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Friday, December 1. 2017

Friday morning links

Although Jim Nabors had never served, he was promoted twice as Pyle by the Marine Corp


How the American sandwich took over the UK


 Holocaust survivor: I'm giving $1 million to help wounded American veterans, to express my thanks


 Honors and Errors: The Burns-Novick Vietnam War Documentary


 What Really Happened At The School Where Every Graduate Got Into College


 Elitists, crybabies and junk degrees - A Trump supporter explains rising conservative anger at American universities.


 New Liberal Idea: Federal Government Would Create A Social Wealth Fund


 White House releases 'explosive' tally of green cards issued in 'chain migration'


 Speaker Ryan says Dems blew DACA negotiations by skipping Trump meeting


 Cop Accuser Implodes in Breitbart Interview, Admits to Making Unsupported Claims About Roy Moore


Eliz. Drew: Politics will always be a place for sex 


 Media Frustrated With Melania Trump’s Behavior


Trump’s presidency is far better than his Twitter feed


The administration is doing great things. 


 China to roll back regulations for traditional medicine despite safety concerns - Scientists fear plans to abandon clinical trials of centuries-old remedies will put people at risk.


 REMEMBERING THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF THE MIDDLE EAST'S JEWS


 The Islamic State's Virtual Caliphate - Jihad in the West


 Hezbollah emerges a winner from Mideast turmoil, alarming foes

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Re: What Really Happened At The School Where Every Graduate Got Into College


The aggravating thing about this piece is the insistence that you're setting these kids up for failure by teaching them to game the system rather than actually do the work and get an education. You've just graduated a bunch of illiterate slackers and sent them off to college, let's see how many of them graduate college still illiterate, still unwilling to lift a finger to do any work. More than a few I'll bet - and then they'll all get government jobs making more money than half the taxpayers in this country. We should all fail so well.
#1 Jerryskids on 2017-12-01 08:25 (Reply)
"Trump’s presidency is far better than his Twitter feed

These "hail-fellow-well-met" blue-nosed, effete attorney types still don't get it!

The tweets are specifically designed to create a reaction, in the manner of assigning a brand to Trump opponents : Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb, Lyin' Ted.....on and on!

Lowry's position is basically, "Why, gentlemen simply don't do these things!" While in the real world, such "gentlemen" are getting their political asses kicked and begging for more, so the WaPo & Slim Times will give them a pat on the head for remaining above the fray!

Its politics, not beanbag or tiddlywinks, boys. Win first, then do good by your conservative principles! But then, these Conservative, Inc. phonies, such as Lowry, aren't really conservative when it comes to applying their "principles!

Too funny!
#2 B48 on 2017-12-01 10:01 (Reply)
OMG, Trump's twitter feed is GOLD. Those who don't like it, just don't get it.
#2.1 MissT on 2017-12-01 13:37 (Reply)
Presidency better than his Twitter feed:

Where have I heard this before?: "hey, I know he is creepy, but he is doing the right thing for my people."

It was good enough for Bill in the 90s, but now that he isn't one of the Chosen Crowd, we are led to believe that Trump is the new Hitler.
#3 Dangerous Dean on 2017-12-01 10:16 (Reply)
Media frustrated with Melania: One more reason why we'll GET MORE TRUMP.
#4 Sam L. on 2017-12-01 10:31 (Reply)
Soooo---let me see now: a high school graduates EVERYONE while at the same time state universities are determined to make it possible to elevate everyone. Our state university (one of the three who increased funding) accepts 97% of applicants--what does that tell us? It is time to get the KOCH brothers and others to help fund new private universities across the country. Work for tuition should include things like picking crops (work done by illegal immigrants) , cleaning up campgrounds(work done by volunteers), shoveling snow (work done by who-knows). Hard manual work should be repaid with tuition credit for course work that includes Literary Classics ( a program no longer offered at our state school), mathematics,
second language, science, and world history according to the documented facts. It would also be nice to once again return the study of journalism to a "search for facts" curriculum. MOST IMPORTANTLY in my mind would be the mandatory study of rhetoric! These campuses should start small in agricultural states and move into more densely populated areas of the larger states once the curriculum and the reputation for academic excellence and free speech has been established ( 5-10 years).
#5 faculty wife on 2017-12-01 11:58 (Reply)
I just asked my husband - as i was reading same article - what is the acceptance rate at his 24,000 student uni and he said 87% without hesitation.

All these higher ed messes frustrate me to no end. The amount of remedial classes, lame ass courses that serve to aggetate the students and bolster the mentally myopic profs, "student health centers" that are fronts for undermining healthy human self understanding (i would luve a journalist to blow the lid off that scam, hubby is in legal so i know way too many details, the public would be aghast). I could go on and on..

I agree, this free college crap has got to end. If these silly teenagers have enough time to protest and get blotto drunk every weekend then the system is broken.

Im starting to rant...sorry.
#5.1 Administrator's wife on 2017-12-02 10:11 (Reply)
A Social Wealth Fund.

Will they be able to sell indulgences from the storehouse?
#6 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2017-12-01 14:19 (Reply)
Nothing is better than Trump’s Twitter feed.
#7 Melampus the Seer on 2017-12-02 22:39 (Reply)

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