 but was never notified, she wrote in City Journal.
When Yashar, the mother who originally sounded the alarm on the school's delay, brought the issue to the forefront, she was met with pushback from the school, Nomani said.
"The school wanted to recognize students as individuals, not their achievements, as if the two had to be separated," she said.

Nomani wrote about this bizarre -- and highly litigable -- practice at City Journal.

For years, two administrators at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) have been withholding notifications of National Merit awards from the school's families, most of them Asian, thus denying students the right to use those awards to boost their college-admission prospects and earn scholarships. This episode has emerged amid the school district's new strategy of "equal outcomes for every student, without exception." School administrators, for instance, have implemented an "equitable grading" policy that eliminates zeros, gives students a grade of 50 percent just for showing up, and assigns a cryptic code of "NTI" for assignments not turned in. It's a race to the bottom.
An intrepid Thomas Jefferson parent, Shawna Yashar, a lawyer, uncovered the withholding of National Merit awards. Since starting as a freshman at the school in September 2019, her son, who is part Arab American, studied statistical analysis, literature reviews, and college-level science late into the night. This workload was necessary to keep him up to speed with the advanced studies at TJ, which U.S. News & World Report ranks as America's top school.
Last fall, along with about 1.5 million U.S. high school juniors, the Yashar teen took the PSAT, which determines whether a student qualifies as a prestigious National Merit scholar. When it came time to submit his college applications this fall, he didn't have a National Merit honor to report--but it wasn't because he hadn't earned the award. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a nonprofit based in Evanston, Illinois, had recognized him as a Commended Student in the top 3 percent nationwide--one of about 50,000 students earning that distinction. Principals usually celebrate National Merit scholars with special breakfasts, award ceremonies, YouTube videos, press releases, and social media announcements.
But not at TJ. School officials had decided to withhold announcement of the award. Indeed, it turns out that the principal, Ann Bonitatibus, and the director of student services, Brandon Kosatka, have been withholding this information from families and the public for years, affecting the lives of at least 1,200 students over the principal's tenure of five years. Recognition by National Merit opens the door to millions of dollars in college scholarships and 800 Special Scholarships from corporate sponsors.
I learned--two years after the fact--that National Merit had recognized my son, a graduate of TJ's Class of 2021, as a Commended Student in a September 10, 2020, letter that National Merit sent to Bonitatibus. But the principal, who lobbied that fall to nix the school's merit-based admission test to increase "diversity," never told us about it. Parents from earlier years told me that she also didn't tell them about any Commended Student awards. One former student said he learned he had won the award through a random email from the school to a school-district email account that students rarely check; the principal neither told his parents nor made a public announcement.
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"Keeping these certificates from students is theft by the state," says Yashar. Bonitatibus didn't notify parents or the public. What's more, it could be a civil rights violation, says local parent advocate Debra Tisler, with most TJ students in a protected class of "gifted" students, most of them racial minorities, many with disabilities, and most coming from immigrant families whose parents speak English as a second language....
In a call with Yashar, Kosatka admitted that the decision to withhold the information from parents and inform the students in a low-key way was intentional. "We want to recognize students for who they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements," he told her, claiming that he and the principal didn't want to "hurt" the feelings of students who didn't get the award.

Sue them. Sue them personally, if possible.

Related: Yale set up an illegal system to make sure its board of trustees contained no actual alumni, just handpicked administrators who will bless whatever Yale's administrators choose to do. A judge has okayed a lawsuit to stop this practice.

A judge recently ruled that a lawsuit may proceed against Yale University that challenges administrators' decision to yank a pathway for alumni to gain leadership roles at the Ivy League institution.
Connecticut Superior Court Judge John Burns Farley ruled Dec. 15 against completely accepting Yale's motion to dismiss, stating the plaintiffs, two Yale alumni, appear to have standing to sue as third-party beneficiaries of the institution.
...

Now the only way to become a trustee is to be nominated by the Alumni Fellow Nominating Committee, run mostly by administrators, Ashe said.
"I want to make sure future alumni have the right to run if they so desire and they don't have to be vetted through some secret committee of the alumni association," he said. "They have set up a system to, in effect, insulate themselves from true alumni participation."
He said the decision to end the petition process was "done in secret, there was no consultation with any alumni, and the process they used was out of Putin's playbook."
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Meanwhile, Yale "faces all sorts of issues," he added, citing concerns such as the protection of free speech on campus, affirmative action controversies, and more.

It's almost as if "experts" are engaged in a corrupt conspiracy against everyone else, and fear that their "expertise" will wilt and dissolve under the slightest scrutiny from supposed non-"experts," thus requiring heavier and heavier handed censorship and gatekeeping to prevent that scrutiny from ever taking place.

Posted by: Ace at 12:06 PM

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Posted by: RUReadingthis at December 29, 2022 12:06 PM (aQ25I)

2 Hi Ace.
How's your back?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 29, 2022 12:07 PM (Y+l9t)

3 Now me, I'd take that personally.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 29, 2022 12:08 PM (XvPQV)

4 This is a very unique type of theft.

Posted by: garrett at December 29, 2022 12:08 PM (zo9bo)

5 In order for there to be no losers, there also can be no winners.

Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, dammit! at December 29, 2022 12:08 PM (U2p+3)

6 Also, "equality of outcome" is Utopian bullshit and should be mocked hard every time it's brought up.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 29, 2022 12:09 PM (XvPQV)

7 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 29, 2022 12:09 PM (li7rI)

8 Sue the bejeezus out of them.
School. District. Superintendents. Teachers.

Individually. So they all have to spend money defending themselves.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 29, 2022 12:10 PM (NW9xb)

9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU3myZ3H6u0

2081, a short film adaptation of Harrison Bergeron, for those interested.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 29, 2022 12:10 PM (LvTSG)

10 There is no official immunity for conspiracy to commit civil rights violations.

But, this is clown world and 100% the jury will not find guilt/fault.

Cause "fighting racism" overrides the Constitution.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 29, 2022 12:11 PM (b7tLS)

11 In order for there to be no losers, there also can be no winners.
Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, dammit! at December 29, 2022 12:08 PM (U2p+3)
___

Yep.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at December 29, 2022 12:11 PM (iQE+/)

12 this is my favorite kind of woke story, because it is so egregious, even a Virginia court will have a hard time protecting the TJ administrator.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 29, 2022 12:11 PM (mk8/f)

13 If I was a teacher, I'd stick to reading, writing and arithmetic. All of this social engineering madness is just too exhausting.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2022 12:11 PM (geVLo)

14 In a sane country, both of those cretins would be lynched.

Posted by: Joe at December 29, 2022 12:12 PM (wmXwQ)

15 This came up in a discussion of communism the other day. When you rermove the incentives to achieve more, like money and honors and recognition, people don't.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 29, 2022 12:12 PM (Y+l9t)

16 Bonitatibus will be thrown under a bus to save the administrators in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:12 PM (zm+d5)

17 As someone else said, upon the meadows, the sun and rain fall the same. But only the mower keeps the grass equal.

That is "equity."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 29, 2022 12:12 PM (b7tLS)

18 5 In order for there to be no losers, there also can be no winners.
Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, dammit! at December 29, 2022 12:08 PM (U2p+3)
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There are always losers. But there may not be winners.

Posted by: Legion of Boom at December 29, 2022 12:13 PM (BsoVM)

19 Sue them personally, if possible.

This is the answer. The only way to get these dopes to act rationally is personal pain if they don't.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2022 12:13 PM (lTGtQ)

20 this is how we are going to 'win the race for the 21st century'

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 29, 2022 12:13 PM (kFrCu)

21 Since at least one Mommy is an attorney, there is going to be several more installments to this, definitely.

Posted by: EveR at December 29, 2022 12:13 PM (MUpk6)

22 If that happened to my kid I would be looking at a lawsuit if they didn't get accepted to the college they wanted to go to. That kind of stuff is a huge thing on your CV when it comes to college admissions.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 29, 2022 12:13 PM (uNylN)

23 Dragging kids to the bottom of the class.
Thats Equality

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2022 12:14 PM (+1ooT)

24 That Harrison Bergeron video that TJM cited is very good.
Surprisingly I remember seeing it on PBS.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 29, 2022 12:14 PM (Y+l9t)

25 BUT SANTOS !!!!

Posted by: DRUDGE at December 29, 2022 12:14 PM (us2H3)

26 Since at least one Mommy is an attorney, there is going to be several more installments to this, definitely.

In NoVA I'll be surprised if only one parent is a lawyer.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:15 PM (zm+d5)

27 Syndrome: "And when everyone's 'super' *evil laugh*, no one will be!"

Posted by: Thrawn at December 29, 2022 12:15 PM (9ewTg)

28 Willowed:

Liquid Sodium Silicate, aka water glass, for sealing eggs - Amazon - $19 a gallon.

But the eggs have to be fresh and unwashed. Store bought eggs aren't. They HAVE been washed. Washing the eggs removes the "bloom", the natural protective covering.

https://bit.ly/3VrxMhf

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:15 PM (GxM4+)

29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU3myZ3H6u0

2081, a short film adaptation of Harrison Bergeron, for those interested.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at December 29, 2022 12:10 PM (LvTSG)

I've seen it. It's worth the watch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at December 29, 2022 12:15 PM (GYIa4)

30 Our schools are run by mediocre dimwits who hate ability and excellence because they're incapable of it. And that's SO UNFAIR!

Posted by: Socratease at December 29, 2022 12:15 PM (oqnjT)

31 This workload was necessary to keep him up to speed with the advanced studies at TJ, which U.S. News & World Report ranks as America's top school.

This action by the school proves it is not. Either that, or US News and World Report isn't properly ranking schools.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2022 12:15 PM (lTGtQ)

32 Sue them. Sue them personally, if possible.

Hey, if cops can't have 'qualified immunity,' why should any local, administrative turd have it?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 29, 2022 12:15 PM (IyrhE)

33 i wonder how soon it will be before lorenz taylor starts doxxing the parents in the case.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 29, 2022 12:15 PM (kFrCu)

34 Sue the living crap outta them.
There is always time later for them to be found floating face down in the tidal basin.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM (anj39)

35 Rush always said that the libs wouldn't be happy until we were all at an equal level of misery.

Posted by: Fifty Three Years an Imbecile at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM (BJKQV)

36 All commenters should be awarded a "first" regardless of when they post a comment.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM (C2ZTD)

37 Sue them. Sue them personally, if
possible.

Then sue again and again and again.

