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4 years ago
Huh? Do you have trouble with reading comprehension? All I said was that Obama went to Occidental College which has low-ish mean SAT scores. The transfer process to Columbia is based only on grades at Occidental -- so it's a back door entrance into Columbia in the same way that Trump got into Wharton from Fordham.
Maybe you're talking about Obama's LSAT scores submitted to Harvard Law, which have never been released. Whatever his LSAT scores, Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review and graduated in the top 15% of his class. His speeches are terrific and well-crafted whereas Trump's Tweets and speeches are usually an embarrassing stream-of-consciousness mess with goofy spelling errors. Trump is an idiot and a buffoon.
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4 years ago
Obama's record is similar. He went to an ordinary undergrad school ( Occidental ) and transferred to Columbia. So Obama didn't provide SAT scores to Columbia
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4 years ago
Read my post. I said he transferred from Fordam to Wharton (Penn) which means he didn't provide SAT scores to Penn
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4 years ago
No Trump didn't graduate from Princeton. Provide a link.
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4 years ago
Over the years I've had two meet@greets on SA with girls who turned out to be Tilted Kilts waitresses. Neither went beyond first meeting. I take it TK doesn't pay that well around here.
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4 years ago
Just got back from the Under Armour store here in blue-state Colorado and they go out of the way to offer discounts to police, first-responders, health-care workers, as you check out. They ask every single customer if they qualify.
The Fox News crowd finds one irrational business out of 100,00 and pounces on it for a little gratuitous indignation.
The protests are largely peaceful, coming from all ethnic groups and many Republicans. Mitt Romney is out protesting today -- as his father did during the civil rights movement.
Do you want an example of a "Stupid Political Stunt" @Founder? That would be grab-em-by-the-pussy Trump and Bill Barr gassing peaceful protesters so that Trump could get a photo-op holding a bible in front of a church.
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4 years ago
Yes, there's a strong correlation between having a stable two-parent household and success later in life. But an even stronger correlation is the affluence of your parents. Rich single parents produce more successful kids than two-parent households living in poverty. Being born to an affluent family is the single biggest predictor of your success later in life.
Some of the kids in Palo Alto (where I used to work) have private tutors for every subject and go to the finest schools. Innate ability is almost irrelevant when you compare the scholastic record of these affluent kids to those in the ghetto.
Further, there are plenty of lazy, entitled, idiots from wealthy families. A good example is our president who's an imbecile and a buffoon. The ass-end of the Ivy League is notorious for letting you in the back door if you're rich, you're a high-school athlete, or your uncle Fred went there. Despite being filthy rich, Trump went to third-rate school (Fordham), most likely with average SAT scores. By transferring to Wharton mid-stream he wouldn't need to present SAT scores and his various schools have been threatened to keep his test scores private. I wonder why?
It's simple: wealth begets wealth and more important than coming from a two-parent household.
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4 years ago
Thanks for that and its a very useful data point for all of us.
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4 years ago
This is the guy who posted about spending $300k on a stripper. So possible troll alert.
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4 years ago
Hope you're doing okay @Geordie and I'm glad you posted this story. Some of the guys here who think Covid is a hoax or that they're invincible need a dose of reality. If it's not too personal, it would be interesting to know how old you are and whether your lung capacity is any different after your recovery?
You're probably at risk whether you date ho's with pimps or sweet college girls. I quit cold-turkey in early March.
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4 years ago
That was just one of many studies. But yes it's very unusual for a prestigious journal like the Lancet to retract a publication.
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4 years ago
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9780230349216_6
"In everyday discourse, believers in a conspiracy-based explanation are often labeled lunatics, kooks or paranoiacs. They are perceived as having ‘an essential character weakness predisposing them to paranoia or gullibility’ or as ‘buffeted by forces not only beyond their control but beyond their ken’
....Writers talk of conspiracy theories as manifestations of ‘paranoia’, ‘anxiety’, ‘fantasy’, ‘hysteria’, ‘projection’ and ‘aggression’, or, more recently, as fulfilling a profound psychological need for certainty in the precarious (post-) modern age."
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4 years ago
Q. Why did the chicken cross the road?
A. He wanted a photo op in front of a church.
Lol, just sent that to my wife.
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4 years ago
Thanks. Ill check it out.
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4 years ago
"after this coronavirus stuff is over,"
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How does one know when it's "over?" I'm waiting for reliable antibody testing.
