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Tuesday, April 20. 2021Tuesday morning linksMontana man dies following attack by grizzly bear. Investigators later shot and killed male bear near site of mauling Chronicle: The Abiding Scandal of College Admissions - The process has become an intrusive and morally presumptuous inquisition of an applicant’s soul. Scott Adams considers conservative and liberal happiness, at the 32:29 mark Double racism at Cigna:
Chauvin Trial: Jury has “a basis” to “find reasonable doubt here, but it’s not what I’m expecting” UT Austin Approves Orwellian “Strategic Plan for Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity” FROM THE BIZARRE TWIN CITIES HELLWORLD All Adult Americans Are Now Eligible for COVID-19 Vaccine NY Times newsletter: Maybe these COVID fears are a bit irrational Utah news outlet runs entire segment about local paramedic for ... donating $10 to Kyle Rittenhouse After California's $100 Billion Light Rail to Nowhere, Biden May Fund More California Rail No One Needs Andrew Cuomo just keeps the lies coming New York State Did Worst in Pandemic, Study Says New Study Shows Just How in the Tank for Biden the Legacy Media Is Biden’s ‘Back To Normal’ Is Not What Voters Were Promised NH GOP Chair torches Kamala's plan to visit, Border Czar headed to the wrong border UN: US Vaccine 'Hoarding" Endangers Africa, Africa: We Don't Want Vaccine Trackbacks
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Are we really leaving Afghanistan after being so close to victory there?
I'm just going to go full Charlie Brown and say, yes. Yes, I do. I think they're going to leave. Hold the football, Lucy. Here I come. Why not stay another 20 years? The money is fantastic! re Montana man dies following attack by grizzly bear. Investigators later shot and killed male bear near site of mauling
Killing the bear was the right thing to do. One wonders why the UK Independent even bothered to cover it? I believe the Independent was covering the story as a public service announcement, illustrating the dangers of going out in public when your government has ordered a COVID-19 lockdown. See, if the guy hadn't gone out when he should have been staying home as he was told to, he wouldn't be dead right now, would he? Another senseless COVID-19 related death, and yet some people refuse to see the danger. SMH
Chauvin Trial: Jury has “a basis” to “find reasonable doubt here, but it’s not what I’m expecting”: Boys and girls, can you say "Inquisition"? Yessss, I KNEW you could!
All Adult Americans Are Now Eligible for COVID-19 Vaccine: Got mine in Jan and Feb. NY Times newsletter: Maybe these COVID fears are a bit irrational: Too LATE, NYT!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too late! New Study Shows Just How in the Tank for Biden the Legacy Media Is: As I keep saying, I do;'t KNOW if the media is/are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dem Party, or if it's the other way round, but it's OBVIOUS that they are in CAHOOTS. New Study Shows Just How in the Tank for Biden the Legacy Media Is
They built the tank, why wouldn't they be comfortable there? Chronicle: The Abiding Scandal of College Admissions - The process has become an intrusive and morally presumptuous inquisition of an applicant’s soul.
I didn't need to read the article to convince myself of the accuracy of the headline. There is something to be said for applicants for admission filling out a one-page application, and for admissions criteria being confined to SAT/ACT scores and grade point average. At least that way the applicant doesn't have to sell one's soul.... jump through hoops... in the process of applying for admission. For those who want to read the article without any hassle, try this link. The Abiding Scandal of College Admissions QUOTE: Setting up a yearslong, quasi-therapeutic process in which admissions goads young people into laying bare their vulnerable selves — a process that conceals a high-value transaction in which colleges use their massive leverage to mold those selves to their liking — is reprehensible. It is terrible thing to do. It renders the discovery of true underlying selves absurd. Sometimes, as we’ve seen, admissions people will admit they have this formative leverage over young people. But they fail to show the humility that should attend this admission, the clinician’s awareness that to use this power is to abuse it. Instead, they want even more power. They want to intrude even more deeply into the souls of their applicants. The name they give these ambitions is “reform.” The article goes on to suggest a lottery composed of those who pass certain SAT/GPA cutoffs. That would be a lot fairer than all the brouhaha admissions offices are currently requiring.As college is less and less about education, then perhaps they are selecting accurately for the political training they expect to accomplish. They are not merely choosing inefficiently because they fear that objective criteria will favor a few categories of wrong student. They are moving away from objective criteria because they have a new idea what college should be about.
As college is less and less about education, then perhaps they are selecting accurately for the political training they expect to accomplish.
I'd tend to agree. Those who are not willing to jump through the hoops for college admission- baring one's sole to a set of strangers- are probably less amenable to accepting the political training/indoctrination of colleges today. Or, those who are willing to bare their souls at the command of strangers are probably also more amenable to accepting without complaint the training/indoctrination of colleges today. Can't wait to see how these new value systems play out with education on subjects that traditionally rely on merit-based skill sets. I guess we're already seeing it in the military. I for one can't wait to fly in a plane that has an Engineering Diversity seal of approval.
Just because we need something to laugh at:
32 Reasons Why Human Beings Are Definitely Not Meant To Last https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/human-being-fails Maybe those Covid fears are irrational...In March 2020 the CDC changed how Covid-19 is recorded on death certificates, de-emphasizing preexisting conditions and comorbidities, and basically calling all deaths in which the patient had a positive SARS-CoV-2 test a Covid-19 death. On August 23, 2020 their were 161,392 fatalities listed, however, if they had use the old guidelines it is estimated that there would have only been 9,684 fatalities.
Just your government at work creating a new narrative to replace the old Russia, Russia, Russia narrative. And to think they will use these fanciful new numbers to create Covid passports. Article referenced from Lew Rockwell site. CHAUVIN GUILTY OF MURDER!
Who is surprised? Let the riots begin. |