Oh, and whatever you do. ...do not agree to a class action.

Make these people pay their lawyers to defend 10, 20 or a 100 lawsuits.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM (8ubzX)

38 Liquid Sodium Silicate, aka water glass, for sealing eggs - Amazon - $19 a gallon.

but can one douche with it ?

Posted by: Lena at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM (us2H3)

39 27 Syndrome: "And when everyone's 'super' *evil laugh*, no one will be!"
Posted by: Thrawn at December 29, 2022 12:15 PM (9ewTg)
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But, in a weird way, Syndrome was trying to reduce the supers by IMPROVING the non-super. Sure, sure, a few egs broken to develop the tech, but the tech wasn't a super suppression, but rather a super assister.

Posted by: Legion of Boom at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM (BsoVM)

40 want to recognize students for who they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements,"

Do I still get my certificate?
I r gude doktur!!

Posted by: Doktur Affirmative Akshun at December 29, 2022 12:17 PM (zElP/)

41 WHAT DOES VLAD KNOW? Another mystery death in Russia as tank boss dies ‘suddenly’ a day after Putin abruptly cancels meeting with him

-
That covid is a bitch!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at December 29, 2022 12:17 PM (FVME7)

42 If that happened to my kid I would be looking at a lawsuit if they didn't get accepted to the college they wanted to go to. That kind of stuff is a huge thing on your CV when it comes to college admissions.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 29, 2022 12:13 PM (uNylN)

This won't stop anyone from getting in to any worthwhile college. But it will make it harder to pay for college. That's really what they want.

Posted by: Catherine at December 29, 2022 12:17 PM (ZSsrh)

43 "The school wanted to recognize students as individuals, not their achievements, as if the two had to be separated," she said.

Or, in other words, the students who are not achieving are of a certain demographic (as it were) that modern society has deemed to be above criticism.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 29, 2022 12:17 PM (AW0uW)

44 Fraud. Throw them in jail. Conspiracy and RICO.

Posted by: Thesokorus at December 29, 2022 12:17 PM (1ais2)

45 This came up in a discussion of communism the other day. When you rermove the incentives to achieve more, like money and honors and recognition, people don't.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 29, 2022 12:12 PM (Y+l9t)

And, yet, you can always find people who believe it will lead to utopia. Usually either the ones who are incapable of thinking things through or the ones who relish the idea of using the lash on the former group to ensure that the five year plan's goals are met.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at December 29, 2022 12:17 PM (GYIa4)

46 All commenters should be awarded a "first" regardless of when they post a comment.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM (C2ZTD)

You also have to get rid of the barrel. Besides, isn't a barrel a sign of white cis normative supremecy?

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 29, 2022 12:18 PM (8ubzX)

47 I hope there is more than one lawsuit over this. I want their feelings hurt worse than the kids who didn't earn the National Merit Scholarship.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 29, 2022 12:18 PM (4olE8)

48 'When they drag their bleeding bodies before me and for their lives to be saved I will say 'no'.
- some guy said

Posted by: Eromero at December 29, 2022 12:18 PM (eo57b)

49 You can also pickle eggs for long term storage and lots of farts.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2022 12:18 PM (UuD2k)

50 The soft bigotry of low expectations.

Am I doing this right?

Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, dammit! at December 29, 2022 12:18 PM (U2p+3)

51 >>>2 Hi Ace.
How's your back?

it's improving. The problem is that my hamstrings are locked solid, like ridiculously tight, and are yanking down on my hips and screwing up my spine. So I've started stretching them, and it's relieving the back little by little.

Posted by: ace at December 29, 2022 12:19 PM (C1Zwz)

52 Nomani us a Pakistani immigrant and has been instrumental in uncovering the misconduct of Virginia school districts. She was recently the sole (because the committee us dem controlled) witness for the republicans about the ways public schools are betraying the trust given them.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 29, 2022 12:19 PM (nC+QA)

53 The parents may include attorneys, but most are probably leftists. Hmmmm...how to craft a lawsuit, with calling woke dogma into question?

I have no doubt a few will figure out a way, but they are have the shit sandwich they intended for the great unwashed shoved down their throats.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 29, 2022 12:19 PM (mk8/f)

54 I'm conflicted. Maybe this prevented some students to defer college and find a career that actually contributed to society. This could be a blessing in disguise.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 29, 2022 12:19 PM (BdMk6)

55 Can you sue for 'educational malpractice'?

Posted by: BignJames at December 29, 2022 12:19 PM (AwYPR)

56 Lard and Crisco work pretty good on store bought eggs. In my experience.

They are hard to get out of the cartons though.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2022 12:20 PM (xhaym)

57
From Colonel Schlichter, a tossed off phrase that would be a great title for a future book: "On the Neuroses of Future Spinsters".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 29, 2022 12:20 PM (abbhq)

58 A friend of mine who is Hispanic finds all of this insulting to her kids. She feels that they are saying that her kids were born with inferior brains.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 29, 2022 12:20 PM (NpAcC)

59 AtC had a Twitter thing with some pastor dude who says it is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit. Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:20 PM (C2ZTD)

60 I love it. Next the guvmint skools should have the students go to the waffle house and learn how to brawl with the help while not enjoying their meal then off to New Yawk City to shop and try to leave without paying while Babu holds the door.

So exciting!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2022 12:20 PM (UCfnM)

61 @53 Hmmmm...how to craft a lawsuit, with calling woke dogma into question?
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sorry, meant "without calling woke dogma into question"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 29, 2022 12:20 PM (mk8/f)

62 Are school administrators required to be bonded? If so, how does one go about getting that suspended?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2022 12:20 PM (anj39)

63 53 The parents may include attorneys, but most are probably leftists. Hmmmm...how to craft a lawsuit, with calling woke dogma into question?

I have no doubt a few will figure out a way, but they are have the shit sandwich they intended for the great unwashed shoved down their throats.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 29, 2022 12:19 PM (mk8/f)

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Super easy, barely an inconvenience! Because Money!

Leftists love GETTING money, esp. other people's money.

Posted by: Legion of Boom at December 29, 2022 12:21 PM (BsoVM)

64 "The school wanted to recognize students as individuals, not their achievements, as if the two had to be separated," she said.
_____

We recognize you as an individual, there is no one else like you. Except that you are the same as every other student in that none of you have any noteworthy achievements.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 29, 2022 12:21 PM (fs1hN)

65 Syndrome: "And when everyone's 'super' *evil laugh*, no one will be!"

W.S. Gilbert called it in 1889: "When everyone is somebody / Then no one's anybody!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 29, 2022 12:21 PM (AW0uW)

66 "Sue them. Sue them personally, if possible."

Absolutely. Insert some risk into their lives because they are not subject to any. They never go through economic recessions despite electing democrats who ruin the economy, et al.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 29, 2022 12:21 PM (klw0w)

67 Anything that coats the eggs will work. You can use olive oil too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 29, 2022 12:21 PM (uz3Px)

68 U.S. News & World Report ranks as America's top school.

——————

It’s ranked as America’s top school and no students were getting the national merit award? Didn’t this seem a bit suspicious?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 29, 2022 12:22 PM (u73oe)

69 AtC had a Twitter thing with some pastor dude who says it is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit. Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:20 PM (C2ZTD)
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stupid people like this will have us all living in first century mud huts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 29, 2022 12:22 PM (mk8/f)

70
And this, of course, is the logical endpoint of Affirmative Action.

Inequality of opportunity doesn't get the job done WRT creating equality of outcomes, so kneecapping people becomes necessary.

The Left warned us when they were bashing Sesame Street for increasing literacy across the board, because it wasn't disproportionately increasing literacy for minorities, as was intended.

Anyone who says shit like that has things like this in mind for their next steps.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2022 12:22 PM (oINRc)

71 And, yet, you can always find people who believe it will lead to utopia. Usually either the ones who are incapable of thinking things through or the ones who relish the idea of using the lash on the former group to ensure that the five year plan's goals are met.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

And yet, no matter how many times it's tried, it never succeeds. Human nature is based on competition. Competing to advance the species at it's most basic level.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 29, 2022 12:22 PM (Y+l9t)

72 The Portland public schools' professed supreme goal is to reduce the achievement gap between the races in Portland schools.

Of course, the easy way to do that is to reduce the achievement of whites and Asians.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 29, 2022 12:22 PM (KCOCK)

73 corrupted.
every institution corrupted.
top to bottom, front to back, side to side,rotten to the core.

I naively hold to my belief that more than half of the individuals alive today retain a core of decency, but that's about all.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at December 29, 2022 12:23 PM (fxj5q)

74 A friend of mine who is Hispanic finds all of this insulting to her kids. She feels that they are saying that her kids were born with inferior brains.
Posted by: redridinghood

That is exactly what they are saying. But YOU are the racist for not hobbling your kids to go down to the level of the brown kids. Remember, poor kids are every bit as smart as white kids.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:23 PM (C2ZTD)

75 'Virginia parents are outraged'
They fucking well should be. They trusted their school to represent the best interests of their children.
Instead the school stole opportunities from their kids to virtue signal.
I wonder what will happen when the affirmative action crowd realizes this is gasoline for the fire of racial hatred?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 29, 2022 12:23 PM (roH4R)

76 Ah, yes. Destroying kids' lives for lunatic political theories. Just like the fucking Communists that they are.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 29, 2022 12:23 PM (jO1gQ)

77 The world needs ditch diggers too!

Posted by: Judge Smails at December 29, 2022 12:23 PM (U2p+3)

78 >>So I've started stretching them, and it's relieving the back little by little.

Try hanging. An inversion table works great but even hanging with your hands from a door or bar if you have one helps.

Stretching is a key to fixing your back.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2022 12:24 PM (ZLI7S)

79 36 Simple, we all just self-identify as Sponge.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2022 12:24 PM (atmen)

80 That blows my mind

Our principal has gotten some weird "equity" ideas at conferences. He floated the idea of giving a baseline 50% for work turned in unfinished. It was not well-received, to say the least.

He'd NEVER take away an opportunity for the kids to get scholarships.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 29, 2022 12:24 PM (/+bwe)

81 AtC had a Twitter thing with some pastor dude who says it is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit. Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy,

What a quaint, 19th Century debate.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 29, 2022 12:24 PM (IyrhE)

82 Look, everyone just does their best, and we all get 100%.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:24 PM (C2ZTD)

83 I would very much like to sue seven people I saw on my way to work this morning, but I don't think that those fools driving their Teslas at 55 mph in MY fast lane while texting is going to get me very much.