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4 years ago
There's endless bullshit circulating about Floyd and the rioting --and some of guys on this thread are attracted to conspiracy theories like moths to a flame.
Sure, ZeroHedge has far more credibility than NYT, but I'll post this anyway:
"Misinformation about George Floyd Protests Surges on Social Media"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/technology/george-floyd-misinformation-online.html
"The unsubstantiated theory that antifa activists are responsible for the riots and looting was the biggest piece of protest misinformation tracked by Zignal Labs, which looked at certain categories of falsehoods. Of 873,000 pieces of misinformation linked to the protests, 575,800 were mentions of antifa, Zignal Labs said."
That began when Mr. Trump tweeted on Sunday that “ANTIFA led anarchists” and “Radical Left Anarchists” were to blame for the unrest, without providing specifics. Then he called antifa “a Terrorist Organization.”
Dan Bongino, a conservative political commentator who has unsuccessfully run for a House seat several times, then took up the call. On the “Fox and Friends” television show on Monday, Mr. Bongino said antifa activists were responsible for a “sophisticated” attack on the White House and called it an “insurrection.”
Those assertions soon spread around social media. More than 6,000 Facebook posts linking the antifa movement to the protests appeared in the last seven days, collecting over 1.3 million likes and shares, according to The Times’s analysis."
And on the George Soros conspiracy theory:
"The false idea that Mr. Soros funded the protests spiked on social media over the past week, showing how new events can resurrect old conspiracy theories. Mr. Soros has for years been cast as an anticonservative villain by a loose network of activists and political figures on the right and has become a convenient boogeyman for all manner of ills.
On Twitter, Mr. Soros was mentioned in 34,000 tweets in connection with Mr. Floyd’s death over the past week, according to Dataminr. Over 90 videos in five languages mentioning Soros conspiracies were also posted to YouTube over the past seven days, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
On Facebook, 72,000 posts mentioned Mr. Soros in the past week, up from 12,600 the week before, according to The Times’s analysis. Of the 10 most engaged posts about Mr. Soros on the social network, nine featured false conspiracies linking him to the unrest. They were collectively shared over 110,000 times."
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4 years ago
"do you guys even know you’re arguing about old news?"
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Yes, I was aware of the revised report. The question is whether these other side findings will be enough to keep the cops out of jail. Don't be surprised if there's no conviction.
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4 years ago
I don't watch MSNBC or CNN.
I'm glad @Nina's been reaming you a new asshole, because it's entertaining and your deserve it.
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4 years ago
Will I get muted?
This idea that some amorphous liberal group (Antifa?), funded by George Soros, is organizing nationwide riots is another right-wing, nutcase, conspiracy theory. As if posting a link to ZeroHege proves anything; @Mark94 beclowns himself every time he post something from that site. What a clueless, gheezer, nutcase..
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4 years ago
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Papi_ChuloMiami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
You really are a pussy, @Papi, for muting factual comments and simply disagreeing with you.
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4 years ago
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Papi_ChuloMiami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
Media-bias fact check on "Zero Hedge" which @Mark94's has quoted at least three times in the past two days:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/
ZeroHedge is categorized in the "conspiracy-pseudoscience" section and is registered out of Bulgaria.
"Overall, we rate Zero Hedge an extreme right biased conspiracy website based on the promotion of false/misleading/debunked information that routinely denigrates the left."
LOL, this is where TUSCL's biggest nutcase gets his news.
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4 years ago
@Papi: "I'm not stating a fact"
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Well, that's the point I was making, dipshit. The Antifa conspiracy theory was also stated as a "fact" about 10 times (lost count) today by someone at the State Department.
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4 years ago
Got it. You don't have a shred of evidence that Antifa is behind tge rioting.
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4 years ago
" from the pictures I've seen a lot of them are young white men and women which fit the profile of the Antifa types"
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You've seen a few pictures of young white men & women which leads you to believe that they're "Antifa types?" What kind of nonsense is that? What if stated that young white men are likely to be white nationalists? Can anyone post a shred of evidence that Antifa is playing a dominant role? Because I suspect the Antifa references are pure, unadulterated, propaganda.
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4 years ago
"What I’m struck by is the obvious coordination of Antifa among all these cities."
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No, it's not the least bit obvious and there's little evidence. Some are blaming groups on the far-right, others are blaming Antifa, others are blaming drug cartels. There's no shortage of unsubstantiated nonsense. Most likely this is enraged and misguided blacks. They should find a way to deal with their rage and, instead, VOTE.