Posted by: kathysaysso at December 29, 2022 12:24 PM (m78jL)

84 >>Posted by: ace at December 29, 2022 12:19 PM (C1Zwz)

Got stairs in your place?

Heel on the lowest step, bend the opposite knee and stretch those hamstrings out one at a time.
Go up the steps as they loosen up, until you can achieve the same stretch at hip height.

Posted by: garrett at December 29, 2022 12:25 PM (zo9bo)

85 Liquid Sodium Silicate, aka water glass, for sealing eggs - Amazon - $19 a gallon.

but can one douche with it ?
Posted by: Lena

It's also an adhesive when it dries. Just sayin'.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:25 PM (GxM4+)

86 AtC had a Twitter thing with some pastor dude who says it is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit. Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical.

Now do Raphael Warnock.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:26 PM (zm+d5)

87 The Prospect of hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully

Posted by: Dr Samuel Johnson at December 29, 2022 12:26 PM (xhaym)

88 Equity and running a top-ranked school are not at all compatible.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 29, 2022 12:26 PM (rJ48h)

89 Look, everyone just does their best, and we all get 100%.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

*wakes up, looks around*

Thanks.

*goes back to sleep*

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:26 PM (GxM4+)

90 Karen doesn't mind that the school is promoting trannyism, that the history they teach is total BS, that her kids' fathers are ridiculed for being cis white hetero Christians, but when the school costs her precious Muffin a scholarship to an Ivy school, DAMMIT SOMEONE MUST PAY!!!

Posted by: Wally at December 29, 2022 12:27 PM (FJYfm)

91 All commenters should be awarded a "first" regardless of when they post a comment.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM (C2ZTD)

I hereby claim a first!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2022 12:27 PM (4I/2K)

92
Look, everyone just does their best, and we all get 100%.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:24 PM (C2ZTD)

If everyone did their best, society as a whole would be so peaceful and be so fucking stupendously wealthy that a redistributive system would work.

The problem is... that's a fantasy. People don't do their best unless forced and cajoled to by external hardships and rewards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2022 12:27 PM (oINRc)

93 I take on the risk of property ownership, I take on the burden of maintenance. You pay me to have a roof over your head and none of the responsibility.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:28 PM (C2ZTD)

94 I deserve graduatin' cuz maff be hard!

Posted by: Les Diplorables at December 29, 2022 12:28 PM (KSnKR)

95 And yeah, an inversion table at 30 degrees will help.

10 min. 3x a day until you get right.

Then increase the angle and cut back to 2x a day. You don't need to get to full inversion. Anything over 30 degrees will net you benefits.

Posted by: garrett at December 29, 2022 12:28 PM (zo9bo)

96 AtC had a Twitter thing with some pastor dude who says it is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit. Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical.

Going broke because of letting people live rent free and being unable to tithe is also unbiblical.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:28 PM (GxM4+)

97 A friend of mine who is Hispanic finds all of this insulting to her kids. She feels that they are saying that her kids were born with inferior brains.

That's exactly what they are saying: that the wogs will never measure up so all measurements must be eliminated.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 29, 2022 12:28 PM (KFhLj)

98 I wonder if I still have my copy of 'God and Man at Yale'?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 29, 2022 12:28 PM (XvPQV)

99 You also have to get rid of the barrel. Besides, isn't a barrel a sign of white cis normative supremecy?
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 29, 2022 12:18 PM

Did you just assume my race and orientation?! How dare you?! Get in mah belleh!!!

Posted by: The Barrel at December 29, 2022 12:28 PM (Wnv9h)

100 AtC had a Twitter thing with some pastor dude who says it is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit. Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:20 PM (C2ZTD)

That's funny. I should tell her about Jeremiah O'Callaghan, a 19th century Irish priest who was basically run out of the Church for standing by the Biblical teaching that usury was a sin.

He rates a chapter in John Michell's wonderful book Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions, where he has this to say: "By the time O'Callaghan came along to challenge it, the practice of taking interest on loans had become so rooted in society that to preach against it was little more than a waste of breath. He was one of those people who are in the right, and know it and can prove it, but have the bad luck to be born in an age when no one wants to hear about it."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 29, 2022 12:29 PM (AW0uW)

101 Pickled eggs are delicious. Ready to go when you can't cook, and they'll last a long time in the fridge.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2022 12:29 PM (geVLo)

102 I guess it is up to the Jews to rent for profit, then when the evictions start so does the antisemitism.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:29 PM (C2ZTD)

103 If they can't mutilate their bodies then they try to hobble their intellect. They are out for everyone one of us.
I just read about Jane D'oh and her husband. Have been gone for a week so I don't know the circumstances of the hospitalization but, yikes! Prayers for him and the entire family.

Posted by: Megthered at December 29, 2022 12:30 PM (XAmx/)

104 My girl spawn is smart and also a bit competitive. If there are three people in a specific class that have better grades, you can bet she will put the effort in to improve her grade to their level or higher. That would be pointless in that "elite" school.
She attends a very good, small town public school that offers advanced classes that are essentially college classes. And she will get college credit for them. The teachers and administrators live in the community and we see them in the stores, gas station, restaurants, and church. Small Town, Indiana surrounded by farms. The parents are the school board along with one or two teachers. This school doesn't play the woke game. The girl spawn is trying to figure out how to tank one class just enough to avoid being class valedictorian.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2022 12:30 PM (Wy1BU)

105 Leftism is utter madness, all the way down. It's so counter to anything resembling real fairness, despite their claims in advocating for that very thing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 29, 2022 12:30 PM (sVtYq)

106 Elon Musk is on fire... https://tinyurl.com/4p7s57nt

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2022 12:30 PM (lc5cP)

107 You can also stretch hamstring using an exercise ball.

Flat on your back, legs over the top of the ball. Roll it forward and backwards to stretch out your hamstrings.

Posted by: garrett at December 29, 2022 12:30 PM (zo9bo)

108 Just checked walmart online, great value eggs went form $4.69 a dozen last week to $5.82 a dozen today.

This is insane, a 25% price increase in one week with a 600% price increase in a little over a year. WTF? I know bird flu is out there but how can restaurants afford this kind of price increases without going broke?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 29, 2022 12:30 PM (uNylN)

109 Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical.

Going broke because of letting people live rent free and being unable to tithe is also unbiblical.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:28 PM (GxM4+)

Unbiblical? Murder is biblical...meaning it's in the bible.

Posted by: BignJames at December 29, 2022 12:31 PM (AwYPR)

110 What is this "Bible" you all are referring to?

Posted by: Progressive Christians at December 29, 2022 12:31 PM (PiwSw)

111 'Going broke because'

Ha! I'm not going broke. If this building burns down I'll just collect on insurance.😊

Oh look, lightning on the horizon.

Posted by: Johnny Sleazo - landlord at December 29, 2022 12:31 PM (roH4R)

112
Besides, isn't a barrel a sign of white cis normative supremecy?
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 29, 2022 12:18 PM (8ubzX)

When you come out, you won't be white any more.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2022 12:31 PM (MoZTd)

113 It isn't 2020 anymore.

Alissa Azar, a well-known Antifa "journalist", who is still facing riot and assault charges in a suburban county, was arrested a couple of days ago on theft and related charges in Portland. She was held in jail overnight.

Back in August, some Antifa types decided to harass some street preachers in downtown Portland. A local conservative journalist was filming this, and was assaulted by a couple of Antifa-types. Azar grabbed his videocamera, was told to give it back, and decided to walk off with it instead.

The amusing thing is that the Soros prosector in Portland is terrified of having to face reelection in a couple of years, given a swing to the right in the Portland electorate, and prosecuting Antifa-types is low-hanging fruit, since they are widely despised in Portland now. She is in trouble.

You'd think she'd get a new hobby at this point.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 29, 2022 12:31 PM (KCOCK)

114 All commenters should be awarded a "first" regardless of when they post a comment.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM (C2ZTD)

I hereby claim a first!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2022 12:27 PM (4I/2K)
***

No no no.
You will not be informed of your "First" award until after the 15th of March.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2022 12:32 PM (anj39)

115 My guess is that any lawsuits will fail. The students were "notified" either being told in person, or via email or some other way, and the schools will argue that they don't have an obligation to notify students, and especially not parents, if the student makes the cut.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 29, 2022 12:32 PM (wmDcS)

116 AtC had a Twitter thing with some pastor dude who says it is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit. Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical.

Lots of people will say lots of things about what the Bible says.

Very few will read the Bible.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 29, 2022 12:32 PM (8FM1F)

117 Ace, I also take Glucosamine and Chondroitin and no longer have back problems. However, it has done nothing for my neck which required a neurological chiropractor. Adjustment holding so far but it still seems a little like magic to me. No matter what, being 29 is not easy.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 29, 2022 12:32 PM (Y+l9t)

118 What is this "Bible" you all are referring to?
Posted by: Progressive Christians

The one that says "God is happy when you are happy, so do whatever makes you happy"

And, all sin is forgiven, so all you have to do is go to Church on Sunday and stuff a 5er in the envelope. That covers you the rest of the week.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:33 PM (C2ZTD)

119 I was a national merit semi-finalist. Back in the day that was based on your PSAT. I did like 99th and change percentile on my verbal, but my math was 60th percentile. It's always the math of things that gets you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 29, 2022 12:33 PM (zZu0s)

120 Besides, isn't a barrel a sign of white cis normative supremecy?
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 29, 2022 12:18 PM (8ubzX)

When you come out, you won't be white any more.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2022 12:31 PM (MoZTd)

But they say you get used to the odor.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2022 12:33 PM (anj39)

121 I guess it is up to the Jews to rent for profit, then when the evictions start so does the antisemitism.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:29 PM (C2ZTD)

Why wait? Get started now to avoid the rush!

Posted by: Whoopie Fatburg at December 29, 2022 12:33 PM (Wy1BU)

122 Posted by: Wally at December 29, 2022 12:27 PM (FJYfm)

Nomani was generally left-leaning, but the covid school closures gave her a peek at what the schools were telling her kids. She was a big part of breaking the story about Loudon County's corruption.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 29, 2022 12:34 PM (nC+QA)

123
Islamic finance is weird because of the usury. Since they're not supposed to charge one another interest, a lot of these banks use some weird legerdemain to make loans possible. I think it involves front-loading all the interest in a lump sum, something like that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2022 12:34 PM (oINRc)

124 If there are three people in a specific class that have better grades, you can bet she will put the effort in to improve her grade to their level or higher. That would be pointless in that "elite" school.

This was medical school. I know I am among the best, but I need a measure to tell me that I am the best of the best.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:35 PM (C2ZTD)

125 I've helped students get into that very prestigious school. Back in the day when there were rigorous standards.

The students I knew had a solid grounding in science and math, with sparks of creativity. They could and did solve problems in society.

Until now, however. The revenge of the Mediocre and Wanna-Be Thralls is almost complete. Those two administrators are high-functioning barbarians. Smiting is a good remedy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 29, 2022 12:35 PM (u82oZ)

126 >>Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2022 12:34 PM (oINRc)

AdHoc religion requires AdHoc solutions.

Posted by: garrett at December 29, 2022 12:35 PM (zo9bo)

127 As I understand it a good number of the students are of Asian ancestry. A very good civil rights lawsuit could make the administrators personally liable. The DOJ should also open an investigation. I know, who am I kidding

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2022 12:36 PM (ajIMS)

128 Lots of people will say lots of things about what the Bible says.

Very few will read the Bible.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 29, 2022 12:32 PM (8FM1F)

I'm reminded of a quote by the late Bishop Fulton Sheen (I paraphrase):

"There are many, many people who hate what they believe is the Catholic Church, but there are very few who hate what the Catholic Church really is."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 29, 2022 12:36 PM (AW0uW)

129 Islamic finance is weird because of the usury. Since they're not supposed to charge one another interest, a lot of these banks use some weird legerdemain to make loans possible. I think it involves front-loading all the interest in a lump sum, something like that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

They discount the loan, sort of like a zero coupon bond.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2022 12:36 PM (lTGtQ)

130 The New Yorker wrote an article arguing we should wear masks forever and noted you're a racist if you disagree

-
Unmasked racists everywhere you look!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at December 29, 2022 12:36 PM (FVME7)

131 Imagine the next generation of doctors working on us that only had to attend 50% of their classes to get an A. If math is racist, Anatomy and Microbiology won't be far behind.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 29, 2022 12:36 PM (NpAcC)

132 I am withholding any sympathy for those parents because I am going to go out on a limb here that all of those Virginia wealthy parents that send their kids to that school vote straight line Democrat and fully support imposing a woke agenda on everyone around them. That is, of course, until the agenda bites them in their own ass.

Posted by: keena at December 29, 2022 12:37 PM (RiTnx)

133 Karen doesn't mind that the school is promoting trannyism, that the history they teach is total BS, that her kids' fathers are ridiculed for being cis white hetero Christians, but when the school costs her precious Muffin a scholarship to an Ivy school, DAMMIT SOMEONE MUST PAY!!!
Posted by: Wally at December 29, 2022 12:27 PM (FJYfm)

It's so they can go to a top college and have all that leftist horseshit permanently imbedded in their mushy brains.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 29, 2022 12:37 PM (BdMk6)

134 What is wrong with Fairfax and Loudon counties and at what point do parents make a change that matters?

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 12:37 PM (S/NWs)

135 I just read about Jane D'oh and her husband. Have been gone for a week so I don't know the circumstances of the hospitalization but, yikes! Prayers for him and the entire family.
Posted by: Megthered

Sudden onset severe pneumonia. Outta no where. Hit when he was leaving work. Second comment in yesterday's Pixy thread.

"Prayer request from Jane D'oh

Dear Horde:

Would greatly appreciate prayers for the love of my life, Mr. D'oh. He is in a local ICU in very critical condition, with double pneumonia that came on suddenly this afternoon while he was leaving work.

He actually turned on the emergency flashers on his SUV and called 911. He was blue and near death when the ambulance arrived at his business and took him to the hospital."

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:37 PM (GxM4+)

136 The only way to ensure equal outcomes for all students is to punish the more capable.

Posted by: butch at December 29, 2022 12:37 PM (cHvOo)

137 116 that pastor is a seriously sanctimonious leftists ahole . Atc cleaned his clock

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2022 12:38 PM (ajIMS)

138 123

It isn't cheating if you cheat without interest?

Allah is more flexible than expected.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 29, 2022 12:38 PM (roH4R)

139 Remember, poor kids are every bit as smart as white kids.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 29, 2022 12:23 PM (C2ZTD)

In fairness to old Joe, every kid he knew was both white and rich. Except for the ones who existed to be abused, sexually or otherwise, by powerful politicians... and who cares about them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at December 29, 2022 12:38 PM (GYIa4)

140 I think it involves front-loading all the interest in a lump sum, something like that.

I think that the trick to Islamic finance is that equity participation is OK, so you structure the loan in such a way that it appears that you have an equity share, rather than charging interest.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 29, 2022 12:38 PM (KCOCK)

141 Sock change.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2022 12:38 PM (Wy1BU)

142 "The only way to ensure equal outcomes for all students is to punish the more capable."

1. Punish high performers.
2. ???
3. Profit.

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 12:39 PM (S/NWs)

143 Good news, everyone!

DHS Comedy Hour: “The Border Is Not Open, We Will Continue To Fully Enforce Our Immigration Laws”…

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at December 29, 2022 12:39 PM (FVME7)

144 I was a National Merit Finalist in 1970 (I know, I am OLD!) and all it got me was a photo in the school yearbook with 4 other geeky types. I applied for scholarships but got nothing because my dad made "too much" money (translate - didn't have enough debt). The system has been broken for a long time.

Posted by: Kay at December 29, 2022 12:39 PM (Uk0lu)

145 "The only way to ensure equal outcomes for all students is to punish the more capable."

1. Punish high performers.
2. ???
3. Profit.
Posted by: squid

Well, there's the 10% for the big guy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at December 29, 2022 12:40 PM (FVME7)

146 * is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit.*.

"I don't know how to break this to you, but I am not Christ."

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at December 29, 2022 12:42 PM (7gEpo)

147 "The only way to ensure equal outcomes for all students is to punish the more capable."

Going to have to develop an internet law for Orwell like Godwin's law for Hitler.

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 12:42 PM (S/NWs)

148 What’s truly hilarious is that people still believe that public schools have anything to do with education.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at December 29, 2022 12:42 PM (6cB8e)

149 Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical.
Going broke because of letting people live rent free and being unable to tithe is also unbiblical.
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:28 PM (GxM4+)
Unbiblical? Murder is biblical...meaning it's in the bible.
Posted by: BignJames at December 29, 2022 12:31 PM (AwYPR)

I always tried not to evict my tenants until, well, they earned it. No pay rent, your ass is getting out.

Out they went and all their shit to the curb while they called me bad names and smoked their 305's and tried calling their baby daddy or baby mama on their cell phone from their leased Hyundai.

Money for those but not Da Rent....out the door they went.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2022 12:42 PM (UCfnM)

150 Let Al Di Meola project you astrally:
youtube.com/watch?v=5HGStM2Fdr0

Posted by: gp Declines 2024 Nomination at December 29, 2022 12:42 PM (24fqN)

151 but when the school costs her precious Muffin a scholarship to an Ivy school, DAMMIT SOMEONE MUST PAY!!!

The New York Times or some similar publication put together an interesting article on the enormous lengths that rich parents in Connecticut go through to have their kids classed as "athletes".

It is almost impossible for a white student to get into an Ivy League school unless they are a legacy or an athlete. (I suppose that being trans now would work as well.)

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 29, 2022 12:42 PM (KCOCK)

152 There are many fronts in this war but the assault upon our children and their futures is the one that fans the embers of my smoldering anger into a white hot hatred.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at December 29, 2022 12:43 PM (lrxor)

153 They enjoy beating people down with lies.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 29, 2022 12:43 PM (i0Kzs)

154 Thanks rickb223. Everyone here will keep praying for her family. I know Horde prayers are strong.

Posted by: Megthered at December 29, 2022 12:43 PM (XAmx/)

155 Jesus we need to stop with the civil lawsuits. That comes after law enforcement does its job and throws ppl in jail. AZ case would have been a slam dunk had LE gone first. These are criminals for crying out loud.

Posted by: Thesokorus at December 29, 2022 12:43 PM (1ais2)

156 "with some pastor dude who says it is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit. Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical. "

None of this is true. It's unchristlike to squat in a house you aren't paying for.

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 12:43 PM (S/NWs)

157 I thought Muslim loans worked by the loan giving entity getting a share of the enterprise.

So if you are selling rugs, and you need a bigger store, they'll give you the money to buy a bigger store and get 10% or whatever share of the business - then sell it back to you later instead of interest.

The interesting part of this sort of arrangement - the loan giving entity has to be very interested in the success of who they give the load to. If Ahmed's Rug Emporium goes out of business the First Bank of GoatFuckistan gets nothing.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2022 12:43 PM (lc5cP)

158 The Ivy League has athletics?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2022 12:43 PM (atmen)

159 Damn I'm bushwacked.

Got up at 320 am my time to get Marine and gf to the airport. They landed over an hour ago.

So good to see him. And she's a good girl. A redhead, though. Oy vey.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2022 12:44 PM (U2p+3)

160 We're no longer merely not a meritocracy, we're a rabidly anti-meritocracy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2022 12:44 PM (H8QX8)

161 Sue the schools and everyone involved PERSONALLY for the loss of opportunity and loss of scholarship dollars.

There are also likely more than a few actual minorities involved too. Asians, Jews, Hispanics, Blacks, that can sue on a racial basis.

SUE! SUE! SUE! Sick the PI Trial Lawyers on their asses.

Posted by: rd at December 29, 2022 12:44 PM (Z32m1)

162 Civil lawsuits. Crush them personally.

Posted by: sidney at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (Uy/WF)

163 "Cruel Leonidis asks that you study while all I ask is you sacrifice your kids."

to be fair though, this flies in Montgomery County, MD.

their schools are all groomer now

Posted by: sockamster, full maga retard at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (MLrvz)

164 Just to ask this question, "would it have mattered?"

It's not like they could have gotten into any college they wanted because the whole system is rigged, as the Yale/NC SC case has shown.

Any Ivy League college already doesn't care about this, they only want a "diverse" student body.

"Psshaw, having 100-1000 National Merit Scholars in freshman class, please, we have 10 Trans, 50 gay, 50 lesbian (the bad kind, *cough, fat, *cough), and 20 asexual, including 10 trans-dwarf, that's what makes us 'diverse'."

Judge will just ask, "Standing? Nope doesn't qualify, dismissed." And nothing will happen.

Posted by: Scott_T at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (2waQ7)

165 The New Yorker wrote an article arguing we should wear masks forever and noted you're a racist if you disagree

A Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (zm+d5)

166 The Ivy League has athletics?

It's a big deal for the alumni.

I've been to a Yale-Princeton football game - the alumni have a big party after the game.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (KCOCK)

167 So good to see him. And she's a good girl. A redhead, though. Oy vey.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2022 12:44 PM (U2p+3)

I am looking at it from the other side of things, nurse. When I read 'redhead' I nodded my head and thought 'Right on, man.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (zZu0s)

168 A case could be made that many of these top students are much better off by NOT going to college.

If they're really smart, they'll figure out a way to make their fortunes.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (BdMk6)

169
A Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.

President 18-1 would have a "National Exercise Mandate" and teachers would have to run a mile a day or be fired

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2022 12:46 PM (lc5cP)

170 >>The Ivy League has athletics?

Some of them are pretty good. Harvard has one of the best hockey teams in the country year in and year out and some of the others have their moments.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2022 12:46 PM (ZLI7S)

171 A Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (zm+d5)

*dials 911*

I'd like to request an ambulance! Someone got burned badly!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 29, 2022 12:47 PM (zZu0s)

172 Why isn't National Merit Scholarship Corp informing the students directly?

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 29, 2022 12:47 PM (VbI7r)

173 >A Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (zm+d5)

THAT is hysterical.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 29, 2022 12:47 PM (gryET)

174 A Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (zm+d5)

Bravo to those kids.

Fat ass Karen butt hurt makes me smile.

Cry Karen Cry!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2022 12:47 PM (UCfnM)

175 There are many, many people who hate what they believe is the Catholic Church, but there are very few who hate what the Catholic Church really is."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 29, 2022 12:36 PM (AW0uW)

I think a lot of people believe in lots of things that aren't so. One of the most misguided one's is that the Lord isn't discerning.

Take, for instance, the issue at hand. Do you think it is following the example of Christ for the state to evict a 85 year old widow for non-payment of property taxes and sell off her family home?

On the other hand, would it be following the example of Christ to allow meth cooks to squat in the church and sell their product in the sanctuary, or should one evict them?

So then, what is the Lord's "position" on eviction? You only may gain proper discernment of the Lord by reading what He has revealed. The laws and wisdom of men hold no sway over the discernment of the Lord.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 29, 2022 12:47 PM (8FM1F)

176 Dartmouth rigged the trustee set up a long time ago. The last real challenge was in 2003, and I actually dragged my ass up there to vote.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 29, 2022 12:47 PM (Mzdiz)

177 >>A Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.

T=I hate to break it to you...but, the Science is on their side, PorkTits.

Posted by: garrett at December 29, 2022 12:47 PM (zo9bo)

178 Islamic finance is weird because of the usury. Since they're not supposed to charge one another interest, a lot of these banks use some weird legerdemain to make loans possible. I think it involves front-loading all the interest in a lump sum, something like that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2022 12:34 PM (oINRc)

In the middle ages in Europe this was done by assessing "damages" on inability to pay back in full within a set period.

Posted by: Dr Samuel Johnson at December 29, 2022 12:47 PM (xhaym)

179 President 18-1 would have a "National Exercise Mandate" and teachers would have to run a mile a day or be fired
Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2022 12:46 PM (lc5cP)

That is cruel and unusual. Even when I am in shape, I hate running with the passion of a thousand suns.

Rowing machine or biking for cardio.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 29, 2022 12:48 PM (zZu0s)

180 Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:45

This is the most delicious thing I have read today!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2022 12:48 PM (Wy1BU)

181 Money for those but not Da Rent....out the door they went.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2022 12:42 PM

*nods*

Damned right.

Posted by: George Thoroughgood's Landlady at December 29, 2022 12:48 PM (Wnv9h)

182 A Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:45 PM (zm+d5)

SHAZAM!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2022 12:48 PM (U2p+3)

183 Why isn't National Merit Scholarship Corp informing the students directly?
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge

That would require principles and courage.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 29, 2022 12:48 PM (i0Kzs)

184 So good to see him. And she's a good girl. A redhead, though. Oy vey.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Every family is better with at least one redhead. You don't have to believe me because I am biased . We have 3 in my family

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at December 29, 2022 12:48 PM (lrxor)

185 I think that the trick to Islamic finance is that equity participation is OK, so you structure the loan in such a way that it appears that you have an equity share, rather than charging interest.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

If allah is that easily tricked, he must be a puny god.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:48 PM (GxM4+)

186 A Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.
Posted by: Ian S

Truth hurts lol

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 29, 2022 12:48 PM (Bd14T)

187 So good to see him. And she's a good girl. A redhead, though. Oy vey.
Posted by: nurse ratched
___

SiL is a ginger, so they're not all that bad.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at December 29, 2022 12:48 PM (u6s3z)

188 172 Why isn't National Merit Scholarship Corp informing the students directly?
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 29, 2022 12:47 PM (VbI7r)

Seems like I got a letter from the National Merit people after I got the results back from the PSAT. So much has changed so quickly though. Used to be 1600 on your SATs meant something and even being above 1100 was nothing to scoff at.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 29, 2022 12:49 PM (zZu0s)

189 I thought Ivys didn't award athletic scholarships....has that changed?

Posted by: BignJames at December 29, 2022 12:49 PM (AwYPR)

190 Fat ass Karen butt hurt makes me smile.

Cry Karen Cry!

She locked her account after people started making fun of her, but her bio says she's an "abortion enthusiast". Which, gaaaaaaaah.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:49 PM (zm+d5)

191 186 A Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.

So has she started any kind of weight loss program yet?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 29, 2022 12:49 PM (4olE8)

192 A Karen on Twitter said she was crying because she told a group of teenage boys at Wal-Mart that they should wear masks and they told her she should lose weight.
Posted by: Ian S.

MEDIC! MEDIC! Burn victim!

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:49 PM (GxM4+)

193 "who hate what they believe is the Catholic Church, but there are very few who hate what the Catholic Church really is."

I keep hearing that, and yet, Frank the Commie Pope keeps proving the lie. Further, I spend a lot of time interacting with hardcore Catholics on a religious level and they don't seem to get the same teaching we non-Catholics get from the Catholic Church that we all worship the same God.

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 12:49 PM (S/NWs)

194 >>If allah is that easily tricked, he must be a puny god.

He's cool with Temporary Marriages and Not-Too-Freshly Fucked Goat Sammiches...

so.

Posted by: garrett at December 29, 2022 12:50 PM (zo9bo)

195 305s? I learn something new just about every day around here !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at December 29, 2022 12:50 PM (fxj5q)

196 Islamic finance is weird because of the usury. Since they're not supposed to charge one another interest, a lot of these banks use some weird legerdemain to make loans possible. I think it involves front-loading all the interest in a lump sum, something like that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2022 12:34 PM (oINRc)

Man, is Allah really that easy to fool?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at December 29, 2022 12:50 PM (GYIa4)

197 President 18-1 would have a "National Exercise Mandate" and teachers would have to run a mile a day at one go or be fired
Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2022 12:46 PM

Fixed for added cruelty.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2022 12:50 PM (Wnv9h)

198 You only may gain proper discernment of the Lord by reading what He has revealed. The laws and wisdom of men hold no sway over the discernment of the Lord.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Excellent point

Posted by: Prime Sister at December 29, 2022 12:50 PM (CmL3C)

199 Don't you fell safer knowing that your doctor graduated at the bottom of his class? Adjusted for intersectional biases of course.

And the people who keep the electric grid running or the construction workers building skyscrapers?

Everything will be a-okay.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (+Oe+m)

200 "Sue them. Sue them personally, if possible."

Oh, come on now. Unless "sue them" is some sort of new obtuse dog whistle involving gas cans and road flares.

Nobody is going to stop doing this shit just because of some lame ass lawsuits that moonbat judges will toss anyways.

Posted by: somedood at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (wsx8x)

201 The one that says "God is happy when you are happy, so do whatever makes you happy"

-
Seven Deadly Sins smorgasbord. Choose the ones you want and leave the rest.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (FVME7)

202 "If allah is that easily tricked, he must be a puny god."

Muslims also believe you can eat at night during their fast months because Allah is sleeping and won't find out.

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (S/NWs)

203 I hope they sue the shit out of that school and principal

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (dO/0d)

204 I only just became aware of an apparent cult classic in the field of research-skepticism. "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" Ionnides, J (2005). He's been disappointingly silent of late as to all the Covid nonsense but an amazing and prescient paper: calling into question the whole, accepted structure of "peer reviewed literature" (with many implications as to "expertise").

Leads to many directions, including a rigorous exploration of bias, concepts of "pre test probability" (function of how intuitive the test hypothesis seems to be/common sense and the extent of prior support in the scientific literature etc. Great analysis of the relationship between ambiguity and number of end points and bias.

Of course he didn't invent skepticism, and many/most of us who were at all educated are aware of many logical, linguistic and statistical fallacies. But this is exactly the sort of thing that should be taught in the sciences, and social sciences that just isn't.

Posted by: Zek at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (5FPX4)

205 Why isn't National Merit Scholarship Corp informing the students directly?

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 29, 2022 12:47 PM (VbI7r)

Good question. It's been a long, long time, so I don't recall all of the details, but I DO know that the National Merit Scholarship corp wrote to my parents to hawk a copy of their Who's Who, so they could see their daughter's name in what amounts to a cheap phone book. Of course Mom bought it.

So I fail to understand how this could have been kept secret so long.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (Mzdiz)

206 "with some pastor dude who says it is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit. Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical. "

None of this is true. It's unchristlike to squat in a house you aren't paying for.
Posted by: squid

It is not "Christ Like" to rent someone a house, or a field, or a car? Or is it just "Un-Christ Like" to expect them to live up to their end of any deal?

Posted by: rd at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (Z32m1)

207 stupid sock

Karen needs a Waaah-mbulance

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (xhaym)

208 Will 'Avatar' Movies Be the Rest of James Cameron's Career? He Isn't Concerned: 'I Can Tell Most of the Stories I Want' on Pandora
tinyurl.com/2p83yset

"the world of 'Avatar' is so sprawling that I can tell most of the stories I want to tell within it and try many of the stylistic techniques that I hope to explore," Cameron answered. "And secondly, yes… our time as artists is finite. I will always mourn some of the stories that I don't get to make."

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 29, 2022 12:52 PM (MFZ8i)

209 I thought Ivys didn't award athletic scholarships....has that changed?

The point is not the scholarship - the point is getting admitted in the first place.

Cheaper than the alternative - it is rumored that the going price to buy your kid a place at Stanford is $50 million.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 29, 2022 12:52 PM (KCOCK)

210 As stupid as this is, remember: In 10 years we will look at this insanity as quaint and long for the good old days.

Posted by: Ripley at December 29, 2022 12:52 PM (cUYo/)

211 If allah is that easily tricked, he must be a puny god.

To be fair, now do the magical wires in NYC that mark streets as "inside" for Jewish religious purposes.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:52 PM (zm+d5)

212 So has she started any kind of weight loss program yet?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 29, 2022 12:49 PM (4olE

Started a gofundme.

Posted by: BignJames at December 29, 2022 12:52 PM (AwYPR)

213 Islamic finance is weird because of the usury. Since they're not supposed to charge one another interest, a lot of these banks use some weird legerdemain to make loans possible. I think it involves front-loading all the interest in a lump sum, something like that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2022 12:34 PM (oINRc)

Man, is Allah really that easy to fool?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I think allah is Goober or Jethro.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:52 PM (GxM4+)

214 Or is it just "Un-Christ Like" to expect them to live up to their end of any deal?
----------
I think they are saying this, but I was disagreeing.

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 12:53 PM (S/NWs)

215 SiL is a ginger, so they're not all that bad.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at December 29, 2022 12:48 PM (u6s3z)

*types joke* *deletes joke out of respect for SMH*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 29, 2022 12:53 PM (zZu0s)

216 James Cameron reveals he cut 'gunplay action' from Avatar sequel to get rid of the 'ugliness'
tinyurl.com/9aszxhm4

believing "that his films have often been too violent, and the heavy amounts of gun violence that play into films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and True Lies he believes have no place in moral moviemaking" in 2022.

"I look back on some films that I've made, and I don't know if I would want to make that film now. I don't know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of Terminator movies 30+ years ago."

Unprompted, he told Esquire Middle East: "I'm happy to be living in New Zealand where they just banned all assault rifles two weeks after that horrific mosque shooting a couple of years ago."

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 29, 2022 12:53 PM (MFZ8i)

217 A redhead, though. Oy vey.

I like redheads.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 29, 2022 12:53 PM (AW0uW)

218 I'm actually sympathetic to early Christianity's hostility towards charging interest. Finance is like fire: necessary for civilization, but also capable of massive destruction if you're not careful.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 29, 2022 12:54 PM (wmDcS)

219 My late husband got a soccer scholarship in 1972, so at one time, Dartmouth did award athletic scholarships.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 29, 2022 12:54 PM (Mzdiz)

220 You only may gain proper discernment of the Lord by reading what He has revealed. The laws and wisdom of men hold no sway over the discernment of the Lord.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Amen

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at December 29, 2022 12:54 PM (lrxor)

221 Redheads…mmmmmmm (in general).

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2022 12:54 PM (atmen)

222 It's been recycled. Years ago, (white) kids who weren't 'to the manor born' but won legit academic scholarships to the fancier private high schools were often not promptly notified and missed scholarship opportunities.

I know from experience & when hell was raised, it was shrugged off by the tiny school where tuition for the majority of its students was funded through their grandparents' gifts of stock.

Even in the US, there have always been different rules for different classes.

Posted by: Lola at December 29, 2022 12:55 PM (XIi8H)

223 165>Within reason, I would have paid for whatever those boys were buying at Walmart. That is too freakin funny.

Posted by: sidney at December 29, 2022 12:55 PM (Uy/WF)

224 OMG. I just ate a quart of homemade potato soup.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:55 PM (GxM4+)

225 "204 I only just became aware of an apparent cult classic in the field of research-skepticism. "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" Ionnides, J (2005). He's been disappointingly silent of late as to all the Covid nonsense but an amazing and prescient paper: calling into question the whole, accepted structure of "peer reviewed literature" (with many implications as to "expertise").

Posted by: Zek at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (5FPX4)"

You can't really do research on research anymore. The academic priesthood came down really hard on people a few years ago for "illegal, unauthorized human experimentation", which is how they describe people embarrassing the peer review process by poking holes in it.

Posted by: somedood at December 29, 2022 12:55 PM (wsx8x)

226 Hmmm... Census bureau 'redefines' urban, from 5000 population, to 2500 population... moving millions to that categorization from the rural category.

Why? Tax dollars...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 29, 2022 12:55 PM (oHd/0)

227 as for peer review: One of the more useful methods of behavior modification is through peer group socialization

I try to remember that when I see "peer review"

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2022 12:56 PM (xhaym)

228 I'm actually sympathetic to early Christianity's hostility towards charging interest. Finance is like fire: necessary for civilization, but also capable of massive destruction if you're not careful.

Yeah, this morning's announcement by Ukraine that they're all in with the WEF and also BlackRock's #1 client certainly throws that idea into prominence.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 29, 2022 12:56 PM (zm+d5)

229 >>Why? Tax dollars...

Also, ZONING.

They want to do away with Single Family Homes in Zoning.

Posted by: garrett at December 29, 2022 12:56 PM (zo9bo)

230 OMG. I just ate a quart of homemade potato soup.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:55 PM (GxM4+)

With bacon? I put bacon in mine.

Posted by: BignJames at December 29, 2022 12:56 PM (AwYPR)

231 "222 It's been recycled. Years ago, (white) kids who weren't 'to the manor born' but won legit academic scholarships to the fancier private high schools were often not promptly notified and missed scholarship opportunities.

I know from experience & when hell was raised, it was shrugged off by the tiny school where tuition for the majority of its students was funded through their grandparents' gifts of stock.

Even in the US, there have always been different rules for different classes.
Posted by: Lola at December 29, 2022 12:55 PM (XIi8H)"

This actually happened to me, but with a university scholarship.

Posted by: somedood at December 29, 2022 12:56 PM (wsx8x)

232 >If allah is that easily tricked, he must be a puny god.

Jengis Khan: Your god must hate you, that he would send someone like me to destroy you.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 29, 2022 12:56 PM (44ww/)

233 Fuck James Cameron.

Thankfully, he can't unmake his good movies. Sounds like he would if it could.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 29, 2022 12:57 PM (XvPQV)

234 I keep hearing that, and yet, Frank the Commie Pope keeps proving the lie. Further, I spend a lot of time interacting with hardcore Catholics on a religious level and they don't seem to get the same teaching we non-Catholics get from the Catholic Church that we all worship the same God.
Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 12:49 PM (S/NWs)

Well, in my eyes, Frankie Fabulous isn't the Pope, Benedict is. Frank is a scumbag, possible pederast and a heresiarch.

And, depending on the hard-assness of the Catholics you're encountering, they may still subscribe to the old teaching of "outside the Church there is no salvation." Not knowing them, I can't say.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 29, 2022 12:57 PM (AW0uW)

235 "Bonitatibus" is Latin for "saggy National Geographic native tits", I believe.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 29, 2022 12:57 PM (jO1gQ)

236 "President 18-1 would have a "National Exercise Mandate" and teachers would have to run a mile a day at one go or be fired
Posted by: 18-1"

How does that help grow govt bureaucracy and spending? Never going to happen.

Posted by: Ripley at December 29, 2022 12:57 PM (cUYo/)

237 Who are these that are so wise in the ways of science?

Posted by: Eromero at December 29, 2022 12:57 PM (z3WCn)

238 With bacon? I put bacon in mine.
Posted by: BignJames

With bacon, ham, heavy whipping cream and butter.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:57 PM (GxM4+)

239 >>I thought Ivys didn't award athletic scholarships....has that changed?

No, it hasn't changed. But they do grant all sorts of scholarships based on need, a nebulous category that they define as they wish.

My niece went to Harvard and paid a fraction of what her brothers paid to go to UMass. She got all kinds of scholarships from Harvard basically cause they wanted her to go to school there.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2022 12:58 PM (ZLI7S)

240 "The school wanted to recognize students as individuals, not their achievements, as if the two had to be separated," she said."

This is how the Soros District Attorneys operate. As in, "The legal system wants to recognize criminals as individuals, not by their crimes. The two must be separated. Spark of Humanity, you know!"

Posted by: Gref at December 29, 2022 12:58 PM (AMIL/)

241 "still subscribe to the old teaching of "outside the Church there is no salvation." Not knowing them, I can't say."

That's not current church doctrine?

Does Frank become the real pope when Benedict goes?

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 12:58 PM (S/NWs)

242 "So I fail to understand how this could have been kept secret so long.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 29, 2022 12:51 PM (Mzdiz)"

They could have just literally requested that the results not be sent directly to the students, and some moonbat may have obliged them.

Posted by: somedood at December 29, 2022 12:58 PM (wsx8x)

243 25 BUT SANTOS !!!!
Posted by: DRUDGE at December 29, 2022 12:14 PM (us2H3)

Bet a couple of these kids are wishing they had “Santosed” their applications now.

Posted by: Rex B at December 29, 2022 12:58 PM (TLhHb)

244 Cameron probably has a gun in the house.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 29, 2022 12:58 PM (i0Kzs)

245 Thankfully, he can't unmake his good movies. Sounds like he would if it could.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 29, 2022 12:57 PM (XvPQV)

He's probably collecting some residuals or other income from those movies. Until he forfeits those or donates them to a charity, he's full of shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2022 12:58 PM (Y5qcH)

246 "Also, ZONING.
They want to do away with Single Family Homes in Zoning."

I'm sure we will soon have new classifications of "Carbon Neutral" whereby high density housing in suburbs will be justified in the name of reducing the per capita "carbon footprint." Or is that a thing already?

Posted by: Zek at December 29, 2022 12:59 PM (5FPX4)

247 Teachers going to the effort to teach was just too hard. So now they will just promote everyone being stupid.

Posted by: Drew in MO at December 29, 2022 12:59 PM (cGlgB)

248 "Thankfully, he can't unmake his good movies. Sounds like he would if it could. "

You're a funny guy.

Posted by: George Lucas, Film Butcher Extraordinaire at December 29, 2022 12:59 PM (S/NWs)

249 With bacon, ham, heavy whipping cream and butter.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:57 PM (GxM4+)

cornbread?

Posted by: BignJames at December 29, 2022 12:59 PM (AwYPR)

250
AtC had a Twitter thing with some pastor dude who says it is UnChristlike for any Christian to rent out property for profit. Eviction and rendering someone homeless is unbiblical.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire

*Hollywood Accounting has entered the chat*

What profit?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 29, 2022 01:00 PM (n+4am)

251 Posted by: somedood at December 29, 2022 12:58 PM (wsx8x)

Yeah, but they'd still want to hawk their phone book.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 29, 2022 01:00 PM (Mzdiz)

252 I was a national merit semi-finalist. Back in the day that was based on your PSAT.

As was I. I don't remember anyone being a Commended Student. That sounds like a participation trophy. It did not get me admitted to the one school I applied to, but the state university accepted me at Main Campus past the application deadline.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 29, 2022 01:00 PM (e+csY)

253 cornbread?
Posted by: BignJames

No. That's for the ham & beans this weekend.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 01:00 PM (GxM4+)

254 "With bacon, ham, heavy whipping cream and butter.
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 12:57 PM (GxM4+)"

Kinky.....

Posted by: Hedley Lamar at December 29, 2022 01:01 PM (5FPX4)

255 132 I am withholding any sympathy for those parents because I am going to go out on a limb here that all of those Virginia wealthy parents that send their kids to that school vote straight line Democrat and fully support imposing a woke agenda on everyone around them. That is, of course, until the agenda bites them in their own ass.

+1
I filed the story under Just Deserts

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 29, 2022 01:01 PM (YTBIQ)

256 You're a funny guy.
Posted by: George Lucas, Film Butcher Extraordinaire at December 29, 2022 12:59 PM (S/NWs)

Yousa too Meesa Lucas!

Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at December 29, 2022 01:01 PM (PiwSw)

257 "That's for the ham & beans this weekend. "

I'm listening.

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 01:01 PM (S/NWs)

258 I saw Heresiarch open for Leviathan at the Warfield in '99.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 29, 2022 01:01 PM (44ww/)

259 Sue them. Sue them personally, if possible.

Then sue again and again and again.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM

Yep. Ender's Game. The Left understands this principle. The Right, sadly, does not.

Major Gwen Anderson: Why did you keep kicking him? You had already won the fight. Did you enjoy it?

Ender Wiggin: No... knocking him down was the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones too, so that he'd leave me alone.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2022 01:01 PM (Do5/p)

260 I know this isn't a food thread, but does anyone have any quick and easy ideas for breakfast brunch? Publius' dad is turning 95 tomorrow and we're having a party. Maybe 16 people.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 29, 2022 01:01 PM (Mzdiz)

261 Oh boy! The Chindian parents of the students at the Top STEM Magnet School must have loved that!

Posted by: kallisto at December 29, 2022 01:02 PM (7z3MT)

262 Biden is guaranteed to fill the federal Judiciary for at least 2 more years.

At a blistering pace.

Soon these types of lawsuits will be dismissed solely based on politics.

Posted by: I've got bad news for you at December 29, 2022 01:02 PM (Q2Vef)

263 >>They could have just literally requested that the results not be sent directly to the students, and some moonbat may have obliged them.

You'd think a kid who was at the top of his class at one of the highest rated schools in the country might be able to figure out on his own that something was amiss.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2022 01:02 PM (ZLI7S)

264 260 Breakfast tacos!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2022 01:02 PM (atmen)

265 "That's for the ham & beans this weekend. "

I'm listening.
Posted by: squid

Left over honey glazed, spiral sliced ham from Christmas meal. And beans.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 01:02 PM (GxM4+)

266 Hmmm... Census bureau 'redefines' urban, from 5000 population, to 2500 population... moving millions to that categorization from the rural category.

Why? Tax dollars...
Posted by: Romeo13

The village where I shop, about 15 miles south, has gone from just under 3k to about 5k in a few short years . Still a village in my book but they had their first murder in over a decade last week. Apparently a homeowner interrupted a burglary in progress

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at December 29, 2022 01:03 PM (lrxor)

267 Mick Wallace
@wallacemick
The attack on #NordStream was a terrible attack on European vital infrastructure, it was an act of Environmental Terrorism - A disastrous release of #Methane - Why is the #EU showing so little interest in finding out who did it.? Are they afraid that they won't like the answer..?

Responses are nuts

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 29, 2022 01:03 PM (fs1hN)

268 I keep hearing that, and yet, Frank the Commie Pope keeps proving the lie.

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Frankie Hollywood is Catholic like Joey Shitpants is president.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at December 29, 2022 01:03 PM (FVME7)

269 248 "Thankfully, he can't unmake his good movies. Sounds like he would if it could. "

You're a funny guy.
Posted by: George Lucas, Film Butcher Extraordinaire at December 29, 2022 12:59 PM (S/NWs)

Don't get me started on you...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 29, 2022 01:03 PM (XvPQV)

270 "still subscribe to the old teaching of "outside the Church there is no salvation." Not knowing them, I can't say."

That's not current church doctrine?

IIRC, current teaching is that salvation comes through Christ, and, because He established the RCC, it follows that salvation is through the RCC, though the doctrine isn't as insisted on as it used to be prior to 1963.

Does Frank become the real pope when Benedict goes?
Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 12:58 PM (S/NWs)

He was never the real Pope, so what ought to happen is a new conclave to elect a legitimate Pope. Sadly, that won't happen.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 29, 2022 01:03 PM (AW0uW)

271 "We want to recognize students for who they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements," he told her, claiming that he and the principal didn't want to "hurt" the feelings of students who didn't get the award.
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As long as everyone here knows that's as boldfaced a lie as you'll ever see, we'll get along just fine.

Posted by: ... at December 29, 2022 01:03 PM (py2fD)

272 But, in a weird way, Syndrome was trying to reduce the supers by IMPROVING the non-super. Sure, sure, a few egs broken to develop the tech, but the tech wasn't a super suppression, but rather a super assister.

Posted by: Legion of Boom at December 29, 2022 12:16 PM

Meanwhile, Dash's mom was trying to teach him leftist 'everyone's a winner' nonsense.

Helen: Everyone's special, Dash.

Dash: [muttering] Which is another way of saying no one is.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2022 01:03 PM (Do5/p)

273 264 260 Breakfast tacos!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Seconded! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at December 29, 2022 01:03 PM (GxM4+)

274 Shawna Yashar

See?

Chindia.

Posted by: kallisto at December 29, 2022 01:04 PM (7z3MT)

275 "anyone have any quick and easy ideas for breakfast brunch?"

Scramble some eggs with tomatoes, green peppers, sausage, and cheese and put out some burrito wraps and salsa so they can make their own breakfast burritos.

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 01:04 PM (S/NWs)

276 218 I'm actually sympathetic to early Christianity's hostility towards charging interest. Finance is like fire: necessary for civilization, but also capable of massive destruction if you're not careful.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 29, 2022 12:54 PM (wmDcS)

It was not early Christianity. It is a central tenet of Christianity. Last I checked (despite Vatican Bank) it was still official orthodoxy.

Until quite recently (60yrs ago?) being anti-usury wasn't considered crankery. It was just academics (spit) and financiers who assumed it was an insane position.

It was a long very expensive centuries long all out assault by finance that finally bore fruit.

I will stipulate the anti-usury position is now considered total crankery if not a sign of severe mental illness by the vast majority.

Posted by: Thesokorus at December 29, 2022 01:04 PM (1ais2)

277 This action by the school proves it is not. Either that, or US News and World Report isn't properly ranking schools.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

US News is as corrupt as all the major colleges in their grade reporting. These days it's difficult to receive anything lower than a "B" at top tier schools, even if you don't bother doing the work.

Which is why this scandal is important for so many. High school is ultimately more important than college because hs performance gets you into a top school, where you can skate to good grades and a lucrative career in our Government-Intellectual Complex.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 29, 2022 01:04 PM (jO1gQ)

278 Boy, I learned something reading the content. Next time somebody in government screws with me, I will slap a civil rights suit on their ass. I just realized I'm the child of a parent who speaks English as a second language. Well, spoke, Dad has been gone for a long time now but whatever works.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 29, 2022 01:04 PM (lz5hY)

279 I know this isn't a food thread, but does anyone have any quick and easy ideas for breakfast brunch? Publius' dad is turning 95 tomorrow and we're having a party. Maybe 16 people.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 29, 2022 01:01 PM (Mzdiz)

Bread pudding (bread cubes, sugar, eggs, half-and-half, cinnamon, mix and let soak overnight in a buttered dish, bake in the morning), along with bacon, scrambled eggs, and maybe a fruit salad. You can make the bread pudding and fruit salad the night before, bake the bacon in the morning, and use the fat to cook up a load of scrambled eggs while a couple cans of biscuits are baking.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 29, 2022 01:04 PM (wmDcS)

280 "Left over honey glazed, spiral sliced ham from Christmas meal. And beans."

And onions? And a ham hock?

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 01:05 PM (S/NWs)

281 NOOOOOD

Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at December 29, 2022 01:05 PM (PiwSw)

282 I know this isn't a food thread, but does anyone have any quick and easy ideas for breakfast brunch? Publius' dad is turning 95 tomorrow and we're having a party. Maybe 16 people.
Posted by: Miley

Mom always made eggs portugal for a crowd.

Posted by: Infidel at December 29, 2022 01:05 PM (ZEa+g)

283 Don't get me started on you...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 29, 2022 01:03 PM (XvPQV)

Anyone know where you can get a good, high quality disc copy of the original, unadulterated trilogy. After they remastered them, but before they butchered them?

I still have my VHS prerecords of the remasters (even though I do not own a VHS player) precisely because of that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 29, 2022 01:05 PM (zZu0s)

284 Is there a legal definition of “usury?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2022 01:06 PM (atmen)

285 This came up in a discussion of communism the other day. When you rermove the incentives to achieve more, like money and honors and recognition, people don't.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 29, 2022 12:12 PM (Y+l9t)

Which means less competition for the useless, the unskilled and the layabout, otherwise known as "the base". Makes lying and cheating more valuable because advancing in the world becomes purely about who you know and how willing you are to fuck people over.

Posted by: ... at December 29, 2022 01:06 PM (py2fD)

286 All this stuff is done in the name of being nice and trying to help out the underprivileged or oppressed, as their stated ideology frames everything. Which sounds compassionate and virtuous, and in some cases at least they really are trying to help out.

But the real idea behind this is to destroy and eliminate white western Judeo-Christian culture. They are pushing to simply negate white people, diminish their cultural impact, erase their past and history, and restart a new glorious utopian culture that embraces only Marxism and results in feudalism, with them at the top.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2022 01:06 PM (0hOvj)

287 Mick Wallace
@wallacemick
The attack on #NordStream was a terrible attack on European vital infrastructure, it was an act of Environmental Terrorism - A disastrous release of #Methane - Why is the #EU showing so little interest in finding out who did it.? Are they afraid that they won't like the answer..?

BTW, the Russians are starting to repair the pipelines that they allegedly blew up.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 29, 2022 01:06 PM (KCOCK)

288 The "everyone is special" parents have been ruining kids for decades. Kids need a hard dose of Tyler Durden's message in "Fight Club":

Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2022 01:06 PM (Do5/p)

289 "Sadly, that won't happen."

I keep hearing rumors he doesn't have the "speak as God" authority.

Posted by: squid at December 29, 2022 01:06 PM (S/NWs)

290 Git upstairs ye hooligans

Posted by: MAxIE at December 29, 2022 01:06 PM (twxj3)

291 I played slide for Heresiarch in the 80's. The blizzard of blow was too much for me. Had to get out. The stories were all true. Marcion was out of control even for a drummer.

Posted by: Thesokorus at December 29, 2022 01:06 PM (1ais2)

292 To be honest, I didn't really understand why people with poor credit ratings had to pay higher interest until I dipped my toes into some peer-to-peer lending.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2022 01:07 PM (Y5qcH)

293 In my senior year we had 6 Merit Scholarship winners
5 of the 6 went on to become CPAs . Don't know if that suggests anything but the world definitely doesn't need more CPAs

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at December 29, 2022 01:07 PM (lrxor)

294 know this isn't a food thread, but does anyone have any quick and easy ideas for breakfast brunch? Publius' dad is turning 95 tomorrow and we're having a party. Maybe 16 people.

Posted by: Miley

Quiche. Bacon and spinach is my favorite.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 29, 2022 01:07 PM (Y+l9t)

295 Breakfast tacos!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Pretty easy to whip up some chorizo and eggs. Though eggs are expensive these days.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2022 01:07 PM (lTGtQ)

296 What is a PSAT? I only did SATs. I did well on those; maybe I would have scored some $$$ for doing that too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2022 01:07 PM (oINRc)

297 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) in Alexandria, Virginia, are fraudulent for taking the wrong approach.

Don't they know they would have achieved "racialL" "equity" by giving out the Merit certificates to those who had earned them? The Chindian students would have really shown up the wipipo.

Why does TJ High School hate the children of colerl?
And why is Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT silent on this important subject??

Posted by: kallisto at December 29, 2022 01:07 PM (7z3MT)

298 Breakfast burritos, and or a casserole are good ideas. I wish our local Anita's hasn't closed - then I wouldn't even have to cook.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 29, 2022 01:08 PM (Mzdiz)

299 293 Five classmates didn't have the personality to be accountants.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 29, 2022 01:08 PM (lz5hY)

300 He was never the real Pope, so what ought to happen is a new conclave to elect a legitimate Pope. Sadly, that won't happen.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Ann Barnhardt is predicting Frankie will go berserk in his desperate, commie need to destroy the Church once Benedict 16 dies. I fear she may be correct, as extreme as she is.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 29, 2022 01:10 PM (jO1gQ)

301 Sandanista Pope. Si?

Posted by: Eromero at December 29, 2022 01:10 PM (z3WCn)

302 "263 >>They could have just literally requested that the results not be sent directly to the students, and some moonbat may have obliged them.

You'd think a kid who was at the top of his class at one of the highest rated schools in the country might be able to figure out on his own that something was amiss.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2022 01:02 PM (ZLI7S)"

There is a good chance that this is what happened. But consider, that a year or two isn't really all that much time considering all the other shit HS students will have going on. They didn't get away with this for very long.

Posted by: somedood at December 29, 2022 01:10 PM (wsx8x)

303 "Also, ZONING.
They want to do away with Single Family Homes in Zoning."

NC will have nothing to do with that way of thinking.

Posted by: sidney at December 29, 2022 01:11 PM (Uy/WF)

304 Mick Wallace
@wallacemick
The attack on #NordStream was a terrible attack on European vital infrastructure, it was an act of Environmental Terrorism - A disastrous release of #Methane - Why is the #EU showing so little interest in finding out who did it.? Are they afraid that they won't like the answer..?

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Didja see that Putin says, "Fuck those guys in particular" to the countries that tried to impose a $60 a barrel price cap?

https://cnb.cx/3CaZpV3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at December 29, 2022 01:13 PM (FVME7)

305
Cameron probably has a gun in the house.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Almost certainly.

In the extras for Aliens, he shows quite a bit of familiarity with firearms. And in the scene where Vasquez shoots the xenomorph in the head with a pistol, Jennette Goldstein couldn't handle the pistol, so Gale Ann Hurd (Cameron's wife at the time) put on the costume and did the scene because she was quite comfortable with pistols.

To think that Hurd was familiar but Cameron wasn't? Nah. I guarantee that he has his guns, he just doesn't want us to have them. Fuck him.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 29, 2022 01:13 PM (n+4am)

306 296 What is a PSAT? I only did SATs. I did well on those; maybe I would have scored some $$$ for doing that too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2022 01:07 PM (oINRc)

It's related to the SAT, sort of a subset of the full SAT. Stands for Preliminary SAT. It's used to qualify for said National Merit Scholarships

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 29, 2022 01:15 PM (XvPQV)

307 Or, in other words, the students who are not achieving are of a certain demographic (as it were) that modern society has deemed to be above criticism.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 29, 2022 12:17 PM

1. Artificially prop up minorities and females in schools, colleges and job hiring
2. Put in place at companies policies that (a) require minority and female quotas (b) prevent firing minorities or females
3. When they fail at their jobs, tell them it is not because they failed, but because others are racist and sexist and that they should accuse anyone criticizing them as being racists/sexists
4. You now have large segments of society who are above criticism and have no incentive to improve themselves, no matter how much they fail

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2022 01:15 PM (Do5/p)

308 When "Racial Equity" means declaring out loud that certain minorities are stupid, a rational person would think they need to retool their approach.

And yet it's the parents who stick up for their kids' achievements who are accused of being racist.

This country needs a ctrl-alt-del and reset to factory settings, pronto.

Posted by: red speck at December 29, 2022 01:15 PM (gS3OW)

309
Anyone know where you can get a good, high quality disc copy of the original, unadulterated trilogy. After they remastered them, but before they butchered them?

I still have my VHS prerecords of the remasters (even though I do not own a VHS player) precisely because of that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

Better yet, the 4k fan remasters of the theatrical cut. I have 1080p versions of these on my hard drive and they're pretty good.

https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 29, 2022 01:19 PM (n+4am)

310 If everyone did their best, society as a whole would be so peaceful and be so fucking stupendously wealthy that a redistributive system would work.

The problem is... that's a fantasy. People don't do their best unless forced and cajoled to by external hardships and rewards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2022 12:27 PM

Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

Posted by: John Patrick Mason at December 29, 2022 01:23 PM (Do5/p)

311 > You now have large segments of society who are above criticism and have no incentive to improve themselves, no matter how much they fail
______________

The political class figured this out decades ago didn't they.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2022 01:23 PM (Q4IgG)

312 Government schools are child abuse, and you are paying for it. Worse, you are paying perverts to teach your own children to despise you.

Any #conservative who is pro-government school is the enemy.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at December 29, 2022 01:24 PM (b306O)

313 I agree with the comments withholding sympathy for those NoVA parents. NoVA is populous, they are largely USG workers, and a high percentage of the population up there votes straight DEM, has for decades. NoVA drags Virginia blue, period.

So those NoVA parents..... suck it. You made your bed.

Posted by: goatexchange at December 29, 2022 01:26 PM (APPN8)

314 231. I believe it.

But like Catherine said, above, it's the affect on $ & makes funding so much more difficult.

Posted by: Lola at December 29, 2022 01:39 PM (XIi8H)

315 I am making $90 an hour working from home. I never imagined that it was honest to goodness yet my closest companion is earning $16,000 a month by working on a laptop, that was truly astounding for me, she prescribed for me to attempt it simply.
Here's what I've been doing.. www.Payathome7.com

Posted by: Tom at December 29, 2022 02:44 PM (oMhvB)

316 "What is wrong with Fairfax and Loudon counties and at what point do parents make a change that matters?"

They're filled with people on the federal government teat, or once removed. The Dems are the party of government, so...
Capture the leadership of the party and you have a solid bloc that will support whatever stupidity they can come up with. Only a few families are affected by this, so the scales will fall from not enough eyes to make a difference. Democrats will not oppose even ridiculous schemes because "solidarity". See: Fetterman.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 29, 2022 03:12 PM (k8kXr)

317 Regarding National Merit awards, this wasn't about finalists or semifinalists, but the lower level of commended.

Posted by: MikeN at December 29, 2022 04:56 PM (HVIzT)

318 144 I was a National Merit Finalist in 1970 (I know, I am OLD!) and all it got me was a photo in the school yearbook with 4 other geeky types. I applied for scholarships but got nothing because my dad made "too much" money (translate - didn't have enough debt). The system has been broken for a long time.
Posted by: Kay at December 29
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Whippersnapper. I was a NM Finalist more than a decade earlier,(749 verbal, 693 math wasn't god enough for a National Merit Scholarship), but it got me a full tuition offer from Princeton. I decided that there was no way I could afford books and living expenses there, so I took a 75% tuition scholarship at the State school, where I could make enough in Summer to cover everything else. Graduated with a STEM degree a year late because I had to work through two semesters after my sophmore year (family financial issues) but the school held the scholarship. My family didn't "make too much" 😉. I had no debt, mainly because Uncle Sugar hadn't come up with "Easy Payments! to an education " scheme, yet.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 29, 2022 05:00 PM (k8kXr)

319 Martin L. King would not approve of this

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 29, 2022 05:51 PM (wGqjj)

320 Lots of 1970 National Merit Scholars here.
I was one. Got the scholarship! "Based on need."
Total value (not part of the newspaper article, which led the whole county to believe "free ride anywhere"), was based on the precursor to FAF statement. $1000. In $250 increments.

Once you had that, you were not getting anything else.

Twenty-five years later, shopping around ol' alma mater for a tutor for the kid, I got informed that by then any NM finalist went to school there free. Room and board and meal ticket included. Fooled me!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 29, 2022 06:20 PM (jYCXf)

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